skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i agree. In fact, when i signed the lease, i handed over a check for first and last month's rent plus a security deposit equal to another month's rent.

it's me, the tenant, who is loaning money to my landlord.
I like the feel of that affordance and will experiment with it. Have to bathe my 5 year old princess now and read stories but I'll get to it later :) Thanks!
The universe will not necessarily experience heat death, so whether "regular" crystals or time crystals cannot survive something that may not happen could be irrelevant.
Demand for good developers is extremely high in the US. Which is why salaries are so high.
"Democratically elected" is one of those wonderful phrases, like "(People's) Democratic Republic" that always means the exact opposite of what the words mean.

Mossadegh never won a popular election. He became Prime Minister by assassinating the previous guy, the Parliament then made him Prime Minister. After he got power, he pardoned the assassin, btw.
Well, you guys have made a product my team loves. I will look into making a simple android widget for my company this week based on phabricator's mobile webpage. High likelyhood that I'll be thwarted by my lack of Java skills, but if not I will definitely let you know how it goes. Thanks for all your work.
"...for reasons that have nothing to do with oil"

"...win influence with oil producing Arab states..."

Yeah, nothing to do with oil.

It's all about oil. That whole area is about oil. A case could be made that World War I was about oil, that British naval supremacy depended on it, and everything since then is a mostly direct cascade from that.

Also don't forget that the extreme Evangelicals believe that the establishment of and subsequent destruction of Israel is a necessary precursor to the Rapture. What a psychotic viewpoint.
Whether you like it or not, Israel has the right to defend itself.

When you live next to a chunk of land controlled by a terrorist group that wants nothing but your destruction, fires rockets from hospitals and has no concept of the value of human life, you do everything you can to protect your population.

You would do the same - and, in fact, your country does the same. It's only because Israel is a Jewish, pariah state that you bring this defensive act as if it was some sort of apartheid-like offense. You care not one iota for the same situation existing in other countries, nor do you compare likes to likes.

Every single country in the world does this - they protect their borders and they protect their people.

Blaming Israel for being a country is hateful and insane.

EDIT: And let's not forget that there's Egypt on the other side of Gaza. They do not count, do they? Or are they also an apartheid state?
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Fight for 15 will fix it
Did they get you with the email that the first assignment was due as well?! They sure got me. :D I had been meaning to do the course for quite a while and had started it once before, but now with the deadlines I am finally following along. :)
Huh, actually other WebGL demos aren't working for me now.

I'm on chrome 53 and chrome://gpu/ says: "WebGL: Hardware accelerated" but canvas.getContext('webgl') returns null.

Anyway, I can run it nicely in firefox.
OK, so let's say people agree with you all the sudden. Now that you've framed it as a race thing, what sort of policy are you going to implement based on what you decide?

If you're going to take any kind of punitive action against people based on their race, that's not a "offending the PC police" thing, that's a human rights violation. If it's not punitive, then that's affirmative action, which you already have and has been discussed to death.

What's the point of framing the discussion around race, given that the result of going down that avenue isn't useful, and that the discussion itself is going to be bitterly divisive?
No, no, no. Your parents history doesn't affect you in such a way!!!! (Unless you live with them and only in very certain ways) Thank God because my parents are scumbags. My dad is flagged in car insurance databases. When I get a car insurance quote they ask me "who is [my dad]?" I say "he's my dad and I don't live with him and he doesn't have access to my car." They say "OK" and we move on.

You also don't have to start building debt. Having a credit card you don't use is enough.
I can understand the notion that there is enough fault to go around, and that every group is incentivized to see the fault in every other group.

But my point is that Iran is unique in that it foments religious terrorism as matter of state policy unmatched in the world. Quds forces aren't exploiting religious people for their ends, they are true believers who are actively trying to bring their Islamist revolution to the rest of the world in a systematic and patient way.

A subjective and clearheaded analysis of available facts must lead to the conclusion that it's a literal terrorist state, and I think the poster you responded to is trying to dispel the false equivalency and 'what-aboutism' so prevalent in this thread and Chomsky-ist worldviews.
It's the best HN app I've used, though that's not saying much since all the others are terrible.
Or, worse yet, will crash into an actual obstacle where white listed sign is.
Not sure what this gives you, but this is the google flights API

https://developers.google.com/qpx-express/
You are way too tied up on the credit vs. debit part.

Thats not really important here.

You are not suddenly going to become financially irresponsible just because you get credit and yes you can determine someones financial responsibility by looking at their debit card usage that is why you can actually convince someone if you get rejected to look at your case again to show them additional information. This is why you can get a credit card in citibank if you have 25K in your savings account for 3 months straight and so on.
If "Privacy Badger" blocks cookies, then it's probably the old "The operation is insecure." That's what I see. A message says "Please select up to three locations," but there is no list of locations.

People, please use a try/catch when feature testing for localStorage. If cookies are blocked for the domain, trying to access storage will throw a security exception. This exception will almost definitely hose whatever behavior you were trying to add. I see this on probably 60% of Show HN projects, but sometimes even on large sites.

Your core competency is testing web sites, right? I'd suggest making one of those 200 locations block cookies. You'll find 10x as many defects.

(edit And I'm assuming that localStorage is almost never really necessary for these sites, but that some bit of the framework tests for it without the developer even realizing it. So yes, I consider that a defect.)
It is pretty excessive, but maybe web assembly would find a real home in making applications that do well on both native and web.
Possibly both. Like ideo-gram writing (Egyptian, Chinese) that started as pictures but became abstract.
That's a very very special case and it only happened because you wanted it to.
Hive operates on top of HDFS.

Presto absolutley runs directly on HDFS.
This website is quite fun. Here's another. http://bactra.org/notebooks/prigogine.html
You mean the same amount of quality twinkie product was created at a fraction of the cost? And this is why the old company went bankrupt? Sounds like a success story to me!
Input threads in the X server
Why be a postal carrier with your skills when the average salary seems to be so much less (40-50k) than you could make?

Forget SV you could work remote from any inexpensive place in the country, or just park a camper near a national park and live the dream.
I guess I'm a "so-called Londoner". I'm not in the slightest bit Roman!
I completely agree there's a ridiculous amount of work to be done for a human level intelligence -- I'd even speculate that there's little economic need for one too; most economic tasks, even high-level creative and strategic ones are much more narrowly defined, you could make do with systems that simply comply with their master's bidding in a request/response fashion, which seems antithetical to open-ended self-motivated actions of an introspective human being -- I'm not sure about your examples though, as these seem precisely where I've read about significant progress made lately:

- teleoperation is generally orthogonal to creating a robust bipedal gait, and it seems like capture point approaches by BD & whatever Shaft is doing, if one can believe their marketing videos, as well as underactuated systems like DURUS and ATRIAS (and its bird-like successor, can't find the name, C-something) are starting to look quite robust. Some work still to be done, I think but looking quite promising. And this is all just rather classical approaches; nothing machine-learning-y at all. You'd still teleoperate them to navigate and make them do a manipulative task, but not just because it can't walk otherwise; but because those are different domains and problems (like manipulation, autonomous navigation etc). Hell, ATRIAS is completely blind anyhow, all you can do is define foot clearance height and direction of movement.

- deep reinforcement learning based visuomotor control techniques demonstrated last year on the PR2 platform and later on I think also demonstrated on a Baxter robot seem pretty dextrous at such manipulative tasks like folding shirts, and does it realtime, after some trial and error self-training. Granted, didn't see them do exactly that task, but a bunch of other manipulative exercises were demonstrated, realtime and robust to environment destractions, perturbations etc.

Admittedly this later part is still limited in that the problem needs to be fully observable at all times by the current robot -- it can't deal w say occlusions for it has no memory of what it previously saw -- and its not actually trained to be robust to disturbances and distractions -- what it demonstrated on that front is essentially just what it gets for free from the robustness of deep approaches -- so it could be improved.
It's a bit incomplete to act incredulous about the existence of one specific candidate while ignoring how terrible the other mainstream option is as well.

While each of us will have our personal alarms set off harder for one or the other, please work to avoid transmuting this arbitrary difference into actual support for either of the bags of shit.
That's extremely hard to believe given that 9/11 was most likely paid for by official Saudi money and that it is well known that they have exported tons of people to Syria and Isis
a down vote for a question? Classy.
A little SF personal injury case threatens 'most important law' on the Internet
It's not just Hostess automating, I think baking in general is becoming increasing automated. I was talking to a COO of a large mill, and he remarked how customers asking for significantly tighter tolerances on the makeup of their various flours because they've automated the whole line and need highly predictable results.
Capitalism's race to the bottom continues unabated.
Hello, Haiku – Writing Your First Program for Haiku
For a first time offender, there's a $20 fine. For multiple-time offenders it's a higher fine. In addition, we offer many alternative ways of voting. We have postal voting open for >2 months before the election and are due a week after election. In addition, voting booths are open for several weeks before the election to allow for early voters. Identity verification is pretty lax, so you don't need to carry your passport everywhere. And "donkey" or null voting are well-known techniques for abstaining from a vote. And if you're in another state and don't have a postal ballot, you can vote at another state's voting booth.

All of this results in a >95% voter turnout. Which I think is pretty damn good.
This is the future.

One way to avoid it would be to tax companies as a percentage of their net income divided by the number of employees that exceed some salary. However, it's not a great idea to stifle innovation and efficiency.
>Though a lot of the other people surrounding Arabia (Persians, Byzantines in Syria) had great civilizations the Arabs themselves didn't have a much of a civilization. Most of the Islamic civilization comes from Persia after the fall of the Sassanid empire.

What about the various caliphates? There is also Babylon, though I'm not sure when the people there were first considered arabs.
It's "IP" (intellectual property) because it's something the company designed, and it's a "core" because it's a circuit that performs a computation.

I don't really see how it's comparable to the linked example.
- "You mean caching?"

- "Nope, memoization."

- "Uh ok."
I wonder how many, who never heard of the original concept, would think it simply means using languages like JavaScript, Python, PHP, etc.

It also has a very interesting property as an adjective, and that is its impossible to use the word, dynamic, in a pejorative sense. Try thinking of some combination that will possibly give it a pejorative meaning. Its impossible.

Dynamic memory allocation, in the context of realtime/embedded systems. :-)
Interesting. I think Chrome blacklists some GPUs and drivers occasionally so maybe that's what happened. Glad it works ok on Firefox and thanks for the feedback.
Where XX% + YY% + Z% < 60%. Everyone's view has been represented! While you might not be able to vote for "random candidate X", that's a deeper issue in the American voting system. But it doesn't invalidate that compulsory voting does ensure that everyone's view of the candidates in question is represented.
The U.S. Government is crazy generous. As a European I live in zero fear of being invaded by any other country. We receive huge military subsidies in the form of NATO protections.
You are being downvoted because you are spouting falsehoods about the US credit/financial system.
I doubt the overarching narrative for this period in this country's history will be in terms of positive qualities such as "best".
> Try thinking of some combination that will possibly give it a pejorative meaning. Its impossible.

“Dynamic typing”, to some! But it was definitely a clever move to use terminology with positive and concrete connotations.
Maybe NuttX?
http://www.nuttx.org
Communism's race to the bottom has already been won. Only, Capitalism is racing to the bottom of 'time spent by humans doing unfun things', and Communism's was 'human rights'
I'm not even convinced it would do that. I'd love to get my hands on employment numbers of VC funded startups that aren't profitable vs those of big established tech giants like Google, FB, Apple, Adobe etc. with strong revenue streams and billions in the bank to weather whatever comes.

My hypothesis is that the former group are a small enough number where they might shake up confidence in the housing market temporarily, but would ultimately not sufficiently dent demand.

Big companies might go on a hiring spree for cheap talent and the housing market continues as it has been.

China money drying up could also be a catalyst or a natural disaster like a major earthquake could be another.
In case this is useful to anyone else:

There's probably an easier way to do it, but if you want to get faster playback (2x is about as fast as I can comprehend this lecturer at), this line seems to do the trick:

document.getElementById("myElement").querySelector("video").playbackRate = 2
That's the kind of higher level reasoning that's easy for people and hard for machines.
This is a deeply appreciated update on the state of the art from Christopher Olah and the Google Brain team, including great insights into the nature of engineering attention. I'd be curious to understand more about how making so many parameters differentiable suddenly opens up so many pathways... In any case, as always, elegant visualizations to match with a cohesive set of simple and strong insights. Here's a few lovely bits from their reflections on the big picture:

"In general, it seems like a lot of interesting forms of intelligence are an interaction between the creative heuristic intuition of humans and some more crisp and careful media, like language or equations. Sometimes, the medium is something that physically exists, and stores information for us, prevents us from making mistakes, or does computational heavy lifting. In other cases, the medium is a model in our head that we manipulate. Either way, it seems deeply fundamental to intelligence."
It's not a true power-law (assuming it's not a lognormal). It's truncated by the fact that anyone considering a startup would never have earned more than the world GDP, or more specifically, the peak tech market cap to date (Apple's $775b). Once it's truncated at a finite value, the moments become meaningful.
It's not like those are the only alternatives.

We should try communism with modern IT infrastructure and AI. The big problem with many command economies was the inability to collect and act on the data. Call it a "just-in-time command economy" if you prefer.
Why do people always mention that someone is smart? It's a non-informative sentence. How many times do you hear that someone is dumb?

I'll take my community college educated mother over this "child prodigy" on the vast majority of subjects, so he must not be that great.
I dont mean to sound like coorperate but theres good reason to talk about things like this. With a term like "ip core" you know exactly what your selling and your target audience. Its not an intellectual property or product but the building blocks for it. When approaching other businesses you can view their "core" as weaker or stronger and you can specify how many resources are being spent on "ip core" vs "user experience".

Something like research may imply a length process of unknown length. Dynamic programming implies adaptable steps to reach a goal. In ways, bureacratic speak is a more perfect for of english considering its more descriptive in the context of money, time and action with the goal of maximizing profits and minimizing expenses.
Colonel Edward A. Deeds–An able man who made things work
Inside the World of International Medieval Combat
> Surely some of you know someone who has served in the US armed forces in the Middle East. Ask them who the "good guys" and "bad guys" are...

I doubt they would recognize themselves as the bad guys.
After reading this I was left wondering if there are still people like this today? I do not deny that we do have inventors, innovators, engineers, leaders and other professionals today, but to me it seems like now people are more singular in what they excel in. Colonel Deeds, in my opinion, was adept at multiple different skill sets, the best of which was realizing when someone else was better suited to the job and then providing them with everything they needed.

Some further reading is available at Wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Andrew_Deeds
Programming by evolutionary process. You may get to the solution eventually, but damn if it's the slowest and most brain dead way to get there. Potential for falling into local minimum is so great it strikes me as almost a fraud.

Do people really pay for this kind of work?
Well surely supporting the Shah and the absolute brutality conducted by Savak helped our image
Not sure if the browser playback supports it but lots of other native programs like VLC do a pitch-compensation/"time-stretching" mode that will make the faster playback easier to live with.
"A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara. It follows the story of a group of friends over 30+ years. I haven't been this gripped by a book in a while. Difficult subject matter and hard to read a times but it rewards you for your effort.
I wonder how many of his problems could have been solved using the 'unsafe' keyword. I'm naively familiar with Rust through the various news postings, but know it has the unsafe escape hatch.
Oh, I don't have any illusions about the physics being accurate! These type of books are very much an escape for me, so it doesn't bug me too much when authors take liberties with reality.
At this point, will they just scrap all the hard drives? Is this sort of thing covered by warranty, or is it "you broke it, not our problem"?
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme".
A better model is Kaggle. Kaggle releases data, and then challenges people to produce statistical models that can fit the data the best. Hundreds of people compete and best the results are usually very good.

However as far as I know there isn't that much data available for dolphins (and especially not labelled data, though the unlabelled data may be useful as well.)
Good point, when I got my licence the criteria was slightly more than having a pulse. My teenage peers racked up speeding tickets without a slap on the wrist. Nowadays there's all sorts of requirements there wasn't before and if a 16 year old got a speeding ticket it would be a much harsher penality than just paying the fine like you do at 25.
...for example, the first Show HN on the front page right now. Doesn't work at all when cookies are blocked—it just renders some stars and some chrome.

But okay, I'll run it in another browser. Wow, it's a really cool WebGL visualization of global temperatures. And what is it using localStorage for? It sets one key called `runOnce` to `true`. I think that could be considered optional. Easy to fix, if they knew about it.
Yeah but govt jobs pay a pension. Its the largest fraction of the federal budget. That doesn't happen in Silicon Valley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demo_(computer_programming)
It's weird how you think those are the only two options.
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front page, please check for duplicates before submitting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12474445
> [nice vignette] ...

> [another nice story] ...

> “Last week, for the first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution, there were no chants of ‘death to America’ at weekly Friday prayers around the country[…]

Wow. The folks who think "bad things should happen to those people in the US" take a break from saying that when bad things happen? This is less of a "nice story" -- more like "Y'know, we shouldn't say 'Death to America' this week because as much as we seem to enjoy the results, we don't want to get the blame."
Arguable the OP wasn't putting a moral judgment on it. Just stating facts.

Iran could probably attack the Jews behind the scenes and regain US support.

They do seem to have a strange tactic.
Maybe you didn't read the whole article to get Stephen's point that the Wolfram Language allows you to experiment with a very, very wide variety of subjects without requiring deep expertise (but of course allowing for that as well).

So your point is quite valid, one person can't hope to know everything. This is why it's great to find a tool that allows you to dive deeper into the things you do care about.