skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your reference to lenders began with: "You are assuming perfect competition in the area of loans to nation-states," and you said "there are only a handful of lenders playing at this level." I disagreed because this is untrue, and suggested your comment may only be accurate in reference to countries representing very high credit risks.

Regarding politics and profit, we disagree here as well. Yes, I referenced political reasons as motives for lending to these very high credit risk countries, but it's not mutually exclusive. I believe if you dig into that political motive you will find a strong profit motive. Maybe the "State" isn't motivated by profit, but often the people who exert power over the State are. What else would they be motivated by? Doing good for humanity? Please...
PostCSS + sometimes a lightweight helper library such as http://basscss.com/ which provides some really nice defaults.
This music CNN classifier could be used to match songs that mix (transition) well together, having similar textures.
"The hip-hop and minimal house classification perform almost randomly (the random classifier would have accuracy of 50%). "
You are assuming that this is a series of binary classifiers. It is multiclass classification, so the base rate for nine classes is 11%.
I would encourage people to use MDN as a reference (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/) instead of w3schools, far more in depth and useful.
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I would build my dream project, which I've been working on for years - a snail simulation.
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Of course you cite it. You want to help the reader find the related work. It doesn't matter whether it "had influence" on your work (a fuzzy criterion). If you aren't happy that you are doing the same work as others, then find a more original problem.

It definitely does not matter how many citations the other paper has. The point isn't to avoid getting caught, it is to inform the reader. Your citation is more useful the less well known the cited paper is.
Taking "technology" to its logical end, you will probably arrive at AGI. And despite being decades off away from it, there are already many people making sure that it will be "safe" since the default otherwise will most likely lead to human extinction.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol...

https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html

EDIT: I am getting a lot of downvotes for this comment. And just to clear up intention, all I am trying to say here is that yes, technology could be deleterious but we can prevent it in ways other than concluding “and that’s why we have to start blowing shit up and killing people”. I don't see why that's offensive.
Oh yes, you're right. Thanks for the correction! A recent peer review is still in my head.
That market cap is illusionary because there's no way to deposit BCH into exchanges right now. ViaBTC apparently requires 20 confirmations which would take about a week at the current hash rate, the other exchanges like Kraken and Bittrex aren't accepting deposits at all and don't plan to for a few days yet. So essentially all of the BCH making up that market cap cannot in fact be sold at all right now; the only BCH can be is from Bitcoins that was in exchanges that support BCH at the time of the split.
> the new bigger fitbits are the Surge and the Charge 2, but I still love my Blaze.

The Blaze is newer than the Surge; it's basically a Surge with a color screen and the face detachable from the band (which is much better for charging, as well as making replacing the band practical) but without independent GPS (which means if you want to do run tracking without carrying a phone, the Surge still has an advantage.)

The Charge 2, IIRC, replaced the Charge about the same time as the Blaze was introduced, it's basically the next tier down from the Surge/Blaze.

(Current Blaze and former Surge and before that Flex user.)
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> I can hardly imagine anything worse than us.

Universe full of computronium, solving Collatz conjecture?
This is a content based approach. Music suggestions are content based, user based or combined.
It's not about the filesystem being "unreliable". It's about having the package manager's state checkpointed so that it can recover and resume if there is e.g. power loss or any other form of interruption at any point during package installation, upgrade, removal etc. This means having all of the updated files synched on disc plus the database state which describes it.

When you move to a more advanced setup such as ZFS clones, you could do the full upgrade with a cloned snapshot, and swap it with the original once the changes were complete. This would avoid the need for all intermediate syncs--if there's a problem, you can simply restart from the starting point and throw all the intermediate state away.
Logo was my first programming language. #Nostalgic Thanks Google and thanks for Clojure implementation.
The problem exists for ages, from a libertarian point of view: the govs as oppressing power and the tax as a "legalised" theft mechanism to sustain only a few in power. And all related issues that come from it: corruption, lack of transparency and bureaucracy to name only a few.

The blockchain comes as the refactoring of this legacy system.
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Thanks a lot for your comment. I do have exposure to all the three topics. I self-studied with Strang's MIT OCW course in high school, took calculus and probability in high school and undergrad. So, I'm not really looking for big introductory books for two reasons, I don't really have time to go through big books, and since I already have some exposure, it becomes hard to find new things to learn from such introductory books. So, I was looking for something more concise which efficiently covers such mathematics.

EDIT: I think the main topic missing from my background is this so-called "analysis". I never formally studied it. Is there a more efficient way to study analysis than spivak's, for someone who has a decent background otherwise?
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I didn't notice it until you said it but now even at full speed it's obvious. You can see it fly in before it starts glowing.
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They brought on Zach right before I left specifically to help with the effort, but he left as well. I can't really speak to Red Hat's overall strategic decisions, but really they have a large local file system team, and a lot of them are xfs developers. You aren't going to convince Dave Chinner he should go work on Btrfs instead of XFS. Unless there's somebody internally that actually wants to work on Btrfs the work simply isn't going to get done. All of the other Btrfs developers work for other companies, and none of them are interested in working for Red Hat.
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Even when it gets resolved, it's far from being the only major problem with Btrfs. It's merely the current high profile one.
> Popular songs (i.e. if almost everyone has a Beetles album in their playlist, getting "people who bought this also bought" recommendations for anything would list Beetles

I've been learning recommendation engines by looking at peoples' Steam games libraries.

One feature of the data set is that many, many people own multiple versions of Counter-Strike as well as Team Fortress 2. So "a high number people who bought [almost any game] also bought Counter-Strike: Global Operations" is a recurring problem with a naive recommender.

What I've been learning how to do is weight recommendations by how 'surprising' they are, for want of a more accurate term. If 80% of people who own Game A also own Game B, but only 5% of the total population owns Game B, then we should upweight that relationship.
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Why would anyone go to Kent C Dobbs to verify that he controls the key instead of going to Joe R Badguy or whoever is listed as the author of the malicious package?

There's no secure list of "good people" and there's no secure list that provides a mapping of who should be signing each package. Especially for things maintained by multiple people, I wouldn't have (and shouldn't have to have) any idea of which particular people are the proper signers.
My guess is threatening, since they'd be in violation of UK law. Each of those companies have a significant presence in the UK, which I doubt they'd want to abandon over this.
I'm pretty convinced it's a firefly after watching the video frame by frame. Go to the YT video, set it 1080p and pause at 36s. Then go frame by frame (use ',' and '.' to go back/forth by a single frame) and you can see it appear as a dark blob, that comes down, eventually lighting up, then contrary to your point 3 it actually goes in front of the trees.
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It also doesn't help that music from every genre is becoming more homogenized as time goes by [1]. If your comparing by similarity, then this is only going to get more difficult.

[1] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
Right, in a unsupervised model (say k-means), it divides the data into 9 similar groups and then it is up to you to label what those 9 groups are.
I kind of disagree, describing any possible algorithm is not that powerful, given that an actual Turing machine can do it.

And along with Turing machines you've got problems, like undecidability and the halting problem.
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It is different because there is only one level of re sellers, these re sellers are not the only path to market for the product, and that path to market when sold through a re seller is pretty clear, ie you know Apple make the phone, you know Apple have sold it to the carrier and the carrier is now selling it to you. There are literally multiple layers but the layers are clear and none shady (with the reseller layer adding value in the form of a network connection).

Herbalife's model would be Herbalife -> tier 1 -> tier 2 -> ..... -> tier n-1 -> t n, with no real clarity on how many tiers there are.

If Herbalife's product is as good as they claim why not sell it direct to customers either online or in supermarkets? They sell through 'distrubutors' because it allows them to make a profit without having to actually sell their product to a customer, because if they were reliant on direct customer based sales no one would buy there garbage product, and they wouldn't make a profit.

The litmus test for me for a system like this is if it seems like the best way to actually make money from something is not to actually sell the product to consumers but to recruit people into your downlines then its probably some kind of pyramid scheme. I can't see a single product or market where the best product would be the most profitable when sold through a MLM network.
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I was one of those that never got it. Never wanted stuff on my screen 'after dark'. Never saw the point of 'saving the screen' by using it? Totally baffled by the entire culture.
I'm pretty sure that I answered this 2 years ago:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/in-the-future-everyo...
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"In a county like Los Angeles, where roughly half the population is Latino, 14% is Asian and nearly 9% is black, stats such as those would translate to cultural leadership that in no way represents the ethnic or racial reality on the ground."

So whites are at most ~27% of the L.A. population? Even within the US, there are fewer and fewer places where whites are the majority.

Edit: I was curious, so I checked wikipedia, which says L.A. was 86.3% percent white in 1940, and 28.7% in 2010 - a huge change in a single lifetime. Imagine in how many other places in the West whites might become minority in another 70 years.
But this article does exactly that: signal analysis with neural nets on song spectrograms. It just doesn't generate the kind of matches you want.
Also many parts of Mesos ecosystem are Java. So a JVM is required to run those. It is relevant from deployment perspective.
I remember Github has been blocked in the past . See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_GitHub#China
My guess is that she's arse-covering. She wants to be seen 'doing something' and so that if there's an incident she can then point and say "I told them but they didn't listen"
This package was running a Bash script at install time. Perhaps that's the permission which should be denied.
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The way to fix comments is clear: human moderators. Since this can't br automated (yet), Google doesn't do it.
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It's hard to know what's actually going on behind closed doors, but it sounds like the tech companies want to do something about it and are quite prepared to work with the government on a solution.

Of course, what that solution turns out to be is a separate issue. I trust Google et al to know what they're talking about wrt encryption far more than the UK government though, so actively working with tech companies is a huge step up from the previous position (though obviously a long way still to go).
Kim Jong Un should make sure one of these things filled with music and movies doesn't get into N Korea. It would destroy their propaganda war.
>the UK isn't important enough globally for WhatsApp to risk losing everything

But, it can be argued: this is WHY this is such a hot issue in UK politics at the moment. Total surveillance paired with The City's financial machinations = Britain can project its power again.
Nobody cares. Get over yourself.

No one is waiting on baited breath for your 2 cents worth.
As someone who has spent a lot of time with SVG, I can assure you there are very wide discrepancies in how the same file renders even using different tools on the same platform, let alone cross platform.
It's called Finite Domain Constraint Programming and it's been studied for about 50 years.
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So did I, but outside the context of sports it still mostly means scamming people and/or generally earning money illegally to me. Or maybe a dance.

I don't think I ever saw/heard it used in its startup culture sense until I was in my late 20s or so, probably on this very site (and no, I didn't grow up in a place where "hustling" in the sense of scamming/dealing was common) so the scamming/defrauding/dealing/etc. meaning is what sticks with me. Definitely colors my perception when I see it used for other things.
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Fair enough. I imagined if btrfs was a high enough priority they'd hire new staff specifically for it, but if they've tried, and money/good employment conditions don't work, that's all they can do.
Always-on display should be a given. It's a watch. Anything where I have to think about turning on the display fails to be a watch.
Using google was the first thing I did. I couldn't find something substantial.
You shouldn't have to do these steps.

Manual balancing is a workaround for a critical flaw in the implementation.

In my last major use of Btrfs, whole archive rebuilds of Debian, it would take less than 48 hours to completely unbalance a brand new Btrfs filesystem. ~25k snapshots continuously created and deleted over the period in 20 parallel jobs absolutely toasted the filesystem, even though it was 1% utilised for the most part, 10% at peak usage.

The point I want to make is that a Btrfs filesystem can become unbalanced at some indeterminate point in the future, which makes it impossible to rely on if you want to guarantee continued service.

I've also suffered from a number of dataloss incidents which likely are fixed now, but despite lots of bugfixing, there are still major flaws to address.
> Higher isolation levels add read locks that can block concurrent transactions.

Not in postgres. REPEATABLE READ doesn't add any locks, and SERIALIZABLE adds locks, but they're optimistic. So blocking isn't something you're going to see - the relevant thing to measure is going to be the rate of transactions being rolled back due to serialization failures.
I'm sure there's long-tail data on YouTube for which terabytes of files that could be backed up to tape are accessed far more slowly than every 50 seconds. I agree that this would not be a great user experience, but there's certainly a place for it, especially if the cost/terabyte is compelling.
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Hey, you may want to remove the word "young" from your job description, as it could be perceived as discrimination on the basis of age.
Ah, a checklist audit.
There's nothing which prevents you from creating an empty block device file, putting btrfs on that, and mounting it.
Please don't use the word "retarded" like this. If you suspect you're asking a question with an obvious answer that you've missed, try saying "forgive my ignorance" instead.

There's nothing wrong with asking questions without self-deprecation, but if you're going to self-deprecate, try not to use hurtful language.
> A lot of this stuff feels like a vindication of how Indians make fun of Brits: foot stamping, bureaucratic, and out of touch with a world that has largely passed them by.

If there ever was bigger case of people in glass houses should not throw stones, I've yet to see it.
For Apple libraries, it is because the latest framework could be providing a completely different implementation and they both want and need everyone on that implementation. For instance, they reimplemented Photos, introducing a new interface, maintaining the old interface but deprecating it.

Edit: in other words, common data.
Too complex... use ScratchJr, Scratch, Alice, a car/robot toys moving around.
It was just adding a reply due to rate limiting. You still haven't convinced anyone that the Tea Party or Libertarians are far right groups and your original comment saying Thiel is so has been flagged.
You really can't imagine how hard working were the older generation of China. It was even kinda brutal from young people's points now. Srsly, an Asian's "lazy" (remember an A- is a F there)?

Pretty sure the "extremely easy" exam will fail 90% of the class if moved to US
Probably not for serving user requests for content.

But, if Youtube archived the original upload on tape before transcoding to a different format, then it would be useful. The tapes would really only be "read," in a batch manner, when they want to re-transcode to a newer codec.

Likewise, tape would be a great way to store the digital equivalent of the "negatives" once a movie, TV show, or music album is complete. No one needs instant, on-demand, random access to every shot, every take, and every camera angle. It can be pulled off the tape in 10 years when producing the Nth remaster for the new super-duper bluray version.
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My experience has been that it almost always has that meaning, unless the context is 1) a sports coach talking to players, or 2) HN and related startup culture. I'm not sure why startup people latched so strongly onto a word that's got very negative connotations for lots of people, especially when attached to making money.
I was under the impression that those rankings were created through a series of let's-sort-everyone meetings rather a pedantic application of metrics.
well the drives/etc we have for home use are magnitudes cheaper than commercial gear which only really has equivalence with regards to how much it stores.

recently pricing out 337gb SSD drives for our production and backup servers ends up with a price about nine times that of which it would cost per terabyte of a new iMac. When you get into have 60 to 120TB it adds up but reliability is so much more important.

Now I have never looked at tape backup for home use, what is the throughput of most of these? Is this merely a limit of the interface?
True. Personally I run only unit tests or tests which do something with my code and the hard work of running all kind of tests I keep for server. Well, all the hard work I do at some server, at least home. Maybe that's why I stopped thinking about that and want notebook which just work out of the box.
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TL;DR major shareholders want to make profit, therefore found a way to kick out visionary CEO to replace with MBA/financial CEO. Without a publicliy valid reason they just complained about the CV, a document which barely ever is 100% honest. But since the old CEO doesn't seem to make a fuss of it, the severance package probably was good enough.
Okay, but you know what else is Turing complete? BASIC. Bash script. Assembly. In 2017 I'm not sure that something being Turing complete should be considered a shocker, or even that meaningful.

Heck, I've seen people write whole programs just using clojure.spec which is supposed to be only for type annotations.
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If there was a more balanced weighting between superiors, peers and subortinates ratings, do you think these negatives outcomes would be avoided?

I just started at a company that kind of use this system. My first impression is that it is a good system and the weighting seems fair. But I would like to be aware of any potential pitfalls with it (not just for me, but for the company also).
At this point what does it matter why Tito did what he did? Serbia certainly has been hard done by in some ways, but complaining about the loss of Macedonia and Kosovo is utterly pointless now. There is no conceivable way of getting them to combine into a single nation state. If the Serbian leaders wanted to retain those territories the time to do something was 25+ years ago. Kiss them goodbye and move on instead of dwelling in the past.
In case you want to shorten the title in similar situations ("The GAFA War"):

FAMGA - Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon

GAFA - Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple

FANG - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google
err who in their right mind thinks Snap has a future in the black? Oh yeah, no one.
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