skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US made a war against the "White Separatism" (Confederate States of America), in order to protect the US Constitution and citizen rights.

Well, there was a bit more to it than that. If it had just been a matter of the Constitution being flaunted, and citizens being denied their rights... we might have just had a prolonged crisis, with a long period of generalized instability and violence towards minorities (kind of like we seem to be entering, in the present day).

But unfortunately the CSA had to go out of their way to initiate an all-out armed provocation with the Union, which basically forced the latter's hand, by that point. You know, this little ruckus:

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

In any case all this post-facto niceness about "protecting the Constitution" and all is -- just that. Invented after the fact, to help the nation recover from what was (at the time) one of the most devastating armed conflicts the planet had hitherto known.
Government isn't a corporation that can be managed autocratically. Voting systems, norms, and technologies are highly politicized and contentious, and there's the federal government, numerous quasi-autonomous agencies, 50 state governments, and 20000 counties, not to mention 2 political parties and numerous regional factions.

It seems like a single technical problem to you, but socially it's incredibly complex.
Google's Ridiculous Patent on Dropout
Gosh, you sound like there's nothing to learn on backend.

Seriously, maybe more humility will help you improve. Frontend is super easy to learn for beginners (anecdotal evidence of me and like 4 other friends/guys I know). And MDN is vastly superior to e.g. python docs I've encountered so far, or heard/seen from my python friends.
I dont think its fair to compare GCP's egress costs to a colo's. A collocation is simply sending your packets straight to the internet, where-as GCP routes your packets over private fiber to its closet POP to your user. Giving you better latency.
Union-busting and multiple someones get to make a lot of money. All of them are likely funneling some of said future money into the pockets of those pushing for this privatization as well.
You're trivializing people's motivations. People don't do things simply because it makes them happy. They also do them because they feel compelled to, even if it would not make them happy. People are even sometimes forced to do things because they don't have any other option, or because they don't know of anything better to do. Reducing all of this to varying degrees of happiness is sloppy and usually inaccurate.
The bandwidth is the soda: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12270129
4k for a 15" with 2tb.
> In conclusion, Apple is currently stuck between a rock and a hard place. It's somewhat late to market with ARKit, will have to compete with Facebook, Google, and Snapchat for consumer AR-oriented developer mindshare, and will have no play at the industrial/enterprise market if it limits its tools to development for the iOS family.

See also portable music, phones, tablets …

It's Apple's SOP, and if they've shown anything in the last 10-15 years, entering markets late is not a barrier to them competing
Why most freelancing advice doesn’t apply to programmers most of the time
Looking closer:

>"Given the high stellar luminosity and close orbit, the planet receives a large stellar insolation flux (Table 1). As a result, it has an extremely high equilibrium temperature: calculations, assuming zero albedo and perfect heat redistribution, give a value of approximately 4,050 K."[1]

That 4,050 K value is reported as the equilibrium temperature, which I understand to be the output of the Stefan-Boltzmann law:

T = (I*(1-alpha)/(epsilon*sigma))^.25
where,
I = Incident Flux
alpha = albedo
epsilon = emissivity
sigma = SB constant = 5.670373e-8

According to the paper the planet receives 61.1 x10^9 erg/s/cm^2.[1] The solar constant is ~1360 W/m^2.[2] In the same units the planet gets 6.11 x 10^7 W/m^2, which is about 45 thousand times greater than what the earth receives. Anyway, plugging into the SB law I get:

(6.11e7*(1-0)/(1*5.670373e-8))^.25 = 5729.377 K

So I am certain it is I rather than them with the error. Where did I go wrong?

[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_constant
Any Windows support? YubiKey's advantage (Aswell as the fact that it's designed for keystorage, and malware can now just target Android and can automatically approve it themselves) is that it works crossplatform; I can use a YubiKey (when I can afford one) with PuTTY - there seems to be no way to do this.
Hadn't considered Switzerland. Thanks!
Do you have more details about this? I am 100% certain this isn't the case in Azure.
Thanks, actually take a look at the self-response I was writing as you posted this.
> UC Berkeley alone enrolls more low income students than the entire Ivy League combined (this is true of several UCs).

Some context for those interested: Berkeley enrolls approximately 30k undergraduates; the Ivy League combined enrolls approximately 60k. The most commonly cited cutoff for "low income students" is recipients of federal Pell grants, which are (roughly speaking) available to US citizen or permanent resident undergraduates with a family AGI of <$50k.

According to https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-unive... from US News, 34% of Berkeley undergraduates receive Pell Grants. (Berkeley's own website claims 32%.) This is the second-highest of the top 25 national universities, behind only UCLA at 38%. As a result, there are approximately 10k students receiving Pell grants at Berkeley.

According to the same source, the percent of recipients in the Ivy league ranges from 31% at Columbia to 13% at Yale. Overall across the eight schools, it appears to be approximately 18% and slightly shy of 11k students.

From a preliminary examination, it appears that the claim is indeed true for other UC campuses (of which only UCLA is a top 25 university) but not Berkeley as stated. The UC system makes the claim about five campuses other than Berkeley: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/half-new-uc-stud...

The claim may have been true five years ago, as reported here: http://news.berkeley.edu/2012/01/17/freshman-apps/
Idk, I work at an airline at the moment and about 1/3 of people here at the 'head office' use Macs. Higher rates in tech teams.

Sure, maybe these aggregated 'market' figures tell a different story than what I've seen anecdotally, but they seem to be doing fairly okay in 'the workplace'
Reminds me of how Laszlo Polgar decided to (successfully!) demonstrate that any child can become a prodigy with the right upbringing, by teaching his three children chess starting from age 5.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/30/hungarian-education-iii...
Not sarcastic at all! That's how it could work. If you had free electricity, mining would be awesome sauce: http://www.coindesk.com/microscope-economic-environmental-co...
No.

Look at people with Down-Syndrome, they are extremely thoughtful and nice. Least likely to commit a violent act or partake in criminal activity.
YIMBY Hackathon
I believe you are referring to inclusionary zoning, which requires developers to offer 20% or so of onsite units at below-market rent, but also allows developers to offset this by paying for the equivalent of 30% of the number of units in an offsite development.
When you buy in mbps, you're actually billed based on 95th percentile usage. So this comparison is way off, depending on traffic patterns, 1mb/s committed can work out to about 120GB in a month on average. If you use reasonable GB per mb/s numbers the cloud providers don't look all that bad.
It looks like the same pattern as the way Apple scrambles Bluetooth MAC addresses and credit card numbers
All of CA has the prop 13, where we see it get blamed for high prices are in very high demand areas. How much price reduction would you really see without it? Looking at New York it doesn't look like much since the primary issue seems to be supply.
The people driven out get to keep the money from their property appreciating, it's not like they were kicked out for nothing. Also, an increase in housing values is proportional to the worth of the house so even rich people are affected. Your vision of old widows on the streets doesn't match reality.

Most of the bubble is because of rent control aka prop 13. There's plenty of research showing that artificially limiting rent on part of the housing stock squeezes the price on the remaining units and causes the rent controlled units to never appear on the market. Look at data on NYC for an extreme example of this.

In NYC around half the housing is rent controlled and a tenant stays for over twenty years on average. These units pay roughly a third of the rate of a non rent controlled apartment. In non-rent-controlled apartments the cost is over the three times as high and the average person stays for less than two years.

In NYC these units have been rent controlled for so long that most have passed down from the original owner. However, they still only tend to be sold upon death because renting them out illegally is incredibly lucrative, often enough that the owner can live off of the proceeds.

So yeah rent control effectively removes that part of housing stock from the market permanently. It's too hard to prevent people from profiting off their rent controlled units so it just results in a racket.
neither is MS but every thread about them seems to have a top comment crying about telemetry
Rating the iOS 11 Updates
There are indeed some restrictions, but nothing like in the 90's. For the most part, as long as you're not exporting to designated "rogue" states, it's just a matter of some licenses and occasional reviews, though IANAL.
Cool, sounds very similar to what I was thinking! Glad to find out that someone has implemented it.

> as a left-winger who's lived in Texas for a number of years, I don't get to say this that frequently

Governance would be so much more productive if we were all willing to get behind ideas that have been proven to work, even if the "other side" thought of them first. Like you've done here. :)
I have posted a few times about how absurdly expensive all the cloud providers are. If you have a baseline load you should be co-locating bare metal. Any excess capacity you need should spill over into your AWS/GCE/Azure account.

For example: A dedicated m4.16xLarge EC2 instance in AWS is $3987/month. You could build that same server for $15,000 through Dell, lease it at $400/month (OpEx), and colo it with a 1GB/s blended bandwidth connection billed at the 95th percentile for $150/month.
Yes, in theory. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography#Qu...

ECDSA is vulnerable to a modified version of Shor's quantum integer factorization algorithm. However, nobody on Earth is known to be close to producing such a computer. Adiabatic quantum computers like the ones produced by D-Wave are not known to be capable of running Shor's algorithm. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic_quantum_computation

SHA-256 and hashing algorithms have no known quantum attack against them, but one could theoretically gain a sqrt(n) advantage in brute-force search using Grover's quantum search algorithm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover%27s_algorithm
If you ever see me being uncivil, please call me on it! I consider it a safe assumption that I was mistaken on anything I'm not an expert on. And on those things, I think the odds might actually increase. :)
Little Boy Life Saved by Medical Marijuana
Yes, this sounds like like typical Enterprise software development. Actually it a sounds surprisingly competent compared to the average.

The biggest thing that's making your job boring is probably that your customer is doing most of what you would be expected to do. But this is a fantastic thing for the project - if someone who deeply understands and is embedded in the needs can write almost programmer ready specs then 50% of the project risk, confusion, and delays goes out the window.

Most enterprise software development is horribly slow, builds buggy, unusable products, and may never deliver.

The fact that your project many be over staffed, but still delivers repeatedly, actually makes makes management really happy.

Let me tell you about the best network engineer I've ever worked with. The guy did no apparent work. If you ever had any needs, he didn't even have to stop working on anything to give whatever you needed his full attention then and there. The reason he could do this was because had built everything to be scripted, monitored, and documented to the point that his stuff never broke. This have him time to script and monitor and plan for the future even more.

But the main takeaway was that even though he didn't do "work" everyday, he was worth a huge salary. His value to the company was the fact that the networks never went down, not that he ran around in a panic every day.

You worth to the company isn't that you are working hard - it's the output of your team. The fact that you aren't overloaded allows you to be responsive both inside the team and to the customer. This is way more valuable than you may think.

It sounds like you lucked into an unusually functioning project. If you want to stay in the Enterpise world, you aren't in a bad place.

(And yes, entprise programmers have an amazing ability to do only tiny amounts of work per day. It's incredible. I don't understand how many are employed)
That would be devastating.

The state government's funding model is based on Wall St bonuses -- already at risk as more and more finance moves to Jersey and D.C.
> Some people, yes, want a city life.

For the moment the best and the most numerous job opportunities are in the cities, especially for young people. Restrictive housing requirements choke the earnings of young people

This paper goes into this phenomenon in more detail: http://www.nber.org/papers/w21154
Plus Sonos creates its own wifi mesh network if you buy its router. That's better than piggybacking on your existing wifi. I haven't found any indication that HomePod will create its own network.
I think you're referring to this, depth data mapping from the dual camera in the iPhone 7+:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avdep...
"The most powerful Mac ever" - what kind of tech company would release a new product that's worse than the previous one?

Apple's Unnecessary superlatives​ are tiring.
Also, who do you think assigns rights to exploit natural resources? Somebody has to do anyway and there's really no way around it.
Its 42% total of all housing stock is multiple dwelling units as opposed to free standing single family homes.

The question/distinction you are asking isn't relevant since the majority of Los Angeles has both apartment buildings and single family homes on the same street or block.

This is true even in the "desirable" neighborhoods such as Echo Park and Silvelake mentioned in the article. And it matters now where in that desirable neighborhood - up on the hill or in the flats. You will see a million dollar Craftsmen house and across the street nondescript stucco apartment building.
Out of curiosity, do you think journalistic integrity was also impacted when newspapers used traditional paper advertisements as their source of revenue?

Eg, have newspapers _ever_ had integrity, and if they _did_, what's different?
putin's response about individual hackers, like artists, waking up one day and specifically targetting election officials with malicious word documents and powershell scripts is hilarious.
glad this report was released. it clearly shows russian nationals registering these gmail accounts.
Unix Network Programming, vols 1 & 2, by W. Richard Stevens

Yea, I know the code examples are written in C, but he goes into detail about how networks and ipc work.
There is a good paper by Leo Breiman [1] which discusses the exact issue that you mentioned. E.g. Statisticians believe that there is a "True" model that generates the data, and the errors observed are merely noise. ML on the other hand does not assumes existence of a "True" model, the assumption is that only the Data is source of the truth and any model that predicts the data with lowest error is preferable subject to performance on test/cross-validation etc. This is a powerful approach and distinguishes ML as separate field from statistics.

My favorite example is predicting prices of real estate. A statistician will build a multi-level model that takes into account various effects (Zip code level, city level, school district level, year/month of acquisition etc.) and then build a regression model. The errors then would then be simply noise, an ML approach would be simply using weighted K-Nearest Neighbors, with geographic location as part of distance metric. Sure there are no effects to adjust but the K-NN regression model can account for difficult to capture quirks of geography by being able to represent local non-linear decision surface.

http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1009213726
Reddit Users Are a Subset of Reddit Users
Imagine it: http://www.mijusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Los-Gatos.j... :D
What does DH stand for?
Interesting idea, but since states are nominally sovereign, it won't happen barring a revolution.
The dialog. The pacing, The...just everything. It's not just the age; I can laugh out loud at the jokes in 18th century French literature because the characters and dialog feel truthful.

It's like a movie with a great plot but really bad acting, you know?
In theory low interest rates encourage borrowing to build more, but we haven't seen the "building more"; CA added 2.3 million residents since 2010 and only 400,000 housing units.

The problem is much more about local cities and NIMBY's having too much influence in the planning process.
I'm more interested in recommendations that I wouldn't necessarily want my social network to even know about. How about something new already?
But you shouldn't have to install extensions to do this..
The performance difference I see with my own app with Firefox is exactly the benchmark's 3-6x, that's not a benchmark but real world usage.

It's enough to make the startup feel slow (3-4 seconds of being unresponsive) and things like animations and drag and drop features to feel janky. Running a non-minified build (about 20MB of JS, minifies to about 1MB) also completely murders Firefox reducing it to a slideshow, making Firefox unusable for development, while Chrome works just fine.
Reminds me of those visualizations designed for magnifying tiny changes, Eulerian Video Magnification: https://youtu.be/ONZcjs1Pjmk

Perhaps a potential application?
The last time I measured AWS latency to anywhere, it tens of milliseconds higher than the super-cheap-and-crappy virtual server service I compared it to.
$400 million looks like a lot until you remember that Apple have $267 billion in cash reserves. The Mozilla Foundation's entire annual revenue isn't even a fifth of a percent of what Apple have just sitting around because they can't find a better use for it. The fact that Mozilla are able to punch even this far above their weight is kind of impressive.
Its even closer to systems, optimization etc. In fact I would argue that methods like backpropagation, dropout, batch-normalization, LSTM, RNNs make it much closer to Optimization rather than Statistics.
Speaking for myself, it's not about impressing others. Fun exercise: Find the word "average" in these comments (or any synonym) and replace it with "fragile". That's the issue.

"Essential bills" as you put them can skyrocket at a moment's notice no matter how frugal you are. I watched my mom battle cancer for 10 years before she finally succumbed to it, and if my dad had had a lesser job it would have bankrupted us as a family. Furthermore I've seen said medical bankruptcy in some close friends, and that's just one of many things that can and do inevitably go wrong in life even for the best people. "Average" can turn to "destitute" in a matter of weeks.

My goal is for my fiancée and I to have enough in the bank for our future family to afford the best available solution to any problem we might have. Car gets totaled? I want to walk into a Carmax and come out with a $10-15,000 replacement the same day. We have a kid with special needs? I want to be able to afford the best teachers and schools there are. I get in an accident and have to go on half-pay for a few months? I want rent/mortage, groceries and other necessities taken care of. I'd also like to be able to afford 10+ years of medical care in my senior years and not risk going bankrupt.

Granted I'm only 29 and healthy with a good job, and my fiancée's working on getting her career started so we've got plenty of time and opportunity; but damn straight I'm going for millions, and I'll happily work 60+ hour weeks for decades to get there if that's what it takes. I'm not above taking vacations or breaks or weekends off, and I don't kill myself. I eat well, sleep well, exercise, have date night, etc. But I don't play nearly as many video games as younger me thought I would. :) It's worth it, and I sure as hell won't be squandering the effort on multiple houses or fancy cars.
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If you are heavily invested in a single stock, whether it's Pets.com, Bear Stearns, or Tesla, then you aren't aiming for average returns. Index funds are a low effort way to spread risk and are simple to use.

The real problem is that most people lack the discipline to avoid panic selling or to avoid chasing bigger wins.