skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are now lots of deep learning toolkits, maybe over 100. A new one is announced every other week, it seems. And each one wants to become the "standard" for deep learning, trying to win the hearts and minds of developers, developers, developers! So far, I'd say these are winning the competition for mindshare:

1 Google's TensorFLow: looks like Theano 2.0 with easier asynchronous computation (e.g., multi-GPU), a friendlier API, insanely good documentation, lots of tutorials for beginners, and lots of sample code. Comes with Python bindings.

2 UC Berkley's Caffe: a Google team used it for GoogLeNet last year. Probably the best choice if you work with images and want high performance in a ready-to-deploy package. Comes with Python bindings.

3 U of Montreal's Theano: it's more powerful and more widely used than people realize. For example, Keras, Lasagne, and Blocks are essentially friendly "layer-by-layer" APIs built atop Theano's "calculation graph" API. Comes with Python bindings.

4 FaceBook's Torch: people who've used it like it a lot, but its reliance on Lua (Lua!?) prevents it from being more widely adopted. FaceBook people use it because that's where Mr. Le Cun works.

But by far the biggest winner is Python, which is now clearly the #1 scripting language for deep learning.
Start of the open floorplan?
Then why are you commenting here?
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I'm really curious why Google maps seems so .... neglected?

Maybe all these ideas have been considered but rejected for one reason or another.

* Why can I not annotate the map with my own comments? I can mark a place but I can't label it or put any notes. Seems like for google it could a great source for big data (opt in). Would also seem like a possible lock in feature as in an incentive not to switch to another map system since you probably couldn't easily import your notes)

* Why does search on maps suck so bad? I search for things and it gives me massively irrelevant answers halfway around the world even though it knows where I am. Why is actually searching so hard? Quite often I type something in, I want to "search" as in (show me markers on the map that match this query) but no search option appears, only a list of results which is not useful to me. I want to see them on the map. I don't know where 123 brown street is vs 567 red street but I would know if it would show me all of them on the map. That option is only available sometimes, not always. No idea why.

* Why haven't they started selling ads on the maps? Or at least letting businesses register more info. I'd personally like to see logos/signs (small) instead of just generic markers. I'd also like to be to search for items and have it tell me where I can get them. Not just generic items but specific items. eg. not where can I buy appliances but where I can I buy/see the LG LSXS26466S

* Why are the maps still so bad in so many parts of the world? Google maps does not know how to get from downtown Paris to Paris Disneyland by public transport. Google maps does not have public transportation info in Istanbul THE LARGEST CITY IN EUROPE!
Data that couldn't be in an attached spreadsheet? Never.
You get something back from taxes - things like health care (in Europe at least), infrastructure, R&D investment, education, and so on.

Political systems that don't have proper checks and balances always devolve to caste banditry - which is not quite the same thing as getting something useful for your money.
"do not need to cease operations"

Are you a lawyer? I hope not
Now, how do I get to it again?
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That all seems pretty reasonable to me, then.
What I am about to say will probably anger a lot of people, but I think it is worth thinking about, so I'll just go ahead and say it.

I have to say that I don't think that snacks are really the issue. I've worked in offices with snacks and offices without snacks and I don't think it makes any difference at all. Snacks (and monitors and new computers and expensive chairs and company purchased gadgets) are a proxy for appreciation. It is quite easy to set up a delivery of drinks. Everyone can chip in, and as programmers get paid multiples of the minimum wage everywhere in the world, every programmer can afford it. However, when I have worked on teams that attempted to do this, it has been shut down by those that feel that "We should not have to do this. The company should provide for us!"

There is a rock star mentality amongst programmers. To be honest, I don't think it's unique to programmers. Sales people and management traditionally have their junkets that say to them, "You are special". Just like a salesperson would ideally like an open bar, programmers would ideally like an open budget for snacks/toys.

But why do programmers and managers and salespeople value this extra (and really inconsequential) thing? Shouldn't actual appreciation trump the purchase of drinks, or gadgets or copious quantities of alcohol? In my experience, it does not. We have all seen and heard horror stories of bad management and we have all had the feeling of "Well, if I have to put up with this crap, they are going to have to pay a lot of money." But I have also seen good managers go to unreasonable extremes to help employees and to back them through difficult times. Instead of thinking, "I have an amazing manager. I don't care about soda." normally I see reactions that border on "What have you done for me lately? This cheap crap is unacceptable."

I have never been in a traditional management role ("agile coach" is the closest I've come and I always concentrated on improving the skills of developers rather than working on business processes). What I find frustrating about this situation is that smart managers realize that for an extra 10% of their budget, they can provide a modicum of luxury for the programmers in lieu of actual appreciation. Soda trumps helping a developer make it through a rough patch in their life. A monitor with pixels too small to even see is more important than being able to sit down and talk about how to make work situations better. Programmers will burn down the building if they don't get their name brand chair, but will tolerate never having discussions about how to develop their career.

That sucks.
"I'll take a manuscript laid out by a professional any day of the week."

LaTeX with a good template looks much better than some of the "professional" work I've seen.

Also: the real question here is whether the "professional" layout adds enough scholarly value to make it worth paying the outrageous journal subscription price.

Journals are not intended to be aesthetic experiences. That is not their purpose. Their purpose is to disseminate knowledge. High prices are counterproductive to that goal.
I dont really understand this. "NF_REQ_00: API must not change"

Add verification tests to ensure API remains as documented. Every time someone checks in code your tests are run, break if something changes.

Every project has functional and non functional requirements, you write tests for them, your project is in a failure state if the tests are not passing.
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> “What surprised me is that the formula occurred in such a natural way in the calculations, with no circles involved in determining the energy states,” said Hagen, the co-author of the paper.
s/better/open-source

:P
The question is not whether they have that right, it's whether what passes for journalism these days should have that right. The hacks are protected by the First Amendment even when they behave like not very nice people. Which is a lot of the time.

Your First Amendment right to free speech is virtually absolute only because the US judiciary believe themselves to be especially bad at discerning harmful and beneficial uses of free speech. If there were a way to curtail bad free speech, without affecting good free speech, why should we not do that? Indeed, most countries' judiciaries have grown a spine, and are not afraid to curtail free speech where it makes sense.
I spend more 'money' aka. Time getting coffee 2-3 times a day than I could ever consume in snacks/coffee.
As Dave Barry would say: "I am not making this up!".

I once visited this company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLSI_Technology and they had a room with vending machines where you had to buy your own coffee.

Not somewhere I'd ever consider working.
> "That couldn't be further from the truth. We drink Soylent because it gives us the time to do other things that we love."

I find this strange that he acts like food is an obstacle (all of the time). What about the joy of enjoying your food?
> if not, how do you expect it to know where you are?

IP addresses are usually enough to get to the right city.
Yes! I fundamentally believe Matias Duarte and his "Design department" at Google is one of the worst things to ever happen to the company. As Material Design has taken over, product by product, performance and usability has taken a backseat to branding and animation.
You are attacking a strawman. I did not claim that diversity is a sufficient condition for progressive values, I did not even claim that it's a necessary condition. There are many sets of values that will go together to create a "good" society (for any subjective definition of good). For the case of the US, diversity is one of those values. It is entirely possible for a country to not have much diversity and still be a progressive country. In other words, I guess "create" in the quoted sentence should be replaced with "strongly influence".

Essentially, if you're claiming that diversity isn't one of the more defining cultural value of the US, and without it the States would be the same, then I would like to hear your reasoning.
Sparkling water. Our office runs on TopoChico. Prior office stocked "LaCroix" flavored sparkling waters; same deal. Or just diet soda.
Interesting. Mind sharing your stack?
While we're throwing out ways to solve CC declines with other solutions, Baremetrics actually has this very thing built in. :) https://baremetrics.com/dunning
New Math
This again... you can drink Soylent and still enjoy food. You can drink it for the times when you just need food but don't need to enjoy it.
35 whole cents? Stop the presses! Assuming you pay minimum wage that's like getting everyone to spend an extra 2 minutes a day
Gambling is illegal in most places because it's an addictive behavior that causes a lot of social problems and attracts an undesirable element.

States started rolling out lotteries 50-60 years ago as a regressive tax scheme that also helped to reduce demand for illegal numbers rackets.
Maybe or maybe not. This is really more about the situation where some people, when considering a new job, would rather have perks worth $X than $X in increased salary. In the $10m example, consider there to be an "assuming I didn't quit or change jobs" in there. :)

As for whether I'd actually keep working, I'm not sure. I might take a break from employment for a bit, but I'd probably come back to somewhere like where I am. I have a great team, a great environment, and I'm working on something socially meaningful.
I don't know what took them so long.

Anecdotally I used to get more engagement on my tweets via the cross-post on Facebook than I did on Twitter. The kicker -- I was working at Twitter and the people liking them on Facebook but not faving them on Twitter also worked at Twitter (!)
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Uhm, nope. Just not "legal because it just grabs URLs", but for other reasons..
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That known as the "tyranny of the majority" and yes it's one of those warts no one likes to credit democracy with.
At a previous job, I was in a decidedly un-hip city, and even then our employer found a local farm co-op thing (not sure of the details) that just showed up every Wednesday and left oranges and bananas and kiwis on a bunch of the centrally located filing cabinets. Such a simple service, but it ran like clockwork.
If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.

Also, big corporate entity doesn't use violence.
Friendships also form through proximity. Meeting people in your neighborhood for example. But many people living in large cities don't know anyone in their neighborhood. In the suburbs people seem to get to know their neighbors but in my experience people living in cities often don't. Living in a share house would be a step to knowing more people living nearby and interacting with them forming friendships.
> You never realized it's all about the price point being combined with a story?

Given that other people are indicating that THEIR Whole Foods has heirloom tomatoes year round and mine does not, and we're presumably all in the US (if we can go to Whole Foods) then that means I'm right! If Whole Foods could economically ship them to every store in the country, they'd do so! That means that there are some things which simply aren't economical to do at any scale other than local.

I don't have a local fetish where "local" == "better" for everything and in fact, you'll notice that I'm complaining about the lack of heirloom tomatoes, rather than bragging about it.

> You are no better than the luddites.

Way to jump to some conclusions and start in on the ad hominem! Congrats!

> Shift it to some better balance between quality and price, and mass production would kill your cute little hobbyist farms in every single benchmark, including sustainability.

Again, way to go on the attack for what reason exactly? What did stupid little hobby farms ever do to you? Why are you so hostile to the idea that a "luddite" could have a "small business" that they "own" alongside the industrial agriculture that you so desire? They're farming on a scale that'll never put major agribusiness in a bind so what does it matter?

The "local" fanatics might be annoying, but I'll grant them that at least they have a real beef with agribusiness buying up small farms and growing vast monocultures. That's a documented phenomena.

But what threat do small farmers pose for Monsanto? None, as far as I can tell. There's a revolving door between Monsanto and government, no such revolving door exists between any small farms and government.
Nobody good enough to get hired at Netflix is "terrified" that they'll be unemployed for longer than a week, come on.
> The best software is nothing without documentation

You know, it’s not enough to restate your own points, you have to read and absorb the things other people are saying.

Once again, “Working software over documentation” does not mean “Working software instead of documentation.”

It means that working software is more important than documentation, but both can be important. And it can be that documentation exists to make the software work.

If I said “Working software over software patterns,” that wouldn’t mean “Never, ever, ever use the Command Pattern, or Adaptors, or a Facade.” It just means that you use those things to make the software work. And if they are essential to making the software work, they are essential.

So you tell me that software is nothing without documentation, and I happen to agree. But software is also nothing without binaries. But that doesn’t mean “binaries over working software.” It just means, “build binaries as part of working software."
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Remember Hipchat and Campfire?
Slack came way after both of these (and many others)
It's hard, but it's the only problem remaining.
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Meal replacements have been around forever. Why is soylent better?
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Just curious. Did they let the lawyers know the call is being recorded (it might even be illegal not to do so in some states)? and how did the lawyers react?
You're forgetting the numeral-1
So true. The beauty of Soylent is that you get to enjoy food instead of it being a chore.
GP is likely trolling, but CO2 does work in the night the same as in the day. It keeps in infrared radiation emitted by the earth and things on the surface, like you. You won't have a temperature increase, but you'll have less cooling.

In that example, you'd need some structure to keep it in, since the parcel of air will eventually mix with its neighbors, and you can't breathe in the CO2. The structure itself would provide a greater greenhouse effect than the CO2 since it basically would be a greenhouse. But if you tested a windowed shelter filled with CO2 and one with normal air, Mythbusters-style, I suspect you'd find a measurable difference.
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How do you update the code on a Smart Washing Machine? A Smart Pacemaker?

In the world where everything is digital, we’ll have a huge technical debt of un-updatable software.
I wonder what Apple's response will be on iOS. They're supposedly participating but WebAssembly in a webview would make a pretty good platform for many types of apps that want to download code that currently can only use JS.
I've spent hours setting up a really vanilla templates with for Word and Powerpoint with Helvetica as the default font for everything (text box, headings, etc.) and black lines/shapes with no shadows...

I applaud Microsoft for becoming "more original" but that's been a big headache (constantly discovering another default setting I need to change).
I've never been a 'font snob' - nor especially aware of their differences. I'm a "I'll like it when I see it" kind of guy.

I've never minded Arial. The standard font when I was at school was Times New Roman, so I associate that with blandness. My first office job, back around the time this article was written, specified Tahoma for everything - it felt bigger, cleaner, and I still use it sometimes. So I was never forced into an Arial world where it might frustrate or bore me - it's perfunctory, but I'm OK with it.

Calibri I have never liked, before it was a default and especially now that it's everywhere. Again, I couldn't tell you why - it just feels to me to be tight and whiny.

We recently transitioned to Verdana, another 'older' font that I'm enjoying seeing again regularly (though I'm struggling with choosing the right font size to balance readability with the appearance of voluminousness).

And most chances I get, I default back to Georgia. It often feels a little too firm or strange for a company font, but I love seeing it in the wild (and especially the quirkiness of Georgian numbers).
The amusing thing is that they're quoting the fact that 1% of players win most of the money and therefore DFS is gambling. I'd argue that the fact that 1% win most of the time is the strongest signal that it's a game of skill (assuming it's the same 1%).
Yes it's a nitpicked example, but it's also valid. There are some things that for various reasons have to be local and I think that's a valid counter-point to the article that argues "local is stupid" in a fairly unqualified fashion.

I'm not saying that local is an unqualified good either, it's clearly qualified. There are some things that local is better at full stop.
Genuinely terrifying stuff. Ultra-orthodox liberalism is surpassing everyone's wildest imaginations and proving that extremism is agnostic in which side of the political spectrum it affects. I'm nearly speechless about it all, every day there is another inconceivable event that transpires on college campuses. It's a disease.
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Thanks! Great and useful survey!
Yes, principle of time value of money says you need to discount future money. But deferred compensation is also deferred tax and it can be very useful to be able to reduce/avoid a big tax bill.

Actual dollars? Sr Engineer base pay at $175k+. Mid level at 135k. There are plenty of formerly middle class engineers making over $300k a year including equity. People often discount startup equity while overlooking the very lucrative large tech company equity. (Fb, goog, etc). My source for this is both friends and hiring in this market.

To be sure not every eng in sfba is paid this amount. But they probably could be if they were willing to optimize for comp.
aws and performance :)
Crappy performance and poor uptime is precisely why people move off aws.
Because even a 'simple' email need to carry significant amounts of information, all with varying levels of importance.

A newsletter will multiple items will need headings (for people to scan through if they're short on time), a paragraph for people who need more details. Images, if the articles require them, also help.

Corporate email - not just advertisements, but also invoices, notifications, as such, almost always require some sort of branding. Customers expect them - a plain text email might be regarded as phishing or fake. And why force people to open up an attachment when HTML exists and can mark up those elements perfectly well?

Email also need to carry information of less importance - unsubscribe links, confidentiality notices, signatures, most of which are required by law or lawyers, but which can be made smaller or greyed out so they can be ignored when reading.

You can't do any of the above with plain text. What you need is markup, which guess what, HTML is.
Big city firefighters need these. They could fly up skyscrapers and rescue people or bring hoses way up there.

Mountain rescue teams could use them to extract people or get first aid to the sides of cliffs.

I remember watching Navy Seals jumping out of helicopters in San Diego harbor and then presumably swimming down to meet submarines. They could do this in reverse - climb out of a submarine and then flying up to the helicopter.

Cool stuff.
True meal replacements which are suitable for long-term use are not widely marketed to consumers. They tend to be available only through medical channels.
Not a biologist, but I would guess that adding oil-digesting bacteria beyond the carrying capacity is very inefficient. The bacteria would clean up oil for one generation and die.

However, increasing the carrying capacity (e.g. by adding nitrogen as suggested in the article) lets the microbes reproduce, possibly exponentially (2^t).
This reads less like a technical overview of Netflix's stack and more like an advertisement for working there.

I'll give you my two cents on the matter. Netflix spins a great narrative and ideal -- the rose-colored "meritocratic" dream of Silicon Valley.

I'd suspect the reality of working there is a lot more mundane than the beautiful narrative that they (and by extension, the author of the post) are trying to sell you.

There are probably a wide array of experiences that current employees have, ranging from pure joy to misery, which are contingent upon team, co-workers, management, compensation, etc.

An interesting read nonetheless.
Sorry I don't understand... Are you saying that AI doesn't require any training?
I have the same problems with modern Maps. Personally, I always type something in maps, weird search cards I don't want at all popup. I click the map which is only a small stripe above the cards to try to get to a map with my placemarkers, then Google Maps forgets my search and hides all the placemarkers. Rinse and repeat several times and eventually Maps gives me my darn map with Placemarkers that I wanted in the first place. I find directions then a whole separate pain in the ass compared to how they used to be as well. Sure, the thing looks better than it used to, but it works terrible.
Wait so they have their conversations with legal listened to and transcribed by random people at Rev? Considering the things one usually talks with lawyers about, it may not be super great to share that with random people outside the company.
If there was a /HN/bestof -- I'd submit this.