skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use that in Intellij all the time, but it's very limited to something like pry in ruby.
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I'm currently working with GitHub Support on dealing with zip downloads of a 5GB repo failing after 2-3 minutes, with curl error "transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining".

Sure about the long running connection issue being solved? :-)
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Please stop making unsubstantive comments like this.
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I'd rather have tests than types. Unless your type-system is sound; most of them are very, very far from it.

You can specify the domain of values with types, but not their ranges. Side-effects fall through unaffected by types as well.

I've done plenty of refactorings in huge statically typed codebases; types are a very, very superficial help there. Everything compiles fine but now you're passing 20 to a function whose range is 1-10. Or you're now generating the wrong filenames.

To me the overhead of using types outweighs the advantages they bring to the table. If I can help it I'd even choose to have a spec I can enforce at runtime using custom predicates than some vague predefined types with weak semantics or unit tests I have to maintain manually.
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The problem is that people give the right answers. Mother's maiden name? Mozilla. School? Mio Fit.
Maybe it's just that the avails of theft and fraud are not limited by prevailing wages in your area, so are relatively a better deal?
FWIW... I just logged in to my Yahoo Account and removed the security questions. Just to be sure. I had already changed my password a few months ago when first rumors of this came up. I'm pretty sure that the option to remove the security questions wasn't there back then.
I think mschulze means he cannot even be sure what the function returns without having to read the source code. There could be comments but they may be outdated or incomplete. In statically typed languages you can look at the function signature or rely on the compiler errors.
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there is one thing missing, if it excludes or includes machine prices (I just wondered cause I doubt that it includes them since I've never seen a per memory pricing), but it's great.

Other things that are missing is, what happens if X goes down, but I guess that's found in your documentation. and there is no pricing for additional redundancy.
Just from the video and the price toggler it seems that the data is there two times (primary/secondary on HA) or am I wrong?

Edit: I forgot the price is amazing. Especially if everything is working like it does in your video. I basically never seen a solution that scales PG that easily and even outscales most other solutions and could reshard / rebalance with a query / click. Just amazing, really.

Edit2: Pricing is: Extremly cheap.
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I just spent today in meeting hell with networking vendor sales engineers. One thing everyone agreed on was what an absolute delight it was moving from Oracle to Postgres. Oracle is a top-class database - it saves your data, it gives it back really fast and reliably - but every other detail of dealing with them is awful. The biggest benefit of moving to PG is we never have to think about licenses again.
I couldn't find an ungated copy, but this is in the abstract:

The abundance of the fungus Candida tropicalis was significantly higher in CD than in NCDR (P = 0.003) samples and positively correlated with levels of anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae antibodies (ASCA). The abundance of C. tropicalis was positively correlated with S. marcescens and E. coli, suggesting that these organisms interact in the gut.

All we know about correlation level from this is r > 0.

More here: http://mbio.asm.org/content/7/5/e01250-16
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Not to mention the fact that the whole of github is probably a bunch of disparate little project worked on by individual teams that would require a lot of effort to turn into something that could be run by an individual person. Probably makes sense to expose some of those projects on their own as open source project like they are doing here.
I think you mistook the direction of that sentence slightly. I don't think there's much information around about giant squid, but it's likely that they're intelligent (by animal standards) because other squid are intelligent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_intelligence

By my interpretation of the sentence, the author isn't necessarily assuming intelligence from first principles in quite the same way as you did in the opposite sense.
Big companies are often are complicated mess, and I can emphasize with desire to simplify and streamline operation. There's some benefit with setting your infrastructure in such a way that there's a known party you can pay to fix things quickly, and that you can sue if they can't.
The PS1 can be characterized as "half-software" because the geometry transforms are done through a CPU coprocessor, then sent to a mostly-2D GPU capable of filling in the gaps with affine transformations. This unusual pipeline accounts for why the rendering artifacts have a system-defining character to them - information about the geometry is lost after leaving the CPU and the GPU operates at screenspace precision, making the biggest polygons onscreen the most visibly inaccurate.
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Oh I'm well aware around the uniques; Yahoo is ranked #5 in Alexa worldwide. Uniques do not count as users, however and my original conjecture stands in my opinion. Now if you have active, monthly user data that would be awesome to see :)
Yeah, that sucks because I have my business stuff with them (I know, I know). On the bright side I didn't receive an email so maybe they didn't get the biz accounts. Changed my pw anyway.

And something's changed with their biz accounts anyway- it's been sold/rebranded or something and I'm not sure where the future lays... :[
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Almost all of Yahoo's value is in its Alibaba holding.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-12-02/yahoo-is-...

"Yahoo's actual core business of being Yahoo (and Tumblr and whatever) is worth negative $13 billion"

"Even after deducting 38 percent from the value of [the Alibaba shares] to account for taxes, you get a value for Yahoo's actual business of just $1.7 billion"
Attack on Yahoo hit 500M users
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/30489/what-is-the-di...
Amazing that this happens on top of such low prices for crude oil. What's going on?

EDIT: Yes I read the article. Seriously, oil is so cheap and this still happened? It's just mind boggling to me.
This will probably be taken down soom, mainly because of the link to the El Capitan ISO
fwiw i already cast netflix from chrome without casting the tab
Try adding 1.3 + 1.1 and tell me JavaScript isn't broken.
Hint: The result is isn't 2.4, it's 2.4000000000000004.

Unfortunately that's something TypeScript doesn't tackle, but you can use external libraries for floats, where you work on floats as... strings.
I take it as "as far as we know, these weren't stolen, but don't sue us if we turn out to be wrong".
Interesting note about treatment working in Japan but not US. Do you have any more details about that? Thanks.
Obviously this is a very late response to this thread, but I thought I'd add what I actually ended up building for this assignment.

The requirements were specifically to build a game, any game, and as long as it was playable (and your code was readable) you'd get an A.

So, annoyed as I was at the requirement that the backend be built in C++, I decided go above and beyond the requirements and built a single page Othello game, complete with a strong and fast AI (I happened to take this class much later in my studies than the standard curriculum called for, so I had already taken an AI class and had learned how to build a minimax tree with alpha beta pruning, though up until that point I'd only ever done it in Lisp).

So, by changing the actual requirements of the project, I actually made C++ a more appropriate choice of tools for this project and was able to build a very responsive single page Othello game with a strong AI capable of running pretty fast on the hardware we were tasked with using.

I was the only one who used Ajax to make it a single page app, and the only person to build an AI. Needless to say, I got the best grade in the class, but I suppose I had an unfair advantage.
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TS's typing is opt-in and it'll infer any (i.e. whatever) if you don't specify a type or it can't be inferred easily. Gradual typing is the best of both worlds here: you can quickly code up something and then later add types as you wish.

Personally, I like types because entire classes of errors and bugs no longer apply without me having to think.
Most of these books also fall short on defining success. Is success money? Is success happiness? People can have lot of money but not be happy or healthy. Is that success?
Here's the process that works (with some persistence) even if you don't have a revolutionary product:

1. Go to Google, toggle to news and enter the name of similar startups

2. Go through each recent article and add the journalist to a spreadsheet

3. Go on Email Hunter or Email Format to find how the publication formats their email addresses to guess the journalist's. Journalists also tend to use firstnamelastname@gmail.com for their personal emails.

4. Email your pitch in 3-5 sentences max. Don't just describe what your startup you does, use an interesting angle or story to show its impact.

Instead of: "We do delivery logistic optimization."

Story:
"Why the heck is your technician always 5hrs late? Cause it took forever to fix the issues of the guy before you.

We're helping our customers like Comcast and Oracle smart schedule all their appointments based on data like a) how long issue x typically takes to fix and b) real-time traffic conditions.

In high school, I worked taxi dispatcher, seeing firsthand the inefficiencies in coordinating drivers."

Journalists don't want to advertise your startup for free, they care about writing a story that entertains and educates their readers. Feed one to them.

Good roundup of pitch templates using different angles: http://www.artofemails.com/pitch-press
Ok that makes sense to me.

Post mergers the mantra is "you say that we will get $n from putting all our systems together and it will cost $n/10 but I say you are a bloody liar and want proof and hostages."
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That's a fair assessment of how integration was handled in most schools too. On the face of it, its extremely draconian, but how can you reverse 50+ years of institutional segregation without the government becoming involved?
Thanks for the feedback. This is fully inclusive of machine prices, backups, everything.

For redundancy there's two things. First is for data durability, we archive all updates to S3 every 16 MB or 60 seconds whichever comes first, using WAL-E. Second, if you want higher availability you enable that. In that case, we run a streaming replica for all nodes in the cluster, those nodes receive updates as they happen. In the event of some failure (which we continuously monitor for) we automatically fail you over to the standby.
I'm curious if they looked into pf / CARP as part of their research into allowing horizontal scalability for an ip. See: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/carp.html
"Clump soul" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari_Damacy
Depends on too many factors for even a ballpark. Take Google's Machine Vision API for instance. The limiting factor here is that the larger your model (and deep networks are very large models in terms of free parameters), the more training data you need to make a good approximation. To come close to "stealing" their entire trained model, my guess is that your API use would probably multiply Google's annual revenue by a small positive integer.

Alternatively, you could restrict your "stolen" model to a smaller domain and use fewer, more targeted examples for training. But at this point, you might as well start blending in predictions from other APIs, perhaps even training one off the errors of another. This is basically a technique that has been around for a long time, and in one incarnation is called "boosting" (see Adaboost).
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I would vote for you.
Does anyone know if this will be part of an ongoing series, covering many open source licenses?
Updating: the official Yahoo press release says "hashed passwords (the vast majority with bcrypt)", so perhaps the Recode article was not entirely correct.
Any ISP is going to have a more accurate idea of which customer has an IP than a generic geolocation service. An ISP in Ohio is not going to return a latitude and longitude that happens to be in Kansas.
Woohoo!

I'm sure eventually they'll add automatic LetsEncrypt certificates too. But in the meantime if you're using Ruby on Rails on Heroku, this gem (that I made) will probably help: https://github.com/pixielabs/letsencrypt-rails-heroku
I don't think they actually broke any laws. How do you expect them to be charged for your demands?
>...A 1978 paper from Oak Ridge National Laboratory estimated that coal-fired power plants of that time may contribute a whole-body committed dose of 19 µSv/a to their immediate neighbours in a 500 m radius.[46] The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation's 1988 report estimated the committed dose 1 km away to be 20 µSv/a for older plants or 1 µSv/a for newer plants with improved fly ash capture, but was unable to confirm these numbers by test.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_the_co...

But really the radioactive emissions from coal plants (and the exposure through their unmonitored waste piles) is really an insignificant danger compared to the air pollution problems where tens of thousands of people are killed each year from burning coal. The mercury emissions are also helping to poison the oceans and the CO2 emissions are also a big cause of climate change.
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This reminds me of Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex: 2nd Gig, wherein a single actor causes an AI to rotate military forces within a refugee area, with the explicit intention of increasing anti-police sentiment among refugees.

The world is a stage and, without proper leadership, crowds will behave in ways they believe are allowed within the hard constraints of the social order. This is at the core of the BLM movement, and a pillar of the Occupy movement: police must not view themselves as separate from the policed. For cybernetic reasons as well as pathos ones. Otherwise, from the perspective of the social order, the distinction between the two is error.
Yeah that's it, and there are several variations. I know it seems easy to just say no to buying a stupid ring, but it's much, much easier to not even open that door because, from what I've heard from a friend, they will just so aggressively be in your face that giving them even anything will seem worth it after the scene they create. I know pre-googling a country sounds so tech-bubbley a tactic, but that scam is not at all I would of anticipated so I'm glad I stumbled on it.

(note in the link above, the writer says it happened to her 3 times in an hour. I had it happen one right after another, as if the second/third person didn't see me push the first one aside. So it's not just an Asian thing, I was just saying the rate that I perceived is how I empathize with being stereotyped at a quick glance)
Actually, yes, TypeScript uses OOP patterns like classes and interfaces:

https://github.com/ReactiveX/rxjs/blob/master/src/Observable...

But they also use the pipeline operator (::) to chain together methods in a way that's effectively functional.
Beta and RC versions have been in testing for a few weeks now, exactly so that they can push final to unstable pretty much the instant it came out. Debian's GNOME team rocks!
> The phrase “arising from, out of or in connection with” is a recurring tick symptomatic of the legal draftsman’s inherent, anxious insecurity.

Indeed. I'm trying to imagine a court saying "Well... there were damages, but they arose out of the software and not from the software, so therefore- oh, wait! The license actually includes arising "out of" the software as well as "from" the software, so I guess the limitation of liability stands. Case dismissed!"
System was hacked in "late 2014", but we only now found out about it in 2016. That's almost 2 years.

Whoever the "state-sponsored" hacker is probably has lost interest in that access.
You should read the article, it's exactly about the question you asked.

> Hanjin’s bankruptcy—and the abysmal performance of so many lines—is the result of overcapacity in the shipping industry. Since the financial crisis, too many vessels have been built and not enough scrapped, while the growth in global trade has decelerated.
Simulating a brain doesn't give you general purpose AI. Brains are useless. You can get one pretty easily, but what would you do with it? A brain without a body wouldn't be intelligent at all.

So, ok, shift the goalposts to simulating a brain and a body. But that's not particularly intelligent either. If you dropped an adult human in the vacuum of space (with life support) nothing particularly intelligent would happen either.

Ok, well shift the goalposts to simulating a brain and a body and an environment for it to live in. Still won't be intelligent. Humans raised without any socialization have serious cognitive defects. Not really "intelligent" for our purposes.

Well, so simulate a brain in a body and a social environment. No we've introduced a chicken and egg problem.

Maybe you give the AI a robot body and allow it to live amongst humans. That would work, and also removes the need to simulate the environment. A huge win.

But is that any different than a human human?

Ok, you want this virtual brain to be way bigger... 100x the neurons of a human. But still with the human body and socialization. How is that different than a human with a cloud-connected smartphone?

Right, bandwidth. Elon musk says a smartphone doesn't have enough bandwidth and we need a BCI. But raw UI bandwidth doesn't seem tk have increased for a couple decades now. Smartphones actually have less bandwidth than laptops. But we keep being able to do more and more with better software. Is bandwidth really the limitation?

And if bandwidth isn't the limitation, does an AI really have an advantage over a cloud-augmented human brain?
this is exactly why i moved to TMo
... in a California clickbait context
I think this touches on personality types, too. People with strong anti-authoritarianism streaks are likely to be turned off by an instructor who attempts to organize those sorts of activities when their authority derives solely from the fact that they are the instructor of the course. Without proof (i.e. having taught me something), you're going to be tuned out when you resort to childish tactics.

Reflecting back to these situations brought to mind the Seinfeld episode "The Pitch"[1] in which Jerry and George pitch a TV show to NBC executives. In it, the NBC team's leader expresses skepticism about George's idea, leading to this exchange:

RUSSELL: Well, why am I watching it?
GEORGE: Because it's on TV.
RUSSELL: (Threatening) Not yet.

Why are we doing this? Because it's what you say? Not for long.

[1]: http://seinfeldscripts.com/ThePitch.htm
There are also several in-progress feature requests related to Let's Encrypt automation, which should make HTTPS much easier. (Right now it's possible to use Let's Encrypt, but you have to manually renew the cert every 90 days.)
Do you agree with this?

http://wspd.iheart.com/onair/scott-sands-50988/swat-team-rai...
I like Samsung. Every phone I have bought is from Samsung. They have my sympathy over the battery issue but I think they will go through tougher testing procedures in the future.
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Complaining about longevity of React Native and then recommending two proprietary, non-open-source competitors is, frankly, absurd. If Facebook ever abandons React Native we have all of the code and can continue to support it ourselves. If Microsoft or Appcelerator ever shut down their platforms for any reason, we're SOL.

While there are some valid concerns with using React Native, the productivity gain and community make it a more than worthwhile trade off.
> They train on actual data

often generated by humans

> and care only about making the most accurate predictions possible

of labels often generated by humans.

Bias can get into a classifier. It can get there through a biased model, but that's very unlikely. Much more likely is that it's trained on biased data. Which is _easy_ to do, even by accident.
If I hand you an F-16 and you use it to do damage that would indicate possible US air force involvement. If the F-16 that attacked me was preceded by advanced ECM, suppression of air defenses using stand-off munitions, and was performed in a particular precision attack pattern then US air force involvement would be much more likely. These signatures are not just about the tools, but the opsec and procedures that the hackers used to deploy the tools, how they moved laterally to the target, and how they exfiltrated the information. It is the whole package that identifies a real state-sponsored actor vs a freelancer with access to a bag of zero days.
For those who are as confused as me, Chris Rock's joke is that Bill Gates would kill himself if he had as much money as Oprah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81p65CBg5G4

I spent far too long wondering why Chris Rock knew anything at all about the Opera browser.
Thanks, exactly what I was looking for.
Tribalism is a natural human condition (maybe it's an instinct, I don't know). It's integral part of us. Comes from evolution, really. Everybody hates everybody. Heck, Russians and Ukrainians hate each other, and you wouldn't find more similar groups of people. (I am from Ukraine.) To deny human tribalism is to deny reality. We need to fight tribalism and hatred but unfortunately it's not going away.

So, the question is why we constantly hear about one minority but not the others? After all, we have people of all colors and origins in America from Chinese and Indian, to Russian and Samoan.

My feeling is that blacks have been highjacked by politicos and turned into pawn for political games. And the result is that children and families suffer. How is it not failure of political science that 72% of black kids are born to single mothers? Blame Republicans all you want, but blacks are represented by the Democrats on all levels of government, from city to state to Congress. How is it not a failure of representation?

I think if we get politicos from dividing us, everyone will benefit, especially blacks.
They have some incredibly blatant corruption. Notably they protect the maker of epipens by refusing to allow approve competing products: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/08/29/reverse-voxsplaining-dr...

I'm sure there are some people at the FDA that believe they are still doing a good job by preventing bad drugs. But even there they kill far more people than they save by preventing life saving drugs from reaching terminally ill patients, and vastly increasing the cost of producing drugs. They need to be shut down.