skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No waitstaff.
Mentions "net sales" at the bottom under "1% For The Planet:"

http://www.patagonia.com/blog/2016/11/100-percent-today-1-pe...

I don't think they could handle the loss that would come from giving away a huge chunk of money equivalent to Black Friday's gross sales...
I heard this one over the dinner table tonight, but rule of law.
Sorry, I'm not biased politically, which is kind of a rare thing these days here I guess. I am able to see good things both in a guy like Leopoldo Lopez and Chavez as well. Just ask yourself if you can do the same. But on to the point.

If you lived in Venezuela right around the time when Chavez died, you would remember vividly how you were able to access those Cadivi dollars, no matter how bad and annoying the system was with the three/four stupid folders they made you fill. Importers could buy stuff with their black market dollars and then replenish their stash when Cadivi finally payed them. As soon as Maduro took power he dismantled Cadivi and it has been next to impossible to get dollars at the official exchange rate. In my opinion that is the root of all problems, and yes, I do believe that under Chavez that would not have happened even if he was foolish enough to establish that exchange control for so long in the first place.

Hell, think about it, if tomorrow they really start offering dollars at whatever conversion rate, let's say 2000 but coming from the Central Bank, I can bet you everything I have this whole problem goes away immediately. There is an inherent quality at just being able to go to your bank to exchange currency instead of exchanging on a pool of people you know.
I think he means something along the lines of this IBM chip:

https://www.wired.com/2014/08/ibm-unveils-a-brain-like-chip-...
Two Sigma, mentioned in the article is currently hosting a fun AI programing contest at http://halite.io

The learning code is not steep - you can really move up the ranks with simple improvements. I've had a great time.
What does Google have anything to do with this? If there are companies to blame for the sorry state of open source on ARM, that would be Qualcomm, Broadcom, and other SoC makers.
http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/22161...

The answer doesn't really end up being static vs dynamic, but rather how dynamic languages often lack the other facilities that make programming in the large easier, and Eric Lippert uses js as an example.

Companies with a lot of money at stake have spent a lot of money and effort on things that transpile to js. The people making these decisions are almost always quite smart and very practical. They don't care if first class functions are sexy. They just want to write high quality code quickly. If they've spent so much time wrapping it up, you know it's because they had serious issues being productive at scale with js. They, and people on their team, probably got extremely frustrated along the way. Hence the hate.
Thankfully none of the major players are startups.
The Go programming language.
It depends on many things... such as the game data used to train it and the hardware in which it ran, the time settings of the game, the implementation of the algorithm, etc.

But so far commentators such as Ke Jie (higher rating than Lee Sedol), said that Deep Zen Go's yose (end-game) is very weak compared to Alpha Go.

Another factor is that Cho Chikun had the advantage of studying more MCTS/DL bot games. Today you can find MCTS/DL bots in servers such as KGS that you can play against.

Cho Chikun had more clear expectations of the bot playing level. e.g: Lee Sedol greatly underestimated Alpha Go initially, then he was in shock and did not know what to expect. Your playing strategy can vary depending of strengths and weaknesses of your opponent.
I'm thankful for living in the most prosperous country in the world. http://www.li.com/about/press-releases/new-zealand-is-the-mo...

and I'm thankful for living in the country with the most liberty! http://patrickrhamey.com/saturday-research/2016/5/24/2016-st...
SmartThings has been great. I've tried all the hub's.
Shame the author promotes the use of Spotify so much, for two reasons:
- the ridiculous amount of money going to artists (i.e. the ones who do want money for their music), although you could argue that you would generate revenue for every play the song gets, rather than a one-off amount when buying it (although, pretty sure it still doesn't compare);
- having Spotify means everyone will ask you to play your favourite song, and you'll have less of an excuse not to, which is a massive PITA.

Contrary to what the article says, Mixxx is cross-platform (GNU/Linux, Mac, Windows). I really recommend that amazing piece of Free Software. It is the only DJing software I use.
> I think the point of this, beyond any snobbery, is that there is a craft to DJing that is of great value to the DJs and those who are familiar, but its impact on the typical listener happens to be negligible.

Some DJs have played sets with incredible and weird tracks that blow your mind. Other DJs can play the very same track and it sounds like crap.

The difference lies wholly in the track selection and being able to read the audience and the situation.

DJ is in no way a "highly technical and intricate craft". You can teach a monkey to mix effectively in two weeks. It takes years to understand a musical genre, have a good catalogue of tracks and develop the good taste that makes the difference.

David Rodigan barely even mixes tracks in his sets, but they're amazing. Jah Shaka doesn't even use two turntables in his sets yet what he plays is about as close as you can get to a spiritual dub mix.

It's all about the selection and context, which are hugely social affairs and far more complex than the masturbatory turntablism of some DJs, which is about as important to the art as the guitar players who shred like madmen, yet it makes no difference to you emotionally.

Joe Satriani is a skilled guitar player, but I feel nothing. David Gilmour has never shown highly technical skills in his music but it reaches the depth of my feelings. In the same note, Skrillex is a good sound designer, but he's irrelevant in underground UK dubstep because he has no taste, no sense of subtlety, no capacity to hold back and make a trip.
Don't diabetics already have testing tech that works off tiny pinpricks? IIRC the holy grail for diabetics is testing without drawing blood.
cstross is fond of a tale that the Mexico City telephone exchange continued working from underneath an earthquake-collapsed building, because it was running on Strowger switches. I haven't been able to track down a reference elsewhere, though.
This may be why I never found rsync comfortable.
As someone who plays lots of music, but never listens to music because its just too much of a chore, I appreciate that a good DJ can find a form in multiple songs none of which I ever have any chance of know about myself.
Oh - cool. It wasn't clear to me from your top-level comment how far back you'd gone. Even though it's old, I still think it's pretty good, and thought you should be made aware if you weren't already. Good to see that you're "on it"!
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Dick's is just a regional (Seattle-area) fast-food burger chain, vaguely similar to In-N-Out. They make really good, cheap burgers (for fast food), have incredibly greasy fries, support the community and all that good small local business stuff.

It also lets you make an incredible amount of jokes about eating Dicks that makes non-Seattle people look at you funny.
Solving chess would mean having the perfect move as a response to every move. In that sense, chess is far from being solved.
Until the mid 80's MIT Dormline ran on a Strowger switch. It was replaced by a 5ESS dedicated to, and IIRC, owned by MIT.
Solar-Panel Roads to Be Built on Four Continents Next Year
Tesla hires HoloLens designer from Microsoft augmented reality program
I suppose she was twice Elizabeth Holmes's age when she was incarcerated, but otherwise she ticks every box on the 'there's no way she'll do time' checklist.
I believe the problem here, more than oil prices, is mismanagement of an epic proportion. In Venezuela way too many things are either free or subsidized. You get free college for kids arriving on fancy SUVs, public hospital infrastucture rotting away and the never ending public servant attitude of not showing to work, arriving late, stealing stuff, etc. Extremely cheap gasoline, and the list goes on and on.

At the current prices, countries like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela can still turn a profit on their production, as opposed to the UK with their deposits on the North Sea or the US/Canada with shale oil.

But of course, there is always the question of who created Maduro, and Chavez is fully responsible for that disaster.
Eh, socialism and communism may seem to offer better end results but the difficulty of implementation without being exploited / converting to another ideology is evidently hard, perhaps impossible.
There is also TextTeaser (https://github.com/MojoJolo/textteaser). There is a version in Python and Scala. I believe is behind the article summarization bots on reddit.

I explored using it to generate talk summaries for https://www.findlectures.com and have been reasonably happy with it, although it's tough to get a summary that is succinct enough for search engine results.
When you're from NZ, no one is desperate to kill you or trade with you. Its a double-edged sword.
I have seen Strowger switches in the wild.

In 1965-66, my first grade class visited the local AT&T Central Office. We saw a wall of what I later identified as Strowgers. I thought they looked like mailboxes on end at the time.

The MIT dorm phone system used Strowgers at least through 1980, and could be seen by curious students.
At the very least, they produce liquidity.

If you saw someone selling a brick of gold for a dollar, wouldn't you buy it to resell it?
How to Restore Messages from Android Phone Memory
The "trustlets" that run in the TrustZone have enhanced privileges and must be securely written.
Once crap like DRM ends up in there, as it invariably does, it turns actively harmful.

http://bits-please.blogspot.com/2016/05/qsee-privilege-escal...
Yes, many white people have gone to prison, but it has taken enormous and egregious cases for that to happen. Usually, a brown or other disliked minority fall-person will go to jail and to quell public outrage.

Consider the 2008 crisis, yes some white Americans went to jail, but the major (only?) prosecution at Goldman Sachs for example was https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Tourre Were his emails damning? Yes, but lets not pretend he was anything but the most low-level fall guy, conveniently with a heavy french accent -- Americans love to hate him. Also, Rajat Gupta and Raj Rajaratnam were certainly dirty, but their prosecution was the highest profile one post-2008 and it was more an insider trading case, not actually going after CDO fraud. No one at AIG-FP or Goldman Sachs got prosecuted, almost none got prosecuted anywhere.

Flash Crash -- lets find a young Indian guy and blame it on him.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-flash-cr... Nevermind that spoofing is a widespread industry practice in America...

Prosecutors will go after easy cases AND those that quell public calls for blood. Holmes does not "look" criminal to the typical American, so I bet she walks away -- your average voter/citizen would not be happy if she goes to prison. My bet is a lower-level Chinese/Indian/Mexican(!) or some other minority goes to jail for this. They may well be guilty so I wont argue it is cooked-up or anything, but likely wont be the actual [white] person at the top.
Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election
I think only five guys qualifies as nationwide as the others are only on s could of states. But you have burgerville on the wrong end of the spectrum.
Bloggers: Read this before moving to https
Just a quick duck duck go search returns these:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/24/spy_vs_spy_america_and_i...

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/05/16/israel-wont-stop-spying-u...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2009/03/12/israeli-spying-in-the...

http://www.timesofisrael.com/new-nsa-document-highlights-isr...
She's not using Spotify for performances - she's using it for discovering and selecting music. Once she knows her tracks, then she buys them.
Thanks for mentioning it regardless! I guess you are bound to miss something when sifting through past work on a topic.
The burger is basically "American food" it really is hard to find outside of USA. And usually it isn't good, the meat tastes odd. This is even true at places like McDonald's outside of USA.
I am incredibly thankful for the internet, and to all the people who have created and shared videos and wrote books that helped to pull me out of the deep dark hole of ignorance/hopelessness/depression.

I come from a pretty dark environment, and I can't count the times when the access to the internet and information created by brilliant people have literally saved my life. And, perhaps more importantly, made it worth living.

I am thankful for Owen Cook, Paul Graham, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Ayn Rand, Dan Harmon, Randall Munroe, Louis CK, and countless other brilliant and bright people. They are my heroes, they have created things that inspired me, and taught me about the world, and brought a lot of joy into my life.

----

I am also very thankful for the fact that I have discovered 3D graphics at a very early age. It showed me what it feels like to be extremely passionate about something, and how awesome and fun it can be to create things. It taught me to think and to learn things and to care about my craft, and to pursue mastery at what I do. It drove me to learn English language and, ultimately, opened to me the world of everything else that I love and care about.
I noticed the exact same thing. Read about their load testing in the paper, did a quick back of the envelope, and concluded before the census that they hadn't texted big enough.

Which brings us back to another question: was there even a DOS attack? I've seen any little technical details on the attacks, and I know myself, like a lot of other Australians logged on behind vpns. When the site wouldn't load, of course we hit refresh...
Agreed. I heard there is a bunch of actual racism going on in Chile precisely for those reasons, but I guess it mostly happens at the upper echelons and with certain people with poor educational backgrounds.
Still the best way to explain net neutrality to a layman.
So FWIW, I asked about how Redhat signs their packages some time ago (about 6-7 years ago!) and was introduced to Fedora's "Signing Server" service, which is entirely open source. The email in full is:

Hi Jeff, good to hear from you.

There's really two parts to our signing server; the first is the
separation of signing to a separate machine with the associated
client/server and ACL controls, and the second is the interface to the
nCipher HSM. The first part we've not made open because it's quite
specific to Red Hat internal build systems and our kerberos setup.

The second part is mostly straightforward use of nCipher utilities but
includes a patch to GNUpg which I was originally going to make public
but came into difficulty because it requires headers from the nCipher
developer kit, and linking to it, and it's under a very non-compatible
license. Given the cost of nCipher HSM units we didn't think other
projects would want that solution either.

So I'd actually prefer to point you to the work that has been done on
a signing server for Fedora, which is open. See
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/Projects/SigningServer
The Fedora folks looked into various hardware solutions too which were
cheaper and didn't have the proprietary API issues, I can't find a
link to that at the moment but Jesse Keating
should be able to give you more info.

Hope that's a good starting point...

If anyone is interested, the project is actually named Sigul and is located at:

https://fedorahosted.org/sigul/
TIL. Not sure where I heard that. I'm having trouble finding good information on caps vs. batteries in this respect but I was definitely wrong. Thanks!
>What is a problem geometric mean solve?

I have stock position which changed in value by a factor of 1.10 2007, by a factor of 0.80 2008 by a factor of 1.15 2009. Is there any sort of representative number x for how much the value changed per year?
The final value of my stock position should come out the same when using x for every year, i.e. x * x * x = 1.10 * 0.80 * 1.15
A little off-topic, but why is there just so much good music out of Montreal? And any more good recs for somebody who likes swa-swally and mstrkrft?
Also, instead of down-voting inconvenient facts presented with examples perhaps post counter-examples. Or just continue to live in a pretend-bubble i suppose.
Liquidity that brings with it random, often unexplained volatility... But yes, I would probably buy the brick, and can understand why people lucky enough to have colo servers do this.
Air to breathe, water to drink, sunshine and my family.
Neural Net Trained on Mugshots Predicts Criminals
In another article [1] it says "Currently Renaissance has three funds: Medallion, Renaissance Institutional Equities Fund and Renaissance Institutional Futures Fund. The latter two have been open to investors, but losses and withdrawls have left the funds wilted ($30 billion to $6 billion in three years)."

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/bob-mercer-peter-brown-2010-3
Actually the banks are slowly realizing that. They have made it impossible to open new savings accounts for instance.
That's an understatement.

The best computer algos beat humans at chess by a huge margin, to the point a regular PC beats Carlsen (and I heard even the best smartphone apps beat him).

Carlsen's ELO rating = 2853

Top chess program ELO rating =	3381

The number of DIFFERENT programs stronger than Carlsen = 59

http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/

https://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=men
The new MacBook Pro
Mutable shared environments is an absolutely terrible idea. All this achieves is to gratuitously make it unsafe to call in parallel multiple closures created in the same environment. A saner approach is to let variable bindings be immutable, and only then let some variables have (not necessarily static) type “mutable cell” (something like Rust's `Rc` or `Arc`).
How can intervention help in Venezuela's case, if what led them to this situation was enough of the population supported the policies that got them into this trouble in the first place? An intervention won't necessarily change the population's expressed preference for these policies, and in fact the argument can be made that an intervention teaches the population that they can vote for the same set of policies again, as they will learn from an intervention that they eventually be bailed out.

There is a lot of human misery that an intervention will mitigate to be sure, but unless the population votes against these policies, all I see is the misery metastasizes into an even greater tragedy down the line. How can we structure an intervention to prevent that, then?
Some suggest each party should have a set of machines, so that the interest tension would cancel errors a lot.
Previous discussion on arXiv paper:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12983827
The Karakoram Highway, between Pakistan and China, is an amazing engineering achievement.

The cartoonist and author Ted Rall has visited Central Asia many times.

http://rall.com/2009/06/04/the-karakoram-highway
You really don't want to use redlock: http://martin.kleppmann.com/2016/02/08/how-to-do-distributed...

Antirez's rebuttle didn't really rebuke martin's overall theory that redlock is a very bad locking algorithm: http://antirez.com/news/101
https://www.amazon.com/When-Genius-Failed-Long-Term-Manageme...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management

> Initially successful with annualized return of over 21% (after fees) in its first year, 43% in the second year and 41% in the third year, in 1998 it lost $4.6 billion in less than four months following the 1997 Asian financial crisis and 1998 Russian financial crisis requiring financial intervention by the Federal Reserve, with the fund liquidating and dissolving in early 2000.
Incredibly thankful for the opportunity to have moved to the US 10 years ago. It's not a perfect country -- but there is no other place I like to call home today.
How do we know those returns are real? $1 million invested at the beginning would be worth $4.5 billion today at 35% return per year.
Stories of IBM versus state or national governments come up fairly regularly. This one is unusual that IBM was actually found guilty/culpable/whatever. Usually they weasel out on some contractual loop hole.
https://aphyr.com/posts/283-jepsen-redis
Volatility hasn't changed much since the 70's:

https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-62a6ee89ddc1c930de9afb...
That's heartwarming. Can I ask where are you coming from originally?
Click baity title. At $2000 USD a square foot, they're only building test roads.
> It sounds rather convenient, unless we expressly want to do something non-hygienic.

Agreed. I wouldn't want to do anything non-hygienic, but, from what I can tell, most other macro users aren't exactly very fond of everything being strictly hygienic. It's precisely implementing the unhygienic bits that would be unreasonably hard with HOAS.
I am not sure if it's secrecy or safety. Tr sorry about the orange aside, it seems the concern is less about whether an outsider would see a sphere and know that it is cricitcal to the design, and more that a scientist might leave an important model or an actual plutonium put out where it shouldn't be, and now only another scientist can tell that it's out of place. Seems reasonable to say "anything that looks like a plutonium pit should stay locked up or an alarm should be raised."
So... just like this one by wapost ?
We currently support MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. I have the ability technically to support MS SQL Server as well but I am still working on making it a cost effective solution. Microsoft's license model makes it rather expensive.

What engine would you be looking to use?
I think you can make Cassandra "C" by using quorum reads and writes. Also they support some SERIAL consistency level, which uses PAXOS underneath, and supposedly achieves consistency as well.
It should be mentioned that Matthew Green linked the above blog entry in the article, so if you didn't read either post, you should.
I am interested to go Tokyo (maybe work there), whats your email address?
Oh god, imagine being in a self driving car that does it's computing in the cloud - and then you enter a tunnel.

Obviously cars are not really power or space limited and they can't rely in connectivity. But it's funny to think about anyway.
Note: This is merely my opinion...

The only way they're making money like this is by cheating the system. I highly suspect they're using their public funds to feed data into their private one in order to siphon off profits. It's like a pyramid scheme except the mechanism of moving money is a form of market manipulation and this article is playing right into their hands by making them sound like geniuses ("it's all scientists!"). Clearly, if this business is run by "smart people" (scientists) then their other two funds--which are actually accessible--must be promising! Right!?

TL;DR: The investors in the public funds are likely being scammed.
Who is paying for this idiocy?

Solar Roadways's test installation has been an absolute disaster.