skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't recommend accessing email over TOR, especially not a paid account.

Infact I would not recommend accessing any public service that requires a unique account authentication over TOR.

This at least is somewhat more useful than facebook over TOR but unless you are accessing only free throwaway accounts (and never use those to communicate with anyone you know) using this somewhat defeats the purpose of TOR.
Snapchat embraces offline purchase ad targeting its CEO called “creepy”
I see what you mean. But, in the end, I don't expect a company to show me much loyalty when the rubber meets the road financially. So, it's just not a "family" in that way..and platitudes that make that comparison sound corny to me. I do expect leaders to be nice people, just not to the point where it sets some expectation that caring goes beyond that.
And a throwaway phone without any user data? (I don't think there are working Android-in-Android VMs that are both performant enough and offer good isolation.)
Fascism doesn't end well.

Here's proof from the U.S. Army Signal Corps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw4noLIFgGQ
Whatever Happened to Context MBA?
That might depend on the specific ad blocker and which domains it is blocking.
This article reminded me of one I read a long time ago in Discover:

First Cell - http://discovermagazine.com/1995/nov/firstcell584

It turns out that this article is about David Deamer who is quoted in the Quanta article.
I've worked for three startups, each fairly well-known at least at some weird level. Two early stage and one immediately pre-IPO. One of the early ones netted me nothing(1), while the other gained me ~$10K when they went public(2). The third was quite lucrative, and was the least demanding - by far - of life tradeoffs.

(1)Other than a feeling that I'd joined the Witness Protection Program when I fled after an engineering walkout.

(2)Offset by literally years of damaged self-esteem. Pedigree is heavily overrated - with one exception, all the famous people were pretty awful.
Thanks. I've got some unique circumstances that do let me walk away, and I'm only asking for parity within the company.
SSDs (and NAND flash in general) tend to have block oriented interfaces, so you'd need at least a cache. You'd end up at best with a hardware implementation of paging...

You could us NOR flash, which tends to support execute-in-place as well. I've booted Linux from a system with the bootloader running from the flash.

The problem is still erase-units. Doing read-only is easy. The moment you want writes, you'll need a RAM as cache and complex controller logic to do wear-levelling unless you want to wear out your flash in no-time.

SRAM is probably the most viable alternative.
I worked in a C shop for like 8 or 10 years and we never introduced a back-wards incompatible API release. There were a few changes that required all servers to be restarted (not at once) to change network protocol (16-bit fields overflowing, that sort of thing). But it was inconceivable that you'd break something that is working. To be sure, we took a couple of weeks before designing an API, and for no one was the API they wrote and shared with others the first API they designed as an adult. Even when the implementation mutated out of all recognition, the API owner would just do whatever re-coding/re-implementation was needed behind the existing API.
Thanks, I might try to get the title back after the final number is done.
I assume the 'random' strategy was the one on the left? It didn't ever extend the line - just the pole. Not a fair test?
I think the doubts about Amazon were different though. The doubt was whether they would succeed at their goal, rather than whether the goal would actually constitute financial success. Wal-mart for the digital era is clearly a successful position, and Amazon didn't subsidize their product to the degree that Uber has had to.
This thread is turning into Feynman vs the abacus, is it not?

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/abacus/feynman.html
Ok but to be fair, Hitler is a 'western' meme. Stalin and Mao didn't kill westerners.
> Airlines lost those regulations under Reagan.

Not really relevant to the main discussion, but I think it is important to make sure readers are exposed to accurate (though perhaps overly detailed) historical information.

According to [1] and [2], talk of US airline deregulation began during the Nixon administration, and picked up speed in the Ford administration. In 1975 the US Senate began pushing towards airline deregulation, under the leadership of Sen. Ted Kennedy (not the first politician who comes to mind when you think of reducing government regulation).

The Airline Deregulation Act was signed into law by Jimmy Carter in 1978, who already in 1977 had appointed a well-known proponent of deregulation, the economist Alfred E. Kahn, to head the Civil Aeronautics Board (the government agency in charge of regulating airline routes and prices).

The Civil Aeronautics Board indeed lingered on until the Reagan administration abolished it in 1985, but the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act is when it effectively lost control.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_Deregulation_Act

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_deregulation#Introduct...
Not the OP, but given that English is historically gender biased, I find it pretty easy to unconsciously fall into the trap of using a gender biased turn of phrase. Even if one is consciously trying to avoid such things, our messy neural nets being what they are, mistakes happen.

Given the almost certainty (in my mind anyway), that the OP meant no disrespect to people who identify with genders that are not male, it would make me very happy indeed if requests for correction could be made in a respectful way. Simply asking something like "Would you mind using the alternative phrasing 'blah blah blah'" would go a long way towards helping everyone to maintain a civil tone.
They don't. The websites can insert a small hyperlink anywhere on the home page linking to the cookie policy and that counts as notifying the user.
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That's more so they can bring you back even if you weren't actively looking for something ("wow, widget x is 50% off - I'll probably need it in the next few months, I should buy it now."). Also to keep their brand in the front of your mind the next time you do actively look for something.
They all operate the same way give or take
Thanks, I'm okay with a hierarchy... it's pretty standard for engineers isn't it? The number of years is a bit old school, true.
A Little Riak Book (2013)
>> "disclosure: I work at Google Brain"

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>> "I too, was intimidated by the math & magic of ML when I first took Andrew Ng's Intro to Machine Learning Course 4 years ago (my first exposure). I took regular CS courses in college and started focusing on ML 1.5 years ago."

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That's awesome, congrats!

Appears you have written about it too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13440813
That's not a fair comparison
Using microcule to spawn streaming multi-language Functions as a Service [video]
The Viral Word-Of-Mouth Success of Instant Pot
Ethical it's not. Leagality if fluid. Also who is going to sue?
Strictly speaking is it illegal sure.
No one of the customers cares enough to sue( has arbitration agreements) , the other firms are doing a cost benefit analysis
Look before you paste from a website to terminal
If you are using proton for additional "privacy" don't do that, since it would effectively mean that your adversary can now know your new email identity.

If you don't worry about that, then in all honesty it's somewhat redundant.

I use hushmail because it has PGP integrated into their service, including a PGP client in the webmail, yes they have a copy of my key (you can do PGP over JAVA if you want to keep the key on your computer) and yes since they are HIPAA compliant and a Canadian company they will comply with NSL but those aren't threat models i worry about.

I want to be able to use PGP easily and from anyplace and not worrying about having to carry my key with me, having PGP or GPG installed and fussing around with it if I have to access my mail in an emergency from a device that might not have a full setup.

Whilst I am aware that the NSA and other agencies with similar capabilities are technically adversaries I don't fuss about them, I'm more worried about sending my mail to the wrong person than the NSA reading my mails, if they want to they'll be able too regardless of where I host them, and I would never go toe to toe with some one who's likely to use rubber hose cryptography on me.
Or maybe understanding motivations, how people and groups will react not based on trust or relationships, but strictly on expected outcomes.
I hear you but then search results would be full of diluted blogspam, because paid content tends to be higher signal:noise.
D was also trying to bring a ruby/python-like experience to the C++ developer. can't say how well they've succeeded, but I feel it's definitely a strictly better language than C++ at this point. from my perspective its main weakness is not being able to generate a runtimeless library that I can call from other languages; without that it doesn't offer enough over ocaml for me to use it, but that would have been a killer feature. (rust does offer that, which is why it's on top of my to-learn list right now)
Why did you post an empty comment?
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8^(1/3) is 2 (when interpreted over the reals).

Your method is wrong because it does not produce the answer. One does not, in college algebra, say the solution is:

lim a_n as n->infinity

For one thing you did not prove convergence. It is understood that solutions to algebraic equations over the reals are numbers and not approximations. Any student who knows about Dedekind cuts or infinite sequences knows to take the cube root of both sides.

Most mathematicians consider it silly (strange, wrong) to say that 2 is an element of 3 even though it is.

Anyone solving x^3 = 27 in the method specified does not know any of these finer points of mathematics. The method is bad. It's useful for positive integer solutions but not for the general situation.
Not if you don't need it.
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Hollywood Doesn’t Represent All Creators
Note: The original title noted OpenAI's role in the paper, which maybe seen by loading the PDF and reading the author credits.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.02779v2.pdf
There's a short story by Harry Turtledove about aliens that have mastered gravity (because, as it turns out, it isn't that difficult to do) but all of their other technology is pre-industrial revolution level. They try to invade Earth in 2039 - I won't spoil what happens next. It's a fun read.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_(short_st...
One question: how do you save a dynamic network if it changes from time to time (e.g. from sample to sample)?
If this works, this seems like it could be very significant.

Broadly, slowness is a serious problem in current machine learning approaches and so anything that speeds things up is significant.

The approach of learning the learning process would seem to get bonus points for being interesting and general.

Edit: Published in November, this paper didn't seem to get any comments on the machine learning Reddit, which is my go-to for informed on this stuff. I'd love to have someone who knew what they were doing comment here.
And to enable state surveillance.

When you have a very small subset of users who will go through the trouble of trying out Facebook's onion address, it is much easier to be successful with surveillance tools on that small sample.
I'm interested! Your blog posts are great! :)
No evidence of an overall reduction in the world’s consumption of materials
>The answer, over the reals, is 7^(1/3).

Math major here.

7^(1/3) is defined as the solution to x^3 = 7. In this case I would accept it as an answer because 7 does not have a rational cube root, and the question is presumably testing if the students knows fractional exponents [0]. However, in the case of x^3 = 8, I would not accept 8^(1/3) because the students has not actually found the answer; they have merely written the question in a different way. I am also curious what method you would propose the student use to compute 8^(1/3), as all the methods I know degrade to guess and check in the single digit case.

You could say that simplifying to x^3 = 8 to x=8^(1/3) is the first step to solving it; to which I would reply that simplifying x=8^(1/3) to x^3 = 8 is the first step to solving it.

[0] I could also imagine another math class where I would mark 7^(1/3) as wrong because the student has not actually found the answer, merely written the question in a different way. Presumably we are not talking about such a situation.
Mine has never had a false positive. I've yet to accidentally merge into anybody with it, so I don't know how it behaves in the situation it's supposed to handle.
Are any of you trying to apply some of these ideas to general intelligence or is that only Deep Mind?

If for example Google Assistant is ever going to be able to _really_ understand what people are talking about, it will most likely need to be based on a virtually embodied agent gradually trained somewhat like a human child. If you or any of the other Google Brain team members are interested, you should study the existing field of AGI. See 'AGI-16 videos intelligence' on youtube for example. I mention this because these papers such as the one linked here frequently reference general or animal-like intelligence, yet almost all of the best funded AI efforts seem explicitly ignorant of or dissmissive of the existing AGI research.
>Professional mathematicians don't guess answers to theorems.

Believe it or not, proving theorems is not the goal of many mathematicians. I'm simplifying a bit, but read Freeman Dyson's essay on Birds and Frogs. Essentially "problem solvers" vs "theory builders". While problem solvers often do end up proving theorems, it is not their main goal. If they can "guess" a solution, they are done. It is publishable.

Go to the field of combinatorics, and you'll find it is full of guesswork.

>I accept any mathematically valid method of solving a problem. Mathematically method means, method that works even if I trivially change it by using different numbers.

Sorry, but many mathematicians disagree with you. Solving a problem is finding a solution (provided you have a means to verify correctness). It doesn't matter if you merely guessed it.
This. There's nothing else because any other task requires diverting mental focus away from the act of constantly assessing the changing environment around your car. That by definition leads to slower reaction times.
Agreed. This symbol existed before the swastika.
Also, knowing that war crimes denial is still a thing in Japan, this decision doesn't seem the most appropriate to me...
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BBS systems also interest me quite a bit. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIDA_(cognitive_architecture). It's based on a Global Workspace model (conceptually similar to a Black Board System). You can find papers on LIDA online (including one or two from the references on the wiki page). If you find anything particularly interesting, feel free to share!
This is a great read. But left me thinking I'm missing in the fundamentals. Can you recommend a book (or other posts) on statistics fundementals for programmers?
I've heard the same thing about UPS, but the way I heard it, it's only because left turns can be so much slower. A route that leans more heavily on right turns will usually be faster overall.
I think it's a bit more nuanced. If you have a high title, you get people's attention immediately, but it takes time to earn their respect, and the two are quite different.
Go looking? It's literally the project's name. Or do you think people see "FAP" and go "oh, jeez, that's such an unfamiliar word, I guess it's an acronym? wonder what it stands for"?
Not for the Egyptian government.
> the background check is even more thorough in the post-snowden era.

Why is that?

I mean, this would be a case of "shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted" except that Snowden would pretty clearly have passed a more thorough background check. His background wasn't the problem.

The only thing I can think of that might actually have preemptively filtered him (or those like him) out would be some sort of psych test biased toward authoritarianism.
I love the thoughtful logo
Yeah I started off using that exact pipeline and it worked well. We ended up moving to AWS which Semaphore only supports if its Elastic Beanstalk (could be different now to be fair). We couldn't go that route for more reasons than I care to list here. My hope is that Elixir gets popular enough that we can start to see some first class build tools integrated into more of these products.
Can I just use macros? Passing the type as a parameter to a macro can let the compiler match types, no?
Probably worth mentioning that the Google Content Experiments framework is in the process of being replaced with Google Optimize (currently in a private beta) which does NOT make use of multi-armed bandits much to my confusion and disappointment.
I think, in the case of an algebra class, the student could assume something like an integral / rational solution space. Otherwise, the solution is just to put the opposite symbol on the other side of the equation, e.g. (8192)^(1/3), which is maybe(?) what the teacher is asking, however would the teacher actually accept an answer written in the form 27^(1/3)? I would guess that I would not accept that. I understand what you are saying, but in this case, it could be argued that the 8192 case is actually a different question, because the underlying multiplicative group is different.
Nice! is this HTTPServer a standard, included python module? Does the “costumer you send the preview to” have to run ./zerve or the generated python script?
Thanks!
Abusing their power? You mean like rewarding sites that present content people are searching for instead of plastering a full page ad in front of them? The shit people say to justify their anti-Google agenda never ceases to be ridiculous.
I find it very interesting that many so-called "Ivy Misser" schools such as WUSTL and Tufts have more 1%ers and fewer 60%ers than extremely elite schools such as Princeton and Harvard. Even Yale has a lower ranking on the list. Perhaps the elite of the elite are more concerned with giving their progeny a broad exposure to different classes of people, while more middling members of the upper class concern themselves with status signalling.
I work at 18F but am speaking about my experience here and experiences heard from coworkers, not officially on behalf of 18F.

Applying to 18F didn't require a drug test for me. The application process asks this question in the background check part (details at "security clearance" at the bottom of https://pages.18f.gov/joining-18f/how-to-apply/ for anyone curious), but answering yes to the "have you ever done federally-illegal drugs" question is not an automatic disqualification. It can be a disqualification depending on the details of the drug use.
There could be a lot of room for optimization if instead of saying "create index blah" you said "I want these queries to be fast: ..."

It's easy to lock an optimization plan in place. It's absolutely trivial, so there's no reason to be afraid of your DB reorganizing itself. Just tell it not to if you are satisfied with how it runs.

The problem is that people tend to need a ton of expertise and awareness when they restructure their data manually. Did they build the right indexes? Well... the DB doesn't know. It just builds what you tell it to. Even if it could know how to optimize access, if only you gave it an example query rather than a directive over its internal structure.

This is the advantage of using declarative language in lieu of imperative language. The DB is supposed to be a data manager. You should say "I want to run these queries, and I have this much memory for you" and it should know how to get your results as fast as possible.
I sure am!

Add me on Discord if you wanna chat Stanislav#7943
One of my college friends who works for PG&E said "The faster you turn off the grid the longer it will take to turn it on."

He had some great stories about contingency plans that go into how they would restart the grid post 9.0 quake in SF or LA. Such a quake is largely expected to bring down most, if not all, of California's grid.
I'm looking forward to the Beastie Boys rereleasing their album as licence2://
Yes it is. Thanks for the link.
I am :) glad people remember me from FFXI haha

Add me on Discord if you ever wanna chat, Stanislav#7943
Working with a big food manufacturer some years ago, had a detailed discussion about their relationship with big super markets and how they had to do X offers per year. More interestingly, the end of aisles were known as sh*t bins. You could sell anything there. It just shifted.
Anyone know what the source language for Turbo Pascal was? Assembly? Bootstrapped Pascal? Turbo C?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a "function" always a pointer in C? That is, there's no such thing as a "value function" in C, right?

Given that, what's the advantage for "your version" of the idiom?

(This may just be nitpicking.)
That's a possibility. I'm not sure it's true. Both Uber and Lyft have good waiting times right now. The hypothesis that they will replace privately owned cars supposes that the market will grow immensely.

Waiting time is a function of: number of cars, size of the city, number of customers (to ignore congestion for now...) To have a good start as a new entrant, it's just a property of the size of the city. Then, you need to grow your fleet with your number of customers to keep waiting time constant. That number of cars to start with, the barrier to entry, is a tiny portion of what you need to add to keep up with demand.

If you don't have to compete with drivers, with autonomous cars, it's not that hard to meet and start a price war.

Again, I don't see how Uber will avoid being squeezed out of their margins the way airlines are. It's not cheap to start an airline, yet many people have done it. And all you need is 3 competitors to drive prices, and margins, down.
> Satellites in general have a very hard time discharging large amounts of current

Um... don't you mean "charge" instead of "current"?

> We could be looking at a large percentage of all electronics broken. So we might suddenly have large areas, with no power, no electronics, and no communication.

As a HAM radio operator, this is why I want to build a transceiver that has no semiconductors in it. If it's not connected to a large antenna, or to the AC network, or to any long wires, there's no way anything coming in from space could fry it (that would not fry me too).
Thanks for the links! I've successfully Dockerized Elixir apps now but I'm always looking for new and better ways to do things. I'll check your stuff out and see how my approach stacks up. Thanks again!
Would be nice to have a screenshot without the red squiggly underlines.
Yes, science is political
I'd recommend being very polite, but direct with the recruiter.

"I appreciate your generous offer and would love to join the team! The role is exciting and the team is fantastic. The current offer feels like it comes in a bit under market both in terms of title and compensation.

I am ready to accept an offer at the initial level at a starting salary of <$$$$>. I totally understand if this doesn't work for the broader team, but I want to make sure our partnership starts off in alignment to ensure a mutually beneficial long-term relationship."

Written on my mobile, so it's a VERY rough draft, but something like that.

Don't let people under pay you, but also be realistic w/ your talent level.
Found it on MIT Technology Review:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13439691

Do you have a link to the Wired article you're thinking of?
Looks Cool!
Scraping or API? (imdb’s i guess)
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