skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree that the title's author wasn't (self-)aware of Google being one of the think tank's sponsors; I think the author was indeed aware but somehow deluded themselves into thinking that the think tank could live up to the ideals of being truly independent while taking corporate funds.

What title do you suggest could have been less inflammatory but still convey the same message?
I liked 'Salmon of Doubt,' personally. It felt a lot like a eulogy to me, and apropriate.
There were reminders of how he thought, and why the way he thought was special. There were hints at all the work he left undone. The tragic loss of his premature death. What could have been.

It also left some sense of who he was, what he cared about and considered important, who his friends were.
http://Binance.com is by far the best! (for BTC => ALT trading)

Interview with the CMO - http://news.8btc.com/8btc-interview-binance-cmo-he-yi-talks-...
Eric Schmidt set up a data company for the sole purpose of getting Hillary elected. Google also had 427 white house visits during the Obama Admin. Not sure what your definition of bribe is but they are as tight with DC as any wall street bank

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/googles-remarkably-close...
However, the rule of thumb, especially for drip campaigns, is that you do get some marketing content with almost every email. This could be a specific sign off and such.
> Is it still possible to reproduce everything accurately?

Sound is linear, so yes. Any signal can be represented correctly as a sum of frequencies.

> wouldn't higher bit depth increase the fidelity in the range the audio does fill?

When you do the maths quantisation turns into the original sound + quantization noise. The bit range determines the noise (dither helps here). So it's a question of whether the noise is loud enough to hear. There are samples on the internet you can try to determine yourself at which stage you can notice the noise. It's shocking how few bits are actually required.

For a sloppy recording or repeated processing the quantisation noise goes up, so more bits are required.
They certainly evolved from rather toothy predators as well.

For anybody in Toronto I highly recommend the Blue Wale exhibit at the ROM! They have an entire skeleton and it is humbling and awesome. If you're able to go, then go before it ends here. I think it's touring after it finishes up there.

https://www.rom.on.ca/en/blue-whale

edit: Adding more info --

* Photos from the excavation of the carcass https://www.rom.on.ca/en/collections-research/research-commu...

* Photo of the skeleton and vague tour plans https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/08/29/roms-blue-wha...

* Video from the exhibit, including the skeleton https://www.rom.on.ca/en/learn/activities/at-rom/bluewhale

* Photo essay and back story http://projects.thestar.com/rom-blue-whale/
When you're finished, you can use

jupyter nbconvert --to python

to get your work in script form.
*once you get it setup.
There's also politics involved, all of my country's laws (including the non-trade related ones) had to comply with the EU-wide laws before my country was permitted to enter the union. One such famous non trade-related example is that if you want to be part of the EU you're not allowed to have death penalty as a punishment in your penal code.
I feel really sorry for audiophiles because they have to spend lots of money on expensive equipment to eliminate the perceived shortcomings that the rest of us are not troubled by during our enjoyment of music.
We just implemented topic suggestions as well on our Q&A data. The literature in this field is actually quite solid. Here are a few key insights from our research:
1) Using recall@5 as your test metric gives you the benefit of being able to compare your results against the academic literature. They often (but not always) use recall@5.
2) We read the articles that introduce the following systems: TagCombine (was state of the art in 2013), NetTagCombine, EnTagRec, TagMulRec, fastText's supervised topic recommendation, and a few others. Unfortunately other than fastText not many of these have OSS libraries available out of the box, but that's ok as long as you're willing to use the underlying methods which are available off the shelf.
3) Our approach: we tested a few of the above systems, as well as mix-and-matched our own systems with tf-idf, topic modeling, multilabel classification, l-lda, fasttext, and others. For each attempt we calculated (a) recall@5 against our test set (we used k-means cross validation) and (b) how long it took to complete the training step.
4) In the end, we decided that we got the best combination of recall@5, training time, and engineer efficiency by using ONLY the fastText library. In the end we spent about 1 week trying other methods before we tried fastText. fastText took us about 3 hours to get first results, and then we tweaked the parameters for another two days before we found the right combination of learning rate, epoch, n-gram #, etc. (read the docs :) Our current recall@5 for v1 of this feature is a little above 0.5, which we think is good enough to provide a solid user experience.

Caveat: Unlike Github we actually do have user-generated labels to start with, so our modeling problem has one-step less complexity than theirs but are otherwise the same.

(TL;DR If you have gold standard data to start with and no time to read academic articles, try fastText supervised learning. If you have time to read academic articles, start with a lit search.)
See the excelent answer by zaxomi for another more favorable interpretation of the parent. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15131280
> Do you think climate change is man made?

Largely. I don't know enough about it to cite any accurate figures, but from what I remember it was warming up perhaps half a degree per century and now, over the last half a century, it increased two degrees. Something in that order. So the climate would have been slowly changing and an ice age would follow the heat period eventually, but extrapolating we'd have an ice age (or something else that's disruptive for mankind) in two centuries or so instead of in a few hundred thousand years.
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How do you approximate pi in this way without making use of an infinite series? Or are you saying that an approximation that doesn't use an infinity is fine even if an infinity was used to arrive at it?
In fact it is CPU thing since x86 CPUs have on-die caches, because the masking has to happen before the access hits cache.

Nehalem removed the physical pin for outside control of that feature (for the northbridge/southbridge platforms this involved a wire that went directly from CPU to EC/SuperIO connected to LPC or ISA, which is highly weird from architectural standpoint).
Absolutely the writing quality had started to diminish -- it was at the point that I just felt sadness, and that I was doing Pratchett a disservice to even read his later books, as I think the Pratchett of 10 years ago wouldn't have wanted them to be written, if he knew.
Texans are often regarded as having an affinity for gun ownership. I think that's silly. They clearly should all be packing flame-throwers.
They need to come up with better password requirements. Just rejected me for using a 36 character password including digits. Idiotic. This place is run by ex-infosec people??
OP mentions a similar platform he made, Write.as, in the README. It doesn't do as much as Medium (I think that's on purpose) but they have a small Medium-like network for authors there [0].

I've been on it for over a year [1] and really enjoying the simplicity myself.

[0] https://read.write.as

[1] https://shopkins.writeas.com
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There are couple of organizations such as http://fairsearch.org and http://i-comp.org/ that some consider to be (or have been) lobbying vehicles of other major IT companies against Google, especially in the EU.
It could cause other correctness issues that could break CAS, for instance (which yeah seems like a poor idea in hindsight since it's so complicated). If this is actually allowed it seems like a huge mistake in the .NET memory model. I've never seen a definitive answer on it (not saying you're wrong).
Who says HN hates humor?
I just want this: http://whatisflike.com/
And The Netherlands probably got the idea from China: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/oct/01...
> I disagree that the title's author wasn't (self-)aware of Google being one of the think tank's sponsors; I think the author was indeed aware but somehow deluded themselves into thinking that the think tank could live up to the ideals of being truly independent while taking corporate funds.

Let me take it to an absurd extreme and suggest the following title:

"Google Lost and Can Go Suck My D"

Last I checked it still qualifies as "truly independent thinking".

> What title do you suggest could have been less inflammatory but still convey the same message?

Was something like "Open Markets and European Commission's Finding Regarding Google" too hard?

edit: nitpick, but "Finding Against X" sounds incorrect. Finding is about something, not for or against. Verdict could be for or against. Given the title itself, I don't exactly have high expectations about the quality of the article which I haven't read yet.
When I am thinking about technological advance in my lifetime, the first thing that comes to mind is Martin Riggs in Lethal Weapon parking on a bridge and pulling his mobile phone out of the trunk. It was so cool...

The reality, 35 years later, is the cheap, ubiquitous, high-speed, mobile access to the world's knowledge and in fact, access to most of humanity. When I press 'add comment', nearly 4 billion human beings can immediately upvote it.

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
I'd like to imagine that the steamroller was driven by Nomes.
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I hope someone from The Atlantic sees this: I will whitelist you for ads but not for trackers. Ads are ok, trackers are the tools of Satan.
Another angle to look at it might be how much the prey try to avoid being eaten. I know nothing about Krill, but if they have any navigation control and/or instincts, I imagine that differs greatly from cows.

Granted, I've never observed grass to see if it avoids cows either. /shrug
"However, the pattern of there being more storms and floods is a clear consequence of climate change."

The idea that there are more (and/or more severe) hurricanes making landfall in the United States in recent years is not supported by the evidence.

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/All_U.S._Hurricanes.html
Google's still is "Don't be evil", Alphabet's is "Do the Right Thing"
Could humans realistically do something similar by grabbing on to one another with arms extended out (imagine three people, A onto B and C, B onto A and C, and so forth). People have been able to do some crazy things, like these ants, under the right circumstances.

It's always so sad to see people drown. It would be neat if we could create an emergency human raft in such desperate times in a pinch.
In some situations, when it comes time for people to try to get back into their homes and recover what they've lost the federal government is going to be integral. Many people who have lost everything do not have flood insurance (and in many cases never even considered needing it).

In cases like this where people are losing everything due to unpredictable weather catastrophes that are likely exacerbated by climate change I think its a perfect opportunity for the federal government (being an aggregator of funds from the entire nation) to help those who need it the most. As the climate gets more extreme we're going to need more programs like the national flood insurance program (and better/improved ones) [1].

[1] https://www.fema.gov/national-flood-insurance-program
Fyi, there are well-known safe approaches like memoize() to do that instead of roll-your-own. Selecting hidden cache field for every damn value seems like the legacy architectural error. Also, on some platforms not caching this at all would be better than caching under atomic primitive.
That's a confusing and glossed over bit in the article. After all the talk of BigDecimal, the test produces an NPE in String but then the conclusion is the problem is in BigDecimal. The String thing should be far more surprising and unexpected than any secondary effect in BigDecimal.
I wouldn't call Brookings left-leaning. Centre-right or better neoliberal.

I agree with your points though, the rail situation in the US is awful. Good regulation is hard to do, especially in a place where regulators typically do not share the interests of the people they are in the service of.

I don't think Europe copying the reforms you mention is necessarily a good endorsement of them. The rail situation in (at least Western) Europe has also become quite bad.
https://www.google.com/publicpolicy/transparency.html
Education doesn't magically fix collective action problems.
Those are not the only two options. I believe there are anti corporate forces in American politics, and they are genuine, but, by and large, they are far too small and disorganized to have a a significant effect on American politics. This is in large contrast to anti-corporate forces in much of Europe.

Bernie has/is changing that, but even then I would argue the main power structures haven't changed.
Which regulations do you have to follow / which standards do you have to adhere to when it comes to proving reliability of the developed laser product?

Also if Hobbs is a great general book, what would be an example for something more specific? I'm particularly interested in near-infrared lasers.
Interesting. I tried that earlier this year and WhatsApp rejected it saying it wasn't a mobile.
Well, bear in mind, the US and the EU effectively can only mandate how Google operates as long as it does business there. So both the US and the EU have the ability to demand Google be broken up, but it will be up to Google, as an international entity, whether they want to leave the territory that orders it or comply to the extent that the regulator in a sovereign territory is appeased.

See also, the recent Canadian decision: Canada can order that Google do something worldwide. But the extent of enforcement ends at "Canada decides what happens with businesses that operate in Canada. Google's free to leave."
Interesting. I had not read the footnotes. They should update the actual post rather than simply amending it in the footnotes.
Well, I don't assume everyone is like me. The opposite.

And I think I do provide hard evidence in article when I mention tuition vs debt vs income. And although I recognize my personal story is anecdotal, it seems similar to what I have heard over the years. Plus, I studied a hard science at a good school.
I really hate this trend in UI design. I have to scroll back half way up the page in iOS Safari to get the menu bar to display again, for example. I've watched a lot of non-technical users struggle to figure out what magic they have to perform to get an app's controls to even appear.

Your job is to make things usable & functional, not pretty.
But it wasn't removed. Nor were arrangements made for it to be removed. So all parties involved should have been able to expect that it would remain affixed to the car for the foreseeable future--the future in which the entire car, and everything in it, changes ownership.
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Perhaps you have a mild allergy?
Sadly no, the area/volume/power relationships are wrong, a bit like people flying by flapping hard enough. We also lack exoskeletal structures, so we'd be crushed.
Thanks! I didn't even know about that show.
That sounds more unethical though?
See the link I posted above. Before this storm, the last hurricane of Category 3 or greater to strike the United States was Wilma, in 2005. The last Category 5 storm to strike the United States was Andrew, in 1992.
Google was fantastic and contributed greatly to breaking the iron grip Microsoft had on the industry. They also completely changed the way we use the Internet, pushed network and security technologies forward and to the end user, and made sure iPhone/iOS have a worthy competition in the smartphone market.

It is very sad that they went down the censorship path. Especially since the open web made Google Search a viable business in the first place.
Well currently we run the karma tests on CI with chrome headless so this allows us to do the same with firefox
Discussed on HN yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15126557

As the people doing that one argue, there is an argument for balancing the risks of the test against the risk to suffers of illness and the like of not doing the tests.
I was thinking something more of the lines of length/width than height (in the case of the ants). Though, I feel your point applies there as well.
> There is at least one possible upside: Fire ants love to eat ticks. The area where the fire ants landed may be crawling with stinging ants for a while. “But it’ll have absolutely no ticks. So it’ll be lovely from that perspective,” says Wild.

Sounds like on balance they might do more good than harm, then? Fire ant stings are painful, but they're nothing compared to Lyme disease.
Gmail still has your emails though if everyone that you send emails to are using Gmail.
Hopefully they steal good ideas from all over the place. The video mentions swales, which is a mainstay of permaculture, which has been tried out in various ways all over the world since the 70s.
On a related note- do you know of any books that cover diode laser safety? Specifically, I'm working on a FMCW laser rangefinder (hobby project to teach myself more of analog electronics) and would like to know what is the maximum optical power I should use.
It's a think tank, not a newswire. It has policy positions and opinions. It's completely expected for them to write articles and titles applauding or "regretting" policy moves.

Applauding and regretting and whatnot are both leagues more respectful than your outlandish example.
Yeah, they pay sales tax here. And we do need to raise our gas tax, but its sadly politically infeasible.

What I'm getting at is there are costs other than just gas, car payments, maintenance when taking car trips. Things like needing to be alert to drive, parking, and navigating that Uber lowers and creates demand for trips where people otherwise wouldn't drive/take a car and may have foregone altogether.
This article is not about the memo guy.
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Bad shit happens when you fuck up the earths temperature. Why is anyone surprised? This has been said by climate scientists all over the world many times.

Warmer climate will result in more drought on some places and other stronger storms which result in heavy rainfall and floods.

https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/
Indeed. I hate those things and conduct vicious chemical warfare against any nests that pop up in my yard.

There is at least one possible upside: Fire ants love to eat ticks.

I guess I've learned something new today.
One of the comments below the article mentions this, but in my experience on Linux and Mac, by far the biggest culprit is pkg_resources and its nasty habit of spidering the filesystem:

https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/926

There are hacks to get around it, but it's a deep hole.
One such example:

With ranked-choice voting, if

45% voted Trump-Johnson-Hillary,

45% voted Hillary-Johnson-Trump, and

10% voted Johnson-(either)-(either),

then Johnson would have won, despite lacking wde first-choice approval.
Comments are off the top of my head when last used, not very scientific, just markets I've used lately.

* gdax.com - coinbase's exchange - only btc/eth/ltc, easy to buy with CC, high fees, high traffic

* etherdelta.github.io - only erc20 tokens, contract based, low fees, very bad ux, low traffic

* kraken.com - quite a few alt coins and tokens, insanely slow support, bad ux, average to high fees, average traffic

* hibtc.com - many coins, average fees, slow site, low traffic

* bitfinex.com - many coins, average fees, high traffic

* poloniex.com - many coins, high fees, high traffic

* liqui.io - I really don't recall

You can always go to coinmarketcap.com and see the various exchanges for each coin.
I switched from selenium to testcafe a few weeks ago. It's such a great tool. I would never go back.
Well why do you want to do that, if you are finding the tests are too slow it maybe worth writing some tests with jasmine that can be run in node without a browser.

That's what we currently do, karma and browser testing are useful but sometimes you can get away with not using them.

One thing we are trying is using JSDom to run browser based tests in node
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Houstonian here. Apparently all you need is some Dawn soap to break their surface tension!

I've always been fascinated by ants since childhood and love watching them, but these floating islands are the worst ambush I can imagine. Good to know they have a kryptonite.
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And modern sperm whales hunt giant squid. They have found giant squid beaks in the stomachs of sperm whales. And the whales will have scars from the battles. But it happens at such depths that it hasn't been seen, to my knowledge.

edit: whale, with calf, eating a giant squid: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleri...
For something like Salmon of Doubt there was far more than small print to tell them apart, though. It was not a half finished book as much as a half finished fragment of one preceded by a substantial section that acted as an eulogy to Adams. As such I think it was worthwhile.

I agree with you that if a work is published and presented as just another one of their novels it is different.
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You can't stop science. Someday, somebody, somewhere will answer the questions that this IRB requirement silenced. Whether it's via underdeveloped countries, or through the use of technologies too new to catch the regulator's eye, science will progress.
How do you do a replay if you don't keep the event somewhere? I did not mean that messages were to be stored in the bus?
In the US, lasers are FDA-regulated. This is true even if they're not used for medical purposes.
Its the latter.

You can truncate the series at an appropriate place of your choosing. But yes, \Pi as a number does not even exist unless you add the Reals, so that would need infinity. What I am saying is, one can work with the Rationals.
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You have to admit that it's a confusing sentence though!
Sounds like you are allergic. When I sustain bites they are virtually painless for me but they form those annoying pus filled blisters that last for a few days and itch like crazy.
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