skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read HN almost every day, and AFAIK there are only a few incidents of accounts being cancelled, which, while worrying, don't strike me as exceptionally strange for a company the size of Google, and I would be willing to bet that Apple has done the same thing, and has exactly the same lawyer-y cancellation conditions in their TOS (we can do whatever we want!).

I thought Google were pretty good about encrypting everything between their datacenters also to hopefully avoid/mitigate governmental spying.

I was impressed that Apple took a stand about breaking into that iphone of the dead terrorist though. And just the fact that they brought the issue of government spying into the public eye was a very good thing.

Which events are you talking about that make Google "exceptionally worse" than Apple? Legitimate question, I'm not married to either company.

The worst thing for me personally about Apple is their schedule of obsolescence ("courage"!) and arbitrary decisions about what you're permitted to do with the hardware you paid for.

I don't actually like the idea of the cloud much at all. I personally wish that there were realistic options for self-hosted, encrypted solutions that work just as well as google/icloud. "The cloud" is just other people's servers. Both companies' solutions make me nervous in slightly different ways.
Or maybe they could settle for 25% less profit, and work to maintain good will in the community. In the end, the lack of good will may cost them more. Or maybe they've already calculated this?
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I don't understand what you mean about "lucky". Anybody can. I have had a rack of colo servers which I use for personal stuff for the last 15 years. In an AWS world it's in some ways absurd, but some things are easier this way.

Perhaps I missed the point you were making?
That is testable. Prison populations should look different in areas where a larger fraction of serious crimes are solved. (It is hardly likely that a large enough fraction of people in prison are innocent to influence TFA's gigantic results of 89+%!)

So Occam's razor seems to imply that something changes in the face for people with e.g. (lead) poisoning, brain defects leading to psychopathy/violent tendencies or something else?

It could alternatively be in the life style of criminals. Drug use or attitude to others? Someone that really prey on people might even have changed hormone levels, or something, as it might be an evolutionary strategy?

Or just body language, but not for face pictures of course. In Sweden, when a state security group hired people with police training, they didn't hire police that ever worked on the streets because it changes the body language in some way; they are recognized by criminals -- and vice versa. (This is old, I have no clue how it is today.)
Exactly. That 1840 article, I forgot to mention, has a sidebar on increased SLAVE LIQUIDITY.
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Cassandra developer here.

Lots of comments here about how Cassandra is AP so of course you get inconsistent (non-serializable) results.

This is true, to a point. I'm firmly convinced that AP is a better way to build distributed systems for fault tolerance, performance, and simplicity. But it's incredibly useful to be able to "opt in" to CP for pieces of the application as needed. That's what Cassandra's lightweight transactions (LWT) are for, and that's what the authors of this piece used.

However! Fundamentally, mixing serializable (LWT) and non-serializable (plain UPDATE) ops will produce unpredictable results and that's what bit them here.

Basically the same as if you marked half the accesses to a concurrently-updated Java variable with "synchronized" and left it off of the other half as an "optimization."

Don't take shortcuts and you won't get burned.
What is the bias in this case?
That might be the entire mobile ecosystem (although that sounds too simplistic, still, you are forgetting Linaro), but the ARM ecosystem also includes M-profile (deep embedded), R-profile (RTOS) and server-class (SBSA and "almost" designs like Octeon-TX and Tegra X1). The ARM server ecosystem is most definitely a bunch of software and hardware players, and Google is not a significant presence there FWIW.
I think memristers are an HP thing. Intel's competing product is 3D cross point, which, according to marketing is a persistent memory technology that's higher density than DRAM and faster than flash.
I wonder what the information was they they can't publish even today, that the article describes.
As Larry Summers said on a recent episode of "The Axe Files" podcast, you can't litigate bankers being stupid.
Makes you wonder about what they put in the coffee from the cafeteria. ;)
With full self driving, telepresence-from-the-back-seat will be an interesting application. Especially with SpaceX low latency high speed internet, whose phased array antennae should work well on the roof of a car.
I misread that as "Judges receiving kickbacks to:"
1) throw minors into juvenile jail,
2) racial bias in sentences,
3) jail for marijuana,
4) private prison
5) etc.

But the kickbacks was in the cash for kids scandal -- hopefully isolated criminal corruption in judges. The others are definitely negative and indications of a broken system, but not the level of "judges taking cash for sentences" corruption. Thank you for the clarification.
The danger of course is that if all spheres are forbidden, their very lack can leak the fact that they are significant to an adversary. Especially when they are something commonplace like a sphere.

A parallel problem appeared in stealth ships (at least early ones -- somehow the Zumwalt is supposedly stealthy too). Apparently although they didn't show up on radar, neither did the "chop" of the waves where the ship should be. Source: Ben Rich's book on the Skunk Works.
Next stage: How to master a DJ mix using multiband compression.
Everyone forgot wall street bailout? She'll get off chock free
Regarding point A, here are a few sites that come off the top of my head :

* Index of CSS Properties by W3C
https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/all-properties.en.html

* CSS Reference by Mozilla Developer Network
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/Reference

* CSS Reference by Tympanus http://tympanus.net/codrops/css_reference/

* CSS Almanac by CSS-Tricks https://css-tricks.com/almanac/
For those questioning the returns, it's important to remember this fund's strategies clearly have capacity constraints. The article mentions a cap of $10B and a decade ago it was half that amount.

Why cap the size? What this means is usually whatever strategies RenTec employees are using in their Medallion fund likely do not work at larger dollar amounts.

Even worse, attempting to run a quant strategy above its size constraint can break it (this includes exposing too much about it to others). This would lead to it not ever working again even if they went back to only using small amounts.

if it aint broke, dont break it.
> and they paid the price.

Who paid? Seems to me the taxpayers did.
With the Oracle/PostgreSQL, readers never wait for writers and writers never wait for readers http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/your-own-rdbms.html
using underlying locking mechanism
http://www.beej.us/guide/bgipc/output/html/singlepage/bgipc....
That's the thing with high-risk high-reward financial gambling. When you're always all-in at one point you're going to lose it all.
I actually think it's a net negative, in the current US.

Now there are good things that capitalism and markets do, but the way it's currently functioning no longer provides those benefits, because algorithmic trading has driven the signal to noise ratio in to bedrock.

Wall St at this point is basically just a social noise amplifier stuck in an ugly feedback dynamic with the rest of the country.

We long ago stopped hearing music from the underlying economy, we're on to mic static screaming at full volume.

If I could wave my magic wand, Id switch to a single exchange which resolves all outstanding bids/orders once every 10 seconds in a single transaction. (You could create a single virtual exchange out of many actual ones using smart contracts.)

I just don't believe Wall St would stop generating any real value by being forced to slow down and take a breath (and allow humans to act on relevant time scales). Instead, we have a noise amplification arms race.
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> It's NET sales aka profit

Their website states the following: "100% of purchases made in Patagonia® stores and online at patagonia.com and patagoniaprovisions.com". If you have different information, please share your source.
I still don't understand this argument.

It is possible for an alliance to form between large mining pools, and then what do we have?

I'm no bitcoin expert, so I just googled some random words and found this[1] which claims the 5 largest pools mine 57.5% of all blocks in the past 6 months.

Also, the idea that "anyone can contribute" could do with a few qualifiers: anyone with access to a computer, electricity, and the internet - and all the associated infrastructure required to support running those.

Bitcoin also has carbon emission externalities[2]

1. https://www.hobbymining.com/bitcoin-mining-pools/

2. http://www.coindesk.com/carbon-footprint-bitcoin/
Isn't time what we experience because we have memory?
I think my consciousness is the state I got into because of the experiences I had due to interactions. Brain is finite state machine. Finite because it is limited to states of universe. Even if I live near a black hole I may only live 70 years in local time experienced, which may equal to like 1000 years in Earth's local time experienced.

I think its the underlying physics that shapes our thinking.
Basically its all physics rules how particles/sub-particles/super-particles interact and the energy flowing through it. Now am "I" in control of making decision to do one thing and not the other? Or was it inevitable that the decision was made as that was the only possible outcome of particles inter acting in my brain at that moment?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13012952

I was watching videos of elephants in wild. They are just the same like us. I saw a group of elephants finding a waterhole, but the food was scarce. They could water the plants in nearby area to produce more food. They just haven't figured it out yet. Just like us they pass around information using their language. They do not have language for what they have not figured out yet. They will have that capability once they figure out something and find the need to communicate it. Any organism I take I see behavior that is very much ours if we too lacked such knowledge and technique. Our communication latencies are decreasing steadily with advancement of tech as we figure out more things. Now when we have the tech to naturally communicate with each other the exact same thought with all the context of that thought to somebody instant or in realtime as it happens, then we are essentially a super organism. Each of us can be equated to neurons in brain with each of us having many neurons with each neuron having many molecules interacting with each which has atoms interacting.

HN is like a place where I find information I value more. Many quality ideas from all around Earth. When I try communicate with my sister to clarify some doubt she has, I often tries to explain to her why something is so with all the context. She couldn't intake all the data I provide as fast as I provide it(keep up with me) and within a minute or two she's like STOP! People want just exactly only what they ask for. Everything else is considered noise.
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Smash it up, burn it down: should Joe Corré set fire to punk history?
Whataburger > *, just sayin'.
How do you define providing value to society here?

Curious who and what types of jobs make the cut.
with a strong subtext of what the fuck / you must be fucking kidding me
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I'm having a hard time understanding where this comment is coming from. I can understand if your exposure to DJs has been limited (I'm sure we've all seen performers who are just about useless at truly engaging crowds), but there are some who are genuine performers behind the decks. Not just from the perspective of technical proficiency, but also of artistry.

I'll argue that the actual instrument doesn't matter. A mixer and a pair of turntables (or CDJs, or a laptop) can, in an artist's hands, produce as engaging an experience as a "live" setup.

The comparison between DJing and covering Stairway is very misguided, in my opinion, because it implies that the former is as inherently devoid of artistry as the latter. That's simply not the case.
Having trouble getting a decent translation to run against the site.

> If you use a browser to directly open an API address can only GET method request, RESTful other methods will not be tested.

> After the use of restc can not only send a variety of HTTP method request, or you can edit the request parameters online.

But from images like this [0], I'd be guessing it is sort of like a web GUI for making plain HTTP requests, and probably hooks into your server to automatically give you a list of paths for said requests.

But it could really do with a translation, especially to prove it isn't yet another crappy Chinese GitHub project.

[0] https://fuss10.elemecdn.com/d/d1/3bee7ea4630b9b22d7428221f93...
I wonder if it is the same before and after one becomes a criminal. Being a criminal does not mean they don't regret or feel guilt. Perhaps that is what is detected.
Absolutely, some politicians are more honest than others.

How can we discover it? Well that's pretty much impossible to do perfectly. There is a whole industry that for a long time has owned the mechanism by which the world is revealed to us, and if nothing else positive comes from this election, they have been exposed as being a very broken filter that is using their position to intentionally push their own agenda.

My hope is that the new forms of media that are developing step in to fill the void, and that a new kind of journalism comes about that grows beyond the irresponsible and incompetent 'traditional media'. That hasn't happened yet, and it seems like the democratization of news has actually led to more polarized outlets and given people the ability to tune into 'news' that just reinforces their beliefs.

At least with the 'mainstream media' there was some corrective pressure since there were only a few outlets and they were at least slightly sensitive to criticism, so they had to maintain at least the appearance of balance. They've completely thrown away that appearance now, and sadly the alternatives are insane.

I don't think things are going to go back to where they were, where the newspapers and other sources of reporting saw themselves as 'up against the system'. Traditional media depended on a lack of alternatives as part of their business model, and that model is dying very rapidly. Traditional news is rapidly going bankrupt, and as a result our 'best' newspapers have been sold at bargain basement prices to people who want to own that influence while it lasts. This isn't new either, but you used to have to be a massive industrial conglomerate to 'buy the news', like GE or Westinghouse. Now we have Bezos and Carlos Slim able to personally buy that influence very cheaply (while it lasts).
> Alternatively, you can spend 10 years in your bedroom learning how to be a really good music producer and hope some popular DJ signs your single and then gradually build a following and then maybe in five more years you might make what a junior sysadmin makes.

Or you could become a junior sysadmin right from the start and treat music production as a hobby with no intention of turning it into a career. Although, I have a feeling many young people wouldn't listen to advice like that.
Actually, it isn't.

I believe you are conflating the concepts of "currency", "wealth", and "value."

Here is an example I used with my kids once. Let's say you went the Pittsburgh Pirates game in 1978[1] and you caught the first home run hit by then rookie Barry Bonds. If you sold it in 1978 you would have been lucky to get $50 for it, if you sold it in 2007 when he retired with 762 home runs you could have gotten significantly more for it, perhaps several tens of thousands of dollars, and if you sold it in 2011 after he was tainted by steroids you would get less.

But in all that time, the ball was just the ball. It's value went up, its value went down. As it went up and down the value of other home run baseballs also changed in value, but in ways completely unrelated to the value of Barry Bond's first home run ball. If you owned every single home run ball from the major league the value of any one ball was only related to that ball's history and not to the other balls.

Quantitative analysis of markets is the art of figuring out how to recognize the value of something is changing before others do, and capture that value by acting on that knowledge. Whether it is offering to buy Barry Bond's first home run ball because your model suggests he could become an all time home run hitter, or selling it in 2009 because your model suggests Barry is likely to be tainted by the steroid scandal in baseball.

You didn't steal any money, you didn't change the amount of "value" in the market, and the amount of "value" in the market it not controlled by a fixed number, its controlled by other events completely outside of your control. You bought something before others knew it would be valuable, you sold it before others knew it would be less valuable. Definitely not a zero sum game.

[1] http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2015/06/04/128375782/watch-barry-bo...
Read deeper on their own site.
I've also recently started with Logic. My advice would be: don't worry about all the details of the software, it'll take a long time to master all the features. Learn the basics of it, and just start messing around with sounds to produce a complete song. Don't worry about technicalities, just finish. It's more important what you have to say with music, than how you say it.
Having read deeper (see the links in my response elsewhere in this subthread), the details are in line with the generous reading of the headline.
It appears to be a node.js app that one uses to explore and/or debug arbitrary REST APIs.
What would he say?
Every country has different laws so a 'criminal' in one jurisdiction may not be a 'criminal' in another. The training data is fundamentally flawed as the target classes (criminal and not-criminal) are defined by largely arbitrary rules.
Ah but square error is not a metric, its square root is a metric.

Many nice properties of the square loss (in fact un-fucking-believably nice properties) stem not from the fact that its square root is a metric but from the fact that it is a Bregman divergence. Another oft used 'divergence' in this class is KL divergence or cross-entropy.

Bregman introduced this class purely as a machinery to solve convex optimization problems. His motivation was to generalize the method of alternating projection to spaces other than a Hilbert space. But it so turned out that Bregman divergences are intimately connected with the exponential family class of distributions, also called the Pitman, Darmois, Koppman class of distribution. It takes some wracking of the brain to come up with a parametric family that does not belong in this class if one is caught unprepared, almost all parametric families used in stats (barring a few) belong to this class.

One may again ask why is this class so popular in probability and statistics, the answer is again convenience, they are almost as easy as Gaussians to work with, they have well behaved sufficient statistics, and their stochastic completion gives you the entire space 'regular' enough distributions with finite dimensional parameterizations.

You mentioned conditional expectation. So one may ask what are the loss functions that are minimized by conditional expectation. Bregman divergences are that entire class. Of course square loss satisfies it too (more importantly L2 metric on its own does not, it is the act of squaring it which does this).

Very interesting stuff (at least to me)
Indeed, here is a recent example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Senate_special_elec...
I've got a recently purchased System 76 Gazelle. I'd like to say nice things about it. It has good system software, and not a bad display. That's about it. The case build quality is way below what it needs to be at the price point, and the touchpad is probably the flimsiest thing I've ever seen on a laptop. The keyboard is also horrible. I would not purchase another one. Instead I would go for a Thinkpad or a Dell and deal with the system setup myself. So while I appreciate the creativity of this campaign, I'd really rather they put their efforts into building a machine that can actually compete on quality.
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Agreed, but the probability of not shipping at all is high for any startup.
Tesla is leading the market like Apple did with it introduced iPhone. They define the standards which others follow.
I think you're right on both counts. After getting the hang of it, flexbox is pretty straightforward to use, IMO less confusing and touchy than floats, especially for responsive layouts.

Most browsers are OK these days, but IE/Edge is where I've encountered the most problems with compatability. There are ways to work around it, but that takes a bit of additional effort. CSS tools, e.g., Autoprefix are useful.
Thanks, I was wrong about that. I swore I read that somewhere, turns out it was on a chess forum--not a source I should have committed to long-term memory.

I did find this interesting statement about Graham's number (unsure of the veracity):

> Graham's number is greater than all of the Planck lengths in the universe. There literally isn't room in the universe to write it out in numerical form.

Edit: It looks like we confused Graham's Number for Shannon's number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_number

But according to the Wiki on Shannon's number, a the number of possible outcomes in chess does still far exceed the number of atoms in the universe:
>Allis also estimated the game-tree complexity to be at least 10123, "based on an average branching factor of 35 and an average game length of 80". As a comparison, the number of atoms in the observable universe, to which it is often compared, is estimated to be between 4×10^79 and 4×10^81.
I usually get the idea from the comments on HN that competing on price alone just doesn't work. Do you think that's a myth or did you have special case at hand?
Enumeration is solved by device tree. The problem really is drivers for important parts of SOCs that make running Linux on them practical.
Don't build private clouds
caniuse [0] has some stats.

Flexbox is supported in:

* Internet Explorer 11, but only partially

* Edge 14+

* Firefox 52+ (Everything but buttons in Firefox 50)

* Chrome 51+ (50 had it, but had a bug that still plagues Safari)

* Safari 9.1 (but Safari has a couple huge bugs [1][2])

* Opera 41+

* Safari iOS 9.3+ (but see [1] & [2])

* Every version of Opera mini

* Android Browser 4.4+

* Android Chrome 53+

A great bullet-point list of why not to use tables for layout can be found here [3].

Flexbox is designed to enhance and make easier some of the CSS that we already use today, so they go hand in hand.

As to Bootstrap, as of v4, it will include Flexbox as an opt-in option (in case you support old browsers where it wouldn't work). [4]

[0] http://caniuse.com/#search=flexbox

[1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136041

[2] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137730

[3] http://phrogz.net/css/WhyTablesAreBadForLayout.html

[4] http://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/getting-started/flexbox/