skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It can be obtained by "legal" residents, although I don't think legal residents can get passports on the basis of their aadhar number. Aadhar fundamentally solves the problem of illegal residents and nefarious foreign agents getting valid credentials...

Please see the documentation accepted for proof of date of birth [1] and proof of address [2] to get an Indian passport. Both accept a valid Aadhaar number that can be verified. And an Aadhaar number can be obtained through an introducer without providing documents. Since the government has also claimed that there are fake PAN cards, fake drivers licenses, etc., an Aadhaar number can be obtained by providing those too. It's not as difficult to get a passport and claim citizenship as you think. Aadhaar, in a convoluted way, makes this a lot easier. It does not solve the problem in any way.

As for rations and subsidies, you can read the links tryprasannan has posted or visit Rethink Aadhaar [3] to understand how these claims are erroneous and how people are getting excluded.

[1]: http://passportindia.gov.in/AppOnlineProject/popuponline/Att...

[2]: http://passportindia.gov.in/AppOnlineProject/popuponline/Att...

[3]: https://rethinkaadhaar.in/
The winter can be a bit much if you're not used to it for sure, but the upside is that tourists leave and restaurants no longer need reservations :)

Plus, not far from some excellent (downhill and cross-country) skiing, snowshoeing, ice fishing.
Oh but how does that work? That's ~6 MB per game which sounds like just a list of actions rather than precomputed data per frame. Is it compressed somehow?
The audience reaction and the logo popping up is comedy gold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR4jPtrDCLo

Context: Valve hasn't released any new IP other than steamVR for 7 years, and has multiple game franchises that have hordes of fans desperately asking for a (third) sequel.
To what extent is voting fraud an issue in the developed world and why is Nytimes upset about it?
My complaint is that I can't use GPM family with a custom domain, boo.
The on-site Google interview process has 2 steps. The first is the usual, get grilled by 4/5 engineers on technical issue, that is broken up by a lunch with hiring manager in the middle. The feedback from interviews are submitted with candidate application to a hiring committee, whom makes a hire/no-hire decision.

Would the diversity program at Google encourage the committee members to looks for biases against female/minority candidates and compensate accordingly? In essence, giving the said candidate more benefit of the doubt than male/Asian candidates? All candidate passed the technical bar, but may be treated differently based on their ethnicity/gender at the hiring committee, with preference for minority/female candidates.
Watson’s hand looks like a clear, Plexiglas, cylindrical soda can with a few metal screws in the top and a wire extending from the bottom that is connected to Watson’s Front-End Controller. The mechanical hand wraps around the Jeopardy! buzzer which is inserted in the bottom of the Plexiglas cylinder and is held in place by a clamp. Watson’s hand uses a solenoid to physically press the same button that the humans must press.

Watson’s hand is pretty fast in terms of raw speed — it takes somewhere between five and ten milliseconds for Watson to activate the buzzer once it decides to answer. This delay is affected by the speed of the solenoid and other small, sometimes hard-to-pin-down delays inherent in the software stack.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-buzzer-factor-did-watson-have-...

I wonder if the human decision-to-buzzer time is much slower?
Secret ballots protect voters from intimidation and blackmail. That particular bit of secrecy is absolutely essential in a democracy.
They are a lot better since investing in the me_cleaner project. Not all of the management engine can be removed, but it can be neutered (most of the binary deleted, including the network stack).

I used to think Purism was a sham, but now that the ME can be neutered I find it an acceptable compromise.
"Pound Sterling Made Smart People Feel Dumb" (Black Wednesday).
Been using this for a while now, works like a charm!!
Thats funny, because I was dying for it to be longer. I felt like the post was just an introduction. I'd love to see a part 2 with a more detailed description that touches more of the implementation of a sharding plan.

For me a major question I have as I consider sharding is what my application code will look like. Let's say I have a query like:

'select products.name from vendor inner join products on vendor.id = products.vendor where vendor.location = "USA"'

If I shard such that there are many products table (1 per vendor), what would my query look like?
Yes, it makes sense. Hospice is for end of life care. They literally pump you full of pain medication as it is more humane than dying in agony. If your condition is not continually getting worse while under hospice and there is a chance you are getting better than you should be under a different treatment.

Hospice is not healthcare it is where you go to die.
All of these API surfaces are pretty large- what is a good way to get a feel for what they do/don't offer? In particular, what are you referring to in .NET Core that you wouldn't want in Framework?
The job posting you're referring to is posted on the Articulate community site, but it's not an Articulate job. Another company posted it there. :)

Of course, one of the benefits of working from home is that you can do a load of laundry and perhaps background process on a complicated problem in the meantime. No question that it's a nice perk. The flexibility to craft a healthy work-life balance is wonderful.

I think the point in the article is that if that's the FOCUS of why you want to work from home, it COULD be a red flag. The people we've found really thrive in our remote environment are those that cite the fact that they are more productive when not working in an office.
The breadth and scale is much smaller with GMO and random chance. A farmer several thousand years ago is responsible for as much genetic mutation of the human race as all the genetic manipulation that has made it to market. (though this will change quickly if we start making approval for GMO easy)
Again, my point with the First Amendment in my original comment stands, i.e. the government is not and has not been responsible for these alleged suppressions. You are making a point that you likely think is relevant to the overall thread and if so, please make it at the top level of the thread.

I strongly disagree that there is some vast left-wing/liberal conspiracy to suppress right-wing speech. I can concede that both sides do their part to ensure that the opposing side's viewpoint is suppressed, marginalized, and ridiculed (e.g. Fox News, Info Wars.) It pits people against each other for no good reason, causes deterioration in social well-being, and makes us unable to work together as a society. Maybe we can just agree that people are what they are and leave it at that.
What are you talking about, what white genocide videos? Give me a source.

And if you believe in something "your enemy" also happens to believe in doesn't mean you are on a thin line. The World doesn't work that way, propaganda, especially political does on the other hand.
Given the scope of Google's influence, I'd argue that Google's diversity is far more important than among garbage collectors.
What about the BCL, CLS, etc.?
Okay. And without boiling the ocean, what have you got that's better?
The saddest part is that there are real live people who willingly do this for a living. Nothing will ever change as long as this behavior is enabled or encouraged.
I think it is doable in under 5 years, but this critically depends on the resources invested by DM and other DL orgs. Deep RL is hugely demanding of computational resources to iterate your designs - for example, the first AlphaGo took something like 3 GPU-years to train it once (2 or 3 months parallelized); however, with much more iteration, DM was able to get Master's from-scratch training down to under 1 month. Now an AG researcher can iterate rapidly with small-scale hobbyist or researcher resources, but if they had had to do it all themselves, Ke Jie would still be waiting for a worthy adversary... When I look at all the recent deep RL research ( https://www.reddit.com/r/reinforcementlearning/ ) I definitely feel that we can't be far from an architecture which could solve SC2, but I don't know if anyone is going to invest the team+GPUs to do it within that timeframe. (It might not even be as complex as people think: some well-tuned mix of imitation learning on those 500k+ human games, self-play, residual RNNs for memory/POMDP-solving, and use of recent work on planning over high-level environment modeling\, might well be enough.)

\ "Learning model-based planning from scratch" https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06170 , Pascanu et al 2017; "Imagination-Augmented Agents for Deep Reinforcement Learning" https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06203 , Weber et al 2017 (blog: https://deepmind.com/blog/agents-imagine-and-plan/ "Agents that imagine and plan"); "Path Integral Networks: End-to-End Differentiable Optimal Control" https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.09597 , Okada et al 2017; "Value Prediction Network" https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03497 , Oh et al 2017; "Prediction and Control with Temporal Segment Models" https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04070 , Mishra et al 2017
I'm very disappointed with Google and no longer hold the company in such high esteem as I once did.
Most of the "citations" are inline links to Wikipedia.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
It's going to require all of those things. The densest cities on the planet still have far-flung transportation systems. That's out of necessity, even when you're building up dozens of stories at a time, there just isn't enough space for everyone.

You need sensible building policies coupled with aggressive transit expansion to get us out of the mess we're in. Not just in San Francisco, but across the whole country.
Immigration crackdown has U.S. companies wary of hiring foreign tech workers
> Calling Scala's immutable vector ops "effectively constant" is not a stretch/hack by any means, considering we also say the same for integer addition and multiplication.

This rationale ad absurdum means we can call an in-memory linear search "effectively constant" because we have an upper-bound of 2^32 or 2^64, depending on processor architecture.

Yes, log32 is very nice. Even log2 is pretty nice though, and we don't call that "effectively constant", because we already have a much more precise and well defined term for it - "logarithmic" - which the docs also use: http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/collections/performance...

You might be able to tell me with a straight face that labeling log32 "effectively constant" and log2 "logarithmic" is "correct enough". But can you tell me with that same straight face, that labeling it "Log32" (or even just "Log") isn't just as correct, more informative, and less confusing?
As I understand it, saying the vacuum cleaner won't kill you because we haven't given it a means to do so is akin to saying, "putting this banking server online is safe and no one will mess with it because we haven't given out the password."

Just because we can't see a means doesn't mean there isn't one.

Or am I missing your point?
Logical thoughts?
"Women are X"
"There are limits to how well certain positions and Google can support X".

So, what exactly am I supposed to draw from this? You're insistent I am wrong, but you're offering no explanation as to why I am wrong. I don't disagree that women are more sociable than men. I disagree this means certain roles within the company cannot support that trait.

Further down:
"Women value work life balance"
"Men are status achievers"
"Because of that, men will appropriately be in leadership and technology roles, also women suffer anxiety more."
Side note, convenient he leaves out that women are statistically able to deal with stress better than men.
His conclusion is that rather than creating programs that encourage women to enter leadership positions, leave that to the men and give women access to part time roles.

If you want to say I am wrong, so be it, disagreement is fine, but you have yet to counter anything I have said with an opposing understanding, just ad hominen attacks and criticism.
thanks for sharing this, looks awesome!
I was musing about this last night. Obviously there are standardized de-noise utilities (and I'm sure much better minds than I have given a lot of thought to those) but the fact that we have four separate recordings gives us more options.

To outline the starting assumption and desired ending points, what we have are four tracks with different needle sizes. The smaller needles tend to "wobble" in the track more (will pop/hiss more) but the larger sizes may miss fine detail (treble) that the smaller needles pick up. The assertion of the Internet Archive is that the needle that is closest in size to the one used to record the track will produce the best output, but again we are not limited to just a single track, we can programmatically combine them to produce a better output. The desired end-goal is a "clean" track with maximal spectral quality and minimal pop/hiss.

I think there are two distinct tasks here. Maximizing spectral quality and de-popping the track.

For the first task, my layman's description of "maximizing spectral quality" would be that we combine the frequency ranges that each track is "best" at. In other words the finest needle has the best treble, while the biggest needle has the cleanest bass. That might be implemented by some kind of averaging, or a weighted average (eg weight tracks that are "most different" from the average track, or from the cleanest track).

Then you de-pop the resulting track. In terms of machine learning, this should be something that is amenable to deep learning. If you train a net to identify what a "pop" or "hiss" is then you can have it directly produce a clean output, or produce a "pop/hiss track" that you can then subtract from the input waveform (same thing).

If you want something more programmatic, you could again play around with generating a "noise track" by subtracting the "clean" signal (biggest needle) from the "most detailed" signal (finest needle), perhaps also repeating this with each other track as well. The "noise track" would still have some signal inside it and you would need to apply some other method to further separate that out, but you would be working only on a portion of the total signal so in theory you would lose less detail than working on the whole signal.
> If we make it easier to quickly travel longer distances in/out of work hubs, the intense demand for housing can be diffused to communities that can handle it.

Wow, just wow. Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Cupertino et al can all "handle it" they just don't want to. There is plenty of space for transit oriented housing and office space along the cal-train corridor. If Cupertino can "handle" an office space for 14k workers, they can "handle" building housing for 14k workers too.

There is absolutely no reason the peninsula and south bay should remain majority single family home cities, especially wiht the crazy jobs/housing imbalance they have willingly created for themselves.
I'm a big user of Netlify, and host a number of sites with well over a million views a year and they have been rock solid, quick builds, quick support. I can't wait for them to take off!
> removes fiscal policy options

The results of the goverment fiscal policy are debatable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14959790
The manifesto is asking to END those programs and create "separate but equal" institutions. Are we reading the same manifesto?
Yeh, not a fan of the name, and not just for the obvious reason. I'm honestly not even sure how to say it properly. There's too many syllables for such a short name.
Ethics and common sense states no one is owed a hearing or respect from strangers beyond the bare minimum to be left alone. Rodgers had no excuse for murdering anyone for any reason. To attempt to rationalize his actions is to assume people who do no harm deserve to die.
> Static sites are becoming more and more popular

Indeed.

I literally just finished showing my daughter (10) and son (12) how to move their stuff from codepen.io to surge.sh[1]

The future is static :)

[1] a Vancouver based Netlify "competitor".
When the Chase Sapphire Reserve first arrived, it had a 100k bonus. They've since decreased it to 50k.
Yeah, especially when the HN page looks like this - http://i.imgur.com/hpnAiim.png
Hiera for Ansible, sort of. An Ansible lookup plugin for Jerakia
Thought I'd share this in the hope of getting some feedback, this is still fairly embryonic but this Ansible lookup plugin performs data lookups against Jerakia, a flexible hierarchical data lookup tool that also integrates into Puppet/Hiera. More about Jerakia can be found at http://jerakia.io

Any feedback on the Ansible lookup plugin would be awesome, you can grab it at:

http://github.com/crayfishx/ansible-jerakia
It already does!

Try it out.
London is got to be much higher for sure!
Trump’s crackdown on immigrants is spooking US tech firms from interviewing them
How many people understand the federal reserve, money supply, minting process, and quantitative easing?

How on earth do people use USD?! It's so complicated!
Many of the most outspoken proponents of diversity initiatives, in the public arena, insist that "50% women" is the only acceptable goal.

If Google doesn't agree, I would like for them to publicly state this.
You'd think it would work, but the drivers aren't stupid. Reading the article suggests to me the loss point here is drivers realizing they can burn these cars.
Of course Google throws their employees under the bus for the sake of defending their "diversity" facade.

Thanks James, for being the canary in the goldmine.
The same liberal democracy affords us the moral and legal right to not listen as well. There's no legal or moral argument to oblige others to listen or to make them captives to your words (heck, read SCOTUS on the matter, they side with me even in conservative times).
By now certain elements of a modern programming environment have become pretty apparent. (Vectors and maps, for example) Could there be something gained by supporting these directly in the architecture?
Hiera for Ansible, sort of. An Ansible lookup plugin for Jerakia
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The page appears to be down. HN hug of death, probably.
Typical human response time to a stimulus is about 200ms. That of course doesn't factor in the decision time, but once the brain decides on an action it takes about 200 Ms for the signal to propagate to the relevant muscles.
That's one very expensive pen.

Paper doesn't matter if it isn't being counted. Spotting irregularity in voting results might be possible with statistical methods but how often were votes really recounted?
Here is a comparison of POWER8 vs Intel Xeon http://www.anandtech.com/show/10435/assessing-ibms-power8-pa...
For a comprehensive check-up of network and security configuration, take a look at Hardenize https://www.hardenize.com. It covers a variety of things such as DNS/DNSSEC/DANE and CAA, email security (e.g., SPF, DMARC), TLS, X.509, HSTS, HPKP, CSP, SRI, cookies, application security and so on. It's a work in progress, currently in preview.

Disclosure: Hardenize is my project. I previously built SSL Labs.
My question is there any residue on the crops when they come to market in the grocery store?
Great interview. Do you have any text or interview about MobileJazz?
Doe's sorting on columns even work? It looks like for the most part it does, but then for others it doesn't...
@wfunction: yes, TorchCraft includes a serializer that compresses the useful game state into a relatively small struct. That is then further compressed with other tricks and zstd.
There's a separate policy statement supporting by-right housing development: http://unitedslate.samaltman.com/by-right-housing.html

Evaluating this proposal by itself, I agree that local infrastructure spending would likely be more useful, sooner, to more people than a high speed rail corridor. I don't think anyone believes or claims it will single-handedly solve the housing crisis.
> Did he research social structures or even the psychological differences between the sexes?

> No expert on the actual matter at hand (women participation in tech) would consider them relevant at all to the issue.

Your inability to maintain a frame of reference for your objections is disheartening. It's clear you're just entrenched in a win/lose mentality and have no interest in the topic at all.
denser, 10 - 20 story tall transit oriented development in caltrain and bart station parking lots.
This is probably not to your taste, but I _love_ it: https://pivotfinland.com/pytest-sugar/
Think "simplify" but with "net" :)
There is a new generation of relational databases that are native to multi-node operation, and don't require sharding. I'm speaking of tech like Google Spanner and my employer, FaunaDB.

Now you don't have to shard. More info on how we accomplish distributed transactions. https://fauna.com/blog/distributed-consistency-at-scale-span...
Startup Sequences of Shells
I'm always curious how people _find_ mentors.

I have heard of a few services out there where you are able to book "x" amount of time with someone to talk about work or whatever (basically a mentor).

Since finishing up school I've worked with 2 developers, and both have been great and I've learned a lot.

I don't think these sort of relationships count as "mentors", or at least it just felt like co-working. So, I guess you could say I'm still looking? :)
> the ones confusing technology with science, and insisting that GMOs must be perfectly safe

I don't know if I fall in that group (I don't think I confuse the two and I don't really talk about GMO much) but my prior belief would be that GMO products are probably safe, through some kind of hand-wavy mathematical argument: it's like modifying a program to do what you want; chances are if you mess up, it'll crash quickly and won't work rather than working almost-as-intended while injecting nefarious input into the next program.

Would LOVE to read evidence to the contrary though. So please share your citations.
Just published my first application on Netlify yesterday. I looked at Surge.sh but their pricing doesn't include the SSL certificate. Netlify SSL with Let's Encrypt was literally a button press. Good stuff!
I hear you. Usually the bottleneck of macro-effectiveness is the part you mention, the decision-making parts can be simplistic in mid-to-high levels and still plenty effective. So "improving your macro" usually refers to remembering to build workers and not getting supply blocked. Getting supply blocked or not hitting production cycles is more likely to get you behind in StarCraft.

That said, in high-level play, "better macro" usually refers to the other things, not just mechanically hitting stride with production, as most players in the top .01% are on the same level with those mechanics.
This concept of not having a "self" is an interesting one and possibly a capacity that only humans have.

If AI never has a concept of "self" does it decrease the likelihood of it becoming self-protective?

What does perception of self even mean to us as humans and how could we be sure that a machine couldn't attain it?