skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting read and a very clever idea to minimize test cases.

I've been doing similar property based testing on some math/physics heavy code, with a somewhat similar idea but without minimization. I have test cases that take a number of floating point arguments in range 0..1, which are generated from a 64 bit integer "seed" value picked from a special sequence that is ordered to produce failures as early as possible (failures are usually at 0, 1 or 1/2). Any failure can be reproduced by re-running the test case with the same seed value.

In my case, minimization doesn't make sense since each test case takes a certain number of floats as input. I use about a minute of CPU time per test case (running with 8M different seeds).

Example test case (it's about orbital mechanics): https://github.com/rikusalminen/twobody/blob/master/test/two...
Happily for you, it's possible the other job offers would still stand after only two weeks.

This is really not uncommon at all.

The lesson to be learned, is that you should not have invested so much money time and effort in going to work for this company.

This is a cost that you gave to them, in allowing them to hire you for less money than they would have to pay, if they had to hire locally (and thus, from a smaller pool of potential employees).

Mobility of capital, goods and employees only benefit the oligarchs, not the little people.
Not for a few years at least. Now they're all "well...evil is kind of a relative term."
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> stick built 2x4 construction

In 1900 people were already building like that. I live in Somerville MA, which is pretty close to what the OP describes, and it's pretty popular despite everything being balloon framed and covered with vinyl siding.
Thank you. It seems to me that every time a new state-of-the-art result in AI is announced, a deep composition of convolutional or recurrent "neural functional programs" is involved.

I don't see deep compositions of treenets or word embedding layers, which tend to be used instead stand-alone as simpler models or as preprocessing layers to deep networks. I'd have to think about attentional models.

This is not a criticism. Rather, it's my way of suggesting that we need more experimentation with more interesting compositions using a broader range of "neuron functional programs" -- which I believe is also one of your points.

And again, I think your essay is fantastic.

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Edits: changed my wording to express what I actually meant to write.
really? This is not newsworthy at all.
So then it seems like the author of the code doesn't understand that "NN" means "Nearest Neighbors" and not "Neural Network"?

He mentions that he used sklearn's Neural Network libraries in his blog post, but sklearn doesn't have any aside from RBM.
I have a filter on my gmail so my phone plays the coin sound from Super Mario Bros. every time I get a Paypal/Etsy/Ebay/Amazon payment. It's quite satisfying to hear that throughout the day.
You must never ever play Cookie Clicker
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Are we sure that the Hero5 isn't coming out this year?
There is an ideology that silicon valley stands for and the reality of the place. Those two things may be very disparate concepts, but that's another debate.

I think the popular use of the silicon valley comparison is an attempt to get at the ideology rather than the reality of the place.
Nah, get a Motorola. Stock Android plus some notification enhancements you will actually use.
That must be a different company. The Uber I know is that evil company lead by incredibly arrogant *ssholes trying to aggressively price-dump taxi drivers (that don't make a lot of money to begin with) out of their jobs by employing-but-not-really-employing a cheap workforce without paying their part on the drivers insurances. Basically an illegal taxi business ;)
But that only would work if the hole leads to an open tunnel. If there's a gravel bed on the bottom, your equipment just sits there.
This is a basic supply/demand problem. I don't see why I'm being downvoted. The exact opposite is happening in Hong Kong. I know many girls who have been trying to get married there with no luck, but the second they end up in SFO they get hitched.
I am serious. I didn't concern myself with it a lot, but popularity seemed actually rising (to my annoyance).
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Scummvm - http://scummvm.org

Clamshell iBooks are capable of running OSX. Not spectacularly well (they are 366 or 466 MHz machines with limeted RAM), but still.
What is the kickstarter for? You seem to have a product, you even have pricing tiers posted.
I expect there won't be many other than the top Chinese brands left in a few years. Price/spec ratio is unbeatable
I just can't agree that a simple, linear-time operation like "tokenizing words and basic n-gram models out of them" is a tedious problem like you seem to be implying, nor do I feel a solution to this very-solved problem is "compelling". Word tokenization and n-gram models are simple, unreasonably effective, and very fast. If character-based RNNs do better (albeit far more slowly during training), great, but nothing to see here, let's move along.

As I've posted here before, people have been training character n-gram models and getting language modeling performances comparable to those from word-based models---without using neural networks---for at least a decade. That it works with RNNs is no surprise because it worked just fine with the much more constrained predecessor technology.
Sounds very interesting. After reading the press release though, I can't find any references to MEMS or why/how this is better than existing LIDAR sensors. Any other resources OP?
Yup. I had pretty much the same problems, except I didn't even get to installing because the requirements put me off.

I just wanted something that sucks less than PHPBB or SMF, you know? But this thing mainly seems more bloated, and the live demos didn't really quite convince me of the "sucks less" part either.

One thing I haven't even been able to test yet, once you have it running, how much is there to configure in order to tone it down? Because if you want to run a forum for pretty much anything but a tech audience, I would like to get rid of all the "dynamic" and "interactive" javascript stuff. Because it really makes it less interactive/dynamic for people on old, low-powered computers. They need basic HTML full page reloads (assuming the HTML is somewhat lean--leaner than PHPBB/SMF preferably :) ).

Because the unique thing about forums, that still gives them relevance in the 2010s, is that you can gather a community with extremely specialized niche knowledge. If the person who knows everything about, I dunno, stained glass dyes, psychogeography or uh Sumerian breakfast recipes, just happens to have a really old machine you don't tell them to upgrade or suck it, because he or she may be one of the only people in the world with the particular expert niche-in-niche knowledge that brings invaluable quality to the forum, much more than having a shiny slick UI that looks buttersmooth on a new laptop.
Old fart still dreaming of Lucifer's Realm, Fifth Eskadra and The Bard's Tale on Apple //c here eheheh Monkey Island good though, even if more a Carmen Sandiego kind of guy tbh eheheh
Interesting, it almost acts like a natural defense mechanism for the planet. The problem is, it's not enough.

It's great if the CO2 increase has led to greater food production, but that increased foliage hasn't stopped or slowed the CO2 increase. So yes, it's probably "hardly worth mentioning".
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> plus even if we change, other countries won't.

Because the US has no political power, amirite?

On completely separate note, as an Australian, I'd like to thank the US for pushing it's list of verboten drugs onto us, for pressuring us to take part in it's wars of convenience, for pushing it's IP laws down our throat via treaty obligations, and for bending us over the desk with our "free trade" agreements.
At one point in time people said this about Japanese electronic vendors. Most of those companies are now dead.

You can point at the Japanese automakers as a counter-point. However, I caution that comparison because they rallied around quality. In the early-70s the major American automobile makers were both terrible quality and expensive. The Japanese were able to create the holy union of both a more reliable and cheaper automobile.

Could a Chinese market sprout up to make quality and cheap phone? Probably, but there's no real issue of all the phones are expensive, but terrible devices.
Minnesota is using Dramatic Look Gopher to distract kickers. It's working too
It is funny how much the evolution of css is reminiscent of the evolution of Flash back in the day , wonder if it will turn into a fully fledged programming environment at some point.
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Adobe CEO desperately tries to avoid answering a simple question (2013)
I have Moto G. Software updates are fairly regular, but I still switched to Cyanogenmod. I'd say there isn't much difference between CM and stock android. You can tether with CM without worrying about telco tethering blocks, something that doesn't work on stock android
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Ask HN: I have a mental block designing software. Time to quit?
This is embarrassing to admit after 15 years building web applications, but every project I hit a brick wall decomposing software.

I know the data inputs; I know the outputs. My prototype works. But my mind freezes when I try to rewrite the prototype into something maintainable that will run for 5+ years.

High level planning is fine, it's getting from what needs to happen to how to decompose into classes/methods/libraries, dependencies (logging everywhere) and organise message passing.

My current project is choreographing 3 enterprise systems to work together. Once past the lack of documentation it's conceptually simple; my code however is tangled.

Related, I have a mental block with drawing flow-charts. I can't isolate tasks, decisions, actions. The chart becomes spaghetti, or too detailed/too sparse to be useful. This is difficult when people want the system described on paper.

Either:

1) I need to learn something
2) It is an innate mental block, and I need to change fields

If I'm going to continue in software this needs to change, as I don't feel I'm delivering quality. The more senior I get the less I can stick with prototyping or "Just Works" as an outcome.
In the long run, yes, when 3D printing and robotics makes manufacturing viable anywhere again. In the short term, iPhone and chinese android brands will rule
Snapdragon 820, 2x better battery life, 2x better performance than 810
Ride, hustle, kill, repeat: the underground cycle gangs of Los Angeles
check his comment history, i doubt it.
I am an engineer at AirConsole and we are soon gonna write about some tech stuff too. We were just busy with the launch and all that stuff and wanted to let you know what we are here ;)
Why not lower a camera equipped robot with a wire there?
Marvel's Internal Civil War
While I maxed out on the RAM (a whopping 512MB), as it's one of the first clamshells it's limited by a 300Mhz processor. So no OSX for me. I don't mind, it's on 9.2 right now, which is about the most stable as they come. And with my homemade ssd (CF card with IDE adapter) it's blazing fast!
Having not read the source material referenced by OP, the biggest concerns I have (that are not commonly addressed) are as follows:

1: increased ocean acidity due to CO2 dissolving into water. A lot of the smaller lifeforms (coral, others) rely on calcium carbonate for exoskeletons, even small changes in PH can greatly reduce their capability to extract such from the water. There will also be many more unexpected implications, so the total impact on ocean biomes is unknown.

2: global warming means more energy in the weather systems, which means greater fluctuations and more chaotic weather, not necessarily just a small increase in average temperature. Think bigger hurricanes, more severe floods and droughts, higher winds, etc.
Why licensing wouldn't work
Most of these LucasArts graphical adventure games were written using a game engine known as SCUMM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCUMM) that was able to target different platforms, which was ported to the Mac and so ran on 68k and later PowerPC Macs. There is now an emulator that can play SCUMM games on almost any platform known as ScummVM (http://scummvm.org/).
>Care to elaborate? I don't see how that would be a problem. Agricultural areas would shift, and maybe we'd have to move some stuff further inland/build dikes/turn cities into Venice. Anything I'm missing?

All of those things sound like huge problems.
Ask HN: Describe my start up in one sentence
Following on from my post on Tuesday [0], I'm really struggling to come up with a good tag line for BugMuncher [1]. Maybe I'm too close to it, so I thought I'd see if the kind folks of HN can come up with something.

Thanks in advance

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10152465
1 - http://bugmuncher.com
Wait until the dry season so you have the lowest total volume, then send it down the other fork, treat it like a flood?
Practical prevention of web shenanigans with Content Security Policy
It works smoothly and without much lag. The phone GUI is well executed.
Author here. If you haven't had the time to read the article, it isn't a CSP howto. Rather it's about the steps taken to implement CSP in enforcing mode on a production app:

- dealing with third party libraries

- replacing common unsafe techniques with better ones

- handling violation messages moe efficiently.

There's also a small library with an implementation of policies for a bunch of common third part JS libraries, which should save a bunch of research.

I hope you find it useful.
Price/spec ratio is unbeatable

While true, I've found that the price/quality ratio leaves something to be desired.
What's on top of MIT's dome?
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

I've been looking for years for this! I thought the name of the game was "under a red moon" or something like that but I couldn't remember. There were some shards of memory from a secret moon base and a head in a water cooler, but I just couldn't recall the name, franchise or anything else to put me in the right direction.

AFK right now...
Eh, if you are talking about impact of climate change on agriculture, of course this is worth mentioning, and most sane sources do.

For example, quoting IPCC report "Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability" chapter 7, "Evidence confirms the stimulatory effects of carbon dioxide (CO2) in most cases on crop yields (high confidence)".
It will probably create a gap in phone prices. The under $100 phones, for people who pay the full price up-front and don't need anything too fancy. And the $450+ phones, for people who pay $20 a month for a phone installment purchase plan on something like AT&T Next.

IMO, a $300 phone doesn't really fit well in that world. Too pricey for an upfront purchase. And once you go monthly, most people aren't too price concious when comparing $15 per month vs $20 per month.
Show HN: DreamArt: Combining Inceptionism/DeepDream and with neural style art
I would hardly call my '99 iBook G3 300mhz "modern"...
Well the issue is people STILL won't see the bottom line price. They will get the monthly price. A LG G3 is $17 a month and an iPhone 6 is $25. People do horrible math and don't see that they are paying $200 more for an iPhone 6.
Ask HN: Any alaternative to securesha.re?
I am looking for a free and opensource Web App alaternative to http://securesha.re.
(Securesha.re is FOSS but it's lack of install guide and i need deploy it in my own server)
So what's the catch with the ZTE? Processor speed is boring. Is it the touch screen being unresponsive? Some software thing? Bad screen? Does it break easily?
Hard to justify the increased iPhone prices (and I'm a Mac user)

Especially when you prefer to buy unlocked phones
"Don't be evil" is just a slogan. Same as any other company's slogan. There isn't any integrity to begin with unless there's a market incentive for it, and there isn't.
I must be being blind but there doesn't seem to be a search bar. How I use the existing hn threads is to search through using Find for some criteria like "UK".
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What times we live in, to be the generation that experiences the "end of growth"!

Ill bet anything that you're wrong, though.
I feel bad for the state of discussion on HN that you were downvoted for asking an honest, polite request for more information.
PyCharm and IntelliJ both have "Community Editions" that are free, but missing a few features. They're very usable in that state. Something else to note is that Android Studio, which is similarly free to use, is based on IntelliJ CE.
Can you elaborate? I've been looking for a way to do this on an iPhone.
The thing is - you can't by any means start building a billion dollar business just by deciding to do so.

Take google - attempted to sell at 100 mln

Take facebook - was in-college network

Take airbnb - struggled along for many years

What this article is trying to convey?
This is technically impressive, but as a game console falls flat for action games. The 3 NES games i tried did acknowledge my inputs, but were unplayable due to three factors:

1. latency
2. lack of tactile feedback from my phone
3. the weird decision to have the d-pad work on a swipe
basis instead of press&hold, which increases input
latency even more and forbids quickly switching input direction

For RPGs and other turn-based games it would probably be fine.

Edit: Just remembered that not all games are action-oriented.
I live in Western Europe, and I welcome Uber after years of waiting 20-30m in the cold or torrid sun for a car that should have gotten there in 10m, getting berated for taking short trips, having friends and tourists scammed by drivers taking much longer routes than necessary, etc.

Their latest move - after getting a court order to ban Uber, which they fortunately were too incompetent to get right - was trying to leech tourists by asking for a flat fee for any trip starting at the airport that would be enough to cross the whole city.

Regulations protecting the safety of citizens (both inside and outside the taxi) might be necessary, and Uber should be punished if they violate them. But competition shouldn't be regulated away, and Uber for all its flaws has given a well overdue kick in the pants of complacent companies.
How DevOps fits into the modern network
For event-driven microservices, I think Perl 6 is actually a great choice. I have experience writing some small things in Go and Node.js, but Perl 6 offers much more powerful high-level features for handling async, concurrency, and parallelism.

Promise combinators are built into the language to provide composable concurrency. But unlike using something like Q in Node.js, you can truly perform tasks across promises in parallel (and with static typing to boot!)

Perl 6 has channels for when you want Go style semantics, but you also have Supplies for when you want their dual: instead of pushing events through channels you pull them reactively. This allows you to write highly declarative code; see https://gist.github.com/muraiki/222814d5928f648be3c1

I think that P6 will also be awesome for data munging. Here's a pipeline that processes text from a file with 4 parallel workers.

my $lines = open('foo.json', :r).lines.hyper(batch => 20, degree => 4)
my $filter = $lines.grep: -> $line { $line ~~ /someregex/ };
my $json = $filter.map: &from-json;
my $foos = $json.grep: *<some_property> == 'foo';
say $foos.list[8];

Since the operations are done in scalar context, they essentially operate lazily, pulling one value through the chain at a time. The pipeline is only activated once coerced to list context at the end, and only enough values as are required to find the 9th match are processed.

I've used Elixir before. It has some great features and having the power of BEAM and OTP is quite awesome. But sometimes the actor model is not what you want. I think that Perl 6 will be not just a great glue language, but also a powerful language for writing multi-paradigm applications that meet the demands of modern systems.
>Also, what happened to those ultra cheap windows mobile devices targeted at "emerging markets?"

Nokia 635, $40: http://www.amazon.com/AT-Nokia-Lumia-635-Contract/dp/B00LBFF...

We bought one for my future mother-in-law, because the Windows Phone tile system was easier for her to deal with than the Android home screen. Plus, when she dropped it in a puddle after a few months, no big deal.
You quickly realize that this is a bad idea when the payments come in fast enough.
We implemented something similar 5 months ago, but wired to an event in segment (we don't use stripe).
The bot would post a random gif from giphy tagged with 'money'.
After a while we became tired of seeing Nicki Minaj appear in our slack...
Which is weird because most of the reasons they give are valid for any type of interstitial, there's not a lot of reasons that set app interstitials apart from others that are relevant to the user.

They're basically a new kind of pop-up window, an annoyance that you have to click away.

I don't remember browsers only blocking certain kinds of pop-ups based on content, they just see if it wasn't initiated by a user-action, it'll get blocked.

I suppose for Google there may be some reasons why they want to block the app-interstitials (I guess because they want to encourage keeping the content they index on the web, not in an app?), but even then, that's still no reason not to punish the other types of interstitial just as much. Trying to make the distinction is just making it harder on themselves, they will occasionally get it wrong, or people will complain that their interstitial shouldn't be punished because it is (somehow) not quite about the app--making the criteria a bit broader seems like it's easier for Google and better for the users?
Is lower goals really more founder-friendly? I'm not so sure.

A bit perplexing, but in my experience, VCs who aim lower will often put far more stress and pressure on founders to meet short-term milestones and ramp up revenues immediately. Since the distant billion dollar goal is gone, it becomes all about the short-term.

Aiming for a billion is a great filter too. At the early stages, you desperately need to be associated at least a few investors / founders / employees who absolutely believe you're on the path to something huge. Low goals allows more people to get involved who have extremely misaligned interests, who are often looking for something medium sized to milk, instead of something huge to help grow.
Not really at the moment (although not as bad as Samsung). They are however moving more and more towards vanilla. They've just released a limited test release of a basically vanilla install for the xperia Z3 and if rumors are to believed then the new Z5 will be much more vanilla than any previous release
BlackBerry to Acquire Good Technology
Well, we know that most of the posts here are technical and our submission doesn't look like that. But the background of the linked blogpost is an app, which provides a completely new way to make the most out of evangelism marketing. Especially for the small business sector.
Web version/framing of this: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-01/this-compa...

Rather cool, we do all sorts of interesting things in flyover country, Springfield, MO is 70 miles east of where I was born, raised, and have retired to.
Page 2, in diagram. No motivation though.
> It is rather hard to take a drug if the company won’t give it to you.

Not really, you just have to buy it from a compounding pharmacy.
UK Match.com site hit by malicious adverts