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Is this surprising at all? I recall when Bush jr told those fairy tales about Iraq WMD in UN, everybody stared in disbelief how badly he/they tried to desperately create a pretext for a massive invasion/declaring a war to a sovereign nation without any solid reason. I recall well how Germans and French who opposed were openly mocked by US politicians and media (french fries -> freedom fries, anybody?).

UK was the only nation who stood by US in this joke of a politics without questions, and were very happy to begin invasion along US. I mean come on, that's not more than 15 years ago and was well covered by all major media.
I won't start a philosophical debate on the topic. However, I can tell you that I have met such people while I was growing up poor. I hope that at the very least, I can shift your worldview a bit.
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As I said in my reply to asaph, it doesn't work well with interest rates and exchange rates. Also, it simply adds to the mental load in many places (e.g ad hoc queries)
I took a wild stab at fizzbuzz and got lucky:

https://play.golang.org/p/Q7Ek05QjOP
Here's a poor man's version of dnote in my .bashrc. It's the only thing I've used consistently:

notes() {
local fpath=$HOME/notes.md
if [ "$1" == "gvim" ]; then
gvim + $fpath
elif [ "$1" == "vim" ]; then
gvim + $fpath
elif [ "$1" == "date" ]; then
echo '' >> $fpath
echo '# '`date +"%m-%d-%Y-%T"` >> $fpath
echo '---------------------' >> $fpath
elif [ "$1" == "" ]; then
less +G $fpath
else
echo '' >> $fpath
echo $@ >> $fpath
fi
}

Insert the current date with `notes date`. Store a note with `notes the earth is about 25k miles around` or `notes dentist appointment Thursday` or `notes purfunctory - carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection #vocab`. Look up recent notes with `notes` or read/search the entire notes database with `notes vim`.
Could you please highlight these complicatio? Media is overwhelmed with just killings but there is little information on what lead to this event. It was perhaps many years in making?
Same, seems a bit mean to throw something like that in there.
Why is using Slack in this workflow superior to using email? I also know if I have unread emails via the tray icon or mobile app badge, same as with Slack.

Is it just that short frequent messages in email feel weird?
What do you consider "some text"?
If by "modern devops" you mean "they say it's appropriate in a Cloud Native environment" here's some I like or are on my reading list:

* Seeking SRE

* Database Reliability Engineering: Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems

* The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality

* Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud

* Cloud Native Infrastructure

* the Scuba Paper from Facebook Research

* Kubernetes in Action

* Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

* Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment

* Cloud Native: Designing Change-tolerant Software

* Understanding The Linux Memory Manager <-- kind of old (ie references the coming 64bit memory transitions), but super good

* Spring Microservices in Action <--- read even if you're not a Java or Spring head, asks questions like, "maybe you should think about service discovery, routing, tracing, etc"
You shouldn't be downvoted. Those are harsh accusations, they deserve sources. Because it fits what most of us expect the Chinese government could be doing makes it even more important to have sources, confirmation bias is the enemy of rational thinking.
I happen to read Walden these days (almost done) and I am questioning the critic of Thoreau in this article. For one, Thoreau admits that he is not pure (also questionable is his definition of 'pure' and whether it matches the authors definition) and also mentions throughout the book that he sometimes would dine as a guest somewhere but it's unclear whether he rooted for those occasions from an eating standpoint or merely a social one (maybe a combination of both? maybe he tricks us to believe the later? Or he really didn't care about his food as long as he wasn't starving?).
While circumstantial, the timeline of WL threatening to release leaked Putin documents (~2010, IIRC), never releasing those docs, then getting spots on RT is fairly damning, as well as the Russian bot amplification of WL document drops, especially during the 2016 election.
> The vast majority of users don't need software that does wacky stuff with the file system.

Its not about "wacky stuff" its about basic things. Apps in the AppStore are horribly crippled compared to their not AppStore counterparts.

I'm a pro, and like many other pros, basically avoid all software from the AppStore.
ok but how do one validates the uniqueness of an email address?
My advice is to seek customers who are not attracted by "inexpensive" or "affordable" and to tailor the product and its marketing away from "competing with free" and towards selling business value for enough money to make the product sustainable while providing high quality support and improvements by a well financed engineering team.

Good luck.
I disagree. The housing crisis is caused by economic inequality concentrating capital to a handful of cities. Housing costs rise because that's where the money/power/jobs are. Instead of slapping a bandaid on it by increasing housing(which would just lead to further capital concentration and political polarization), we need to address capital concentration.

edit: To those downvoting me, can you please explain why? Was something that I said inaccurate?
I wish SQLite was used for data exports from web-sites instead of CSV files. It would work better especially when the exported data is a some kind of star schema. I wrote about it here: http://bi-review.blogspot.com/2017/04/websites-should-offer-...
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"In Liaoning Province tax receipts and income from various fees were padded by 20-30% according to counties and cities during the period of 2011-2014. Inner Mongolia has said that 25% of the fiscal revenue stated for 2016 were actually fake."

That actually validates some of the slowdown that I saw while I was in China. Business felt slow, and it seems that there wasn't the fast feel anymore compared to 2007. Very little small company activities, and alot of economic activities seem to involve state-owned companies (and we all know how slow they are).

If we assume 20-30% fake data across most of its local provinces the last couple of years, this would probably place China's GDP growth at around 1% a year (maybe even negative), way below 7% consistently claimed by the government. However, the 1% would be consistent with the drop in exports in recent year.
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I don't think it is that simple. You thumb your nose at a judge at your own peril, regardless of how much merit there was to the original case and regardless of where your sympathies lie with respect to WL and Assange the fact is that there is absolutely no way the UK govt/judicial branch would let a known fugitive skip like this even after the original case was dropped.

It is bordering on the farcical how much money they have spent on this and just because of that they eventually have to show a result. The only other alternative is that Assange leaves the embassy in a coffin.
Being someone who benefited from needle exchanges, it’s a step in the right direction. It’s a place where users will be exposed to options for getting clean. Ultimately they are the ones who need to come to that decision but having options positively shown to them will help.

Addiction becomes a cycle of negative reinforcements and being able to put a possible break in that will make a difference. Many have mental health issues that they are self medicating for. Hopefully there are counselors there to help those who want it.
Starting doing same. Learned a lot, as when you write -> you read to plug the gaps. Plus these notes help me to revise my work. Also share toy codes on Github to experiment.
Has always been there.
,,Unfortunately for this central value proposition of blockchain, there is no lack of trusted enough intermediaries in the financial/accounting sector.''

Writes a person living in Finland, the 3rd least corrupt country in the world. He should probably move to a country somewhere down in the list (like North Korea, Afghanistan or Lybia, Venezuela) for a year.
This one arm of Russian propaganda is US propaganda. Just another current "enemy" that the US is trying to link with Wikileaks because it's convenient.

Watch this shift to China or NK when Russia is no longer a "current enemy".
> In essence, you can make reproducible builds in docker by controlling the build environment and then specifying particular versions when installing dependencies.

Nix would be an excellent way to achieve this.
"As it stands, public blockchain is very much a kludgy solution looking for non-existent problem, namely lack of trusted intermediaries in finance and accounting."

Had to stop here.. The reason of blockchain is to remove intermediaries AND still have trusted transactions.
It’s weird to call Hacker News a hive mind when all I see is people arguing with each other.
I was wondering about visitors to the home too, will they all have to sign some sort of Release form before entering?
> Sadly, in the browser SQLite has been kicked to the curb, replaced by IndexedDB

Are you thinking of WebSQL? I don't remember a SQLite interface client-side in any browser. I might be wrong, but I thought IndexedDB was originally implemented on top of SQLite in both Chrome and Firefox. I think Chrome moved to a different backing store, but that has no bearing on the API.
Stupid approaches only work for stupid people.
actually you are correct; local governments in China have been known to fake air data

https://medium.com/@shanghaiist/officials-use-mist-cannon-to...

and this year, Shanghai's air pollution has been worse than Beijing. Some say due to the cold air pushing the pollution down this year.

https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/02/12/shanghai-air-pol...
It wasn't a lawyer, it was the Swedish prosecutor that did this, and it wasn't a 'he' but a 'she' (Marianne Ny).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_...
Information systems have transformed the industrial world. We track metrics for everything, and make decisions from charts of these metrics. People seem to think that because data is so important to S&P 500, it must be equally important to their own person. It's currently just a toy though, that people get tired of after a while. Why would you need to know how many steps you did in a day? It's a gimmick.
This will however change once it is agregated by big data, shipped off to ML algorithms that churn the data and tell you what to do via voice interfaces. "You should exercise for 5 more minutes" via Alexa/Siri/Home in your earbuds while exercising.
That may be Google Cloud competitive edge for AI startups. Both in terms of development cycle and cost efficiency.

Hard to replicate by competitors: AWS and Azure.
The Lauri Love case proves there’s zero probability of Assange being extradited to the US. He’s wanted here for skipping bail. The government can’t let the precedent be set that you can get away with it, or everyone would do it.
These comments have made me realize how many HNers are absolutely clueless about what people do and like in the world.
Apparently not, because 97% of the NIMBYs are winning.
That $6.50/hr rate might be the big deal here. Amazon does offer instances with a V100 GPU (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/, the P3 instances), but if you're training something like ImageNet, you'll want the biggest image (p3.16xlarge) at $24.48/hr.

Attaching a VM of similar power to a TPU on Google Compute Engine is much cheaper (https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing, n1-highmem-64, +$3.78/hr to the TPU cost for $10.28/hr total).

Per recent benchmarks for training ImageNet (https://dawn.cs.stanford.edu/benchmark/), training ImageNet on a p3.16xlarge cost $358, when this post claims it'll cost less than $200. (EDIT: never mind; the benchmark uses ImageNet-152, and Google compares TPU performance against ImageNet-50) Interesting.
It is. TPUs perform calculations on weights using low-precision floating point and integer types. This saves a ton of computation, but doesn't matter much for training models.
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> There is suspicion that Wikileaks is one arm of Russian propaganda

You can sufficiently explain all WL actions by simply assuming that they will do whatever it takes to hurt US interests.
If this works, then it's a great move by Xi. Pay down that fake data debt in a controlled way instead of waiting for an implosion.
>has retweeted someone's description of his article as "The Talented Mr Ripley, but with digital nomads"

Everyone who watched that movie felt a pang of longing to live that way; it's still selling the experience to the reader
This relates into the problem first highlighted for Let's Encrypt's tls-sni-01 (and tls-sni-02 but that never entered production use) validation methods, which cascaded into the entire method 10 of the Ten Blessed Methods.

To recap that: Several popular CDNs or bulk virtual hosts let you type in any hostname and say you're going to host it with them. They figured that if the people who really own that name don't agree, they just wouldn't point their DNS records to the relevant servers and so it's fine. Let's Encrypt's tls-sni family of validations do a DNS lookup for the name to be validated, but then request SNI for a different invalid hostname as a signal. If a CDN or bulk host used for say, example.com allowed another customer on their service to say they wanted the invalid hostname as their "real" name, they could pass the tls-sni validation for example.com and get a certificate issued.

Naively we often assume that it's OK to let users pick names in a service without taking any step to validate that the person asking is entitled to the name. We may even kid ourselves that the custom name doesn't implicitly convey any legitimacy, that @MileyCyrus might be just some 14 year old from Swansea named Miley Cyrus, that mcdonalds.com could be a family web site of the McDonald clan, or that security@gmail.com could just be some bloke who works the doors at a local nightclub. But the reality is that users think names convey meaning even if you specifically tell them otherwise.

GitLab won't be the first to get bitten by this, and they won't be the last.
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I wonder how these would compare with Amazon's FPGA instances with a comparable core running.
FWIW, I have found that I am learning more that I realize. This has been brought to my attention when I go over what I have been working on with someone who is in a comparable state as I was when I started (a new team member, for example), and I find myself having to explain more than I would have guessed was needing to be explained.
Is this personal really a blockchain professional.

That is, does the person get paid by someone to be a blockchain researcher? I am curious who that someone might be.
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This is exciting. There are lots of specific reasons to choose Google Cloud over AWS (and vice versa), but proprietary hardware is surely an advantage that is going to be hard to replicate / compete with. If TPUs hold up to the hype, GCloud may become the de facto for ML/AI startups.
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on a heavy bow, you have to take that into account.
Which is just as bad, since now you need to create an entirely new email account just to have two accounts on the same service.
Nice interview.
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I guess you're a big fan of China's city planning then.
The multiuser stuff etc, I am temporarily too focused on other things so Spry is at "a hold" right now. I would also like to fix more things in the language before proceeding.

The Smalltalk keyword syntax is a simple preprocessing in the parser so that `a at: 3 put: 5` turns into the AST of `a at:put: 3 5`. And yes, it's homoiconic.
Immutable, append-only ledgers between parties that don't need to trust each other.
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For a lightweight single-host deployment of Kubernetes, it's worth considering LXD and conjure-up
https://tutorials.ubuntu.com/tutorial/install-kubernetes-wit...
I'm surprised they didn't call it something like "Soylent Black" or similar...
I don't think it proves that. I think that the US would like to get their hands on JA a lot more than they ever wanted to get their hands on Lauri Love.
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In the en version of your file I don't see any of the common c-level words: ceo, cfo etc...
It's not. Here's a still relevant medium post from 2014 about setting things up: https://medium.com/@shawnzvinis/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-s... .

It's fair to be frustrated by defaults or how your org uses Slack (or any other tool), but these discussions often cross the line to FUD by exaggerating annoyances.
The reserve TPU button has been available on the dashboard for the last few months. But I assume instances have been prioritized for large customers such as Two Sigma.

From the paper:

"Despite low utilization for some applications, the TPU is on average about 15X - 30X faster than its contemporary GPU or CPU, with TOPS/Watt about 30X - 80X higher. Moreover, using the GPU's GDDR5 memory in the TPU would triple achieved TOPS and raise TOPS/Watt to nearly 70X the GPU and 200X the CPU."

In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit

https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04760

Price is about 5x cloud nvidia gpu instance on an hourly basis.
There's an "About" page on his blog.
It will be interesting to see some benchmarks that compare TPUs to V100, since all previously published comparisons from Google compare TPU to K80 (3 GPU architectures ago).
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It's in the section on Famine [1]. Main article [2].

> Although actual harvests were reduced, local officials, under tremendous pressure from central authorities to report record harvests in response to the innovations, competed with each other to announce increasingly exaggerated results. These were used as a basis for determining the amount of grain to be taken by the State to supply the towns and cities, and to export. This left barely enough for the peasants, and in some areas, starvation set in. A 1959 drought and flooding from the Yellow River in the same year also contributed to famine.

> During 1958–1960 China continued to be a substantial net exporter of grain, despite the widespread famine experienced in the countryside, as Mao sought to maintain face and convince the outside world of the success of his plans.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#Famine

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
This does not seem like an unbiased take and i may be biased
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> but thinking about Chiang Mai.

Don't, now is the worst time (especially March/April), air quality gets really bad during this time (see my other comment on this issue).

I'm planning on heading south, maybe to one of the Thai islands, and then at some point over to Bali before surf high season kicks in.
If you don't do this your system may allow users to sign up for multiple accounts and double-dip on signup benefits, free trials and other "one per account" features. (Barring additional controls, of course).
And floats do? With all the (implicit) rounding and precision issues, and some base-10 numbers not being representable in an exact form?

Serious question, what's the proper way to handle this case? I'm having hard time to believing it's IEEE-754 floats.
Indeed. I just found it curious that 'tap to click' as a separate action is no longer relevant, as both actions are no longer physical.
That's one way of looking at it. Another: a warrant was issued for his arrest in relation to a crime that was accused. He used a foreign embassy to avoid that arrest. Giving up would not be setting a fantastic precedent for future alleged criminals who do not wish to answer questions.

(EDIT: changed "committed" to "accused" as per discussion below)
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You're right, but the statement you quoted does not contradict your assertion either.
Looking at my inspirations I would (take it with a grain of salt) say that Lisp and Forth are too simple, javascript is a mess (but with nice literal syntax for maps etc), Smalltalk is too complicated and Rebol is basically also a bit complicated and IMHO a bit of an oddball with some neat ideas. And Nim is a totally different beast.
Obviously having discipline, exercising and not eating junk food is a big part of it, and for many people that would be enough. What Exist helped me with on this was keeping me motivated over a period of time and helping me identify other things that were / are impacting my progress (e.g. sleep, work etc). Clearly its not for everyone - but it is certainly something that I value, and something that has helped me.
A significant portion of the English economy was devoted to arrow production and archer training. They made millions of the things and reused many. Quotas were assigned for production of both.

There may be issues with some of the details of the stories. But many of those issues are more about our modern perception of what is being said. Interpreting the "darkening of the sky" as an eclipse like event is a perception problem. Nobody questions would question a contemporary account of German flak in WW2 feeling like a darkening of the sky from the perspective of a bomber crewman.

The end results speak for themselves -- you can correlate the order of battle of the English from multiple areas and the outcome of major engagements and wars are known. If the arrows were less effective than described, the French heavy infantry and cavalry would have been considerably more successful.
> Buddhism has a fairly explicit prohibition against killing

It is easily worked around by dehumanization of your opponents. In buddhism such people might be considered icchantika for example which is basically someone who can never reach Nirvana and thus killing these "non-people" is akin to exterminating pests.

Obviously, there are many ways to dehumanize someone and sadly this is happening in many societies around the world right now.
Agree, I really like the why "things are different" part.
One thing to keep in mind that Google was using Tensorflow for comparision, which is heavily optimized for TPU, and GPU is just a second class citizen. Of course it was a great strategy on Google's side, and TPUs perform better than GPUs, but this is a little bit of cheating in the benchmarks.
Well, that's always a risk. The thing this guards against is someone accidentally creating two accounts with variations on the same address and being very confused.
If you’re in to this kind of stuff, I recommend “Aftermath: The Remnants of War,” by Donovan Webster.
Foreign embassies generally don't permit random alleged criminals to claim sanctuary.
Why does it make any sense to compare the price/hour for a single TPU (4 ASICs) to the price/hour for p3.16xlarge, which has 8x V100?

Also, that benchmark cost of $358 is for Resnet-152, not Resnet-50.
I kept a list of bugs one month in the 1980's. I figured this way I'd never make the same mistake twice. I found the sheet of paper years later. Last entry:

Forgot to eat. Got sick.
But GPU is also able to use lower resolution types. There must be more to the TPU advantage.