skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious, were you calculating or using (or thinking about, had some train of thought about) this information or did you just happen to notice the mixed units? I mean because I can't picture either one or ten billion cubic feet of water so it's just a very large number to me and I wouldn't notice that difference.
> For a variety of reasons, lower income kids can't get the marks to get in to these schools so they never reach the point where financial aid would matter.

Again with the sweeping generalizations which are completely incorrect.

Because all low income kids are too stupid to get good marks, right?
I was reading along, about four paragraphs in, and then I was accosted by a modal dialog: "Get Your Copy of "AdWords for B2B""

Maybe your article is useful, maybe not, I don't know because I closed the tab, but screw you and your asshole design[1]

edit: No seriously, take a step back and look at your website in a mirror [2]. Popping up _another_ nag as I keep scrolling down? Lord almighty, you've motivated me to blackhole your domain in /etc/hosts

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/
[2] http://imgur.com/a/Hgq9S
Do you have an example of what broke between 2.11.7 and 2.11.8?
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git-flow[1] is implementation of a flow with better UX. You can fork it and modify to fit your needs.

[1] https://github.com/petervanderdoes/gitflow-avh
The wishful search for normalcy seems to be a common phenomenon in the rise of dictators. In addition to the way the media covered Hitler and Mussolini, as described in the article, consider:

* In somewhat popular recent article (and probably the most important thing I've read on the subject; I can't recommend it strongly enough), "Autocracy: Rules for Survival",[0] a Russian author warns us: Rule #2: Do not be taken in by small signs of normality. Consider the financial markets this week, which, having tanked overnight, rebounded following the Clinton and Obama [conciliatory, cooperative] speeches. Confronted with political volatility, the markets become suckers for calming rhetoric from authority figures. So do people. Panic can be neutralized by falsely reassuring words about how the world as we know it has not ended. It is a fact that the world did not end on November 8 nor at any previous time in history. Yet history has seen many catastrophes, and most of them unfolded over time. That time included periods of relative calm.

* I saw a documentary recently about Hitler. At the time, before WWII started, there were periods of "normalcy" as the above article described - remember that people didn't know a massive war was coming, just as we don't know what is coming. Hitler repeatedly promised that he just needed to protect some ethnic Germans, or that he was 'satisfied' and didn't need to expand further. From the above-mentioned article:[0] ... the Jewish historian Simon Dubnow, breathed a sigh of relief in early October 1939: he had moved from Berlin to Latvia, and he wrote to his friends that he was certain that the tiny country wedged between two tyrannies would retain its sovereignty and Dubnow himself would be safe. Shortly after that, Latvia was occupied by the Soviets, then by the Germans, then by the Soviets again—but by that time Dubnow had been killed. Dubnow was well aware that he was living through a catastrophic period in history—it’s just that he thought he had managed to find a pocket of normality within it.

* The most famous example: Winston Churchill before the war advocated strongly and loudly for action against Hitler, and was a political outcast. Neville Chamberlain was Prime Minister, partly on the basis that people agreed he could negotiate a deal with Hitler (which including abandoning entire nations to his mercies), and famously claimed to have made a deal he called "peace in our time" - i.e., normalcy.

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[0] Autocracy: Rules for Survival by Masha Gessen

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autoc... - Highly recommended!
I've been using Linux since about 1999 and have never looked at a texinfo page.

Or, at least, I don't think so, because I don't know what they are or how to access them.
In addition, I believe there is a large amount of Windows-native software that runs better under WINE than it does under Windows 10.

Edit: am I wrong? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)#Backward_compa...
When you start on an old technology you instantly incur a learning debt.

i.e. you will have to learn the new thing at some time in the future so may as well not incur that debt and go straight to the future.
> R_Init: Init DOOM refresh daemon - ...

/me goes to make a coffee
I've been using 4 for production. Pretty much the same thing.
A replay attack? Problem with the block counter being updated? I give up. what is third thing? :D
> I have worked through that book and it is really awesome. Worth the time and effort for anyone inclined.

very cool :)

in case you want something more, i have _very_ fond memories of zvi-kohavi's book (switching and finite automata theory) as well. you might find useful/instructive.
It's basically bogus to have a single object bigger or equal to half of address space (represented by size_t) in C. 32-bit platforms should detect and abort in such conditions (compiler/linker for static objects, malloc() implementation for dynamic allocations).
People had the same complaint about the space program in the 1960's. That it was feel good fluff. That it was a boondoggle with no substance.

And if you watch old movies, you'll hear it echoed it many places.

Clockwork Orange has the quote from the wino:

Men on the moon? And men Spinnin' 'round the earth?
And there's not no attention paid to early law and
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I don't really agree. I think it's of profound importance to solve the problem of being able to sustain life in an artificial environment.

If we can confine ourselves within an encapsulated environment, and keep ourselves alive by recycling all biological exhaust, and drawing energy from highly durable, efficient power sources, and/or solar power, we can roll those capabilities into ways of life that dramatically reduce human impact on their surroundings. The two concepts are related, because space travel involves the problem of trying to replicate a sustainable terrestrial environment through artificial means.
That's been coming for years. XUL addons have never worked on mobile Firefox.
Sort of, yeah. It strikes me as an inflexible IDL that had out-of-wedlock children with an incompletely specified ASN.1. That said - they're working with JSON/HTTP "REST-like", so there's only so much anyone could do on either front... Anything to formalize a spec and enable some better automated tooling would be a good thing, no?

That reminds me -- whatever happened to WS-* (and in particular WSDL and SOAP)? Did that just wander off into the forest and die, or are people still using that? If they are, I'd assume it's in some of the enterprise-ey verticals?
Could she use this?

http://boingboing.net/2016/09/22/i-have-found-a-secret-tunne...
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Timeseries can 100% work like that. If you expect your timeseries data to be coming from a similar distribution that is what you do to train your LSTM. It's not just a magic box - you have to train it to encode useful features in the gate.

Sure, you can prefer to use subsets of a single time series instead of multiple time series. The issue remains that it doesn't matter what your performance on training data is. You still need to partition your dataset into training and test data - otherwise you could just be storing a lookup table for all you know. It looks like the author has trained on the entirety of the dataset, and then is just considering that performance...

Let me put this another way. You do this with a random walk. Train on your entire timeseries - every length 50 window. Say that there's only 8 unique values at each timestep. That means that there's 8^50 possible input sequences into the neural network. A sufficiently complex neural network can fit an arbitrary function, so if you just have a couple thousand windows there's ~(8^50 / 1000) possible functions that can predict the correct output exactly - and this is on noise! And in all likelihood the neural net will learn that noise: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03530 Without comparing training and test results there's no way to know that neural network learned anything of value - it can get perfect accuracy on training data that's pure noise!

This stuff is really critical to get right if you're doing machine learning.
There seems to be value here in describing APIs to external developers and giving them a playground for it. Well, there is value there because some large companies do that as their product.

There isn't a great solution for writing API documentation, still, although something like this probably helps a good bit. Even better if the real implementation is validated by the doc
That's interesting. I remember that back when you could buy a computer without an OS, it cost more than with Windows.
"Amazing read, much longer than I generally get hooked into."

Please, please subscribe to the New Yorker in some fashion ... I personally subscribe to the kindle version which is a very useful and workable format.

The New Yorker[1] regularly has very, very good long form articles that have deepened my understanding of what I consider to be very important issues. Off the top of my head, I can think of three such articles that stick out - their long treatment of the deepwater horizon accident and the chemical dispersants that were used in the cleanup, their decade-after-the-fact retrospective article on Gore vs. Bush, and a more recent article on the police officer who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO.

[1] Also the London Review of Books which is excellent for long form current events articles. Also book reviews.
What's the reason for the downvotes?
Would you mind giving more details about what you run with those 25k servers?

I'd worry about the time it takes to reconfigure these servers with ansible/salt. or the time it takes to kill/rebuild them from a system image.

On a side note, the 4th competitor is IBM SoftLayer. It's different enough from the top 3 (Amazon, Google, Azure) to be a thing of its own.
I might be misguided, but the last time I used PHP was over ten years ago, using PHP3, and we had to name the files my_file.php3 in order to use PHP3. That's the opposite of minimal breakage. On the other hand, my simple PHP3 scripts continue to work to this day, php3 extension and all!
FWIW, Atmel AVR (the Arduino microcontroller) I/Os are typically beefy enough to drive the 20 mA that LEDs usually like to get nice and bright. It was one of their early differentiators.

Depending on the LED, I would have no problem driving it directly with just a current limiting resisitor.
Sasas I've got some thoughts that are probably easier done via a back and forth outside of HN. Hit me up on twitter if you use it: @dustywes
From the article: “When has Amazon ever thought about anything other than world domination?”

From the Terminator series: Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
+1. Bootstrap has helped me immensely for many of the same reasons. What is your app or site?
I can only speak for myself. I wrote C code for many years, a long time ago. I'm 100% certain that I never had occasion to use a "pointer to array" type. If you asked me a series of leading questions, like "Can you have a pointer to array of 10 ints?" and "What would happen if you increment that?" I would probably get the right answer, with low confidence. There's almost no way I would have thought of this way of getting the array size without reading something like this article.

And what's wrong with learning something from an article? This is really not about pointer arithmetic at all. Rather it's about a particular use of C's near-infinitely composable type system.
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I'm working in the lab that built Spaun [1] that might be of interest to you. We use the Vector Symbolic Architectures you talk about in combination with Deep Learning and other stuff to build brain models.

As far I know, my lab is one of the few places mixing symbolic learning with Deep Learning. Do you or anyone else know other modern attempts (Reinforcement Learning?) with this approach?

[1] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/338/6111/1202
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> It's like reading a series of bombshell opening statements about different topics, but instead of following up with arguments to flesh out those statements, he just moves on to another bombshell opening statement about some other issue that also doesn't get fleshed out.

That's basically Elon Musk's marketing scheme.
Not the person you're replying to, but we have lots of 64gb workstations at work for database and BI work, such a testing large queries in Apache Drill. With the right query, you can use up the 64gb quite quickly. Our servers run 384gb and have 16C/32T.
What browsers do you need to support? Version #4 dropped support for IE9. If IE is important for your business then version #3 is currently the better option.

Now, learning bootstrap is not too bad. All you need to donis figure out how it defines the layout grid, how it handles margins, padding, and gutters, and how to use different classes to make the site responsive. Should take a couple of days. Ping me if you need help. :)
I'm squinting very suspiciously at these comments suggesting this is about "pointer arithmetic". This is really about the little-used fact that you can have a "pointer to array of size N" type.
I have 5 cats in my home right now. All of them healthy and since they constantly play among themselves, I would assume they are happy too. Our family is financially well off, considering all things, so we had the time and resources to modify our home so that a bunch of cats would be comfortable living with us.

With regards to your comment, forgive me but I find such a way of thinking to be extreme with no middle ground. I am from India and all sorts of people keep pets here. In many cases the pets are strays who just wander into people's lives. Since everyone does not have the money to provide for an indoor animal, your way of thinking would deprive a lot of animals of some measure of human kindness. Considering the short brutal lives they would have otherwise, any human help is better than none at all.
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AWS push this pretty heavily for their SDK too:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/api-retries.htm...
Overall, I'd like to see more transparency from companies as to the "why" for these recommendations. I doubt we will see that happen without legislation, as I'm sure FB and Google would never want to present to end users that they know you are pregnant because of in store purchases you made. The creepiness factor takes a huge leap once people understand how something ends up in their feed.
You summed up nicely, up until the last point.

I understand why would think so, because you don't know our setup. Just to give you an idea, we process 16PB of data every single month. This is an ingress traffic. If we would pay for this traffic going out (egress), we would end up paying over $1M just for the traffic itself. By keeping everything in a single spot it costs us literally 0.

That said, I've tried. I reached out to many hosters, like OVH and others. They just don't have the capacity we need. 20 servers will not make a change for us. We wanted to start with 500, but it would take them 9 months.
>he "how likely is it, really?" response to questions of technical correctness has always bothered me.

But the question is important in another context: language design. Why is this undefined behavior something that exists in the first place? Objects larger than PTRDIFF_MAX could just not be allowed! This avoids the problem and makes code easier to reason about, with pretty much no downside.
Just download the source code, audit it, and built it yourself.
Interesting, and not altogether a big surprise given how much WeChat allows you to do the same over in China (in addition to a ton of other things). It's no big surprise that tech moves with the movement of people who use it.
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I am having difficulty reconciling "native" and "at one point". Do you mean she was born in Philadelphia?
You're not alone. I've been programming in either C or C++ for 25 years, and it wouldn't have occurred to me that you can have a "pointer to array of size N" that includes the size. Though I probably could have been led there with a little Socratic questioning.
That's a good outlook on life.
If you'd like to hear more on this, they had a long talk with the author of this piece in episode 7 (titled "The Only One") of Colour Code, a podcast also from the Globe and Mail:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/colour-code-pod...
>> humans think best with a small set of complicated rules

? I'd reword that to say humans are more entertained by a small set of complicated rules. Simple rules are easy for humans, but they can be boring.

However, in reality here, we're comparing apples to oranges. The instruction set for a computer is it's language. Asking a computer to speak English - that's our (humans') language, and with the tables turned, one could ask whether the computer thought better in English or Chinese, and the answer may be different but still meaningless.
@user5994461 can't reply to your comment for some reason, but you're correct. Ansible would never scale. We ditched it a long time ago. We're using packer to create images/docker and then distribute them automatically via kubernetes or just directly through the custom images.

As I've mentioned earlier, we're running an immutable infrastructure. That means once we need to change something we replace the whole server. Each server runs only one single service. That allows us to run smaller instances but in large quantities.

We actually did run on Softlayer. It was a nightmare. They have consistently some outage somewhere. We couldn't count on any instance to stay up. The performance was better, but you can't threat the infrastructure as a cattle and that was a huge limitation for us.
According to the article there are two control gates and a spillway. The control gates are used to regulate the water level and the spillway is used in an emergency.

I don't know if the control gates can drain the reservoir completely or they have some minimum level, but the article implies that there is some action that the Iraqi government could take:

> Last spring, the Iraqi government prepared by lowering the maximum water level in the reservoir, to ease severe pressure on the dam wall. This year, such a precaution could dramatically lessen the number of people at risk—to about three hundred and sixty-four thousand.

What isn't clear is whether the water level right now could be lowered immediately or the water level now is at a seasonal low point and the Iraqi government hasn't announced whether they'll spill water in the spring to keep it low.
Well, no. You're calculating with 100% utilization + with normal servers. Preemptible (or spot) instances are way cheaper. For instance 8 core 7GB ram preemptible server on GCE costs around $45/month under full utilization. We may use it for couple of hours a day and then terminate and open a different one.

It truly differs minute by minute.
In my case I got sick of cats coming into my life and then promptly dying within a year of that.

As far as keeping them happy goes, I have found that they tend to do well if they have other cats for company. Solitary cats usually don't make great pets.

I am however, talking about stray cats with no breeding history. I have heard that many pet cat breeds are bred for specific behavioral traits which make them better suited for an indoor only life. I also don't condone such practices.
I'd start with 3 then migrate to 4. Also, learn Flexbox as it will be enabled by default in BS4. FlexboxFroggy.com is a nice introduction. There's one more breakpoint in BS4. The css class to make images responsive has changed for the third time in 3 releases. Other than that, basically the same. I've been toying with it.
I have to agree...this is WAY overpriced. I could see spending $50-75 for the first kit maybe, which would include the more expensive parts that you'll be reusing later, then $20-25 a month after that, but $720 -$1080 for a year??? That's just insane. Any profit they're gaining from the high prices is costing them in lost volume.
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I admit not knowing in depth, but supposedly (from a Wikileaks released email), Chelsea Clinton paid for her wedding out of foundation funds:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/52046

Aren't these non-profit P&L/expense reports on file with the IRS and public record?
Google it. Dog gangs have been known to kill unattended children and even elderly people.
GCE - piece of shit in case of support and solving customers issues. They didn't manage to FIX billing issue for 8!!! months. Support is useless. Missed access rules boundaries - everything you have to share with everyone. It's nightmare for companies.
Looks great.

Not sure I like the name though. I can see people newer to the ecosystem and other consumers getting confused between this OS and Google's line of Pixel devices.
If you want a straight-forward mental model that works with git, try Gitless. Note, you will end up learning some new commands that simplify things, and you'll have to re-learn git if you work for someone that wants you to use the nitty-gritty, but every convenience has it's downside, and you just have to weigh that against the immediate benefits.

Edit: Thanks to lyall for the links. He posted below.
[1]: http://gitless.com/
[2]: https://people.csail.mit.edu/sperezde/oopsla16.pdf
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These kinds of things are not easy to see or understand from untrained eyes like ours but if you dig deeper, you will find thorny issues like these:

https://www.google.com/amp/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/bill-cli...

https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/us/...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/foreign-governments-...
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I should've clarified, yes, I specifically meant gross margin. I agree the other numbers are much more interesting, but sadly nobody outside Apple will exactly know them most likely. I only know the range for gross margin as I'm familiar with the gross margins on several items sold in the store in a similarish category.
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