skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have yet to read this, although I caught the second half of NPR's "Fresh Air" interview with the author, this morning. (And I definitely intend to listen to the whole thing, and to read this.)

However, from months' worth of reporting from other sources, I gather that Steele and co.'s opposition research was initially contracted by Republican interests competing against Trump in in the primaries.

And I gather, from what I already knew and what I heard further about this in the portion of the Fresh Air interview that I did hear, that Steel's information and resulting concern about Trump, went back several years. Long before Trump became a presidential candidate.

So far, as far as the reporting I've been following, we've yet to encounter anything in the so-called Steele dossier, that's been disproved.

Given all the political opposition to Steele (I name it political, because it does appear to be entirely partisan-based opposition to him, regardless of the legitimate concerns he's raised). Given that, it's a bit remarkable that this dossier has not yet been disproved in any significant aspect. You have to think there are a lot of resources being devoted to doing so.

P.S. I just looked up the URL for that "Fresh Air" show.

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/06/591130207/journalist-charts-t...
there are multiple reasons, such as, imperfect information in the real world, big reality gap between simulation and real world, sample inefficiency, potential risk during trial-and-error in real world, etc
> What if you ... didn't know they exist?

FWIW, if I really don't know that they exist, I would probably not feel anything about them ;P.
The Linux kernel has been developed over 25 years by thousands of contributors, so it is not at all alarming that it has grown to 1.5 GB. But if your weekend class assignment is already 1.5 GB, that’s probably a strong hint that you could be using Git more effectively!

Git is only 12 years old, how does Linux have 25 years of history there? As far as I know Linux used patches on mailing lists before git, are those also somehow transferred to the repo?
They die with me; all encrypted. If there's something others need, I'll arrange for that beforehand.
> The rich get richer and everyone else gets screwed.

Not actually true. a more accurate telling is: the rich get richer and the poor get richer too. You may commenting on the fact that the rich are getting richer FASTER than the poor are getting richer, and that's an interesting phenomenon to comment on, but it is undeniable that everyone is getting richer, almost regardless how you slice the data.

Worldwide, extreme poverty is on an accelerating decrease, and is set to be completely eradicated by 2030. In the US and in Western economies, poverty, which used to be common only 80 years ago, is almost completely erased. Meanwhile those who have low income, but are above "the poverty line", continue to see growth in wages, in standard of living, and in lifespan and in quality of life. Objectively.

Why are we are inundated with the false idea that "things are so bad" by mainstream media? That narrative sells papers and clicks. But it's not supported by the data.

Whether we all would benefit from rebalancing the wealth distribution is a different question.

reference: Humanprogress.org, and Steven Pinker's new book, "Enlightenment Now" (highly recommended)
Your response presumes a particular philosophical position. When you call life "an artificial categorization that humans use because it is useful to them", you are espousing the nominalist solution to the problem of the universals, and applying that to biology. Even while attacking the philosophy of biology you are actually engaging in it.

Nominalism may be "obvious" to you, but it isn't obvious to everyone. Just because someone thinks something is "obvious" it does not automatically follow that it is true. Have you given serious thought to nominalism's alternatives, such as moderate realism (Aristotelian, Thomistic or Scotistic); or Platonism?
Hello! I'm one of the authors; we'd be happy to answer any questions.

Make sure to check out our library and the colab notebooks, which allow you to reproduce our results in your browser, on a free GPU, without any setup:

https://github.com/tensorflow/lucid#notebooks

I think that there's something very exciting about this kind of reproducibility. It means that there's continuous spectrum of engaging with the paper:

Reading <> Interactive Diagrams <> Colab Notebooks <> Projects based on Lucid

My colleague Ludwig calls it "enthusiastic reproducibility and falsifiability" because we're putting lots of effort into making it easy.
It's not clear that the slider represents your current age and the age you plan to retire. Numbers seem very high compared to other calculators I've done.
Yes, but what started as a petty project ended up gain momentum and I quite enjoyed doing, so I know that my odds of success are slim, but at least I have learned a ton of interesting things, including server in Erlang, android/java programming, and a myriad of web technologies like react and js-crazy-world.
I read an article that says that Russia would be the country that benefits the most from US tariffs on import goods, because the EU must retaliate and therefore is much more likely to lift the sanctions of, of Russia.

Didn't want to believe it that the US government could be under Russian influence, but this move could very well prove that to some degree, or it just so happens that Trumps way of doing this aligns perfectly with their interest. On other note, people might just be reading into it too much, as it could all just be a move to, gain popularity in the US, thinking short term rather than long term.

EDIT: also recently watched a youtube video from a Google employee that says that the US government, just can't compete with big corporations for the talent pool, because government wages are limited, so yeah that certainly could be a issue for you guys.
Heck, I'll pay a few more dollars if the item is right there in the store since it's more convenient (unless it has to be delivered anyway). It's also not like the prices online are a secret. Many brick and mortar stores price track each day.
Re: the marketing side of things, if you don't already have a blog, start one today. Write about how to solve problems in your particular area of expertise (or the one you'd like to get hired for). Start a mailing list, and send your weekly articles out to the list. I've done basically this, and after 3 years running, built up quite a bit of traffic and email subscriber base, and some passive-ish side income (I wrote a book that I sell as well).

This is not a quick tactic, but it is a good longer-term strategy for building a following and a reputation.
>If however, you are choking to death, there is no obligation for me to help you.

TIL: There is no concept of "Duty to rescue" in most Common Law countries such as the US. Seems really strange.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue)
I highly doubt China will start a war, its not financially positive, unless they wanted to just expend some of their excess population.

I rather think domination via trade, investment, manufacturing and economical means is more plausible because thats what they're doing right now and they have more resources and capabilities to do more.

As well, its never good to fight a land war in Asia, korea, afghanistan, vietnam, cambodia and others has demonstrated that, as from a military perspective, you would be losing lives trying to police an area where locals have a more-than-significant population advantage over you.

Modern military tactics are no longer invade via land forces with air as support but rather spread fake news via social media and watch for signs of weakness in cyber structures.
source? a google search turns up nothing
I post on HN, therefore I am.
Distribution (eg LineageOS) -> you.

If the option of installing your own OS isn't available, eg due to insufficient community interest or DRM-based fraud, then don't buy the brick in the first place.
When I was younger, I actually seriously considered being a navy nuke.
>if you move to somewhere to get a job

you're out of touch. this is not even the same type of job that the majority of people have access to. people's standard of living is far beneath what you suspect.

>If you are making $50k, it is a matter of choice.

try having a mortgage or high rent, a medical problem, kids, parents who need care, a car, student loans, clothing that aren't tatters, an emergency fund.... and all that comes before even baseline (necessary) entertainment / low-luxuries like internet access and padded chairs.

it isn't a matter of choice for most people. nevermind that 412k isn't enough to retire on if you have any of those burdens above. sure, they could spend $20 a week less on beer. but why would they?
Was the food log from Supersize Me ever released? It's been a few years so maybe things have changed, but the last time I checked there was a severe lack of real information in Supersize Me to support the claims the guy was making.
Context and Sequentiality in Conversational Applications
It's not far from it. Software development is in small company with respect to the need for constant re-education and skill maintenance. The vast majority of developers with skills from just 10 years ago are wholly unemployable right now.
She mentions in the "About" page that it is Guile. The release announcement says it as well.
This approach may be a derivative of the Apache Incubator. If so, the purpose may be to provide an incentive for project committees to conform to the governance model of the foundation. Projects are started in incubating, or pre-graduation and they can't leave (graduate or become top-level) until they demonstrate proper governance and adoption. While it is only a label, labels can be fairly powerful incentives.
I think that’s the point. A projected savings balance is misleading without considering inflation, so if the calculator doesn’t make an explicit adjustment for it then there ought to be an implicit adjustment in the rate of return assumption.
They had version control before Git. Git was born after BitKeeper's licensing changed.
Processing.org is pretty much the go-to visual programming environment, I think, but there's lots; openframeworks.cc is another popular one that I've used and liked.
Yeah, I had a very hard time believing that the multithreaded approach would be slower. Its so counterintuitive since at first blush it seems that walking N trees is an embarrassingly parallel problem. I tested up to 1000 trees and single threaded was still faster. I'm sure at some point the multithreaded approach will win out, but its beyond the number of trees and max depth we are using.
I use the official API to fetch the tweets every 15 minutes, then it filters and saves each tweet individually into a flat database table. This view gets the tweets via JSON using a simple SQL query that groups and sorts by user, filtering for the past x hours.
> In fact, the Colt AR-15 page made no mention of gun control at all, instead spending over a thousand words describing the technical details of the gun’s various parts.

As it should be. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. The whole point is to provide information about the particular thing at hand.
When I graduted high school during the .com bust my father told me not to major in CS in college because there wouldn’t be any jobs for me when I graduated.
No, it's because you're being treated like a child and it's micro management. No-one should have to justify their job every single day.
Disney theme parks are now on Google Maps Street View
As someone who also had a longish path to learning to work hard, the answer for me was simple: practice.

Gains in focus time (for me, anyway) are incremental, so it’s not like you wake up one day and can focus for 12 hours straight. Accept that it will be a slow road, and just keep trying to stay focused longer, whenever you sit down to work.
The feature requires that the designated person has a Lastpass account. This works then because each Lastpass user has a public key, and private key encrypted inside their vault.

When you designate someone for emergency access, it also encrypts your vault with their public key. In a way the person and Lastpass hold each other accountable because:

1. Lastpass only gives the encrypted vault data to the emergency contact after the waiting period. They cannot decrypt the vault without having the encrypted vault data.

2. The person's private key is encrypted inside their vault by their master password. As lastpass doesn't know their master password for their vault, lastpass doesn't have the key to your vault.

I would not call this "wildly insecure", but definitely has more risk factors than not doing it. For most people I think this is a reasonable tradeoff if they want people to be able to access their data without huge inconvenience.
patches on mailing lists before git, are those also somehow transferred to the repo

Given that conceptually git is just a linked list of patches, I can't imagine why they wouldn't have that history
We don't want to encourage carbon removal as a way to continue burning fossil fuels - we want to solve climate change. Solving climate change requires carbon removal to hit 1.5C degree goal. We need to remove carbon from the atmosphere and we need to get good at it and do it cheaply. Here is a good primer gohttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/can-carbon-dio...
Google Street View now offers the only free ride to Disneyland you’ll ever see
Your comment breaks the site rule against insinuating astroturfing or shillage. We enforce that pretty rigorously because it's a poison that can destroy the whole community if allowed to. So would you please not do it again, regardless of how wrong someone is or seems?

If you think an account is abusing HN, you're welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can look at the data. Astroturfing is a bannable offense—but we need to find evidence of it. So is using HN primarily for political, ideological, or national battle. All this is at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Overwhelmingly, though, when users here think they smell astroturfers, shills, spies, bots, and foreign agents, what they're really encountering is the diversity of opinion on this site. HN is deeply divided on most divisive issues, just like society at large is—or rather, societies, because it's a majority international site.

Most of us organize our lives to avoid having opposing opinions in our face all the time. Consequently, when we do encounter them on a site like HN which isn't siloed—i.e. doesn't have any mechanism like subreddits or follow/block—it feels bad and we resort too quickly to the belief that these other people can't possibly be posting in good faith. Mostly, though, they are. The community is just divided that way.
That's good. But you're assuming you can control when you die. That's not always the case: what about accidents?
Just make your spouse/immediate family member aware of your finances. They should always know where the money is coming from. If your family somehow is not aware or does not understand how the food is coming on their table, then it is not the right way of leading the family. Your significant other should be aware of your income sources and debts. They should never get surprises doesn't matter whether your are alive or dead.
Forecasting 7% long-term real returns from the current state of the S&P 500 ignores the current environment - the S&P 500 is currently priced very highly relative to historical prices.

There's an interesting bit of analysis that estimates an upper bound of 3.8% -- 3.95% real returns from US Equities. Worth a read.

> Valuations today are in the 97th percentile of all valuations in history and the 83rd percentile of valuations over the last twenty years (itself a period of very high valuations). Rather than assume that they will revert back to some past average, let’s start by granting the very bullish assumption that they will remain exactly where they are today forever.

http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2018/01/future-u-s-equ...

Edit: the same blog that has a great post "The Single Greatest Predictor of Future Stock Market Returns" which goes beyond "mean reversion" of equity valuations, to show how you can make a better explanation (and better long term forecasts) by considering supply and demand dynamics as investors, on average, shift their allocations of investments between equities, bonds and cash.

As previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14948078
> If the operator might have to take control in tricky situations, they can't be sleeping the rest of the time.

A tricky situation for a computer is often not a tricky situation for a human. 99% of it will be the AI getting confused by things that are simple for humans (e.g interpreting detour signs).
"That problem was already solved by catalog and QVC.
"

Yep, Sears catalog appeared in 1888.

http://www.searsarchives.com/catalogs/chronology.htm
I don't think that it's particularly honest to use the term "took over" to describe the actions of a group of people who essentially built the page to begin with.
Showing your work or projects if possible is another important aspect besides a blog
Will that slow down inserts? Or am I understanding it wrong and this is just one time generation like vacuum analyze?
I'll add that in the case of Kubernetes, this is mostly Kubernetes setting the standard/pattern for graduation for other projects. I would ask less, what does this mean for Kubernetes (as the answer is nothing) and more, what example/pattern is the CNCF trying to set for the other CNCF projects.
Most recent invasions by the great powers have been against pariah states (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya) or somewhat diplomatically isolated countries that are shaky (Georgia, Ukraine, Syria). Taiwan might not have much diplomatic recognition, but it's very much economically integrated into the global economy. It's a stable democracy with one of the highest living standards. Militarily challenging the existence of such a state- that would indicate the world is slipping back into a pre-Potsdam world, where advanced nations could fight each other again.

Granted, Taiwan is much militarily weaker than China, a little similar to the Ukraine-Russian relationship, but it's also a much more stable and richer state. I think what could be comparable is if Russia really was to threaten the Baltic nations.
There's two approaches:

1. 6-month contracts and the like, which you can via staffing companies like Randstad and Winter-Wyman ("contract staffing"). My impression this is rather like interviewing for a job twice a year.

2. Lots of short-term contracts (aka freelancer). This is very different, you're basically running your own business. You'll need to do a bunch of work to learn relevant business skills. E.g. lots of contents on http://doubleyourfreelancing.com
Symbolic Execution: Intuition and Implementation
What kind of burning out do you mean? Mental?

I have used the 5x5 program and while I'm not here to endorse any particular program, I found that I really liked it. It did help me learn proper form, as you say, and it also gave me a very regular workout. I had it memorized and it always uses the same part of the gym (squat rack) so it helped me maintain a rhythm.

I actually built a squat rack at home eventually to start it back up after some time away.

There may be better programs, I have not actually tried any others. 5x5 was the most-recommended I found in my research a few years back.

Also, GGP, lifting did correct my posture very quickly. People kept telling me I looked taller/stronger/wider even before anyone knew I was working out (and before I had actually gained any muscle), and I'm quite sure that was just my improved posture.
Ouch one of my jobs was like that. I was supposed to log _when I was going to the bathroom_ in their homemade time tracking app. Then every evening the "standup" was the CEO berating everyone on how long it took them to finish their tasks for the day. There are lots of sane companies with healthy work conditions out there.

My advice to someone interviewing now: if something smells funky during the interview process, trust your gut.
> How might local businesses respond?

1. Convenience. I used to stop at a local toy store on the way to a birthday party, or the day before, to buy a wrapped present. They closed, so now I drive ~15min each way to the next closest toy store.

2. How do I know what local stores have unless I go there and ask? I'd like an app that would allow me to comparison shop across Amazon/Target/Walmart/local stores. Let me know if you want to work on that with me, sounds interesting.

3. Add value - online reviews are sometimes useful, honest expert advice is great.
Out of curiosity- why is detection of fake videos a hard problem? It sounds like a classification problem that a simple NN with enough data would be able to solve(?)
> China spends a mere 1.9% of its GDP in 2016

> BTW Japan's PM has just submitted his 2018 Military Budget and if approved would be the 6th "straight annual increase"

China's 2016 GDP was 11.2 Trillion USD and their Military budget was 1.9% or 212 Billion USD.

Japan's 2016 GDP was 4.9 Trillion USD and their Military budget was 0.9% or 44 Billion USD.

Japan spends 20% of what China does.

Part of Japan's military spending goes directly towards maintaining US Military Bases in Japan. Starting in 2019 they won't pay to maintain US bases AND their budget will be limited to 0.8% of GDP. (See your own article for reference)

Let's also not forget that Japanese constitution currently forbids them from using their military to settle international disputes.[0] In other words Japan can't attack or declare war on anyone and their military can only be used for defensive purposes.

> Can you elaborate more on why China's increasing military budget is a disturbing sign to you?

China is propping up North Korea[1] who launches ICBMs over Japan for fun.[2]

China and Russia are holding naval military exercises in Japan's backyard.[3]

China has been building up it's Navy.

China has become increasingly aggressive in territorial disputes with others.

China and Japan have a territorial dispute.[6]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_9_of_the_Japanese_Cons...

[1] https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/12/when-will-chi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_Korean_missile_t...

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/12/asia/china-russia-south-china...

[4] https://globalsecurityreview.com/china-rapidly-bolstering-na...

[5] https://www.nytimes.com/topic/destination/chinas-territorial...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senkaku_Islands_dispute
This would be a good use case of having a trust and a last will and testament, that provides instructions to your friends how to decrypt a password container, keypass, etc... that takes FB out of the loop. The executor or beneficiary can log in and update the account to something appropriate.
Great news.. They can now analyze and track our every move even more efficiently.
>Have you had people apply to YC already with ideas in these areas?

Yes but we would love to see a lot more. We know there are lots of researchers working on this but not enough of them are starting companies.

>Can you speak to any technical shortcomings of ideas you've already seen (aside from the general cost/scale issues mentioned on the site)?

Here is a great overview of current technologies: http://www.centerforcarbonremoval.org/what-is-carbon-removal...
> at the very least it means lastpass can read all your passwords at any time.

Not if it's been done right. They'd use some kind of multi-key secret sharing scheme (like shamir), where the password database would be encrypted with the public keys of both lastpass (the custodian) and the designated person. (This would be done on the client side, by the designator.)
The relevant hurdle for an hour of labor is not the marginal revenue but rather the contribution margin (marginal revenue minus [non-labor] variable costs) of that hour.