skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel a good solution comes with 3 changes;

1) Donations to politicians from companies/foreigners need an absolute ban.

2) Personal donations should be capped at what a average politically interested person could afford.

3) A company can either lobby or hire government employees, not both. If a company lobbies government they cant hire senior government employees for 7 years. Likewise if a company hires senior government staff they cant lobby for 7 years. This way if a business is lobbying government then that person knows there is no cushy job for them at the end and your not hiring someone for their relationships that can directly influence government.

I know these will have loopholes and need more detail etc. Not least super pac issue in US (I am Australian so different challenges). I do believe something around this framework would significantly change the face of politics towards working for their constituents. Especially with the internet today and its ability to spread information and ideas.
Same here - I had to end up using touchpad-indicator to fix this (disables the touchpad while typing). Its a shame it doesn't work out of the box and requires this hack.
Cool, I’m wondering what the advantages of Jupyter is over matlabs IDE? Especially considering that matlab now has it’s own notebook interface.

I’m actually just curious here! I’m very familiar with matlab but am new to using jupyter (I’ve been using it for python notebooks)
Then explain why Microsoft become platinum sponsor for MariaDB.
Who said their market was to replace minimum wage workers?

You made that up then tried to convince us that it’s a bad idea.
Unless an interstate agreement is in place, Washington has no business telling Oregonians what to do.

The local nexus concept is that once you have a presence in the state, you’re obliged to follow the laws of that state.

I live in New York. If I ship FBA inventory to my agent (Amazon) in a California warehouse, California wants me to follow their law. Makes sense, and is easily avoided by not using Amazon FBA.

Amazon plays it both ways. They get to avoid collecting sales tax by claiming to be just a fulfillment house, but they market in such a way that it is difficult to buy from them. In the process of making that argument, they push that legal liability to the smaller entities who use their site. Amazon is the asshole here.
There's no such thing as “fat protocols” in blockchain investing
Thanks for your comments. Does Kierkegaard by any chance suggest a way out of this “Demonic Despair”? A path to follow to find “an identity in our experiences and to something higher than us”?
In Seattle I’ve seen all 3 types of ridesharing bikes (LimeBike, Spin, Ofo) being used fairly frequently - especially when it’s nice outside.
Not sure bout netstat, but I pipe text to | head and use the -n flag to specify # of lines all the time.
"Hauling stuff in rough terrain" seems like the PR-friendly version of what they want this technology for, but I don't think it takes too much imagination to think up other uses.
No kidding. Must mean 4-6 minutes.
"...graphene based..."

Oh. So this is vaporware. My opinion is also backed up by buzzwords like "2.5D," and the fact that everything in the article is written in future tense. Nothing has been demonstrated yet.
I suspect it’s such a hidden part of the whole process of using a computer that few repercussions are felt.

Not only hidden, but mostly does its job these days, and has been ignored by everyone so they can get on to writing "Uber but with ML".

There's a shocking amount of stuff like that, made decades ago and still there just because... well, it's still working.
Depends on how you are measuring accuracy.

Suppose I have a set of all integers less than k and > 0, and you after N random selections want to estimate k. Presumably as k increases your accuracy drops in absolute terms. But, if you do the same thing using the reals so there is infinite number of numbers from zero to k you can still make a bounds for k.

Granted there are now infinite number of reals in your estate, but you can still pick an N such that an arbitrary % of the time k is +/- an arbitrary % of your guesses.
Would you mind linking to an academic study concerning the mitochondrial biogenesis effect?
I feel like the benefits you obtain through cold showers disappear after a while as you get used to them. That's similar to the benefits I felt of meditation.
Chuwi CoreBook, a Surface Pro Like 2-in-1, Goes on Sale on Indiegogo
Yeah I think I'm going to switch to Google. Tried the ol' webex and it was garbage.
Same here - I'm glad I have a NVME drive, dread to think about the extract on a SATA one. :D

Very exciting development, looking forward to trying it out.
I figured that was air, like "cryo". Later:

similar effects for immersion in cold water for several minutes as well
I agree on the market being crazy.

Does any employer in the world interview people with real world skills?
I was paywalled form the article but wouldn't an easy solution be to rule;

1) Businesses are responsible to collect tax at point of payment.

2) Sales tax is paid at the rate of, and to the state where-ever the item is delivered to/or picked-up by purchaser.
What is objectionable about the above comment?
I don’t think so...

https://www.quad9.net/#/privacy
I use Facebook mostly to keep up with a few old friends. It saddens me to see what I can only call radicalization happening to many of these folks.
> I don't give a crap if you've already used React, Redux, Express, whatever new flavor of the months are coming. If you're 23 and actively using them, odds are you're still going to be worth much less to my team than someone 40 who has to pick them up their first couple months but can immediately contribute valuable, hard-earned broadly-applicable timeless lessons about how to build and operate software.

Odds are fine, but they aren't a shortcut for using your brain. If a team's culture makes its members instantly side with either the 40 year old or the 23 year old when he/she makes a claim like "we don't need to write tests", "there are no problems in my code", or "we should convert our entire existing repo to <different style/library/language>", then that culture is stifling discussion and actively harming the quality of the code the team writes. Same applies to hiring decisions.

It's frustrating to see ageism swinging back and forth like a pendulum. There's value in having both the crystallised intelligence of older workers and the fluid intelligence of younger workers on one team, provided they firstly get hired and secondly manage to work together.
False, the court found this sort of thing Constitutional in South Dakota v. Dole.
Perhaps it's more accurate to say that most successful businesspeople realize full compliance is impossible, and go for the 80/20 rule: 20% of the effort to get 80% compliance. At that point the IRS will go after people who are more obviously 0% compliant.
Bingo. Their market is the DoD and anyone said department will let them sell to.

The fair comparison isn't $10/hour workers, it's the entire cost of training, equipping, and employing a soldier (even in non-combat roles) and/or current military tech such as drones.
Nuclear Winter won’t matter when spent nuclear fuel pools in those nations undergo meltdowns following sustained losses of offsite power caused by catastrophic damage to the national electrical distribution system. The fuel in a nuclear reactor is marginal relative to SFP loading.
This is a great list, I don't think you missed any that a classic shop would use.
> Now I prefer to run a bunch of miles and immediately jump into the (cold) ocean while still all hot and amped up from the run. The water doesn't even seem cold, it's great. Normally people wear wet-suits in the ocean here.

This sounds great, but what about the trip home? I usually run to the ocean and I sometimes feel cold on my way back just from the sweat.
I saw this and I'm like "oh shit this is going to tell me to fix my posture". Thank god it didn't
I can't claim much credit here. I haven't made anything work; all I did was figure out what didn't work and let the right people know.
We are in a society that has the distractions of Huxleys world with the surveliance of Orwell. The only thing different is the fact that no one expected our computers to get so small . That we would stare at screens that watch us every hour of every day. The anime psycho pass is much more relevant .
Sounds like you worked a certain kind of magic.

Looking forward to the upcoming 11.2 AMIs :)
Do you mean the privately run overground lines? The tube is to me a bit of a marvel, with the newer lines having a train come every 3 minutes at peak times.

Even the overground lines which used to be not so great have been taken over by TfL and are quite good in my opinion.

I can see how the tube could be a bit difficult to navigate for a newcomer but once you're used to it I believe it's got some of the best signposting I've seen on a metro system.
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IDK, I have yet to get used to cold showers during the last two winters. Still too lazy to get my gas turned back on in 2.5 years so it isn't all that bad I guess...but during the deep Arizona winter when the temperature drops to around 50 those showers aren't even a little fun.
Yes, just like there were taxis before Uber.

The existing options are horrible. They charge a lot, spend an effort of maybe 5 minutes per customer, and will not handle complicated cases. The debt collection is even worse.

As far as what a more resourceful and powerful startup can do: they can consolidate a database of uncooperative customers or maybe even the debts of different vendors which would make legal action more viable, handle cross-border issues, provide payment ratings (different from credit rating - pretty sure many AAA companies would think twice before delaying payments!), and generally will be taken more seriously than a small business.

Just a handful of ideas.
I'll break it down first and explain why it's incorrect -- (sorry this came out longer than I expected) the atonement is a big topic let me know if you have questions or if something needs clarification. I can provide sources for everything that I'm saying as well if you wish.

"God is sacrificing"

This makes it sound like Christ was a passive agent in the events of the passion and resurrection, which he is not -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have the same will.

"God is sacrificing his own son, which is also him"

Note how this statement must be false because it's contradictory. How can X "sacrifice" Y, when X == Y? This comes from a misunderstanding of the phrase "Jesus is God" -- that phrase means that Jesus is 'homoousious' in Greek or 'has the same nature/essence' with God the Father. However some people understand it incorrectly as "Jesus is the same person as the Father".

The idiom for Jesus is not God (which is never mentioned in the NT or the nicene creed -- never it is said that "Jesus is God") but the idiom is 'Son of God'. This idiom is the one language that is used by the council of Nicaea to formulate the creed. And to explain what 'Son of God' means the creed goes on to say that Jesus is homoousious with the Father.

"to himself"

The popular and incorrect understanding of this is that God just wanted someone to be punished instead of humanity (note how that doesn't even make sense how humanity is reconciled to God if someone else took the punishment! And how is Jesus supposed to die instead of humanity when he later rose from the dead? the whole thing is absurd!) but this understanding of the atonement (called 'penal substitution') is part of 16th century reformation theology. In the firsth 10 centuries of Christianity we have ZERO authors who thought about the atonement that way (have a quick look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atonement_in_Christianity for a general view of this). The reason all Christian apologists believe this and try to defend it is because they are protestant.

"in order to satisfy rules that he himself also put in place"

This just portrays God as one who needs to find a 'loophole' in the system which he himself has put in place. How can this be even intelligble? God can do whatever he wants and he could have forgiven humanity easily. It's just that what humanity needed was more than forgiveness: human beings needed to be made alive again after being subject to death because of sin. Again just to be clear: the death because of sin is not a punishment -- it's the natural course of events when a human being turns their back to the source of life -- God.

"so that he doesn't have to send people he created and loves infinitely to be tortured forever in a place he created"

The popular image of God throwing people in a pit of fire and torturing them for eternity is not a Christian image. It first made its way to Christianity long long ago (which is probably why it's still prevalent) with the apocalypse of Peter -- a document that was influenced by pagan ideas (I'll put a reference here because this is important: this is from Bruce Metzger's The canon of the NT)
What kind of device does freebsd hang off nvme? Is it da or something not cam? Haven't really been paying attention.
These videos are always mindblowing to me, but I rarely see anyone ask "how many failures did it take to make the video?" There's a huge difference between this being a 99% performance and a 1% performance.
Not all attempts to find a Bitcoin hash of the right difficulty succeed either. Miners would have to continue training until they are fairly certain that it has resulted in an improvement.
I also really like uberconfrence. I use their other product DialPad, as well. That's where you have a dedicated phone number and can make calls to anywhere.
I am not sure how much clothes would help in preventing hypothermia.
Just launched today (two) new machine learning/ deep learning startups
Just launched today (two) new machine learning/ deep learning startups!!
MachineLrn has been working in stealth mode and should have some announcements in the medical and industrial IoT space soon.
Federal.AI will support the Defense/Intel sectors.
Solutions for both companies will be TensorFlow-based. We have some exciting new hardware in the works too.

I had my first buyout offer the same day. Going to pass
Want better pay? Kill the intelligent robots or kill our current forms of capitalism.
> A common theme I hear when talking to end users or key opinion leaders is that they don't want to divulge their ideas at risk of it being poached.

That's definitely not my experience. "End users" and people without extensive startup expertise hold their ideas close, but the genuinely experienced founders and experts I know share freely.
The dog like one is more chilling to me.

https://youtu.be/kgaO45SyaO4
It seems like that's the direction they're taking. But there is a lot of SSMS functionality I can't do without (replication, sql agent, RedGate SQL Prompt!, etc). This is a good start, but still a ways from a solid DBA tool. Pretty dashboard, so maybe I can keep it on a 3rd monitor but do all the heavy lifting in SSMS.
Introselect is a more complex version of the same idea.

But basically both quickselect and median of medians are divide and conquer. Median of medians is an expensive way to guarantee a good division. Quickselect hopes for one.

If quickselect goes well, then median of medians will be relatively cheap when run because it is run on a much shorter list. If quickselect does not go well, the median of medians passes guarantee progress. So average behavior is only slightly worse, and worst case behavior is still nicely bounded (albeit with a much worse constant).
100% has great potential for education, even (or especially) at a collegiate level.

Current CS student and in our architecture course we were learning surface-level x86 but mostly Y86, which is a toy language simplification of the x86 architecture. No real complaints about it, but friends of mine in electrical and electrical computer engineering (different school at my university) were learning ARM. Not only was it simpler it was much easier for them to implement non-virtualized code.

I thought the engineering department was doing it better.

+1 to GDB not being simple, was a larger learning curve for most of our class than C, x86, or any of the concepts.
You can get them apprised by a friendly local game store, go to two to make sure neither is ripping you off / you get a good deal.
Design on Demand has been attempted. West Elm will match a Pinterest board to products. Something more general purpose should be very achievable.

https://pinterest-style-finder.westelm.com
> All of this gets easier if you can augment your static analysis with control flow traces from program executions with coverage of the relevant branches, so you don't miss basic block entry points.

That's only true if the traces you can generate do a reasonable job at covering the states the application can find itself in, which is a big assumption.
This is a kind of AI/Robotics research that should be regulated. In 10-20 years, they will be quieter, cheaper, and even more capable.

How much resistance do we have against a horde of robotic raptors carrying weapons?

If you disagree, please state why instead of downvoting silently because this is a serious issue and we ought to have rational discussions about it.
What rules were you using? O_o
Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?
For a surprisingly-fascinating look at issues related to the role of the fastball in baseball (touching on history, physics, biology, measurement error, etc.), I suggest watching the movie, Fastball...

https://www.vudu.com/movies/#!content/743314/Fastball
You do realize this very release works on competitors to Windows, which is still a revenue driver at Microsoft, yeah? As does, you know, Azure? ...aaaand SQL Server? :)

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-nearly-one-in-three-a...

It’s Nadella Microsoft, amigo. Not saying marry them, but at least let them buy you a beer.
Talky.io?
While the new C5 instances are certainly welcome - I've been hoping for their release since their announcement in November 2016 (and they were already late for Skylake at that point) - we have encountered a number of show-stopping problems that point to this project being just a bit too ambitious.

To name a few:

1. EBS volumes attached to C5 instances show completely bogus CloudWatch metrics, over an order of magnitude higher than reality (e.g. average read/write latency prints at 100-60,000ms depending on load)

2. C5 instances don't work - at all - behind an NLB with a Target Group pointing to it as an "instance". You have to put it in "IP" mode.

3. OpsWorks, as always, lags way behind AWS offerings. You can't launch C5 instances. This was true of even R4 instances for a while, but you could at least change them via API. Not so with the C5 instances; unless you want to lose track of their type completely, you just have to abstain for now.

3a. As a result, we have to run R4 instances for some of our web tier - despite not needing the memory - because they have the highest network allocation. To make matters worse, AWS won't tell you the network allocation. You don't know until you start dropping packets.

4. ZFS on C5 instances can behave strangely. We've been unable to resize drives (zpool online -e <pool> <drive>) if they're identified by ID ("unable to read disk capacity"). Moving the instance back to any other type fixes the issue.

As always, you expect a couple of quirks with a new architecture, but I found myself wishing they had just stuck a new board with a Skylake chip into a rack and launched it.

Compared to this, GCE has a far more attractive offering: even ignoring all these issues, we simply can't get the instance size we want (a few fast CPUs + lots of memory). It just doesn't exist.
Orwell wasn't criticizing technology. "Animal Farm" is not about animals or farms and "1984" is not about TVs with cameras. He took the lust for power and turned it to eleven (hence the dystopian setting) to write a book about oppression.

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever."
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/204206269-Linux-In...

I haven't used the Linux client, but many others at my company use it.
Agreed on all points here:

* Doesn't work on Firefox (for a better part of a year now for me, which appears to be an intentional won't fix)

* Frequently causes Chrome to hang or crash

* Pretty noticeable resource hog when it does work

* Audio/video quality is absolutely garbage, frequently breaks up or stutters, and has poor frame rate and high latency

* Seems to do a poor job isolating voice from sound (a handful of people will pretty much cause nonstop background noise, it tries to be clever by muting you when it detects mostly background sound, but it just results in people talking without realizing they're muted)

* Pretty feature poor compared to competitors (master presenter, remote control, shared whiteboard, phone dial-in, phone dial-out)

* Tied pretty heavily to a Google account, which is incredibly annoying in a professional environment where people are hesitant to join with their personal account, plus some extra confusion when it auto-joins with the account signed into Chrome which is further aggravated by the poor multi-account management story that might still use your personal account when you have a business account.

Source: used to be a consultant and used every possible conferencing software under the sun; currently using hangouts enterprise for work
To echo what others have said, it's great if everyone's internet connection is rock solid. It seems that their calls are setup as fully connected graph between participants, and it has happened more than once that I can hear some people that other participants can't and vice-versa. I usually try to cap it at 3 participants, or it can get messy.
The app is mediocre at best on all platforms, but the service works well.
Amazon has actually gotten a few fines from the FAA.

https://www.engadget.com/2016/06/23/amazon-faa-fine-dangerou...

>Last week, the FAA announced a $350,000 fine for Amazon after the retailer mishandled chemical shipments that resulted in injuries to UPS workers. Today, the agency hit the company with two more fines totaling $130,000 for similar incidents. In 2014, Amazon shipped separate packages, corrosive rust remover and a flammable gas used to clean air conditioners without properly labeling the boxes or sending along the required paperwork. Failure to do so violates the FAA's hazardous materials guidelines. The box containing Rid O' Rust Stain Preventer Acid leaked through, but there were no injuries reported

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/314077-faa-proposes-910...

>The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is proposing fining Amazon $91,000 for potentially violating hazardous material regulations.

>Amazon allegedly attempted to ship undeclared hazardous materials on FedEx air transportation in May of last year, the FAA said in a Thursday release.

>The chemicals in question were more than two gallons of toxic clear diesel fuel and tank cleaner. Workers at a FedEx facility in Sioux Falls, S.D., found the shipment leaking.

>The fine would not be Amazon's first wrist slap by the agency. The FAA has levied 22 civil penalties totaling over $1.4 million against the company since 2013.