skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think we are. My thesis is simple: everyone is biased, and we all need to tolerate each other. You can have your views, as long as your decisions are transparent when scrutinized by others to ensure your views (which others might consider abhorrent) did not come into play.

You don't want to take the pitchforks from one group, and hand them to the other.
We're talking about physical rape. Jake's a rapist. He's also sexually assaulted plenty of people (and this attention is likely to turn up more victims) but this is about rape. And Marie is one of the apologists he needs to keep going. And the idea that he slept with Alison is his self-serving lie. Rape the victim, then smear her in the media. That is what Jake is doing with Marie. Tor is very lucky to be rid of them both.
> Titan uses four-year-old GPUs

... as does nearly every public cloud provider. I agree with most of the article, but you can't fault Intel for benchmarking the hardware that cloud providers are actually offering.

I'm not sure what exactly NVIDIA is doing with their Tesla product line but whatever it is, it's really restricting the availability of recent GPU hardware. Even Azure's GPU instances released this month are using the Kepler architecture from 2012. It's fully two generations out of date now, and that's sad.
I've been following PaaSs built on docker for a while, and it seems like the new swarm mode in version 1.12 makes them pretty much obsolete. I was a huge fan of deis (deis.io), but it seems like they are pivoting away from docker to do something different (deis.com). At this point, think docker has become big enough such that building a platform on top of it is pretty much redundant, but something like this may prove useful for more modular container systems such as rkt.
On the subject of alignment: ARM now belongs to Japan (Softbank), which would be a TPP participant.

Could other countries pursue open-source chip designs?
> Patterns, principles, idioms, libraries, language features—these are all tools. But a truly proficient programmer fits the tool to the job, not the other way around.

This isn't a unique statement but many people forget it.

We all have our favorite tools and we criticize others that don't have complete parity. Picking a tool to use is often the hardest part considering there are so many nowadays. It's easy to rule out a hammer when you want to tighten a screw but in order to build a skyscraper you need to start with something.
Man, I was excited to see Vancouver 2010 numbers.
Alone in Pico: Postmortem of a 3d demake
What3words Aims to Give Billions of People One Thing They Don't Have: An Address
This Clever, Three-Word-Address System Is Coming to Middle Eastern Shoppers
8 Inspirational Applications of Deep Learning
I wish these articles wouldn't turn up here. Although this sounds cool, the chance of having an impact on actual patient care is miniscule. This is a very complcated delivery system at the end of the day. We have enough trouble giving one drug and managing toxicity successfully, let alone this controlled nano infection cocktail. Also hypoxia isn't as tumour specific as you think, off target toxicity is a problem.

I don't think anyone will be cured by this and it will no doubt cost an absolute fortune.
>X is common and a well vetted practice, I don't know the security implications of Y.

What isn't concrete about this? Does your boss invent his own HMAC schemes?
Uh, why? That's the portion of the budget that Congress actually has control over. Furthermore the mandatory portion (entitlements) are fundamentally different - you pay into the system through payroll taxes and pay out later during retirement. Vastly different from taking money from income taxes and using it to buy guns and planes.
There was an HBS article about how both Microsoft and Facebook were started during Harvard reading week because putting all the smart people there and making them bored during time off resulted in productive projects. Trying to find it...
Inside Amazon's Cloud
I feel like part of the problem here is the IOC and trying to "win" having the Olympics.

A more sensible approach would be temporary housing, akin more to trailers and inexpensive pop up temporaries rather than plush living. These athletes don't need to be treated like royalty. Heck, most of them are used to competing out of cars and cheap motels when on the road because they make so little money. (emphasis on most, not all). Basically something like a FEMA response with a little more class and forethought put into it.

Instead we have cities trying to show how grand and massive these buildings will be, rather than how practical and well put on the event can be. I was honestly thrilled when Chicago lost the bid for 2016 to Rio. That chaos the rest of the world is talking about now would be in my back yard, and potentially even worse given the density of our city, and the poor strength of our government.
>My organization is ~10 people. We all pay for the Dropbox Pro account individually because it's cheaper per user this way. At what number of people does the Business account tier make sense?

Not sure. The number of people where saying "hey go pay for this yourself" isn't acceptable behavior I suppose?
One of Jake's girlfriends is quitting Tor because people don't like her so much because she's supporting a rapist. She's also likely been behind the recent media smear against the victim. To be clear, it's rape.
Probably the biggest barrier to space elevators is exactly what SpaceX and Blue Origin are doing - safe, reliable, and eventually (relatively) inexpensive rockets will make the large fixed costs of setting up a space elevator uneconomical.
Anyone have a link to the transcript that's not trapped inside scribd?

Really, just plain HTML would've been fine, but instead it's trapped in a PDF that's trapped inside Scribd!
Same old same old "EV roadmap" that we've been seeing since 2005 from BMW/audi/porsche/etc. Just increase all the dates by four years and you can re-release the same old press release over and over again.

Promises of actual EVs in (four years from now) while continuing to roll out half-assed hybrid cars powered by ridiculous little lanwmower engines.

BMW is particularly guilty, given that their flagship "i" vehicle is not an EV at all and contains a clownish three-cylinder engine.

Truly, a hallmark of technology.
From the article:

> If people relied on their stereotypes more or less rationally, they would rely on them to inform judgments when they had little or no definitive information, but ignore them when they had definitive information. And it turns out this is just what most people do.

So what we do with stereotypes is help us get to a better answer sans any other information, then disregard it completely when more information comes to hand. That seems like the perfect use for imperfect information.
"Once the dictionary is created, we can average all the word vectors for a given headline to get the numeric representation of the headline itself."

Can someone explain me why this is useful? Aren't we losing a lot of precision from word2vec results?

And as a general question: is there any useful knowledge we can extract from this vizualisation apart: most of the time, news channels write about different things?

Don't get me wrong, I think the techniques displayed here are really cool, but I have the feeling the conclusions are either absent or trite.
47 investing and venture capital terms that are great to know
> This code similarity makes us believe with a high degree of confidence that the tools from the ShadowBrokers leak are related to the malware from the Equation group. While the ShadowBrokers claimed the data was related to the Equation group, they did not provide any technical evidence of these claims. The highly specific crypto implementation above confirms these allegations.

...or means that they're just extremely thorough, like you might expect a state actor to be.
I'm in no way knowledgeable, but when I was younger, I remember my dad, who ran compliance at a financial planning/ life insurance place, frequently complaining about how much shady shit people could get away with because it was really hard for the SEC to actually put together strong cases.
On limited access highways, there are no pedestrians, no bicycles (mostly and not in traffic lanes), no turns, separation of travel in different directions, generally well-defined lanes, etc. Non-limited access highways aren't quite as straightforward but they still seem immeasurably easier than a busy city.

Yes, speeds are higher but dealing with mostly well-defined problems like sudden braking at speed is something it seems as if computers should actually be pretty good at as opposed to all the random events that happen on city streets.

[EDIT: Yes, I misread. I'm in violent agreement with the parent. :-) ]
> What do you think the purpose of a date is? It's a courtship ritual where you try to demonstrate your reproductive value to a potential mate.

I think you have a very narrow definition of "date."
I don't even know what Curse is, but I use wowpedia every day, I hope they don't screw it up.
Are streamers hosting their chats on Discord as opposed to Twitch's chat system, which tends to break down after a certain level of activity?

Only thing I can think of.
At my job we have a large angular application, and several smaller react + redux + flavor of the month.

We will never move to angular 2, not because it's not a good idea, but because we don't need it.

One of the most expensive lessons of these framework wars (in my opinion) is that the vast majority of problems don't need them or warrant the complexity.

Angular everywhere is the wrong approach, just as react everywhere is wrong.

Now if only I could convince the front-end engineers that their static form and homepage doesn't need react + redux + Babel + webpack.
Question is why Intel did not just buy ARM, instead of Softbank?
As an outsider (not remotely in any position to use amp or not) it looks like one of the positive aspects of amp is a utility with some associated carrot and stick to just get publishers to realize those things really are bad and need to be taken seriously.
> Information about the Gradle Daemon is now being captured in your Build Scans and can be viewed in Gradle Cloud Services.

Does anyone know what that means...? It makes it sounds like it is auto uploading information about your build somewhere.
I'm not sure what "future barriers to the elevator(s) will be more regulatory than technological" means. Like, right now, the barriers are firmly technological.

From the perspective of a hypothetical future in which all the technological problems have been solved, the barriers might be regulatory. But that seems tautological.
You may see a framework programmer try to apply their framework when it is not necessary. Look at the javascript questions on stack overflow; sometimes people recommend jQuery for problems where it isn't required or even optimal to use jQuery. That doesn't mean jQuery is always bad, it just means people are not thinking critically about their own tools.
Discord is probably too expensive / not for sale.
"paying individually" != "pay for this yourself"
Depends on the size and function...
Hrm. The idea that an arbitrary decision could be scrutinized in isolation to determine the amount of bias that went into it is... optimistic at best. Realistically it's willfully naive, and practically it serves to preserve the status quo of bias in the workplace and in society.

You talk pretty big ("I will protect your right to free speech to the death"!), but it's quite clear that you wont't actually defend anyone's right to free speech (unless they're discussing their own bigotry, in which case apparently we aren't permitted to freely speak against them).

EDIT: A simpler way to put it might be that the decisions you make regarding whose free speech you defend are obviously colored by your own unconscious bias.
It wouldn't be suitable for the general public, but here's how I would do the comparison for potential:

- assume a normal distribution of innate ability.

- assume a different normal distribution of each individual's variation in scoring (all with an expected value of zero and identical variance, smaller than that of innate ability)

- assume each nation picks its best athletes in trials (doesn't really happen; for example, Bolt wouldn't have qualified for Rio if Jamaica did that)

What you will get is that China and India should each have about 15% of the best performers. However, top performers of other large countries will not be far behind them in innate ability, so that there is a decent chance that their form of the day will make them beat better players. Also, most of the best athletes will live in countries with large populations, and most of those will not make it to the Olympics because they get beaten by their compatriots in qualification, either because of lack of innate ability or due to 'luck'.

End result I guess will be that each country that is large enough (pure guess: 50 million+, say Argentina, Britain, Colombia, France, Germany, Kenya, South Korea or anything larger) should, aan else being equal, get about the same number of medals.

Of course, not all else is equal. Any difference will be due to other factors:

- sport-mindedness (example: New Zealand)

- money invested (example: Great Britain, Qatar (a country that _buys_ Olympic champions)

- genetic make-up (example: Fiji in rugby)

- culture (example: table tennis and China, or India as a negative example for almost any sport that isn't cricket or field hockey)

- religion (many countries send a token female athlete because they have to, thus giving up about 50% of their potential number of medals)

Those are hard to quantify, and can change significantly over time. Britain is an extreme example, with 1 (one!) gold medal at the 1996 Olympics. Lottery money has changed that tremendously, not only for the home Olympics in London.

A final factor is that countries that are willing to spend money will influence what sports become Olympic sports. I don't think it is accidental that there are so many events in athletics and swimming, two sports that the US excels at. Advertising money buys events.
> People find zero days in image renderers, how do you justify not disabling image rendering?

Rather more rarely than they do in JavaScript. But that's why lynx, links, elinks, w3m, emacs-w3m, eww & friends are so important!

But yes, if one wishes to render an image, then one must render an imagine. But why would one wish to execute JavaScript, when one only wishes to read text? I've no objection to executing JavaScript when it's required for an app (although I do object to apps which could be more cleanly delivered as pages).

> Your user agent and your browsers supported TLS configs are leaking who you are, how do you justify sending that info to every random web server?

Because it's a requirement to use TLS.

JavaScript is not a requirement to read articles or listicles (which are the vast majority of the pages targeted by AMP); people who demand JavaScript in order to display text and images are breaking the Web, and endangering their users' security and privacy.

I really am curious what the folks who are so eagerly downvoting me are thinking. Are they thinking (i.e., do they have persuasive counterarguments), or are they just feeling (i.e., are they reacting emotionally, without a rational basis)? I genuinely wonder what possible objection they can have to 'that JavaScript enables privacy and security exploits is neither a position nor an opinion but the truth'; AFAICT it's as objectionable as pointing out that the sky is often blue or that fire is hot.
twitch web client sucks and breaks every time. discord > curse too. amazon is full of ego
Infowars? Seriously?

Though you create the opportunity to mention that there is a non batshit-insane lying-for-attention Alex Jones out there worth reading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones_(journalist)
It often comes across as Clinton will say whatever she can to try to lure in voters. Trump just says whatever he wants even if it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
The poor staging and lighting are responsible for most of what people are reacting negatively to in terms of body language and appearance. Terrible location for an interview for a number of reasons.

They do seem intensely earnest, but both of them always do in the interviews I've seen. I personally don't see that as a negative in this sort of context, however.
Ok, its officially the new new thing when corporate communications types are sniping at each other :-)

Once we start seeing press releases of products that are not available yet being shown to kill the existing competition we'll know that the hype train has officially gone super-product-sonic (that is a hype wave travelling faster than the product releases can support it).
Full Disclosure: I really like Discord, and use Twitch daily.

Discord has more easily manageable chat roles, eg: Moderator, Helper, Regular, Supporter, etc. Twitch chat is nothing more than simple IRC, and relies almost entirely on bots for the more complicated stuff. Discord also has voice chat built in, whereas Twitch has none for their chatters.

Discord also has a better documented API and libraries in a lot of languages. Overall, Discord (despite using an electron app...) is simply a better chatting product.
Think of Discord as like TeamSpeak and Slack combined. Streamers use Discord as a place to house their viewers and community when they're not streaming. Having a TwitchChat outside of TwitchChat is actually pretty powerful for streamers and a potentially crucial part of their setup. Twitch needed to invest in something like that.
just a friendly note as I see you're a newish poster: I know you mean well, but simple 'me too' posts don't really add any information to the conversation and may well get you downvoted. Have another look at the HN posting guidelines because people here are quite particular about keeping a high signal to noise ratio here!
Second phase of world's biggest offshore windfarm gets go-ahead
Some skepticism is always warranted with these things, but the prevailing belief in the security community is that this is very, very real.

From Nicholas Weaver[1]:

> Because of the sheer volume and quality, it is overwhelmingly likely this data is authentic. And it does not appear to be information taken from comprised systems. Instead the exploits, binaries with help strings, server configuration scripts, 5 separate versions of one implant framework, and all sort of other features indicate that this is analyst-side code­ -- the kind that probably never leaves the NSA.

If you think for a minute about the motivations here, you can see that it would be absolutely idiotic for a state actor to release this kind of volume of their own exploits and malware frameworks. On the other hand, a state actor would love to release this information from their competitors' toolchest, as it virtually guarantees the entire set of exploits will quickly be rendered useless against high-profile targets.

[1]: https://www.lawfareblog.com/very-bad-monday-nsa-0
anti-trust I'm sure.
FYI this is satire. He doesn't live in Silicon Valley. Everything he is describing is a negative that he wants avoid by not moving. Its all bad -- not just the nanny bit.
Pesticides are linked to insect deaths? What a surprise.
That's old Teddy K
Why don't they provide a link to their testing methodology? They need to back up their claims (on both sides) with the actual configuration, all versions, and sample datasets for people to independently verify.

A docker container that runs their performance suite would be ideal.
Why should any of that be proprietary, online services you pay for forever first with eroded privacy and then with money?

My NAS has coherent open source alternatives to heaps of cloud stuff including Dropbox:

https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/6.0/cloud_file_syncing
Relevant: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160607-new-boson-claim-face...

Basically, take this claim with a huge dose of salt. For general physics related news, you can't go wrong with Peter Woit's blog, and the other blog recommendations there: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/
Don't forget supergiant.io which addresses the very kludgey way that Docker addresses stateful distributed apps
Twitter allows you to provide a caption for images now that gets inserted with the proper accessibility tags.
John McLaughlin, host of confrontational TV show, dead at 89
I wonder if the lines can also be automatically removed like the ones from the last gif.

Currently I'm using http://whitelines.se paper but it's expensive.
It was intended to replace Gmail, until Google found out even Googlers hated it.

> The Gmail team did not have to wait for the reaction for long. And it wasn’t very “googly.” It caused an uproar teeming with disgust for just about every decision the Gmail product/design team made. Phrases like, “You guys just completely destroyed Gmail!” and “What are these crazy designers doing over there?!” were everywhere. From being spoken at many of Google’s cafes to every internal online forum.[0]

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2014/11/16/why-did-google-decide-to-s...
It is fitting considering they just bought The Onion too.
The issues are huge and probably insurmountable. For example: where would you site it? It has to be equatorial so it can be below the geostationary counterweight. Just the motion of the cable from the eccentricity in the earth's rotation and orbit would probably tear the cable apart (imagine what the foundation of the base station would have to be, and how it would buckle and lift as the earth rotates).

The space elevator is an idea that sounds cool but is fucking dumb if you think about it for more than ten minutes, like the idea of accelerating ships to near light speed, when every hydrogen atom in the void will shred your hull like a cosmic ray.
One thing you will find in more complicated builds is that, short of writing your own Maven plugins, you will still need Ant scripts or at least some very arcane incantations of Maven to get the job done. I've used Maven for a long time and the vast majority of my projects are Maven based- for the ones that follow the archetype, Maven is a pretty easy fit. As a matter of fact if you've got an IDE like IntelliJ, it'll build your initial pom.xml for you and keep adding as you bring in libraries without having manually add them.

I have only recently begun using some Gradle builds after I hopped into an open source project that was using them and I'm quite impressed by the ease of it as well as the speed. You can have Gradle do a lot of the tasks you would've done with an Ant script + Maven pom. I'm already impressed with the lack of effort for sub-module builds, I've always found Maven to a pain for getting those working just right. Additionally, when you run the Gradle build daemon locally your builds are WAY faster than running Maven builds. I found the IntelliJ support for Gradle to be very good so far and I am going to continue to try converting a number of my existing projects over to Gradle as time allows.

EDIT: The main thing I really need to investigate with Gradle is what it does that is similar to a parent pom in Maven. We make pretty extensive use of parent poms in order to reduce boilerplate and keep dependency versions in sync, and we use Artifactory for everything.

EDIT2: This [0] Maven vs Gradle breakdown (though obviously pro-Gradle) highlights some areas where Gradle could really make a difference for people.

[0] https://gradle.org/maven_vs_gradle/
I think you read the parent comment wrong
> The interesting move Intel is making is to concentrate initially on KNL as heart of the machine rather than as an add-in card.

It'd be awesome if Intel made such a machine available the same way they make NUCs. Everyone vaguely involved with HPC should have one to play with.