skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, even as a marketing effort this is awesome. It just speaks well of a company that it does something like this, without knowing much about them before this, now I have impressions of cool and even trustworthy for some reason after seeing this.

Much like when you go into a website and know (unlike your average mother/grandfather) where to put your credit card or not because of the "feel", this gives me the feel of an awesome company.
Jake from TileDB, Inc. I think this would be an ideal workload for array data stores (NetCDF a standard in this area uses HDF5 under the hood). You have <N> number of attributes that you want per grid-point over time (and you want to append to the time dimension). If you are ingesting Grib2 files then you can take advantage of compression as well. An array data store like TileDB should offer advantages for fast access, as you can get a pointer directly to the stored array and do not have to access the (serialized) data over a socket, especially if you are only interested in a subarray of the dataset.
> Fast forward to March of this year, to an entirely different story: the FBI arresting John Rivello for "assaulting" journalist Kurt Eichenwald with a tweet.

TechDirt phrases this as if to make light of the charge, but Rivello intentionally triggered Eichenwald's epilepsy by sending him a flashing GIF that read "YOU DESERVE A SEIZURE FOR YOUR POSTS". He followed this up with messages such as "I hope this sends him into a seizure", "spammed this at [Eichenwald] let's see if he dies", and "I know he has epilepsy". So what we're talking here extends beyond the typical case of Twitter harassment.
I would assume they are selling data without personally identifiable information so it isn't your data. You are a set of data points that is aggregated with the millions of other users.
Next step: transfer learning and sharing amongst sub-policies in the graph hierarchy. If an Ant Agent learns to "move up" to avoid obstacle or reach goal. Why can't it infer the same for any cardinal or diagonal direction, after observing the world around it. It's just a rotation or translation after all.

Also, for small numbers of sub-policies, would Monte Carlo playouts be faster. Where we are searching over the next step the Any may encounter. Which presumably is a finite set of possible "wall-floor" configurations ;)

In any case, great work! Always love watching OpenAI vids...
CVE-2017-5996: Bomgar Remote Support – Local Privilege Escalation
Email me your resume, I'll review it.
I mean a universe in which the speed of light was multiplied by two, and so was every linear distance measure.
A useful reference while reading:

https://www.maryferrell.org/php/cryptdb.php
You know what's kinda funny: In order to make the changes to "define" these physical constants, we first make equipment using the old definitions. XD (Not that it changes the outcome, mind you.)
How do you propose we identify companies that fit that criteria, and take ownership and control of them away from the people who created them?

And remember, your proposal can't be a greater danger to society than the problem you're trying to fix, or that would defeat the purpose.
Well, "Make America great again" seems essentially like a nazi expression, based on the fact that Hitler and his crowd used the same for Germany. I don't know what it needs to make somebody a nazi -- not a single phrase certainly, but I reckon that brings them closer at least.
Don't hesitate to ask for help from people you know both of you will appreciate getting help from.

Don't take too much time for tidying up the house yourself, you need energy for the baby and take time to get to know him/her.

The first week was a complete change in our life, we were exhausted and so much had changed. But you get through it with help from others if you need it ( I know we did need a lot of it ).

The more important I think is take the time to get to know your baby, take the time to appreciate and share those moments with your SO, and do things the way you want (as long as it's secure).

Good luck :)
"Those whose policies have been very unpopular with a large segment of society" just got elected, somehow.
Talent is remote and talent is willing to move, especially when they can make an extra 50% through cost of living differences. That ecosystem produces some great stuff, but a lot of it is garbage. Those advantages are perhaps overstated unless your goal is to move to SV and become a unicorn. It's almost tautological.
We are pretty much 2nd class citzens on AS.
As a voter, if someone hired by a potential political nominee asked Wikileaks for illegally acquired information, I'd like to know. In a hypothetical world where Wikileaks gave them that information, it would in fact be criminal.

Assange stated that the data was requested by Cambridge Analytica knowing they were hired by the Trump campaign for normal opposition research. I consider withholding that information alone (the fact that the guys Trump's campaign hired attempted to break the law and were rebuffed) as quite impactful. Trump is quite tight with Brad Parscale, as he was the "Campaign Digital Director" in charge of these things.
If you don't mind me asking:

How do things like privacy policies, terms of service, contracts between parties work?
DigitalOcean has been mentioned; there are providers of rather cheap VMs. For example hetzner.com and ovh.com are rather popular in Europe, and then there's linode.

If you are fine with ARM hardware instead of the usual amd64, there are rather cheap and high-powered offerings in this space, for example https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/ (typically, the small VMs start around 1GB RAM and 1 core, whereas here you get 2GB RAM and 4 cores at a comparable price).
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Stuff like this and their hackathon reps are why I care about Twilio in the first place. I have suggested its use professionally before and I would have never remembered the service existed if it wasn't for a great hackathon experience using it where the rep was very helpful.
When It Comes to Parabolic Mics, Larger Is Not Always Better
> I really wish it worked that way; but agriculture still has a number of scarce resources (namely land and water) that will require the adoption of productivity-increasing tools to boost the productivity of a given plot of land or to increase efficiency of water use.

What you say is not incompatible with my assertion. Labor is a productivity-increasing tool. If you weed and prune your yield goes up. If you water (but not too much) yield goes up. If you remove pests, yield goes up. Etc. Those are all labor-intensive, so if it's cheaper to use a machine or chemical to do it, you do. And in fact robots are likely to be able to individually water plants more efficiently than either a human or a standard irrigation system. Which people will do if it is cheaper than current irrigation (flood, or drip primarily today, depending on crop and conditions).

Sure, I believe fertilizers will still be needed and some other chemicals as well. But many of these pesticides and herbicides have "unfortunate" side effects (e.g. destruction of the rhizome) which also reduce productivity so avoiding them has a double benefit.

And note that there is some evidence that artificial fertilization and overwatering may be reducing the nutritional value of grasses (think of it as "the same number of nutrients divided by a larger amount of plant matter". The mechanism, if real, is more complex, but that's an analogy).

‡ I don't mean productivity in the macroeconomic definition of "economic output per labor hour" but in the sense you used it: "economic output per unit area"
The scientists don't even have to be shills if Monsanto controls publication of results. Pay for 15 studies from above-the-board researchers. Only publish the 6 that didn't find harm. Later meta-studies from totally disinterested parties will also find a preponderance of evidence for "no harm," just due to selective publication practices that aren't directly visible.

At least that's how drug companies have systematically biased studies in favor of their products without needing to find amoral shill scientists. The way to prevent it is trial pre-registration, so that all trials are known about, not just the ones that turn out favorable after completion.
Twilio has nearly a $3 billion market cap right now, and their signup/churn/usage rates give them a good idea on the growth potential for this market.

Nobody I know is a Twilio engineer, but nearly every backend developer I've worked with has, or wants to use, Twilio. There's something old school phreaking about using a computer to control phone systems.

They seem to believe that the market is very broad, occasionally deep (Uber was ~10% of their usage), and super cool. They haven't gotten so big to discard their focus yet playful roots (their hackathon outreach is a great example; that's where I first learned the API).
At some point the perception of the human eye means you cannot increase latency further. Especially if the game is something where reaction time is important, like a twitchy first person shooter.

I wonder what the cutoff is where someone starts to notice, but I imagine it's not much greater than 50-100ms
TF 1.4 does, but you need to build it yourself. RC1 is out:

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/releases/tag/v1.4.0...

All our prebuilt binaries have been built with CUDA 8 and cuDNN 6.
We anticipate releasing TensorFlow 1.5 with CUDA 9 and cuDNN 7.
Not everything, Studio uses parts of CLion.
Aside: HN needs a way to indicate hard line break which doesn't cause 1.5 spacing, aside from the code indent with its too-narrow scroll window.
FWIW Bayer is acquiring them outright, not merging.
"HBO approached Klover about using its parabolic microphone on boxing telecasts. A unique problem in boxing is that fans along the front rows of matches often use profanity and the mic must not pick up those words — only the action of the matches. That can be a problem for a mic that has a long reach for sounds in front of it."
> Hollerith punch cards (the overwhelming standard...there were other experiments though) were the size they were because Herman Hollerith wanted to use cash handling trays for managing the cards

Do you have a reference for this? There seems to be a bunch of stories floating around about this. (Wikipedia says he initially proposed smaller cards and it just developed somehow, there is your variant, there is the story that his employees were arguing about it and he just slammed a note on the desk to end the discussion, ...)
And be honest about why you're giving Trump such a disproportionate pass.

Would a good candidate brag about grabbing pussies, and attack a gold star family?
Don't know why this got downvoted. Communism has killed more than Nazi's, so if we're banning Nazi's because they're a potentially violent threat, it follows that communism/marxist subreddits would also be banned.
MOOC about data science competitions, featuring Marios Michailidis (KazAnova)
Saying someone is prone to genocide because they are xenophobic is a massive stretch.
Get a high quality vape box and reduce the nicotine % of your liquid until you get to 0, and then you can just do it to help deal with the ritual/oral fixation aspect of it
Only if referred to as "kombu" (from which it was first harvested). If you use that scary chemical name it's bad juju.
He should be considered an exaggerated media story but that would be a bad look for the valley
Availability Heuristic: The problem with the flu jab
He referenced China. Any big startups come out of there?
You're identifying things which make him an authoritarian, a strongman, and an idiot, but that still doesn't make him genocidal. That has a very specific meaning.
True in most places. California's prop 13 caps property value increases for tax purposes to 2% per year. This includes land held by corporations, not just grandma.
By vegetarian do you mean vegan right? I have been an ovo-lacto vegetarian (commonly referred to as "vegetarian" in the US) for 15 years, have never taken any supplements, and my b12 levels are perfectly fine.
There’s also GeForce now. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/geforce-now/ma...

There’s a public beta for macs. It’s dope as fuck. Like smooth as the fucking butter. Integrates with steam and battle.net. So you can play your games. Free in beta. I’ve been telling everyone I know about it. I can play pubg on ultra settings. There’s an extremely occasional skip but playing natively would do that too. I know I sound like a shill but it’s been a while since a product let alone beta blew me away this much.

I wonder how they did it cause the latency is very small. But maybe I’m just a noob.

On an tangential note this product has insane potential. Like they could do their own steam and basically own the whole gaming pipeline from the publishing to the platform users play on.
On one hand he says that he isn’t a part of the order, on the other hand he wore their insignia to the inaugural ball. Maybe he was using neo nazi symbolism ironically?
>Embedded visual aids like diagrams and demos.

>The build status identifies specific project aspects that are incomplete and/or causing instability.

>One or more badges showing code coverage or other quality metrics.

I really have to disagree with points like these. I always hate cloning a project and then opening the README to find a totally unreadable mess of Markdown links and images or worse still - literal HTML. As an example, look at uBlock's README.md[0], which even though uBlock is a fantastic project in it's own right, has a horribly unreadable README.
If you're already adding a README file within your code repositoy, you should assume that people will read it locally, without fancy HTML rendering. The whole point behind markup was to have a syntax which could be easily parsed by computers and humans alike (it was inspired by the plaintext email formatting style after all!).

Graphics and badges should be put on a website, in this case for example GitHub's github.io service. Specifics should be placed in a man page or something comparable. Links should either be autolinks[1] or reference links[2], to keep the document clean and structured. I'm sure others could come up with more and better recommendations on how to use "normal" markdown to still create a decent README's for GitHub. Maybe we don't even need Markdown and we can just use plain utf-8[3]...

[0]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gorhill/uBlock/master/READ...

[1]: http://spec.commonmark.org/0.28/#example-565

[2]: http://spec.commonmark.org/0.28/#reference-link

[3]: I recently downloaded a dwm statusbar manager called "dstat" (from https://www.umaxx.net/) and it's README was a really nice surprise: https://sub.god.jp/f/JmiFHE9S.txt (extracted and uploaded, since there's no public version)
You are hopeless.
You can accurately adjust a rotating knob without looking. They have real benefits that you can't replace with software.
That's great! We're collecting stories about peoples' first impressions of Pony (https://www.ponylang.org/categories/my-first-pony), so if you're interested in contributing to that please get in touch.

I'm an engineer at Wallaroo Labs and I've been learning Go so that I can add a Go API to Wallaroo. Your analysis looks pretty spot-on based on my experience.

The buildmodes is go definitely make it easy to call Go from other languages. The trickiest thing I've run into so far with calling Go is that you aren't supposed to hold on to Go pointers outside of Go code, so I'm having to jump through some hoops to hold on to objects between calls.

I have an RFC for Pony that I need to finish up that will let you call Pony function from C. I'm planning on getting around to that soon, as I think it will help improve our FFI story.
It would be interesting if they'd use this tech to deduplicate the gazillion listings for many cheap (chinese) goods which seem to use common set of images with maybe varying watermarks etc.
Thanks for the down votes. But if you haven't realized, the world has changed dramatically since valley became Valley. There is a lot more wealth distribution around the world and technology is easily accessible. Look at the 50s and look at now and see how Asia has emerged as a dominant economic force. China is #2 in total GDP, and India is #7. Couple this with the fact that these two countries have unlimited workforce, it is quite obvious that big growth companies will start forming outside of the US, often focused on their local market. And capitalizing in capturing a lion's share of the local economic growth. And that's exactly what's happening. Alibaba, Tencent, Didi, Ola, FlipKart, OYO rooms, Grab.

This is not some profound statement from Thiel, but something very obvious.
That's on my list. Will add.
Google Cloud gives you a f1-micro VM for free without a time limit. This about equal to a RPi.
Isn't this data that you could get from https://clearbit.com's prospecting API? Do the contacts know that you're selling their data, and how did you obtain it?
Wait: this was downvoted??

I can understand down voting snark and off-topic comments.

I can understand (though disagree with) down voting unpopular opinions.

But this is simply a comment (well, two comments) on sources of B vitamins in the human diet.

I know complaining of down voting is itself poor form, but really??
> That quote is the exact reason that land needs to be taxed at a much higher rate than it's currently taxed. Notice I say "land", so that doesn't include anything built on that land.
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> The value of land is directly tied to the desirability of the land around it. Land in Manhattan is more valuable than land in the middle of South Dakota because of all the network effects of other people (and the government) building things in Manhattan.

I'm glad you mentioned Manhattan.

Land-value taxes encourage property owners (or aspiring property owners) to take actions to decrease the value of land, in order to make it cheaper to acquire and maintain (read: pay taxes on) that land. Those actions have significant network effects, much more so than actions that increase (or decrease) property values, by definition: the value of land is more strongly correlated with the value of neighboring land than the values of properties are.

Taken to the extreme, this will cause massively capitalized institutions to blight land - and, in some cases, even buy up land for the specific purpose of blighting it and reducing its value (thereby reducing the value of neighboring land). That results in a massive wealth transfer from the poor and middle class to wealthy institutions - namely banks and universities with large endowments, though sometimes wealthy individuals too.

I'm glad you mentioned Manhattan, because it's one place where this exact practice already happens in a very public and visible way. It happens in Manhattan even without the existence of specific tax incentives to encourage this behavior because the economics of real estate in the area (along with other aspects of real estate acquisition in NYC) make it profitable for institutions like NYU and Columbia to do this[0]. If you started taxing land at a higher value than the property that sits on the land, it would make it lucrative for "smaller" institutions (ie, other well-capitalized institutions) to start doing it as well.

[0] NYU and Columbia are two of the top three holders of real-estate in the city, by value. They have both engaged in this practice in very visible and documented ways.
Alibaba. It's so big you can barely fathom that not too long ago, someone started a little website that turned into this.
Ethanol mandates really kicked off in the W administration. I think it's worth remembering that at the time, the primary motivation was probably more geopolitical than climate: ethanol is domestically produced, as are many of the energy inputs (such as electricity and natural gas). The US now produces a non-trivial amount of ethanol, enough that if it were removed from the market, we'd probably import significantly more foreign oil.

But I digress.
At least one step in the right direction. But we're still pretty far from reaching some parity with the idea that it's often a life sentence to be driving in a car with someone who commits a murder if you're poor and black, but it's some soft white collar club fed crime to get thousands addicted to your drug, take their money, ruin their families for years and eventually take their lives.
> So if you claim that he has not right to make a threat, then how can he enact something that he has no right to say?

No, I'm claiming he has no more legal right to make threats than any other person. There is a large difference there. Largely speaking a persons right to make threats is protected under the first amendment.

There are very narrow instances where verbal or written threats become assault (or terrorism, or attempts to incite a riot, etc); and since one of the criteria there is ability to carry out threat, someone in a position of power has somewhat more liability here, not less.

Which is all besides the point -- twitter isn't a government entity; your first amendment protections don't apply to their ban hammer. Their rules and regulations are more restrictive in all cases than what is allowed by law.

> You mean as in the case that we're discussing?

I mean, yes? My point is that a) Trump is in technical violation of the TOS and b) The TOS constrains the behaviors of the users, not Twitter so they have no real obligation to enforce it.
Life is long. If his location gives him access to opportunities that you don't have, figure out a way to get access to those opportunities and execute on it once you graduate from college. Many prominent Silicon Valley people came from small towns in the mid-west (Marc Andreessen, Evan Williams) or immigrated from poor political situations abroad (Sergey Brin, Jan Koum, Elon Musk).
Something similar once happened in Israel. A major freeway was blocked due to construction work, and Waze routed everyone through it as it free of traffic.

Caused a terrible jam, but as others mentioned here -- Waze's shortcomings are not even close to it's benefits.
Yes here is a guide to make your own. That's from 2015 but the idea is the same. https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-ow...

But there are services too

https://liquidsky.com

https://parsec.tv
Is that really news? Obligatory joke:

Taxi driver to passenger: "Well, someone looks happy today!"

Passenger: "I just got my PhD! :)"

Taxi driver wistfully: "Yeah, I remember the day when I got mine..."
Are you working on cell lines or bacteria? Genomic dna? I find most people that tell me they get good data yield are working on samples where dna extraction is relatively straightforward and dna yield is abundant.

I used the flowcell version previous to the current one and got ~2gb of data. I used the ligation kit on genomic extraction of ~10 individuals (crustacean).
I don't go for distressed, but I do actually prefer the modern type fabrics that have some elastane woven in, it is much more comfortable than old fashioned denim.
There's this old joke about math departments being the second cheapest to run, since you only need pen, paper, and a trash can. The cheapest department to run is Philosophy, since you only need pen and paper.
Washington Post: Clinton campaign, DNC paid for research that led to Russia dossier

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/clint...
Microsoft reportedly working on Courier-like device for taking digital notes
Most people in the UK will support the monarchy regardless of what they do. Including meddling in political affairs and not being figure heads.