skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So as a someone who's only experienced chai in North American Indian restaurants or with my best friend's family (who immigrated from Punjab), I'd love to hear what makes the real thing unique and different!

Is it richer? Sweeter? Less sweet? More bitter? More spiced?

I have no doubt this is a tough question to answer... my understanding is every wallah may have their own masala and so forth.

But I'd love to hear your answer!
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people would have designed a shopping cart use-case as a single SQL transaction that would last maybe 10 minutes

This problem was solved in 1965 by CICS for the use case of "you're on the phone to a travel agent and they're finding you a ticket on their terminal". No "10 minute single transactions" anywhere...

In the web age, you want stateless services and HA

Those who forget history are doomed to repeated it.
Click bait doesn't get much more severe than this. Someone should write that article and tell us the answer, when we know it - but this ain't that article. Grab a little integrity, NYTimes.
2) is not a valid concern. Unless you are planning to melt the cookware down, trepan yourself and inject the melted aluminum into your brain, you should be fine:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11259180
Singapore's system is also airconditioned. They just engineered it properly when they built it.
Oh, I didn't know that :-)... that's interesting. I'm very much open for suggestions on how to improve the logo. I already went through a couple of iterations...

https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/blob/master/media/insect.s...
What about a mechanical sling shot system at each sub station?

As the train arrived it gets slowed by a spring or similar system which is then used to propel the train forward once it needs to depart.

Also, what about just slower trains? The heat produced while acccelerating or braking is probably not exactly linear with the speed of the train.
But that was kind of my point, without Microsoft, the PC would just be yet another platform like the Commodore/Amiga/Atari/Mac.

None of them would get a piece big enough of the pie.

The PC only happened due to the way OEM market was created, originating a race to the bottom regarding computer components.

My other point being that given the current state of computer market with iDevices, Android, Chromebooks, IoT, hybrid tablets (aka netbooks), TVs, Watches,..., those OEMs are now trying to turn the remaining of the market into that vision.

So besides their proprietary OSes, we get customised versions of their own forks from open source OSes (e.g. Huawei Linux, LG BSD, put your flavour here) in locked down hardware like those computer systems with their OSes written in ROMs.

Microsoft is still here, but the day they actually do loose the PC market, don't expect the "Year of Linux/BSD" to happen.
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Both are new projects. You're going to know about these projects before 99% of the people who eventually know about them. :-)
Like everyone else said, captain was asleep. And the cargo ship hit the destroyer obliquely, from behind. The destroyer clearly had right of way and no one was playing chicken because everyone was asleep on the cargo ship.
It validates that the US military needs to test against other countries flares.
Parapet walls are a feature of London that I point out to tourists, explaining the context of 1666:

https://www.locallocalhistory.co.uk/schools/preperation/fire...

350 years later we find that the lessons learned by our ancestors have been forgotten.

There is also the matter of the fridge/freezer, the alleged culprit. I am fairly sure that the fire brigade have got that right, you can trace a fire back to the start, much to the frustration of any arsonist! I am glad it was a fridge and not someone smoking or sitting around with candles. However, I am shocked at people's attitude towards leaving the house with appliances on. Washing machines are known to catch fire, as are tumble driers, but people don't care.

I did check the fridge freezer in question to see if it was one of the really stupidly designed ones that have all the gubbins at the bottom rather than the back. Sounds like it was a 'normal' design rather than one of the ones 'specifically designed to catch fire'.

The 'easy burn' fridge/freezer variants don't have the cooling metalwork at the back but at the bottom, with a fan to bring air in through a 4" or so high gap at the bottom of the fridge/freezer. What happens with this design is that the dirt and dust that collects on the floor in the kitchen gets sucked in, for the fans to get completely blocked with debris. If you pull off the plastic and get that dirt out it is like emptying the bag from a vacumn cleaner that nobody has emptied in months/years. Nobody thinks to clean out the bottom of these things so after a few years the whole thing gets replaced - warranty expired, too expensive to 'get the man out' to fix it.

Only if you are handy with a screwdriver and skint would you deduce and fix the problem yourself. By then the fuse has gone from the motor trying too hard to work so it is easy for the 'technically minded' to replace the fuse and be pleased that their ice cream isn't going to melt. To go to the next step and fix the problem that caused the fuseboard to trip (i.e. dust build up) doesn't happen, instead flipping the fuseboard on becomes just a routine thing you do.

I appreciate the action taken in light of Grenfell with Camden council evacuating the towers with the wrong cladding but I think more needs to be done on the fridge/freezer problem, particularly with flawed designs that really are 'built in obsolescence' due to the simple dust build up problem that people just do not know about.
This is very close to how a team I was on solved this issue at Amazon. We took money, held inventory, had a shopping cart, and it worked out fine.

A service bus was necessary, but the actual atomic transactions in MongoDB didn't fail us. We didn't lose data. While the nay-sayers discounted Mongo, we were raking in cash on top of it.
For folks who want to try this out, other suggestions for things to try in your chai masala include black pepper, clove, and/or star anise
It's interesting that Apple, the company famous for dropping the floppy disk drive, CD drive, ethernet port, hell, even the USB port, was afraid to ADOPT something new.
Could removing something that endangers your life, from the building you life in- be seen as a pre-selfdefense measure?
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How does that work? Does the autopilot wake someone up if there is an impending collision or are the ship routes fixed?
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If your child accidentally set himself on fire on your babysitter's watch, would you accept "I was asleep" as an excuse?
I think this 'throwing the towel' article is more of a PR stunt to get the word out and inform that a new patch is coming.
The more things change...

Note the recent problems where the Macbook Pro refuses to use Thunderbolt 3 devices with a TPS65982 chipset, and requires TI's TPS65983 chipset.
These kind of accidents are nothing more than: "you get out of the way", "No, YOU, get out of the way".

That's pure speculation on your part, not an actual account or understanding of what caused this particular accident.
That was a terrible time in history - lots of Perl web apps built using MySQL or mSQL

It was made worse by the MySQL team actively advocating against features they didn't have "you don't need transactions, do it in your application", "you don't need foreign keys, do it in your application" blah blah.

20+ years later they're still struggling to shoehorn it in.
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gCaptain had two articles about this (according to the notes there will be another article) http://gcaptain.com/uss-fitzgerald-fault/ http://gcaptain.com/uss-fitzgerald-fault-part-2-questions-an...
Wow! The article is eye-opening; worthy of submitting to HN as a news link in my opinion to create more awareness. If you agree, please submit.
MongoDB has purpose

It literally does not.
The egos work also on lower levels, e.g. someone looking at a radar and assuming they have the right of passage b/c they are bigger vs. military. I can not image that no radar alarm was heard and reacted upon on both ships.

But it takes a lot of things to wrong for this to happen.
Not sarcasm. I was replying to someone who assumed some arrogant naval captain was playing chicken with a merchant vessel and I was just pointing out he wasn't involved in the decision making.

And we do know he will lose his command and never get another one, whether he's shown to have culpability for his crews failures or not. It's the navy way.
That's cute. Are there any phone apps which do that?

Remember Graphing Calculator? That could use such features.

Autodesk Inventor understands units in formulas, but mostly for length and angle. Everything becomes meters internally.
"No reason to use MongoDB in 2017"

I would reply: replica sets and sharding and multi-threaded architecture and the absence of impedance mismatch, all in a single product that was designed for these features.
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I kind of can't even imagine the hours that might have gone into laying these out so they'd work in ASCII.
Do you think a ships captain is a robot immune to the requirements of sleep?
I hope it's apparent to more people now how little difference there is between police in America and the gangs they allegedly "protect" us from. Both are unchecked forces doing whatever they want, killing whomever they want for whatever convoluted reason they want. The main differences are that police get to live to potentially kill another day and their gang territory is the entire country. But it's not just the cops. The inhumane jury members led by an inhumane supreme court decision clearly shows that this is what the system is created for. To allow police to get away with murder and anything else. This Facebook warrant is a clear example that there was never any intention of justice in this case, that police only care to serve and protect themselves, and that no one is safe from police in America. No one.
I found it through the front page a few weeks back (;
There is an investigation first. He is not facing court martial, yet.

He will never command again is a given, regardless of the outcome of the investigation. The Navy way.
I don't either. My point is that both can have an out of control system at the same time
The chai wallahs exist in Pakistan as well and I can relate to many experiences shared in the article. The chai wallah next to our university was a frequent hangout spot.

On a related note few months ago a chai wallah from Islamabad got really famous because of his good looks: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/19/blue-eyed-tea-...
> The evolution of life shows us the grand benefit of higher and higher levels of organization. Scaling rules. It forces the previously multi-use smaller pieces to over specialize, but the gain are unimaginable as the voyager space probe is to a amoeba.

It also shows us that complex systems are especially prone to catastrophic systems collapse. Scaling is not a better strategy, it's just a different strategy.
My first exposure to FireWire (like many folks, I assume) was the original 5GB iPod I bought from a friend. I thought it was SO cool that you just used this one cable to connect to your computer (in my case, my first Mac, an iBook 600mhz G3), as well as to the power adapter. The charging brick was just a brick with a firewire port and flip-out prongs that could be removed from the power brick, just like today's Mac laptop chargers. You could interchange the prongs with foreign prongs (I still have the travel kit somewhere.. of course the foreign ones don't have the same flip-out functionality). You could even put your "long" laptop charger cable on the Firewire iPod power brick! This was also true of the Airport Express. All interchangeable parts.

I'm not sure if Apple was the first company to do this; today everyone has wall chargers that output a single USB port, but I don't remember it existing before then. Hell, I'm not sure if there were any devices TO charge over USB when the iPod first came out -- those little SanDisk flash MP3 players, and I'm sure the bigger Archos hard-disk based MP3 players must have had their own chargers, there's no way they charged over USB.

I'm so happy that the world has gone in this direction, where I can use your Samsung USB charger to charge my Sony phone, or whatever. And Apple has still stick with the same charging brick style where you can flip out the prongs or use a longer cable. (not sure how it is now with USB C though).

But that firewire power brick still makes me nostalgic, a simple design that felt so elegant 15 years ago, and still does to this day.
I thought about CICS too, but I guess few even know what it is. SQL was the contender here...
Not everyone shows remorse or guilt in the same way. I think it's best for us to avoid judging people on the basis of what we think they are feeling, because their outward presentation of their feelings may not be what they are actually feeling.
My previous comment was heavily focused on public transit, but I don't mean to imply that the future should solely be based around public transit.

Like many things, the solution is a balance of various things: private cars, public transit, and as you mention, automated EVs. It's just that I think our current system is far too skewed toward private car usage, when a healthier balance exists. Compromise is key.
Possibly not a great choice of words given that the article mentions that actual post-mortems are currently being performed.
DSK never denied getting a blowjob. The only question was if it was physically coerced.

Claiming with a straight face that men are the ones who have it hard here is just prima facie laughable.
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Thanks for commenting and the suggestion!

Indeed, the TED dataset has a lot of variability in terms of audio quality, etc. which, as you mentioned, with just 10 epochs of training is difficult to capture. I did try a larger network (up to 11 downsampling layers), but this proved even more time consuming to train (as expected). Thus, I split the difference and went with a network similar to yours but was trainable over a four-day period (10 epochs).
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Thanks to the power of middle-out compression.
It would be different from place to place. In Bangalore you get a milky thick tea while in my coastal town its more watery liquid. Not a liker of masala tea, don't think its too common down south.
I don't remember which calculator did this (I think GNU units), but I've seen this handled automatically with a warning saying "Warning: reciprocal conversion"
How is there not some kind of "crew is asleep detecting autopilot" on these ships? If not on the military vessel, then on the cargo transport? Seems like it would be easy enough if they have radar. Just detect when you're on a collision course and adjust 3 degrees to port / starboard if there isn't human input?
This reminds me of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire[1], where owners also put profits before safety.

"The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers -- 123 women and 23 men -- who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling or jumping to their deaths ...

"Because the owners had locked the doors to the stairwells and exits -- a then-common practice to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks and to reduce theft -- many of the workers who could not escape from the burning building simply jumped from the high windows. The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers."

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Company
Reminds me of the lighthouse joke: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_and_naval_vessel_...
"But, especially in critical industries, balloons the cost of their systems due to #2, because they must now cover a risk they can't even model (unknown unknown)."

This is where "best current practices" and "standards of care" egg get the picture.
Was the Radar on the Mig-25 that a defector landed in Japan

There's a similar story about the "sloppy" riveting work on the Mig-25. Turned out to have significant beneficial effect in the airflow.
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> We like to imagine that if advertisers knew enough about us, they'd be able to direct our spending, but I think that is far from true.

So you haven't worked in an industry where you had that data and tried it then? In my experience you are completely, utterly wrong.
Interesting! So down south it'd more commonly be just milky, black tea with sugar?
I think people with actual need for eSATA have moved on to PCIe SSDs. USB3 killed everything else at the low end; I remember buying an external HDD with FW800 in the olden days of 2011, then getting a USB3 drive in 2013 which is still going strong and fast (enough).
> no one was playing chicken because everyone was asleep on the cargo ship.

Unless everyone on both ships was asleep, this statement doesn't have to be true. If anything, it seems eminently plausible the destroyer's crew was playing chicken with the freighter thinking they were playing against a human opponent, when in fact they were dealing with an automated system.
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That's a good question. I would think that modern ships should scream "collision course ahead" with light, sounds, etc. However, psychologically, maybe it's believed that this would make people even _more_ complacent? I don't know, just speculating. Never the less, the captain should never allow his sailors to think, "we're almost there, we're in friendly waters, we can relax". No, always on alert. It's unforgivable.
Reminds me about this piece about microbes using mechanical "weapon-systems":

http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/watch-militarized-mic...
I've adjusted my comment, I suppose I am over-assuming.
Hmm, fair point!
I really like the UI and seeming wealth of different units. It doesn't look like it supports fluid ounces though.

I tried "4 tbsp to oz" and it interprets oz as mass instead of volume. Google correctly gives me 2 as the answer.
It sounds like an interesting book. Is there a more up to date canonical text on failures of complex systems?

The Wikipedia page includes "almost all serious nuclear accidents have occurred with what was at the time the most recent technology". Chernobyl was trying out a new cooling method, but it wasn't a very new reactor. Fukushima wasn't very new either. However, the book was written before both nuclear disasters.

I do think there is a social sciences aspect to the risk of nuclear energy. People who know enough to minimize risks are afraid enough of others' over-reactions to transparency about flaws and mistakes that there is an incentive to cover things up when they could be fixed. The other problem is that Chernobyl and Fukushima are talked about as the worst a nuclear disaster can be, when their impact was greatly contained by heroic efforts of individuals
You're not wrong. IIRC USB C is also DMA, did I hear wrong?
What lovely pictures, such a colorful and unique country.

In Kolkata the Chai often comes in little clay plots almost like mini flower pots called 'bhar.' They are meant to be disposable. And I saw many people break them on the ground when they were finished with their tea.

Here's a nice short read about the tradition if anyone is curious:

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2016/10/kolkata-...
Pretty smart article, good introspection, matches my experience and observation. Thanks for this
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This is worthy of fixing in my opinion. I do see this as a nuance, but if this is what the common usage of dB is, it should be supported.
I think ML will have a great impact in warfare.

Here's a funny story, ML people like to talk about the ROC curve and the AUC as a measure of how well a machine learning experiment worked on the test data. Do you know where the term came from? WW2 radar engineers.

Also consider that bread-and-butter ML techniques like logistic regression and k-means clustering have been around for decades.
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And then they make new flares without telling us.
Boil black tea in water, add some milk and boil some more. Almost always has sugar. Rarely any flavors such as lemon or orange (yikes - totally contra)! Of course you can add spices such as cardamom, fennel seeds, ginger, cloves, mint, tulsi - but you will try these variations at home - they do not do starbucks like pick and choose when you are drinking tea outside with chai wallahs - they will have their own picks or use a pre-mixes masala.

The chai in Starbucks and its friends is a concoction of spices, very little tea leaves and it is all in steamed milk? Quite a bit of difference between boiled water tea and steamed milk (which is also quite richer).
And what happens when that shovel gets stolen from the warehouse before it can be shipped to the customer?

You have to handle over-selling no matter what. The "source-of-truth" of you inventory system is whatever is actually, physically sitting in a warehouse somewhere. Not what your database says.
The USG has traditionally not kept secrets from the populous (or not for very long.) The idea that they are not only keeping secrets but that these secrets are evidence of corruption and violation of our trust means that it is, in fact, a good thing they where leaked.
What word do you suggest he use? If anything, I feel like 'postmortem' most commonly implies an after-action report - with the specific word 'autopsy' being used to describe, well, autopsies - at least in US english.
> 7) Allegedly AEGIS radar systems are often tuned to filter out surface traffic so they can be more accurate at picking up air traffic.

They have separate surface search / navigation radars installed. According to Wikipedia, this particular ship had two.
Interesting but can still be spammed, we need both techniques in play. This plus cookie/ip tagging.

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E.g. botulism, skin cancer, hypothermia, category 5 hurricanes, asteroids heading towards Earth, and gamma ray bursts are all "natural" phenomenon that I think we all agree are worth trying to avoid or mitigate.
It also does not help that in many smaller counties (at least in Georgia, and I think other places) there is no requirement that the magistrate judge (the Judge that signs off on warrants) has to be a lawyer.