skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't say "better"; I'd probably say that the memory profile would be completely different. It all depends on the number of actors, the size of objects, and the workload. Remember: for large binary objects, references on a shared heap are sent and messages are not explicitly copied per actor. This means it's dependent on the workload and both the structure of how many processes are involved in a single request.
I feel like software mistakes are easily identifiable and fixable where human mistakes are not on both accounts. Plus, even small mistakes could lead to elections being decided on just a few votes the wrong way.
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I don't think people who start conversations like that are able to effectively gauge other human's reactions, they're kinda inter-related lol.
Alright, maybe I didn't give the best examples. How about this, office next door to mine is taking radar systems fielded in the 80s, developed in the 70s, and using them to construct 3d models of the detected objects. This is far beyond the capabilities originally intended for these systems and is actually quite impressive (no published results that I'm aware of, unfortunately). This is algorithms and math heavy work. They have a combination of experts (well, some becoming experts) in computer graphics, radar systems, machine learning, and other fields present doing this work.
Whats the deal with not including demos
Ah, we might be pulling a branch for our Riak Core work. I can look into it tomorrow and get back to you.
> for DSL

DSL can barely compete anymore.

The only reason that it can is that there is no competition.
> There is inherent risk in all cryptos.

This type of sentence is often intellectually dangerous. It's the basic pattern for a false equivalence -- brushing the differences under the rug.

You are essentially saying that risk1 === risk2, without any justification.

The default position when comparing thing1 to thing2, in any complex domain, is that they are not exactly the same, and we should be very cautious when trying to generalize from one to the other.
No word would avoid "upsetting" me, as it's not the word I take issue with. I think the premise of your argument is wrong.

If a company comes up with a new feature for a piece of open source software, it is in their best interests to push that code upstream. When they do so, the maintainers will continue to develop new features while maintaining this upstreamed feature. As long as someone else finds use in that feature, the company basically recoups their "investment" made by publishing it.

This is true no matter what OSS license your code is published under. And companies that don't upstream their code will fall behind those that do (except when it comes to companies that deal with drivers and hardware; that's a whole different ballpark).

With less-copyleft-than-GPL licenses, companies are allowed to choose what they share. I believe this weans them onto the Open Source train rather than purely allowing them to steal from it.

If you're rallying for software freedom above all else, why not back the AGPL instead? It's so copyleft it's GPL incompatible, because it covers SaaS as well as traditional software.
That's just foolish. I'm not going to forsake the benefit of something I'm forced to pay for. I can, however, still advocate for changes to that system. That isn't hypocrisy.
Sure, but it ain't cheating. I was specifically addressing that code generation is a practical solution to a missing feature in the language.
I keep regurgitating it because nobody addresses it.

If the reasoning was “don’t pass gun control, or you’ll have an armed insurrection” then that would make sense. But that’s never what gun advocates say. They always portray gun owners as somehow being simultaneously the final bulwark against a tyrannical government, and vulnerable to even mild gun control laws.
Because VR makes it easier to look at the structures like the branches of the tree. You can put this on a screen too, of course, but from a user interface point of view it's a bit like looking at the world through a letterbox.

The 3d-ness of VR makes it easier for people to maintain a persistent mental model of a virtual environment than that which can be presented through a single screen, and that facilitates the presentation and navigation of complex structural information in 3 dimensions.
Thanks for the reply. So, if you're injured, it still hurts. But what changes is your response, mentally. You gain the ability to peacefully endure, even study, the pain because you're smarter than it? And this ability comes as a result of meditation? Can the same thing be achieved by telling someone to "suck it up" if they stub their toe?
That is the heart of the problem.
Or GMO's... or Colony Collapse... beliefs unsupported by science exist everywhere...
So did you personally audit the code of you phone or do you just trust that it is not spying on you?
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It's just frustrating that this poor startup is going to make a monumentally bad decision based on people in here who have no zero clue what they are talking about.
Ask HN: What is going on at Apple?
The recent quality of software coming out of Apple is atrocious. I now have to routinely restart my iPhone several times a day just to open applications like Mail or iBooks. Photos that I've taken are randomly removed from the photos app only to show up days later (and sometimes not at all). After hanging up a phone call my phone continues to vibrate until the caller gets sent to voicemail. Not to mention the security issues with OS X.

And these are just the issues I can think of off the top of my head and that I've had direct experience with. If I produced even one bug of this severity I'm pretty sure my employer would never let me work on anything important again.

Has something changed internally at Apple that's caused this?
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Ask HN: Does CryptoKitties network congestion prove smart contracts can't work?
Two weeks ago transactions went through in seconds and now I'm sitting here trying to transfer some ERC20 tokens and 10 minutes later the tx is still listed as pending. The idea that a single smart contract that has 1000-5000 users can grind the network to halt really makes me question the entire concept of smart contracts as viable for anything other than basic account tracking and updating. Am I wrong here? What projects exist that you believe have solved or are trying to solve this [different] scalability problem?
You mean to say that you reserved the right to not answer certain questions or that you refused any questions?
That's not quite how flutes work. Two open tone holes in the same air column do not produce two distinct tones. They combine to change the effective length of the air column, which then provides a resonance for one tone, the frequency of which is determined by the length and the speed of sound, which in turn is mostly determined by temperature, and partly by the humidity. You still need a reed to produce the initial vibration.

I think what you are aiming for is more on the order of a disk siren. The rotation speed could be adjusted to produce a different base frequency, and one siren disk can support tone production from several air streams, each aimed at a different radius of the disk. Blocking off or opening the individual air streams can produce different chords based on the base tone.

If you have twelve speeds and six air streams, you can make 767 different chords. The same rotor can turn the siren disk and a fan to move the air. You press the button, the disk spins, and a pre-programmed chord plays.
This. The request may be a big deal to you, but it isn't necessarily a big deal to the client. Don't go big on the ultimatums and alternative plans until they indicate that it is a deal-breaker for them.
I understand the math, they have a bunch of simulations that produce wildly different results, they average these and make predictions based on a number of models running a number of simulations. The predictions have so far yet to have come true. (Although temp is rising, it's not to the degree predicted by the average of the models, despite there being more CO2 than the models were given input for, obviously the average of models are inaccurate. )

I believe it's not happening to the degree the IPCC said it was in 1992 which is why in the 2000s they observed a warming 'hiatus'. This is why people talk about consensus rather than data, or falsifications of the null hypothesis.
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Bad analogy. Better one is:

If you hired a photographer would you expect the RAW files ?

I would.
There seem to be exactly 2 downvoted comments at the bottom of page expressing they wanted to trump to win.
Valve introduced bitcoin payments back in the days when people used to use Bitcoin as a currency
The amount of acreage it takes to be profitable goes up every year, and as a result people get squeezed out of the business.
That's going to be tough on a guy in his fifties who never wanted to be anything but a farmer.
well somebody's got to do it
At a minimum you can use them as references.
> ... deploy Kubernetes on it and manage it on your own.

Yep. IBM Cloud Private, a self-managed K8s based orchestration platform can be deployed on bare metal.
any blockchain that doesn't set a limit on the value of one single transaction can scale indefinitely in terms of dollar value
Exactly.

That German person could have bought a loaf of bread in the morning for RM1,000 then sold it to his neighbor in the afternoon for RM10,000. There are no citizens in Bitcoinland dealing with inflationary prices in virtual bread. Anything you can buy with Bitcoin is priced in fiat, denominated in BTC at whatever the spot rate of the moment happens to be.

EDIT:

> What our German friend didn't realize was that his own currency was (hyper-)inflatory.

He absolutely did. Just like Zimbabweans did more recently.
It's actually impossible to reliably get a transaction confirmed in the 15 minutes that BitPay (who they used) is willing to lock in an exchange rate for, regardless of load on the network. The earliest a transaction can confirm is on the next block, and there's about a 25% chance no block will be mined by then.
I would love to do my best to answer, can you share a little bit more about your audience and the problem the product solves? At that point I could give a much more thorough opinion on your situation.
We reserved the right to not answer certain questions. I answered most of their questions, only 1 or 2 were in areas where I wasn't suppose to give them answers.
Unless downtime of your application results in money lost for them (as opposed to bad decision making) then I would probably say no to this. If it comes down to "Is the data science good enough?" that is basically a sales objection. If you can, talk about success with other companies and your track records. There are legitimate reasons for a customer to need to see your source code, verifying that you can do your job is not one of them. Treat like a sales objection.
Isn't this one of those questions that BTC advocates always crow about being one of the best things about BTC: complete transparency?
https://medium.com/dydxderivatives/introducing-dydx-2d0f0f32...

Note: I'm not affiliated with that project, but I did see them present yesterday at Token Summit and it looked very interesting!
Make sure it is a new Intel CPU too so you can't get power management to work there either. #skylakeWasFun
Typically these are worded as part of support & maintenance and is triggered by failure to meet that obligation. Acquisition, merger, spin-out, JV or bankruptcy would not trigger it provided support is maintained. Also, the force majeure clause typically allows some reasonable timeline to reinstate support before it is triggered.

I would think the positive of a large client greatly outweighs the liability of the code escrow.
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This is an interesting move, Amazon attracting more consumers with smaller purchases to test out products they would not necessarily purchase out-right, but afford them a chance to try it out at an affordable price. Combine that experience with their Prime shipping, who needs to go to the local retailer anymore to test out products?
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> If you can verify your own vote after the fact, then you can be compelled to prove what you've voted, thus making vote selling and vote under threat possible.

That's not the case. Imagine this system: upon receiving your ballot at the polling place, you find n candidates, each with random numbers from 1 to n associated with them. You pick candidate #i, submit that vote, and take home a receipt saying you voted for candidate #i. Then proof is later posted that your vote was counted for candidate #i (using some fancy crypto). Then you can verify that your vote was indeed counted for the correct candidate, but no one (not even you, were you to forget) can tell who that candidate is.

For more information on these sorts of voting systems, see https://www.usvotefoundation.org/sites/default/files/E2EVIV_.... It's intended as a review of remote voting systems, but a lot of it apply to other types of systems as well.
That also means you cannot this account as your Android phone account without an NFC U2F token, correct?
All the countless academic studies showing the benefits of meditation are comparing people who meditate vs. people who don't meditate with all else being equal.

What sort of methodology do you suppose can better attribute causality to a subjective experience? This is as far as the scientific method is willing to go, and the results are unanimous.
> People seem to forget that adding a RAID controller creates a single point of failure instead of removing one. :-)

At worst it does both. In most cases it really does just remove a single point of failure (a disk). Other non-RAID configurations likely use a shared controller too. Moving that single point of failure to a different controller doesn't make it any worse.
Do you think there is a world that we can safely and securely depend on electronic systems? Aka, enough open source and open hardware then anybody can ensure that the system is secure?
They won't ban you for withdrawing. If you withdraw lots then you have purchased lots, the exchange makes a cut each time you buy. BTC fees are minimal and exchanges can craft more efficient transactions too, so they are not going to ban anyone for making too many withdrawals.
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> The operation couldn’t be completed. (NSURLErrorDomain error -1012.)

Same error is shown on terminal too.
GP's post was just a pun/joke. Think you missed it :)
Slightly off topic, but....

> Find a way to say "yes", which satisfies their need to hear you say "yes"

This is the best skill to train if you're going to be working with enterprise clients.
The mind moves before the body.
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You'd get no resistance from me to eliminate agriculture subsidies. It would be mighty nice to see an organized movement to produce crops free of subsidies. I think people would be shocked to see just how cheap their food really is.
I agree that Payment Channels is a good step forward but there's the hard limit on how many channels can be open. I'm confident that there will be proposals similar to Poon et al. [1] to create a third layer for networks of payment channels where a Blockchain tx can be used only in case of uncooperative channel counterparties.

[1] https://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/file/a20a865ce40d40c8f942cf206a7c...
Each eligible voter gets a unique key they can vote with. Only way to get around that would be impersonation of someone else's key. 2-step verification could be used.
Look into Hyperledger. They have a more longterm focus on blockchain and distributed ledger tech.
Let's apply a formula to your email:
You are important to us and we need your input
I care about you and I'll take as little of your time as possible
I'd like to give you something important and will not waste your time
I appreciate the time you already spent!
Let's work together!

Hope this structure helps.
How does that handle a 'farmer' who just does a desultory job of farming? I.e., he doesn't outright not farm, but he barely seeds, harvests badly and thus produces very little.
Your words about paper ballots being transparent, accountable, etc are exactly how paper ballots have NOT worked for hundreds of years. At least not "worked" the way some people wish they would "work".

Hence electronic paperless voting with no tamper proof audit trail.
Best answer here.
I am in the exact same situation BUT I actually share the code from the get go because of the need to understand decisions (and GDPR is going to make that even more important).
If the OP company is doing something that is not possible elsewhere then fine but if they are just allowing them to goto market faster then the effort to re-engineer and get working (particularly in the AI/ML space) is pretty time consuming.
EDIT: I think that the time of proprietary algorithms as MOATS are an old way. Things are moving SO fast now that your business is going to be outdated with the next release of Tensorflow or whatever is over the horizon.
Yes. It really takes around 9 months. You'd have to apply beginning of your sophomore year.
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It's entirely unreasonable for them to demand access to source code.

The government and large corporations apparently disagree, or Microsoft wouldn't have their Shared Source Initiative. And for any nay-sayers in the crowd, that should be all that need be known: Microsoft thinks it's okay, and they have a lot more to lose than you do.

The only legitimate thing is to have something in case you fail and they have "banked" on you.

Which might be the exact thing they're trying to avoid. If your "machine learning" algorithm amounts to a bunch of nested if statements, they'd probably rather not "bank on you" in the first place.
> I'm claiming that it does not generate Wifi packets.

How does the Wifi transmit how much laundry soap or any measurement if it wasn't new packets???? Maybe if you can just look at this for 2 minutes you'll understand how this is new packets? https://youtu.be/4tmatoD0I1o?t=14m5s

It has to be received and transmit data. Your assuming a reflection is what's happening. Than a mirror could also do the same thing?

This is your laptop or Smartphone able to receive a signal from a 3D device with no new hardware using only the power of a Wifi transition signal that a Wifi receive will read.
Nuclear is also more heavily regulated, meaning that the nuclear plant is required to follow very specific rules when handling the dangerous material
> Voting needs to be reasonably fast so that the decisions are then enacted.

Leaving aside other countries and their transition times, in the U.S. at least, there is always more than enough time to have a recount before the winner takes office. There is also enough time to do the same for things like ballot initiatives and referenda, which don't go into effect immediately, but some reasonable amount of time after the vote.

With reference to the 2000 election, the legal fight over the process to perform manual recounts in Florida took far longer than the actual recounts would have taken, dragging it out to December 12. Interestingly enough, while I have heard some still claim that "Bush stole the election," when the press actually finished a manual recount, the conclusion was that Bush had, in fact, won the vote. But people will believe what they want to believe about the fairness of elections when it doesn't go their way, as has been amply demonstrated recently.
One opinion calls for another. Otherwise this is an echo chamber.

Of the big tech companies I really respect none of them for the things they all do to erode privacy.

I really respect open source technology that does not create the privacy issues that the big tech companies create.
Sure, I will love to share with you. Most students in my country face a lot of problem in trying to build their skills for a good career in future specially those who are not from top universities. My product is about connecting college students in tech fields (like computer science) with people from industry who are willing to help and guide them.
What would you see this technology outright for if they just asked you to cash out and leave? Double or triple that amount and ask for it to be put in escrow as security, subject to release on the decision of an arbitration panel consisting of 3 academic computer scientists. They'll refuse of course, but it gives you something to negotiate with.
Here are a couple gotchas I've seen on RDS:

- If you are running a MultiAZ instance, it is supposed to fail over automatically, but if the problem is in the networking, then you can still effectively lose service. One way around that is to run a read replica in another AZ, and use a Route53 entry with a health check to send traffic to the read replica if the primary isn't reachable. You'll still need to promote the read replica to a master though.

- If you restore from a snapshot, the new EBS volume only pulls blocks of data from S3 as they are requested. So these reads are a lot slower than normal. If you have a large database you could have degraded performance for days. Here is some more info about this: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-resto...
It also lets you break down the field into discrete chunks. A proof is not a field of study, but a field of study (in Mathematics) cannot exist without proofs. The way to start a field of study is to write a discrete conjecture which could be developed into a proof.

Software is the same way. All big programs had to start somewhere.
> Last week the US Senate passed a bill allowing oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as part of a sweeping tax overhaul bill. However oil prices would have to substantially higher to make it profitable to drill there. “It will be interesting to see who wants to go there,” said Sanzillo.

So who is advocating for this legislation and what is the incentive to pass it?
I wish more arguments were like this. :) And I have found violent agreement to be much more of a discussion than some disagreements. At least online. (Which yeah, sorta sucks.)

And I should be very clear, if what you are doing is working for you, that is by far the most important thing. I am decidedly not trying to convince you to stop and change.

Further, If it can be formulated and shared with others, I'd be interested in the results. However, I have come to find that I do not expect things to generalize between people nearly as often as my instincts would want them to.

I do take this as a challenge to how I've viewed stuff. Currently, I'm on leave for about a month, but when I get back I plan on paying more attention to the process. I'm hoping I don't miss any retrospectives on projects that were finishing up as I took leave. I'm not convinced people typically zero in on the important points. I am still fully convinced you should always try.
If you encounter a problem with agencies collecting on illegitimate debt, it may be reported to the credit bureaus, which can be a big deal for you (buying home, etc).

The bureaus wont help you; I went through an 18-month ordeal figuring out how to clear these things, and heres what I suggest:

-get up to speed on FDCPA rights
-officially dispute the collection
-pursue the original debtor, and get a resolution in writing. sue them in small claims to get a judgement in your favor if you need to.
-send a copy of the resolution to the debt collector and the credit bureau dispute centers

Hope this helps in case anyone is dealing with this kind of stuff.