skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think it is too much to call this "capable of basic reading comprehension". Surely, "simple sentence parser can answer reading comprehension questions" would be more correct?

We test whether a human have "basic reading comprehension" by asking them reading comprehension questions. If they answer the questions successfully, then we assume that they have this "reading comprehension" skill. Therefore, if an AI can answer these questions, then it must also have "reading comprehension".

Maybe these "reading comprehension questions" don't actually test reading comprehension, just pattern matching and sentence parsing. In which case, we shouldn't be asking these questions to anyone (human or AI). So what we need are new questions.
Their refund policies are actually really fair. They have four of them. If I summarize them: a) You can cancel a preorder and get money back. (This game is nothing like promised in early trailers!) b) you can exchange a game for another of same value if you have not played or downloaded it (oh no! I have purchased the wrong game!) c) You can get money back if you get a bug (even if you downloaded it!) d) You can withdraw from a purchase for 30 days if the game has not been downloaded.

The c) point is the most interesting:

c) Money back guarantee: if you buy any GOG content and have significant technical issues with it (e.g. there is a major show stopper bug in a game that prevents you from finishing it), we will give you a full refund if all the following requirements are met:

(i) You must have genuine significant technical issues with the GOG content.

(ii) You need to contact GOG Customer Support to request the refund within 30 days of the original purchase (if you received it from a GOG-authorised exchange for another product, then the 30 day period starts running from the date of exchange).

(iii) GOG Customer Support must have a reasonable time period in which to try to resolve the issue before they process the refund to you.
It is $720 million built on top of the shoulders of billions and billions of dollars of the failures and successes of missions that preceded it.
SAP boss Bill McDermott lost an eye, almost died in freak accident
I've been forced to use this on a contracting-job and not exactly happy with the state of the current components. It's a bit too brittle, there's usually little to no documentation on the different authmethods between different components (MDWamp and AutobahnJS specifically). There's sloppy typo's and every few hours the server decides not to accept connections for a certain auth-id anymore until it is rebooted.
I paid less than $150 for my metal and wood Ikea Jerker Standing Desk.
They are possibly built to specification by multiple factories in multiple cities. A particular item may not be traceable to where it was built.
And yet give me a code base with clear contracts, narrow interfaces and minimal dependencies with EVERY ONE of these so-called 'violations'...all of which are are trivial to contend with if you have a good software architecture.

Am wondering when our industry will see this forest for the trees...
After I make my two clicks for which you have several months time (only needed to do that once) the actual transaction is reversed immediatly. That means even if I notice it three weeks later, the bank pretends the direct debit never happened and is not included in any interest calculation etc.
>> Finally, there is also the concept of confidence. In the face of ambiguity that can't be resolved, a confidence rating should be assigned based on available information and future answers should be based on that confidence.

That should probably be the first thing ;-) Every word has a probable meaning, and when all of them fit together into a coherent way including context, then the meaning is correct (probably). This also encompasses the use of pronouns, which you touch on. An inability to resolve ambiguity should also point to the appropriate question to ask for clarification, which you also mentioned. I think your points are all great, just wanted to point out that I think the notion of confidence should be more central.

I'd also go as far as saying part of the internal model of the world should also have a confidence. Any failure to understand a sentence may actually be a problem with its world view. But now I'm rambling.
What about using the Twitter "buy" button now? Is it vulnerable to the same type of fraud? See this example https://twitter.com/mperham/status/643480319870369792
"An apple UI/UX guy"

Cthulhu_ was likely understating on purpose, but this "Apple UI/UX guy" is Don Norman.
Slack alert interrupted me out of the zone again. Where is the mute feature?
Probably this:

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/541276/deep-learning-ma...

http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01549
Or for the server to terminate the connection if STARTTLS is not requested
'False color' is a post processing step. It doesn't matter what your source of the signal is, at some step when you make the image ready for human consumption (especially for web consumption), you get to decide how to map each of your channels to RGB (or whatever). When your sensors are RGB, then mapping directly to RGB makes sense. But you could swap green and red, and end up with a 'False Color'.

Remember, within each channel (doesn't matter how broad its frequency sensitivity is), the values you get are 'grayscale'.

Its perfectly legitimate to take multi sprectral data and collapse it down to gray scale (this is after all how we fake grayscale pictures taken on most digital cameras now).
Ya know, why do companies make you read three paragraphs before even mentioning anything about what the thing actually is?

tldr: Microsoft is building a Linux based system to run network switches. This is part of a trend in the industry that has been moving more network intelligence into abstracted software rather than proprietary hardware. Background: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_networking
Having trouble with the timing on this one.

From the article:
"These days Billy can still be found pitching our work at empty meeting rooms around the community"

Screenshots seem to be from the last few days

Did this happen last year? My apologies for the internet detective
You brought up math. I never disputed that 100MB / 12.5MByte/s is slightly easier than 100MB / 100Mbit/s. I'm just saying that calculation, in both forms, gives a very inaccurate answer to how long a file transfer will take, which is what you brought up as the big reason.

An easier and better answer is what jdiez17 described: just divide by 10. I.e. 100Mbit/s link speed is approximate 10MB/s of data transfer.

All of that has nothing to do with bits vs bytes.
The idea of programming the NES in C is still a little out there. People have made plenty of efforts in that area but it never seems to "stick."

Seems to me like it makes the most sense to just go with 6502 if one is serious about fooling around with the NES.
Ask HN: Can you name companies (5+ employees) with distributed/nomadic teams?
So far I have:

Buffer, Toptal, Maptia & Upworthy - fully nomadic, the employees & founders are always on the go

Basecamp, GitHub, Mozilla - known for their distributed teams and mobility but majority of workforce still in HQ

Can you help me find more?
there was a nice infographic I read from quora a while ago:
http://carlcheo.com/startcoding
I haven't recently, but I have 4 monitors at work. I use emacs with follow mode and multiple buffers opened so I can see lots of text at once. But when I only had one monitor, I printed a lot of things out. The difference is like trying to drive a car in the winter with only a 1'x1' patch of clear windshield versus having the entire view.
I think the intent was to show how easily one can transfer Bitcoin as a means of payment, then transfer the amount into a more preferred currency, which presumably, in a country with poor financial institutions/regulation, is easier than directly wiring USD
Those directives will no longer pass the linting that nginx does on its configuration file. New versions of Nginx with spdy support removed will not start until you remove those directives.

They are treated as syntax errors, but I think it does give an error message that spdy is deprecated and to remove.
Like others, my only issue is that if you pay for 12 months and then decide not to continue that you should get a perpetual license for the latest version your subscription allowed you, not the first version. Maybe that was the intent but it doesn't read that way.

Otherwise I am good with the rest of it at this point.
It is identical to a credit card and cheque. That's exactly what you're doing in both cases.
For a visual of how far away Pluto really is from Earth(and really how far away everything in our solar system is from eachother) I recommend checking out Riding Light https://vimeo.com/117815404

"This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of light emitted from the surface of the sun and traveling across a portion of the solar system, from a human perspective."

The video is 45 minutes long and makes it just past Jupiter. It would have to be 5.5 hours long to show Pluto.
I get that, I'm just comparing it to something that's manufactured & transported once. Cradle to grave. Just saying that because something is recyclable it is therefore good for the environment is marketing fluff.

For example, ~18 uses of a ceramic cup = 1 'recyclable' paper cup.
https://www.quora.com/Which-one-is-a-more-environment-friend...
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I want Jarvis.

"We were promised Jarvis, but all we got were eight different closed-source, non-extensible, hosted voice recognition platforms."

What are the leading voice recognition assistant thingies? Siri, Google Now (no human name, much like most google employees), Cortana, Alexis? They each have huge acoustic models and run completely privately and are completely closed source.

We can't have Jarvis until we run our own hackable computing infrastructures personally, not globally hosted versions running behind the walls of Trust Us, Inc.

Which mobile platform will be the first to offer pluggable voice-to-action backends? Much like we pick web browsers, we should be able to select our voice command interfaces, but that would require a lot more interop between hardware manufactures and would also kill their moats of unlimited training data acquisition.
> Well, technically speaking I can rewrite it, but no-one will mind.

Try that on multiple teams across timezones actively developing multiple branches, with big merges on a weekly basis.

"Rewrite module X" never happens. Even if you have a healthy suite of behavioral tests, it will still feel brittle because rewriting large sections of code will inevitably bite you in the ass.

And no you can't say "you're merging main into your branch? your responsibility."
Ten years ago, DARPA was working on a sensor that could detect non-acoustic speech under their Advanced Speech Encoding project. Doesn't seem to have had any (publicly available) results, though.
This podcast isn't active anymore, but I rate it as one of the absolute best resources on B2B sales: http://www.salesroundup.com

Start listening the archives from the beginning or pick your episodes, either way it's one killer virtual coaching program on B2B complex sales, applying many of the mentioned books to practice on strategic and operational level.
Are you guys really trying to "fix" a meme?
That's not how accounting works. If it did, I'd personally be worth billions, too.
Yup, inconsistency is a kind of data corruption, provided you expect it to be in a consistent state.

The emotional value of the latter is much stronger, though, and it sounds worse to the uninitiated, which is probably why Percona folks are trying to spin it that way.
Wow, I'm currently making nearly the exact same switch, albeit on a smaller scale. I'm currently in charge of a lot of old ASP.NET applications but for the new flagship thing we're looking at ASP.NET 5 on Linux on Azure (BizSpark), Go where it makes sense performance-wise or problem-wise and possibly Postgres instead of SQL Server, although I'm not sure on that last bit yet.
If you got paid as an employee to build the app, his position isn't as weird as it seems (ignoring verbal promises). After all, he had already borne most of the risk at that point.
I once worked with a programmer who would not indent any of his code. "It makes it go faster" he said. Wrote all of his code in Windows Notepad too.
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For the record, us software folks are sorry.

Glass was one of those projects that management seriously goofed up. Whenever we had an issue come up from an explorer, we'd do as much as we could to solve it, but there was in general too much political chaff in the way to fix the larger problems.

I pushed for opening at least the AOSP stuff that wasnt bound by agreements toward the end, but my arguments fell on deaf ears, it seems.
0.4% seems like nothing, too. That was very confusing to me.
I've been seeing this pop up on all the major news outlets and science websites, but still have not seen one mention of the side effect that may be behind both increased risk of suicide and increased risk of violent behavior: akathisia.

Akathisia is a side effect of antidepressants that causes an intense inner restlessness and inability to sit still. This can cause agonizing pain and terrible anxiety, and people can resort to extreme behaviors to relieve their symptoms, often becoming violent.

This has been known for a while now. If you look at the references on the Wikipedia page for akathisia, you find one paper linking antidepressant-induced akathisia to violence from 2006:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1564177/

Quoting from that paper on akathisia:

“Increased tenseness, restlessness, insomnia and a feeling of being very uncomfortable”.

“On the first day of treatment he reacted with marked anxiety and weepiness, on the second day felt so terrible with such marked panic at night that the medication was cancelled”.

“The first few doses frequently made them anxious and apprehensive. They reported increased feelings of strangeness, verbalised by statements such as ‘I don't feel myself’ or ‘I'm afraid of some of the unusual impulses I have'’.

"Events such as these in clinical trials of antidepressants have commonly been coded under headings such as agitation, emotional lability, and hyperkinesis (overactivity), and only rarely to akathisia."

The good thing is that you can treat akathisia with common medicines already used to treat anxiety, such as benzodiazepines. The bad thing is that since information on side effects has been suppressed, patients are not likely to know what is happening to them and how to treat it, won't get the help they need, and run the risk of hurting themselves or others.
The guy didn't belong in a startup weekend. The team at the weekend is supposed to own/share the results. Not some guy who can't recruit engineers and uses startup weekend to defraud the real talent to promote himself.
AmbiScreen
Pygame is very fun to work with and it's so easy. I stopped using it for game development (switched to web-based HTML5 stuff) but it is still an amazing wrapper over SDL. I recently used it to write a quick version of an image evolver. (an example of what I'm talking about: http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/evolve/)

If I ever want to bust out a quick graphical/audio application I use Pygame.
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> Do you understand how hard it is for an 'idea guy' to recruit a technical team?

It's really easy. You pay them.

Which is the crux of the issue here; Startup Weekends aren't meant as places to get/recruit cheap/free labor, so when they are used in that way, bad feelings happen.
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It really whips the llama's ass!
Do you have any reading/watching recommendations for understanding this hypothesis more?
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"They have no idea how much shit they caused people by withholding this information."

They do.
I'm not an MD or dietician, but I'm kind of surprised that BMI hasn't been replaced by something as simple as height-to-waist ratio, which seems to me would be a potentially informative measure with higher correlation to body fat percentage than BMI.
I agree, but for different reasons.

I think the author (or his friend at least) entered in the event to test his Speculative Stock Warrant. (It is a ways to get a small kick-back if startup goes big 10 years later)
So he already entered in the event to only get an shadow option of a potential good company.

He complained that Billy did not valued enough their weekend hacking and put an outside parter in the company. But he already only had 0.4%. If I was Billy I wouldn't think of someone who had this kind of deal with me as a cofounder.
I also worked in a similar situation. The "business guy" who was also handling customer emails, for a while became so slack he ignored people complaining that an important feature of the site was broken. I happened to be scanning through the emails when I found it. He also had a tendency to blame customers for bugs and not even pass their feedback on to me some of the time. He expressed the same attitude of "this is my company and you're lucky I let you work for me (without proper pay)". He wasn't really even doing the business part well, just riding on good Google rankings that he'd got from doing some SEO years before. Turns out though that by not being his employee, most of the code remained my IP. When we parted ways, I started up a new company in direct competition and am now doing much better by keeping 100% of the profits instead of the small share he'd been "generously" giving me before. He's kind of stranded without a developer and not enough revenue to hire one at market rates.
Kind of like a light switch. The device is carrying out its function even when switched off.
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Another awesome potential use for this would be to perfect marching band techniques. There's an immense amount of precision needed and if done incorrectly can injure people's feet— this would be very useful there.
I wonder what the tidal forces are like in the Pluto/Charon system.
I can't find a code of conduct on the Startup Weekend site. Perhaps it's time they introduce one.
Totaly ignorant here:

Why would using FastSpring be safer than using Stripe?
you're both right, IMO. because there's a whole world between being a jerk and being a push-over. and btw, opposites typically have way more similarities than differences. (it actually says so in the definition of opposites in classical logic, but nobody seems to pay attention to that.) meaning, both attitudes sometimes come from the same place.
The solution is not to tax "toys" as you call them, there are already plenty of existing tax dollars to go around. The larger issue is that we would rather buy 1700 F35 fighters instead of funding NASA for the next 10 years. Actually even the F35 is a slightly more reasonable use of money then some of the other things that make it onto the budget. The money is there in many cases but the will to use it for NASA is not since to many NASA is considered a toy.
I got the idea that what the author really thinks (whether he knows it or not) is "It's our turn to be the bullies now"
To a point, saying "not telling" is better than saying "my drug cartel".
The IRS might investigate but if they do not find any violations (of US tax law) they wont and cant pursue this matter any further, at least on paper.
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> Further, if you mention that John also has a brother named Sam, and then you mention Sam in an ambiguous context, the program should be smart enough to ask, "Which Sam? Mary's brother or John's?"

Option 3: The only Sam, since Mary and John are brothers :)
TSA was not created in response to unforesern attacks on airplanes creating a new percroved need (those happened before) but to unforeseen use of airliners as weapons. Other transportation systems may be equally attractive as targets, but few, if any, are equally exploitable as weapons.
There is a list of 60 here: https://remote.co/qa-leading-remote-companies/
My colleague does this and he is the main user of our office printer by far. As a driver writer, every now and then he'll print a few parts of the hardware source out in minute font and proceed to annotate/highlight it. He then files it away under his desk in the folder for that version. I'm happy in the knowledge that should our fileserver and backups spontaneously explode, we have a semi-versioned copy ready for someone to just type back into the computer. But in seriousness, it seems to work for him.
Did you have a bug at the time? You can easily get your money back if you did not download the game already.

To get your money back on an used product, you must prove that you have game breaking issues.
The takeaway from this is that affordances are still important in UI design. Many sites/apps nowadays try to get away without it. Even having a tutorial during onboarding isn't really enough. Users often disregard them, so you need to make sure things are intuitive.

As a UX guy, this is why you do user testing. Just yesterday I was conducting a test, and one user was getting upset at our onboarding tutorial "Just get me to the app, I don't care about this." Not a moment later, "Oh wait, how do I do this? Haha guess I should have read the tutorial." It was a lighthearted moment given the circumstance, but in the real world and in aggregate, it shows how to lose users.
I really don't think that has anything to do with flat design whatever that means.

Apple is all about hiding non-essential information and functionality. Always has been. This is a consistent pattern you will be able to find in all their software if you pay a little attention. Basically, if Apple thinks something is a power user feature most users will not need then they have no qualms about not making it discoverable. They tend to even go a step further: they may outright hide it, making it impossible for users to ever be confused by it.

I don't think that's a bad design pattern (depending on context and circumstances, obviously, as always), you just have to make the right judgement calls about what's important and has to be discoverable and what's not. This allows the software to be simple to most users while also having some depth for more advanced users. Like always in design it's all about making the right trade offs, though. The devil is in the details.
the ceo is the person who says, "i want to be ceo." no one else in the room stepped up to do that.

that's why psychopaths win, but that's also why "nice" people get walked all over.
You might think you are joking, but this blog clearly proved it to be true. All you need is a startup weekend and 8 "fucking nerds" to scam into coding your idea for free.
I don't really see how this is relevant however reporting suspicious Fiverr jobs is totally different giving citizens the right to employ lethal force. The stakes are slightly different.
I didn't mean to imply that the claims were not strong. Just that they're more careful/specific (which is a good thing for this kind of work).

Also, saying a piece of software is "unhackable" is akin to saying a ship is "unsinkable".
Just because it could be done with the current hip thing (neural nets) doesn't mean all other approaches should be disregarded.
So next year when Apple does this it will be billed as "innovative! A breath of fresh air, the greatest thing since sliced bread!" then people will wonder why we waited decades for OS developers to preload the latest and greatest OS. Making the install seemless, fast and a wonderfully painless experience for the user. Will make it to the front page of the New York Times as the biggest innovation of 2016.
I doubt it. On the enterprise space from our customers, no one cares about them.

It is all about .NET, C++ and additionally the JVM when going outside Windows.