skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This leads in a very interesting direction. Previously I read that DNN is just as content to fit random input as it is to fit meaningful categories of input. This makes it seem that the DNN is just a memory trick and can't possibly extract any meaning.

Now being able to compress the network after being trained, it's evident that not all the nodes were needed/used. A good experiment would be to train a DNN on random input samples and verify that it is far less compressible. If so, the degree of compressibily could be used as a proxy estimate of how much 'conceptualization' is being done.
Yes - but it's a public site for anyone with the link.
I agree, but this battle has already basically lost because of DRM requirements for streaming video: I don't think you can take a screenshot of a Netflix or Amazon Prime video on any platform.
I've spent enough time (not much) with urbit to write a Nock interpreter/compiler. There are aspects of it that rub me the wrong way such as the needless custom terminology and general esoteric nature that sometimes reads like an occult grimoire but I also think that a lot of the criticism aimed at them, especially the politics, is misguided. Having watched Yarvin present on urbit a couple of times, I would say he is mostly driven by the intellectual atmosphere of the early Internet, before the masses moved in, thus his attempts to not "cast pearls before swine" by making things too accessible so to speak. I do not agree with this stance but I can certainly understand it without having to resort to conspiracies. Other than that, he most definitely reinvented Lisp, badly, but I am willing to give him a pass there too. There is nothing at all that attempts to make real the vision behind urbit around today and I do think it is an interesting vision. Finally, Alan Kay likes it.
I'm a dev working remote in the PH. While this state of affairs is frustrating, I await the day when pay for technical work has nothing to do with one's location.

Your biggest mistake was mentioning the Philippines. The sad fact is that a lot of employers, including Filipino ones, associate this country with low-wage employees and cheap labour. That's why the PH is the capital of outsourcing and offshoring in order to cut costs. It shouldn't matter, and I feel sorry for Filipinos trying to get paid fairly in this business climate, but unfortunately this country is so corrupt that it's a case of poor economics and planning.
sounds like an issue with management, why?
> Apple ... is obliged to turn over my iCloud data to the government with a subpoena.

Apple must of course comply with a subpoena, but it can only hand over data it holds the keys to. The iOS Security whitepaper[1] goes into some details. Any encryption keys that are stored in iCloud Keychain "share[] the security characteristics of iCloud Keychain—the keys are available only on the user’s trusted devices, and not to Apple or any third party." This is used for some, but not all, categories of iCloud data today—iMessage transcripts, for instance, are safe only if you do not use iCloud Backup.

1: https://www.apple.com/business/site/docs/iOS_Security_Guide....

Your post makes it sound like Google targeting ads to you and Apple complying with legal data requests happen with the same frequency, which is obviously false, and definitely is a difference in practical terms for the everyday user.

According to Apple's transparency report[2], they gave data up in 2,088 account requests in the United States in the first half of 2018.

2: https://www.apple.com/privacy/government-information-request...
I ended up retiring from the military. It wasn't 9-5 and it wasn't meaningless but it was soul sucking at times. I originally planned on getting into information security/ cyber security but a good opportunity popped up to own a franchise that does stretch therapy and I took it. Right now I am able to make a difference in other peoples lives by reducing pain and increasing mobility thru stretch therapy. Running a business has also been extremely educational. Especially coming from a military background.

For the information security side of the house I am just doing my own thing learning pentesting and reverse malware analysis. It is still fun but I have less time to do it as I would like.
It's available as a podcast here: https://data.voxsnap.com/podcast/ycombinator.rss
>This should be a lesson for all voters across the world - think for a minute before voting. At least try to understand what you're voting on. We can blame all we want on the media, politicians etc etc, but in the end, we can't deny Brexit is the result of a properly, democratically conducted election

It's a shitshow for sure, but at least it's a democratic shitshow. Democracy isn't always a bed of roses, sometimes it's chaos, but it is what it is.

The EU council could have offered some reasonable concessions in order to remain, both before and after the referendum, but nada. What really helped the leave vote was not so much shadowy influences but the attitude of the EU council. You can't ignore the elephant in the room.
I couldnt care less about my SO’s web browsing habits. Maybe I’m different.
Meaning that you can run PCA and the first few components will explain a vast majority of the variance. Some things may have so many moving pieces that it's just not possible to grok how all the variables interact to get the results we see.
As a scientific term, "diminishing" means its derivative has limit/asymptote of 0 or negative approached fast enough that the integral (or series sum) is bounded. Logarithm, with derivative 1/x is the well-behaved function with smallest (ignoring constant factors and trivial higher order terms) non-diminishing return -- its returns flatten too slowly to bound it's value.
A good book to learn data structures and algorithms using functional language?
> No [...] transfer method can protect you from the actions of a malicious server

Try applying that logic to a web browser. Oh, just do whatever the server says and overwrite whatever files it wants?
The model also lacks mouth width/lip shape, which is crucial for differentiating between Swedish vowels (for example i vs y, which have most of the mouth the same except for y has the lips protruding and i is more of a smile).
What exactly does "the West" stand for, in your view? Your hyperbolic framing of Russia's "involvement" in 2016 aside (you make it sound like it was large scale cyberwar, which it wasn't), Russia would now start a global war in Europe that would very likely go nuclear because ... the West isn't "standing up to it"?

>a large scale conflict is more likely or a west that isn't as united and can't respond as well to aggression from Russia.

The default foreign policy consensus appears to be that anything Russia does is "bad" and should be opposed, perhaps militarily. This is nonsense, and really is a "Cold War mindset" that is not applicable in a post-9/11 environment.
Riding in a Driverless Taxi at CES 2019
No, this is simply not true.

In France, the EU is viewed with even wider skepticism than in the UK.

Just before Brexit - the majority of France, Germany, UK and Spain had negative views of the EU [1]

Popular sentiment towards the EU has been declining steadily until Brexit, during which it's shot up somewhat, as EU-wide press does their best to inject fear into the situation - but without this existential angst, the trend-line is clearly going down.

This is also obvious from recent Eurosceptic political trends.

Consider that just this week, the far right AfD in Germany, has just announced they would like to move Germany out of the EU as a material policy. They have about 15% of the vote. They've always been sceptic, but there has never been discussion in Germany about exit before.

But it is of course nuanced:

+ Wether or not citizens want to 'leave' is a different question.

+ Wether or not people would opt to 'join' were they not members otherwise, is also a different question.

+ Wether or not they can separate the notion of 'EU' and 'Europe' is another question. For example, Italy, Europe's 3rd largest economy has just elected a Eurosceptic party, but they have no real inclination to leave. For Italians, to 'leave the EU' is to 'leave Europe' and because they see themselves as European, they may not chose to leave the EU. (I see that as a false equivalence, that the EU is not Europe, just a body politic and set of treaties.)

+ Nations that have the most direct battles with the EU, for example Poland, have the highest rating!

Make no mistake - though material 'exit' may be stronger in the UK than elsewhere, anti-EU sentiment is strong across Europe, and the overall trend-line is bad news.

Aside from political issues, there are serious economic concerns about the Euro, and that it's a 'trap' for peripheral nations unless there is deeper political integration (there won't be), and even if there was, they would never agree on how to print money anyhow.

And finally - even issues for which the EU can't fairly be blamed ... they will take the heat for in many cases.

The kind of populism you see in France right now with the Gilets Jaunes which is leaderless, has no ideology, there's nobody to negotiate with, nobody to appease, nobody really knows for sure why it's happening, it's just 'angst' ... this is going to spill over into Bruxelles. You'll see arbitrary movements like this.

That most of Europe's current elite are fairly pro-EU, and that the current political bodies are fairly 'on the same page' should not be interpreted as populist favour overall for the EU.

To anyone who thinks that Euroscepticism is a marginal issue, have a look at the Wikipedia entry, it's enlightening, and also gives some insight into all of the different nuances of it.

[1] http://www.pewglobal.org/2017/06/15/post-brexit-europeans-mo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euroscepticism
Aurora is still ultimately a standard cluster of MySQL (or other) instances on the front end — it's just the storage engine that's significantly different.

From the docs, the largest instance size defaults to the recommend maximum of 6,000 connections (16k maximum) per server (and only one write-based sever and 15 read replicas)
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...
It definitely is. This kind of advertising is pretty commonplace, you can see it all over reddit. This guy just happened to explicitly say it was.
What really helped the leave vote was not so much shadowy influences but the attitude of the EU.

1. Can you explain the "attitude of the EU" part?

2. If the EU is that bad, why aren't other countries holding referendums and leaving the EU? Why is only the UK making so much noise?

I am not European, so my knowledge on this matter is pretty small. Honestly curious, not being snarky etc.
Not convinced you are totally limited by timezones if you can embrace asynchronous working. Definitely makes it harder though.
100% on self starters. Micromanagers or workers that require great oversight aren't going to work.
Another better(battery life maybe) one in rust, https://github.com/yingDev/Tickeys
Sweet, thanks
In some implementations, the code may be a scannable code such as a one-dimensional barcode, two-dimensional (e.g., matrix) barcode, scannable alphanumeric code, and so forth. The code may be arranged according to any suitable format, such as a version of the Universal Product Code (UPC), the Quick Response (QR) code, and so forth. In such instances, the user may use their user device to capture an image of the code or otherwise scan the code, e.g., using a camera or other image capture component. The scannable code may be decoded to retrieve information that uniquely identifies the laundry machine.

Interesting. Many vending machines/services in Asia (through WeChat payments) and other on-demand rentals (such as Bird and Lime) use QR codes to initialize a pay-per-use transaction. The so-called implementation described in this patent is just a particular use case of this technology.
Swift immediately comes to mind - structs are value types. Also, Kotlin has data classes.
I don't think it's too hard on Windows...
Was this article written by a markov chain? There's a lot of words there but it doesn't make much sense at all.
It's not over the top, it's what I was talking about.

Terror cells have had to operate with reduced resources since the dawn of terrorism. The terror cell structure is trying to keep things as isolated as possible, and I'm saying this structuring and proliferation of dead-drop tech will all boost the potential power of the terror cell.

I'm saying that what they've described is a structure analogous to what exists, just higher tech. The time to adoption of this by terror elements is going to be short.
Look forward to the re-write and part II.

Can you please provide a glimpse of what you want to address in the re-write.
I see no problem with this and do it myself if autoformat doesn't undo it.

This is being literate (evaluating over a space of three dimensions) rather than literal (of nested loops).
Thanks very much for the heads up! Awesome to see that Gitlab is solving this pain point.

I doubt there's any point to trying to run this service since per-minute charging is so much more efficient from a cost perspective and is where I was going to head to as well...

I guess I'll keep this around and see what the per-minute prices are and see if there's any space there.
Didn't Descartes cover this with "I think therefore I am."? Everything else is varying degrees of speculation.
The EU is and was a system. If the British politicians would have genuinely wanted they could have decided to stay within the system and improve it. But they either to grab power by playing to the fears of the people or to show contempt decided to fan the flames and lead UK down the wrong path. Similar is also the situation in USA where Trump has also done the same where he has led the nation toward a path of greater alienation from the world.
Endogenous growth theory, for which Paul Romer won a 2018 Nobel prize in economics, implies that long-term economic prosperity depends on the spread of knowledge and technological innovation in the economy. [1]

If these are the primary factors, then the closest analogues to China would be other East Asian economies like Japan and South Korea. These nations greatly value education, with top-tiered performance in international tests, and invest heavily in R&D.

An oft-repeated criticism that authoritarianism constrains scientific and technological creativity is still unproven and will be tested in the coming decades by China. [2]

[1] From Wikipedia: “Endogenous growth theory holds that economic growth is primarily the result of endogenous and not external forces.[1] Endogenous growth theory holds that investment in human capital, innovation, and knowledge are significant contributors to economic growth.”

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2018/pre...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_growth_theory

[2] How China could dominate science. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/01/12/how-china-could...
Bezos is definitely Yaltabaoth. Benioff is more of a Demiurge.
That's just how my smart TV manufacturer does it too.

If they can push to batches of cars then they can push to all cars if they want to.
The shareholder still has no input if the only option is to sell. In the same spirit a country could tell its citizens that they should leave if they don't like it here.
No. The fundamental problem — random blocks arbitrarily after seeding, and urandom does not block even before seeding — existed prior to the 2009 change.
http://wikimapia.org can be a win-win to DDG
Apple does business in China. So not a good case for privacy.
For some reason, dirty names are common practice in audio tools. Some examples: "Rectal Anarchy" is another vocal synth for Buzz, grANALizer (emphasis not mine) is a popular granular audio effect, and even in the commercial world, it gets more subtle but it still exists: Image Line sells a plugin called "Gross Beat", which is a bilingual en/fr dirty joke.
I would argue that the campaign against the European Constitution in France was not completely unlike the campaign for Brexit.

Opponents (on the left side of French politics) to the European Constitution argued that rejecting it would allow France to open negotiations for a more social leaning EU that didn't try to be only a giant free trade zone, but would also care about the well-being of its citizens (social net, minimum wage, etc.). We've seen where that went: there never was a Constitution B. No-one ever agreed to even try to write one. In short: just like for the Brexit, there never was any concrete plan behind the "no".

Ironically UK managed to duck out of most of the Lisbon treaty obligations (like the Charter of Fundamental Rights, judicial harmonisation and co-operation, etc.), while it would have been much harder -if not impossible- to do with the European Constitution... Had we (the French) voted "yes", we may have ended up with a Brexit 10 years before Brexit!
Not that it really matters but Google had been an active participant in the project for at least a year prior to the open sourcing in 2015. Meh.
I’m curious as to what you mean by trolling the thinkpad subreddit. Trolling usually means causing grief, perhaps you meant lurking or browsing?
The issue is that the replacement isn’t 5% better (it is!), it’s the network effect. The counter pretty likely will ask for a redlined Word doc so you’re back to exporting it from your fancy scm-diffed Markdown file.
Anyone interested in an infuriating tale of mismanagement, fraud, incompetence, duplicity, backstabbing, turf wars, and tyranny of petty authority, I encourage to send a Freedom of Information Act request to NSA.

Haven't we gotten the distinct impression that the unsupervised services are rife with such experiences, even more than other federal government bureaucracies? When it's illegal to go the press, very few people do so.
How many actually understood properly there own ideas? Have a few good years and do some great writing and I bet one goes back and reads it over as a refresher every once in a while. Good to refresh the mind on what everyone is making such a big fuss about.
You see, I'm speaking only the truth, merely referring to synthetic data. And to think that they're downvoting me, poor fools.
We worried about this but it has proven unnecessary. Juniors can thrive in remote settings if they have the right personality. E.g. Someone who was very disciplined with their University study and assignments I think shows a good base for working remotely.

But take time with onboarding and training. The biggest mistake we made was letting people rush through training.

When remote and particularly asynchronous you'll have times you can't ask anyone for immediate help. So basic process and understanding need to be deeply embedded during training.
Northern Ireland definitely prefers very much to remain in the EU, whether they want to join the Irish Republic is a separate issue, but it's easy to see them splitting away within the next decade or so. "The United Kingdom of England and Wales" has quite the ring to it doesn't it?
Especially when it's 50%+1 on a voting turnout of 65%.
In seeking to destabilize opponents, a key strategy is sowing domestic discontent. Everyone does it, to the best of their abilities. And in particular, it was a key part of the Cold War.

So the US managed to destabilize the Soviet Union. Threats from NATO and strategic nuclear weapons forced the Soviets to spend so much on defense that the civilian economy was destroyed. And yes, corruption and incompetence also played a huge role. Add saturation with VoA messages about the US consumer economy, and the Soviet Union collapsed. And more recently, they messed with Georgia, and finally engineered Ukraine independence. Not to mention Syria.

Russia has also sought to destabilize Western Europe and the US. For a long time, it was mainly messages about the communist paradise. And in the 60s, promoting protest against the Vietnam war, and pushing isolationism.

But then, in the late 80s, the message shifted to distrusting government, conspiracy theories, etc. I mean, look at RT! And more recently, basically the alt-right, with its overt racist overtones.

I don't know the UK situation well, but it's pretty clear that Russia promoted Brexit to destabilize the EU, and so NATO.
You ask if the patent is valid; Concisely, if it has been granted, then yes, it is valid.

The question of whether it should have been granted in the first place is much more complex and, now granted, irrelevant unless/until it is challenged in some way.

It should be noted that even seemingly obvious prior art may not actually invalidate a patent, even with judicial review, because the aspects of a patent that make it "novel" can be subtle. For example, pharmaceutical companies frequently gain extra patent extra for a drug by patenting an "extended release" version. It would seem therefore that an "extended release" drug is now an obvious innovation, and not patent-able. However, the specific mechanisms by which a given chemical compound can be made to extent its release often vary significantly.

That said, patents that follow the pattern of "doing mundane task X, but with a computer" have often been held as obvious and therefore not eligible to receive a patent. This particular patent may follow that pattern. Though again, there may be subtle aspects of novelty here that aren't apparent from a cursory review.
Intel TeraHertz
This form of condescension

Absolutely not trying to be condescending, apologies if I came across that way.

Personally, I am just pained that voters who live in countries where democracy still works, do not take it seriously - that includes not spending time and effort to educate themselves with at least the basics of the issues they are voting on.

Imagine living in countries like Russia, Zimbabwe, Turkey etc - where elections are a farce. Now compare it with UK - British people had a real chance to vote to stay in the EU, they just threw that chance away.

I am not being snarky or condescending - I am just frustrated that voters don't spend a bit of effort to educate themselves before voting. Democracy only works if the voters make it work.
Don't go for WordPress. You would need a php server, db etc.

Go for a bootstrap+ angular/ react template and modify it to taste.

If you need to connect to backend create a service and make rest calls
Catch-22 should be required reading cf. "The great loyalty oath crusade"
If you go with AWS because they have the best SLA, or GCE because they have better managed K8 offerings, then fine.

But going with AWS because ‘no-one ever got fired’ for it, or picking Azure because you play squash with a guy from Microsoft’s sales team is just lazy. Not that I’m saying it doesn’t happen.

Forbes and Gartner might ignore the other players, doesn’t mean we can’t be better informed.
> Bezos made these trade offs specifically with Amazon's scale

It's more nuanced for Amazon - they intentionally ignored language skills when looking to hire good developers (difficult in 90's Seattle), so the end result was a hodgepodge of services written in many different languages talking any number of protocols which including Service A directly accessing the database of Service M. This mandate was his answer to teams complaining about working with each other and the bullshit they had to go through when integrating features across service boundaries to get things done.
I have never seen an organic food commericial. I haven't seen a fruit or vegetable commercial for years.

I have seen products over labelled like the low carb steak or the sugarfree water. These products were always low carb or sugarfree.

DDG attacking google tells us they are shooting for number 2. Attacking google provides free advertising. It also tells us if they get bigger they will double down on being different from google so the chance they will suddenly turn against privacy is unlikely. If it does happen funding is running out.