skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For any legal startup to work, Lawyers either A) have to really want what he's building or, B) have to have it to be competitive against other firms.

I think both of these are pretty high bars, especially since Lawyers bill by the hour.

Finding a good efficient lawyer is much more about the Lawyers personality, knowledge, and ability and much less about the technology. A good lawyer can solve things very quickly at little cost. A bad lawyer can take the same matter, spend a ton of money researching it, working it, discussing it, etc, and still come out with a poor result.

I'm interested to see what he's building, but I won't be surprised if it doesn't upend the legal world.
Using matrices to perform the calculations is an optimization over doing a bunch of for loops. This vectorization results in faster code within higher level languages and on certain hardware platforms (SIMD). It's nothing to do with "slicker notation", although having written gradient descent with for loops and matrix operations, the vectorized version is simpler and cleaner to read in my opinion.
Remember that a patent is not a license to do something, it is a license to stop others from doing it.

Amazon can use this to prevent physical stores from doing this.
> the balls don't have a concrete value until one of the boxes are opened,

> opening one box instantly influences the state of the ball in the other box

How do you know that without opening the box?
I think that's mostly due to the ZFS file system. It needs a ton or RAM to work well. I believe older versions of FreeNAS used or at least had the option of using a different FS that was less memory-hungry.
This. I have started using Prime Now a lot over the last few months because the prices for non-perishable groceries are cheaper than Target/Safeway consistently. The gap has been fresh food, and to fill this gap, Prime Now partners with local stores (Sprouts in Oakland, for example).

The acquisition makes WF an instant partner of Prime Now (unintended pun). The demographic that uses the app and wants groceries now has a reliable and recognized source for said needs. This will only increase the use of Prime Now, thereby making Prime a more entrenched and indispensable service for a certain demographic. Better yet, the benefits will be symbiotic: WF can benefit from Amazon's advanced logistics capabilities. These efficiencies might help the brand shake off its reputation for super high prices.

Strategically, this is a slam dunk for Amazon and certain segments of its customers.
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You can apply post-facto justification all you like, but cigarette taxes are still regressive, no matter how you look at it.

Whether it's part of a general attack on the poor is a separate question, but it does fit a pattern of punching downwards.
I also wondered if it was recyclable, and according to the business's web site it is: https://tb-m.com/en/about/paper/
Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced
If you'd like to read a book, Cryptography Engineering is probably the best all around introduction.

If you're looking for an online resource, try Crypto101 (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crypto101/crypto101.github...).
I love Calibre and contribute recipe updates often but don't really see the value of the server. I script things to download via command line and then send to kindle over email. It's more robust than the front end and less hassle than running a server you have to use the browser to access. Given file sizes are small (this week's Economist is about 15mb) it's perfectly Fine to us email.
I'm sure this is true but you sound exactly like Uber employees who come on here and say they've never seen any of the issues.
Having done both, I prefer stocking. But that comes with a caveat that I've never worked more than a four hour shift. I can imagine that an eight hour shift of stocking would be brutal.
Or you could make the effort to understand the American terminology for racial categories isn't universal.
Back when I read the Narnia books at the age of 11 and 12, I remember reading of lands and people other than Narnia as being portrayed negatively. Back then I did not know, who the lands were being referred to, but the more I started reading into other cultures, the more I found a strong resonance with the cultures of Iran and Turkey.

Turkish delight was served by the evil witch and it turned Edmund unto a spell. In other books, I cannot remember which one, but there is the story of being lost and traveling through other lands and falling into the control of shahs and pashas.

The Narnia books were C.S. Lewis's attempt at turning thinking, particularly child thinking, against the cultures found in the Middle East.

I found a great article that connects a lot of the references and provides background behind C.S. Lewis.
https://prunusdulcis.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/baklava-in-bea...

I am now perplexed with recommending or not recommending this book. It was a terrific joy for me, very much like Harry Potter is a joy for children these days.

Edit: corrected link.
Quick question: Are you hiring senior rails developers for remote positions?
Dupe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12085844
Jobs That Artificial Intelligence Will Create
>Now that I'm back in the startup world, I spend most of my time thinking about and working on my company, and forget to snapchat.

Shouldn't you have been thinking about and working on YC when you were there?
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Does this work address the fact that people raised in non-Western musical cultures don't experience pleasure/displeasure based on harmony?

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/07/your-culture-not-you...
That's very strange that you've never felt stimulation or increased focus from nicotine! It's possible that you have some genetic variation that causes that or it's possible you're just not self aware, but I couldn't say which.

For an incredible overview of the benefits and harms of nicotine, see Gwen: https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine
Any good recommendations for running Postgres transparently as a fully encrypted database (not just on a table by table basis)?

Or alternatively is this a problem that's better / just as viably solved with an encrypted filesystem?
... but it does have rounded corners.
Persistent Memory Programming: The Current State of the Ecosystem – InsideHPC
I wonder if they will block cell signals?

I've noticed in certain Walmarts my signal won't work no matter where I am - more than likely the thick walls I would assume were blocking the signal not some malicious attempt to stop me from price matching.
As a non-smoker who has indulged in the odd cigar, I disagree.

The buzz, alone, is intense and very pleasurable (though probably less so for regular smokers). There's a reason cigarettes and coffee (or alcohol) go so well together.

Which is why I can never casually indulge... I like it too much.
Maybe three stars will be gone soon as Harald Wohlfahrt might through in the towel.
http://www.suedkurier.de/nachrichten/baden-wuerttemberg/Spit...
"A good lawyer can solve things very quickly at little cost. A bad lawyer can take the same matter, spend a ton of money researching it, working it, discussing it, etc, and still come out with a poor result."

Not to be too cynical but given those two options of good and bad lawyers - who is going to be able to charge more fees to an unsuspecting client?

Edit: I can't believe that I said "Not to be too cynical" about lawyers....
It's market/opportunity validation when you can convince others to share the risk.
You don't spend $15B on something known for its strong culture and then gut the culture.
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Graphemes? Strings can be expected to be transformed so that they contain the "right" type of characters (in particular, plain letters followed by the respective combining diacritical marks vs a smaller number of precomposed accented letters) before asking about their length, which is how many characters they contain. If you want to count "graphemes" you can have a different function and possibly a separate cached result.

This in theory. It is readily apparent from the Data.Text page at https://hackage.haskell.org/package/text-1.2.2.2/docs/Data-T... that the authors care about performance only selectively ("fusion" of buffer allocations is fun, relatively messy data structures to cache important data such as string length are not fun), and that they don't care enough about Unicode to add serious string-level abstractions over the Unicode tables exposed in the Char type.
As an ex-smoker, I can say that smoking was one of the most pleasurable experiences I enjoyed. It might be hard to explain to non-smokers, but smoking is indeed luxury that could be enjoyed both, alone and socially. I love sugar. But even the fanciest desserts cannot touch joy of first cigarette & coffee in the morning or smoking in freezing weather outside your dorm at 2AM. Everyone else thinks that smokers are suffering outside in below freezing weather but most smokers I know loved it. And I loved it too.

It sounds like I miss smoking. Just to make it clear, it is enjoyable but it is horrible habit not much different from meth & other illegal drugs.

I quit because I was finally getting addicted and it started to control me. I would be thinking about my next cigarette break at work or pausing a movie to take a smoke break while my wife waited for me inside. I thought I would never get addicted but it happens slowly but surely.
Reno startups thriving beyond Silicon Valley
14 wildly hot takes we need on this Whole Foods and Amazon thing
College attendance drops after widespread job loss
I do. Many don't.
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Block Exchange Protocol v1
One could also do this in D as well. it's not that impressive.
Yitang Zhang's favorite place to think about number theory proofs
>Let's assume you have a server where several people develop software on. You may want to allow them to create core dumps for debugging purposes.

Then set the hard core size limit for the user you're deploying as (you don't deploy as your development user, right?) and then set the soft limit for everyone else.
Got any good literature on this because I haven't found any supporting what you said. Code of Hammurabi didn't standardize an existing practice in my understanding.
People work in different ways. I live in emacs and am a humanities student, nobody sees my computer and I don't have a friend that can quit vi for his life, but I use the software that I use because it worjs the best for me. I have a very organised inbox, a good list of feeds, and a nice setup for org and orgexport. I can create jawdropping document with a quarter of the effort my peers spend to create a half arsed one in Word. I am on top of all thenews with asimple press of the G button in elfeed and 15 minutes readin, while my peers miss exams because nobodytold them. The only place I am behind is Facebook which I deliberately don't use. So no need for blanket dismissals.
I don't my PM does.
They didn't misread it, they were trying to give you a heads-up.

As an American I didn't know "colored" was used in South Africa and other than context I wouldn't have know that it was distinct from black. I'd be curious to know the difference.

In the US "colored" is an old and derogatory term for black. So your sentence reads like "X and Y are this, but Y is that" where one of the Ys is a word that isn't used.

I don't think they were trying to be mean or attack you, just give you a heads up on how many/most of HN may (miss)interpret your comment.
Microsoft's Modern Keyboard hides a fingerprint sensor
Really? For some reason I really thought it was a fork of Atom. How does it compare then?
Hints of iPhone 8 Showing Up in Web Analytics
When it comes to matters of money it is apparently "guilty until proven innocent"
Surely the proper way to do length is to have it be, essentially:

length :: forall f a n. Foldable f => Semiring n => (f a) -> n

`length` is not specific to any one type and it's a complete waste to think of it as something to do with strings in general. They should all just be foldable and that'll give way more.

Likewise, they could all just be functors and `map` is free.
I really don't undertand how companies like Blue Apron and Plated ever expected to be in business very long. Do they get many repeat customers? Theoretically a subscriber would actually learn to cook over time and then Blue Apron would lose that customer... I just don't understand the long term goal.
What about Instacart? They had a sweet deal, if it continues then it means Amazon will buy them. If it gets cancelled it means Instacart is fucked.
Wouldn't that be the definition of a proxy war? However, even that claim is suspect. The Continental Navy was a joke and had zero effect on the war. The French fought a global naval campaign with the world's largest navy. They also supplied the vast majority of gunpowder, cannons, and muskets used in the initial years of the war, and landed several sizable armies. At any point in the conflict the loss of French aid would have meant instant defeat for the colonists. The French or French allies engaged in more or less continuous warfare for decades both before and after the American Revolutionary War.

It's most accurate to say that the American Revolution was a notable but not decisive campaign in the Second Hundred Years War. Americans blow their participation in the conflict wildly out of proportion -- patriotic textbook revision has produced an epic creation mythology. Panamanian schools seem similarly to omit the role of the US in the creation of that country. It's not just that history is written by the winners, it's that it's continually rewritten by the winners.
This might just be a strategic move to block Instacart as every WF I've been to recently had created an entire checkout section just for Instacart.
As far as I have understood it, this is mostly a result of overbuild infrastructure. They planned the capacity of some central pipes and sewers in a time where modern water saving technology wasn't yet used as much or even invented, because such projects are supposed to last a few decades. They build for growing usage and population based on the historic growth, but then water saving became a big thing, appliances became much more efficient, and people moved to other parts of the country and the bigger cities etc. So now that infrastructure is underutilized and flow is too low in some parts. But this is managed by the water companies, which know best where and when to increase flow. This is pretty localized, for example when they planned for a future housing development that never came, and just flushing twice won't put a dent in it anyways. Building a papermill in a suburb or countryside is also probably not the most efficient way to solve it.
>>Sounds like they never were two separate entities to begin with or never parted location. Which is spooky too, in a different way.

Sounds interesting. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that these two particles are really just a single particle in a different dimension that we don't know it exists yet.
If Amazon could drop $13B on a national grocery retailer they could just as easily drop some number of billions to buy every podunk regional bank willing to sell and merge them into the Bank of Amazonia.

If Elon Musk doesn't do it first to enable easy financing for Elon Musk-fans' buying everything Elon Musk. Musk.
Incompatible with American values?...

A cursory search on Google shows that in America, if you want to be an HVAC tech or a plumber, you basically have to take the same steps: get a high school diploma, then find a formal apprenticeship or a vocational program, then get licensed and get a certificate. The whole process takes years too. It's basically the same.

And as an American consumer it's not like you get a random handyman from the street to do the work, is it? You almost always go with one of these certified guys. And similar to the OP, there is a bunch of "illicit" work here too. Like my mechanic once insisted on coming to my home after hours to fix my car (easy fix), presumably so he can avoid paying shop fees.
Amazon's Global conquest continues.
and then you need to log in a VIP user or a debug user without auth but cant produce a proof so now it wont compile at all. not a problem i you own the code but in client/server a third party could be the client or server so will have to be very careful about placing proof obligations on code you dont own.
Yes, people will complain every time a UI is significantly changed. But there's something else too.

Perception is that significant product development resources were devoted to adding rounded corners. But issues often associated with twitter seem to get worse and little product development resources. A few include: harrassment, racism, armies of bots for brigading, and the increasing use of the platform as an instrument by a foreign power to exert influence on the American electorate.

Maybe they are trying and not communicating it well. But a UI refresh is clear indication of spent product development, and those issues seem to be getting worse.
A few years back, Google worked through their attempts at encrypt MySQL from end to end; it's a damned hard problem when you consider all the bits which would need to be encrypted to protect against someone with access to the OS or hypervisor.

I haven't heard that they were successful.
Newish, it's been around for at least a few months now, since I first tried it out a few months ago. I got excited seeing the link on HN, thinking it was some new feature added to the server
I think you're pointing out a good tradeoff here. The original copysets work allows you to explicitly tune the likelihood of data loss with the amount of work done for recovery. A cluster replicated to minimize the likelihood of losing a replica set under correlated failure will have a higher cost of recovery from failure. A cluster replicated to minimize recovery time (e.g., RAMcloud's random allocation) will likely lose entire replica sets upon a set of (even random) failures.

Chainsets were an attempt to add the properties of copysets to a system based upon chain replication.

Working with the original Copysets authors we refined the chainsets algorithm into a tiered replication algorithm that can enforce independence assumptions on the replica set (what you've termed anti-affinity). Here's the paper on the subject: https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc15/technical-session/pr...
These tasks (gathering user feedback, doing visual designs) are probably divided between several people at Ableton already

I hope the tasks are not divided between people. Feedback loops work best if they're quick and direct. Designers should be able to observe users try out their own designs.

The rest of the team would work on other aspects of the product, e.g. other design aspects or implementation.

Does he want to replace the whole team?

I think that in order to get the best results it should be part of the company culture to question everything, and sometimes that means questioning the work of other people. In the same way, everybody should be thankful for helpful feedback and suggestions.
Same, yet the first thing I thought is did my ISP setup some blocking now? lol
* High-end food brand to sell from
If you're replying to photos with text messages then you're really not 'getting' Snapchat.
The data I have seen shows a considerable earnings and wealth gap for those who did make those choices versus those who didn't. No one needs anything other than a cave in the woods with some squirrel meat every now and then, but assuming you are like most people and want to land an attractive mate and secure heat and air conditioning and a future for your children, then you probably want to place your bets accordingly.
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Good point. I'm an introvert so talking to people for 8 hours wouldn't be my favorite thing in the world, but sometimes I forget not everyone is like me.

When I was talking about the other jobs at WF I was thinking about like.. the ice cream scooper, and the smoothie maker, and the customer service rep at the front for when people want to return items. That's not to mention all the the chefs that make the food for the hot bar, or the bread and cookies for the bakery department, or the sushi. All of those jobs could have a social element to them.
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Netscape's fall had many causes, but the biggest one was monopoly actions by Microsoft. Microsoft got sued for this, and lost. The fact that Mozilla crawled back to significant marketshare from there was unbelievably impossible. The fact that open source efforts got to the point where the web became usable again on Linux was simply amazing.
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Yep. Short of making tobacco illegal or declaring it to be in a drug class that can't advertise to the public I'm not such there is anything that can be done except consent decrees.
What's really going to blow your mind is when you realize that everything belongs on both lists - it just depends on your point of view when thinking about that particular list item.
"who is going to be able to charge more fees to an unsuspecting client?"

That's my point, finding a great lawyer isn't easy, and I don't think it's related the underlying technology. The tech can make a great lawyer even better.
> "Uh, no. You're simply favouring people who have dedicated their lives to studying and researching something, over people who had a spare month and thought "You know what? I'd love to write an article over something I know absolutely nothing about"."

Do you not think the people that have dedicated their lives to studying AI are likely to be more optimistic about its uses than the population at large?

I dislike the 'opinions as news' trend on the whole, but there is room in public debates for non-experts in a specific field. The knowledge required to develop the technology is different from the knowledge needed to be able to engage in debates about its uses.

AI has the power to take jobs away from humans. This is not a controversial view, mainly because it's already happened (such as in car manufacturing). In my opinion, there's not enough debate about the implications of the increasing sophistication of AI (not enough debate amongst the general population, there's plenty in tech circles).
Amazon to buy Whole Foods for $13.7bn
That's interesting, I always thought that the graphical explanation was elaborate and confusing since a NN is just a bunch of matrices with non-linearities inbetween. To each his own I guess.

I definitely agree though that it's more of an experimental science at the moment.
> Computer Science and Engineering are not the sort of technical degrees one gets from a community college.

You can absolutely get an associates degree in CS from many community colleges, and that can be enough to get an entry-level position at many companies; doubly so if in conjunction with a body of established Open Source work. You'd certainly start at a more junior status, but you could progress upwards from there via work experience and accomplishment.

That would hold even more true for a more focused trade-school-style program.
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"Decades old" often means that it is mature, has relatively few bugs, and is not going to soon go through some major API-breaking re-architecture just because the maintainer wants to experiment with a new framework-of-the-week. "Written in plain C" means I will likely be able to call/integrate it into my project with little fuss. These are both things to actively look for when browsing for open source libraries.