skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Not too hard to confirm with a tiny little program:

lockers = ['Closed'] * 101
for i in range(1, 101):
for locker in range(i, 101, i):
lockers[locker] = 'Open' if lockers[locker] == 'Closed' else 'Closed'

print ([locker for locker, value in enumerate(lockers) if value == 'Open'])

>>> [1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100]
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I wrote a script that calls restaurants and a simple bot asks for wait times
Also other things that came to mind, CORBA on UNIX, Apple's move from Object Pascal to C++, and the whole Taligent project that ended up nowhere.
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The definition of "sort" that I'm finding in the context we're talking about is: the act of separating things and putting them in a particular order : the act of sorting things[1]. The same source gives a further definition as "an instance of sorting <a numeric sort of a data file>." Perhaps -ation adds some meaning, but I don't see how it wouldn't already be present in the context of any hypothetical sentence. The action or process of the act of sorting seems redundant.

My own bias is certainly towards brevity in most cases where context gives a clear meaning. I should clarify that -ation seems unnecessary where the noun it extends:
(a) already describes a process.
(b) is in common use describing a process.

The suffix seems more useful where it explicitly turns a verb into a noun where there was no suitable noun in common use, or where any existing nouns derived from the same root do not refer to a process. This is the ignored distinction my roommate's offhand comment likely implied.

The problem appears to be that American English simply no longer sticks to the formal meaning added by the suffix. Reserve/reservation and preserve/preservation are used interchangeably to refer to large plots of land left to nature. But making a reservation at a hotel is the process of reserving a room.

I guess this ambiguity is what we get for speaking a language without central authority. I'll take it over ivory tower language academies decrying use of "le weekend..." ;)

[1]: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sort
Google hired hundreds of security engineers with six-figure signing bonuses, invested hundreds of millions of dollars in security infrastructure and adopted a new internal motto, “Never again,” to signal that it would never again allow anyone — be they spies or criminals — to hack into Google customers’ accounts.

Wow! Security starts at the top!
So this happens to me all the time. I'm pretty sure they deliver it to my neighbors, and two days later a neighbor puts it on my porch.
I have two friends who are quite senior in local CROs. I assure you, this can be done better.
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I wonder if there's any writing out there about the evolutionary hierarchy of refactoring, like:

code > function/method > module > class > ... > microservice
You expect consumers to pick crappier stuff, at higher prices and more inconvenience?

Or that the companies who provide better/faster/cheaper not to grow large on providing what the people want at the prices they want to pay?
The first person to discover their edibility would not have known if they were about to crap liquid until they died when they ate it, but they likely would have known that in general rotten food can make you ill, hence the hard decision, chancing survival against a potentially earlier death.
Okay, which AI are they talking about? The term can mean various things. I mean if this were merely heuristic neural networks, one would think that Tesla would be included.
There are many banks with many rules out there. Paypal may be in a different negotiating position than we are. Believe me, I'd love to support all legal businesses (including yours). Sorry we couldn't get there yet - we may be able to eventually.
I don't think there is but the military seem to still support the president and they're the ones with the big guns.
I've thought about this - the existing method of designers coming up with a couple of static designs ("small" and "large" - "medium" if you're lucky) means the developer is burdened with interpreting these static designs and deriving a set of relationships and constraints between them. It seems obvious that the designer should be considering how the design responsively "breaths" at all sizes, rather than putting this on the developer. It's still design, just an added dimension that isn't present in print.

But how do you give the designer the opportunity to "sketch" but also describe relationships and constraints? You could use code, but then the designer is then also a de-facto developer. And having to consider relationships and constraints too much can lead to those considerations dictating the design, rather than the other way around.
I'm curious whether they could save a substantial amount of money by moving Full Trailers instead of LTL or having UPS/FedEx do it. A full trailer can cost them as much as $1200 from CA to TX where as UPS or FedEx would charge much more. So by distributing between distribution centers they would probably save some money. I also think having planes will greatly reduce the time it takes to bring items from China. ATM it can take 10-14 days on the water via container ship. They could probably load the equivalent of 2-3 40' Containers in a plane and fly it to CA for the same price a cargo company would charge.

It's not necessary to replace UPS or FedEx, just the parts that cost Amazon the most money and are easily replaceable.
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It's already a similar form factor as a small device in landscape mode.

Nougat's multi-window mode should make developers care even more about it.
In different places in this thread we've already discussed that different frequencies & different regulations means we couldn't have the v1 product Mesh and we means we can't have the Mesh product work with the v1. BUT I will say that we already have SMS network relay available for both v1 and Mesh which is the first time goTenna interconnects with central connectivity... and that, plus mesh, and some of the other stuff we're planning, is all meant to continue building out a parallel off-grid network that is resilient and scalable but that can plug into central infrastructure in creative ways that improves the communication stack for both on-grid and off-grid uses.

The TL;DR of it is: How do we build infrastructure-free infrastructure? It starts small but we have, I think, Big Ideas ;-)
Does it really matter if you can just print more money?
As in borrow indefinitely at tiny tiny rates?
If that person is paid a better wage, or given better hours, or less-unreasonable targets/deadlines, then the service might change.
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I think people don't maintain discipline if it isn't forced. So its a round about way of forcing people to maintain boundaries, that wouldn't be needed much of the time if people had stricter development practices.
https://medium.com/the-coinbase-blog/building-the-bridge-why...

We do deal with visa/mastercard networks. They have rules, as do other financial institutions we work with.
Sounds like an alienate means for Skynet to become sentient.
ETH was also the home of Niklaus Wirth and all his research in safe systems programming languages with Modula-2(Lillith), Oberon(Native Oberon, EthOS), Active Oberon (BlueOS) and the commercial descendent Component Pascal.
Apple deepens enterprise push with Deloitte partnership
Royal Mail put things that fit through the door (Amazon will not always do this).

Things that don't fit, Royal Mail will take to the concierge in the next building over (Amazon almost never does this).
Amazon can provide a competing shipping service. If they give me a choice, I'll pick the one that best fits my needs. It might be theirs; it might not be. If they don't offer that choice, and force me to use theirs, and theirs fails to deliver according to my criteria too often, I'll shop elsewhere. How did that limit competition?
Yes, the demo on their site just made me tense. Do other designers enjoy working together in real time like that? I haven't seen that one before.
It's hard for me to explain why the "calories in, calories out" theory is incorrect in so far as it's not useful to structure your diet around to prevent getting fat.

Gary Taubes was the person who I learned from the most, many years ago about high fat, low carb diet, and I have been following his advice ever since, to great success.

He has MANY videos on the internet, here is a recent one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA4a5fjMR74

His book "Why we get fat" is also a great, clearly written explanation of all this, and I highly advise you to look into the subject, with an open mind. You may be surprised.
Unfortunately, the winter in Seattle is a downer

Some people get used to it. I did. But I'm from the Midwest, so my perspective is "hey, at least I don't have to shovel it". Me, since we've spent the summer doing outdoor stuff, it gives me a few months to catch up on more indoorsy stuff. Get caught up on reading, spend more time with my musical instruments, that kind of thing.

But still get outside: wear your headlamp, put your Gortex(tm) on, try to hold on until March.
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ok, why all the high tech industries that come to my mind are based in SV, UK, SE Asia, Japan but I can't thing of anything in Switzerland?
Honestly it is the first time in my life that I hear the association computer science - Switzerland..
I think your comment is fair

>> "Though Apple is said to be enthusiastic about the project, their absence is still notable because the company has fallen behind in artificial intelligence when compared to its rivals — many of whom are part of this new group."

could easily be replaced by "Apple decided not to join the group because they're so advanced compared to its rivals. This group was actually created in an attempt to catch-up with Apple".

Both of these extreme claims aren't really back up by substantial facts.
The fact that any of us are here to have this chat leads me to believe that the basic principles of testing edibility have been handed down since antiquity. Smell it. "Oh that's rank! Yet, I am starving." Touch it to your lips. "They're not numb! Result." Touch it to your tongue. "No burning, no numbness, no tingling, good!" Eat a very little bit, "Tastes better than I'd have thought." Wait. "I'm alive, and I feel a very little bit less hungry!" Eat some more. "I'm not hungry, I don't have dysentery, and I can still see."
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We are still talking about Amazon here.
Well are we talking about applied AI or theoretical AI? As a dumb user (and I use Apple products), I definitely get the feeling that Apple is behind in the game. Now do they have kick-ass R&D that isn't getting shipped to users? Perhaps, but that's not what customers and investors care about.
tl;dr = "citation needed" =)

I also agree with the sentiment here on TC reporting.
Coinbase CEO here. This is (sadly) quite accurate.

The other reason you see so many complaints there is that there are many scammers trying to buy digital currency with stolen credentials, and a common scammer tactic is to appear angry (via support channels, or any public forum) in the hopes that we will approve their purchase.
> Renewables can only make electricity

If renewable energy becomes abundant/cheap enough, you can convert electricity into hydrogen or other high energy density chemicals.
^ This. And the race to the bottom continues.
For the netspit stuff I'd look at Phoenix.Presence works and see how that handles it with a CRDT. There are various ways of distributing things across nodes in Erlang/Elixir but maybe you'd need to build something.

I think you are right about the riak core stuff - you could probably keep track of cars using some sort of distributed hash and kill multiple cars if they were to ever spawn.

In fact a way of instantiating processes and finding them based on a CRDT is probably a pretty cool little project...
You can build man pages with Sphinx.

http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/builders.html
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@gotenna can you speak a little to why you're the first ones to do the kind of mesh network described in your campaign and in the title of this HN post? plenty of people have been working on MANET mesh stuff for 30+ years, what design decisions or other decisions make your mesh scalable/possible and not merely condemned to the academic or laboratory like so many other mesh projects?
PrimeNow in Seattle leverages Amazon logistics -- and it's actually very nice. I've never had a problem with PrimeNow here :)

UberEats on the other hand can never find my house as their routing sends them down an alley that has no street numbers.
> proper daemons (fork, cd /, close([stdin, stdout, stderr]) and the rest), some are a little worse to say the least. And more often than not, the later is your super business critical important app built in house by incompetent developers.

"proper daemons" are broken by design. Perhaps your "incompetent developers" know something that you don't?

https://cr.yp.to/daemontools/faq/create.html

How can I supervise a daemon that puts itself into the background? When I run inetd, my shell script exits immediately, so supervise keeps trying to restart it.

Answer: The best answer is to fix the daemon. Having every daemon put itself into the background is bad software design.
Job one for the AI: given the set of other companies involved in AI research, determine which one, if invited to join as a sixth partner, produces a new acronym that is less silly than "im fag"
Between Walmart and Amazon, I'd rather have Amazon win, but at some point we're going to optimize away all the on the ground jobs.

Less of a deal for cities, but some of the small towns I drive through for work don't seem to have any other employment than trades/Walmart/service/trucking/maybe "the local plant".

What kind of world are we creating for small towns when 2.5 of those disappear in the next few decades?
Renewables depend on oil. You can't make renewables with renewables energy, because their overall EROI is insufficient to both maintain the current standard of life, and make them.

Currently, sure, but in the long term? How so?

The other issue is mobility, oil has the best volume/energy content ratio of all energy sources we know (except uranium).

"Sustainable fuel for the transportation sector": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1821126/
Would you mind sharing what's wrong with Politico? I always thought they seemed okay.
Replace Allo/Duo/Google with WhatsApp and the article still holds true, but WhatsApp wasn't an India centric product.

Lest we forget that iMessage and facetime only worked with your phone number at launch. Not to mention WhatsApp, which only recently started working in the browser and doesn't work on a tablet.
By that logic, you would have to throw all of north and south america's population combined in order to compare anything with China or India in order to get close to an equipopulous comparison.
With no historic federal interference, Mississippi would out do Switzerland in happiness, education, prosperity and general liberty? Somehow I doubt that.

If anything, the Federal government is overly distracted bringing the slow parts of the country kicking and screaming into the 21st century and by those same parts randomly derailing it.

But anyone ever want to secede again, I won't object.
Get rid of the camera too.

Having an integrated camera got me used to taking more pictures, but now I use an actual camera 99% of the time.
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> normal packet jitter

What's the 99th percentile for that? How about packet-loss?

None of this is new stuff in gamedev, we've been build action games successfully since the days of 28.8 modems and 200ms pings.

Maybe that makes me a bit of an entrenched player(which is a poor position to argue on HN) but I've yet to see anything fundamental in these technologies that will address the latency issues in the same way you can with an interpolated client-side simulation.
Apple wants to be on the right side of the anti-trust lawsuit this time. /s
Honestly this comment reads like an emotional outburst, by someone who has zero clue about the domain.

Its very well known fact in AI/ML community, that Apple has almost little or no talent nor do they have any major efforts at organizational level (E.g. FAIR at FB, MSR, Brain & Deep Mind at Google).

>> But in Machine Translation, Apple is ahead.

LOL where did you get this from? I am pretty sure that Google NTM which was put in production yesterday is the state of the art.

Also there are metrics e.g. in the report released yesterday you can find BLEU scores on WMT 2014 tasks, and the clear conclusion is that Google is way ahead. Also when it comes to Imagenet or Coco challenges, I don't think Apple has competed in any let alone placing anywhere at top, while FB, MSR and Google all have had top models.
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.08144v1.pdf

>> but the popular press is not discerning enough to make heads or tales out of what they report on, and they end up mis-educating the public.

Sorry you are wrong, the sad reality (for Apple), is that they are truly 3-4 years behind FB, MSFT & Google.
Then enjoy the fact that literally no mailing provider actually guarantees delivery date.

At least Amazon is more than willing to work with you to figure out how they can make your experience more palatable.
I ultimately ended up calling Principal. The person on the phone asked some silly questions too, but at least she let me pass on a couple. She then reset my account and sent a link to reset my password. That wouldn't be so easy with all sites, since they don't all have reachable humans.
Lot's of changes since the last time I showed HN. I would love to get some feedback. Thanks!
Oh I know. I've been in a meeting with several bosses where I tell them flat out "don't give me more developers, give me more hardware and tools". They usually look like I have an extra arm growing out of the top of my head.
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I used to work in startups, and wondered this all the time. Then I joined a big valley tech company, and now I understand.

It's because they hire smart and ambitious people, but give them a tiny vertical to work on. It's a person level problem, not a technical one in my opinion.

I think you solve this by designing your stack and then hiring meticulously, instead of HIRE ALL THE ENGINEERS and then figure it out (which is quite obviously uber's problem)
For Linux & Co it is called OMI: https://github.com/Microsoft/omi

And it is just the API, you can layer osquery or Powershell or Ansible or whatever on top.

This free Pluralsight course about Powershell for Linux with its inventor Jeffrey Snover has a module where they talk about DSC/OMI:

https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/play-by-play-microsoft-o...
How good do labels need to be for you to be able to get good results on something like this? There's a lot of data, so that's great, but the labels seem a bit spotty.
Even though I would have really liked to see blackberry have a real try at this, It looks like this is just too small of a niche anyway : http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/15/5104704/i-come-not-to-pra...
"But in Machine Translation, Apple is ahead." was an example of a statement that could be made if metrics existed, he is not asserting that that is true.
Is eating cheese rational?

I'm reminded of a statement by Jeremy Clarkson about the possibility of nutritional warning labels on cheese. Without substantial nutritional value[1], being essentially just calories, the rational decision is to not eat it. But we do. His point was that if things like soda (Coke) is going to be labelled or taxed as unhealthy, why not cheese? For some historical or cultural reason why see cheese as something wholesome or "natural". Is is? It seems to me more a trick of chemistry, a means of preserving caloric content from a time when getting enough calories was the only concern.

[1] While cheese does contain some nutrients, you have to eat piles of it to get anywhere near a recommended daily dose, by which point you've eaten far more calories than anyone would consider healthy.

For below:

Vitamin D in Cheese: 1oz = 2% of daily value.

100/2 = 50 oz to get your daily minimum of D from cheese.

50oz of cheese = 1.5kg = 5700 calories + bowel obstruction = Not a rational way of getting your daily Vitamin D.

https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-HealthProfessiona...
> One important way we don't compare is that healthcare and retirement costs are a massive drag on our economy.

By "our economy", do you mean private persons? The whole country?

Regardless, coming from one of those magic fairylands of modern Europe - health care and retirement costs are a massive drag on our economy as well, they're just not as easily seen by general people (you certainly don't see it on your pay slip).
Honestly I don't think the problem is microservices. I mean everything he brings up is true, but it's more of a "how you do microservices" issue.

I used to work in startups, and overall was impressed with velocity. Then I joined a big valley tech company, and now I understand.

It's because they hire smart and ambitious people, but give them a tiny vertical to work on. On a personal level, you WANT to build something, so you force it.

I think you solve this by designing your stack and then hiring meticulously with rules (like templates for each micro service), instead of HIRE ALL THE ENGINEERS and then figure it out (which is quite obviously uber's problem)
Google tells me that patriarchy is

"a system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family" and also

"a society or community organized on patriarchal lines."

and Homer really has the most words in the series, and that fact can be summarized with that word. The word was used in the lede, which is good to be short. Why is that a "provocation" to anybody? And how is it "non-sensical" and why and by whom is it considered a "buzzword"?
It's easier to adapt to another keyboard layout than it is to change your accent. Not to mention that you can remap it in software (or at least you would be able to on rooted Android...) and that most latin layouts aren't that different from US QWERTY, at least compared to the difference in accents.
New CSS technologies like formulas (calc) and variables (or Sass, PostCSS) will allow designers to do this without programming.
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Apple can't figure out that I don't want to say 'ducking' after hundreds of times of dismissing it with their keyboard.

Siri never delivered on what was promised--part of the reason the microphone in the new wireless earbuds is so laughable.

Apple currently has no answer to Allo or chat bots in general.

>For example, see the article floating a few weeks ago on Medium (I think) on how Apple was embedding ML in everything.

Plans are easy to talk about. You seem to want to give Apple a lot of credit for things going on behind closed doors.

As far as the consumer can see, they have fallen behind.
> This sounds like it was written by some PR person.

It probably was. The article is pretty clearly a press release with some touch-up.

This happens a lot when the pressure is to be first to publish. Someone gives you a completely-written "story" and off you go.
Calling simple statistical clustering algorithms that are tweaked by lots of trial-and-error heuristics "AI" feels like calling those slow two-wheeled electric self-balancing skateboards "hoverboards". Sometimes marketing can be too dramatic.