skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely wrong in my experience. Time Capsule was the only solution I could use with my less tech-savvy relatives to get them to actually back up their laptops. It is very much fire-and-forget.
How long until I get screwed on my old lifetime custom zone
The timimg of the acquisition with Dyn's recent DDOS has me feeling even more paranoid than usual.
> Now what's the no-brainer WiFi router choice? ASUS something, Ubiquity (sp?)? Read some reviews, order what seems the best, marvel at the weird new mutant feature set... Oops, that's another afternoon wasted.

Ubiquity. Or in general: stay away from consumer-grade network equipment.
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The UWP kind.

It is the same .NET Native as on Windows 10 store.
\o/ rainbow URLs ftw!
From my point of view, the market is saturated with all these startups offering mesh wifi services that are already "Apple-fied" in terms of simplicity to setup and activate.

Why bother developing in that space when you can just buy whichever startup matures to the largest market share? Throw those engineers somewhere else.
There are a lot of different questions here, though. This study only addresses one.

There are lots of ways for the system to be racially skewed/biased without being a product of personal bias - so many that I think the focus on "racist police" makes it hard to recognize a lot of easily-provable problems.

Stop-and-frisk is my go-to example of a system that produces bias regardless of the race or biases of the officers involved. In theory, it's an efficient use of limited police resources, it can be implemented race-blind, and it "only catches criminals". There's room to talk about harassment of non-criminals, but at least regarding the people who get arrested its an understandable idea.

In practice, criminality is a product of conviction. Stop-and-frisk mostly catches 'possession' crimes like personal-use drugs and illegal weapons (and since a 3-inch pocketknife is illegal in many cities, we shouldn't mistake this for violent intent). As a result, living in a stop-and-frisk area massively increases your odds of being charged with a low-grade crime - it's not as though carrying marijuana or a Leatherman is rare among un-policed groups. Even if you attempt a crude race-blind implementation, like policing based on neighborhood crime rate, you end up with a vicious cycle where crime rates are high because enforcement is high.

So I think we do a disservice when we limit our discussion and investigation to officer bias. Even when it's not present, it's still easy to build an unequal system.
Cloudflare is not bulletproof. Had several times where cloudflare proxy plus my Nginx server got stuck in infinite loops making everything time out. No logical reason why. Switched to cloudCDN and 0 problems since.
Interesting that this scheme is aimed at university students and not (for instance) senior citizens that need short term loans. But I'm sure it's just about the money:)
Because library developers want to have things available without paying by the hour.

Once you have the software, a service is fine. But the ecosystem of tools around NVidia CUDA and CuDNN is there because you can buy a gaming card for a few hundred dollars and hack up libraries you find useful.
One goal of Unicode has been lossless round-tripping between legacy encodings (to encourage adoption). If such an encoding contains both Latin and Cyrillic, they must be separate to enable that.
For a patch release?
I believe the Time Capsule is included in this decision. From the article "Apple currently sells three wireless routers, the AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Time capsule."

In my experience, it's always been easy to set up. Actually using the Time Capsule, I've had one Time Capsule die, and one instance where I used a backup over 8 years. Retrieving the data from the backup was easy, without requiring a reference to a manual, IIRC.
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No, he didn't prove your point...
It's really easy to see the negatives of things, but harder to see the positives.

My gut reaction to national identity is "gross", but having seen the alternatives (personal identity politics), I'm starting to think that national identity can be quite useful, especially to counteract the natural entropy in a multiethnic, liberal democracy.
It's not your lifetime it's theirs and Dyn just got put into hospice.
Roland's reissues are pretty dull and lifeless compared to the real thing. The x0xb0x and possibly the TT-303 are the only two 303 clones I've heard that get close, probably due to the fact they're close copies of the original's analog circuitry. But even they don't quite get there. That's why the 303 still commands such a high price, even after Roland's ACB reissues.

The 909 and 808 are a lot easier to clone.
I think HTTP-based APIs are closer to a service than an library with a public interface, even though the term API can be used interchangeably for both: https://schema.org/Service
The big huge hole in this entire scheme is that there are clearly a good number of people who are ok with having their nudes available online. I mean, just look at the Internet.

How does this service avoid having a Suicide Girl sign up and then immediately bolt with the money?
We're happy to do IPv6 for you on the consumer side and connect to you backend over IPv4 if your backend provider can't deal with IPv6.
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Many of the current generation don't have any issues with Microsoft.

We do mostly Java and .NET projects, and enough juniors get on both stacks.
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Coinbase has to report SARs, as well- they're a fully licensed money transmitter in the US- so maybe tone down the condescension. This is an overreach of a different type and by a different government body, and would be precedent-setting AFAIK.
Wait until they can repatriate offshore money next year. That will trigger a lot of acquisitions to just spend the money somehow.
Have you been living under a rock or something?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis
You're conflating algorithms with data to some degree. The algorithm is responsible for finding the correlation, but whether that correlation is "irrelevant" depends entirely on the relationship between the training data and the full (presumably unknown) distribution over that set, as well as on fuzzy social interpretions (e.g., we may simply decide by fiat that race is an irrelevant feature for deciding mortgage approvals because we want to enforce that as true within the system).
I'm not sure if this is good or bad news for companies like Eero. In the short term, this is great news because of less competition for the extremely easy to use Wi-Fi router, but I have wonder why Apple got out of this business since they often see technology trends years down the road.
Yeah that’s generally how Lua should be used.
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The style of cannon was a Columbiad, not the name of the vessel.
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One problem, though, is that many students whose loans are becoming problematic were in school during the financial trouble leading up to 2008 and 2009. During that recession, people without degrees had negative growth in jobs (job loss), while college degree-holders dropped nearly to zero, but did not actually go negative. Associate degree-holders were almost half-way between other the two. Of course, it's great to tell students that they should strongly consider the trades or other paths, but the reality is that those careers are less safe in economic downturns.
>Moving your DNS isn't hard

I bet Oracle wouldn't bother buying Dyn if it wasn't hard, especially for big customers.
Microsoft spends big to build a quantum computer
earlier submission with more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13005172
> Also: don't most people get their wireless service from their cable router now?

Yes they do, but they shouldn't.

The problem is that you place your all-in-one cable-modem-router-AP at the point where the cable enters your house. This is unlikely to be the ideal position to place an access point.

For example, my fiber connection enters my home at one of the corners of the house. You want your AP in a central location.
It's just a patch release including a fix for a minor edge case.
Conflating coinbase with a brokerage seems a stretch to me.

Many people used it more like Paypal, a conduit to make or receive payments for sales of goods or services. With the conversion of bitcoin to regular currency happening very quickly. No buy/hold/trade activity, etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13005172
I had a router from BT that despite having won awards, could not resolve its external IPv4 address internally. It knew what its external address was and knew that it had to DMZ everything to an internal address, but if you attempted to resolve the external address (expecting it to go to your DMZ'd machine), it'd fail.

I also had a router from another UK ISP that would crash and hang if you sent it a malformed IP packet (ie put its respond-to address as itself); it'd go mental replying to itself and then processing the messages it sent to itself. Not quality.

The EE broadband router I had would hand off its internal web admin session to external visitors if they connected whilst a web admin session was in progress. Yes, let's hand our internal web admin session page to an external visitor....

BT sent another hub that looked identical and worked correctly; underneath it was a Siemens instead of a Thompson I think.

So all in all, I have found that the ISP boxes were never really finished, and some (like Sky's box) needed rebooting periodically as I recall, so buggy too.
It's in some ways useful to have 'news' sources that are exactly wrong about everything, as you can use them to construct sensible predictions. In this case:

1. Governance will be happen in the old-fashioned way.

There are brief, isolated attempts at making state IT systems better, but they're swimming against the tide of low-effort regulatory capture "enterprise" shops.

2. National identity will increase in importance.

Marine Le Pen will probably win the French elections. National identity will be asserted against transnational systems that are percieved to have failed.

Increasing levels of national borders and state control systems will be imposed on the internet for various reasons, such as the UK "Digital Economy Bill"'s censorship.

3. Legacy voting will continue to deteriorate.

Questions about the reliability of voting in the US are becoming more urgent.

4. There will be incentives to maximize corruption and suppress whistleblowers.

Too many to count, sadly.
Compatibility with ISO8859. For example, for Cyrillic, the first 128 characters U+40xx match ISO8859-5.
>if you took into account enough circumstances (e.g. single parent, school district, income level, parents' wealth) you'd be able to remove race from your model and still arrive to the "equal opportunity" result. That way, you wouldn't discriminate based on race, but you would still help the people most needy of help (poor, uneducated, etc.).

This is pretty much the only way to help people who were born addicted to meth inside a trailer in the mountains who also happen to be blessed with being white.
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The real scam here is foisting "identity theft" off on the consumers rather than holding the financial institutions and other players responsible.
I think they evaluate the prospect through his facebook/social network to figure out his a "legit" fund receiver.
Haha ok, so not the corporate business speak. I must say that your girlfriend's expression is somewhat "unique" too :-)
The two that I can think of in the time taken to read this comment are easier calorie tracking and avoidance of food allergens.
When I think of "decentralisation" I think everyone having more or less equal say. When blockchain people talk about "decentralisation" they are just talking about some kind of market based solution.

I find that a bit misleading.
I think that's a little unfair. The guy is a respected professional physicist after all. But you often only read about him or see him on TV when he's doing his "fluff" piece - but that's more a problem the with how the media loves to dumb things down than it is with Michio Kaku's credibility.

Regarding the book: it basically takes past scientific breakthroughs to show how tech has evolved, then couples that with current bleeding edge experiments and hypotheses to theorise how sci-fi concepts could/might be solved. It follows a nice balance between factual and entertainment which makes it a refreshing read compared to the dryness of many other books by respected scientific authors.
Stop with the common sense. This is an issue where logic and facts go out the window when an agenda is at hand.

I want to know is why doesn't Microsoft start up their own coding school or something if this is such a big problem.
This seems more optimistic than I usually hear. Do you mind going into what you mean by "post-scarcity" and how we'd achieve it? Does it just mean a living UBI, or is there tech/infrastructure (extensive solar, e.g.) to be developed/built out as well?
> decline of nationalism and populism in the US

Did you just put nationalism in a good light by comparing it with classism?
First of all, the two are not necessarily opposed and often go together.

Also this is a false dilemma. Humans can live without a group identity or identify as living beings instead of being a "proud $skin_color $religion $nationality $gender".

It's not far-fetched to say that this could prevent a lot of social conflicts and wars.
Can someone prove me wrong?
It is possible to inspect black box models. See for instance http://www.blackboxworkshop.org/pdf/Turner2015_MES.pdf and https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~marcotcr/blog/lime/ . It is also common to use highly accurate white box models for cases where it is important to not overfit, leak, or discriminate, like MARS and GA^2M (somewhat out of scope for an actuary using R).

If a computer program spots an irrelevant unhelpful correlation its generalization error will noticeable go up. If it is an irrelevant "helpful" correlation it means there is a problem with the data (such as leakage), not with the algorithm. If there is a problem with the data, all bets are of, both for black and white box models.

A blackbox model will probably not find that being an Armenian alone will lead to more crashes. Being non-linear in nature it will find interactions (young male Armenians are more likely to crash than young males in general). If the importance of such a feature is not significant enough to distinguish it from noise, then regularization may automatically remove it.

Even if we observe that 99 out 100 Armenians crash their cars, and you decline someone a loan, because he/she is Armenian, you may just have discriminated against the 1 Armenian who is a safe driver. Young male drivers who drive safely have a worse time getting loans, because their group (the set of young male drivers) spoiled it for them. So their only hope of getting a loan is you adding more features (like nationality), to be able to distinguish them as safe drivers, not removing them and lumping them into the status quo.
Supranational entities are just as bad, except even less responsive to local conditions.
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> Then what we're saying is 80K represents 50% of the educational costs we're all comfortable with sinking into base education.

You're making assumptions that we're all comfortable with paying for 12 years of education. I think the majority of that is a waste of time (and by extension money).

> Most people want to go to college to get skills to then contribute something to society, whether or not today's economy specifically values what they want to contribute.

Sure but I don't want to pay for that either. If people didn't get hand outs that hide the true price of college (i.e. government backed loans), the price of college would come down drastically. It's artificially inflated to match amount of money a student can expect to beg / borrow.

If there was going to be any type of "college for all", the only approach I'd advocate would be free education that was provided by the government itself (i.e. community colleges). At least that would have a downward pressure on tuitions at private institutions that would suddenly have to price compete against it. Anything else will just increase the problem further.
However the article just provides examples of women.
I agree. It's the instabilities and nonlinearities in analog audio that give it character.

Now whether that's worth emulating, or even noticeable by most people, I'm not sure. But I'm buying all analog, and mostly VCO synths
Calvin & Hobbes also: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1989/08/01
> You're provider gives you a free router when you sign up and you plug it in, type in your password on your devices and boom you never think or worry about it again.

Usually, you don't even want to remove the PoS router you get from your ISP from it's box. In my experience no ISP ever gives away decent equipment, it's just the cheapest thing they could order in quantity.

Another issue with an ISP-issued router is that you have no idea what they did and can do with it. I know of several ISP's that have full remote access to the routers they hand out. Basically, you risk exposing your entire home network.
> Then you automatically assume it’s a REST API using JSON payloads. Who’s doing anything else nowadays?

I'm seeing people using GraphQL[1] more these days, which also solves the problem of API schema discovery because it's one endpoint with built-in introspection[2].

[1] https://graph.cool/

[2] http://graphql.org/learn/introspection/
I was lucky to get out without any debt due to athletic and other scholarships. However the last two-three girls I've dated had 15K-25K in student loans. They all said, "At least I dont have K like my friend..."

I cant believe do much is being lended to college students.
Nvidia makes a pretty mean arm soc. I'm curious to see where this goes. Is there any precedent for arm in the server room?
The donated GPUs used are listed at $3100 and $1500, respectively, on Amazon.
> FWIW, you can get a home copy of MATLAB for $149: https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab-home/

Whoa, thanks for that link. IIRC quite awhile ago there was a student edition that wasn't really suitable for anything other than toy problems because there was a limitation in the size of matrices. This looks to be the real deal though!

> MATLAB Compiler won't make code any faster - it's still just running MATLAB engine underneath the hood. MATLAB Coder converts to C code optimized for real-time systems

My mistake: the particular toolboxes often fuse together in my head. Not such a big deal at work where we've got access to so many of them. It'd definitely be a pain if I didn't. My point still stands, though, that I haven't seen anyone on any of the projects I've worked on using MATLAB code that's been automatically converted to C. Or, at the very least, it's not part of any documented process that I've seen.
>>If you are poor (actually poor), there are so many government grants and scholarships for low income students that it's much easier financially than if you are middle class.

Availability doesn't automatically lead to discoverability or accessibility. Most grants require a ridiculous amount of paperwork and the ability to navigate a complex bureaucracy, which poor families have neither the time nor the skill for. A lot of the parents in poor families work multiple jobs. Some barely speak English.
I'm not a pro when it comes to Ethereum but bitcoin has something kind of close to that: Locked Time transaction. Basically, after a certain time (or block height) a transaction becomes possible unless you act earlier.

Now, as far as I know, you can't hide a secret inside that transaction. But it's possible that a blockchain genius can figure out how to make a trick and get it to work.
The IRS isn't supposed to use these powers to go on "fishing expeditions", according to its own manual[1]. Requesting info on millions of users without particular suspicion is more broad than necessary.

[1] - http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2016/11/21/irs-...
What services did you switch to, and at this point what feedback can you share about those services?
Here you go: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18439060
Diggernaut has got JSON Schema functionality implemented
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If 9 of the 10 art students end up as baristas, it might be because we're not creating a society that supports art and culture. But it might also be because colleges are accepting people who weren't paying attention to exponential functions in math class and can't make basic decisions like the true cost of a loan vs. risk, and then obviously struggle to thrive financially enough to pay it off. We're all worried about the art students, ignoring the fact that they clearly didn't take advantage of lower levels of education that were completely free.
If it's only once in a while there is a trick you can use with a circular saw (a retired fireman from Texas taught this, found him on some usenet group decades ago).

Summary: make a guide, clamp the guide to the work, rip with a circular saw.

Buy a 4x8 sheet of masonite and a decent circular saw if you don't have one (note that even if you like a a worm drive like the Skillsaw SPT77WML, the traditional circular saw with the blade on the right side works better, more of the base will be on the guide).

Measure the distance from the blade to the saw blade (and standardize on a particular width of blade, a thicker blade will mess this up). It's typically about 5 inches, give or take.

Chalk line an 8 foot by 10 inch chunk, cut that. Go to the opposite side of the sheet and chalk line an 8 foot by 4.5 inch chunk (if your saw has a different distance to the blade adjust accordingly).

Take the smaller chunk and glue it to the bigger chunk, lining up the two edges you just cut. Make sure that the bigger board sticks out more than the distance between your blade and the edge of your base (in our example that's 5 inches, we are putting 4.5 inches on 10 inches, leaving a 5.5 inch base).

This leaves the factory cut edge of the smaller chunk as the guide. Clamp that contraption someplace where the edge overhangs by an inch or so and put your saw on it, push up against the lip made by the smaller chunk, and cut off the extra 1/2 inch.

Presto, you now have a guide. Want to rip a sheet of plywood? Measure, clamp the guide to the marks, run your saw along the guide, away you go. Clamp the guide over the chunk you want and you don't have to worry about saw kerf, it's coming out of the waste.

Once you have one of these you'll make another one only about 5 feet long so you can do cross cuts.

If this isn't clear, email me and I'll try and draw a picture. It's really a lot more simple than I've made it appear, the details are there because it's easy to not think of one of them (like changing saw blades). For that reason, and others, I have a dewalt saw that I use only for these guides. Circular saws are cheap enough that I have several, the guided one, one with a diamond blade for cutting up my driveway, a worm drive for framing, a battery one for when I have no power, etc.
Interesting that Google doesn't seem to use ipv6 for their crawlers. They seemed to be big supporters for ipv6, but they don't appear anywhere on the list. I'd expect them to cause much more traffic than Facebook.

Any clue why they only crawl via ipv4?
That's because they are very good at picking who to audit. If you can document all your deductions, and have all your sources of income declared, and stored it all together an audit consists of hitting print, handing the scanned copies to them, and waiting.
The irony is the Airport Extreme performs better than the equivalent Ubi AP.

Airport is amazing for consistent throughput and reliability.