skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say if your kids have an interest in learning to program, help them, let them. If they don't, don't force it. There are a lot of things kids should understand, and anything else can be learned. The guys working on computers in the 60's and 70's understood them better than most people today working on a computer, writing software because they had to, and none of them grew up learning to code.

At 40, I'm well on my way to becoming a gray beard, just the same this shouldn't be required. Maybe somewhere around 10-12yo, an rPI or similar would make sense to tinker with in school... but that should only be to introduce kids to these things.

Kids are naturally creative and curious... let them know something is possible, and let them choose to explore. I wish there were more schools that offered elective coursework earlier on the junior high school... it would let kids explore more in a semi-structured way.
Isn't the point of resource forks to store structured data; like a font bitmap? The pictured font looks like a third party font, suggesting whoever exported it for release chose to export in such a way that data was only stored in the resource fork, perhaps as a lazy-man's DRM
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My view is that any equity compensation that rewards people more for how early they were hired than for how much they contributed to the company's success during their stay, is inherently broken. I'm not saying that taking the risk as employee number 3 at a startup should not be rewarded. But you should be substantially more rewarded for what you've done, regardless of your employee number.
I thought the suburbs were mostly about crime. Look at Detroit. Is someone necessarily racist for not wanting to live there? It's a complex issue but you have tumblr-fied it.
> That cars enable upward mobility and easy access to jobs devoid of the ever reaching control from the central planning agencies?

Suburbs have extreme central planning. Go peruse your local town's zoning and land use ordinances. You'll see exactly the number of parking spaces you must provide, exactly how big your lawn must be at a minimum, how many apartments you can have in an apartment building (or if it's even allowed to build an apartment building), whether or not you can charge for parking, and even where it's legal to walk.

No, cars didn't free you from central planning. They enslaved you to it and tricked you into thinking cars are free market transportation.
The utility of such a feature relative to its security, integrity and astonishment costs can be debated, however. ADS in NTFS has long been a subject of pain, for instance, though I'm unaware of its present status.
Different strokes for different blokes. What may work for some may not work others. I never thought about getting into sumo wrestling (although, never ruled it out either). Rather than heeding the advice of 'eat-more!' Or 'eat-less!' I'd recommend just do trial and error and evaluate what works best for you individually over time. I didn't always follow this lifestyle, just gradually iterated into it after a great deal of introspection to see what works for me at the current moment. To that end, I have found regular fasting to be an important part of the balance.
If you're really eager to see the kind of content we'll publish about growth, check out this talk at Airbnb. Sorry for the bad audio! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZkipR4mMpY
No, thank you for using https!
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An interesting and early (1992) demonstration of deep nets learning latent structure in the visual domain was presented by Usui et al. They presented a deep autoencoder with the spectral values of color chips and show that the hidden layer representation corresponds to the Munsell color space where each dimension corresponds to a psychological/intuitive color attribute. Pretty amazing. Even cooler that they showed this in 1992.

10.1364/JOSAA.9.000516
Shiro Usui, Shigeki Nakauchi, and Masae Nakano, "Reconstruction of Munsell color space by a five-layer neural network," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 9, 516-520 (1992)
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It was named after the protocol: https://github.com/letsencrypt/acme-spec
I think it is chiefly used by malware developers at this time.
Ask HN: Should I intern at a Startup or a small Venture Firm?
I am planning to take next semester off and get some work experience under my belt. Now, I wanna get an opportunity to learn how startups operate, how they scale/grow, mostly wanna get some insights in the growth area. So now I am in little dilemma here, I got this internship opportunity from a small size Korean venture firm, and I am also applying to various small-size startups, and I am confused which one to go for.

So given i've 6 months, which one do you guys think is worth putting my time into? A startup or a venture firm. And just to be clear, both of them are small size and not very well known across globe.
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I find this amusing, 'Fair' seems to be a word with different meanings to different people based on where they stand.

From one of Raymond Smullyan's books: There was one Japanese diplomatic code the US code-breakers couldn't quite figure out during the war, but they settled on an interpretation of "Pro-Japanese" as a working theory. Years later, one of the US crypt-analysts met a Japanese foreign service member and found out from him that the code meant "sincere."
That would be super-convenient, as long as the AI is still helping me find what I'm looking for, wouldn't it?
By that definition, taking a lower-paying job is "tax avoidance" in exactly the same way.
Please don't try to use wordplay to get your feminist ideology across. Nobody calls a girl "Him" in real life, just like nobody calls a guy "Her" in real life. That's what I pointed out, not some interpretation of "guys" (I can go on forever talking about the semantics for that term too but that's not even what I was talking about)
always bad practice to be forced to debug in production, but I guess that's what you get in the "DevOps" model.
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Again, that's entirely a matter of application design. The general answer is that the server uses the request URI and HTTP headers to determine which fragments are needed, but there are as many specific answers as there are applications following this paradigm. (Said paradigm, incidentally, is just that of the single-page application; this is only YouTube's specific implementation of it. It sounds like you might get more use out of a general treatment of how SPA's work, than of a deeper dive into the details of the specific implementation under discussion; it might be worth your while to take a look at http://singlepageappbook.com, which, while I haven't actually read it in any close detail, looks to be a pretty good overview and high-level discussion of the topic.)
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Apple abandoned ZFS when Steve Jobs was still alive. Larry Ellison has frequently described Steve Jobs as one of his best friends whom he frequently went on walks with. The idea that Steve could not have gotten Larry to license ZFS seems crazy to me.
There are. It's all about variance reduction. See the Breiman's paper on Bagging. There's nothing special about random forest though (apart from the fact that a decision tree is a good learner, because of the nonlinearities for example), you can you ensemble learning with any "basic" learner.
Sorry for your loss.
I'd like to lend my technical and clinical experience in medical imaging to further clarify things.

Firstly, most medical images are actually being saved in a standardized format (DICOM, as other people mentioned) and I suppose that was the case for your son's records, too. However, the devil lies in the details, which is reflected in your experience.

While the images are saved as DICOMs, additional information (e.g. orientation of the image, patient data, etc.) can be saved to the DICOM meta-tags. There is some standardization as to which type of information to write into which meta-tag id, some manufacturers however have varying implementations of these standards. The result may be inconsistent meta-tag structure and naming.
Example: Trying to determine the type of MRI sequence (= an imaging technique) including general physical parameters like TR and TE from the DICOM files. Every clinic may name the sequence differently. The parameters TR and TE may be in different DICOM tags, depending on the MRI manufacturer. For a correct assessment of any foreign MRI image, the physician should know the parameters (they usually have no idea).

Secondly, regarding MRIs specifically, every clinic has a different so-called protocol for different diseases. A protocol consists of multiple sequences.
Example: For Brain Tumors, clinic A might want to take an MRI with the sequences X and Y. Clinic B may additionally want to use sequence Z. Furthermore, clinic B uses different variations of sequences X and Y with different parameters (think TE and TR). The surgeons in clinic B are used to planning their surgery on those specific MRI sequences. So the exact situation from your experience happens: Even though a patient provides all the images from other clinics, he/she will have to get the imaging done all over again. Additionally, this introduces totally unnecessary costs to the health system and patient.

This non-standardization in imaging sequences is hair-raising at least. And guess what, in my experience it's not even consistent within a given clinic within a specific disease.

Thirdly, regarding your experience with DVDs, they actually do include the DICOM files (in some strangely named directory, usually). However, they also include a totally crappy portable image viewing program which usually runs as autostart.exe (malware may be easily introduced here, on a sidenote). This viewing program is often a down-specced, completely outdated version of the original imaging program at the clinic. Most doctors outside big clinics do not understand that it makes far more sense to extract the DICOMs into a good DICOM viewer (e.g. OsiriX) for further assessment. Only big clinics usually have some sort of IT department which extracts the DICOMs and loads them into their PACS.

Reference: I did my doctors thesis (Germany) in MRI research and am nearly graduated from med school. Happy to finally contribute to HN :)
softpedia? Really?
E.g. if it is the first blogpost you made. Chance are higher on medium to get it spread. Don't you think?
I think this deserves some clarification. First, the article is about an employee being laid off in the UK, some years ago. In such a case (certainly back then, I'm not familiar with present day UK employment law but afaik it hasn't changed significantly), he would have received payment in lieu of notice (at least), and any such payment would also not be taxed. So at least in that particular case the situation you're describing where someone all of a sudden has no income would not have occurred.

Now, in the US there is a concept of "at will employment", but it doesn't in reality mean what you're alluding to either. IANAL but it roughly means "employees don't get to jerk employers around with random frivolous lawsuits relating to termination". In essence it means that, legally, employers do not need a reason to fire someone. It does not however in practice mean that employers randomly fire people all of a sudden with no payment beyond today, as you imply.

Perhaps for low-end jobs something like what you are worried about happens in the US, but I suspect it happens in the UK too. Certainly in my experience working in the UK then US, and now being an employer in the US, employment conditions as a practical matter are very similar. The major difference I could point to is that in the UK redundancy payments are tax-free. They aren't in the US. I suppose the other difference is that in the UK employees in technical fields tend to have quite long notice periods vs the US. Here, in theory it is possible to depart one job and be working at a new one a few days later.

I'm referencing the UK here because a) the article is about someone in the UK and b) I know about that jurisdiction and the US (only).
Oh no doubt, I probably should have termed it 'legacy' OS considering the priorities these past years. After the 'prosumer' pivot of Final Cut Pro that angered a vocal group who had spent tens of thousands on workcenter setups, to the 'single port' type design on the new laptop, I'm pretty sure a lot of the die-hard creative types aren't going to feel really comfortable they're being considered for future releases. I honestly don't think Apple cares, because those users are a minority anyway.
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Dilution can also happen through a reverse-split prior to IPO to hit a target share price. (In this case, the bankers effectively dilute everybody else, although C-levels will probably get big new post-split grants to stay on after the IPO). The number of shares (rather than the percentage) might be more important given an IPO will probably require $10-15/share, and the share price will probably be no more than 2x-3x that after 6-month lockup.

IMO telling an employee you have x% of $n billion is very misleading, as dilution can be rather unpredictable. You're really showing the employee the /max/ upside in 2-7 years, which IMO is a very weak sales position.
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> It gives me a funny sense of pride that my compiler can now be used to improve itself.

Only with difficulty, because your compiler is written in a language that is poorly suited for writing compilers.

How about using nice high level language whose implementation is partially written in C to write a C compiler in that nice high level language which then compiles that partially-written-in-C component of the implementation of that high level language.
Did Jobs really know/care about technical details like what filesystem OS X used?
To add, notably this:

_snprintf, _snprintf_l, _snwprintf, _snwprintf_l -> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2ts7cx93.aspx

"If len > count, count characters are stored in buffer, no null-terminator is appended, and a negative value is returned."

Uh, what?

I guess that's why it is _snprintf and not snprintf, huh?

They do provide secure [1] versions too, but you need to be careful which one you pick. Those secure versions terminate execution in some cases if buffer length is exceeded.

[1]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f30dzcf6.aspx - better remember that _TRUNCATE flag.
I use Uber a good amount (~10x a month) and while I like the service I just don't see why everyone is so impressed with the company. Let's consider what people like about Uber:

"It's so much more convenient to use an app than a taxi dispatch" - totally true. The taxi industry was definitely lazy. But now most Uber markets also have a competitor to dispatch a taxi by phone (Flywheel, etc).

"The drivers are not (jerks|unsafe|scary|etc)" - at this point half of the smart taxi drivers have gone to Uber, there's not much of a difference in driver quality.

I think the real thing that nobody else can do that Uber does is sell you a cheap ride. Uber is cheaper than a taxi in almost every city (30% in my experience). If taxis were 10% cheaper than Uber, I'd go to Flywheel immediately. How did they achieve this low price? Simple: by ignoring laws, not paying for expensive regulations, and passing more costs on to the driver.

This is not impressive to me. I could think of 10 industries that could easily be 'disrupted' if you add the rule 'You're allowed to ignore all existing laws and regulations'. I could provide you with a $20 massage ... assuming you don't want a licensed massage therapist. How about a $10 light repair ... assuming you don't want a real electrician.

You might respond: "but habosa, who cares? You're getting a good ride at a lower price with more convenience". My frustration comes from the precedent this sets. Uber says that if you have enough VC funding, you can make lawbreaking and regulatory blindness a central pillar of a billion-dollar company. There are a lot of people who have invested in credentials such as taxi medallions (or the equivalent in other industries) because they didn't have a hundred million dollars of VC funding to shake off the lawsuit. And some Uber-like company can come into their space and instantly devalue their investment. I don't believe the ends justify the means because soon there will be an Uber we don't like, and there will be nothing we can do about it.
That may have been an original plan, but another original plan was to start with short trains, and extend them later. Demand has increased massively since that planning, and the trains will now be the maximum length from the start.

So I suspect there won't be as much spare capacity as hoped.
I agree that they could probably be deprecated and removed nowadays. There used to be a transition time when people ran old Mac OS applications on OS X.
>I was particularly surprised that the method exactly recovers the Big-5 components of personality from the results of the survey questions.

Why? Is that a standard dataset? They could have just cherrypicked tasks.

I also noticed that they seem to only have the actual computation working for discrete random variables (integer features) right now, which limits its applicability. They also seem to use mass-function estimators, which again can work well for discrete data while becoming statistically intractable when dealing with continuous random variables.

>The whole idea of "simplest model that explains most of the data" has always been very appealing to me.

In this case it's a bit more like, "The set of latent variables that best screen off the observables from each-other."
If the aluminum was smelted in Sichuan province or next to three gorges, it wouldn't contribute much to global warming though
Merce Cunningham famously used a choreography software called Life Forms [1]

http://articles.latimes.com/1995-06-02/entertainment/ca-8554...
Well, it's a key driver of Silicon Valley success over the past 50+ years.
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Nobody else really uses them to the extent Apple does, but this sort of thing isn't unique to HFS+.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_file_attributes

You can do the exact same thing on Windows (on an NTFS volume), just go to a command prompt and run "notepad hello.txt:secret" and see how DIR and Windows Explorer deal with it.
Al Qaeda was the excuse. We did it to ourselves.
I made a GeekTool curl script a few years ago that logs into my bank accounts and all my recurring services', utilities, and scrapes the balances every 10 minutes so I see my complete financial position on my desktop in near-real time. The dashboard concept is a good fit for this type of data.
the client side piece is ;)
The why is largely why does gradient descent converge to a good answer instead of getting stuck in a local minima.
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Those examples weren't obvious when they were still small enough that employee equity compensation would have meant something.
The context-free terminology doesn't apply to C because the ambiguity rests in not knowing what is the lexical category of foo in "foo * bar". That information comes from semantics.

A language whose semantics you have to understand to understand its syntax is outside of the entire formal language realm inside which we formally recognize a "context-free" category. That formal language realm is purely syntactic: the terminal symbols are just "dumb" and stand for themselves. They are subject to rules which indicate how those symbols are combined.

C is "quasi context free" in that if we resolve what the raw tokens mean (which one is a type and which one isn't), then the resulting language is context-free. In fact stronger than context free: amenable not only to LALR(1) parsing approaches but to recursive descent, with a suitable refactoring of the left-recursive rules given in the standard.
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Unfortunately ddg is not as good as Google for non English searches.
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MITM is really absolutely not a Problem here, there is no private data transmitted.
Kids tend to be naturally curious and want to help... let them help, even if it slows you down. If you cook and let them help, when they are young, they will learn.

And yes, some people as adults only eat chicken nuggets and mac and cheese... though to be fair, I spent two years perfecting my mac and cheese skills (baking vs. stove top, bechamel route vs sodium citrate, sauce and cheese variations) making it about every other week.
From the article: "The geolocalized app offers the same basic services as Uber; users can hail black cars, rate their drivers, and drink free bottled water."

Does the app also remove drivers with consistently low ratings from the system? From where I stand, _that_ is the killer feature of Uber. In the early days, I was happy to pay a premium to Uber not to put up with the typical crap you get from cabbies in Los Angeles. For example, swearing the entire duration of a cab ride from LAX to El Segundo or Manhattan Beach because they were hoping to go for a longer ride.

I've never had an Uber or Lyft driver that was anything but pleasant to talk to.
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I think you missed the point: Zuckerberg is doing this to avoid paying taxes on his billions of dollars of accumulated wealth. Part of that money should be going back to the society that helped him earn it. Instead, he will have complete control over how it is spent.
I dunno about anyone else, but I pretty much ignore equity when considering a new position. Worrying about equity as an employee is like worrying about what kind of Christmas gift you'll get from someone you know. It might be something awesome, it might be something dumb, but more than likely, it's a pat on the back and a "Happy Holidays" -- nothing you can take to the bank.

I also think it doesn't really matter how much your valuation is, because the options are effectively worthless until there is a qualifying event. If you're already public, then you might have a case for it, but for most startups, it's as good as monopoly money.

Salary + benefits + culture is what gets me in the door every day. Equity is just a bonus.

I once interviewed with a YC company and got an offer that was significantly under my current salary. When I tried to negotiate, the founder insulted me and basically told me I was an idiot for ignoring the equity component which was "worth far more than the salary." Pretty glad I didn't take that position, but it still bothers me how misguided he was about the whole situation.

I can't pay rent with equity. My landlord won't accept "I have stock options in some startup you've never heard of" as payment.

There are a lot of posts about equity around here, and I just think it's overrated in general. Kinda wish we'd talk more about salary and other benefits and a little less about what basically amounts to a crapshoot. For instance, my hearing aids are very often not covered by health insurance... now that would be a nice perk for someone like me.