skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked on federal contracts for Canada for a few years in the past. It really doesn't surprise me that this happened.

I saw failures on every level. The client (government), the PMs, the developers. It was mind-blowing how much incompetency was infested into the entire system.

I think the problem with the public sector is that some of them genuinely don't give a shit about their work and there's really zero repercussions to them for not doing their job well. They won't get fired like someone would in the private sector. With that said, I've no doubt some of them do work hard and are comparable to their private sector counterparts.

But until workers in the government can truly be held accountable, these types of IT disasters will continue to happen. Heads need to start rolling.
If heat lamp slop is your thing, by all means. Not sure it's that comparable, though.
Hurricane Maria: Puerto Rico may be months without power
That is interesting.

Is it easier for them to buy bitcoins over other assets?
What about Gold / other foreign investments such as US securities?
> Implemented on a national scale, cost inflation of basic consumer needs is a near certainty.

How so? Is there are large number of consumers that are currently not able to satisfy their current basic needs? Otherwise aggregate demand will stay the same and on the supply side nothing changed, so there is no reason why prices would change.
Yeah I have a low pass filter from QRP Labs ($8?) and an MFJ tuner as well as a very long wire. If I precisely measure the wire I could skip the tuner.
That’s an interesting take. I found it one of the most optimistic books I’ve ever read, so much so that given how I see real humans behave I find the optimism perhaps the most unbelievable aspect of the book.
Schedule meetings without the back-and-forth emails using Calendly
> Have some patience. It will eventually improve to the point where it is very low overhead and provides much richer experiences than we have in the terminal today.

This is a very optimistic of framework/technology performance.

> Nobody is forcing you to use it today. Just be supportive because we want it’s future.

Using web stack for desktop application wasn't a technological choice. It's a much more a reflection of the inability of our industry to cohesively innovate
Fab article.
True diversity is The Pirate Bay.

All the reasons why we can't have unfettered legal access to The Pirate Bay are also reasons why your utopian approach to "true diversity" is wrong-headed.
This is the distinction I was getting at - something like GnuPG provides tremendous value to society as a whole. Saving ArcelorMittal some money in its manufacturing process doesn't benefit anyone except ArcelorMittal's executives and stockholders.

So I stand by my point. There's no doubt the participants got a lot out of this Hackathon, but I'd wager that ArcelorMittal got significantly more.
You've linked to that six-month-old article in two different discussions now.

The article provides virtually no details concerning what capital controls were loosened and in any case, whatever these measures, they were one-time event that doesn't prove a trend. China certainly wants to say it's loosening capital control and it's perfectly capable of showing the wire services some measures.

If you want to argue a trend, show us an analysis from a respected outside observer.

Show me a long article from outside observer.
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BI is the opposite of socialism when it's coupled with dismantling certain pieces of the social safety net. We don't need WIC or CHIP if we have universal BI, for example.
OPM can't be sued into oblivion. The federal government gets to decide if you even have standing to sue them. What are the odds that they'll react accordingly?
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PR sure does magnify the truth though don't it? ;)
I think this has a similar potential as $1000 strollers. Most people will opt for something diff, but there'd defo be _some_ market for the devices.
I remember there's an episode in The Princess Bride where Goldman interrupts Morgenstern and says “At this point there's a long section about [I forget what] that I cut out because it isn't important to the plot, except that along the way Fezzik obtains a Holocaust Cloak, and I'm only mentioning it because I don't want you to wonder where the Holocaust Cloak came from.”

I would have liked to have seen something like that in Anathem: two sentences along the lines of “Then we had to get to Siberia by driving an APC over the North Pole, but the less said about that the better” and then the book moves on.
No, it is definitely not relative to audio. Sound waves and radio waves are of completely different carriers.

The reference medium frequency band in electromagnetic (EM) is based on the original AM broadcast frequency ranges (first time broadcasts could be separated into distinct frequency bands). Medium frequency (MF) is just what we started with broadcasts and the ranges expanded around that.

Audio and Radio frequency ranges are completely unrelated.

Radio is electromagnetic and audio is air pressure. As far as human hearing is concerned there is only one "band" 20 Hz to 20kHz with greatest sensitivity from 1kHz to 4kHz. That is air pressure wave propagation and has nothing to do with radio frequencies and propagation of electromagnetic waves in the ULF to VLF ranges.
The same amount? No adjustment for San Francisco vs. nowheresville, Idaho?
You may have background knowledge.

It's about a kernel for which compiling with Clang is (1) interesting and (2) novel. If you know Linux, you'll recognize that's Linux.
Unless you build your house less than 18 inches above sea level, you will not live long enough to have the long-run trend in sea level rise affect where you live.

Humans have been dealing with and adapting to the natural rate of sea level rise for hundreds of years. Most of Florida, most of Manhattan, almost all of Louisiana, and many, many other highly-populated areas were uninhabitable swampland before we learned to master sea level and the slow, natural rise that has gone on for as long as we have been making scientific measurements.

This panic about rapidly rising seas is nonsense. No Pacific islands have "disappeared" due to sea level rise, nor have any Arctic or Alaskan villages -- those that have seen changes are due to subsidence, not rising seas.

If you want to attribute the 160-year record of slow, steady, 2-3mm/year (2-3cm/decade) natural rise in sea levels to some mysterious factor that has been in place since CO2 levels were below 300, let's hear your theory. Otherwise, there is nothing to be alarmed about.
So you actually take homeless and needy people into your home? Or do you just expect the amorphous 'society' to do that for you?
US imports less than 1/10th as much from China as it manufactures.

Overall, US manufactures more stuff today than at any point in it's history. Clothing, Cars, CPU's, Candy, Cosmetics, Cameras, etc.

The DoD has done a great job of having US suppliers for every good it needs which demonstrates the US can still manufacture all critical goods independently. Even if it would have to ramp up production of various things.

As mind-blowing as it might seem the US has minimal dependence on China. In part because it exports several times more $ worth of goods ~1.3 trillion to the world than it imports from China ~0.46 Trillion.
Pumping is painful, and women who pump are often working moms, so they'll have money. Getting rid of daily physical pain is worth a lot of money. I'm flabbergasted why this isn't a "shut up and take my money" situation.
Google and Facebook are the 1%
IBM open-sources a microservices-friendly Java app server
Automating web analytics through Python
NBA* path finding algorithm demo
To add one more thing, I think there's a significant selection bias at play, when one sees successful risk takers.

For all the reasons mentioned above, older folk have a lower affinity to risky ventures. Younger folk often take up risky ventures; a small fraction succeed, but they get a lot of attention.
> if we truly looked at the situation, killing is unnecessary.

Man is an omnivore; omnivores eat other animals; killing other animals is therefore necessary to embrace our true selves.

> To say you are helping conserve nature while actively destroying it is nothing short of hypocrisy and deceptive wording.

As a man, I am part of nature.

I don't enjoy killing, but I very much enjoy hunting, cleaning & cooking my food. I never feel more alive that when I'm in the field, earning my meal with my own eyes and hands.
I fly frequently and enjoy a drink but the two definitely do not work well together for me. Even a single glass of wine, when airborne, has the potential to cause an intense sinus headache. Two to three drinks will guarantee it. On the ground, only air pressure brings on occasional sinus headaches but nothing like the intensity of air travel that combined with alcohol has on me.
And my rebuttal to that notion is that if the NSA has secret math that breaks a simplified, stripped down standard ARX/Feistel design, we probably have bigger problems than the NSA's preferred lightweight cipher. I'm not fond of citing Schneier, but he's an authority to a lot of people here, and look what he has to say about Speck: that it's basically an improved version of Threefish.

The "unknowable secret math" argument works both ways. As I said upthread: if you believe this, how do you rule out the possibility that ARX designs are the ones NSA can't break, that they have secret math that only works against iterated ciphers built solely on bitwise primitives, and that they published this particular cipher --- something they rarely do! --- precisely to create the kind of suspicion we're seeing on the thread?

If you want to play Kremlinology instead of talking about engineering, arguments like that are fair game too. I'd rather rule both of them out.
You mean they don't want to fund it _again_ - after all, they gave 6.5M in 2013.

When you factor hardware, 2x to 4x more expensive than its direct competitor, and a small market, it seems to me a risky investment. Maybe VCS did learn from Juicero.
Ask HN: What is the significance of ommitting “the” when referring to products?
I notice Apple has a tendency to oddly exclude articles/determiners in phrases like "do not restart [your] Apple Watch", or "meet [the] iPhone", and to oddly include them in other cases -- "the biggest update for 'the Mac' yet".

This is something I've always found very interesting, as I imagine there has to be some practical explanation for it in terms of branding or image.

I can't imagine this has any relationship to trademark dilution, because these are very well recognized as Apple trademarks.
If the iOS kernel does DVFS in software, then this attack will likely still work.
>This can be fixed by a small change to privacy liability law.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

This too can be "fixed" with a small change to liability laws.
And that fact would have any relevance at all, if there was a viable, free alternative to iOS and Android. For what is the Status Quo in the mobile market, Apple is doing well.

Even Custom Android ROMs have inherent design flaws, because it's been ultimately designed by Google and certain things just can't be changed without Google playing along (or breaking compatibility with the app ecosystem).
> you need to guarantee them that stability forever

In that case, you're going to have to be content with a thought experiment, because there is no entity that can credibly make such a guarantee.
IIRC, his complaints are of the nasal demon variety.

He hates compiler writers being tricky.
> “Investors would say, ‘Let me go talk to my sister; let me go talk to my wife,’” Alvarez said.

Well yes. I would be thoroughly disappointed in any investor that doesn't check for suitability with somebody they trust that has a high likelihood of deeper knowledge in the area.

I expect their 4x current model price is a huge factor in failing to attract investment, the NHS and ObamaCare are unlikely to cover these in the vast majority of situations.

But I also don't doubt she is having a hard time and that the disgusting things she is quoting occurred; I have overheard and been present for many less than desirable comments - both from men and women - in professional settings.

EDIT: Just took a look at pumps available in the UK, for £50-150 I get lots of pumps advertising comfort etc. I would need to have an independent doctor or trusted woman with first-hand experience of these not being suitable to be convinced of any kind of mass market appeal.
This is speculation, based upon a time when the academic cryptoanalysis community was pretty much nonexistent.

I find it exceedingly unlikely that the NSA is years ahead of public efforts on this front in 2017.
A $500 pump is listed too. And people often have more than 1 kid. And this looks like a great baby shower gift. Or wedding present from pushy parents.
Sure the problem is in women founder and not the fact that it costs 4x what an Avent or Medela pump do, even tho there is no much difference between.

> “Manufacturers use hard plastic unlike this pump...”

No they don’t, we have an avent pump for $200 and it has very soft suction cups.
"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security detected five “critical” cyber security weaknesses on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s computers as of January"

"The report’s findings raise fresh questions about a 2016 cyber breach into the SEC’s corporate filing system known as “EDGAR.”"

"... it shows that even after the SEC says it patched “promptly” the software vulnerability after the 2016 hack, critical vulnerabilities still plagued the regulator’s systems."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sec-cyber-weaknesses-exclu...
It's funny how personal all of these preferences are. I, personally, thought that "Diamond Age" was tepid, and "Zodiac" pretty stupid (but an early work, so forgiveable), but I've pretty well loved everything else that Stephenson wrote by himself. On the shared-author side of things, the DODO book is terrible - dropped after about 2 pages - and the Mongoliad stuff looks tripe too.

Anathem and Seveneves are among my favorites. And I really liked the entire Baroque Cycle! (after consciously avoiding it for years).
Ray is Cryddit / Bear and posted some cool stuff on the forums-

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=946236.msg10388435#m...

Semi-unrelated by Craig Wright who has (falsely) claimed to be Satoshi also claims Dillinger is his friend. Wright said Dillinger quit bitcoin due to the toxic drama. More likely Wright & his friend were early miners and not involved in the Satoshi persona.
I am confused. What kind of things? Google's intention is not to improve Android. They know what features people want. What they want is to expand their business in consumer hardware. This could be useful for technology such as Google hlr Glass. Whatever they can scrape together. The real only exclusive deal right now is they have a bunch of HTC engineers working at Google.

I do not understand how so many still don't get why I brought up this exclusive vs non-exclusive deal. The best deal one can get is exclusive rights. The unknown here is we don't know whether Google's agreement includes (NDA) any exclusive IP.
Emily Chang is trying so hard to make this about the male dominated VCs for the founder's short comings instead of the apt criticism of the team and execution. Really, Emily Chang of Bloomberg West/Technology? She could have at least offered another perspective to the article, while still being able to connect the dots about the scrutiny that Silicon Valley faces.

A husband and wife co-founder duo, a literal mom and pop with 3 children, trying to scale up their hardware production business which hasn't proven itself after 6.5m in capital. Yeah there are a lot of valid criticisms that would be made to any team, and a couple unique to that team.

Making it just about the mom's experience with "male dominated VCs" is disingenuous. I'm not going to be an apologist for off-comments made by VCs, I do know that you can make a conclusion on business plans in like 30 seconds to 5 minutes, and then you have to spend the rest of the hour in small talk.

There is also the recurring trope of being included in a VCs portfolio becoming validation. If you are able to self fund an idea, you can make more money than you would with the VCs, in many scenarios. Yes everyone wants the publicity, but VC business models simply don't work with MOST business models. That has nothing to do with the efficacy of your business.

So maybe, good luck with the kickstarter.
I don’t think it has anything to do with writing himself into a corner. I think he’s just an insanely ambitious author and I’ll pretty much always give mad props to any author that is that skilled and ambitious, even when things don’t quite work out (like the last act of Seveneves). I also found the last act jarring and weaker than the rest of the book, but I still came away thinking “woah, an individual human not only set out to write this whole book, but then actually WROTE it.”
What the Commission found out about copyright infringement but forgot to tell us
Nothing to do with an approach to diversity. Just another startup that didn't get traction in its desired vertical.

Look at Viki, a really popular VOD site, acquired by Rakuten for $200 million or so. Focuses heavily on South Korean, Chinese, and Japanese dramas. Segregation? More like making it easy for people who want to watch the shows to find and follow them regularly. Successful? Yep. This sort of media consumption is here now.

AfroStream did the same thing as Viki but instead of Asian countries used the African diaspora. Didn't follow them so don't know what the business reasons are for their failure, but relating it to diversity and segregation seems unwarranted.

It's more like they were targeting the long tail of media consumption, even if unsuccessfully.
Makes sense, especially if someone divulges this in the comments like "that happened to my friend's son John Doe - read about the terrible event here!"
Isn't better psychological assistance the better solution to that problem?

Unless you are serving food directly you cannot prevent turning assistance into drugs because you can always just sell whatever you are given.
I would want more. Currently I don't really care what I buy at supermarkets, I can go on 2 week holidays and potentially buy gadgets I like. However I can't really afford a car or buy a home or fancy synthesizers.

With BI I could spend more, but I would still keep on working towards a relaxing financial freedom where money is not a problem at all.
For you, and I'd say the whole HN audience, it is quite obvious that spending money in an AI approach would be extremely useful. For a steel producer, this is not obvious at all, and consider it a long shot.

I would even bet that the idea of whoever organized the hackaton was not to get free labor, but to prove to someone up there that AI can bring new interesting solutions. In view of the results, I'm quite sure they will be spending more in the future, maybe even starting a new department or a serious research program or something like that in the long term.
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So first, this retort is vacuous because the whole point of Thiel's supposition is that the dimensions are not orthogonal. The meaning of the quote is that he is willing to move right on others (political structure, social issues, surveillance state, etc) to be able to move right on another (economic policy).

But even putting that aside, on which dimension is Thiel not on the far-right? He's hardcore capitalist who supports (self-described!) monopolist policies; he sits on the board of a public surveillance company and is the chairman of a second military-industrial one; he published a book in which he called a substantial portion of rape victims liars; and we're talking about him getting an appointment in a right-wing movement in the federal government.
I'm currently working on something similar, these were my first two ideas:

Try to train your own word2vec model on a twitter dataset and then you could use the weighted tf-idf average of these vectors. You get a vector for each tweet, and tweets that are about the same topic should be next to each other. Then try clustering algorithms, you can use the cosine distance to find the nearest X tweets.

Second Idea would be to train doc2vec with twitter data.

Another worthwhile idea could be to use LDA, haven't tried it myself
The design goal around the EEPROM was to have a small space for device and board configuration information. The EEPROM sits on I2C0 in order to maintain pin compatibility with the AM335x and so the data rates to access that memory are not terribly good. We are considering future products that would integrate larger non-volatile storage as well.
I always hear this story about post offices forwarding mail with old addresses, but in my life (having moved a ton), I've never received mail at a new address with an old address printed on it, while I have received huge volumes of mail addressed to the last guy living where I'm at. Is forwarding an American thing?
I wonder the same.

My tin-foil theory: The poor are no longer able to purchase consumer goods as their entire income goes to their basic needs. With the middle class being pushed to the poor class, this will have devastating consequences for our consumerist-based economy. Thus, BI is nothing more than recession prevention.

Of course, that's probably not the case.
Even the hospital grade Medela pump (more than the $999 quoted) is an onerous chore to use. My wife and I would gladly have paid it. It's out of reach of most mothers, but so are most quality maternity products, and that's due more to our crappy health care system that penalizes women for being women.
I’m curious what parts you thought were a slog other than the last act? I presume you disliked other parts as well, because from my memory there was a lot more to the first two acts than 200 pages.
On a more day to day level, a few years ago a lot of e-commerce pay-by-bitcoin options existed. You would not put this on the checkout next to PayPal because nobody was doing bitcoin then.

What I don't understand is why this never took off. People know bitcoin through the news, it is not new. In this time Apple Pay has come along nicely but not bitcoin.

Bitcoin has gone off on a tulips tangent. This seems at odds with what I thought the purpose was, being able to pay securely and without Visa getting their cut.
Not sure why, but for me in current Firefox it sounds like an absolute mess - just hiss and clicks. It sounds like there's no gain envelope being applied, both the oscillator and the noise sample play their full duration at full gain.

This is on both windows and mac. Weird.
You would need a small nation state to run the experiment with its own currency and limited natural resources (as in, it can't just sell oil and distribute profits like Alaska).

It would also have to be very librial about borders and illegal immigrants to simulate the US.

I would suggest the minimum size of this nation should be around 15+ million people.
Given the recent duck Vs elephant discussion I'd like to caution you that a drop is very likely to be in excess of 10^20 times smaller than an ocean