skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think his point is if you devote X Flops to something then a fair comparison would be to also give X Flops to the competitor. The specifics of how an algorithm does not matter as much as the total resources used and outcome.
Searching my last name "worm" will give you a great example of the slightly modified text used by the NN scammers that AG Eric described in a previous communication. Lolz
The 8080 and 8086 designs draw directly from Z80. You can see it in the assembler mnemonics and how the operands are handled. And segmented memory access, oh my!
As far as I can see yes - which is what I was wondering, because it seems like a fancy way to categorize youtube clips and I already have a playlist of classical music videos in youtube.
I suspect that readers of fashion magazines are OK with that for the same reason that people used to read the Sears catalog: you know they're selling you something, but it's stuff you want to buy.
So why is everytime I point out the glaring problems of rust, which are mentioned in their docs and contradict their marketing hypes are always downvoted into oblivion? Nobody ever dated to check out the docs and issues. I mean claiming memory safety with an unsafe keyword and refounting, and deadlocking concurrency with manually required mutexes called "fearless concurrency" whilst having no idea about actual concepts solving those problems.

Pure fanboyism. Better than C yes, but not better and much slower and unsafer than ATS or Pony.
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The question is, can you actually cash out thousands of bitcoins these days? Would any exchange support that and then would you be able to get your money into your actual bank account.

Then comes tax.
I see. I kind of supposed that one could choose to not expose the gender to Apple and then the ads could not use this. Actually I do not know where do they get this information from. If they try to infer it then it is of course a problem.
Should tech better discipline the algorithms influencing what kids are watching?
Well that seems to mostly be because it just seems like a website to categorize and discuss already uploaded youtube clips of music.
In abstract algebra those would be rings with zero divisors. But all my early algebra education was in integral domains (ring without zero divisors like the integers) or fields which are even nicer.
In a lot of ways comunist regimes have deeply conservative - see Chairman Mao and his wish to retain the rural, impoverished peasant lifestyle.
To me this looks like an indirect way for Apple to extract more money from developers.

Since it's so easy to set up a campaign that does not lose money (it's pay per install), imagine _every_ developer setting up a campaign with their app's price as maximum bid (ignoring revenue shares to simplify). Lots of installs, but zero revenue for developers.
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This then may suggest that there’ll be this detail-light manuscript in the journal and a 50-100 page supplemental document available to download, with all the details to reproduce (hopefully)
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I still don't quite follow. You were talking about adoption among top 10 sites - is your argument that Twitter is not using an EV certificate[1] because a judge might say something along the lines of "That's all great but how do I know this twitter dot com thing is actually a site operated by Twitter, Inc? They're not using EV!" if some users sues them over a data breach?

[1]: Not really important for this discussion, but slightly relevant: For some reason Twitter uses both EV and non-EV certificates depending on geolocation.
Did a few exercises and seems nice. An improvement would be if hints included links to PostgreSQL documentation, would make it easier for beginners to find good information.
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I agree. To narrow it down, IMO the main problem is breaking interoperability (on both sides). Web is built on open standards to ensure diverse systems can talk to each other. As long as systems comply with well defined interfaces they should be able to communicate.

A company can introduce additional constraints on top to limit access. However this should still be done based on standards. Using a variety of derived properties to block specific device type is evil in my book. My 2c.
Very interesting, makes me wonder how young the voices included in the test sets were. Clearly it's not quite perfect yet though [0] :)

[0]: http://www.craveonline.com/design/1189025-amazon-alexa-doesn...
By starving the competitor of computing power, if you compare A and B you can't give A 10+x the compute power and assume a fair comparison. What's interesting is a demonstration that enough compute power let's NN reach beyond human level play. Though, I don't think that was ever really in doubt.
Dash has a clear vision to be a payment-focused cryptocurrency, and has important features to achieve this: relatively high transaction throughput (2MB blocks at every 2.5minutes (obviously they have a roadmap to further improve this)), private send, instantsend option. It has an actually working treasury system, and the whole project is pretty well grounded on earth (vs. some extremely specualtive cryptos like IOTA).
The evolution project is about using the already existing masternode network to provide features that up to now mostly centralized services provided on top of the blockchain. People will log into their wallet, can reference their freinds by name instead of adresses, they will have contacts ,etc... all in a decentralized system of masternodes. I don't think any of the big cryptocurrencies have such a vertical integration in their system. Also I like the people in the Dash Core team: Ryan Taylor (CEO), Chuck Williams (UX), Evan Duffield (CTO). They have a quite big chance to become a cryptocurrency actually used for payment instead of only as a store of value.
Other day I read a story a story in NYT (sorry, couln't find it) about a gay couple. They had a large age gap, and since there was no option to legally marry, they decided the best way to legally bond was to have one adopted by the other.

It proved a wise solution when the older one were dying in the hospital and the only allowed visits were from the spouse and the sons.
> in my time I’ve owned BeBoxes and NeXTStations

Now I search eBay for one. I have a couple Suns ;-)

> Do you have one? Do you use it as a daily workstation?

I wish. Can't justify the price tag for a novelty item.
I mean, yes I agree - adblockers are "a foul" In the sense that it's very likely against the content providers wishes. I'm not saying users shouldn't be using them, but don't be surprised if the content provider tries to block access to people who actively avoid any monetization via adblockers.

I'm very open web in concept, but just because I want the web to be open doesn't mean I'm entitled to everyones content for free with no restrictions.

As a content provider, you should be allowed to put whatever restrictions on it that you want - just like the real world. Just keep your restrictions off of my computer. Eg, I DO NOT want to see DRM chips on my PC to protect companies. I am certainly fine with them requiring a DRM specific browser though, I can choose not to go to their site and not to use their browser.
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Users have the 'right' (and I used that word very lightly) to do such things, but companies and publishers also have the 'right' to respond to things that interfere with their products or business models.
After a security vulnerability in a self-made hash function of iota was discovered, they claimed that it had been included to stop people from copying iota. While I dont believe them, it does show something about the personality and professionality of the people behind iota.

https://gist.github.com/Come-from-Beyond/a84ab8615aac13a4543...
People have been saying that since I started reading HN in 2010. It still hasn't happened.
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Is that much different than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_on_delivery or paying an invoice?
Well, that's really bad, because I think that things should be implemented in the best way possible. "Nobody used them", yeah, probably because no other language (apart from CL) had it, so nobody knew how to leverage them. But leave it in place and at some point in future time, some blogger would write a nice article on using them in Rust and developers would catch up in this cool feature.

I develop in Common Lisp and conditions&restarts are so much superior to the other error handling paradigms i've seen, that it's not fun being left without them.
I don't think we're in complete disagreement. I'd just to comment on two points:

> but on the other hand the chance that someone has a semi auto high velocity gun at a church service in the first place is almost zero

Indeed, but w.r.t gun restrictions, I don't see this guy thinking "Going for a spree kill today... oh wait, guns are forbidden! Guess I'll stay home and watch something on Netflix instead". My point being, someone with the intention to kill will find a way to get a gun, with or without gun ownership restrictions.

So in my view, the such a law does nothing against the bad case, but prevents the good case (i.e. someone being prepared for the low-probability event).

> then something is already wrong

Well, that's the thing, something is always wrong. I live in a country where criminals regularly commit crimes while carrying assalt rifles. Heck, they carry their rifles even in open space parties: https://s03.video.glbimg.com/x720/6261094.jpg

I don't know in which country you live but I'm sure it has less wrong things than in Brazil. However, here they will kill you even if you don't react, so I see no benefit in removing from citizens even the chance of trying.

Incidentally, in 2005 we had a referendum about the prohibition of guns. The majority vote was against the prohibition, and yet the government ignored the result and prohibited them anyway.
Are you limited by ping times? I'm from Europe, but before switching to Hetzner bare metal machines, I always used VPS from the US...
I suspect it's cheaper to simply build a large enough drainage system initially. This is useful if you have already failed and are trying to cope with failure.

Still, many people are pushing it because you get more plants not because it's cost effective.
You don't have to be a monopoly to illegally use market power in one market to influence a different one. It all comes down to the lawyers.
> That SimCity game that got all the backlash? It immediately became the best-selling game of all time on the Origin service right after its launch. There is simply no way to classify that as anything except a resounding success from a business perspective.

I heard a second-hand account that Paradox Interactive (the publisher of Cities: Skylines) only greenlit Cities because of the Sim City debacle. And Cities went on to become a big success, which probably wouldn't have happened without the Sim City debacle. So if this is true, then it cost EA their monopoly in that particular genre.
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If it were the youtube app or API then I would agree. But Google is blocking youtube.com based on the user-agent. That seems wrong.
Regarding your students, well I don't dispute that there are students that think that - I just don't think that say a teacher knowing more about abstract algebra would be able to explain that better.
We've found (anecdotally) that our customers care about the "green bar", although this isn't something we've A/B tested yet.

Note: we're online retail, I don't think it matters for SaaS anywhere near as much.
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I was asked by the IOTA team to work on GPU acceleration for "their" ""hash"" algorithm. Not only was there no documentation or even comments for that matter, everyone has been less than helpful. They also insulted part of their contributors as "too autistic to write documentation".

Finally, they wanted to pay me in IOTA, which was the point I walked away.

I'm sure there's more going on there, but I wouldn't want to know. I'm not touching this cc with a 10 foot pole.
Thailand's policy of granting the police shoot-to-kill license against street pushers in the early years of the new millennium worked also. Why don't we copy that too, if lower metrics around overdoses and infections are sufficient motivation to make "radical" decisions?
IOTA is built by a bunch of technical founders who know enough about blockchain to confuse a lot of non-experts into thinking they are really smart and credible.

But you will see very consistently in the cryptocurrency space that the experts refuse to endorse iota, and frequently say strongly negative things about it.

They are very effective at selling snake oil, but that's all their blockchain is. The tangle that they have designed is neither scalable nor secure. Every node still needs to verify every transaction, and because there is no mining it's trivial to double spend if you have a few machines that focus on cranking out as many transactions as possible.

If you understand enough about blockchains to find security flaws in an insecure system, all you need to do to believe me is learn more about iota. Their flaws are not subtle, there are many of them, and they are substantial.

If you are not expert enough to analyze the security properties of various blockchains, look for reviews of iota by other experts. You will not find any positive ones by people with significant standing. Not from the ethereum camp, not from the bitcoin camp, not from the academic camp.

This is not because of some iota vs. the world conspiracy. It's because iota is genuinely a terrible cryptocurrency.
Well I know there are entire books written to codify basic math. I don't knowing that, or say reading and understanding Russell's book, would help teach a child that 1+1 = 2
Yeah quite possibly, and a very valid reason, although not how the product is pitched.
In other words, accounting is often far more important than economics in determining business success.
The practice is old, but that doesn't mean it's not corrosive.

In the early 1990s, "fake news" referred to the practice of packaging up VNR and AVR bundles, generally for local broadcast stations. These are Video and Audio News Releases, which are fully produced, including fake reporters, generally covering some corporate news. Sourcewatch has a good overview:

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Video_news_releases

And several source articles:

https://www.prwatch.org/fakenews/execsummary

https://www.prwatch.org/fakenews2/execsummary

Hamilton Holt's 1909 book, Commercialism and Journalism, tells the story of the incredible growth of the publishing industry, fueled by six factors, but to which Holt (a publisher himself) credited advertising for virtually all of it. And to which he had extreme and justified concerns. He quotes another journalist:

There is no such thing in America as an independent press. I am paid for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation, like Othello's, would be gone. The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the foot of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. We are the tools or vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

https://archive.org/details/commercialismjou00holtuoft

This from a lecture series at the University of California, Berkeley, on the Morals of Trade.

The (very long form) New York Times piece on Harvey Weinstein's abuse, and control, over Hollywood and the press, is another cautionary tale of power and its capacity to manipulate (and suppress) information.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/05/us/harvey-wei...
It appears their own crypto was already vulnerable. A friend pointed me to this article:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amycastor/2017/09/07/mit-and-bu...

He was also concerned that there's no security proof in the whitepaper. To me, it seems like you could feasibly launch an attack with less than a majority of the computing resources.
Shion no Ou is another good shogi anime. I haven't read the manga.
Very cool: closure + associativity + identity + inverse properties we use for addition and multiplication = group structure. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_(mathematics)#Definition

Simplify and connect for the win!
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Yes, multi-language notebooks solve the "multi-language" but not the "large-scale" problems with bioinformatics (or data science) data analysis. However powerful other notebook environments can be, they are rather limited if they can only execute the notebooks on a single machine. However powerful other workflow systems can be, they are counterproductive if they require you to develop workflows in another environment and in another language. Backing up SoS Notebook with the SoS workflow engine provides a single environment for both interactive data analysis and the development and execution of workflows. This topic definitely worths a separate blog post so I will just list a few features that SoS enables here:

1. Extended from Python 3.6 to make SoS an easy and yet powerful workflow language.

2. Embedding workflows in SoS Notebooks allows you to annotate the workflows with detailed descriptions (markdown cells) and results (of demo runs).

3. Supports both forward (sequentially numbered) and makefile style (patten matching) workflows.

4. Execution signatures to avoid re-execution of long steps.

5. Magics to execute workflows in SoS Notebooks so you can, for example, execute cells of a notebook conditionally and repeatedly.

6. A task system that sends parts of workflows to remote host (a more powerful workstation), cluster (PBS/Torque/LFS/Slurm systems), or RQ task queue, even if the remote systems are on different file systems (SoS automatically maps paths and synchronize files).
Can I rent this by the hour in bluemix?

Just due to volume and cost, I’ve basically given up on the idea of owning my own POWER system in my home rack. If ibm got aggressive with cloud pricing and put together some dev friendly packages that were all tooled up and ready to go, I’d be more than willing to play with it and see how it performs for my tasks. In spirit, I’d love to see a competitive alternative to AWS and Intel, we need it, but I have a hard time paying a premium for it to then experiment and find out if it can actually outperform Main Street.

Tooling is huge here too, there are very material advantages to the incredible hardware optimization done by node.js, pypy, llvm, etc.. since apple transitioned off of PowerPC, I don’t think this platform has had nearly the same amount of attention. I’d love to see IBM giving away access to their version of a “micro” instance to OSS developers
I asked Kentico Cloud support, this was their reply.

> Kentico Cloud is a SaaS model, so you need to host the application that consumes data from it. I'm not aware of an option where you would host the content management application.

So no self hosted option.
> Criminals can expect not to be shot when they try to pull something, thus they don't have to shoot first.

This doesn't seem to match reality, at least in my country.
Thanks for the clarification! I never thought they were not devout Haskellers, but I do always wonder about projects that fork a more standard thing for internal use ending up as poorly maintained legacy software.
The 8080 predates the Z-80 by about two years.
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Their "solution" to the double spend problem (which is the real problem Bitcoin solves) is to have a centrally controlled entity, the coordinator, declaring which transactions are considered confirmed.

When pressed the lead dev retorts with insults instead of answers [1] and tries to redirect to their subreddit where these questions conveniently disappear.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7hgi2g/iota_warning/dq...
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We need something like BittorrentYouTube. Something that is somewhat indexed, content can be directly linked to, and there's no-one to control what can be there and what can not.

Of course it will be a bit slower at startup times, but it's still faster than a video that has been removed in your country or removed due other arbitrary reasons.
Exactly, the rights go both ways. Just as clients can choose which servers they want to access, servers can decide which clients they want to serve.
It's AOL v CompuServe all over again. This time it's happening on top of TCP/IP. But that's the only difference IMHO. Walled gardens instead of a competitive, open ecosystem.
Authy keep the seed so you can recover the 2FA token providing you can still log in to your Authy account.

That's why I use Google Authenticator. I don't want the seed kept (or even known) by a third party. I'll keep my own backup far, far away from any device which also can be used to recover account credentials.
6 4 / 1 6 = 6̶ 4 / 1 6̶ = 4 / 1

2 6 / 6 5 = 2 6̶ / 6̶ 5 = 2 / 5

9 5 / 1 9 = 9̶ 5 / 1 9̶ = 5 / 1

...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalous_cancellation
By your logic, ads on website aren't ads either. I remove them once with an extension and they never come back.
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The point is that gun control is not proven to reduce violent deaths. Gun ownership just doesn't correlate to violent deaths. People want it to because guns are instruments of violence and "it just stands to reason", but the numbers don't bear this out.

The USA has 101 guns per 100 residents and a homicide rate of 15.696 per 100,000.

The Bahamas has 5.3 per 100 residents and a homicide rate of 29.81.

Canada has 30.8 per 100 residents and a homicide rate of 1.68.

Norway has 31.3 per 100 resdents and a homicide rate of 0.56.

Finland has 34.2 per 100 residents and a homicide rate of 1.60

Serbia has 58.21 per 100 residents and a homicide rate of 1.13

In other words, it's all over the map.
There's nothing to stop you doing all the open platform knowledge sharing on the current web apart from lack of market share of the audience.

How moving to a new, less popular distribution mechanism would make that any better is not clear to me.
> It's very common for banks to have proprietary in-house scripting languages

Yeah I don't really understand this. From what I've heard, Goldman Sachs for example, have systems written in a language that no one outside of GS has used, was kinda clever in the early 90s, but hasn't really evolved since and therefore is difficult to get expertise in, and that developers working with it struggle with moving to other companies as their skills are somewhat less transferable.

Edit: at least Facebook and Google open source their internal languages/tools (Go, React, etc) so that those skills become somewhat more transferable.
I was talking mainly about the simple case presented above.

x*y can be 0 (mod 6) but I don't think it takes knowing abstract algebra and a deep knowledge of modulo and axioms to figure that out. I hope math teachers that don't know abstract algebra know that!
Has that been done? I think it would be quite hard to provide any meaningful comparison between countries, because the results would be clouded by many other factors that can influence them.
Something about law, trial, human rights, western democracy. Pick any of the above and expand to prevent kill squads on the streets.

Rodrigo Duterte is proving why that method is terrible in 2017.
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