skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neat idea! This is intuitive to how I approach eating and working out in general. I gauge the overall consumption and activity and make adjustments for the next day or week. Progress is generally slow but consistent.
"I'm not sure about China wielding more influence than the U.S. That sort of thing is really hard to predict accurately, especially from the perspective of someone who isn't a world leader privy to all available information."

I think at the end of the day it just comes down to the numbers. With four times the population, they have four times the market of consumers and four times the workforce to create value. The U.S. is still in the lead for now, somehow, but China has recently taken up a very potent type of hybrid economic development, where free-market startup-culture is encouraged, but guided and pruned by the government.
Certain content might be more or less blatant about it, and as seymour1 suggests, gathering that additional data and cleaning up the currently actionable data really only has upsides.

One avenue would be to put those who report the same things as biased in cohorts, to be shown or not shown similar content.
>Middle East from stablising in a West-friendly state

Surely all those countries were just one step from becoming best uncle Sam's friends before Russia came. Right.
I appreciate your feedback. Though if I were to guess, it's more the "I have no sympathy..." than my street grammar. :-) I've got 10K points of imaginary Internet cred, I don't worry about a downvote or two except as a sanity check for the rare times I get out of line.
Why Text Processing and Sentiment Analysis in R?
Good! People should be angry! The system is not working for the majority of people. People should be pissed.

Do you have any evidence that all 'shitstorms' are created by Russia? I bet you can't provide evidence that even 0.01% of 'shitstorms' are created by Russia. Apply some Occam's Razor here.
https://gpuopen.com/rocm-tensorflow-1-8-release/
Yes, some of it goes to the politician's waste, but the trickle-down via government is FAR better than the trickle-down from merely expecting the extractive class to create jobs and maintain a robust middle class.

Heck, when the tax rates were that high, we had:
* the GI bill, enabling all vets to go to college for free,
* built road systems like the Interstate highway system
* built schools
* built libraries
* WENT TO THE MOON.

Seriously, if you want to complain, you will find waste in absolutely ANY large organization, corporate, philanthropic or govt. -- it just comes with scale -- there's economies of scale and inefficiencies of scale.

But it does not follow from the existence of nontrivial inefficiency/waste/fraud/etc. that large organizations and their projects are therefore worthless; only that improvements might be sought.
If that were a GPL violation, >90% of Linux distributions were violating the GPL.
For instance I also gauge how repetitive the foods I eat so I also maintain an internal awareness for the need to have variety and a good biome.
So basically one full time employee for a year.
Nobody is saying they should sacrifice completeness, and nobody is receiving incomplete or unfinished cars.

According to the article, it's an average of 37 minutes of extra work per car that has to happen.
Tesla is almost at 6000 Model 3’s a week.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/

And I believe that they’re building almost 2,000 Model X,S cars a week.

At almost 400,000 cars a year, Tesla has got to be doing better than many expected.

Elon seems to be doing fine in this recent interview:

https://youtu.be/mr9kK0_7x08
Grammatical tense is important, as I was referring those that argue the same even today.
That's true but JetBrains have been iterating the 1.2.x releases for a year now, and each one is like this - tons of bug fixes and small polishes. They add new IDE features but not new language features.

That said, the IDE plugin can still use some stability work.
2,651 hours/week * $30/hour = ~$80k/week. on a volume of cars that brings in $200m/week. so what? its a minor inefficiency.
I feel like that's like saying "making more money categorically works to solve poverty."

I don't disagree with that statement, no one can, but is it useful, actionable and helpful?

As a lifelong obese person, I disagree immensely that any of those things work. I have been asking doctors for years if they have any success stories of any of those things "working" for longer than 1 year and I have found none.
Regardless of the reason, or reasons (there are many reasons Russia supported Assad, strategic military reasons being one of them as you mentioned), that was my point: That Russia had legitimate reasons to support Assad. The interests of Russia simply did not align with the interests of The United States. This happens sometime in the world, but taking that further and claiming it was somehow to hoist malicious intent on the United States is where the stretch was made and where you enter the dangerous rhetoric zone.
Exactly. A statistically literate person should be able to make reasonably accurate inferences about the broader distribution of some event class by reading about the most newsworthy events and extrapolating (taking into account that newsworthy events should be among the highest-impact in the class). However, practically all mainstream news sources fail this basic test. You can't get very close to an accurate picture of reality these days without reading e.g. individual bloggers who dedicate a significant portion of their lives to highlighting relevant patterns that mainstream news sources on both 'sides' are intentionally omitting or burying.
...Really? Cripes. You got a source/link for that?
FPTP is bad but it's compounded by the presidential system. For example the UK's Prime Minister is elected by MPs, so it's not possible for them to be of a party that doesn't have enough voting power to actually pass laws, whereas in the US this is a common occurrence (as well as the President vetoing laws that the assembly has passed).
I wonder if it's a play similar to the coffee machine startup (whose name escapes me right now). The business is actually about putting excellent coffee robots in places that wouldn't sustain a staffed coffee shop.
> I feel like someone described useful properties of A Thing if it existed.
Then we figured out how to make A Thing that had those useful properties.

Apparently that's not quite the situation. I'd read the Wikipedia article. It says the following (keyword: "contrary"):

> Experimental evidence shows that redox-based resistance memory (ReRAM) includes a nanobattery effect that is contrary to Chua's memristor model. This indicates that the memristor theory needs to be extended or corrected to enable accurate ReRAM modeling.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor#Memristor_definition...
> If someone with authority over you isn't willing to take "no" for an answer, they're not going to take "no, you idiot" either.

They might! An insult is like a splash of cold water to the face, it's a wake up call. When used surgically, it can push people to do great things. The BA was so, so grossly wrong about what the right click menu does and how websites work that maybe an insult would have caused him to go back and google a few things.

Have you ever seen the movie Whiplash? Without the anguish caused by the conductor, do you think our drummer would have pushed himself to become a better drummer?
If we take so few examples, we can easily make the opposite argument. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Bartleby the Scrivener are quite a bit shorter than Gravity's Rainbow or For Whom the Bell Tolls.

War and Peace and Moby Dick are both exceptionally compelling, by the way, and the latter was actually much more appreciated in the early 20th Century than when it was written.
It depends on what parts need rework. It may not be doable by one employee.
> There won't be a war, by the way. I honestly think we're past the point as a species where superpowers duke it out in such a literal fashion.

Although I agree with you, it's worth noting that this sentiment is not a new one. There were plenty of people who believed that WWI marked the end of war, at least in Europe.

Even after WWII, Pax Americana (in Western Europe) was not an inevitability. Today's relative stability in that part of the world was the result of enormous investments in intentional policy. As well as a fair bit of luck.

> Military might today is usually directed from superpowers to third-world countries, but that's a topic for another day

This sentence is a bit of a tautology [1]. But in any case, it's worth remembering that those incursions always find their way back home. Consider the most recent wars. The European migrant crisis has its roots in the most recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Furthermore, the USA will eventually feel the economic impact of those two wars. The fact that [2] could happen while the USA ran up enormous deficits (completely unrelated to that growth) is deeply worrying; what will happen in even a slightly less dynamic domestic economy?

> China's influence and dominance will happen through the private sector, ironically.

This view of the world also has a time-honored tradition. Thomas Jefferson was an early proponent of the view that national power flows from economic might rather than hard power. It's worth noting that the policies he actually implemented while in office diverged substantially from his ideological beliefs.

I agree with you about what the future of conflict between the US and China will most likely look like. I think most people do. The question is how you hedge that bet: is the alternative military&economic peace (because military conflict is unimaginable)? Or, is the alternative military conflict on top of the existing economic conflict?

I think the latter is more likely.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World

[2] http://ritholtz.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/virtually-768...
As they will hire biased 'fact'-checkers, you will wind up with people getting greylisted by stating controversial but popular positions (e.g. "eating meat is immoral" / "raising taxes lowers economic productivity" / "welfare programs create perverse incentives" / "sales taxes are regressive" / "Islam is an inherently expansionist religion / "Islam has bloody borders" / "Christianity is inherently misogynist" / "Abortion is murder" / "Republicans are Nazis in discount menswear" / "I voted for Donald Trump and I support our president").

What you will be left with is what many people originally flocked to the internet to avoid: the 'MSM echo chamber' of anodyne center-left opinion against which no dissent will be tolerated.
Government, democracy or not, generally means I am being governed according to some, but not all of my wishes. It's not an on-off switch, it's a continuum of compromise.

Treating it like an on-off switch, my way or the highway on everything, led to much of the weirdness of the 2016 elections in the US.
That headline could also be read as "Tesla hit Model 3 target DESPITE reworking thousands of cars". Presumably they've got technicians both doing the rework, and also technicians and engineers working on solving the underlying issues causing the rework. Once the latter is done, they'll have freed up a lot of technicians for other tasks, and making 5000 cars a week will be almost trivial in comparison.
I imagine those would have to show some evidence they own some part of the house. It's not hard to imagine that nobody could gather the evidence.
>There won't be a war, by the way. I honestly think we're past the point as a species where superpowers duke it out in such a literal fashion. It's just bad for business.

I tried to find the quote and couldn't, but IIRC this exact argument was used for why WW1 never could have happened (prior to WW1).
Serverless Best Practices
I think the main issues are that it would be crazy slow, and flash isn't really random access for write— you still have to blank whole pages at a time, so you'd definitely still want a RAM caching layer in front of the flash, even if it was being synced on a second by second basis.

Plus the whole wear levelling thing would have a huge impact on lifespan.

Tiny microcontrollers would be the first ones to benefit from an all-flash architecture, but they all still ship with both flash and RAM onboard.
Thanks for the comedy relief. Putting Ajit Pai and internet freedom in the same phrase can only exist on a crass comedy or a complete malicious misunderstanding of the cause.

The people won nothing, who won are entrenched monopolistic companies that don't step on their customer's neck just because it's illegal. Fb and Google are not yet that evil, though Fb is definitely making an effort.
Microsoft uncovers more Russian hacking before midterms
As an inventor how does one convince oneself to allow overhead wires carrying life threatening currents or any other such inventions. There exists so many inventions I would never pursue even if it occurred to me first, yet they exist and make our lives better.
...and the Oracle sales folk won't care - as long as they meet their (current) targets. Be very careful about the behaviors you incentivize.
Are There Barbarians at the Gates of Science?(2016)
well said :-)
In the Toyota / lean-theory rework is the start of an near-exponential process where different tasks are waiting for the other to be completed ad infinitum. If you've ever worked at an old-school firm you'll recognize this: the quality of your input, a colleagues output (say, a dataset) is sub-par, so you start checking it regularly. If it falls short to your standards, you ask for a new set and wait. He does his work again, and you restart your task and start checking his work even before you start your real work. That's a lot of time ill spent.

Multiply that over departments and many processes and the result is great inefficiency. So FPY is the KPI to stop all that. FPY is not really valuable by itself, but hopefully by the culture it supports. Swapping FPY for # delivered is false management and points to cultural issues. In this case: managing by the wrong target (# delivered instead of the "total worth of the value chain").

Nobody would care if Tesla would just deliver growing amounts of cars at falling costs. It's the bootstrapping (in the Baron of M-sense) towards false metrics that gets the poison going and management is totally working within that frame of mind. They should find their own frame, and operational excellence just might be one. (Apologies for the MBA bs-bingo, but in this case I think it's to the point.)
Not sure why this would be flagged. Seems like an article of general interest.
Dispassionate? Let me tell you, if you have ever had an ex-commando officer from the Israeli Defense Force as a boss, you will know with every fiber of your being that those words can be delivered with passion.

A passion that leaves no doubt in your mind that "What is your recovery plan?" is not a soft-ball question, and that a soft-ball answer will be promptly discarded. In my case, said boss took part in Operation Entebbe. He ran a very low-BS engineering organization. It was refreshing in a very good way.
No problem. :) I just wondered if you also have problems with my (Elm) example link, i.e. the scroll (zoom) events seem to get missed. However I followed your advice and headed over to the Slack channel.
Fake news detector algorithm works better than a human
Yeah, it just depends on your audience. It's still a problem in B2B situations. Most notably when a customer's IT is contracted. Unfortunately for me it's not a matter of price tiering, it's about producing a product that has been working for customers in outdated browsers that continue to expect it to work that have signed annual+ contracts.
Saying that it categorically works is pretty misleading. Many people try straightforward calorie reduction and find that besides experiencing extreme discomfort from cravings and reduced metabolism, they make very little progress over periods as long as a month and these people often walk away thinking that weight loss is impossible for them.

The truth is that many people are metabolically imbalanced or diseased and will not respond the way a young otherwise healthy man does to caloric restriction. Calories in, calories out is certainly true because we know the laws of thermodynamics are obeyed by the human body. However, there are all sorts of subtleties here. For instance, one person might not absorb all the food they're eating and may shit out much more viable calories than another person. Further, we know that hormones play a dramatic role. Look at pubescent boys versus pubescent girls. In both cases, caloric intake goes up (it also doesn't go up consciously, the kids are signalled to eat more by their bodies and are nearly helpless to do otherwise) but what is done with the excess calories is different in boys versus girls due to hormonal influence. In boys, the majority of excess calories goes into creating more lean tissue whereas in girls it is much more balanced between lean tissue and fat growth and the fat distribution is not the same as boys. Hormones are an important factor in weightloss and weight gain and should be considered.

This is just my long-winded way of saying: yes, simple caloric restriction works for many people, but among many people with hormonal and metabolic problems, caloric restriction is much more likely to result in needless suffering and poor results. If the conversation focuses solely on simple caloric restriction, then these people who likely make up the majority of obese people will likely never get the information they need to find strategies that work for them.
Totally. I just decided I like having more options. When I'm reading webpages I set the colour temperature lower than when I'm watching series, for instance.
Yes I check my spam folder frequently. The Gmail spam filter has many false positives. In the real world text classification is still too inaccurate to rely upon for anything important.
Why do they say "Afrikan" instead of "African"? The former is not good English as far as I know...
For a cash strapped company that critically depends on delivering large enough volumes to survive the year, I can see why many investors would be interested in the nature of the headline numbers announced publicly. Otherwise I agree that it normally takes years to adjust the production of a new product, particularly for a young company, and it is unreasonable to expect high yields on year 1.
Not if eBay started making extremely anti-consumer choices like Comcast has. At some point it would get to be too much, and competition would step in. We see that starting to happen a bit with Facebook lately, although the network effect there is stronger than with an auction site. But Comcast can do whatever the hell it wants, because nobody can even try to provide a way out.
I assume that she was not called in by her superiors due to an "independent investigation" being started.

There would never be a need for such thing. If her superior receives complaints from her employees about her, then they already know that she has problems. In management and human psychology, evidence does not matter—if her employees are all dissatisfied with her, then that is all you need to know. They can then either correct her or fire her.

The presence of an "independent investigation" seems to look like someone didn't want to deal with the situation, and instead have an external party be responsible for it. That is irresponsible management from her superiors.

Now, again, she might have been a prick worth firing, but I certainly do not find this response to be sensible, nor is her resignation proof of anything as any sensible person would quit a workplace that runs "investigations" against them (just like you are likely to quit a place where your boss is a bully).
> Here you describe NATO as a hostile force but it's clear that the countries joining NATO were wise to do so as a defense against a hostile Russia.

Considering that St. Petersburg is now well within NATO's artillery range, I don't see how NATO is not hostile from Russia's perspective.
> I was thinking – what if I assigned a particular number of points to each food I eat and try to keep points under certain threshold daily, and, which is more critical, weekly.

Yup, even the weekly total is very similar to the Weight Watchers system.
It will be an interesting case study to see what they do with the Uyghurs. What can a government do to an enemy population when they've sequenced the DNA of every individual in that population?
Yes. This is one of the reasons that Windows stomped UNIX everywhere outside of big iron servers. Windows developers had access to much more advanced development environments that were very productive compared to vim+c and maybe a buggy C++ compiler if you're lucky, which is what UNIX vendors were offering at the time.

Visual Basic, Delphi, MS Access, Visual FoxPro, Visual Objects, Visual Studio, C++Builder, Macromedia Flash, even obscure stuff like REBOL - all supported very fast iteration on client side business CRUD apps that connected to a database.

It's only in recent times that we lost this and came to believe that buggy bloated text editors implemented in HTML plus a giant pile of pre-processors in which everything is coded by hand and the frameworks are obsoleted every six months is a good developer experience. Compared to what we had in the 90's the level of polish and integration is far, far lower in modern toolchains.
In the overhead camera views, you can see about half a roll of duct tape on the lineman's helmet to hold the go-pro on, eg https://youtu.be/piQpLL5nD18?t=1m47s

Although looking closer, it looks like it's the flexistrap type mount put over a smooth helmet, so makes sense.

Point is, kludges are everywhere!
Not sure why you compare GAE to lambda?
Hi I head up Docker Developer Relations. There are plenty of ways to get Docker CE without logging Docker Store. See my comment on GitHub for more details.

https://github.com/docker/docker.github.io/issues/6910#issue...
Its not cheaper, and it won't result in better quality. Any time rework is done outside of the normal process it is a big deal. There are whole organizations meant to make sure things like that happen as little as possible.
Do they even charge for taking the tests? I don't see anything about pricing on their site.
It wasn't; it was part of the HTML doc title. Most publications do this. We take those bits out.
Is it just me or did the OP just reinvent Weight Watchers points?
High rework rates are indicative of overall quality issues. Issues caught and flagged for rework are the obvious ones, not all of the defects.

A high rework rate is a huge red flag for at-scale manufacturing and says that something is wrong.

It seems like this should be obvious. How healthy is a software engineering environment where 80% of the commits fail at the tail end of the development pipeline and require fixes? I’ve never seen an org that bad.
Slack charges what, $12/user/month for the full version with compliance and auditing included? Yeah, that's $12 more than you were spending, but companies that care about compliance really shouldn't be that cash-focused (I know, I know).

It's hard to deny Teams when it's already bundled with 365 that we're spending $25/user/month on, but if anyone has ever used both it becomes _immediately_ obvious that it's worth the money. That's the whole approach MS is going for, and something that's very very hard for Slack to combat.