skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this life is a classroom, as I have been told, then there are teachers and test administrators. The administrators withhold certain evidence of the past in order to help us focus on more important things. They want to help us grow in faith, charity, and other values, not just analytical ability.

People are not perfect and prophets are people. I know of a prophet who said Jesus was born in Jerusalem. Jesus was born in Bethlehem, not Jerusalem. Does that invalidate that prophet? No, he was addressing a people who didn't know the eastern lands very well and he was simplifying. Context is everything, even though we don't always know the full context.

If I were sure about what to believe, it wouldn't be belief anymore; it would be knowledge. If I only acted on things I am certain about, I would do almost nothing, since there is very little I am absolutely certain about. Life became more fulfilling and interesting when I learned to act on not only things I know, but also things I believe. Acting on belief leads to growth and ever increasing certainty that I am making choices that benefit me and my family.
I think there are some basic physical advantages that might make the computers leap ahead of the humans, at least in terms of safety. Things like cameras pointing in all directions, really fast reaction times, and good steering/braking technique. Those don't necessarily help you navigate complicated intersections, so there might still be plenty of practical problems in the phase transition, but maybe fewer safety problems?

It could even be that the safety improvements are so dramatic that they become the pressure for us to engineer around the other issues. (Like marking lanes electronically and giving traffic cops new equipment and whatever else.)
I'm not familiar with this, but how is this better than just using calendar invites and an intranet? (Can't access the link currently, pardon me if this is addressed on the website)
So, as a sandbox, it's fairly complete. The full version will include a story campaign, but that's not been released, even in part.

In other words, there's not really a reason you couldn't play it now.
This is the focus of the book of Ecclesiastes.
The Everything Chip: Qualcomm's Plans for Drones, VR, Cars, and Beyond
Sure you're not mixing up a former coffeeshop-turned-bar, or one selling 0.0% beer, or one which looks like one place but is actually distinct places (like Bulldog on Leidseplein)?

It's a condition of the license, and they're ridigly checked and shut down for non-compliance (selling to minors, keeping too much on premises, hard drugs, etc).
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Can anybody here help me understand why many teams are using MySQL as a KV store? (Uber did it recently, so assuming many others probably did it too, network effect)

I personally love MySQL. Just want to understand what makes MySQL a great KV store as opposed to more seemingly specialized systems like Redis?
I totally agree with you. It's generally a good idea to actually read something before commenting.
My bad :). My head said Dover, and my hands wrote biggest city I could remember. Don't tell my 8th grade U.S. History teacher. He'd have an anuerism.
You can set yourself offline if you don't want your friends getting notifications when you play something.
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You are not thinking of this from the state AG point of view.

Some participants of law enforcement community (FBI, US Attorneys) take years to build and execute their cases. When successful, they receive commendations and continue their law enforcement careers.

State AGs are more of a "shoot from the hip" (or "sue early, sue often", since we're on HN) variety, as this elected post is viewed as a stepping stone towards another elected post, backed by the track record of "making neighborhoods safer".

In unrelated news, congratulations to California state AG Kamala Harris on becoming a US Senator from the state of California.
How do I watch the keynote presentation live stream?
Okay. Suppose that you spend 30 minutes on your commute each day for the rest of your working life, until you're 65. That means you'll waste almost a full year's worth of waking hours driving.

I've invented a teleporter that will reduce your commute to 1 second every day. The only glitch is that your molecular makeup may be incompatible with my device, and there's no way to tell for sure. If it is, you'll disintegrate instantly the first time you try to use it.

Don't worry, only 1% of the population is incompatible. From a probability standpoint, you should expect to gain more than 1% of your life in extra time. Care to give her a whirl?
Ocw and Gilbert strangs material is a must for linear algebra. For beginners, I enjoyed Stewart calculus.
That's crazy talk. How good would you have to be before your work was "worthwhile" enough to make you happy?
> I personally don't think it's unreasonable to express a likely contrarian viewpoint and apologise in advance for that

Neither do I! There is a subtle but important difference between "pardon me if I'm missing something, but..." or "from the other comments on this thread it seems X is a widely-held view; I can't, however, seem to get my head around Y aspect of X" and advertising one's expectations of being down voted.

The former makes an effort to make sense of the views one disagrees with. That shows respect for the speaker. The latter dismisses it off the cuff.

If you're expressing a contrarian view, express it. If you want to apologise for it, do so politely. Better yet, incorporate why you think others will disagree into your response. Preemptively complaining, without offering any reasoning, is petulant.
Thanks for the followup!
It's amazing what a difference the home owner can make. We bought our first house not too long ago. The most recent home owners, though they kept the home clean, did not do any regular maintenance and did a lot of ... weird things. Luckily they were only here for a few years, so only a small amount of real damage was done (dry rot). Mostly we just had to catch up on all the regular maintenance.

The owners prior to them, though, were amazing. Their renovations were solid, beautiful, and extensive. The contrast between any work done by them and work done by the most recent owners is painfully obvious.

On the more extreme side I've seen homes completely rotted by owners, requiring over a year of in-depth repairs to bring the house back to life. It's very sad to see.
Public universities have “really lost our focus”
Scammers yes worse in Paris, but not pickpockets in my experience. Might have been lucky.

TBH probably depends what time of the year and where you go.

What really annoys me is the acceptance of these cities with their existence. Amsterdam trams will warn you whether there are pickpockets on board (zakkenrollers). So they're easy to spot by the locals. But I've never seen real policing. I have seen pickpockets do almost full body searches on unsuspecting tourists on crowded trams.

And they get very menacing when they know that you know what they're up to.
> blockgeeks

im sure this article is non-biased.
The outlook for Bay Area startup space in 2017
Where Gerrymandering Is Containing City Power
Totally fair, I myself only recently gave Linux on the laptop a try again (last 2 years or so). For a long time I had limited Linux to desktop use, but was pleasantly surprised by System76 and Dell so I feel compelled to spread the word.

At any rate, as I say in another comment, there are definitely many other things that might dissuade you from going the Linux route (gaming being my personal challenge). I was just trying to comment on the massive improvement in the driver space in recent years.
Counting to 100,000 in One Video
I did a quick search for Privacy and didn't see anything mentioned. A router wouldn't inherently store your information (packets sent and received) and send it to a third party (this would be hard to do so without you knowing anyway), but it was worth a mention (this connects with Google OnHub, so I'm not sure if that's a point of weakness, in terms of privacy).
A lot of people in my networks have had this issue, while people who bandy about the n-word and spout nonsensical hatred have no trouble getting off scot-free. It seems too easy for bullies to game moderation systems.
There's lots to consider and analyze here. But one area of note is that JIRA is already used by many enterprises. But many folks find that despite it's many powerful features, the complexity is crippling. There's a lot to configure. And it's not an easy app to use with all that complexity. This is in stark contrast to Trello, which is essentially a digital agile board. (JIRA has an agile board too, as one of it's many plug and play features.) So if all you need is a simple board and you don't want the heft of JIRA, Trello is great. And now Atlassian can offer that.

The takeaway here is that project management and software tools are inherently complicated by what they have to solve. There's so many different ways to build software and run projects. How do you create the tools to support those workflows so that a new user is not crippled by the complexity? At least in GitLab we are iterating quickly with small improvements every month. But we also have a UX team to design intuitive interfaces and workflows that make sense. We dogfood GitLab ourselves so we understand the pain points (and the complexities!). And of course we develop out in the open to solicit that constant user feedback. As GitLab further matures and we add more features, we are hyper aware that we do not build another JIRA. There is so much configurability and complexity there. It's very heavy. So are iterating quickly, but carefully.
That particular egg came before the chicken.
> Is that 13th century German manor a "McMansion" too?

Look, you'd really have to read the blog before making comments on it. Always a good idea. First read - in this case, all of it! - and then talk about it. Please. The blog explains very well how to recognise a McMansion and it really isn't that hard.

As for why McMansions are bad, there are plenty of explanations given in this blog (areas hard to reach, cheap materials, wasted space, water damage after a short time, etc...). Just look at this one image, plenty of reasons: http://99percentinvisible.org/app/uploads/2016/10/18-mc-esch... (dust collection areas, unsafe fireplace, etc.)
For establishments that don't have company-issued hardware, it's difficult to standardize on e.g. Outlook calendar, Apple calendar, etc. Text messages and email are easy to standardize on, without putting too much burden of expectation on the employee to have high-end modern hardware capable of running the scheduling software client.
I think microsoft is well aware of this "issue". And they seems to be working towards it as proven by the recent Windows Subsystem for Linux https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_gui...

Microsoft will hopefully start throwing punch in that direction by trying to "win developers back" by increasing the POSIX compatibility layer.
How long till we see a complete "homebrew" for windows ?

If the POSIX subsystem is "good enough" we might see a shift towards microsoft.
Vim + plugins + Unix tools (find, make, grep, ack, etc.)

For C# I use Visual Studio, Intellisense autocompletion is gteat.

For Java I use Eclipse, but in One project where I was forced to developer on a remote server with many restrictions I user vim + make + javac, It Is Crazy, I know, but It Is possible
"native support" for differential calculus is not a problem for ML. If you have a sufficiently powerful programming language, you can trivially do forward differentiation/automatic differentiation instead of backprop which is just about as "native support" as it gets (AD can also be done in, say, C, or python, it's just trickier). Granularity is also not really that much of a problem, you can reduce your bit precision to ~12 bits and still get good results with ML.
Indeed. Also, there's an interesting side-issue in that the 'corpse sound' of Black Metal was a conscious rebellion against overproduced death metal, but the same choices from a rock band would read as RAW, not 'bad'. There are parallels with AC/DC, who continually struggled against the record industry's desire to slicken and produce them.

I like the heck out of De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (you'd never think it to look at me) and have listened to it on a really high-end professional mix system with very good DACs and amplification, and far from being 'corpse, bad' sound, they actually managed a big, live sound that delivers the impact of a black metal band quite well. Just because it's not 'slick' doesn't mean it's low fidelity. For instance, Jethro Tull's 'Aqualung' is a very similar 'raw' sound but strikingly high fidelity on the right equipment.

I strongly recommend the documentary, "Until The Light Takes Us" if you're interested in black metal. Varg "Count Grishnach" Vikernes in particular, interviewed in prison, has a lucid and striking account of the motivations of the early Black Metalists.
The privacy controls of iOS should be more flexible
They're totally different, though to be fair there are some bands like Manowar who are considered to be Power Metal. They are very focused on their aesthetic (shirtless, oiled up dudes in leather pants riding motorcycles). I think they get lumped in because their lyrics are about glorious battle and such, a traditional lyrical topic of the genre, but musically and aesthetically they're doing something very different from the rest of the genre. I think most Manowar fans consider them to be Power Metal, but many fans of the broader genre (myself included) would disagree.

The rest of the genre is derived from the lineage of the band Helloween, itself heavily influenced by the NWOBHM. Many point to 'Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1' as the first Power Metal album. Other early bands include Blind Guardian and Gamma Ray (which was founded by Kai Hansen, who played with Helloween and is considered by many to be the father of the genre). It's closely associated with Speed Metal, the line between them is not always clear but modern Power Metal bands tend to have "something extra" beyond fast guitar and high-pitched vocals, whether it's symphonic or progressive influences, more existential lyrical topics, a focus on storytelling, etc. It's often more about who the band is friends with than their musical or lyrical content or aesthetic. It's closely associated with Scandinavia, and it's worth noting that Symphonic Metal was at the very least heavily influenced by this genre, the respective scenes being tightly entwined/the same people.

Some examples of what many self-identified fans of Power Metal would consider good Power Metal-
Helloween- Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1
Sonata Arctica- Ecliptica
Kamelot- Epica (The Symphonic Metal band Epica named themselves after this album)
Rhapsody- Symphony of Enchanted Lands
There is no way this could be legal in the EU and will increasly be frowned upon with GDPR coming into force in May 2018.
Probably a joke. We don't get too much levity here. Might be hard to spot when it happens.
It goes even farther than Joe Schmo at Best Buy not being trusted. They are being paid to find "evidence." That direct conflict of interest should invalidate anything they find.
> I went with 10 because I'm a gamer.

This doesn't make any sense. There's nothing in Windows 10 that is a prerequisite for being a "gamer".

DX12 certainly isn't it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_DirectX_12_...

It's not a coincidence that most of the DX12 exclusives are published by MS. Also note, that none of those are particularly good games, albeit they probably do work okay in showcasing some of DX12's features.

Not only that, but I noticed you purchased a laptop, which makes even less sense, since the most graphically demanding games that require DX12 are unlikely to run at decent framerates on a laptop anyway, without spending $3000+ on it.
Or do! But expect it to mostly concern itself with delivery junk food.
Yes I totally agree that like most "rules on software" there is the need to be judicious enough to know when to follow the rule is not a good idea... However I more often see the contrary, of adding a multitude of systems together without very strong reasons.
> Nonsense. The only way we know to make a secure hash table function is either via universal hashing (academic literature).

This is my point. A universal hash function is a random distribution over deterministic functions. You can always create a single deterministic function with a seed in such a way, that it acts as drawing a random function from a distribution.

I don't know that siphash is universal, certainly not all seeded functions are. Perhaps that's your point. I'm just saying that using randomness is the only way to create universality.

Actually the Aumasson, Bernstein paper http://cr.yp.to/siphash/siphash-20120918.pdf has some interesting considerations on timing attacks against universal hash functions.
Are they? I've only ever seen them mixed with that incense stuff.
Sure, that sounds correct. And yet apparently the states have continued to ignore that ruling in a sense. So the onus is on the feds to enforce that law and the states can choose to fight such actions (or not to) in whichever way they please.

The difference this time around is that the (legal) marijuana industry has significantly more political clout, social acceptance and financial muscle than 2 decades ago, so I see the states pushing back harder against the feds this time around.
When I did part time shift work, I always checked my schedule when I was at work... but that may not work too well if you only work at a job occasionally, or if your boss is too incompetent to make the schedule in advance.
I wonder if this could be used as a training set for voice data?
Thanks!

That bit about McMurdo is interesting. I doesn't surprise me, but I didn't know, that they send and receive thinhs via ships. I always hear about McMurdo as being inaccessible by plane during some chunk of time during the cold season, usually tied to some real world emergency or movie plotline with a sense of urgency.
Yes, this helps and totally makes sense to me. Thanks. I would do the same... In this case however it looks like there were certain high volume writes that could be handled in a simpler manner with Redis, however it is totally possible that while this looks like an important use case, it accounted for a small percentage of all the data, so we are back to the consolidation thing of moving everything to a single system that is in general a good idea.
Along these same lines, Microsoft.IO.RecyclableMemoryStream is also useful.

https://github.com/Microsoft/Microsoft.IO.RecyclableMemorySt...
I noticed this several months ago and switched to http://www.4gcommunity.org/service-overview/. No affiliation, just a happy customer (it's faster and cheaper, anyways)
The cable co doesn't want to make it easy to unsubscribe.
Perhaps startups just have to look or be sexy to be startups. Successful and boring don't seem to get all the gushing press.
In a strictly clinical discussion it is fine to use language like "dependent on external factors" with its technical meaning. But when you're talking to someone potentially suffering from depression and not a clinician, you need to be aware of how they will respond to your words. The average person conflates "dependent on external factors" with "arises due to bad life decisions" and so we need to adapt our language accordingly in an average conversation.
If you would like vim style input to visual studio I recommend vsvim plugin.
Not a web technology expert, but apparently the appcache feature is deprecated (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Using_the_...) and this dead horse has already been beaten to... er, death? before (http://alistapart.com/article/application-cache-is-a-doucheb...).

I could be missing something, though.

EDIT:

Forgot to mention that both links come straight from that article.
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"Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult" is a great introductory book on early black metal scenes around the world. Most black metal works focus on the Norwegian scene (Mayhem/Burzum/Darkthrone primarily), but Evolution of the Cult has chapters on Rotting Christ from Greece, Sigh from Japan, the Les Légions Noire bands from France and a whole host of others.

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Metal-Evolution-Dayal-Patterson...
I just built my father a new computer and while I know that Windows 7 has some related issues they are nowhere near the level of Windows 10 (and that bit about forced restarts sounds a whole lot like an involuntary bsod 'crash' from about 1996...). Thus I went out of my way to get a license for W7 Ultimate... which cost more than the equivalent for W10. Makes me wonder.
Are there ones not run by religion? The health sharing plans I have seen require such things as belonging to a certain church and not drinking any alcohol.
Yes, and without having to make an account to do it.
Also, it appears newer ones have less effective drying hardware which forces them to rely on "rinse aid," so your choice is either still-wet dishes or dishes with residue.
First off, I'm not an expert - right now, I'm an amateur student of the field. I don't have any credentials or anything published. In other words, what I'm going to say probably has little to no merit to it.

What I have seen in recent weeks, as I've investigated different news and articles about machine learning, neural networks, and self-driving vehicles, etc - is that it seems like, at least maybe for a certain class of problems, there is a convergence on a generalized pattern, if not a solution, for implementing the network.

This pattern or solution seems built off of the Lecun LeNet MNIST convolutional neural network; specifically, the pattern seems to be roughly:

(input) -> (1:n - conv layers) -> (flatten) -> (1:n - fully connected layers) -> (output)

where:

(1:n - conv layers) = (conv layer) -> (loss layer) -> (activation layer)

and:

(1:n - fully connected layers) = (fully connected layer) -> (loss layer) -> (activation layer)

The (loss layer) is optional, but given that the (activation layer) seems to have converged (in most cases I've seen, which is probably not representative) to RELU, the (loss layer) is needed (sometimes) to prevent overfitting (simple dropout can work well, for instance).

I don't want to say that this pattern is the "be-all-end-all" of deep learning, but I have found it curious just how many different problems it can be successfully applied to. The RELU operation, while not being differentiable at zero - seems to work regardless (and there are other activation functions similar to RELU that are differentiable - like softplus - if needed).

Anyhow - these "building blocks" seem like the basics - the "lego" for deep learning; taking it from art to engineering. As a student, I've been playing with TensorFlow - and recently Keras (a framework for TensorFlow). These tools make it quick and easy to build deep learning neural networks like I described.

My gut feeling is that I'm talking from my rear; my level of knowledge isn't that great in this field. So - grain 'o salt and all that.

/disclaimer: I am currently enrolled and taking the Udacity Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree; in the past I've taken the Udacity CS373 course (2012) and the Standford-sponsored ML Class (2011).
Ask HN: Is Telegram secure or not?
I'm not a crypto expert. The experts clearly prefer Signal to Telegram for secure mobile messaging, but how secure is Telegram? I read the its encryption scheme was broken, but I also read that it's never been broken. And nobody has won the $300,000 award for breaking it. What's the deal? Is it still considered insecure?