skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure but that's the example of the kind of influencing you'd expect to be proportional to the hype that media has been stirring up. Giving money to the "foundations" is how pay-to-play usually works at avoids a more direct route which is illegal.
Being a supertaster doesn't mean you end up being a picky eater. It's entirely possible to acclimate to foods and drinks that you originally detested. For me, I spent years forcing myself to drink beer before it barely became tolerable. I also force myself to eat brussel sprouts when they show up (such as christmas). I do the same for olives, pineapple, coffee, wine, etc. Nowadays when I order from subway, I always ask for "everything", it's great to get a mix of things that I don't really like with the things I do.
I have a very similar experience with wines. I did find one kind of wine that I genuinely enjoy, though, and that's icewine. I think it's because of how much stronger it tastes like, well, grapes rather than alcohol. And also very sweet.

But because of that latter part, it's really more like a liquid dessert.
I was at SoundCloud briefly and an interview with this guy was posted on Ming Jing radio. We were DDOS’ed and eventually had to take his profile offline as well due to the volume of requests. At the same time, I remember Googling his name and found his FB and Twitter accounts were disabled too.

I brought up the optics of blocking him in a MingJing slack channel but at the time there wasn’t another way to mitigate the traffic. I imagine this is due to the same pressure. Maybe not, though.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/world/asia/guo-wengui-...

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/04/21/wanted-billionaire-guo...
How? I never challenged the validity of his/her experiences, simply their relevance to the modern day and how useful they are. Apparently that's too much for some around here, people are putting all sorts of words in my mouth.

Behind what? No one "wins" an internet debate. I read an opinion I strongly disagreed with and challenged it. And while I have the time I'm continuing to challenge some of the responders. It's honestly been thought-provoking.
I'm not sure I get what you mean? If the specific title of PhD is unrelated to people using their titles as false sources of authorities, then what I said isn't wrong. I guess you could argue that in research many people have PhDs, so whether you have one or not is no longer a big deal.
Mueller's investigation has gone far beyond buying ads. But yes,I absolutely think it should be illegal for foreign nations to participate in our political process either through direct means (donations), or indirect (funding political ads), and I consider both interference in our elections.
The very definition of "taste" is fuzzy. Is it the way it actuates the receptors in your mouth, or is it the signals that ultimately come to your brain?
"Bloomberg reports that Tesla is sending hundreds of its Powerwall battery systems to be paired with solar panels. The joint systems will help the battered island territory restore electric power."

At least people won't have to wait for the PR electric grid, both the transmission and distribution systems, to be rebuilt. This should have a definite positive impact and hopefully save some lives.
Some people do their PhD while they're working. You might want to change career paths, e.g. specialize in some machine learning subfield.

I'm pretty sure Doctors specialize further, whilst working, as well?
Indeed, my parents put me through college, and I finished grad school with money in the bank thanks to the NSF.

At the time, the conventional wisdom was: Don't get a graduate degree unless somebody else is paying for it, or you are in a job that guarantees a salary bump for doing it. I don't think that's changed.
Another celery hater here.

And while we're at it, I know one person who hates watermelons.
Sure. I have no respect for someone just because they happen to have died, and am honest about it. Dead folks can't take offense, and I think the family members and friends should have the frame of mind to be honest about he deceased life. That's it.

It isn't like the respect is universal. A mass murder dies? It's quite alright to bring up his/her crimes. Serial rapist? Sure, it'll be brought up. Open racism? Yup, it'll probably be reported. Few complain. (I do not believe Hugh was on the level of these folks. Man wasn't perfect, though).
Okay, okay, hang on now, how a chip is manufactured and the design flow are really two different things.

If you could tell us your background it might be helpful to get started.
He has no choice but to say that as it is a threat for his business.
I'm curious if we'll see a highly-opinionated framework arise that encapsulates all of the technologies used here under the umbrella of a single configurable library... or does that already exist?
I noticed that too. And you can see the artifacts of inducing labor before Christmas, New Years, July 4, etc.
It's a pretty good context article, if you've missed recent news.
You aren't. If you drill into the data, the values for each day is AVG(#birth on 1994-MM-dd, 1995-MM-dd, etc., 2014-MM-dd). For 02-29, the cells for, say, 2001-02-29 doesn't exist, so it's merely AVG(1996-02-29, 2000-02-29, 2004-02-29, 2008-02-29, 2012-02-29). (This is conjecture as to how the researcher computed the numbers from the raw data tables, but the wording of the summary suggests this is the algorithm).
Also see: The stock market.
Also: http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/facebook-fascism-ma...

TLDR: social networking site blocked his account for 30 days after he posted ‘Kamal ka phool hamari bhool’ (Our mistake, the lotus) with a photo on his page. (lotus is the political symbol of the current government in power, BJP)
They'll downvote this because it is generalizing bullshit in almost every point made.
This isn't really the NSA's domain -- they're a more technical agency than that.

Where the Russians penetrated actual systems -- eg, the DNC hack -- the NSA was there alerting people and discussing attacks on the systems during the election. They intentionally didn't mention the possible collusion between Trump and Russian during the election, not to be seen as trying to influence it, but they were anything but silent about Russia attacking US computer systems.

Combating mechanized state propaganda inside the US isn't really anyone's job, thought it could fall under the FBI counterintelligence mandate. The openness with which the US conducts its society operates against it here -- the government doesn't directly manage propaganda and doesn't have a division tasked with disabling foreign propaganda under the banner of protecting first amendment freedoms. (After all, how you determine propaganda from funding people who just happen to think that way in a free society?) There are numerous reasons that experts in the field avoided collaborating with the government post Snowden, compounding the ineffectiveness of the US here.

This is a real challenge posed to democracy -- how do we stabilize a national identity and discourse with open memetic borders and having both a past that contains some really nasty business and a society divided on pressing social topics that can be used as wedge issues?

I don't think it's constructive to whine that the government didn't just solve it for us -- they shouldn't, in a free society. The price of democracy is that we, as citizens, need to maintain vigilance on constantly be discussing how to collectively deal with these hard issues.
Well, your portability for Windows and Linux is just from the JVM no? What does Kotlin add that java didn't?

And your Kotlin to JS, when you say target API? I mean, how similar is it to your JVM one? If you had to rewrite everything you were using Swing for, that's a lot of rewrite.

I think with Haxe, though not sure, but it's my impression with Haxe it would be almost 100% same code. Because whatever UI framework you'd used in Haxe is in the standard library, and would therefore be availaible on all its target platforms.

Hum, actually I take that back, it seems HaxeUI supports most platforms but not HTML5. Though HaxeUI2 seems to be in development adding support for it.

Ok, I see what you mean then. I don't know if I'd call that truly portable, but if they add native WxWidget and say QT to Kotlin native, it would slowly tend towards what Haxe has going.

I don't really think of that as portable personally. So many languages offer it today, Java with GWT, Clojure/ClojureScript, Kotlin, OCaml/BuckleScript, PureScript, Ruby/Opal, Python/PyJamas, Erlang/Shen, Scala, etc.

You save a bit of time not having to learn another language, and can reuse all pure code, mostly. But I'd really like to see a language develop which supports multiple platforms from the get go by having a unified standard library that was very complete, including UI.
By the time of the induction lecture, won't most students be too invested already to be able to go back?
Does FB have any incentive to bend to the will of the Chinese government? They're already banned in China.
At the time of the referendum Quebec was subsidizing the rest of Canada through equalization payments. More recently they've been on the receiving end but that has not been true for most of its history.
While I agree that the semiconductor industry is crushingly conservative, it's not necessarily that bad. You can still use many of the "old classics", you just have to remember that instead of 10 design rules there are 10K ;)

In all honesty though, a significant amount of the complexity can be hidden in the eda layers nowadays, and instead of dealing with the er,"tenacious"- synthesis tools, you can use good alternatives like Chisel.
Stay outside. Try to find an area that has minimal falling objects. If possible, find something sturdy to shelter inside like a bus stop. Knell down to prevent yourself from losing your balance and be observant of your surroundings. Try to remain in place but move if you see the situation rapidly deteriorating like puffs of dust being spewed from concrete building columns.
First of all you must understand logic gates, flip-flops (D-FF, T-FF and so on) and multiplexers. All of them are built on logic gates. To verify that you really understand the concept, try to implement a digital clock. (This one: https://sapling-inc.com/wp-content/gallery/digital-clocks-fo...)

Logic gates are essential of learning digital circuits. After you understand logic gates, you can use it to build many things that are really related to the application. There are many tools to verify the logic gates works as designed.

Then based on the project requirement ($$, time, performance, ...), you can choose to use FPGA or ASIC to implement logic gates. FPGA use array of logic gates while ASIC uses CMOS to implement the logic gates. FPGA is easier to learn and much cheaper. You can buy some development board which costs only several hundred dollars. While ASIC needs much domain knowledge and people involved. ASIC needs you to understand the electronics in order to build something that is useful. You need to understand how the CMOS are implemented (= how semiconductor becomes conductive), how the resistance and capacitance affect the performance, the number of wafer layout which affects the cable layout and more. And don't forget manufacturing can introduce defeats which cause the IC to malfunction in unexpected ways. Each step in ASIC needs a specialist for them
> Not sure why my comment is being downvoted

Because of the following reasons:

1) There's the subtle implication in comments like yours that this posting is not worthy because it was posted before.

2) It doesn't matter. Stuff is re-posted all the time, sometimes simultaneously. That's just the way the web works.

3) It's not your job to moderate or research this site for others.
9/11 has a small but noticeable dip compared to the surrounding dates. I wonder if that's people avoiding it or if it's just coincidence.
Which is probably fine if you're just doing it as a hobby project, but could land you in a legal pickle if you try to do anything commercial with it.
Monty Hall / the time everyone corrected the world's smartest woman
> And moving past mentalities like those of the parent post would naturally secure those rights even more strongly.

A critical part of "moving past" this means recognizing that we are not past this.

A lot of people treat things like the Civil Rights Acts or the Emancipation Proclamation as a faucet. Turn off the faucet and racism is fixed. In reality, it's more like a house fire. It raged bright for a long time, thankfully you put it out. Of course you can't move right back in. There's cleanup to do. There's rebuilding to do. You wouldn't tell the family outside the just-extinguished fire to "move past" it.

White people (myself included) are insulated form a lot of these effects, so it's important we stop and force ourselves to consider them. It's too easy otherwise to pretend the fire's out and everyone's peacefully dreaming in their beds.
Lab41 has done work on code recommendations by using a word2vec representation on the code itself.
> I'm disappointed to see that you're standing up for posting extremely biased political misinformation on HN and shutting down the one person attempting to provide source,

What was your source? My comment history? You didn't even dig enough to see that I am not Russian. So you're throwing allegations around. Yes I speak Russian and a few other languages and I lived in the ex-Soviet Union. Not sure you had to go back 340 days to see that. I mention that about every week here.

Why throw a fit that everyone else is not supporting your political candidate and doesn't share your opinions. Why not provide a counter argument which leads to discussion. You can see I responded to some comments which didn't start with "let's dig in your history". Sure, it's a bit flattering but as I mentioned in another comment, also kinda creepy.
Facebook has been making a lot of overtures to appease the Chinese government as of late. This is likely just another one. FB knows damn well you don't break into China without playing Chinese ball and they seem A-OK with doing so in the name of connecting the world.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/17/technology/facebook-gover...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/technology/facebook-china...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/technology/facebook-china...
Spirit awards are a very fishy business. They tend to charge high entry fees and give out lots of participation trophies. Something that sounds prestigious like a "double silver" probably means that it didn't taste quite as bad as rancid cat pee.
It doesn't work that way in this case. No ML researcher goes out of their way to look for ML patents because the penalty for knowingly infringing is much worse than the penalty for accidentally infringing. If nobody knows these patents exist, and nobody is litigating them, then they can't be "dragging down" research.
Are you sure it is not due to the fetching of content form the server rather than the UI synchronicity? I'm quite certain it is just latency for the download. The components might be fetching that data during their mounting if the architecture was set up that way, but the actual mounting shouldn't be the cause; React's UI is much faster than latency caused by that alone.

It would be better if the components showed a waiting indicator during the download, if the components are responsible for the download. Alternately, the page itself could show that loader before mounting its sub components. Actually, there are many "alternately"s because frankly this site's approach isn't ideal.
That's like viewing Space-X stock as a proxy for real estate on Mars.
I guess I'd like to know how accusations of criminal conduct are normally handled by facebook?

Suppose a user starts posting, all over facebook, posts that accuse a certain male of sex crimes, or... say... pedophilia. Further, this person names this male explicitly. Suppose further, the male has not been charged with any such crime. (Indeed, for all the users in his social circle know, he may not even be a suspect. He could even be completely innocent.)

What is the normal course of action that facebook would take in such cases?

Are the posts taken down? Is the poster warned? Does nothing at all usually happen? (That is, can a user normally make accusations of sex crimes or pedophilia without restraint?) What, exactly, happens in most cases of posts containing accusations of some form of CLEARLY criminal activity?

It seems to me that whatever happens in the proverbial "girl claims a guy is a rapist to their social circle" case, should probably happen here. I think their policy should be consistent, to the extent that is possible.
This is not a very smart positioning for fb. They decided to play an active role in this dispute and take the side of the oppressing state.

We don't know the whole story, the chinese billionaire could also have a hidden agenda and try to get rid of political adversaries by inventing corruption stories and spreading fake news. So taking his side wouldn't have been wise either.

Facebook should've thought "not my circus, not my monkey" and ignore all of this, letting them solve their issues using the legal system.

Why would anyone use facebook now to communicate anything more than some cheap stories and cute cat photos?
lmao, hadn't gotten to that part yet.
I don't make any secret of it. See my web site, "www.animats.com". Although it's rather dated at this point.
It's not allowed to target Americans, so its profile in the US is pretty low.
In the generation that's having kids now, many have a friend whose birthday is 9/11. And they saw that friend suffer through their teens, never feeling right to party on their birthday. It doesn't surprise me they don't want their kid to experience the same.
MOSIS is also an option in the US, albeit more geared towards industry.
This. I haven't even heard the word palindrome outside of either college or outsourced coding challenges (further driving home the bullshit point).
Mining is a placeholder for the real resource which is useful computation. There will be an economy based on distributed electricity and distributed computation eventually
ERPNext (https://erpnext.com)

Open source, self-hosted.
> via machinations by the FBI, give us a Special Counsel which will in all likelihood destroy Trump based on his corrupt business practices unrelated to Russia.

I am all for shedding light and investigating things. We've had enough corruption, anything that leads to less corruption is good in my book.

> The winners won't be a real left party, they'll be mainstream Democrats (centrist-liberal establishment capitalists)

That's the deeper loss here. The opportunity cost talking about Russia and how many scoops of ice-cream Trump had. What happened to those people who voted for Bernie Sanders. He was mostly unknown before the election started and then mobilized a huge amount of followers even while the media was blacking him out. Sure most voted for Hillary but what happened to that energy and enthusiasm. I think we are missing out on creating a new party or at least unseating the old guard at the DNC.
You specifically mention that the comparison with crimea is wrong. And yet all your arguments apply to the crimea (and any other secession) too.
id imagine denis villeneuve's direction doesnt excite you? it doesnt particularly sound like you're a fan of the medium anyway
This reflects my experience. Many/most of the "nontrivial" issues nowadays are rooted in physical issues, not logical issues. And in those cases, simulation is often superior to dealing with the fpga software layer. Fwiw,I asked my co founder formerly at Intel, and he said that fpga involvement was "almost zero".
No, yesterday was a process born dead. If there's no representation of all the factions and a legally binding agreement to vote on, it's useless. The Spanish government could have done nothing yesterday, maybe they should have, and we'd be in the same place now, a illegitimate result with pretty much the same numbers.
Totally OT, but have they cracked the corrosion issues?
I think the trick is that you actually have to be sincere. You almost have to feel sorry for the other person, but in a "wow you seem fucked up but I hope you can still have a good day" way. I never mastered it.
Some languages (like Clojure) very significantly reduce the possibility of thread-related bugs. Clojure in particular was designed with multi-threading in mind, so I think it is a fair point that some languages will have more trouble with this than others.

Try multithreading in C++ vs Clojure and the difference in amount of effort is well beyond trivial.
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A customer recounts Solar City/Tesla installation hell
> Why would anyone use facebook now to communicate anything more than some cheap stories and cute cat photos?

Did anyone ever use Facebook for more serious stuff anyway?
To play devil's advocate: If you're going to break open the good stuff, drink it right, and proper glassware _does_ matter.

Don't be the dude who grabs a bottle of my good scotch and pours it on ice in a rocks glass. The bottle of Jameson was right next door for a reason.
https://www.ready.gov/earthquakes is probably going to be a better resource than anecdotes from mixed sources.
And we got it. Wind power works, is cost effective, and scales well. Solar power works, is cost effective, and scales well. Battery storage works, is starting to be cost effective, and scales well. Fracking works, too, until that level of reserves runs out.

Energy has moved down the priority list of problems.
I searched "Ming Ling radio" and didn't get as many results as I did with "Ming Jing Radio", so I guess that's a typo.
Wonderful. Very supportive.

Would love an answer on timeline when I placed my $ down months ago for my new roof... before you say I am an asshole...

I really am happy that they are doing this. I am big fan of Mr. Musk. and all of his vision and forward thinking. The idea that the human race has someone that has read The Culture and had the brains, money and ambition to try to sort for that helps give me faith that my children might have a good future. However would love to hear a bit more status updates from them for those that sign up and write checks. More communications would be rock star. The fact they did this came from HN and not feom Tesla saying hey guys... heck I would write a check for more if they setup a charity to help here.
As a side note, my stats professor mentioned that power outages have been linked to clusters of births 9 months later.
I think there's a good heuristic here: Would the reasons justify invading a country, if it had never been a part of "your" country?

Invading a country to abolish slavery is morally justifiable, invading a country because you want to tax them isn't.
Chromebooks are Linux.
Yes, the trouble is that such exchanges are often a battle of egos on both sides. Person A has an egoic need to be right, and Person B has an egoic need to prove person A wrong and themselves right.

No doubt this is an effective technique, you just have to be able to release your own ego and also not directly challenge that of the other person.
Virtuoso’s progression from SF Opera to middle-school classroom
I think you meant to imply that it was difficult to so, but you said "can't".

You absolutely can get a paid for ba and ma in the US. It isn't easy, but thousands do so.