skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't like the arrogance coming through the writing style, especially given how clear it is the author has at best basic working knowledge of ML.

Never mind the fact that k-means is ML 101 and the $500M company is likely using more sophisticated ones, the fact that he says the following tells me he's just reading tutorials and plugging data into libraries (which is fine but not with this tone of know-it-all writing):

"I played with the number of clusters, and the one that allowed me to get the most significant clusters was 6 (this was a trial and error approach, for brevity I’ll report just the final outcome)."

Anyone who has studied clustering knows you would at the very least do a scree plot here. You can defer to intuition but there's more to it than running kmeans and claiming you've reverse-engineered a $500M company.
Fortnight?
Woah, talk about a misleading title.
I think seeing it in person might change it as it supports wide screen and 4K resolution.

I barely saw the difference when they showed the difference in the video.
1. Even if you take slavery into account, I see a lot of similarities between the Civil War and CalExit.

For the southern states, many wanted to keep slavery for economic reasons. It was very cheap labor, and banning slavery would have meant less money for Southern states imposed on them by outsiders who did not live their societies or work their jobs.

I see the same parallels here with CalExit. Even on this thread, people bring up how California unfairly pays more net to the federal government while red states take more federal resources. CalExit doesn't have the (IMO) moral reprehension of slavery, but from my perspective I see people upset that outsiders who don't share our lives and views are dictating our bottom line.

2. I highly doubt that the federal government would let any state undergo peaceful secession. A secession by its nature is a threat to the United States. Allowing states to leave will mean the states aren't united. Furthermore, it won't just be California. Off the top of my head, states like Washington, Oregon, and New York are generally as unhappy as California in with the state of our government, and allowing one state to leave will open the floodgates for other states.

This to me means the obvious consequence is violence erupts if we attempt to secede, even with peaceful intentions at first. As another user on this thread stated, California will not win an armed conflict. The US military is much stronger than our California National Guard.

I understand your political sentiments, and I do agree that the current state of national politics is a major issue. However, I don't see a peaceful CalExit as either practical or realistic.
In some ways being a person people love to talk to is a burden. It takes time. Sometimes it's worth it. Quite often (and this sounds cold but it's true) it isn't.

Other people do make life good though and it's certainly a valuable skill. Just, it comes at a price.
Anyone remember eqn?

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

I've enjoyed the part of this interview with Linda Cherry, one of its creators, talking about it in comparison with Tex (incorrectly transcribed as "tech").

http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/mike/transcripts/cherry.htm
Yep, "reverse engineering" used to mean something. Nowadays the term is misused just like "hacker".
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Um, doesn't he just run a program on his phone to do that?
CrashCourse: React Js from Start to Deployment
Programming is nothing special. You're an employee just like any other.
I've heard https://startuplister.com/ is pretty good bang for the buck.
Thinking about buying medium format? Read this first:
What did you expect? I think it's a tough line to talk — update the graphics, but don't change things so much that people don't recognize them. I have done zero research, but I can't imagine they won't introduce some new tilesets and maps.
This is fabulous. It seems crazy to me, that some in this thread are like "meh, no big deal, LaTeX is fine".

Except, I guess it would be better if that could be compiled to LaTeX instead of rendering it directly. LaTeX is still de-facto standard, and surely there are situations when it would be more powerful. So this mid-layer still would be useful, I guess. But otherwise, I would gladly write everything I need in Markdown+AsciiMath instead of pure LaTeX.
>under the surface - it's bullshit.

It's really not. Here's a great blogpost summarizing some research that points to the firm inequality theory.

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2016/10/how...
Well said. Its very rare people recognize the 'culture' impact in working environments
All CEOs are democratically elected. Shareholders vote on Board Members, and then Board Members vote on CEOs.
They don't minimize amount of work they do, because they greatly enjoy the work, and get great pleasure from the process of programming.
> Is there a paradigm/language that allows you to write the same templates for both the server side and SPA view?

https://zeit.co/blog/next
> What exactly would be the advantage of Calexit?

California would immediately have 30% more money due to not funding the red states.

> 1. Republicans would win every national election for the foreseeable future. This is bad, republican or not, as it essentially undermines democracy.

Not a great argument to the blue states. Blue states really wouldn't care as they would leave the red staters and their corrupt congressmen to wallow in penury without blue state money.

> 2. The chance of a civil war would grow significantly as other states consider following California. I believe this to be true because let's face it, there are certain states that subsidize others. This has to be true, given the discrepancies of wealth between them.

The Civil War was won because the North had the population and the production. The blue states have the production and the population. The red states would not win if it came to civil war and, if things actually came to Calexit, it would be likely be CoastalExit.

In addition, the armed services are now very much "Just In Time". If you shut down California, you're going to have a very difficult time resupplying and repairing your army. California can simply let your army grind to a halt while waiting you out. Logistics through hostile territory is EXCRUCIATINGLY expensive. The army couldn't secure Baghdad; they'll have no hope with LA or SF.

Finally, Californians really don't begrudge helping the red states out. Honestly. What they begrudge is then getting stabbed in the back while doing so.

I think that every Representative, Senator, and Governor from a "taker" state should have to make public request and obeisance to the representatives of "giver" states on national television right after the State of Union or their state doesn't get any Federal money. It's just words, but too many people think that things "magically" appear in their states with no thought to what is actually happening.

> 3. Arguably much of the success of the United States comes from the cohesion between the states, hence the name. To leave the United States undermines its very existence.

Agreed. But how many times does it take cousin Clem having an accident with a gun before you decide it's safer to just not be around him?

> Am I missing something?

Yes, it won't be a vote that triggers CalExit--Californians really don't want to leave, by and large.

It will the Feds showing up and shooting some white people for <reasons> and then having a ham-fisted response that causes it.

If it were anyone other than Trump in the White House, I wouldn't worry about this happening. Sadly, this bunch look more than incompetent enough to trigger it.
How well does "create your own subreddit" perform as a blog platform?
Maybe the California national guard; although since it's federally funded, it may need to follow the money. The California State Military Reserve is a fully state agency, although it's much smaller, and it's potentially subject to command by the President as well.
It is not surprising that companies do not want to advertise their products in conjunction with videos about sexual abuse. The author seems to be think that the youtube advertising is some kind of charitable support scheme for video makers.
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I think it's happening not because of issues with democracy in general but with how the European Union's democracy and the US voting system are organized. I think both systems lead to people feeling like they cannot influence politics. The European Unions's system is fairly complicated, the elections get fairly little media attention and the EU gets regularly used as a scape goat by local politicians. I think the EU could benefit from some prominent, direct elections. For example voting for a EU president directly with a proper campaign would increase awareness and perceived choice.
The US election system is just plain awful. The winner takes all crap just had terrible properties. Due to the spoiler effect you end up with a two part system. That's especially nasty with the other problem. The weight of an individual's vote matters vastly by where you live. If you live in a state in which everybody agrees with you your vote likely is irrelevant. The fact that everybody around you agrees with you makes a loss very frustrating and leads to people likely encouraging each other's frustration and creates hatred on those other states.

I wish we could get rid of the electoral college and have approval voting. I truly believe that would be the best thing that could happen to the US. The political discourse would most likely become much more interesting and civil.
From an attacker's perspective, taking into account that people are generally worse with reusing pins than passwords, why would this make a difference in how hard it is to compromise a device. Also, how many combinations will this provide?
You can kind of think about it probabilistically: good jobs should be filled quickly because they're desirable (and they should be reasonably effective at attracting good talent to fill them)

Good candidates should get offers quickly.

Thus, the best way to get a good job is to be there the moment it's posted (or even better, before)

The dual is true for candidates, too.
I know the bed-making recommendation may sound trite, banal and pointless, I've found in my own personal experience that the sense of pride and accomplishment and the momentum-building that it produces is absolutely non-negligible. Great speech, I oftentimes ponder whether mandatory 2-year military services after college should be enacted. I think it would definitely help improve our country and make us much more hesitant to use war as a tool aside from immediate defense.
RubyMotion was amazing but what it had in ability was superseeded by React Native with everyone and their mother doing a React + Rails combo for websites now. In the end, writing plain Ruby became more cumbersome than writing React so people just abandoned the platform. The price tag of React Native didn't help the issue either (free) along with it just being a npm install away.
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Maybe not, but the remaining country can still severely harm California. Additionally I wouldn't assume that California-based military will support CalExit.

I lived in San Diego and spent a lot of time with active duty sailors + marines down there when I attended Community College. They were from all over the country, and the vast majority were from red states. I befriended active duty military from Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky, Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, and South Carolina. Conversely, despite being a military city I only came across two people from California.

What I'm getting at is in the event of civil war I can't see the majority of armed forces in California supporting CalExit.
For Mac users, you can also use the built-in 'Grapher' application which comes with a decent GUI for writing equations/formulas.

1) Open up the 'Grapher' application from the 'Applications/Utilities' folder.

2) Click on 'Choose' (it doesn't matter what other options you pick from the initial loading screen).

3) From here on, just type your equation into the main input field. You can also use the equation palette from the dropdown menu on the right side of the main input field to access the templates for things like integrals and summations. From the dropdown, you should be able to click on 'Show Equation Palette' to get a window of all of the math symbols Grapher supports.

4) Once done writing your equation, select it all, right click, and then click on 'Copy LaTeX Expression'.
To be fair, he did say that he was just reporting the final outcome. It's unclear exactly what was involved in his trial and error approach or how he judged "significant clusters".
How does it break them?

As far as I can see, the only bit that matters is what appears to be a hash at the end. In this case: 3ee86657d6c9. That is, https://blog.x.company/3ee86657d6c9 is the same post.

I don't know how this is substantially+notably different to how other blog platforms do urls.
Wow, that's the first time I've heard anyone talk about The Realm in a long time. I played it from its release in 1996 until EverQuest came out in 1999. How did you end up getting into The Realm in 2003, long after its prime?
You still run into vendors selling a legit product (or high quality product) during the initial period, only to drop to crap quality after they've gotten plenty of reviews.

I bought a set of wire cooking racks that were highly rated, and the product used by America's Test Kitchen (highly rated there, too). I should have sorted reviews by 'recent', as every recent review was 1 star. The racks completely rusted over after a single use. The manufacturer had changed the metal or stopped coating the racks, presumably to make a cheaper product, and coast by on a 4+ star review from the 100s of prior, but old, ratings.
Python for Android is an extension for Kivy, so it is not optional. It looks like apps could get quite big since adding functionality involves including Python libraries to be called from Python rather than interacting with the Android API.
Wyoming has a population of 584,153. California has a population of 38.8 million, 66 times more population. They both have 2 Senators.

California also pays more than its share in Federal taxes and gets less in Federal spending. If you look at the Base Closure Commission list, CA lost 28. Mississippi isn't even on the list because they didn't lose any.

Your originalist argument means nothing.
Well if someone is executing a bad plan, they either know it's a bad plan, or they don't know it's a bad plan. If they think it's a great plan, it's usually hard to convince them it's not if they aren't willing to listen. But if they have less of an emotional investment, usually I find it easier to convince them of whatever I think needs to be changed.
Why are you unpersuaded by a correct argument? Are you saying that you know you have irrational beliefs and are frustrated that people try to reason with you instead of manipulate you?
It's funny how, for many people, working in a coffee shop, a place that's open, public, and full of people, allows them to concentrate better on their work than most other places.

Of course, it makes sense if you really think about it. In a coffee shop, no one is going to come up and tap on your shoulder and ask you some stupid question they could have asked in email, nor do people generally have loud, annoying conversations right next to you there. There's plenty of people in a coffee shop, but they're strangers, they keep to themselves, and they don't talk except perhaps to their singular companion in a quiet manner.
(Disclosure: former Opower engineer)

Opower is most certainly not an 'Artificial Intelligence company'. Opower's foundations are in Behavioral Science, literally applying the results of an experiment performed by Robert Cialdini to electrical utilities all over the world. (http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_efficient_plane...). If being a 'Big Data company' is a thing, that would better describe Opower - they ingested massive amounts of utility customer usage data, and from that were able to find similar house holds, rank them, and produce a behavioral effect that worked. It's an impressive feat but not AI.

Also, I really hope "I recreated this AI company in a weekend" isn't the new "I recreated Twitter in a weekend." No, you didn't.
I still don't think I understand the appeal to closed source games vs. completely open, 0AD (https://play0ad.com) still strikes me as the most complete open RTS out there but I am wondering if people are more adapt to a smaller closed game vs. large open game just due to the faster adaption and release rates. Is there anyone else who thinks the AI-based APIs of these games are driving these updates or (for example) the machine learning challenges in RTS balancing, etc.
There are substantially more Americans than people in any other English-speaking country, and, to top it off, we're on an American forum.

It's not "stupid" to assume the dialect we're using is American English. Why the aggressiveness?
The South seceded so it could keep the "right" to own human beings. There was a sense of moral duty on the part of many in the U.S. to literally fight to make sure that injustice wasn't perpetuated. There's no analog in a California secession.

Of course, there probably aren't strong opinions about this either way, but most red state citizens I know would have a more "good riddance" attitude about California leaving the U.S., especially if trade and travel were relatively open between the countries. Meaning, I don't see the political math adding up to total war in this case.
> So the team started to ask — what if we looked at this problem in an entirely new way? What if, instead of trying to solve it with better hardware, we could do it with smart software choices instead?

I feel like the lofty language takes something away from the article. It's not like using software to improve image quality is anything new. The image stacking technique they describe isn't particularly novel. I've done stuff like that for years. It even works on 3d renderings from a path tracer. Its cool their camera is fast and provides a nice ux when stacking images, but that's only possible because of the cameras hardware.
Build vs Buy Decisions in Software Development
StarCraft had a much more fully featured custom map editor. I'd say that StarCraft had way better mods. It was the base game in TA that I really loved. I played that for my RTS fix, and I played Use Map Settings games in StarCraft for everything else. I never really played the base StarCraft game in multiplayer; TA was more fun.
Posting an outrageous title to get attention, thereby triggering a discussion entirely focused on the outrageous title is such an anti-pattern that we've demoted this post.

Normally we can find representative language in the body of an article to serve as a substantive title, but I tried and came up empty in this case. That can't be a good sign.
> but for some stupid reason has 8 Senators

The constitution? The desire of rural Westerners to not be directly governed by urban voters in Northeastern or Southwestern megacities? The incrementalism of Manifest Destiny?
NASA Taking First Steps Toward High-Speed Space 'Internet'
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I think we have to start taking the 10th amendment seriously. It was not put there to be ignored.

If we are a republic, states should have say as they did when this country was formed.

People in California should be able to live as they please, but still be part of the country. Too much centralization in DC is causing these feelings.
No. I've never seen a keyboard do this.
Under Obama I had no understanding why anyone would want a stronger federalist system. Why should we allow homosexuals to get harassed in one state but protect them elsewhere? It's crazy! Discriminating them is always wrong regardless where!

Well then Trump happened and I started daydreaming about the west coast breaking away from the rest of the country. What would the ideal status after exit look like? It turned out what I really wanted is stronger states. It's interesting to suddenly see things from the other side. I'm glad I was fortunate enough to get this experience as painful as it is.
I am pretty sure the Protoss tried to curb the Zerg advancement by planetary exterminatus. It was at least mentioned in briefings, if not even shown in a cutscene.
The problem being posed here is: we have a thread that is computing something, and as part of that it needs to make a request that will be satisfied with millisecond-range latency (it might be an RDMA request for a memory page on another machine in the same data centre, or a maybe a largish vector of data to be processed on a GPU, etc.).

If we suspend the thread at the OS level and re-schedule it when the result is available (as is done when waiting for, eg, data from a local disk) then the latency of the rescheduling swamps that of the actual operation. If we spin and wait for the result, we quickly run out of instruction-level parallelism and end up underutilising our CPUs.
I think microwave ovens usually use mangetrons rather than masers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavity_magnetron

It's true though that both of them are coherent microwave sources. And the magnetron is arguabbly more "laser-like" than a maser.
That makes sense. Was there anything good or unique you remember about it versus the competition? Or just a boring also-ran of that period?
Surprised by Negative Tone of Comments.

I have been using PixelXL since launch and every one of my friends who looked at photos are amazed by the camera (Many of iPhone Users). PixelXL made me default photographer at parties (And fact that I can share Photos using Google Photos with everyone at Party).

Pixel Camera is amazing compared to any existing SmartPhone camera.

Side Note: The only issue I have with Pixel is that its easy to break glass.
[Heh, the cynic in me is amused when these things come out on the heel of a lot of bad news about Google.]

I think computational photography is perhaps the biggest change to picture taking since Ektachrome. Seriously it takes pictures with existing hardware that are better pictures and does it by applying some interesting science to the mechanisms in the pipeline. I've been very impressed with the results and how rapidly the camera comes up with the image after taking it. I wish my Canon SLR had this as part of its software load.
It seems like you're talking about a plugin architecture, not necessarily microservices. Microservices could be a way to implement it. Not all systems built with microservices could support a plugin like that, not all plugins need to use microservices, and even if you do you might have to write some form of adapter to integrate someone else's service with your system.

E.g. most video games support stuff like this, but they definitely don't use microservices.
Not really. More like: if the way you make satellites dramatically changes on a continuing basis, then some solid knowledge in physics might prepare you better to adapt to the changing times than being trained in the current methodology.
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That's how it was designed by done slave owners hundreds of years ago. That's an explanation how it came to be but not necessarily a good reason today.
Idris or F*?
I think they are not practical because compile times end up extremely slow. I think want you want will necessarily have this effect of very slow compile times.
> blood from four different people has reportedly been found on his weapons.

This article doesn't mention it, but he was also carrying a birch polypore, which is a styptic.