skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seconded. So much beard hair.

EDIT: Yak shaving?
A few of these companies are clearing the $1B valuation with surprisingly favorable disclosed valuations. For example,

China Rapid Funding: $56M funding in three rounds for a $1B valuation

Fanli: $20M funding in 3 rounds for a $1B valuation

DJI: $75M in 3 rounds for a $10B valuation. Weirdly, their series C was evidently $75M also, meaning that their A and B rounds were not disclosed or very small.

I wonder what's up with that. Are some of these spin-outs maybe?

CrunchBase has slightly different numbers for some of them. They've got DJI at $105M in funding in 2 rounds [1] ($75M from Accel and $30M fro Sequoia). And their series C record for Fanli is "undisclosed amount" [2].

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/dji#/entity

[2] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fanli-website#/entit...
App Streaming
Yes, you can post on FB with a unique link that will show you a Web interface. However, the point of the app would be to get feedback quickly, so the fastest way would be from other people using the app right now
Without sounding rude, can you not get another job?
I don't have clear numbers on conversion rates before and after, prospects were from different segments and we kept changing our pricing and offer during that time to find the right fit so it's hard to measure. Before we brought him in we said we'll give him 3 months but it was clear we have a lot to learn and benefit after 3 weeks.
Pretty cool (unfortunately also pretty slow - at least for me).
NYC has a welfare problem, but it's not located in the outer bouroughs. It's in the primary downtown area, where all the banks have congregated. Entire blocks would have been wiped out and gone up for cheap rent in 2009 if everyone else wasn't forced to subsidize their bullshit lifestyles.

Open your eyes and look around.

Edit: FR balance sheet[0] currently records ~$4.45 trillion in made up, outstanding, welfare payments. Most of that was directly passed through the FR's dependent organizations, commercial and investment banks, and was initiated to save their system from complete implosion.

[0] http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/h41.htm
Well I found Lutetia but not Babaorum, Aquarium, Laudanum or Petibonum.
That's straight up conflationary bollocks.
There are no instances of charity ever providing the basic needs of a nations poor since the advent of the nation state. Charities are much more ibefficient than government at curing starvation, lack of healthcare, etc. Nations that contain large percentages of hungry, homeless, and sick are almost always shitty. Making sure there aren't large numbers of extreme poverty cases makes us all better off.
Tinctura din plante medicinale
Anyone got this in EPUB format?
If you want to run your own infrastructure from the ground up, maybe. Ironic (bare metal deploys) + Magnum (container deploys with Kubernetes) is exciting in that area, but as someone who wrote and ran an OpenStack cloud, I wouldn't recommend it. For most people, something like ECS/GKE/bare Kubernetes on a cloud provider is a decent step in that direction.
One big reason to build a startup in New York instead of San Francisco
This only proves that this person is working in a particular dysfunctional field, among thousands of other scientific fields that have no problem with the process. There is probably no research area more competitive than astrophysics. The guys working there, however, decided to use arxiv.org to make available research that costs them millions of dollars and several years of work to produce. I don't see why the biological science community couldn't agree on something similar. It is a social problem, not a process or technological problem.
The paper doesn't mention http://arxiv.org/.
While I agree with the author of this article from the perspective of the engineer who likes to tinker with things and roll my own stuff I must disagree from the business perspective.

From the business perspective a PaaS solution costs one dollar amount and a custom, hand rolled, stateful solution built and maintained by engineers costs another dollar amount.

With offerings from AWS the former will almost always beat the later. It's not until you reach Facebook or Google level scale that the monthly savings from the latter can outweigh the benefits of just using an AWS solution like DynamoDB or ECS, etc.
Cold calling is great! Well, because it's never absolutely cold--you do know that the person you're calling is at least a little interested in what you're selling. It's not random.

As for remembering names, kids' names, etc., you're right, it's hokey to just try and build up a memorandum on a person and play-act at being a friend. What happens, though, when you spend a while talking with someone, is they do mention their wife's trip, or their brother coming to town, or whatever, and after a while, you end up developing a bit of a friendship. Not a "let's go hiking on the weekends" relationship, but a small friendship all the same. You remember their kids' names simply because you take an interest in who they are as people, and in my experience, they do the same for you.

It's actually kinda neat.
I work at place that deals with leads and the sales people almost sit right next to us. And they definitely get into the names big time like the post said. Talking about sports, from what I hear, they don't usually direct the conversation that way but if the client does bring it up then they will go with it. But remembering the names are a really big deal and they utilize that heavily.
I feel like this focuses too much on the recognizer than it does on the implementation of the language itself. Sure, given a grammar you can implement a correct parser that accepts only valid inputs. This doesn't really buy you anything if your implementation contains a bug though. It's like an undergrad compiler course that spends all its time on parsing and how great it is then tells you almost nothing about the actual meat: the middle- and back-ends.

Is your position that formally specifying the input language is a necessary first step toward formally specifying the language (operational/denotational) semantics, and eventually having a provably correct implementation? If so, why stop short at just talking about the parser when that's typically the least complicated part of any interesting input format?
I remember Houmansadr for his papers on steganography over Tor. Glad to see he's scratching his itch.
I haven't personally studied the literature, but this study is in line with what GiveWell has concluded, although they are more certain about cash transfers not being spent on alcohol and tobacco [0] than on it not displacing work [1]. This paper and GiveWell's research are based on some of the same studies, so this study's not exactly surprising or new information, but replication's always nice.

[0]: http://www.givewell.org/international/technical/programs/cas...

[1]: http://www.givewell.org/international/technical/programs/cas...
Is intellectual property law the new protectionism? Canada should be wary
That was my first thought, too. If the author didn't insist on using mongo, he could have opted for an inexpensive RDS setup.
So, they were placed in this Kenyan house to do what exactly?

Article takes a long time to tell a story, then it jumps over this crucial question, and then it continues its ramblings. More details are desperately needed.

Who hired them? To do what? What they really did? Were they actually paid? What exactly are they charged for? What do their compatriots think they did?
>The cloud is about going from capex to opex and the "capex" now is the initial work needed to define your own architectures and stacks for every project (before you get to work on the actual project, i.e. the differentiating part). Amazon is eliminating most of this by offering building block services that fit together with little hassle.

Maybe they are eliminating it for themselves, but if they are eliminating most of that for you, then that contradicts your prior thesis. You aren't defining your own architecture then, you are just conceding to becoming a part of Amazon's architecture. Amazon will lock you into their ecosystem as much as possible. As Amazon's ecosystem fills up with services, there will be little to differentiate your service from any other Amazon hosted/run service.

A much better idea would be to have architectures that don't depend on any specific vendor or company, which are deployable everywhere.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/wiki/keyboardma...
This is cool. I was trying to present an architecture for a similar system in my bachelor's thesis. I also created a web-based prototype for the same using node-red on IBM Bluemix.

Wish I could try it, but unfortunately I don't have an iPhone :(
Will wait for an android or web version.
> What is useful about 'import lib; lib.re'?

Nothing, but it's a side effect of an awesome feature of Python: nothing being private. Which is incredibly useful. 'lib.re' is exactly the same case as 'lib.actual_library_function', why should Python add the ability to somehow stop these from being included? It would increase complexity for no gain.
author here - getting iteration and nesting to work was the hardest part, and I don't think the basic example on the homepage illustrates this too well.

the way it works is that every value gets cast into an array for rendering purposes if it isn't already. so in case of an array of objects, you don't need to explicitly define that you expect an array, it'll just render `n` objects with nested bindings.

to give an example, on the homepage there's an array that is rendered, `["Tall", "Grande", "Venti"]`. if a new array is set, for example, `["Tall", "Grande"]` (without "Venti"), it will re-render based on if the values at the indices changed, so in this case it would just remove the dom node for "Venti".

another cool thing is that with the mount function, you can either return nothing so that the node that was specified will be appended, or return a completely different node based on the value, which enables heterogeneous elements in a list. the mount function also gives you an opportunity to mutate a node in other ways than just setting the text/value/checked/whatever, such as setting a classname i.e. `node.className = "fa fa-hourglass"`. then there's the unmount function but 99% of the time won't be needed because dom nodes that aren't in the live tree and don't have a reference will just get GC'd.

it should be entirely possible to build a web app with Simulacra.js using a single bound object, a single template, and describing all possible bindings in one go. it's up to the developer to add whatever convoluted architectures are hip at the moment (stores, reducers, actions, what have you).
I look daily, I've had several interviews over the years but nothing has worked out. I share custody of my 8 yr old daughter and live in a somewhat isolated area of the US that has very few development jobs (like 5 employers, most of them undesirable). I've made the decision to stay here until she is older. I've looked for remote jobs but that can be intimidating, most are looking for that 'rockstar' developer. I'm just in a bad place, I'm highly educated (bs, ms,Mba) and feel like that was just wasted.
The youngest person to be cryogenically preserved
Yeah, so? If the server network is MITMed, you are fucked at so many levels that it doesn't even matter anymore.
Its time for Indian food tech to smell the coffee
http://first-commit.com/wong2/first-commit

couldn't resist =)
If you are talking about Wheeler and the FCC, that is wrong.

Wheeler has never been employed by Comcast. He was once the head of the main cable trade association--over 30 years, when (1) Comcast was insignificant, (2) there were no cable ISPs as there was no public internet yet, and (3) being a cable lobbyist meant being on the pro-consumer side since cable was the small underdog going against the big broadcasters.
My understanding, though I've never personally made it explicit, is that you view "contra/covariance" as arising not as a property of vector spaces exactly (concretely) but instead from tensors-as-multilinear-maps and you talk about them as functors between transformation groups on vector spaces which either preserve (co-) or reverse (contra-) transformations.

The inner product lets you view vector spaces as spaces of transformations already so the same sort of idea comes out now viewing vector spaces as maps in their own right.
Here, I selected some quotes from the article for you:

> “You have to get licenses from each state,”

> The new debit card is available to anyone with a Coinbase account. To sign up, you must verify your identity and pay a $10 insurance fee.
Looks like Kubernetes is improving. Hadn't seen this yet.

Sometimes it gets hard to follow everything in the Docker ecosystem.
Isopropanol + microfiber cloth? That's what I do at least.
I remember being like 7 and just watching this go off for as long as possible. This and the maze.
Understanding Mentorship at Hackathons
Slightly offtopic, but in English it's called Persian, not Farsi. You probably wouldn't say "my Deutsch is worse than my Francais".
RPI Home automation
I agree about this right now.

But I think enough open source code will be made to fill this space.

It's just a matter of time.
"it's much harder for local content to break international markets because the accessibility is much lower the other way around, which means it's harder for local content to recoup the same production budgets."

How does this explain the success of Scandinavian crime dramas such as The Killing, The Bridge, Wallander? These have enjoyed much success in the UK and are always shown with subtitles.

So success for foreign language drama is certainly possible in English speaking markets, and without dubbing either.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_compared_to_other_...
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that.
My problem with these tips is that there's some hidden underlying assumption baked in it that you think you are so smart and other people are so driven by their emotions that oh just because you mentioned them by name now they are going to behave so differently. I don't know about everyone but it sure as hell wont work on me.
I'm familiar with the literature.

I do not like the research. It is bad, it's rarely reproducible, source code is almost never public thus time/convergence measurements are meaningless.
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Finns and Czechs also love their guns. And Albanians used to be Christians until they were converted under Ottoman rule.

If you take any given coordinates available in Europe, you're bound to find oddballs.

Oh, and regarding Islam, there's Wahhabism and there's the Ottoman-style Sunni Islam (I don't know the historic name for it). The two have little in common. The Muslims in Europe are 99% results of Ottoman influence. So European Muslims, especially in the Balkans, are quite moderate.
Since it is that time of the year. Xbox One vs. PS4?
Are there any studies that reach "negative" conclusions on the impact of welfare systems? I thought surely there must be given how messy real world data is and how widely varied opinion is on the topic. A quick search only revealed more studies reaching similar conclusions to this one and the only articles speaking out against these programs were newspaper opinion pieces.
Its different though - since water is very basic. A lot like food.
> Things were changing without me asking for them and that was preventing me from learning.

systemd has extensive documentation, both in manpages and in higher-level documents explaining how all the pieces fit together. I've generally found it far more straightforward to learn about than the components it replaces.

> One of the most egregious problems was forcing the change from text logs to journalctl binary logs.

You can keep a syslog implementation like rsyslog installed, and you'll continue to have text logs too. And journalctl outputs plain text.
Using https (encryption) always is not just about keeping content secret. It is also about ensuring content was not tampered with and ensuring you got the content from the source you expect.

In addition to that there's the whole debate about encrypting everything because otherwise if only sensitive stuff is using encryption it's that much easier to pinpoint sensitive stuff for metadata analysis etc. Much better if everything is just encrypted by default.
There are worse things than poverty. Like that comment.
The Stanford Multi-Camera Array
Note: data parallel vs model parallel.

Data parallel is easy to implement and leads to linear training time speed ups, as per 1 week to 2 days with 4x hardware. But not bigger models.

Model parallelism leads to bigger models and is what I've been referring to. It is overkill and doesn't work well anyway. Frameworks should not be expected to support it because there are more interesting topics in deep learning they could support instead.

Better research/methods will come out at some point, at which point this calculus will change, but not yet! Today it is the very definition of premature optimization in nearly all cases.
Idealism is a different thing, and curiosity in service to changing the world is probably doomed. It took a while until I was comfortable that the world was going to be what the world was going to be, and that change was very much slower to happen than I could envision it happening.

For curiosity I read a lot to expose myself to new ideas, and follow up on things through journal articles, the occasional lab visit, and personal experimentation. It also helps to surround yourself with people who are curious, I identified that as one of the things that made college more "fun" than the office, everyone of my social group was excited to learn new things in college.

And a small note on "hectic". I find when I'm trying to do too many things at the same time my life is "hectic" because every activity is taking away from some other important activity and I don't feel good about the one thing I am getting done, I feel bad about the 9 things I am not making progress on. My wife helped me recognize this pattern in me and to combat it I put longer schedules on things to allow each week to have its "thematic" goal, and all progress against that goal is "good" and any non-progress against other goals is "expected" so not bad. I find I get the same amount of stuff done I just feel much better about the progress. And while I totally acknowledge it could be a "pop psych trick", it keeps my level of happiness up.
"anyone with a Coinbase account" is a stretch. From the actual Shift card FAQ:

"At this time, only residents of the United States may apply for a Shift Card.

In order to spend bitcoin via Coinbase, cardholders must reside in one of the following U.S. states:
AL, AZ, CA, DE, DC, GA, ID, IA, KS, ME, MS, NE, NV, NJ, NC, ND, OK, PA, PR, SD, TX, VT, WA, WV"
From what I can see following a quick cursory glance at the commit history page for quite a large project (https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/commits/master) it's somewhat difficult to jump to the last page (earliest in terms of when hey were made) of commits. That is unless I'm missing something obvious, of course.

Sure, you can click older a bunch of times but it doesn't seem like there's a button to jump to the last page of commits. I guess you could clone the repo and look yourself using git log but this can be something of a hassle and probably wouldn't always be possible depending on the device (I'm thinking mobile devices, tablets etc).

You could probably guess a large page number, use it in the commit history URL and chop it in half repeatedly until you don't get a 404 and then repeat from there to try and find the last page of commits. Ultimately this is an issue with how GitHub's commit history is designed though.
There's links to a paper here.
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/CameraArray/

And there's an Instructables page here: http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Camera-Array-1-Computati... (and that author kindly links PDFs in other places, so you don't need to register to get the PDFs)
Really? I worked for an Iranian-American for 2 years, and my aunt 30 years in the state department stationed in various locations in the middle east—both refer colloquially to Farsi. I don't think it's in the same category as French and German.
I would think that, while tempting, you'd want to avoid recursion in your implementation.
I believe part of what the author is looking for is currently being pushed by the Deis guys with Helm[1]. Think of it as a package manager for creating Kubernetes configurations. I think we'll see some stable and reusable templates for both stateful and stateless services there.

[1] https://helm.sh/
The situation with "Music Industry" and "Majors" gives rise to this parable:

Imagine that we would consider "Eating Out Industry" as consisting of McDonalds, KFC and the like - drawing elaborate charts on how they divide market.

And then shove everything else, from falafel shops to Michelin rated restaurants, as "Independent Eating Out". The package includes barely mentioning those "indie" offerings in any media, magazines, etc.

We don't do this for some reason. But we actually could.
If you're using AWS you can use a pre-task (i.e fleet unit file) to run something like https://github.com/leg100/docker-ebs-attach to attach an volume before running your container. You can also do this with Flocker(https://docs.clusterhq.com/en/1.7.2/config/aws-configuration...) if you want something fancier.

Still rather have AWS manage the data. Unless you're a really biggie sized company RDS/Elasticache are really good ideas. Managing data and databases are headaches I'll gladly outsource.
As someone who used to work at Khan Academy…

This is so sad. The Common Core standards are designed very well. They emphasize understanding over mechanics. They've gotten surprisingly bad press from parents who don't understand math and don't understand the new methods which really are designed to build intuition and understanding. But even if you have to give in and go back to the old way of teaching, why ditch the new, high-quality test? I don't get it. Maybe the schools are all afraid of looking ineffective because they know they don't teach proper understanding.
Libraries are built as a single package, not split into separate "-dev" packages with headers, so there are fewer packages to manage. Also, these days it's easy to just install the whole of Slackware for a desktop system (when even an SSD is hundreds of gigabytes, a few gigs is no hardship.) So when you do need to build third party applications, your system probably already has what you need. Slackware already comes with a good set of the major libraries, even if they're not GNU (pcre, for example.)

Slackbuilds.org will tell you if one of the packages there has dependencies that aren't in Slackware. Typically installing them is not onerous.
I make it a point to try to remember the names of everyone around the office and instead of just saying, "Hi" or "How's it going?" as we pass in the hall say, "Hey, Mary" and "How are you doing, Mark?"

It hasn't changed anyone's life but it seems to make a difference. I've noticed they'll perk up a little when I include their name, start to address by my name when I wasn't even sure if they knew it before, and maybe even start a conversation at the coffee machine or water cooler.

Like the old Woody Allen line, "90% of success is just showing up," I suspect 90% of success in engaging people is just remembering their name.