skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To play devils advocate: federal authorization workflows for such things can be notoriously slow and counter intuitive. I'd argue that 18F's completed projects, and any other contract company's similar attempts, would either be impossible or greatly underperformed if done "the proper way."

Of course, security is not something that can be played off as technical debt and 18F is definitely in the wrong here. However, the security apparatus of the federal government must evolve if projects like 18F's improvements to healthcare.gov are desired in the federal space. You cant have monolithic waterfall processes and agile project performance anymore than you can eat your cake and have it too.
The article gives an example, but to make it a bit more explicit: Levenshtein distance is a poor measure for the intuitive notion of how "non-trivial" an anagram is. Moving a chunk of letters together results in a high edit distance, but low complexity.

If you rank the entire list of anagrams by edit distance, the highest pair is "anatomicophysiologic" and "physiologicoanatomic", with an edit distance of 16 but a chunk score of only 3.
It's happening all around you to Trump supporters. And, it has been happening for all of time, basically.

Most people, by nature, revel in being superior to others. And, when there's a moral high ground to take (justified by being part of the "in" group), it really comes out.
Is the n1-standard-1 instance fast enough to not be the bottleneck for the K80?
The army of 500 YouTube monkeys
Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux is a band-aid solution for a fundamental problem for Microsoft: Linux tooling and kernel are IT industry standards.
It's not $0.7/min, it's $0.7/hour.
The Levenshtein distance from duodenocholecystostomy to cholecystoduodenostomy is actually pretty high: 14. Transposing two contiguous chunks of letters has a high edit distance if both chunks are long.

A "good" anagram doesn't just have letters being moved a long distance, but also requires that the movements of letters be independent, something that Levenshtein distance doesn't measure.
I'm aware what you were doing, but you still seem unaware of what I was doing: asking a question. You're disparaging me for my curiosity.

You seem to know everything already, but I'm not that sure of myself, so I ask questions to try to learn more.
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Too many E's. Drop the middle initial.
Glad to see my point was clear, so I guess we agree to disagree. In the meantime, I choose (and have done so ever since it first launched) to not use such platforms as FB.
I think it's a huge problem that liberals keep demonizing conservatives, and I think this does a good job of exemplifying that. If we socially shun people for their political beliefs, then they're just going to find a home at the fringes of society where people have the most extreme views. The best way to change people's minds is to welcome them in with open arms.

Liberals need to start forgiving people and accept that saying or doing a bad thing doesn't make you a bad person. And more importantly, supporting a politician who has done bad things also doesn't make you a bad person.
> I did not expect to talk to so many Muslims, Mexicans, Black people, and women in the course of this project

I suppose it's good that he got some perspective, but I'm concerned about how this expectation developed. The assumption, and the constant insinuation, that only some identity group or subculture supports the president is intellectually lazy. When those people are made to feel at risk--of ridicule, of losing a job, of violence--then we have a self-reinforcing distortion of reality.
There were calls, yes. But he is still a part-time YC partner and on Facebook's board.
it's funny how social media has rotted american society much more than television
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It is the raw() function: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/db/sql/#passin...
It's odd to me that someone who's worried about intellectual debate becoming rare would vote for Trump. Trump avoids substantive debates and relies on catch phrases. It seems to me that the lack of intellectual debate is tied to polarization of political parties rather than anything done by the Obama administration.

And there is real evidence that the republican party is driving the lack of real debate. The republican party refused to allow hearings for a Supreme Court nominee for a legitimately elected sitting President. That's obstructionism driven to ignoring the constitutional duties granted to the President to achieve political ends.
Good point. I've worked with lots of local exploratory machine learning (R or Spark on a single workstation), and lots of stable applications that use machine learning processes that are no longer fiddled with, but I've never witnessed the transition between the two.
Awesome! I clearly read something misinformed; there is totally a free plan. Makes you guys even more great
It's interesting that HN is not for political discussion except when it is for political discussion.
Supporters of racism, sexism, etc. ought to be marginalized. And this was not a "majority", btw.
I think it's important to remember that the "us vs them" dichotomy that is polarizing your beliefs is a fiction. Humans build up the idea of tribes because its cognitively cheap, not because they actually exist or map to real structures in the real world. You see the harsh language and think "what an angry, terrible person" and on the other side is someone who just got off a 10-hour shift working with rude customers and an aggressive boss and unhappy children and then they got cut off at a yellow light on their commute, etc, and _then_, after all that, they vented online about something that was cheap and easy for them to hate. Was what they did right? No. But they aren't a vast conspiracy out to destroy you either. Often people who are the angriest, are also the people who hurt the most, feel stuck in an unhappy life. It's important we treat people like people no matter what, or we erode the basic humanity owed to all of us.
Yes, they should. They might want to look up information on abuse, sexual health or homosexuality in confidence.

There are other ways to accomplish preventing children from accessing inappropriate content, namely filtering by domain which is still possible with HTTPS. Google SafeSearch can also be turned on at the DNS level, still allowing HTTPS to be used and privacy to be maintained.

The best way to accomplish more granular filtering is to install a custom browser extension that monitors what pages are visited, no machine learning necessary. And if group policy doesn't prevent browser toolbars from being installed, the school has bigger problems.
I think it's because "alternative point of view" immediately makes me think of someone saying that global warming is fake, and yeah,I'm not willing to debate that, it's just not worth my time. I'm curious what sort of ideas you have in mind though.
Broadly speaking, it comes from the value they provide to other humans, aka a person's value to society. At this point in human history, career is generally a proxy for this metric. E.g. doctors have high social value because they save other people's lives. Wealthy people have high social value because they have the potential to make those around them wealthier, etc.

This value derives from the average person's lack of the things that the other people provide. Suppose AI could provide all those things. Once AI becomes self-maintaining, the only value that humans could provide each other would be entirely social.
That's your Homebrew bash..
In the trace you can see that the syscall takes less than a tenth of a millisecond. I don't think this is a big penalty to check if I have changed my timezone or not, as unlikely as that is during normal operation.
My experience is pretty much the same. Trump supporters are basically against immigrants and immigration. Basically nationalists. They are not stupid, less educated, poor, etc.

And we should be careful with appeasement of evil policies because we are "mocking them". I.e., being spineless democrats...
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Is a side-effect of the Technology used to communicate exacerbating this disharmony? What is tech's role in supplementing The Media's responsibility for supporting countrywide-conversations? Can better communication tech be developed?

Instead of in-person conversations we have: Talking heads on TV (one way communication) encouraging subordination to the stronger will / better dressed. Twitter's "less is more" short messages (incomplete thoughts) encourage shouting. Typing "fire and forget" missives on Blogs / Facebook (writing is a challenge, intellectually, and physically to a degree) encourages dumping of an overly architected, precipitous idea. Picture / meme sharing (paste politician head on snake body) encouraging entertainment at the expense of compassion. Emoting via "Thumbs-Up'ping" (iconic representation of human emotional reaction) encourages mob mentality.

How do "the right" learn what "the left" thinks / how they react?

What is the next phase of communication technology can facilitate? More airplanes to fly Sam, and the rest of us around, so we can talk more with our fellow citizens?

It is insufficient to say "the problem is the media." Be specific. Communicating feelings involves nuance and experiential association.

> FROM: "What do you think about the left’s response so far?"
> “You need to give us an opportunity to admit we may have been wrong without saying we’re bad people. I am already thinking I made a mistake, but I feel ostracized from my community.”
>
> “The left is more intolerant than the right.” Note: This concept came up a lot, with real animosity in otherwise pleasant conversations.
>
> “Stop calling us racists. Stop calling us idiots. We aren’t. Listen to us when we try to tell you why we aren’t. Oh, and stop making fun of us.”
>
> “I’d love to see one-tenth of the outrage about the state of our lives out here that you have for Muslims from another country. You have no idea what our lives are like.”
>
> “I’m so tired of hearing about white privilege. I’m white, but way less privileged than a black person from your world. I have no hope my life will ever get any better.”
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> compromise and appeasement of evil is wrong, if trump and his supporters act like nazis then call them that

That mindset is the sort of thing the article is talking about.

First, you're talking about Trump, his supporters and evil in the same sentence. That's polarizing and does nothing except make you feel righteous.

Also, acting like Nazis? That sort of emotional trigger word has been done to death. Also, Trump doesn't get to choose his supporters and he has repudiated them. Trump also has a daughter that converted to Judaism and a Jewish son-in-law. Calling him a Nazi or Nazi-like in his actions is silly and counter productive.
When all politicians rely on speech writers, what is the point you are making?

The result is the same: someone was commissioned to draft statements that the speaker endorses.
Yes but who benefits from this volunteering? Mostly people and corporations making a profit leveraging what you did for free. Needy people... not so much.
This is one of the most exciting developments I've seen in the cryptocurrency space in quite some time
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation
the dichotomy that trips me up time and again is that trump supporters (as evidenced in these anecdotes) are much more concerned about feelings: fearfulness, isolation, encroachment, insult, loss of status, etc.

but lefties are more interested in policy-making, i.e, what's the right rules and regulations to implement to solve social and economic problems (with an air of superiority of having the "right answer" coming along with that).

it's an easy way to talk past each other rather than truly empathizing (mainly sitting and listening rather than offering solutions).

let's keep hearing stories from neglected america and it just might help heal this rift.
On the other hand, there's some dangerous censorship happening in the public school system and in the business world and in government, and I think a lot of Trump supporters recognize this and are worried about it.
It's not super clear from the writeup, but a big part of it is providing security notifications to users. So when a backend system detects what looks like a suspicious account access, it can notify the user and ask them to confirm their action. If they say, "I didn't do this" than their account can be immediately locked down until the issue is resolved by talking to a person.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13698105
Can you explain how this is done? Does this mean that VM and the GPUs can be on different host machines? Will it affect the GPU-CPU communication performance?
But most of the actual work out there is either 1. plumbing some data from one layer in the stack to the other (typical CRUD app) or 2. writing glue code to integrate one vendor's middleware to another vendor's middleware, or 3. fixing bugs in some 10 year old legacy application, or if you're lucky, 4. getting an application to work barely well enough in order to ship it on time.

And most of a lifeguard's job is sitting around blowing a whistle at troublemakers. Does that mean you'd be fine with a lifeguard who only has those two actions in his skillset? Also, as someone who has held a number of jobs that involve your 1 through 4 above: knowing basic algorithms is beneficial to the job. You don't need that knowledge often, but when you do, it has outsized benefits. Also, you wouldn't know that, unless you had that knowledge while doing that job. If you didn't have that knowledge, you wouldn't know how it would have benefited you.

The fact that "in-depth knowledge" is applied to "traversing binary trees" makes me sigh and feel uneasy.
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Yeah I should've mentioned that. Well I guess I did in a way when I started by saying either the lesson from the blog post or the lesson that I talked about.

To summarize, if you put a premium on your time then we reach the conclusion in the blog post. If you are willing to reduce the premium, then we have the alternative conclusion that I suggested.
The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe
Ultra-rare disruptive and damaging mutations influence educational attainment [pdf]
I know Orbiter and I have been using textures from Celestia add-ons.

They are typically normal rectangular textures with the usual distortion.

Thanks for the pointer.
Very similar situation in Sweden as well.

Just saw this chart a few hours ago; it would be interesting to see something similar for the US:

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2016/02/07/british-press-most-righ...

(Just look at Germany/Sweden there!)

Chart title: "Media bias in Europe: Percentage of adults in each country who say their media is too right wing on the following issues minus the percentage who say their media is too left wing"

It's a year old, but I don't think this has changed much since then in terms of media bias.
Will you elaborate on this? What's interesting about it?
Unfortunately, both yes and no. The word has become near profanity now and is often used as an insult rather than a statement.

The reaction of, "How is it racist?" can be taken as a defense even if it is an honest question.

Luckily, words are amazing and there are ways to diffuse this stuff. "I think some folks might find that insensitive, you know" might be better wording than "That was rather racist" - even though I might prefer the more direct version. Likewise, the response can be reworded for different effect as well.
video: https://sites.google.com/site/deeproboticmanipulation/

blog: https://research.googleblog.com/2016/10/how-robots-can-acqui... "How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience"
> The reason I won't work at Google is because Google is incapable of hiring the engineers I want to work with

That's a very bold (even arrogant, sorry) statement about 57,000+ (googled it) employees.

So 57,000 are worse devs then you ? This is what i hear from your statement, correct me if I am wrong ..

Many extremely talented people want to work for Google. They will take the tests, even if they don't agree with the hiring system at all .

Maybe they want to work at Google despite its incapability (according to you) in the hiring and testing process.

> it is whether I want to work with the code of people who can pass that interview

Have you found any correlation between poor code and being able to pass Google's interview ?

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>> Liberal ideology should not be used as a fashion statement. Unfortunately it seems to be used that way today. What do you guys think?

I've often wondered how many people voted for Obama just to prove to the world that they are not racist. Or in other words to show their moral superiority. I think the same dynamic was in play with Hillary - all she talked about is how "we'll make history" meaning "let's show them how forward thinking the nation has become that we can elect a woman president". IMHO backlash against that crap is exactly why Trump won, and I've had several people confirm that.
I think you're confusing what should be legally allowed with what is moral.
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Does anyone have wisdom to impart to those beginning their journeys?
None of this is particularly surprising, but it is sobering to hear it from the horse's mouth. Insane racist sexists didn't win this election for Trump; dogma did.

One can no longer openly discuss certain extremely important topics (is there something inherently wrong with Islam as a belief system? Is Black Lives Matter doing good or bad things? Are women really paid less than men for performing the same work?) without risking their career and social life. Not because one is an awful person for asking awful questions. On the contrary, these are conversations we need to be having rationally and deeply, learning and growing from having them.

No, the threat of ruin comes from the religion of moral sanctimony we've allowed to flourish within our society. If you question the dogma of social justice, you will be lynched on social media and branded a bigot, a racist, a sexist, and so on.

Pretty sure those of us who aren't members of the church are just really fucking tired of this behavior, and unfortunately it's that very fatigue which seems to be one of the factors which drove people to vote for a truly awful leader.
Just a slight correction, he lived in Hong Kong when he founded Megaupload and moved to New Zealand later on. Pure speculation but I imagine he moved to Hong Kong to avoid German law after his past conviction there for insider trading.
I have NO PROBLEM with a social media site tagging a source as credible/un-credible. I can still choose to read or not read the story. I can look at the credibility rating, and wonder if A) the rating system is biased, and B) if a liar figured out how to game the automated rating system.

Bias can be dealt with by being an open system. People can see the algorithm, data input, and judge whether the output is fair. Independent audit and review of the system would be miles better than what we have now.

As far as bad-actors trying to game the system, that's another matter.

Having a rating system is just a tool. It will make life easier for every consumer of news.

Life with a spam filter is way better than no filter. We learned this in the 1990's after spending a decade writing them for email, when email became nearly useless as a tool because of spam.
I'm not sure I buy this argument. In my experience, many people in the left try to shut down any disagreement by using privilege as a red herring. It's silly to expect people to accept that. It's even sillier to diagnose resistance to that as some kind of endemic societal issue
WSL is great, I use it every day and am very much looking forward to the next update.

Regarding future work, are there any plans to make the emulated Linux filesystem usable in the rest of Windows e.g. via a drive mapping?
We do implement (at least some of) prctl(), but not seccomp() yet. If this is important to you, please file a bug and the team will triage & respond.

https://github.com/microsoft/bashonwindows
It really depends on what you're doing. If you are doing large transfers over PCIe back and forth, not really. But lots of things work just fine.

The bigger challenge for large ML models is the memory you'd need to back it. But with GCE you can happily do a custom machine with up to 6.5 GB per vCPU, just so you can fit the output ;).
An even trickier way to do this is to rotate right by the power of two factor between doing the multiply and the compare.
For home I rotate 2 hard disks in 2 locations and backup using EaseUS Todo.

I also put some stuff on Dropbox for a quick backup if I don't want to wait until the next time I to a disk backup. Dropbox + zipped folder =~ private single user Github repo :-)
Except that the contrarian views frequently turn out to be lies, and I can't spend all my time debating lies. Please suggest a contrarian view that's worth discussing.
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Infosys feud and whistleblower email threaten to sink the iconic Indian firm
The problem states that the friend can only walk out of the room once though...
> This is a rationalization of regret, it's not the result of a new decision-making process.

You're missing the point. These voters chose him despite those weaknesses because they prioritized other issues more highly. Their decision making processes involved looking at both pro's and con's and the other pro's outweighed those con's.

Making the blanket assumption that a vote for a candidate is an endorsement of _all_ of their positions is exactly what the quotes in the post complain about.
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Awesome! Just compiled latest emacs with-lucid + xming and I have emacs running pretty nicely. Well Done!
If working for Google is such a Valhalla, why do people leave after 1.1y

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Google-employees-have-such-a-lo...
I don't follow point 2, batch processes can definitely take advantage of scaling on demand. You can spin up a huge cluster, only pay for it for an hour while training, and then spin down to just what you need to serve requests for your already trained model.

Of course it depends on how much data you're training on, and how up-to-date you need your model to be.
Many cheap fast improvements now are better
than one perfect improvement later. (see also:
"I don't need it perfect, I need it Tuesday" (Sam Goldwyn?)
and "cheap, fast, good: pick two."

I think the bullet part of the metaphor has more to do with
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_bullet_%28medicine%29
than with Fred Brooks, the Lone Ranger, or werewolves.
Maybe it would help you (honestly, not trying to sound condescending) to reevaluate what acting like Nazis would look like.
If you're using Firefox or Chrome, go to a site with an EV certificate (for instance https://twitter.com/), and check if it shows the EV bar. These two browsers only accept EV certificates from a few hardcoded CAs, so if it's still being intercepted, it won't show as EV.

Another option is to check the certificate for any website; for instance, the one for this site should chain to "COMODO RSA Certification Authority", and for me shows the SHA1 signature BB:DD:64:6F:EB:11:0C:D5:EC:CF:57:D1:F7:52:AA:99:50:1B:44:FD.