skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There must be a lot of cost to this, not just in data processing, but the time to set this up. Still, I expect to see more and more ML projects until it becomes cheap.
It's a low-profile business but transactions between strangers aren't as rare as one might think. Paris has a few notaires specialized in rente voyagère working in tandem with financial advisors. I know Toulouse and Aix also have those.

It can be a great solution for an old homeowner with meager retirement earnings and no natural beneficiaries.
Police use new device to seize money in bank accounts or on prepaid cards
> Despite extensive use of distributed databases and filesystems in data-driven workflows, there remains a persistent need to rapidly read text files on single machines.

This comment makes me wonder how often a distributed approach is used out of some odd sense of convenience or interest, instead of taking time to create an optimized single node approach?

In other words, how often is an Hadoop-like system used when unnecessary, adding unnecessary complexity?
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Curious as to what companies have already been considered.
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It might be a interesting future if computers become powerful enough to be able to run this kind of IA. Then games companies might be able to use directly a generic IA like this instead of developing specific ones. But I suppose it will be hard to do and won't happen (if it does) before a long time.
This is really true for all jobs, especially as you start managing things.
Yup, hence the need to have it open source, otherwise that's just too much time spent for little return (leads datasets are too limited for significant uplift)
Felons, by definition, are found to have committed some act which marks them as part of the class. Leaving aside for the sake of answering your question the unjust aspects of American jurisprudence which distort that process of a guilty verdict, a member of the class has essentially (again, in theory) joined it voluntarily.

The same is not true of "outsiders". It is a racist and xenophobic presumption that an immigrant will be unfriendly, rude, or difficult to communicate with, and that natural-born citizens will not be.
Why You Don’t Need a Specification Document Before Talking to a Dev Team
A friend at Google passed it along. She was on a particular mailing list and it caught her eye.

Google for Entrepreneurs provides some financial assistance to Gaza Sky Geeks which is probably why they put it in the mailing list in the first place.
Scale to what though? RDBMs can easily handle large loads, have replication, etc... At the point where you need true scaling, you'll have a much better idea of your problem and can solve it appropriately.
I installed Ramble half an hour ago on my 2014 Moto G and it seems to be working as advertized! The only thing which confuses me is the empty list under the history tab. Is this a bug or is this feature not implemented yet?
sure, it's a limit we will probably never achieve, but we should at least try to do so, not because it's easy, but because it's right thing to do (damn, now i sound like some sort of preacher)
The server-side JavaScript hype is real and it is awesome! React option comes with Redux, React Router and with server-side rendering enabled. I have also gone through all the obstacles of setting up authentication with server-side rendering. If the code doesn't make sense, I will try to create a small diagram of the user auth flow.
After it's passed to collections you can't do much, it's too late. A "couple years" is 7 years. The US credit industry is absurd.
Entirely possible, as I said this is the first time I read about this, so the port knocking I refer to is the kind described, which is using a sequence of ports as a key.

I don't know python but this implementation seems broken in the same way (or more precisely, under the same circumstances). I just realized, you don't even need to copy the knock. If you have access to the network traffic (which you would need to copy the knock in the first place), you also have access to the TCP sequence numbers. You can just connect from the user's IP after he performs the knock, or even let him connect and inject packets at some later point. This program seems to rely on the TCP authentication of IP address which is completely negated if the attacker can monitor traffic.

Am I misunderstanding how this program works?
I would probably reach a similar conclusion, but many of the people speaking out against him are people that I know and respect. People who have been contributing meaningful cryptography research for decades are not suddenly going to become part of some nebulous government-sponsored smear campaign.

What has happened is that Jake has been, let's say, rather manipulative and self-promotional for many years. I've never had any issues with him, but I've witnessed him grandstanding and attacking people who he felt represented a threat to his influence. His elevated profile in the media and the platform that ToR gave him allowed him to do this successfully.

Now that it's ok to criticize him, the floodgates have opened and all the enemies he's made over the years feel that they can speak up. Maybe this looks like some kind of "orchestrated campaign" from the outside?

As for the hyperbolic sockpuppet Twitter accounts or whatever, consider that they have only served to sow doubt about the people coming forward.
No, they did not. Though in practice, they did. Only males did the overnight grind.
>written in a shitty language (SQL)

SQL is old but it isn't shitty.

Reasons:

1) It is based on a solid mathematical theory[1].

2) It is declarative. Replacing SQL with a procedural language would be a spaghetti code disaster.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_calculus
Not even privately purchased annuities? Otherwise you may have just discovered why many people don't buy them; they are a suboptimal purchase for men, if the ungendered life-expectancy is used.
> but it's difficult to see what SF could do better than Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket

When I have a dependency problem ( usually some arbitrary version of a lib that needs to be compiled and linked ) it's much easier if the project is on Sourceforge where I can just go and read down an index to find the appropriate release, which is not necessarily the latest one, and hit 'Download' to receive a nice bz2 which will de-tar into a buildable structure.

At that point in time I don't want to fork the project, or engage socially with other developers, or pick through tags to piece-together a checkout that will link against the dependee. I just want something compilable ASAP.

Perhaps Sourceforge could find a niche there, organising the bazaar of projects on the Git* sites into something sane.
How Polaroid and RCA live on through licensing
How is it broken? Have waves ceased waving? Have swimmers stopped swimming? The hyperbole is tiresome and detracts from solving the problems.
> Also in my experience ISP's to this day favour downloads over uploads by at least a 20:1 margin. [...] Though I'm not sure if this was just a market response to customer preferences or if it was a contributing factor to digital consumerism.

Verizon ran a campaign recently where they made their FiOS service 1:1 claiming that it was due to customer demand. But it happened right around when the FCC was debating net neutrality, so I always assumed that Verizon hoped they could fool a few people into thinking that it was what net neutrality was all about.
The choice of algorithm completely depends on the type of classification task at hand. Naive Bayes would be good for certain types of classifications problems but there could be better ones for another type of text classification problems.
I thought you couldn't do it with members of your family, has it changed? Didn't have a look at it for a while...
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Well, not so many people use serializable in their systems (in the whole system, for every transaction) and that is common and reasonable approach. They use the minimal isolation level for particular transaction that keeps their data consistent. Most widely used safe default is repeatable read, in PostgreSQL terms.

Broadly speaking, of course there are some quirks in the field, let's start from "A critique of ANSI SQL isolation levels"[1] by Jim Gray et al., an author of highly respected fundamental book about transactions [2]. But the very kind of problems discussed in RDBMS world, is a rather contrasting with an "ACID? why do we need it?" attitude that is so often in the world of "web scale NoSQL".

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=223785

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Transaction-Processing-Concepts-Techn...?
ANGUS.AI Realtime Data on People in a Video Stream
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Kind of. The GPS signal portfolio is evolving. In the beginning, the encrypted code was broadcast on two frequencies, L1 and L2. The public code was only on L1. So you could in theory jam just L1 to block the un-encrypted portion, but why would you?

In recent years GPS modernization means satellites have been using new codes on L2 (L2C) which are un-encrypted. Only about 18 of the satellites carry that capability at this time.
The history tab is pull-to-refresh, but it's not particularly discoverable :)

I've implemented a UI hint to make this more obvious, which will be in the next version of RaMBLE.
Don't we just call this a reverse mortgage in the US?
I honestly don't know, all my info has come from the internet. I use a pond, hugels and cover crop to skip watering. I don't till because tilling is simply harmful, you don't need to do anything to skip that. I use a cover crop of white clover and bugleweed to keep the soil from eroding away, keep the soil full of roots and thus bacteria, and to keep the moisture in the soil instead of having it evaporate off. Bare earth is really terrible, but everyone has learned through osmosis that gardens are supposed to look bare. In the fall after harvesting I spread the composted manure from the goats, rabbits and chickens on the garden beds. That's pretty much it. The biggest difficulty in gardening is planning (how much to plant of which things at what times), not actual work.
As reitanqild mentioned, the LI is probably to help with basic vetting.

Family names - my guess is to perform a more rigorous background check. This is probably more relevant for people of Palestinian descent.
From About the author:

"Therefore i co-founded rtbrick.com where those Hyper-scale design principles are followed, to build the next generation distributed routing and forwarding platform with unbounded scale on your choice of open hardware."

And the comments:

"We are building a routing/system stack which both runs on vanilla ubuntu 14.04 as well as open network linux. The nice thing about our system is that it does not make any locality assumptions. — You can run the BGP control-plane distributed over several compute nodes and the IS-IS control running on different nodes. Yet the whole thing acts as a coherent system and can drive a set of bare-metal switches (e.g. A Dell Z9100)."
Nice analysis, I remember combining tf-idf with many other NLP techniques for my final year project and it was super easy to implement with nlp_compromise's tokenize():

nlp.tokenize(text, { dont_combine: true }).reduce(function(sentences, nlp, key){

var words = nlp.tokens.reduce(function(tokens, token){
// ...
});

// ...

});
>>What it has not evolved into is an unconditional, open door to citizenship or permanent residence.

It isn't an unconditional open door. That's why there's a separate application process for Green Card that's independent from the work visa, and not everyone is accepted.
Yes, these discussions of alternative farming options always wind up being about growing drugs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11845573
"..he was getting threatening phone calls from policemen proclaiming their intention to arrest him..".

This is the disturbing thing, more than the threats he received from the foolish religious groups. An utter failure on the part of government, law and democracy.
Oh, you're talking about the original way that the website and Twitter account were created, which has since changed. I had to rtfa to see what you were referring to.
yes, 17 bytes for the URL.
Walmart sells more than Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, combined
People will mention the problem with patents but I see another, perhaps bigger, problem:

We do not have equal access to our judicial system in the United States.

If you have money, you have the power to legally hold people with less over a barrel. That exploitable inequality is poison for a well functioning society. That is the problem that needs solving.
I'm a diabetic (type one, since 1988) who has also been doing ML startups for the last 15 years. My HbA1C scores have always been below 6, controlled with a two to four blood test per day and long/short (currently Novorapid and Lantus) insulin regime. I've always been sporty, and have done some more difficult things like hiking to Everest base camp without a porter, cycling from Montreal to Lake Placid and back, and a few 24 hour rogaining events. In other words, broadly I've managed my diabetes quite well.

I've always been tempted to do something with ML and the datasets I collect off my own body, but I have never seen this point. In my experience, the thing that allows for good diabetic control is a doctor who can help a person understand their own body's reaction as a dynamic system, rather than a rigid schedule or an external system that tells them what to do. A product like this would be most useful in my opinion as a learning aid.

The place I see this kind of data being extremely useful is in the insurance industry. I currently pay a 400% premium on my life insurance due to being diabetic, but my control is extremely good. Were it to allow me to obtain reasonable insurance coverage, I'd be more likely to be willing to go through the data collection headaches involved with this kind of product.
Brain teaser questions don't perform well in studies and should be avoided: http://qz.com/378228/google-is-over-those-ridiculous-brainte...

Google suggests doing behavioral interviews instead (which I've also been trained to do and have gotten good results). Technical interviews and such may be necessary as well, of course.
Pensions, much like life-insurance, should probably factor it in, which would include other things too (weight, smoking).
Scriber's "Apply HN" application: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11544028
My Bluetooth devices work flawlessly with my iMac, including the Magic Mouse/KB etc. What's your RF environment like?
TFLearn: A deep learning library built on top of Tensorflow
In the states, the bank is lending you money and essentially building equity in your home. If your heirs pay the loan off when you die, they often may keep the house.

It's a no-lose proposition for the bank, presuming they charge a profitable interest rate. But, they are not guaranteed to get the house at the end of the deal.

>Reverse mortgages allow elders to access the home equity they have built up in their homes now, and defer payment of the loan until they die, sell, or move out of the home. Because there are no required mortgage payments on a reverse mortgage, the interest is added to the loan balance each month. The rising loan balance can eventually grow to exceed the value of the home, particularly in times of declining home values or if the borrower continues to live in the home for many years. However, the borrower (or the borrower’s estate) is generally not required to repay any additional loan balance in excess of the value of the home

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_mortgage
OH MY GOD I LOVE OPEN HARDWARE AND LOCK CAPS
So last week my client discovered there's a gem named bunlder... sigh
Really seems like Google/Apple should make some kind of statement calling out how ridiculous these lawsuits are.
I don't think you understand what you're asking someone to do.

You don't just download the Android source, type "make," and get something that would work on a HTC 626s. The biggest hindrance is finding the hardware drivers for newer versions of Android. That's why a lot of devices fall out of support, the hardware manufacturer never updated the driver to the latest version of Android.

Best case scenario either the old drivers are still compatible with newer versions of Android (but you lose functionality) or the hardware manufacturer has updated drivers (which you can normally get from a different phone's flash dump).

You may want to ask over at forum.xda-developers.com for your device or manufacturer. But what you're asking for is a lot more involved than you seem to think it is, and has little to do with being able to compile Android.
... and even things like this that are 100% capitalism.
No, it means that they don't feel he has a case against them.

Without some compensation, there's no reason for him to sign anything at all. If they don't want it executed, they can just not offer any money: pay him what he's owed, and remind him of any outstanding agreements in either direction.

If they offered him more than 6 months salary, I would expect that to be (a) an indication that they really want to avoid a court case and (b) in a document that laid out much more specific terms.

One month of salary says "we don't think you have a case at all, but just in case you were thinking about it, take this and go". If it were a break-even for-profit business, that might go as far as two months of salary -- Appelbaum's been there for about 8 years.

It's really not suspicious to me.
> If there are criminal matters, they can be decided in the courts.

I continue to be baffled why people think this is a reasonable community norm for people who care about Tor. It seems like even if you're very pro-Appelbaum, you'd be worried about governments treating him unfairly like they've supposedly treated Assange unfairly, right?

I suspect this is not what you meant, but I can't shake the feeling that the subtext here (you're not the only person who's said something like this) is that sexual assault claims should not be pursued anywhere, neither in court nor in the community. And that seems definitely unproductive.
Is there a current update on this guy? This was written in 2014.
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> It's a society problem; people want to use centralized services

Given the nature of network effects, centralized services will always be more valuable to users than decentralized services.
In the end, history, being in the past, denies direct access or verification. In some sense it is just what we choose to remember, which is a very fluid thing. I guess culturally the Chinese are just more flexible about it. It is not necessarily bad, as it is a less fanatic ideology.

This is the extreme end of moral relativism that leads to dark places. There are things that should be remembered, no matter how uncomfortable they are or whether people would rather they be forgotten, because they have to be avoided. See the ongoing controversy between Turkey and Germany over the Armenian genocide and Turkey's attempt at erasing this history, while Germany legally opposes any attempts to erase its own crimes from its history. The holocaust is a fact, and attempts to deny it are not some kind of morally neutral "flexibility".

History is, as you say, not directly verifiable. But that just creates an obligation on us to be honest with the evidence we do have and recognise that plenty of things are well-verified enough to be called fact, even if the details are unclear.
He has no rights to the house until she dies. This is perfectly within her contract with him.
> Obviously people can be very crative with typos and with squattinq and there is no real protection against mistakes.

I see what you did.
To elaborate a little bit more: the first generation of LVADs were had large mechanical pumps and were huge -- they could only be implanted in people with a large chest cavity, excluding a large number of patients (especially women) from eligibility for their device.

Current popular models are continuous flow rotors that are much smaller (enabling their use in almost anyone) and are non-pulsatile.

However, there's been a big push to move towards pulsatile devices. This is mostly driven by mechanobiolgy studies that show that there is a difference in the cellular programs of cells that are exposed to a continuous shear force versus a pulsatile shear force. Accordingly, to more closely replicate the natural physiology of the heart, there has been a big push towards using pulsatile devices.
Push vs. Pull in Product Development
Very interesting, thanks for doing that calculation. Lithium should scale directly with storage capacity, so despite technological improvements in kWh per unit weight or volume, that should stay relatively constant. So there is a relatively hard limit here for price reductions.
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These are attributes that everyone can, on honest personal judgement, can mistake to possessing themselves to varying degrees. But it might be a useful list to read through when stuck at a problem that is simply not giving way.

Unless we have the chance to learn from and be coached directly by a master, what would be helpful is narratives on how they think and solve problems.

The best I have so far come across in a book is "Coders At Work". https://github.com/aosabook/500lines promises to be another. Rich Hickey did great service by talking pragmatically about the meta aspects of programming through Hammock Driven Development and Simple is not Easy. Dijkstra's and Alan Perlis' writing that has been gaining a resurgence in popularity is also of a similar ilk. http://damienkatz.net/2005/01/formula-engine-rewrite.html also is an intriguing story.
New wi-fi-based network keeps Facebook servers at bay
They vote for the right because they are afraid and violence and terrorist attacks have slowed down considerably when the right is in power.

This doesnt mean they dont want peace, it just means they want ssecurity first.
The text of the article is cut in half for me. Can anyone else confirm the same rendering behavior?

http://i.imgur.com/FfcXAmi.png

I am on Windows 7 using Chrome 51.0.2704.79 m and the text issue occurs in incognito mode as well.
How does X.400 authenticate senders?
Could Google do more then a statement? It can't be good for their business if people are being sued for simply uploading an app to the Play Store.
Let's Occams Razor this:

Which is more likely?

- Applebaum is an abuser, as widely reported by multiple independent witnesses

- Various three-letter-agencies are orchestrating a conspiracy to defame him
Could the fakir be brought up on attempted murder charges?
Couldn't Google offer defense in such cases for its users? Every case is the same so it shouldn't even be that expensive (I guess, IANAL), and it would discourage future cases because the troll would know he will have to fight against Google.
Show HN: wrfy, a tool to keep your docker host tidy
I'm a fan of the approach of personally submitting projects to the repository maintainer (e.g. through GitHub issues), and having the maintainer personally approve them.

It does raise the barrier to entry, but it would prevent typosquatting and regular namesquatting.

EDIT: Does any major package manager provide a "did you mean" functionality, offering a list of actual package names similar to what you typed?
This is cool. A search function filter might be nice.
There is a gem called bundle which doesn't do anything but preventing a typosquat

https://rubygems.org/gems/bundle Total downloads 1,800,600

Source (empty) at https://github.com/will/bundle and interesting README.

https://rubygems.org/gems/bundler Total downloads 92,116,090

It's almost the 2%.