skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad that they clarified this, as I was confused about the details of the original offer. The "and raise money from investors" part makes this much more attractive to me.
Is that health awareness and adherence learned behaviour though? Men have precisely zero need for healthcare until something goes wrong, but women have various screening programmes as well as contraceptive and maternity/children needs, among other things. This keeps them in regular contact with the healthcare system - where they can be offered unrelated services and advice - throughout their lives.
Satanic temple unveils statue of goat-headed winged creature called Baphomet
Yeah, it's especially distorted because thet just average the 42 month period before and then the 18 month period after. They could, with e dame source data, average each of the seven 6-month period before, and each of the three
6-month periods after, which would make, which would make it clearer if the highly volatile measure was increasing over time before and if anything significant changed with the time at issue. (And even then, pretending that the event to which it is ascribed is the only relevant thing at that time is... dubious.)
Yes its a shame he didn't simply walk up to Rome's walls after Cannae and simply breath in its direction. In the end Hannibal defeated himself through his reluctance to claim his prize.

Nothing small scale about crossing the alps, battle trasimene, zama, trebia and cannae. The maneuvers through the Italian countryside that forced the Romans to develop fabian tactics. They figured the only way to counter Hannibal was to simply not fight him.

Managing an multiethnic army of north africans, iberians and gauls with little to no supply lines, no national unity or loyalties and leading them from one victory to the next means Hannibal's charisma on top his strategic genius must have been nothing short of legendary.

Alexander has no feats to speak of. No examples of how he turned battles around. No proof of his strategic ability. The truth is you cant produce any. Non of Alexander's fans today can explain why he's a great general. Indeed, an army of Sarissa wielding phalanxes leaves little room for strategic ability. Its literally an army that you smash against the opposing army. The end.
You're making it sound like performance on such hosts in unknowable which isn't really accurate. 'Multiple runs of each benchmark' is vague enough to be potentially insufficient in just about any environment to boot.
Stripping encryption is one thing, sure. But for the backdoor, you'd have to have the clients phone nsaserv.spy/writeremoteconnlog then or sure, write some record on the client's device. You can't "tap" encrypted communications unless you can figure out how to factor integers then you'd get a Field's medal.

Or, ofc, get people to adopt insecure protocols. That we know (or have good suspicion) they've tried.
Distributed Gradient Descent for PyTorch
Hey there!

I've been working withe a friend on a pytorch implementation of DownpourSGD, a distributed optimization algorithm. I ended up writing a blog post about our implementation and some problems we ran into along the way. It was a pretty interesting project to work on, would appreciate if y'all checked it out!

Post: https://jcaip.github.io/Distbelief/

Github: https://github.com/ucla-labx/distbelief
Yeah, similar dreams for about 35+ years -- and they are still not fully realized as a spare-time hobby. It's a harder problem than it looks at first. I use the names Pointrel and Twirlip for my experiments on GitHub, SourceForge, and elsewhere related to triple stores, shared documents, and more. My undergrad work in that area indirectly helped inspire WordNet -- started by my undergrad advisor at Princeton, George Miller, just as I graduated.

One related post on that from me from 2005:
"Python implementation of Memex"
https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=156379&cid=1311190...

A more recent experiment:
https://rawgit.com/pdfernhout/Twirlip7/master/src/ui/twirlip...

Would love to help realize with that, say:
https://decentralizedweb.net/
The brain itself has no nerve endings and brain surgery is sometimes done while the patient is conscious - so physically reprogramming humans should not be painful.
The un-celebrity president
'Although the striking, eight-and-a-half foot tall icon was only allowed to be on display temporarily, Satanists argued they should be allowed to erect the winged goat effigy on a permanent basis under freedom of religion rights outlined in the US constitution.

Satanic Arkansas cofounder Ivy Forrester, one of the rally organisers, said: “If you’re going to have one religious monument up then it should be open to others, and if you don’t agree with that then let’s just not have any at all.”'
I probably depends on your experience with other languages. At the time I learned python, I had done C++ and Java in school, and PHP professionally. I went through "Learn Python the Hard Way." It was super quick. At that point, I just started slinging Python at work and getting CRs from more experienced folk.
Yes, musculoskeletal injury is very common in manual jobs. But whether it's opiates today or whiskey in the past, the means to combat pain from work related injuries must have a negative effect on lifespan.
Maybe misguided but since I pay for dropbox I trust that the data will be secure and highly available.
Here is the most classic and widely cited paper ever on market failure when customers can't tell what's good and what's a lemon:

The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~hfang/teaching/socialinsurance/re...

It's strikingly prescient that Akerlof mentions 'group insurance' as another market that is rife for failure due to a slightly different mechanism. Here we are 50 years later failing to understand this economic lesson.
The problem is that Samba 4 has to deal with them, since it will look them up in ldb, and if they're not there, forward them. I guess it doesn't blindly pass records through that it can't look up in LDAP.

As a side note, although I love AD DNS, MS are so slow to add new record support. I still can't add SSHFP records to Samba. :(
I've been seeing more movement here around Prolog, any idea why? Prolog has existed for a long time so that's why I'm surprised.
This topic interests me, I have used indirect techniques to increase the rate at which I get into a lucid dream state, drugs are not necessary with the correct schedule. However like others here have noted sleep quality is reduced and REM does not seem to have the same restorative effect if you spend it lucid dreaming.

I was actually first taught how to do this by my Chinese martial arts teacher, he recommended I spend any time I had in lucid dreams shadowboxing and sparing with opponents and in situations (often against weapons) I fear the most. It has actually increased my ability to think objectively during stressful situations. Especially because when you get too excited in a dream it usually collapses (look up deepening techniques if this is a problem for you).

One way I have heard people use this technique outside of martial arts is practicing public speaking in the dream state to increase confidence and create a realistic practice environment. Of course the possibilities are wide, however I find it very difficult to do things I have not experienced in real life, for example I can jump really high like I would if I was on a trampoline but I can not fly around like superman.

This is the Guidebook that taught me the fundamental techniques:
https://www.obe4u.com/files/the_phase/the_phase.html

Happy Dreaming all, it's the weekend give it a try!
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You seem to have missed the part of the article* where the Cortex-A76 matches a core i5-7300 in performance, with much lower TDP. That is planned to come... oh wait, it's already available.

* it's the second paragraph
Had to for work. I switched from a PHP team to a Python and Perl team. I vastly preferred Python. Later, I worked to introduce Go at work and now nearly all legacy services are Go. Now I only use Python for little quick scripts.
I get that, but I wonder how give a base set of types, that avoid small incoherences.

JSOn is a good example:

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/json/json_data_types.htm

Is so spartan that everyone need to encode dates somehow, to make a simple example. I think this are the base types (also, my experience with RDBMs and building a relational lang now, and always having troubles with cvs, json, and others formats in ETL kind-of-task):

- String

- Floats. Can be split Ints/Floats but stick to just Float is ok. However, make it Float64.

- Date(Time). And be ISO. Not ambiguity.

- Boolean

- Decimal64. This is a pet peeve of mine. A lot of data in the business space is about money, and floats are not ok. What if like in rebool $3.2 is decimal?

Then the composites.

ie: This is json + dates/decimal. And make a single encoding (utf8?).

Is insane that, for example, you save a CVS in excel and open it again and excel get lost, and can't parse it fine.

Apart from this, url, email, host, website, phone, cellphone, city, country, state are so common that maybe with a import like "!schema:common-fields" or something.
I think they care. A majority of the country did not want NN to be repealed but it was. The problem is their vote means little and understandably, many tune out and don't vote or choose between lesser of two evils.
RxJava's Github says "RxJava is a Java VM implementation of Reactive Extensions". The Reactive Extensions website claims it is "Functional: Avoid intricate stateful programs, using clean input/output functions over observable streams." You're saying that it's not?
What does soda tax tax? Soda or sugar soda? I mean, is diet coke also taxed? In that case, what's the reason? If not, why is it called soda tax instead of sugar tax?

Has the tax affected strong liquours mixes? (not sure how do you call it, i mean whisky/ron/vodka/etc + soda) Then drinking beer would be a downsizing option.
Not to mention all the calories the residents must be consuming from the massive spike in Philadelphia's Crisco consumption [1] in January 2018. The soda tax really affects everything!

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/21/sports/philadelphia-eagle...
Ask HN: $100 “all-you-can-ride” service (car, scooters, bikes, public transport)
Would you pay $100 per month for an "all-you-can-ride" service?

This service would aggregate Uber, Lyft, Bird, Lime, public transportation, etc., and would cost you $100 a month.

Likely constraints would be:

-The service would be ad supported.
-You would likely have geographic restrictions (only in SF, only in West LA, etc.)
-You would have ride-type restrictions (you can't take Uber Black everywhere, etc.)

What do you think?
Honestly, we should just outright ban soda. It's a colossal deadweight dragging down our healthcare system, it's nutritionally pointless, and it's not addictive enough to be worth trafficking.
You don't need to rewrite them from scratch. They've had those companies for years and it's a good bet that they've done work to make it more portable. It was already available back when Macs were using PPC, so the code is obviously somewhat portable.
"Many people inside and outside the company consider government censorship to be a human-rights violation."

It's right there in the US Constitution Bill of Rights.
It was flat out superior to everything else that was on the market at that time, and in many ways. And it failed. Bad leadership, bad brand / lack of rebranding ("Amiga??" "Commodore is for gaming, not for business!"). It made for justified fanboys who got disappointed and had to settle for the garbage that all other PCs were relative to Amiga.

It had superior:

- graphics hardware, including the copper and the blitter
- OS
- HW extensibility
- performance

Commodore even did the first SVR4 port to a production system outside AT&T, and had brilliant people.

The Amiga outpaced all other PCs (x86 DOS/OS/2/Windows and Mac) for half a decade, and was a fantastic gaming platform for its time.
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It's less of a matter of loyalty towards Google and more of a matter of hubris from the leaker(s) and the people they've been working with. That's why people are angry.

Had they not gotten so brazen as to put up in real time what was being said in the meeting, I'm sure the reaction would have been different. Of course, the powers to be at Google took the chance to turn sympathy towards themselves and are going to use it as an excuse from now on to be a tad less candid in these meetings.
How can you be transparent about your plans if everything is leaked? The court of public opinion tends to not be reasonable and often things that people would get upset about can be corrected via internal discussions.
Don't fool yourself. Google isn't some sort of cult. It's just common decency. One of the big reasons listed is that employees wanted to hear more about the China project, but it was cut short because of the leaker.
For me, flying begins with high jumping while controlling my movement in air. I start by jumping 6 feet, then again and achieving 15-20 feet, then eventually over a house. After jumping over the house is when I start to change my lateral velocity while in air, and begin to control my speed of descent as well. Eventually, I jump about 100 feet in the air, start moving sideways at the peak of my jump, and slow down my descent as I get close to the ground, the point where I'm flying directly over the ground at a decent speed.

Once I get there, I have complete control and can fly however I want as fast as I want. I've never been able to hold on for more than a minute or so though before I wake up.
I don’t believe that’s an Arm design.
also... article assumes that everyone drinks $7.99 / 12pack of Icehouse for its bottle consumption increase numbers.
alexa support?
yeah this is a stupid post.
Anyone would. Its impossible.
This is why I'm obsessed with HN. Thank you so much for linking this, it's exactly what I've been hoping someone would make!
> The person or people who shared the information with The Times gave Pichai and Brin an excuse to stop discussing anything substantive about China at the meeting

Of course. Just like any press release would be run through the lawyers before going out the door. Can't have a frank discussion with an Omarosa in the room.

I wouldn't be surprised if the next such meeting requires all phones to be left outside the door.
...and we don't just rely on drug makers, for example, to be moral and take responsibility. We have government agencies that _require_ strict testing of their safety and effectiveness. If we left it up to the market, we would get inferior results. The problem is, we have no FDA equivalent for tech security.
> That would be some powerful stuff - virtual reality of another kind.

Yes, like a holodeck :)
If it is true that, following the display of the subject tweets, "all the momentum and sympathy swung in the direction of management," then the so-called leaks are actually of benefit to Google.

"Where I come from, that means you're about to steal a mirror."
Take a look at the City of Philadelphia's Department of Revenue annual report (https://www.phila.gov/media/20161122003302/2016-Annual-Repor...). Page 18 is the revenue from liquor tax since FY08. You'll see it's been rising steadily over that time. The Department of Revenue attributes this rise to better enforcement of tax collection (they say the same in their FY16 report as well). It certainly possible that some consumers are switching from buy soda to buying alcohol, but I don't think you can attribute all of the change in liquor tax revenue to the soda tax.
You could say that about a lot of the crap in a supermarket. Twinkies, ice cream. I don’t get why soda has become demonized over those.
You shouldn't advocate for violence against people just because they have different tastes than you. It's usually socially unacceptable or against the rules.
Title has a typo. Should be “than”, not “then”.
I feel like other systems with similar limitations (the SNES and Genesis, notably) tended to have a different look, though.
The shelf company, one weird trick Paul Manafort allegedly used
Really ?? In Brooklyn, every time I try to get a sub without mayo, 50% of the time there is mayo. It drives me absolute-f-ly nuts. I really dislike mayo unless it's home made and with shrimps. But white industrial mayo in my sandwich, please, leave it out.

Every single time they ask "No mayo ?" and I say "no mayo, just olive oil and vinegar". 50% of the time, I still end up with mayo in my sandwich. It's sur-real, sometime I look at the chef's every move but just look away for 30 seconds - boom - mayo in my sandwich magically appeared.

So I'm not sure we're killed mayo quite yet unfortunately. White industrial mayo anyway.
Honestly, it shouldn't even be legal to eat anything other than broccoli and chicken breast. Everything is filled with fat and sugar and just drags our healthcare system down.
The article says,

> Except that WMG is not a stand-alone music company. It is wholly owned by the investment firm Access Industries. Which is very much in the business of holding long term equity stakes.

If there is a difference to the reader between a speculator and an investor, this is an investor. The justification may be that the investment has made as much as it could make and they wish to put the money to use elsewhere.

The angle in the article is that they are dumping Spotify because they think it's toxic waste or they want to 'toxify' it. But it could just be profit-taking.

> If the shareholders want to own a different business they can buy the shares on their own.

Always true, of course.
Ask HN: What government contractors would you recommend for work?
From a software developer's perspective, as I'm a software developer seeking a full-time job. I have a part-time freelance job now, but it's very few weekly hours and I have a whole lot of trouble passing interviews and phone screens at all the corporations I've applied to, no matter their size and background. I believe my years of working remotely (since 2013) have all but wrecked my interpersonal communication skills.

So disclosing my situation to others, I've been told that government contractors are the best choice for me. They tell me that these companies are always hiring, even people who couldn't solve fizzbuzz, and just fill up the seats with warm bodies that can at least answer the most basic programming concept questions. What would be some of the best contractors to work for the public sector? Which provide some of the best experience for a programmer in terms of work-life balance and sense of direction in your job?
Related but in the opposite direction, static checking of specs: https://github.com/arohner/spectrum (I haven't tried it personally)
Make each record one byte long.
Customers don't demand non-testicle exploding drugs because that's already the standard in the same way that customers don't demand software that doesn't wipe their disks at random intervals, because software already doesn't (careless usage of dd notwithstanding).

If drugs started exploding testicles you can bet customers would start demanding they didn't (male customers at least). Just look at the Thalidomide incident, I've seen it in the news within the last decade and it happened nearly 60 years ago at this point.
Do you have any interest in data mining? How is your writing? If so, Kaggle would force you out of your comfort zone. And, armed with your newfound skills and your front end skills, I bet you could end up with a pretty interesting blog.
For random ARM SBCs, I like the reviews that MickMake does: https://www.mickmake.com/category/reviews Unlike most "reviews" online he actually installs Linux, points out all the things that don't work properly, and runs them through Phoronix, checking performance, power usage, and temps.

At the high end, I agree that unless you have something really specific (if you need Jetson for CUDA or high-end imaging), you'd usually be better off w/ x86 - it's nice to have full mainline support and stuff that just works. In the SBC space, for the same price as a HiKey960 you could get an UDOO x86 Advance or an UP Squared, both of which will beat the pants off the HiKey in most aspects.
For key value stores that make performance claims, it would be helpful if they would publish the time and space complexity graphs for various sample data workloads. Write/read, and various data homogeneity for at least one of the standard architectures in different kinds of memory and disk configurations if what is being touted is the novel storage architecture. And provide the scripts to generate said sample datasets.
Sometimes things don't end up like I wanted either, but I've gotten pretty good at "ejecting" those situations rapidly, a few seconds, in favor of what I'm looking for. Not absolute God Mode, more like browsing an unlimited movie collection for what you want
"Virtual Reality seems like a safer bet."

Out of curiosity, can you explain why you think so? I'd think block chain has the bigger potential, but I don't keep myself up to date on VR.
Author of Fire here. Was super happy to pass the 10000 star mark on GitHub today thanks to this HN post :) -- that boosted my spirits on an otherwise long and rainy (and now delayed) bus ride.

Hope you find Fire useful!

What's next for Python Fire? We're working on improving the help screens and usage outputs so it feels less like a developer tool and more like a professional grade CLI. So stay tuned as it gets better!
I generally use pyenv and/or a virtualenv, where the python and pip aliases point to the currently active version, which is almost always 3.
Thanks. Wikipedia says Nevada stopped granting it in 2005. It was only given between 1998 and 2005 for primary residences.
The problem with non-standard usage is that it is confusing.

When I see a comma, I expect it to have a particular meaning. When it doesn't, I assume I misread.

You're welcome to use commas however you like, but know that others will be re-reading your sentences and wishing they didn't have to.
He also developed an IC design system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(software)
You don't have to use the built in DNS server in Samba. You can use BIND - https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/BIND9_DLZ_DNS_Back_End and https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Changing_the_DNS_Back_End_o...
Well... being transparent makes leaks ok.

Otherwise the discussion is private and/or not transparent. (Or at least not intended to be transparent.) Private discussions are usually not be transparent, otherwise the public court will judge.

If Google wants to discuss sensitive issues at an "all hands meeting" then it better be prepared for leaks, otherwise they should stick to smoke filled rooms.
Can you cite a case of this happening? As far as I can tell, chapter 7 cases are only ever denied for failing to file properly (missing deadlines, failure to disclose, etc), or kicked over to chapter 13 (which would be pretty remarkable in a case involving the little to no income of most students).
1.) I don't know, but that's fucking cool.

2.) You should follow rahimmathwani's advice and set up a man in the middle attack. You'll learn a lot.

3.) Have I mentioned that is fucking cool???

Good work! This is the exact kind of question that everyone should ask.

PS - That is fucking cool!
That's an excellent point: they get a lot of potential benefits

1. A business reason to not divulge sensitive details about any projects in future meetings.

2. Employee support for 1.

3. Actually being able to keep employees in the dark about this Google Search in China endeavor.

Now, the questions that present themselves are:

1. Was the leak planned to have that effect?

2. Was the leak planned and/or executed by one or more members of Google's management team?
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No I don’t think she’s saying that.