skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone is pissed off about the Whiskey Rebellion as if those farmers didn't understand the basic aspects of what was agreed upon and what it means to pay taxes. It was a moment where Washington had to put his foot down in order to demonstrate that the new government meant something and was capable of collecting taxes. But everyone is so butt hurt about it as though it was unethical when in fact the only people being unethical were the distillers playing fast and loose with law, just like always.

As far as defeating Indians goes, my own family history includes a story about an Indian raid that went pretty badly for the settlers in NY. I don't think a lot of people had much sympathy for the savages back then. Having your wife/daughter scalped or kidnapped makes a man rethink his civilized nature.
Ouch, sounds like an actual experienced parent left that comment... People underestimate the difficulty of not getting divorced when you have kids - more so if you have twins etc.
>Let's pretend for a moment that our minds can be modeled by a formal system.

Since our minds are more like perception-action variational inference systems, that's a hell of a lot of pretending ;-).
These numbers are actually much worse than one would think based on the PR.
>>For one will realize that institutions serve various important social functions that go far beyond middleman style profit and rent skimming.

Monitoring transactions? Preventing people from transacting?

I think people should be able to do peer-to-peer electronic transactions the same way they can do peer-to-peer physical transactions with cash.

It would empower individuals and serve as a guard against encroachments of their liberty.

If cryptocurrency were never invented, people would have had no way to donate to Wikileaks when the financial blockade was imposed on it by major payment intermediaries. And that's in the West. Imagine what the situation is like in countries like China.

Organisations on the fringes like Wikileaks are important guarantors against centralized tyranny. Without a payment system outside the control of centralized authorities they can be more easily snuffed out.

In other words, cash is an institution as well, and is important.
Microsoft Brings Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection to Windows 7 and 8.1
Certainly for decimalized exchanges, binary floating point is the wrong choice. (On a side note, it's also the wrong choice for spread sheets, at least as the default. The average freshly graduated accountant can have a reasonable grasp on decimal floating point rounding after a 5 minute explanation, whereas most professional software engineers with a decade of experience have a very weak understanding of IEEE 754 binary floating point.)

> E.g., you won't find floating point fields in binary protocols for any of the major stock exchanges.

That's true of NASDAQ's OUCH, but some (many?) other protocols use decimal floating point.

NYSE's UTP Direct[0] (See section 4.15) Is not fixed point, but actually their own decimal floating point system with a 32-bit significand and single ASCII character exponent ("0" to "6", indicating negated base 10 exponent, not allowing "5").

FIX SBE uses an 8 byte significand and a 1 byte (power-of-10) exponent, if I remember correctly.

It's a bit unfortunate that (as far as I know) there aren't any major messaging formats supporting IEEE 754-2008 decimal64 values.

[0]https://www.nyse.com/publicdocs/nyse/markets/nyse/NYSEUTPDir...
> Good unit tests themselves, if you have good coverage, usually take longer than writing the code. But you knew that right?

All too well, my friend. That is why the employer is justified in asking for a demonstration of the ability to write good unit tests, as you have demonstrated by your own admission.
A taste of Rust
Here's a fun point of applicable biology terminology (by way of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altricial
There is no way i'm believing this thing actually sounds good unless Apple are using some tech that is not a normal transducer based loud-speaker...

First off: This guy is talking about "measurements" not perceptible quality, and anyone who has reasonable experience in audio quality will know that amp specs and measurements have almost zero correlation to audible sound quality and musicality (THD anyone).

Second: An all in one active load-speaker this small, singular and low powered will never sound "good" compared to the same money spent on actual audio (a basic integrated amp and some bookshelf speaker).

These types of devices are always a bag of compromise for audio quality, in the form of "everything must be small" (speaker diaphragms and drivers suffer because you need both large and small ones to comfortably reproduce the frequency spectrum without seriously fucking with the audio signal), battery powered (D-class amps), and finally mono for some bizarre reason, because who cares about sound anyway.
I said “minimum height limits” read (minimum)(height limits) i.e. the height limits may not be lower.
> it seems there are very few businesses catering to us

Slow travelers (to avoid the whole "digital nomad" thing) are, in my experience, most welcome, especially in family-run places: We are pretty low maintenance.

> Any advice on easing the stress of finding the next place?

This is how I do it: Book flight and one or two nights in a hotel (depending on duration of flight/expected jetlag). Find a better hotel locally (one I am comfortable paying and staying at for the whole stay in worst case), start local hunt for a place. I usually find something within two weeks that is a much better deal than anything on airbnb (or with any other online presence).

These two weeks allow me to learn the very basics to make an informed decision: Local salaries in the area (if a cop makes $200, a lease of $800 should ring an alarm), reality about security issues (pay more for something in a gated community?), actual transportation costs (just because a taxi has to be metered by law, it does not mean it will be for you, if you stand out as a foreigner) etc.
Very low. A lot of the performance on GPUs comes from Nvidia's optimizations in CuDNN -- it's mostly a matter of making sure TensorFlow feeds the right formats/etc. to CuDNN for core NN ops. TF should run well on CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, and likely future embedded accelerators (via tensorflow lite, which already supports the Android Neural Networks API).

(I'm part time on Brain, but, of course, this isn't some kind of Official Statement(tm)).
I am surprised that there is no mentioning of the famous "milkmaid problem", which is the best intuitive example, in my opinion; for that, see http://www.slimy.com/~steuard/teaching/tutorials/Lagrange.ht....
Isn't this the case with most hosting providers, such as Digital Ocean? You point your registrar's name servers at ns1, ns2,ns3.digitalocean.com then create requisite DNS records for a given droplet. Seems like the same lack of authentication.
VC Firm Homebrew is raising $90M for third seed-stage fund
This is true of the TPU as well, check out their paper's utilization numbers. If you ignore one outlier at ~90% utilization, their utilization plummets. I'm glad people are finally looking past the b.s. "peak" numbers for once though.
You could carefully review your local ordinances, if your allowed to make "improvements" to your house. You could theoretically tear down an entire house with the exception of a single internal wall. Then build you to your desire what you wish around this existing wall. Once enclosed, repair or accidentally knock over said wall and continue building. It's not as nice a starting fresh but it gets around a lot of the stifling that happens in regards to building new buildings.

If your just making improvements there is a lot more freedom in refurbishing and most code enforcement municipalities just drive by to check on your work. Your most likely not going to run into trouble.

Let me end with, this was done in another state, not by a lawyer, just some random guy on the internet.
Generally, it has become a cesspool of ads and useless posts by narcissists. The site has allowed its fundamental value to be diluted by so many short term money grabbing interests that there's no going back.
Bittorrent is declining because the big mainstream stuff that people want is now after years available for convenient streaming. The industry has finally adapted.

If you want to read Ever17 bittorrent will aways be there keeping it available to mankind. Since I DO believe creators should be payed when possible I see this a win. Piracy for me was always about being a library of Alexandria. Not a way to steal the latest Hollywood trash.
How Blockchain Could Disrupt Banking
Have you ever watched US political shows? It seems like the inside-the-Beltway hivemind loves to argue with each other too.

Never known people who like to argue with each other for the sake of argument?
Decentralized Digital Identities and Blockchain – The Future as We See It
> A possible implementation would be to allow the user to give a "nickname" to add to usernames he wants to identify uniquely that would be visible only for them. For example since I talk now with you I could add to your username "user with whom I discussed identities and usernames" and this (or a short version of it) would be shown next to your username from now on.

That sounds a bit like SDSI & SPKI's nicknaming functionality. Entities were identified by keyhashes, but you could (and in practice would) give them nicknames or use others' nicknames for them.
Not surprising. Social networks grow when they are cool, and Facebook is about the farthest thing from cool right now.

It got taken over by old people and companies looking to convert you to brands/religion/politics, all of which might be a liability to social/professional status.
You can allow basically anything as an email address (exactly one @ symbol, text ahead and after, with at least one . after, something like /^([^@]+@[^@]+\.[^@]+)$/), and still verify that the user is human (captcha or something) and verify the email address (send signup email).
Java didn't copy Linq. It copied Linq syntax. Linq is not just about syntax it's about expression trees or "code as data".

http://www.dotnettricks.com/learn/linq/understanding-express...

A Linq expression can be translated at runtime to allow the same code to be tranlated to Sql for an RDMS , MongoQuery, or anything else that you write a provider for.
At this stage in my life I'm cynical to the point that I'd want a citation that a given government number from any regime in any time period was NOT manipulated for propaganda purposes.
He has worked as a researcher on a research project by Aalto University (leading technical university in Finland), Ministry of Finance and a few companies that is researching blockchains and their potential effects on society (see e.g. https://medium.com/blockchain-reconnaissance/what-is-project...)

So yes - he is a professional blockchain researcher.
excessive glazing

Wait – neighbors complain about a (potential) new home because it is designed with too many windows?
Instacart has raised another $200M at a $4.2B valuation
Just a minor nitpick that ResNet is the model you are referring to, ImageNet is the dataset that ResNet is trained on.
Economics of the web hosting industry
This may not be helpful to you, but I've always used the epoch time stored in sqlite. It's blazing fast, indexes well(integers !), and is 100% convertible to any format you might need to represent.
Uber inks lease for another NYC office
Besides ripping owned physical media, I've also used Kodi to watch OTA broadcast TV that I've recorded via software from a HDHomerun tuner.
That's the test suite, isn't it?
This is an example of bitcoin mining seeking the most renewable, inexpensive energy sources... including geothermal in iceland and hydroelectric in Washington State and China.

As solar or wind get closer to viability, it may soon come that bitcoin starts paying for massive solar investment (due to the "greedy" interests of miners buying up lots of solar capacity) and that further lowers costs of solar... and maybe wind, though I'm less confident on wind.
Very well then. Seems quite analagous to the supposed difference between "enhanced interrogation" and "torture".
How many other wanted criminals or bail-runners could the UK police have caught for 10M+£?

The resource-usage is wasteful to the point of irresponsible.
Unfortunately that is rarely the case especially in the US.
When you're trying to self-promote - e.g. LinkedIn.

Situations where you want to discourage abusive / antisocial behaviors (especially those with potential real-world repercussions for the victim) or be able to enforce real-world repercussions for said behaviors.
>Saving movies to disk doesn't make much sense. The files are huge, and rewatching is not that common.

still, you can get much better quality (bitrate, not resolution) via torrents, which is why i don't use streaming sites.
Exactly! Beautifully put.

The most insidious thing about a lot of these books is the way they can undermine your confidence as a parent at exactly the time you're most vulnerable. Look at these guarantees, look at all these testimonials, look how we use the word 'science' on every page; if your baby isn't sleeping then you're obviously still doing it wrong, you're a bad parent, it's all your fault.

I'm pretty sure it was The Baby Whisperer that nearly drove my wife to a breakdown before we agreed to bin it.
You mean Diaspora - I think it's clear by now why this concept can't work.
This is why there is a huge gold rush in Quebec. We have cheap electricity year long and cheap cooling 9 months of the year.
This is exactly how I feel. I go on Facebook less than half a dozen times a month (sometimes zero)... I still have an account, but even that feels like it's only a matter of time before that goes way too...
Even more CO2 is released into the atmosphere and even more global warming happens.
I'm 34 and Facebook lost me as well. I can't remove my account as I need to use as a developer, but I unfollowed everyone and my newsfeed is empty. It's a bliss. Funny thing is, it's all Facebook's fault. Back in the days, the service was simply brilliant to see what's going on at your friends, at home and abroad. But when Facebook introduced the algorithmic newsfeed, the usefulness ended. I could no longer see all the photos and posts my friends' published. Now I had to rely on some weird algo - some friends were on my news feed, some others that I wanted to see, were not. I saw many more posts from pages that were irrelevant to me, much more reaction posts of my friends on stories that I don't care about, and finally - lots and lots of sponsored stories. Last year I got fed up with this mess, unfollowed everyone and now, if I want to see what's up at my friends, I go to my profile > friends > new posts and go to individual friends' profiles that I'm interested in. It's not a nice experience, but it's better than the algo news feed. Another benefit is that I use Facebook less and less. Interestingly, Twitter feed nowadays became much more interesting for me to read - although I had to unfollow plenty of mass-twitterers as well.
You'd think so, but recordings are usually mixed to sound good out in the wide world. The most famous mixing monitors are famous for sounding awful.(https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/yamaha-ns10-story) The thinking there is if you can make the song sound good on those monitors, it'll sound good anywhere.

A lot of songs are mixed with less bass than ideal, because the engineer knows that everyone and their grandma has that bass boost button permanently down on their stereo. Or people are using beats headphones that crank the low end.

The ideal mix also changes over time. Part of that is fashion. Every period has its own ideal sound. But another part is the equipment the average listener has.

Ever have a beater car with a terrible stereo? Music from the 60s will still sound great because it was mixed to sound good on transistor radios. You can hear the bass guitar even though there's no low end on your setup. Anyone who had a K car in the 90s has a love for CCR. That's a fact.

In previous decades music was mixed to sound good on wood encased speakers, which have their own resonance characteristics. For modern music, you assume plastic. You also have to assume that a large portion of listeners are going to be using apple earbuds, or some other cheap earbud.

When working on a mix, you usually have a few different speakers to choose from in the studio. But the final test is always how it sounds in a car.
* Man's search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

* How to stop worrying and start living by Dale Carnegie

* The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
That's my point. Competitors are largely moated out by high costs of TPU production and proprietary drivers.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

Note that the post says “less than $200” not $200. There are lots of values between 0 and 200. What we’d love is for third-party folks like yourself to do the comparison (which I know you can, Max!)
1-2GB doesn't cut it for a movie in the HD era. These days you're generally looking at 5-6GB for a passable 1080p rip, 8-10GB for close to Bluray quality, or as much as 50GB for 4K/HDR.
This blog post on my website was on the Hacker News front page for a few hours and there were no problems at all: https://bjoernkw.com/2016/04/03/accounting-in-2016/

My website runs on WordPress with WP Super Cache, Autoptimize and a few server-side as well as client-side optimizations. Nothing special though but pretty standard measures. Caching is particularly helpful to make sure the database gets hit as little as possible.
I mean, it is 1) technically accurate, and 2) still extremely important when thinking about Facebook as a product.

(Especially in comparison to Instagram as a product.)
My thoughts exactly, let's not forget who owns Instagram.
The Wired article makes Wikileaks look bad in other regards but does not contain evidence that material was not published. You implied that Wikileaks has a selective publication policy. I still don't see any evidence of that.

Of course it's hard to prove existence of what they didn't publish. And it is plausible their personal opinions would influence their publication decisions. But that's simply an allegation, not evidence of it happening.
Thank you for sharing this story. I hope you and your parents are able to connect again when you finish school.
Is there any way to use these for applications other than tensorflow/machine learning?
I'm in my 30s and have also left Facebook. I requested my account to be deleted but I doubt they did.
>I'm also wary of people who see themselves above mundane requests.

Let me give you an analogy from another domain.

"My company requires excellent communication and writing skills, so would you mind talking a 5h grade spelling and grammar test?"
Sometimes people group it with piracy since technically it's a DCMA/DRM violation
Your argument presupposes that the empire’s maximal influence would be attained by domination through overt use of force.

In reality — the us military empire doesn’t maintain those conquered possessions as conquered possessions because it can’t — it doesn’t have sufficient military power and attempting to do so would increase the front on which conflicts requiring use of that military power would be required (further diminishing direct conquering capacity).

The us military empire building strategy differs from your suggestions for tactical reasons not as evidence of a policy that does not involve pursuit of empire building.
I rarely visit Facebook because of this reason, even when I do return the feed is populated with ads and other garbage that you need to scroll through to "catch up"
I'm not entirely sure how true that is. We do have an awful lot of statists in this country as well. And there's also a healthy faction that are hell-bent on setting their "ethics" up as laws for the states too.

Then again, I'd much rather have discourse than simple -1's applied by random peoples. Even kuro5hin told whom up/downvoted content. But still, responses are intriguing. Sometimes, I've even changed my own views since underlying assumptions I had were false.

Oh well. I'd attribute it to a corollary I heard with voting systems - no matter the comment and moderation system, there will always be defects for each method.
That's insane. Glide takes a couple minutes tops with a clear cache. No reason it should take more than that.
Facebook suffered from 2 waves of "Eternal September"[0]:

wave 1: the addition of everybody outside your immediate friends and close family. You get the goofy uncle, the distant high school acquaintances, and all the work acquaintances from every previous job that submitted a "friend request" that you didn't reject out of politeness. The newsfeed gets polluted by nonsense such as forwarded memes, politics, and other junk.

wave 2: the corporate advertisers filling up the newsfeed that crowds out the desirable posts from your real friends & family.

The 2004 to 2008 period was probably the "magical" time for Facebook from a user standpoint. The initial wave of Harvard students had a beautiful user experience with TheFacebook. As for the new members joining Facebook today in 2018?!? Not so much.

Of course, ads are needed to pay for the datacenters so any social network like Facebook inevitably decays into a worthless waste of time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
My guess for what they meant was that you can't compose the trained models.

For example, a classifier that tells you cat or not can't be used with one that says running or not to get running cat.

The benefit being that you could put together more "off the shelf" models into products. Instead, you have to train up pretty much everything from the ground. And we compare against others doing the same.

@wirrbel, that accurate?
65 lbs. As others have mentioned, well under 150 lbs.

Then again, I’m a sedentary white collar that shoots for an hour a week.
> Sending someone an email and telling them to confirm that they received it (e.g., by making the next step be triggered from a link in the email) is the only way to validate that an email address actually works.

This is the gold standard but note it is itself prone to false negatives and can even have false positives.
I mostly use streaming sites instead of BT these days.

Got burned once when my flatmate downloaded family guy and we got "mail" by an attorney of 20th century fox...

But yes, I got Netflix and Amazon Prime too. They simply don't have everything in every language.
So it solves a use-case that's already solved by gold?
Quad cores are still sufficient for games. Some games benefit from more, especially if you're also streaming, but not by that much.
Facebook is a case study in revenue driven product design, especially in comparison to user and purpose driven product design. It seems to me that Facebook made the mistake of thinking that they were all one and the same.
Yes citing reflection of the sun off the glass, light pollution, privacy and inefficiencies for heating/cooling the home.
Absolutely our experience as well. I believe we are almost net positive as we are going out less. Also, we do a lot more cooking from simple local ingredients that are cheaper than the exotic stuff we bought previously. There is so little that really needs buying - especially toys, we realized, are almost always a complete waste of money.