skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sears had 120 years of experience selling stuff to people through the mail. It's unbelievable how they managed to not parlay that into what amazon is now.
But I can't see any reason to think that Russia would be the main actor in the "false-flag/astroturf space". I mean, it's hard not to think everyone with an interest in the outcome would be pushing here to get their interests served.

Certainly, the DNC emails seemed to demonstrate an interest in underhanded approaches (not that I'd discount a similar interest from the Trump campaign). And PACs that are actually independent would be jumping in the action, etc.
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MNIST is a dataset, VGG is a software model (network architecture). You can train/test VGG on MNIST, train/test this spiking network model on MNIST, and compare the accuracy between the two.

If you want to compare energy efficiency, you look at the hardware these models are running on (CPU, GPU, FPGA, ASIC), and see how much energy is spent by each of these chips to reach a certain accuracy (preferably on ImageNet).

You can also compare the speed of processing (significantly affected by image size):
1. How fast can you get to a certain accuracy?
2. How many images per second can you classify with that accuracy?
It's important for Westerners to realize that the Chinese never had a Locke, or a Rousseau, or a Hobbes. The foundational political philosophy taken for granted in the West has no parallel in China. Their political philosophy is grounded in a very different hierarchy of values.

I was quite young around the time of Tienanmen Square, but I seem to recall a Statue of Liberty and a lot of talk about democracy, before the protests were crushed. I wonder how Locke, or a Rousseau, or a Hobbes would have fared in the face of the equivalent state suppression.
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How ridiculously good is Amazon at getting free press? They have already likely decided on where to put the new HQ (1), and will get featured in these overwhelmingly positive articles for months to come. I'm also reminded of that 60 minutes segment on drone delivery that just happened to air right before cyber Monday a couple years back. Still waiting on that one, although I do actually think it will happen eventually.

*1 https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2017/09/08/amazons...
They likely do this in order to avoid competition and comparisons.
I think the latter is possible, but even without there are options.

There's a long-tail of credential consumers beyond traditional employers that holds a ton of value. Community level organizations, digital social networks, even open-source communities.

There's also a decent set of skills that can't currently be measured or conveyed by traditional standardized credentials.

Both of these represent an opportunity for a new academic/assessment paradigm to step in and create real value today.

That being said there's definitely going to be huge hurdles in getting to traditional employers, their logic is not necessarily based on best placement or best skill set, but often times on bureaucracy/ass-covering/good-enough mindset. Not to say that isn't valuable at very large scale organizations.
"the academic CS establishment"

Strictly speaking, I think that term attributes more organization to the academic CS establishment than my experience supports.

The point here is that, if they're trying to establish that Smart Technique 2 is better than Smart Technique 1, they need to first establish that Stupid Technique Q doesn't work at all. Which they haven't.

If they don't have access to "truly big data" to do so, well, most of the people who want to use the Smart Techniques probably don't either.
If by some miracle it would come to Columbus, OH I would be thrilled. We definitely have an underutilized pool of talent here. And plenty of people graduating from Ohio State every year that would prefer not to move.
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> This is probably why it's considered "sensitive."

The Social Security Administration calls the SSN "confidential" in their own documentation to citizens.

It wasn't well designed for the modern era and Congress is ill-equipped to try and tackle the real problem (we don't have a national ID card with some sort of chip & pin/passphrase/biomarker).
These might be interesting for a home firewall. Much more powerful and flexible than the usual suspects.

Except for that whole Intel Management Engine fiasco. I've read that (all?) recent Intel CPUs have that? I presume the Ethernet has an IME and is potentially vulnerable?
Because having a list of things reminding you what you should not do will often trigger the impulse to do it. I knew a friend who had such a list, she would immediately do everything on the list then vow not to do it again tomorrow. At some point, it became a habit to do those things on 'break' days.
There are a lot of Chinese companies that are doing amazing things that many of us in the West have not heard of. Have you heard of Broad?
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204417...

Check "other revenue" from the filing.
If I went to a dentist and he had a mohawk with pink hair, I would be concerned. And that's how most people react too. I'm not a fan of dressing up which is why I can't imagine myself working at a wall street firm, but at the same time it's arrogant to think that you can beat everyone else even when you are clearly exhibiting a behavior some people find repulsive.

If there was another dentist with exactly the same skills both technically and socially, there is no reason for patients to go to the guy with pink mohawk.
If DAU is your only metric, sure. WeChat has a horizontal breadth that Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp have been trying to copy though. The equivalent of ApplePay, Venmo, basic online shopping, etc are all in WeChat.

https://a16z.com/2015/08/06/wechat-china-mobile-first/
> China's not blocking out the sharing of ideas though. Until a few months ago, Andrew Ng worked at Baidu!

Ok they are bottlenecking data... As I've already mentioned this is an extremely inefficient way to share data. Sharing data using physically present word of mouth is a lot more expensive and slower than sharing it instantly via an open internet connection.
Well mentioning your app here would be a good start for example.
"A factor of 10x isn't a horrible tax to pay for re-using re-usable infrastructure, like your database. A factor of 60x-130x is more debatable, but I think the CIDR paper is totally worth talking about. I'm a bit disappointed that there aren't reasonable baselines, but not as much as that the SIGMOD paper doesn't have any baselines at all."

His "smarter algorithms" aren't.
You are only liable for CGT if you sell an asset (= realised gain).

So, if you buy a stock at $10 and it goes up to $100, your CGT liability is a certain percentage of $90 ($100 - $10) upon liquidation.

If you buy a stock at $100 and it goes down to $10, you end up with a $90 (generally carry forward, some jurisdictions allow carry backwards) loss that can be used to offset other gains.
> we aren't their customers and can't take our business elsewhere

This is an understatement. We are literally a cost center for them. Complying with the Fair Credit Reporting Act is the only reason they bother listening to our complaints, yet that same Fair Credit Reporting Act has effectively enshrined the big 3 credit bureaus with a moat against effective competition.
Google stopped email scanning even for free Gmail.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.ht...
It depends on how they're doing it. Uber and Lyft, for example, are definitely startups under Blank's definition, because they were searching for a new model. Postmates too was new; I don't believe there was a successful delivery company that worked like they do.

If you were to start a Postmates competitor today, though, and were just doing what they did, then it wouldn't be a startup. At $250m ARR, their business model is already proven.
> One big issue you face is that you're going to be teaching children and helping to shape their minds so you must use valid scientific research to back up your ideas less we create a generation of adults who cannot think about the world.

Don't let the barely adequate be the enemy of the actively harmful. Most education research is of low quality and education does not incorporate known effective techniques like mastery learning or spaced repetition.

Education degrees and education research deserve all the respect they get.
1) we don't know if this was a first because for the latter half of that period, we generally didn't know of the existence of a given hurricane unless it approached landfall. That ability only came with weather satellites.

2) note: this site tries to get the browser's location. Always use weather.gov (the U.S. Weather Service site), not weather.com, for forecasts.
Shout-out to them for not backing down when publishing Bunnie Huang's "Hacking the Xbox." Even MIT refused to have his back.
a tool which pairs well with parameter store is https://github.com/segmentio/chamber/ . it's a nice interface over the awscli commands that save you a lot of typing. definitely worth looking at as it also saves you the hassle of dealing with a secrets file stored in s3.
One of the things I've realized is that using names for locating what's needed (I assume we're talking about the same idea) is part of the problem. At small scales it's fine. As systems get bigger, it becomes a problem. The internet went through this. When it started as the Arpanet, there was (if I remember correctly) one guy who kept the directory of names for each system on the network. The network started small, so this could work. As it grew into the thousands of nodes, this became less manageable, partly because there started to be duplicate requests for the same name for different nodes--naming conflicts, which is why DNS was created, and why ICANN was ultimately created, to settle who got to use which names. I doubt something like that, though, would scale properly for code, though many organizations have tried that, by having software architects in charge of assigning names to entities within programs. The problem then comes when companies/organizations try to link their systems together to work more or less cooperatively. I heard despondent software engineers talk about this 15 years ago, saying, "This is our generation's Vietnam." (They didn't lack for the ability to exaggerate, but the point was they could not "win" with this strategy.) They were hoping to build this idea of the semantic web, but different orgs. couldn't agree on what terms meant. They'd use the same terms, but they would mean different things, and they couldn't make naming things work across domains ("domains" in more than one dimension). So, we need something different for locating things. Names are fine for humans. We could even have names in code, but they wouldn't be used for computers to find things, just for us. If we need to disambiguate, we can find other features to help, but computing needs something, I think, that identifies things by semantic signifiers, so that even though we use the same names to talk about them, computers can disambiguate by what they actually need by function. It wouldn't get rid of all redundancy, because humans being humans, economics and competition are going to promote some of that, but it would help create a lot more cooperation between systems.
I'd happily pay $20 a year to get notifications for my wife's and my various email addresses, if it meant an honest service that wasn't trying to sell us shit via spam.
I doubt they did, based upon the news reporters reposting examples from the study for the last 7 years. In particular where the name is identical or almost the same, DOB is the same, State of Birth is the same, but the birth city or county differs.

You read the name reference from the first sentence of a blog. The blog entry also mentions two of the main reasons, data entry errors and fraud.
> use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism...

And therein lies the sad reality for us all. Given how brilliant Russians truly are, had they directed their tremendous cultural wealth instead toward stabilizing and strengthening this world, perhaps they would have already achieved their goals of leading it long ago. Of course, that might entail in some ways to not follow in the footsteps of its current leaders.
AWS is launching a new region in the Middle East in 2019
yes - but isn't that what's essentially happening here when you run your coin thru a mixer and mix it with other coin (which must have the same value) - you sell your coin and get back a new one with today's value - voila a taxable event ....
I didn't write it, but I ran into a problem on Windows when pulling a Git repo that had INSTALL (the instructions to the user) and install (a script that ran the installation).
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Imagine a malicious attack on a target where a cryptolocker is pushed to a victim, an anonymous tip is sent to the authority about the same person holding potential documents related to terrorism, and the attacker just throw away the key.

How can you even defend yourself?
That's part time. I ran into that rut myself when I was 18-19 years old; had a job. But I couldn't get the benefits as they would not make me full time.

Sure overtime kicked in a little earlier but they always tried to cut it to less than 2hours a week so it actually hurt me to work overtime.

So they basically incentivize not working 32
The $100,000 may well have been a small fraction of what was actually spent, but until we have proof the outrage needs to be kept down. We're in real danger of revisiting yellow journalism and creating an even more polarizing political situation.
I like sandbox mode much better, it seems better for learning if you can just keep going until you are tired.

It seems like there's a bug, I tried changing the settings (different string, different tempo) and with the radio button still set to "sandbox" but it seems like it went into survival anyhow. (I had five hearts and the game ended quickly)

Just fiddling around with it, it seems like you have to let a note ring for a fair amount of time before it figures out what note you are on (just like any tuner I have ever used). I suppose it's just a hard problem to solve, but it seems like that would get in the way of playing the game at a higher tempo or trying to do a similar game that used more than one string at a time (having multiple notes ringing at the same time also seems to inhibit it from zeroing in on what note you just played). Is this why you restricted the game to a single string at a time?

I have not played Guitarsmith, Guitar Hero, or whatever the commercial games are which teach you guitar, but people who use them have told me that they are very accurate with recognizing whether you are playing the note or making a mistake. I'm curious if you have any sense of whether that's true. If so do they just have much more sophisticated algorithms for examining the waveform and extracting the notes?
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Can you explain the difference between the two? I'm new to CNNs and have been wondering this myself - this SO answer says that they're the same thing:

https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/154798/difference-...
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Nah. There are legitimate reasons for doing this. Especially when spiking neurons are implemented using analogue circuits (which I could find no indication of in the press release however, but see [1,2,3,4] for examples) spiking neurons offer significant advantages, such as extremely low power consumption, intrinsic dynamics, and asynchronicity (which again, reduces power consumption by not requiring clocks).

[1] https://brainscales.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/
[2] http://www.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/vision/spikey/
[3] https://web.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/neurogrid.htm...
[4] http://ncs.ethz.ch/
I put out a syscall table back in the day for Linux 2.2 (up to %eax 190). Someone copied it (I'm glad.): https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~bismith/test/syscalls/syscalls32.... They didn't attribute it to me, but I remember a professor did for his class. There were better tables after that I admit, though I liked my version because it linked into the source code.
I would assume you would argue that you merely moved money (or assets) around, just like you would wire money from A to B. Moving stocks with unrealised gains from broker A to B is also not taxable.

The only person you would ever have that conversation with would be the IRS (or your local tax authority outside of the US), and they are bound by confidentially.
Thankyou for clarifying the clarification.
In a universe of unreliable subreddits, that's a strong leader.

I'd look elsewhere.
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This problem has a solution (albeit an imperfect one), which is charging wealthier schools more in order to charge more poor schools less. Obviously that model has drawbacks, but it may work better with a tech product than other areas, where marginal cost is relatively small.
The last bothers me. It sounds like you invalidate his/her comment because you don't use it. WeChat is definitely more Chinese-speaking population dominant, but not necessarily just users in China. This is a massive network.
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This is so unsettling. Cities bribe companies/sports teams/etc all the time, but Amazon's gall in publicly pitting governments against each other to get the best deal ... just makes me sad.
Ahhh Subspace. I break that out every once in a while as a game that was perfectly designed for it's constraints.

Oh yeah! Subspace! Its successor is on Steam. The original implementation suffered greatly because it had a client-trusting architecture, and it was subject to endless cheating.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/352700/Subspace_Continuum/

I'm explicitly not trying to be Subspace. I actually can't support (to my high standards) the kind of real-time Subspace was trying for. (I can't guarantee your angular orientation is what you think it is down to 1/60th of a second.) My eventual goal is to try to implement a Space MMO, sort of like a 2D arcade space Eve Online.

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3DPalL7p5w
I lived in China for 9 years and could never find a working VPN that would last more than a month. So I just didn't bother using anything outside of work. It was ironic that I worked for Microsoft, would use Bing at home, and used Google at work because...I could.

> We need them more than they need us. That is the problem.

Disagree. They still want our business, they will find ways to make it through the disruption. China is not ready to close itself from the rest of the world economically.
This started as "Russia hacked the election" and now we are talking about Russia taking out ads in support of BLM claiming its a psyop? At what point do people just accept the fact that Trump won a democratic election, racists voting or not.

The actual campaigns took out billions of $ in ads and campaign ads are never honest, accurate or logical. Who cares about $100k in Russian ads?
Makes me wonder if the city has already been picked, and this is just a smart way of Mr. Benzos to get the absolutely best conditions without having to even negotiate..
I like that they ARE buckets of bytes on Unixen.

As an analogy take the common text file. Would you like it if the read() and write() system calls looked at the file extension and refused to write non-ASCII or non-Unicode into it?

I would not like that. The flexibility to do whatever I want with those bytes is more important than guaranteeing correct text encoding.

If someone wants that for their system, make the user software do it, not the kernel.
Google search + incognito usually allows a few peeks.
There is no moral high ground period. People who talk about moral high ground are usually just insecure and/or looking to save face.

US people don't use Chinese apps because they are not competitive and solve problems that are China-specific. Heck, its just not US people, but Taiwan people, Hong Kong people, Singapore people, Japanese people, Korean people, Myanmar people, Cambodia people, etc...

There is a reason for this.
We ran into this issue in Servo too. https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/1226
IIRC Bezos chose seattle not just for available talent but also the fact that there are no income / corporate taxes in the state of WA.
I believe this factor will be also significant when they choose the 2nd HQ. Texas / Florida / Nevada are the competitive places that come to mind that have no income tax. Perhaps Austin (availability of talent pool) seems likely ?
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At first, I thought you might be hyperbolic or had fallen for some sort of propaganda (for lack of a better term). I don't know much about ICOs and I know/knew less about Paragon.

I figured I'd check and just let you be, figuring I'd not get involved.

So, I went to Google and entered, "Paragon ICO complaints Reddit."

In two minutes, probably less, I'd confirmed that they were as bad as you claim. I spent about a half hour and read a bunch. If anything, you didn't even mention some of the biggest issues.

The whole thing is shady as hell. They mysteriously went from two to five 'programmers' retroactively. Not only will they not name the programmers, they won't show any of their previous work, such as a GitHub account. The owner probably isn't the owner, but is her husband and he has a storied past that makes me question his ethics.

And it goes on and on. It's like the Equifax of crytocurrency, with regards to a continued stream of negative results. One of the complaints is that they are just in it for the money. Well, yeah... I can see that. I can even rationalize that. But, instead of sticking with their agreed pre-sale amount, they sold like five times as many coins.

How the heck is this even legal? I bet US currency was involved and it has been shown before that that's all it takes for the US Feds to get involved and go stomping across borders.

Seriously, how is it legal?

You didn't even exaggerate! They appear worse than your claim!

As for how they ended up on that site and as the top-most link, I find it hard to give the benefit of doubt. It took me one single search to confirm what you said. I only spent the additional time because I like a good train wreck.

I will give them some credit, their balls must need a cart to carry them around. This kind of money attracts strong enemies, regardless of the legality. There is no way in hell that this is legal.
Yes, and a lot of it isn't, which is what I'm saying :)
Most of America, or Americans?
No innovation in entertainment means culture safety means prolonged rule of the party.

You are just confirming their logic.
Me as well while cloning linux on windows
Then why block it?
For that matter, this is how Widows's Linux compatibility layer works.
> had(Russian) they directed their tremendous cultural wealth instead toward stabilizing and strengthening this world, perhaps they would have already achieved their goals of leading it long ago.

Do you have any examples from the current roster of leading nations that have used their resources to contribute to stability of the world?

The sad reality is USA does all it can to retain power. All other are trying everything they can to obtain it.
I think Amazon should have gone the exact opposite way: buy a small, failing city to become Amazon's. There are plenty around the US and the world. Bring in your people. Pay people to relocate. Allow the spouses of those employees to create small businesses. Essentially make Eureka.
I don't understand your analogy. What exactly is it supposed to be analogous to?