skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
people who get laid off have to leave the country, but mostly they have every intention to come back. So they try to settle everything, leave the country and try to comeback again.

One of my friends left US to get married, but his visa was denied. He had to sell all the stuff, cars remotely (with friends help) and it took whole 6 years to come back (because of the visa quotas, denials etc). But he eventually was successful in returning and it's good he settled all his debt when he was kicked out with a visa denial.
Completely true for the last two years, however if the last two months are any indicator things are looking up on this front. The swift 4 update was relatively painless compared to 2 and 3.
What are the LTE FOSS implementations available? I could not find anything that seems usable.
I definitely meant Tim Bray, yes. Don't know why I thought he had that domain; haven't been over there, lately.

Thanks!
Wait, what exactly _is_ keybase?

The home page says:

> Keybase is a new and free security app for mobile phones and computers.

ok, so, what does it do?

> For the geeks among us: it's open source and powered by public-key cryptography.

Still have no idea what it does ..

> Keybase is for anyone. Imagine a Slack for the whole world, except end-to-end encrypted across all your devices. Or a Team Dropbox where the server can't leak your files or be hacked.

ok, so what is it? what does it do?

> [picture that looks like a chat app]

So it's an encrypted chat server?

What is it?

How can you have a homepage for a product that doesn't talk about what the product is and what it does?

Why so obscure? Are you trying to hide something? Is this really a home page for a product aimed at people who care about security?

Compare it to, for example, tarsnap's[0] homepage, which explains exactly what the product does and doesn't leaving you wondering about anything.

[0]: https://www.tarsnap.com/
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Hi, I would like to apply, but according to the link the position is not available anymore, is that the case?
Correct. iirc some Lispers also have such an attitude ;-)
You don't need then entire song for a fingerprint, and the MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz) project has long been supported by Google.

I couldn't find anything which said how big their db is, but you could do some artist/song popularity smarts to figure out the tracks a user is most likely to listen to.

But to constantly be searching through fingerprints for every sound? I'd be interested to see what Googles solution to this may be.
Interest rates (and thus, discount rates) were significantly higher back then. If you can get 5% a year with short-term treasuries, you're not going to pay as much for the free cash flow from buying a bar.
This strikes me as kind of silly.

An error isn't a moral judgment; it's a sort of an accounting entry. Every advance of a runner (or failure to record an out on a batter-runner that doesn't result in an advance, like a fumbled foul flyout) has to be accounted for. If a ball is misplayed, then any advantage that results should not be charged to the pitcher and any subsequent outfall made possible by the misplay should not be charged to the pitcher.

The only other movement record is "defensive indifference", like a late-inning "steal" that the defense takes no action on because it's assumed to not matter in context. But's that's officially accounted for as well.

It's when events are ignored in scoring that make no sense to me. For example, in hockey, a shot that hits iron was simply ignored statistically for decades (not counted as a "shot on goal" because there was no way to account for such a thing that the goalie couldn't be credited with a "save" for).

One beauty of baseball is that a full scoring record (such as ESPN's "pitch by pitch" record, which they've just ruined in their site redesign) is like having detailed minutes of a game.

Speaking of which, IIRC, the infamous Buckner play should not have been recorded as an error because the ball hit something and took a "bad hop" (unforseeable trajectory), and he never touched it. The standard practice in scoring (right or wrong) has been that an untouched ball "cannot" be an error, even if proper technique should have resulted in a proper play (in the Buckner case, he should have knelt and been in position to block any moderate bad hop; in the general case, bad hop, miscommunication between players, etc.)

They should have a third category for such that doesn't charge the pitcher or stick a random fielder with an error.
Ah, word, do you roll up the data by day? Or hour? I think in a situation where you roll it up by hour and you have a lot of files, it can be spread out pretty evenly on a large cluster.
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Probably a little over reacted on my part. Perhaps better said as un-American? Just seems to fly in the face of a lot ideologies folks here stand for.
Are you referring to Nixon/Kissinger opening up a bit with China or Clinton (mostly?) opening up trade with China or the whole process? IIRC the UK only had a 99 year lease on Hong Kong due to the western powers winning the Opium Wars and it had to go back to mainland China (unless the UK wanted to go to war again I suppose) so I was always kind of fatalistic about the fate of Hong Kong under China - it was always going to resemble the mainland governance at some point.
And if they're currently connected to your phone and you want to connect to your computer?
My place of employment still runs on BASIC. Inventory management, shipping, order processing, invoicing, accounting, purchase orders. It's kind of a nightmare. It works. But, it's a nightmare.
The index can be highly compressed, see for example

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My thoughts exactly. I went to Chilli's like 10 years ago because there was nothing else on the freeway and we were hungry.

What a large dumped pile of garbage. I was hungry but even hunger could not entice me to plough through a fraction that.

Awful, awful stuff. Make the plates half the size, a third the size and give ne something I'm willing to taste and eat.

I'll stop by a Chick filler if there's nothing else.
From my experience, swearing seems to be one of the last few things you acquire when getting competent in a foreign language. (Ignoring the fun “Teach me some swears!” pastime of a beginner—they learn the words but not how to use them.) In my time working as a programmer, most of my coworkers have been non-native English speakers, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the ones who swear the most are also the most generally proficient in English.

Most of those top few are also native speakers of languages that are closely related to English, such as German, Dutch, and French, but curiously, the one who curses the most, and the most proficiently, is Israeli.
Google Translate being free doesn't "take revenue away" from another free service, though. Plus I bet Google's precedes those other two.
If you're using Chrome on Android, turn up "Text Scaling" and enable "Force Zoom" in the Accessibility section in Chrome settings. I can zoom to my heart's content now, and everything is readable from a distance.
I thought it was in the PR destination repository (since they are under that repository's /pull namespace). You'd need to add the alternate remote if it's a PR into a fork (as opposed to from it), no?
I'm using an iPhone 7, it will be my last iPhone after 4 models. The lack of headphone jack sucks, the adapter breaks, none of the cheap adapters work - and the audio on good devices sucks.

The only real option is to carry a DAC around which is ridiculous.
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I can't be alone in being exhausted at these studies. Doctors and Lawyers have spent the better part of the last century working on little to no sleep. Academics too. As an engineer, I would regularly work through little sleep because the process of loading a large project into my head to work on it would take more time than the gains from being more well rested. I'm older now, and no longer work as an engineer. I value my sleep and appreciate how much more I can task-switch on a good nights rest, but the idea that I'm not being productive when I'm grinding through work that has to get done and I'm tired seems an overwritten idea.

I'm not arguing against rest and recharging and clearing your mind. I just don't see what these articles are trying to prove. When I was in college I had several stints of no sleep days to finish projects. Even into my early engineering career, I once billed 40 hours straight. Was I as "productive" per minute for that entire time as if I had slept through 5 nights? No. Would the work have gotten done faster than those 40 hours if I had slept for 8 hours in the middle a few times? No. I had a deadline, and there was nothing getting around the work needing to be done.

The argument seems to be against a constant sprinting mode, which I don't think any company employs. Humans burn out after continuous work for weeks, sometimes months. But a week or 3 of little to no sleep to get through everything you need to? It's worked for a long time. Arguably building up muscle memory while forcing rote things to be learned while on little sleep works. What are we trying to prove by this? That "the man" is out to abuse workers? Of course he is. But did anyone make partner at a law firm by claiming he's going to more productive by working less? If you're goal is work life balance, go ahead. But if you're goal is to excel in a field, then it probably involves some sleep deprivation. PG wrote an article about the reason startups were suited for youth is that you could push through unreasonable hours to crank a lot of life into fewer days.

Sorry for the rant...just wondering if I'm alone in thinking this
It's Jabberwocky.
Ancient Kindle Keyboard can text-to-speech most Amazon ebooks with zero hassle (I think authors can disable it). 'Unlistenable' is in the ear of the beholder! My only gripe personally is having a single "narrator" for all content.
The demo shown included using both the earbuds and the phone, so the display would still be there.
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> When you compare Git to blockchain you are comparing just the data structure aspect

Not really, though. While the git client chooses not to verify it continuously, github does. This is a very powerful feature of git, the history of code is difficult to alter once held (especially if you use modern variants of git that use a secure hash).

In a very real sense, git is a blockchain and it's strictly incorrect to suggest that you need an unproven POW game theoretic system designed by an anonymous dude with a fake japanese name.

> No one is right or wrong because it's just semantics.

Why is it that people cheerfully offer this when called out on blockchains but think I'm being improper for calling Etherium an obvious ponzi scheme designed to enable a bunch of quasi-legal and obviously scammy ICOs and then not have to issue refunds even as the ICO folks get fined and outlawed?

> some people define blockchain as the distributed ledger network itself

Some people are just using words in a very wrong way. This is technology, not postmodernist social theory. Even if it was postmodernist, the people using these words in this way are just wrong and not speaking to the academic or even industry consensus. "Blockchain" is "web 2.0". It actually meant something specific for a short period and then marketers got ahold of it and it was basically a non-word.
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MOBA and MMORPG never showed up in arcades, afaik. I had latched onto the arcade part of the thread, but I now see it had included video games in general. In which case, I agree, there's a lot of interesting content to be found (some years, you have to dig deep).
I wish they would create a "private" container that is equivalent to the private browsing window. This sounds pretty close...
its up to the phone how much amplification there is on the analog output. the latest BT specification is pretty low power, but which is lowest will depend. in my own experience, it seems like i get longer battery when using the jack over the BT radio, but i have not tested this rigorously

https://www.quora.com/How-much-power-current-goes-through-an...

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

https://www.turntablelab.com/pages/headphone-buying-guide-wh...
What if it's a long war and the whole Navy is just shorter in personnel?
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Does anyone have experience/success training WaveNet on their own?
How does FaunaDB guarantee that all partitions of a transaction commit or abort? The Calvin paper just says "see here for our distributed pessimistic locks that make this not a problem" but if FaunaDB uses oplocks then that doesn't apply.
its always time to buy replacements for all those things in capitalism!
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For me one big benefit is that it's distributed. I like to keep my important documents backed up on all the computers i have, on a USB drive stored in a safe location and also store the data with a cloud provider.

Now, if i update one document on computer A, and another document using computer B, i have to sync it to all other devices which is a PITA without git. You get into the situation where you don't know if the version on the USB drive was newer or older than the one on computer B etc, whereas with git all this is available in the version tree and there are nice merge tools available.

I've been planning to do this even for photos, for all the reasons above, but haven't taken the full step yet.
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Probably Hewlett Packard[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertica
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Interesting how this calculus is completely different between tournament and cash games.
I did - I really like it, except that every once in a while, for reasons I can't pinpoint but I assume are random, it will only let me type by hitting letters individually (no swiping). I re-enabled it today, so hopefully if that was a bug in the app it's been fixed, but we'll see.
Maybe hang out with some ML people locally and discuss your vertical with them. Your goals, and what kinds of data you have access to.
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Good call, i'll look into that.
I found another interesting approach to formalizing design patterns a few years ago: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2207827 —rather than expressing them as particular instances of more general things (as you'd do using category theory), he breaks them into a small set of more fundamental things which can be re-combined into familiar design patterns.

I find it pretty interesting that it's possible to do both of these things... I'd also bet category theory isn't the only generalization and 'elemental design patterns' isn't the only decomposition.

Also, while the formalization might be interesting, I wish I could be sold on its value... I'd definitely be interested in seeing some 'train of thought' examples of how someone used category theory (for instance) to reason about some architectural issues for something like... a game engine or web framework or CAD tool—something where the domain isn't going to make it an easy fit for category theory on its own.
These mergers get even more distrubing when thinking about the lack of (scientific) understanding of why plants are getting less nutritious. An article last month shed some light: http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/13/food-nutrien...

Is the scenario in the Interstellar movie unfolding before our eyes?
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think you're confusing Eclipse with Electron.
It's a lot, isn't your third quote a pretty good description?

> Keybase is for anyone. Imagine a Slack for the whole world, except end-to-end encrypted across all your devices. Or a Team Dropbox where the server can't leak your files or be hacked.

It's not much of a reach to assume familiarity with Slack and Dropbox; the message is clearly that Keybase is those (via Keybase Chat & FS) but encrypted.

For what it's worth, it's also a keyserver, and (now) git remote.
They've always been shit, are you saying they're worse now? Hard to believe.
the beta cli is available now, though it's more of an API than CLI. [1]

I've written a simple wrapper [2] to make it easy to use.

[1] https://support.1password.com/command-line-getting-started/

[2] https://github.com/dcreemer/1pass
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Yep, dropped my phone (totally my fault), got a Pixel XL for $89. Pretty OK, would buy the extended warranty again.
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The average surveillance reform article irks me. Most if not all tend to miss the fact that privacy protections take effect when the data is accessed. NSA has intentionally toyed with the definition of the word collect to mean access to data that has already been intercepted and stored.[0]

In other words: every U.S. citizen's private domestic communications have been rotting in Bluffdale, Utah for the past five years—and likely will remain there indefinitely along with all future communications. If rogue actors (insiders or otherwise) are able to get side-channel access, the fact privacy protections exist will mean precisely nothing.

The best thing for domestic surveillance reform—short of every elected official suddenly having the entirety of their intercepted digital communications leaked—would be for the Trump administration to wantonly abuse the NSA's domestic capability in a completely untactful manner, and getting caught red-handed doing it.

The last Bush administration abused the hell out of it, but they were at least somewhat careful in doing so.[1]

[0] https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/wordgames#collect

[1] http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/wp-content/uploads/BF.0112.T... (Skip to 00:48:26)
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100 million isn't anywhere close to what I've seen reports of before, and I can't imagine it being true. Do you have any non-religiously motivated sources for that claim?
I'm fairly new to Keybase, but essentially, at it's core, Keybase is a software/service for managing trust of identity/public keys, and easily sharing public keys with "trusted" parties, based on Keybase's trust model.

All of the other features you've mentioned are built on top of that key exchange, and use it to offer encrypted services.
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I'm in a technology backwater but I do see your point.
I've always been sympathetic to the concerns of Hillary fans around me (misogyny, partisan smearing, etc.), but for me one good reason I wouldn't have voted for her, and one that I'm kind of surprised I don't hear more often, is that it just strikes me as fundamentally wrong for the partner of a former president to become president. We're talking about the USA, not some small village with ten inhabitants, or North Korea.

Am I wrong about having so much difficulty with this?
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Your definition of "works" is suspicious to me.

If you're saying that in the short term, short-term thinking works, sure. If you're in college and are doing a bunch of work that doesn't matter to deadlines that are entirely made up, sure, you can get away with it.

You claim that doctors do fine without enough sleep, but even doctors don't claim that any more. Doctor friends tell me it's a big focus for reform. [1] And in areas where safety is even more important, like piloting planes, they take mandatory rest even more seriously.

Software is mostly not life-critical, but I think it's uniquely bad in this regard. Doctors can bury their mistakes, but version control systems preserve ours forever. It's too easy to be negatively productive in software, and enormously easier if you're not getting enough sleep.

[1] http://www.bcmj.org/article/sleep-deprivation-among-physicia...
Please note the puri.sm team is looking for people to join their team and assist with things like UX/PureOS/Kernel stuff. Not affiliated, I justed recently learned about Librem 5 and got all excited and saw it on their website.
Has anyone come across design patterns w.r.t data science (e.g., importing / transforming data / creating a modelling record / doing a grid search / scoring a new data set / outputting results?) I see these things running in scripts generally, but wondering if there are any applications of design patterns to a data science workflow.
The article struck me as strangely religious in nature. Then the front page of the website showed what seemed to be a few more religious issues (assisted suicide, abortion), related articles as well. Their about page is a wall of vague text, but one of the main topic categories being "abortion" leads me to believe this is a news site centering around religious issues?

Would appreciate someone filling me in on what sort of publication this is, if possible.
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I prefer Ruby's syntax too, but Swift also has a shorthand version which is, IMO, usually nicer.

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The math starts to make a lot more sense at 8 hours a day and 350W panels, that's for sure.
I think clang added a -Weverything just to prove a point why it's a bad idea to actually contain _all_ warnings in -Wall.

As you say, some warnings are contradictory and it's up to the project to decide which one of them is more important.
> It took three years to learn to use Vim to be productive, is what you're saying here. Point and case.

It didn't take three years to get productive. It probably took a few months before I was fully productive, and that was while learning a new language and new codebase at the same time.

It's taken 3 years to get, not just comfortable and familiar but, beyond comfortable with Vim. It's taken 3 years for Vimming to become second nature. Actually, that's not true. I was typing Vim commands into my browser at the start of the year, so it's probably more like two years.

And that's not even 100% solid use. Last year, I used a lot of IntelliJ, VSCode, and Eclipse, but using Vim 1-2 days a week kept me in the habit enough that it's second nature to me.
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Boggles the mind.
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This pretty much perfectly sums up my opinion of NN Taleb as well.

Initially, you are in awe of his near-prose like writing, and a couple hundred pages later, you realise that writing style is just about everything he has (all style, less substance). His ideas as well are usually pseudo-philosophical and I'm unsure if any of his writings would hold ground if it wasn't tied along with the fact that he made millions hedging on a black swan event (Again, which is a combination of picking your bets and sheer dumb luck).

Also, the more NN Taleb I read, the more pretentious he comes across as being.