skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Notepad++ heavily relies on Win32 API, porting it to another platform is like writing new editor. There are a lot of good cross platform text editors, devote some time learning one of them.
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As others have said ASICs have made it impossible to mine Bitcoin on normal hardware at any sort of profit. However, there are many ASIC-resistant cryptocurrencies out there that may be worth looking into. The most well-known is Ethereum, but there are others with different strategies. Which would be best probably depends on your specific hardware (some are probably more CPU-friendly while others are better for GPUs).
Ohio, residential home, Zillow = $310,000, sold for $210,000
I get a little bit of exposure to white nationalist blogs since they are occasionally quoted by neoreactionary blogs. I don't agree with their normative conclusions at all, but their factual claims seem reasonably accurate.

There was a great article on this recently: http://hurryupharry.org/2016/11/27/who-gave-us-post-truth-co...

Some years ago, a friend sent me a shocking article. It said hundreds of British girls were being systematically gang-raped by Muslim gangs. It claimed this was being covered-up. I’ve never had time for conspiracy theories, especially when they look as hateful as those in the article....I wrote a curt reply to my friend: “I’d appreciate it if you didn’t send me made-up crap from neo-Nazi websites”.

Some months later, I read the seminal exposé of the (mainly) ethnic-Pakistani grooming gang phenomenon by Andrew Norfolk in The Sunday Times.

Of all the people pushing for Facebook to suppress "fake news", I've not heard a single one that had a plausible mechanism to make sure true stories like this don't also get suppressed.
There was no such thing. I remember one case when some guy was fired because his employer didn't like his comment on immigrants and that was pretty much all. No one from the left has ever claimed that people should be fired because of their opinions.
It's an enormous number. Less than a half percent is still nearly one in 200. That means it either happens in most schools, or it happens a lot in some schools.

Just once would be an outrage in most western countries. The fact that there's no outrage about this in the US, shows that it's accepted. Maybe not everywhere, but in enough places to reach this big number. The fact that it's permitted at all shows that it's accepted. And that's just the school. If it's this accepted to do it at school, how common is it really at home?

But I suppose it fits the general American love for harsh punishment. I think it's also the only western country that still has the death sentence, and it has more people in prison than any other country in the world.
1. Games are great, especially the closer they get to the real 3d worlds with all the basic visual transforms in play. You can generate training data cheaper that helps you bootstrap the AI.

2. Your argument, which boils down to large organizations can accomplish more than individuals is in general true. But then that isn't saying anything new. Still, I'd prefer the car company give its blueprints than not. My factory (my cpu) can then at least build the car, albeit at a smaller scale. And soon my factory will be bigger/cheaper. Yeah I know, I'd like to be wealthy like Google too.

3. This is your own value judgement. The insight that we simplify AI architecture to some addition and multiplication is a big idea - in my opinion. Transistors are getting cheaper and I believe they will continue to do so. DNN are better suited to take advantage of this new computing power. Turns out, all those great discoveries were just some multiplications and adds the whole time ;)
Only because its not profitable yet? Or do you have some other reason?

Why wouldn't they, have they demonstrated some level of ethics or concern for personal privacy?
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I can't help but picture Indiana Jones swiping the golden idol from the pedestal with one hand, and quickly replacing it with a bag of sand using the other hand.
Yeah, or it's an incentive to not shop there at all. You can't just use "incentive" as a reason why you expect to succeed with a UX that punishes your users for small mistakes.
> people shouldn't rely on them as a career

Nobody thinks of that as a career, but 4.5 million people seem to rely on it for income nonetheless.
Articles and the comments they spawn are a bit weird, honestly. Let's talk about face recognition tech in Russia, and how creepy it makes them.

Meanwhile it's not creepy at all that "Half of American Adults Are in Police Facial-Recognition Databases":

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/10/half-o...
Presumably there will be some terms and conditions that require you to examine the receipt for the visit and make good any omissions. I don't suppose it would be impossible for Amazon to protect themselves from this kind of loss.
I think it's highly dependent on whether the signal has to jump a breaker or not. Anecdotally, I saw roughly 40 MB/s on the same breaker and 3 MB/s on a different breaker.
Joel Califa's "Patronizing Passwords" has some great examples: http://joelcalifa.com/blog/patronizing-passwords/
I've heard this argument a lot--that the first true general AI may lead to to extremely rapid advances in GAI capabilities (through one means or another), and it will be impossible to do damage control after the fact if something goes wrong because the world will change effectively overnight. This would imply that GAI is worth talking about now even if we suspect it won't happen for a long time.

If we accept that GAI is far off, though, it's very likely that we simply can't have a productive conversation about it at this time. In fact, such conversations could even be counterproductive if we make incorrect assumptions, leading to the illusion of safety.

Most talks about the dangers of AI assume we'll one day finally "break through" and create a metaphorical ghost in the machine, at which point all bets are off. However, this scenario seems awfully unlikely to me. Human intelligence is far beyond that of any other known organism, but there are plenty of intelligent animals on Earth, and the process of solving GAI will almost certainly produce intelligence on par with those animals before it breaks through to human-level intelligence. Dog-level intelligence is a decent milestone; at that point, we'll clearly have created GAI in the sense of creating a being that can exhibit truly "intelligent" behavior (including emotions), but it's clearly not intelligent enough to cause any problems that are specific to GAI. The rebuttal to this argument is that a generalized learning algorithm running on a computer will be far more powerful than a dog's brain, but it's fallacious to assume that the only difference between a dog and a human is the processing powers of their brains. That would imply that a bigger brain (however you choose to measure it) is all that's needed to create more intelligence. As far as we can tell, this isn't true, and architectural differences (which imply "software" differences) seem important for creating higher intelligence.

When we do get to GAI, we don't know if it'll be through software running on a "normal" computer, or if it'll be running on specialized hardware in a specialized shell designed to navigate a real environment, or if it'll be in some other form that we haven't really thought of yet. The dangers and resolutions are very different between those forms, and when we don't seem close to GAI at all, it can be argued that talk about its "dangers" may be a complete waste of time, or perhaps even counterproductive to safety in the long-run.
It is very odd-looking.

And it's really slow.

It took me 55 seconds to load the page (42 of which went into downloading a 6 MB large GIF). 40+ requests. And it doesn't seem like a slow Internet problem at all.
I remember the long faces, when i took my programming class through the introduction of floating points to the windows calculator- and they realized that this thing makes mistakes-
(x/(9^64))*(9^64) != x

And then the dawning realization, what fights the future would hold for them...
My take is that a foil-lined bag will bypass the whole system.
Generally speaking gradle plugins take a very declarative syntax. Yes, it's easy to write non-declarative builds in Gradle, but that's what is awesome about it. Start with fully declarative builds, then add in non-declarative tasks if/when you need them.
I'll add them to the filter list, thanks Dan!
There's also https://wakari.io/ by continuum analytics. Can anyone summarize the differences?
On the contrary, DeepMind is a subsidiary in the new alphabet structure and is looking at a stick wielding CFO with a profitability question on her face.

If they don't figure out compelling products in reasonable time, the researchers will become part of google research (maybe retaining the deepmind name as part of a group within google research) and the engineers will become absorbed or find new jobs. Also, DeepMind is not such a big name outside our little geek community. Try it with someone :)
Not as crazy as it sounds. With RAIN Rfid you can get the xyz location of a tag from ~30ft away accurate to 6" in realtime.

Examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1LykdRWTfk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hCA8L7v-R8
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Thank you for sharing this! I grew up in PA where we have a lot of monuments and such to Lafayette, but I knew nothing of this Spanish involvement. Crazy. The French blockade having been able to sail b/c of the support of Spain wasn't even something I was aware of.

Awesome.
Zillow isn't accurate for Austin.

Using two identical homes in my neighborhood about 3 doors apart from each other, mine / neighbors.

Zillow - $387,546 / $384,326

Redfin - $417,808 / $420,737

TCAD - $368,876 / 372,802

(Recent Appraisal) $427,000 / (Recent Sale) $429,000

What's worse, is that when I contested my taxes Zillow used the TCAD numbers to lower the value of my home on their site. Uh... Zillow, you know it's in our best interest to contest our taxes, right? Has nothing really to do with the value of our homes... it's a mix of us wanting to pay less and the City / County wanting us to pay more.

I'm sure there are more scientific studies, but for my house I'd say Zillow is ~10% under-market. When I went in to contest my taxes this last year, I was told by a friendly TCAD employee that Redfin numbers were better and that I should use Redfin when trying to cite examples of comparable properties with lower taxable values.

Keep in mind most of the value depends on your realtor's ability to show the house, how well you stage your house, and the number of of interested buyers.
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Does it use a trie? If not, it probably should. Here's a wonderful talk on using that datastructure (with go) for the gov uk url router:

https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2013/12/05/building-a-new-...

The Vulcan proxy from Mailgun does the same thing:

http://vulcand.github.io/proxy.html#route

It looks like it doesn't, so existing open source golang url routers will perform much better, contrary to this post. The one in vuland is interesting in that it supports both regex AND tries, so you get the best of both.

Additionally, httprouter (golang) uses a trie and is fast as hell:

https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter

Edit: Adding another one (thanks buro9!) that is used in production by CloudFlare:

https://github.com/pressly/chi
There are countless startups tackling the recruiter side of job application tracking (Applicant Tracking Systems), however I noticed a lack of tools catered to the job seeker.

This project originated from a need I had to keep track of the jobs I was interested in, and which ones of those I'd already applied to. In the past, I'd used a spreadsheet, but that isn't very user friendly or portable.

JobTrack lets you input job information and keep track of the status of each of your applications. You can also import a job posting from a URL. As you move through the pipleline for each application and update JobTrack accordingly, you can see stats related to the progress of your job search. JobTrack will also remind you to apply to jobs you're interested in, and follow up with ones you've applied to.

I'll be continuing to add features in the coming weeks and months and would greatly appreciate feedback, specifically around:
* Whats good and what isn't? Why?
* What do you wish the app did?

Thanks!
If all merchandise in the Amazon Go store have been RFID tagged, this is a non-issue for checkout, as the turnstile tag scanner should be able to sense the items you take out of the store. As far as randomly put back at a different place of the items, the staff can use the tag scanner to detect that and fix it up even easier as oppose to physically locate the item by human vision which is arguably harder and less efficiently.

We don't know the details yet but RFID may solve this issue completely.
You can add Voat to the list, it has one of the most frustrating sign-up processes known to man. Most of the rules are hidden until you solve the captcha and press submit.
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Agreed. If you're going to try to do any sort of data-driven study, citing a sample size of 3 houses per market is ineffective and very likely to be misleading.
It may have lost relevance at MIT but all around London, companies are still using examples from SICP in their programming interviews and tests. Does this mean these selection schemes are stupid and irrelevant or does SICP still possess the power to sway and influence? Just not in the way the authors expected?
In the same spirit, can we please do away with the idea of expiring passwords -- and then enforcing that we can't even re-use our last X number of passwords. It just causes locked out accounts, written down passwords or adding on one more of whatever character was at the end.
The standard HUD uniform residential appraisal report requires a cost to build estimate. I have never seen one without that estimate completed. However, I bought a home last month which had 2 different appraisals done on it, and neither one had any weight given to the cost to build. (Despite the fact that the appraiser claims otherwise, I can mathematically prove that there was no weight given to that method.)
First, the whole "tiger mom" thing is not universal. And more to the point, does not mean the sort of constant monitoring like in the US. In Korea and Japan (don't know about Singapore), independence in young children is highly valued. Many grade schools in Japan, for example, require that children go to school on their own. At six years old, they walk, take the subway, etc. Parents routinely send six, seven or eight year olds out alone on errands.

Japan even has a TV show that follows around little kids being sent out on their first independent task. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5k5XTZy0rA

Expecting and demanding high achievement is not the same thing as smothering children with constant monitoring.
I think the false DFS hits are an FCC issue -- I've used radios from multiple vendors, and any that have been recently certified (Such as Mimosa, Ubiquiti Airmax AC) all have false DFS issues. The older lines(such as Rocket M series) do not. I've deployed over 100 Rocket M series and never once have seen a false DFS hit on them. I believe the FCC updated the trigger requirements for a DFS shutdown which greatly increased the possibility of a false positive.

Airfibers are our choice any time there is interference. They handle it better than any other radio we've tested. Have you found another vendor that can handle it better? Obviously there would be no comparison against a licensed setup.

As for the AF24, they're not an option in Florida for distances over 1 mile due to rain fade. They are great radios, but 24ghz is not a viable frequency if you need it to work when it's humid, foggy, or raining.
Tesco started that back in the late 90s and Sainsburys also did it 5+ years ago, then Tesco seems to have had another go at it recently.

edit: Safeway was first, in 1997

The Camden store illustrates the progress Safeway has made in other directions too. As part of its customer friendliness, Safeway was the first of the major food multiples to introduce self-scanning, the system it calls Shop & Go.

http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/uk-safeway-follows-leader/a...
Well here's why someone should care about fake news: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2016/12/04/d-c-...

I won't answer whether that entity should be Facebook. But when people start getting shot at and transparently disreputable demagogues start getting elected I would say the conversation at least has to begin.
those two things are directly related. People need to stop being blind about the fact that yes, there will be mass unemployment soon.
An AI which can learn any game from "looking" at a screen is a very ambitious goal. I doubt it is achievable in the near term. Humans can do it because of years of learning about the world. Personally, I prefer the more modest and achievable goal of teaching an AI to play complex real-time games such as Starcraft, LoL, and Dota--especially the latter 2 since they are team games.
I had to fill out this form: "Fragebogen zur steuerlichen Erfassung" and I have to report my VAT using the Elster system monthly, even though my VAT is always 0 (my clients are all outside of the EU).

I went this way after consulting some other folks in Berlin and a tax consultant that I found myself. I'm kind of surprised that there's a different, easier way to go. Thanks for sharing the information.
These are good questions. Let me hit them up in order.

> Are these customers who have already committed money/signed contracts? Or, would these be considered more like warm prospects?

Say a customer I have talked to on the phone or otherwise convinced to sell. Need to do a little discussion and a little work, and get them set up. I vetted them as a real customer, and they vetted me as sounding interesting. Historically at least a 75% chance to pay at this time.

> How long are they having to wait between decision and implementation? Do customers in this backlog know what kind of wait time they are facing under your current solo part-time commitment? Are they willing to wait? Or, are you losing customers to other competitors or internal solutions because of the wait time?

1-3 week range. I don't think I am losing a ton.

> What is the dollar value of your current backlog? If for example it was another $2000 in monthly revenue that is committed but at risk if you don't deliver fast - I would encourage you toward greater commitment try for a small business loan or take on your more personal sources of investment that you mention in option 3. On the other hand if the backlog is something more like $500 in monthly revenue I might suggest that you continue with #1 because your growth curve might already be slowing down.

Closer to $500 in backlog. Here is the part of the story that perhaps I did not express fully.

1) I am spending like $20 a month on google adwords. I have some very hot words. I could up it to $20 a day, and probably get 2-3x the new customer flow I do now. I do not, because my backlog would go insane. Perhaps I should do it anyway though :)

2) I have some complex customers I am turning away. They would be good for pretty good money (perhaps $500 MRR each), but I cannot yet deal with them. I know part of a young business is turning away things that are too much work, but if I scaled up and had money - I totally know I could deal with them.

So I think more than the raw backlog leaving money on the table, is #1 and #2 above leaving money on the table.
> There's a random chance that your scanner will be audited by a human against the contents of your shopping cart. Usually the first time you use it, then it backs off.

I must be really suspicious-looking because I've been subjected to a "random audit" all 5 times I used it. Gave up because with a weekly shop it's quicker to go to an actual checkout than having someone scan all of my items again.

The idea's good, but my experience of the execution has been bad.
Comparables are what a Zestimate is without the BS "special sauce" that Zillow makes you think exists. Comparables are free, and based on existing property market data (typically sold similar properties looking back a certain period of time).

https://www.biggerpockets.com/rei/real-estate-comps-house-va...

Yet again the tech community believing a problem exists to be solved that has already been solved.

> In most markets comparables are acquired through an MLS database, and access to MLS is usually not free.

This is true; you need to pay for access to the data source (no different than having to pay for access to equities market data). Redfin succeeds at this because they're a brokerage that happens to be a tech company, unlike Zillow who tries to just pay for feeds (that usually have stale data).
You can upgrade the system to have private communication with a public-private key system. I thought about ways to make it work otherwise and I can't come up with any. I don't think that regular zkp techniques will work here. Interesting problem though.
As far as I can tell, Zestimate works by taking prices of recently sold nearby houses and then estimate gain over previously sold prices or the property tax estimates. If Zillow wasn't in the picture, you would likely do the same thing. This obviously would generate inaccurate estimates if house wasn't in market since many years or if nearby houses are too different or too few. Another source of inaccuracy is that they don't seem to take in account school zoning very well. So house in good school area can inflate price of nearby house which doesn't have same school.

In my experience, Zillow has played big part in house pricing. Seller in hot market will almost always set the max of Zestimate and price in their mind. That prices decreases only slowly over time if buyers don't show up. In hot market usually some sucker will show up anyway and Zestimate becomes self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Feature-wise yes but Notepad++ is much much faster in my experience, closer to Sublime Text.
What's your point? If a random pick-pocketer steals a phone from me, they don't care about accessing my data. If they wanted to, it's easier with face/fingerprint recognition. Just grab my picture from facebook/twitter/find me by email or phone number, fingerprints are on my phone, batter, sim card, screen... everywhere. It's slightly more expensive than printing my picture from facebook but many times proven, doable. On the other hand... how can you guess my pattern lock or SHITYPassword1111?

If I'm a victim of a targetted attack, better not to have a phone at all.
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