skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing to do with Russia. Assad is an ally of Iran, and rather than having a politically stable and militarily capable nation in that area of influence, Israel and Saudi Arabia (among others) would rather have a chaos-ridden post war Iraq or Libya. But they prefer to have the dirty job done by the US- usually it doesn't take much, a bit of lobbying and tons of newspaper articles about the cruel dictator usually do the trick.
Hypothesis: this is a message to Xi and North Korea. Syria is a consequence-free zone. Unless we depose Assad and commit to nation building, this has limited non-humanitarian consequence. Bonus: decisive action right after McMasters consolidated Bannon's NSC influence.
To be honest I have thought about this for long for distributed computing. If we have a problem which takes a lot of time to compute but problem can be computed with small pieces and then combined then why can't we pay user to subscribe for the computation? This is a major step toward thr big goal.
They have a bank as well, though now looking can't find mention of business specifically.
He could write off the loss for tax purpsoses. But I doubt that would make financial sense unless he thinks twitter is screwed. They could get bought out for a premium share price but who knows.
That 4MB background image though
Also, tsla is neither bigger than uber nor profitable... so it doesn't fall into the categories you brought up earlier
Ask HN: What are your companies Engineering Blogging Guidelines?
A lot of people write blogs and a lot of companies have blogs. Do people who work at said companies, have a list of guidelines about this - things they can/cannot write about both internally and on their personal website? My company is trying to formalize their blogging guidelines and what engineers should not write about. I am trying to understand what industry standard is to give them feedback. If you have a company policy regarding blogging, I would appreciate it if you could share it.
Donald Trump: Lyft Executive to Get Transportation Policy Job
Microsoft my hire PR folks but under Ballmer, office would never appear on ios and Android. I was there when a clean built application was rejected only to be approved by Satya governance.

We would not have seen open .NET, open vscode, Typescript, Ubuntu subsystem, Powershell.

Even in the cloud, Linux would have never made to Azure. Ballmer saw Linux as threat, Satya saw it as a platform to build things on.

It was a night and day difference when the shift happened. Every team built their own hacked version of Jquery and suddenly we could just use a pre-built one. Code was cleaner, teams moved faster. Open-source was encouraged. No stack rank.

Stock doubling is not a coincidence. Ballmer just didn't understand developers.
If the deep state controls Assad's launch orders, I have no idea why the past 16 years have been so unrelentingly grim for the US's fortunes.
The 'sentiment neuron' two posts over gives an indication of what this could look like. 'Oh, I see you're giving a strong positive update to the porn neuron...'

More generally, there's the notion that a sufficiently complex model encodes the training data. There's been work on extracting training data (or highly deformed versions of it) from a fully trained neural network. We should be under no illusions that networks offer cryptographically​ strong protections to their memories. It's simply not a design goal.
1929 will come when the debt crisis finally happen. Only a mad man can think that we can sustain our way of life by borrowing more indefinitely. I don't know if it's going to be at 150% debt to gdp or perhaps 200%. But one thing is certain, whether it is through hyper-inflation or defaults, lots of people are going to be wiped out.
The linked Daring Fireball article[1] is a lot more interesting and informative

[1] http://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives
Which Kurds? You mean the Kurdish Islamic Front (KIF) which wants to extend Shariah across Syria?[0]

Try not to be so explicitly racist in your analyses. Kurds are an ethnic group of 40 million people with different ideologies, interests and goals. Saying "give it all to the Kurds" says more about your racism towards other regional ethnic groups (Arabs, Syriacs, Turks) than some grand understanding you have of the Middle East.

> I could envision partitioning the country along its existing ethnic lines

Nobody except casual MSM observers wants this racist, separatist outcome and anybody with any understanding of the country would know that the country doesn't have "ethnic lines" that you can just build a wall across and somehow produce mini-states that will be economically successful, productive and start working in harmony with their new neighbours.

[0] http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/54367?lang=en
I mean, all of them beyond the day-to-day?

I plan my life expecting to live to an average age, as I assume most of us do. I save for retirement, I make investments that will pay off at times useful to me.

If I knew I had a serious condition that changes my quality of life and life expectancy, that means I need to change my life plans. Sure, it may not be 100%, but working off the most likely outcome seems sensible.

Not to mention, no treatments right now - if I know I've got something, I can follow developments and if treatment does become available, I can do something. Obviously, you could monitor this if you knew you were higher-risk anyway, without testing, but not everyone knows that.
No longer top comment :(
Thx, appreciate it!
Pop me an email and I'll keep you in the loop: lee@shopmo.co
Train on character-by-character basis, this is really incredible, quite opposite to human's intuition about language, but it seems a brilliant idea, and OpenAI tried it out, great!
> The events happened in the early 1990's, just prior to the advent of the internet

Ah, makes a lot more sense. I was assuming some time in the early naughts given the school's timeline, and was disappointed I couldn't find a detailed account.

> The false resume and the firing are the parts of the story that I have personal knowledge of. The financial allegations are third hand, but I believe them to be true.

To clarify, I don't doubt this happened :)

> I've occasionally wondered whether this might be because someone took matters into their own hands, and he's dead and buried in the woods somewhere.

What a wild world we live in. Who needs television when you can read about the intrigues of failed liberal arts colleges.
I already did that. Wait time is same and Lyft sometimes comes out to be cheaper. Uber doesn't have any competitive advantage in my view. Also their recent sexual discrimination, Waymo vs Uber case and not applying licence in California speaks volumes that playing dirty is in the DNA.
Super Titan X
Fifty missiles, in an area where US aircraft can operate unfettered if they so choose, seems like a statement that one side doesn't want to risk its own people.

Even the US has limits. There are only so many Tomahawks ready to go. 59+ is a significant reduction in that number. They won't do this again as I doubt they could mount a third such salvo. They need to keep a substantial number of missiles in reserve for taking out air defences in support of a broader air war or special forces operation. The next "message" will therefore come via manned aircraft. That's where things between the Russians and the US get tricky. There is only so much airspace over syria.
No mention of HTTPS, but don't all the current browsers, iirc require HTTPS for HTTP/2 support? Which would be the bigger boost, if they allocated certs (similar to letsencrypt) for the azure cdn. Or do they just require a cert setup for http2 support?
Apple's entire desktop environment and lineup is a mess. I'm using windows 10 and couldn't be happier.

I feel like I've played ping-pong over the years, bouncing back and forth between windows and apple. XP was okay, windows 7 was terrible. MacOS was amazing at the time, but whatever MacOS I have right now keeps crashing. Now I'm back to microsoft with windows 10
To scale up the principle a little... Uber acts like a real estate agent, they charge the seller a percentage of the total for the service of connecting a buyer and a seller.

Imagine you were selling a house, and your agent came to you with an offer of $1M, of which they would take a 10% commission. You agree to this, but find out later that the buyer actually offered $1.1M. The fact that each party agreed to the transaction with the real estate agent isn't relevant here. What is relevant is that if you charge for services based on a percentage of the price, you can't then set different prices at both ends, this strongly violates the expectations of the contract.

Looking at https://www.uber.com/info/how-much-do-drivers-with-uber-make..., it says "Drivers using the partner app are charged an Uber Fee as a percentage of each trip fare." This is analogous to the real estate agent example, and this is why this is fraud on Uber's behalf. If they told drivers that they were simply buying their services for an arbitrary price, then it would be fine, but they don't say that.
A team of excellent people will still have someone at the bottom of productivity on that team; that doesn't make them a low performer. I think you're confusing poor performance with ranking. If you have 10 awesome developers, are you going to fire the 10th best just because he's the 10th? That's what's being discussed, firing the bottom guy without regard to whether he's actually good or bad, merely because he's the bottom guy.
Share to grow
I understand your reasons- Trump definitely seemed a safer choice in this respect.

However, that probably shows that it's not enough to say you have an opinion or a stance on something; you can only be trusted to keep it if you are already aware, at the moment of expressing it, of all the arguments and forces that will push you in another direction. Three months (of undoubtedly powerful lobbying) have been enough to sway Trump from "no more wars" to "yes let's start another one, possibly with Russia".
I couldn't think of a better one in less than a minute. Do you have word suggestion? It's pretty close to an analogy, as a hypothetical mirror from one part of reality onto another.
With the estimated rate, the product sold to the customer is the trip, not the time/mileage. As the driver is a contractor and not an employee of uber, they are an intermediary in the transaction. They are reselling the trip for me for a significant cut. If they sell it for more and don't give me my fair cut, that's theft.

In any case, technically everyone is getting screwed and they likely end up sharing whatever the markup is. (Driver loses wages, user pays more).
New laws for selling homemade meals could help East Bay startup, cooks
Thanks -- I'd heard of that but didn't realize it was still/again for sale.
99.co raises $7.9m as Singapore’s online property battle heats up
> 43. The CBP Summons states that Twitter is “required” to “produce[] for inspection” “[a]ll records regarding the [T]witter account @ALT_USCIS to include, User names, account login, phone numbers, mailing addresses, and I.P. addresses.”

That doesn't really sound like they politely asked for it.

No one's making the argument that twitter is some bastion of free speech, but it seems reasonable to respect them for not complying to government strongarm tactics to criminalize their own users. The law is well on twitter's side on this one.

Comparing this to selectively banning trolls from their own business is just a false equivalence.
I just moved back here from NYC. I was working in automated trading. You want to apply to 2sigma and bridgewater. They value smarts over experience. You can also work for Chase, Citi Group, Citi Bank, CapitalOne.

If you wanna become a quant, or do anything related to actual decision making of when a purchase order is processed or when it's dropped. You'll need at least a masters in Mathematics or Engineering, and be fluent in C/C++ for finance.

I will tell you right away. As a developer even if you knew your stuff you'll always be a developer. When shit hits the fan you'll be the first out the door.

Lastly, you need to learn the language. You'll need to know all these terms that many will refuse to explain to you because that's what earns them value. Our director of engineering used to always say the only reason he still has the job is because he understand the language.

-- I worked at Citi Group.

Overall I hated nyc. I lived my whole life in California. Didn't have to wear dress cloths to work, didn't have to be at work at 7:30-8 am sharp, but the money was great.

I hope this helps..
In part, yes. Before this it was things like it - family, friends, church groups, etc
"Perhaps winter has come, and his coat is changing."

Comedy gold...
Three related but not dependent things keep getting conflated:

1. The trash can design was not able to accommodate much heat variance and so was not updatable.

2. The trash can Mac Pro didn't suit some pro needs because of lack of graphics card and internal storage upgradability.

3. Dual graphics cards with an emphasis on OpenCL was the wrong direction to go in.
Which Kurds? The Rojava (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rojava), the Democratic Socialist (Sanders-like) Kurds of the northeast. The Kurdish Islamic Front (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_Islamic_Front) does not represent the Kurdish mainstream.

As for the rest, the pro-Assad forces are mostly Alawites (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabiha) and Christians (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_militias_in_Syria), organized along ethno-religious lines. Incorporating them into Lebanon, or creating a "coastal Syria" with a minimum of Sunnis in it (and probably under Russian tutelage, since the Christians are Orthodox and the Alawites have reason to see Russia as a protector) would allow them to live without either being tyrants or being tyrannized.
He doesn't just need a gofundme account, he needs a patreon account. I think/hope he could get a few thousand a month.
It's way easier for Tesla to start an self driving fleet with an App than Uber to get into car manufacturing.

Lyft partners with GM that acquired Cruise and their tech is solid. They are making cars will all the sensors built in, not add-ons like Uber.

Also Uber is losing a shit ton of money. Tesla is not profitable but doesn't bleed that much money.

Depending on how Waymo vs Uber goes, Uber may have to shut down their self driving car program temporarily. Stealing 40,000 files is ridiculous.

Add that to fact that they didn't get a proper licence so they don't have to report crashes and their self driving car crashed pretty bad.

Uber is a risky bet.
Second article and I still don't understand why they can't at least do a spec bump every year. If not possible due to suppliers a price drop should at least grab some market share. With the resources Apple has, anything else is simple negligence.
Alan Watts talks about how some things in life can be like trying to smooth the waves in the ocean with a flat iron.

I often think of that when it comes to the Fed. I know next to nothing compared to the financial wizards, but it does seem like every major financial crisis started with some marginal movement by the Fed.

I'm not saying there's a better alternative, or necessarily knocking them - I have respect for them. But at times it seems like nobody really knows how the economy works, and each crisis is followed by an, "oops, let's not do that again."
DAESH/ISIS didn't form in the civil war; they renamed themselves that, but they already existed as al-Qaida in Iraq. A native east-Syrian Islamist insurgency would probably have been more benign; they certainly wouldn't have had eight years of war with the US to refine their tactics, write The Management of Savagery, develop a webzine, and so on.
Strictly speaking, that's them exercising their property rights, not their free speech rights.
You're welcome! It does hardly anything compared to systems like IPython, but I'm reluctant to learn interfaces.
1a) You don't have to impede speech to be violating the First Amendment. The Supreme Court has ruled consistently that anonymity is protected under the First Amendment. https://www.eff.org/issues/anonymity

1b) Additionally, "impersonating a federal agent" is a flimsy reason to violate the First Amendment, especially when the only harm they're causing is making the government look bad. Typically "impersonating a federal agent" is used as a charge when the suspect has committed another crime while impersonating someone. The only crime here is making Trump look bad.

2) Get out of here with your false equivalency bs. Equating the government making a (likely) unconstitutional request to reveal the identity of a critic's Twitter account to Milo getting banned from Twitter for harassment is stupid. Hate speech is protected from the government, not from Twitter trying to create a safe platform for its users.

3) I thought everyone was innocent until proven guilty? The government has the burden of proof here, not some rando on Twitter.
I'm not entirely sure why Apple doesn't just use ITX or mATX motherboard layouts for its pro line, and bring back a "Mac" regular line.

Yes, potentially someone could by an "Apple" genuine repair motherboard and DIY their own, but that would make a lot of people happier.... then also make best of breed cases, that can only be had with a full Mac or Mac Pro. Yeah, it would potentially cut into their margins on mac hardware for pros.. but they aren't making much money there... the best bet is to keep the pros making content for their mobile devices happy.

Edit: Also, even if they charged a $300 "core" fee that's refunded when you turn in your old motherboard (assuming boards are sold for replacement), that would cover the "OS License" costs for those that are doing it on their own. Apple still makes money, but keeps the third parties to a minimum.
Rethinking RNNs (Recurrent Neural Networks)
Twitter sues US over anti-Trump account
Share with HN: Today I didn't use marijuana for the first time in 16 years
*note: I don't do facebooks or twitters. This is my community, tho I only know 2 other hn'ers in real life and I coulda made a throwaway, but who the hell am I?

If you don't think marijuana is addictive, than you don't smoke like I do. For the last 16 years I have been completely stoned by this time of day. I used marijuana for the first time when I was 15. I am 30 now. In the meantime, I went to and graduated from a top college, was an honors student, an "entrepreneur scholar", won a ton of cannabis awards and have been mostly a complete pothead.

I am in the cannabis industry, which makes stopping getting high that much harder. Last year I won 4 High Times Cannibus Cups, the year before I won 2. I have finished in the top 3 a bunch of other times and top 10 with everything I have ever submitted to the cup. I have won other lesser known cups and finished second in the latest cup. In the high times issue out this month, the cannabis I grow is 7 out of the 20 "strongest strains on earth." And that includes the number 1 highest tested CBD strain. 20%cdb with minuscule amounts of THC. Yet seems to me these last 24 hours are a bigger accomplishment than anything I have ever done in my life. I didn't smoke weed today; and I know that for a lot of people thats pretty normal.

All in all I have to stop being a slave to cannabis. Once I realized that, I was done, because its too true. Everything I do is for that beautiful maryjane.

I post this to brag, I fucking did it, 1 whole day . But I hope its clear if I did it, you can too. HN is my community; I have learned so much about life here and this is where I come to share my life and knowledge and learn from other people with similar interests and possibly similar life experiences so while this might not be exactly on topic, its whats happening with members of our community and hopefully this can shed some light on that.
Of course Google profits in many ways from more people having the most powerful smartphones possible.

Throwing away an old phone and buying a new phone doesn't have to directly fund Google for it to be undeniably profitable to Google.

That's not to say at all that Google is trying to arguably brick people's phones to force them to upgrade more. That makes no sense at all. They just don't have enough control over the ecosystem to fix the upgrade problem.
1 is bullshit. Anonymity is baked into first amendment protections. The political nature of govt's request is blatant.
I worked up this from the SEND MORE MONEY example in the CLP(FD) repo.

https://gist.github.com/calroc/603ed919bc814ccee10c1b3df6142...

There are five houses.
The Englishman lives in the red house.
The Spaniard owns the dog.
Coffee is drunk in the green house.
The Ukrainian drinks tea.
The green house is immediately to the right of the ivory house.
The Old Gold smoker owns snails.
Kools are smoked in the yellow house.
Milk is drunk in the middle house.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Chesterfields lives in the house next to the man with the fox.
Kools are smoked in the house next to the house where the horse is kept.
The Lucky Strike smoker drinks orange juice.
The Japanese smokes Parliaments.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.

Now, who drinks water? Who owns the zebra?

In the interest of clarity, it must be added that each of the five houses is painted
a different color, and their inhabitants are of different national
extractions, own different pets, drink different beverages and smoke
different brands of American cigarets [sic].
One other thing: in statement 6, right means your right.

:- use_module(library(clpfd)).

house_next_to(H0, H1) :- abs(H0 - H1) #= 1.

puzzle([
GreenHouse, RedHouse, IvoryHouse, YellowHouse, BlueHouse,
Englishman, Spaniard, Ukrainian, Norwegian, Japanese,
Dog, Snails, Fox, Horse, Zebra,
Coffee, Tea, Milk, OrangeJuice, Water,
OldGold, Kools, Chesterfields, LuckyStrike, Parliaments
]) :-

Vars = [GreenHouse, RedHouse, IvoryHouse, YellowHouse, BlueHouse,
Englishman, Spaniard, Ukrainian, Norwegian, Japanese,
Dog, Snails, Fox, Horse, Zebra,
Coffee, Tea, Milk, OrangeJuice, Water,
OldGold, Kools, Chesterfields, LuckyStrike, Parliaments
],

Vars ins 1..5,

all_distinct([GreenHouse, RedHouse, IvoryHouse, YellowHouse, BlueHouse]),
all_distinct([Englishman, Spaniard, Ukrainian, Norwegian, Japanese]),
all_distinct([Dog, Snails, Fox, Horse, Zebra]),
all_distinct([Coffee, Tea, Milk, OrangeJuice, Water]),
all_distinct([OldGold, Kools, Chesterfields, LuckyStrike, Parliaments]),

Englishman #= RedHouse,
Spaniard #= Dog,
Coffee #= GreenHouse,
Ukrainian #= Tea,
GreenHouse #= 1 + IvoryHouse,
OldGold #= Snails,
Kools #= YellowHouse,
Milk #= 3,
Norwegian #= 1,
house_next_to(Chesterfields, Fox),
house_next_to(Kools, Horse),
LuckyStrike #= OrangeJuice,
Japanese #= Parliaments,
house_next_to(Norwegian, BlueHouse).

Then to print out the solution after loading the program above use:

puzzle([
GreenHouse, RedHouse, IvoryHouse, YellowHouse, BlueHouse,
Englishman, Spaniard, Ukrainian, Norwegian, Japanese,
Dog, Snails, Fox, Horse, Zebra,
Coffee, Tea, Milk, OrangeJuice, Water,
OldGold, Kools, Chesterfields, LuckyStrike, Parliaments]),
label([
GreenHouse, RedHouse, IvoryHouse, YellowHouse, BlueHouse,
Englishman, Spaniard, Ukrainian, Norwegian, Japanese,
Dog, Snails, Fox, Horse, Zebra,
Coffee, Tea, Milk, OrangeJuice, Water,
OldGold, Kools, Chesterfields, LuckyStrike, Parliaments]).
I agree that naming expressions often helps understanding, and that's worthwhile -- I guess I just disagree about this code at first glance. Maybe if I tried to delve into it.
The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

I agree a reckoning is coming, and while my guess would be this year, I said the same thing 2 years ago. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That's an interesting point.
What the fuck. Are you implying Milo called her an ape?
Yeah, brush up on pointers a tad bit (just have a look at some youtube videos, honestly), if you are uncomfortable with them, and then you should be good to go.