skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Her position is, "someone who served as a high ranking member of the administration".

While she is no longer officially a member of the administration, you cannot think that the administration would wish to embarrass her with, say, a legal proceeding that could result in jail time. You'll have to go back a loooong way to find any administration that brought a legal action against a high ranking former member of said administration.

And this applies to both parties. No matter what the law is, it is unequally enforced. Always has been, and I see no prospect of that changing.
I'm currently sitting in a train station parking lot watching my Uber drive around in circles. Apparently Google maps is unaware there is a new easier entrance and still instructs drivers to enter through the old construction site.

This has gone on for the 3 months I've used them as part of my commute.

I'm looking forward to the day where I get into an argument with a wheelless self-driving car about taking shortcuts and avoiding traffic. Simply because I have local knowledge on traffic patterns which most maps still lacks.
I know next to nothing about this stuff but is using antibiotics or the kind of treatment outlined in this article prevent our body's natural defenses from "learning" how to fight off these bacterias? Are we basically pumping our bodies full of chemicals to the point that our immune system atrophies after several generations?
I agree. I don't think the point is that generated content is boring, but that HG's generated content depth was quite shallow.

As stated in the article, if they doubled the size of the art team, they could have had hundreds of times more models from which to generate creatures.

The possibilities could be near-endless but the execution in NMS was poor because clearly not enough effort was spent on building up the assets. The author believes that it would be madness to create such a full-featured engine and then abandon it so soon. I'm inclined to agree, until HG or ASA say otherwise, and then folks will probably start knocking out the NMS clones.
I dunno, I prefer to eat duck over dog or mouse. ;)
Wasn't the multicast storm issue related to the fact that most hardware implementations have limited-size Bloom filters that are used to manage subscriptions, and once they're full, they deliver every packet to everybody? Or is that an additional issue?
> Many attendees don't care, the trip is paid for by the company

And many still care even though their company pays for them.

> the supposedly "technical" topic turned out to be unabashed product/service pitch.

That's another issue though, bad content.
Right, but if that gooey puke colored special snowflake was the only source of a power coupling compatible with a laser amplifier that could work with your rare Blatovian power generator that only has the 0.025 inertial penalty and enables your new fighter's super hit and run tactic, then you would totally give a bunch of !@$%&#.

No, I still don't. Games to me are about interesting choices. I don't care about rare "loot", or about finding yet another key to open this lock, or about improving some score by 0.35 angstroms. I care about "do I castle kingside or queenside? Because if I castle queenside then my rook will be opposite his queen and blah blah blah but if I castle kingside then I won't have to worry about a quick a5 strike with the potential to undermine my b pawn." These choices (with chess only as an example) are interesting because they have serious consequences that can be reasonably foreseen but are not totally obvious.

It's sometimes the case that the space between reasonably foreseeable and totally obvious is a very fine narrow one, but then your game might be lacking in depth. Adding procedural puke special snowflake enemies doesn't add any more depth than "rare Blatovian power generators" does, unless the tradeoff over using a "Snargglemoofian power generator" is that your ship can no longer turn left or something.
After my microeconomics lectures, these are two words* I never thought I'd see together.[0]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act

*Yes, I am treating 'Open Source' as one word, you 'Disney Open' trolls.
If you are really new to AI and want a broad understanding of the topic, I really recommend this book as a quick read: "Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know" by Jerry Kaplan

https://books.google.com/books?id=5fvmDAAAQBAJ&printsec=fron...
I don't get your distinction between proprietary and OSS. It wouldn't be proprietary if this were an established license. Proprietary to me means you're bound to a vendor - here you'd just have to chip in for development if you're selling derivative works. (and you can and are encouraged to do that)

AGPL doesn't have any mention of commercialization - you can use it as an end user in any context for free, but you will have the same issues with selling derivative works due to copyleft. For software that's actually just software and not a service, say media production, it means that *GPL software will forever remain tools for hobbyists.
"Conscientious" is one of the 'big five' character traits, somewhat different than attention to detail.

Though I think I understand exactly what you are trying to say an wholeheartedly agree.

"Conscientious" people are probably naturally more inclined to detail to make sure that their work is good.

But I would point out a small delineation point: some things are just a matter of focus.

Typists, some kinds of accountants - it's a matter of 'process focus' - that they are focused and attentive to their work, and make few procedural errors. This I think is a behaviour and can hardly be learned - and is often not very well correlated with 'creativity' or 'big picture thinking' at all.

But I really do agree - the 'overall more conscientious' types - no matter the trade - are the best people, unless you need star talent, but even then ... They care about outcomes, not just 'handing off' some thing, or 'fulfilling their narrow duties' etc..

You know what's paradox: older people tend to be far more conscientious: they pay their bills on time, more likely to do the things they say, less averse to going off topic with hyperbole, get along with others, punctual, they vote, they volunteer, etc. etc. - and yet there is a strong bias against them in some workplaces. Though it could be related to the idea they may not want to learn new things, or 'keep pace' etc..

I know otherwise highly conscientious people who miss emails, are are a little absent minded at times. You can't have that for someone who is managing your schedule. :)
It seems he's now admitting he was wrong.

> But the Clinton #wiki cache doesn't include any classified info as far as I know. So fine to read/download.

> Only classified or state secrets. Regular emails can be downloaded without consequence by media or others. I was wrong to group both types.
Any need for a manual controls is a failure of software.
There are many:

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=vim+cheatsheet&safe=activ...
One could take the Dwarf Fortress mechanism of generating a complete history and take it to the extreme: simulate the formation of entire solar systems based on seed values that effect randomly generated planetary masses (and resulting gravity), atmosphere, tectonic events, ice ages, warming periods that carve valleys/lakes/rivers into the landscape, biological events influencing the creation of life based on the planet's properties and the landscape, insect swarms that ravage an area, and so on. Simulate meteor impacts which might destroy life, visits from alien species, etc. Then simulate the effects of any emergent properties on the landscape. So instead of:

p(tree_goes_here) > random()

And then randomly placing various tree models according to the RNG output, your random events produce a story. You should be able to look at a series of mountains and trace it back to tectonic events, then if one mountain has a patch of trees missing, you should be able to see that there were various events that either removed the trees (eg: some local civilization) or a Tunguska-like meteor strike cleared a path and made the soil infertile for growing more trees.

If one did this, such a game would have value not only from the game itself but it might open up a whole subculture of archaeologists who go from planet to planet studying the evidence to piece together the events that led to the planet's present state.

Otherwise, you're right. Each world would end up being different much in the same way that listening to static noise is different each time you hear it.
> On the other hand, they need growth (market expects that) and it is harder and harder to attract completely new iPhone customers.

Just introduce an "Hackability Edition" of the iPhone which has many of the features that make nerds drool, as ability to allocate executable memory in apps (thus making JIT possible), ability to sideload apps, replaceable battery etc. and Apple will have completely new iPhone customers.

SCNR
I agree. The advice in this blog post seems to only encourage people to be more calculating and fake, rather than patient or empathetic.
Clojure.core doesn't have a parse integer function. You use Java interop to get one. It's as simple as '(Integer/parseInt "42")'
It was the number of galaxies. Braben and Bell wanted a huge number (something like 2^48) but AcornSoft thought it'd make it too obvious that the content was generated, so they settled for "just" 8.
For people from outside of North America, "us-east-2" is far more informative than "Ohio".
The Russians sell them by the bucket on ebay:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/TESTED-SBM-20-GEIGER-MULLER-TUBE-...
Can any of those modern UI's do windowing as good as vim or emacs?
I completely disagree that self-driving cars are un-American. In fact I would go so far as to say that self-driving cars are the future to the American suburb. If America was founded on freedom and the pursuit of happiness, what could be more American than having a robot car chauffeur you to and from work while you work in your car? The ability to be free from an oppressive commute may lead to a resurgence in the American suburbs. It's a far-fetched notion but I wouldn't be surprised by it either.
Thanks, I do Daoist meditation and have been on a few retreats. They're not nearly as strict about no communication, but it is a lot of meditation / qigong each day. I'd be really interested in a strict retreat environment, but I'm not very interested in Vipassana meditation.

Meditation is one of my big motivators for early retirement. Saving money so I can train harder (and comfortably) down the line. Let's face it, a house is more comfortable than a cave :)
I recently tried to do this with Acrobat Pro with varying degrees of success, you might want to give that a shot if you can get access to the program (slightly cost prohibitive).
EVs pose a similar question. I have a Leaf which is silent. No growl at the intersection. This has changed my driving and how I see other cars.
From just some casual readings of the emails, my impression is the same as yours. The most damning things I find are the level of control the Democratic party has on the mainstream media. The emails reveal a relationship very similar to the one between Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese official press. The Democratic party officials basically tell NYT, WoPo etc, what to say and how to say it. The party even decides what byline the writer should be using.

As some one coming to US from mainland China, I find this collusion between the media and the Democratic party familiar, yet the case with US is much more disturbing. Because in China, the relationship between CCP and the press is out in the open, people knew the press is the mouthpiece of the party and treat the information they receive from the press accordingly. Here in US, people do not know. This is truly frightening.
I'll do it for $90MM though, pick me! Pick me!
Rain is sizzling bacon, cars are lions roaring: the art of sound in movies
Pixar: USD, OpenSubdiv, jss-api-gem

WDAS: Reposado, SeExpr, Ptex, Partio, Dynamica, BRDF Explorer

ILM: OpenEXR, Alembic (with Sony)
This post is very timely. Recently I developed some type of "learned helplessness" where I felt that shitty situations were being thrust upon me and I was drowning. What I was missing is that I had a lot of agency over these situations. I could have declined meetings, asked for help, missed deadlines, or risked disappointing whoever was requesting something from me.

Being angry and resentful didn't solve anything. So instead I asked myself "if I don't do this thing I don't like, what's the worst that will happen?". The answer most of the time turned out to be... "nothing."

What remained was what I chose and those things were worth doing whole-heartedly.
FBI: Clinton Email Contained Highly Classified Info When Sent
Wow, neat. Something must have sold you other than your GPA. Did you have a professional track record, or was it something else?
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"Normal lithium ion batteries are rigid, making them susceptible to damage. When bent, they catch fire."

This together with a bendable iPhone is marketing the iPhone to people that the TSA rather does not want to let into planes. :-)
It hasn't always been this way.. Reagan, JFK, FDR and several others had some overwhelming popularity at their time. Today, I feel that another Eisenhower or Truman would be better for the country, but would be very happy to see another Reagan or JFK take office. Even Bill Clinton was pretty likable, even if I disagree with many of his political points of view.

In the end, I've been voting Libertarian and/or "not the incumbent" for a few years now, and wish more people would do so.
Assange doesn't support Trump or the Republicans. He supports Hillary Clinton not becoming President, because of his personal vendetta against her. It just happens that his efforts to undermine the Clinton campaign help Trump.

As an anarchist, Assange probably wouldn't care about the libertarians more than any other candidate, since any candidate would only futher the existence and legitimacy of a state which he would rather see destroyed. If he did support Trump, it would be because he believes a Trump Presidency would only hasten America's demise.
I don't see that there's anything to defend, in this thread.

The persons who need to defend their actions are the DNC, who sent personal information over plaintext. Don't shoot the messenger.
This article reminded me of David Cronenberg film "Crash" based on J.G Ballard book. Its interesting and worth a watch, although it might not be for everyone. There's a few different versions and I think I saw the uncut one.
IMO it was responsible of them publish that viewpoint and I respect them for doing so while the rest of the media was busy grabbing pitchforks and pouring gas over crosses. The guy was guilty as all hell but the way it all went down was shady. Getting him sentenced to death would have been a cakewalk if done by the book. Instead it was years of press releases making him look more and more guilty and getting that spun around in the media. Even if the result was the same he didn't get a fair trail because the media had him hanging before the dust settled. At least someone had the balls to play devil's advocate.
The grass is always going to be greener somewhere else. Trying to attack that demand is, in my opinion, a fool's errand. If there is work to be done that isn't viable at rates allowed by regulation, then either it isn't that valuable, or its price is being suppressed.

I think that we are largely moving to a world where the vast majority of human labor is unnecessary. Increasingly, hiring one smart person is more productive than hiring 10 or even 100 below average intelligence people, because what is needed increasingly is brainpower, not manpower.
Yep, mostly Google Consumer Surveys, which is a good fit for my audience of dedicated users eager to keep playing (although volume has been down this year, sadly).
If you took edX's Reliable Distributed Algorithms 1, you'd have implemented it in a few lines in Scala.
Developers spend 99.9% of their time working in their local environment, so this isn't very important for them. If you're a sysadmin, then it makes sense, but then you're probably already proficient enough with vim or some other editor that works on your server.
>But you do believe Thurmond was genuine.

I believe nothing of the sort. I explicitly said "Thurmond absolutely was a racist." How is that not clear?

You are, to be blunt, lying. Hint: that doesn't actually work when my original words are here for all to read. I would recommend sticking to out of context quoting from obscure sources in future.

I take it, then, that you can't refute my factual statements, despite declaring them to be "incorrect", repeatedly?

You cited Thurmond's "I have nothing to apologize for" out of context as evidence that he never claimed to have given up segregationist views, even though when (laboriously) tracked down to its original source, his very next sentence was in fact just such a claim.

And you have the nerve to call someone else "intellectually dishonest".

> It has become clear that this conversation is a waste of my time.

Agreed.
You should create github issues with the relevant projects.
Sounds good in principle but how well does advice like this scale? Similar problem to Waze - side streets are great when you're the only one taking them, but once everyone does your advantage is gone. It's hard to expect a large population of amateur investors with no edge to outperform the market. In the general case, what's the marginal return on time and effort spent actively managing your money vs dumping it in a vanguard 50 and learning a different hobby?
> They did not mention that the deleted emails were deleted AFTER the subpoena was issued

Yet they were requested to be deleted long before the subpoena was issued[1]. Specifically:

In December 2014, after the work-related emails were preserved, Mills told Platte River Networks – which at the time was managing Clinton’s private server – that Clinton “decided she no longer needed access to any of her e-mails older than 60 days.” Mills instructed the PRN employee — who was not identified — “to modify the e-mail retention policy” on Clinton’s server “to reflect this change,” the FBI said.

But the PRN employee mistakenly did not make the retention-policy change and did not delete the old emails until sometime between March 25 and March 31, even though Mills had sent PRN an email on March 9 that mentioned the committee’s request to preserve emails.

The PRN employee who deleted the emails was a recipient of Mills’ message. However, the employee told the FBI that “he had an ‘oh shit’ moment and sometime between March 25-31, 2015 deleted the Clinton archive mailbox from the PRN server and used BleachBit to delete the exported .PST files he had created on the server containing Clinton’s e-mails.”

Read into that whatever you want, but the fact that it's not really true might have something to do with why it isn't being reported on.

> They did not mention that Clinton aides carried hammers with them to destroy phones in case the phones were demanded by the FBI.

That's not what happened[2]. As secretary of defense, she had old phones after she switched destroyed.

> I could go on for pages, but I have work to do.

You could substantiate your statements with sources. You could have done that from the beginning. Perhaps if you looked for less biased and more fact based sources rather than blogs that feature a giant picture of Clinton snapped in an inopportune moment with giant neon green letters saying "LOL!" photoshopped on.

> Your contention that they just aren't reporting the Podesta emails because they're boring (they are not, they are dynamite) is false on it's face.

Well, I've been following and reading reporting on the emails. It's all pretty ho-hum and what I would expect from any campaign so far. Of course, it's easy to taking boring things out of context and imagine salacious components to them. That doesn't make them any more damning in reality though.

1: http://www.factcheck.org/2016/09/the-fbi-files-on-clintons-e...

2: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-hillary-clinton-aide-dest...
The counterpoint to precious metals, despite the "it can only go up" logic that is quite convincing, is that there were extremely prolonged periods of losses in precious metals like gold during periods of economic uncertainty way worse than today. Such as the period from 1982 till 2006 (let alone the losses sustained by holding gold from 1980). The price of precious metals simply did not react according to the logic presented today.

There are plenty of growing sectors and there will continue to be.

Of course, if you want to dollar cost average your whole salary in low growth sectors or metals for 25 years, you should still come out ahead on any uptick two dozen years from now.
So, this will work great in Downtown someplace - but not so well outer whoknowswhereville - I spent a majority of the last three years driving on; roads not on maps, dirt roads, logging roads, roads with no internet access, and poorly marked roads.

We might be able to replace taxicabs thru automation likely in the next 20 - I dont think we will ever replace drivers. I see automation in a car taking the same route as autopilot in the airplane - not total automation, just partial.
As someone who works with a fairly large EC2 infrastructure, I find the move towards EBS-only instance types somewhat alarming. For me, the main draw of EBS is to ensure data is retained in the case of instance failure, but it comes with significantly lower performance than instance-store SSDs and is more expensive. I've resisted EBS for the most part, and all of my servers are treated as disposable, but AWS is obviously trying to get rid of it as an option. The only reason I can think of is the excessive amount of money they can charge for EBS instances (especially PIOPS)
Judge: Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman Isn’t a Criminal
I know, but I don't have it here
I must be weird or something but I've gone back and forth between vim and emacs for years before finally settling on just vi (Keith Bostic's nvi, to be exact).

I've spent countless hours reading about and installing plugins on both of those big editors instead of just getting work done. Now that I just use vi, I realize how little of that stuff I need and how much I can get done with just macros and ! (the shell out command).
Followup on yesterday's front page story: Amy Goodman Is Facing Prison for Reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12719333
If you're very new to public speaking but dying to give it a shot try submitting an entry to KCDC. It's one of the biggest dev conferences in the Midwest and they do accept rookies with very little to no experience from all over the globe. A good friend of mine had his first talk at KCDC a couple of years ago. No blog. No github account. Just a very good topic and a willingness to push limits and share his passion. It's also opened up a ton of other opportunities for him.
Cloudberry Kingdom actually did feel like it created new stages every single time. It did a great job of mixing up gameplay just by tossing in little modifiers every few stages.

Unfortunately, it's fairly rare for people to beat that game. The difficulty becomes basically absurd right up to level 320. At that point you essentially have to turn on all the powerups because there's no way you can get through without them.
Handwritten digits / OCR was one of the first practical uses in the late 80's / early 90's for CNNs (check reading, addresses, http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/lenet/). Integrating an LSTM would be useful for providing higher level sequence recognition.
I feel that the tooling that Walmart Labs released (electrode) fills a lot of this void. The TL;DR of the article is really, "cache effectively." Which is true of so many things at scale.
> a drip-drip feed of the products of Russian hacking calculated to create an "October Surprise"

And the proof is...