skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea of algorithm transparency. There were a few cases were people have tried to subpoena the source code from red light cameras, or DUI breathalyzers.

http://digital.law.washington.edu/dspace-law/bitstream/handl...

It's not clear cut as it seems is that states can side-step forcing discovery of the source code by arguing that the state prosecutor does not control / own the source code.

This is of course moot in regards to a private entity like FB, Google or Twitter. They can ban anyone for any reason. Do they even need the "algorithms" excuse? Maybe if they ban someone for whom they get a lot of negative PR, then they can issue an apology "Sorry you feel this way, but algorithms did it, we swear".
This is not a tax on global revenues. It is a tax on EU revenues. This article does not make that clear but other articles about the subject[1][2] include that important detail.

[1] http://www.dw.com/en/eu-prepares-revenue-based-tax-on-us-tec...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-16/eu-digita...
It still gets across most of the point of how it works.

As for dividing, that's what the Divisor option is for. To quote the article:

"The result of previous calculation will be divided by this divisor. You will hardly use 1, which lets result unchanged, and 9 or 25 according to matrix size, which gives the average of pixel values."
> Isn’t harvesting data prohibited by Facebook TOS?

Facebook gives companies access to the data (e.g., "for research") but they're not allowed to sell or provide that data to third parties (which is what these people did).
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There was a good meta analysis in 2016 on this, you lose the mortality benefits of moderate drinking once you correct for study design, which can basically dictate results here. One big confound, a lot of current strict abstainers are former heavy drinkers with serious health problems:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26997174/
Sure sounds nice to have a perfect long term memory and have no need to use a quality source to refresh on any topic you ever once actually understood.
> I'm arguing you should be taxed for the actual business you do. If I make a dollar because I sold an ad to a local company in the EU because they wanted to reach a customer in the EU, fine. That's a rational tax law.

That is exactly what this plan does. It is a tax on revenue generated in the EU from digital advertising, subscription fees and selling of user data. It is not a tax on global revenue. You are arguing against a tax plan that does not exist.
There are features of the plus codes that make it easier than you think to memorize and communicate them, however:

- Similar to a phone number, the code can be reduced to the last 4 or 6 digits in practice, because the "area code" (in this case, "8GC2") selects a large region (approximately the size of a metropolitan area) and thus can be omitted if referring to destinations in your local area.

- The letters are selected to be minimally confusable with each other, so you don't need to use the NATO alphabet.
What happened to Escher? The repo is deleted and I can't seem to find anything on it.
for a second, I've thought it's me, except I don't use spot instance. I use i3 for IOPS with EBS backing it up
In most of the regions where the Pittsburgh Left is common (I grew up in Massachusetts, and thought it was just how you drive until I moved out to California), adding a protected left is not feasible. The roads are single-lane, barely the width of a single car, and property rights extend right up to the side of the road. (Similarly, in many cases sidewalks are infeasible because there's always some homeowner along the road who refuses to cede their land.) The properties themselves are usually residential, and there will be hundreds of them alongside the road.

It's very different from the 3-lane boulevards with wide setbacks, protected turn lanes, and commercial zones all owned by the same developer that you'd find in the West or South. The roads in the Northeast U.S. are former cow paths, and they are about as wide as you would expect a horse-drawn wagon to be. (They also don't form any sort of grid system and frequently meet at 5- or 6-way intersections, which is a whole other issue.)
It's pretty easy to go out and not drink booze. Just be the DD, and drink waters. Everyone will love you for driving anyway.
I don't know how to explain this to everyone. It is funny, because it is similar to cars. Folks take the first major expense necessary to maintain something, compare it to a payment for a new thing, and somehow think that justifies a new purchase.
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Having the right tools for the job is nice. By now I always try to get them somewhere. Luckily the bigger things are usually rented out.
> Is this really any better than "internal" entities trying to actively brain-wash the electorate right before the elections with personalized propaganda and a fake impression of consensus?

It's the same thing pretty much. It's not like some Wall Street bank is going to have a lot more care and concern for the American voters than some country out there. The story about Russians is only interesting as it was turned into a rather successful PR campaign and a lot of time was spent writing, talking, investigating, and mud slinging based on it.

> The problem is personalized ads. We need to get rid of them, regardless of who does it.

It's going to be hard. The company which provides the most refined and exact profiles in the ad space will win. So even if there was some company that decided they are not doing this individual targeting, they would lose out and go out of business while company with the most detailed profiles would win. In a way I think that is why Google is afraid of FB. They realized at some point that FB holds much more nuanced and detailed profiles on people.
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Thank you for the suggestion, this seems to be exactly what I needed. It seems that the new-ness of it prevented me from finding it earlier.

Edit: I just read some more, and it seem like this is a graph-native "brother" of cockroachdb. Which was the one I previously cosndidered, until learning of the inadequate down-pushing ability of graph queries, which would increase network needs a lot.
Let me know if you want me to try and notify you once there are benchmarks or production tests successfully completed.
> The article doesn't talk about navigation, but referencing start or end point

That's an essential part of navigation, and one that falls down in many places.
Seriously hope those guys have a business model. Love that site for keeping everything from important political tweets to ripping paywalled articles...
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I've heard all sorts of the juicy details, it makes a great story there's no doubt. What I'm looking for is some substantial, verifiable evidence to overcome my suspicions at how perfect of a story it is, as well as some of the inconsistencies.

For example:

> Presumably Mueller used that subpoena on Facebook and internet providers and the Russians didn't try to hide very hard and used mostly Russian ip addresses.

So on one hand, article after article tells us how sophisticated these hackers are, yet these very same hackers didn't hide their ip addresses, and also openly posted links on twitter that were supportive of Russia. Doesn't something about that seem a little off to you? If it does, you'll be the first person I've encountered who think it does, everyone else is completely confident that this is an open and shut case. Yet, none of these same people can point to any specific evidence that could convince me. Sure, everyone has some articles full of juicy stories, usually containing confident statements from high ranking government officials assuring us crimes have been committed and they have proof, but I've never been able to find a person who could point me directly to any proof.

1/3 of the way through https://www.justice.gov/file/1035477/download, rather than having my mind changed, my skepticism is stronger than before.

This feels a bit like some things we've experienced in the past, where the "facts" about an enemy, that we're are assured are 100% completely true and verified, trust us turn out to not be true several years down the road. But by then, we've already spent trillions of dollars and waged a war killing thousands of innocent people.

I'd rather not go down that path again, so I'm sorry if I can't join in the party vilifying the evil Russians, because based on the information I have so far, it seems like classic misdirection with the primary beneficiary once again being military budgets, and everyone is just a bit too enthusiastic to believe anything they're told.

EDIT: There is no shortage of internet downvotes for people like me who aren't willing to go along with this story, but there is a severe shortage of people who will put me in my place with actual content. You can probably imagine the effect this might have on the certainty I feel in the correctness of my stance. Unlike others, I'm open to having my mind change, but for some reason no one can muster any effort beyond a condescending and intellectually lazy "let me google that for you".
I believe SAP has had this for a while[0] (but they are columnar while Redis is key-value).

[0]: http://www.ziti.uni-heidelberg.de/ziti/uploads/ce_group/2015...
No, time matters.
You are using API 19 where minimum API level is 21.
The 21 is used because I am using Vector Assets Generator.
Quaternions are known to represent spatial transforms, and there is a little bit of prior work that demonstrates quaternion filters 'make sense'.

However, octonions are the obvious next step here: if you look at Appendix Figure 1, of "Deep Complex Networks" [1] , the authors authors used (Real + Complex), and Figure 1 of our paper[2] with quaternions uses (Real + Complex + Complex + Complex)!

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.09792.pdf
[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.04604.pdf
HEPA is probably the wrong thing to focus on. Instead focus on the actual rating level ( I can't remember the scale atm) one thing to remember is that you need to make sure your HVAC can handle the higher ratings (the virus and pathogen level filters), or your motor might burn out.
“complaining about X” when X isn’t your preferred tool of choice also sadly seems to be a recurring theme on HN comments. Where’s your post about doing something similar in your tool of choice?
Lets say you have two options:

A) program for 8 hours a day and produce nothing

B) program for 8 hours a day and produce something

I actually love programming, so this may sound critical.
I don't think flooding one area is on the same level as killing a large part of microchip production for a couple of years. Almost everything has a chip inside these days.
Looking at the FAQ (https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation...), it appears that Plus Codes are very similar to the Maidenhead codes, except in these respects:

- Maidenhead codes contain vowels, which the Plus code designers didn't want to use in order to avoid having codes spell words (which might have negative associations or be profane).

- The addition of the "+" character is felt to make it easier to autodetect addresses when provided to Google Maps or similar systems.
Hey, I'm an atheist, and I never do this!
I’m not a sound expert, but I’m curious how you think this would work?
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I don't know of any book which features them "prominently", but I also don't think you'd really need one. They are taught in various abstract algebra books, they're just taught in the fashion of, "Here's an exercise that introduces a peripheral topic it's useful to know about." For example, groups and rings of quaternions show up in MacLane & Birkhoff's Algebra (62, 426; 282) and Lang's Algebra (9, 545, 723, 758).

Edit: In an effort to find more applied information I put down my math books and picked up the information theoretic ones. You can find more information about the use of quaternions in the two volume Handbook of Digital Signal Processing and Salomon's Data Compression. More generally, when quaternions aren't explicitly referred to it's helpful to look up the coverage of complex rotations, especially with respect to the Discrete Fourier Transform.

For a discussion of rotations with quaternions in the context of animation, this is a reasonably short paper: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kiranb/animation/p245-shoemake.pdf.
James C. Scott is a good illustration of 'no skin in the game' syndrome among intellectuals.

It would be very persuasive to see him personally bolting for freedom between warring warlords in present-day Libya, or improving his welfare in lawless mafia-ruled cities of ex-Soviet Union in the 1990s.

But no such chance, so his views may be safely ignored.
ADD has certain strengths and weaknesses. The weaknesses can be counteracted with a well-titrated dose of CNS stimulants without fully cancelling out the strengths.

The strengths include (paradoxically) the ability to hyperfocus to a greater degree than non-ADDers and the ability to achieve peak performance in short-term crisis situations instead of freaking out.
I'd really be interested in trying this. Sticking to a routine has always been one of the hardest parts of all this.
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Incorporate your business outside the EU. It will protect you from unreasonable taxes and regulations. The internet has no boundaries or residency or citizenship. Especially if you are a software-as-a-service business, ignore everything about the EU and domicile outside it.
>Why is any of this news?

I think the clue is in the article:

> ... Russians ... had used the platform to perpetrate “information warfare” against the US
why in the world are you presenting convolution of polynomials?

i was being glib true but the crux of convolution (what's important for someone who expresses that they don't understand the mathematics) is elementwise multiplication i.e. dot product. yes you take a filter and sweep it across your input (or vice-versa depending on whether you're really talking about convolution or correlation) and that's important but in my opinion what's more important (obviously since that's what /i/ expressed) is elementwise multiplication. once you understand that (the elementwise multiplication) sweeping and padding and etc are simple to understand.

>The intuition behind convolution to me for an image is uniform blurring. If you have a square shaped eraser, and you use it to blur a pencil sketch, the sketch will appear blocky and square shaped. Or perhaps a better analogy is painting: your wall will appear different depending on whether you use a paintbrush or a roller.

this is a very bad example since you can easily convolve with filters that sharpen (e.g. literally any gaussian kernel). so you're really not illustrating convolution but instead convolution with an averaging filter (or something like that).

in general you shouldn't jump to criticize someone's explanation to a student unless you are prepared to give a much better and (this is important) pedagogically sound explanation because 1 you look foolish 2 you sabotage the student's understanding.
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You're confusing inheritance with implementing an interface. I'm not sure there is an example in the real world, because the real world is concerned with function, not taxonomy. It hardly makes sense to say "cordless drill inherits from screw driver"; rather, they both implement the "drives screw" interface. Ontological inheritance really doesn't make any sense at all for modeling systems (sometimes ontologies are useful as data in a system, but probably never for modeling the system itself).
I still haven't gotten over the hatchet job they did on the UI with 2.8 on the desktop.
The way you worded that immediately made me think of glitch art, particularly GIFs, and particularly situations where the glitch aligns perfectly with the content.
Side note: do you mean actual parties in goa, India? Would love to know about this! I spend time in that area every year.
FWIW, my mother certainly doesn't know what it is, and I just asked my wife and she has no idea. I'd heard the term in the rehabilitated, Sam Bowman sense, but had to go look up the Wikipedia page to see what the controversy was about. I don't particularly identify with any of the labels of mainstream (is there such a thing anymore?) political movements.

It's a really common mistake to assume that the people you hang around with are representative of all people. The U.S. (let alone the world) is a really big place, and we don't all read the same media anymore.
Not to mention infrastructure like public baths and sewers.
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I'm afraid all of you are getting it wrong. The setting is hardcoded to 100.

Check this out - https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/37271935#comment39 and then the update https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/37271935#comment49

This is not a feature. It is a bug. It needs to be at par with RDS.
"This should shock no one. Health wise, alcohol is bad for you. Period."

...

"Sooo many ways to explain why "moderate" drinkers are healthier ..."

I have this silly idea that drinking, which is bad for you, in moderation, actually exercises the processing and filtering mechanisms (liver, kidney, etc.) that are required to deal with it.

Which is to say, imagine you never drank alcohol - how healthy
(or "fit") would those mechanisms be ?

I have no idea if there is any validity to this thought but I find the idea to be interesting.
The post shows good investigative work, but there’s one week argument. Supposedly the hush money had to be paid by the Trump Campaign and not the Trump Organization because for the latter “ $130K isn’t the kind of rounding error a company is likely to miss“. But then the Campaign pays the Org the $130k, and the Org faces the same problem. One way or another the Org needs to write a check to someone representing Stormy Daniels, and that expense will be noticed by internal accountants, internal and external Audit, and ultimately the IRS. the fact that there are 5 received checks that add up to the same number is quite irrelevant.
It is certainly possible to offer a complete class in combinatorics or probability theory at the undergrad level. The point is that such a course would cover far more than what a discrete math class would cover in those subjects.
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I dig it. What are you guys looking for in dev involvement? How casual can I be and still potentially contribute? I'm an Android dev who has been looking at sinking his teeth into kotlin for a bit now.
> Yes, if you ask me for any rectangle, and you reject a square, you are wrong

Intuitively it makes sense, but practically... What if your function wants to set the width and the height to different values?

This is valid for a rectangle, not for a square.

From a mathematical perspective, a square might be a rectangle. From a software standpoint, it's not.

The reason for the discrepancy between mathematics and programming?

Mutability.
"I have a serious medical condition. I found that a particular brand of salt was very beneficial."

Can you elaborate ?

What did they add to the salt that gave it health benefits ?

(genuinely curious)
No, local services have normal GST.
How do you define “clean money”? Do you call government agency money “unclean”? I could easily see someone making that statement with justification, but your post is a bit vague so wanted to ask.
That is very cynical comment. Libraries are made to fill a gap. The reason they come up so fast is that the underlying technology keeps changing. It is so easy to forget that these are open sourced libs with permissible licenses that you can hop in and fix if you you want them better.
Japan went back into full gas and coal electricity generation so it cant get any worse than that.
Interfaces are a distinct concept from inheritance. Inheritance can be used as an interface mechanism, but that's merely an implementation detail. For example, Go has interfaces with no inheritance at all. It's unfortunate that most people think of Java or C# interfaces by default; it really creates a lot of confusion.
I get that way about my models in machine learning. after a while I am like ok, let me tear everything down and make a fresh start with some really simple models
The question shouldn't be "Did the evacuation raise the death toll given the mostly successful containment we now known happened"? It should instead be "Did the evacuation raise the death toll given the expected death toll values informed by the probability estimates of disaster available at the time"?

It's also possible that the aftermath of the actual evacuation wasn't well handled; stating that "[the evacuation] reaped a terrible toll in depression, joblessness and alcoholism among the 63,000 people who were displaced beyond the prefecture" also give information about how much of that would still be present for the counterfactual in which people didn't leave but stayed to suffer the after-effects of the tsunami damage.
> but as models get more complex, it becomes harder to make them compatible

One thing that helps, is locally-scoped facades, like ruby's refinements.[1] You don't need complete model substitutability, only locally-sufficient substitutability.

[1] https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.5.0/doc/syntax/refinements_rdoc....
Lots of languages can express it better though - even without gotos. For example in python you can do:

while some_condition:
x = one_generator(y)
y = other_generator(x)

where the generators yield values. No need for goto, no TCO, no magic.

Even in languages like C, a nicer way to express it may be via two explicit state machines rather than going full Duff's device at this problem.
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Not to mention that it appears they're comparing against networks of the same architecture. If you build your quaternion components with with same number types as your reals you effectively have 4 times the number of parameters, which could be most of the benefit. They should also benchmark against similar architectures with equivalent parameter counts.
I’m not confusing those things. I’m giving an example of an interface, as requested.
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