skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because you have to be careful to be multiplatform. For example, your code can break if you assume an int is 4 bytes when in your target it's 8 (hard coded values for pointer arithmetic), or vice versa.
We're working on that! Main challenge is in making sure we don't inadvertently get people's domains stuck in Let's Encrypts rate limiting...
>Would LOVE to read evidence to the contrary though. So please share your citations.

Perhaps you've missed my whole initial argument?
Yes, this is the real issue. If copyright was reasonable - say 40-50 years - then a lot of this stuff would naturally enter the public domain and then could be shown on any streaming service.

Instead we have the current copyright system because a minuscule amount of old content is still profitable and large companies lobby to protect it.
That's awesome. I think you're handling that really well. I suspect a lot of US-based startups use these things as a screening tool to not hire too many people with families/outside obligations. It's a perk on paper, but you're a "bad culture fit" if you can't do weekly happy hour or a week long retreat because you want to see your kids.
> For one, selective breeding has been going on for millennia -- and from people who had to eat its results, not mega corporations 10 times removed and interested in short term profit.

Yeah, modern selective or “traditional” breeding uses completely novel methods of introducing diversity (including artificial mutagens), is done by exactly the kind of megacorps you are concerned about, and has less oversight or regulatory control than GMOs.

> So it's not "waay more random" as it has way more limited scope

No, it is way more random than inserting a known gene at a known location, and verifying he product in the ways done with modern GMOs. And the scope of genetic change in any one product is greater than in a GMO, not more limited.

My wife works in ag biotech, and has worked on both transgenic (GMO) and non-transgenic platforms.

> But it's like comparing playing with lego bricks to playing with creating stuff at the molecule level.

A less imperfect analogy might be that it's like comparing writing code by hand with a reasonably comprehensive test suite with making random bit flips to machine code until it passes a much more limited test suite. And just to be clear, the latter is the non-GM option.
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That's not it at all. He attacked your chosen tribe, now you're responding with personal attacks. The correct response would be, "I didn't mean to personally attack him, what I meant was X"

Go is a language, attacking Go is not justification for you to attack the author. Replace Go with a rant about Ford trucks and you'll see how silly you are being.
I don't think .NET Framework is a supper set of all other implementions of .NET. For example, Mono's SIMD types are not in .NET Framework. It is even possible for types to exist in .NET Core that don't exist in .NET Framework.

I think you could say the following:

.NET ECMA Spec ⊆ .NET Standard
.NET Standard ⊆ .NET Core
.NET Standard ⊆ Mono
.NET Standard ⊆ Xamarin
.NET Standard ⊆ .NET Framework
When I reached the comment field at the end of page, to my big surprise the name and email have been already filled in.
In fact, it seems like data of the person last to comment have been present there.
Something along the way have gone quite wrong.
Giving away money is not generally an effective solution. Where is that money going to come from?
The approach I've long thought would bear fruit turns out to be a dumbed-down version of Aaronson's.

Imagine a "meta-sequence" whose elements are features of the original sequence in question, then take the entropy of the meta-sequence. Different features yield different kinds of "interestingness".

For example, you could form your meta-sequence with a histogram of the original sequence.

Original:
A B A A B B A B

Meta:
4 4 (4 As, 4 Bs)

Entropy of the meta sequence is low.

But instead of just looking at the values of the PMF or PDF, you might want to look at things like transition probabilities between different elements in the original sequence to capture the fact that

A A A A B B B B
and
A B A B A B A B

have more boring transition probabilities than

A A B A B A B B

And so on; one can imagine having an ever-more-sophisticated array of features to look for when forming the meta-sequence. But Kolmogorov complexity seems to cut more directly to the heart of the matter.

If I'm specifically looking for something computationally feasible, maybe I would do a weighted sum of the entropies of k-order transition matrices, from k=1 to some limit.
Mm .... Maybe?

Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has the most relevant writing on this.
> We have spoken with the TypeScript team about this possibility and they have shown interest, but it seems like progress there is currently gated on adding typed objects into JS.

Once JS has typed objects, I think it can become as much of a valid compiled language as anything else. I'm still holding out hope.
>In any case, I'd argue that converting a 64-bit float into a 16-bit integer is a much different class of problem from mixing up assignment and comparison operators.

Is it though? Because in the end it's the same issue of conversion between types (coercion vs casting, but still).
The solution is to spread out more?

There is lots of developable land here on the peninsula. We just aren't developing it.
We don't have precognition. It is not safe to pick a brand new framework for an important project right away, we have to wait a bit first to make sure it is being maintained well.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. There certainly won't be any antitrust suits against his Manhattan banking buddies, but Trump has already mused about breaking up Amazon and I doubt he's a big fan of the other big tech companies either (since they certainly aren't fond of him). I would rate a DOJ action against Facebook in this administration as "unlikely, but far from impossible".
You can make the same argument about IOUs, or contracts, or your bank account balance, whatever currency it's denominated in. All of these things are symbolic, yet there is value in symbols if they mean something to someone, regardless of whether a government agency is involved. Bitcoin's problem isn't that it has no intrinsic value, it's that for the most part it's a vehicle for pure speculation. It's a terrible currency as a result.
Not to mention people whose spouses/partners work at a different company!
It's a bit too bad they're having to move towards supervised learning and imitation learning.

I totally understand why they need to do that given the insane decision trees, but I was really hoping to see what the AI would learn to do without any human example, simply because it would be inhuman and interesting.

I'm really interested in particular if an unsupervised AI would use very strange building placements and permanently moving ungrouped units.

One thing that struck me in the video was the really actively weird mining techniques in one clip and then another clip where it blocked its mineral line with 3 raised depots...
Yes and you don't have to go to "flyover country" either, I live in New England and enjoy such a lifestyle.

We have two incomes but we could easily keep up our lifestyle on just either one of our incomes. We currently save about 75% of our combined incomes.
The stupid thing is that those business travelers won't use the rail line, they'll happily chug along in their self-driving Teslas and ultra comfy Audis/Mercedes/BMWs.

Toronto just dealt with this. We built a rail line that goes from our international airport right into the heart of the downtown. The plan was that business travelers could get off the plane, get on the train, and go right into the city without a car. Nobody uses it. They forgot about the comfort of the taxi and limo - you don't have to carry your luggage and you don't have to share the car and listen to screaming children.
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P.S. Google Spanner and FaunaDB both shard. They can call it something else. But unless every node has all data on it, it is sharded.
On the surface, this sounds like a great idea. The problem is that, once you look at the details, you realize there are none.

How is this going to work? Where does that $68bn get re-allocated? Who will benefit from this? What is the economic advantage of investing in transit infrastructure in dollars and cents?

I've seen a few of these proposals that sell hopes and dreams with no discussion of how it's going to work. Until I see that, I can't support this.
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It may not seem high to you, but to those in the bottom quartile, it may seem impossibly high, with no clear path in anything approaching the right direction.
Why We Said “No” to a $40M Round
On the main page there's an interactive tutorial

$ npm install netlify -g
/usr/local/bin/netlify -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/netlify-cli/bin/cli.js
├── left-pad@0.0.3
├── isarray@1.0.0
├── is-positive-integer@1.1.1
├── babel@6.5.2

I hope this was a joke because it made me laugh a lot
If you were going to go the suggested route of building more roads, the only sane thing to do would be to make them bus only lanes and then to invest into that category heavily in regards to efficiency / automation / capacity. I can't see any other scenario that makes sense in terms of building more roads, unless this is premised on autonomous driving 20 years out improving the traffic patterns & congestion.
Give me a break. He is playing fast and loose with terminology and it is disingenuous because he is twisting lifestyle business to be whatever he wants it to mean while dissing startups and not giving that term the same flexibility to be "anything that grows fast, even if it doesn't eat the CEO's life."

I hate the term lifestyle business and articles like this one are part of why. I have given my POV previously here:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2014/03/i-love-lucy-...

My recollection is that Plenty of Fish was started by one guy who never took VC money, so he got to keep all the money when he sold for millions. Articles like this don't mention examples like that when justifying their biased opinion that "lifestyle business" = good and "startup" = bad. (In part because of the lack of VC money, I assume that Plenty of Fish was not a pressure cooker. Upon rereading my comment, that assumption does not seem clear.)
This would be invaluable in disaggregating traffic on a single IP, for example figuring out which student at a high school or university is connecting from a NAT address.

This also works for G Suite Google accounts, such as those used by many schools? If so, given that it's easy to get the enrollment list for most schools, and given that there is usually a standard way of labeling mail accounts, you should be able to use this to identify any student at such a school.

I'm surprised Google didn't deem this to be worth addressing.
Yes, we wouldn't want to mischaracterize what the main thrust of someone's message is by putting up a straw man argument and then criticizing them for it. /s

Zunger's response makes it clear that the promulgation of ideas in the memo are unacceptable, but is strangely silent on judging the actions of the hypothetical face-puncher.

And as we now know from Google, taking no action is tantamount to endorsing the opinions of those under you.
OK, some do in this table, but I'm not sure how accurate it is.

It lists my country as one of those countries, and we definitely don't use space as thousands separator (we use period).

Perhaps what the table shows is just that this is the "SI style", and assumes that countries whose scientists and units follow the SI also follow this way of thousands separators, but we don't. We just use the SI units -- and even our scientists use period for the separator.
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I laugh every time I read that word.
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TL;DR:

Scala doc claims that their algorithm is O(log32(N)), where N is not greater than 2^31, so it's O(6)=O(1) -- "effectively constant".

Author claims that then all real-world algorithms are constant, for example bubble sort is O(N^2), where N is not greater than 2^31, so it's O(2^62)=O(1) -- also "effectively constant".
How about you learn some manners, learn to Google, learn to read the results that will appear on your screen.
OOTH, altering the source to remove any human dexterity limits and watching subsequent AI vs AI battles play out at 60fps would be really fun to spectate ;)
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Probably because they don't contribute much to the conversation.
more powerful features, such as threads, are planned as well

What, no more async hell when coding for the browser?
It'll surprise you like that. I moved up here 5 or so years ago because I liked visiting so much. There's a lot going on specifically on the Portland peninsula if you're into food and beer (making or consuming), or generally interested in just making things. The greater portland area has the outdoors and beaches, which are excellent for year round activities.

The winter is harsh, which is probably the only reason for our low population density. It's really not that bad once you get used to it, though, because the roads are pretty well cleared and maintained, you find things like skiiing/skating to do, and employers generally have common sense about when to tell folks to stay home.

I grew up in a much larger mid-Atlantic suburb that didn't have nearly the character or variety of things to do that we have around Portland. My wife's biggest complaint is the lack of shopping, particularly "nice" stores, but Boston isn't that far.
This is interesting, I just tested it out and its pretty flawless.

For a standard React FE app, why use this vs Heroku vs S3?
They also have an army of trolls constantly defending them. The first time I was ever sure I was dealing with paid opposition was years ago with some comments I made about Monsanto and the fracking industry. In 3, 2, 1... they will probably be here also.
I go further and wonder if anybody advertises themselves as mentor. I've seen requests, also on HN, "I'm looking for a mentor" but never seen an answer and never seen anybody saying they have a mentor. I mean it's a time investment for the mentor with no direct benefit. Am I overlooking something?
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Honestly I don't think there is much fuel added on both sides. This argument is age old. Since I was in middle school boys were asserting to me that due to biological reasons I probably wasn't as capable as them as I was very competitive in math and science. When I went to college, we heard the same argument used by Larry Summers president of Harvard.

None of this is new, especially when I discuss it with my mother and grandmother. Same story, different colors.

What I hope is that other woman continue to do what I did- ignore those people. Youll never convince them because the biological argument is impossible to disprove. The statistics are on their side. Now are the statistics due to social conditions, expectations, belief patterns, and women who simply want to avoid these discussions and intimidations - or are they from biology?

There is no hesitation from my life experience that it is the former. First woman was allowed in Harvard in the 60s. This is only just getting started but expect more of the same.
>Is [non consensual user-information leaking] really even a big issue?

Yes
Except the 'people' that decided the dollar is worth something control the world's most powerful economy and military, and can throw you in prison or seize your assets if you break their laws.

The people who decided bitcoin is worth something control... private keys?
Okay, took me a minute to understand it. So this is only based on Youtube views? I am more interested in radio, let alone if we could ever map iTunes sales to regions by song that would be impressive too. Another good area to explore is what are various college radio stations playing across the country?

With regards to youtube, some genres of music have been more aggressive using the medium than others and even some older artists have barely accepted the digital age fully or took a long time to do so.
As an Englishman who still doesn't quite understand what an American biscuit is or why on earth you would put gravy on it, I second your defence too. It was a perfectly polite clarification.
Thanks for your input (also the_duke)! If time permits, we may come up with a second blog post on this topic.

If I understood your example query, your application serves vendors and each vendor has different products. Is that correct?

You can approach this sharding question in one of two ways.

1. Merge different product tables into one large product table and add a vendor column

2. Model product tables as "reference tables". This will replicate the product tables to all nodes in the cluster

Without knowing more about your application / table schemas, I'd recommend the first approach. I'd also be happy to chat more if you drop us a line.
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Sure is ;)
Yeah, interesting! I agree I don't usually hear macro used that way.

But if someone was microing a battle and as a result didn't look at the minimap and see a drop arriving at their base, I can totally see concluding that this player is bad at macro as a result -- macro is referring to there being a macro cycle of tasks you have to perform all the time whether you want to or not, and non-production tasks like checking the minimap and sending in a scout seem like good examples of those tasks too.
I’d be interested in how they got the raw data for this. I’m thinking of maybe making a site where you type in an artist name and it shows a map like this for them.
From the context it sounds like you're talking about the actions of some hypothetical teenage son, here.

Recall that the employee that was fired is an adult (and apparently in his 30s, at least).
First of all he never ever said women were inferior. He said they were statistically less likely to be interested in computer science. That's not an objectionable claim at all. It's certainly not a "hostile work environment". Firing people for having political opinions sure is though.

The "manifesto" wasn't the best argument ever written on the subject. But as far as I can tell its basically correct. There are many well documented biological differences between men and women. Not just minor ones, but some of the largest effect sizes I've ever seen in a social science. I think it's absurd to expect exactly equal gender ratios given such enormous differences.

The NPR article is interesting. It was brought up before and there was some debate about how accurate it was. It doesn't make much sense given the gender ratio in other similar areas like engineering is similar and hasn't changed that much.

But even if its correct, the theory they present is basically compatible with the Google memo. That parents are less likely to buy girls computers and so they don't go into comp sci. If that's the case, Googles sexist programs to discriminate against men over women isn't going to change anything. All the statistics show the "problem" isn't in the tech industry and is happening by high school or before.
Go binaries are small and don't do much initialization work but they don't run especially quickly, mostly due to GC and value->interface conversion and dynamic dispatch.
I think the point being conveyed is that, the internet or www was easily accessible to people who could go on to modify things to suit their own end. Yes, you can use bitcoin as is, thanks to a number of available software choices. But it is difficult to do anything else with it.

However, at this point I can only see it as a currency. So I can't say if the second point is even applicable here.

Maybe the reference is to the underlying blockchain, the effort required to understand it, and consequently customize it like people did with the older web technologies.
I mean yeah their entire discography is pretty religious. Makes sense. I do enjoy it while being non-religious myself however.
Can confirm it's possible. Iowa/Illinois/Wisconsin tri-state area for me. My wife stays at home with our two sons. I bring home the bacon. Bought a modest house out of college for $100K (with only 5% down) in 2010 and will have it paid off before 2020. I paid my own way through public university - $12k/yr for 4 years - left with $22k debt which is long gone.

A lifestyle business is the next goal. I've been doing part-time contract work for almost 5 years now in addition to a 9-5, and I'm really just dying to be my own boss and not have to commute (a whopping 10 minutes) to the office 5 days a week, as well as not have to deal with startup bureaucracy and artificial feel-goodery.
It really makes sense; moba's require a much greater dependence on your allies' ability than most FPS games do, so they're naturally much more sensitive to it. The key thing that drives it is that

1. One, or multiple, bad teamates make the match not at all fun (because the game snowbals heavily)

2. It wastes an 30-60 min of your time on a match predetermined to lose

3. The games are primarily played with randoms, and the matchmaking system has never been any good (starting from the original kick anyone who has to dl the game in wc3)

4. Player age ranges drastically, and younger players tend to be both worse and prone to raging (often fueled by their own misplays)

And you always get people who are relentlessly trying to avoid any kind of contention, which is more irritating than anything else.

FPS games really only feature points 3 & 4, as they're predominantly solo experiences (except by taunting the enemy).

But, imo, these things are both natural to the way games are designed, and really are not as bad as made out to be. Its an inherent piece of the games, and anyone going in with antithetical ideals is simply trying to play a different game (which is what the LoL anti-toxic developers pull, consistently misunderstanding the game in terms of its community, design and balance, as they try to rip apart the game to meet their ideals).
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I concur that children hurling racial insults is... "acceptable" isn't the right word. Children can be monsters. But holy crap, adults saying stuff like that is inexcusable. Doubly so when they say it to children.

Overall, you paint a very troubling picture. Are these recent developments? By that I mean is this a situation that has gotten worse recently, or has it always been like this?
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