skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's at least partly because the speeds you pay for are "up to" 100mbps. Many who pay the extra (~double a normal adsl fee) don't get anywhere near the advertised max speed.

Besides, what people pay for and need in October 2017 is probably less than a child starting school will use in 2022 when they hit year 5. This is a national infrastructure project - surely it should be built with the future in mind?

This is without discussing upload speeds - not everyone is a purely downloading user. Viewing a population of civilians as a population of solely consumers seems a common folly.

I recommend the four corners tv show [1] (linked in the original piece), likely the cause of the extra media attention on the NBN lately.

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/whats-wrong-with-the-nbn/9077...
> None of this is my problem as the maintainer of Sway

So, in short, you're firing your Nvidia users? Sometimes it has to be done, but you'll have to be very clear that you don't want Nvidia users.

Passive-aggressive attacks in an indirectly linked blog post against the userbase and Nvidia themselves are not sufficient, you will have to just be explicit about it in your GitHub README.
Ok briefly observable but not anymore and never will be. And galaxies can move faster than the speed of light: https://m.phys.org/news/2015-10-galaxies-faster.html

I was going to correct that technicality on observable but was on mobile earlier.

Also you can absolutely have a theory that explains the observable universe reliably (i.e. Verifiable) but at the same time makes suggestions about the unobservable universe (for example most cosmos theories say the actual universe is bigger than the observable). We just don't have the technology or time to observe it yet.
Or it could be a part of a well-scheduled maintenance schedule that was agreed by IT and the system owners.

I used to have a system like that under my purview, a voice recording system. Unless we were under court order or internal compliance instruction, all back up tapes were to be erased after 1 month of the conversation being recorded. This was a daily job for the VR system admins -- pull tapes from 1 month prior, erase, and recycle back into the recording system to be used again. No special instruction needed to do a BAU task.

If a court order was received a tape was pulled out of the general pool, and sent off to compliance for safeguarding. So if we received a court order, that order would go to CEO / COO, to head of legal &/or compliance, who would then instruct head of IT, who would instruct the VR system admin to pull a tape. If somebody dropped the ball in that chain on day 29 and the order didn't reach the VR system guy, the tape was erased the next day.

The importance of this monthly VR tape deletion process was important enough to have some extremely senior compliance person flying out to assure themselves it was actually happening, and happening according to this procedure.

Why 30 days only you ask? Because we were only obligated under law to maintain 30 days worth of recordings. Anything longer than that became a regulatory risk to us.

Under my VR system erasure policy, the guy in question who wiped the election system might not have anybody to point to as ordering him/her to wipe.
Walmart's core customer personas are "busy moms" - they know that, in the long term, providing mom with convenience, efficiency, and low prices wins over trying to force her to waste time lost in the store.
If there is one common theme. Its "visual programming" ;)
CVS just announced a potential 60bn bid for Aetna.

Don’t underestimate them.
Can Vector Supercomputing Be Revived?
You say you would still have timezones, and timezones are approximately the area (all points) of the globe where it is approximately the same time, say all points where it is closer to 8am than to 7am or 9am when the centerline is 8am. With the current system, that makes the edges of time zones perfect north-south meridiens of longitude (which are then tweaked, of course for local reasons.)

Sun rises at approx 6am and sets at 6pm every day on the equator. Go straight north to another point, and in the northern summer, it's sun rises before it does at the equator, and in northern winter it rises after the equator. So, with your system calling sunrise 8am, the edges of a timezone would drift with the seasons and would only be north-south meridiens twice a year at the equinoxes.

If you decided to define the timezones with fixed (non-drifting) boundaries, your system might require a 2-dimensional grid of small timezones with boundaries not just on the east and west but on the north and south, with behaviors relative to their neighbors that would make timing a phone call to another time zone pretty much require computer assistance.
It's true that my response would be greatly improved had I done the math comparing the kinetic energy of the bullets in the two scenarios. I relied on reports of the results of M-16 shots to the human head at similar distances.

However, having done further reading on the matter, it has become clear that no such bullet as we are discussing actually struck the President's skull. The bullet struck the President's first thoracic vertebrae and exited from his throat. So I do not feel all that badly about the degree of diligence that I invested in my reply.
That’s why CVS is trying to buy Aetna. They’re going to be everything from your insurer, to your walk in clinic to your pharmacy. Maybe they’ll buy a hospital chain and go full stack.
The Dynamicland Twitter account has a bunch of fascinating demos of their work so far: https://twitter.com/Dynamicland1
FWIW authors on mathematics papers are always listed in alphabetical order.
Wait, if the Conservative party decided to destroy it how is that the fault of the Liberal Party?
Well, I'm firing my Nvidia proprietary driver users. Really, I never "hired" them in the first place. The ones who use nouveau are cool in my book. I don't feel the need to call this out in the README.

Also, this article contains pretty forwardly agressive attacks, I think.
Just water often and electrolytes (Ca, Na, Mg, K) as needed.

I've been testing fish oil to convince the gallbladder to empty because developing gallstones doesn't sound fun.

Background: I'm currently about 35 lbs. / 16 kg. overweight, which was partially medication-contributed but I also picked up the proverbial fork, and now I'm just not very hungry.
CVS considers acquiring Aetna for 66bn
But how do moderators become moderators in the first place? How do I, as a prospective buyer, know that all the moderators aren’t all pre-chosen by big sellers (by fair means or foul) to be sympathetic to them?

Regarding “reputations”: Remember Goodhart’s law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
Visiting that page on mobile asked for permission to record audio and take photos...
Some like to learn by the stick, while others by carrot. And some like to learn with a grenade.
Speaking as someone who is recovering from his own fuckups in this realm, I'm reminded of the buddha quote about how anger hurts the person who is angry rather than what you're angry at.

Please don't take this as a criticism of you personally though, I'm just venting and worried about how I'm gonna fix a work relationship that I care about that I damaged because I was angry
Criminals love their gang signals.

This is the work of a friend of mine, Bob Fischer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-EBGYF8XLQ

When I saw it years ago, I had to verify it myself.

Note the odds calculation is wrong due to a rounding error. The correct odds are:
1/22 x 1/22 x 1/22 x 1/22 x 1/22 = 1 / 5,153,632

Details: https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/jkcNkNHEwy67s6Gsubd3KQ
> If I want to do Deep Learning in Linux, I have to use NVidia.

Why is that? What prevents you from using open APIs like Vulkan for GPGPU? Unless you rely on some CUDA only middleware of course.
YSK HN: common.com is a scam – preying on millenial income
This company is a complete sham and scam attempting to harvest your wallets with bullshit offerings.

They claim to be going after the international tech market eager to work in the US who have money but no established credit o they are "easy" on their terms (just pay this amount, no credit check, move into these amazing spaces with all these amenities...

Super ghetto neighborhoods with a converted hotel into apartments, where they make $6,000 for an apartment per month and charge you up to $1600/month for a ROOM - and its a DORM - you dont know or pick your roomates...

It is a total sham.

It is basically the millennial version of pay-day lenders for housing.

AVOID.
Being able to order their medication and have it delivered the same day is going to be huge for lots of people. Sure, Amazon won't make much money but add everything else they sell and you have yet another reason why you can stay in the Amazon eco system for all your shopping needs.
Lucky, an experimental new web framework by thoughtbot
Does that mean we live in the JJ Abrams timeline? I think I'd rather be in the mirror universe.
Sure, I'd use it, but under the following conditions:

- wired ethernet

- lots of guard code that reconnects failed calls

- customer is aware they will not get 5 9's or even 3 9's.

Typically using WebRTC means a significant cost savings, so it may or may not be worthwhile to build out the additional stuff needed to make it work.
So when your choice is for the worst or the less worse, vote less worse! We don't have to like it (though that'd be nice), just prefer it.

Case in point: the original plan for the NBN was vastly preferable to this scandal ;)
data decay?
Sorry but with your attitude I really don't care about anything else you have to say. Grow up.
With so much evidence that quantum will soon make sequential computation look like the abacus, it seems equivallent to trying to revitalize the coal industry
It's probably because stock checking is a simple repetitive task that humans tend to fail at due to boredom and mental fatigue while robots would accel at it because of the fact that it's simple, well defined and boring.
> (NYC running out of space for pedestrians) is news to me, as someone who lives and works in the two busiest and most crowded neighborhoods in the city

I assume that's a reference to this - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/nyregion/new-york-city-ov...
Because it's the same party. The Liberal Party is the name of the conservative party.
Wise words. This is actually rather tempered from my first draft. It may have made sense to temper it more, but I stand by every point I said.
Yeah, I was 28.5, currently 26.9 and aiming for 20.
Space changes how genes are expressed – NASA twin study
Just think of all the interesting data they will aggregate!
We all thought Malcolm Turnbull was supposed to be exactly what you are describing.
It's not the people that work in the industry that I'm annoyed with, it's the people running the game dev cos. And to a lesser extent the "startups" that are also poorly ran and exploitative.

It's this same late stage capitalism BS where some people are successful doing X, where X also involved working obscene hours, not planning things out the way they would have to in a large company, and doing other things that are either "trailblazing" or "cutting corners" depending on your perspective. And they get lucky and make a ton of cash.

And so a ton of other people try and follow this path, but the only lessosn they seemed to learn was "working long hours is awesome" and "you don't need to pay people fair wages, just let passion (and/or stock options) motivate them". And people who would have made a decent living 20 years ago doing something boring are conned into it because it seems like the only path left for them.
What is being protected is stated in the headline and first two sentences of the article.

... new policy designed to stop soaring house prices ...

... said the new plan was designed to stop rising house prices and will apply to non-residents.
Middle/high does start too early, but if you started later, there wouldn't been enough time after school for those precious athletic team practices and games.
This is an excellent summary of the situation.

There was a few major potholes in the original plan. The nobel aim was to wire up (and use satellite to augment) the majority of australia, including, critically a large part of the rural population. The appeal was to level the access for the population to high quality internet. From then on; however, it became a political football, with both parties internal reworking it and bike shedding the entire technology stack with no clue on implementation and a strong lobby from the incumbent privatised telco (Telstra) and other telcos to ensure their business is not threatened.

Bunch of muppets.
"I'm doing it as volunteer" is not an excuse for being unprofessional.
I'd also suggest contrasting this:

https://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AMSFT&fstype=ii

With this:

https://finance.google.com/finance?q=linux
The Liberal Party of Australia is a conservative party.
(The ACCC really should force them to change their name due to false advertising)
It's not even a misnomer to our American friends. The Australian main conservative party is more liberal than the American main liberal party.
It is an excellent excuse for not devoting a huge amount of time and effort to fixing other people's stuff, though.
There is no way to have a web-document-embedded map that can usefully show a user things near their device's location without leaking that location to any entity with access to execute JavaScript in the context of that document.

Browsers have had to learn the hard way that getComputedStyle and even the animation timing APIs are essentially un-close-able privacy leaks (hell, even HSTS is abusable as a way to set and check "supercookies"). Any useful map would have similar problems.
At worst it is nationalism, not racism.

And nationalism isn't always bad, a group protecting members of that group (say based on geography) to the exclusion of the out-group is just how groups function.
You should try eating a spoonful of raw honey everyday— something which I'd just learned about myself! I'm usually not much one for holistic remedies, but I was surprised at how effective this was at alleviating my own allergies. Although I suppose this cure is a far cry from crystal healing; it's basically just sugary syrup and pollen, and you can imagine how this method works.
Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA0t5zvaW70

The most relevant part is 35-40 seconds.

Here's a citation explaining what's going on here: http://22november1963.org.uk/how-did-oswald-kill-kennedy#fn0...

And here's the FBI document referenced above, with commentary on the video:

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=62272#relPage...
Stock checking seems vastly easier to accomplish electronically (a la RFID tags) than with dedicated robots.
Yeah I have literally thrown my life in the back of a car and driven to the other side of the country hunting work. I'm definitely not opposed to "going where the work is" have done major moves every 4 years just trying to find something solid.
Stock levels are important for home delivery but this robot is also a logical first step for a fully fledged shelf packing robot.

If the current robot signals something is out of stock but a human determines the robot is incorrect then it means the store map is wrong or the product identification needs work. Once the error rate is low enough then full shelf packing can be implemented.
One can image both the supplement and medical industries will rush to deliver a pill or a "probiotic."

Also, it might be interesting if weight loss could also be partially achieved by fecal transplantation from known, extremely healthy individuals.
Backdoor Account Found in Popular Ship Satellite Communications System
I disagree about the original plan being preferable. The original NBN plan was a pipe dream in terms of cost feasibility, the rollout was aligned electoral boundaries, and the country first mentality means you get 12 megabit per second ADSL2 across from the Telstra building in the Melbourne CBD, and 100mbit in a large number of country towns.
What did Alan Kay mean by, “Lisp is the greatest language ever designed”?
tons more info available at the NASA site: https://www.nasa.gov/twins-study/
Wasn't aware that disassembling other people's broken code in your own free time for their benefit was a key part of being """professional""".
Balancing Data and Design in Product Management
NVIDIA repeats the exact same terrible behavior with Linux stuff over and over again (as the article put it, "throwing code/blobs over the wall and expecting everyone to change for them") and IMO they deserve large amounts of angry public criticism over it until they stop.
I'd argue your use of 'we.'

Have you ever seen what happens when we dehumanize our enemies? Have you seen what happens when we lose empathy?

These people you hate are, without a doubt, able to exhibit some pretty poor behavior. Most of them are children looking to belong, mentally ill, and those who prey on them - also probably mentally ill. Those that are adults were usually reached as children and come from abusive childhoods.

And you have no sympathy. It's okay, you're not required to. It isn't easy to empathize with Nazis. I can understand the unwillingness to try.
With regards to Deep Learning, a recently released Keras backend[0] actually supports OpenCL with direct validation on a few AMD cards. I've been playing around with it for the past week or so and so far have had no issues with it, though I'm admittedly not doing anything too serious.

0. https://github.com/plaidml/plaidml
I agree that it's not terribly astonishing - maybe that was a poor choice of word.

The reason that I'm given pause isn't that it's a huge surprise, but for its implications today: with state influence over agriculture, including via protection for companies like Monsanto via favorable IP law, I think it might be (but might not be) somewhat more relevant today than other aspects of Operation Mongoose.
Researchers spotted the backdoor account when they found a function in the AtmosConnect source code that was named "authenticateBackdoorUser".
Not being paid for something is pretty much the literal definition of not being a professional.
What data do you have that building a high rise in San Francisco is financially risky? To the contrary cities like San Francisco is a gold mine for rent seeking as there is such a pent up demand for housing after many decades of under building and the rents are so high that building a high rise is unlikely to carry much risk at all compared to other asset classes.
General Brown: So they started doing psy-research because they thought we were doing psy-research, when in fact we weren't doing psy-research?

Brigadier General Dean Hopgood: Yes sir. But now that they are doing psy-research, we're gonna have to do psy-research, sir.
I don't have any figures, let's just 5 servers running containerized environments, with a couple of decent uplinks, it is feasible to handle bandwidth of a million users for a few thousand a month.

With a million users, it's feasible to support the site with donations... no funding or IPO's needed...

In addition, there are numberous open-source frameworks ( like gnu-social etc. ) that enable a single person to deploy the code onto the servers.
First common mistake: Yes, Australia is geographically huge. No, it is not sparce. it is a highly urbanized economy in terms of geographic concentration of the population. Therefore, the oft-quoted extreme expense "oh, its so much more expensive to do it in OZ compared to ..." is bullshit: its not. There are of course some very expensive locations to service, but thats a USO problem. Overall, the cost of deployment of the CAN is within scale of any other urban economy. Higher than Singapore? Sure. But, comparable per head of population to NZ.

Second common mistake: The argument which led to the MTM replacing FTTP was not about technology. It was about the cost of capital works, and the economic model of recovery. Labor was stupid enough to float a mixed-economy pluralist argument hinting at a future independent non-utility model with zero cost (long term) to the government. This hung them because it allowed the Liberals to go hard on cost recovery and privatization. If the intent had been to reserve a national utility function in layers 1 and 2, and promote competition above this, we'd be in a different conversation.

That conversation was about structural separation of the former monopoly Telco. It was quashed by Labor, in a stupid reactive move. It was floated, and the banking sector indicated a preference. Reactively the union movement and Labor party moved to reject it: if the banks wanted it, it must be bad.

Talk about a huge missed opportunity.

The NZ model, by comparison is gold: structural separation. Crown holdings for the fiber. A pot of money, re-circulating to deploy to the cities, each region re-fills the pot to move to the next town. Far simpler. And.. fibre to (most) homes.
Because of the rapid Mesa progress, Nvidia will suffer gradual decline of the Linux user base as time will go on. I'm not sure if they care enough to do anything about it though. Potential setbacks in CUDA usage can bite them more, but for that Khronos need to ramp up their effort of Vulkan based CL-next[1] or whatever it will be called.

1. http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/105895-vulkan-opencl-wil...
I guarantee those apartments are nearly all without parking.
Reminds me of Dave of EEVblog (in AU, obviously) discussing about how stupid the pricing, bureaucracy and outdated are on various, overlapping internet service providers, especially NBN.

https://youtu.be/haImi4cWau0 (2017)

https://youtu.be/nJxQZr4dz3g (2014)
Not knowing much about it, but taking an outside-in view here. You have a guy (Oswald) with a rifle and telescopic sight, aiming and shooting and purposely trying to kill Kennedy. Kennedy was shot and killed. Why is it so hard for people to believe Oswald was successful?

Occam's razor. Bayes theorem. Seems incredibly unlikely that there was a second shooter or accidental fluke shot from a secret service agent that just happened to occur right when Oswald was intentionally and purposefully doing it himself.
You don't have a right to buy a house at a particular price.

If someone else is willing to pay more the seller should have the opportunity to sell it to them. These laws privilege the desires of some buyers over both the desires of sellers and non-native buyers.
A better way to wash pesticides off apples
For deep learning I can't specifically comment, but for GPGPU I can: give AMD your money and use OpenCL and the upcoming Vulkan.

It worked great for me, and given Nvidia deliberately de-rate their support for OpenCL to push CUDA, I feel it's important to signal with your money that given the choice between flexible and open standards vs. proprietary, I'll support openness.
I live in Georgia too, so I'm trying to understand the point of your comment in the context of this server wipe.

Kennesaw is not far outside the Perimeter. I'd guess it counts as "Atlanta".

Why do you wish we had two states? Can diverse cultural elements in a state not come together to act in concert? What does that say about the whole notion of trying to increase "diversity"?

City vs rural, liberal vs conservative... I find that those aren't the important dichotomies that you use to judge the health of a culture or society. It's integrity vs corruption.
Different situation here in AU, but the idea would be that you put so many dampeners on capital growth that there isn't really any (and so nobody gets driven out of their home).

See the other comment re: multi millionaires collecting the pension; my taxes paying for benefits with far more wealth than I'll ever have, it's a frustrating situation.
The Liberal party is the conservative party. No Conservative party in Australia AFAIK.

The Liberal party is broadly social-conservative, pro-business.

The Labor party is broadly speaking socially liberal and pro-labour.
Don't ruin a good story with facts :)