skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you posted something about a novel historical research showing that neither lend-lease nor pre-lend-lease supplies of war materiel ever happened, it might have made for an interesting discussion. Vox, however, prints exactly what is to be expected from what Uncle Joe used to call fellow travelers in public, and useful idiot in private.

That reminds me of one time I was asked to help in translating some "documents" showing that it was US soldiers rather than Soviet that moved pretty much every German that still moved. A quick fact check showed that they lifted the passage from a neo-nazi site, which is where most attempts to defend the USSR usually end.
Oh god, I could not invert a tree in a whiteboard for my life. I took a MOOC algorithm class for fun, but never applied any of it at work and never intended too. The nearer I've ever got was FPGA implementation of some sorting algs, all just for fun.
Not sure about the entire car but bob riley’s Art of race car design backs up that the gt40 mk1 had a lot of off the shelf parts in it
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Race-Car-Design/dp/191058410X/ref...
Thanks for the reply! That sounds frightening, frankly.
Just as a word for people interested. The factory tours will be closed until 2019 while they retool for the new models.

http://www.corvettemuseum.org/visit/plant-tours/
Your suggestion that Brexit, Trump, AfD, etc supporters are more vulnerable to propaganda is naive.
Well, if latency is the issue, most likely the software just loads data, models and supervisory systems (telemetry, setup, etc). All the processing must be done in the FPGAs straight to the firehose.
That sounds excellent, hopefully applications that are less Twitter will be built on top it.
It is not certain that Apply will change its Mac completely to the ARM architecture any time soon. But even if it did I would expect that developer related applications will run as they do today and web development workflow will not change.
The security situation is inverted.

For a typical bank account, the security is up to the Bank and the Government, and there's nothing you can do about it.

For a crypto-currency wallet, the security is up to you.

Some people are dismayed that the common person is enabled to fuck it up - gamble, invest in ponzi schemes, leave control of their wallet to a sketchy third-party. Some people are very excited that they're finally able to take control of their own accounts and make their own security guarantees, and not worry about identity theft, paypal policies, FBI or IRS freezing accounts due to a bureaucratic mix-up, etc.
What Should Have Happened at the Facebook Hearing
[Steven here. I wrote the paper.] No, there hasn't. Vipassana courses generally reject applications from anyone with clinical depression or anxiety as the meditation practice is not meant to "heal" anything but also because it can be a bit intense for anyone... much less someone with a clinical mental health issue.

There are exceptions. I volunteered for a 10-day course in Gujarat last year and 3 of the men attending had clinical depression. A friend of mine has a very serious history of Bipolar Disorder; she was rejected from her first course application but permitted into her second. In all 4 cases, the individual needs a personal interview with the area teacher and a recommendation from that teacher before they are permitted to take the course.

The black-and-white line is "are you medicated?" — medicine is permitted on Vipassana courses with the permission of the teacher but painkillers, antidepressants, and anti-anxiety meds are not allowed for obvious reasons.

This makes such a study (scientifically) impossible; the applicants are heavily filtered so the sample has quite a significant bias. Positive conclusions would also be dangerous: It could be a very bad scene if someone with a very deep psychological issue lied to attend a course because of its supposedly scientific benefits, found in students with much milder mental health issues.

For what it's worth, in these anecdotal cases I'm aware of, everyone found the practice to be extremely beneficial. Zazen, which in most teachings is also a nervous-system-focused meditation, can also be helpful for people with clinical depression.
> there's tons of cases where if your data is inconsistent for a few records you honestly just don't need to care

Enterprise applications can be data-sparse, but every incorrect record field has disproportionately high downstream impact.
I actually drew inspiration from halide. I think it performs well because memory access / cache misses are more expensive than a few extra instructions, but it has its limits. For example, I'm not sure how you'd implement the in-register 90-degree rotation in halide. Therefore you'd probably wind up with an extra round trip to L1.

Impressive, but definitely beatable given sufficient free time.
Thanks! This is the kind of information I needed!

I surely have gone in all these steps, just in smaller scale (few hundreds at a time). Now I quadrupled my confidence on these applications, given that I already worked on a varied of situations.
I watch all the bad action movies I'd otherwise never take the time to watch, and thoroughly enjoy the relaxation that comes from having 10+ hours to myself in which no other person can have a reasonable expectation that I'm available to interact or respond reliably.

It is truly one of my most enjoyable guilty pleasures.
I’m not quite sure what he’s thinking of as a “GUI” in this context. What is R Studio? Are there actually people that use “GUI’s” for data science? Seems to me everyone is using R or Jupyter notebooks, or plain scripting
Yeah I’m guessing it must be days. I entered Moscow to Vladivostok into Google Maps (heh) and got 73 days. In reality I’m pretty sure that walk would take me at least half a year. Probably a year.
It's in its infancy. I've done one showcase, but mostly just open mics.

I realize the above comment may have implied that comedy is my job - it's not, but it's the primary appeal Facebook has for me now.
Those crate engines sure are a great deal. Back in the 90s you had to get an aftermarket block, heads, crank, pistons, and rods for four that (not adjusted for inflation) to even consider reliably making over 400hp on anything. I remember saving money for an A4 Ford block sold by SVE. Never got it cause it was about $2k and came bare and unfinished.

Nowadays, an LS crate engine and a smallish turbo can get you 600 wheel horsepower on pump gas.
The problem with the Gilens and Page study is that it shows the elites and regular people agree about 90% of policies: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/9/11502464/gilens-page-oligarchy-.... They look at the situations where the elite and regular people disagree, and conclude that because the rich win those areas of disagreement, we live in an “oligarchy.” But it does almost no analysis of those issues. Without that analysis, it’s hard to tell whether that’s oligarchy, or just republican democracy doing the “republican” part. The paper also makes the huge mistake of using survey data without systematically accounting for whether respondents are likely voters. It is well known that voters are not representative of the population as a whole. They skew older, whiter, and more conservative.
That is an obvious and sound plan. It would be interesting to know how that broke down in this particular case.
I'm not really sure who the intended audience is here. There's a lot of material covered very briefly in a very short space, and not enough details that anyone who doesn't already know it would be able to pick up anything substantive.
Already happened but I don't think the results are good enough to use: https://github.com/kaonashi-tyc/zi2zi
No?

Fractional Reserve Banking is less than 100 years old. We didnt have fluctuating interest rates among the working class.

When the world used gold and silver you would have trade deficits causing economic troubles.

These are vastly different problems, still problems though.
spoiler: has zero to do with quantum entanglement. The author thought that was funny? Cool though
Bergson’s debate with Einstein swayed the 1921 Nobel committee (2016)
Dowoad & watch an entire season of some show.
Right now /r/movies is having a laugh about a scene from Rampage where a character hacks a corporate network through a thermostat. Much as I love a good chuckle at "Hollywood hacking", this is a thing that can actually happen.
Do you develop for iOS?
When I did the rebuild [1] of my 1987 Land Rover Defender 110, I did it through a shop that ran a special program where owners could rebuild/repower their Defenders under the tutelage of the shop owner. In fact, the build was so dependent on my labor that I, as the customer, had to sign a contract that I would complete my part of the bargain in a timely manner or else I would have to pay him his hourly rate to complete it for me.

It turned out to be an amazing experience. I stripped the truck down to a bare frame and built a brand-new rolling chassis [2] with new motor [3], transmission, transfer case, and suspension. I moved the old body over onto the new chassis, which gave it a sort of retro look with proper period-correct gear but the reliability of all-new parts. The shop owner was there to direct me what to start on next, to answer questions when I got stuck, and to help me lift the really heavy things, but for the most part, I wrenched alone.

Over eight weekends of work, I went from knowing how to do only the most basic of maintenance (oil changes, etc.) to being quite confident that I could do another project just like this entirely on my own. The cost was about the same as paying someone else to do the work but I can be confident that everything was done right--every bolt torqued correctly, every dirty thing cleaned, every broken thing replaced. I take my truck out to the desert for multi-week camping trips and the experience gave me much-needed confidence in my ability, my tools, and my gear.

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/albums/721576407048...

[2] https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/13052224614/in/albu...

[3] https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/12399960314/in/albu...
Just curious, can you share a few names?
Yep. With the usual sorts of regulations, a casino can lose its license and be shut down for screwing up this kind of security. Compared to other sorts of businesses, casino regulation is very strict. I'd love to know how it played out.
It helped me come out of alcohol and drug addiction (not after a single 10-day course, mind you). It's helped me a great deal with long-standing anger issues. I find myself much more lucid and generally more effective; my decision-making capability is a lot sharper than it was 5 years ago.

Some effects which coincide with my Vipassana practice that I would say are hard to attribute to it (but I'd be tempted) include: calling my parents more often, giving people my attention more meaningfully, an improved diet, and better results from exercise.
Sedentary Behavior May Thin Memory-Related Brain Area
Renumber WBS Codes, Eliminating Gaps Between Tasks List and Page Footer in Java
Processing Moves to the Edge
I don't know for you but wine never really worked for me. For any app that I would like to use, there is some quirk, after a week of trying I gave up on skype for bussiness and rather run a virtualbox just to be able to use it.
Your conclusion makes no sense. If you can get “billions in tax breaks for a few million in expense,” then every money manager who isn’t investing in campaign contributions is breaching their fiduciary duties. As a general economic principle, investment opportunities that return 1000x don’t just sit around, they get arbitraged until the rate of return drops to match the risk.

The fact that campaign contributions are so small relative to the amount of money affected by these decisions is powerful evidence that they have extremely attenuated influence on the results.

@tzs’s theory makes much more sense: companies contribute to the candidates that are ideologically predisposed to them in hopes of ensuring they keep their seats.
Let's stop talking about password strength
Personally I would argue the term "OS" is simply not that well defined, and the readme makes no attempt to clear that up which I think leads to confusion. What actually defines an OS vs. not an OS is a pretty blurry line, and more-over when someone talks about "OS development" 99.9% of the time they're talking about kernel development. So naturally calling something an "operating system kit" that lets you "create operating systems" makes you think of kernel development.

That said, I read the whole readme linked here, and not once does it actually explain what an 'operating system' is, so I personally think that's just a failure on their part in picking a name and explaining what exactly the intended use of their project is. If instead of using the term "operating system kit" they used the term "baremetal/kernel application SDK" (or something along those lines) I don't think anybody would be nearly as confused on what it is. But I'm not entirely sure that's a good name either because I'm really just not sure what you're supposed to use it for. I read the whole readme, but I'm still at a bit of a loss.

Don't get me wrong though, I still think it's a cool project, but mostly just for the code making up the 'Cosmos' kernel rather then the 'develop your own OS' aspect.
Every situation is unique: maybe the sellers need a certain price for financial calculations that are wholly separate from the apartment they are selling.

My argument is that Zillow is always going to come in under-market. That's their whole model, and in order for it to work a lot of sellers need to be in a financial situation that allows them to say 'fuck it, I'll take the Zillow price and be done with this'.
> Updating OpenStreetMap is incredibly easy. Create an account…

Creating an account is a pain point for some people. I notify companies and individuals all the time about typos, dead links, bugs, etc. In any instance where I am not an established user, the process halts when I have to create an account. I’m giving freely of my time and knowledge; the process for me to do so should be as close to effortless as possible.
Well, first thing I expected it to use the microphone for actual listening to talking. Alas, the title was misleading, and it expects text input.

An interesting idea anyway, but they could title it better.
Get your facts straight. Hokkien, or Minnan Proper (閩南語/閩南話), is a Southern Min dialect group of Chinese. Ask anyone in Fujian Province.
Facebook's Tracking of Non-Users Sparks Broader Privacy Concerns
OK, I could write and execute SQL in a terminal. But I'd rather use MySQL Workbench. I get easy management of tables, views, etc. And flexible display of results. Why would you not want the GUI?
The characters are all Chinese. Same characters can be found in written Cantonese dialect of Chinese.
>Of course the makers claim this is so you can watch from anywhere, but a lot of those old "dumb"(?) IP cameras could be configured to upload video to a remote server if you wanted, and one under your control.

The average consumer doesn't have a remote server or the knowledge to set one up.
i think that i found that more entertaining than however entertaining i wouldve found the football game
He also suggests leveraging a programming language for benefits that include reproducibility, data provenance, and the ability to see how data analysis has evolved over time.

It's true that tracking data and data provenance is very important and hard in GUI tools.

But it's not really that much easier in code either.

To be specific about the kinds of problems here, I'm thinking of things like when errors are found in a dataset, new labels are introduced, or you want multiple splits on the data, but you still want the old version to check your metrics against.

Yes, you can do things like versioned directories for different data versions (although this tend to break when you are talking about TBs of data).

Or you can try using traditional version control tools, but that involves switching between code and your version control tool.

Or you can try transformation orientated programming, where you keep the original version of the data and then always transform it to get to the new version. This is slow on large data and fails when new information is introduced.

Also, normal version control doesn't work well with modelling code, because you want to use both the old and new versions of the code simultaneously.

Greg Brockman talked about this exact problem in the OpenAI/Ycombinator podcast.

This is a hard problem to solve - not sure who is working on it.
This project has been going for over 10 years now.
There's certainly a ton of political baggage around the Chinese language and layered on top of that there's a crazy amount of political baggage around China and Taiwan (e.g. is it called 正体字 or 繁体字?).

I don't think that's the case here though. Plenty of Taiwanese people I've spoken to are happy to (and often do) call it Hokkien (or Taiwanese Hokkien). Taiwanese as an adjective is usually ambiguous (Taiwanese Mandarin, Hokkien, or aboriginal Taiwanese languages are all possibilities). Taiwanese as a noun is usually less ambiguous (although the confusion in this thread makes me rethink that).

Hokkien (Fujianese) is to Southern Min what Cantonese is to Yue and to some extent Shanghainese is to Wu. They are place-name terms that nominally refer to a specific subset of a dialect family that are now used in informal speech to refer to the entire dialect family. But for example Macaonese (澳门话) is still a place-name term you'll hear even though it's within the Yue family and therefore you could (and people do) call it Cantonese. Taiwanese is a similar case (place-name term) here.
> For example, Cantonese pop music is often written in Mandarin, but sung in Cantonese, which means that each Mandarin character has a proper Cantonese pronunciation.

I don't think that's quite correct. It is true that many older Cantonese pop songs were not written in Cantonese, but they were not written in Mandarin either; instead they were in what's called Written Vernacular Chinese (白話文)[1], which is based on a subset of Mandarin.

As an example of the top of my head, 咱們 is a very common word in spoken Mandarin, but it is never used in formal documents (written vernacular), and a Cantonese only speaker would have trouble pronouncing it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_vernacular_Chinese
The huge range of solutions that developers with different backgrounds will come up with is evidenced by the fact that when I read this...

The code is pretty straightforward. It opens up a socket to the host, then for each motion update it creates a MotionData value, sets the properties on it, encodes it into JSON and sends it to the script running in Blender. It reads any data the host sends and discards it.

...my first thought was why JSON? I'd be curious to know the reasoning, since if I wanted to do this same task, I'd just send the values directly as binary --- 4-byte floats seem the natural choice here, since that's the representation both sides ultimately want. Also, this protocol is clearly unidirectional, so there's no need to even bother with the other direction.
Around 2040s. We’re just recently making progress in getting people to stop saying the current year as two thousand whatever.
People use GNU/Linux, why shouldn't they have a quality native map and navigation application?
This is awesome! You might really like All the News That's Fit to Sell which is a deep dive into the media economics behind why things are covered — it gives lots of color for why coverage is the way it is (there's a famous journalism saying: "If it bleeds, it leads" — which speaks to the readership/profits that come from covering vivid deaths)

If useful, I did a similar analysis, but just for the NY Times vs WHO/CDC (I manually tagged an year of articles by cause of death vs. this article's ability to see across many years):

In 2015-6, the deaths that are most covered are a tiny fraction (<1%) of the way we die: https://www.nemil.com/s/part3-horror-films.html

You can also extend the analysis to see how death coverage varies by region (those who are culturally similar to us get more coverage):

How Media Fuels our Fear of Western Terrorism: https://www.nemil.com/s/part2-terrorism.html
Augmented Reality – Fashion Brands Gear Up for a ‘Digital Makeover’
Uber also has some efficiencies - its ability to pair customers and drivers makes robust taxi markets in a lot of places that wouldn't otherwise have them. (I honestly don't even know if my city has a traditional taxi company, but it definitely has Uber and Lyft)
Did you really expect it to?
Problem with such use of statistics is that we underestimate black swan events.

Humans are intuitively better at it. For example, it would be impossible to predict something like 911 event with such frequentist analysis.

Also impossible to predict some sort of nuclear disaster terrorist act that never happened before and could take a million lives.

Another thing to keep in mind is the "missing life" (dying young) and quality of life after disease. That's why something like Alzheimer's seems a lot worse than heart disease.
Chinese is not a single language but spans a large subset of the Sino-Tibetan language family. They tend to mostly differ in their phonologies and not much in syntax and vocabulary, so written logograms could enable communication otherwise impossible. The script was also adopted by, for example, Koreans so they could do the non-verbal communication in written Chinese. You probably cannot expect this kind of uniformity across the whole Indo-European languages.
I'm disappointed that it offers no offline functionality. I'd like to download the map and do all the pathing and rendering locally, because I don't want to transmit over the internet what I'm looking at and where I want to go.
AGI is net of deductions though, hence the "adjusted". AGI is literally the bottom line on form 1040. You can't just figure it in your head.
If you have problems with those details on Linux, I don't think you will be a fan of ReactOS.

Since it barely works at all.
> Who do they think their target audience is?

Large corporate clients like the Russian postal service. While Jolla has always drawn on bug reports and some contributed code by hackers who are passionate about owning a cool, supposedly open-source phone, the company has never seen that audience as big enough to generate profit. Jolla has been striving for years to win adoption from sectors that don’t really care if the code is completely open or not.