skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. TF uses a more basic abstraction in the programming model, i.e., TF.Varaible, than SINGA which is based on the Layer abstraction. Hence their data flow graphs have some differences.
2. SINGA supports distributed training better than the current version of TensorFlow, I think. Both synchronous and asynchronous distributed training frameworks are supported in SINGA.
3. Performance (efficiency, memory cost and scalability) would be compared in v0.3.
All the eavesdropping is completely dumb, even the less technical of all terrorists can just change a word for another and all your billion dollar security goes to the dump. Example: when they talked personally they agreed girl=bomb

Their texts will look like:

- my girl is not with me, I left her at discowild

- nothing happened mate, no idea why?

- relax fam, ask mike to present you another girl, he is partyng next to dominoes. We getting wasted today tho, no bs

And now is completely impossible to differentiate that conversation from all the other 10 billions texts that happen at any Saturday night.
The Mac App Store has basically the same restrictions as the iOS App Store, but unlike iOS, OS X does not require that apps be installed via the Mac App Store.
Any story you wanna share?
Presumably anyone who invested in etsy 9 months ago was surprised.
The best tools to evade GFW are `shadowsocks` and `openconnect` at this point.

The first one is a proxy, but unlike TLS proxy, it does not have a handshake phase. Rather, it encrypts all data with a preshared key, and the server rejects the connection if decryption yields invalid data. The stateless nature makes it much harder to detect.

The second one is a VPN over DTLS or TLS. Its security is even better than OpenVPN, as it supports ECDHE and AES-GCM from very early. No stunnel or obfuscation is needed at this point.
VRBO and HomeAway tend to be better for higher-end properties. People that spend a lot of money want to talk to the owners prior to booking and VRBO/HomeAway facilitates that. People that own high end properties want to talk to the renters too. They also have custom rental agreements baked in to the booking process. I rent a 6BR and everyone wants to get a better deal. That's part of the dance. I tend to favor last minute / higher yield since I have a solid product and an automated home.

AirBnB prevents pre-booking contact because their model is different. They make money on bookings, mostly from the consumer. For HomeAway I pay them ~$1600/yr and get featured placement and no booking fees. That is actually a small marketing expense for my property so the consumer can actually pay quite a bit less by booking my property on VRBO instead of AirBnB which charges the consumer 6-12%.

AirBnB has the problem of being seen as the platform for renting shared space. I think they will do a good job branding as a place for entire home rentals but that may take some time with the older crowd. They have a good renter review system which doesn't exist on VRBO. They are prioritizing hosts that respond quickly because they know that in order to take real share from hotels/resorts and HomeAway/VRBO they will need to provide a better booking experience and also excel at last minute bookings. HA/VRBO doesn't have a lot of checks in place to ensure the consumer receives adequate service and this is mostly due to their chosen business model.

I don't know how this will shake out in full but as an owner, you should be on both. Expedia bought HomeAway so I think that is huge for them because they could launch a really compelling reward platform and provide owners more distribution. I would bet AirBnB would get scooped up by someone as well or finance a strategic acquisition of their own.

Once business travel falls to AirBnb/HA/VRBO due to incentivized rewards programs, hotels will be extremely scared, esp since most are franchises who are losing power. This hasn't happened yet. They're telling the story that AirBnB/VRBO has simply provided more room-nights that wouldn't have happened without them but I don't buy it.

Regardless, there is plenty of space for two heavyweights and I'm bullish on both.
Aldi has pretty decent quality..
+1 for the Firesign Theater reference. Anybody else catch that?
Lost 76% of its value... And still valued at nearly a billion dollars.
Won't this cause any files/folders created by the process to be owned by said random uid? Seems like a great way to litter your filesystem with unreadable files/folders.
it has nothing to do with jsx. all vdom libraries do this. redraw-the-world is done much faster than React by numerous libraries, including mine (see other comment in this thread). Inferno is a lib that will probably replace React while maintaining jsx compatibility, check it out btw.

jsx is just more natural for designers but i agree with the gp that the benefits can be obtained with plain declarative js and avoid all the tooling required for jsx.
My objection isn't to the cuteness of the bot - it's to the waste of taxpayer's money. Could you really look an elderly taxpayer in the eye and tell them that building slackbots with their bottom dollar is a great idea without feeling a tinge of guilt?
> True, but after being shot or beaten up by a black man, you are free to go.

That doesn't make me feel any better.
I am pretty sure that Mitt Romney paid more taxes than most people in this country. He certainly paid far more than me.

Could you please give a concrete definition of 'social justice'? How do we know when we have achieved it, and what benchmarks do we have for accountability on those matters. Also, who gets to set these benchmarks?
I've been really enjoying cycle.js http://cycle.js.org/
About time. Cryptsy's end has been more telegraphed and expected than Mtgox's was. The site had many bugs in basic functionality long before the hack.
There's a slightly longer press release about the Alzheimers findings at http://www.monell.org/news/news_releases/alzheimers_disease_... searching for the co-authors' names led to what appears to be the paper: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep19495

"Volatile metabalome" sounds so much more scholarly than "pee smell"!
User friendly packaging sometimes makes all the difference. Apple's empire is built on user friendly packaging.
Hindenburg II - coming soon to a theatre near you
Another shoutout here to phabricator. I started hosting it internally at the company a year ago and have near 100% adoption from developers for code reviews, additionally using the task/issue tracking for some projects.
Gotta love this bit:

> Q: You morons! You had a WordPress site that allowed uploading of new files?!?!

> A: It was the marketing director’s account. Beings that he was constantly updating files, it was necessary for his account to have the ability to upload new files.

The real question, of course, being "You morons! You had a WordPress site on the same server as critical financial services?!?!"

edit: Also:

> Q: Your security sucks!

> A: I see you running an exchange successfully, I’ll take your advice.

Says the guy running an exchange unsuccessfully.
That's correct. If you're the last person to board a flight as its about to leave, and the police had found any amount of substantial cash on me and confiscated it, it would have made it a pretty difficult process for me to find and recover that cash from them afterwards - legal process and all.
I like this idea. Do you have documentation for how to do it? I'm assuming it uses Shamir's secret.
Absolutely amazing book on the tech and history behind the Amiga http://www.amazon.com/The-Future-Was-Here-Commodore/dp/02620...
Here's a fun chart for you. US real GDP per capital from 1790 to the present:

https://www.quandl.com/data/MWORTH/0_5-United-States-Real-GD...

Here's nominal GDP: https://www.quandl.com/data/MWORTH/0_0-United-States-Nominal...

> They are talking about the Civil War.

My bad. I forget about these things since I'm not American.

> First, it's not just "simply" population growth. Try ferrying 27 million immigrants to current Southern Europe and see how the GDP fares.

A certain economic development model says growth is a function of technology, labour, and capital utilization. Assuming there's excess capital available, more population growth will always lead to economic growth. Whether or not you actually believe the model doesn't matter, economic growth has generally followed population growth, according to data.

> What you're essentially saying is that if a country has ten people earning $100 each, and then ten more people who were earning $2 in other countries now join the first ten (whose income is unaltered) but earn only $5, the quality of life has been reduced.

That's essentially what slavery was...

> To me this is simply nonsense unless one doesn't care about the quality of life of immigrants.

This is a different discussion altogether. We can see today, in places like Saudi Arabia, migrant workers come and are unable to attain anywhere close to a living standard the Saudis enjoy, is that the model we want?

Also, the US can't take in 6+ billion immigrants. Nice thought, but not possible.

And finally, I'm well aware of the plight of immigrants and those in 3rd world countries - my wife is an immigrant from a 3rd world country. However, when you factor in the cost of living, it's not always an upgrade (in my wife's case, she's done well so it is, but many of her family are in worse condition in Canada than back home)...
This is an impressively cool thing that I've never even thought about. Really neat that a hobbyist result is comparable (better in the example!) than the commercial product.
Another example: big name-brand beers have different alcohol percentages in different states.
ok thanks, that's what I figured, but it I was getting a bit worried that I was missing something.
Hi there !
Honest question, how do I find actual real world problem that people would pay for ?
I posted question yesterday where to meet and know about SMB problems ?
Do I build something and then go around showing , which is not correct imo or should I interview people first and then build something?

Where to meet people with problems that can be scaled and paid for solutions?
How can you morally justify such a blatant lie? You have no idea which is more likely, since there is absolutely no obligation by the police in this country to record how many people they are murdering and beating. I have no idea where you're getting these "statistics" from since there are no statistics available for how many people the police murder every year.
Homeless Hacker Builds Gaming Company
"Someone paid a small fortune to buy Larry Page the same elite credentials that billionaires buy for their children, and it was the critical component in his success."

Larry Page went to a public high school (East Lansing High School) and a public university (University of Michigan).

"Others spent fortunes buying the same elite credentials for Bill Gates, Paul Graham, Mark Zuckerberg, Drew Houston, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, and most other "successful" Silicon Valley founders/investors."

Three and a half out of the six people you named went to public high schools.

What Paul Graham said about this question:

"Closely related to poverty is lack of social mobility. I've seen this myself: you don't have to grow up rich or even upper middle class to get rich as a startup founder, but few successful founders grew up desperately poor. But again, the problem here is not simply economic inequality. There is an enormous difference in wealth between the household Larry Page grew up in and that of a successful startup founder, but that didn't prevent him from joining their ranks. It's not economic inequality per se that's blocking social mobility, but some specific combination of things that go wrong when kids grow up sufficiently poor." (http://www.paulgraham.com/ineq.html)
Click the web link up the top next to "X comments" and click the link to get past the paywall.
> all vdom libraries do this.

Most developers have never used a virtual-dom library, especially those that find JSX offensive. Your sales pitch for your library is coming off pretty aggressive, and it's a bit off topic. No one is talking about render speed.
Do something in between. If you have a great job that pays well expand your network and start investing excess cash into startups really early on. This way you dip your toes into those waters and get to see all the dirt and help them clean it up. Along the way you might find an interesting opportunity/problem worth solving yourself that could turn into a future business.

Look at this as "preparation". Far far better than following the herd coz it's the thing to do "to start a startup" and ending up with nothing after few failed attempts.
Hire Literally Anyone
The Trouble with the TPP, Day 10: Criminalization of Trade Secret Law
There are a lot more black men than there are cops. You're much more likely to be beaten up by a human than by a cop.
>Is there some possibility of convincing a gun rights advocate that he is wrong?

When you use that kind of rhetoric there's no possibility of common ground. People who believe in gun rights, as I do, used to be much more open to restrictions on the margins - things like magazine size restrictions, say, or background checks.

But there's no better way to engender intransigence than to ridicule someone without even attempting state your own position. Given the shift in public opinion toward gun rights, you're really just marginalizing yourself and your co-restrictionists.
Well, I couldn't find anything. Zero.

Plus using BBSs implied buying a modem and paying for long distance phone calls. Both completely out of my parents' budget.
"Imagine a building whose design and construction was governed by democracy. The architecture would be a horrible mish-mash of whatever happened to be popular, and likely architecturally unsound and unsafe."

No need to imagine it; it exists: the new span of the (San Francisco) Bay Bridge
I'm not going to debate the meaning of "social justice" with you, because I suspect you'll just keep moving goalposts.

That said, fairness matters. Taxes as a percentage of income should be, at bare minimum, flat. It's generally accepted that they should be progressive - that the wealthy should pay a greater percentage than the poor, because they are more able to afford it, and because the high-velocity money of the poor and middle class boosts economic growth more than the low-velocity money of the rich.

So when someone as wealthy as Mitt Romney is paying less than half the effective tax rate of people who actually have to work for a living, it's unfair. And this tax break to someone so rich - a break of well over a million dollars - has to be made up by the taxes of others. His cut increases the tax rate on hundreds of working families. That's terrible social policy.
I'm considering all parts of the package. You really think a significant chunk of Valley tech workers make $200K including bonus and _sellable_ equity? Not a chance. Sure, everyone knows someone who knows someone who works at Google and makes that much. But for each of them, I'll show you 10 people who make a normal amount.
well, if the topic is how great jsx is, it's on topic for me cause the lib was written specifically to scratch that itch :)
It's pretty clear how a heavily armed citizenry would disincentivize cops from this sort of thing. It's because the cops would be afraid that if they rob someone they will be met with a violent response, as they well should.

As for leading to anarchy (let's save discussing whether that would be a good thing for another time) or civil war, I don't see why it would.
i have been thinking about this a lot. Peter Theil talks a lot about paypal when they were burning cash, but they had finally started to get the business fundamentals together. He calculated, i am approximating but it was close to, 80% of the companies worth came after 20 years.

My thinking is that public markets are shitty, so almost all of the value capture takes place way before a company is worth it, it stays private a long time, goes public, then slowly grows for 5 years fails to adapt and dies. Look at google. They know search is about to change majorly, they have already spun into a meta-architecture. Doing things quickly, capturing that value, and then adapting is the only way to survive. If you do adapt enough to survive, you are a conpletely different conpany than when you started. If you dont, all the value has been captured by provate markets, the company gets sluggish, and isnt that profitable for "retail investors".

Amazon sort of the one exception. They saw the world how it is now over 10+ years ago, and are still competing and incrsting in growth because thats how you win.

You have to own all the infrastructure, so you dont have to work as hard.

Either way, uber is more like ebay than like lyft. Sectors have subsectors because everything is close to winner take all.

You analyze by looking at what the smart people are doung.

Stripe = infrastructure
Aws = end to end automated everything
Google is organizing as a think tank/incubator

Ycombinator is funding smart crazy people who move fast.
Building a product is easy. Especially if you are an engineer. Getting people to pay for a product now that's where a business sprouts from. Just because you built a product doesn't mean you have a company/business. You need users and those willing to pay for it. Most realize this when it comes to raising Series A.
I am, by no means, an expert in C, actually I'm a beginner. When I started reading K&R I was aware of the time it was written and how it follows certain premises. When I saw several arguments with Zed Shaw going on here, most of the time I've got the image of someone that wouldn't like to accept he was wrong in some ways. I'm not trying to take the value out of his work, I think Learn C The Hard Way is a great way to learn C, but as you said, his online persona didn't help much.
Maxwell's equations of side-effect-free software, yes, which doesn't actually pay very well.
The world in 1975 (2007)
That would be pretty cool but the vast majority of the job would be drilling in concrete which is pretty tough work. The pay off would be pretty cool though.
Since nowadays universities are run as start-up accelerators with closed source software, the .edu restriction is antiquated and obnoxious
C is not any easier to build a business IT system in than COBOL is.

When these companies want to get their business off of a legacy system, they essentially have three practical choices: 1. SAP 2. Oracle 3. A bespoke system coded in Java or .NET.
Here is the video a la carte: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT_dFRnmdGs

This site is obnoxious with its plethora of external metrics/adware hits. Even after the page is fully loaded, it hits them again every 5 seconds. I'm blacklisting makeuseof.com from any future use.
Umm no

EME Standardized the Plugin err "extension" API. It in no way standardizes DRM. The Stardardization is around the way Javascript will be used to call inside HTML5 the browsers CDM (content decryption module" which is a plugin by another name.

There are currently 3 competing technologies, with more to come, that are incompatible with FOSS, incompatible with open systems

For Chrome Browsers there is Google Widevine CDM

For MS Browsers there is MS PlayReady

For Firefox there is Adobe Video CDM (which is basiclly the video playback part of Flash)

This is the problem with EME, Netflix, Google, and Microsoft have been masterful at their marketing of this to people that should be able to see past the bullshit

EME/CDM is still a binary browser plugin, Sure we "eliminate" flash and the need for a "3rd party" plugin, but in many ways that it worse, Before we had a standard Plugin API that allowed non-supported browser to make use of Flash, so there where many many many browser that could call the 3rd party flash application to make use of that content. Now those browsers are completely locked out. You will only be able to Access content on the Big 2, Chrome and IE, and maybe Firefox is they finalize their agreement with Adobe to bring in a Binary Blob into the Firefox Browser

I do not call that a "WIN" for interoperablity.
>for any startup with VC money plans, the primary goal is not building a good product, but convincing VCs they're building a good product

I'm not sure that's true. For angel investors maybe but come VC time most companies already have traction and the VC money is to go from $10m value to $1bn. If the product's bad the founders get wiped out so it's not so helpful.
This makes sense to me:

>“New York is now the leading place on the East Coast for tech-venture investments,” said David Silverman, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. “Several years ago, companies that wanted to do something big all had to go to Silicon Valley.”

By now Boston, the East Coast's number two city, is almost as expensive as NYC yet doesn't have nearly the concentration of talent and doesn't have nearly as good a transport scene or dating life (http://jakeseliger.com/2015/09/19/briefly-noted-date-onomics...). NYC also has that critical concentration of nerds and rich people. SF has become so absurdly expensive that NYC starts to look attractive by comparison.
No. I hate receiving them it's just garbage. Resumes' themselves are garbage. They tell no stories and give no information in the tech field.
What if ramanijam was a CS scholar? you would refuse Ramanujan access to this data until after he got into a school program which he would not be able to do without access to this data.
>Most people are poor.

By which definition of poverty?
The good news is that in New York, this kind of thing needs to be linked to the budget to go anywhere, and this isn't.

The endemic corruption and routine prosecution of NY legislators gives me hope that this thing will go nowhere, because they have something to hide.

The bill is more of a trial balloon.
When a black man robs me or beats me up, I have recourse. When a cop does so, I don't. I don't fear black men because, even if they are more likely to harm me, the power dynamic is very, very different. If any random black man had special power over me, I would be afraid of any that hadn't earned my trust. (Men typically do have special power over women, and as a result, we insist that women need to avoid walking alone at night, not dress provocatively, carefully watch their drinks in bars, not wear their hair in a ponytail when running, have their keys ready when they approach their car in a dark parking lot...always be ready for an attack.)

So, yes, black men may rob and beat up people at a higher rate than cops, but killing is another thing:
~1000 killed by police in 2015[0][1]
765,000 police with arresting powers[2] (I assume we can ignore the bureaucrats.)
= ~765 police per police killing.

42 089 131 black/AA people in the US (2014)[3]
Assume 50% males: 21 044 566
2,695 murders committed by blacks in 2014.[4] 90% of homicides committed by males.[4] => 2426.
=> 8675 black men per murder by black men.

So police kill at ten times the rate of black men. (Major caveats: killed != murders; I didn't exclude black children, and it might be easier to avoid being killed by a police officer.)

[0] http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-new-estimate-of-killin...
[1] http://killedbypolice.net/
[2] http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/csllea08.pdf
[3] http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
[4] https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/...