skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you. As a former international student, I really appreciated the efforts that were made by our faculty to help us integrate. Many of the friends I made, both from the US and from other countries were from the informal events and clubs that the faculty organized outside of class hours.
Is this a whole new thing or the evolution of Robotics Studio and the CCR? It looks strangely familiar!
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As powerful as an interpreter might be for running programs, it isn't the right tool for designing programs. Validating a program design requires static analysis, to be performed either mechanically (e.g., type checking) or manually (e.g., manipulating predicate transformers in the way advocated by Dijkstra).
I think that it workable, however, how do you tell people to go out and do that? Wikipedia is unlikely to tell contributors to go off to somewhere else to contribute; it makes little sense.
Back in October, no, it was not permissible to run a giant charity. Apparently.
Thanks for the response, but the spec is half of what you listed. you linked me to a 2.5ghz, 8core, 16GB machine. No obvious private network options, so pricing is pretty much middle of the road. Although the slot option is cool.
I spent a year in US as a foreign student. From my previous experiences (internships in UK and Germany), I knew it would be difficult to make friends with "locals". In UK, I was in a dorm during the summer with a private room, shared bathroom and kitchen. Most people were eating in their room. I finally made friend with one british guy as he was cooking. He told me later he didn't think he would make friends during the short summer session, even less with a foreigner. His girlfriend owned a pub, I had a great summer!

In the US, I didn't realize it would be even more difficult because 90% of the students in MS are foreigners in the college I attended. Anyway, I decided that the best way to make American friends was to be with them all day long. I joined a fraternity on campus.

This was not easy. Most fraternities never had a foreign student, except the one I was accepted in. Because my english was not great, I focused all my time on 1 fraternity to increase my chances of being accepted. I was the only foreigner in all fraternities this week.

It was not always easy, but it was worth it. I joined while doing my MS, all my brothers where freshmen. We had very different work load and about 4-year difference. But I did make friends with all of them. I spent Christmas with one of my friend's family (I didn't leave the US for winter break). It was a great experience.

I'm rather an introvert. But when you travel in a foreign country, you have to talk to strangers all the time. Expectations are also lower when you don't master the language fully. You have to be very direct and explicit in your communications.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/browse

I don't see a "filter by sponsor count" but you can at least see the number of sponsors. They have "secret sauce" sorting which tries to surface more important bills and presumably uses number of cosponsors as a filter.

I usually just look at the bill on Govtrack if I want to know what's going on with it.
The other thing to be aware is that the rationalization may be different than the reality of why he didn't choose you. The CEO may have found this an easier way to reject you.

In YC, there was this saying (in the context of VCs): believe the rejection, but not the reason. There's little upside in being honest.
I'm comparing interpretations of what amounts to the same action by Trump and Obama. Admittedly I'm generalizing, but the analogy is more valid than a comparison of apples to oranges. Both Trump and Obama outsourced campaign analytics to professionals, and in both cases there were articles explaining the innovation. In Trump's case, this article (and others I have seen), has a distinctly negative tone. For Obama, the articles praised his data scientists and boasted of their high post-campaign salaries.

I challenge you to find an article describing Obama's campaign analytics with similarly negative tone to this article about "weaponized AI propaganda."

The differing interpretations of two similar scenarios are worth observing, since the variability represents evidence of bias on the part of the journalists writing the articles.
Eek. That post contains quite a lot of claims that are not backed by a single reference to a primary source.
Yes, according to Chris Seaton, one of the main Graal developers (lead, even?) a month or so ago, Substrate VM will be released to the public, sometime Real Soon in early 2017: http://lists.ruby-lang.org/pipermail/jruby/2017-January/0005...

Of course it doesn't clarify the licensing. But it seems like the bulk of basically all of Graal and Truffle are under the GPL and I do believe that with JVMCI, etc, making it into JDK 9 -- it seems like a pretty good bet all this will eventually be openly available. So I'm hoping for the same to be true of SubstrateVM, though I think it's in a slightly different place than Graal (Graal/Truffle are really just .jar libraries you put in the Classpath of your JVMCI-enabled JDK; they do not fork the JDK. But Substrate is clearly something else entirely, since it 'shrink wraps' your code with the JVM itself in a way).

I actually just started playing with Graal yesterday, so I'm looking forward to seeing Substrate being released.
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Was about to ask, do think this could be use as one of the open AI environments?
Warning: Always add rel="noopener noreferrer" if you use target="_blank". Otherwise the target site could redirect the main site to a phishing page or worse.
I'd love to see a jepsen test. Maybe the spanner team would be able to sponsor an independent test?
What depth camera are you guys using? and at what framerate and resolution?
If you are in the UK, will you sign the Govt petition?
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My petition:

Euthanasia should be legal in the UK.

Nobody asks to be born, experts are expert in minutia without seeing the bigger picture and often defer judgement to others. The fact euthanasia is not legal yet its "humane" to put livestock, wildlife and pets down just demonstrates the hypocrisy of humanity.

The fact euthanasia is not even legal demonstrates nobody has considered the mental torture that people who require this facility, have to go through, its a virtual prison, where you are forced to engage with your prison guards and raise this issue using this online process. Its not freedom, its enslavement. Its years of supposedly clever people with your best interests at heart exploiting the stupid for their own personal gain.
META

I notice in many instances Github showing an error.

We could not perform this search: Must include at least one user, organization, or repository

But if you change anything in the URL, it works again. Such as adding &p=2, which lucideer tried. But I got the error on his link. So I changed it to p=3, and it worked.

So I'm guessing Github has an autodetection for a particular global code search getting high hits (for something like this, I assume) that locks people out.

Seems more like a band-aid on a broken leg, though.
> I'm just happy it's easy to disable for performance reasons

If you're disabling ASLR over this post, please don't. Especially for performance reasons - ASLR is very very cheap, and the impact on performance tends to be in places you won't care much about.

The paper is fine, they did cool work. More importantly, ASLR is totally valid still - their attack scenario is an attacker who already can execute arbitrary code on your system, even if it's in a sandbox, which is NOT The scenario ASLR was designed to defend against.

Nothing about this attack is going to impact the effectiveness of ASLR in the cases it was designed for.
This is extremely interesting, I wonder what it would take to get this implemented in the United States?
The secret key can probably be used to generate the account key.
> Plastic bottles and cans really need to have a nationwide deposit system in the US

No, they really don't. Having spent enough time in states that do and states that don't, I can tell you that having a deposit system encourages some bad behavior and doesn't really solve the problem.

1. It encourages scavenger people that dig through recycling and garbage making a mess of things in order to find large bottles with a deposit. On face value you think, 'yay, we get free sanitation workers cleaning up the city'. The reality is, they find the most efficient way to dig through and don't care about throwing disposable trash all over to get the loot.

2. Hoarding. I've seen people's kitchens and basements filled with cans because they want to do it all in one shot or for some special occasion. It makes a mess and is super annoying. You like fruit flies? This is how you get fruit flies.

3. It's inefficient. People who have the means will still not care about collecting the deposit because it's a PITA to go down to the store with the empties. The only people who get excited about it are the same people who think a tax refund is actually a gift from the government..

While it might solve some of the above problems, you won't find much luck making deposits $1/bottle or something in the US because it's only going to make life more of a pain for the poor. It's not a workable solution.
> Hillary spent

Not her personal wealth
Cambridge Analytica's links to Russian interests
Vast majority of people's decisions are made this way. CEO's are no different. Might be more so if they're moving super-fast managing a startup. So, this possibility should always be considered even if not stated as either the reason or a reason something happened.
Entropy isn't obscurity.
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I'd say many expat europeans or americans in Asia (Shangai, south korea) don't make any effort in making close native friends. Many of them prefer to hang out with people from their own country, or other western people. Only a few think about "acclimating to a different culture or learn new skills they would need to thrive in a very different educational system and social climate".
That's correct. The script used to generate the compiled binary is open and you can play around with that per the terms of the OTN license, but the SVM itself is closed source. There aren't currently any plans to change that.
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We are internally able to compile the core (AirLib) however there are few rough edges and also we want to make sure Unreal also works as expected on Linux with our plugin.
Cliqz is run by a great team, the founder Jean-Paul Schmetz is an amazing software engineer with a lot of experience (has been CTO of Burda Digital since the mid-90ies and later went to Stanford to study CS) and they have very high standards for software engineering and computer science.
Are you doing selective import from the browser? I'd like to split out and upload some of my bookmarks, to see if I can stick around. I generally use browser's native bookmarks manager (which does have this problem of folder/tag hierarchy you talk about) and I sometime use Slack to bookmark non-serious stuff (the stuff I don't much care about, but still would like to bookmark).
Ask Slack: Where is the ScreenHero integration already?
Seriously. It's been over TWO YEARS now since you acquired ScreenHero. Where's the integration at?
What's interesting to me about the discussion in this article is how many people talked about wanting to adopt Google/Amazon's hiring process and how they liked the 7 interviews/whiteboarding way more than take-home assignments.

Call me weird, but I prefer the assignments than the mindless discussions about balancing trees and Big-Oh notation.
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I started with QuickBasic/QBasic and Pascal. Though I went with VB4-6 instead of Delphi.

It's sad that RAD isn't popular anymore. 1995 - 1999 was great with Win95 era, everything was so consistent, good documentation. Then Microsoft realised their "The Microsoft Network" lost against the open free WWW and then the announced dotNet (which took until 2003 for them to release v1) - that was the beginning of the end of the great Win32 platform and RAD. HTML with Frontpage and Dreamweaver was just an okay RAD andbthe situation got worse with "no tables, use div" and XHTML 1/2 movements.
They didn't mention political correctness, though...?
You can...the government even has code to help

https://github.com/unitedstates/congress
That's correct :). The NVidia 1080 yields FPS of ~23 with all 3 views in real time!
His statement, yours, and mine are all valid Tcl code :-)

They just invoke the procedure named "unknown" a lot, probably -- depending on any other preamble.
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It's ambitious and I wish them the best of luck. However, as someone who has worked in the space, they're going to run into a very real problem that the textbook industrial complex maintains its stranglehold because of the very real financial incentives it gives professors etc. Add that in with the fact that content isn't all that expensive to create in the first place, getting students to adopt is expensive, and it's a very noisy marketplace, they're going to have an uphill battle.
This is a fairly amazing video. I wonder what is the size of a nano satellite
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With how much adjunctization stands to save universities, I doubt software licenses are even on the radar for administrators. And if you don't want to piss off the tenured faculty while trying to shut down unionization, don't tell them to cut back on the books and software.

>If we had no federal student loan program...

Not a silver bullet. How sure are you that private lenders wouldn't fill the void with higher interest loans that people would still be willing to take? There are already examples of more "creative" financing schemes like income sharing, which could certainly expand as well if the more attractive federal loans disappeared. Demand for college degrees stays sky high whatever you do.
Even if you restrict it to free time, the disparity isn't that great. If time were distributed like money, then the average person would have only a few seconds of free time per day.
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That much is well known. It's the other part that's questionable.
Yeah, I was kind of hoping when I read the article title that this was someone actually making an impact in the school text space, but it seems to just be more of the same shitty software that provides no advantage over actual books, just with a different cost structure. Woo.
I kind of felt the same when I read this, going through analytics etc.

I for one don't think it is trivial to steal someones idea, but also response was a little bit too much.
I remember reading this on HN like 4 years ago and have been trying to find it again ever since! Thanks for posting.
There is a much better cure: abolish elections in favor of a sortition-based system. Selecting leaders by lottery seems counterintuitive, but it has a lot of advantages. It prevents the creation of cabals and a political class, reduces the impact of propaganda, and prevents demagogues from rising to power. It's hardly a new idea either. It's been used since ancient times and is still occasionally uses today. Ireland selected 40% of the delegates to its 2012 constitutional convention by sortition.
I don't buy it. For what it's worth, since Buffett first bought WMT shares in 2005, the company has increased its sales revenue by over 50%. That growth is slowing, but the sales aren't going away until someone comes in and wrestles away the monopoly it's built in rural and suburban communities.
I was a foreign student, and I ended up assimilating by becoming friends with first gen Americans (children of immigrants). Once I got used to a handful of cultural norms (took about a year or two), it became easy to interact with Americans directly.

Today my closest friends are the ones I made in college.
The Satellite separation starts at 1:23 or so, after the Third stage. 88 of the satellites (nanosats?) were by Planet.com and will be used for imaging as part of their Flock 3p: https://www.planet.com/pulse/record-breaking-88-satellites/

r/ISRO has the complete payload details: https://www.reddit.com/r/ISRO/comments/5t7a75/pslvc37_cartos...
That's very true, but you're talking about a totally different thing here. There's a big difference between an (ostensibly) self-reliant adult looking for work/adventure/cheap booze and a kid fresh out of high school tossed into a totally different world and expected to "become successful" with little to no guidance.
The way delphi finds its units is similar to how java finds its classes, so it can be smooth sailing or an absolute nightmare depending on how the project is laid out.
I know what his side of the story is on that specific password. I don't think it's adequate, but... I also don't know that it's helpful to keep arguing this two years later. Casual contributors couldn't build the latest dev version of NTP due to repository access and build system problems, and the lead (effectively only active, at that point) maintainer couldn't or wouldn't fix the situation.

While the password problem made a good rhetorical flourish--it illustrated how the scaffolding supporting NTP development had been allowed to rot--the fact is that the server was in Mr. Stenn's control and he could have rebooted it to rescue media at any time, fixing the problem in a few minutes. Yet, the server was never properly brought up to good maintenance practice. I suspect that the majority of people reading this know how to reset a root password, so the password doesn't really matter that much in the grand scheme. The server was just another thing being neglected.

As I described in my O'Reilly talk, technical problems of this magnitude stem from social problems. The project didn't have a culture of sound engineering practice. I did what I could to work with Mr. Stenn to offer support and resources to bring that practice to his project. I didn't want to lose the years of institutional knowledge he'd acquired working on NTP. That's costly to replace. However, I wasn't going to forgo sound engineering practice to keep him on board: over time, smart people could learn the ins and outs of even the most tangled code base. The costs of bad engineering practice just keep coming, and I cannot force people to do the right thing, only lay out the costs and benefits then see what they choose.

That, and throw a little storytelling prowess at the problem now and again, in the hope of motivating people.
Oh, you forgot to tell us how good SIgnal is and how you recommend Whatsapp.

Oh, and you're fat. Fuck off.
You're a student still, there's nothing to move on from. Apply for jobs and internships you're interested in. As far as any employer is concerned, you're a blank canvas.
Well, apparently I'm eating my words in my sibling comment. That's incredibly disappointing, really. (I suppose I'm already having enough fun with Graal though, so I'll temper my sadness!)

Just to be clear: when you refer to the 'compiled binary', what binary are you referring to exactly? Is this the 'aot-image' tool inside the Graal OTN builds I was looking at? It was not clear to me if that was actually the Substrate tool or not, because the documentation is very vague[1] -- can any Graal-based language use that tool to test better startup times, etc?

Clearly if SVM is going to remain closed source, I'll have to continue to mostly ignore it (as I've done since I followed Graal), but it would be at least nice to see it "In Action" and what it does to the warm-up time, with my own eyes...

[1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oracle-labs/program-langua...
And you don't see this as unethical?
Could you elaborate on what you consider lacking?
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What makes it great? It's bilingual (most sessions in English, but a full track in German), a low attendee to speaker ratio (last year was around 200 attendees and 45 speakers), speakers who are eager to talk to the attendees outside of sessions and open ears from Microsoft, including the ShellFather himself, Jeffrey Snover, and Bruce Payette, willing to discuss various implementation decisions he's made. Some other notable speakers: Matt Graeber, Will Schoeder.

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Reading this, it just clicked where the "brash american cowboy" stereo type comes from. I've wondered about that for the longest time. We tend to play loosey goosey until there's a "reason" to get serious.
At least for the California State University program, the written communication general education requirement[1] one one of multiple English classes, or a Journalism class. The suggested additional general education pathways are littered with additional English classes.

1: https://catalog.csuchico.edu/viewer/12/pdf/GEPLNSHT.pdf
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Awesome folks. Are using it on your side to monitor your production instances? What should we expect of this tool in the future?
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It's better to push a similar name and let people decide if and when to rebase --onto the new upstream.

Squash merges are just bad. They destroy all the info that makes git handle branching and conflicts better than svn.
We are conducting experiments for transfer learning. Stay tuned! For laser tag mode, we will leave it to the community :).
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> Maybe you think his views on guns are perfectly sane

It's not that. I think his views on guns are not relevant; or if someone wants to claim that they're relevant, they need to defend that claim.

If someone has other objections to ESR, which are relevant, then they're free to bring one or more of them up. If there are a lot of relevant objections, that should be easy to do.

I'm not interested in saying: that particular objection was irrelevant, but there are so many relevant objections that it doesn't matter.
The largest barrier to entry to starting a new University is prestige. Accreditation is a challenge, but is doable. Gathering enough capital is a challenge, but is also doable. New institutions of higher education are started all the time. But when was the last time you saw a Harvard started?

Imagine the following thought experiment: the entire faulty of Harvard goes off and starts a new University (call it Garvard). Now, obviously, the quality of education at this new school is going to be just as good as Harvard. But which school are parents going to want their children to go to: old Harvard, with a newly hired crop of top professors, or Garvard, with the original professors? I suspect that Garvard would get less applicants, and would likely have to charge less.

This market force is why the cost of education is going up quickly while educator salaries are not rising as fast. In higher education right now, branding is more important than product.
I would say consuming but you are already on there.Given that were are already part of couple of startups, you should be able to network your way to a consulting gig
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