skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s true. Skin color is especially meaningful in the US, where privilege, opportunity, education, and many other aspects of life fall mainly along racial lines. In america, race is inextricably tied to skin color. I’m a little disappointed people have such issue acknowledging this. Once you do, you will acknowledge that the success criteria is a defacto racial criteria. Does this mean anyone is trying to be racist? Not necessarily. Is it racist? Yes. Should you care about it? Well, I suppose it’s a little antiquated to care about your country these days. But you should probably give a fuck about why there aren’t a lot of black people at google, because it says a lot about the US and about google—basically, corporations have no qualms about moving into an area, forcing people from their homes, and then not sharing in the profits.

And it says a hell of a lot about Thiel—there’s basically no evidence he isn’t a complete psychopath.
Who needs Google when thee is DuckDuckGo anyway? Switched to DuckDuckGo (after getting mad of Google demanding me to solve captchas all the time) about a year ago... 100% satisfied.
On your point, might be worth mentioning that Facebook is starting to lose its focus with acquisitions such as Oculus Rift - which Zuck considers a major strategic move
... and possibly enough vitamin D early in the morning (e.g. before 10am), either as a supplement, or, preferrably, by exposure to the sun. And also quite a bit of exercise.

Or not. Anecdata are plenty, scientific evidence is scant.
"Recomputing the AlphaGo Zero weights will take about 1700 years on commodity hardware"

Oh well...

As much as the hardware advances are important, maybe there will be better ways to train networks with limited hardware

(training even a small CNN with limited resolution inputs on a CPU is slow)
> Thanks for the language

Thanks for the lying.

> the only thing I'm ashamed of is Python's lost opportunities.

Sure you are bud.

> There's no question that it would be further along than it is now.

Unless you're a core dev or have core dev testimony on the subject you're just making up more bullshit on the spot to support the previous bullshit you pulled out of thin air.

Please stop lying in the future, and have a nice day.
I have this disease and I'm not even earning six figures.
Yes, it would be strange and also concerning and rather dishonest & contradictory - a little damaging to the integrity of the brand (which IMO has already been tarnished via the gleaming endorsement of Hillary Clinton in late 2016).

But perhaps someone has a link to a statement or article from YC on the matter where their position is clarified; I'm sure many of us would love to know.
You do realize unicode has been "built into Python" pretty much since the beginning (Python 2.0, 17 years ago), right?

The main difference is that unicode has a more efficient internal storage since Python 3.3+ (a neat technical detail), and that mixing bytestrings and unicode will fail with an explicit error since 3.0+ (a good idea IMO).

But that Python 2.7 didn't support unicode is simply FUD.
Now this is freaky.

I thought I was done with HN for the evening after reading about this painting and a few other things.

So I opened my Kindle to read something else, and the advertising screen showed a book called Typhoon Fury (The Oregon Files).

I grew up in Oregon, so I figured I would take a look.

The blurb began:

> Hired to search for a collection of paintings worth half a billion dollars, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon soon find themselves in much deeper waters.
Yes, but they would make no sense.
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Which should be possible. For instance, your PoW could be "design a Go game bot neural network that's better than the system currently challenges you with".

Hard to make, easy to verify.
> so the code is almost never published

Even worse is that a friend of mine who is a researcher in neuroscience/BCI has found that many of the papers couldn't be reproduced at all with flawed or incorrect conclusions. Since they typically don't publish their code, its very difficult for others to check the correctness.
Pretty much - turn the ship around and fire forwards. Alternatively you could try lithobraking which would be quite spectacular at that speed!
Only if you are pretty lucky with what you write.

Back when I cared about Perl, doing "man perldelta" was a nice way to entertain myself.
It is a separate problem that legal fees in the US are so exorbitant as to render even millionaires helpless in confrontations with abusive corporations. By all means, there should have been no need for a wealthy benefactor in the first pace. Unfortunately, there was.

Mr. Thiel may have acted due to an alignment of selfish motivations, but he provided a public service, nonetheless.
Both sides were adequately funded and the victim won on the merits of the case. Surely you're not suggesting it preferable that Gawker's sex crime go largely unpunished due to their victims being unable to afford a legal team of equal calibre?
Russia used hundreds of fake accounts to tweet about Brexit, data shows
That is data mining and advertising networks for you.
> Google (as the main web search engine) has a strong interest in growing the capabilities of web browsers and the web generally (vs other proprietary alternatives).

Is that true? Google's AMP initiative seems like a precursor to building their own walled garden.
The plan for Perl6 is to eventually run Perl5 code with the `use v5` statement. You just don't throw 30 years worth of CPAN into the garbage bin. Meanwhile, Perl5 is being actively developed, new minor versions are released at least once a year, people are actively improving the language via extensions and even the core is evolving slowly but steadily. I don't thing it will be abandoned any time soon. Perl6 is being developed separately, mosty by other people.
>And your unquoted "proof" is gathered exactly how? You state something as a standing fact without giving us the ability to check the stated facts (and underlying methodologies) ourselves.

Discussion also implies trust. People don't have to bring evidence for everything they say, especially when other people can very easily look up relevant information online.
I liked version 7 but I believe Windows has taken a downturn since then.
Does the amount of required spectrum for this rise with a higher population or does it remain constant?
I develop for Windows, but I use Linux.

I find Windows to be a hindrance (I've used it from v3.1 to 7, so it's nothing to do with unfamiliarity).

Microsoft may be trying to become developer friendly - but their OS certainly is not, and increasingly so.
> To me this law is one of the reactions taken to the fact that foreign powers are using completely faked news papers and social media pages to influence out elections.

Then why not phrase it explicitly? For example:

For protection of citizens against online interfaces which either:

1. Consistently promote determinably false information with the intent to deceive on a mass scale;

OR

2. Attempt to profit through deception by false advertisement of goods or services.

Instead they create some vague, weasly language that can be used to basically block any service for any reason, so long as a group of EU citizens looked at it.
Oddly enough I find it easier to believe that Bill Gates wants to change the world for the better than to believe that he is secretly pushing some neocapitalist agenda.

Mainly because he personally has everything to gain from the former and practically nothing from the latter at the wealth level he operates at.

Dude could get a better return on index funds than from his philanthropy. Cynically, plain investing is low status where he is at, less cynically he has a lot of time to think about things and a lot of resources and I believe many (most? hmm) humans would act the same way under those conditions. Maybe I'm just an optimist.
>Intuitive has nothing to do with fact,

Studies in soft sciences have even less to do with fact too -- it's mostly the fads of the day presented as fact.
Wow. Whoever managed to get that clause in there must be pretty happy right now.
You can. But this line of argumentation is usually used as an excuse to justify a total lack of diversity. If we lived in a world where people didn't routinely abuse these kinds of arguments that way, then it'd be a fair argument to make, but as it stands odds are firmly in favor of assuming that people using this argument probably has an agenda that has nothing to do with wanting diversity of thought.
How did you hear this?
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Things that are full of bugs and are sluggishly slow are what makes customers scream their lounges out 99% of the time.
Moreover, in this context "code" is not just Python/C++/Java, but also spreadsheets!

Publishing spreadsheets is perhaps an even more urgent issue than publishing other types of code.

And of course the underlying data (anonymized) in case of statistical elicitation, but that's another topic. (Open Access, Open Data and Free Software are very closely related, though).
What's wrong with garbage collectors? Depending on the type, you can get performance characteristics better than or similar to destructor-based management.

Even current operating systems use forms of garbage collection (such as refcounting) to track resources.
Are you using a proxy or tor? I have never been asked a CAPTCHA on Google even with auto-deleting cookies and no javascript.
We had this in biology in high school, don't remember the exact details but essentially some gene combinations just "don't work", and in mammals that manifests as a miscarriage.
> Saying you own the most expensive piece of artwork ever gets you something that money can't buy (even though you did buy it).

"Saying you own the most expensive piece of artwork ever" is literary what money can buy.
It is for those who already know frameworks, can hack something together and are interested in learning more. Having habit of learning things like this helps a lot in the long term.
Unlikely. As a selective mechanism its effect would be very subtle, and there are other, well-known, much stronger mechanisms that prevent conception. Age of the mother was mentioned. More generally, it’s defects in the oocyte’s ability to perform chromosome segregation or to nest in the uterine lining.
I just entered "linux" on Dell's german site and "nothing found". Great!
Cultural diversity is the end result of an egalitarian society that doesn't place any particular culture above others. imo it is a goal to strive for.

Unlike humans, ideas are not created equal - some must be bitterly fought against. The "Diversity of ideas" meme is the "embrace, extend, extinguish" of political ideas, you can basically use it to promote any idea that's unpopular.
The general consensus is there's not really such thing as 'tone' - usually that's just a matter of low bodyfat % which shows your muscles more promimently.

What you're talking about somewhat though is balancing hypertrophy and strength goals - where someone may wish to increase their reps to say 8-20 which is demonstrated with studies to increase muscle size, but is poorer for progressing with strength (where 3-8 reps is more effective)
Are units of account, and might fall in further categories:

> Based on the specific formulation of the contract for each ICO, BaFin decides on a case-by-case basis whether the offeror is required to obtain authorisation pursuant to the German Banking Act (Kreditwesengesetz – KWG), Investment Code (Kapitalanlagegesetzbuch – KAGB), Payment Services Supervision Act (Zahlungsdiensteaufsichtsgesetz – ZAG) or Insurance Supervision Act (Versicherungsaufsichtsgesetz – VAG) and whether they must fulfil prospectus requirements.

So your ICO might require further paperwork if it looks to much like an investment vehicle, an insurance policy, ...

Looking at the German text in comparison "unit of account" is translated from Rechnungseinheiten. Those are a type of financial instrument that contains private or artifical currencies and are treated similarly to holdings of foreign money. Offering them to the public or commercial trade in them requires permission (as the article already notes).
The same way women do!
It's interesting too in that I think everybody can see that violence inherently breeds violence

On the contrary, we created an official group tasked with dealing out violence (the police) because it's generally accepted (whether it's true or not) that some violence must be met with violence.
I switched on a trial basis, I am definitely liking the smooth UI, I can't stand the way it handles many tabs though, I find it even worse than chrome hiding the fav icons, for me Opera is doing it better.
Here's a link to the 1978 version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(game)
Another very good source of information is the US Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series (NEETS). https://maritime.org/doc/neets
Also towards the end of the parent directory check the "Electronics Technician" volumes and other interesting stuff on welding, repairing etc.
What benefits, precisely, though? New bugs? http://insert-script.blogspot.de/2017/11/firefox-settings-co...
This is super cool! As soon as I read the AlphaGo Zero paper I wanted to do a reimplementation as well, but apply the strategy to train a chess engine instead. Performance turned out to be way more important than I anticipated (I haven't built many big projects before) and I've been less inclined to work on it recently since I realized the necessary computing resources to train it properly would cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars in Google Cloud GPU time. I also wrote it in Python because I've done all of my TensorFlow work in Python so far.

https://github.com/emdoyle/chess_ai

That's my repo, if anyone wants to help me make it faster or possibly fix parts of it (hard to be sure the MCTS and NN are faithfully replicated) I would welcome pull requests!

Also I gitignored my tensorflow serving stuff but it's basically required to be able to serve the models and communicate via RPC to get predictions (the RPC client is visible in the repo).
Just incompatibility, without the partner. Fluids pH problems are much more common than you'd think, and it has nothing to do with the partner (besides being treatable). And it's just one of the many problems that may occur, but none of them is like a partner issue because your bodies don't "match".
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Your view of Ruby programmers might be confused with Rails programmers. Those are more used to the "constant churn and breakage" which I also see as coming somewhat from the web side of programming. Although it's less of an issue in Rails as you can have properly stickied versions in a project.

AFAIK there was no breaking change in Ruby after 1.9, so anything that runs on 1.9 should run on any Ruby version up to the most current.

The biggest change in 1.9 was the support of different encoding and making UTF-8 the default encoding. Ruby did it differently than Python, so a string in 1.8 was a byte string, whereas a 1.9 string was a UTF-8 string. This off course broke many scripts.
I'm shaking my head as to say yes.
Big note: Fedora is a kinda beta branch of RHEL with experimental features and could have breaking changes.
Perhaps sort of thing is the limit on civilisations, an explanation of Fermi’s paradox
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I was asked a CAPTCHA every couple of weeks during heavy bursts of search, but this was only when I used the https://encrypted.google.com along with similar privacy measures to you. I was also on a VPN sometimes.
I would guess it is because linux has a wider hardware support than bsds. As you're building a supercomputer it makes sense to have the faster hardware, implying they are new technology.
She did a great job!
That's really interesting to think about. Somewhat related, I asked a geneticist once why there was so much diversity in humans vs pigeons which all looked the same to me.

He said, "We're tuned to notice differences between people, not pigeons. Perhaps we all look the same to them!"

Perhaps there is precisely this sort of random variation in the differences we don't notice, because by being oblivious to them they are not sexually selected for or against?
I agree that:

- For language learning, total study time should be a multiple of classroom time. (From personal experience, I've found 10:3 to work pretty well.)

- Teaching can be very effective in groups of 1:10 or 1:20

- Classroom time should not be spent on introducing new material

However:

- For language learning in particular, I don't believe that 'let the students study and then watch them...' approach is best. If you're doing 1:1 or 1:2, you can actively manage the learning process by asking the student questions in the target language, and (for example) making them reply using newly-acquired grammatical structures.

- You've made the point that teacher:student ratio isn't the only important factor (agreed!) but haven't made a strong case that it's insignificant, or addressed my question about whether 1:1 is better (assuming money no object) than all other ratios.
You can't stand for privacy and promote Google at the same time. That's disingenuous and the 'explanations' are transparently self serving.

If Mozilla needs that money from Google then they should own up to it and get off the privacy bandwagon rather than trivialize it.
You're conflating management and priority issues with programming issues.
I bit the bullet and I'm using DuckDuckGo as default.

Every time the results will be poor I add !g to the search and DuckDuckGo sends me to google.
(or !guk for google uk, !so for stackoverflow, !wes for spanish wikipedia, !amde for german amazon, and so on)

It's easy to do, and I enjoy the privacy for all the other searches.
The expensive task in machine learning is the training, it can be verified by checking for performance improvement on a validation set. You can make use of the duplicated effort if everyone trains on different examples, then their learned models can be merged/ensembled together for better performance.

That's the ideal situation when everyone plays by the rules. To make that scheme work as a "crypto"currency, you'll also have to make sure that breaking the rules doesn't bring a benefit. E.g. the validation examples can't be known beforehand, otherwise someone could just overfit to them to get a higher score with less work. But I think it might be possible to make it work.
I wonder if the painting will end up in Geneva Free Port, "the greatest art collection no-one can see"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38167501
I don't think this is true. Germany actually was trying to build a Reprocessing Plant, against massive protest, it was given up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing_plant_Wac...
I'll say what I've said in another thread on this matter, which is, no one outside of this bubble buys this shit. There are global supply-chain networks that move millions of products, and they don't employ as much as a micro-blogging platform. It's hubris to think we're so special.
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This whole comment thread is (ironically) a succinct illustration of the original point: it's difficult to evaluate claims about "multiculturalism" on merit, because people get touchy.
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>This is exactly how ethnic nationalism in America becomes normalized.

Sounds like you're preaching censorship, both of speech and of research. Is this really the position you want to take?
Fair point, but staying silent isn't a good option either. If everyone chucks substance perhaps at least there are those on the sidelines who can aggregate all of it, dig deeper, critically analyze & and make their own determinations.
You mean, you are going to be politically active? "They" is an abstract entity, a set of rules agreed upon by your community - in essence: you agreed to them.

Making someone's life miserable is not only a waste of one's one lifetime but not helping the next innocent person who is in pre-trial detention for years.
India ink is a good solution to this problem. Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph pens are good for this application because they have a nice mechanism for breaking through dried ink on the tip of the pen. Even a ballpoint pen is quite good for being moisture resistant, although I don't use them so I don't know much about fade resistance except a guess that black is best.

The idea of not using a pencil is to prevent changes later. It's really important not to make changes that cannot be tracked. The best is to cross out, write in new text, and sign+date in the margin. Leaving lots of space helps in this. Frankly, though, I've seldom found small changes. When an analysis turns out to be wrong, I simply make a new entry. With my forward- and backward-referencing notation, it won't matter if the new entry corrects an error later in the day, or a decade later.

I've never worried about sunlight because my books remain closed on a shelf, when not in use. As for water, choosing a good ink helps a lot (even my fountain pen scrawls can resist quickly-dabbed-up tea stains), but making copies/scans is really a great solution.

An addendum to my earlier post -- it helps to title each entry (which often corresponds to a day or two of work), and to type those entries (plus dates, book number and page number, and also some keywords) into a file that can be searched. I recommend one line per entry, and a format that is uniform enough that you can use grep (or similar) actions to produce specialized tables of contents for individual projects, years, etc.
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> but couldn't emacs have bindings for lua or python or something?

It can, and here is an example:
https://blag.bcc32.com/ecaml-getting-started/2017/11/05/emac...

And here is a better link I guess: http://diobla.info/blog-archive/modules-tut.html
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Headline: Mozilla terminate$ its deal with Yahoo...

if we had a functioning government a company with 70+% market share would not be able to buy even more market-share. Monopoly and all...
I am not trolling!

I stand firmly for the non-aggression principle. There's no violence against others in self-harm and suicide. And unrequested intervention is aggression.
> easy to verify

This may be a lot harder than you think.

How do you decide that one AI plays better than another? By playing lots of games. These games must be random, i.e. not known beforehand, otherwise the new AI could cheat.

But then, every cryptocurrency node would use a different set of game settings for validation. Which means that some (unlucky) nodes may reject the new AI while others accept it. The result are regular net splits, making it very hard to establish an keep the global consensus that is absolutely needed for a stable cryptocurrency system.

The core issue here is that validation must be 100% deterministic. Each node must run exactly the same calculations for validation, otherwise the consensus network is doomed.
Install tlp on Ubuntu/mint.
My asus ux305 gets a solid 10 hours under light use.
I'm a fan of Sphinx + https://readthedocs.org . The best aspect from my point of view is that readthedocs will continue to present docs from older versions of your project, which is helpful to users who either can't upgrade yet to the latest or are in the process of upgrading.
None of this actually answers the question. The question is by what process does energy in the binary black hole system get converted into gravitational wave energy?
It should affect more than just Notepad. One of the replies links to more juicy details: https://srad.jp/story/17/11/14/0640253/
So this is how democracy dies.
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