skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. I couldn't find LEON (bad google-fu?), can you link?

So in effect, big $CORPs own computers and with Alphabet agency influence and systemic flaws, the hope for open and secure and powerful computing should be forgotten.
I'll take the risk. Lyme's disease is a life long issue. Fire ant stings last about a week at the most.
Actually the following facts are true:

- western families have fewer kids

- some politicians - at least in some countries in the West - tells people we need immigration

You might not like it and as usual correlation doesn't prove causation.

That still doesn't give you the right to be uncivil here.
I wonder how you measure the quality difference for higher rates? 384K, 512K and beyond? I hear from audiophiles that there is a very distinct difference, but there is absolutely no basis for it in science.
It's been researched in the 80s/90s. The best solution was a gas-dynamic laser with a Po-220 (the activity of U238 within its entire 10k years halflife packed into a time of two weeks) reservoir as a heat source.
I traded on Poloniex once but they stopped withdrawal on Monero and would not answer. Finally they processed the withdrawal like a week a later. I am not using this platform anymore.

Currently I am using Bitfinex and it's working pretty well!
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But isn't that an implementation detail?

I would assume that if they want, they can assign a non-changeable interrupt to the swipe recommendation call.
Yes, or as with nuclear power, it could be that the base assumption regarding safety just was wrong.
As long as people have biases, we need to appease them, yes.
I really wonder what all of these claimants do. Do they change their data models and corresponding procedures, and then just leave all of the stale, nonconforming data in there? How is that working out?
> There's no genuine, credible anti-corporate voice in American politics.

Ralph Nader? Noam Chomsky?

These people have no voice because people refuse to turn off the TV.
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probably the most important invention of the industrial revolution is the screw-cutting lathe by Henry Maudslay[1]

Without the screw cutting lathe, precision parts where impossible to make. Without machine tools, creating basically any other machine that we use today would be impossible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Maudslay
You're assuming a lot of homogeneity in those people, but just seeing innumerable children pass through is a chance to see a load of variability, even if it's not fully representative of the whole world.

There's a ton of variability to see in the population of those who go to college and feel the constraint of grades and majors.

Or did people want visiting one corner of campus to be like visiting the corner of China, and the other corner to be like visiting Australia? Well, sorry, nothing but real money and travel can substitute seeing the world, but yes, college is an eye-opener in terms of people.
Actually major graph databases store data on disk as well. That's not the reason they are faster. The reason is that all the pointers point directly to the data.

Consider how you'd get the "top 10 books, and their related authors, and their related biographies".

1. A graph database would literally just look at an index of books, and then grab the book records. A relational database would do the same with an index, so far so good.

2. Now comes the difference. For each book, the graph database would just load the list of pointers to related authors and load those. And for each author, it would load the list of pointers to related biographies, which have pointers to related pictures etc. And in O(jk) where j is the number of books to return, and k the maximum number of things to get per book, it's done.

3. Now consider the same step for a relational database. After getting the books, it has to load the authors, and search it for each author. This takes O(k log N) where N is the total number of entries, and grows (albeit slower and slower) with increasing amounts of data. Then once every author record is loaded, it has to enumerate all their ids into a giant list and do it again. The list can be stored incrementally and the searches can be parallelized but at the end of the day ALL JOINS have an extra O(log N) factor, which is what slows down the database, usually by a factor of 10 for data that's in the millions or billions of rows.

4) The design of a graph database naturally encourages using indexes. In relational databases you have to remember to add them. And even after you do, the relational database takes log N longer to do all the joins. And joins are done very often in social networks, fetching related stuff, and other things in a normalized schema.

You can do all the relational algebra stuff while walking a graph, too.

In fact any relational database can be turned into a graph database by just adding a variable-length list of "pointers to related data" to each record which would point to the actual location of the rows in the related table's index. And then manage all relations between rows not as joins but as entries in these lists. And finally, implement support for a graph database language alongside SQL. However, I have not seen any such extensions to InnoDB or Postgres etc. which turn them into graph databases.
So bigger government is the solution? All of those are manifestations of a communist/socialist society.
I remember a talk by Thorsten Joachims at ECML/PKDD 2013 where he was talking about this, you can watch it here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX9lj0UdB9s

Around 11:40 he shows evidence of this "dishonest" behavior. As far as I remember, the whole talk was very good.
He has some publications on the topic.
These are both more "I..." comments. When "I" went to college "my" experience was X so therefore...

Assumption: experiences in college are incredibly diverse based on multiple factors
No kids ask for that. The journalist asks for that.

Current kids do what they can in an economy with less jobs, more expensive cost of living, more regulations, increasing state surveillance and the worst leaders we had for decades, controlled and dumbed downed news, culture promoting stupidity/violence/money/consumption... And the only map they get to navigate this is the old one from their parent's time were you could pay your college tuition with a side job and being a doctor was the solutions to all your problems.
$0.33 per shirt, anywhere in the world, is nearly as cheap as the cheapest sweatshop markets.

I expect most commentary will look at this using a US vs China thing, but I'm more worried about SE Asia and Africa. They need to climb up the development ladder that China's already 1/2-way up.

Say what you will about clothing and sneaker sweatshops, but they were a tried and tested method for building up the basics of an industrial economy. South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong wouldn't have gotten to where they are today as quickly without them. How will Kenya develop?
The video only shows relatively small buildings - would that system work with high rise towers?
Commoditization and industrialization is also just not good for farmers. Why are we growing all this corn? No one seems to want it.

Farmers can't make money when corn is down at $3.50 a bushel (futures). And local prices are much, much lower because the elevators are full from back to back record crops. We have a $.60 basis in my area, which is historically very high.

What's good for farming is no longer good for farmers. Their best recent year was 2012, a 100 year drought when corn prices went north of $8. We had 120bu corn in 2012, which is $960/ac revenue. This year even at 200bu corn we'd be looking at about $600/ac revenue. Good luck with that. You're just farming for insurance payments at that point.

And I forgot to mention that about 40% of all corn use goes to gas tanks as ethanol (the rest is about 40% livestock feed and 15% exports). So even with that demand source, which is itself a dumb idea, we can't clear the market at a price farmers can live on.
Are you actually locked into those services? I decided to switch away from Google when they mixed up my inbox with someone else's and started sending my email to someone who quickly used the mistake to issue password resets on many of my accounts, and it was easier than I thought.

With Gmail, I just forward my mail to my Outlook.com account, and I switched my email address on as many sites as I could to use my Outlook.com email address. Works just fine.

Office Online with OneDrive is a fantastic product. Sure it costs money, but if you're not paying for a product, you're not "locked in". Download your docs in Office format and save them to OneDrive, done.

I actually switched to Bing Maps a long time prior to this because Google Maps has such poor performance on every computer I use it on. Google Maps has the far superior place search, but Bing Maps works better as an actual map in my experience.

The only Google service I use regularly is Google Translate, because there really is no comparison.
Why should I be surprised. That's been happening since 1700´s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution]

Perhaps that will be the way the most developed Countries will return some of the production lines to them.
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If you're willing to take risks, coins like NEO (antshares) would have been incredible investments as of a few weeks ago: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/neo/
How is it gonna impact the developers now?
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Said every parent for the past several generations... Even before Atari, kids have been given more opportunity to play games with each generation as they have not been required to work to feed their family as much as the prior generation.
You were supposed to stay in Europe so your taxes could cover the cost of your education, not move to a locale where your take-home pay is higher because you get out of doing that.
> The economy does best when talented risk-takers are driven by the chance to strike it rich.

Wha~~~t? Who says so?
The Sokal affair was a real-life "long con" version of XKCD #451.[1]

The farther you get away from STEM subjects, the easier it is to pass off Poe's Law[2] on unsuspecting readers.

(That doesn't mean that social sciences, literature, and art have nothing important to say.)

[1] https://xkcd.com/451/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
I mean, to their point, by your own definition college would be a RIDICULOUSLY expensive 4 year horizon broadening, belief challenging system.

Also your idea of college would sound twee and naive to anyone 50 years ago.
How do you get time to do all that from home? Do you work from home?
Can you download files in headless Firefox or Chrome?
I can't quite decide which will be the tipping point for robots replacing humans: Agriculture, food service, or garments. The first seems ripe (no pun intended) for disruption but apparently often requires human skill to identify products. The second seems more likely, as fast food is mostly automated with some human intervention; coupled with self-checkout technology in any language, and it might work. Garments, however, I'm not sure that's the industry. Certainly replacing 17 workers with a single robot (costs aside) seems like a good start, but this also seems like an industry that could uproot and go somewhere else. From America, to China, to Southeast Asia, Africa, and beyond, to wherever human capital can be had for less.
Whenever this is posted, I think this should be posted as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scholarly_publishing_h.... I feel there is a conspiratorial aspect to the anti-pomo movement, some sort of vanguardism regarding what is and what isn't a valid form of academic study. A conservative perspective on the values of postmodern thought http://reason.com/archives/1995/10/01/goodbye-true-world.
Agree with respect to code organization but I can't help but feel the the number three is somewhat arbitrary and it nudges the reader in the wrong direction.

Instead of waiting until the third, I evaluate by asking myself if the duplication is accidental, how likely is it for the next instance to be different, and what will any extra arguments look like. If it doesn't feel right I leave the repetition.
I'm pretty scared of the Lone Star Tick bite causing me to become allergic to beef.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_allergy
I'd been wondering why _source was in there. I'm a little surprised that Hettinger thinks it's so important to retain it. It's a neat demonstration of how to make a new data type, and I like that it's so straightforward, but I don't buy the argument that slowing down the interpreter is important for didactic reasons.

Edit: I'm talking about namedtuple, the implementation of which is slow because namedtuple() has to construct _source for every new namedtuple type. Which was clear from the article but not from my comment.
$1.2 billion worth of cryptocurrency was raised in token sales in the first half of 2017 alone. While there are many opinions on the intrinsic value of this new sector, everyone agrees it's a gold rush.

It doesn't require any mining to create a token and raise funds. Just copy pasting token contract and crowdsale code (generally on Ethereum), and putting up a website with a whitepaper. The total market cap of tokens is now approximately $10 billion:

https://coinmarketcap.com/assets/
After my son mentioned it yesterday,Ithought this article was going to be about assistant infinite loops (e.g. a Google-Alexa infinite loop. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LEz9AU9c2qQ )
I have grown to seriously dislike 'namedtuple'. It seems great, and it's so easy to use, but there's so few places it can be used without dragging in future backwards-compatibility baggage.

Let's say you have a light-weight object, like a "full name" which can be represented with a "forename" and an "surname". (Yes, there are many names which don't fit this category. This is a toy example.) So you write:

from collections import namedtuple
FullName = namedtuple("FullName", "forename surname")
name = FullName("Edward", "Smith")

So simple! So clean! No "self.forename = forename" or need to make your own __repr__.

Except you also inherit the tuple behavior, because this isn't really light-weight object but a ... let's call it a heavy-weight tuple.

>>> name[0]
'Edward'
>>> name[1]
'Smith'

This mean people may (okay, are likely) do things like:

forename, surname = name

or even

for forename, surname in names:
...

Even if that's not what you want in your API. If you care about backwards compatibility, then if you replace the namedtuple with its own class then you'll have to re-implement __getitem__, _replace, __len__, and count - methods which make no sense for a simple name class.

Or, if you decided to change the API, to make it be:

FullName = namedtuple("FullName", "forename middlename surname suffix")

then you'll again break code which used the full indexing API that you originally implicitly promised, simply by saying this is a namedtuple.

'namedtuple' has one good use - migration from a tuple object to a real object while allowing backwards compatability to the tuple API. For example, the old tuples once returned from os.stat() and time.gmtime().

It's also fine if it will only be used by code where you have full control over its use and can either prevent inappropriate API use like destructuring assignment, or can update all uses if you want to change the API. For example, a light-weight object used in a test-suite or internal helper function.

Otherwise, don't use it. Spend the extra few minutes so in the future you don't have to worry about backwards compatibility issues.
Just to verify my understanding:

* This is a multi-region (us-east1, us-central1, europe-west1, asia-northeast1 and asia-east1) outage (yeesh)

* Incident began at Incident began at 2017-08-29 18:35 PDT. At the time of this comment, we're over 13 hours (??)

Correct?
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Raymond Hettinger, if I remember correctly, is the person who originally wrote NamedTuple, and he's not shy about reminding people during his talks at conferences. I wonder if his pride or other personal feelings about that particular module could be clouding his judgment over whether or not to optimize it?
Which is completely false, and have been said for ever from people not seeing opportunities or unwilling to pay the price for them.

I get a new business opportunity every month. The fact that I'm not a millionaire is not because of the lack of it, but because I failed in some way I could clearly see after the fact.
Eco-friendly! Tiny houses! Solar-powered!

Yeah, and you don't even own the 4 walls, nor the land. And companies like uber and others seek to extract the leftover and skirt employment regulations. And your stuff keeps failing as you try to fix it. And automation is an ever-present downward force that makes your degree into a $10/hr grind.

But, you know, progress?
I agree that "gold rushes" shouldn't absolve leaders of their responsibility in fixing (or trying to fix) some of the fundamental problems of our economy. But it is a fact that these gold rushes, which I'm assuming are events when entirely new markets are developed/open up, are a huge stimulus to the economy and young people in particular. The discovery of and refining of Oil set off a gold rush. So did the spread of the internet.

The problem with such kind of events in the future seems to be that the workers would require a high degree of education to participate. e.g. if there is an AI gold rush, the demand would seem to be mostly for people who know CS fundamentals, math and AI principles. But maybe I'm underestimating people; a lot of wildcatters started off as oil workers, learned skills and then moved up the chain.
The Google memo was actually a pretty good overview of the state of the medical literature on the subject.
which is CaO + CO2, so that doesn't answer the question too much
For anyone wanting a quick workaround, try removing all the backend of your load balancer then add them again.
No idea why but it did work for us.
I live in a single payer system country and it's nothing like what you describe.

First, how it is paid. It's text book socialism. People pay into it based on ability and receive benefits based on need. It doesn't run at a loss.

Second, the level of care. Basically the government puts a lower bound on health care and uses taxation to do it. You're guaranteed a basic level of care regardless of your situation. You can opt for private insurance that stacks on top of that. A basic level of treatment is covered by the government, but anything experimental or exorbitant you will likely have to pay yourself, unless you have the aforementioned gold-plated insurance. Insurance is much cheaper because it only needs to cover unusual care, but of course I do pay a lot of taxes.

It's not different from a private system, because you can't receive unlimited care, but unlike a private system you're always guaranteed a minimum care.
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We're dealing with this on a CLI build tools project I hack on (catkin_tools). It uses plugin discovery based on entry_points, and short of caching plugins in a homedir file, it's basically impossible to make it fast enough to use with something like argcomplete.

Relevant ticket: https://github.com/catkin/catkin_tools/issues/297
Has anyone used Gigster and had a positive experience? How did they compare in costs, schedule and quality?
What do you think will be the industry that shifts from China to SE Asia and Africa? I feel like clothing is the likeliest because of it's relative simplicity, compared to other things.
While Amazon certainly has a vested interest in getting people to trust the reviews (they care more about people coming back to Amazon again and again than selling any one product), I wonder if they also have a vested interest in keeping a large number of products from multiple vendors available.

If Amazon ranked it's items the "proper" way, such that all one-rating products were far from the top, I imagine it would see a lot more clustering of purchases on the most popular version of every product type. All those variations that were not as popular would receive many fewer purchases, and some of those vendors might simply fold.

Amazon may have decided that having a larger ecosystem of vendors is worth more than implementing a better rating system. This, presumably, is not in the customer's interest (unless perhaps the "discoverability" of unknown products is on balance worth the risk).

Whatever the reason, Amazon certainly knows about other ranking systems, so it has to have made this choice deliberately.
> Most farmers do not replant their seeds

And many do, for seeds where it works.

> do you oppose patenting lifeforms on principle?

I oppose applying patents in a way that violates a "first sale doctrine" kind of thing. That is, once you have sold me seeds, they should be my property, and you should not have a say in how I use them. (Edited to add: Even if, yes, in a certain deliberately technical sense, the DNA in those seeds amounts to "derivative works" or "copies" of the DNA contained in what you sold me.)

If that makes patents on lifeforms worthless, that's fine with me. But no, "no patents on lifeforms" is not the principle I start from.
We have a large swath of 8TB drives going in that are performing well for us!
That is still decided on a software level. The home button on my iPhone has become unresponsive before, even being a physical button. As long as the swipe gesture and "open homescreen" actions are given higher priority I don't think that should be an issue.
That's why I wrote : "Hillary was probably even more pro-corporations/neo-liberalism than trump. But democrats will argue that hillary cared about the lowly workers."

> Second, Trump campaigned on lowering immigration and tariffs, by far the most anti-corporate policies American president supported in the living memory.

Sure. If a NY billionaire is the "most anti-corporate" president, then does that prove what I'm saying?

> Both of your points are seriously weakened by the 2016 elections.

No. It confirmed it as far as I can tell.
Very interesting, I'd never heard of a gas dynamic laser before.

Edit: Is it the Stavatti device you're referring to? Apparently there are some claims that it was a hoax.
I would assume the French influence. Difference between common law and a civil code.
Maybe wait until after the announcement to judge its veracity.
Perhaps part of the reason is to make the iPhone look distinctive again?
For what it's worth, my load balancer in us-central-1 is unaffected.
Your claims are false for the majority of the world's population (which lives in non-English speaking countries and may well want to visit sites whose names make sense in their own language).
I don't know of any studies but I would imagine a lot of variables come into play.

Soil Type & how deep of soil effects how much water the ground can soak up & how fast the water will run. All would be slower runoff than concrete.

Also the slope of the land would make a difference.

These are just the obvious ones. Bottlenecks, whether created on purpose or not would have a huge impact. Where I live we have large snowfall in the winter which creates ice jams & flash flooding in the spring.

I personally like the idea of this.
China to add AI courses in primary education
this "Think Tank" is literally a propaganda office

Is that really different from any other think tank or the NYT itself?
Hmm, I'm not sure about the dock. I have iOS 11 on my iPhone 7 Plus and my 10" iPad, and I do like the dock on my iPad, but it's an iPad-only feature. I'm not convinced they'd exclude the "Plus" size phones from the dock but include it on an iPad and the iPhone 8.

I'm willing to be proven wrong, but I would expect that if the dock was coming to iPhones, it'd be in the beta for current large iPhones. As of right now, it's an iPad-only feature.