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Here we go again. Hackernews users are not so stupid to fall for this marketing bullshit. Go back to reddit to shill your startup. You have been reposting the same thing in the last week, several times. It's annoying. It should be flagged.
Can this be used for automated complex web scraping (for downloading invoices behind authorized web portals on event or schedule, etc)?
> Well, if you're gonna nitpick...

:-)

> A garbage-collected language wouldn't let you allocate such items on the stack in the first place.

I get your point, but I don't think this is entirely true.

When people think of call stacks in the general sense, there's a major distinction between CPU stacks and managed stacks.

For example in both Java and Go, stack allocations are determined at compile time, and heap allocations at runtime. (Obv, stacks here are not actual CPU stacks, just managed memory stacks depending on the implementation.)
I dunno if it is that ironic. Google basically sold people on the idea of their services because they were free whereas Bloomberg never claimed to be free. When was a Bloomberg subscription ever free?
> Who decides, how facebook should structure their exported data?

Facebook. As long as it's well documented the format isn't that important. The requirement should just be that if you take the exported data and reimport it, you get back to the original state (or at least reasonably close).
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Lua as well (uses ~= instead of !=).
Hi, author here.

Yea I did the delimiting you mentioned when "training" a bigram model. For GPT-2 I was mostly interested in how well the model would be able to pick up signals from the raw data so I didn't do any kind of preprocessing at all (it's also not very fun ;)). I think it's interesting that the model was able to pick up titles, authors, starts/ends of songs on it's own.

I didn't try generating specific songs but that's a good idea. Having the delimiters would probably improve things but feeding in "On the Run\nJohn Lennon" would work as well with the current approach.

Using RapGenius corpus is also something interesting that I didn't think about. The goal of the post was to generate Beatles lyrics not song lyrics in general. To that end, I'd like to see what you get if you first fine tune on RapGenius to learn general things like song structure, rhyme, etc, then fine tune even further on the Beatles corpus. I suspect you'd get much nicer, less memorized songs.
Be careful, reality gets in the way.

Right now transit construction costs are out of control in the US. (Road is only slightly better). Spain is able to build subways for about 1/5th the cost of New York city. Nobody knows why - we can find people doing nothing, high wages, and more harder rock, but all these together are just a fraction of the cost difference. Until this problem is solved we are better off building roads because we can afford them.

Thus if you want to advocate for build more, you should first advocate for figuring out how to build cheaper. (whatever this means - though if you sacrifice safety I'll oppose you)
Hit the paywall, but a country with a massive population that is helping many of them are leveling up and leaving poverty how can you prevent them to stop eating meat? Is easy to say from a nice office in NY but hard to explain to a farmer
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It reminds me of a joke - "Don't anthropomorphize computers - they hate that."

Technology as it exists now lacks any agency so calling it on a side in the first place is a mistake. It may make one approach feasible or unfeasible and the design may in fact be deliberately biased (see the French Boulevard design to not be urban fighting defensible). It may sound pendantic but the nuance is inportant even when dealing with the most pathological cases like leaded gasoline.
The parent's post means that the overreach has never had the technology we have now. This drastically changes the situation. The government could secretly mandate that all phone manufacturers must secretly record the phone microphone all the time and then this data gets analyzed. If this happens in 10 years, then the general public might not even find out for years, and even if they do, most of the public will just shrug and move on.
Apple is delaying other people's apps and rushing out their own. Either way it saves them work.
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I'm reading this on a late-2013 MBP retina running 10.9.5 and not only does it do everything I need it to do, "upgrading" from here would actually cause me to lose essential functionality (which is why I haven't done it). I have a stash of replacement MBPs to replace this one with when it finally does die, but I don't know what I'm going to do when they're all gone because AFAICT everything Apple is producing nowadays is shit and everything else on the market is vastly worse. Sometimes contemplating the future (or even the present) causes me to sink into deep existential despair because I remember what the world was like when there was a company that made computers that Just Worked.
The users can already do that. FB and twitter do that , who doesn't actually?

It's a good tactic that has been followed since blogs became a thing. Like when people could download their tumblr when it committed suicide.
I'm sorry, where is the right wing ideology exactly? He's pretty passionate about his criticisms of the far left. That doesn't automatically make him right wing. Most of his views are more left than right.
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Well... think harder, what can I say :)
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200k documents per second really isn't that much for Elasticsearch. The single-instance setup we have in my small company (around 25 people total) has been sent in excess of 40k/s at times, and even then it doesn't slow down noticeably.
I am happy to hear about your startup, but if you are going to promote it, at least outline what's your approach / why should I be interested.
He has said it time and again, that he is willing to sit down and have a reasonable conversation with anyone and everyone.
With old media (specifically television and newsprint) "information bandwidth" was restricted to a limited number of channels and pages. This meant there had to be a calculation where the editors had to maximize the audience by making the content short enough to not lose the easily distracted, but long enough to be engaging.

High-speed internet has blown open the information bandwidth cap so that now content can be created for every attention niche. This is just anecdotal, but it seems to me part of the decline of traditional journalism has to do with article length. People either want short, snappy headlines that tell them the essential information, or long, elaborately-written pieces thousands of words long. The only reason mid-length articles existed before was a compromise between the two groups.
That does make sense, but given that the task is not solving anything "outside" the physical process itself, it still feels unfulfilling. Using my (maybe wrongheaded) analogy: it feels like "we built a lamp to simulate what happens when we turn on a lamp".

Quantum "supremacy" only feels like a real thing when a quantum computer can solve a problem that isn't directly tied to the simulation of itself. That's my feeling, anyway.

BTW: this is not to disparage the work itself. This seems like great research, and great progress in this field. Good on Google and the researchers!
A lot of people use Emacs, but I remember as Cursive took off in the Clojure community. It's so wonderful being able to work on a large JVM app that includes Scala and Java in IntelliJ and have first class Clojure features. Cursive is phenomenal, and because it's (or was at the time) the only choice, I would gladly fork over 2x the cost out of my own pocket (though my company would let me expense). It was great too to go to Conj and major Clojure conferences and hear Colin announce new features and talk about the roadmap.
Those are all about problems started in terms of querying some blackbox oracle. Whether the speedup holds up with a concrete instantiation of the blackbox is unknown.
#2 is infuriating. If they don't fix this I'm going to have to stop using the phone. It's asinine such a list isn't customizable. I text my girlfriend the most, and she isn't even in that list half the time! At the very least it should be a list of whoever you texted last, in chronological order, but it's fucking random.
maybe they want DRM for data
>accumulating wealth, and helping out everyone else along the way by growing the economy

The latter doesn't follow the former. In fact, consolidation of wealth is a hindrance to volume of activity outside the bounds of the owner of that wealth's interests. Case-in-point: Wal-Mart has done gangbuster business over the last half century. They've grown our economy. Almost every community its touched has been devastated by this, from the destruction of other businesses within its purview; to the flooding of the market with cheap goods that - in many cases - do nothing for society in their cheapness, and which actually create issues of overconsumption and waste; to the negative effects their influence has had on the shape of welfare. It's not about what Wal-Mart does; its very existence at its size is destructive. The only positive thing it did was grow the overall economy, which is like celebrating a tumor growing your overall lean mass.

The over-aggregation of wealth is the problem. A wealth tax is the direct solution (it does not have to be permanent or perennial). Wealth flight is a fantasy, and for anyone who tries, the federal government has access to the resources necessary to make sure everyone pays their fair share.
Anyone else heard the theme song to "Curb your enthusiasm" in your head when this went over the google article on HN?
Joe is an OK interviewer if he remains sober, and he doesn't inject current events randomly just so he can comment on some talking point going around that week in the media, cut it into a promo and stick it on his channel. By OK I mean he will actually let the person talk most times without interruption and trying to take over like most other annoying interviews.
This is helpful but in general what is a problem of having strings and trivial functions to convert something (like bytes) to strings? Maybe I am missing the point.
The law will probably use words like "reasonable" and "common". While legal language is supposed to be as precise as possible, it is fine to be as vague as necessary, too.

In practice, I'd expect exporters to export in a format that doesn't cause them huge contortions, and importers to write the converters. Any lawsuits about unreasonably obfuscated formats would be quite messy, but maybe it's time for the legal system to handle questions of software adequately anyway.
>What is your explanation for the success of Trump?

I'm not sure why I would have to explain that to understand what you're saying.

>Because he has a pretty clean alibi for not implementing mass surveillance.

I have no idea what that means in relation to the first sentence. Are you saying he wasn't a part of government during the establishment of some surveillance and that means something now? and/or Do you feel voters cared about that?
I'd rather take my review from someone other than Apple then.
I've seen some research [1] where the authors use beam search with an explicit diversity penalty to get around the repetition problem. They seem to get good results.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.02424.pdf
Tangent, out-of-the-box and more 'LTS' solution:

What if the entire machinery known as "State" (govs, senates & assemblies, justice, agencies) realized that the logical long-term choice is to develop and maintain open-source software for pretty much anything they do, so as to effectively 1. enrich the 'national' or 'regional' wealth of all citizens and 2. contribute to technology in a historical way?

Nuance: I'd qualify the whole endeavor a 'mildly massive untertaking', it's not a switch but a decade-long effort. Bigger than the longest of usual "LTS". But the benefits, in terms of saved money (lower taxes?), quality of service (if any citizen can participate, whether as programmer or writer or evangelist or trainer or whatever), security (I'd wager there'd be enough eyeballs to proof this software), and probably 50 other externalities, like massive general training / jobs, better technical expertise of many state workers at every level, possible service to citizens (switching them off the customer status in some domains critical to democracy, especially when it's free thus they are the product), yadi yada.

The State could be an excellent digital host for itself, and a great steward for its population, if it addressed the technological matter in a professional way, with the right heart and the right mind.

If executed superbly, it could qualify as some "8th wonder", the first digital and truly collective one, to ever be built. A true hallmark of the 21st century. And we can all, all of us worldwide, participate to make a master; then proceed to fork based on our local systems —political and technical— and cultural preferences.

I hope I do not have to explain why I'm a little jaded, a feeling of too much deja vu and not enough 'tomorrow', when I read such ethical yet misguided fights. /understanding rant

EU, you have your heart in the right place, your ethics are fair and much needed in this world, but at our current pace your solutions seem ancient —so 20th century. Think 2030+ now and begin building long-term, towards a definitive solution. Move the needle, redefine things, fail/break the old stuff to make room for contemporary greatness. OSS for public software is a low hanging fruit, however giant, and you'll do the world a fantastic service worthy of your wealth and values.

Source of ideas: I am a concerned French citizen, and being born some 10,000 km away gave me a wider-than-Western-EU perspective of modernity, for some 37 years and counting.
I know it's not what you're asking for and if someone tells me one more time "why would I need to sort when I can just search?" I will probably shout something rude at them.

But, do you know about their search options? You can use "size:5MB" for example to find emails over 5MB. This is what I do when I find I need to, as you say, trim the bloat.

More info on the feature can be found here:
https://www.labnol.org/internet/gmail-size-search/26669/
Top comment on the linked video: Although the content is very interesting i'm actually here for the foul language.
I was considering doing this recently, to help people in my home country get around censorship blocks. I was wondering, however, have you run into issues where you've had to turn over log/account data to law enforcement due to terrorism/child pornography/etc?
> once content by or about you is out there, neither you nor anyone else really has the power to force anyone to delete it

If you port your data to every social network on the planet, an act tantamount to publishing, yes, your data will be public. That isn't an argument against granting users this right.

Social media companies distributed users' data when it was in said companies' interests. Letting users make that decision themselves may mean bad decisions will be made. But that's better than companies making users' decisions for them, with zero regard for what the users themselves want.

> a collective decision that you don't generally have a "right to be forgotten"

There is no right to be forgotten in America. (There can't be without gutting the First Amendment.)
old Charlie Rose episodes as well, although only usually an hour. But good for guests who are currently dead.
Not to mention Apple's habit of taking good apps and then building them into iOS to cannibalize their own developers. I don't get why anyone would want to build smartphone apps for any platform these days. Between Google and Apple it's entirely a garbage ecosystem for devs.
Only one of the settings is limited to contacts; AirDrop can also be set to find “everyone”, which probably uses WiFi Connect or some other trickery to locate nearby devices even on other platforms.
An echo chamber is a place where the local acoustics make it difficult to speak clearly.

Medical science is able to speak with brilliant clarity hard-earned from centuries of experimentation on the topic of heart disease.

If I hear a discourse involving a cardiologist and a layperson, and it's not really made apparent who is the expert and who is not, then I call that an echo chamber.
We have open banking API in UK, which is much more useful than having an export button. It allows for actual interoperability.

You could draw inspiration from that.
> You cannot just put your washing machine on the street because you have nowhere else to put it!

You actually can in the US, that's legal in many places as long as it isn't kept there permanently. (I.e, you leave it on a trailer). We even put our trash bins onto the street almost every week. But that's beside the point.

> how it is socially acceptable to put huge pieces of your private property on the public streets.

Because that's what public transporation is, and the value it imparts.

We dedicated public streets to the public, because the value of public transportation is much higher than the small temporary cost of having any one person occupy it. Cars and roads are the most efficient form of public transportation ever invented so far (in terms of travel time, distance traveled, safety, and equability). That's not to imply they are perfect on any/all of these things, just better than the alternatives available today.

Yes, in a perfect world, everyone would have a beautiful light rail train at their front door, that takes them everywhere and anywhere they ever need to go. But that level of infrastructure is insanely expensive, and the cost of that expense is pushed into the housing nearby that infrastructure. Paradoxically, the act of building alternative public transportation like this prices out most of the public you tried to transport, because the value of that infrastructure gets captured in rent, which gets passed onto residents.

If you look at light rail, and say, "how can we get most of the benefits of light rail, but in a package cheap enough that most people could afford" or "what would a light rail train look like, if it could arrive at everyone's door, take them directly where they need to go, have the lowest construction cost to every possible location so as to have the lowest impact on land value and have the lowest possible detriment to housing prices" -- if you follow that line of thinking, you reinvent zero-emission EV cars and public freeways, which is why they are everywhere in the first place.
I've already said dense urban cores should have bike lanes. But let's not pretend bike travel is a practical solution for most Americans. Just look at an aerial satellite photo of Houston, TX, for example and you tell me how that's going to work out.
What's preventing from starting something small while at Salesforce that could eventually grow into something bigger?
Isn't Google's result published in Nature -- a peer reviewed journal? Shouldn't IBM just do the same with their refutation?
I suspect that the engineer did think along these lines, although there was probably also some irrational denial that there was anything wrong. What's missing from this "calculus of professional risk", however, is any consideration of the danger to other people, and that is what makes it so unethical.

There is no practical alternative to taking away a licence in cases like this, at least temporarily in less egregious cases. What meaning would the licence have if the person responsible here retained it? He has demonstrated an appalling lack of judgement which goes beyond this one disaster. Removing the threat of revoking the licence would not fix the incentives issue, as even with that off the table, the engineer is to blame for the cost and delays of his failure, even if he does not care about the risk to other people.

Here's an example of an engineer doing the right thing - though the prospect of failure was so appalling that it probably focused his mind on what mattered most.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/04/17/the_citicorp_t...
There's no "answer" to precalculate, it's drawing from a distribution. Could you calibrate a non-quantum circuit to have a distribution passing the test? Supposedly, this is not possible even given arbitrary pre-computation time.
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Or the Bluetooth connection works, but does random things you can't change. The last rental car I had, upon connection, forced Spotify to re-open and start playing the last playlist. Even if Spotify was closed.

Some entertaining solutions I found online include a playlist that includes only silent tracks and switching to that playlist before you turn off the car, or canceling Spotify Premium so you can no longer download/cache songs, giving you enough time to mute before Spotify's cloud can stream the song to the car.
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Didnt IBM just dispute these claims?
I guess that makes sense but if you take into account technological capabilities then the next overreach will almost always be the biggest because the technology makes larger and larger scale possible.
Sounds like a perfect place for Linux to jump in. I mean if you're looking for stability, there's always stability in the Linux space.
Not really. "How not to" is a common idiom (like "X considered harmful" for such advice articles (regardless of correctness).
This is lower risk
If he were less calculating he would be dead.

It's very likely that a lot of less calculating would-be Snowdens are lying in unmarked graves out there somewhere.
>_openly_ soliciting interference in American elections from Russia

Are you referring to the email hacking thing? Because that's a bad joke at the worst.
Twitter -> Settings -> Your twitter data -> Download your data.

The option is already there. It has been for years

This is not a big deal at all
Apple has been doing exactly this for many years. [0] It appears to have become public API 3 years ago, but that says nothing about when it was used internally.

The difficulty is in identifying, in advance, what’s an unusual but recoverable situation, and what’s a bad bug.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/os/os_log_fault
Right. My comment was just that I found it to be low quality content. It was like something you might overhear from a table of not-so-bright senior citizens at a Denny’s.
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