skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If human races (which clearly exist) are not genetically distinct enough to be considered subspecies, how about the inverse? Can you point out examples of animal species/subspecies that have races?

Are different dog breeds the equivalent of human races, for example?
This Bloomberg article adds nothing, and is less informative & interesting (doesn't have the audio samples for starters) than the original DeepMind blog post, and shouldn't be on the front page.
Mexican is not precise at all. What the hell are you talking about?
I had never considered it, but it's true. I don't have a word for that. I agree that those words aren't adequate, either.

Instead, I'd just say that I love it, and wouldn't even attempt to express my actual feeling.

I would only have used "epiphany" to express the feeling of figuring something out on my own, suddenly, but never the feeling of figuring out something that was clearly designed to explain something to me. Still, it's the closest word in this list, in my opinion. But not adequate.
Parole board also less likely to grant parole right before lunch.
It's really not. Some country has to provide financial incentives for companies to develop new drugs - a multi million dollar task - and the USA is the country that subsidiaries the rest of the world
my side project. I want to create something the world values while at the same time keep myself learning something new
It's a duopoly. Of course you're being ripped off. Hence the lawsuit.
Yes, and for "cluster aware" DBs it is easy to write a small controller that makes it "Kubernetes cluster aware". Here is a demo we did with a WIP etcd controller: https://youtu.be/Pc9NlFEjEOc?list=PL69nYSiGNLP1pkHsbPjzAewvM...
Got me to think about BSL that is something similarly.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/19/mysql-founder-tries-a-new-...

https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-adopting
$20M NIH-sponsored competition to detect and distinguish “superbugs”
for the curious, if quanta pricing is anything similar to supermicro this is about $750k in hardware.
And you can even get a free domain name through http://www.freenom.com/

Disclaimer: not affiliated
Nope, this wouldn't be illegal in the EU. Consumer protection law is a consumer protection law -- meant for when you buy stuff as a person. If you however buy stuff as a business entity consumer law do not apply, so you are just as fucked as the person who made the pastebin. This is also why the likes of Dell and HP sell business services and these services don't come cheap (and when you don't get them and your server dies you are basically fucked.)

Protip for freelancers and small businesses: While it might look really cool, don't buy IT equipment as a business (unless you want to pay extra for services guaranteeing continous operation of said equipment), but as a consumer. This means your equipment will fall under consumer law and means that (for example) when you want to return a item the store you bought it at they will have to comply.
It would be nice if open source projects (especially popular databases) came with k8s definition files so that you wouldn't have to write the yaml yourself.
Kudos to the OP for doing it, and for anyone using WordPress, it's pretty easy for you to do it too:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/amp/
Rather than being a conspiracy against US companies, it's much more likely that because you are American you have not heard about similar cases that only involved European banks.

For example: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/sep/27/landmark-rulin... and https://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/feb/03/ppi-banks-miss...
Well it's an interesting idea to consider a corporation more like a derivative of the state, as it comes into existence via state power, and is in effect immortal until its existence is ended via state power; rather than like the derivative of a person. Therefore there may be a compelling argument that as the 14th amendment extends the bill of rights requirements to all of the states to uphold, that a corporate charter extends some narrow portion as well. As in, the corporation can abridge free speech of employees as spokespeople for their company, a consistent message of what the company "says" is important to be kept clear. But abridging the free speech of its customers seems a lot more problematic, to have a broad brush to just censor anyone using the service for any reason.

I doubt such treatment will come to pass anytime soon though. It's Facebooks infrastructure, and the EULA everyone agreed to gives Facebook, contractually, the power to engage in this censorship. If you don't like it, then maybe you shouldn't have agreed to their EULA which basically says all of your contents is not yours it's theirs. And this is something people who actually read these EULAs warned about and most people just gave it a hand wave as if it wouldn't actually ever be an issue.
Great article, but poor conclusion. He finds that Dropbox is untrustworthy, a finding that likely surprises no one, and reaches for iCloud as the solution. Why move into another walled garden driven by corporate interests? OwnCloud or a similar self hosted solution would be better. I just use NFS and a dead simple storage server to make ~/shared available on all of my machines.
Just like the Cement price fixing cartel was only found and prosecuted only after it had been running for years.
My team uses Trello for project management and I couldn't be happier with it. It's very simple by default but you can make complex cards/items if necessary.
They weren't helpful at all, it was the local police across the country that helped me!
"Get away with"? We're talking about market pricing decisions. There's no morality involved. Is every business in the EU supposed to be worried about violating some undefined threshold of "excessive profit"?
We pay more than 10 times as much as many countries for healthcare if you're counting only individual expenses. If you're counting both individual and public expense, we still spend almost 10x more than Turkey.
Sure, if you want to be pedantic, the Civil War was about States' rights...but really only one right; legal access to slaves.

The "States' rights" argument is trotted out by the Lost Cause folks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy) who want to pretend their affection for the South is somehow noble or genteel.
Don't tell me you actually believe the bs coming out of shadow stats.
Estimates say there are ~100 billion planets in the galaxy.

I'm also not sure that In fact we've found nothing remotely similar to Earth in all the thousands of samples we've taken. is reasonable.

Take Proxima b. It orbits the Sun's closest neighbor, is in the habitable zone (doesn't mean it is habitable, necessary but not sufficient) and is roughly earth sized. Sure, we don't know a whole lot more about it, so it is quite likely to not be a nice destination for humans, but it seems to be at least remotely Earth like.
90 minutes of computation for 1 second of audio on DeepMind's GPUs: https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/773968758519902208

That's a lot of cranks of Moore's law. Better hope for considerable algorithmic improvements. (Raw is probably overkill anyway.)
This is false. There is no such law that requires nothing but ruthless profit optimization. I invite you to disprove my claim by pointing to a relevant piece of legislation.
Good point, yet the remainder is still significantly more than 0.3%.

It seems fraud is much worse in the US. That could be a factor too.
https://www.google.com/search?q=credit+card+fraud+us+vs+euro...
It looks like in 10.12 Apple has added TCC.db to SIP, so this will no longer work — Dropbox will, hopefully, actually be forced to request accessibility access like they're supposed to. I'm sure they'll still demand your admin password via a dialog that tries super hard to look like a system one to use for whatever other more or less nefarious purposes. Would be nice if there was an alternative that actually syncs as reliably and performantly, but in my testing that's very much not the case.

I appreciate the trend of Apple forcing Dropbox to stop doing dumb shit, though. (Previously, of course, the SIMBL-style Finder hacking)
Perhaps with a telescope pointed at some particularly bright stars? If that's enough light to register.
At least with respect to ordered kwargs, the spec is changing:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0468/

I believe it's an implementation detail that in cpython 3.6, dict and odict are essentially equivalent now, but it's an implementation detail which is there to support an official feature of the language.

If your project can sustain a minimum version of (the as yet unreleased) Python 3.6, I don't see why you shouldn't begin to rely on this feature straightaway.
The differential isn't actually 10 times. The part Visa/MC keeps in the US is more like 0.05% to 0.65%, not 2-3%.

In the US, debit card interchange fees are capped at 0.05% + $0.22, since 2010. That was in the Durbin amendment to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act.

Credit card interchange runs up to about 2.9%, but that's only on the cards with the most benefits: those that pay the largest percentage back to the cardholder. That's up to 2% back in cash, reward points or miles... plus 90 day accidental damage protection on all purchases, 1 year extension on all product warranties, travel insurance, concierge service, etc.

Interchange fees for the credit cards without rewards programs start at 0.65%.
And presumably all the other states will want a share of those profits transferred to Ireland to avoid tax.
This explains why nothing is getting built at $100sf without land it's cheaper to buy existing.
Sure. Read that. But the ends don't justify the means. Doesn't matter how happy he was, shutting down a whole account because one server was hacked is preposterous. The same situation happened to me on AWS, and if AWS had done the same, you can be sure I'd write the same thing about them. In fact, this is the only decent thing about AWS considering how shitty the various services are and what torture it is to use them. But at least AWS had the sense to shut down networking to the instance and leave the rest of the infrastructure alone.

Common sense, apparently, can't even be bought with Google/Alphabet money.
For what it's worth, I posted on the Dropbox support forum asking them to explain. This seems to be the only way to contact them:
https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/208945...
They only say "no" to something you (think you) really need at this moment :) Say, https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-4446 "Sub-issues should be able to contain their own sub-issues" -- #6 on the list of top voted for.
Jesus, as a foreigner I find ALL americans are pretty moronic.

"People fought a war for the american dream boy, diversity is the cornerstone of the US, mexican is a race, don't be racist..."

Panda de gilipollas...
MIT announcement: https://news.mit.edu/2016/computational-imaging-method-reads...
I agree the posted article isn't particularly clear - found this one [1] on the Guardian that's better.

The understanding I get from it is that MasterCard could be liable under UK law now that the EU court has decisively shown the fees charged to have been anti-competitive. What's required for the UK claimants is to show that harm was caused to them by these anti-competitive practices and that redress is due.

The Reuters article makes it seem like "the fees were just too high" is the reason for this suit. A court-of-law decision that anti-competitive practices took place makes a lot more sense as a pretext for a claim like this.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/sep/08/mastercard-sue...
Yes yes yes. I've had the same experience with Nixplay in that scenario: the device is loved, but the people who love it can never figure out how to load new photos on it.

Part of the problem is that the web UI is as dire as you mention. Another part is that in trying to be helpful, they offer ways to connect the thing up to a dozen different photo services, but the sheer number of choices they present ends up paralyzing non-technical folks who just want to upload a damn photo.

They really need to concentrate on having dead simple iPhone/Android apps that do one thing and one thing only: take photos on your phone and push them to your Nixplay. (Or integrate "Send to my Nixplay" as an option camera apps and the like can tap into, via intents or whatever.) Do one thing really well instead of a dozen things poorly.
SpaceX's server farm is called exactly that. Supposedly Elon hates the name...
> If you don't like MasterCard's rates, then don't accept MasterCard.

Visa and Mastercard basically have a monopoly on the market. To not accept Mastercard would do orders of magnitude more damage to your business than the impact your protest of not accepting them would have. It's completely unrealisitic to present that as a sensible option.

> is nothing but a business-hostile dishonest shakedown.

From the Guardian:

“MasterCard charged billions of pounds of unlawfully high fees for its sole benefit and to the detriment of consumers. It has already been found to have broken competition law, the basis of which was to protect consumers, and that cannot be disputed. There is no basis upon which MasterCard can contend that its card fees were not unlawful.”

So actually, Mastercard are the ones being business-hostile here.
One reason might be the US' extremely strong consumer protection law. It's also the place it was originally rolled out, so it could be a historical artifact.

That's one reason some stores(like Winco) only accept debit cards: The processing fees are much cheaper. And it might be because they don't have to enforce chargebacks, by law.

Certainly it's possible to accept payments with low costs: Bank transfers are pretty cheap.
Death of a QA in Scrum
Can we please stop prefixing "Zen-" onto things as a sort of trendy, cool "hey, it's well designed and simple" signifier?

It's borderline racist. Would you call a project management tool "Jewhub" or "Catholichub"?
I think there's a misunderstanding of what introversion is... it's not just "being shy" versus "being outgoing", but rather (as the article and lots of other commenters have pointed out) about what recharges your mental energy.

So it's kind of like saying "make sure you spend some time each day doing that strenuous activity so you get more used to it". Just like someone would say "go to the gym and work out a few times a week". Just because one person isn't as physically fit as another, doesn't mean the less-fit person shouldn't get any exercise at all.
Is there a project oriented website that teaches bookkeeping for small business?
I am looking for a good project oriented bookkeeping tutorial. It would be great if the tutorial is based on real life example (i.e., books for grocery store) and utilizes SAAS accounting software like Xero/Wave and various utility tools such as invoice/receipt OCR for auto data entry. I know it doesn't cost much to hire a bookkeeper to handle the books. However, i still want to learn the basics of bookkeeping and understand how it's being done.
I've often wondered why Mexican people look so different from people in the US. Wikipedia makes me believe that Mexicans are generally a mix of European and native ancestry. But why does Mexico have so much more of that than the US? Especially considering we stole much of our land from them...

Why does the average person in Texas (excluding Mexico->US immigrants) look so different from the average person a few hundred miles south, but yet looks similiar to someone a few hundred (or thousand) miles north?
To be fair, they did say "no" to this. (After 11 years. :-) )
What the fuck Dropbox!

How do I get rid of the backdoor in /Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db even after uninstalling Dropbox.app and rm -rf'ing ~/.dropbox and /Library/DropboxHelperTools? Do I just sudo sqlite3 and delete the row? Or is there an official tool (tccutil)?

Edit: Crap, there's a /Library/Extensions/Dropbox.kext too now. :(
It's not about multi-socket configuration; selfbooting KNL machines can have two classes of memory. For brevity's sake you can think of them as "fast" and "huge." A regular malloc call gets you a piece of "huge", and there's a separate malloc function available to allocate "fast." This is the difference between the DDR4 and the MCDRAM you mentioned -- they're not accessed uniformly.

While Intel has done a ton of work to make sure you don't have to care about this, it's obviously in their best interest to have as much software as possible be able to care about this, especially because the KNL clock is so slow.
Yup! There was a Planet Money episode about this, called Frank Sinatra's Mug. It's all about how Frank Sinatra had the laws in California changed in order to protect the likeness - including the sound - of a celebrity. Apparently it's Section 3334 of California's Civil Code.

Quoting from the episode: "Essentially what it says is that you can't take somebody's name, or their likeness, or their signature or their voice, and use it for commercial gain without permission from that person. And if you do that, you're liable."

The full episode is here - it's one of Planet Money's best.
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story...
Alex Epstien, who is widely despised, has written, in The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels that to withhold cheap abundant energy, and the technology it enables, from the world's emerging populations is immoral and fundamentally anti-human. Supported by people who think this Earth would be a much better place if Man never set his filthy foot upon it.
Project to Run RTL-SDR Dongle with Microcontroller Host
I think Mercurial is also great, and we also can provide some feedback as the platform that supports Mercurial as Source Code Management (RhodeCode).

There are A LOT of mercurial users which are big companies, they just aren't so vocal on the internal like people using GIT. Mercurial has an established community, great plugability system, an awesome feature like phases.

We see more and more people adopting Mercurial together with our product.

I wish to see more advocates of Mercurial, it's a shame it doesn't get more public attention nowadays.
I'm been another SLS grumbler, but the "source" in the article and a couple of the commenters on that page made a decent (if exasperating) point: if you accept as a given that pork is going to happen (and if you're being clear-eyed and realistic, you pretty much have to), the SLS is at least better than bridges to nowhere or redundant military bases. It is going to fly, after all.
Steve Jobs (just off the top of my head) completely abandoned his family and built one of the greatest company of all times.

Which he later came to regret, most profoundly:

Years later, after Jobs left Apple, he acknowledged Lisa and attempted to reconcile with her. Chrisann Brennan wrote that "he apologized many times over for his behavior" to her and Lisa and "said that he never took responsibility when he should have, and that he was sorry."[2]†

In general, you may want to re-visit the implicit principle on which you're operating: namely "Someone incredibly famous and widely admired for their achievements did highly contemptible thing X, that was plainly and unnecessarily hurtful to other people; therefore, it's OK if I do it."

As if it was ever necessary for Jobs to have turned his boak on his family in the flagrantly callous manner that he did in order for us to have the shiny gizmos that we hold in our hands today, in the first place. If anything, all it amounted to was a distraction and impediment towards those ends.

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Brennan-Jobs
So, the card gives rewards and charges higher merchant fees. The merchant raises prices to offset the fees, which offset the customers' rewards. Friction.

This is exactly like subsidizing farm, ranch, and oil but then raising taxes to pay for the subsidies indirectly.
Voting actually matters more, because it is more direct, short term find results are easily seen.

It is reasonably easy to convince people to vote for a relatively popular candidate.
The Freelancer and the Hobbyist Designer
This seems like a great initiative and increasingly important for future generations - congrats!

I noticed there's a disproportionate number of Australian owners. Any insight why that is?
"Market pricing decisions" are not exempt from moral judgements.

See: recent medical pricing scandals in the US; Martin Shkreli/Daraprim, Mylan/Epi-Pen

Mastercard isn't really in the same bucket, but we do have anti-monopoly/anti-trust measures which aren't particularly well defined and seem pretty applicable here.
Doesn't this kind of breakdown make the explanation more complicated? Maybe it's my idiotic brain but I think of everything in terms of that one scene and can't extrapolate the Information to various scenarios.
In Argentina it is worst. If you have a plan to buy something in 12 month, the retailer receives a 30% discount up front. This is connected to high inflation BUT the retailers don't give you a 30% of discount if you pay with cash.
In British Columbia (BC) we get 86% of our power from hydro.
> If you truly think the civil war was fought over slavery

The Confederacy, quite overtly, seceded over and fought the war solely and entirely to protect slavery from what they expected (quite probably correctly) was an inevitable abolition within the United States.

The Union, OTOH, its true wasn't particularly fighting to eliminate slavery (especially not the slave states in the Union), but for the idea that admission to the United States was a one-way door. But, then again, the Union was heavily in favor of abolition, just not enough that it was worth splitting the country over (perhaps largely because many of them, like the Confederacy, could see where the long-term trend was headed.) Once the rebels caused the split anyway, that concern went out the door.
Curious why nuclear is going up? It would seem anything scientific or technically advanced would over time trend down.
A species is just a human construct to make it easier to understand biological diversity. In the real world living things are never black and white.