skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally i dont think a attack to the U.S. would be to much of a surprise. But true there is currently no direct tension in that direction. Also as someone else said, Hawaii really is a unlikely target.

I get it now i guess.
There's another twist. I'm a guitar player: I can play a guitar note literally fifty different ways (on a single guitar/amp combination, no effects), if 'different' means 'every one can be ABX tested against every other one using a typical normal person as listener'.

Anybody who's ever been into blues in any form knows it's how you play it. Folks who have been into blues have been some of the most successful musicians ever (see: Fleetwood Mac, pre Buckingham Nicks)

If you say 'love' or 'hate' in sincerity, does it matter that you've not come up with an innovative way to spell it? It's part of an expression of your intention.

Copyright seems a way to try and protect these intangible things by tying them to a more abstracted 'key', and there's the problem.

I've recently listened to the Pixies' 'Brick Is Red', off Surfer Rosa. If you defined their vocal melodies in terms of Hz rather than quantizing them to nearest chromatic note and sixteenth-note timing, you'd find the vocalizations were really REALLY distinct (and next to impossible to reproduce!)

Hanson are on record as saying that their hit 'Mmmbop' is never covered properly. They're absolutely right. The chorus words go into a really fast triplet feel that's not a straight subdivision of the beat, a triplet feel that's not doubled by other instruments, and to screw up that timing means you're screwing up something very fundamental to the hit quality of the song.

One of the basic problems here is boiling stuff down to abstractions that serve as 'keys'. 'Mmmbop' in sixteenth notes is not 'Mmmbop'. 'Brick Is Red' in MIDI is not 'Brick Is Red'.
I think many people consider nuclear war an end of the world event. Working hard to survive just to be left adrift in the ashes of civilization with likely long-term health effects seems counterproductive to some of us.
Scale-Free Networks Are Rare
I just exited when the calculator at mycryptobuddy.com (which calculates in difficulty increases) indicated that profitability would be miniscule and not much over electricity costs very soon. It cannot account for price increases in Ethereum, but if you are using that to stay profitable it is almost always better to invest in the coins themselves. I sold all my gear and cards while their price was high and invested all the money into cryptocurrency. The gamble has paid off handsomely, I make more from crypto investing than from my job now. It has allowed me access to things I never could have dreamed of, but I still miss walking in my Ethereum mine and feeling the over 100 deg. temps and the instant sweat and all the noise. I miss all the network cables and blinking lights and thinking about the new network I was helping to secure. Trading and investing can't hold a candle to it, but the money is better.
Doesn't matter. I recently got suckered into their free premium trial as well which then resulted in monthly charges. I complained quite vocally about their tactics and got it refunded straight away. It is worth a shot. At the very least be willing to pay a minimum of a month's fees.
From the abstract:

A central claim in modern network science is that real-world networks are typically "scale free," meaning that the fraction of nodes with degree k follows a power law [...] Across domains, we find that scale-free networks are rare, with only 4% exhibiting the strongest-possible evidence of scale-free structure and 52% exhibiting the weakest-possible evidence. Furthermore, evidence of scale-free structure is not uniformly distributed across sources: social networks are at best weakly scale free, while a handful of technological and biological networks can be called strongly scale free. These results undermine the universality of scale-free networks and reveal that real-world networks exhibit a rich structural diversity that will likely require new ideas and mechanisms to explain.
Except it takes 10x time to write anything backend related. Why would you choose Rust over Java / C# / Go ect ...?
But this is PiracHeresy!
You wouldnt steel a box of food if its the end of the world.
Downloading music is stealing. Looters will be shot!
I don't understand the economic argument for personal mining (I totally get it from a fun, geeky PoV if making money isn't the primary goal - it's how I got started in crypto).

A GTX1070 costs about $800. At $4/day, it will take you 200 days to make back your principle (ignoring power costs, difficulty scores going up etc. - in reality it will obviously take you even longer to cover your costs).

If you had put that same $800 in to buying ETH (picked because it's a relatively safe, "boring" coin) on 1st July, 200 days later (or 7 months) it would have been worth $2,140 (yielding a $1,340 profit per card equivalent cost invested - note I'm using ETH price on 1st Jan 2018 and not including the recent growth to a new all time high). And the profit will likely x5 (or more) this year if you hold on to your ETH.
One way of looking at these shelters is what % of radiation can you avoid for a blast X miles away. 90% and 99% are both easy to reach and would save vast numbers of lives as many decay products have half lives under a minute making them temporary, but significant problems. 99.99% gets really expensive because of longer half lives and the need to better filter air etc.

PS: Further, there is a tradeoff as unless it protects you from x% of radiation protection from the blast is basically pointless.
Not explicit in the title is “efficiently on a modern CPU”. They tend to be 1 to 4 opcodes each. I think the list might serve as a jumping off point if you are looking at an algorithm which depends on an integer permutation and want to consider how it would change if you used a different permutation.

And missing from the list—the identity function! Very fast to compute and universally (not)implemented on all CPUs.
> face symmetry

One of the most terrifying things was those symmetrialised (is this a word?) faces of celebrities few years ago flooding the web. Completely inhuman look.
What's New in MX Linux 17
Those are the "spamcruiters" who just use bots to scrape the pages and automate the whole process.

I don't use it myself but I've heard from others who have, several times, received offers for jobs in the company they were already working at.
And why it would be so easy to find a "GTM" person there
Miners are surely not gamers’ friends. All high end cards have been sold out for weeks. They are now completely overpriced ($1300 for a GTX 1080 Ti).
Abstract Factory Pattern – a quick explanation
Bash strict mode forces to write clean scripts, with each potential error handled. I use it for more than decade. I wrote lot of bash scripts at Bazaarvoice.

BTW.
I developed small set of common functions for strict mode, called bash-modules. Can you look at it and provide some feedback? See https://github.com/vlisivka/bash-modules .
> a bit unprofessional

That's putting it mildly.
My money is on separate teams that don't communicate with each other. Would explain the icon inconsistencies I mentioned earlier too.
I don't think MS envisioned PS as anything other than a sysadmin tool. If they did it doesn't seem to come though with the design.
Nice!

Relevant links for anyone interested:

* spaCy on Github: https://github.com/explosion/spacy

* NER demo: https://demos.explosion.ai/displacy-ent/

* Neural coref by HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/coref/

* Accuracy of built-in spaCy models: https://spacy.io/usage/facts-figures

Last time I calculated, the lowest cost way to run spaCy in the cloud was on Google Compute Engine ns1-standard pre-emptable instances. It should be over 100x cheaper per document than using Google, Amazon or Microsoft's cloud NLP APIs. Accuracy will depend on your problem, but if you have your own training data, performance should be similar.
Until recently-ish something called XUL, a markup language for UI (similar to HTML, or even better XAML). Not sure if they've moved on since.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XUL
It seems like a lot of these problems are due specifically to using proof of work. Do any of these problems go away with other consensus algorithms? I would at least expect that miners wouldn't have as much incentive to arbitrarily cause errors if they were using something like proof of stake.

Also, how easy is it to detect that miners are doing these things? If it's not terribly difficult, then maybe a federated system would iron out some of the wrinkles?
They are, on the second hand market.
Who else would likely see the missile besides U.S. military? That's an interesting idea, even if at first blush very unlikely.
Full disclosure: tech lead on Keep (the project whose blog this is posted to), and the post is by one of our advisors.

It might not be worth the effort when volume is low, but if you have a highly-used set of contracts susceptible to this, there will be a stronger incentive to take advantage of them. With high volume, if you do it only occasionally, you can gain an edge without necessarily revealing network corruption (unless someone is looking for it). Additionally, this kind of careful misbehavior can lead to consolidation---by allowing some clever miners to gain enough of an advantage to continually grow their operation.

Note also that only the most basic transaction reordering gains solely from transaction fees. Transaction insertion requires no further blocks, and forced errors can be used to subsidize miner transactions (rather than simply to gain later on). Lastly, censorship has more than economic advantages, depending on the underlying application.

If the whole network becomes corrupt, people will move; however, there's a lot of room between "enough malicious transactions to cause a problem" and "network is so corrupt people are leaving", particularly if a chain is popular. Indeed, if a chain is popular, "just leaving" is not necessarily an immediate option. The important thing is that, as a developer for a given chain, you want to make sure you're aware of these pitfalls (whichever ones apply to your chain---many will apply across many chains) so you can design around them. More than many platforms, building for public chains require adversarial thinking. Or perhaps better put, they should require adversarial thinking. It's easy to forget that when you're getting started.

This is even more true when you're building components that you intend others to build on, which is what we're doing. That's what motivates the interest we have on our team in these kinds of concerns. We feel they're important to share as development on public blockchains gains greater visibility, interest, and therefore new developers.
Dollars, Euros, and stocks are all forms of highly liquid wealth which are generally trusted and can easily be exchanged for goods and services. They've all been around for many years and are backed by trusted entities. In comparison to Ripple they're much less volatile.

Ripple isn't any of that yet and the "wealth" can evaporate much more quickly if Ripple fails to gain those qualities.
>I disagree. Questioning ideas is the foundation of enlightened thinking.

Not "mindless questioning" though, which is the kind I explicitly wrote about, and which amounts to knee-jerk rejection.
I wouldn't say Spotify "rescued" recorded music. Rather, they merely softened the blow iTunes dealt the music industry years prior.

If their distribution service is any indication, a Spotify record label would likely churn out focus-grouped mass-audience sonic piddle at razor-thin margins, in exchange for business favors from the Big Four and lucrative partnership deals with overpriced vodka brands. This won't result in an evolved or improved music industry, just a music industry with a new top dog leading the pack, who will be adopting the same tired, lowest-common-denominator approach as their predecessors.

These guys at Spotify aren't exactly the most creative entertainment executives to walk the Earth. For how long they've been around, they've not gotten a whole lot accomplished. They've done a poor job at filling out their catalog and have not done nearly enough outreach to the independent labels. They should be able to take on TicketMaster in the live concerts game at this point. Yet, their biggest tech-brag to date is being able to generate somewhat-compatible playlists for users of non-adventurous tastes, on the most fundamental and superficial musical data points. ("Oh, you like this specific sub-genre of electronic music? Here's more music that has been described as existing within that same sub-genre category.")

Given the data Spotify is exposed to, they should easily be able to give me better recommendations than my local record store clerk. But they can't. Of course, Apple's services does not fare any better, but at least Apple has an excuse: they also make computers and phones. Apple only uses the music industry as leverage for acquiring users into their ecosystem.

Spotify, on the other hand, only does music distribution. And they do a horrible job at it, cheapening the art in the process, and severely limiting the control the user has over their music. If we want music to ever recover from the shit-tastic way the Napster issue was handled, we should hope that Spotify's grubby paws stay far away from the music production space.
The exact wording is "Make my public profile visible to everyone".
They need to re-word that sentence for certain, this way, it's not true.
Pogrom, meaning specifically persecution of Jewish communities, was not a Soviet phenomenon. Otherwise, there were a number of ethnic persecution campaigns in the USSR, with the Holodomor being the largest, but there were also many others. There were lots of people killed.
Well however you want to phrase it it's a common problem. I remember reading about an AI that played Super Smash Brothers and it was really good, but it would start to go haywire if you just ran to the edge of the stage and stood there.
Technically this is because Linkedin asks to be given access to a user's contacts (phone, email or otherwise) and then displays the contacts as people possible to connect to, regardless of whether the contacts are members already or not. No doubt some manager with shady ethics thought this a very clever way to expand the number of users.
Qt uses way more than vanilla C++ though, it practically has its own dsl for a whole host of things.
Yeah it’s hard problem. Honestly, The small ad blocking company can sell you out to G too (as one of them did in the past).

I use Adblock VPN on iOS - it also has a dns proxy.
I am from the Boston area (without a Boston accent) and I rated 90% US. My teen daughter who is also from this area and to me sounds like she has an even "flatter" American accent rated 64% US, with the words "call" and "small" flagged as moderately British. My teen son (who sounds identical to her) was 95% U.S.

I lived in London when I was younger and can imitate some local accents; my "upper crust" accent was rated about 65% U.S. on the first try and 86% British on the second. My "Norf London" was 50/50 on the first try, 65% U.S. on the second.
I find the set of commands I want is usually limited enough that it's not a big deal to learn the expected phrasing.
> Piping curl, means you can't be sure it came from the author's site.

Up to the trustworthiness of the CA system yes you can. If the author's site is serving malicious downloads to the curl UA then you're probably hosed either way. It would be easier to just slip malicious code in the software itself.

> It means a broken connection is a broken install, with no cleanup and no idea what it has changed.

This is the real draw of package management. The argument surrounding curl|bash should really focus on this rather than hand-wavy security.

> Don't install random binaries either

Nobody who is running curl|bash isn't installing a 'random' binary but downloading an installer from a source they trust.
> In other words, you'd need about 16GB just to store the program to compute the permutation!

Another way to reach this number is simply to consider that most reversible operations are going to be implementable by non-compressible LUTs, and such a LUT for 32-bits number will be 2^32 * 4 Bytes == 16GB.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw PTSD.
You say:

> said no customer, ever

and then:

> witness that we all use compilers

Well, strictly speaking, developers are also customers for programming tools' company, and there the tidiness of the code is important. I'm sure there are many other domains where writing your software well is actually encouraged by economic factors :)
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That's certainly true about total war where the nation's survival is threatened by defeat, but it's not true about the kind of limited wars was have seen since world war 2. In fact, because these wars are limited wars for the world powers that start them, but total wars for the postcolonial states in the receiving end, I think it's very correct that the public e.g. in the US continue to aggressively question the rationale for war even after it's begun in e.g. Vietnam, Iraq, and so on.

Henry Kissinger would certainly have been happier to see a US public united behind the Vietnam war effort because it would have made it easier to win in a geopolitical sense, but what about in a moral sense? The US wasn't threatened existentially by failure in Vietnam, and it's right that we didn't adopt the attitude expressed in your comment.
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They say worker hit real button rather than test button. Some folks don’t believe this b/c test button is hit on 1st of month. It is not the 1st of month so why was any button hit, especially one that is so major, how could be accident?
As opposed to download in IE and then double click the executable? At least on Windows that battle has already been lost.
Buying and holding an asset requires that you accept the risk that the value could fall. Miners can profit while minimizing their risk exposure by selling whatever they mine immediately.
Its simple: The risk taken is completely different! Mining is a much lower risk that yields less benefits.
Yes, if a language can't easily do async IO and HTTP in 2018, it is in deep shit with regard to long term adoption. The Rust devs realize this, otherwise they would be putting less effort into tokio.
You're right - what would you say it is pegged to?
My wife, who is not a native speaker of English, initially had trouble understanding AAVE and people with heavy Latin American accents when she moved to the US, for what it's worth, so maybe we could consider those particularly challenging, but I doubt any native-born American would struggle with those really.
Don't forget that graphics card can still have value outside of pure mining.

A couple years ago I dabbled in mining. I got a top end card that would mine transactions for 16+ hours a day. When I actually wanted to use my computer, I'd flip mining off for a couple of hours and do whatever I needed.

I got to game with ultra graphics, have a PC for school work, and do some mining.
You put, rather succinctly, into words the idea that the article's author seemed to struggle with. Or rather, he seemed too in love with the sound of his own head-voice reading back his words to choose his words carefully.
Facebook paid 466.000 Euros in taxes in Germany / 2015.

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> This is sort of why me and my wife pick fights with our kids where we can. We stress them to the point of snapping,

That sounds...healthy...
Solzhenitsyn would say otherwise.
I don't really follow what you're saying, but I assume you're pointing out an implication I've missed.
Why was ‘test’ button even attempted only to worker ‘hitting’ wrong button, it’s not the 1st of the month ( usual test day for alert siren test)?
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I'm not sure I agree. Depending on what you're mining and when you start, you may never make your costs back.

If anything, at this point (especially with more and more new coins adopting PoS rather than PoW) I'd say it's more risky than just buying a stable coin (ETH, BTC, LTC etc) and sitting on it for a year (and that's before factoring in the risk of lost potential earnings had you simply bought rather than mined or that your mining pool gets hacked).
There is that possibility --and we saw that in WWii with German prisoners of war captured by Soviet forces. On the other side US forces were much kinder to German PoWs, but that's perhaps because it wasn't as personal a war to us.

Ethics and morality don't help win wars --but they are good PR post war, if you are the winner.

There is no clean answer to this problem because your enemy will by all means take advantage of your self-imposed constraints. Osama even admitted fighting the Soviets was very, very hard fought --and fighting the Americans would be a much easier task in his view. Here is one place I might agree with his assessment.
This is what I'd consider a "minimal x86 JIT": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8746054 ;-)

It's interesting to note that JIT compilation is, for restricted inputs, not much different than self-modifying code. I've used the latter technique several times over the years to get impressive performance boosts, and it doesn't even have to be all that complex --- turning variables into constants and embedding them into immediates in instructions provides the best speedup, especially in tight loops, since it saves a register and/or memory access. Think of a video or image codec --- things like frame sizes, bit depth options, etc. don't change throughout the stream, so "JIT'ing" them with SMC really helps.
Miners who cheat will be punished even more under PoS than under PoW, provided they are caught. If you get caught mining a "bad" block under PoW, you lose only the work that went into that block. If you get caught mining a "bad" block under PoS, you lose everything you staked on that block. It's almost as if you have mining hardware that doesn't use any electricity, but self-destructs if you misbehave.
>by selling whatever they mine immediately.

In this market that just seems like the equivalent of burning your money in the street.
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> I know plenty of people who have PhDs but what they say are far from credible.

Reminds me of fun quote from a polemical essay written by a professor from Boston College:

"I have verified over and over again the principle that there is only one thing needed for you to believe any of the 100 most absurd ideas possible for any human being to conceive: You must have a Ph.D."
A loveless marriage is not a stable one.
Welcome to my age range :)

Yes, Gmail is one of those recent things. Google is one of those recent things.

Though that is not my reason for using neither.