skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's Prove Random Games Are Winnable (with Formal Methods)
Also better than driving to a gym and then walking on a treadmill for exercise.
Google getting in the standalone camera game in 2018... wow.
Huh. Once upon a time, as a young boy, I had dreams of becoming a writer.

A couple of years ago I actually started writing what might have become a novel. But I remember that back then, it changed the way I watched movies and TV programs. And I started having on an almost regular basis these epiphanies of things about writing that people can learn in college in the USA. I do not remember what movie, series, scene or character triggered that one, but the "biggest" one I got was that in real life, Good and Evil exist only as approximations. Asymptotically, if you will. (Almost) Nobody is purely good or evil. And even the people we consider evil, tend to see themselves as good. And they consider us evil.

Sorry to pull a Godwin in the first round, but consider a prime example if ever there was one: Even Hitler did think of himself as basically good. He ordered unspeakable atrocities, but from his point of view, it all served the greater Good and was therefore justified.
The question of how somebody could arrive at such a fucked up value system will probably never be answered to anyone's satisfaction.

Or Captain Ahab. He has a twisted moral compass, but again, from his point of view, he is doing "the right thing"(tm). Or Major Weissmann, Dominus Blicero. And often enough it is just egotism, "I want to be super-duper rich", or "I want to rule the ENTIRE world!" And what a crap job that would be! Does nobody ever think of that? No wonder terrible villains fail to conquer the planet, they are idiots. But to get a villain with depth - or at least the illusion of it - we need somebody who has another goal than just petty materialistic things or power over people. OH!! Watchmen!!!

So that particular epiphany taught me that a good (meaning "halfway believable") "villain" never does anything "evil" for its own sake, but from their own perspective, the villain does what needs to be done, terrible as it may be, because it serves a higher purpose, whatever that may be. Although I wonder about Judge Holden, he was an awesome antagonist, but I think he would have considered "good" and "evil" irrelevant. Anton Chigurh, too. He is possibly the closest anyone has come to creating a character that is pure evil. Then again, neither of these two has depth.
I think that you are right, but only in the qualitative sense, not the quantitative. Spam networks have shown us that taking out a few big players - the largest few sub-graphs of the network - can have dramatic effects on spam rates, reducing them by e.g. a factor of 20. I’m confident that Twitter could identify and eliminate a large percentage of the problem overnight. So far they not even acknowledged that there is a problem.

O.P. asked for alternative explanations and people are trying to give these companies the benefit of the doubt. There are actually some much less generous explanations, such as that they are knowingly in the pay of forces adversarial to US interests.
Thank you!

Blueberry, the movie, was very good in that department. At the end, the "good" guy does vanquish the "bad" guy (at least I think that is what happened), but it turns out that the "good" guy is far less pure good than the audience has been led to think, and likewise the "bad" guy might be ruthless, but he had an understandable reason to do what he did.
If I may add, I think that Mr. Robot definitely matches the narrative you describe.
Given the number of tools around, and as this book promotes Drake, has anyone got "comparative experience" with some of the following tools:

Cookiecutter: https://drivendata.github.io/cookiecutter-data-science

DataVersionControl: https://dataversioncontrol.com/

Drake: https://github.com/Factual/drake

Luigi: https://github.com/spotify/luigi

Pachyderm: http://www.pachyderm.io/

Sacred: https://github.com/IDSIA/sacred

They all focus in slightly different ways on the issue of managing data science/machine learning workflows, so I wonder if someone has a clear preference for one of those over any another.

EDIT: added Luigi
I'm not sure any amount of regulation would really solve the problem. At the end of the day someone is going to be able to see the private keys. And that's all they have to do—see it. Anyone with access to a private key can steal it at any time.

It's almost the same as being able to rob a bank just by being able to look in the vault. You just need a peak, and escaping with the pot is as easy as pretty a button.
I don't think such an article would have the same meaning. The whole point of the article is that this is something you (Americans) should take seriously as an existential threat.
This is actually a great teaching tool. Firebase (my team) uses them for in person code labs. It's a huge time saver to know that everyone already has access to a Linux machine with the developer tools and helps the class jump right into meaty bits.

Also, fetching dependencies to a machine in a data center avoids bringing down the wifi in a class.
It's not just batteries. It's getting a nick on the case and replacing the case not the device. Or cracking a screen on an otherwise fully functional device. Or having a kid put gum in a charging port and being able to replace that etc.
arb means arbitrage ?
The most successful exchanges offer leverage: bitfinex, poloniex, bithumb (i think).
I both liked it and was left disappointed.

I didn't like its overly biblical take on the universe with replicants as angels and Wallace as an old testament God, Luv an allusion to Lucifer.

Joi, on the other hand, could have been a high point. We'd have several "layers" of real with a hologram, an old Nexus 6 replicant like K and the new obedient replicants like Luv and her ilk.

But that vein was (AFAIK) just left as a gutpunch to K by the commercial hologram and didn't feel like the central theme in any way. For me, the "you play beautifully" line was the lynchpin of the old movie.

Having said all that, I only got to see it once and I may have missed something. I was awed by the movie back them, but not moved. Still left it as one of the better cinema-experiences of last year for me.
"Time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted time"
>A U.S. citizen who was born abroad is not foreign

This is a relatively tiny demographic. About 50,000 US babies per year are born abroad. Compared to over 4 million native births per year. So about ~1.2%.
Towards LaTeX in the Browser
I don't think that is entirely true.

> Uploading a module to CPAN is the preferred way of distributing Perl 6 modules. [0]

Though XS was replaced with NativeCall in Perl6, so he is still using Perl, not it's new brother.

[0] https://docs.perl6.org/language/modules#Upload_your_Module_t...
I use GPG signed tar balls for that, mostly it's just to run scripts on multiple servers, but also useful for file transfers. You still have to fix secure transfers between hosts but you do not authenticate the connecting clients, but your client just need to verify host keys to protect against MITM. Works on pretty large installations.

I started doing it like this when I only had Debian machines, and just used apt and Deb archives, but I never could find the time to hack Apt to be a perfect fit for it and it ended up being hell on other OS.
Some of the Xen technology went into Hyper-V. Microsoft had a partnership with the Cambridge labs.
On the other hand, I took risks when I was younger, and got a very annoying disability in the process. I wish I was more careful.
Problems are the opposite side of the coin from benefits.

People often confuse benefits. They think they equate to features.

A benefit is an increase of something good, or a reduction of something bad.

A problem is the existence of not enough good or too much bad.

i.e., if my problem is a damp basement, someone who treats damp basements offers a benefit that gets my attention
Same. But, there are plenty of bathrooms these days that don't have paper towels at all.

Kind of a pain point if you have a beard or mustache and just want to clean a sauce or some other messy lunch out of it. Pretty awkward to dry a beard on a hand dryer.
My understanding is that Hyper-V replaced Virtual PC and was not based on it.
His latest, New York: 2140 is pretty dang great. Its a stand-alone novel with well developed characters set in a super-Venice New York.

Neal Stephenson also has excellent worlds. The Diamond Age is my favorite.
> No, because it's a decided question.

It sounds like you're suggesting that ethical reasoning done by previous generations is somehow binding on future debates, almost like some form of case law.

> As a society, we've already chosen that we'd rather see a perpetrator walk free than imprisoned without proper evidence.

I wonder if you're failing to make a distinction between what people will say in public vs. their private thoughts on the matter.
Yes, thank you!!!
They may have meant naturalized US citizens.
I am surprised that neither Dash, Monero, nor Zcash are offered as a means of payment.
It's available for to anyone that has a Google account.

You don't have to be a "Gmail user".
If you use std::begin and std::end instead of the member functions this will even work with old-school C-style arrays.
Kai-fu Lee: AI bubbles to burst by end of 2018
I understand what you are getting at, but it's really a problem with Instapaper. We shouldn't really expect NYTimes to not exploit the full power of web technologies simply because read-it-later services may not present them in the same way. The readers have to adapt to the content, and not the other way around.
Ticket resellers only exist when the people selling the tickets directly price them below the market clearing price.

Ticket resellers move tickets to people willing to pay more, which means they have a higher utility.

If there were enough tickets for everyone that wanted to pay the set price there would be no room for profit for resellers.

Oh and in general you can increase tickets by booking a larger place or doing whatever it is on multiple dates.
SpaceX sets historic first Falcon Heavy launch for February 6
The Dyson Airblade V model fixed the "hands getting pushed against the walls while drying" problem. It looks like it's been out since 2013... I wonder the article didn't mention it.

https://www.dyson.com/hand-dryers/dyson-airblade-v-overview....
I used to think so as well, but over the years, I've realized that execution is the easy part, at least for me. Finding good ideas, as in ideas that can lead to profitable businesses, is difficult because it requires deep domain expertise.
Isn't "taking more risks" simply survivorship bias? A-priori, you weigh every risk and try to minimize your chances of getting hurt (physically, financially, etc). But in hindsight, realizing that nothing bad happened of course you can wish you had taken more risk.

I wonder how folks who took risks and got seriously hurt feel about this. Do they regret taking those risks, or do they regret not taking enough?
What Research Says About Code Review
Really? Because I've never been able to think of one.

And every successful company I've seen grew out from an idea the founder had only because they were coincidentally deeply involved in some specific area of some market and something just clicked. It all seems extremely difficult to reproduce.

If it's so easy to come up with good ideas, then why does random happenstance seem to be the most common way founders come up with their initial ideas?
Before you get excited, read about limitations:

https://cloud.google.com/shell/docs/limitations
See, I had a very different reading of the end of the Impossible Planet. The old lady and the guy died but in their dying brains they finally "went to Earth", the imperfectly remembered yet angelic place of her rose tinted memories.

The one I didn't like was the one where the smartphone helpdesk gaslights the teenager. I'm willing to suspend disbelief a bit that the teenager won't recognise what's happening, but the end didn't work. She should have died! Every day that she's alive is another day where she might talk about her experience and have someone else go "Wait, that doesn't make sense..." Instead she's doing presentations and inviting people to hear her story!

My only minor quibble is that the ending is a little too easy to guess on most of them. The Lesbian Space Cop/Distraught CEO episode was the best for this, it kept you guessing for a right long time.
Although they were developed (and some directed) by Moore and Dinner, who seem to have some artistic control, and the US and UK production staff also seem to be consistent (to maintain the look?), they're all different. Since the writers change every episode I wouldn't expect more than half to really be "faithful" to Dick. I'm not sure he'd appreciate fidelity, but I agree the writing could be better (I like that it's not consistently _Dark_ like a _Mirror_ clone). Maybe I'm jist not a DickHead, but I didn't find all of his original shorts great (or necessarily original).
"Three of the largest 'capitalism endorsed' holidays in the USA are Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter (though Easter in the last few decades has decreased significantly in its importance and stature)."

You mean the two major holidays where people are busy on their phones, and flyers planning what they are going to buy because retailers decided to keep their stores open and start their "blockbuster/doorbuster" sales the day of and the day before those holidays? Yep, those "progressive and socialist legislation" and nothing to do with capitalism, right? /s
Love this track! Thanks for sharing it.
Bill Gates Says He Doesn't Understand Quantum Computing, That's a Big Problem
When I was a kid, one thing I loved about Japanese manga was that the bad guy was often somewhat admirable. I couldn't stand the USA tradition of exaggerated and simplistic evil bad guys. I couldn't stand the lack of nuance in 99% of anything produced by Disney. But Japanese manga often had antagonists who had purposes and motives that were at least understandable, and sometimes as morally justified as the protagonists. In the cartoon show Starblazers, the villain of the first season end most shows by sending compliments to the brave crew of the Argonaught, because their courage and cleverness allows them to continue forward despite all the odds. If I ever had children, I'd want to expose them to that kind sportsmanship, rather than the good-versus-evil attitude of most USA created children's shows.
> But Peter Lawrence can now comfortably boast that one of the biggest and most respected companies on Earth valued his great book at $23,698,655.93 (plus $3.99 shipping).

I was wondering if pricing on Amazon would be sufficient evidence to get into a Guinness World Records for the most expensive book offered in public??
I'm using, daily. Also about ~2300 other people, but that's just how much my own local installation holds, they may be more that I'm not aware of.
Hey, we definitely have seasons here - like now it's "raining once a week and sorta cold in the morning" season. Summer is very different ;-)
I believe that companies (like SV) that value density and speed of hiring would emphasize H1-B hires. (Not cost - if a company is utilizing H1-B's to save money, they are fraudulently abusing the system)

There are many companies that do not have those same values, and the work required for H1-B hires is not worth it.
You are misrepresenting fairly benign statements, and I think you know that.

Not at all. You randomly talk about "socialist legislation that encouraged disintegration of the family units." without giving specific examples. You also point to 3 holidays that have an emphasis on the family as proof that capitalism does it better, which is just plain old laughable bullshit. Family isn't about 3 days a year, family is about every day of the year. The fact that this actually needs to be pointed out to you shows that the article is on to something.
> The results were so horrific that it has only been done twice in a war setting.

The impact of nuclear weapons on cultural consciousness is interesting. As many civilians died in the firebombing of Tokyo as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. And, of course, the firebombing of Tokyo was nothing special either: most Japanese cities were extensively bombed. One of the reasons that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen were because they were among the only relatively unscathed cities remaining.

And of course, to a larger point, slaughtering civilians throughout WWII was far from uncommon, on both sides, and was a deliberate strategy to clear out "living space", to destroy industrial capacity, etc.

Yet, for some reason, humans seem to find the nuclear bombings much more morally objectionable than the firebombing of Tokyo, maybe moreso than anything else other than the Rape of Nanjing and the Holocaust.

Of course, nuclear weapons were themselves fearful for another reason - a single bomb doing what before took many, but you wouldn't think that'd change the moral content of the actions in people's minds.
Thanks. The article didn't say when the vulnerabilities were discovered. Depending who discovered them, it could have been months or more. I brought it up to clarify that these aren't unpatched vulnerabilities.
This comment is ahistorical to an extreme degree.

The EU was not founded until 1993.

This is not a 'rah rah America' statement, however, the European continent after WWII was rebuilt via the economic engine and output of the United States.

You can take a look at the rebuilding post-war effort of Western Europe vs Eastern Europe to see the clear delineation of success. Does no-one remember the Balkan wars, and post war scarcity that existed to a more extreme detriment in Eastern Europe than Western?

I do agree with the statement that America has not stopped waging wars, this is a factual statement.
They already do this but instead of a CAPTCHA they require a SMS. I don’t know if they had the option to enter a CAPTCHA instead?
You act like Europe played no part in the first gulf war, the second gulf war or Afghanistan. That's not true at all.
Yes, but not always at launch. The ability to play on multiple Echos at once didn't support for Spotify for the longest time.
They do combat it—but only just enough to keep the system in balance.

IMO they should completely ignore it. If they let the bots run completely wild then like/follower/retweet/comment counts will all become completely useless and probably disappear completely.

The internet was a better place before every piece of content had a number associated with it. A number that serves no real purpose other than to manipulate you into thinking it is more or less legitimate/important than you would otherwise know at first glance.
Quote from linked article, published by "The Brick Fan" on 25th of January, 2018:

> It looks like there’s a promotion at Walmart in which you can get a FREE collectible booklet and retro building instructions when you purchase the Bricks on a Roll (10715) set. All you have to do is get the set, go to www.lego60th.com (website down as of this writing)...
It would be nice to see it studied scientifically, without knee-jerk reactions. But I hear one of the problems is finding enough people for studies who don't watch pornography.
Perl is joy to write (especially with Modern::Perl qw(2016) and feature qw(signatures)) but is hard to read. I can write lot of code in single line with map/reduce/split/join/regexps, but without chaining of operators it is mess, because order of operators is opposite to order of execution. It because of traditional function or operator invocation syntax: "x(a1, y(a2, z(a3, a4), a5), a6)", instead of modern chain of calls: "z(a3,a4).y(a2, a5).x(a1, a6)" . The more operators I pack into single line of code with traditional syntax, the harder it to read.

Perl6 has "feed operator", but it is not ported to perl5 to date. Perl6 syntax is clean:

my @array = <7 8 9 0 1 2 4 3 5 6 7 8 9>;
@array ==> unique()
==> sort()
==> reverse()
==> my @final-array;
say @final-array;

but perl6 is slow, so it is not gaining any popularity.
I'm not sure what point of mine you're arguing. I agree that new markets exist.
There are VirtualBox alternatives, but the advantage of VirtualBox is your exported VM appliances may be imported to the same hypervisor on Windows, Mac, FreeBSD, Solaris, Illumos, and Linux.

VirtualBox also has a slicker UI compared with QEMU/KVM on linux & bhyve on FreeBSD/Mac & vmm on OpenBSD.

The alternatives all have their own merits, but if people are wondering why anyone would use VirtualBox, I believe the above reasons are why.
This is not a justification, it is just an explanation of what is happening. It is a well-known state of affairs throughout the world, where foreign powers constantly jockey to spread political disinformation. Only now this is also becoming reality inside the US because of changes in patterns of media consumption spearheaded by companies such as FB and Google.
The school shooting thing is strange. Here's a summary of school-related shootings so far in 2018.[1] The most common event is bullets fired at a school or school bus without any clear target. Five of those. One suicide by a non-student near a closed school. One case of bad gun handling during gun training. Two students shooting other students. One frat party shooting.

This thing of just randomly shooting at schools is new. Even in states with a lot of guns.

[1] https://thinkprogress.org/school-shootings-2018-e139b247474e...
I quite literally never stated that capitalism does anything better. But that the authors assertions are nonsense.
eh, it's not Haskell (or even D for that matter) but C++ has come a long way in the last few years.
I haven't read the book, but I was going to say..

1. Not saying what you think
2. Not doing what you think is right (even if that would have been a mistake)
> the public health benefits of restricting the strength of drinkable alchohol

I think the restriction is mostly to ensure taxes are paid on drinkable alcohol and not due to health concerns.
Blue ocean does not equal unicorn. That's a mistake the author makes. Blue ocean, by definition, is just an open market. That market can be big or small.
Isn't that just simplification of past politics influenced by contemporary pop culture? Wars were complicated and each had element of "we will win and it is glorious" element, but that was not the only argument in play and they had opposition. Plus, we still keep claiming we will win easily.
What does any of that have to do with not using bigotted language?
Ikigai and Mortality (2008)
On my computer httpie took 0.775s, and curl took 0.105s, so not much slower.
I've noticed this on Amazon. I searched for a fiber supplement which I buy at Walgreens for 22$. One day I saw it for sale on Amazon for 15$! So I put it in a wishlist and waited. When it came time to buy it the price had changed to 30$, which was of course more expensive that going down the street. It was really strange. I have kept it in my wishlist and the price has gone between $20-$30 and the price seems different every time I look, sometimes up, sometimes down. It's kind of mind boggling but I think I'll stick with my local Walgreens.
Could you elaborate on the reasons you didn't go SaaS? Were there other reasons besides technical configurability and sheer scale of data?

To provide a little context, we're currently building an annotation tool that will be accessible by clients and seriously considered prodigy. I'm curious to know what pitfalls we may not be anticipating with that model.

P.S. Your work on SpaCy is nothing short of awesome. Thanks you.
guideline: "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

The best you could do is rewrite it as such: "Nearly three-quarters of Valley techies are foreign: many are H-1B"