skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The BBC article linked in an earlier comment has this:

“The most important thing with this is to do no harm,” Wilcox says. “If you drill into the top of the magma chamber and try and cool it from there, this would be very risky. This could make the cap over the magma chamber more brittle and prone to fracture. And you might trigger the release of harmful volatile gases in the magma at the top of the chamber which would otherwise not be released.”

Instead, the idea is to drill in from the supervolcano from the lower sides, starting outside the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park, and extracting the heat from the underside of the magma chamber. “This way you’re preventing the heat coming up from below from ever reaching the top of the chamber which is where the real threat arises,” Wilcox says.
Correct. They also tested leaving out 9 of each group for cross-validation and got 76% accuracy in that case.
XRED ICO starts very soon
Education might be the root cause and it might be neglected but in the US it certainly isn't underfunded.

Source:
http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2015/apr/21/jeb...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15597382 looks like the original, but it's flagged, I guess?

What does that mean?
This might be a flippant response but I feel like my original response still applies (in that not everything need to fall into idealogical dichotomies). I feel like seeing the word 'socialistic' (which wasn't really the point of my response) automatically triggered a generic response on a strawman cold war USSR but the dichotomy is manufactured and on a spectrum, there are tons of socialistic elements in our government.

Anyway, that's all besides the point. In your analogies, I feel like I was arguing exactly for the opposite of what you're saying. I'm saying "let the pillar of capitalism (freedom of information) be a pillar of capitalism" and you're saying that I'm saying "proletariats of the world unite! don't forget to budget some gulags in our next 5 year plan".
thx for weighing in all over this thread
It's built on human-constructed infrastructure or automated infrastructure designed by humans
It reminds me of an article I read years ago in a magazine about solar power. A guy decided to go off grid with solar panels and battery back up. He was living in Chicago. He called around to find out who regulated this sort of thing, where he needed to apply for permits or whatever.

He learned that there wasn't a governing body. So he realized that as long as he didn't do anything stupid (a la burn the building down), he was pretty much free to do as he pleased.

If you are responsible, freedom of that sort is empowering. If you are not, you wind up being the jerk that causes regulations to be written and permitting processes to be created, ruining it for everyone.
While the libertarian agrees with you in principle, the rest of me has been mugged by reality and has seen more than a few environmental disasters that have resulted from essential zero protection from bad actors dumping in the commons. E.g. ocean microplastic is a huge problem and has a lot to do with absolutely zero oversight from regulators on what can be used as packaging material. This is a big problem that we need to come to terms with, sooner rather than later.
You are willing to run their code on your computer with full access to your data but not in the heavily-sandboxed browser environment?
This one is the dupe, of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15597382
How Canada is failing to keep dangerous counterfeit products off store shelves
Presumably any process that can use the heat directly rather than converting to electricity would be more cost-effective, as you lose most of the energy in that conversion.

I assume 350C isn't hot enough for aluminum which melts around 660C, but maybe there are other industrial processes that could take advantage of the heat. Maybe using the heat to kiln-dry wood or cure autoclaved aerated concrete blocks or something like that.
Gun ownership in the U.S. is strongly correlated with socio-economic status, locality, etc.

Everybody points to the Australian example, where suicides declined after the 1996 gun control legislation. But unemployment in Australia peaked in 1995 and declined precipitously afterward until 2009.

Given everything we know about suicide rates in other countries, and about changes in suicide rates domestically (e.g. recent increase as gun ownership goes _down_[1]), it would very odd if gun ownership was a root cause of suicide.

That said, in a country with a strong gun culture like the U.S., I would totally expect a generational dip in suicides if we substantially removed access to guns. But then I'd expect it to normalize when suicidal individuals became more comfortable with other methods. Just like with mass shootings, there's a strong imitation effect. Take away the model that people imitate and it might be awhile until there's a regression to the mean.

Even so, that's still reasonable justification for limiting access to guns--saving tens of thousands of individuals. I'm not sure I'd agree with such a policy prescription because of the insane gun politics, but it's quite defensible from a public health perspective.

[1] Number of guns have increased but they're concentrated in fewer households.
"And, in most cases arn't I required to exchange a whole lot of my available labor in order to make ends meet?"

Yes. You need to do things that make other peoples lives better if you want other people to do things that make your life better.

What has lead you people to think the opposite of this is the more moral position?

"I would expect the most powerful anti-poverty economic tool to have clear and demonstrable gains against poverty..."

Scoreboard. Seriously, the story of the 20th (and 21st) century eradication of poverty is told over and over again. How have you not seen any of it? You need to honestly answer that to yourself. How. Have. You. Not. Seen. ANY. Of. It?

"...obvious implementation..."
What you mean here is that you want to see the control board that is used to dial up capitalism with a resulting reduction in poverty. That's how anti-capitalists do things. They command and control. That is not how capitalism and emergent order works. It is a system that cannot be fully realised within any individual person's brain.

Market capitalism is akin to a neural network with a billion features, a billion hidden layers with a billion modes in each, a billion output nodes, which is constantly training on new and old data. Anyone who claims to be able to control the result with any sort of precision should be laughed off the planet.

"... and very few detractors."
Ha! Would you ever place that same requirement on your own preferred economic system? No way! The people who are against your system are blinded by ideology, right?
The errors have been 500 responses, returned quickly. That suggests something other than high load (though it doesn’t guarantee it by any means).
Which distributed realtime communication tech do you propose? IRC? Matrix?
RR count | length
---------+--------
107 | 131 (1024-bit with exponent 65337 == 3*29*751)

What the hell? I can imagine the occasional person typing 65337 when they mean 65537, but 107 such records?
Libertarians never have a concrete answer for that.
I disagree that education is a cop-out. Telling people what is credible and what is not is part if the mess that we're in now. If I can stand up a fancy looking "news" site, write my opinion as fact, and have people believe me, that is a problem of our education system.

That principle of freedom of information is what the internet is built on. A large number of retweets does not make something factual.
Sailthru has been great.
In the BBC article, they talk about tunneling under the magma pocket and cooling it from the underside, which is supposedly a lot less risky.
For reference. S3 went down. The amazon status page stored their icons on S3.
Favorite Statistical Quotes
Doesn't 91% seem far too low to be useful for the general population? Consider that only 7% of the background population experiences one or more depressive episode per year[0] (edit: okay maybe 8% in youth). Assuming independence and using the higher 8% background rate figure for youth, .91 * .08 = 7.3% of the population will receive a true positive result and (1-.91) * (1-.08) = 8.3% of the population will receive a false positive result. This is "pretty bad" — false positives outweigh the true positives — making the value of a positive result useless.

(Consider what happens to people so-diagnosed as suicidal when in fact they are not (false positives). Involuntary psychiatric imprisonment is a terrible thing if it isn't absolutely necessary.)

[0]: https://www.healthline.com/health/depression/facts-statistic...
This is how Apple built the iPhone X
If you’re on Gmail, you should mark it as spam, that’s what it is. You’ll also end up blocking that address.

If you run your own email server, black hole the Facebook.com domain.
Screenshot. Annotate. Email. “DON’T” Repeat
I imagine knowledge over whether those are the exception or the rule for the US military is classified. they don't have to tell you when they've been doing evil
Actually, the other 354 days a year when the site worked fine were work too. Ensuring the site is available and working smoothly is real work.
Your friend is not going to get PhD thesis topics by asking his friend to post on HN.

Regardless, here's what I think are interesting areas in recent crypto:

- Performance improvements in fully homomorphic encryption, starting with Gentry's work in 2009.

- Practical applications of secure multiparty computation, e.g. Dyadic Security and Google's SMC work.

- Non-NIST standards with actual adoption like Curve25519 and Chacha20-Poly1305

- Functional Encryption: http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/543

- Post-quantum crypto like New Hope (https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1092) and Supersingular Isogenies (http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/506)

- Candidate functions for Multilinear Maps, e.g. https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/610

- Hardware-based secure enclaves like SGX
Sequent calculus and linear logic: The Blind Spot and the cut rule
It silences telemetry, but not the other services, I know: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14490293 (scroll to cca middle).

Still, silencing a Mac on the network is way easier than silencing a Win 10 machine. It is not only the telemetry and the visibility into which process does what, but also the control over updates and persistence of your rules. Silent updates that change or misinterpret your settings (firewall rules bound to executable version, then updating this executable and applying default rules instead of yours are definitely not my favorite experience) significantly increase the time and effort needed, compared to other systems.
As someone who gets a lot of newsletters from idiots who still think they own the GMail address I've had for 13 years, I'm always afraid marking things as Spam will hurt my experience more than the spammers -- eg, I'm worried it'll lower my account's spam threshold and cause more false positives in my spam folder (which i never, ever check.. and on the rare occasion I do, I occasionally notice I've been 'missing' a newsletter I should have been getting for years).

Any comments as to how this works? I've happily used the spam button on many occasions, but I'm always a little gunshy.
Are you going to invest into a company that has such an API its bread-and-butter, forced by finances to continuously improve it, or into a company that has it as a shiny new toy and throws it into basket when something else becomes more shiny?
(A note from elsewhere)

A reminder that a state of the art GPU renderer can produce photorealistic scenes at 4k resolution (about 8000000 pixels) at 120 fps (i.e. render the scene in less than 8ms).

In other words, this performance is completely inaccessible to current DNN architectures (and I suspect will never be as efficient).
As another algorithmic illustration, we have already near-optimal algorithms for sorting large lists of random numbers. I guarantee a large neural network even trained for massive lengths of time cannot beat the sheer efficiency of traditional algorithms. It should approach the asymptotics of the optimal algorithm, but there's too much overhead in how DNNs are structured.
A better task, I believe, is to use DNNs to write code that improves renderers, shaders, or sorting algorithms while maintaining image quality (in the case of computer graphics) or correctness (in the case of sorting algorithms).

---

In this case the problem could be coming up with a variety of good realistic textures. I'm sure Google could hire a few artists to do a fantastic job, but if you want overkill I guess a GAN could generate the textures (to be rendered by a conventional algorithm).
IRC networks are distributed, so when one server dies you can connect to another.

So yes, IRC channels have better availability than Slack.
Ugh...

And people complain about Java's NullPointerException, but this is way worse.
It was bound to happen eventually. The scale of their application is mind-blowing.

Building things is hard, mistakes happen, and that's totally okay.
> I previously have assumed that it was universally accepted that this was not the case

Since you're asking for citations yourself, which ones support that view?
Yes, that's very true. I think it can be sometimes hard to ground yourself in what the actual thing is you care about. I think here is where experience trying to use the values is helpful, hence my video game example in a sibling thread.
Causing chaos at my workplace. We have Slack integrated into our incident management solution... very, very unfortunate.
Or host your own
Google throws another product under the bus, hardly news by now, surely?
I just quit a call where we were using screen hero. It worked great. Then I noticed my status said I was still on a call so I thought I'd restart slack. It didn't really want to quit, so I killed it. Sorry everyone.
It's less about being "wrong" and more about making a falsifiable claim. You can certainly just call something a bubble literally forever: until you die, or until humanity goes extinct, until the heat death of the universe, etc. If Bitcoin stays relevant up to any of those points in time, I'll consider it a success regardless of how many people continued making the unfalsifiable claim that it's a bubble.
Helping other people, not producing output or profit, is the fundamental human enterprise. Other people exist and need help: It's the only reason you have a job. Amazing how many people miss this and think their job is to "be good at X" instead of "help other people with X".
Perhaps the HN mods should do something about that then.
Good! It sounds like you wouldn't be a good match for their engineering culture - both you and they would be unhappy. Everybody wins when they put that out there clearly.
I don't really understand the use case. Can you clarify?
Slay to Pay
How does your team deal with chat/chatops during SaaS chat outages?
Sometimes our favorite SaaS chat services go down. How does your team deal with this? Do you use a self-hosted IRC server? Something else? Especially interested in teams that are running Ops through chat.
Information Disorder: an interdisciplinary framework for research, policymaking
+100

One was "accurate but need clarification"; the other "exaggerating and misleading".

> Sanders said that for African-Americans between the ages of 17 and 20, "the real unemployment rate … is 51 percent." His terminology was off, but the numbers he used check out, and his general point was correct -- that in an apples-to-apples comparison, African-American youth have significantly worse prospects in the job market than either Hispanics or whites do. The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, so we rate it Mostly True.

> Trump says the unemployment rate for black youths is 59 percent. The unemployment rate is a widely used term with a specific definition: It refers to the percentage of jobless people in the workforce who are actively seeking employment. In May, the unemployment rate for blacks ages 16 to 24 was 18.7 percent, or less than one-third of Trump’s claim...Clearly, black youths have a harder time finding work than whites. But Trump exaggerates the issue through his misleading use of statistics. We rate his statement Mostly False.

None are free from bias.

The solution to oligarchy is democracy, not monarchy.

The solution to bad speech is more speech, not less speech.
> 65337

You mean 65535? :-)
Top 0.1% of American households hold the same amount of wealth as the bottom 90%
Price for API calls? Those are free for affiliate partnerships.

The flights pricing itself matches what you would find, for example, on CheapOair.com or OneTravel.com, which are driven by Fareportal's APIs.
"The only permission [Twitter] needed was from investors who had to cough up the money."

That was his point.

"Instead of railing against solar power..."

Irrelevant what-about-ism.

"Is it OK for everybody to do "Permissionless Innovation" on reactor designs ..."

I will tell you that you don't really understand what the author is saying. But you won't believe that. You will continue to believe the author must be stupid.
Yes, it can, but whenever the Service Worker's code changes, the user is warned. There's an "updatefound" event [1] which both the web page and the old Service Worker get. I wrote a blog post with more background info at [2].

Of course, it would be better to only warn the user if the Service Worker changes if it doesn't match the version on GitHub, but that's blocked on [3].

Furthermore, there are some very edge-case situations where the Service Worker can update when Airborn OS is not open or not visible (e.g., in a hidden iframe [4]). That is why, when you register and check "Notify me before updating Airborn OS", it asks you for permission to send you notifications. Those notifications are currently only used to warn you when the Service Worker updates.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API/ServiceWorkerRegi...

[2]: http://blog.airbornos.com/post/2017/08/03/Transparent-Web-Ap...

[3]: https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1208

[4]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=773307, but it's not a browser bug. I should file a spec bug, but I'm still waiting for a reply on [3], too.
Nothing about the practice of mathematics over the last century requires (or is even advantaged by) a platonic view.
Cloudron 1.7.6 released – mail server fixes and new ldap features
You're right, I clarified it a little.
The biggest tech hub in India is in Bangalore, but both AWS and GCP chose Mumbai. Because of proximity to international data cables?
We are aware of connectivity issues and are actively lnvestigating.
3:58 PM PDT・See in your timezone

They spelled investigating with a lower-case 'l' :\
Does that bug anyone other than me?
How does LOOCV overfit the cross validation score?
> The value for public exponent F_4 is actually 65537 ...

That's what I thought when I was reading the second post in the thread. I'm certainly no crypto expert, though, so I was left wondering why 65535 was being recommended when, for example, TLS often uses 65537. I was heading for the DNSSEC RFCs in search of an explanation when I decided to click over to the discussion thread and saw your comment so thank you for the clarification!

EDIT: I'm subscribed to this list so I just posted a "correction" (which is apparently pending moderation, for some reason).
War is peace. Freedom is slavery.
Grandparent comment is pretty clearly referring to Slack users, not employees.
I worked for BlackBerry when outages started to become a thing.

When your business motto is 'always on' - it's really, really bad to be 'off' - it's a deep transgression of the brand promise.

BB was structured poorly for this - they didn't grasp the concept of multiple nodes of redundancy very well. (Easy in hindsight).

But - we should all be impressed at how highly available Google, FB and some other brands are. That's impressive.
(I'm author of the TF rnn api & tf.contrib.seq2seq)

There's a lot of work being done on this specific part. If you have a standard RNN architecture you want to run, you can probably use the cudnn code in tf.contrib.cudnn to get a super fast implementation.

There is some performance work that needs to be done on properly caching weights between time steps of an RNN if you use a tf.nn.RNNCell. Currently if you want to implement a custom architecture, or a seq2seq decoder, or an RL agent, this is the API you would want to use. Several of the eager benchmarks are based on this API; so that performance will only improve.

I'm hopeful that for the next major release, we'll also have support for eager in tf.contrib.seq2seq.
Small user base? I think not...
..... wow you're adorable.

Try the past two decades of Venezuelan politics just for an appetizer.
It doesn't bug me. But I really want to understand how that happens.
That's been experimental for a long time - https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/fs/9p

I guess file systems don't go into staging/?
Generally yes, it's old and stable, and it's not centralized so not everyone goes down at once. When you host your own you often get to choose the downtime as well, updates get run at midnight when no one is working, not at 10AM on a work day.

A service the scale of slack also runs into a whole host of scaling issues that a little intranet IRC client will never have.
That’s a fair comparison...
> Google ... derp-learning algorithms

Probably a typo, but I laughed pretty hard. You're not wrong.
It's important, but IMO it isn't the hardest part. Most people can do the collaboration and communication, but can't write code.
How did they adjust the model/features based on CV performance? It looks to me like they did LOOCV.
I imagine it can't be the most profitable market to write spams in Cantonese.

[subtitle: it's like sending spam in Glaswegian]
Here's something to work off of: https://whispersystems.discoursehosting.net/t/signal-desktop...
you've probably seen it already but bookwithmatrix.com is also very useful to get pricing based on ITA fare quotes.
If you see something like this and you think it's in error, you can let them know and they'll likely be able to respond more quickly. There's a contact link in the footer.
FB: $100K in ads barely made an impression on the election. Nothing to really worry about

Also FB: Come buy our ads!

Zuck man, either you have the power or you don't. I get trying to save face, but I didn't get that feeling from them. It felt to me that they really are that dissonant.
Forgive the naivety, can you explain a little? From what I understand from this:

You sent emails from AWS to subscribers.

Some recipients hit the spam button in Gmail.

You received a message for every email that had been flagged as spam, including the recipient details.

Is that correct? What exactly happens when I hit the spam button in Gmail?
I think you meant to say statuspage.io, not statuspage.com
> cold civil war

1st International Cyber War
I know, I had to fallback to Facebook for the link post!
You can build it yourself from source. While it's true that the debug version uses different servers, the functionality is there and can probably be enabled in a production build with little modifications.

This might get you started: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/blob/d1f7f5...
Just a simple typo. The keys are pretty close together if your finger slips, and I imagine they have enough problems distracting them from proper spellchecking at the moment. :-)
The press release gives some details. The exchanges are Bitstamp, GDAX, itBit and Kraken.

http://www.cmegroup.com/media-room/press-releases/2017/10/31...
A GPU is much closer to a CPU and a MCU, than any of these is to a FPGA.

VHDL is a different thing entirely from any programming language. It's not ranked as a programming language by the way. It might be easier to learn if you don't know any programming but know how to make integrated circuit boards.