skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found these bits quite entertaining:

> the district court will need to develop a fuller record

> Instead, it might consider directing the parties, who poorly served the court by treating the standards interchangeably, to file briefs addressing whether the standards are susceptible to groupings that are relevant to the fair use analysis.

Pretty much calling out everyone involved on their laziness. I can imagine the judge shaking his head in disappointment when writing this opinion.
Hi Ian,

I'm not sure to what degree PowerBI is touch-screen friendly, but I dealt a lot with Qlik Sense (another BI / dashboarding platform) and it's quite touch-screen friendly -- filtering, selections, drilling down, etc. because its UI was designed for tablets.

What I was missing sometimes is the ability to easily put a dashboard on a large screen (like the Whiteboard) during a meeting in order to answer questions that arise during meetings -- what the last week looks like, what region had best sales, what products did they sell most of all, etc. Because of the visual UI, data can be queried and explored right from a dashboard.

Yes, a dashboard could be just screen-shared from a laptop, but that would be a one-man show. Sharing it on the Whiteboard would let anyone near the screen to support their points by bringing up relevant analytics.
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‘I felt colossally naive’: the backlash against the birth control app
F'ing engineers can read just fine, the humanities are not the bastion of enlightenment and hard work that its graduates think it is. That was already clear to me in college when their weekly course and work load was approximately half of ours. I have since then read a book or two, yes.

A better question is: how many journalists know how to code? Because that's the skill necessary to make sense of the world today and the massive volume of data it throws your way.

I don't expect completely neutral reporting, but I do expect some basic data literacy rather than anecdotes spun into narrative and repeated breathlessly from outlet to outlet. Plus, if we are awash in manipulation, I'd prefer to find that out from an independent source rather than a three letter acronym with a long rep sheet of human rights abuses.

The GDPR cookie debacle revealed this better than anything: what really drives the news industry now is tech, they're beholden to it. Plus, it's all third party. They no longer own their beat, the beat owns them. All the griping about FB and Twitter is exceedingly amusing to me for this reason. It's the news industry that capitulated, but is now chiding the rest of us for not having stood up, using the giants as a scape goat.

We need journalism more than ever, but journalism needs to get its shit together first.
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Handicap principle
Lawyers don't argue for the truth they fight for their clients. It has to be that way because court is an adversarial situation, so if one lawyer was arguing for the truth like a scientist and the other was being underhanded the underhanded one would have an advantage.
Finetune: Scikit-learn style model finetuning for NLP
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The concept of ignoring paper vote counts for large margin victories is entirely why we should always audit the paper trail.

Democracy needs opsec. Something about "eternal vigilance"...
If you click through the links after links and read the original article, the family obviously had a $200,000 loan from a bank and failed to pay at due time, meanwhile his kids still attend private schools. The case was brought to a court, and the father was added to the "blacklist".

This story aside, the system is in spotlight because China now have a huge debt problem.
Invading sovereign countries and drone attacts sure are helping in solving that problem. /s
ianal, but this honestly seems odd to me.

I'm assuming in this case all the issues are with transmission, which is afaik mostly regulated by FERC and CAISO in this case, but California's weird for these sort of things so who knows. Mostly you go through FERC, sort out what transmission work you want to do, do the work and get rate recovery from your customers. That's sort of the system I've been familiar with.

But this sort of uncompensated liability just doesn't track very well. It sounds nice in a 'stick it to the man' sort of way, but doesn't fit with how transmission regulation works in the US.

If this were a government operated utility, there's no question ratepayers would be the ultimate people dealing with potential liabilities of affected parties. California's stance is that the liability is consistent between a government and non-government utility, so why isn't the recovery mechanism?

It sounds bad, but imo the proper answer is that PG&E should be able to seek recovery for equipment attributable losses not caused by negligence. Whatever form that takes, bonds, rate increases, that's sort of a secondary issue.

However, I would probably not trust whatever bill Quirk has put forth, Captain Conflict of Interest doesn't sound very trustworthy.
Annexing countries illegally for natural resources and then labeling the defendants and terrorists..
I am a little confused - why is this downvoted?
"Runners who improved their performance in Vaporflys and then switched to other shoes got slower.

There were very few runners in our data who met this criterion: We counted just 24 such races. But these runners finished about 7 percent slower on average than they did while wearing the Vaporflys. (Of the 24 races, 17 races were slower, and 7 were faster.)"
> So they trained it using 100 GPUs (100 GPUs dear lord!), and got no difference until fourth decimal digit! 100 GPU's to get a difference on fourth decimal digit!

That's hilarious!

But I found the criticism on their toy task less convincing. Algorithmic toy tasks can always be solved "without any training whatsoever".

For example in RNNs, there's a toy task that adds two numbers that are far apart in a long sequence. This can be solved deterministically with a one liner, but that's not the point. It's still useful for demonstrating RNN's failure with long sequences. Would you then call the subsequent development to make RNNs work for long sequences just feature engineering with no universality?

In that sense, I think their choice of toy task is fine. They're just pointing out position is a feature that's currently overlooked in the many architectures that are heavily position dependent (they showed much better results on faster r-cnn for example).
Oh, it's definitely illegal in the EU.
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They are all correct in the appropriate context. The problem is not the usage and understanding; it is the drive for certainty and absoluteness which ignores the contexts and multiple realities we inhabit.
Maybe it is a self-filtering effect, they should have shown a graph of shoe price vs improvement, and improvement over time.

That would capture if those willing to pay more are self-selecting for being better, training more, etc. And if today the effect is stronger than a year ago, perhaps because of rumors of it making you faster.
There is literally not a single comment addressing the content here at this moment :)

Yes, I'm not helping
Donald Trump, Meet Bill Browder
Muslim Girl Dies After Undergoing Female Genital Mutilation
We are dependent a lot on childprocesses (I know it sucks, but it's a legacy system) in our app. This is just amazing letting the debugger attach to the child process. Finally no more console logs to figure what's wrong.
So this was a bill about plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and they just re-wrote the whole thing to be about wildfires? What's the point?
It's not about the technical problem, it's about the perception from people of an electronic vote. People that didn't grew up in the tech revolution are going to be skeptical anyway, and I'm not sure about the ones that are full of social induces doubts about everything. It seems to me we are trying to solve a non existant problem
It's just this project, it's what I call my file thing. I should probably ditch that part though.
Today i noticed some messages contained the notice ‘forwarded’ on top. Was wondering why. So this is it. I do not understand how this will curb fake news though.
Kubernetes Networking: Behind the scenes
I like the addition of categories in "BioTech" and "HardTech" ;)

In exporting the Silicon Valley model of risk capital across the globe it's essential to understand the history behind it that has yielded such outsized successes. The free-thinking creative environment of SF, academic partnerships, big institutions such as Google and Apple, as well as access to startup capital.

The best place to start a company in 2018: online. Translating this entire culture to its digital analogues is essential to this mission. And although many of the components are already here. It requires a nudge to localize it and get it into the hands of future innovators.

One interesting development is the emergence of decentralized apps such as Mastodon, Steemit, PeerTube, IPFS, etc. We are already witnessing in real-time a boom and bust cycle in raising private capital via ICOs. But eventually I think we will see a peer-to-peer lending platform, possibly denominated in crypto, that specifically targets micro-finance for startup formation.
How the ask historians subreddit handles holocaust deniers
I think it is worth noting that population growth has been incredibly fast in these countries, and institutions simply could never keep up with this growth.

I think that in many places, governments are slowly getting to grips with this issue, educating and providing the basics to their populations. But the problems being faced are hard and take time to resolve.

As an aside, I find exploring gapminder is a great way to help think about what is going on.
As all brokers say: "Past Performance Is Not Indicative Of Future Results".

And okay, maybe it's not all credibility, but it certainly loose the ability to do business with me.

Just go to nytimes.com, click subscribe, and try figure out what it's actually going to cost? Because I honestly can't figure it out.
Yandex leaks internal Google Docs apparently shared by Russian banks, officials
If you think the plate is such a qualitative difference you may have fallen for Nike's marketing. The vapor fly 4% is very lightweight with an excellent cushioning to weight ratio thanks partly to Nike's new zoomx foam (which possibly provides superior energy return too). Shoes with plates in them have been around for a while and nobody complained - Mizuno shoes have plates like this as does the Nike zoom fly (different shoe), neither shoe is very high on the list or higher than you would expect based on its weight alone.

Look at the top shoes on the list - the Nike streak is a super lightweight shoe without Nike's new foam and it is second fastest. This should tell you weight alone is probably the most important factor. Two other highly rated shoes are Adidas shoes with boost foam, a type of foam similar to Nike's zoomx with a better cushioning to weight ratio. So the newest generation of foam probably provides a small benefit apart from the she's weight alone.

Runners capable of running a three hour marathon probably know the single most important factor in a running shoe for speed is weight. If they still choose to run in Saucony Guide or Hokas there's probably a good reason. What percent of runners who switched to the Saucony Guide were injured and used the shoes to recover, and what percent of runners in heavier shoes with more cushioning and stability features made it to the Starting line vs runners in Nike streaks? It's possible the heavier shoes provide protection from injury or greater comfort - there's a reason runners don't race marathons in track spikes.

I don't think the plate provides much benefit apart from weight and cushioning, my guess is that it is there for the feel of the shoe and without it the new foam would feel too mushy.
Eagle-eyed machine learning algorithm outdoes human experts
Harlan Ellison also had the right mix of "successful enough that he actually worked on a lot of projects and had scripts and proposals taken seriously" and "difficult enough to work with that he occasionally walked away from or was kicked off of projects".

That's not to say anything about whether any or all of his complaints had merit, but the baseline plausibility that they did is just orders of magnitude higher than if I made such a claim.
If you're still paying to be a resident of California (using your example, would you remain in the district in which you "resided")?
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Sorry, auto correct..

I could also excuse myself as not being a native English speaker :)

But I'll go with the autocorrect excuse in this instance..
Data-Driven? Think again
Now this… this is an ultra-wide monitor
> Fundamentally the value I generate doesn't come from reacting to people all day, it comes from identifying outcomes that truly matter and doing whatever is necessary to advance those outcomes.

Amen. I've never written a performance review (or received one) applauding email reaction time. Think about it. The stuff that gets accolades are accomplishing the things that "truly matter."
Not wanting to own anything isn’t a problem. You identified the real problem as being afraid to lose something. Entrepreneur means risk taker. If you are afraid to lose something, that is bad for an entrepreneur. If you don’t want to own anything because you want to be agile and free, that is fine.
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Is my website WebPedia Technology needs any kind of add up or improvement ? or any type of flaws can anyone tell me
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Yes, exactly, so you will be misrepresented.
but that refers to domestic terrorism, not globally
You can give betwixt[1] a try. It's based on Chrome

[1] https://github.com/kdzwinel/betwixt
Digging the LKML thread, this appears to be the corresponding userland component for the OOM use-case:

https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd

There was also more minimal proof-of-concept example posted by Endless OS guys:

https://gist.github.com/dsd/a8988bf0b81a6163475988120fe8d9cd
Argues in favor of a more individual approach when releasing new features
This stuff is really rare. And the reason why is explicated in a quote in the batch systems section:

First, these systems were "obvious" and could be understood in minutes from reading a manual. Second, there were very few different kinds of computers, and the community of system programmers was similarly small. At least in the United States, almost everyone who wanted to know about these systems could and did communicate directly with their authors.

One gets the sense that few anticipated there would one day be a computer in every home ;)
As a side-side note, the same happens for "International Standards" most if not all ISO documents:

https://www.iso.org/

are available only for a fee (and are not redistributable), so when you see a product proudly presented as being conformant to "ISO xxxx" you have no real way (as a user) to know what (the heck) it is conformant to.

In some occasions I needed to check these, finding out how the tests actually performed on some items have nothing (or little) to do with the intended use or on how the actual item is advertised or perceived.
”the town was granted a city charter with the Latin motto, ‘Lucem Diffundo’. ‘We light the world’.”

That’s quite a loose translation. I would translate it as “I spread light”.
Yes, this sometimes happens, but you shouldn't let that overshadow the Chrome team's commitment to web standards and open source.
No he is saying that Amazon doesn't really care much about their video business and therefore are fine with decreasing it's competitiveness via censorship if it decreases the risk of boycotts on is primary businesses.

Whereas if Netflix becomes less competitive in it's video business they lose everything. So taking risks by not censoring can make more sense.
If you've never seen 2001 in a really high quality format, and don't have the opportunity to see it in 70mm in a real theatre...

Everything I'm about to write below sounds like utter film snobbery. But I think it's important to grok that at the release of 2001 when it was brand new in theatres, people were absolutely stoned watching it. Ask anyone of about age 65+ who lived through the latter half of the 1960s.

You need:

3 hours of absolutely uninterrupted time with no external noises or distractions

a totally dark room

A 70" or larger 4K 60Hz screen

a high quality 2160p copy of 2001 (either 4K bluray or a copy that's at least 20GB in size, relative to its running length and the bitrate you need for good quality).

a good quality 5.1 sound system with a subwoofer

enjoy!
Yeah, other platforms support it. I want to get drag and drop working as well, so that would probably be a good thing to add with that. Thanks for the comments :-)
Using the disclaimer of 'because competition is good' then going on to point out how features are 'irrelevant' in comparison seems pretty biased and blasé.
Abkhazia and South Ossetia are not countries though.
Tourism economy is why the EU doesn't reciprocate the ESTA policy.

US Can do without tourism (it's actively sacrificed tourism with successive post 9/11 travel restrictions) but the EU countries would suffer greatly.
I think the court neatly avoided that question by relying on fair use rather than extinguishment of copyright as a basis for allowing the copying of the standards.

A "taking" generally requires the government to deprive the owner of all reasonable use of the property. If the government places reasonable limitations on the use of property but doesn't actually deprive the owner of the property, it's not a taking. See Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City, 438 U.S. 104 (1978).
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So what? We have to be afraid of changing stuff because the current statu quo of pro cycling would be affected? That's a pretty weak argument.
> 100 GPU's to get a difference on fourth decimal digit!

So now we know what not to do. That's valuable.

So what if it's not the best theoretical paper. This screed rehashes criticisms that are well known among researchers in the field. Overall it reads like a kind of egotistical hit piece. Personally I'm glad Uber published it.
> Because hard skills that are vital for the viability of a business don't translate to soft skills required to setup organizations, manage people, get proposals and close deals.

True. But then there is nothing stopping the enginners from attaining those skills and then reaping the rewards. Many engineers have done just that.

Like it or not. We participate in the free market. Want more monies?

1) Start up your own venture.

2) Increase your skills with desirable ones which an employer will pay for.

3) Negotiate with your employer that you should have a higher salary/benefit package for exchange of your time.

At the end of the day, this is how it's always been. But if you want to inject Socialism into the workplace then fine. Guess what?

Go and setup a company which is a co-operative. Everyone who joins gets an equal piece of the company and revenue of the company. It's pretty easy to setup. There's really no excuse from my perspective why no one can't do it.

Again, once in that co-operative, let us know [who don't know], how it works out.
Because a simple thought experiment disproves his point and criticisms of the West.

If the “troubles” of a society are really the disparity between the richest and poorest, then a country like Somalia would be a glorious example of liberty and prosperity. Yet everyone there is poor and with extremely limited options in anything you might want to measure.

Clearly this isn’t it. Maybe in order to get a healthy thing going you must have some extreme outliers as a result of the freedom/ability to let people do their thing.
I agree that it is terrible that this is undefined, but utf-8 is not a Locale. That is an encoding. The standard works just fine when you use C as the Locale and utf-8 as the encoding. I think they should have just defined ranges as being the encoding values, because that would make more sense, but that would be exactly the opposite of what the standard previously said.
If you speak and understand Dari (the Afghan regional variant of Farsi), it's not just code switching... There's so many technical things that simply don't have words in Dari. There might be a word for radiator, such as in an automobile, but nobody uses it, they use the english word radiator. Almost anything that deals with technology invented and imported after the year 1900 is derived from either an English, French or Russian word (in the north/Uzbek speaking parts).

Listening to a conversation between two fluent native Dari speakers regarding any moderately complicated business, technical or engineering subject will be about 10% English words.

There are also a lot of words in Iranian Farsi that are derived from French. France was one of the first western european countries to form serious diplomatic and trade relationships with Iran, (a long, long time before Mossadeq and coups, oil companies, etc). One example, in french:

English: Potato. French: pomme de terre

pomme = apple

Farsi: seeb zameenee (literal translation ground apple).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_loanwords_in_Pe...
So? If’s it’s domestic, than it’s not an unsolved problem?
Codepoint ranges were also suggested in the bugzilla thread linked by rwmj

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23393#c13
Personally I'm a lot more worried about getting shot in Michigan than I am getting blown up in Kabul.

Of course I'm not very worried about getting shot.
Two wrongs do not make a right. My country is under constant Islamist assault and we won't tolerate this insane reasoning anymore.
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gawk, yes. I was referring to the POSIX standard declaring it undefined.
Yes, i know that proof by induction basically proofing that the program loops - the logic there holds.

But if you create what is basically a glider gun, calculating PI without every storing the numbers it works on and its results, it still will be busy indefinitely - so only from finite space, halting can not be proofen.

PS: Found the flaw in my thinking, even in such a stateless function - the numbers of the result would eventually get so big, they would fill the space on the tape, thus limiting computation, thus allowing to proof via size induction on the number that the program halts. Where there is computation, something needs storage, even if it is just a result.
Cosed – Handle side-effects as data for node/JavaScript
Which app was that?
No it isn't unsound, it is an application of the pigeonhole principle. A finite memory and finite set of states implies that there are some finite number of configurations (call it N) that the computer can be in. Once you let the computer go N+1 steps, there must be at least one repeated configuration; which might be halting or not.
Two points: It is not useful to generalize “African states” because different African countries have different systems and qualities of governance. The current US system of governance has some characteristics that citizens of other countries would find unacceptable, eg the disconnect between popular and electoral college vote, the large amount of power of the presidency, the politicization of the judiciary. South Africa’s constitution and constitutional court on the other hand are widely considered an example of good governance.