skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RL²: Fast Reinforcement Learning via Slow Reinforcement Learning (2016)
My SO is singaporean. I will admit I've never lived there for more than a month, but I plan on moving there to live with her after I finish my PhD. I don't know what you mean by "very culturally segregated," my experience there the couple of times I've been there is it's not as integrated as say it sounds like it was in the 60's, but it is significantly more diverse and integrated than it is here in the US. Mostly, people of different cultures do interact with each other quite a bit and there is a level of comfort the different races have which each other which is not the case in the US.

This is just me, but I feel more comfortable there. It may sound silly, but people have a nicer and less judgemental stare than what I get in certain neighborhoods in the US. Also, regarding their authoritarianism, what I've learned from my gf is that it just is their culture to be more submissive to authority. I did not get this sense that everyone was on the edge of their seats to start a racewar or revolution or that there were issues "beneath the surface." A couple of people complain about foreigners, but that is mainly non-singaporeans of all races, not really "those Indians" or "those Malays."

I do agree on cultural ground though that an authoritarian state would be counter-productive for the US, as I alluded to earlier.
Manning has described the experience she had in the military; this article provides a counterpoint.

> forget what you know about the person

We know very little about Manning. We know about the leaks. Everything else we know is mostly autobiographical. (For instance, the suicide attempts were reported by Chelsea to the media)
>I also notice that the most happy countries in the world are all significantly more diverse than the US

Am I reading the chart wrong? Or do you have a definition for "diversity". At first glance it doesn't look like it would be racial diversity. When one of your countries has a popular "avoid accidental incest" app.

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/iceland-incest-app
That are dropping Py2 support, I mean.
Ford is doing something similar[1], by trying to take the best photos for you while driving, presumably to avoid you from using your phone.

Its such an odd patent, perhaps its a high quality signal about their ability to execute on self driving.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/18/ford-patents-a-car-camera-...
Easier to read if you know it stands for Video Audio Integrated Operation
What are you getting at? As far as I know, OMB doesn't require key escrow, so it almost certainly doesn't happen at scale. I'd imagine that if an intelligence service asked an agency for keymat, they'd happily provide it. I know that I wouldn't have a problem with someone from old St. Elizabeths Hospital or Fort Meade or Crystal City asking me for stuff, especially since the order to co-ooperate with DHS or NSA or the Pentagon would come through the agency's chain of command.

That said, DHS runs an intrusion prevention system called EINSTEIN, whose mission is to protect all federal civilian computer networks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_(US-CERT_program)

Using EINSTEIN _is_ mandated by OMB, so if you're worried about the U.S. federal government snooping on your communications with the U.S. federal government, I don't know what to tell you.
The article's intent is to address the picture that was painted, for how she was treated. The author is saying that she came in, repeatedly quit and put herself at odds with the team. Being a non conformist has no place in boot camp. According to the author, she was not mistreated or characterized there, rather, she was encouraged to try and to be one of the team.
Also, airbag activation isn't a perfect proxy for accident rate. Passenger safety is only a subset of vehicle safety.
besides the security component, which i can't comment on, protonmail does not have a calendar application...
Another reason that OT is hard is that it doesn't fall out of a generic proof; you have to prove that your particular instance of OT follows a mathematical equation. And there is no tooling to verify that (it can't be ensured by typical type checkers).

So people either rely on an OT implementation that is generic enough for their needs, or risk inconsistency or subtle bugs to chase after for years.

Other approaches such as CRDT or total order are not vulnerable to that problem, but they have other concerns (like read performance, garbage collection, or intent preservation).
Ah it now makes sense, I did ask him to clarify but I just parsed in my brain when reading your reply he meant fewer wealthy (better educated drivers) as opposed to less wealthy meaning not as wealthy. Thanks for your help.
> The day they can get cost per mile one penny below what you'd spend owning a Toyota Camry

Car makers have falling commodity prices (when they're indeed falling) and rising automation working in their favor. What does Uber have working in its favor?

It seems that scenarios with rising car ownership costs involve mainly cost of parking or general low ridership pattern. Those specific scenarios are associated with dense urban environments, which also have a competitive vector of public transportation, frequently already subsidized by the taxpayer.

I will admit though that Uber has a very attractive offering in LA, with $5 UberPOOL downtown to West side or a UberX ride cheaper for 3-4 people than the cost of metro/bus. Don't know whether LA market is profitable for them or subsidized.
Does Long Content Really Rank Better?
> As does (starting tomorrow) the new leader of the free world.

I'm not a fan of Trump's, but it takes an exotic form of humility to sell gaudy things, have an off-the-wall hairstyle, and be a WWE performer. He's so over the top that there has to be a level of ironic self-awareness in there somewhere.
So, if she had all of these problems in training, why didn't she wash out?
What if you have none?
You're better off delving deeper into learning the actual framework instead of studying a foreign language.

Something similar happened with NGINX a few years ago. Almost all documentation was in Russian. But once it grew in popularity a few people just translated the documentation over to English.

If you had studied Russian just to understand NGINX better, it would've been a huge waste of time, and my guess is that it'll be similar in this situation.

The caveat, of course, is if you want to study Chinese for other personal reasons. In that case, by all means.
> What about when your commute, without any concern for parking, is 10 minutes, max? I doubt it would be that expensive

If you want a car at the precise time everybody else happens to be commuting and commuters are the principal users of on-demand car services, it doesn't really matter whether your commute is shorter than some of the others. It's one extra car needed to be available every day at the time when all the other cars happen to be in use and (like most of the rest of the cars in the commuter pool) it'll spend the rest of the day sat in a parking spot, costing little in mileage but plenty in depreciation.

Of course if commuters needing to be around for the start of a normal work day aren't the principal user of the service, then cars can be used more efficiently throughout the day, but then they're not "competing with private car ownership" to any significant degree.

For edge cases like you whose car use consists of occasional ten minute drives, it might already be cheaper to just take taxis/Ubers
Volunteering from home will soon become as common as working from home
I think what konklone was getting at is that any scenario that allows an attacker to trigger a certificate warning (and effectively taking down the service) would also allow them to take down the service through other means. Do you have a scenario in mind that doesn't require either a MitM (who could just as well block the service) or a compromised client/server (which would allow the attacker to block access either way)?
They published that the driver took absolutely no action, and that he had 7 seconds to take some action (7 seconds from the time the truck started to turn across his path until his car struck it). The last action he had taken was to enable the cruise control at 74mph 2 minutes before the crash.
Not lies the thing he took down is the forum. https://www.reddit.com/r/DOTA/comments/12zjm6/access_to_the_...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/us/chelsea-manning-senten...
The Antiheroine Unveiled
That's not how justice works.

To name just one example, repeat offenders are always punished more harshly than first-timers, and yet the fact that they did something in the past doesn't change the act for which they are judged in any way; but (rightly or wrongly) the justice system thinks it illustrates who they are.

It's always a person who is judged.
The descriptions of effects of the 1859 solar storm on the telegraph system[0] are pretty crazy. It started fires, shocked operators, powered unplugged machines, etc. Can't imagine what that would be like with all of our modern machines.

[0]: http://www.history.com/news/a-perfect-solar-superstorm-the-1...
I think comparing it with other languages may make it easier to grasp. Sometimes it's good to test it in a language you are used to. The selector expression could be represented in Python like this:

a = lambda n: [n % x for x in [15, 3, 5]].index(0)
I don't know if I slipped because it was late or it's been changed, but I could've sworn I wrote edge.
You sort of can - http://www.elevatesoft.com/products?category=ewb
when you get to 5x + x = 6x, you can't simply memorize a similar sequence. Knowing how the sequence is created is much more valuable than memorizing the sequence. You do loose some speed, but critical thinking is more important than speed, especially with the onset of cheap personal computers and calculators.
Buttons shouldn’t have a hand cursor
The MISP project[1] which is an open source project around threat intelligence sharing is actively looking for contributions and supports to write documentation. There is already a git book[2] which needs some love and support especially on the aspect of using the platform for analysts or security operators.

[1] https://github.com/MISP/
[2] https://github.com/MISP/misp-book
Ansible-Kamailio-role
> What does Uber have that would not be feasible for any of those companies to build?

usage data. they know where people that use their app actually go on a daily basis, and how much they're willing to pay for that service.
Except for consumers who can fly around the world for insanely low prices.
Make sure to check the other projects from the same guy. Lovely things.
> Maxwell claims that leadership is influence, not authority.

When you're setting the raises, bonuses, and assignments, authority is (very blunt) influence. I've seen many coworkers do obviously dumb things because the boss wanted them to do it that way. They shrug their shoulders and say, "I just work here". It's not obedience out of respect or loyalty.
PPC in 2017, Death of the Ad?
Gmail iOS App Security Issue: Always Displays External Images
> The wrong question to ask is: Is A better than B, given some confidence threshold?

That's a perfectly fine question so long as there are three acceptable answers: Yes, No and Unclear.
I think the massive electromagnetic flux caused by the CME interacting with Earth's magnetosphere induces current even in powered-down systems. I believe it's necessary to cut lines and perhaps even disconnect individual transformers from the grid.
Hey, I have choosen Node.js for Back-End and Express as the frame work because i am aiming for MEAN stack web application. Can you please guide me for the tools and tutorials from where i can be prepared for the Back End Stuff. And yeah i will go with Server-side rendering.
Thanks in advance! You made my day !
>Then sell the customers list to law enforcement to make side money! What a fantastic time to live in SV!

implying that law enforcement won't work with homeland security to subpoena your data at cost under a gag order :)
American schools also use quota-like systems.
Huh I'm all for transgenders but also someone who has created fake news and stories to push agendas.
Maths is not pattern matching. There's a lot of beauty to be had in playing around with numbers; some of the biggest, deepest unsolved theorems of mathematics can be expressed so that fifth and sixth graders can understand them. Combinatorics and probability can be easily taught to kids, and even the basics of abstract algebra can be expressed in an easily understandable way.

These topics are much more fascinating than mere calculus could ever be, but this requires people to stop viewing mathematics solely as a tool, and start viewing it as a way to reason about the world.
Cool... the idea reminds me of TempleOS, which was meant to evoke the spirit of the C64 but run on and take advantage of modern hardware.
I'm amazed that there is a flight delay lawyer.
I have a guide that shows the equivalent for MySQL. It's kind of split between these two pages:

http://www.unofficialmysqlguide.com/introduction.html

http://www.unofficialmysqlguide.com/server-architecture.html
You wouldn't do everything in your power to not have to live in solitary confinement for 35 years???

Especially when your counterpart Snowden is living as a free and highly revered hero while your locked up in a dark hole???
How much do employers care about long term unemployment?
Hi HN, I am thinking about leaving my job and doing some traveling/side projects for a year. My question is - how much do employers care about long term (1+ years) of unemployment? Would it look bad to employers that I didn't try to look for employment for a year (Specifically asking for the tech industry, I am currently a machine learning engineer)? I also have a lot of family stuff I need to figure out so I could really use this break. Please let me know your thoughts!
non sequitur: I find it interesting that they're using the Google cloud blue hex style in their icons, but don't seem to support BigQuery or BigTable/HBase.
Star Trek: Discovery gets delayed again, this time until “question mark”
You'd have to call it something like `_Fn` instead, or you're going to conflict with existing code (the C standard reserves identifiers starting with an underscore followed by a capital letter; it also reserves identifiers starting with two underscores, but it's fairly common for code to ignore that and use identifiers like that anyway).
Exactly, Apple alone is one of the most profitable businesses of all time.
There've been numerous Presidents who are akin to Ballmer though, having presided upon times where things were pretty good for the fortunate segment of society but doing nothing about looming catastrophes which could be seen but weren't critical problems. I'm thinking of Fillmore/Pierce/Buchanan in the run-up to the Civil War and Harding/Coolidge/Hoover in the run-up to the Great Depression. It's fairly likely that historians will view Dubya/Obama/Trump in the same way in reference to some future crisis around the national debt, global warming, or rising inequality.
I've been looking for the icon set for presentations I've made for a while and never found this; thanks!
Are you sure about that? The Lenovo P50s with Skylake i7 can be ordered with 32GB RAM: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/p-series/p50s/...
Yep, I started writing this out (first in js, but it doesn't map well, python list comprehensions do) but you beat me to it. :)

Now great, you can get the weird syntax and unroll it if you squint. Why is it written like this? Isn't it wasteful to test against all three cases (15,3,5) instead of returning early?

Probably has something to do with 'thinking in arrays' and how its a cheap comparison and that there's probably matrix multiplication or bit twiddling going on under there. That's the interesting bit to me.

To get the feel for an array language. This fizzbuzz example is actually surprisingly interesting because of that.
You are correct! Our pricing depends on a bunch of factors including how much money it takes to exercise the shares and what we think the company can exit at. We aim to take less than half the proceeds. Sometimes if the exercise cost is higher and the exit isn't as high as we anticipate, we may end up taking more than half. For the most part, our business is a referral business and happy clients means they will refer their friends/co-workers.
Most importantly, employers in capitalist economies have no financial incentive to discriminate, given equally capable candidates.

Race is intertwined with culture, values, and beliefs. With culture being an integral part of the company, it is only natural that employers will also consider personal qualifications of an applicant, all things equal.
I would of went with "Just The Tip".
Couldn't agree more. This kind of misunderstanding is also described in Brewer's paper "CAP twelve years later: How the "rules" have changed" (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6133253/).
I don't know about 'flawed'. Classical hypothesis testing has its place, when used correctly. I guess the point of the article is that it falls apart dramatically when you do certain things wrong. And that these things turn out to be in very common practice.

Disclaimer: I wrote that article (a long time ago...)
I think you need the paid Wolfram Alpha to get step-by-step solutions

Source: Paid for it for that feature.
Avoid the problem: if you receive a flight delay notification, check the airline's flight status website. Flight logistics are complicated and in constant flux.
I just don't understand why even a single person on earth would voluntarily want to join this torture, or why she didn't quit. I would have quit after 2 minutes.
We had reusable components long before SPAs, but each individual page is largely unique anyway.
Agree that the CAP theorem isn't as strict as that statement implies. The trade-off only occurs at certain points. Sorry it was a little unclear!
Small steps. I deleted all my posts and pictures in Facebook and then deleted my account. After Facebook I also deleted some irrelevant accounts like LinkedIn. For mobile I just disabled all Google apps and started to use a VPN connection everywhere.

And I don't feel I'm missing anything.
Multi user chats/chatrooms are part of the protocol though.
Paraphrasing an earlier Reddit post, here's how it might look in K3.

Generate a range of numbers up to 20 (for brevity), inclusive:

1+!20
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Apply a function ({x!/:3 5}), which takes an element modulo 3 and 5, to the range:

{x!/:3 5}1+!20
(1 2 0 1 2 0 1 2 0 1 2 0 1 2 0 1 2 0 1 2
1 2 3 4 0 1 2 3 4 0 1 2 3 4 0 1 2 3 4 0)

Taking the negation (~) shows us the places the elements divide evenly:

{~x!/:3 5}1+!20
(0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1)

Convert these into base-2 indices:

{2 _sv~x!/:3 5}1+!20
0 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 1

We can then use those indices to select from a list. Note the addition of a map ('), because if we continue performing all these operations in parallel we won't have access to x as some particular item of the list:

{(x;"Buzz";"Fizz";"FizzBuzz")2 _sv~x!/:3 5}'1+!20
(1;2;"Fizz";4;"Buzz";"Fizz";7;8;"Fizz";"Buzz";11;"Fizz";13;14;"FizzBuzz";16;17;"Fizz";19;"Buzz")
As far as I can tell from how frequently Uber and Lyft give me discounts whenever I don't use them for a few days, they're burning crazy amounts of VC money just to grow.

If investment dries up before they get profitable, I think they're screwed.
Just FYI, Zulip uses a similar UI model to Zephyr, but doesn't use the Zephyr protocol internally. (For example, Zephyr doesn't really work when one user is behind a NAT)

(I worked for Zulip, and have contributed to the open-source project)
It's still the case that a bad call was made when the codebase was started, picking a language version that was already on its way out. It's like starting a new project now with Java 7 o .Net 2.0.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13421608
I think the conventional wisdom is that prestige allows schools to attract better students and professors, and to raise more money from alumni sort of creating a virtuous cycle...but to a certain extent its zero sum, so some schools actually end up trying to compete in races that they can't win to their detriment, and effectively to the detriment of their students.
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

- Lao Tzu quote opening 'Becoming a Technical Leader' by Jerry Weinberg
A part of the push for rigor in calculus is being able to prove results instead of appealing to intuition. They are both important aspects of mathematics when working together (often intuition guides a slower, rigorous, methodical proof), but we don't want people relying on intuition where a proof is necessary. This kind of critical thinking and logical reasoning are both important cross-disciplinary skills that almost every field requires.
I would also recommend looking at the RC2014 project. Kits are available for order on Tindie. The mailing list is very active and new developments happen regularly.

http://rc2014.co.uk/
I suspect the vast majority of people find programming a computer with toggle switches fun for only the first 8 instructions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GmY_UrbXnA

Hex pads and push buttons isn't much better.

https://youtu.be/e8u_lY7RnTI?t=4m03s

These projects are very cool, but I think too much futzing for most people.
The problem I have with inequality is that it seems almost impossible to disentangle political influence from wealth.
I can't find support for that interpretation in the Semantic Versioning spec: "Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything may change at any time. The public API should not be considered stable."

That means 0.x software is in "initial development" implying no guarantee on how many bugs it can contain and no guarantees regarding maintainership. Other parts of the spec deals with backwards-incompatible api changes.

I know where your interpretation comes from. It comes from users of software who believe that a 0.x version can be relied upon. Because it works for them and they haven't found any bugs. Software publishers on the other hand, never makes that claim and users to whom stability is important should stay away from 0.x software.
Chaos Experiment: Split Braining Akka Clusters
>No, that's not what she did. She gave the archive to a third party (Assange) who turned out to be unreliable. But that's not "the same" -- or even "essentially" the same -- as just outright posting it on Facebook.

Yes it is. Once it's there on the internet, people are linking to it, and it's a topic of discussion, anything that gets you into any kind of trouble is out there for people to see.

>Can we just end the discussion there, please? I'm not saying this issue is cut-and-dried, or that there's no validity in your arguments. But if we keep going back and forth about the basic event chronology, then there's really not much a of a point.

If you're really intent on ending a conversation, try not attempting to slip in the last word.
Nothing will replicate the same feeling I had when I wrote my first machine code program by poking into RAM, and discovered the world of million+ operations per second, rather than thousands from the land of BASIC. It was like a glimpse of blinding light through the narrowest of cracks.
New Satan Ransomware Available Through a Ransomware as a Service
A small correction, but there were mobiles. They were huge (most people used them attached to the car), and their weight was measured in kg, but they existed :)