skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it odd to see a reply written as if I haven't written in a transactional style and seen it working well. But ignoring that for a second. Your blog post says the error handlers did the wrong thing 5% of the time. Can I read from that they did the right thing 95% of the time? And you will dismiss the technique for that?

Not to mention that there are coding styles that make the transactional approach less difficult. (OK, so reverting your work gets hairy in the presence of certain side effects. In many cases I would rather chose some behavior and stick with it than take down an entire process dereferencing a null pointer.)
Informing patients is a hugely variable thing. It's "fast moving" at the moment to make it more digitized at least, but that isn't always clearly the best solution for patients even if it may be an improvement over the rushed PI interview and boring training video.

I think what's exciting about clinical research—if only in principal!—is that a doctor has an excuse to spend more time involved in a patient's life and health. The idea of having an interview with the whole family discussing a patient's health is pretty interesting even if it comes attached with the additional burden of understanding an (often complex) trial protocol.

Unfortunately, I think that the idea of being able to schedule enough time for such an interview (and doing so while wearing your best bow tie) is a rare one.
> I might build it myself

Build it if you think it'd be fun or something worthwhile for your CV. Don't build it because you want it to be a useful, nudity-free chat service. People have tried that (including Chat Roulette itself).

It's hard to get people to use things with their real identities. Unfortunately, anonymity also enables trolling. I think it's impossible to have a random chat site without masturbation. It is, bizarrely, part of human nature to troll.

Honing your social skills can be hard, but you might want to try clubs or meetups in your city. Video chat isn't much like real-life socializing anyway.
Corruption level is high in Russia, you're right here. But totalitarian government? I'm afraid, you drink too much someone else's Kool-aid.
And as for the GDP fall. Could you please provide some references? Because mine show that it's not even close to what you've written [1] [2].
I'd like to read more about generations in the army and the aged military, too.
Lack of any references but very big conclusions. That's exactly how pro-Russian trolls' messages look like.

[1]: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/russia/gdp-growth
[2]: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/russia/gdp
People are misunderstanding "trivial". Here what they proved is that there is no way to encode any of the English pronunciation rules as a function purely of context-free spelling of phonemes in a way that is consistent across the language. The data shows that all spellings must yield identical pronunciations, unless English JS inconsistent and/or context senstive. Obviously, the latter is true.
The site has an interesting history. The former Stadtschloss suffered serious destruction during WWII ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Palace,_Berlin ) and the Communist East tore it completely down to build the Palace of the Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_the_Republic,_Berlin and acted as the hub of DDR government. Once the wall fell, and DDR disintegrated, in 2008 DDR's Palace of Republic was almost completed demolished, and work on new Stadtschloss which very much resembles the original commenced.
Really good question since I really enjoy using Ruby, more so even than Clojure and Haskell.

I too would like to see Ruby ports of some of the popular ML libraries. The classifier gem provides an example.
Come on... they're buying a house on Lombard Street. What do they seriously expect? It would be like buying one of the Painted Ladies and then complaining that everyone is taking photos of your house.
Not an expert photographer, but while there are plenty of more "authentic" ways of reproducing the older photos, there are also lots of post-processing tools for digital (Photoshop plugins and the like) that do a great job of simulating all sorts of film stocks.

I've messed with these a bit: https://www.google.com/nikcollection/

They're a step above your typical Instagram-type filters and you can tweak effect parameters and strength depending what you're going for. It can easily devolve into gimmickry and I'm sure a skilled photographer and editor can do more without presets/plugins but for the average or hobbyist photographer I've found them to be a good starting point.
Well, it was his "welcome to the company, here are a few things that will be helpful as you settle in, and here's the scoop on where to go for orientation" email, so it would ideally get to him before he arrived, and certainly before orientation started.

Having two kids 3 and under doesn't lend itself very well to methodically planning out a carefully choreographed morning with just enough time to dash off an important email.

(That said, I do have a comfortably blurred line between work and personal, because I genuinely enjoy both and don't see a need for a strong wall between the two. Other people make other choices and I do what I can to not project my preferences onto their behaviors and choices. It's not perfect, but nothing is.)
>But here is what I find amazing: we have already seen this movie and we know what forces are at play and what the likely outcome is. Namely, it is very difficult to maintain legitimacy as a government through a propaganda campaign. It is a highly unstable equilibrium. At any time, information can get out of the hands of the propagandists and the system will find a more stable equilibrium -- ie. leaders will be replaced. It's just a matter of time.

I hate to sound like a Pro-Russia troll, but the leaders weren't replaced in the West; the author of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the initial evangelist of the "Missile Gap" nonsense that sped us towards armageddon, Kennedy, is still Baby-Boomer Democrat Jesus. We're still having a debate as Americans on how perfect Reagan was - was he our great warrior-king that stopped the forces of collectivism from infecting our workforce, or was he just a lovable, charming, everyman's dad who was the optimistic, spiritual cure for the cynical unrest of the 60s and 70s?

America's government systematically destroyed the careers of every person in the media who had ever signed a petition, attended a meeting, or campaigned for an issue with any of the dozens of Soviet front groups OR communist groups, OR socialist groups, OR groups campaigning against state racism, or for the sake of any discriminated against group through the blacklist, and imprisoned people for peaceful speech. American propaganda was so pervasive that it renders some of the media from the period unwatchable without considering how heavily saturated every permissible theme was with the Cold War and Anti-Communism.

This just sounds like so much Russia is bad and inherently weak (in exactly the same way it was declared to be philosophically when it was Soviet, although it's governance is now comparatively unrecognisable) and America will defeat them for freedom's sake, but with a lot of words.

edit: Also, in the 25 odd years since the fall of the Soviet Union, the hegemon has had Father-Son Presidents, and is about to have a Husband-Wife pair. That will make 4 out of 5 post-Soviet Presidents a member of the nuclear family of another President. People are already discussing how to get Chelsea Clinton into Congress, as they have been since she started university.
Yeah, I call "rigged science" on this one. Wearing any clothing other than professional apparel would bias an interview outcome regardless of the cause.

The control either should have involved people wearing hats for another cause and/or they should have had a resume-mention only group in the test.

Point of fact, I would not be suprised if discrimination exists. But no need to rig the test.
What about Torch or Theano which allow you to use multiple GPUs and clusters? they also have a wide array of libraries which allows you to extend capabilities (itorch etc.). torch is also very fast, most parts written in C so I don't know if Tensorflow would be really that fast compared to existing librairies.

One thing find I found interesting is the ability to use the software you designed in research directly in production (without having to rewrite the whole thing in java)

That said, I'm excited to see Google release this. Hopefully it would encourage Facebook or Baidu to also release
Russia's media is also nominally pluralistic. They have been careful to permit the existence of dissenting media -- if for no other reason than to have something to discredit. The propaganda outlets are much better funded and organized though, so they can largely drown out the voices pushing an agenda that differs from the party line. The Russian masses (just like the masses everywhere else, including the US) are largely uneducated, xenophobic and easily influenced by nationalism. It's just far more effective to allow them to exist and attack them in the media (as happened to the reporter in the article) than it is to violently suppress them.

The difference in the US is that the propaganda comes not from the government, but from the corporate/media machine -- which largely controls the government. American corporations now have such an outsized influence on American elections that it's hard to know who is the puppet and who is pulling the strings. Sure, you can go on TV and say whatever you want to say, but our system has become increasingly hostile to "real" investigative journalism (just look at our justice system's reaction to Snowden / Manning). They distract the public over trivial social issues (abortion, gay marriage, legal weed) while doing whatever they want. Or in other words, Obama gets to score points with liberal voters by blocking the Keystone XL pipeline -- never mind that he approved 6 other, similar pipelines in his last two terms. The difference is that the media simply chose not to cover them, so the blowback was limited.
Automated Performance-Tracking of LLVM-Generated Code [pdf]
So I've spent the last few months trawling through camera datasheets, evaluating OCR solutions, and building and comparing custom image transformations so that we can have a good idea of the quality and limitations of the ANPR solution we intend to deploy.

As of today only the framework of the final solution has been written, and we are finally interviewing for developers to write up the system for production (I will manage them, but am moving on to our radio code now).

Is what I've been doing engineering? If I was doing the final writing myself is it ?
Was the Google's self driving car based on the one from 60s? (last picture)
>>> Friend of mine got one of those hard to remove stickers put on their car for taking her mother up there.

What did they put on her car?
I use issue trackers to do this (usually Jira if I get to decide). Jira has specific Story and Epic types built-in.
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My away from computer hobby is cycling, I get to combine staying fit with something I love doing and occasionally ride with a local club which fits the social side as well (coffee,cake and a chat after 60 miles is awesome).

It is hard to find time to do stuff sometimes though.
This sort of brings us to a philosophical problem of determining where game design ends and writing begins, sort of how movies have often had difficulty delineating between the responsibilities of a writer, director, and producer. The actor was ad-libbing in that scene, should he get a writing credit? The director picked his own DP, Editor and half the cast, should he get an executive producer credit?

When Miyamoto invented the Goomba and made him the first enemy in Super Mario Bros, was he writing or designing?

Certainly he was writing because he was creating a protagonist and an obstacle for the protagonist. But certainly he was also designing, because he described a system for the gamer to control the protagonist and rules for how Mario could interact with the Goomba.

Metal Gear Solid and A Link to the Past are great for the sake of comparison. How many cut scenes could you tear out of MGS and still have the exact same gaming experience? How many from LTTP?

I don't know what the answer is, but I know that the answer for MGS is higher than 0. I'm less certain for LTTP.

Does that make Miyamoto more pure as an artist than Kojima? At least where these games are concerned, I lean toward yes, but there's quite obviously gray areas here.
> it seems to be that the threat to democracy will come from these paid trolls that seek to influence the minds of the western citizens

If the trolls are the "threat to democracy" even worth mentioning, compared to the rest of what's going on in the world, then we're really, really lucky.
I know, right? I recently did a pilot project with a Splunk competitor called Jut, that was totally query language oriented. It was great, hugely refreshing after Kibana. They're planning on going open source, too, so maybe the language will even survive.
I'm willing to say subjectively that they have gotten worse. Some of the practices I've seen from the inside are downright despicable. Take your pick.. age, race, gender, health status.. I've seen the hiring department at our company pull it all. We had a candidate turned down because she spoke with a lisp and the manager said she wanted someone "intelligent" for the job.. despite the candidate's graduation from an ivy league college.
Sometimes, works take such a big part of your life and stresses you so much that you might start to feel that you are better to put those few free hours into more work in a vain effort to get done with it.

People don't realize that they won't be done with it until their retirement.
Towards Optimization-Safe Systems: Impact of Undefined Behavior (2013) [pdf]
I don't see the difference between 'for' and 'wife' unless you are considering the 'fe' in the latter to be equivalent to the 'f' in the former. If so, then I wonder if the difference might alternatively be attributed to a silent and possibly 'magic' e (something I just learned about via good_gnu's post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_e )
People taking this article way to seriously. It is a humorous story about a rigorous analysis of problem that makes false but naively intuitive assumptions to misprove a contradiction. The point is (1) the rigorous analysis is possible and (2) the assumptions are incorrect -- English does not have consistent pronunciation rules.
That's terrible but it seems to me that you accept a certain amount of risk using airbnb. How could any set of regulations cover things like swings tied to a tree?
You absolutely do want to do dithering. Dithering converts distortion (error correlated with the signal, which is bad) to noise (error uncorrelated with the signal, which is less bad). This means that even though the noise floor is higher, you can recover more of the original signal. There is virtually no case where that is not desirable.

You're right of course that it will compress less well, but that's to be expected because you've lost less information!
What does Apple Maps do?
> All international agreements are generally discussed in secrecy.

People keep repeating this line with no evidence. I've been around for a number of international treaties and this is the first one I recall where the #1 issue is how secretive and un-democratic the process is.

Of course there are always backchannel discussions but with the TPP there has be little indication that ANY of the initiatives are actually being driven by the needs of the electorate.

When my elected official couldn't even see a copy for years (even in secret) and then was only able to when it was basically an all-or-nothing done deal about to signed something is very, very wrong.
I'm not the greatest photographer, but my impression is that they mostly have very high contrast; the photographer let a lot of dark areas fall into shadow. To some degree you can accomplish this in editing, but one shortcut to interesting photos is to shoot when the sun is low in the sky which naturally creates strong contrast.
There are artificial and biological neural networks. The artificial one is based upon the biological one. Therefore dropping the 'artificial' or 'biological' seems fine to me.
Could highly advanced propaganda be mistaken for society? (see also technology -> magic)
Here is one her articles in English:
http://kioski.yle.fi/omat/at-the-origins-of-russian-propagan...
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead > http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13588356-daring-greatly

Tremendous insight into our own inner critic and interaction with people. Got turned onto to this book after hearing the author interviewed by Tim Ferriss, highly recommend> http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/08/28/brene-brown-on-vulner...
That's very simplistic.

Here's a great case :

It is often said that the West picked Mobutu over Lumumba because the lattest was seen as a threat to mining interests.

Yet Mobutu nationalized the mines, then nationalized and redistributed most foreign assets.

And yet he was still supporter by the West.

The explanation: Mobutu played his cards right. The West was worried about Communism, he declared himself as strongly anti-communist and that was enough.
Previous discussion of the Paypal error mentioned in the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3832069
People were very skeptical about the TPP because of the contents of earlier leaks, and the way the negotiations were handled.
I think what you meant to say was, "no wonder it's 6000 pages long due to this being a very large and complex project. The length of this document is reasonably commensurate with the intended scale of such a deal."
Precisely. The view that anything my side does is OK because it's my side is the kind of nationalism that can turn ugly very quickly.
Just be kind and don't stand in the middle of beachwood ave blocking traffic grinning down the shaft of your selfie stick (you will see what I mean). I take friends up there all the time (to the trail under the sign) just be quiet and courteous and no one gets upset.
She wrote them. Take a look at one of her articles: http://kioski.yle.fi/omat/at-the-origins-of-russian-propagan...
> Can someone clarify if "single machines" means the Apache license only applies to single machines and not distributed systems?

I'm not aware that there is a way to do that and still legitimately call it the Apache license. I took the statement to mean that the source does not have the capability of parallelizing across machine boundaries.
True, but it's not really a public park....
The whole point of the article is to show that the premise is else, in every single case: there is no letter in English that always has unambiguous prononuciation.
> I think that it shows that their bosses don't really understand real Internet discussion and don't know that people can identify trolls, regardless if they are state-sponsored or not.

Remember that Russia's masses (just like the masses of every country in the world) are almost by definition poor, uneducated and scared. The wealthy and educated are part of the system -- they don't believe the lies, but the lies work in their service so they don't have to.
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Hm, maybe if you build one yourself, require something like a github account for chatting but don't reveal the identity to the parties. That way you can ban people that get reported for inappropriate behavior and random weirdos are unlikely to have a github account.

Setting something up that uses webrtc is not all that hard... :)
Exactly. A few hours ago there was a thread on Guantanamo torture methods and people were unanimous that it's a shame and that it's no better than what the bad guys do.

But tell them about the Russian trolls and somehow they forget everything and start to speak about the free world, democracy against those evil dictators ...
I too am a Civil Engineer. I aspire to be a programmer. But programmers are not engineers! Engineer is a title of elites that everybody tries to steal. The guy who operates a crane is called a crane engineer. IMO, That is not engineering! The guy who repairs trains is also an engineer. IMO, that is not engineering. Engineer is someone who sweats through school, thinks about things in ways that have never been thought before, and can lose his job and license, for doing things wrong.

Software engineer is one of those titles taken by programmers for prestige. There are no calculations involved. There is just sweat. It is like calling CAD drafter, a CAD engineer for all of those times he sweats away on enormous drawings.

Engineer is a high ranking title, that bears command and direction, not a role done by programmers who listen to a manager grunt.
The State of JavaScript on Android in 2015 Is Poor (Jeff Atwood)
After I moved from the US to Japan for a few years before spending a couple months backpacking around China, I concluded that Japan has the highest-quality consumer goods, China had the cheapest goods, and America had the best-value goods.

This article is pretty bad, of course. It has no real quantitative measures, just a couple of auto industry quality scandals. That sort of thing happens everywhere, but Takata and VW are just in the news right now.
Despite what everyone is saying here, the median salary in the uk is 26K. 40K puts you in the top 20% of earners. 100k would put you in the top 1%.

Although people are quite right in saying that on 40K you probably couldn't pay the rent in London.
"Secret" Intelligence Service...Seems kinda transparent to me, heh.
Are there any major conceptual differences to Theano? Not that I wouldn't appreciate a more polished, well funded competitor in the same space.

It looks like using TensorFlow from Python will feel quite familiar to a Theano user, starting with the separation of graph building and graph running, but also down into the details of how variables, inputs and 'givens' (called feed dicts in tensorflow) are handled.
Totally true. The "problem" with Buffett is that his advice is a bit of a bitter pill because it's slow, steady and takes decades. It's hard not to trick yourself into believing that you can beat the market consistently (as a retail investor at least). He's totally right, it just isn't all that exciting.
These are not recommended for high-fidelity playback. They're good for archiving records you don't want to damage by playing, but the laser picks up every tiny speck of dust that a needle would plow inaudibly through.
This is not a paradox, it's one of the best known axioms of economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent

The key driver is that land values rise when earnings rise. You can't move land, so there is set amount of it within commutable distance of these cities. Also, each bit is in a unique location relative to all the other bits, so every bit of land is either better or worse than the others in terms of your earning potential when you live there. Close to the centre = cheaper and quicker commuting, whereas further out means more expensive and slower. Buying or renting a bit of it to live on is always an auction, so the best bits (where you earn most) are won by those who those who feel it's worth paying extra to get them (because they are the ones who earn the extra income by living there).

In this way, if wages rise, then the maximum bid that a person can justify paying in order to live in that city rises, and therefore property is more expensive.

This is not a free market, BTW. Land is monopoly.