skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The irony is, of course, is that "progressivism" often writes "reason" or "science" on its banners.

Progressivism is about infrastructure and government transparency. It has nothing to do with identity politics or other leftist issues.
It's like your own personal google drive / dropbox / git repo

It's a content addressable storage system. There's plugins to import or export from various major services like foursquare, twitter, etc. and plugins let you store stuff in S3 or mongo or google cloud storage, etc.
And only one of which offers reasonable speeds at reasonable prices.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Also as others have pointed out, the purpose of the project is to introduce a security control to curtail the sharing of plaintext passwords via communications channels WHICH PEOPLE ALREADY DO. At my company just last week a vendor emailed us ftp credentials in plain text. If they were to use pass.sh (that they can operate themselves) it greatly reduces the risk of those credentials being compromised due to privilege escalation from a compromised email account or the likes. This is a HIGHLY simply concept the aims to solve a RAMPANT security problem in large organizations.
As an outsider to American politics. This is 100% my vision also.

I know a lot of people that have moderate views that are simply shut down by liberals. As a response, they hide and vote for Trump.

I see it as their way to elect someone that is not afraid to go against the accepted view of the elites and therefore going against all that political correctness nonsense.
If it wasn't working, people wouldn't be buying it. You are just going to have to accept that the great bulk of people who use bitcoin do not care about your use case.
The formula names are translated into different languages so if you are used to using Excel in your native language you can't easily use it in English or vice versa.
Inside view from New Sheppard
I was more curious whether people are still using Perl on new projects and if so why they choose to do so.
Certain religions have effectively stopped science at the local/regional scale.

Religion is the anathema to science.
Brewers "CAP Twelve Years Later" paper was to me very unsatisfying since it basically advocated that systems should be CA but then have a special mode where you can recover from partitions. The problem is that having code that can successfully recover from a partition when consistency is gone ends up looking exactly like the code that you'd write if you're on a nosql database except it won't be well-tested.

In this paper he's toeing the Spanner line which takes the more traditional CP route, but tries to make partitions rare and achieve high availability.

But I remain confused why Brewer had adopted this confusing stance on his own CAP theorem what causes a lot of people to think it's not real or that it's been solved, which ignores the real tradeoffs. Spanner doesn't "solve" CAP of course. The "12 years later" paper though was really a disservice.
>The cost for your very first customer is somewhere north of $50k/each, and prices don't become reasonable until your in the thousands.

Sounds ripe for a crowdfunded startup.
How is the latency?
Thanks for being the only sane person in this thread.
For something on the timescale of a year I would just keep the system that you already have up and running. It it were much longer than that I'd go with a bank vault that contains the access keys and something like tarsnap and yet another backup with another cloud provider.
Except that the incumbent ISPs virtually always have right-of-way agreements with municipalities, granting them exclusive cable rights.

Many states even legally prevent municipally-run lines, which is frankly ridiculous.

Thailand is lawless individualic striving gone out of control.

The USA is monopolistic lobbying and cronyism out of control.
Not having to worry if there will be any Blu-Ray readers available in a century.
Zbxwmi – Agentless WMI Monitoring in Zabbix
Do you have any other tests for calculus, analysis, abstract algebra, discrete mathematics, probability or statistics books?
Thousands of people would say it if MS attempted to remove VBA telling people to use python instead.
I'm wondering how they figure out what the children really thinks. Having a birthday party, as well as defining age in terms of years, are both defined by human beings. With that logic and lack of background of the weight of the "cultural importance" in each of birthday party and definition of years, I don't find it difficult to believe a child could think a 40 year old could define herself as a 29 year old if other people would hold that birthday party for her.

What I'm saying is - are the children aware our definition of age in terms of years is linked to the physical state of the human body?
I’m a pretty experienced solidly / ethereum developer, and a developer with 13 years experience in vast array of systems and languages (from embedded C on ppc to high performance c++ and now deep learning and scientific computing in python). I completely agree with you, that there’s some very odd language choices in solidity, seemingly rookie mistakes, and the tooling is very poor. But! It’s the 1.0 of crypto. Early C stuff was poor, early html development was poor, early OpenGL development was poor, it’s just new.

I see it as a lot of room for opportunity, but I could also see how it could be frustrating to some more senior people - but I have found part of growing old and seeing things constantly get re-invented but slightly different are windows of opportunity - so I get excited
GNU Emacs Manual...the printed version. Which reminds me to say that print is a book structure.
Not illegal; just "+$49.99 for the VPN Package".
Providing unauthorized edited copies to 3rd parties has never been argued to be a fair use.

Well, it's definitely been argued, although you are right that eventually the court decided that it was not fair use to distribute "family friendly" version of movies. Perhaps counterintuitively, despite ruling strongly against CleanFlicks, the judge ruled that the because the changes were based only on redaction, the edited version was not to be considered a derivative work! https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2006/07/10/cleanflicks-ruled-i...

The Family Movie Act of 2005 further codified this right to redact, using the argument that if the edited version was only used for a "private home viewing", it did not violate the right of distribution: https://www.copyright.gov/docs/regstat061704.html.

None of this, however, is relevant to Comcast making new derivative works based other people's HTML files without a license and providing a copy of those derivative works to their customers.

Would a similar argument as to single viewer experience work in Comcast's case? I don't know, but in the absence of settled case law, I wouldn't bet against Comcast's lawyers getting a court to give the answer they want.

But maybe I can make it an easier question: Based on what they've done so far, what are the chances that Comcast will be sued for copyright infringement and lose? I don't have a lot of money to bet, but I think the chances are low that successful lawsuit against Comcast will be brought for what they've done. Do you think otherwise?
> My greatest wish in STEM education is that we teach linear algebra better.

That's easy. Vector spaces and linear transformations are best understood abstractly. Matrices are best understood as visually and computationally convenient representations of tensor products, so don't mention matrices at all until well after you have established the basic properties of tensor products, in particular, the natural isomorphism between `L(V,W)` and `Dual(V) (x) W`.
At least you've admitted that your opinion is handwavvy and unsubstantiated. That's all I wanted.
Please don't spread this false talking point any further.

https://www.wired.com/2008/09/comcast-disclos-2/

"By a 3-2 vote, the FCC concluded that Comcast monitored the content of its customers' internet connections and selectively blocked peer-to-peer connections in violation of network neutrality rules. The selective blocking of file sharing traffic interfered with users' rights to access the internet and to use applications of their choice, the commission said."

Net neutrality has been the status quo since the start of the internet. First from the threat of regulation, then from Title I, then from Title II after Verizon's lawsuit.
No it's a completely open source, built from source (using gcc) software distribution for Windows. It uses pacman to install packages and comes with many hundreds of prebuilt ones.
My understanding was that a large part of the reason was that unlike natural deliveries they can be scheduled and are thus far more convenient for the doctors.
>thalidomide

Excuse my ignorance here, but has there been a single other drug that the FDA has stopped before it became an issue that a less insanely thorough process wouldn't have? It seems like the FDA was right about thalidomide and has been using that as justification ever since. At this point, clinical trials have become so onerous that the FDA can't even vet them and just trusts the drug companies to be above board.
same here. work is the biggest reason that I still have Facebook on my phone. We have work related stuff going on. i work with very non-technical users, and Facebook is about as complicated as things can get. They have a variety of devices, and Facebook + Messenger has worked on everything. Getting them to switch would be hard. :/
But the most reasonable next step in the logic you yourself laid out is you should move back to lincoln to avoid having 'to pay increased taxes for [other's] ignorance/provincialism?'

You seem yet to have considered a thing like:'is living in San Francisco a fundamental right' for you?
> Let the adults make the decisions.

Yea, because personal attacks are SUCH a grown-up, mature thing to do. Stay classy, fellow HN user.
More broadly the point is that Republicans are not alone in their idea that a bunch of things should be privatized or deregulated; they're just more enthusiastic. The Democrats have been scorning and ignoring their core constituencies (because what are they going to do, vote for Republicans?) for decades. On countless issues both parties march in lock-step with each other and against the wishes of a majority of voters. Simply scolding people for voting for not turning out hard enough for the Democrats seems to miss the point.
Check out M-DISC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
No. But nor would I call it a "disaster".
I wonder if a system like this would be good for your general problem:

Generate a random seed sentence of so many words.
From the secret seed + site domain name generate a password

Store piece of paper with:

Algorithm (could be public in github too)
Seed word
Site names
Another DC to cloud story! I love these!

It's like watching a play in 3 acts:

Act 1) Yay, we did it, we're gonna save so much money!

Act 2) [a year later] Wait, we're spending how much money?!?

Act 3) It's going to cost us how much to leave our current cloud?!?

Haven't people figured out yet that cloud companies make a profit? Sure, companies like Etsy can get a huge discount, but everyone else who isn't a big name is going to pay out the ass.
Yes, there is a company whose name escapes me working on it - Bluebird? You insert the correct hemoglobin gene and express it at a high enough level that you drive the percentage of sickle hemoglobin low enough that you no longer get the sickle cell crises.

Last I read they were having trouble getting durable expression.
Port it as a plug in to old versions of excel as first class citizens on release.

There's been far too much, "here's a feature people will use so you're going to have to pay us yet again to open spreadsheets" in the history of excel. It's shit. It's awful. Don't do it. Using rich customers desires to extract money from those who neither need nor want the new feature is a crook's game. If microsoft aren't evil don't do it.
I'm of the opinion that while those sorts of knobs sound good on the surface, they're kind of missing the point. The benefit of having strong consistency is that one doesn't have to think about the many ways concurrent transactions might interleave and conflict. (At least insofar as it comes to correctness.)

Allowing weaker consistency is in some ways similar to the varying transaction isolation levels of other relational databases. Most practitioners won't fully consider or appreciate the anomalies that can arise when consistency is relaxed, leading to bugs. Those practitioners that do understand the anomalies can easily get bogged down in the combinatorial complexity of the problem.

Spanner is compelling in large part because it simplifies all of this for the average developer. It provides two consistency models: snapshot (read-only, point-in-time), and serializable (read-write, up-to-date). And it does so in a way that is both highly available (but not CA, despite the unfortunate wording in this paper) and with predictable performance.

This is really valuable: it reduces the cognitive burden which developers might otherwise have, and can serve to increases software reliability.
That’s an interesting perspective. Do you feel the same about other groups than bigots? What about people with mental illness? Would you not want to work with a schizophrenic in case they forget to take their meds?

Do you think religious people are irrational? Are you one those people who freak out when a Muslim steps onto the subway? It seems like your line of reasoning would mean you don’t want any Muslims working at your company. That’s pretty messed up.

Comically, thinking that bigots or Muslims might go postal at some point is highly irrational. It’s like worrying about meteor strikes. So since you’re irrational, you might snap. Therefore people with your mindset should avoid working with you?
Anathem
Yeah, whatever points this article had were completely marred by terrible examples.

Saying it's easier to talk about things in China vs US. I've been to China and you can get thrown in jail for saying the type of things we say re. our political environment. My friends there have to speak in whispers in public while people in SF have no problem raging about our politicians.

And saying we should "allow people to say disparaging things about gay people if we want them to be able to say novel things about physics". At its least a really poor choice of words there. The choice of words makes it sound like it's okay to stand aside while they spout bigotry. Perhaps he meant it's okay to say it, but we should argue against it - but unfortunately for him that point was not made because the intention of the article was to support free speech. Bad example.
> While the exact properties of M-DISC are a trade secret

If long-term accessibility is the goal, not off to a good start...
That's what those are? Wow, thanks for the explanation! I always thought that was some weird quirk of the mushroom cloud.
Can I delete my FB account but keep Messenger with all my contacts?
M-DISC is even better. Burnable discs use an organic dye which oxidizes over time. M-DISC uses a "glassy carbon" layer that is inert to oxidation.

They adhere to DVD-R, BD-R, and BD-XL standards so it's readable in standard disc drives. You need a special drive to burn them, however (requires a high-power laser).
By that reasoning you should avoid everyone right? Because all people have a potential for violence.

The odds of a trans person being murdered by a transphobic person are phenomenally low. I think you need to balance risk vs return. Just like driving a car has costs and risks it may be worth it to get to the grocery store.
That's a silly expectation for a party that denies science whenever it's inconvenient. Climate change, the war on drugs, abortion, and more are all examples of this. This is the party of anti-intellectualism and anti-science, yet somehow you expect them to treat the Internet differently?
> ACL for accessing the information

the ACL is the robots.txt. A door with or without a lock doesn't determine whether the place is public or not.
Sam Altman: I have freedom to say stupid shit, you have freedom to applaud
Often linear algebra tools are applied to Hilbert spaces or Banach spaces, where fields other than R or C don't make much sense.

Looking at page 25 of TFA:

> In Definition 1.2, the field R may be replaced by the field of complex numbers C, in which case we have a complex vector space. It is even possible to replace R by the field of rational numbers Q or by any other field K (for example Z/pZ, where p is a prime number), in which case we have a K-vector space (in (V3), ∗ denotes multiplication in the field K). In most cases, the field K will be the field R of reals.
One could likely make the case that "Tesla is worth less than its debt load", and if you believe that Tesla will never turn a profit, then you have the basis for Tesla being worth zero.
> Does Excel have a "plugin framework" for new languages the way Jupyter does? Ideally any language (Python/Julia/R/whatever) can be added by a third party without Microsoft's direct involvement.

Could they use Microsoft's old Windows Script Host thing?
As many others have pointed out, self-play in adversarial AI goes back to TD Gammon, in 1992.

The fact alone that DeepMind is making such a big todo about self-play is a bit iffy in and of itself. It's probably a sign that they're more interested in catching the attention of the popular press and the general public, than of anyone who has at least read through Russel and Norvig [i.e. a popular AI textbook that mentions TD Gammon (in the Adversarial Search chapter)].

In any case- that's a claim in the paper and it's just as valid to scrutinise it as any other claim. But even more so if it's repeated in the lay press without anyone bothering to do their homework...

Btw, if I may be a bit nosy- what is your field?
FWIW, it's now recognized that the parts of the human female anatomy that are sensitive to arousal (parts that are essentially analogous to the shaft of the penis and to the skin of the testicles in their sensitivity and in their ability to convey pleasure) surround the entire vaginal opening and portions of the vaginal wall.

No, they're not as sensitive as the clitoris (and no, I don't think we know precisely how sensitive the hyena clitoris may or may not be) but human women also give birth through tissue that is dense with nerve endings and more sensitive to both pleasure and pain than, say, that on the outer surface of your arm.
Google, Facebook, and Amazon are de facto monopolies and we don't do anything to improve competition in that space either. Ironically they were the leading advocates of net neutrality. We should also pursue antitrust legal and foster competition in their space as well. In the meantime, we are back to the status quo that was present in 2015.
It's also a fantastic general purpose language.

Why do you find it so fantastic? What stands out for you?

Python was my first real programming language, but I don't see anything very attractive about it now - save the libraries.
Andrew Ng Says Factories Are AI’s Next Frontier
Let's do a thought experiment. What do you think would have happened if the US government had decided against the financial bailouts in 2008? Do you think the value of the USD would have a) increased or b) decreased. Bonus points if you can tell me why this is relevant to your points.
IIRC There's already a special case where you can volunteer to try things if you're dying. If you have a rare cancer and doctors are like "Six months maybe less" and there's some crazy Hail Mary drug, which could work but isn't tested yet, you can volunteer to try it and see what happens. You can't pay (so it's for science, not a chance to get rich selling false hope), and you must be advised by doctors who have no financial interest, something like that. Judges were like, eh, you're dead anyway, what's the worst that could happen?

This trial was phase I/IIa which I believe means it's combining safety in humans with initial efficacy data. The thinking is, the real treatment is a single dose. If we give participants less than a full size dose we don't learn much from that. If we give them a real dose, we might as well see if it works.

So their endpoints were firstly how is the treatment tolerated, then secondly does it reduce the need to take clotting factors? Hence this good news story.
NSA Whistleblower Tells How NSA Tracks You. With Bill Binney
Ding ding, we have a winner.
By that logic, GTK/Qt, basically any cross platform GUI library etc. is not 'native'.
The pixelmator pro move was a real dick move, though
It the fear is irrational, then it’s really not that wise to try to think from their persective. Since that irrationally might make someone flip. Like those people who self radicalize.

Now, this is quite different if someone is expressing or advocating violence. But some old catholic lady being against gay marriage represents zero threat of violence. Especially if she isn’t vocally expressing the hatred at work, but does something outside of work.

The issue I have is that simply expressing disagreement “I hate class X” is not a threat compared to “I want to cause grevious harm to class X.”
Seriously. The only device I have which can read a CD-ROM is my car. The PS4 can read Blu-Ray and DVD but not CD-ROM.
I see some of the typical facebook hate posts but I personally don't mind it at all. I removed the app from my phone and check the website maybe once or twice a day. I get reminded about people that I would have forgotten otherwise and sparks interest again. I also get a dose of updates what's happening in terms of events and groups around me.

I also use it very successfully to sell things through free market groups when things like craigslist got me close to new results besides a few scammers.

And messenger I use for normal staying-in-contact.

I don't see the need to delete my account, or to do a 'facebook cleanse month'. It's a useful tool and I see it as that
"...we think companies approaching 100 employees are ideal candidates." ? But WhatsApp only needs 50 engineers for its 900M users back then (After Series B).
This is the biggest story of the year. Whoever got to posting this first is now a hacker news god.
Could someone at Y Combinator please find a revolutionary ISP startup and add it to the W18 batch?

We got a feature request today: "My next request would be for you to save net neutrality in the U.S. Thanks."
Wouldn't biometrics be good use case here since OP doesn't want to remember it?
Fourteen Years of Software Engineering at ETH Zurich
Since this article is behind a paywall, I can't quite confirm my suspicion that this is pretty ironic.
Some poor black girl in Children’s Hospital has the cure for cancer
Not if you view NN as a human rights / free speech issue in addition to an economic one.
New Bird Species Arises from Hybrids, as Scientists Watch (2017)
Coinbits
“You're weak on logic, that's the trouble with you. You're like the guy in the story who was caught in a sudden shower and Who ran to a grove of trees and got under one. He wasn't worried, you see, because he figured when one tree got wet through, he would just get under another one."

http://multivax.com/last_question.html
power companies seem to be in the best position to offer awesome internet. a local provider here has 1000/1000 for $99/mo. but unfortunately they haven't laid fiber in all of the neighborhoods, especially the older ones. so it's only the newer subdivisions that are getting it. :/

i'd be all over it. one less bill to worry about too. (just bundle internet + power)