skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netflix has a funny movie out of Israel that deals with this subject, some conscripts that have absolutely no desire to be in the military. It's called "Zero Motivation":

https://www.netflix.com/title/80000347

It very much pokes fun at a system where everyone needs to serve in the military.
I wonder how much of this is investors with a good understanding of Snap's potential buying because they feel it's a good gamble versus stock market investors not having many opportunities to invest in tech startups because there's so few IPOs.
In this case, her feelings are simply not particularly interesting or special, at least to me. She's a muslim citizen of United States. On her way home from Europe, she was afraid that she'd be searched and somehow molested by the authorities. The whole time she describes this or that detail of the process and imagines how it could go wrong for her. But nothing happens. And that's it.
Think of Lambdas like autoscaling containers. If you're operating with decent load, there's a good chance your container will stay up and be reused for multiple requests. But if load drops, your containers might be shut down so they aren't taking up resources while they're not being used. When load increases again, more instances will be spun up.

It's the same approach as autoscaling VMs, but at a function level.
Considering it went smoothly it doesn't remind me of Facebook's IPO at all. Twitter should be all the evidence you need of how hard it is to succeed selling advertising to a big audience. Snap might crush it, but I would give them a few earnings reports before comparing them to anyone.
Minimum-proposal-stage: a feature proposal for NPM
Yeah, 4,000 out of a cohort of 13,000 means you can be very selective. Easy enough to get rid of the real fuckups and the hell-no-way refuseniks. Give the rest some real choice in what they'll be trained for, and you might only have to say no to those with a clear mismatch between their hopes and what they are fit for.

It's interesting that they are choosing to draft both men and women. Not a lot of places draft women.
There are pros and cons to both ways (aka convention over configuration). That is hiding configuration complexity often get fixed with even more internal complexity except now it is hidden.

With hiding configuration your ramp up time decreases but your overall understanding of how the library/framework may decrease.

To offer the advantages of both requires even more complexity.

Which is actually what happened with Spring Boot. It is the Ruby on Rails of Java now and it is far more complex internally than the olden days of Spring 2.0 explicit XML.

At times I miss the old school Spring XML way. There used to be only like 4 tags (bean, property and include).
It is way simpler than that. You can specify version of sbt's jar your project needs right in your build files. When you run any against your project it will download the version you specified if different from the one installed. It is not by any means a circular dependency.
Psychology’s Favorite Tool for Measuring Racism Isn’t Up to the Job
Admitedly i dont consume much western media, but i fail to see how this is the case with Syria, Lybia and what have you. Again, if this is not stopping them, why this should worry Russia.
>Non-aligned Sweden is worried about Russia's Baltic military drills.

>Ms Nyh Radebo said that "70% of parliament is behind the decision to strengthen the military and co-operation with the countries around us".

>The closest co-operation is with Finland, she added.

>Sweden’s prime minister, Stefan Löfven, told a national defence conference this week that he “cannot rule out” Russia trying to influence the country’s next elections, which are due in 2018.

>“We should not rule it out and be naive and think that it does not happen in Sweden. That’s why information and cybersecurity is part of this strategy,” Löfven told the TT news agency.

>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/11/russia-waging-...

And that's besides the massive russian campaigns to cut off electricity to estonia. It'd probably be something akin to a professional negligence for a military commander not to recommend this, and it seems Swedish politicians for some reason aren't buying the 'put down your weapons and abandon your allies' line of argument.
I think the hype around CNN is the NLP aspect of it as it relates to AI. If you can hammer down NLP and translate voice or text to computer-legible commands, you've really improved the user experience.

On the other side of the CNN coin is the image recognition that's getting a lot of hype from the self driving auto crowd. I think any data scientist worth their salt understands how the different algorithms stack up against each other. You wouldn't use xgboost for a computer vision problem just like you wouldn't use CNN for a tabular data problem.
I don't know if this was planned out by the author of this article by right as I read this sentence "At 1:19, 1:37, 2:30 and 2:48, you can hear, in quick succession, the clarinet crowing like a rooster, the cornet whinnying like a horse, and the trombone braying like a donkey." I was at 2:48 in the video and heard what the sentence was describing. If it was planned out then it was a very cool effect and a good way for me to feel more connected to the article.
80s Atari Concept Artwork
You're asking how to solve a problem that hasn't emerged caused by a technology that isn't developed, using a solution you haven't created.

I know. Government will solve this! ;)
Also note that current "leader board" standard on MNIST is 99.8, not 99% he compares against.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNIST_database
Visually, I think it looks fantastic.

I've always liked that visual style.

Borderlands is an aesthetic I like, as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3RShjg6agQ
Uber's pricing is definitely too low. I paid $3.75 for a 20 minute ride at one point and decided to stop using it entirely because that just seems like exploitation. I'm completely willing to pay more to give workers better wages. Lyft (and other competitors) not only charge more, but drivers keep more of it.
"Your country needs you."

If that isn't working, then you probably need to re-think why you've gone with a conscript army. I think in this case, a solid case could be made that recent aggression means we need to be able to defend the homeland and other powers we might normally depend on won't do it for us so "Let's go!"

Once folks are in, I'd imagine that some powerful team dynamics take over. All this said, I'm speaking out of turn because I've not served, just worked alongside for a number of years.
For certain values of "conquered." The "bad guys" never seem to be completely conquered, and still enjoy significant freedom of movement and access to supply lines.
This is not live patching.
FOMO. And the market is really frothy in general right now.
You are expecting Microsoft to test a nearly infinite number of variables to find every flaw. This is not a reasonable position.
> "The border search exception is a doctrine of United States criminal law that allows searches and seizures at international borders and their functional equivalent without a warrant or probable cause."

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

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Montoya_De_He...

Yes, I agree with you about not liking it and feeling like it's an infringement on privacy. But illegal or unconstitutional it is not.

And asking about a person's religion is not more personal than asking about his/her family members, bank account balance, etc.
Thanks! Do have any examples? I'm not familiar with bounce curves.
Bitdefender+Total+Security+2017+License+Key+With+Activation+code
The method's performance on MNIST is relatively mediocre. You might think 98.96% is amazing, but it's about relative performance. It is a relatively easy exercise nowadays to get above 99% with neural nets. Even I can get that kind of performance with hand-written Python neural nets, on the CPU, with no convolutions.

For the rest of the (non-image) datasets, it's already common knowledge that boosting methods are competitive with neural nets.
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> CBP can't force you to answer anything. You are free to withdraw your request to enter the US at any time and return to your country of origin.

You have in fact entered the US at that time, and are subject to US law. They can make a non-citizen do pretty much anything they want. You do not have the right to say "my bad, I'll just go cross the border again".

The one exception is Canadian preclearance, since you're still on Canadian dirt at that time (though Canada are thinking about allowing US CBP to detain people attempting to preclear).
But not easily held. Both nations would probably think twice before trying it again.
You're asking how to solve a problem that hasn't emerged caused by a technology that hasn't matured, with a solution you haven't created.

Sounds like a problem for government! ;)
This is a weird response.

Firstly, no one is arguing that it happens every time, the argument is that it happens sometimes, and is allowed to happen.

I don't think most CBP people, or cops, or ICE agents or anyone else is bad. They aren't out to hurt or harass.

However, within that group there are a few -- whatever percent of the population happens to be sociopaths -- that do want to hurt people.

And now, they can.
The rumor circulating is that the new patch that was released to the console fixes that disconnect issue.
GAN training is still spooky mysterious and can easily fail in nonintuitive ways.

Sometimes GANs converge or not depending on the random number seed, even with the same hyperparameters.
"Agents at ports of entry may
question people about their
citizenship and what they are
bringing into the country.
Even though you always have the
right to remain silent, if you don’t
answer questions to establish your
citizenship, officials may deny you
entry to the U.S. or detain you for
search and/or questioning.
Agents may search any person, the
inside of any vehicle, and all
passenger belongings. Agents do
not need a warrant, any suspicion of
wrongdoing, or consent to do any
of these things."

https://www.acluaz.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/a...
Especialy with such efficient ad sales people - https://mic.com/articles/170019/leaked-snapchat-emails-anti-...
Agree that Heady Topper is the best. Love Pliny the Elder and Zombie Dust (which are almost as hard to get where I live) but Heady stands alone for me.

My favorite widely available IPA is Jai Alai. What is yours?
Useful answer: Use a double.

Really, 52 bits of mantissa is more than enough for representing anything. You have to be wary of error building up on calculations, not of original representation errors (unless you are living on the edge; and I'd tell you: don't).

Useless answer: No, the precision is fixed for any magnitude. When you multiply your values, you will also multiply the interval, and there are as many useful numbers inside that new, larger, interval than were inside the old, smaller one.
AI? 10 or 20 years? You're out by at least an order of magnitude.

The upcoming unemployment wave will be caused by the automation of middle class jobs exacerbated by the failing economy caused, ironically, by the decreasing population.
I finally bought the ultra Komplete GOTY whateverthefuckedition on sale for about $20. Now that it's a complete game, patched and fixed, I'm really enjoying it for that price point.

Frankly, that is the secret to modern gaming... wait.
The Facebook IPO was a disaster and did stay below target for quite awhile post-IPO
Including "not remote" instead of or in addition to "onsite" will get you downvotes, too. Scrapers and automated search tools are looking for keywords such as those to facilitate searching the list and that breaks those. E.g., consider a posting that says, "We're not looking for Java, Python, or C++ developers" when a positive statement of what you are looking for is far more helpful.
And in that, the terrorists have won. Before 9/11 and other attacks people were not scared and Muslim Americans were not as discriminated against[1]. Now with the help of propaganda, of Fox news and of the Government using the panic to justify taking away freedom, people are scared and a lot of them don't think twice about reducing the rights of other Americans just because of their origin. The aim of Terrorism is to bring terror to the masses and in that the attacks have been a huge success. Never mind that more people die from malnutrition per year than people from terrorist attacks. Or closer to home, more people die from traffic accident than from terrorist attacks.

It's not the number of deaths that's important, it's just the power that the attack has over the consciousness of the masses and how much of their ideals they give up and destroy.

[1] they were discriminated like any minority because people are monkeys and are scared of anything different by nature but it was bearable
Facebook's market debut showed that Facebook did an excellent job controlling and pricing the IPO. Banks complaining -> Facebook and insiders won.

This debut just shows that Snapchat wasn't in the driver's seat. Major holders are still mega wealthy though.
http://kompose.io/ is part of the Kubernetes project (in incubation) — https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/kompose
In a translation course I took at university they told me that when translating subtitles from English to Swedish the translators often take a lesser curse word in Swedish, as it is perceived by Swedes that the equivalent word in Swedish is generally more offensive than its English counterpart. So I would say it is at least somewhat general that native curse words are perceived rougher than foreign.

And both languages have many curse words that technically mean the same thing.

I also got very weird looks from students in the US when I started cursing in English there... Like I was summoning a demonspawn.
> AI will lead us to the largest unemployment wave in history.

Citation needed.

But let's assume you're right. I think the last thing we need to do is hand more power to governments.

For instance, if AI bring massive productivity increases across many sectors, than price pressure will be downward. Anti-market solutions like price floors (to support business) or minimum wages (to support workers), will not allow us to fully enjoy the improved standard of living brought about by falling prices.

Some localities or states will outlaw self-driving cars (as they hurt driver jobs), but that will simply prevent delivery prices from falling in that locality, hurting the many for the benefit of the few.

Imagine if the cost of living dropped to 10% or 1% of what it is today, while at the same time quality and quantity of goods increased. We wouldn't need government to assure some income based on today's cost of living. Instead, a meager amount of savings, a small amount of charity, or a small amount of work could sustain everyone's existence. Propping up current wage levels with UBI would be fighting the natural economic forces driving cost of living down.
I'm going to respond to a discussion on the click-baity "Muslim Ban" with another click-bait term, fake news. The fact that the general public is hyper aware if this "Muslim ban" which isn't really a Muslim ban but are generally unaware of the fact that we bombed Syria so much we literally ran out of bombs in 2015 highlights the fact that virtually all news is "fake news." I mean, we're the US of A. Our military spending is insane, and we ran.out.of.bombs. I don't even know how to respond to that situation.
Well the major difference between the two is that Facebook can engage grandma as well as junior. It has broad cross-generational appeal. The whole point of Snapchat is "mom and dad don't use it" which means they're beholden to the whims of a very young audience. Which I guess is good, since young people aren't known to move on to the next big thing at the drop of a hat.
Russia launching attacks on Estonian critical infrastructure.

Active disinformation campaigns targeting Norway, Sweden.
Javascript has some features that makes it hard to be JITed.
For example it has no fixed object layout.
If you are interested into how language design impacts performance this is worth reading:
http://wren.io/performance.html
I don't endorse your glee at the woe of others but you really, really should "get some land high above sea level". It may be a rumour, but I heard that the "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski's former Montana cabin site may be up for sale. It might be just what you're looking for!8-))
It was a glowing success for Facebook!
I don't get why people hold this up as an accomplishment.

The world has been at war several times and Sweden has fought only a few times on small scales. When you building is on fire, but your are safe in your flat, it's not a moral decision to lock your door and goto sleep for the night.
If you're a fan of Baldur's Gate and the like. Isometric CRPG's are back in full swing now. Pillars of Eternity, Pillars of Eternity Deadfire(just completed a fig.co funding), Tyranny, Torment.
They are huge, deep games. Tons of under the hood mechanics going on. Definitely not point, click, kill. Requires lots of setup, strategy, on how you address each situation. Great stories.
The tools ILM built to make Rogue One are super interesting
Chariot: $150/mon
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The goal is not to get invaded in the first place. If you can make the conquest too expensive for the enemy then they won't try it, even if it's also expensive for you.

Obviously this didn't work for Afghanistan, but their example can help it work for others.

Edit: if you become part of a larger war then it can also be advantageous to make the occupation painful for the enemy when it happens. The more you hurt them, the easier and faster your allies will win. Consider Norway in the Second World War: they had no hope of overthrowing the German occupation themselves, but the resistance still contributed significantly to its eventual end.
Please use the orignal title.
You cant just occupy country w/o sanctions, export/import chains breaking, you need to rebuild what would be inevitably destroyed during the invasion, etc.
Show HN: An Icon placeholder service
Snap valued above $30B as shares pop more than 40% in public trading debut
Here is an account from a person I know: http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/103020/an-open-letter-by...
The majority of foreign-born people in Sweden did not arrive as refugees. About half were born in Europe, with Finland - which is very similar in culture and also has conscription (as well as a much larger army) - being the most common country.

Source: http://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se/pxweb/sv/ssd/START__BE_... (official gov't statistics)
It was the photo of the sub:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/19/sweden-search-...

Also there was a sighting in 2015 that I recall:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sweden-submarine-idUSKCN0V...
...and why most of Chicago's south and southwest sides are barely accessibly by the CTA Rail.
This seems to carefully avoid making any promises about the future. Where SemVer _does_ make promises.

Also, picking a date for versioning is weird as it doesn't contain any information other than when the Changelog was set in stone. Too bad this decision was made, and Docker choose not to value the stability of SemVer.
IIRC just because it boots with ECC ram doesn't mean it is actually error correcting. I'm under the impression Intel spends considerable amount of money to prove their memory controllers actually error correct & historically AMD hasn't spent the money on documenting theirs.
Dopamine Puppets
The response to "the defaults should work just fine without any hyperparameter tuning" is "try fiddling with the EMA filter coefficient hyperparameter" ?

(Just poking fun. :P)
Yes, but it can occur on both ends of the bottleneck. Your ISP's equipment has a bottleneck link toward your home, and can have bloated buffers on that side. But if your router doesn't handle the uplink well, it'll be bloated as well.

Fortunately, SQM is available (from LEDE) for many MikroTik routers, so there may be a way out for the GP.
Is my account really deleted?
I'm happy for the NYSE that this went well. SNAP has done some pretty large volume so far with no problems.

Interestingly enough, well atleast to someone who cares about the cash equity markets, the NYSE actually did a test run last week to try and simulate the chaos that occurs during any hot IPO.

So now we know that there is atleast some appetite for shares with no controlling interest and no indication of paying out a dividend any time soon. A current market cap of 30 Billion is a pretty darn big accomplishment!

Two big dates in the future to look out for.......

1) July 30 when the first lockup date is over. I'm not sure how many shares come off restriction.

2) May 15 when they do their first earnings report.

I'm interested to see if they try and make people view the company via GAAP accounting(PnL) or non GAAP measures like engagement, monthly users, etc.
I can give a bit of context. Mandatory military service in Sweden only ended in 2010, so this is not a huge change.

During the cold was period, almost all men did ~1 year of military service. After that it was a regular job, but in case of war everyone could be conscripted.

By the '90s it dropped to maybe 1/3 of young men. Everyone went to a 1-2 day testing session, and then some were selected. In practice, it became increasingly voluntary. Soldiers on peacekeeping missions in foreign countries are all volunteers.

In 2010 mandatory service was dropped completely. I think the Swedish military found it difficult to recruit enough after that, and the politicians now think the military has shrunk a bit too much. I don't think it will be a huge growth (that would cost money), but perhaps a return to early 2000's level. This time it includes women.

I am not a big fan of conscription, but I can somewhat accept it as long as it's strictly defensive. One good argument for it is that a conscript army is unlikely to stage a military coup in a democracy. If the soldiers are more or less random people, they will more or less support the elected government, at least a portion of them. But, as military power becomes more about technology than numbers, I suspect this argument becomes less important.
>> But companies with such big daily active audience that can be targeted with ads are here to stay.

That's just it. Snapchat has very little targeting data, and targeting is a force multiplier for ads revenue. They don't even have explicit gender data.

Edit: Downvote all you want. They don't ask the users for gender. It's implied. See Twitter for a similar tactic.
Do people not like Twilight Princess? I really enjoyed the feel of the game, my only complaint was that the pacing felt a tad slow and the combat was spammy
>save for nukes which will likely never be used, again.

save for nukes which will be used the very instant a nuclear armed nation faces the prospect of brutal conquest by a hated enemy, or a last desperate stand to defend dwindling resources.
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