skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many, many reasons. Trump promised to be extra soft on Russia re:NATO, re:Ukraine, etc. His single contribution to the GOP platform was to soften the GOP's position on Ukraine. Some of his staff were also Russian clients. He's also expressed open admiration of Putin and Putin's style of governance, and emphasized that he wants the US to get along with Russia. His son secretly met with Russian reps before the election to discuss US policy in Syria and elsewhere. A Trump win would give Russia tremendously greater influence over Europe. Given Putin's open assistance to Trump in the election Trump would owe Putin favors, and it's likely one of the favors Russia would pursue wold be lightening the massive sanctions Clinton imposed on Trump. Trump's also incredibly easily manipulated which certainly serves Russia's interests.
I've checked the report: the exception resulted in the transmission of effectively random data to the main computer:

http://www.math.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/ariane5rep.html

"g) As a result of its failure, the active inertial reference system transmitted essentially diagnostic information to the launcher's main computer, where it was interpreted as flight data and used for flight control calculations."

So the handler in the processes existed but it effectively confused the main computer. The units shut off but before that sent "the diagnostic." For which there was no handler at all in the main computer. And even more interesting, these processes weren't even needed for the flight. The main computer were able to just ignore such input and the flight would have continued (R1).

Brittle.
So you come into work on Monday thinking that everything will be peachy-keen, and get an all-hands email telling you that any employee that can not prove that they voted for the "correct" candidate will forced to resign.

Any system that can be abused, will be.
The election was decided in its totality by 107k votes in WI, MI, and PA (the sum total margin of victory in those three states).

You don't have to manipulate many votes to have an election-deciding effect.
There is much more in ML than just statistics. I was basically asking why the "statistics filter" is so often on in ML. Neural networks don't seem a statistical technique, even if somebody uses them for regression. Yes, there is an overlap, but no, ML != statistics. As you mentioned, non-linear optimization is used in statistics on meta-level however nobody claims statistics is operations research or vice versa.
HSM: Hardware security module

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module

Please expand your acronyms.
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"Why addition?", I would ask.

Different problems, different tools. You can't ask "why geometric mean?" without referring to a specific problem you're trying to solve.
There is no fundamental reason why a cryptocurrency can't have a dynamic money supply.
Venezuela’s PdVSA Misses $404M Payments on Bonds
It's pretty common for the government to do this sort of thing --

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/27/va.data.theft/
600+

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/97817-va-loses-another-...
26.5 million veterans/active

The funniest part of all of this is that the non veterans here seem to be surprised by this.
My perspective as a VC: if you're building exactly the same product then that sucks. You'll only be able to compete on price, and that's not a good outcome. Execution is important, but that's more clear after launch, once people try out both products, write reviews, etc.

However, having a competitor launch just before you gives the advantage of seeing their messaging, seeing how people react to it (esp. in the comments section and in how quickly/slowly the project gets funded), and might give you ideas for how to better differentiate. If you do a good job with that differentiation then your competitor will educate the market while you get people excited by releasing something that's better in some key way. The differentiation could be in your product, your messaging, how you package or bundle your product, etc.

You shouldn't throw 6 months of work away. You can think of what you've built as no better than the competition, or you can think of it as 90% of the way to being a lot better than the competition. I think the second mindset is more constructive.
I don't think that Afghanistan makes a good citation for any side of a general argument about gun control policy in the US. Like s_m_t said, their geopolitical milieu is just too different to be relevant. (I'm tempted to say the same of their culture, but I don't really believe that, having grown up in a Bible Belt state.)

However, the Afghan example does effectively rebut shadowfiend's specific point about guerilla warfare being ineffective against a superpower. They call Afghanistan the "Grave of Empires" for a reason, and it's not because they have a really awesome regular army.

Now, in defense of shadowfiend, it's easy to show that he or she is wrong historically, but I suspect that technological development is beginning to favor state power. Guns or no guns, to be an effective guerilla you have to be able to blend in. But you can't really hide anymore... not in the jungles, not in caves, not in the streets and alleys and suburbs and slums, and not in cyberspace. I guess that's sorta our fault.
Yep wasn't suggesting it wouldn't work fine on mobile, just addressing the 'perf' criticism which to me, isn't really relevant to most devs when they would tend to use that resource on their dev machines.
"If Zuckerberg can lock up another 1.4 billion Chinese, Facebook could feed the growth beast for at least several quarters!"

I hope this was an intentional double entendre by the author because its metaphorical meaning is brilliant and its literal interpretations chilling.

EDIT: Actually a triple entendre.
I've seen this sort of thing (reddit+4chan conspiracy theory witch hunts) most aptly described as "weaponized autism"
To put it bluntly, the reddit community responsible for teaching beginners to code censored my book as a power play to get me to force Python 3 on unsuspecting beginners.

This book hasn't had offending passages removed or bowdlerised. It's not been removed from bookshelves and the publisher hasn't been order to pulp all remaining copies. "Censorship" is not what's happened here.
Statistics means aggregate stuff and uses simplified characteristics out of semi-structured data. ML + Big Data allows you to ask precise questions like Where? How? Which ones?
CJ Stain Puts a New Spin on Major Lazer's “Cold Water
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This version of cold water takes Major Lazer's timeless message of strength, and sacrifice makes it accessible to an even wider audience.
Stain harnesses Lazer's thought provoking message to speak to listeners in a way that encourages perseverance, hope and socially conscientious approach.
This new release magnifies CJ Stain's presence in the entertainment community at large as a proponent of progress, consciousness and positive change. "Cold Water" Stain's identifies as a man who speaks adamant about social compassion, gender equality. CJ Stain is also a prolific writer and composer. His compelling performance of "Cold Water" exemplifies his skills as a performer and brings his equally sound original work to the forefront.
One of Stain's many goals is to inspire those with aspirations to persevere through adversity to better themselves and the world around them, and his version of "Cold Water" hits its mark right on target
Interesting. May I ask why?
I'm an ArangoDB team member. The new graphLookup is far away to be a graph functionality. It's only a recursive lookup.
Yes, the storage is special. The three data models are combined in one database core.
This is what I think whenever anyone says "an order of magnitude" instead of "very".
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It's fine to list some reasons for using squared error, but you really can't decide on the error function without referring to a problem you're trying to solve.

Just look at the success of compressed sensing, based on taking the absolute value error seriously.
Which is a reason why in some locations it's illegal to photograph or video record voting. Where I vote, you do it in a curtained area so it would be easy to get away with but with setups like where Trump and family voted in New York, you're mostly out in the open with a short partition.
Squared error represents the underlying belief that errors in various dimensions, or errors in independent samples, are linearly independent. So they add together like orthogonal vectors, forming a vector whose length is the square root of the sum of the squares. Minimizing the square error is a way of minimizing that square root without the superfluous operation of calculating it.
> couldn't print more than it had bars to convert to. And that is the problem.

To be fair, one man's problem is another man's solution. "It can all be taken away" isn't a selling point to the currency's users, only to the issuer.

Monetary policy has always been a tool of governments, but that's been because the people haven't had any practical options other than another government's currency.

Having a flexible layer of fiat lets us have a shock absorber between the markets and the commodities we need to live. But too much of a decoupling and you run into more problems the other way.

It's hurt a lot of people when their government hyper-inflates the currency, or steals much of it back via bank controls, etc.
Price of 24 hour lighting is about £1 - £2 per watt year (standard overhead fluorescents). For typical office building lighting intensity, that's around £15 - £50 per m^3. Assuming the high end of that scale, for the building you mentioned, the yearly lighting bill would be £5 million.
You can just use subgradient descent. Nonconvex loss would pose a bigger problem.
I am no math expert, but I have always thought about it like this. The squared error is like weighting the error by the error. This causes one big error to be more significant than many small errors, which is usually what you want. Am I on the right track?
This is the key quote:

The feature table also lists various supported
applications, demonstrating the interest of the
manufacturer in programming the device for specific
applications, rather than providing a platform for others
to do so. (Imagine if manufacturers of USB drives made USB
drives for text files and USB drives for image files and
USB drives for MP3 files and so on, and the idea of selling
a USB block device was alien to these people. If you wanted
to store a new kind of file on a USB drive, you had to
convince the manufacturer to implement support for it.) The
draw of the Nitrokey then is the possibility the
manufacturer merely incidentally allows alternate firmware
to be flashed, rather than the manufacturer explicitly
capitalising on the premise of an HSM as a general-purpose
platform.

Great point, and completely lost on manufacturers.
|A bad guy gets their hand on a single empty ballot and writes the...

I am sure there are many reasons to prefer electronic voting, but that just seem logistically impossible when you are talking about millions of people. No way that wouldn't go unreported or undetected.

Whereas, with voting machines, if compromised has much more reach and would be difficult to detect.
They do in some counties. I'm a pollworker in Alameda County and every precinct uses an optical scanner (made by Sequoia). At the end of the night the memory pack is removed and taken back to a return center to be counted. The paper ballots are boxed and sealed in case there are any problems with the electronic tally.

Speed-wise, it only takes the machine about 1 second per ballot card.
i disagree. reddit is a great balance because they have editorial control of the front page, and then they have all. subs have moderators that can choose varying levels of moderation, sort of a "let the states decide" style compromise. high moderation leads to great subs like /r/askscience and /r/askhistorians. reddit can have both high intersubmoderation and low standardization of what ideas are moderated. you can ban subs that have mods who refuse to enforce site rules. but once you start removing subs because their political beliefs dont match consensus, you get an echo chamber.

reddit should take every opportunity to work on the algorithm and make it so the front pages surfaces the best content possible. they can make sure posts they dont like never reach the front. but once they inject editorial control of all, their ideals are compromised.

the drama is caused by mods who want all the other mods to have the same beliefs, so they dont have as much crap to clean up. if you dont want to be a janitor, dont volunteer. alternatively reddit could pay for janitors? reddit could drastically reduce drama if it had better moderation tools, and better community tools. they could take their metareddits so much further. if you read the chat logs, the default mods dont like other people on 'their' site, who think different, and act differently.
Geez, as much as i'd love to divorce myself from the Apple ecosystem I continually find reasons to keep my iPhone instead of opting for Android.
Microsoft's track record at starting and failing with their various iterations of mobile OSes is why I'll never take any mobile offering of theirs seriously.
> Wouldn't a voting system that let people confirm that their vote is taken into account be trivial to implement?

How do you verify that your vote is actually "taken into account?"

You may be shown that your vote matches what you intended, but then it can be manipulated or discarded somewhere else in the process, beyond your ability to verify. It's like reading open source code without validating the operating system or physical machine it runs in - the entire environment contains the potential for hostility, and it's too complex for one person to comprehend in its entirety.

Also, any such system, assuming it works as intended, may also give interested third parties a way to spy on someone's voting habits. Historically, knowledge of a person's vote has been used by governments and employers to coerce votes and to retaliate against political opponents or supporters of unpopular causes.
> specs are on-par with a 2-year old smartphone flagship

Cortex-A53 is a low cost, energy efficient, slow, in-order implementation. I don't think it was ever used as the main core in a flagship smartphone. Something like a 2012 ODROID-X2 SBC with its Cortex-A9 cores should have no trouble outperforming it, but it doesn't support AArch64.

> Given Allwinner's history of GPL skirmishes and backdooring

On the other hand, the linux-sunxi community does a pretty good job of bringing mainline support for Allwinner SocS and they're working on the A64. That's probably the longer term plan for the creators of this laptop.
they're fighting tooth and nail for this mission's successor (which will be the real deal vs what was effectively an expensive acceptance test run) to not be canceled, i.e. politics.
I hate this features. Why don't you just save your files?
Honestly I think this is a symptom of the lack of really good GUI toolkits that let you define the UI in an easy-to-use and powerful language. There's Qt & QML, but that's about it, and to be honest QML is still pretty immature (try doing a custom control with text, or any kind of text editor in QML).

I really hope Rust or Go get great native GUI toolkits soon with nice declarative layout languages, but until that happens it is hard to get too angry at people using the wrong tool for the job because the right tools just aren't that great.
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Are you sure it's exactly the same idea and exactly the same product as you say? Sometimes it can seem like that because there's a lot of overlap but it's hard to end up creating something that is exactly the same as something else independently. Isolate features and the ways that you are doing things that may be different and focus on why there are differences. Perhaps yours is more convenient or easier, or provides some unexpected benefit the other one doesn't.
This news has flewn way under the radar in comparison to the previous Match.

Cho Chikun is a legendary player ,and was top of the world in the 70's. From that era, along with Takemiya Masaki, he was one of the only ones that kept playing and kept winning titles even in his old age.

The style of 70's players was artistic and not as sports-like as koreans were when they rose in the 90's. They always showed a higher level of philosophy and art in game, but it was ultimately crushed by the "machine-like" tactical capacity of korean players.
Cho chikun has very little chance to beat Lee sedol. But he was confident on beating Zen, and he did something unspeakable in the LeeSedol Matches: he came back from a losing game, from a machine that looked that would never relent its edges.

As a retired semi-professional Go player that learnt by replaying games from Cho Chikun, it is exciting to see the Japenese artistic and humane vision dominate the computer over the Korean Tactical sports-minded way.
The real question is do they speak Vachi and the binary language of moisture evaporators :) .
In the UK we use paper ballots and manage the count overnight after the election (some seats come back the day after, but the overall parliamentary majority is usually clear by then.)

Our population is only 1/6th yours, IIRC, and you subdivide more heavily into states already.
Oh I see what you mean now.

> For bytes to string you can use the unsafe and reflect package to create strings from bytes without a copy.

Super unholy :)
The U.S. is essential a colony and a colonizing nation in one unified land area. The U.K. maintained political separation with its colonies. If you include the British colonies in the statistics, it looks more like the U.S.
I would be very interested in the information on how can you do this :) We already use a Cypress PSoC5LP MCU with a flash protection feature as a License Manager(Essentially a TPM with encyption keys in locked flash) because we had a surplus of those.
I am just trying to estimate if it is dangerous an should be changed. Our case is to prohibit Customers (mostly industry) from pirating firmware for new devices.
I hope they present and push a focus on security with whatever they do. I use android because I don't like apple, but it seems like there's a new critical android vulnerability every 2 weeks, and they all take 4 - 6 months to actually get the patch to my phone.
I'm not sure about peak burger, but peak burger chain would be nice.
Not to my reading!

The alternative app to tower on FreeBSD would be git itself, which had a superset of features, would it not?
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Thanks. A lot of this feedback I've been hearing from others today. We'll be updating the serer name field to stand out visually better and doing updates to the home page and informational pages to both highlight the button capability and better present details like pricing. An "expire now" option for servers on the free plan will be in place this weekend which will allow you to delete a free server before it expires.
Obviously I completely agree, but the Surface line of hardware so far is good quality and feels coherent if a tad expensive for me. Expanding the product line from phabletey to large desktop could work for them.
Jepsen tests are basically a closure framework to conduct such tests. We took some of the existing test cases and rewrote them for ArangoDB. So these are not "official Jepsen tests" but tests we did ourselves to track down issues. If you want to inspect and retest yourself, that will be possible. There's no reason to keep the tests closed source. Of course it would be great to get ArangoDB Aphyr-approved eventually.
Scantrons are a big improvement over electronic-only counting, but they can struggle with imperfectly-filled-in ballots... another good alternative, which avoids that particular problem, is to have a machine where you make your selections by button-press - but it prints them onto a physical card, lets you verify the printout through a window, then drops it into a built-in ballotbox.

The machine itself can keep count, or the cards could be designed for scantron-esque machine counting - regardless, in case of a disputed result, the cards can be counted the traditional way (by hand, with observers from each party present, etc).

Not my idea, BTW, but I don't recall where I read it - nor whether it was a description of something actually in use or merely a proposal.
Potentially, a canary id, "show this one and it'll claim you voted for ____ and also alert the state election board that it was accessed"
I think you are absolutely correct.

I originally intended to point out more how people who use and invest in Mac OS X and claim they are for FSF are, in some part, contradicting themselves.
The one I was thinking about was probably this one from Bradford: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/sep/06/men-jailed-...
Maybe not actual Doom, but that's fast enough to run some sort of FPS at least. Certainly fast enough to be a useful personal computer.
> It was that it was handled with "whatever" (execute random instructions)! by intentionally omitting the handlers.

Which is a perfectly valid course of action.

In fact, it is usually the only correct course of action, because there is no other correct course of action to take.

A "keep the maximum value as the result" is always plain wrong (and that extends to all cases of <return whatever fixed value sounds cool>), it wouldn't pass a code review.

Source: That's covered in the "safety & testing" courses of my previous university, that happen to be given by one guy who worked on the Arianes. :p
Your web server also doesn't run X11 or any window managers nor any gui apps.
Thanks for posting this, really interesting/terrifying and I hadn't seen it before.
I don't get your sarcasm. A logo matching in wording, font, and color, is different than a generic design aspect.
It's annoying there's no Free driver stack for the Mali GPUs, but pretty much all other ARM IP is supported just fine in mainline Linux. Calling it a 'sorry state of open source on ARM' seems disingenuous.
Higher earners are smart enough to figure out that rules that penalize employers for overtime - effectively hurt workers.
So higher earners protect their rights to have job and overtime by blocking that overtime rule at their level.

Lower earners (collectively) are not able to figure out the unintended consequences and happily support that populist rule.
We'll be enabling FreeBSD soon
Be more easy and allow to works not only with nodejs, also more flexible manipulations with dist files in wwwroot.
Thanks.

And I thought that I work in an unprofessional company on a useless project. I feel a lot better now.

This reads like a chatlog from minecraft server for teenagers.
It is finished and public will be able to enjoy it soon. Here is more current information:

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