skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article states:

> run by someone who votes against their civil rights.

with a link to:
https://slate.com/technology/2018/01/this-is-the-first-time-...

but with multiple skimmings I can't find a reference in that article to where Bridenstine had voted against civil rights. Can anyone help clarify, please?

I do see references to "comments" and "barbs," but not votes:

> past comments deriding the Supreme Court decision to declare same-sex marriage constitutional and legal protections for transgender students using bathrooms, as well political barbs
And it seems unlikely that the added benefit of a three point harness would be the difference between life and death or injury and safety. If an airplane is crashing it's typically with enough impact that a three point harness won't save you.
SEC's forays into ICO world caught public attention; it wouldn't surprise me if that number suddenly increased, very soon.
If you're looking at this with the intention of getting started in Deep Learning and feeling overwhelmed by the math then Andrew Ng offers a great course on Coursera that goes over all of the formulas needed to calculate the forward propagation, loss computation, backward propagation, and gradient descent. Highly recommend it for anyone interested in breaking into the field of machine learning.
1) you have the potential to become good at something if you put effort towards it.

2) in order to learn and get better at something, you sometimes have to make mistakes

3) you do not always have to know the answer, just understand the question
Just a small note. Map seems to have missed off NZ who have just launched an orbital rocket.

Only mentioning it because I am from NZ and consider it one of the countries most significant technical achievements of the last decade.
So basically the new company told you 'If you like your doctor, you can keep them!'?
Well reasoned piece from so-called "scientists".

This is authoritarian think itself.

"People that don't behave the way we think they should, people who are not known/shown to be violent, oppressive, or authoritarian, are people who unwittingly (despite their statements/behaviors that show the opposite) in support of authoritarianism, abuse, and disinformation."

It completely disregards character evidence of the people involved for generalized grand-standing.

I suppose all the women attending are self-loathers, the men all abusers, and ...

Congrats, America. Both your political wings are ideologues with no critical thinking skills.

Both sides seem to think individuals are just cogs, there to serve whatever motto they choose.
I've been with kaiser my whole life. 3 open heart surgeries from 2 to 32, ongoing medical of all kinds (psych to phys). Kaiser was 2nd in the nation for cardiac care for awhile. I have had nothing but great experiences and have transferred to their Washington state system, which is basically the same, except the facilities and staff seem less sophisticated overall.
Serverless compute needs serverless messaging to trigger functions; that's what we're aiming to build with grid.
I, for one, am thrilled to see Bill Nye support the current U.S. government. He has always been a strong proponent of climate change as evidenced by multiple speeches, debates, arguments and written material over the last decade. This latest move should be seen as a way of promoting growth and understanding regarding core scientific issues within the new administration.

The authors of this article displays a fair bit of hubris in assuming that they and their organization speaks for all scientists. It certainly does not speak for me. As a former scientist (worked in a government lab) who does not practice science anymore, I find the current model of conducting and reporting science in the U.S., and in general the western hemisphere, to be fundamentally flawed. My position is not based on sour grapes persay, as I was very effective at attracting funding and publishing papers. Rather I've found that scientists display a high level of self-righteousness in what are moral topics from a philosophical perspective, yet exhibit by the very same characteristics that motivate other "lesser" mortals, including politicians, such as greed (funding), recognition (paper count), and appeal to authority (reputation of authoring organization/university).

In my humble opinion, scientists have strayed far from their mandate to understand and discover nature and entered politics for personal, self-serving reasons. The field of science is suffering as a result.
It certainly is fun, but it's also a source of metaphysics and morals.

For example, children can read Harry Potter, want to be in Gryffindor (at least in their imaginations) and grow up better people as a result.

One could spend a decade citing the results of scientific studies, advertising all the fashionably-correct political opinions, extolling the benefits of eating more organic vegetables, exercising and so on. Never achieving a similar result.
Fishing Lure Hobby Hand Carved Lures
They analyzed the actual code of the game to determine what the optimum inputs would be...

Based on that code, the alleged record was not possible.
I was trying to be cute and incorporate real universal statements into my sentence by suggesting that even "All Universal Statements Are Exaggerated Statements" itself is exaggerated ;)
I don't think Intrinsity's tech had much to do with 64 bit, all their work before the acquisition was on 32-bit architectures.

The main attraction for 64-bit ARM is, apart from the obvious future proofing, it has a redesigned and much more efficient ISA. It also has the optional secure enclave feature which Apple used for TouchID and now FaceID. That feature doesn't actually require 64-bit per se, but it is only a feature of the 64-bit ARM architecture. As an aside, is anyone else using it for anything? I'm only aware of Apple using it, but technically it's not an Apple exclusive feature.

Your 'focused on power saving' point is correct as far as it goes, that was their intent, but unfortunately the power saving benefits of BIGLittle turned out to be much more modest and full of caveats than hoped. It turns out that a fast efficient single core that can complete an instruction in less time, then quickly shut down into a power saving mode, is more efficient in power terms for most cases than a slower lower powered core taking longer. As a result Apple's fewer faster cores approach turned out to actually offer better power efficiency as well. Since then Apple has also adopted BIGLittle, it's not a failed technology, it's just that the inflection point when it becomes worth doing was at a very different point than previously realised. Whether thats down to luck or judgement on Apple's part is moot.
Your thoughts are fake thoughts?

Your memories are fake memories?

Your life is a fake life?
I'm not sure about ICO's. They're pretty wantonly carried out.

However Ethereum as a technology and platform has been making the odd inroads. The UN previously used it successfully in a project to help maintain ID's for refugees and dispersion of aid a few years ago.

Canada's currently experimenting with using it for tracking dispersion of funding and grants by the National Research Council[0] as well as experimenting with the same digital ID's (via Accenture/Microsoft) for air travel.[1]

[0] NRC Website: https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/stories/2018/blockchains.html

[0] Overview article: https://globalnews.ca/news/3977745/ethereum-blockchain-canad...

[0] NRC Working Prototype: https://nrc-cnrc.explorecatena.com/en

[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/3991496/known-traveller-digital-i...
Scientific American doesn't necessarily speak for us or science either. One of the few things I don't like about Bill Nye and Neil Tyson is that they talk about "science" as though there's some single source of truth and ignore the messy realities of the process that make it hard to reach a perfect consensus. And then Scientific American does it even worse with some very silly and petty generalizations and assumptions. I'm not a big fan of Trump either but just boycotting arbitrary things because they're related to him is just stupid: it's like complaining about someone because they follow Trump on Twitter.
Apache OpenOffice devs consider themselves to be at war with LO (but that's fantasy, the project is dead, only its bureaucracy survives). One is copyleft and the other copyright. One is owned by Apache while the other is the result of the cooperation of many entities.

OpenOffice.org/StarOffice/Oracle_OOo/IBM_Symphony/Apache-OO have probably more users (despite being dead) because of brand recognition. Keeping these users hostage until none remains is the biggest FU they can do to the document foundation to have forked, so they did.

edit: Added the other brands OOo is known by
Bitgrail has just scammed it's users out of millions of dollars
Yeah, running through a flow chart with a "hello cool kids" vibe was... offputting. Maybe it's enjoyed by many.
> you normally hash the id/content of the thing

the random number /is/ the id. You can think of it as the unique address of the object in some other memory mapping.

The hash function just happens to be the identity function in this case.
I mean, I fully suspect that both suck
What about the bills for electricity, heating, internet, phone, drinks & meals, and the fact that you're using your own furniture, your own computer, printer, etc. ?! You need to amortize all those costs if you want to know the real cost of working from home.
I often describe Pony and Rust as fellow travelers. They're following roughly the same path, but they have different constraints, and so they've made different choices that are suitable for what they need.
Via Reddit: "Looks like they are gonna get a free audit!"
The embedded video is well worth of watching! Trippy indeed.
Airbnb ad: 'Let's open doors, not build walls'
You missed the "nor is there an applicable exemption from registration"

It's been well known since early-December when the SEC shut down the Munchee ICO that ICOs that function as securities will not be allowed. There are many ICOs that are still fine.
It won't work on google phone right now, from the paper: "The audio adversarial examples we construct in this paper do not remain adversarial after being played over-the-air, and therefore present a limited real-world threat; however, just as the initial work on image-based adversarial examples did not consider the physical channel and only later was it shown to be possible, we believe further work will be able to produce audio adversarial examples that are effective over-the-air."

However prior work [1] was shown to work on google phones, it is just much more noticeable.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvZAZFztlO0
>The notion that the impact of talk therapy comes purely from the intellectual discourse seems to me severely misguided.

The evidence suggests otherwise. Internet-based CBT does not seem to be markedly inferior to face-to-face CBT, which is the current gold-standard talk therapy. We really don't have any evidence that the human contact element of psychotherapy is integral or even significant to the effectiveness of the therapy.

We should also be careful to avoid letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. There are many barriers to psychological care, from cost to stigma to simple availability. For the overwhelming majority of people worldwide, it isn't a choice between internet-based CBT or face-to-face psychotherapy - it's a choice between internet-based CBT or no treatment at all. Even if internet-based CBT is significantly inferior, it still has the potential to prevent immense amounts of suffering and death.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25273302

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25590119
I just want Apple to team up with Nintendo and make a home console + Apple TV.
They probably figured there wasn't going to be a State of Hawaii after a real nuclear missile so why bother with an all clear?
If this is a grand jury subpoena, things could get ugly fast in the crypto space. Despite all talk of decentralization, the major exchanges pose a systemic risk.
They didn't test a 3-point harness but according to MythBusters, the brace position is better than unbraced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClX2yldxZPw
The problem is he's "the science guy" which by extension many laypeople associate with actual scientists.

By attending the SOTU, to laypeople it makes it look like scientists agree with the president's positions on climate change.

Unfortunately, I believe this demonization of Bill Nye is appropriate.
It still is bad UI, that hasn't changed. So people didn't spread misinformation.

Sure, the employee clicked the wrong button because of this audio alert, but the buttons/text are still poorly designed.
Why was this flagged? Is the politicization of scientific progress not worth discussing?
But anyone who played the game more than a few hours would know that the time only increments in multiples of 3.

And this same gamer lied about other games with scores that are impossible to get.
Right. I see the iPhone with external displays & keyboard. See it's revived!
A bad advocate undoes the work of a good advocate. Bill Nye doesn't really use scientific methods. His last show was a mess, because he made assertions he didn't back up.

Bill Nye has done good work on the past, but he is undoing the work he has done lately.
That's probably it.
This is a really good article and sounds very true to me personally, as well as jives with my experiences.

Another thing to consider is that once at a certain pay level, more money does not buy more respect or interest in the job. While some good IT pros like to maximize for income, more often than not, they are also very interested in being respected and autonomous, and will choose a lower paying job with these aspects over a higher paying job with more bureaucracy and/or non-technical management.
Specifically, definition of oligarchy.
Doh. I worded that very poorly.

The point I was trying to make was that changes from CRISPR-style gene therapies in males will be passed to the offspring since sperm are produced constantly. The same is not true for gene editing in females because female eggs are all (mostly?) produced at birth.
Just a note: The edition of Apache Groovy that's bundled with Jenkins has its collections API crippled, so it provides a less "functional" experience than when Groovy's used for normal scripting. Given that easy access to the map-reduce-filter paradigm is the main reason I'd give up static typing to use Python/Ruby/Groovy, I don't know how you put up with it.
Why was this decision stupid?

The nightshift supervisor intended to run a drill at a very inopportune or unexpected time - this is a great time to test! This is the equivalent of testing edges or boundaries.

The report says the person that sent the alarm did not hear the 'Exercise' portion of the message. It seems they were acting entirely rationally given the protocol they were expected to follow.

It surely was a mistake and things can be improved, but I really don't think this was a 'stupid' decision.
I wouldn't call spreading misinformation because that was the official statement. It just turned out that the official statement was incorrect.

Besides, memes were brilliant :)
The US doesn't need a Shenzhen. It already has free enterprise, electronics suppliers and prototyping equipment. The problem is the barrier to entry, mostly living costs. There isn't really much you can do in Shenzhen that you can't do in the bay area. It will just cost you five times as much.

But of course it depends on what you mean by "a Shenzhen".
Perfect is the enemy of good enough. We have congressional reps who proclaim there is no global warming because it still snows (while holding up a snowball on the floor of Congress). Again, every advocate is needed, even if they make mistakes (as we all do).
> An identity hash function takes an identity value and produces a simpler integer from it

I would expect an identity hash function to be exactly that: i.e. a trivial function that takes a value and returns that value unmodified (i.e. the identity function).

It happens to describe well this case because the input to the has function itself is the unique identifier and as it is already uniformly distributed, the has function can just return it unmodified.
After a few more days, we will hear that it was not the worker who sent the alert, and after some more days, we will hear that nobody sent the alert and that it was a bug. Just kidding. News such as these have to wait till the investigation is complete, otherwise we will simply be reading speculation.
You are talking about behavior- and inference-based traffic analysis. What you're talking about is definitionally not inspection.

It is trivial for a defender to 1) enforce whitelists, 2) defeat analysis with arbitrary use of Nagle's algo, 3) put bitcoind or other node services on non-standard ports with non-standard sender-receiver behavior, 4) enable other services with similarly non-standard configurations, 5) setup multi-homed constellations, where nodes transmit on one channel and receive on another, 6) do I really need to go on? There are dozens of things that can be done here to defeat traffic analysis.

There's billions of USD-equivalents invested in this thing. Hand-wavey claims like 'Cryptanalysis has been able to reliably identify traffic despite encryption for quite some time' evidently do not take into account competent defenders. Bitcoiners will buy time on, or even launch, their own satellites, if public nodes begin getting stomped on and there is in fact some usability issue preventing miners from relaying transactions.
Its shocking how they have been allowed to continue printing "fake money" for so long. There were rumours going around long before christmas.

Its about time this 'scam' was exposed.
Twiddle, AKA coordinate ascent, definitely works in practice. It's basically the same process a human uses to tune PID parameters, cyclically tune one parameter at a time until you're performance is good enough. It's closely related to gradient ascent and suffers from the same problems, namely that it can get trapped in a local minimum, but it's easy to implement and does a good job if you start with an ok guess at the parameters.
I am not a UK citizen so I can't say with any level of certainty what the process was designed to be. However, a few things seem pretty obvious.
1) The judges said this was "inconsistent with EU law". That means it is illegal because it goes against the (higher) EU law. This is equivalent to how Federal law trumps State laws in the US and State law trumps local/municipal law. If it is inconsistent with EU law, then it is a violation of that law, plain and simple.
2) The judges also held the ruling in #1 based on lack of "prior review by a court or independent administrative authority". That's the US equivalent to what we call due process. So rights were being violated without due process. That's pretty serious.

I think you are making the water murkier by trying to imagine what you think the process is/should be. The fact remains that the law has been violated on a mass scale, by government, and this has now been adjudicated in a court of law.
There finally starts to be consciousness about input and output latency for GUI applications.

Xi sounds like an editor I'd love to use. Latency while typing is a jarring experience.
There's no photo. There's no evidence at all, except that Activision accepted the score back in the day.
> admittedly that's mainly because programming languages are qwerty-centric.

More like US layout centric.

EVen the humble unix CLI is a straight pain on anything but a US keyboard, as things like / now require a modifier key.

Funny thing is that There is a variant of the US layout with the right alt being alt-gr, allowing most languages that use latin script to be typed.
Yeah you're right, I'm thinking of a different glitch, sliding through walls above mario which, unrelated to running, crouching, and using momentum.
What is the point of Tether? Is it for dodging taxes?
She can wait until an incident happens and then activate cobra. You don't have to pay for it upfront.
The Person Who Sent That Hawaii False Alarm Thought That a Missile Was Coming
This is a garbage article. Every time some emotional person writes crap like this, it converts someone to the alt-right. This is viewed by the right as evidence that the "left will eventually eat its own".
The achilles' heel with these systems is their integration points with fiat. Always has been.
You are reiterating my complaint about Martinez-Fuerte while stating that I didn't read it. Even stops that don't lead to searches are seizures that implicate the fourth amendment rights. Martinez-Fuerte acknowledges this, but then says "oh it's not that bad, and if the government has what it says is a compelling reason, go ahead."

Bad lane change is explicitly probable cause -- it's direct witnessing of a traffic code violation. It's usually pretextual: they have some other reason they don't want to articulate that might not pass constitutional muster, but pretextual stops and even searches are unfortunately allowed. And no, they're not supposed to pull you over to check your insurance absent some reason to think that there's a problem with it.

Stops without probable cause are bad not just because they are interruptions and wastes of time, but because they allow more opportunities for other abuses such as pretextual searches.

Administrative checks for commercial trucking (i.e. weigh stations) would be a better instance for stops that no one generally complains about.
Right but these days, if you rent a cloud hosted docker container with say, nginx or httpd, you'll get HTTP logs via fluentd with full IP address information, and a lot of people will push these into storage like S3 or GCP buckets for analysis later.

If you say, use a point-and-click installation of Wordpress on AWS/GCP/Azure, you're going to get IP logs being held. I'm just pointing out that the regulations impose a lot of costs and expose people to huge risks.

I mean, can I be held liable if I use an open source downstream dependency from npm or Maven, and it just so happens to have debug logs that are storing info, and I didn't know about this logging cause I didn't audit every line of code from a downstream dependency?

For large companies, this isn't going to be a problem, but the entire open source ecosystem operates on a system that for the most part, you aren't exposed to legal liability by them, except in cases like patent violations or copyright infringement, but now there's a huge cognitive burden being levied on top by a massively complicated new regulatory framework.
Is there a demo day or expectation of a Series A round of funding at the conclusion of the program?
Cryptocurrencies are in an interesting middle ground, from a regulator’s political perspective. They’re complicated and stand to harm mostly those who inflicted it on themselves. For an ambitious regulator looking forward to an administration’s nominating committee, Senate confirmation hearing or even campaign trail, that makes it unattractive relative to e.g. insider-trading hedge fund managers or Medicare fraudsters. (To the contrast, we’re approaching the critical scam mass in Asia.)
...Oh. Please don’t let my overly literal reading and pissy reply indicate that you weren’t successful in your attempt. I am a goober.
That sounds about right, too. I guess I was describing the "how one expects the government will behave" angle. My personal impression is that USGOV would happily take the bait and end up tied in court over the definitions of "shoot", "gun" and "man", most of the time. This is not one of those times, though.

(And to be clear, with Russians, I meant a quick "yup, we didn't word this precisely enough, but both of us know what we meant there", followed by jail time.)
market already starting to dip. Down another 6% right after this news go out