skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/15/world/emerging-role-for-th...

> Spying on allies for economic advantage is a crucial new assignment for the C.I.A. now that American foreign policy is focused on commercial interests abroad. President Clinton made economic intelligence a high priority of his Administration, specifically information to protect and defend American competitiveness, technology and financial security in a world where an economic crisis can spread across global markets in minutes.

Or, more recently, from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/25907502

>US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has alleged the National Security Agency engaged in industrial espionage.
>In an interview with Germany's ARD TV channel, the former NSA contractor said the agency would spy on big German companies that competed with US firms.

And the US spying on trade talk negotiations from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/26/germany-eu-us-...

>Der Spiegel said files obtained by whistleblower Edward Snowden showed that the NSA spied on the EU in New York after it moved to new rooms in autumn 2012 and that the NSA runs a bugging programme in more than 80 embassies and consulates worldwide called the "Special Collection Service", which has "little or nothing to do with warding off terrorists"

Other countries too, such as France, from http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1993/Espionage-Takes-Toll-On-Ai...

> Gone are the Cold War days when one Soviet agent reportedly tried to stick a gyroscope in his pocket during one trade fair. But a Russian spy official and a former chief of French intelligence said in recent interviews that that their agents were involved in industrial espionage.
I read it as "Apple, Berkshire and JPMorgan" at first, and I was very excited to see such a customer-first company finally taking on healthcare.

Then I read the top comment and saw Bezos. Oh. It's Amazon.

I do not want my medical provider and experience to be optimized to the point of insanity.

Healthcare needs to be fixed, but I'm pretty sure these three companies will create a monster worse than the one we currently endure. (Profits or not.)
Well that was predictable. Shame the government didn’t listen to people like me who literally told them that while it was still a Bill not an Act.
Strange, I'm on 10.13.3... have you tried running the say commands at the command-line? My speech settings are set to "Allison", so perhaps it's a feature of the advanced voices?
Waymo's "on the road" page [0] says that they're also currently testing in Mountain View, CA, Austin, TX and Kirkland, WA.

Their early rider program is only in Phoenix AFAIK.

[0]: https://waymo.com/ontheroad/
Is this a joke? I just ran it and got something like "macron colo-con letter to underscore macron" And that's... The best I can interpret, it's very muddled.

edit: Ah, I see your response to someone else. I'm going to try Allison.

edit: Ha! It is Allison! "Shrug". What a time to be alive!
In regards to the C and Scala/Java client libraries. They are great for what they do and how they do it. However, that doesn't mean they're ideal in every scenario. For example, the Scala/Java client is the most feature rich client and is actively developed in sync with the Kafka brokers. This, however, doesn't make it suitable for embedding in other languages. As a result, the C client was created by the community and is now officially supported by Confluent. That doesn't in any way take away from the quality of the Scala/Java client though.

Also, while the C client is more featureful and better tested, there is still the concern regarding the thread pools internal to Pony and librdkafka. We've seen first hand how CPU cache invalidation can impact performance so we are very aware of the potential negatives if the Pony and librdkafka threads ever end up fighting with each other over the same CPU resources and would prefer to avoid that.

Yes, Pony Kafka is currently slower than the C client. But it is also almost completely untuned as of right now. We expect there is a lot of low hanging fruit on that front that will give us significant gains. Yes, we mention in the blog post that we would be happy at being parity with the C client but our goal has always been to exceed it, eventually. Both in terms of performance and features.
> if you look at the spec sheet of an iPhone

> Apple famously doesn't advertise RAM or processor clock speed on iPhones.

There is a lot of space between these two extremes. While I do not expect full spec sheet for a tool (because, as you said, I couldn't understand it anyway), I do expect to be able to find out some basics; for me RAM or CPU certainly are a part of these basics.
It was in perfect condition, with old plates in the back of farmers a century dead, and old farms long gone. A complete index of every local person enlisting during the Civil War with their entire war record. Probably such good condition because it only got checked out every 5 years or so (other than me recently, every few months).

The happy-ish ending is, I found a reprint by our local historical society from the 1970's. Without the plates. Took years of visits to local used-book shops and repeated requests to look out for a copy should one show up.
>The error rate is stupidly high (somewhere between 10 and 20%)

The Insertion/deletion error rate is 20-30%.

The point mutation error rate is something 0.1-1% (higher than HiSeq but not crazy high).

This means with a semi-decent reference genome you should be able to do re-sequencing fairly accurately. It also means, that in conjunction with HiSeq reads you can do cheap genome assembly, using the HiSeq reads for coverage, and the minion reads for scaffolding.
Could you clarify what is nonlinear about that system? From your description, it sounds like a high (4+) order (mostly) linear system. The motor probably has nonlinear dynamics, but so does everything and treating it as linear should work ok.

I suspect the difficulties you've experienced stem not from nonlinearity, but from trying to control a system poorly approximated by a second order system with a second order controller. By cascading, both PID controllers effectively "see" a plant that looks more or less second order, so the controllers are much more effective.
I agree, but what I'm saying is that it's not at all "advanced deanonymization" skills that's a problem. It's the default standars way we share data is capable of undermining privacy, and even military op sec, quite easily, that needs to be changed.
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I call BS, it's a bubble ad network.

The chances are users will be happier with a product through natural selection ( eg. better/trustwurthy reviews), than products through ads.

Although, Amazon could earn more in short term, users are less satisfied and they lose money long term.

What happens if Chinese vendors buy all the ads and set a lower price ( which they can). Then most buyers won't be satisfied on Amazon ( terrible English) and they start using AliExpress ( cheaper and same shipping terms after eg. 1 year of Chinese vendors that dominate Amazon). This "free money" could be their downfall.

Already technical users here on HN don't want to use Amazon for the risk of receiving counterfeit products.
I feel there will be a series of HC acquisitions ranging from unicorn startups to major HC providers. I don’t have to name the qualified startups, they are too well known... Great time to join an insurance startup!!!
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You should sue them for fraud.
This is writing as someone who flavours HEVC, but still support the AOM initiative, hopefully AV2.

1. AOM was formed in 2015, and the idea of collaborating between Mozilla and Google and others were very well known within the industry before the formation of AOM. But let's just call it 2015, so three years later in 2018, the head of MPEG, just a year ago ( 2017 ) has seen this a threat coming.

May I ask What was he doing between 2015 and 2017?

2. >all the investments (collectively hundreds of millions USD) made by the industry for the new video codec will go up in smoke and AOM’s royalty free model will spread to other business segments as well.

Collectively Hundreds of millions? If there were only 10 companies paying the max cap of 25M per year, that is $250M per year from HEVC and to MPEG LA alone, excluding the other two groups and NPEs. And that is devices maker, excluding content producers. Assuming a video codec has a life time of 10 years, that is a total of $2.5 Billion minimum. Do you not think wasting hundreds of millions to save a few billion for the industry is a very good deal?

I do not known how the US and Canadian University works, but at least what the article said is true in terms of Universities funding in EU, Cooperate Sponsor etc for the work. Well at least it was true in my era of studying.

And I do not have a solution to this problem.

And I guess I cant really blame MPEG, what was originally an outrageous amount $25M now seems fair and reasonable compared to what others were asking. It is likely the greed that every company has for their IP portfolio wanted more.
It appears your argument against prosecuting criminal politicians boils down to being afraid of their power and what would happen if you did? Seems like a weak argument from authority.
>extraordinarily high financial and legal barriers to entry.

If there is a company with enough muscle to force themselves into the business, it's Berkshire.
A more interesting race for bio-entrepreneurs. Rather than $1K human sized whole exome. May be the race to develop a $1 plasmid, BAC or small microbial genome sequencer. At that cost, seed level investment in single purpose bio-factories becomes very attractive.
Facebook has a different ad network than Google. Google is really good for intent-based advertising (Shopping for example) and Facebook is really good for prospecting (finding new buyers).
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One of the first things I do when checking out a book from my library is look for an ebook version.

If I can't find one, I use my flatbed scanner over the course of a week to make one and throw it up on the internet.
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How about just, "We treat people as individuals regardless."
I think there is a hipster element to language selection in situations like the parent refer to. I've certainly seen this at play.
Last time this kind of thing was on the front page I suggested a frame of noise around the image, which would work to hide the bottom corner.
> In the end, it was less about "use Pony" and more about "do this in a way that matches with Wallaroo's architecture".

This could be accomplished without using Pony, unless you view "Wallaroo's architecture" as being effectively synonymous with "use Pony."
Maintenance is the main reason. If you don't get into the nitty-gritty you cannot achieve the amazing feat of keeping a system up and running 30 years passed its design lifetime
If you're worried about them not being safe enough, why not just drive them around endlessly without people being in them?
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Questions like "A ball is fired from a cannon at a 45 degree angle, how far from it's initial position does it land?" are also fairly common in Canada. I don't recall every being asked something this silly though. There's no formula to calculate the age of a ship captain based on his cargo. There's no 'missing piece' here.
I've been super out of touch with playing Go for the past couple years. I would love to get back into it with all these new development! Does anyone know if I can play against AlphaGo or derivative (such as MiniGo) online?
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It would very much depends on who you were. If you had German ancestry you would be better off under the Germans, if you were Jewish you were far worse off. A lot of people in the former USSR occupied areas like the Baltics or Ukraine actually greeted the Germans as liberators, but they quickly changed their mind when they realized the Germans considered Slavs subhumans.
Performance and features. In single threaded performance, Apple's A chips are way ahead. That's because Apple highly customizes and optimizes their core designs, while Qualcom and Samsung use largely vanila ARM reference designs with maybe a few tweaks. Apple chips also have considerably more cache. That's difficult for the competition to counter because they are very price sensitive and cache size eats up expensive die space.

The counter argument is that the other systems make up for this by having more cores, which is really a cop out. Single threaded execution has a far more direct effect on user experience, gaming performance, etc. They can't compete in core engineering so make it up by slapping on more fairly generic cores. It does appear that Samsung is responding to this and investing in more advanced core designs.

The final area is custom features like the neural engine behind real-time face recognition, real time 3D face lighting effects and such. The competition don't really have these at all, so we don't know how far behind they are.

There's a pretty good article on this linked below.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4138071-apple-cpu-advantage...
I couldn't handle the emotional issues of pricing - I like my customers so I made my rates low.

One of my employees saw the problem and started to handle the pricing - he quotes stupid high rates that leave a lot of wiggle room to delight our customers by going above what was expected.

Both we and the customer are happier.

TLDR: Perhaps let someone else price for you because they're not emotionally attached to the number.
I came to that conclusion, and quit going entirely for 10 years. I didn't need a sort of cut-rate bookstore with well-thumbed books in it - I can buy my own thank you. And not get badgered about returning them on schedule, with fines exceeding the cost of the book.

I'm not actually sure if libraries as described, are doing anything at all for most of us. You see mostly kids and the homeless (or people looking like they are homeless) wandering in there.
"It’s amazing how quickly our Russian allies turned into our Cold War enemies at the end of WWII."

Britian and France lost their empires and were destroyed after WWII. Germany lost it's (small) empire already in 1918.

Russia became a major empire with their new Vassal states, the US grew as an empire now undisputed by Britain.

So it's clear both Russia and US would compete for power.
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Insurance companies, by and large, are gate keepers to capital. The "best" have a lot of highly innovate algorithms, machine learning, and data collection, but they're all designed to maximize the profit of the company by accurately pricing premiums. An accurately priced premium means customers who don't their services less pay less; in effect, they're using data to increase premiums for the customers who actually use their service, while increasing revenue in order to fund their massive, inefficient bureaucracy.
It is possible that surveillance really is useful in preventing terrorism. And it would seem cheaper and easier to do than human intelligence.
Strava is the first social network I want to be a part of. It promises to help me find activity partners that can help keep me motivated on the days where I'm finding it more difficult than usual to get on the pedals or put on the running shoes. Unlike most others, it might help me feel happier and healthier. I have to accept some loss of privacy for the sake of crawling out of a hole and having an automated system help me meet other folks.

And as he admits, you're far more likely to lose your bike to a combination of a moment of carelessness and an opportunistic thief than someone that's surveilling you through your social network activity.

It's a little ironic too that he's writing about the dangers of deanonymization while providing enough information in his post to figure out his Strava username and approximate location.
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> The Red Army was indeed a savior.

Many who ended up in the soviet sphere of influence would beg to differ.
On Ukraine/east battlefields, german soldiers were initially greeted as saviors from Stalin. That tells you all you need to know about that fuckup Stalin's terror against, well everybody.

Those masses of poor soldiers did win the WWII in some sense, but it was not because of the utterly incompetent communist leadership, but despite of it. Anyway they would be shot immediately by their superiors if they didn't march blindly on german machine guns. And there is only so many bullets those machine guns can fire before barrels start melting.
It is true that Russians helped in ending WWII but as others pointed they were also one of the initial aggressors and allies of the Reich. If not for that the war might as well end faster.
It goes beyond pricing. Mutual insurance policy owners were paid dividends based on principle investment. Berkshire pays dividends to shareholders, i.e. Warren Buffet, while policy holders get nothing but insurance coverage.
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It's easy to set privacy zones around home, work, or any other location. And you're not required to have any friends (followers). Activities can also be hidden from the public and made visible only to followers.
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Is this about cryptography?
Considering that Microsoft is doing it, it's not unlikely. But, they seem to also push iPad forward.
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Pineapple Fund donated bitcoin worth $1M to the Free Software Foundation
I don't know about "hipster" unless you're using it as a synecdoche for "trend following."

There is definitely a predilection in certain parts of the coder community to prefer newness and difference over tried and true. There isn't anything wrong with that necessarily: it's part of how progress is made. However I think it's often taken to extremes in the coder community.
When I drive a car, I am liable for all accidents made with me behind the wheel. An acceptable risk.

When I write self-driving software, am I suddenly liable for all accidents made by all of those cars when my software is driving? Because the stakes there are quite a bit higher. Personally I wouldn't take the risk.

How to handle liability with a computer behind the wheel without strangling innovation isn't a solved problem as far as I know.
FDA approves first blood sugar monitor without finger prick
40 sheep isn't 7700 kg, I don't think. that's 400 lb per sheep.
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> have you tried running the say commands at the command-line

I don't know how else to run it :)

But you guessed it. I have 4 voices, Samantha/Victoria/Alex/Fred. I was using Alex. Samantha behaves as you say, all others behave as I say. (Strangely enough, now it says "Samantha (downloading)", so maybe after download it will be 'fixed'?)
This is worth upvoting AND repeating because many could think otherwise. US Subway has no funding issue. It is a pure productivity issue.
Well it is coming down now only because Samsung is trying to lock in as much market share of NAND as possible this year, before the Chinese has their NAND Fab running and start race to bottom.
As a 10 year engineer in the medical device industry I've slowly come to believe the root cause is not greed for more profit, but actually runaway altruism.

All across healthcare, providers, scientists, administrators are faced with millions of tiny choices every day: should we spend more money to improve outcomes. Should we add that extra feature to this device - costs more but improves care a little. Should we use this more expensive material - costs more but is probably safer. Should we do additional testing - costs more but we'll be more sure it's safe. The calculus of incremental value vs. cost is subconsciously seen as inhumane across the industry -- it's seen as starting down that slippery slope that ends with a "dollars per life" number which feels wrong to everyone. Nobody wants to be the person who traded someone's health for a buck.

I'm not necessarily condemning it, I want the best possible care for my children, but I do think that (like a lot of big socioeconomic problems) this comes back to incentives.
Russia and Germany planned the division of Europe and invasion of Poland.

Stalin just was too clever for Hitler. Instead of attacking at the same time as agreed, he waited to make Hitler the only agressor.

He also before talked to the British and French and knew they would defend Poland. Stalins plan was for the capitalst nations to destroy each other then rule them. As Russia tried when marching towards a destroyed and weak Germany only stopped by the Polish in 1921.
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There's brute force and then there's brute force. You know that the joystick inputs have to be applied in a certain order, and you basically want the throttle on unless you're above a certain RPM, so the search space is more like 60^4 with a couple of parameters, which is plenty tractable.
Not convinced that HN is really the venue for detailed tangential discussion of UK politics, but no intellectually honest assessment of Labour's internal debate starts from the assumption that what the "Blairite wing", headed up by the individual that actually deposed Tony Blair(!), really objected to was Corbyn 2017 manifesto innovations like universal free school meals and tuition fee abolution and er.. matching Tory tax cuts for those on £55-70k per annum and dropping Miliband's much-trumpeted "Mansion Tax".

There's a reason why they had a lot of negative stuff to say about Corbyn's long track record of opposing Labour leaders,
his gaffe-prone communication style in the media and lack of communication internally, his "anti-imperialist" foreign policy, him applying considerably more caveats to his "endorsements" of the EU than those of Hamas and Latin American dictatorships, his fondness for surrounding himself with obscure Marxists from outside the party and the party's poor performance in polls and yet even those who'd walked out on the party had few objections to the manifesto.
No, sadly.
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I find that viewing the article with JavaScript turned off works too.
Fiction matters - it's good fun. Even if we're just now aware that we're swimming in a sea of fiction.

The only thing that's changed recently is that we're now just more capable of being aware how much bad reporting and government tomfoolery is going on - we always been lied to.
That's genius! Why didn't I think of that?!
I finished reading Pilecki's reports (turned into a book) a year after visiting auschwitz. The reports are quite hard to read. I just had to know how somebody could get out of that camp. (Being in the military, he knew many people in the camp that helped him along the way)

This article is a great follow-up story for the book.
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An upvote for using the word "shibboleth."
Only the simplest deductions logically follow. Everything else is inference.
So is a long trend:

https://macperformanceguide.com/topics/topic-AppleCoreRot.ht...

Is a interesting tesis...
Nothing good to the person being punished. But it should deter from negligence. Monetary punishment only works on the poor.