skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't read the article, but I wonder if it's arguing that there isn't a difference in information quality between the paid sources and the free. Then you might attribute the spending to “FOMO”, but probably it's more meaningful to call it price-value bias, or something!
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Sure they do. It's like literally the first result for "windows 10 iso".
But that's not the start in my scenario. It's the end. It's a symptom. It's the result of what happens upstream in the broader biz model of being a band / musician.

With their revenue streams limited (read: streaming doesn't pay anything close to the way physical media did) they're all but forced to require a larger payout. If they don't get it there, then where? When?

Think of it this way, every time you stream a song for free the cost of that band's live concert ticket goes up a bit.
And more importantly, if Andrew ng didn't figure it out then surely someone else will. The march of progress does not stop. It continues relentlessly.

This is the mindset I see many fail at (less so on here since people here are smarter and more visionary). People see robotics and AI for what it is today and not what it will be in the future. The robotics and AI of today have their issues but in due time those issues will be solved to create something truly impressive.

Truck driving, dish washing, order fullfilment and the myriad of other routine tasks will eventually be fully automated. Humans will be left to continue the march of progress as we should be doing.
Maybe you've already ruled it out, but it might also be worth considering the Kinesis Freestyle line too. I've been using one for many years now after trying it at work and have been pretty happy with it. Since the layout isn't too different it's also easy to switch back and forth with regular keyboards. They have new bluetooth/mechanical versions now too.

I use it tented up in the middle at about 30 degrees with an accessory. The setup isn't very portable though.
The candidates you listed shows that it is a genuine attempt at soft power. Just because it's soft power directed to people we don't like doesn't mean it isn't soft power.

China is using their "peace" prize as soft power to further their own interests. They are being rather blatant about it as you showed with mugabe winning it in 2015. And europe is using their "peace" prize to further their own interests. Though they do pay lip service to "peace", "human rights" and "democracy". The chinese haven't bother with that much, but if history serves as an example, it won't be long before the chinese pretend to be the champions of the "peace", "human rights" and "democracy" like europeans do.

Also, the chinese peace prize winners are suspect for sure. But so are the european peace prize list. People like woodrow wilson and henry kissinger are nobel peace laureates.
Note that this appears to be in the UK, given the branding of the machine and the poster's comments. I'm not sure what the legality is there, but it sounds like it's a less regulated form of low stakes gambling, so maybe it's practical there. I imagine whoever's responsible for the machine would kick you out in a hurry, though. I know there's some been some other rulings that make UK law pretty bad for advantage players, so it also wouldn't surprise me if this is illegal there as well.

In the US, this would generally not be called a "slot machine" - more like a bar trivia video game from what I can find, which most likely wouldn't pay out money. US casinos and slot developers are putting some skill-based elements in their machines, but those are generally added as bonus rounds to regular slot machines. In any case, using an electronic device on a casino floor is generally not a good idea in the US. For example, in Nevada,

"NRS 465.075 Use of device for calculating probabilities. It is unlawful for any person at a licensed gaming establishment to use, or possess with the intent to use, any device to assist:

1. In projecting the outcome of the game;
2. In keeping track of the cards played;
3. In analyzing the probability of the occurrence of an event relating to the game; or
4. In analyzing the strategy for playing or betting to be used in the game,

except as permitted by the Commission."

In practice there is some leeway on this - sitting at a video poker machine, nobody's likely to hassle you for looking up perfect strategy on your phone. On the other hand, most table games dealers will tell you to leave the table while using your phone. It's fine to have a paper card with blackjack basic strategy, but not to check the same information on your phone. But in any case, the rig described here is not going to be a good idea anywhere in the US I'm aware of, and that's assuming you can even find a skill-based machine with sufficient payouts to justify trying it.
I participated in a discussion on /r/math about this a few months ago, and there was surprising resistance to ideas like this. Most of it fell into two categories. The first was people with a paper fetish who refuse to believe that there are now computer display technologies that provide adequate readability and resolution to be a full-time substitute for books. The second was people who can't imagine a usable way to typeset proofs that embed metadata about which lines are the key steps and which could be folded. This is probably influenced by the fact that LaTeX doesn't support this kind of semantic markup and it would be awkward to add.
I wrote a similar program a while ago to cheat at Word Soup which is another of the games on these machines.

http://chris-knott.appspot.com/projects/word_soup.html

They are technically not gambling. There are two different regulations in the UK - Amusements With Prizes, which are random and you need to be 18+ to play, and Skills With Prizes which are technically skill games and you don't need to be 18 to play, or have a gambling license to run.
The committee saying “none of you assholes deserve it this year, try harder” might be a good statement to make.
Why can they? You can't assume fully explicit proofs are practical just because they're plausible. The justification of practicality will be highly nontrivial. If its impractical to write such a textbook then code folding gets you nothing.
I guess this guy has been milking his code and is rich by now!
Not surprisingly, we only ever use photographs where all children and their parents have given informed consent, otherwise we would be in breach of GDPR.

Parents are asked whether to select whether photos can be used for

1. Inside for school displays
2. For training purposes
3. In school newsletters
4. On the school website
5. For publicity purposes, including Twitter, press releases.

I too am a parent, if the school want to say 'well done to the football team for winnning the London championships', and have a photo of the team with the trophy that's fine by me. Some parents agree, some disagree. Some disagree until their kids tell them that they would like to be in the photo.

Names aren't used on the Twitter account.
It seems you've independently rediscovered extensible programming which had seen much research in the past and again a few years back. There have been a number of languages that did same thing as in your tweet (e.g. [1]) but most aren't developed anymore.

[1]: http://seed7.sourceforge.net/examples/declstat.htm
Most game devs also care about consoles, which adds several more platforms and toolchains.
> Then after you've reverse-engineered the algorithm you can play it yourself and you'll know at least something that will happen in the game, ahead of the time. Time to cash the machine again. Is this still not cheating?

Sounds like counting cards. From Wikipedia, "Card counting is not illegal under British law, nor is it under federal, state, or local laws in the United States provided that no external card counting device or person assists the player in counting cards. Still, casinos object to the practice, and try to prevent it, banning players believed to be counters."

So you may not go to jail, but maybe you'll get shot in the back of the head
2, and 5 only apply to "game[s] or other event[s]" which has a specific definition (namely it is about e.g. sports betting and other live events). 7 doesn't apply at all since he didn't alter or manipulate the machine in question, it is working as intended.

Plus the claim was:

> in every jurisdiction

Nevada has some of the most strict gambling laws in the world (and showing it is illegal in Nevada hasn't even been satisfied yet).
What's fair about perpetuating the systematic discrimination that women in tech face?

And in what way is this special treatment?

Companies use a variety of different metrics by which to determine which schools they should recruit from. "We want to increase our diversity" is a reasonable metric to use, and "recruit from colleges with an above-average percentage of people in a minority group we've chosen to view as important" is a reasonable way to accomplish that.

I shouldn't have to point this out, but diversity is more than just a buzzword. Increasing diversity on the development side improves the final product, for a variety of reasons.
I am using as well MariaDB + TokuDB with "a write heavy, low update, workload especially with interval flushing (non-fsync durable) commits" => do you have maybe a short list of the limitations of MyRocks in MariaDB for this area?

I tried to use MyRocks (never used it before) in MariaDB some months ago but couldn't find almost any docs and ultimately didn't understand which parameters were supposed to be set how under which condition... .
Looks like a case for <git-filter-branch>
That sounds great if you're hiring a long term contractor. But, if you're hiring an employee, either already working (which usually presents issues with existing employment agreements), or they're giving up a week's worth of a job search to do this (which risks wasting a lot of a candidate's time). When I can get a job with a recruiter chat, 1 phone screen, and an onsite, and spend a total of 1 day on a company to get a job, why should I spend an entire week?
Which laws?
I'm working on a project with a React frontend. I think I never tried it on my phone. It probably works but the site is really meant for the desktop and I don't know if it makes sense on a small display.

However... I'm writing this on my phone so HN is part of the mobile web and it works well. I read the post on twobithistory.org on my phone and that also works well. I doubt that they have an app and even if they did, why should I install it and what would happen when I follow a link from HN to them? I'll get the mobile site or would the app catch the link and open itself?

I don't even have the apps of the news sites I read most. Reading them on the phone with Firefox and uBlock is good enough. Their apps probably contain more spyware then the adblocked sites.

So the mobile web did not conpletely fail. It's still what's on the screen of my phone for about 50% of the time: since last charge 3h 55m of screen time, 57m used by phone calls, 1h 54m Firefox, 15m WhatsApp, etc.
Ethics aside, octopuses also seem like a great candidate for "domestication" a la the Russian domestication of the silver fox. Except rather than select for the most docile offspring, selecting for the cleverest. With their relatively short lifespans, one could probably achieve some success in a relatively short amount of time.
>Now it seems like you think Clinton was giving these people marching orders.

That is sort of a stretch based on what OP actually said.

Anyway, I think it is better to frame it as these journalists who see positions in media as powerful outlets for leftist activism, via narrative control and the ability to influence the public on a mass scale.

In some cases, we do have evidence of collusion between Clinton's campaign and specific journalists (initiated by both sides), but in many others it is just clear that this bias and activist intent is completely voluntary and unrestrained. That distinction still doesn't mean that their work is anything less than propaganda.
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Well, this cheat is equivalent in operation to having a book with all the answers to the quiz and a good index. The two should be equivalently legal, and I strongly suspect someone has tried to sit at a quiz machine with a curated indexed encyclopedia, so we just have to find that precedent.
Liking, respect and depth of rapport are overlapping but different. Some people like a fool but don't respect them, and respect a criminal without liking them. Others have deep rapport with someone they're ambivalent about because of circumstances.
Ask HN: What are the best software companies in Raleigh/Durham NC?
I currently work at one of the big 5 software companies, but am from RDU and want to move back soon. The area (Durham especially) is awesome, but it seems like there are few software companies. What are the best places for a SWE to go that will still result in career growth?
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Is there a source for this? It wouldn't surprise me but I'd like to read more about it.
There’s this curious thing in mathematics where most things are either obviously true or obviously false and those that aren’t are mostly inconsequential. Those that remain are certainly more interesting but also typically their proofs are a few obvious steps.

Obvious in this case means something like “clear to a mathematician familiar with the field” or “otherwise many things will fall apart”

This leads to the situation where if a mistake is found in a theorem then it is likely still true even if the proof is wrong.
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In the US there is also a trend for certain companies to use an address "fixer" or "reformater" API to automatically wither check and or fix an entered address. So bad. When I moved into a newly built apartment building a few years ago there were more than a few sites that just would not accept that the actual address was real and valid. ick.
That's not what I'm saying. And you're right to correct me. The prosecution's job included providing that evidence, and they failed.
If it is impractical now, that simply means the software needs improvement. If mathematicians stop being so accepting of informal proofs then there is a very strong incentive to improve the software.
I agree. I learn so much from HN.

I wouldn’t count HN as “social media” per se, anymore than Stack Overflow or a topical discussion forum.
Any idea on what they used to generate patterns like this?

https://img.inconvergent.net/img/plot/43adc57.jpg
Do you guys support timeseries?
It just seems like a lot of the discussion is trying to leave this at the feet of the auditors. Can't really blame them for your wrongdoing if you endeavored to deceive them, in my opinion.
One feature that's not available or easy to use is audio from the chrome session. Browser page navigation works well in most places, sound not always. We've been having issues with pulseaudio s/w channels just going bad.

BTW, anyone know of a simple SPA checker/monitor?
FOMO = Fear Of Missing Out, I know what it is but I had to Google the acronym.
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Xiaomi makes nice watches but it probably has the same issues you're wanting to avoid, and you're very much buying into their system.

https://www.androidcentral.com/amazfit-verge-new-smartwatch-...
> I have never had any problem with wrist stain and just from trying out "proper touch typing", I feel like my way of typing is far less straining and "more natural". That could just be confirmation bias of course.

It will never be a problem most likely until your situation changes. That change could be anything from a new keyboard to a new sport your trying out that increases the stress on wrists and arms.

I am not an expert in any way, but as long as your elbows rest on the desk and your wrists are straight, you should be fine.

> Who else has learned typing similarly to me and what have been your experiences?

I learned informally but started to use most fingers. Later on I learned two different dvorak layouts, switched back to qwerty for a couple of years, switched back to dvorak again. I feel that I have some weird ways to type sometimes, but I only had wrist problems once and that was when I switched keyboards and skipped the wrist rest (quite high keyboard). I've always found that the strain is in the elbows and how well you rest your wrists. Not depending on touch typing/layout etc.
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Cool project (legal/ethical issues aside)! My big question is why bother with OCR at all? Presumably you can construct a representation of the screen for each question ahead of time, and you already solve the projective transform due to the camera, so at that point why not pick some appropriate distance metric and pick the question/answer pair corresponding to the virtual image that is closest to the camera image?
DO NOT DO THIS.

Have you ever moved into a new house or apartment on a new street or address? Effectively blocking users because you assume their address is corrupt because your system is out of date. At some point you have to choose what is better, trusting that your users are able to enter their address or that an API (from USPS or one of the dozen or so others out there) is able to understand what is and is not a valid address.
While a many-to-many DB relationship can in theory model a 1-to-many relationship via constraints and/or domain logic coding, it seems kind of anti-YAGNI to me. Being that ANY 1-to-many relationship can potentially change into being many-to-many, which ones do you "pre many" and which ones are left 1-to-many? My crystal ball is not that powerful. If it were, I'd be competing with Warren Buffett instead of puzzling over database design.
> He acknowledged being at the crime scene, but said he was at a nearby shop buying beer when the gunshots rang out.

> Mr Dixon said multiple witnesses could have testified he did not fire the gun.

Sounds like some weasely words to me. He was clearly involved in the crime even if he didn't pull the trigger.
> still a hard problem, to be sure, but which admits varying degrees of partial progress.

I think one of the big problems with the semantic web was that it turned "varying degrees of partial progress" into "multiple competing approaches", each of which wanted to detract from the others.
Another related quote: “Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care.”
Common hypervisors like ESX and Xen definitely aren't like microkernels, though they'd be more secure if they actually were.

ESX and Xen are more like monolithic kernels. The problem is that in practice they've become mini-kernels with their own driver systems and increasingly large code surfaces, recapitulating the mistake of monolithic kernels.

seL4 actually can act as a hypervisor, and their build framework comes with support for building Linux guests into the bootable system image. I don't know if there are proofs of security wrt to the hypervisor, nor what the worth would be considering how complex the CPUs are these days, but I'd have much more trust in seL4 as a hypervisor and driver framework than in something using FreeBSD or Linux as the critical guarantor of system security.

If you're stuck with commodity x86 or ARM hardware and really want a strong architecture, seL4 is the best option unless you want to build from scratch. Apple uses another L4 derivative as the OS for its security chips; an in-house derivative that predates the seL4 project.[1][2]

[1] https://microkerneldude.wordpress.com/2016/04/14/so-the-fbi-...

[2] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Mandt-De...
Related: there are various bots for HQ Trivia that do similar things that have come up on HN before. Here's one with a bit of a writeup: https://medium.com/@tobymellor/hq-trivia-using-bots-to-win-m...

My general impression is that being able to screenshot and use real computing power is a fair bit easier than using OCR on a Raspberry Pi, but question parsing and querying Google is a lot harder than using a static corpus of questions and answers.
These are true stories. I don't wish to come across as bragging.

The last day of a job I had for seven years, the director of engineering told me I was the best engineer he ever knew. And he worked for some pretty well known engineering firms. If he had told me that before, I might not have left.

A woman came into my office--someone who didn't seem to want to give me the time of day--and the conversation got around to her telling me how depressed she was about her life and loves. After maybe 10 minutes, she thanked me for being such a good listener and said something about I was just so charismatic. I almost fell out of my chair.

I taught electronics at a trade school to a morning class for a couple of years. There were hundreds of students, and I knew I was a good teacher, but I didn't think the students thought once about me when they went home. On my last day of work, one of the guys asked me to give a special last lecture on a topic. As I walked into the room, I was followed by students from my class, the afternoon class and the evening class! They filled the room and presented me with a fairly expensive bottle of whiskey.

I've had a few girls tell me, after it was too late, that they always had a crush on me. Well, I was interested in them, too.

If someone would have just said something sooner, life, for me, would be totally different now.
You make it sound like this guy was tricked into confessing. How sure are you that he was guilty assuming his confession was "extracted" ?
I can think of some specialty environments where batteries fail (due to environmental, temperature, acceleration, etc.) but where energy-transfer would be good. I can separately think of times when RF/induction/etc. wouldn't be good, but ultrasonic might be good.
Yeah, listing Keras and FastAI in the same category as other original frameworks seems wrong to me.

On the other hand you should have absolutely included Caffe, as it is one of the major frameworks, and while there's a plan to merge it with Pytorch, it's hasn't happened yet (expected in Pytorch 1.0), and meanwhile if you want to use Caffe2 it's a very different tool from Pytorch.

Also, should have included Chainer.
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He tried to tell me that I didn't need to but I told him the battery drains precipitously in the cold and that'd I prefer we switch it and he just said ok and started the process.

[edit]

To answer your question, I guess it couldn't hurt? The thing is that I definitely did not trust the 81% that the battery health check was telling me. My battery would drain in minutes from 30% and the phone was practically useless in the cold.
Top-down or bottom-up, they still don't validate any assumptions. You can spend years on design stage unable to come up with anything that actually works well for the client.
> Mathematics textbooks would be intractably longer if they spelled out every step in explicit, formal detail.

Just as an example, Russell & Whitehead's Principia Mathematica famously requires some 400+ pages to prove that 1+1=2 (well, they prove some other stuff, too, I suppose.)

See the image and caption here to get a flavour:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica
Trust me, an MS in math doesn't even get you to the fun part. :)
I think you're exactly right. Mochizuki's work may or may not turn out to be sound, but in the mean time he's failed to communicate it to other experts, even when they've met with him in person for the specific goal of understanding his reasoning.

It's not sufficient to have a great idea, or even to be right about it. You have to be able to explain it thoroughly enough that other qualified peers can understand your logic enough to weigh in on it. That seems not to have happened yet hear.
People sure seem to love SAS.