skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The loading of static files for HTTP is significantly different from accessing the same data via databases. The biggest difference is the need for a CLI (call level interface) connection object in db access. And those things are resource hungry operations (authentication, prototocol management etc). Most times you have to pool connection objects which in itself is a resource cost.

The DB is truly the scalability bottleneck.
This sounds crazy enough to work.
I would have liked to see them account for obesity, too. With more than 2/3 of our population overweight or obese this may have an effect.

Sadly, our current education system cares more about "anorexia" and "body image" issues (that maybe kill 1,000 people/year) than obesity which directly kills 300,000 Americans a year.
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Do you have a source that thoroughly supports the debunking of the Rat Park experiment? This is the first I'd heard that it was unreproducible and the result of falsified data.
> If you are being illegally detained, you can file for a writ of habeas corpus.

If you are being illegally detained, its not entirely unlikely you will also be illegally denied the opportunity to file for a writ of habeas corpus; if you are extremely lucky, someone who isn't being illegally deprived of their rights might figure out that you are being illegally detained and file for the writ on your behalf. But, you know, when the government's illegally detaining people, illegally denying them access to counsel, and illegally denying them access to the courts, they generally aren't also advertising the fact of that detention of those particular individuals so that other people can intervene to do something about it.

The lack of effective after-the-fact accountability, both personal and institutional, for such violations is a serious problem which makes them more likely to be continued or repeated. The availability of the writ of habeas corpus to terminate the unlawful detention is obviously necessary, but nearly equally obviously insufficient.
AGPL requires that you release the version that you are actually running on the server.
>> You can throw a match into an open cup of gasoline

Please, no one try this at home...
I know little about this topic. Can you please help me understand. Wikipedia says the act applies to banks and securities,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Legis...

I thought AIG provided securities. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious as it's not something I know anything about
Problem is that if you scroll too fast, the text visibility animation doesn't kick in fast enough and you just see a blank black screen.
I think you have it backwards, before it read your email to scan for keyword advertising tags, now it actually interprets the email and can provide a coherent response. Next up, auto responding to pharma spam with orders because you complained to a friend in one previous email about your love life :-) Its just the computer trying to help out, it knows you want have a better life :-)

The worrisome thing is that it while it used to be the privileged who insulated themselves from the "real" world by having staff answer their email, this would let everyone do that, and that might give everyone more tunnel vision.
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It is semantically appropriate for the word steal. I think you're confusing it with the criminal implications.
I bought a tiny bottle of crude oil from Drake's Well near Titusville, Pennsylvania as a grade school kid. We used it as furniture polish and for various things around the house. (Drake's Well was the original oil well.)
You might want to read up on this. It was US economic advice which led to the rapid sell-off of public assets which resulted in the creation of the oligarchs in the first place.
What's interesting to me about this is the visual pattern recognition -- rather than just scaling up a giant Monte-Carlo search, playing like (presumably) humans do, searching for patterns, is very cool.

I was just this weekend going through my go library, and most of the books I have focus on precisely this sort of pattern training. In fact, there's a whole branch of study in go called in Japanese "Tesuji", essentially brilliant moves that come from bad-looking patterns.

The idea is that you lull your opponent into complacency with your bad-looking pattern, then "BAM", a surprise comes out. My guess is that an RNN could be discovering new tesuji, which would be super cool. If the RNN can look ahead deep enough, then I would think that's a path forward against strong players.

There's also the reverse, Anti-suji, essentially things that look brilliant, but are really terrible.
It's not so much that arrow functions "don't use it" that I'm complaining about but rather that they change the meaning and thus have confusing results.

Also, changing that example to use rest parameters:

function foo() {
const bar = (...abc) => {
console.log(abc);
console.log(arguments);
};
bar('a', 'b', 'c');
}

SyntaxError: 'arguments' object may not be used in conjunction with a rest parameter

...which, okay, hmmm, it's sort of attempting to help me avoid confusion here. But that...was not what I was expecting. It's really weird that all of a sudden, just by adding a rest parameter to my function, a reference to `arguments` becomes invalid syntax.
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I'd also recommend the Programming Phoenix book, it's still in beta but the chapter on Channels just came out:

https://pragprog.com/book/phoenix/programming-phoenix
I sometimes wonder why TechCrunch still exists.
ummm...aren't we supposed to fail fast!? Imagine the time and effort wasted for a small company to have focus groups on its logo. Now they can tweak it, and they have a funny story, to boot!
I also have a 2014 5K imac with El Cap, and my system report shows 30-bit / ARGB2101010

However, when I view the test image from the article's comments (http://www.imagescience.com.au/kb/getattachment.php?data=MTU...) I still see banding. Hmm.
I agree about the need for better tooling, but lately I have been finding "stack" to be a better experience. Try it if you haven't done so already.
Since you say Hoover took over the FBI's predecessor in the 1920s, and the KGB was not formed until 1954, and the Gestapo in 1933, you have a credibility problem.
Could you explain what you mean here? I can't tell what you're referring to.
> More construction in an over-supplied housing market?

You do realize that Keynes' departure from 'classical' economics was a model that depended more on aggregate demand than supply, right?

Classical economics (ie. pre-Keynesian economics) would say "just build more". Keynesian economics states that you should stimulate demand (lower interest rates, increase government spending, increase money supply, etc...). Which is exactly what got us out of the recession.

> It blows my mind that Keynesians can't identify busts that were caused by bubbles.

It's not about whether they can or can't. Some obviously did see the bubble coming (some Goldman Sachs traders famously bet against the housing market). The problem is that too many people profit from the 'bubble', and momentum takes people over the edge (because, like it or not, consumers are NOT rational).
I think any kind of visualisation of VMs like you're suggesting (little hazard symbol next to deoptimised methods) is very complicated in practice.

A method could be deoptimised once early, but then not again when the program is actually running in your inner loop. In which case you don't care it was deoptimised.

In the optimising implementation of Ruby I work on, we are aggressive about splitting (multiple versions of a method so they can collect independent profiling data) and that means one version of a method may be deoptimised, but others aren't. How do you show that when you are looking at a single copy of the source code?
I'm curious, what residual feelings does your wife have about that destruction, realizing much later what historical significance those artifacts have?

On one hand, I'm disappointed that kids smashed a bunch of objects that had ancient significance (by our standards of replacing laptops and phones every few years). On the other, more important hand, I think that the responsibility of protecting this history falls exclusively on adults and that kids should explore, play, and have fun. Unfortunately for us, smashing things is really, really fun.
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There is an awesome book "Reminiscence of a stock operator" by Edwin Lefevre, the story is about one guy and he does that with coffee in the US, not one, but 2 times. The government actually had to come in and take it from him...

The book is a mixture of fiction and real life and it's just great! One of my favorites
What happened to short authentication strings? The SAS protocol is nicely documented in the Silent Circle Instant Messaging Protocol paper [1], but when I go to "Verify identity" in the app I'm asked to verify an obnoxiously long pair of hexadecimal strings.

The phone call feature supports it (with a curious lack of documentation), but it would be easy to imagine a UI that allowed verification without making a phone call and without allowing users to screw it up: one phone shows the SAS string, the other phone asks you to type it in, and neither phone allows IMs to be sent while doing this.
Although I think this is still mostly a decades-old systemic issue, I think Obama has been a huge factor in making this problem worse.

Every time there was an abuse, he has defended the crimes and the criminals, whether it was the FBI, CIA, or NSA.

Bush administrations' crimes? - "We need to move forward"

CIA torture - "We tortured some folks - but you don't actually expect me to punish anyone for doing it, do you?!"

NSA - "There have been no abuses". Enough said.

Even with the OPM hack, the largest government data breach in US' history, Obama has tried to push the story under the rug, so it doesn't make his administration look bad - or something.

Obama got it wrong. You don't "move forward" by ignoring the problem. You move forward by admitting the problem exists and then punishing those responsible. The criminals in the government can't continue to have jobs or even keep their liberty as if nothing happened, while through their power, they have destroyed many lives.
The dual-licensing problem for software freedom is easily dealt with: just accept community contributions WITHOUT requiring a CLA. That is enough to legally guarantee the software will stay free for everyone.

Dual licensing isn't otherwise a loophole since it is a decision the primary author organization makes for themselves, not something someone else can do to your copyleft code.

Copyleft does protect the commons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UneYZikN85Q
I think the argument persists because it accelerated the shift towards a new banking paradigm, where regional banking was swallowed up by massive financial institutions.

There are plenty of examples where the ability to diversify has strengthened many institutions. But there has also been some very negative affects. If you are too small to be big and too big to get government loan guarantees, or outside of a major metro, bank financing isn't really an option anymore.

We had a few smaller manufacturing businesses in my area that folded up not due to foreign competition, but from being starved of capital. The banks they depended on got swallowed up, and the folks in the banks that understood their business were laid off. The dude in NYC or Boston who made loan decisions had no clue.
To expand on this for people who don't freelance or consult, technically the brackets are graduated, but figure on 25% for federal income tax and 15.3% for FICA. Texas does not charge state income tax, so the total is about 40% gone off the top. In addition, you have no benefits, so health insurance comes out of pocket. For a 35 year old female in Travis county on a PPO with no subsidy will run $352/month.

Long story short, over 3 months after taxes and health insurance, with no other benefits like retirement nor any other business expenses like a computer and internet, that $20,000 becomes $10,884 or $3,628/month.
> Another bizarre feature of our early prototype was its propensity to respond with “I love you” to seemingly anything

Is it trained mostly on personal gmail accounts?
Here you have a discussion:

http://meta.english.stackexchange.com/questions/2469/should-...
>"For those who do not know, H2S is also a key part of the vile smell in flatulence, so strictly speaking it's a rather common substance in nature albeit in "safe" concentrations."

Funny story and probably TMI.

I used to work in aviation maintenance on large military aircraft. We regularly had to enter into "confined spaces" (fuel tanks, wings, ect) and were required to take a hand-held "air sniffer" with us that would alarm if any of about 5 or so monitored gases got too high.

I would always fart into the thing to see what would happen and it would always read 0 on all monitored gases. However on one day, I had perhaps the worst smelling "flatulence" ever and while inside the center fuel tank of a P3, I let one rip right into the sniffer. H2S went from 0 to 1ppm, but strangely carbon monoxide (CO) went from 0 to 7ppm. I always expected the H2S, but I don't know what the heck CO was doing in my bowels..
Exactly right. The US Military (and Israel, for that matter) get a guaranteed minimum income from the US government. Why not the average person on the street?
What you're saying is true, but it could have been much better if they'd paid attention to the details.

One of the things I love about HN is that not only will interesting and funny articles like this come up, but also that I can hit the comment section afterward for the real story. Your parent's comment was more interesting than yours.
Unless you are using a different meaning of 'reversion to the mean' than I am familiar with, it's not a statistical error and has nothing to do with the size of the sample. 'Regression to the mean' happens when you have an imperfect correlation between two data fields.
Never seen the snowball before -it's shiny looking hardware. No idea what the actual cost works out like, though. 1 petabyte per week they claim...

At the moment I'd be interested in backing up my NAS boxes, which is only about 36tb raw or 23tb usable space. It's a lot, but nowhere near snowball sizes :)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-importexport-snowball-t...
Do you think that this hasn't been happening? As someone posting on tech site, you should be aware that they scan emails for keywords, probably google and certainly the NSA.

Furthermore, training LSTM networks on emails has nothing to do with what you are concerned about.
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This is a recurring nightmare of mine: forgetting to close out a commodity futures contract, then suddenly having 20,000 bushels wheat (or whatever it was) show up on my doorstep one morning. Brrrr.
Well, as soon as you see underwear and notice it doesn't make sense, you should be looking for an alternative explanation anyway.
I thought the guy in the picture was Ewan McGregor! What is this course using for the backend?
Planning to rip out code after accepting it is silly. Yes, I suppose people could do that if they don't plan to make a proprietary fork but change their mind later.

clearly, the issue is whether the contributions amount to a substantial enough part of the software that the ripping out isn't feasible.

Also, if you build up a community and then violate their trust, you lose the community. It's not a great strategy.
+1 for "Would you be afraid to hire your smartest friends".

It's also worth considering whether you would help find your replacement. If not wanting to invite your friends is a bad sign, what does it say if you wouldn't tell people you don't even know to work for the company?
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That sounds great. Is he friends with someone who holds office and can make it happen? Say, Warren?

However it goes, I hope we continue to raise awareness and rally support for these reforms. That simple image that shows how gerrymandering works is a real eye opener, for example. And all politicians are guilty for being complicit in that behavior, unless I'm misinformed and there's some legitimate reason for redrawing district lines.
Most complaints about student debt being super high either relate to law/medical school or the cost of Ivy League/SLA schools on the east coast.

College is expensive, and it's bad, but private schools are an order of magnitude more expensive; the popular narrative typically ignores public schools which cost roughly 50-80K for an undergraduate degree, depending on location. Private schools run around 200K+ at full cost, I believe.

I personally sucked up a fairly large of debt because I made several poor choices. This is not the case, in general, for my peers, who chose better.
I think you're (not deliberately) beating around the bush. The problem is not that we're only now becoming clever or wise enough to implement demand-driving economic policies in a time of secular demand shortages, but that, for decades now, the very zero-sum and negative-sum games we so deplore (exploitation of the weak, exploitation of the public purse, freeriding on the public purse, rentiering of all kinds) have been treated as the intended goal of economic policy.

Starting in the 1970s, Western societies' economic planners set out to hold inflation down, at all costs, including high unemployment. They did this because they were confronted with stagflation, oil crises, labor militancy, and a crisis of corporate profitability, and they naively believed that deflationary depressions were a solved problem.

They succeeded, and today's economy is their program of governance gone horribly right.
This entire description is like a text book example of what not to do from one of the many, many safety classes I had take as a construction worker.
A TechCrunch article used to get you about 15-20K in a day. Might be less these days.
Not just start-ups. Google Waterloo and Amazon Toronto both spent 2015 building new, bigger buildings that will each hold at least 800 developers.
The main purpose of their tool was running Java code on iOS. Using GPLv3, you couldn't do that.
Ahah - everyone says that.

The backend for this course is Firebase. It's all done client side and Firebase handles the authentication and data handling!
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I kept imagining it would generate responses based on MY past emails until the end of the article. Example "When does your flight leave for Paris?", I was imagining it would pull the info from Google Now to reply "Friday at 9am", but I don't think it is built for this type of specific question.
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Yes, dismissive comments are a problem. It is better to respond to new work with an open mind and to be constructive when criticizing. Still, posting another dismissive comment doesn't improve the thread.

More helpful would be including specific information about things like (a) what we shouldn't be so quick to dismiss; (b) what the founders have probably thought of; (c) how to post more substantively; or (d) how to criticize more constructively. Then we learn something.
"Renamed" would probably be a better term here than rejected.
Some of the Modern Monetary Theory supporters propose a 'Job Guarantee':

http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee/job_guarantee/JobGuarantee...
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> But money is worthless unless you spend it and when they spend it, somebody has to do the work that the money is being spent on. That creates jobs.

The issue is that the rich spend a smaller proportion of their money than the middle class.

So while globalisation does increase the prospects for some poor people, it definitely does take wealth out of the global economy and into the hands of the '1 percent'.
Here's Jeffrey Sachs' account of his role: http://jeffsachs.org/2012/03/what-i-did-in-russia/

You can see he did NOT advocate shock therapy and resigned when he realized he could do nothing about growing corruption.
Sort of. The Russian government still owns a majority stake in Gazprom and Putin's conquests have been under the banner of moving corrupt private oil companies back into the public hands of Gazprom. So it's really a landgrab by the state, which happens to own a private company. But it was the US's policy of rapid "shock" privatisation which resulted in the unmanaged sell-off of the original state assets in the 1990s and the creation of those oligarchs. It's like selling USPS for $1m - that's not privatisation, it's madness.
Where's the "sorry, I won't be able to make it." in the server dropping email.
It's interesting to me because Facebook just made the news recently for saying they'd try to come up with something akin to dislike because the "like" is too positive a sentiment for many situations (death of a relative, bad day at work, whatever). In the wake of that, Twitter didn't say "well the favorite is already neutral of emotions, and is more akin to showing support for the thing, positive or negative". Instead, they said "oooh, we want the problem Facebook is facing".
If it was possible, we'd remove `arguments` altogether in favor of rest parameters. There is absolutely no reason to use `arguments` in ES2015 anyway.
Probably 4 32-bit floats per pixel for ARGB, it's what most GPUs use internally for shader computations since DirectX 10.
Whether or not it is currently happening really has no bearing on whether or not it should happen.
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Keynesians seem to think it is, given the way they think that government funded make-work construction projects will have positive effect on an economy.
I don't think I understand your reasoning. You're already tolerating an AI processing your email to produce the ads, so assuming that, why does a cool new feature push you closer towards a "dumber" service?
Just bought the course, I'm pumped! I want to really grok React to use in my Meteor apps.
Then you should explicitly use a product that encrypts before upload. Again, it's not clear that a human at MS looked at anything. They could simply have run a query "does any customer have files looking like TV series".
Sort of an upvote on that platform; same here.
Sir Terry Pratchett decided that he'd rather die while able to make the decision, rather than letting his mind be destroyed by Alzheimer's. (Granted, his passing was natural, but he campaigned eloquently for the right to make such a choice.)

I also knew someone who suffered great pain on a daily basis, and I have a hard time considering his suicide irrational. I knew a guy (a friend of a friend) who, through foolishness in his youth, ruptured three of his spinal discs, and had damaged two other ones. He was in constant excruciating pain. In the trailing decade of his life, he could not get sufficient pain relief to hold a job, could not get/afford treatment because of that, and basically was in a pain-filled hell, as he put it. At some point, after he'd been in near-constant excruciating pain for twenty years, he decided he no longer wanted to live.

I don't think either of these men were mentally ill, or making irrational choices.
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This is really great Wes, thanks for creating this and providing great launch day pricing + a HN code!

I've been posting a lot of learn react articles lately as I have been ramping up on this stuff so the timing is absolutely awesome!

Thanks!
The best example I've seen of this form of journalism was NPR's purchase of a "toxic asset" during the financial crisis.

http://www.npr.org/series/124587240/planet-money-s-toxic-ass...