skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>If you want to buy a house which is sold for 20 million INR , value of same property is 5 million on papers (to evade house tax etc. ) and rest of the money is paid in cash or through some black money .

None of this changes even after this.

There is a reason why this happens. Try getting a plan approved from any government agency without bribe. Or getting raw material like cement and sand passed through checkposts without bribe. Builders take black cash because they have to work with an ecosystem where bribes are common, they can't pay those bribes through legally accepted white money for the obvious reasons.

Now this is just one instance I'm talking about. If you start building a house you will notice how many such interactions you will have to do where money is exchanged in non-taxable ways.

You are basically fighting against an highly corrupt citizenry.

>>Real estate stocks started sinking down 5 days straight and are expected to sink further after this move.

Pray, that the builders don't default on their big loans to banks. Or a stock market crash is on hands, and may be a tax payer funded payout after.

>>Yes it causes inconvenience to the people but as a tax payer and contributor to the economy I dont mind small inconvenience for greater good.

This changes nothing. Corruption is a way of life in India. You will end up fighting everything and everybody and still get nothing out of it. Because people are dishonest.

And please! this middle class salaried virtuousness is hypocrisy. Salaried classes are not honest because of choice but because of lack of opportunity. Producing fake rent receipts and medical receipts for tax deduction is common in office places.
Hi! Kai here from True Link. #1 lesson from the launch so far is that graph is totally incomprehensible! We love it here in the office but it's going to be totally re-done in the next release.

That graph is how your money is invested today – we divide your money up based on what age you need it and invest it differently, so what the graph is saying is that "money you need for age 61" is 90% in cash, and "money you need for age 86" is 85% in equities.

People are so used to seeing the glide path graph that like half of people see our graph and are like, wow that's incredibly smart, and half are like, your glide path is upside down.

Also, probably didn't help that I cropped out the axis labels so it would fit nicer on Medium. Thanks for noticing! I'm going to fix that right now.
I'm reminded of this: https://youtu.be/pAEAbqrE5Zw

Does it represent a lot of work by skilled technicians? Undoubtedly. Is it interesting in it's own right? Frankly I think not.

The surrounding question of the socialization of the internet is interesting, to be sure, but at the end of the day these are just animated emojis...
Thanks for the great feedback charlie! Based on your feedback we've added 2 new features to distelli this week.

You can now create and manage Kubernetes services in distelli and also use your own K8S deployment yaml.

Checkout the new features at https://www.distelli.com and thanks for the feedback and for helping us build a better product.
Networks with selective attention already exist, but what if they can learn about themselves? Right now they cannot create any notion of self or "body" (defined as the boundary between the environment that can be predicted vs that which cannot), because their outputs have no causal effect on their inputs. There are no differences within the network that make a difference to itself, there is no intrinsic perspective.

Could this change, if, for example

- inputs are augmented with the network state (or derived version thereof)

- previous outputs of the network / external memory are fed back?

This seems to be the kind of self reference self awareness requires.

Also, do asynchronous networks have fundamental advantages over synchronous networks? What about static vs dynamic networks?
>Because most american people I know in football, know their EXACT role. Mr. Offensive lineman - I smash whoever is in front of me. If the play is to the left, I smash left. If the play is to the right, I smash right. They know nothing about defense. They know nothing about receiver routes. They don't care. They stand up and smash people.

That's a very oversimplification of american football. For a basic example even the "dumb" offensive lineman has to play differently whether it's a run or a pass. A more complicated play like a screen will require a lot of coordination with his other teammates to perform correctly. American football is actually a pretty good analogy for a the typical development team and the different roles an offense has. You have people in the trenches, people doing flashy stuff and a field general trying to tie it all together.
My mistake. Still how much of this growth is hitting the poor and middle class as opposed to executives? My data excludes salaries above 100k.
Yes, that's a problem with having large numbers of humans - they crowd out the monkeys.

Recall that we are discussing a high inequality situation where a tiny fraction of humanity walls itself off into robot enclaves where they satisfy their own needs without human labor. I.e., not enough people to crowd out anything.
It would require an amendment to the US Constitution, which is an incredibly high bar.
Children want to play minecraft. All their friends play that, not Minetest. Who will they play with on their minetest server? You?

It's like when I was a young kid, I wanted a game boy, but I got those shitty tiger electronic games. My parents saw it as the same thing, but I couldn't trade pokemon with my friends or talk about Zelda. Proprietary software either way, but children don't care. Let children find their own way to FOSS, not force them into using some half-baked clone.
Were there cameras at the door? Else the problem is easily fixed some dark night.
Funny plot twist at the end, OP calls himself a Project Manager.
I sense a disturbance in the force. Looks like quite a few projects are catching onto this. Here are some people doing it for iOS

https://github.com/Jasonette/JASONETTE-iOS
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As it happens, our glide path in aggregate ends up within conventional bounds – we have a screen in the tool that compares the equity percentages to what you'd have in a Vanguard or T Rowe Price target date fund and usually it's in the same ballpark.
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It was interesting enough for FB to strip down and repackage https://github.com/bodymovin/bodymovin
> A couple of presentations for a total of a hour is a fine excuse to meet at the bar afterwards and talk technology.

Speaking as someone who rarely drinks and doesn't like trying to listen to conversations in loud environments: organizing a short meetup as a prelude to retiring to a bar isn't necessarily going to be the most inclusive strategy.
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> Because most american people I know in football, know their EXACT role.

The comment you're replying to says this specifically.

> Mr. Offensive lineman - I smash whoever is in front of me. If the play is to the left, I smash left.

This is an oversimplification and if this is all the offensive lineman does, he'll be rapidly out of a job. The linemen are constantly adjusting to deal with the defense. They'll hold to avoid a big sack. They'll leap on the ball when there's a fumble. They'll block someone else if needed. It's not smash left and done.

> It would be like a PM coming by every 5 minutes and telling you that you should use a Dictionary to store the current data, and then on the next problem you should maybe look into an ArrayList.

I think it would be a lot more like management saying "we need you to build product X" and then expecting the QB to deliver. The QB isn't just running plays by rote.
Haha, yeah I said as much in a FB post to my Trump supporting friends. Do you really think Trump can stop self-driving cars from taking away your truck driving job? I doubt it.
"It's also probably a bit flattering to the average scammer to assume the flaws in their patter are a deliberate filter pattern though."

It doesn't have to be deliberate. It probably evolved. If worse spelling and grammar work better than correct spelling and grammar, then even if no spammer ever consciously says "Ah, I need to make this crappier", the spams will evolve to be crappy.

Moreover, while our brains in this discussion are taking cognitive shortcuts and putting spams on a "correct <-> crappy" single dimensional continuum, the reality is probably even more complicated, and it's actually specific crappiness that works better than others. For instance, I could hypothesize that it's not just typos, but typos that the recipient plausibly believe are the result of a non-native speaker from the relevant country. (I say "plausibly believe" rather than whether the non-native English is truly representative of the relevant country, because that's what matters.) That's an obvious possibility; more subtle things are possible and probably even likely. And again, the spams will evolve into those more subtle possibilities and exploit them even if no individual participant is sitting there and trying to deliberately figure out the best spams to send... which is, obviously, almost certainly untrue as well. And whoever is sitting down to write The Perfect Spam is probably doing so with a lot more data and a lot less scruples than you or I would apply to the problem.

I've often thought one of our best anti-spam defenses is the sheer mailbox stuffing quantity of them. Even the best crafted spam about how I won the lottery I never entered looks a lot less plausible the thousandth time I receive it.
That's more lectures than a student could see. Now we need a full concept chart dependency tree and an adaptive content suggestion system to guide students through this sea of lectures.

I'd like to have a system where you take tests to rate your understanding level and decide where to start.
I think this is part of it. You can't really practice acoustic in an apartment building, unless you're my rude upstairs neighbor. You can practice electric piano, FLP, and rapping - which just happens to be the major modes of musical production these days.

Odd. Good thought, thanks closeparen.
The article specifically mentions that the program gets invoked over and over again, e.g. by "configure" scripts checking for compiler features.

I don't think anyone would argue that interpreters like CPython have longer startup times than compiled machine code.
For those interested in the bolt or not to bolt debate, the Dawn Wall has always been at the epicenter of this controversy. When Warren Harding and Dean Caldwell did the first ascent they placed many bolts (most were tiny brittle aluminum dowels). Later, Royal Robbins and Don Lauria, made the 2nd ascent with the intention of removing those bolts. But they stopped removing the bolts as the beauty of the climb became apparent.

IMO, as someone who has climbed in the Valley for more than 25 years and has always been a traditionalist, drilled bolts have there place in climbing. It would be hard to convince me that bolts on El Cap or any where else in the Valley have 'ruined' the massif.
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Bells work a lot better when they're rang 5-10 seconds away. I don't know why every cyclist thinks I can react and get my dog to move in under 2 seconds.
Perhaps in other aspects of how they develop. How do they do releases(Continuous?). Code review? Automated Testing? Do they test individual features as they are completed or do they test releases as big chunk at the end? Do they have big up front planning, or do they have a plan little bit - implement a little bit-> deploy a little bit -> learn loop. How much ownership does developer have over a feature? Does he ability to say "No" if it isn't ready.
If we do end up picking a path to brexit that fucks over the London financial sector, in hindsight his comment will probably look like merely an impassioned statement of fact.

I'm moderately hopeful than we won't, but, well, 2016 has been 2016 and I have a horrible feeling 2017 is going to go "Hey, 2016, hold my beer and watch this!"
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Yes. Thank you. Fixed.
This is really slick, and I'm going to investigate using it for the Donald Trump animation on jungle.horse.

The license [1] doesn't look to be as encumbered as some of Facebook's other open source licenses, but does include a clause I found to be strange:

> provided Your Software does not consist solely of the Software

So if I'm reading this correctly, it means only Facebook can redistribute this software? Wat.

[1] https://github.com/facebookincubator/Keyframes/blob/master/L...
Surprisingly, that's how most jazz musicians learned to play, for the past century: Take the formal lessons that you're supposed to take, then sneak out and learn jazz yourself. White parents were conflicted by the racial biases in music, but even black parents wanted their kids to learn "proper" music as defined by the academe.

My parents had no idea that jazz was my main musical interest.
Typically push people towards Google Apps if they have budget for it or Zoho mail if they don't.

To be honest, Zoho's service is pretty fantastic for free email.
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Netflix feels a lot like Blockbuster these days
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Biological nature didn't define thought before implementing it.
If the word Agile is in the job description, run screaming?
Reasoning about correctness in Standard ML is easier than in either Haskell or OCaml, since induction on strictly positive datatypes actually works as a reasoning principle. You don't need to manually assert silly preconditions such as “this list is finite” (Haskell) or “this list isn't cyclic” (OCaml).

On the other hand, neither Haskell nor the MLs tackle the problem of safely managing ephemeral resources. Rust does this, but it sacrifices the ability to conveniently share immutable data structures (Rc and Arc exist, but they aren't very convenient). The good news is that this doesn't have to be a dichotomy. You can have GC for in-memory data structures and deterministic destruction for everything else: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12766781
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In the context of this article and the application, most kids don't care about being able to "share freely with their friends and family." They care about playing a game they're familiar with, enjoy playing and that their friends play too.

The suggestion reminds me of when I was small and some classroom didn't have Legos but some knock-off that was nearly identical, functionally, but much less inspiring to play with.
Grr... looks like this doesn't work in any of the major caching engines I've tried, and can't get to tfa. :-/
Practically speaking, OCaml is not exactly just a drop-in replacement for Haskell. For instance, Haskell has world-class support for STM which makes it arguably one of the best languages out there for single-machine multicore concurrency.

Also, OCaml is still two decades old. I find it very bizarre that you attempted to group it in with Rust as a "new" language.
That bar seems a lot lower in the last few weeks.
Privacy allows us to be ourselves, to make mistakes, to be right or wrong without it bringing the wrath or ridicule of the general public.

Privacy is a fence. Tall fences make good neighbors, because they help define what is and is not your business. My life is not the business of the government, nor should yours be. At least not until they have enough information to get a warrant.
Or if you meant outgoing email from the sites - I've used SendGrid for free and Mandrill as a pay for service.
> I have not encountered more civilized and well-mannered birds than Canadian geese.

What Waaaaattt???

Canada geese are extremely vicious creatures, especially when one goes anywhere near their young.

Your experience with Canada Geese is 180deg opposite from the experience I and everyone I have ever known has had with them.
What's your point actually? Honest question.

You're acting like the brain is some kind of simple algorithm, more goes into a painting or a composition than just a bit of simple logic. A composer is not sitting there at 2am on her Piano going "Hm, I like round numbers, so I might make this note a F because it's the fourth note in the C major scale".

I might be wrong but from my understanding, we don't even really understand how neural nets are able to make certain decisions or generate certain pictures yet, correct?
Your example speaks to my point: there's nothing new, innovative, technically challenging (beyond the norm).

I really don't see what there is to write home about. This article reads as a PR announcement (which is okay) disguised as a technical achievement (which it isn't).

They're "just" animations.
You folk moved from Sweden ?
This is a powerful idea. I've looked for tools to do this exact thing. I'm the sole animator on a team of software developers and currently when I want to create an animation in an iOS app I usually start by mocking up the animation in a tool like after effects, and then recreate that animation using my graph editor as reference in core animation. Svg works well for storing shapes. Having a similar standard for storing animation curves is really powerful.
tl;dr - A plugin/library for exporting vector animations from After Effects and using them easily in iOS/Android apps.

Previous options were exporting SVG animations, rendering to bitmap spritesheets or png sequences - or having to write a spec for the AE animation and recreate it in iOS/Android.
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I've been a long time user of Linode and they have been great. I now have come to a point where I need a box running Windows Server and I'm not sure where to turn. There are a lot of great options when running Linux. Who is the go to for Windows VPS's?
http://i.imgur.com/vkEq2qP.png

Left is Intellij, Right is VS Code, same font same size.

Using the latest x64 jdk release on bintray, it's remarkably close for a swing based app.
Usually, the more a team advertise itself as Agile, the less agility it actually has.

I myself have never seen Agile work well, not even close. I saw plenty of make-believe and head-in-the-sand and as mentioned in earlier comments, insane amounts of cargo culting.

I really like the way Dave Thomas put it: https://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/

He also made a talk about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M

These days this is the only methodology I follow and it works wonders, anything more I feel is just noise. At the end of the day nothing replaces actual engineering and understanding what you're doing.
It has been a good experience in my company (web publishing, so we make a lot of websites).

> We talk/chat a lot with them, as if they were in the same place.

> Cut tasks to smaller pieces to minimize the risks

What may go wrong:

- bad understanding of the tasks, that's why we communicate more

> and we always allow a little more time (than usual) for every task just in case something was misinterpreted and needs refactoring

> people located "offshore" hire them according to our requirements (English language is a must-have anyway, even if we're French)
If you're interested in the subject this episode of In Our Time on 'The History of the Peloponnesian War' is good:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050bcf1

(full disclosure/ source of glowing pride: my friend Katherine is one of the guests )
I'm going to be honest: I thought this was hilarious and I posted it for this gem:

"Inside appears a vast, lush forest. I smell sweet wildflowers and damp soil. Hm, doesn’t seem to be so bad. Suddenly living vines grasp me from all directions and I notice towering carnivorous plants approaching. Thinking quickly, I shred through the biomass with my blades and continue forward. They are too many, though. For every vine I slash two more seem to grasp me.

I am about to lose hope when I realize that the thick trees are not bearing typical fruit, but packaged food products like twizzlers and oreos and…Coffiest! I rejoice. I free one hand by slashing a particularly thick vine, and lunge at the bottle, severing it neatly from the tree and the cap in one motion. I catch it in the same hand and promptly imbibe it.

With newfound strength and energy I begin making forward progress again. These plants can’t hold me back. At the end is a sheer wall with a single redwood tree, must be 30 in diameter, climbing to the top. I dig in to the trunk with my blades and make the grueling climb to the top.

Another glass case, which I slash cleanly through with my left blade, contain two matching Asus Zenwatch 3’s. Awesome. I put them on, one on each wrist, and use the key to open the circular door.

“Well done Mr Rhinehart” the same voice from before booms through the chamber. “But greater founders than you have failed the final test”

I notice I am standing on a vast expanse of steel grating with bubbling lava beneath me. The room seems to expand infinitely in all directions. I am just beginning to feel the extreme heat and tearing off what is left of my shirt when suddenly something hits me in the chest like a sledgehammer. I double over, the wind knocked out of me, and feel the steel grid shaking beneath me.

As I look up from my crouched position I see a massive white unicorn charging directly towards me, its brilliant skin reflecting heat and light and its sinuous muscles rippling with rage. Its horn is razor sharp and covered with diamonds. Thick pink laser beams periodically blast from its eyes. Another beam strikes me in the shoulder and knocks me flat on my back. I skid backwards several feet and panic when I realize I’ve lost grip on my right blade.

Another beam seems trained on my skull when I instinctively lift my right wrist to protect my face. The laser beam harmlessly bounces off the face of the Asus ZenWatch 3 and disappears in to the darkness. Suddenly I realize I stand a chance.

I take a moment and marvel at the beauty of the creature.

“Such a shame I must destroy you, beast” I shout in its direction, which seems to anger it even further."
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Yes, but this function you defined, that applies tens of judgements to select a "random" number, is based on a random number input itself. The random part is just the seed, it then passes through various neural nets that expand on it and turn it into a plausible answer.

Randomness is injected into all brain processes on account that biological neurons are stochastic. So there is an amount of randomness mixed into everything the brain does.

Some neural nets can map real images into a Gaussian, and back. That means they disentangle the factors of the image into a mix of independent factors that map into the standard deviation. Any set of random numbers could be converted back into an image, by the reverse process.
Combine with the ability to train a neural network to identify typing noises by sound, and they can also read everything you type, including passwords.

Sure you are law abiding, but that doesn't mean every person with this power is.
> I love that pie chart. So crony-capitalism subsidies paid to Standard Oil in the 1930's

No. Now.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/12/us-taxpa...
EC2 works for me.
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