skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you ignore the news, and you live in a nice part of America that isn’t riddled with violence, and you come from a decent family with some money, and you don’t have to deal with the police, social services, housing agencies, or medical insurance denying your claims, if you can afford insurance, if you have a good education, if you don’t have to worry where your next meal is coming from, if you’re not a woman or related to a woman who might someday need an abortion, if you aren’t in the military or related to or care about anyone in the military or VA system, if you have a good job and some job security, if you have accesss to affordable housing and so do all of the people you care about, if you’re not in the wrong place at the wrong time when some psychopath with an AR-15 opens fire, if you don’t know or care about any people who don’t fall into the above categories...

...yeah it seems pretty nice.
No, you are missing my point. The government doesn't need to fund printing presses or domain registrars because (a) there are tons of providers for these services (b) in general it is really cheap (c) you can find providers in nearly all cases. In some cases, a particular registrar won't support you (Go Daddy in this case). But that's their right. And Go Daddy would have continued to support them if Gab.com weren't engaging in particularly harmful activity.
The comments reflect the (perceived) state of the technology.

One has to admit that the reputation of the entire space has been tarnished by snake oil salesmen. For some historical context it is worth looking at countless examples such as the Railway Mania[1] of the 1840s or the more recent Dot-Com bubble[2]. For more depth one can read Mackay[3].

Some of the most promising advancements in payment channels were only published as papers in 2016[4] and are understandably still being implemented. If anything the speed at which enthusiasts are willing to deploy experimental software at their own risk is breathtaking.

Regarding the environmental impact of the Bitcoin network, while being widely derided for its energy use, it is in fact using less electricity than the major credit card networks. It is also using less energy than global gold mining. There are ways to reduce consumption should a consensus accept the tradeoffs.

The term "Blockchain" as it is currently used often refers to private chains which are in vogue with corporate stakeholders. This appears to be a solution in search of a problem–I have not been able to identify a compelling use case here either.

Most ICOs are outright scams.

It is truly unfortunate that promising advancements of micropayments, smart contracts and the world's closet thing to an incorruptible currency are lumped together with so much rubbish.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusion...
[4]https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf
Fred Friedberg's protocol seems to be the best option:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jclp.20676

(look up the paper on sci-hub if you don't have journal access).
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Well Canonical - if you were waiting for the right moment to push hard and take Red Hat's business this is it.
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Right to repare is a different issue, which I strongly support.

What I'm talking about is whether google/developer should be able to brick a pirated app on your phone. I've done my fair share of pirating, and I would much rather have that be the outcome than the developer taking legal action against me. I have a friend who was sued for 10k by the music industry for pirating 1000s of songs. If there was a way for them to just render those songs unplayable I think she would take that option in a heartbeat.

What I would have a problem with is google preventing you from doing anything legal on your android phone simply because it hurts their bottom line.
I definitely agree with you. I’ve been paid more or less to run GPFS over the last 15 years or so (finally free of it for the last few months), and while I hate it with a searing passion, a) it’s far better than the alternatives as long as you can afford it, and b) the people who lead and do the real work on the project are very, very bright. If they keep these people working on hard problems, they’ll do well. If they try to replace them with inexpensive staff, it will fall apart in months.

Parallel POSIX-compliant filesystems at scale are an astonishingly hard problem, and adding the feature set they have while keeping it relatively stable and performant is really worthy of admiration. Every one of the dozens of conversations I’ve had with their developers and technical leads have left me more impressed. They literally can’t test it internally at the scale that their large customers run it, but they’re really good at finding problems and pushing out hotfixes that work pretty well.

That said, if I never have to touch it again for as long as I live, I’ll be a very happy man. From an HPC perspective, I think we’re long past the scale where parallel filesystems should be POSIX-based.
The difference is that the worst stuff you generally see on Twitter is the stuff that is highest-voted content on Gab.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18315577

75+ comments
As the actual developer of the tool that was used, porn filtering was something that was added later on, after the porn became a problem. The issue is that trying to filter such things is often a losing game, as most conference NOC staff don't want to put in proxies for a variety of reasons.

The solution I ended up with was to use Yahoo's trained machine-learning algorithm to attempt to detect, score, and ignore images on an unbounded scan (generally from 0-100). In most cases the threshold was set to 70, however was something folks could independently sat if they ever wanted to open the front-end on their own machines. There was also a mechanism to blacklist images from the screen if one happened to pass through. I've run it at BSidesLV, BSidesChicago, Thotcon, CircleCityCon, BSidesDetroit over the years and I can tell you, monitoring and trying to block porn from hitting the board was generally what I ended up doing while running this.
Ah yes, the horrible take that is that you just feel bad because you care too much. The justified anger that you might be feeling is really what's making you sick, therefore you should just give up, accept the current situation, and surrender.
Nice work! I like this bicycle analogy and believe we have a ways to go for improving programming environments.
In a far less ambitious vane, I've been trying to integrate the pytest-watch plugin to get a tighter feedback loop about regressions when making code changes.
https://github.com/OpenPOWERFoundation and https://github.com/open-power

OpenPower has the entire firmware Apache licensed, see the link. that's WAY more than any Intel/AMD CPU. Even all the secure-boot stuff is open(Apache Licensed).

Joining the OpenPower Foundation is free for < 300 employee companies, academics and individuals. see the membership kit: https://openpowerfoundation.org/membership/how-to-join/

Joining the foundation gets you the chip blueprints, etc.

For hardware it's like leaps and bounds more open than anything else out there that can compete with it. Could they open up more, of course, but for hardware, it's pretty amazingly open.
> There is still a server running the code

Is there anyone who really thinks that there is no server anywhere. I find this complaint really odd.

Your complaint can be applied to FAAS too, don't all webserver execute functions? What else would they be serving.
... and th biggest bubble of them all might be in early stage startups..
What an over-simplification. The crisis depended on so many things. Ratings agencies. Insurance companies. Stupid people getting loans they couldn’t afford. And Goldman Sachs who were very clever in compounding the entire crisis in order to profit from it (good for them in my opinion). The creditors who provided the loans were giving loans to stupid people, those loans were then rated highly as a source of debt by the ratings agencies, all of it being insured by short sighted insurance companies and then Goldman came in and made it all worse by adding more money to the fire. Take away any of those components and you no longer have Great Depression 2.
Quit trying to make this into a culture war thing. America is generally pretty swell even if youre not an older white guy. Just don't be poor.
Lots of noble and admirable people use Twitter, in addition to shitbags. I challenge you to find a decent person who is an active user of Gab.
My understanding of WSL is that Linux software runs natively on Windows by virtue of a compatibility layer. Eg. if there is a fork() in my code it will be translated into CreateProcess() or something like that.
There are two fundamental issues in food delivery business:

1. Per hour cost of a delivery person is usually $20 after taking in to account vehicle, gas, down times etc. If you assume each delivery takes minimum of 20 mins (accounting for restaurant-customer-return hops), we are talking average of $6+ per delivery. Considering a cost of a meal is usually $10-20, this is significant barrier. My question is: Does these startups taking on losses to build customer base?

2. Cooked food is notoriously perishable. Think about eating burger lying around for 30-60 mins before you eat. This not only limits items you can deliver but also puts on pressure that you are always running against clock. One mistake and you are bound to lose a customer for factors not in your control.

So, food delivery idea is not new. It had been tried and failed to takeoff probably couple of dozen times mainly due to above two issues. What really has changed now to mitigate these two issues?
Thanks for the more detailed explanation!
Also, unlike AirBnB, even a conscientiously-run underground restaurant would have trouble not attracting attention from my neighbors. If the house down the street has a different car in front of it every week I would never notice. If there's a constant stream of people visiting (parking on the street, etc.) I'd notice and probably be inclined to figure out what's going on. That pattern of behavior is also likely to get the cops called on suspicion of drug dealing.

I think a very, very cautious person who carefully screened their clientele could get away with having one, maybe two small groups dine at their house a night. Probably not even every day a week. Suffice it to say that we're talking about a market so small it might as well be said not to exist, and by that point you might as well just call it catering or a private chef, not a restaurant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_fraud
Eh, I don’t think that many are required. Convergence to a Gaussian is pretty fast (you should check out page 299 of [0]), at four or five a Gaussian is already a quite good approximations.

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[0] https://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articl...
And when Verisign (the registry operator for .com) decide that they no longer want [some undesirable domain] registered at all, where then? Go hopping between TLDs/ccTLDs? What about when ICANN gets dragged into the politics of all of this? Or recursive DNS resolvers like 1.1.1.1/8.8.8.8?

I'm not saying I agree exactly with the OP's solution, but domain registration in many ways has the characteristics of a public utility, and I share their concern about it being subject to arbitrary value judgements.
Ok, time to contradict myself. Other two books in my back burner in the same ballpark:

* Beautiful Code

* Programming Pearls
How did you determine the percentage of missing mitochondrial DNA?
I think that it's much harder to think of valid use cases in the US and other developed countries (not that they don't exist)

But, for the most part, our financial systems work. In countries like Venezuela, it doesn't, and blockchain is much more revolutionary.
Non technical people?

If you want to dismiss the literal issue, that means the name is meaningless. It might as well be called Daffy Duck.
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I often make this point (if you don't have a grad-level understanding..). And people get pissy. Same with statistics ("if you don't have a PHD in stats; you don't understand stats").

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I had someone contact me for a "consulting" position, to replace their rule-based insurance claim denial system, with "ML". Contract-work, nobody in-house to review its performance, no insight to the problems of the domain and they wanted to throw ML at it to "solve their problem".

When I refused, and pointed out that it would be highly irresponsible, to "contract-out" this type of work, particularly given its life-or-death implications; the CEO got angry. Told me; its "post-claims processing" and it isn't life or death. To which I told him bullshit; your denial of claims is going to directly influence how doctors practice their treatment. There is a direct feedback cycle. The fact that you don't see it, makes it even more dangerous.

They simply, didn't understand, how HIGHLY inappropriate it was to just throw random ML at a problem, particularly as a one-off consulting project (and no in-house expertise).

^ thats real-world.

Personally I don't think you should be allowed anywhere near ML, UNLESS you have that PHD in computer science. I don't even think you should be allowed to HIRE people for ML until you fully understand the hazards with letting a computer control critical decisions.

So yeah, with respect to your distinction of "ML research" and "applied ML".

"NO."
JP Morgan _still_ hasn't provided clean drinking water[0] to New Yorkers yet, so it's simply karma.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manhattan_Company
As a Corp buyer of both, it seems like one dinosaur buying another. When IBM (Or CA or Oracle or any other old school firm) buys another company, it almost always results in underinvestment in product and worse support.
Before Yahoo's Open-NSFW data was released, skin tone analysis and assessing if the image contained a majority of color palettes that are generally considered to correlate to flesh tones. You'd be surprised to know that many of these libraries are still commonly used (look at nude.js for example). The downside is that they are false positive heavy, and fairly easy to circumvent.
Incorrect. There are going to be studies showing that inflammation in the pipeline soon, but for now there is the Japanese paper from 2014. You know of it, Mr. 'research.' Melvin Ramsay & his colleagues didn't pull this out of thin air and you know it. Plus, the canard of 'it's more appealing because' is stuff and nonsense, much like the fanciful notions of how much damage stress can actually do. You're on the wrong side of this.
Time to add crypto support to KloudTrader :)

https://kloudtrader.com/narwhal
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FYI, the Synology Community site is at https://synocommunity.com/
My company just started using XenForo, and we've been pretty happy with it. We're self-hosting on a cheap AWS Lightsail instance.

We really wanted to to like Dicourse, but everyone on my team found some little thing that really annoyed them ("why does it hijack ctrl-f?", etc.). It was death by a thousand cuts. XenForo is the most modern of the traditional forum platforms that I reviewed. Everyone just gets it.
Is the inspection paradox what would happen if you surveyed everyone on how many siblings they had, and every sibling double-counted N-1 times (where N is the number of siblings in their family), inflating the resulting "average number of siblings", or is that something different?
You’d need the VLA length encoded somewhere in the struct, though.
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If it's their code by employment contract, they could.
this clause was added this week
Throwing ML at something and seeing what sticks is how one ends up with systems that no-one understands and which have horrible impacts in the real world.
flesh-tone filtering algorithms sucked.
If im honest this is difficult to read as a financial analyst. The original document is easier to search and traverse. The idea you have to click through things makes it very difficult to look for anything.
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The IKEA of food would be:

"Hmmm... just finished following this freaking recipe to a TEE!... why do I have a slice of raw chicken and an egg left over?"

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Joking aside, I have also looked into renting a commercial kitchen to TEST out the market to see if people would buy my wares.

The problem is that the commercial kitchens that I called at the time wanted too much financial commitment to use their space than seemed reasonable for me.

I wanted a commercial kitchen which I could rent for a few hours to do a large batch of Deviled Eggs so that I could sell fresh deviled eggs of my various recipes that people seem to really really love, but the pricing was too high.

They wanted in total, about $500 to use the kitchen, deposit, etc... I still have this idea to attempt it - maybe its time is now more affordable to test out.
It doesn't work. When I import my schema.rb file it takes issue with basically every line saying things like unexpected token etc. I'm using the "upload schema.rb" file button, but it's like it's trying to parse it as SQL.
Point of interest: Chinese websites are expected to use the .com TLD. China technically has its own TLD, .cn, but using it is not normal.

.com is pronounced 网 wǎng, "net", which doesn't leave much conceptual space for other TLDs.
And wires are still involved with wireless networking, but people are somehow more forgiving of that. People are just being pedantic for no good reason.
In other words, RH is too big to merge quickly. When it's all said and done (in at most 3 years), expect a new post talking about "increased synergy" where RH will go through major a reorg to be merged into the borg.

This is all very sad.
How do the figures pan out for hiring a car for the infrequent requirements?

Purchase a vehicle that solves (100-X)% of your needs. Hire to cover the remaining X%

Would this end up cheaper than purchasing a vehicle that solves 100% of your needs?

It's probably not long before I'm going to need to run these numbers for myself, but everyone's going to have a different set of requirements and percentage use-cases.
Average order is closer to $20.

Uber then takes up to 30% cut on the food cost.
Finally, I never got why they had this limit. ML even if you know the theory and mathematical knowledge isn't out the realms of undergrads. If you black box it can easily be done.
article is 2017 but the paper was revised may 2018
aside from the economic issues which I believe are exaggerated, being able to travel around EU and not caring about exchange rates etc is really nice. moreover I order from online shops around europe and the only time I need to mentally convert prices is for amazon.co.uk.
You've seen those links? Have you read them? The third one is a link to the most extensive literature review ever undertaken, and their conclusions were strong enough for them to state flatly in the abstract that this is not psychological or psychiatric.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25695122

I'm left wondering exactly what it will take for people to back off this stuff about this being a psych illness. What evidence exactly is required? The volume of studies indicating objectively measurable biological abnormalities is massive. Many are unreplicated due to longstanding funding issues. But while I think most reasonable people would agree that psych issues and/or stress are capable of causing a number of physical issues, I can't imagine we'll ever see anything that suggests that psych issues could possibly come close to affecting the body in the severe ways that Myalgic Encephalomyelitis does.

https://app.box.com/s/9s4coexxtys5bnz33i6gvqqygu67ex5o
Linear algebra and even matrix calculus is an undergrad level math.
Actually, it Dofler uses driftnet, ettercap, dsniff, tshark, ngrep, and PVS and wired them together into a web front-end. Driftnet was the component that made porn filtering very hard, as driftnet gives you no indication of WHERE the image came from, just that it found something.
Still better than the node js ecosystem imo. We are using Amber in production, and it's been a pretty good experience. We control the Dockerfile so we aren't pressured to upgrade things the moment a breaking change comes out, but we stay on top of it.
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can I plot certain columns, or based on title in the first row?
Serverless databases are a thing. Serverless is not confusing. It's only confusing if you try to be pedantic with remarks like "duh, it has to run on a server some where."

Which really means wireless networking doesn't exist, because there are still wires involved somewhere, and I don't hear people being pedantic about that.
Here is a BBC article with more info (and being updated): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46014463

At present there is no info to indicate that the aircraft type (737 MAX) is material to the cause of the incident.
Wow! It’s an entirely unsupported claim of 20 million now.
Also if you haven't taken a look in the last 6 months, I would. Things have REALLY started to solidify and come together. They are also 2/3rds of the way through Windows support, which is the main barrier right now to 1.0. Nothing else significant is going to change before 1.0 AFAIK, and it's my job to know.
keepingyouawake (open source): https://github.com/newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake
“illegals” is a ridiculous and perjorative term. It’s not possible to be an illegal human being. Strange how people who supposedly abhor ‘big government’ and ‘over regulation’ give vast credence to government’s power to permit people to exist within an area or not.
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Well this is a pretty heartless way to refer to a disaster involving 188 people. (Title currently: "Lion Air's brand new Boeing 737 MAX8 crashes into sea")
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321709
> On other hand, this is such a double standard.

China would likely prefer that it be as hard for expat Chinese to get financial access given the sheer amount of capital illicitly flowing out.

However, the Vancouvers of the world want that money much like London wants Russian money. So they follow a no questions asked policy.
Speed and altitude compared to the previous day. Immediate problems from the start. Pilot radioed a technical problem. Plane was delivered in August.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1151x734/3...

(Credit to a comment on Reddit here https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/9s9752/indonesian...)
What wouldn't be the 5th time I've heard such stories, but I don't think it's in any way specific to IBM. Employers like that want any OT you do to be dedicated to THEIR endeavor, not somebody else's...even your own.

If you're able and willing to code in your off-time, you should be doing it for the good of the Company. /s
Aviation Herald entry: https://avherald.com/h?article=4bf90724&opt=0
Deflationary "problems" are largely strawmen. We've never had such deflationary money systems to know how it plays out long term.

In the end, people still need to eat and drink, and they're going to pay to meet those needs no matter how much it costs them.

Most of the complaints about deflation are from the Keynesian economists, who for them, it is a major problem. How are they going to pay back all that interest they keep accumulating if people aren't continuously spending?