skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I'm well aware of the definitions of a corporation, and totalitarianism, and dystopia. But a priest who appears to have spent the early 20th century pottering around the English countryside writing stories about trains was not informed by having lived in a corporate-totalitarian dystopia. So your earlier assertion that this is what Thomas the Tank Engine represents seems specious.

It's a modern reinterpretation of a tv show whose cultural dissonance makes it seem dystopian and authoritarian, but I'm sure someone could find a way to make the Neighborhood of Make-Believe from Mister Rogers seem like a dystopia if they tried. Doesn't mean that's what Fred Rogers was going for.
Sure, I don't live in SF either, but afaict SF is the most discussed city with regards to housing affordability.
It's the name of the creator of Bitcoin, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto. You can imagine them as little pennies with Satoshi's head imprinted on them, if you like.

And it's not really a decimal; it's more properly "1 bitcoin" in the technical sense. 1BTC was later defined to be equal to 10^8 Satoshis because that seemed like a useful amount of money to track exchange rates for (though now it's about 10^4 too high.)
That's a problem in the logistics industry as a whole. Nobody owns anything and everybody has a subcontractor.
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Cool. This is essentially about creating a single image cluster that runs python. I suppose if one can accept the need for python and a python module be installed on all "nodes" - this would start to look a lot like parallel python:

http://www.parallelpython.com/

From an architectural point of view, an si cluster could be viewed as code+communication (+data, but the data could be "wrapped" in code). Ssh and shell provides this - shell basically wraps libc and binary blobs as callable code (built-in + assumed-available code) - and if the cluster isn't too heterogeneous can be augmented with anything from c/go code (compiler assumed available) to machine code (scp /usr/bin/<someprog>...).

And it is of course possible to build this on top of python. But the result can be much more than "just" for infrastructure - if it really works it becomes a transparent cluster platform.
It sounds very stressful to work at a major company
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I’m doing research (not deployment) and have the same feeling. PyTorch has inspired a blog post [1], Tensorflow didn’t.

Briefly, the benefits of PyTorch are

* easy conversion to NumPy arrays (meaning rest of Python can be used!). This is a bottleneck in Tensorflow; for reasonable sizes, PyTorch is 1000x faster.

* trackbacks are easy to follow (because defines graph by running)

* it’s as fast as tensorflow [2] (or at least torch is, which calls the same C functions as PyTorch, and there’s a tweet [4] by a core dev saying to expect the same speeds). Plus on the web I’ve only found anecdotes that support PyTorch faster than tensorflow.

* it’s easy to extend; everything is a simple Python class. e.g., see their different optimizers [3]

[1]:http://stsievert.com/blog/2017/09/07/pytorch/

[2]:https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks

[3]:https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/tree/master/torch/optim

[4]:https://twitter.com/soumithchintala/status/83545486710789734...
Over at howl.io we're building an editor that's live editable like emacs. You can eval snippets of lua or moonscript code and they take effect immediately.
The first problem I have with Star Trek is that Gene Roddenberry insisted that the human characters have no real conflicts or emotional flaws - because they were meant to represent some evolved ideal - as a result, it's impossible to empathize or really even relate to them unless they deviate from the template. Captain Kirk was the antithesis of everything Gene believed in, because Roddenberry was forced to sell the show as "Wagon Train to the Stars" - Kirk was a hard-drinking space cowboy who wasn't afraid to lie, kiss or punch his way out of a bad situation. Wesley Crusher, meanwhile, was Gene's ideal. He was an insufferable boy genius and nobody liked him.

Which is the better character? Whose conflicts are more human, and therefore more inspiring to viewers?

My second problem with Star Trek is that it's "post-scarcity" Utopia is a vaguely realized nonsensical fantasy based on the existence of magitech which conveniently handwaves away anything which might provide legitimate or compelling conflict at a societal level. The only real challenge the Federation can face is space wedgies and phaser fire. But no one starves, no one is homeless, no one lacks for any creative, cultural or intellectual need --- but there's no good reason why.

It's not even good science fiction. Subspace and particles of the week and assorted technobabble. A parallel universe where everyone is evil. Transporters and holograms which appear to randomly create sentient life. The Enterprise once got knocked up and gave birth to a negative space wedgie. Sometimes it comes close to interesting ideas, but because the show was intended for drama, and not scientific rigor, none of the really interesting stuff ever wound up on screen.

So how to we achieve the Trek Utopia in the real world? We need replicators? Sorry - not in this universe, a little thing called the Second Law of Thermodynamics guarantees anything remotely like that will be vastly less efficient than what we have now. Warp drive? Nope - FTL travel is impossible. Free energy? Nope, 2nd Law again. Transporters? Nope - no Heisenberg Compensators in this universe. It doesn't work. It can't work. It can't ever work.

This comment makes it seem like I hate the show, but I don't - I grew up with it and I adore it, but I think its cultural relevance is vastly overrated. Star Trek, at least its later incarnations, gives the world an impossible Utopia to look forward to with impossible people to aspire to be. That's not inspiring to me.

Give me someone like Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop to look up to. Imperfect, flawed heroes doing their best to make sense of a violent and capricious universe which doesn't give you any easy answers and won't keep you from starving to death in the void if you can't find a way to live for another week. Optimism and resolve mean something in a setting like that. In Star Trek, all the problems have already been solved and the characters are just looking for ways to pass the time.
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Funny enough, I use the Win key on my keyboard effectively as a 'meta' for all my shortcuts in i3. It was the only key that wasn't doing anything.
It's misleading I think, people generally know the judge is supposed to be impartial, it's the "used against you" part that is key. Surprisingly few people realize that you should under no circumstances talk to the police without a lawyer, especially if you're innocent.
Indeed. The university where I'm currently faculty views it's mandate as making college more accessible to the state's population and supporting first generation college students.

If they're going to be left holding the bag for that, they're going to stop.

And to address the poster who thinks we can blind universities to a potential student's financial background...we have a very good statistics and computer science departments, and a massive data set of all our students. We can probably come up with a classification scheme in short order, "blinding" or not. Hell, I'm pretty sure you could get pretty far just from "What high school did you go to?" and the classes you took there.
Great post, Tripu.
I'm of a similar mind. However, somewhat recently I came across this article which helped provide a framework to think about all these things. Turns it that it's not just a flat space of competing tools:

https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/07/05/linux-tracing-systems/
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It comes down to incentives. With the current policies in place, there isn't much incentive for incumbents / existing residents to allow more housing.

If you are a home owner or landlord, reduced supply results in asset appreciation.

If you are a renter with rent control, then building more housing in your neighborhood may not seem like much of a benefit either.

Policy makers are always looking for piecemeal solutions, e.g. let's give teachers a rental subsidy, tweak the % of affordable housing that must be build, etc.

Lawmakers really need to create incentives so incumbents have a reason to want more housing.
Yep, nobody's perfect.
Why does any country get to lay claim on a chunk of seafloor that has been uninhabitable for land animals far longer than humans have been around as a species?

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_t...

It's true this is unfair to marine animals, but that's really their fault for not attending the meetings when the treaty was signed.
Not quite. The central ideas underpinning bitcoin are very old, tracing back to hashcash and bitgold. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hashcash#History

It's not really an important distinction, but maybe someone will find the history interesting.
You'd be looking at Category 1 LTE, which is LTE without the MIMO. Some Category 1 modules are starting to support VoLTE. This stuff is relatively new, which might explain the answers you've got if it has been awhile since you've asked. It's still strongly recommended that Category 1 devices use a receive diversity antenna, but they work without it. Less robust, obviously.
What would they be meant to identify with, then?
Your instincts are correct, you're describing the future. But there's a problem preventing it from working today.

Your idea only really works if you can get a large number of these artisans on board, across many disciplines, and keep their "dance card" stocked.

The issue is that solving any problem in software costs about $1000. And typically if you want to solve one problem you need to solve 2-20 others first.

Your mention of open source is key here. Every pizza place in the world probably has a dozen information problems that would be worth solving, but most of them aren't going to be willing to spend $100,000 to do it, even in 10 installations.

But of those 10 problems, 9 or 10 of them are not core IP for them. So something like 95% of the budget could be split across like 1000 pizza places, driving that cost to $1-20 which is a much more manageable cost.

So you need some sort of bond to finance these projects across 1000 clients.

And second, when you split the design work across 1000 clients all paying in a different moment, you end up with 990 little gigs and 10 big ones and the 990 are too small to be worth the overhead for your artisan. To make those worthwhile you need some infrastructure for turning those contracts into 5 minute non interactive (no customer support) deliveries, and packing them into a stocked queue that can pay the artisan'a rent. I.e. If there's one new pizza joint on a Tuesday afternoon, there are 50 other 5 minute tasks that they can also do so they aren't waiting around for pizza joints and getting nothing done.

And when a pizza joint needs analytics while that artisan is on vacation, you need another artisan who can step in.

So that's a two sided market, which is a notoriously hard startup problem.

And lastly, these information problems are not all code problems. There is design and stats and customer service and other stuff mixed in there. So you need a stable of design artisans, customer service artisans, etc. which means we're talking about an n-sided market.

Which the startup world has, as far as I'm aware, no known examples of.

It'll happen. It's just messy.
NewSessionTicket is sent before ChangeCipherSpec means the message is not encrypted using the master secret exchanged with the handshake and is not necessary means that the session ticket is in plaintext. Quite contrary, it has been encrypted using the server secret key.
In the page 3 of RFC5077, it states "a ticket that is encrypted and integrity-protected by a key known only to the server." and in the page 11, "Tickets must be authenticated and encrypted to prevent modification or eavesdropping by an attacker."
> We treat digital goods the same as physical goods

I'm struggling to see the impact this has on economic reality. Could you expound?
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> there are many good engineers, but they are very difficult to replace

These engineers tend to find themselves well compensated. They aren’t representative of most coders in the Valley. Similarly with salespeople, you have lots of meagrely-compensated glorified customer service people and then people with difficult-to-replace relationships.
It's been a little while since I looked, but they did used to make smaller and more portable models even though their lines definitely skew towards hulking powerhouses.

I remember the 11" W110ER fondly; it was tiny, but it still had a discrete GPU. Those were the days...as much as I love the small ARM Chromebooks, they do lack power for most sorts of realtime rendering applications.

I'm not sure what the exact issue was, but I got a new machine with a card that hung under reproducible conditions (as well as seemingly random ones) over several operating systems and use cases. I thought that BGA issues mostly came after a little while of thermal stressing on the boards and the footprint. But you never know; shit happens.
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A lot of parental obedience is earned just by virtue of being the parent. Beyond that, expecting your child to obey just because they're supposed to be obedient is not a particularly productive attitude.
I don't know, but I'm pretty sure they don't feel like they have to identify with a particular character.

When they watch a train crash episode, for example, they don't run into walls afterward, they pick up their trains and crash them together.
I'm not trying to equivocate I'm trying to point out the a-historicism of throwing our hands in the air and saying "well I guess there's just no reasoning with them!"

The reason our diplomatic options are so poor now is because we have constantly failed to deliver our end of the bargain when it comes to nonproliferation in North Korea, see the Agreed Framework. Saying that they're "just crazy bullies" has always been a stupid over simplification that gets us nowhere closer to not blowing each other up.

> and the US seems to be honest about the contempt with which it views the North Korean regime

And DPRK is not? What are you even talking about? The DPRK literally uses inflammatory rhetoric about the USA all the time.
There's no technical reason a Lisp processor couldn't have followed the same development path as workstation/PC
processors and kept up, but it didn't have the volume to
sustain the development effort.
Okay, that makes sense. Thanks!
Black hats can get money easily enough without needing to resort to getting tangled up with secret police. Seems like the only reason to do that is if they had black mail on you
D’oh. I meant anonyomized (I would edit comment but can’t).
The difference in fees is probably closer to 0.5% (50 basis points), not 0.5 basis points.
Did you even read CPI information from the link you posted? Literally every page is riddled with opaque reference to arbitrarily defined values and modifiers inserted by the FED.

>In calculating the index, price changes for the various items in each location are aggregated using
weights, which represent their importance in the spending of the appropriate population group.

What do you think "aggregated using weights" means? How does the FED determine what those weights are? Who decides how how much these "weights" should factor in deciding the proper "spending of the appropriate population group"? Where's a description of their formula? There is none - its made up.

> The CP I-U and CP I-W are considered final when released, but the C-CP I-U is issued in preliminary form and subject to three
subsequent quarterly revisions.

In other words, they revise their ridiculous assertions months after the headlines to look less ridiculous in retrospect.

>Seasonally adjusted data are computed using seasonal factors derived by the X-13ARIMA-SEATS seasonal
adjustment method. These factors are updated each February, and the new factors are used to revise the
previous 5 years of seasonally adjusted data.

More arbitrary "seasonal adjustments". How would the IRS feel if you reported your taxes but you said that you reserved the right to adjust them up to 5 years later?

>Seasonally adjusted data, including the U.S. city average all items index levels, are subject to revision
for up to 5 years after their original release.

Which they change up to 5 years later!

That's just from one page of their nonsense! Read the footnotes beneath each chart of "data" to see a slew of arbitrary adjustments that are made for every "calculation".

How many invented variables do you think it takes to invalidate their formulas? 1? 2? or the dozens they have?
The comment I was replying to did not specify "in this case" or "in this context" or "when we are talking about San Francisco." Saying that the term is very specific and specifically means X without, yourself, specifying the conditions under which it means X reads as holier than thou, not as let me helpfully clarify this technical term for you.

I actually studied housing issues in college because I was pursuing a BS with a concentration in housing as I wanted to be an urban planner. I am fully aware of the fact that the term is used that way in some situations and stated so in my comment. But, I write a fair amount about affordable housing and that isn't how I use it.

Good communication starts with context. This is the internet. It is not San Francisco.
You forgot outsourcer/contractor. The company I work for has no one that can code iOS or Android apps, we outsource everything on Odesk and mark up the price, of course the quality is crap too. But since we can delete Google reviews and push down Yelp reviews and disable reviews on Facebook, everything is fine :/
Where do you get a 9-5 job that pays $25/hr without going to college? I know adjunct professors that get paid less than that.
As far as authentication for Elixir, have you seen Guardian or Coherence?
https://github.com/ueberauth/guardian
https://github.com/smpallen99/coherence

I vote Elixir and Phoenix.
I'll bet he can't even hear it.
I always read these posts as all or nothing, so forgive me if that's not what you mean. Why not take a smaller chunk of a portfolio, say 2%, and invest in crypto?

That way you can get potentially huge gains with little at risk.
The hard part is most houses do not contain a single plumb, true, and square room. Walls do weird things, especially where they meet floors and ceilings. Floors are hard to get flat. Etc. I'd say once you resolve all this and get your rail level and parallel to the floor, yes, then throwing up the cabinets is the easiest part. After that, you probably want to learn how to do some molding to trim them in.
Ironically Java apps would ideally be much leaner than JS. Once WASM support is done for CheerpJ the bundles should be quite small.

JavaScript developers are foaming over "tree shaking" which is child's play compared to how much dead code you can remove from a compiled language.

If you don't use tricks like reflection you can eliminate basically all dead code from Java. This is done routinely on Android via proguard and Android apps would be very lean if people didn't take the opportunity to jam tons of crap into them.

It seems the natural way of things is to bloat your app up to at least 5mb by tacking on crap until it's "too slow" for normal users.

The Java Applets of ye old days were basically desktop apps and only took about 3 mb, huge for back then but probably below average for a site these days. And this was before Java had Proguard and related tools to strip unused code.
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> If a business already paid taxes on it when they earned it, why are they required to pay taxes on it again? It's double taxation, and it's utterly unfair.

> If the customer already paid taxes on it when they bought it, why business required to pay taxes on it [that income] again? It's double taxation, and it's utterly unfair.

Double taxation arguments are like mad libs you can pick any two parties in a taxed transaction and make the same argument. Pretty much every other kind of transaction is taxed. Yet the other places we tax, income and sales, generate healthy economic activity (labor, wealth, and consumption). Unlike inheritance which has little more than net 0 impact on the economy.
https://blockchain.info/pools

It’s not as decentralized as he/they hoped??
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>So I present to you: they are lying. They are lying about their reasoning, they are lying about their models, they are lying about their predictions. I understand why they're lying, but they're still lying.

Some are no doubt lying, but never underestimate one's ability to delude themself.
> The M4 carbine is the standard-issue rifle fielded since the mid-1990s and used across the military as a replacement for the M16.

I never knew it was a replacement. I thought it was just mainly for close quarters/urban combat.
> Are kids not watching Mr. Rodgers these days ?

It's not really on the air anymore. The modern animated spinoff "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood" is still on, and is quite good. But I'm not sure when you'd find the original still on.
Most environments that persist data are not disposable. Works great for web servers and microsevices though.
"Name" is maybe not quite right, "Satoshi Nakomoto" is the creator's pseudonym. The actual author of the bitcoin whitepaper is unknown and the subject of much speculation.

I'm sure OP knows this, I'm just being pedantic.
You can 'fix' that at least: https://github.com/hamishcoleman/thinkpad-ec
I don't know about any of that, but I know most people can understand how a computer works without understanding binary, transistors, quantum mechanics, or maths.
One of those frustrating problems that's already solved, but in pieces too widely scattered to do anyone any good.
Apple reminds the FCC that it can’t activate imaginary iPhone FM radios
I took that as a reference to the decline of manufacturing in the United States.
There is a potential major weakness even with a one time pad, which is exactly why numbers stations are permanently transmitting - side channel information leakage. By observing an increase or decrease in channel activity, you can learn things.
I got that starting w/o a degree in web dev...so...yeah.