skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not having windows seems like an important part of the test! It looks like there might be a small porthole on one of the sides, but I doubt a real Martian habitat would have much more than that, and the psychological impacts would be interesting to know.
Response to HGFS shared folders performance
I'm not sure Swarm has it's place yet, but rather that it is actively looking for it and that's the basis for the complaints. Kubernetes and Mesos have market segments that are distinctly different from that which Swarm appears to target. It's roughly those capable of moderately sophisticated devops versus anyone who can use Docker.
Poll: Which deep learning framework would you use?
Say you are about to build a new product or service that uses or requires deep learning.

Which deep learning framework would you use?

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If you vote on a framework, please also don't forget to upvote the poll itself, so we can keep it visible to others and collect more votes. Thank you!
Caffe: https://github.com/BVLC/caffe
CNTK: https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK
DL4J: https://github.com/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j
DSSTNE: https://github.com/amznlabs/amazon-dsstne
H2O: https://github.com/h2oai/h2o-3/tree/master/h2o-algos/src/main/java/hex/deeplearning
Marvin: https://github.com/PrincetonVision/marvin
MXNet: https://github.com/dmlc/mxnet
Neon: https://github.com/NervanaSystems/neon
Paddle: https://github.com/baidu/paddle
TensorFlow (including SkFlow): https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow / https://github.com/tensorflow/skflow
Theano: https://github.com/Theano/Theano
Torch: https://github.com/torch/torch7
Veles: https://github.com/samsung/veles
This is the definition of philosophy.
I think you've missed the point of the comment you replied to. You have no obligation to follow the laws (taxation or otherwise) of a country/territory that has no jurisdiction over you (and no other power of enforcement, such as customs for physical products).

Providing an electronic service to everyone in the world does not make you subject to the laws of every country in the world, as much as those countries might wish otherwise.
I like them in theory, and I agree with you — but original sci-fi pulp with real paintings has a much more authentic feeling to it. That's what I wish they did here.

https://www.google.com/search?q=sci-fi+pulp+fantasy&source=l...
You do realise that taxing company profits is corporation tax, the tax that is being discussed here?
This article is hilarious. "Did you know that there are smart people in this place called the Midwest that can also code and find product / market fit? Who knew!?"

The tone, though positive, is quite patronizing to midwestern ears. If you're not investing here, you're missing a huge opportunity.
Second that. Furthermore it would be nice if they could have a map with mean bandwidth per region. If the infrastructure allows it everyone should receive the same service as long as they pay the same fee. We need more information in this matter and only legislation will get us there. ISPs are anything but transparent.
> Still, I don't believe the FED ever considered substantially altering its monetary policies to suit a given state budget.

Not only doesn't it, but monetary policy isn't a suitable tool for that anyway. Even for the federal budget; in fact, one of the major reasons for independent central banking is to provide assurances to the private economy, currency users, and, particularly, those financing government debt that monetary policy will not be used to address the currency-issuing-government's fiscal condition (a trend that was distressingly common even in large, basically stable governments before independent central banking, and produced distrust in both government securities and currency.)

OTOH, the federal government's fiscal policy often directly addresses issues that may be particular pressures on state fiscal condition (and, indeed, many government programs -- including the big social benefit programs like Medicaid -- have regular adjustments to federal/state sharing ratios based on relative state economic conditions that are entirely designed around the premise that state economic conditions will drive state fiscal conditions and ability to participate.)
Disclosure: I am one of the Google people who founded the k8s project. Product guy, not engineer though.

We are really concerned about 'writing letters from the future' to the development community and trying to sell people on a set of solutions that were designed for internet scale problems and that don't necessarily apply to the real problems that engineers have.

I spent a lot of time early on trying to figure out whether we wanted to compete with Docker, or embrace and support Docker. It was a pretty easy decision to make. We knew that Docker solved problems that we didn't have in the development domain, and Docker provided a neat set of experiences. We had 'better' container technology in the market (anyone remember LMCTFY?) but the magic was in how it was exposed to engineers and Docker put lightening in a bottle. The big things were creating a composable file system, and delivering a really strong tool chain are the obvious two, but there were others. I remember saying 'we will end up with a Betamax to Docker's VHS' and I believe that remains true.

Having said that there are a number of things that weren't obvious to people who weren't running containers in product and at scale. It is not obvious how containers judiciously scheduled can drive your resource utilization substantially north of 50% for mixed workloads. It isn't obvious how much trouble you can get into with port mapping solutions at scale if you make the wrong decisions around network design. It isn't obvious that labels based solutions are the only practical way to add semantic meaning to running systems. It isn't obvious that you need to decentralize the control model (ala replication managers) to accomplish better scale and robustness. It isn't obvious that containers are most powerful when you add co-deployment with sidecar modules and use them as resource isolation frameworks (pods vs discrete containers), etc, etc, etc. The community would have got there eventually, we just figured we could help them get there quicker given our work and having been burned by missing this first time around with Borg.

Our ambition was to find a way to connect a decade of experience to the community, and work in the open with the community to build something that solved our problems as much as outside developers problems. Omega (Borg's successor) captured some great ideas, but it certainly wasn't going the way we all hoped. Kind of classic second system problem.

Please consider K8s a legitimate attempt to find a better way to build both internal Google systems and the next wave of cloud products in the open with the community. We are aware that we don't know everything and learned a lot by working with people like Clayton Coleman from Red Hat (and hundreds of other engineers) by building something in the open. I think k8s is far better than any system we could have built by ourselves. And in the end we only wrote a little over 50% of the system. Google has contributed, but I just don't see it as a Google system at this point.
It might just perceptual: it might be the case that days very into on of the two types are easier to recognize, tag and remember, whereas mixed days are not so vividly remembered.

I surely stop after a day of lots of little tasks and say "phew! What a day!" or after a big task is done "yeah! look at this cool feature you built today!" And even play with it a little. Normal days are not so reflected upon...
If this is about efficiency can you explain me then how Ireland is more than 1000 times more efficient than other countries (0.005% effective tax rate in Ireland for Apple, pretty much everywhere you pay more than 5% in corporate taxes)?
Polyglot can be nice too.
Add more friends to your circles have better fine-tuned suggestions.
I've always wondered why Google+ did so badly. I love google apps for everything but social. Seems like a missed opportunity to make something that moves away from Facebook as the norm.
That would create very conspicuous network exit/entry points at the office. According to Zoz's DEFCON 22 talk[1] about modern OPSEC, these are specifically targeted by various agencies, so I'm sure Facebook finds entry/exit data points just as interesting.

[1] (warning: strong language) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1q4Ir2J8P8#t=2291
Maybe this is the way that I've been lucky, but I was always either a 10min drive or a 5min walk from school as a boy, depending on which building (elementary/middle/high school). At college, I was on campus, and a 10min walk from anything. First job was a 45min subway ride, second job is a 30min subway, including walking. My mother was 15min from her job her whole life.
In Norway, positions from public departments like the tax department usually includes salary range in the job description. They often pay very well too, while at the same time they have a very good description of what expertize they need. In fact most developers here in Norway should read those job descriptions, take notes and be ready fight for better salary for their next job interview.

The tax department here in Norway pays between 80k-130k annually for senior software developers. While earlier this year I got a 55k offer from a private company. I so wanted to show them the job listing from the tax department, but I just said thanks for the interview, but no thanks.
Vice versa as well, as funding is always political either directly or indirectly via economy.
So is the genetic algorithm used to mutate the neural network weights?
Sure they do. You can only install one distro on a machine. Since you have to choose one, they are competing for that spot.
The article could have been better citing RFC 2550 "Y10K and Beyond" which despite being a joke (April 1st) RFC provides a completely universal date format (can describe any date present and future, with as much precision as you want), that are orderable by their lexical sort order.

Yet present day time representation are easily parsed by regular humans.
One sign is that if Symantec has issued rogue certificates, and Google publishes the problem, then it's time to leave.

Of course, the CA would then be incentivized to publish their procedures and show how they intend to fix the breach, which shouldn't have happened in the first place, to regain customer's trust. Or go bankrupt. Let me tell you they wouldn't let their employees do mistakes.

Customers who stay, in the situation that it is discovered that Symantec issues another rogue cert, which causes Mozilla to completely revoke Symantec, can later sue Symantec for harming their business by not applying their public procedures. And here's how the economy gets rid of bad actors. The rule is much tougher for cloud machine providers (EC2 and DO): Should they lose one customers' data, everyone would leave them and go bankrupt, that's why they don't.

In parallel, losing a CA doesn't harm the customers very much, even for amazon.com. They can buy a new certificate in a matter of hours. bzbarsky even says it's commonplace to have the certificates signed by 2 CAs.
So do you think that a 20 year old deterministically absorbs the values of their culture?
Don't be so paternalistic. College students are not children; they are not your students.

The value of a PhD is not high because the life of a PhD is desirable. Academia provides a (flawed) society with a permanence and thoughtfulness that competes with non academic america. Leisure and camaraderie is everywhere. It provides a sense of identity which is hard to find, so supply is high and price is low.

Within the cult there are bad actors who misrepresent their value, and selfishly collect rewards. Nothings perfect.
Until then (or additionally) you could add a FAQ entry with your server IP range(s), so people can allow them in their firewall for the specific port (usually 5432).
Too bad ? In many ways Google+ marks the end of the "don't be evil" era.
This video of a panel discussion at a conf was interesting to me:

Video: C++, Rust, D and Go: Panel at LangNext '14:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2016/08/video-c-rust-d-and-go-pane...

Key team members or inventors of those languages, speak.
I thought there was a DIP for this, but cannot seem to find it now.
From the article:

(Technically, the surgery would be a body transplant, since the acquisition of a new body is what saves the patient’s life. Then again, the head makes up less than 10 percent of our body weight. Can you really “transplant” the heavier, majority part? And if rejection occurs, it will be the body rejecting the head, not vice versa.)
Ok let's go with that.
Banner blindness has ruined a lot of potential multi-column experiences from some basic eye tracking studies that I've done on multi-column layouts in the past.

Also... you can make the same comment about hacker news, yet here we are.
Republic: AngelList alumni's open investment crowdfunding platform
> 1. Netherlands profit tax rate is 20%-25%

Not for foundations [0]. This is not about some procentual differences, it is a big loophole in the Dutch tax code, Ikea benefits from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stichting_INGKA_Foundation
That's around the same level as podcasts, too.
Going by center of mass means that for a sufficiently large tumor, you'd be talking about a patient-ectomy.
Are you asking what the point of open sourcing software is?
Spots: A View Controller Framework for Cocoa
This looks like a potential option;

https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e
> Compile time IO doesn't make much sense either.

While I agree with D's decision here, there are other languages which do allow anything at compile time. See Jai, for example.
Yes, you can rent a 1 bedroom in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the same cost as a parking spot for your car in SF.

Great for lowering that burn rate, plus you're surrounded by the CMU talent pool (Carnegie Mellon is located in Pittsburgh).
they recover the cost of their drug development from consumers in the US

Fixed it for you.

End that, and you end new drug development (fortunately karma will be enforced on those advocating it, for they or some of their loved ones will almost certainly suffer and/or die from something a new drug would have treated, if we were still in the business of doing that).

(If I was, ahem, the next president, I'd force other countries that "negotiate" prices barely above the cost of production and distribution to pay the portion of their fair share they can afford, and do nasty things to countries that in turn violate patents to get around such.)
Compile time read have sense. For example, reading a XML to build a GUI on complete time instead on runtime (I see you GTK builder).

Actually you can do this on CTFE on D, doing an import of a file and dumping it to an enum. The only big pitfall of this, is that enforces to read the whole file by the compiler.
Can you clarify who you are referring to as the do-gooders here? Everyone who is asking for net neutrality?

And is the common people the group who is the victim of the poisoned chalice?
Obfuscation of the mutual back-scratching arrangements does not obviate the fact that the segment airing on national broadcast television is not being disclosed as an advertisement, nor that many viewers will not necessarily recognize it as such without outside assistance.

It is really very well done if you consider it objectively. The show that is itself loaded with inlined advertisement is also able to sell traditional advertisement time in its segment breaks.

But in my own opinion, shows that do that sort of thing need to be nuked from orbit, and the glass broken up with jackhammers so that salt may be plowed into the dust underneath. I simply cannot abide the ubiquity and intrusiveness of advertisements in the current culture.
Who needs yet another markup language?
For a voting URL, you want some value that the server can calculate based on info it has, and that's sufficiently large to not be brute-forceable, and sufficiently unpredictable to not be enumerable. They are 'capability URLs' [1] like a private Google Docs link, or a 'click here to reset your password' token. So 'auth' parameter in the URL is likely the output of a deterministic function of the user and a server-side secret, and possibly a time factor; you can accomplish this with an HMAC.

HOTP [2] and TOTP [3] are two concrete schemes that use this method and truncate to a human-friendly size at the end to use it as part of a challenge-response, but you don't want to truncate this here because then the range of values would be brute-forceable. So it's likely just the output of a LARGE-HMAC(secret-key, MixingFunction(user, timewindow)). Or, if time isn't present, then LARGE-HMAC(secret-key, user).

Since the voting URLs are server-generated, the Cookie value must be unrelated. Logging in with a web browser, copying the cookie, and mimicking the same cookies with curl, I'm logged in with curl, but changing either my username or my token I'm not logged in. The opaque value in the cookie is consistent with what you'd expect from a Session ID, which is not surprising. I'm speculating, but the addition of the username may serve as a countermeasure against session guessing attacks (like, being able to quickly distinguish a tampered Session ID from a good one, like these other apps try to [4][5]), or may simply be an implementation detail.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/capability-urls/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAC-based_One-time_Password_A...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-time_Password_A...

[4] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18751565/detecting-rails-...

[5] https://github.com/expressjs/session/issues/176
I think that underscores the point about flexibility in naming operations ;)
They do. Why do you think New York City and London get to tax at the rates they do?

Taxes (at least personal taxes) are a user fee. Every time an employee snuffs at an offer in Missouri or Bangladesh, they are implicitly signalling a preference for quality-of-life elements.
Mostly network effects/inertia. And it didn't help that Google seemed to be quite pushy about getting people to sign up.
> If there is 'a lot of competition' - it makes cartel-like or colluding behaviour among carriers difficult, thereby facilitating de-facto net-neutrality.

Can you explain this further? I struggle to see how you get from "a lot of competition" to "de-facto net neutrality", and how that would continue indefinitely.

It seems to me that we had de-facto net neutrality from the outset but that over time, as the industry matured, the large players started to talk about colluding. It has taken pro-neutrality lobbying and legislation to maintain neutrality in what was previously a free market.
Pinterest is the only site I've seen that will fill whatever screen size you throw at it, like God intended.
Linux system hardening: adding hidepid to /proc
Instead of terming it "backup", won't "replication" be more appropriate?
The first shot in the multinationals vs nations war has been fired.

Its been predicted for years, I think I am still pulling for the nations to win, gods know the corporations have no heart.
That's not likely going to happen nore is it a sensible thing to ask for.

As an ISP how would you _guarantee_ the bandwidth for each endpoint? You would have to provision for the maximal capacity all over your network. Given that most people only utilize their channel 1% of the time, this is a huge waste!

What's sensible to ask ISPs to do is:
(a) Communicate historically experienced bandwith at each region
(b) Provided certified, standartized measurement facilities (software / hardware?!) that can be used to monitor of the link utilization/saturation levels.
(d) Refund policy, when agreed service level targets (as measured in b) were not hit. (This should be legally mandated)
One of the toughest onboarding ever.

I read the text and I have no idea of what to do.
Tried to click around, nothing.
Tried to click on the example link and got a Firefox download dialog

You have chosen to open:
waronether_player_example.sol
which is: BIN file (1.8 KB)
etc

Going back to step 1:

> First, create a bot contract having an "execute" function which the game contract will run each round:

How to do it?
Can it be defined as what is being replaced and discarded? When you have a heart transplant, they replace the heart with a new one and discard the old heart. In this case, they're discarding the body, so I see it as a body transplant. As others have noted, mass is meaningless in this context.

Edit: The sources on wikipedia's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_transplant article all call it a head transplant... so, I assume people more knowledgeable than I on the topic have already "talked it out". Head transplant it is!
These guys are fucked. If she has all the screenshots and other material, they will be fighting a losing cause.

And it doesn't sound like they have any money for lawyers, lol.

This is what you get when fuck people over with giving them their severance. They have ZERO reason to hold back.

I wish this type of stuff was published more often.
If a ~7 hour drive from the beach is considered "East Coast" then Vegas is prime waterfront real estate.
That ‘Alien’ Signal? New Observations Are Coming Up Empty
I wish they'd wake up and throw Plus on the pile with Wave.
* The search feature is just awful

* The search features suggests a lot of rubbish even before i started searching

* the whole interface is still slow

* When I click on "communities" on the left panel, i get redirected to the community suggestion page, while I expected to see the communities of which i am part. Also, the suggestion are completely messed up.

* when i click on "communities" and am brought to the suggestion page, clicking on the "member" link (that i guess, should show me the communities i am part of) does nothing at all.

* it is in general very very hard to understand what post comes from where, and this makes it very hard to use google plus more than the usual "oh crap i opened it again, how do i close it?"

* Opon a click to write a post, an overlay with a popup window is opened instear of just letting me write. The popup opening is slow as the other stuff.

* did i mention the whole thing is slow ?
One tidbit I didn't know yet, but was linked from this article: Britain wasn't actually on GMT at 1 January 1970: http://markfrimston.co.uk/articles/34/epoch-zero
Excessive use of the 1st person personal pronoun is a huge tell.
> Who suggested that, or for that matter who suggested that "VW is polluting more than US brands"?

So we can all agree, that governments favouring their big domestic companies is not just an EU thing. You criticized the EU for going after Apple and not VW, I made clear that the US is going after VW and not GM.
> There are 11 missing days in 1752.

There aren't 11 missing days in 1752 though, there are 11 missing days in 1752 in the british calendar. As the original source notes, different countries switched to the gregorian calendar at different times, thus the "missed days" vary wildly even if you ignore Sweden (tried to switch gradually by skipping leap days, forgot to skip some, then switched back to julian, then switched to gregorian at once) and many Orthodox countries remained on Julian well into the 20th century (hence the October Revolution starting early November 1918, it was October julian) and had to skip 13 days.
Technically, yes. But we figured the name "backup" is easier to remember, and this would allow us to add a bunch of other 'backup related' services later on :).
Teleport might be helpful for your research https://teleport.org

Comparing costs of living, salary levels, life-quality data including stuff like business freedom, corruption, startup scene etc.

There is a specific tool https://teleport.org/runway that let's you compare costs for running a tech team compared to 250 cities worldwide.
How to Expose an Eavesdropper (1984)