skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if you look into what Fusion GPS is (a lobbying firm working for the Russians on the Magnitsky Act, requested the meeting with Donald Trump Jr under pretenses of having damaging info on Clinton, recently refusing to appear and ultimately pleading the fifth in front of the senate intelligence committee, and under fire for failure to register under FARA) then I can understand your confusion about why it's bad that the DNC paid them 9 million dollars for a shaky dossier which has already had parts discredited, and then delivered that dossier to the FBI. Strange that the newspaper would leave those interesting parts out, right?

Edit: here is a source backing up the claims about Fusion GPS
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2017/07/11...
Citizen Kaine is often called 'the best movie ever made'. If you watch it, it is arguable whether it is even minimally entertaining. I would say it is one of the most influential movies created along with Kurosawa movies. If I'm stuck on a plane I would rather watch the latest Transformers or sit in silence (given only those three options).

Lisp is arguably the most influential programming language, that doesn't mean it is objectively 'the best'.
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Wonder if they'll ever get around to making AIPAC do so. Until they do it makes it obviously political posing.
What content are you talking about? RT has published a lot of great stories that are are not flattering to the US (such as about the Flint Michigan water crisis) but are absolutely legitimate news stories that our corporate media doesn't care to report on.

Might RT simply have the goal of getting a foothold in American news reporting by serving an underserved market? If learning more about the drastic mishandling of the Flint Michigan water crisis stirs class conflict in America, are you telling me you think that is a bad thing? It's what is missing from our democracy!
The problem in the case of the Twitter announcement is that it appears dishonest. RT/Sputnik were not the source of the fake news stories that marred the US election, and yet are taking the blame for it. While the real producers of fake news aren't mentioned and get a free pass:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became...

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/veles-macedonia-fake-news/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38168281
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That's messed up.
http://flutter.io works right with IntelliJ IDEA, so you don't need to deal with the Android SDK junk.
LucasVB is another great contributor with some fantastic animations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LucasVB/Gallery

Two personal favorites are:

Line integral of a scalar field: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Line_integral_of_scalar_f...

and Fourier Transform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fourier_transform_time_an...
No. Last I heard, they were trying to remove proper tail calls from the spec completely. Safari, I believe, is the only browser where it is currently implemented.
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>RT has had some great coverage of under-publicized issues in the US... issues involving the poor, failing infrastructure, hypocrisy, etc. Yes it's not flattering to the US that these stories are written, but they are true and newsworthy and should absolutely not be suppressed.

RT hasn't been blocked from twitter, it is still allowed to do all those things.
> I'll be interested to see how HN responds to this.

Why? This has no bearing on the validity or existence of claimed Monsanto research.
Heres a link to actual recovered audio, within their video

https://youtu.be/H6AqEppqUDA?t=133
>but Kragen Javier Sitaker wrote Dumpulse, so the deficiencies of the design and implementation are all his.
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I work in the industry now and had been since 90s. "Engine" roles, if exist, are for stuff like streaming, save/load etc. The thing described in TFA is graphics programming.
CA is a pretty broad topic with a lot of work having been done on it. I've had a tangential interest in it since I was young and have read a bit (but only a bit) of the research. In terms of practical applications, I know CAs are used in simulation of various types. The earliest I recall hearing about was use of CA to simulate the spread of wildfires taking geography and plant growth into account. I've also seen multiple attempts at using CA to simulate dynamic flows, sort of an alternative to Navier-Stokes solving, but I don't think that's used commercially.

Just recently I came across a paper using CAs for both image compression and data encryption. The image compression worked a lot like fractal image compression, relying on the fact that any contractive mapping has an eventual fixed point under repeated iteration. The paper was a difficult read and felt like nothing more than an attempt by the author to get people to buy his book, not giving any detail about hardly anything.
> this is why I don't believe self driving cars will become mainstream any time soon

Firstly your assuming cars will be down with any level of frequency to concern people. This I doubt as cars are amazingly reliable these days and electric (which should grow with driverless tech) should be further due to less things to go wrong.

Secondly, driverless increases the chance of the non-owner model (probably some all you can eat Uber type model) where you have hundreds of cars at your disposal.

I think true self driving will delay a little due to the huge number of scenarios systems are going to need to account for almost perfectly. From this I guess we will get increasingly 'assisted driving' on freeways and know roads. But even this will disappear fast as cars with driverless tech requiring people to drive unknown areas will be uploaded and compiled to make this a known area fairly fast if there is any level of traffic.
Yes, competition is good.

But as you say, the incentives are not aligned correctly. And yes, it's very difficult for reviewers to make the best decisions.

So instead, they reject and request preliminary data. Which requires money. But at least this is better than a sexy shot in the dark, which I think private institutions should be funding. Or things like MD Anderson's moonshot program.

Things aren't perfect, but I think we can both agree that there is no perfect solution to this problem, incremental improvement? Certainly.
"I feel like the fury over it is very reactionary."

I think this is the current boogey-man to go after. I think it's a useful tool for politicians (DNC, Hillary Clinton, Democrats and Republicans - none of them wanted Trump where he is today) to bury their heads in the sand and say that it wasn't their fault that they got the election so wrong. They can point to Russia and ignore their own shortcomings that in my opinion put people off of voting for what they "should" have voted for. Given the choice of a deeper soul-searching or blaming someone else, humans usually choose to point the finger at someone else.

Did Russia/Russians attempt to influence the election? Absolutely. I'm sure most major powers in the world did, in one way or another. They'd be silly not to at least consider it, in the same way that I'm sure the United States attempts to serve its own interests via other countries' elections. But I don't think it's anywhere near as effective as politicians seem to want to make it appear.
> A forward() function gets called when the Graph is run.

Yes, the idea behind it is the same. The difference: PyTorch has a forward() function in their module class which you have to override, while in TensorFlow you can specify that yourself.

> Based on some reviews, PyTorch also shows a better performance on a lot of models compared to TensorFlow.

E.g.

http://deeplearningathome.com/2017/06/PyTorch-vs-Tensorflow-...
Why not https://nats.io/ ? It is imho simpler and livelier (as in people are still working/using it)

What's your use case?
I suspect (hope) you're being downvoted for being off-topic because what you describe is a serious problem. There are multiple PR/Media orgs that specialize in this now and they're far more advanced than using the same accounts.
There should be a README-embeddable badge service for this. Anyone up for writing one?
> They spent ~ $250k in total which is pretty small compared to total ad budget of a number of PACs.

One could argue their reach is more efficient than pulling out a million dollar 30 second ad aired to less people. Also consider the millions in marketing materials that RT don't need.
I like how you break things down. But serious question, do you get accused of "overthinking it" a lot?
I am curious about how the query performance compares to working with JSON files in Spark for ~100GB data.
"sed is useful for making small, line-wise tweaks to text."

Couldn't agree more!

A great example of this was using (surprised it wasn't mentioned) sed with the -i & 's///g' operators while "cleaning" hundreds (seriously) of HTML/PHP files from injected content at a shared hosting provider.
Nor does it really explain how much was done: was it 90% of the first author's effort, or 9%?

It's an incredibly noisy measure that people nevertheless take seriously.
I feel like two hours for something like this is still too little if you want to actually see a ~relatively~ prod level app. The business logic is obviously straight forward, but starting a new app, adding unit/integration tests, (maybe proper logging), caching etc, and basically anything showing that you're a competent dev will easily eat up 5 hours of your time in my opinion. And if you don't expect anything close to a prod level system, then why ask to build a system like this in the first place as opposed to some basic domain logic functions vs a whole e2e system? Maybe I'm just a shitty/slow dev.
Asking is way too polite here. No doctors who take it upon themselves to enter exam rooms with Google recording devices on their faces deserve that courtesy.
This position is paid after a 3 month training.

This attitude—along with unpaid internships, expectations of "side projects", international experience, etc.—perpetuates a lack of diversity, particularly in under-represented minorities. They're basically saying, "Unless you come from money and can eat 3 months salary, we don't want you." It's pay-to-play in the worst way.

Not to mention that no self-respecting person would work in an environment that toxic.
If you produce a list of hashes, you can reverse those hashes simply comparing against the hash.

This still isn't private for any URLs in the list, but it does anonymize any URLs which get transmitted in case your white-listing goes bad and allows all. It also makes it clear that you're only transmitting exact matches and not fuzzy matches. This also makes it clear only the URL part and no URL parameters are transmitted which is also important for privacy. (Otherwise any URLs in redirects are also hoovered up).

I haven't looked at the flattr code but if it's regex without going through proper URL parsing I also wouldn't trust it to go 'bad' at some point, there are too many edge cases from the tricky to the mundane such as matching on http://example.com#twitter.com , etc.

A side benefit to hashes for safebrowsing but perhaps a bad thing for this use case is that it also effectively allows you to anonymize a whitelist from your end-users because you can then compare client-side without leaking the list.
Looks like a good case for class action lawsuit for all the surrounding farmers that have suffer damage from this.

There are scientific proof, clear documented $$$ damage, etc.

Any idea why it has not initiated yet?
I also fell in love with the dream of the democratizing effect of the internet.

The problem is that speech isn't free (as in free beer). It's a commodity. The wealthier or more powerful get more of it. When people see messages frequently they tend to believe them [1]. It doesn't matter how direct your democracy is if people can be strongly influenced to vote as desired.

I used to believe that a sufficiently intelligent and enlightened being could lead a democracy. Rules for Rulers says this is impossible, because the altruistic entity would always lose to the practical power-optimizing one.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-new-resilience/2012...
Xah Lee, infamous troll of comp.lang.lisp has a great emacs page http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs.html or the mini-manual http://tuhdo.github.io/emacs-tutor.html

I avoided starting w/Spacemacs or Prelude defaults but you may want them https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

Emacs you'll find most productive if you live in it, so aside from development where you get your SQLI shell or whatever, also using magit, using pdf-tools to read papers, reading project mailing lists, using org-mode for billing if you're a freelancer, scripting your shell (and now your packages too https://alezost.github.io/guix.el/ ) ect.
It is illegal if the work is in anyway valuable to the company. This is probably state by state, but considering I live in Iowa I think it is safe all states have some variation of this.

The example the lawyer used to explain it to me is a railroad can have an unpaid intern who moves cars from place to place. However those places all need to be places where the car isn't needed. If the intern moves a car from a siding to an unloading dock and somebody then unloads the car that was useful work and the intern needs to be paid because it was useful work.

BTW, if you get an offer for an unpaid internship and do useful work for the company you should contact a lawyer after your employment and sue for back pay AFTER you get your letter of recommendation: it is any easy lawsuit to win (be sure to ask for lawyer fees) if you have any evidence.
So RT publishes articles about things like the Flint Michigan water crisis and the many government failures that led to it.

You are telling me that this story and the great reporting about issues like this that the RT has published are horrible because they might impact American democracy?

The victims of the Flint crisis are some of the poorest Americans who do not have a voice in politics. For RT to report on issues of concern to the least empowered Americans may cause political change but that is not a bad thing. Papers that generate ad revenue from subscribers averaging over $100K per year in income simply won't write certain stories because nobody would care to read them.
It's a bad idea to use first-person voice in READMEs on GitHub. It breaks down when people give in to GitHub's insistence on forking. If you want to include a first-person account (motivation, etc), put it in a blog post and link to it from the README—then everyone will be able to tell who "I" refers to.
The "American media" did no such thing. One specific outlet made a correction about one specific story.

What about Fox News? Did they apologize?

> have engaged in considerable soul searching.

It is my opinion that absolutely nothing changed. It's still the same people with the same interests.

Thanks for the link, I'll read it.
I used to consider this type of sarcastic response counterproductive, but based on my research the facts are pretty disconcerting.

- There are over 1,200 active chemically distinct pesticide active-ingredients

- For every pesticide registered for use there are at least as many that have been pulled from use ("deregistered"). There is no official record for which of these 1000+ chemicals have been deregistered for health reasons.
I’m not sure there’s a point to rank either, but it is certainly true that research and education are both complementary and monumentally important for the advancement of knowledge.
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How many documentaries do we need to stop using these poisons (and to put these people in jail) ? We are breathing volatile pesticides. IMHO, the short term plan of Mosanto is to make money with weeds by killing concurrent weeds and the long term plan is to make money with drugs to cure all the illness caused by these poisons.
Tenured professor here.

You're right in some sense, although I think those other fields are different in that people are honest upfront about what you're doing, and people see the value in the tediousness.

Academics, though, reached some inflection point (not too long ago really) where papers are just published, or grants proposals are written, just so it can be put on a CV. There's a huge discrepancy between the activity and its purpose, and a lot of denial about what's going on.

The denial seems to be decreasing a little, with more and more pieces like this Nature article, but I don't think the general public really understands the nature of the problems involved, nor are scientists really often honest about the nature of scientific work today.

One issue that's missing from this article is the impact of these trends on senior academics: it makes it almost impossible to move from one institution to a next, because of the volumes of young Ph.D. grads that are available. So if you are stuck in a problem institution, or in a poor institution-fit, or your spouse needs a job elsewhere, you're f*d, to put it mildly. This then creates all sorts of problems up the chain, where you have senior people whose careers would improve if they could move, and people staying would be happier, but they can't, or it takes forever. It leads to all kinds of problematic interpersonal problems that would be resolved easily in another field by someone just moving someplace else they'd be happier at. In academics, your career is often tied to a particular institution, because of the glut of qualified graduates, which is totally screwed up.

Academics has become cannabilistic. You're expected to just sort of throw yourself and your family at the altar of "science," the meaning of which is increasingly corrupted and distorted.
Like when the CIA infiltrated the 2012 French election?

No, not like that at all.

The claim there is: All major French political parties were targeted for infiltration by the CIA's human ("HUMINT") and electronic ("SIGINT") spies in the seven months leading up to France's 2012 presidential election.

That's dramatically different to actively trying to (a) make US citizens lose faith in the US election system and, (b) influence the election outcome.

Reading the CIA leak, it seems like pretty sensible questions. The ethics of spying during an election could be argued, but I think it is entirely reasonable for every country to be trying to understand similar things listed in that document ("What policies do they promote to help boost France's economic growth prospects?", "What are their opinions on the German model of export-led growth?" etc).
What do you expect from a new hire? What kind of time to productivity curve do you have in mind?

I think all 4 forms of interviewing you are suggesting are reasonable and whether or not they are demeaning for the interviewee depends mostly on the attitudes of those involved. If the interviewer is a jerk setting out to dominate the interviewee, and does not even bother to conceal how they think the interview is going, it's going to be a demeaning experience. If the interviewer is polite, empathetic to the interviewee, and probes without hinting at the opinion they are forming, even a terrible candidate should be able to leave without feeling like they were unfairly treated.
I feel an inflated sense of self-worth here. The only people who get swayed by twitter ads are bots that are programmed to. I bet Silicon Valley is eating up this national discussion around fake news and Russian ads.

Surely the only reason the country swung so strongly in the last election is because of hacking/Facebook/Twitter/Russia etc. It has nothing to do with things like economy and jobs /s
> Might RT simply have the goal of getting a foothold in American news reporting by serving an underserved market?

What, exactly is the underserved market here? Who exactly are they serving with propaganda?
there is a difference between propaganda and simply stirring shit, pretending to be anyone from black-lives-matter to white supremacists
So is yours. This thread is about media and propaganda, and you're talking about intel.
Looks nice, still have to read the whole paper. Seems like it's most useful for sparse arrays. Maybe we will get a golang port :P
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As a proponent of nationalism, I'm very pleased with this move. Now only if Canada, Japan and Europe could get in on it, so each major area would have its own social media. It's obvious that Twitter isn't going to block agents of the US Government for similar "offences".

So despite how pathetic and partisan this is, hopefully it'll have great long term secondary effects by siloing countries. Or at least a small step in that direction.
Seriously, this is where Twitter's hypocrisy reaches its pinnacle. The US "news" media is a combination of war propaganda and "living in countries other than the US sucks" propaganda.
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The same is often said about roofing jobs in the construction industry.
They have some benchmarks in paper https://people.csail.mit.edu/stavrosp/papers/vldb2017/VLDB17...
Before you start the reddit-esqur circlejerk, this is a trend globally and is only growing
The geocentric model isn't simpler; that was the problem underpinning the shift to a heliocentric model.

The geocentric model required the addition of several epicycle adjustments with no observable cause. Re-framing the local system with the sun at the center eliminated most of the epicycles.

(... and the remaining errors in the heliocentric model relative to the observed motion led to the discovery of the moons and, eventually, Newton's gravitational theory. The driving function, overall, is simplification of the model by removing special cases and the need for acausal "I don't know why; this is what we observe" rules).
It looks too systematic for it to be real accounts, their comments are only on monsanto subjects or other pro-corporate PR, real users also show interests in other things.
Do these people know you are selling their emails ? Also, should I expect a reply from them ?
So, still within the 5-7 year range? An operational lifespan is a timeframe in which most of the objects in question are expected to still work, not the timeframe by which most have failed.

If it continues to work for another 5-7 years, that's when you're getting into the "sturdier than average" realm. Your laptop could be a micron's worth of a whisker away from shorting itself out - you won't know until it happens.

Perhaps I should have stated my earlier point differently, but 2 years is still not a small portion of the lifespan of your average computer.
Unfortunately, my company's proxy blocks Twitter, so I am happy with this link ;)
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>If I told you that I developed a mobile app that was able to use computers to modernize the 600-year-old process for transferring value, you might think I was crazy or you might ask how to invest. Bitcoin is this app, and the disruption of the 600-year-old double entry accounting system is why I have called Bitcoin one of the most important innovations in the history of finance.

I know someone who bought a 100 bitcoins back when they were under a dollar. He bought them so he could order drugs. He made one transaction one time and still sits on his 600k now and is holding on for dear life. If he looses all the money he still doesn't care because he sees it as only loosing $100. This is weird to me. I imagine there are probably lots of bitcoin millionaire HODLers out there just waiting for the world to start using it as a currency and maybe buying a new Tesla. As the rest of the world hops on the bandwagon hoping for their millions too, IMHO it starts looking more and more like a ponzi scheme. I guess it worked for a few lucky ones out there and still will, but it seems like bitcoin will behave like Gold and not so much as a transnational money tool. It's a good story - a great story... and that's why it's not a bubble THIS time!
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