skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just started a public beta of my - yet another notes app. I wrote it for myself as the existing solutions like Evernote or OneNote seemed overcomplicated for this job. My goal was to make note creation as simple as possible, but at the same time having the flexibility to organize the notes. That's why a note is what it is - just a note, no "name/subject" field, only one text. To keep it simple. But it's possible to use the concept of #hierarchic.hashtags to keep the notes organized. Plenty of notes are displayed on one screen to be able to see them at a glance, about 90% of the UI is for the notes, nothing more.

Would be more than happy to receive some feedback :)
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It's a shame it comes across that way, since the article and colah's blog past are talking about completely different concepts.

colah's blog post can be roughly summarized as taking the (well-known) representation of NNs as DFGs of modules (since the very early 90s, if not earlier), and then showing how common combinators in functional programming languages correspond to subgraphs in common modules. Since both FPs and DNNs can be represented as DFGs, this isn't a particularly surprising (or novel) correspondence.
Several libraries used exactly these functional combinators for symbolically expressing NNs well before his blog post.

The trend of differentiable programming (as in, using gradient-based methods to train a network to learn an algorithm) is what I think the author is trying to highlight. This has been around since e.g. Das et. al, "Learning context-free grammars: Capabilities and limitations of a recurrent neural network with an external stack memory" (from 1992). There's a lot of history (and duplication) in this area, some keywords to search for being NTMs, RL-NTMs, Pointer Networks, Neural GPU, MemNNs, MemN2N, Stack RNNs, .... - the RAM (reasoning, attention, memory) workshop at NIPS 2015 had a bunch of recent work in this area.

The high-level idea is by augmenting a (trained) controller (e.g. an LSTM) with some external datastructure(s) (stacks, queues, memory, hierarchical memory) with the ability to read from and write to the external datastructure(s), and to propagating errors back to the controller (hence differentiable programming moniker), via hard (e.g. RL) or soft attention mechanisms.
I just ran your column means benchmark. It is pretty impressive... maybe my C++ is trash. Never saw that much speedup with Arma. I'll try it out :)
Job seeker: "Your company's employment test is stupid."

Employer: "Clearly it isn't stupid because every awesome person we have employed has passed that test. In fact, the test is awesome and is the reason we have managed to build such an awesome team."
The incentives for the real estate agent make them think that way though. If they sell a house for $200,000 in a week, they are probably a lot happier than if they sold it for $300,000 in 6 months.
I'm sorry, do you actually believe that the John Deere corporation keeps all its money in a big money bin, like Scrooge McDuck or something?

That is not actually the case.

And there is plenty of "food accessible to the people". Too much of it is far more common than too little nowadays.
No, not communism; social democracy and capitalism. You can't just call everything communism because you don't like it.
Can you run arm packages from a linux distrib under emulation?

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/linuxemu.html
>> The reality is that for the past 40 years, Wall Street and the billionaire class has rigged the rules to redistribute wealth and income to the wealthiest and most powerful people of this country.

> This is the problem.

That is a very good way to put it. I agree with that.

> So why doesn't Graham recognize and advocate this?

He doesn't advocate because it won't help his cause. As I posted in the comment of the original article (which got downvoted, nobody likes pg being accused of manufacturing pr? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10827175, hey! it's a submarine ;-).

He created a strawman and a narative around how to interpret and think about income inequality to give his followers and those involved in startups a framework. He understands he is part of what can create inequality, and that's bothersome to him and those around the startup culture. Startup environment needs myths to operate. These are promises to investors, promises to early employees, these are things founders are supposed to be telling others ("I want to make the world a better place") and perhaps themselves as well. There has to be a myth created that addressed income inequality, because it is talked about in the media.

As a joke, someone wrote (and I forgot who) how the wealthy and powerful in this country are devout Marxist followers. They internalize the rules and assumptions of the class struggle. Except they don't identify with the working class, they identify with the bourgeoisie. They understand there are the two classes and what class they belong to. They will actively try to control and supress the lower classes.
People can own trademarks on mundane names. Looks like trump owns the trademarks for trump in there online entertainment category (apparently for a gambling game)
So yeah looks like there was a potential trademark issue (although geography might be involved)
What this means is do some research before naming your game or company.
Regressive taxes do not correct the use of money as a tool of political empowerment, though. They cause the problem. Its not about having social safety nets, its about nobody having the wealth to be powerful enough to own government.
Free Steven Avery petition
No one is pretending to not understand. The problem is that you didn't label your axes.
How are those solutions feasible when the system is captured by the wealthy?

I don't think any solution that involves politics can work. We have to solve it outside of politics by making it too difficult to use money to influence politics. We have the technology to do this without winning any votes in Congress. Instead, we need to build tools and educate people.

http://meritcapitalism.com
> Not everyone has access to this freedom

Exactly! Completely agree.

You and I are rather fortunate. People who have this freedom should realize it and be advocates for others so they might have similar opportunities.
Do you ingest the daily recommended amount of magnesium? I'm not a medical doctor, so ask one ... but high magnesium levels apparently can lead to arrhythmias (they can also treat them in the right context and dosage). So just a word of caution.
Trump owns the trademark trump for online entertainment. So I would say there is a trademark infringement going on. There is an issue with geography, but considering the name was held in there us that might not be an issue
It's a symptom but not as claimed of the ultra-wealthy buying influence. That matters too but it's not the number one reason. If that was the case, other countries with much less ability to affect the political process (like the scandinavian countries) wouldn't be experiencing the same problems (although at a different scale)

No. Wealth is a symptom of a system where the winner takes all and the winner is increasingly technologically based companies.

Wealth allow you to increasingly affect the political process but only as a function of you being rich to begin with. No one starts with the political system to gain wealth at least they wont' be wealthy for very long if thats how they came to their wealth.

Income inequality is increasingly a symptom of systems with little friction to become the first or second in a field but a lot of friction to challenge them.
As long as technology enables people to scale their efforts to serve vast numbers of people, there will be vast differences in what people can earn.

Those that sell to millions will make a lot more than those who only sell to a few.

Instead of trying to force equal outcomes, we should be teaching people about how they can benefit from leveraging technology.
Or perhaps we'll all just sit around watching porn and playing video games. Who cares? Why not let people do what they want?

"I think the concern is that rising income inequality will accelerate as the wealthy will increasingly own the means of automation."

Machines can make hamburgers, but they can't buy them. "Income inequality" is not the problem you think it is, or pretend to think it is.

Since when did "income inequality" become the worst possible thing in the entire world? Given the track record of previous regimes that sought to produce "income equality" (> 100 million killed in the 20th century), I think calls for "income equality" need to be looked at with a very harsh and critical eye.
you might like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGvorYrXyxU

Star Wars: Galaxy at War Mod - world at war mod
How+To+Choose+Your+Trade+Entry+Types
I've never seen or known anyone to make a welded gas tank. Nor an a/c on a generator. And yet I've known a lot of "handy" people, including specifically welders. Where in the US are you referring to?
I'd hire the one with the most I could learn from. That may be the 25 year old or the 50 year old. It could be either.

>Better able to manage
Managing someone older than one's self isn't hard as long as one's management is competent. They've likely seen a lot before. But it's easy to fool someone younger that they're being managed well. It should be a highlight for a manager that they've been able to manage and retain, even inspire, those older than themselves.
Thanks for sharing! I didn't know what an Earley parser [0] was!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earley_parser
Locke also wrote that "For this "labour" being the unquestionable property of the labourer, no man but he can have a right to what that is once joined to, at least where there is enough, and as good left in common for others."

Which, I think, is the central issue regarding property rights and inequality. We should question all rent generating property rights, just as Locke did, and try to find a system of propert rights where rent doesn't create inequality.

Taxation seems to be he popular approach, but why not try to redefine the rights all together? What if such property rights were time limited, and came with a fee equal to the rent potential?
One person's "high quality ingredient" is another person's rotten cheese.

I note that McDonalds sells billions of euros of burgers in France. They aren't all being eaten by American tourists.
Lambda calculus was invented in 1937 to describe this concept; it existed before function pointers, so the name is actually accurate, you're just not familiar with it.
> Late 19th century, early 20th, Sweden was one of the poorest countries in Europe. not by being a colonial force to be reckoned with (it never was)

I mean, yes, if you compare Sweden only to the really lucrative colonizers, it'll look "poor" by comparison. But all you're really saying is that Sweden was less effective as a colonial power than its neighbors who were even "better" at it (England, France, etc.). That doesn't change the original point. If you look beyond simply Europe at where Sweden was with respect to the rest of the world, especially the regions that were colonized and enslaved, it's clear where they stood, and clear how much they benefited by being the ones who colonized, as opposed to the ones who were colonized.

The point is, you can't just look at "nice European socialism" in a vacuum and ignore the reasons why that philosophy has succeeded in Western Europe and why that exact same philosophy has been an empirical disaster in countries that were previously colonies of Western European powers and are still impoverished enough that they cannot export the working class down the economic chain any further (the way Western European powers - and the US as well - have).
Yep fair point. In tech most are duopolies or oligopolies. iOS and Android, Google and Bing. FB and? Maybe Twitter. Maybe SnapChat one day.
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Sorry if I'm going too far on a tangent here, but has anyone bought his book Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age [0]?

It has been on my wishlist for quite a while now. The reviews are quite positive.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Painters-Big-Ideas-Computer/dp...
If "free market" has any coherent and muscular meaning, it is as an alternative to those in political power assigning the equivalent of royal patents to pursue markets.

So any rents-ey looking use of the political process is not free market no matter the wealth of those practicing it. This is what need work.

Wal-Mart in specific originally hired women in rural areas at a wage appropriate as a second income. Their husbands worked at an industrial or agricultural job.

Then they went through an explosion, but as the South Park says, the soul of every Wal-Mart is a mirror. The ag. or industrial job isn't there any more but by sheer momentum, that's the deal.

Wal-Mart is also not exactly a sentence of eternal penury - people who stay a few years, just by self-selection can move up the food chain. I'm not current, but a department manager made enough to raise a family very frugally. A store manager made pretty decent money.

The reason it's Wal-Mart and not Sears is decades of hard work at the logistics end - Wards and Sears shipped by train, even in the '60s. Wal-Mart just overran them with trucks.

But in a way, what's waiting for the end of Wal-Mart seems worse - Amazon. The labor component of production of goods is still disappearing.
Fossil is so great... only if they picked branding that doesn't mean "something from the far past"...
On both this thread and the corresponding Reddit thread, people voiced on the lack of clarity of the graph elements, in the spirit of helping you clarify and expand on it... and you insult them.

There is a lot of meaning that cannot be determined from the graph. Are any of these tickets redundant/duplicate? Do they all reflect original features or bugs in new features? (Remember, there is no zero-time point on the graph). Do newer defects represent newly discovered bugs that were always there? Do any represent regessions that messed up your installed base?

I can't see any accounting for severity of defect by any metric, e.g.

- difficulty to fix

- span/frequency of customers affected

- severity level, e.g. effects/misbehaviors that produce just visual artifacts, vs. those that crash, vs. those that display wrong results, vs. those that corrupt data

I've worked in (and managed) support organizations in a number of realms of IT, and a sheer "number of defect reports" metric is almost meaningless by itself in terms of determining how to marshal resources to significantly improve the product.
As pointed out by others, the blowup is an artifact of the visual representation, under-the-hood Theano does automatic differentiation (which they consider to be an optimization on symbolic differentiation, which is why they keep calling it that):

> In this way Theano can be used for doing efficient symbolic differentiation (as the expression returned by T.grad will be optimized during compilation), even for function with many inputs. (see automatic differentiation for a description of symbolic differentiation).

http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/tutorial/gradients.h...
Do you believe that "loopholes" are real things that really exist?
The ac-lite are awesome. 800mbit/s 5ghz what's to complain about?

https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-lite/
Parent obviously meant a list of specific criteria applied to everybody.

Not to mention that your answer implies that people only do things because of some list of personal criteria -- e.g. that they always take conscious and/or rational decisions.
Oh! I loved that game as a teenager. Actually, the first one even more so.
what part are you questioning? Why FreeBSD vs Linux?

before you downvote him further, consider that he has no idea the merits of running FreeBSD vs Linux.
I second this statement. I did polyphasic sleep for months with a very rigorous schedule, sleeping 4.5h/day, eating well, doing exercise, coding a lot, learning lots with great retention. After the adaptation period I felt great.

Otherwise, I usually sleep 7h - 8h, and that's restful. However, I once had to endure 2 months of pain, waking up every 1h - 3h and having to walk around at night. In total, I slept 7h - 7h30 ... but felt extremely tired, I had trouble remembering words, had no energy, was confused, and found it hard to think ...
When I created this graph I was looking at historical data that existed before I got involved with the company, so I don't know the complete story on all of its details...

But it's important to note that this is an accumulation graph... so it starts at zero but that doesn't mean a backlog of zero (my guess is it was massive, because it was massive at the time I arrived)... this instead counts issues opened and closed during the time period across the entire system. Some issues closed during this period would be ones that were opened long before the start of the period.

This means that the graph will always increase, and that the space between the two lines represents the growing net increase of unresolved issues in the tracker.

I wish I still had the raw data on this, because it's a little hard to tell from the scale that the differences from week-to-week can be pretty big (like 10 issues opened one week, 50+ another)

When I arrived, there were a few specific issues in play, along with all the usual code quality / project management issues that plague any troubled project:

(1) A high number of support requests that required manual setup work from developers, which increased greatly due to overall growth in the customer base.

(2) Some high defect density areas in the codebase that generated emergencies, and fixes that would end up breaking other things in the process of dealing with the acute issue, along w. infrastructure/architectural scaling problems.

(3) As you guessed, reduction and restructuring of team capacity, without a corresponding change in the workload.

So these things... they happen more often when we wish in the software industry, and it produces graphs like this.

(that said, keep in mind this was pretty much a napkin sketch. any issue tracker is going to have a TON of noise, unless it's very well pruned -- the sole purpose was to point out the wide gulf and relate it to the problems already obviously observable onsite, and then use that to motivate real work to change things.)
IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8
AoM is still my favorite game of all time. Its hard to find a fault with and, and still to this day I can end up spending hours and hours on it to no end.

The graphics are pretty awesome. I know there have been a lot of improvements to graphics over the years, but for me AoM's colors and graphics just seem so nice to look at. When it first came out, it probably had the best graphics of any RTS game.

The campaign was phenomenal. I can't remember how many times I've finished and then re-finished the campaign.

So I can't wait for the new expansion, "The Tales of the Dragon" to come out, which feature the Chinese and their deities.
Your first link is a known biased source.

Your second one doesn't undermine the case; it mainly discusses that tweaks are needed, not that the social democratic system doesn't work as you've implied. No one is arguing that the numbers never need to change; the entire discussion about the US is that the numbers need to change (in the other direction.)

As far as whether those people would accept the offers, it's possible at the margin, which are the minor effects I've mentioned. The numbers matter, though. France is a particularly bad example to use considering its job performance:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/cheese-eating-jo...
Interesting perspective. I wonder how much "cronyism" costs. It is a problem, but how big?

Sort of the issue is that their is a systemic change taking place globally and it moves at a compounding rate.

Most governments on a micro scale, are inefficient snd comprised of largely unaccountable people. They make (benevolent/naive view) decisions but are ill equipped with the skills to make the proper ones or (cynical) intentionally extract bwnefit. On a macro stage, we are still dumping money into infrastructure in competition with eachother. If we had all the best engineers working on space for example and collaborating, this would be good, or working to solve things collaboratively.

Luckily as PG notes there is a massive defragmentation. I would argue this is great. Agency is redestributed to people in this way and the effects of this will be evident in ~5 years when the laggard affects of technology overtake many legacy industries.

Cable is being challenged.

The monetary system is being challenged.

This election cycle will highlight apathy. It will be realized soon enough that the government will have much less power and is thus, less neccessary.

Etc.

Also, I just saw The Big Short. The L3 money supply (which is super complicated and I don't pretend to fully grasp) is basically mbs in ~2005.
Delightful Video on TempleOS Internals
> apparently their policy is never to send readers away from Edge

Holy fucking wow. Do they know what an Internet is?
There's a major difference: driving one of the legitimate tanker trucks requires a special class of driver's license, which one can't get without extra training and a good driving safety record.

(Also, I'm pretty sure you're wrong about every single accident leading to fire. Fender-benders and low-speed collisions do happen.)
Same, but I chose $1.
I can echo your experiences. I did manage to find a project management gig on oDesk, but after that have applied to many with no luck. The barrier to entry is too low, by allowing jobs that are $50 or even $500 for what amounts to a lot of work, everybody is usually driving towards the bottom dollar, versus having real companies/people looking for serious work.

I've also heard from the person that did hire me that they had been burned several times by developers that would give them poorly-built products, but because they weren't familiar with the details of how it was built, only found out weeks/months later when things started to break down.
Its funny, I had the exact opposite reaction. My 60 year old tech illiterate mother used the same illusions in haunted houses 10 years ago. The "feeling" part is amazing but the illusion, not so much.
It's funny how even a professional as experienced as Martin can be so terrible at estimating! I don't think it reflects poorly on him. I just think it supports the idea that estimates are really, really, really hard to get right.