skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This analogy is severly flawed, to the point of being essentially irrelvant.

There are no locks involved here, in any way.

Let's work with this row of doors analogy. The owner has invited the world to the building this hallway resides in, and has posted a list somewhere that told you about a few of the doors in this hallway. You notice there are other doors too, inbetween the doors you were told about and you enter them.

That's really a far more accurate analogy. Locks require an active attempt to prevent access. Not finding the exact url as link elsewhere is extremely far from an active attempt. There's really no reason to believe the owner has any less intention for you to see it than say, the home page, which you probably accessed through a third party or by typing the url directly.
I certainly don't want to rehash some of the arguments about it, because I wasn't a fan of them at the time...but I was referring to the context switch penalty of running multiple system level services is separate processes.

Mind you, I've always thought that argument was specious for several reasons...but in a naive implementation breaking a kernel unto multiple processes would have to have higher context switch overhead.

I've always though, though, that not everything needs to be process isolated, and using more of a message pass system could probably overcome context switch overhead in multiprocessor system's

EDIT: GOD DAAMN PHONE. I think that the reliability gains may more than make up for any perf problems.
He claims that he is using a Lenovo W540 "for punching out emails laying on the couch". My colleagues and I are forced by our employer to use the exact same model and everybody hates it.

Lenovo omitted designated buttons and as a result the navigation is a mess: One clicks, if one wants to scroll and vice versa. Maybe Troy is using a mouse when he works from the couch?
I don't know this guy; I've never heard of him until now, but based on what's I've seen, the theme seems to be "how awesome I am." Something about this rubbed me the wrong way, like a lesser version of Tim Feriss.

We get it; you're really busy. Multitasking is less efficient: http://simple.icouch.me/the-waiting-room/multitasking-psycho...
Python now more popular than IDL among astronomers
Yes, it's difficult. However, sometimes the best and most responsible thing to do - especially when you find something difficult - is to keep it out of scope!

I was referring to the "higher level languages and run standalone" class of solution and I agree with you about their drawbacks (hard to use). However, I would argue that a hard to use but proven and correct solution for a general class of cases that someone else maintains is ten times better than an easier to use but unproven and new solution for a specific case that you have to maintain. Your suggestions requires everyone to learn another syntax for every damn daemon they wish to operate, along with the ongoing cognitive drain and maintenance overhead (upgrades, etc.).

Actually upgrades are a great case in point. How does your daemon handle updates while in clustered mode? I suppose it doesn't. This is another reason why a proven, general solution is great to have ... you actually get an operations process that handles the extremely common but swept under the rug edge cases that nobody wants to talk about, like upgrades, disk failures, oops I unplugged the cable/DDoS/network fabric issues, horizontal scaleout, appropriate rules for (non-)co-habitation with other services, for all services! Yes, TMTOWTDI, but I seriously doubt some random daemon knows better how to handle failure than a proven, daemon-agnostic operations process designed at a significantly more abstract, resource-oriented level.

Have you had a look at the OCF format resource agents?
If you define one, you can wash your hands of the whole issue: https://github.com/ClusterLabs/resource-agents/

I don't understand why "authoritative replicas" demand a few seconds of downtime? I find that most daemons, assuming they fsync() appropriately, come up again in well under a second using a dual master (live, standby) setup with DRBD (essentially network RAID1, works with any filesystem) with zero client reconfiguration required by using a shared (floating) IP to handle failover. Check it out.
I enjoyed this book you may want to check out.

http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Python-Techniques-Pre...

The main thing to understand though is that machine learning is a big topic, and you aren't going to be able to become an expert in two months.

Narrow down to a specific area, or type of problem, and focus on learning techniques and tools for that.

My guess is that there's something your working on or want to work on which is why want to learn. If that's the case, I'd recommend that read up a bit to give yourself a good understanding of the different kinds of problems out there (classification, prediction, anomaly detection, etc...), and different classes of tools available, and then pick a simple real world problem to try to tackle that is similar.

The best way to really learn is going to be getting hands on with a project and suffering through after you've read up a bit to understand the basics. Then when you hit something can't wrap your head around, search and read articles (or talk to someone with experience and expertise) until it clicks and you can proceed on working through.

By the end you'll have a good grasp of at least one technique, and be in a great place to keep learning more.
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If you have contacts or know where to look you can get solid mid-level or even senior devs with excellent English skills at that rate. The timezone issue and whether they're suited to remote work are different questions altogether.
I dont know the current situation, but last time i checked cycles was sower relative to the competition and unarguably Renderman is far more battle-tested.
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“Go Set a Watchman”, not the novel we wanted, but the novel we needed
That does appears to be an authentic picture of Santa.
Closer, but not quite. One commenter there pointed out that you still need foundational stuff to really get it. Otherwise, you're just seeing templates without really understanding what they mean. That's kind of what I meant.

Nothing wrong with it, necessarily. I'm just saying people learning it say there's not many shortcuts around learning it.
The Story behind Max Levchin's Affirm
> one distinct IR per each pass is normal

Source?
Really really big data and machine learning in business, with Max Welling
"Additionally, there are certain types of circular references that may never be freed under this scheme, although that's not a huge concern to look at from the start."

Early versions of PHP were released in the late 90s, with PHP 4, the first Zend Engine version, released in 2000. The first PHP that didn't leak cycles (PHP 5.3.0) was released in 2009. Beware of how long "not a huge concern to look at from the start" can last.

http://php.net/manual/en/features.gc.collecting-cycles.php

http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.0
Why is it being posted all over again here.
I think only half of this is ESPN, the other half is professional sports leagues which negotiate contracts that prevent networks from providing alternative broadcast methods. If they could, Fox/NBC/CBS Sports I am sure would not hesitate to offer streaming services to undercut ESPN (granted there is Fox Sports GO and NBC extra time for EPL, but they are more limited than their full channels). But the sports leagues they negotiate with won't allow it.

If I were ESPN, I'd ride it out. Sure you may lose compare to the old TV hegemony you had, but you'd never make it up from the streaming side while leagues have their own services.
Check out scikit-learn and its excellent documentation.
I'm not arguing against SSM here, I'm arguing against your just-so story about magical marriage of only ever dyads. You have not made a single clear statement of the common good of marriage, just "it's that way [dyadic] so it has to be that way."

You do realize this argument works against SSM, as well as against polygamy, right?

Being cagey or agnostic about the next step after SSM ("mmmaybe I do support polygamy, but one step at a time!") does not answer the question: why should the state regulate marriage, to what ends?

If your eyes are still closed, read @JVLast's piece (and no ad hominem arguments against him or TWS, which I do not endorse in general). He is not the only one to point out the shifting goal posts and bad-faith argumentation (in the style of Alinsky, or Marx).

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/you-will-be-assimilat...

Masha Gesson among many others is at least honest about what's going on in this multi-stage operation. I appreciate honest radicals. Just-so stories and assertions, not so much.
I'm not sure how true this is anymore. An OBD scanner makes the computer work for you. Modifications are certainly more difficult, but repair is easier IMHO. It is vastly easier to go replace the one bad fuel injector on a 2005 than rebuild a carb on a 1983.
So, basically the guy is a CPU.
So excited that this is happening in my backyard :)

FYI, there are quite a few openings to support the SKA:

http://www.seek.com.au/jobs/in-wa/#keywords=csiro&location=3...

1. Service Manager, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
2. Murchison Radio-Astronomy Observatory (MRO) Support Officer
3. Senior Software Engineer / Architect
4. Head of Supercomputing
5. Australia Telescope National Facility (ANTF) Head of Engineering Operations
What if there was a black hole in your pocket?
Akka Streams and HTTP 1.0 is live Why go async though?
Agreed. The internet allows me to follow the NBA, NHL, MLS, Premier League, NFL, College Football, and various tournaments (World Cup, Copa America, Gold Cup, Euro, etc.) around the world. Why would I want to watch an hour of SportsCenter talking about Johnny Manziel's off field issues when I could watch a nailbiter between Trinidad & Tobago and Mexico, or Chile and Argentina going to penalties.

The 24 hour sports channel model just can't work in an age of on demand content. I want the event--not the pointless filler / tabloid drama. Ideally, all of these organizations would own their own streaming, and you could purchase various 'packages'...if there was a Netflix for sports, I would subscribe ASAP.
Presumably TFA isn't dated because it's considered "timeless". Nevertheless if I could still edit the title I'd add a "(2014)".
That's some nice Adsense income! My site gets about 13k visitors daily and I can't even average $5 from Adsense :(
MLB does seem to do it well, I also think the NBA and NHL have decent options too.
People rarely think of this in advance, but joint debts of any kind usually become a problem in divorce. One former spouse will stop paying and ruin the other spouse's credit, to say nothing of causing foreclosures. It doesn't matter what the family court orders (this spouse will pay that debt, etc), because that won't change the underlying obligation as far as the creditor is concerned.

Joint credit cards, which aren't attached to any asset, don't have much benefit compared to this downside. What people are typically told is happening is that the credit card still 'belongs' to one spouse, but the other will be also authorized to 'use' it. While this is possible, the paperwork presented to sign often makes the other spouse jointly liable for the debt instead. I'm convinced even the bank representatives don't know they are setting up things this way and are just following a script. You have to read the paperwork to see what it does.
Overfull hbox? :P I think they fixed it now?
Upvote for you seeing as you're educated on the subject! :) I've been telling these secure CPU teams to use it for a while. A few have but most didn't. SAFE went with discontinued, but still I.P., Alpha. (rolls eyes) Shit, the Oracle SPARC T1 & T2 processors were first real CPU's to go open source! Here was my recommendation for open hardware crowd in another HN thread:

"The RISC-V activity is very interesting. I particularly love that they did a 1.4GHz core on 48nm SOI and are working on 28nm level. This knocks out some of the early, hard work of getting competitive hardware at an advanced process node. I'd like to see two things in this work: microprogrammed variant with an assembly or HLL to microcode compiler; tagged variant like SAFE/CHERI processors with IO/MMU that seemlessly adds & removes tags during DMA. That would be way better for security-critical applications than most of what's out there. Multi-core would help, too.

Meanwhile, Gaisler's SPARC cores are commercial, open-source, customizable, support up to 4 cores in Leon4, integrated with most necessary I.P., and can leverage the SPARC ecosystem. Anyone trying to do an open processor can get quite the head-start with that. A few academic and commercial works are already using it. Plus, the SPARC architecture is open as such that you only pay around $100 for the right to use its name.

So, Gaisler's SPARC cores with eASIC's Nextreme seems to be the best way to rapidly get something going. The long-term bet is RISC-V and they could do well copying Gaisler's easy customization strategy. Might be doing that already with their CPU generator, etc: I just read the Rocket paper so far. The solutions built with one can include a way to transition to the other over time."
>no one is going to get behind it because steam is not a green technology

Were it not for the radiation problem, you could make a nuclear powered steam car. Perhaps this is easier than using a turbine..

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-atomic-automobile/
I see on your angel.co listing that you have a marketing internship position. Would you also consider having a developer internship. I'm located in Austin (attend UT) and would be very interested.
Chinese scientists edit genes to produce artificial sperm
I wonder if steam would be "green" today. I've got an electric steamer that I use as an alternative to ironing clothes. It probably takes a lot of electricity to turn water into steam but who knows.
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I've been looking at this deep learning tutorial in Python:

http://deeplearning.net/tutorial/contents.html

Has the advantage of a Python framework (Theano) specifically for
deep learning.
"Have been aggressively litigating" is pretty much all American history 1776-present. Most western history since thenabouts, in fact.

Better than "the media barons slaughtered 222,000 more in today's fighting over broadcast rights, thus starting the 27th copyright war".
I have stopped eating octopus since I read how intelligent they are. Just seems wrong.
As others have said in this thread, it's entirely possible (and, in a corporate setting, very probable) that he could've been writing an email during a time in the meeting where is attention wasn't needed.

I can tell you that there have been plenty of meetings I've been in where I'm hard at work on something actually important while listening at the same time, because I know I'm not missing anything. I know which meetings are important and require my full attention (a requirements meeting for a new project, for example) compared to something I can just kinda half-listen to (e.g. the weekly team meeting where everyone discusses what they've worked on since the last meeting)
A critique of freemium business models
Conferences/talks/pluralsight/consulting. His a big name in ms world, so he could do it pretty easily.
The write ups that came out during their demise were all trash and typical tech reporting. They did not spend all, or even close to all, of the money.

I do know what happened being close on the outside, but not behind the closed doors. It seemed to be a strong urge to advocate for co-working vs. creating valid VC business model. So, yes, I agree it may be a better fit for a lifestyle business.
It's hard to read your question without thinking about how String Theory has dominated Physics for that entire timeframe (and more)... and how ineffective that family of models have been at progressing humanity's understanding of the broader world.

If you believe Lee Smolin then advocates of String Theory have also had an oppressive effect on opposing ideas, making it hard to get tenure if you're not working on it, effectively choking off competing theories (e.g. Doubly Special Relativity, Loop Quantum Gravity, etc)

I have no data or first-hand evidence, as I was only a mere Physics undergrad, but found his arguments pursuasive. String Theory (and his oscillating pals) have certainly been dominant in the scientific press, and don't seem to have come up with much. Could be a false negative though. We'll only know when someone opens the next big door.
Powargrid, a turn based strategy, for 4+ years now... Gonna be done Real Soon Now (TM)!

http://www.powargrid.com
knowing the political bent of reddit I would not want to be a Conservative and posting there. This rule sounds like a SJW dream, straight out of our colleges of today where all speech is effectively silenced; even humor.

Any speech can be harass another and this the problem with such rules.
If you're interested in this and live in the SF Bay Area, there's a workshop for this at the Chabot Space Center that's been ongoing for decades: http://www.chabotspace.org/telescope-makers-workshop.htm
great! BTW would you use bluebird or es6 promises if starting a new project today?
Yeah, BMI should be retired as a useful metric, percentage body fat is far more useful. The problem though is measuring this accurately... (the scales that include the body fat percentage give wildly different numbers depending on time of day, water consumption etc.)
There is also an official mirror on Github. https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd
>He incremented a number in a URL, and that was his ultimate crime.

IANAL, but the way I understand it, it's not about the method that you used to access the system. Even if someone was highly incompetent and left their system open to being accessed, the fact that you accessed it knowing you shouldn't have is the actual crime.

After all, even if someone leaves the doors and windows wide open to their house, it's still illegal to go inside if you don't have permission. In this case they left the URLs open to be accessed, but it was clear that that part of the website wasn't meant to be accessed by the general public and the prosecutors were able to convince a jury/judge that weev would have reasonable known that.
Let p be the percentage of water and m the total mass.

Then m(p) = 1/(1-p) . The "unintuitive" aspect is that we want to think of this function as linear when it isn't.

By taylor's theorem, how bad a linear approximation to this function will be is based on its higher order derivatives. We can get an idea of this by looking at its second derivative:

m''(p) = 2/(1-p)^3. If you plot this graph, you'll see that it really starts to blow up past 0.8, so the nonlinearities start dominating.
You and the other commenters piqued my interest in writing a sci-fi short story. I'm currently trying to raise a f&f funding round and then on to a crowd funding round, but I thought maybe I could justify the time if I put a little product placement for my invention in there.

I was thinking about it and since we have seen the drug induced super-intelligence story a few times, I was thinking of incorporating some of the ideas of David Pierce, from his seminal work The Hedonistic Imperative.

http://hedweb.com

Can't promise anything but I'll let you know if I do!
Brief history of quantum mechanics – part 1 – The Oven
| There can't ever be absolute rights in this context, because at some level, even the most widely accepted and well-regarded rights that we want to protect will inevitably come into conflict. |

And people wonder why Americans love guns so much...
I would question whether the AT&T case involved "access in excess of authorization". I feel like the merest attempt to implement some access control would be necessary for that.

I think he was doing enough other things that I'm not crying a river that he got punished, but IMO it sets a bad precedent.
A cable company is a natural monopoly; servicing an area requires a large infrastructure investment, there is usually only one cable company willing to service a given household, and cable companies negotiate with municipalities. A video streaming service doesn't have these properties. This is a legally meaningful difference because much of the regulation imposed on cable companies is intended to compensate for lack of competition.
- Get an external monitor if you can. Personally I can't use a laptop for an extended period of time because it really takes a toll on your body. I just use my laptop in clamshell mode with a large external monitor, and an external mechanical keyboard and mouse.

- Get up and walk around. I usually get up and stay up for 15-30 mins about once every two to three hours. Mid afternoon (the longest work stretch of my day) I get up, go down 12 flights of stairs and take a walk around a few blocks just to keep the blood moving.

- With regard to eyes use a dark background for everything. Bright light is what makes your eyes hurt. Alternatively make sure the difference between foreground and background isn't too great. A soft light behind your monitor can reduce the contrast between the blinding light coming out of it and the dark area behind. Also make sure to look away from the screen periodically. If there is a window nearby stand up every 15 mins or so, walk over to it, and look out at a distant object. This is good for both body and eyes.
Two benefits were named:
1. Deciding to go with renderman gives allows you to tap a large talent pool that are already familiar with Renderman. Much larger than cycles.
2. Renderman works with a number of other 3d tools besides Blender. Cycles could work with other software, but I suspect this is a relatively niche group doing so. This means that other pieces of software could be used in conjunction with Blender.
That seems extremely low - what's the site?
Pentagon outreach to Silicon Valley stirs a fuss
Having worked from home for 11 years, it's no advantage. As much as possible, I try to divide the time between home office and somewhere else quiet cause, eventually, something needs to be done at home and ruins the rest of the day. The dog, the wife, the leaky faucet. It's something every day.
Green light are dubious, you don't know how long until they shift, and thus you 'really should' decelerate a bit (driving school talk). With clearer signs, you could at least not fear having to stop in emergency. But even then, that won't stop someone to cross his red light ...

Roads signs are like compiler warnings, it's all cute and nice, but it's just characters on the screen anyone can physically ignore. Let's have roads with nasty speed bumps before all intersections, which are all annoying, impossible to cross fast, roundabouts. #haskell
It's taken a fair amount of work this year but my BMI is 21. I follow the starting strength program (bar bell lifts 3 times a week), 1 hour cardio 5-6 times a week and the seven minute workout[1] 6 afternoons a week.

[1] http://7-min.com/
Interesting opinion, but The stipulations to becoming an entity in China are not much different than in the U.S. and other countries. Replace their government censorship with our social media outrage, and the parallels become clearer. I don't see how this makes LinkedIn morally bankrupt - or more accurately, the whole industry is morally bankrupt as the game is zero-sum.