skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously. Get me some fiber and a trainline into the city and it becomes feasible. Alternatively, hopefully I can live to become either rich, or retire comfortably to that countryside home.
> an Apple version of this would be a nice desktop.

It would compete with the IMac then, and with their notebooks too. Maybe Apple should charge enough of a premium for the mini to justify that loss.
Not direct access, yet (they're not sufficiently programmable and isolatable). But as mikecb alludes to, we have a number of services like Translate, Vision, Speech, and a few others in Alpha that may be trained using TPUs (see https://cloud.google.com/ml for more).

For models you write yourself and have the Cloud ML service train, they will use our regular VMs today and as this blog post says, GCE will soon have GPUs (and therefore, Cloud ML will expose them, too).

Disclsoure: I work on Google Cloud (and sorry for the confusion!)
Citus looks interesting. Anyone can provide some insight on how easy it is to transform an existing PostgreSQL cluster to a Citus one?
Sounds like that drawing satisfies both criteria. (shrug)
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In 1931 Germany's rearmament was public knowledge, and oddly enough the Soviets were well aware - because they were the ones training German airforce pilots. That plus the withdrawal from the League of Nations was a pretty big hint. Now I can agree with the argument that the Soviets didn't know that Germany was going to target them, but by 1933 it was clear that Germany was going to cause some major problems in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_re-armament
Sent to guantanamo.
You mean compared to just right clicking the top right corner in Chrome? A lot.
That would be awesome! Can you add me on polarrist
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Yes, that's the goal of the survey:

> Tell us about your GPU computing requirements and sign up to be notified about GPU-related announcements using this survey. Additional information is available on our webpage.

Survey: https://goo.gl/mgEI9X
Landing Page: https://cloud.google.com/gpu/ (which also links to the survey and indicates as you rightly presumed, that if you fill it in, we'll add you to our waitlist)

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:) I've only been deeply involved with compute for the past two years, so I am still an optimist. I think AMD pretty much has no choice but to get it right this time: they need server and HPC dough to stay afloat.
I don't know if this matches your experience, but in theory you can deploy a big line of Hescos all at once:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPuw-f8JMTw

> Although it wouldn't surprise me if the pentagon somehow managed to airlift these barriers from the US to Iraq to be deployed in Baghdad instead of just contracting the local concrete factories.

What, pay hundreds of thousands of dollars and countless gallons of fuel to transport big concrete blocks across the world? Our DoD? Surely you jest. 8)
In my very limited experience, trying to answer research questions can soak up all the computation you can throw at it. Consider something like the traveling salesman problem. The only answer is to check every path. There are heuristics to get good answers, but you never know if they're optimal.

You can get an answer on your laptop in an hour. You'll probably get a better answer throwing 1000 hours at your algorithm though, and a better answer throwing 10000 hours.

You can do a lot of neat things if p=np. Since no one knows if that's true, we're stuck with bad big O. More computer time is the only way out right now.

The point is, I'd be disappointed in google researchers if they didn't have a huge amount of unscheduled workload.
I love Stack Overflow but its community is right now poisonous that i don't want to participate anymore but to be a lurker like many others.

My 2cents.
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Is this submarine PR for Trump's wall?
Must be a different countryside than the one I grew up in.
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I reckon concrete is necessary, but how much does it harm the economy? I can't recall a barrier in history that didn't prevent food from reaching to the right people and triggering bribes. But the main driver in peace is to get paid/production jobs for everyone, and the main specificity of a city is that it's good for tertiary jobs, but it requires constant provisioning from agriculture and industry, which both happen outside towns and require intensive movement of goods.

In a nutshell: Don't concrete walls prevent recovery? Don't they split the population, creating even more groups with differences? Should we plan for them to be "reconfigured" in the following years, when the conflict improves?

Side question: Sorry I didn't follow, why was USA in Irak again? Did it start with the famous WMD accusation at the UN conference then the intervention got bogged into a long unpeaceful situation, am I recollecting events in the correct order?
What? No, it doesn't - it means 'when controlled for all variables except this one in our significance analysis'.
If it was, they'd have to shutdown AWS for the holidays.
So it's not really "guessing", it's just seeing if my drawing matches a predetermined bank of answers? Makes sense, since one time it asked me to draw a "police car" and before I had even finished drawing the chassis of a normal car it had already guessed "police car" and moved on.
Hot much underage porn does Snapchat carry. What's the potential liability on that given (in UK) ISPs are starting to filter porn by default.

Snapchat's rose in the mass media as the app children were using to send images of their body parts. Not just that, mean/bullying messages and "pranks" too. Of course you can do those things on other apps or through other media, just Snapchat's transient messages seemed designed for it.
Fake news. It quotes a speech "here" without giving any location. Actual quote is from over 2 months ago.
Off topic but it sounds like you know your weather stations, are there any cheaper than the Davis you would recommend?
I connect out of tradition, too. Nobody uses it anymore but damn it if I didn't have many contacts.

Memory lane, eh?
> I can rent a VPS and connect through it using "Always-on VPN" option...

Still though, you have to worry that the hosting provider is taking adequate measures to protect your data, as well as also not secretly spying on you. I've worked with enough hosting sysops making trivial errors with their OVZ/KVM setups to realize that some VPS providers are about as secure and resilient as a power grid made from discarded toasters with forks shoved in them.
I had a friend that would only talk over ICQ, waaaay after its heyday. I don't remember when I created the account, but I ended up with a 9-digit ID...which I somehow still remember. I was able to log in for the first time in probably 3 years (and input my password for about the first time in 10 years. Pidgin had been configured to auto-login to ICQ on a previous machine of mine).
I'm guessing you never saw the Kandahar airfield, because that place is full of concrete barrier walls...

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2010/07/15/blogs/atwar-afgha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian%27s_Wall

One can imagine some Roman boots bitching about lugging the stones up for some temporary cover.
It's not really surprising. The Roman armies made surprisingly extensive fortifications when they stopped for the night and won battles they might have lost as a result.

"The more you sweat today, the less you bleed tomorrow."
It seems that the effect of this APP depends heavily on the phone camera.
10 years ago there was no bitcoins. Maybe 5-6 years ago, 7 tops.
This Star Wars Rogue One Video Puts You inside an X-Wing
Anyone who gets in on this IPO is going to know what pain feels like. How can a company that doesn't make any money go public in good faith?
I think that's confusing business needs with work product.
It's a feedback signal showing success at passing automated spam filters.
Google to expand its London offices creating 3,000 more jobs
I was thinking that there had to be a flaw in the study because my intuition tells me that the opposite of what they found is true.

Altruistic people would have more difficulty breaking up with their sexual partners (they care more about the other person); so I would assume that they would be more willing to compromise and, therefore, their relationships would last longer (and thereby they would have fewer of them).

You could argue that altruistic people get dumped more often but that would go against basic evolutionary principles.
After a lot of pondering, I figured out that my ideal was an average of all the women I'd ever cared about (in any context), weighted by total emotion I'd felt for them.
You could use hashpipe (https://github.com/jbenet/hashpipe), from Juan Benet (the author of IPFS). It simply checks that the input to the command matches a given hash, so you can do `curl <url> | hashpipe <hash> | sh`, and if the output of the curl command is different than expected it won't be passed in to `sh`.
> Do you think it's cool to push pre-teen cyclists in traffic?

When you try to choose the lesser evil, there are no "cool" options.

I think the real problem here is that SF streets are so overcrowded that basic delivery has to be done by blocking live traffic lanes.
What I don't understand is how much indeterminacy the quantum allows into our Classical-seeming world. At what levels?

I completely agree that the classical determinism I mentioned also applies to us. One of my questions is whether and then how and then to what degree the randomness from quantum events can allow free will and then free action.

So, I wonder how much quantum randomness affects things. For example, atomic clocks face indeterminacy but are all the same the most accurate clocks we have, by far. Of course, once you add things like eternities, this can surely get very different... But 13 billion years is very far from an eternity...

Also I do understand that materialism is only one of many metaphysical suppositions. But it's the one that we can seem to do the most with. Hard to do much with metaphysical idealism, for example...

Anyway I'm no scientist or mathematician or philosopher so I'm out of my depth here. I'd be interested in your thoughts though. Thanks ~~
I'll just answer your driver question: you bring whatever you want. Our VMs just boot off of bytes you have stored in your image (which is in turn just stored on GCS). If those bytes happen to be Debian 8 with some AMD driver that supports the 9300, awesome ;).

We will be working with both vendors to make sure we highlight which drivers work most reliably on our stack though (virtualization + GPUs is way too rare!). We want to work closely with both vendors to do the qualification, so you at least know what is known good.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
In which EU countries is it used? (not counting russian foreigners)
That looks awesome - purchasing now :)

For what it's worth, I much prefer the pay once play forever model for good games. It would seem I am in the minority though
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Firefox has had it native since firefox 4. See this article: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Location_Bar_search#Location_Bar_s...

You can enter "% string" into the location bar, and it will suggest switches to open tabs which contain that string either in their title or URL.

I've been using this little-known location bar feature for a long long time.
This isn't VR specific. I can get lost and immersed in any story regardless of the medium and be saddened afterwards. But, I will say that VR is one of the most immersive experiences out there. With the right game/universe, I can totally see people having withdrawal issues.
>Your password is too weak

This better be worth it! :P
A spam distribution platform is not a defensible business. In a year someone will come along that does it better and cheaper. There is just no long term value.
Haha, that's awesome, thanks for sharing the story.
Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World
snipes.com -> snopes.com
And is Google guilty as well? The story below is currently at the top of the World section of Google News -

Nuclear War Alert: US Prepares For North Korea Missile Launch

http://www.morningnewsusa.com/nuclear-war-alert-us-prepares-...

I have no idea what this "news" site is, but I'm pretty sure that the US is not currently rushing to prepare for a North Korean nuclear missile launch.
I agree. We will definitely get a new video made
It's probably assigning a number of possibilities with a confidence rating, and as soon as the confidence rating is > than some percentage of what it's asking you to draw, it says it.
Clickable:

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/key_performance_indic...
I could ask - but then I wouldn't be able to publish unpublished numbers on my own (if I want to keep my job).

:)
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> Each type was named for a state, denoting their relative sizes and weights. There were small barriers like the Jersey...

The Jersey barrier isn't so named because of its size. It was developed as a barrier by the NJ highway dept [1]. The newer barriers used for the military are just given other state names to follow along with the original. It just happens to be smaller because of its original civilian purpose.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_barrier
Does anyone know of a Firefox equivalent of this extension?
I will ask again: Why do people keep repeating this?

You keep throwing around ideas like "They are simple nuclear bombs". It's not like during WWII the US asked some physicists to make a weapon and they replied with "just put some of this in a box and drop it on Japan. Call us when you need more"

Here are multiple explanations as to why a reactor is not and can not be a bomb:

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/7149/why-does-nuc...

Did you get your education on nuclear power from the "The China Syndrome"?
Mantis Shrimp's Incredible Eyesight Yields Clues for Detecting Cancer
Actually, licenses like the GPLv3 have been actively trying to prevent this in certain cases [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
I would have been fine with "would have to be prime"; I like the edit Mike suggested even better.
Very, very cool! I’m teaching myself Spanish, and I’ve been looking for something like this for ages.

I’d be curious to know more about how it’s built, and where you found the source texts. It it open-source?
Yay, now I know how to turn my beautiful photographs into hipster douchebag minimalist logos and icons... thanks artfarts!
Maybe that's why it's so popular. Most people are fed up with trolling.
If you are interested in how neural translation systems like this work and how they are different than the previous statistical systems, check out https://medium.com/@ageitgey/machine-learning-is-fun-part-5-...
Since they listed Japanese in the list of languages, I went ahead and took the first news on yahoo japan, which was translated to:

"Government and ruling parties will raise the upper limit of the annual income (under 1,300,000 yen) of spouses subject to deduction to 1.3 million yen or 1.5 million yen, over the review of spousal deduction, which is the focus of the tax reform debate focused on in the 2017 tax reform debate I entered the adjustment with the plan. If the annual income of each husband exceeds 13.2 million yen (11 million yen for "income" minus the amount deemed necessary expenses for work), 11.2 million yen (9 million yen same), it is excluded from the system. The ruling party taxation study committee will review these two plans and aim to include it in the tax reform outline of FY2005"

Seems like there's still a long way to go.

(Copy/pasted original text:
２０１７年度の税制改正議論で焦点となっている配偶者控除の見直しを巡り、政府・与党は、控除対象となる配偶者の年収上限（１０３万円以下）を１３０万円か１５０万円まで引き上げる案で調整に入った。それぞれ夫の年収が１３２０万円（仕事の必要経費とみなされる額を差し引いた「所得」では１１００万円）、１１２０万円（同９００万円）を超える場合は制度の対象外とする。与党税制調査会はこの２案を軸に検討し、１７年度税制改正大綱に盛り込むことを目指す)

I wonder how it went from １０３万円以下 to "under 1,300,000 yen"
It's force of the platform: A reaction to parents asking to overview the teenager's activity on the mobile phone – "Can't show you the messages I've received or sent, dad, they're timebombed!" Actually I've never gotten over the idea that Snapchat was for porn, especially since their icon looks like the shadown of an exhibitionist opening his coat...
Dupe, apparently. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12957206
Sorry.
Firefox's reproducible automated testing begs to differ https://arewefastyet.com/
I think there's a better way to think about economies of scale (looking at it through the lens of Google Cloud).

Let's quantify your workload as "resource-seconds", what many of Google's services (and some AWS services, like Lambda) allow you to do is maximize resources and minimize seconds (assuming efficient parallelization of workload, which is afforded by Google's super-awesome Networking). Cost is the same to you, but you get your results faster.

This is afforded by the scale and by the multi-tenant nature of underlying services. This model can only work when there's lots of folks using such a service.

(work on Google Cloud Big Data)
Oh wow, I'm impressed with the results you were able to obtain! I was able to get similar results on my "genetic draw", but it looks like I have some optimizing to do :)
https://github.com/kennycason/genetic_draw
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Even if we had a "You get this box all for you", we'd still run our hypervisor on it. We wouldn't give someone a raw, unfettered machine in our datacenter (and I hope you wouldn't either!).

What is your concern with virtualization in this context?

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and for a long time specifically Compute Engine).
If you've ever had a dream where you can fly, VR can come close to that feeling of wonder and freedom. And like when you wake up in your bed, fully in the grip of gravity, coming out of VR can be a letdown.
Seeing random data corruption over network, try:
/sbin/ethtool -K ethX gso off tso off sg off gro off

udev rule something like:
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTRS{vendor}=="0x8086", ATTRS{device}=="0x10c9", ATTRS{subsystem_vendor}=="0x103c", ATTRS{subsystem_device}=="0x323f", RUN+="/sbin/ethtool -K $name gso off tso off sg off gro off"
>> It would compete with the IMac then, and with their notebooks too.

Companies that try to avoid competing with themselves often fail quickly and spectacularly (after this approach appearing to work well for an extended time).
What's the flow there for a user? They're researching an answer ... do they ignore the issue and run off and buy something? I sometime have poor focus but when you're problem solving it seems the least likely time to distract yourself with shopping.

I did once follow a Google ad about 10 years ago, but in my defence I was just surfing cool tech and the image looked interesting. Of course I didn't buy anything, who lets advertisers tell them what to buy?

I digress.
This idea is related to the plot of The Diamond Age.
Thanks. Sorry, Windows is not supported. It is written in Bash, Windows was not a target at that time. It might work with https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about, but probably not since it also uses imagemagick to paint on the images, and xml_twig_tools as well as jq to interpret the api output. And it would need to detect that it is running on Windows to change the desktop background with the proper command, if that is even possible.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Your guide is in line with what I've been thinking about. I'll admit I wish it were less work (and I don't like what that statement says about me).

As for editorial, I find news analysis pieces useful in putting facts in context, especially for topics I'm unfamiliar with, though that can be problematic, too. Similar to confirmation bias, being aware of the different types of bias can help me build the habit of keeping them in mind while I read.

I noticed in another thread that you're familiar with Jonathan Haidt. I hope to re-read "The Righteous Mind" this week. I found it really mind-opening the first time around, and has shaped how I'm now approaching the news in particular and discourse in general.
A rope would do just as well too.
It's all fun and games until you find out that the meaning of a regex is implementation specific. I've found that a Python regex will accept an unspecified newline byte/character before the $, while std::regex in GNU C++11 will not.
Or NetBus.
I use Feedburner, though despite being Google, it doesn't support feeds that use https :(
Yep. If you're only bothered by surveillance now, you need to ask yourself if you were ever really bothered by surveillance at all, as opposed to being bothered by who won the election.
I didn't check the source, but rendering the <canvas> to a data URL, and using something like this [0] would work.

[0]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5199902/isnt-it-silly-tha...
I'm starting to believe that Wikileaks has been infiltrated by State actors. Since early October, WL has been acting rather odd. If it is true, it is a sad moment for truth globally.
If you have a chance to buy Spectacles go for it. They are super cool.

Finally a way to snap while I'm grilling fried rice! Seriously, this solves a problem for me: https://youtu.be/0fdVJLB-TM0
We need more technical details here. Anybody familiar with this?
This is so awesome. I've been putting off scanning my baby pictures. Perfect timing since most people go home for the holidays.
Sounds like "if you're not spending the minimum then we don't want you ... unless you're a business that spend much more"? Surely the only businesses that would advertise without tag or geolocation specifying would be massive brands?

Are you shy about mentioning that you only want large advertisers; it's not possible you don't realise the ordering only makes sense for such companies, is it?

Or did I miss something?
Mini-itx I can understand, but this box has one drive of 1.5TB max (according to http://www.hp.com/go/Z2mini). You would have to connect any other drives externally. If you do that, the result probably takes more room than that mini-itx.
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> This is actually an excellent illustration of how organizational incentives seep into data.

Where is the supporting evidence of organizational incentives actually seeping into the data, as opposed to a meaningless correlation? Without such evidence, you don't have an illustration of it, you have just another conspiracy theory.
ftfy (fixes text for you): https://github.com/LuminosoInsight/python-ftfy

Auto-detects Unicode mistakes (particularly mojibake), and if there's enough information left to fix them, it fixes them.

Particularly useful for Web scraping and dealing with Unicode that was incorrectly exported from Excel (which is nearly all Unicode exported from Excel).
Pottery. A Pythonic way to access Redis, the same way that you use Python dicts. I use it in production, and I hope that it's useful to other people too: https://github.com/brainix/pottery
Those are really the same thing, considering that you run a copy of spiped on each side.