skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried making Minecraft-quality mods for Minetest and the API just wasn't there and... I stand somewhat corrected. Some of the features I wished were there are now there, but not all. So it is moving forward.
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Sorry I think you misunderstand me. Technically it sounds like a great achievement. Well done! Ending badly I mean that in 5 years time Dropbox will be left with a load of servers and a business model in tatters. It's the economics I think will end badly

Also I am sure the in house data centre looks cheaper to Dropbox - but now they have their own hardware on the balance sheet. But I meant cheaper from a consumer point of view - I get unlimited storage at Amazon for $60 a year.
Depending on the state, the photo could be 10+ years old, and people can change quite a bit.
Thanks for the suggestions! I've been thinking of ways to show the impact of the projects but I can't think of any hard numbers for them. Most of the projects at my old job were for clients but I only ever had a vague sense of how much money we were billing them for and my current job is a government contract, I just listed that we increased the rate of study completion which we have since before the system didn't exist/wasn't digitized.

Also I graduated in 2011, but I did have a gap last year since I was hiking the AT/traveling. I've gotten mixed advice on whether to keep it on my resume or not hmm.
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This stuff is hilarious! I know only basic high school chemistry, but I'm able to follow most of this at a sort of "I kind of get it" level – enough to get some seriously good laughs out of it. Thanks for this, I feel like someone just told me about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time!
We are in the south of Germany and the company I'm working for is named 'envisia GmbH'.
And that's the problem. Offering jobs on the internet (even for money) is aweful and expensive. Also this region doesn't has many programmers so it's really hard for a small company to get some people.
"it can't actually do anything that other many languages can't do too."

Yes, we all are familiar with Turing equivalence, but its an exceedingly pedantic point when discussing programming languages.
Jon Oliver lies to me about Geography on a regular basis, and I'm ashamed to admit I only catch it once every so often...
Myself. I worked with the Electronic Crimes Taskforce in the US while at a "Tier 2" global IP transit provider.
negative, I am a meat popsicle.
Not at all, cost/TB of S3 is much higher compared to what you can build provided you know how to build it yourself.
I'm assuming you are talking Bachelor. If I were in your I would go for Stats and Math. And during my free time I would pick up a programming book. Also try to contribute to open-source project. It's on the job learning.

Why am I recommending this? Because I started with software engineering. And now that I want to do data science I know nothing. I find it really hard to get started with free courses online. I lack foundation in strong stats, linear algebra and etc. It is just so difficult to acquire these from books for me.
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ok, this is a sincere question

i've read a lot of negative opinions on scala, that it's becoming too big and too complex

and honestly, i was kinda sorta, waiting for it to fail or fall out of favor

this doesnt seem to be happening, on the contrary, scala seem to be getting more popular, compared to language which i favored (like clojure or f#)

are the negative opinions wrong, overblown, or is scala really heading for failure, what am i missing, what did i see wrong
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There's only one mention of ISIS affiliated chat channels on Telegram, not that it's actually been used by actual terrorists.

The rest of the speculation in that article was called out and refuted by the link I supplied.
The stay at home parent is childcare. You get personalized child care or you can outsource it for economies of scale and have the second parent work so long as that parent earns more than the cost of childcare.

But I think there's more than just taking care of children. There is research into how important family units are, and those units are better strengthened by greater time commitments of the parents than by less.

Plus there's the issue of parental choice in teaching values. If everyone in the society agreed upon values than the preschool teacher's example would be equivalent. But parents often have their own way of seeing things. Different religions. Different economic and civic philosophies, etc. So there's another reason to increase parental involvement, so that the parents spend more time being role models and conveying values. This is especially true if the childcare is provided as a universal service from the government, because then you can't even choose childcare at your local church.
Not everywhere outside the US; the Youtube version works fine in the Netherlands.
> Total income from consumers like me equals 0

That doesn't matter, they have gained a good foothold in SMEs which is where the real money is.

> Dropbox also had that email app

That was a peculiar acquisition, I guess more of a acquihire for a team that made some waves in UI design. They would have folded anyway, Google has caught up with the "swiping todo" concept.

> Can anyone convince me that this move by Dropbox isn't going to end very badly for them?

A company on that size has many metrics they can use to define success. Owning your metal is a big investment, but it also brings a level of control and performance that you will never get from outsourced infrastructure. Google became Google without AWS ever entering the picture, after all.

I think these are the first moves in a wave of "de-cloudification" by the fields' own pioneers. The longer you've been on the cloud, the more you're intimately aware of its limits and its costs. No technology is a silver bullet.
The only way she can get a tail which isn't immediately after a head is to never get a head in the first place.
The article is too vague to assess how interesting the claims are, sadly.

It's too bad; I think it wouldn't have detracted from the article to put some more math in. It's not on the face of it at all surprising that sequential primes are more likely to be close to each other modulus any number (3, or 10, or what have you), than they are to be far apart.

By way of analogy, a train comes at 1:09pm. Trains come about every 5 minutes between 1 and 2 pm, and only on odd numbers. If you simulate a bunch of random 'next trains', 1 is much more likely than 9 because P(9) approx = !P(1,3,5,7). This is true for all bases.

I think what you'd need to be able to say to say something interesting is 1) calculate odds of finding the next prime. 2) Randomly generate numbers with a similar distribution to that of prime occurrence in that range using the Prime Number Theorem at the very least (1 / log(n) probability roughly). 3) check final digits and compare to actual distribution of final digits.

If those numbers are very different, then you have in fact found some underlying structure. But the article doesn't hit very hard on this angle, and its hard for (probably) any of us to say just thinking about it with minimal data whether or not there's structure.
> because I don't believe they should be playing it (and other proprietary games) to begin with, and I certainly don't want them to use it as an educational platform upon which they'll build their foundation.

Well that's just silly.
One disgruntled/bribed/blackmailed employee with access. Without knowing how many that is and what measures are in place to stop those people it isn't possible to quantify the risk.

Note that I'm not defending the idea of encryption backdoors. I still believe they are a bad idea, period. I'm just getting annoyed that the pro-encryption crowd here and on other tech sites is engaging in the same kind of out-of-touch hyperbole that the anti-encryption crowd is.
Incontrovertible proof that we deserve to be the laughingstock of the universe.
You don't have to. The video includes statements from the involved parties so you can see what their arguments really are.
Primes have no inherent relation to decimal, so all prime patterns in decimal are mathematically meaningful.

This is fundamentally different from observations about, say, how 2 and 5 relate to decimal expansions.

P.S. never say "base 10", it's a tautology. Say "decimal"
If you enjoy stories of Chemicals With Alarming Properties, then be sure to check out Charles Stross's short story, "A Tall Tail." (Very Big Grin)

http://www.tor.com/2012/07/20/a-tall-tail/
Is there a particularly egregious example of one-sidedness you can point to?
What is? My question was about whether random numbers can have patterns.

I thought a sort of general definition of patterns was the existence of correlation from one state to another, while the definition of randomness was the lack of the same correlation. So I'm wondering how random numbers can have patterns? It's possible my view of "random numbers" and "patterns" is not sufficiently nuanced.

I have no idea what your comment means in this context.
I agree there is an immigrant "gene" or advantage, but Thuan was 10 at the time. And people didn't need to be adventurous to see they needed to leave Vietnam in the 70s. Especially if they were American allies.
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For those willing to try this over toy code, I did a (horrible, horrible, I'm terribly ashamed of it) quick Python snippet to check it out:

def primer():
p = 3
while True:
is_prime = True
for x in xrange(2, p):
if p % x == 0:
is_prime = False
break
if is_prime:
yield p
p += 2

give_prime = primer()
primes = [1, 2] # had to separate this into 2 lines because Python
primes.extend([give_prime.next() for x in xrange(9998)]) # so we get 10,000 primes
primes_dict = {}
for i in xrange(len(primes) - 1):
p0 = str(primes[i])[-1]
p1 = str(primes[i + 1])[-1]
key = "".join([p0, "-", p1])
try:
primes_dict[key] += 1
except:
primes_dict[key] = 1
# let's delete the 4 outliers from the begining
del(primes_dict["1-2"])
del(primes_dict["2-3"])
del(primes_dict["3-5"])
del(primes_dict["5-7"])

So long story short, my results over 10,000 primes:

In [57]: primes_dict
Out[57]:
{'1-1': 365,
'1-3': 833,
'1-7': 889,
'1-9': 397,
'3-1': 529,
'3-3': 324,
'3-7': 754,
'3-9': 906,
'7-1': 655,
'7-3': 722,
'7-7': 323,
'7-9': 808,
'9-1': 935,
'9-3': 635,
'9-7': 541,
'9-9': 379}

And you can clearly see that the tendency to avoid the same last digit is starting to show, thow those that end in 1 are still not showing it completely. Tried with 100,000 primes but the (horrible) algorithm kinda got stuck so I settled with 10,000 to make this a "quick test".

Before you go, please believe me I'm sorry for primer() and give_prime. I'll try to never do those kind of things again.

Edit: I've edited this like 5 times already over little typos and bad transcription mistakes I did all over the place. Should work now.
Exactly that

Papers published there are certainly at a high quality level, in predicate logic:

A - Published on Nature

B - Good Research

A -> B is true, which does not imply !A -> !B
They conspire in base 2 as well, they conspire to be equal. :-)
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I thought the article was helpful in shedding light on this disgraceful practice. If Google is part of it, it deserves to be called out on it. The problem may be bigger than just one company, but it doesn't mean that just because others do it too, they should not be targeted. I appreciated the article.
Thanks for that. It's nice to read something with a broader perspective on the issues with Udemy.
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You seem to imply "real" journalism cannot use humour, because somehow the goal of getting laughs crowds out the primary goal of informing the audience. And yet studies show that Stewart's audiences, as an example, are better informed than those who take their news primarily from network news channels.

Inferring "it's comedy, therefore not serious/credible" is a fallacy, just as "news read by serious anchor is balanced and informative" is a fallacy. People should stop judging books by their cover and shows by the blurbs on their websites. Ask instead whether the content is factual or not. By this standard, Last Week Tonight is very credible.

I often say that John Oliver isn't trying to make you laugh, but to make you cry. He uses comedy to penetrate the audience's guard in order to deliver the painful truth.
That's just a modern form of the earth is the center of the universe syndrome: Everything not human can't be intelligent.
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Bukkit? This does not sound very client side. Even if it runs on LAN, you're still only touching the integrated server. Client-side scripting in Minecraft-esque modding would probably mean things like being able to create proper, interactive GUIs, HUDs, dynamic rendering, etc.
The results are particularly striking in base 11 - looking at primes below 100 million, only 4.3% of primes ending in 2 are followed by another prime ending in 2 (compared to the 9.1% you would naively expect) with similar numbers for other pairs.

A prime ending in 2 (in base 11) is also unlikely to be following by a prime ending in 5, 7 or 9, whereas it is particularly likely to be following by a prime ending in 4 or 8.

It would be interesting to know what structure there is (if any) in this NxN "transition matrix" for various bases.

1: ( 1, 4.3%) ( 2, 13.0%) ( 3, 14.3%) ( 4, 7.7%) ( 5, 11.5%) ( 6, 6.3%) ( 7, 18.0%) ( 8, 9.0%) ( 9, 10.7%) (10, 5.2%)
2: ( 1, 10.0%) ( 2, 3.7%) ( 3, 11.3%) ( 4, 14.1%) ( 5, 7.5%) ( 6, 12.1%) ( 7, 5.3%) ( 8, 17.5%) ( 9, 7.8%) (10, 10.7%)
3: ( 1, 6.1%) ( 2, 10.3%) ( 3, 3.7%) ( 4, 12.5%) ( 5, 14.0%) ( 6, 9.2%) ( 7, 12.1%) ( 8, 5.6%) ( 9, 17.5%) (10, 9.0%)
4: ( 1, 11.1%) ( 2, 6.1%) ( 3, 9.9%) ( 4, 4.1%) ( 5, 11.5%) ( 6, 14.5%) ( 7, 7.7%) ( 8, 12.0%) ( 9, 5.3%) (10, 18.0%)
5: ( 1, 9.6%) ( 2, 12.7%) ( 3, 6.3%) ( 4, 11.5%) ( 5, 4.0%) ( 6, 13.6%) ( 7, 14.5%) ( 8, 9.2%) ( 9, 12.1%) (10, 6.4%)
6: ( 1, 17.9%) ( 2, 8.5%) ( 3, 10.6%) ( 4, 5.0%) ( 5, 9.6%) ( 6, 4.0%) ( 7, 11.4%) ( 8, 14.0%) ( 9, 7.5%) (10, 11.5%)
7: ( 1, 6.0%) ( 2, 19.1%) ( 3, 8.8%) ( 4, 11.1%) ( 5, 5.1%) ( 6, 11.6%) ( 7, 4.1%) ( 8, 12.5%) ( 9, 14.1%) (10, 7.7%)
8: ( 1, 12.0%) ( 2, 5.5%) ( 3, 17.5%) ( 4, 8.8%) ( 5, 10.6%) ( 6, 6.3%) ( 7, 9.9%) ( 8, 3.7%) ( 9, 11.3%) (10, 14.3%)
9: ( 1, 8.8%) ( 2, 12.4%) ( 3, 5.5%) ( 4, 19.1%) ( 5, 8.6%) ( 6, 12.7%) ( 7, 6.0%) ( 8, 10.3%) ( 9, 3.7%) (10, 13.0%)
10: ( 1, 14.3%) ( 2, 8.8%) ( 3, 12.0%) ( 4, 6.0%) ( 5, 17.8%) ( 6, 9.6%) ( 7, 11.1%) ( 8, 6.1%) ( 9, 10.0%) (10, 4.3%)
On top of what others have said, this actually doesn't apply to RSA at all. There are ways to factor the prime-product used in RSA faster if you believe the 2 primes are close together[1], so any good RSA key generator should be picking primes that are far apart (when I wrote a toy key generator for a class I just tried to make the second prime more than twice the first), and this "conspiracy" only applies to consecutive primes. As you get further away from the original prime, you get less info about what the last digit could be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_%28cryptosystem%29#Faulty_...
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Their service is primarily for consumers and many large companies won't use them, favoring an in-house solution or an offering from a specialized company. That's a dangerous position to be in, as consumers are fickle and are liable to drop the service at a moment's notice.

Dropbox is probably trying to position themselves as a secure data storage solution for larger organizations. Being on Amazon scares away a lot of people. I'm sure we'll hear about some new paid services from them which will be compliant with all manner of regulations. This will open them up to huge multi-million dollar contracts and they'll get baked into some big companies for years to come.
I would pay for an API, that gives me access to partial quality crawl content.

It would be even better, if the web would be treated, at least for parts, as a digital library and non-profit organizations would recognize the value of access to such a resource and provide it (just as maintenance for roads or public schools).
Example: FCC Chairman Net Neutrality is a good example of his style. Yes he does show the other side and yes it maybe a case of straw-man argument, but for the most part.

Encryption - He shows the FBI public address on the issue and why they are concerned in terms of terrorist. Then shows the Congress and Trump. Points out the ability for the government to "penetrate" any bank, door, etc as needed through a court of law.

Then the issue is the "Pandora's Box" of setting president.

I would like you to show one where there isn't the other side getting their main points presented by John Oliver? Would you be willing to show an example of what shows only one side?
And provided your management costs are lower than Amazon's profit on S3.

There's an infection point somewhere at which owning your own hardware and paying someone to acquire, build, manage, and maintain it becomes cheaper than renting from someone who does the same thing at scale and makes a profit off of it.

Dropbox is probably there, but many small web apps are not.
Explain the difference?

Are you saying that HH causes an early failure for HT , instead of a potentially longer success HHHT?
If so , it is poorly worded, to be ambiguous about how to count failures. (In the 4-6 variation, there are no failures)
Still, it should have a "(2010)" in the title.
Empathy?
Its an amazing remarkable feat indeed to move all those bits live to another location ! But seems contrary to what Netflix did (move everything to AWS ! - http://www.eweek.com/cloud/netflix-now-running-its-movies-ex...) I guess they have their specific usage and reasons ?
I think it solves something (needing a simple, well documented, GPL licensed machine learning framework written in C) but not the major problem faced by those on the cutting edge of machine learning.
I would guess that your problem is more geographical. Mildly amusing anecdote - a friend of mine went to an interview for a dev position (without doing proper due diligence) at a company just outside of London, but the location was quite isolated - he ended up on a farm complex where this company had their office. He said he could hear actual farm animal noises next door during the interview and these people were desperate to offer him the job, but for obvious reasons he declined.
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That was going to bother me all day. Thank you.
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A few years ago in Italyy, Berlusconi gained effective power most/all TV stations and major newspapers. Not very much later, publication and sales of books about current affairs started growing.

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it, as the famous quotation says. Much the same applies to civic society, IMNSHO.

EDIT: ... which doesn't imply that either side necessarily wins. Sigh.
Numbers modulo n (i.e. the last digit in base n) are everywhere in number theory and their properties even form the basis of cryptography. What you see as "math trivia" most mathematicians see as mathematics.
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You cannot alter your vote.
Yeah, it depends on the distribution you're sampling from. It's possible (often desirable) to introduce a bias when picking a random number. http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/libs/random/index.html
have you consider remote work?
General Biotics: http://www.generalbiotics.com/

Real science behind the strains they choose and I've never seen a probiotic with more of them (115 different bacteria).
People pay for RHEL, SUSE, Windows, Mongo, MySQL, etc.. support even though they may be part of a company perfectly capable of resolving any issue with the software. You get more than just basic support with all of these contracts. =)
Obligatory "you may also like" reccomendation: Ignition! by John D Clark ( http://www.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf ), which is an unofficial history of rocket fuel. A mixture of hard science and lab-exploding anecdotes.
For me personally, it was your pointless arguing, which borders on trolling, and dumb comments like "Thinkpads. Only sincere people work on them."

(And for the record, I use both a MBP and a Thinkpad. They're both good, in different ways.)
Scala's capacity for being onerously complex is high, but I wouldn't say it's too big and complex.
I feel like a laser printer evangelist now. I have a few laser Brother models I always recommend to people who complain about their inkjets based on their OS, the functions they need, and if they primarily print BW or color.

Sort of like high deductibles did to people's willingness to seek medical treatment, I know more than a few people with inkjets that actively avoid using them because "it's so expensive and never works".

They're afraid to use up their ink, so it ends up expiring(!) or drying out having been barely used, and the next time they desperately need to print something, they have to buy $50+ of cartridges before they can print anything at all.

The HL-2140 I got in '09 for $60 can print on transparencies for PCB masking, does manual duplexing and easy booklet printing under Linux and OSX, and with aftermarket toner refills I've only needed to replace the drum/cart once. Contrasted to the cost efficiency of all the low or mid range inkjets I've owned ($80-350), it's been an exceptional return.
I wonder how many of the cars parked in the driveway weren't in the garage because it was filled with stuff.
You are thinking about it the wrong way.

No, it isn't good that comedians are the only way some people consume news; and nor is it good that sometimes they are the only way certain opposing (but sometimes provably correct) views are aired.

But the situation says more about the partisan and incompletely researched/verified (often completely not researched and/or verified!) reporting generally output by the other media outlets, than it does about the satire shows and their audience. That isn't just bad, it is terrible and probably quite damaging.

Of course the satire outlets are themselves often partisan, or at very least subconsciously biased, but they do tend to be more honest about that.

And it isn't just in the US: the same is true (to a lesser but growing extent) in the UK and other parts of Europe.
> but now they have their own hardware on the balance sheet

i don't know if this is true or not, but it isn't at all necessary.

you can just buy everything on an operating lease for a fraction of what amazon or any other provider charges and write the payment off without any sort of depreciation schedule or hit to your cash or unnecessarily grow the balance sheet/liabilities.

how do you think it's possible that you can easily get a $15/month dedicated server?
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Yeah, reddit /r/baduk had a thread about it including video from a different angle. The commentator only noticed that the move had been played and he was gone, didn't get the ordering correct.
Have you seen those SaaS sites that mention they are used by the NYTimes, Newsweek, Forbes etc. Well you can say the billion dollar startup uses your SaaS.
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The majority of scientific research in the U.S. and elsewhere is funded by tax-payers money in the form of research grants. The outcome of this research (the paper) should be free.