skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Israeli bank websites export an HTML table and call the file "foo.xls", and it works quite well.
> But I've given up at aiming at perfectionism in programming.

Optional typing is the sweet spot.
The main thing for me is split panes, but I don't primarily use an editor like Emacs that can do split panes, and I never bothered to learn tmux (iTerm does have neat tmux integration though)
Remembers me the Wilhelm scream (not the sound, but being used everywhere).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio
A while ago I wrote about how AI might be trained on a data set and then used to form the basis of an alternative cryptocurrency for data mining. I.E. maybe you train the AI to recognize images of mountains and then use that as your proof-of-work algorithm to reward "miners" for finding related images on the Internet.

What I never imagined is that you might outsource the process of building that AI itself as a separate entity (maybe even a separate blockchain.) You could do the entire thing with commitments:

* Build a blockchain that is about rewarding data scientists for predictive models on data sets.

* Commit to a hash of a data set (the challenge to the network.)

* Hash enters chain.

* Release data set.

* Give them a dead line for a solution after which they commit to a hash of their solution / predictive model along with an ECDSA pub key for a reward.

* Solutions are released after N blocks.

* Top N solutions automatically receive rewards in this new cryptoasset.

* Zero trust would be required since it operate on outcomes that anyone can check.

* (This could also be done as an Ethereum smart contract instead of a blockchain.)

Scaling that would be quite hard though and you would need to use standard proof-of-work to avoid attacks.

IMO: What I find the most interesting about this article is that they're using masked data as the input which I think is the kind of futuristic cipherpunk vision a lot of people had in mind for Ethereum when it launched. Ethereum + AI + crypto + game theory is a match made in heaven and we probably haven't even scratched the surface of what's possible in this space. I can't wait to see the kinds of things people come up with in the future.

Edit: formatting.
Wikipedia is not intended as a marketing channel for products.
> No OS license key

Not something you see as a user, at least on the Surface.

> No "Patch Tuesday"

Because Apple leaves you running vulnerable software for months at a time. (Remember the zlib double free?)

> No finger pointing between hardware vendor and OS vendor. No third party drivers necessary to clean boot.

Not an issue with Surface.

> Fantastic, fully native support for the wealth of open-source software available for UNIX/BSD.

"Linux on Windows" may theoretically be non-native but it's a better experience than mac - real apt-get, install anything that works on Ubuntu without having to compile anything yourself. And has OSX figured out how to display any OSS GUIs yet?
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It's 3 reverts in 24h, for what it's worth. You have to have a very trigger-happy editor.
This is the best article I've seen that describes the huge advantage of composability:

Why Atom can't replace Vim: https://medium.com/@mkozlows/why-atom-cant-replace-vim-43385...
You hit the nail on the head. There is real wisdom in your last sentence, and it's something I've come to know recently.

In the end, it is unlikely that all of us will have an impact that goes beyond our local community. What is the point of endlessly fretting over things far removed from us, and far out of our control? We can't all be heroes, and we can't all be a guiding light for the world, so what can we do?

We can be a force for good in our local community! I think it's the healthiest mindset to have, even if you do want to stay informed about world events.
It directly answers why a person might have a glass-half-empty perspective about piecemeal environmental efforts, like a billion dollars won't begin to undo the damage of Trump's appointments. Sounds relevant to me.
Since cheap USB-C cables and chargers are known for destroying laptops [1] I would heed the parent's advice.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11021665
John Glenn and Charles Lindberg, the Unknown Story (3 min video)
"Our AI models show that California will sink into the ocean, and you'll be ahead of the curve with your own Arizona Bay beachfront property!"
Uber doing shitty illegal things. News at 11
FWIW I already have both of those.
https://hyper.is
It blew my mind when I learned how magnetism is a consequence of special relativity.
Every single thing you're describing here is catastrophic and world-ending.

The world without oil looks like North Korea. The world with oil looks like South Korea.

Without fertilizer there will be mass starvation, this is absolutely assured. It doesn't matter about production or transport. There won't be any food in the first place.
Saw The Arrival the other day and it was constantly blaring this at me. Kind of off putting. When I was at all taken into any moment throughtout the film I was jarred out immediately by this.
and when nothing pans out, promise AI/ML 2.0 will solve everything.

you're all idiots.
> But when real people use the term bias in real conversations, they aren't typically approximating the statistical meaning. Rather, they are typically referring to some a priori ethical limitations on decision making.

What many common people mean by bias is approximately the statistical meaning. For example, if the algorithm accurately predicts the number of white defendants who fail to appear in court but overestimates the number of black defendants who fail to appear, people in common usage will call that bias. Which it is, in the statistical sense.

But if a higher percentage of black defendants actually fail to appear than white defendants, and the algorithm accurately predicts that outcome, that isn't bias in the statistical sense. And the people who try to conflate those things are doing this:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-bric...

The second thing is not only not bias, it's not morally objectionable. Statistical bias is the thing which is morally objectionable. Calling something else "bias" is not just inaccurate, it leads directly to a false moral conclusion.
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> Yep. And this argument is in parity with those people who wear white robes with pointy hats, and burn crosses in people's yards whom they do not like.

Erm...is it? I thought that groups' entire mindset came from some religious interpretation of doing a deity's work. Maybe I'm wrong, but when a bunch of people(such as those that you mention) are so ridiculously self-destructive, I can only assume some-or-other <insert-religious-stupidity> is behind it.

I'm not making a case for any of the things you mention(sterilization...really!?). I'm making a case for the working people building a working civilization and non-working people can't participate or benefit.
It's not just the hardware either, it's the drivers. Try using bootcamp on a macbook pro. The previously-perfect trackpad becomes unusable. There is an apple-recommended driver you can install that helps, but not much.
Thanks for the heads up, fixed! Looks like their website requires the www. prefix or it doesn't work at all.
Elmx: JSX for Elm
Sounds good to me...?

Strange how all of the sudden everyone wants the wasteful F-35 program to continue just because Trump is now against it.

One of the few good Trump campaign promises, and seemingly the only one he's shown that he intends to keep so far, is that of cutting wasteful DoD programs. People should be happy about this, especially Democrats.

The same thing happened with TPP when Trump "killed it" (but Obama actually did it two weeks earlier when he announced the TPP won't be ratified anymore). Everyone was suddenly all for the TPP because Trump "killed it".

It's a wild ride to be relatively impartial and see all of these radical and irrational changes in sentiment about a policy simply based on who is in the White House.

Policies should be supported or opposed based on principle. You can't be against cutting obvious government waste, and then pro it, depending on whether it's your guy or the other guy in office. That's how terrible things are allowed to happen under the guise of "our guy did it, so it's okay".
I thought the difference was being paid.
A lot of people suggest CMDER these days. Looks like it is a fork of ConEmu.
It's a shell (think iTerm2 like) built using Electron (aka web technologies in a native wrapper).
"Some people are property", as abhorrent as it is, is markedly different from "all people are property".
At Sumo Logic we do "grep in cloud as a service". We use machine learning to do pattern clustering. Using lines of text to learn printfs they came from.

The primary advantage for customer is easier to use and troubleshoot faster.

https://www.sumologic.com/resource/featured-videos/demo-sumo...
If you could afford to eat at both, if the difference in cost was mostly inconsequential, which one would you choose on a regular basis?
The entire product I built over the last year can be reduced to basic statistics (e.g. ratios, probabilities) but because of the hype train we build "models" and "predict" certain outcomes over a data set.

One of the products the company I work for sells more or less attempts to find duplicate entries in a large, unclean data set with "machine learning."

The value added isn't in the use of ML techniques itself, it's in the hype train that fills the Valley these days: our customers see "Data Science product" and don't get that it's really basic predictive analytics under the hood. I'm not sure the product would actually sell as well as it does without that labeling.

To clarify: the company I work for actually uses ML. I actually work on the data science team at my company. My opinion is that we don't actually need to do these things, as our products are possible to create without the sophistication of even the basic techniques, but that battle was lost before I joined.
It's a terminal emulator that's configurable/extendable with JS, HTML and CSS.
Let me guess. Singapore? Good news is, an Apple store is coming.
Amusingly, this attack on the basis of "out of control costs" comes just a few weeks after the finalized contract for Low Initial Rate Production Lot 10 of the F-35 [0], which brings the cost of an F-35A model (the model the US is producing the most of both for itself and for foreign sales) to its lowest ever figure (about $80 million or so).

[0] http://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract-View/Article/...
Having been pretty close to many mobile apps that came out of NBC in the early boom days, I can confirm that this was the case for many/most of the apps I ever touched. Most of them were pretty bad, just RSS driven web pages in a native wrapper. Getting the brand onto users' devices was the primary goal, experience be damned. I can't speak to Breaking News, that was a different team.
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Many confuse hardware differences (low-DPI versus high-DPI screens) with operating system differences.

Windows has had sub-pixel text alignment and LCD-oriented anti-aliasing ("ClearType") for, what, a decade? Text on my 267-DPI Surface Book looks absolutely amazing, and obviously text on a 226-DPI Macbook will look great as well.

For those who are not confused by hardware differences, I suspect the remaining matters are taste and familiarity. Having used Windows for a long time, my preference is for Windows' rendering and I find the rendering on macOS to be odd and uncomfortable. I'm struggling to find the right adjective—perhaps too comical or whimsical? Overall font selections and rendering don't seem as crisp and professional as on Windows.

Windows also supports ligatures and advanced kerning, so text on a web browser with good Windows API support (e.g., Edge or Firefox) looks fantastic. (Chrome was a notable laggard here, refusing to use modern Windows text rendering APIs for a very long time.)
There's a little magic -- by keeping your body in a state of ketosis, you end up with a lot less in the way of blood sugar fluctuations that can lead to cravings.
only if it has giant eyeballs and doesn't disappear no matter how hard you try to make it go away... Otherwise, it just seems disingenuous.
thanks for the suggestion. Ill give it a try
[video] 23 Visualizations and When to Use Them
Buzzfeed cites a study, links to the results and calculations, and gives good detail on the methodology, sample size, etc.

They've also been using their clickbait revenues to do some great long-form journalism, like https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertsamaha/a-matter-of-time.

You're really not selling me on your ability to solve bias issues.
Ah right, split panes are pretty nifty. Very easy to do in Emacs and convenient too. When I'm using Terminal.app, I just use two windows and place them side-by-side if needed. But most of the time a single windows suffice for the small things I'm doing.
> Richard Strauss was a genius, following in the footsteps and improving on Wagner.

Yup.

For some more good Richard Strauss, there is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuS337uc-4Y

with the scene of the presentation of the rose from his opera Der Rosenkavalier (rose carrier) where the two women are Anne Sophie von Otter (Octavian) and Barbara Bonney (Sophie). So, in the story Octavian is dressed as a man and is delivering the rose to Sophie, the one dressed as a woman. Super nice singing by the female voices with a super nice duet. Bonney is cute as a kitten.
Its something along the lines of a collective. Trying to capture the feeling/environment of PARC. At its simplest everyone pitches in to cover facilities costs and shared healthcare under enough legal cover that it can be considered a "business" but entirely employee owned.

Oddly the challenge can be where do excess profits go. (I have to presume that some of the projects the group or subgroups work on would achieve a modicum of income or value) trying to have a plan for that.
It's not a shell, it's a terminal emulator.

A shell is the program that handles the words you type into your terminal emulator.
At first glance I was thinking the same thing! Then I realized it was a JS terminal emulator... sigh
Linuxserver do some superb containers, including that one, they deserve a lot of thanks.

From memory I use three of theirs at least (Unifi, NZBGet & Sonarr)
According to their site[0], Hyper is a terminal emulator (like xterm) written 100% in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is released under the MIT License.

This is definitely not obvious from the release notes.

[0] https://hyper.is/
Detecting fraud. I work for a credit card company.

Not really a new application though...
> I was never happy because while the food and ambience were good...

...supply and demand. That you were willing to eat there despite the higher prices suggests you found value in the food. You can bitch about higher prices all you want, but you paid them.

Likewise, for a lot of professionals the difference between a $3000 MacBook and a $1500 Windows notebook over the lifespan of 3-4 years is inconsequential. You could easily make up the difference by brewing your own coffee versus getting something at a store.
I'm starting to hear the 'Transformers' noise everywhere now, too. It's some algorithmic creation of noises that I would describe as insectoid and metallic.
Have you read Jeff Atwood's Meta is Murder, and his subsequent Listen to Your Community, But Don't Let Them Tell You What to Do? meta.stackexchange.com and its sister sites have as far as I can tell been very successful.
In the case of Apple-branded adapters, it has been demonstrated time and again that they actually put some thought into their adapters so that your device or house do not catch on fire. Not so much with the $0.70 ones. Maybe, likely not, but hey, you saved $9.70 that you can apply to your home owners insurance premium!
When every childhood moment can be recorded and shared, what happens to childhood?
While I partially agree with you, the author also emphasized the social status of actively working on something. That something could be founding a new venture, not necessarily being an employee, but I think the author's goal was to contrast working in some capacity vs a leisure-focused lifestyle. Full disclosure: I am a small business owner :).
Come on it was funny.
JavaScript has become the PHP of ten years ago.

Runs everywhere (client and server), is the language picked up by beginners, and is abused to fit every square peg into a round hole.
Portability, mainly. I didn't buy it to play civ on, and it's a good thing too-it's basically unplayable. Graphically, there's not much thats special or impressive about the game so its quite surprising it can't even run it without having a heart attack.
No sarcasm intended here: Does it matter in terms of social utility whether these types of predictive models are making predictions of human decisions to buy or sell a stock versus predictions of AI based decisions to buy or sell a stock?
you could have corruption and not know. i'm pretty sure on the mac hfs+ corrupts files all the time (why? i've run into it multiple times). but it's not necessarily something you'll immediately notice.
"Record rates" just means "more than before" but it can be, and likely is, still just a small number that's mostly noise in the data so far as Apple is concerned.
AFAIK, the 2011 MBPs are no longer supported for hardware repairs (although they will run the latest OS). Maybe that's what the parent is referring to?

FWIW, the 15" 2011 MBPs with the i7 quad cores, GPU issues aside, are still pretty fast when compared to the latest Macs using the ultrabook CPUs.
I mean, I don't get how your supposed to run all these web browser based apps on a mac, when you know, the default mac has 8gb... chrome alone is taking up half that already.
I'm incredibly confused about why I should switch from iTerm. If you've been using Hyper, can you tell me why you switched and what was better?
If you are referring to the smart lights, if I recall correctly they used a side-channel attack to extract the keys used to decrypt/verify new firmwares in various models. So they basically abused OTA firmware updates to take control of the lights.

Assuming that devices don't have cryptographic issues, IoT security is still a mess. So yes firmwares are probably full of BO vulnerabilities. As for more recent techniques, I'm aware of some of them but I'm no expert so I can't comment properly :)
And I thought it might be related to this hyper: https://hyper.sh (which is also an OSS project)
Our low-latency trading group uses regression widely. We have experimented with more complex models but haven't found a compelling use for them yet.
Ask HN: How are ML models persisted once they are trained?
Assuming that a model is trained once (or continually), and that, even though the actual service (i/e. one of Microsoft's ML APIs) exists on a distributed architecture and is accessed via API.

I've seen examples, using Tensorflow, where a model is instantiated and trained programmatically. However, what happens to that model once the program ends? For example, a NodeJS process calls process.exit(). I'm assuming the ML model created in that process no longer exists. Therefore, where are those models stored? Using what technology? How are they accessed and reinstantiated? Or, is it simply that the process must run forever or risk needing to be trained from nothing, again? Obviously, I find this to be unlikely given the intensity of training a complex system.

Sorry if my terminology is off, but explanations, links, etc. are very welcomed, thanks.
I think that sentence was talking about the experience at the store, not the device itself.

I picked up a Surface 4 Pro on Black Friday as well, and my experience was fine. Then again, I live in the middle of nowhere.
> Sure if you magically own five franchises

Please refer to the parent thread, where we're talking about what you'd do with $5M. You really should read the conversation and get background on it before you jump onboard and try making others look stupid. You make yourself look dumb, or a troll, or both.
If f2fs is so superior to ext4 then why doesn't its creator, Samsung, use it on their phones?
Fanless, thin Mini-ITX board taps quad-core Apollo Lake Celeron
This makes sense because the authors were comfortable writing apps this way. At least they started it on a stack that has the potential to be multi platform. I see way too many nice / stylish apps released as OSX only.
The Power of Eloquence
I'm always skeptical when I hear "Nutrition recommendations" because it implies some sort of authority. Nutrition recommendations from who? The USDA?

It's worth reading the history of the food pyramid. Here's a quote from wikipedia:

"The first chart suggested to the USDA by nutritional experts in 1992 featured fruits and vegetables as the biggest group, not breads. This chart was overturned at the hand of special interests in the grain, meat, and dairy industries, all of which are heavily subsidized by the USDA.[10] If Americans followed the chart suggested, they would buy much less meat, milk, and bread. On the other hand, if they ate as the revised chart suggested, it "could lead to an epidemic of obesity and diabetes," as original composer of the food Pyramid, Louise Light warned. "

I know from a personal standpoint, once I removed refined carbohydrates from my diet I dropped 25 pounds in two months (without bothering to excersize.) So the idea that somehow the diet that made me fat is somehow the "good" diet because the USDA says so strikes me as being silly.
I thought antidepressants such as Prozac were shown to have a neurogenesis effect.
Farnham's Freehold was the book that made me lose a lot of respect for Heinlein. I started reading him as a 13-14 year old - books like "Have Space Suit, Will Travel", "Farmer in the Sky", and "Starman Jones" - and ate them up. I got older and my dad recommended "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" and "Starship Troopers"; I really liked reading him alongside Asimov, who did such a great job of going into __how__ people/societies would exist in the future; Heinlein was much better at going into the __why__. The ideas he put forward in "Starship Troopers" and "Stranger in a Strange Land" formed the basis for some of the best conversations I've had with friends.

However.

Farnham's Freehold was just ubermensch porn coupled with some really weird racism. He used more hackneyed "I can do everything" stereotypes than an Ayn Rand novel, which is something he was always guilty of but it really came to a head here. The multiculturalism and openness that was so explicitly prevalent in Starship Troopers, Stranger, and Harsh Mistress (the main character of Starship Troopers is a bisexual South American) vanishes, replaced with this weird fear of black people - "they seem nice, but they'll turn on you when they get the chance" is the message the Joe character imparts.

Just a very weird book.
> You're using biased language. Rephrasing your point to: "Targeted stealing....

and the word "stealing" is also biased language. Leakers don't "steal" anything, they copy information. The original proprietor still has the original information.
I don't think you realize the amount of new stuff that pop up in the world every day. That would be a tremendous amount of articles if we wrote about every single little thing.