skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The US and UK need to stop funding Saudi Arabia's military in order for this to stop happening in Yemen.

It's not so simple. It's all about influence between Iran (which means Iran, Russia etc block) and Saudi Arabia (which means USA, UK etc side block) in Yemen. You can be on one side or on the other, there is no middle ground there. None of the players really cares about Yemen, on this level game is different, there are no "values" besides influence/money.
its considered actual (gov't approved) currency in Japan and South Korea... beyond that, I don't know.
A quick look around content marketing and how you can take advantage of it
Google simplifies Android video calling
Languages change, evolve, and split into new languages. This has gone on forever- why would it stop now?
It is amazing to think that only a few years ago you could take an old laptop, download a miner, stick it in a closet and it would spit out something now worth a quarter of a million dollars every few days. There are a lot of problems with Bitcoin. If you look at my comment history you will see I am pretty down on it for all sort of reasons I won't go into at the moment. However sometimes you just have to take a step back and admire how crazy impressive it is that Bitcoin has reached this point.
Have you physically been to Malta? Do you pay non Maltese taxes? Do you understand tax law? If no then it is likely you are committing tax fraud (perhaps without even realising it).

People need to understand this: there is no free lunch. If you think you can be classified as a Maltese company, sitting at a desk in <insert random European country here>, you are dead wrong in 99.9% of the cases. Get proper tax counsel (not an accountant, a lawyer -- accountants are generally sloppy with details, and details matter, e.g. a word in a contract can matter).

Technology and internet based businesses have some unique opportunities to optimise taxes, but the line between fraud and optimization is quite thin.. get good counsel, or prepare for a dispute where you take your (local) tax authority to court.

Source: a decent knowledge of corporate and tax law and plenty of tax disputes, which I've mostly won.
Something's doesn't sound quite right over at Equifax, I would have thought that with the scale of the last breach a full and thorough audit of all existing systems would have been a major priority!
Matz also mentioned Ruby is no longer his project.
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WHOIS history on that domain shows the registration changed hands on November 15, 2016. Before that, it was owned by "Digital River, Inc.":

Registrant Name: Digital River, Inc.
Registrant Organization: Digital River, Inc.
Registrant Street: 10380 Bren Road West
Registrant City: Minnetonka
Registrant State/Province: MN
Registrant Postal Code: 55343
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.9522531234
Registrant Email: hostmaster@digitalriver.com

Digital River appears to be an online commerce company: https://www.digitalriver.com/cloud-based-ecommerce-solutions...

They were probably the legitimate owners. The domain registration expiration date at that time was set for 2017, so it doesn't look like a registration lapse. It's unclear how and why the ownership was transferred.
What happens if you try to make a recursive tree?
All Branson has left is a partial holding of Virgin Atlantic on the flying business side of things.
Virgin is in the train business, and has 100% holdings there, so if anything he has more business interest in seeing high speed rail come about.
> a significantly better argument against HS2 is that it's an impossibly expensive boondoggle.

Nah, it connects most of England's largest cities, and will be 2/3rds of the network which will connect all of the cities of the North of England into something approaching a single labour market. Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester, Birmingham will be all be within 30-50 minutes of each other, with London within an hour and a half, with trains running between destinations 2 or 3 times an hour. The value of that is enormous.
In addition, chip fabrication processes are notoriously fickle, especially at very high densities. I wouldn't be surprised if 10% of the NAND chips came out DOA from the production line.

In the case of GPUs they can turn a defective GPU into a lower tier GPU by disabling malfunctioning components, which means that it isn't a total loss. I doubt NAND chips can be salvaged in the same way. Since they are so simple, there's nothing to recover. It goes straight into the bin.
re: laymen-friendly guides: http://www.ana-white.com/plancatalog

I recently had to buy an entire house's worth of furniture due to a fire. We shopped every store we could find, and apart from any store that sources from the Amish, its all crap. The prices are obscene. We also got to see the innards of the old burned furniture... there's so much chip-board and laminating that I think there must be more plastic/glue than wood fiber. Just like electronics are being designed with obsolescence as a requirement, maybe more so is the furniture in your house...

Its so much more rewarding to build a giant custom table and be able to grunt, "hey look what i did". OR even pick up some older pieces at an estate sale and upcycle with a new varnish or paint and some modifications.
Hi Anu,

1.) Does the machine learning algorithm behind toutiao abide by the censorship effort from Beijing? For example, are any of the contents about the disappearance of the wife of the nobel prize winner Liu Xiaobao censored?

2.) What happens when the Chinese government demand board seats, much like Tencent and Alibaba? Or is toutiao already working with the Chinese government closely?

3.) Do you know whether or not toutiao is allowing this technology to be outsourced to other dictatorship countries that would allow their leaders to effectively control the contents people read every day?

4.) Are you aware that toutiao is spreading its influence into East Asia, and possibly India, and is it possible that it would spread Chinese government's message through its apps?
Similarly, I caught some non-technical friends recommending some other friends that they should buy into bitcoin / altcoins as an easy way to make money, reminded me of the same film.
Things are worth what people are willing to pay for them.
Just a quibble, the concentration camps didn't start out as part of the Final Solution. They started out as a place to confine dissidents, etc.
Ethereum isn't a store of value
If you need horizontally scaled DBMS.

More in the FAQ: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/frequently-asked-q...
Seems like you read too many articles, and not enough white papers.
Part of the problem I think is a bit like the externality problem in economics. The person who calls the meeting spends his own time to attend, but is also spending all the time of the attendees.

This can even happen across departments, for example, when HR has a mandatory meeting for this or that, HR's budget should be charged for the time of the attendees, and the money distributed to their departments. The may be worth the cost, but it should be justified as a budget request.

Suppose HR asks the software development team to come by and write them some new payroll software. HR would be charged for that time. Why should it be any different when the software dev team is asked to attend a meeting in order to satisfy any other goal of HR?
That's great. Much better than my concept.

I will have to think on that, see if I can do something with it.

If I happen take that and run with it, are you okay with me turning it into a t-shirt?
Not only was there widespread support of the Nazis in America, but the Nazis' views on race were inspired by the "science" of Eugenics, which was also widespread in America, and by the American KKK.

After the war, prominent Nazis were hired by the US government.
Not exactly - KeePassXC (and many of the other clients) do try to unset the clipboard. I think this is as much to save you from accidentally pasting a password into your browser's search box or a chat, but at least on OSX / macOS, it prevents a malicious script from using pbpaste to grab the last entry off the clipboard.
> The pressure inside and outside the lunar landing module was 1,000,000,000,000,000x. 100 kPa to 10^-10 Pa

We didn't pump air into the lunar module from the Moon. We carried it from Earth pre-pressurized. Unless you're proposing we build and seal the Hyperloop tubes in space before bringing them down, the analogy isn't appropriate.

Also, consider a soda can. It's stronger when pressurized from the inside. Modern nuclear attack submarines collapse around 730m [1]. Since for "every 33 feet (10.06 meters) you go down, the pressure increases by 14.5 psi," we're talking about water pressure of about 1,000 psi or about 72 atm.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_depth_ratings

[2] https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/pressure.html
The curious thing about this is that vector graphics for 2d games is soooo much easier to make than pixel graphics. It scales better, it's easier to animate, and it's easier to edit.

Pixel art requires hand-animating each frame of each sprite. Want to change something about the character? You're now changing 20 frames worth of that same something.
Why would you think that?

>Hack Will Lead to Little, if Any, Punishment for Equifax

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/20/business/equifax-hack-pen...
Is this hearsay or your experience? "regular accountancy checks"... I even forgot when our last one was...maybe 5 years ago. And this seems is typical.
As someone who uses SQL extensively every day at my job, I really appreciate the thought that went into it's design. It is by far the most sane part of what I do every day.
AI just got a resurgence in the last couple years and it's interesting to see how quickly they have adopted the technologies to build a company. Simple AI techniques applied at key areas can generate huge result.
It causes segregation based on race; Black people speak this language, white people speak this one. We're trying to bring these groups together, diving their language won't help at all.
"Intranet has real promise, but Is anyone buying domains on the Internet for anything other than speculation?"
Islam is, AIUI quite explicit in saying that they worship the same deity as Christians, agree that Mary was a virgin, and that the birth of Christ was a miracle. They just consider Christ to be (one of?) God’s favourite prophet, rather than God incarnate.
I think John Carmack is one of my favorite people to watch present. If you haven't watched his long rants about using FP in game dev @ QuakeCon a few years back you should.

It was QuakeCon 2013, although I'm not sure which part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUxcVzpeFqc
Just want to note that if you're not tied to Germany in particular, Netherlands is a much better option for US citizens looking to start a company, thanks to the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty. (yes, it's DAFT - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAFT). NL is a pretty easy place to business, at least as an entrepreneur. (Things get more complicated with lots of employees, like in most of Europe.)

The tl;dr version is US citizens can get a residency permit (2 years, renewable indefinitely, considered a non-temporary purpose of stay so you're eligible for permanent residency after 5 years) to start a business in the Netherlands with very few restrictions and very little in the way of capital requirements (€4500 in the business account.) Plenty of attorneys in the Netherlands can take care of the necessary paperwork for €1500, give or take, but lots of people manage it themselves too.

A few blogs and guides of the many out there:

https://daftvisa.wordpress.com/step-by-step-guide/
https://survivingdaft.tumblr.com/
http://passthesourcream.com/daft/
Because people actually use bitcoin. It’s heavily used for transactions for gray market activities (its very popular for online gambling transactions).
Yes, tough to be fair, beijing gets a bad storm once every 4 years that causes the subway stations to flood (I had nice flood pictures for zhichunlu stations back in 2008 but lost them...it was basically a huge swimming pool). Cities in southern china have to put up with it every year (that and bloody no indoor heating makes living there a no-no for me).
> Weren't there published papers by NASA scientists proving, without a doubt, that it's impossible to construct a booster rocket with the structural stability to return to earth?

No. Going back to the 1960s, re-usable two-stage configurations were being drafted [1].

[1] http://papers.sae.org/640297/
Because it protects entrenched players?
Git assumes it can keep a small struct in memory for each file in the repository (not the file contents, but a fixed per-file size). This repository just has a very large number of files.
Apples releases iOS 11.0.3
To be clear about the unfinished status of the new book, it's just becuase we have much, much higher standards this time around. All of the chapters have a draft of some kind, and are basically in various stages of editing, plus I need to finish the appendix. That editing is "by the professional editors at No Starch", so it's a bit of a higher bar than most docs included with open source projects.

The old book is not so much "obsolete" as it is "has significant weaknesses as a text so we re-wrote it"; everything in there still applies, and still works.
you also need a developer ecosystem, I prefer any solution, that is fast, secure, and has low fees
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You must maintain this amount of capital at all times, or otherwise start insolvency procedures.
Just 10 rivers may be to blame for millions of tonnes of ocean plastic
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Just a normal, slow moving, bureaucratic corporation.

But even if they were faster, I'm sure an audit of all existing systems is not as simple as making sure all the doors and windows are locked around the house.
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I've made changes a couple times (and tried a few others) that have opened me up to new technologies / toolsets / etc

Much of the time, I have not had to change jobs just to learn something new (and a couple times, I've changed jobs and trained folks on what I already knew)
I typically end up going through most of a lift of 2x4s at Home Cheapo to pick out enough decent ones to do a project. I'm sure they hate me... But I'm not going to buy janky twisted, bowed, knot and rot-filled lumber, especially for anything structural. Especially not at what they charge.

The flip side of that is that the sawmills will take absolutely garbage logs in and saw them out these days. My father has taken up logging again pretty much full-time since he retired (he loves cutting trees, but you can't do it as anything but a hobby unless you're fully mechanized these days), and he's just astounded at what they'll grade logs out as. Stuff he used to have trouble getting accepted as pulpwood they're taking as saw logs and sometimes even veneer.
Enough of this false equivalence.

You can call what I do "introducing my own biases". I am "biasing" NLP algorithms toward treating people equally whenever possible, toward not discriminating based on their name or how they describe themselves.

The default biases are really bad, and whatever my biases are, they're not as bad.

I don't even know what you say I'm "cheating" at. That is a very weird accusation.

You always make a choice of what algorithms and heuristics to deploy. Deploying a system like pre-trained word2vec or GloVe that believes everything it reads on the Web is a harmful choice. Not even waiting forever for strong AI will fix it. You wouldn't even let a child believe everything that they read, and a child has real intelligence.

When you deploy harmful AI, you can't blame its effects on the code or the data, because the code and data have no moral agency. You wrote the code and it's your responsibility.
There is a good reason; Bitcoin has a known supply and is a financial constant. To serve the ‘world’ the money supply in bitcoin has to increase in USD terms. Think of the market cap as the money supply of bitcoin in USD terms. In a simple model, one would expect the price to increase proportional to what it is at a given moment due to the rate of new people learning about it and passing on knowledge. On a long term trend an exponential model is a good proxy so far. Why is BTC going up and ETH not? This is purely mean reversion on the ETHBTC ratio. Look at momentum indicators on the ratio and the recent breach of the 200day after multiple lower bounces off it. ETH was up 50x at one point this year, you need to factor that in also.
I feel you. You're preaching to the choir here - I narrowly dodged majoring in classics myself, and my particular brand of virtue signaling is to rave about how much better the Lattimore is than the Fagles. But many of the leaves are now quite far from the root, and many of them are on other trees altogether. Studying foundational anthropological art and literature would no doubt accrue immense sociocultural benefits to, yeah, anyone, and to be sure, I can't wait to do Homer with my kid. But if other interests crowd out the roots, I'm sure he'll be fine, and so will the tree.
Targeting specific industries with Glass is smart - if they don't change how they're doing AR

I think shifting focus on how to do AR is smart-er
Partnerships between tech companies is not that unusual. Now if it happens to amount to anything significant that would be odd.
That seems like a very inflammatory statement. I doubt what most african americans want out of desegregation is their culture wiped out and replace with american white culture. The more apt solution would be to stop being prejudice towards other american subcultures.
It causes segregation based on race

Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Why isn't it a result of segregation?
> I think it would be a good idea to make sure the California "high speed" rail program is never funded.

Never funded? It's already under construction[1]. Although it's likely pre-pre-pre-construction, as they grade items and fix obstacles for the actual railway construction, which I doubt will happen within a decade, if ever.

1: https://www.buildhsr.com/interactive_map/
"a wall of air moving at the speed of sound"

What? Particles moving in through a hole against vacuum will usually be travelling at a distribution of speeds dependent on ambient temperature, usually a boltzmann distribution. It will not be a wall, but rather a gradient.

It's also not so much a maglev as an inductrack, which has only really become possible recently since it's come off-patent.
I had thought of the shell module. But the attacker would still have to know your playbook is using that module, and they'd have to know the variables you are passing into that module in order to override them.

So, can you explain how an attacker would figure that information out? Assuming the playbooks are stored in source control like the Tower docs recommend, and all your variable values are mostly in source control as well.
But that's no challenge at all. You're just describing a usual vacuum pump. And just a single-stage roughing pump (Harbor Freight, anyone?) can get down to less than 1 Pascal, so 100Pa is a piece of cake. That's only needed for slight leaks in the tube, not for the pod itself.

Keep in mind that the absolute pressure difference is far less for Hyperloop than for a typical natural gas pipeline, and yet the latter can keep leaks to an absolute minimum in spite of thermal expansion, etc.
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There are many kinds of head coverings worn in that part of the world. Some are strongly associated with particular areas.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/24118241
Right. I mean, is American English just British English with mistakes? Or is British English just Anglo-Frisian with mistakes?

Also, this is rather old news. Perhaps it was insightful, in its day.
Nice, my UltraViolet codes for Mad Max and The Revenant now show up as 4K HDR versions on iTunes. And I even got the Black and Chrome version of Mad Max as a bonus "iTunes Extra."

This is a very pro-consumer move.
It doesn’t really stifle innovation in any way?
I disagree. I found your statistic buried in a report but it isolates that statistic to "metro Atlanta" which is, indeed, significantly higher.[0] Building a transit station with garage parking outside the perimeter, particularly up 75 towards Kennesaw, would cost less.[1] About the same up into Douglas County, and some of the more blighted, lower income communities outside the perimeter. [2] Additionally, I don't think you're fully accounting for AMAZON. Let's say for talking purposes Amazon chose Cobb County as the place for its new HQ. If Amazon placed a requirement on the State that there be a transit station for the HQ, I think it would be very hard for the state to say no for that. Look at the boondoggle, sorry, the elevated highway, they just built down 75. Nobody really asked for that, or saw that it was really a necessity, preferring instead for Marta, but the State plowed ahead none the less. My original point is that suburban Atlanta offers an excellent opportunity for Amazon already, but the state will come along, they will build the infrastructure, and they will appease Amazon's needs.

[0]. https://www.itsmarta.com/uploadedFiles/More/Transit_Oriented...
[1]. http://www.myajc.com/news/local/braves-land-purchase-may-sol...
[2]. http://www.celebratedouglascounty.com/view/global/viewdownlo...
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Huh, really good quality. Wonder what kind of hardware they are using for that stream
I feel like DL/ML frameworks are getting about as frequent as the JavaScript framework craze of the past decade. I started out on Torch and recently I've been using Keras, and this looks quite similar to the latter. Hard to see why one would switch to this if they are already comfortable in another.
I'm from rural Arkansas, and from my perspective, the dialect that is spoken there shares more in common with AAVE than standard English.

The difference that I see is that I was expected to learn and speak standard English in a professional environment while the perception among my peers seems to be that those who natively speak AAVE expect their dialect to be accepted in all settings.

Note that I was careful to say that this is my perception of the expectations of others. My experience shows that native AAVE speakers adapt their language in professional circumstances in exactly the same way I adapt my own.
Just had an interesting experience with that. I moved the frame so that it showed the timer countdown and screens as well as John. After it hit 0, they put up "Please go to Q&A". After a minute or so they started flashing it from the white text on black background to a bright white screen to get his attention. After a couple rounds of that, John goes "Please stop flashing the go to Q&A, I'll get to it" and they stopped the flashing. Certainly something I wouldn't have seen otherwise.

Also interesting seeing now what is close to John's view of the queue for the Q&A.
KeePass is the perfect example of simplicity over complexity. It does exactly what it sets out to do and it does it well. Unlike online services, I trust it wholeheartedly, because it is free software, well-built, simple, and basically a fancy XML parser with encryption.

The less it does, the fewer ways it can break or be broken. The attack surface is tiny compared to, say, LastPass.

You choose your own sync solution, unlike LastPass/the like.

What's the new standard for AES passes? Patch notes mention it but not the number.
It's also caused by segregation based on race. Fully integrated communities don't develop racially-linked dialects.

In any case, talking about whether or not it helps seems to be pointless. The dialect exists whether it's helpful or not. If it's an obstacle to bringing people together, then we need to figure out ways to overcome that obstacle, not wish it away.
I think this is roughly similar to what the xlengine guy (http://xlengine.com/) is doing.