skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that if Microsoft makes .NET attractive to a large number of developers regardless of their preferred OS they have a headstart and constant edge on the competition in terms of services that mesh well with .NET. This increases the appeal of Azure and its services. It might be a good shortcut since they're competing with established players who have the early edge. Stealing away a lot of customers from the competition in the cloud space is going to take more than competitive pricing since you're fighting familiarity/experience, first-to-market advantages and a lack of 1:1 features on some services.
It's not exactly in small card form, but someone looking for a general-purpose programmable tamper-proof computer might be interested in the ORWL: https://www.crowdsupply.com/design-shift/orwl
so what is the point of having moderators?
Google Foo.Bar challenge
While google searching, the Google Foo.Bar challenge appeared.
like these:
http://thehustle.co/the-secret-google-interview-that-landed-me-a-job
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8588080

Can anybody suggest how should I proceed?
Should I prepare a bit before attempting it?
Yeah, go ahead downvote me because you can not stand the truth. Some thing in Ukraine: You financed the Nazis who are in the government now. Shame on all of you
Machine learning is often considered a statistical technique. The main difference seems to be that in traditional statistics, people derive practice from theory, whereas in ML people will try out techniques and figure out the theory later. That's really just a cultural difference. The techniques for analyzing ML models are all statistical to begin with.

Statistics, as a field, already used general-purpose optimization algorithms before modern ML techniques came about, so in that sense, ML just fits into an existing position in the statistical toolbox (like replacing a chisel with a 3D printer). In the other direction, statistical techniques like cross-validation are necessary for you to get your ML correct.
The trail of dead products (and companies) is not exactly encouraging.
That's not what I said.
also "isn't x doing the same thing" is a great thing! it means there's a market for some thing! if there's a market there may also be underserved demand.

if that's the case then you can clone an existing business and help increase supply to meet the demand.
Why not KL-Divergence, which measures the error between a target distribution and the current distribution? From the perspective of Information Theory, it is the best error measurement.

Oh, and let's not forget that for a lot of problems minimizing the KL-divergence is the exact same operation as maximizing the likelihood function.
Ballots are counted by hand in the UK.

There are pictures and a description here: http://www.bbc.com/news/election-2015-england-32533064
There are quite a lot of cases where you could find yourself facing a large bill unexpectedly. Forgetting about a server you spun up to try something out, with may platforms having your server hacked (or even DDoSed) could result in huge bills for bandwidth. With Dply you only pay what you pay up-front if you choose to add time to a server. There are no bills racking up. The flip side is that if you forget about it, it could vanish on you. Automating your deployment with something like a user-data script that pulls your code from Github would make this less of a concern. Permanent services on Dply are certainly possible but not the primary use case for most users.
anyone hazard a guess as to how many billion$ of corporate productivity was wasted playing solitaire?
Actually in the UK votes are counted manually by people in big halls under watch by accredited observers. No voting machine in the process at all.
Anyone know if more RAM will be plausible for a machine like this in the near future? I'd love to have a new netbook, but 2GB is what my 6+ year old Dell mini 9 has; this wouldn't be a very big upgrade, though a bigger screen and keyboard would make it more suitable for actual work.
Yea, the Burmese govt has pushed crack & other drugs in their community to the point that change is given in clean syringes at shops. A few years back in Seattle I met a few of the youngsters that had been sent to the US to get educated and bring tech and skills back to the community, they were looking to build a meshnet to connect and empower the community to unite, sadly at the time hardware would have been a few tens of grand, which they were not having luck getting grants for.
ES6 Iterators and Generators in Practice
While there are exceptions, most programmers are just normal, social human beings with feelings and emotions. Who doesn't want to be popular ? But we are also different, we think in different ways, so we'll like different things. But it's hard to think different, you will not be liked.
In my country some people stick around in the voting place to watch how the votes are counted. As long as somebody from your preferred political party stays, you don't have to stick around.

The paper system is very open source already. So open that even non-developers can understand it.
That's exactly why I decided to choose anything BUT Python. If it really was inconsequential, the community wouldn't be split. I'm also not going to select my programming language with a coin flip. That's ridiculous.

There are so many alternatives these days that it's simply not worth dealing with this type of bullshit.
Can I get something that would allow me to unlock an SSH key by tapping a card to my phone?
"Great idea" is an extremely subjective thing, and I don't even mean it in a loose sense.

Many people think great ideas are things that are so obvious like flying cars or fixing cancer, fixing aging, going to mars, fixing racism, fixing global warming, etc. They are great ideas, but at the same time they are all just obvious ideas. If something is obviously a great idea and has great market potential, it would be stupid for a large company to be not working on it. That's why these ideas are mostly tackled by already large companies and almost never by startups. In fact I have never seen a startup that succeeded by working on an idea that was already obvious to the masses, nor have I seen world-changing come out of this. Most groundbreaking ideas started out as something you would think is not one of those "great ideas". Use the same Apple example, most people didn't think personal computers would change the world, they just thought it was some nerdy tech thing that would stay as a fringe culture. That's why IBM got into the game late.

That said, I am not disagreeing with you that philosophers are bad, I already mentioned that. I use the term "philosophers" loosely here. For philosophers, theorizing is execution, it's not like they can build something. And I totally appreciate thought experiments.
The Apicius Cookbook

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

(Pdf)
http://kitchenproject.com/history/apicius/Apicius.pdf
Get the product out the door before the Kickstarter gets funded or ships, and you should be OK. Most Kickstarters don't happen. Even some that are heavily funded don't ship.

Look at "Coolest Cooler". $13,285,226 pledged of $50,000 goal, 62,642 backers, announced in 2014, the price has climbed from $100 to $400, and they still haven't shipped all the backer units. Even on simple products with heavy funding, the execution can be botched.
When the domain was registered by me and idea originally hatched, the vision was to have the company focused on reverse engineering and the application to it of ideas from graph theory. But things change. Name stuck.
>VSCode takes about 100Mb of ram with a project opened right now.

I call bullshit on that one.
Fine, that wasn't the spirit of the original comment I replied to though, which was needlessly negative and lacked any awareness of context.
what if an ID was generated and printed just before voting with an option to print an arbitrary number of additional ID's of already voted people. the boss never knows what ID(s) he'd receive.
Out of curiosity, will this end custom ROMs?
But if they're having the centralised authority anyway, can't they just allow anonymous accounts to transact through a more traditional secure electronic payments system provided by that central clearing house, without the resource consumption overheads and limits on concurrent transactions associated with blockchains?

I can't see true anonymity being a goal of a system introduced by governments either, though I can see why they wouldn't want an electronic payments system to rely on financial intermediaries in an economy where many people don't use banks.
I don't quite follow the argument that you are making - are you saying they mods are overwhelmed? The whole point of having mod(erator)s is to moderate - subreddits are their own communities with the mods in charge. They are responsible for setting the ground rules and enforcing them, if you have a different understanding of how Reddit works, please let me know.
> Do you guys think something like this could be patented
> and/or commercialized?

I would definitely be interested if it's general purpose and open/verifiable.

I think it would make sense if you teamed up with an insurance company. That way, you could prove your technology once, to the insurance company, and sell devices with insurance against compromise. So all your potential customers wouldn't have to audit your technology, since this has been taken care of by the insurance company.
I understand libcurl well (I've used it before on projects), and don't dispute its utility. I also understand the value of a very small C-based HTTP fetcher for system bootstrapping (I'm not sure that's really what curl is).

What I don't get is why the most widely used general purpose command line HTTP fetcher is a giant C program that we're still finding UAFs in in 2016.

I respect the enormous effort that goes into maintaining curl (though I have my differences with the way security is handled). But it's past time curl is replaced by a Rust or Go program.
I think it is quite sad that people are departing from the Buddha's words, especially in a country in which what is generally believed by Buddhists to be the Buddha's words is part of their Buddhist canon (the Pali texts).

If there are people who are interested what the Buddha and the texts have to say about violence or even killing (no killing of sentient beings is a specific precept undertaken by all lay Buddhists in the Theravada tradition), I would highly recommend this compilation and commentary:

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/harris/wheel392.h...
You're getting downvoted because people don't like it, but you're right. People who don't like it don't read about it, and that gives rise to denial and lack of knowledge, like "in the bathrooms of a NY Pizzeria."

If you think it's entirely implausible that there could be organized pedophilia operating out of DC, you're not being honest with yourself. Look at what happened in Norway 4 days ago.

I'm not interested in discussing politics on HN--and I'm not referring solely to this theory--but I am concerned when people are not intellectually curious enough to consider even hear an argument.
This exactly. You use a HSM so it doesn't matter if your server gets popped.
1. Date / file size check. In doubt, ask the user.

2. Rollback a few megabytes.

These problems were solved ages ago by most download managers.
Elasticache (redis/memcache)

Postgres

Integrated domains (a la R53)

S-N/E/Q-S
> How would you implement a macro expander that operates on HOAS?

Hmm, you would expect that HOAS actually be helpful in this area in some ways. Since variables are no longer resolved by matching symbols to binding information in a scoped environment (all we have is direct names references to the binding inserted in the code, or something like that), we don't have hygiene issues when we move code around without having to do any alpha-renaming, or gensyms. It sounds rather convenient, unless we expressly want to do something non-hygienic.

So how would we implement a macro expander? Like we implement anything else: in whatever way that implementation satisfies the specification of macros under HOAS. What is the specification: that is the question. What are HOAS macros, or macros under HOAS?

Not having a formal specification, we might want at least some examples: OK, I have this HOAS artifact, and would like to be able to write it in a more condensed way using this other HOAS: now how to make one into the other? That gives us a function, where we can identify the inputs, which have to be arguments to the macro somehow and so it goes.

Some kind of dual macro system could be useful: a raw source code macro system for doing un-hygienic things, and then a parallel one which kicks in when the code is converted to HOAS.
I am a huge Hayek fan actually, but I do not think you represent his views correctly. Hayek was actually in favor of what I propose, at least during 30s when he actively wrote about this.

The Austrian Theory of the Bushiness Cycle is only relevant if the expansion of currency is to much, to respond to the changes in money demand, not all expansion. This is different with somebody who is a 100%er like Rothbard.

Hayek actually favored nominal stabilization witch is essentially what Im advocating as well.
> Mr. Nadella, however, said the company was not going to launch into a device category without bringing something different to the table

Continuum, done right.
Out of curiosity, where are you from? As a venezuelan myself, it seems you know something I dont.
The ghost of Thorstein Veblen, and the concept of Veblen goods -- those which exist and function to signal the social status of their bearers -- is all over this article, though never once mentioned.

In a world in which any good may be synthesised or fabricated cheaply, it is expense itself which is distinctive. "Story" or "provenance" cannot be fabricated, and so, despite the fact that it's irrelevant to the functional characteristics of a product or good, the immaterial becomes material and significant.

Closely related: Trevor Noah's observation on language:

Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people. It's been happening since the beginning of time. Even now in America, you know when people say they "hate immigrants," they're not referring to a Canadian immigrant, they're not referring to somebody who has an accent [that] is slightly different to theirs — it's often that voice that throws you off. ... When you hear somebody speaking in an accent, it's almost like they're invading your language while they're speaking to you. Because if you hear someone speak another language, you almost don't care, but when they speak your language with an accent it feels like an invasion of something that belongs to you. ...

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/22/503009220/trevor-noah-looks-ba...

Language, as with manners, etiquette, and deep cultural familiarity, is an expensive and deep signifier of class and status.
Why would you need to counter it? If it's right, it's right!

The fact that US offices are designed to maximize return on real estate investment, not knowledge worker productivity, is well known.

I wish our screens were better so there's not the continual battle between daylight and readability. E-ink for coding?
http://makerdao.com is one "central bank on blockchain" project, though the stable token it generates still doesn't have the properties you want in a national currency
Which elections were annulled?
If it had a normal keyboard I'd buy one. Amazing little package.
Rosenhan experiment
Until it goes under like RethinkDB and we are screwed. One should not use a non-established, open-source DB.
It's not your exact words, but I don't think it's an unfair characterization, if the excuse is simply that they'll be reading it on a desktop machine anyway.

I took that image from a non-laptop desktop machine, by the way.
Cyph – Encrypted Messenger
An org publicly posted it's inner process for the benefit of the industry and was attacked randomly by a political extremist without regard for truth, damage to that org or damage to the core value of this site.

I'm sure I'll be called oppressing purplecpa's free speech just for pointing this out but no, Basecamp is not oppressive.
Faster Population Counts Using AVX2 Instructions
Donald Trump Will Be President. This Is What We Do Next
They don't seem to be violent towards anyone but miscreant Muslim populations. Around the world, Islam seems to be the common factor in violence and conflict wherever you look.
I'm aware of the origins, but this is a prime example of the CAP theorem for communities:

Pick 2:

- little moderation

- low amount of drama (for lack of a better word)

- high diversity of topics

Reddit wants to be all 3 (just like Twitter), but there are reasons even 4chan has a huge amount of "janitors". It's pretty impossible to not have to deal with crap when you've decided white nationalists need a place to talk, and it should be on your site.
This is likely why the controls and multi-tier currency rates exist. To reward insiders. Nothing like a starving opposition to remind you of the benefits of being on the inside.
You might be getting downvoted because of your tone, not your content. In your original post, who exactly are you talking to so aggressively? No idea if that's why – I didn't downvote either of your posts – but I see you're a new account here so I figured I'd try to pass on my experience.
Same thoughts here.

Doing it alone has its pros for sure, but finding another person that is into the same thing seems very valuable as well. Also, if you merge, both of you will be stronger and each of you will have one competitor less.

I guess it all comes down to what role the startup is playing in your life.
This article is such click bait.
I know that apple did a lot of controversial moves in the past years, but i still get the impression that apple takes privacy seriously and tries to respect it even when there is the fundamental need for data collection [1].

[1] https://backchannel.com/an-exclusive-look-at-how-ai-and-mach...
> In America we prefer the Clinton "walking around money" type of vote buying?

Is it just me or does this sentence not make sense?
Looking at the traditional literary world is where everything becomes obvious to me.

To be a good writer you have to hold stubborn opinions until each work is finished or you have too many options and create something confusing, bland, unpalatable and inconsistent. If you hold the same ideas too long and too publicly then the market raises the volume on the jibes against your style since you offer no topics for discussion and it wants to recover your share.

To be anyone else in literary market, you have to fawn over every returning fad as if it were new and great, and be the catalyst for reinforcing the artificial drama in the differences in stubborn views the authors are holding. To do less is to hurt overall market sales and eventually be shunned.

I find it all very interesting to follow, but if you want to be a proper lazy programmer for the long haul then you must learn to stay bellow the radar so no one knows how boring and automatic your solutions are. Those are the authors we all know exist who quietly take ghost writing cuts on a book or more a year, but dont have all the crisises or neurosis to get the role of author on tv.
Why exactly would Putin prefer Trump? Honest question as both Hillary (as SoS) and Bill Clinton have been rather soft on Russia - Trump favoring domestic oil production, etc seems would be less preferred. Look how aggressive Russia has become in the past 8 years.
>Electron is the second coming of the MSHTML ActiveX engine.

Really? I've always thought of it as the "blinders-on dev's XULRunner".
Interesting, but really not consistent with either Smith's own writings or multiple biographies. Dugald Stewart's memorial is among the shorter versions, if you care to compare notes.

Others are John Rae (1895), Edwin Cannen (1896), Francis Wrigley Hirst (~1910), Bagehot, and Emma Rothschild (various, ~1970s to present).
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Thank you for the insightful comment.
Should this be classified as "fake news" and banned from Facebook, Reddit, HN, Hufpo, etc?
Making promises that might be implemented isn't "buying" a vote. As you said, that is an intended part of democracy. Promises are not guarantees. Instead, vote buying is giving an explicit quid pro quo such as paying $10 for every "correct" vote receipt.

Yes, this doesn't fix every problem, but it does fix some problems that used to be common.

> So your concern seems strange.

Then I strongly suggest reading more about the history of voting methods and technology. (the talk in my other post has a nice overview)

We no longer have problems like offering whisky for votes or employers that threaten to fire anybody that doesn't vote a certain way (although occasionally they still try).
Hasn't this Instagram stuff been debunked by the NYT? Whatever you might think of their political leanings, the NYT isn't covering up a pedophilia conspiracy in the service of the campaign manager of a candidate who just lost the election. Why would I trust people who actively cheerlead Putinist fakenews over the NYT's own fact checkers?
I would really love to know what google knows. Got such a message too a while ago. It used to be worded more openly (something along the lines of "targeting you or several people you know").
You probably want to add some Linear Algebra, Discrete Math and Probability to your tool chest.
The existence of competition can be a very good validator for the idea. The further along the competition, the stronger the validation.
For the A64, mainline support is still very much a work in progress that isn't usable as-is I think.
Well, fuck. I stand corrected.

My Dad says shit that he makes up in his own head by reinterpreting what others have told him and I just believe him without bothering to verify unless I know it's incorrect; and even then sometimes I just don't bother.

For instance, in this case he probably saw or heard the term LASIK so much by advertising that it just stuck in his head and he glazed over whatever the doctors were telling him when he went in, and he's been repeating that same thing ever since. I believed him, because I don't have eye problems and was never curious enough to look further.

Shame on me.
American sanctions have little to do with Venezuela'a predicament--they specifically target its leadership. (Leaders who are doing fine arbitraging the bolivar and pillaging the state-owned oil company.)

Wall Street continues to finance and re-finance PDVSA [1] and American refiners continue to import its crude [2]. Contrast that with earlier sanctions on Iran.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuelas-pdvsa-bonds-rally-aft...

[2] http://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuelas-pdvsa-bonds-rally-aft...
So basically this is troll numerology.
That's not a valid argument. Nothing is secure from all known threats.

The question is how (in)secure is the system. In this case, the voting protocol doesn't provide a means of verification.

Secure voting protocols have been around for quite a few years. jjuhl left this comment above https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13032602

Dan Boneh's Crypto 2 coursera course (https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto2#) covers the concept.

There are voting protocols that use the same foundations as public-key crypto to allow for vote verifiability - you can validate that your vote has been taken into account in the tally without sacrificing the privacy of your vote. There are solutions for voter fraud too.
I'm quite sad as well. I'm sure that the teachings of Buddha don't even come close to what is happening in Burma. All I want is for people to apply the same thinking to other religions as well, including Islam.
I'm not going to respond to comments that aren't specific about what Huffman did. He didn't randomly edit comments. Be specific, and I'll respond. Or, you know, argue with someone else on HN. I'm of no particular importance here.