skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edgar D. Mitchell, Sixth Moonwalking Astronaut, Dies at 85
Twitter is becoming a clone of Facebook
As an aside to argonaut's response (which is correct) it is important to note that there is a lot of ongoing work in understanding what the hidden layers in a CNN are doing. For image-classification type problems, it's pretty easy to pass an image in to the network and output the features each layer extracts.

Indeed, many recent systems rely on CNN-extracted features being passed to a SVN classifier to classify images that the CNN wasn't trained on (because the SVN is easier to train will less data, and using the CNN frees one from doing feature engineering).
It needs to be able to do video editing on dual 4k monitors and run AAA games, too. This is the future we're talking about.
They're really not - Glassdoor in my experience has always skewed low, after all it's self-reported. Highly-paid people tend to have more reason to stay quiet and not report these numbers because - as we've seen elsewhere in this thread - it often engenders hostility.

I know personally I was more loose about talking money when I was being paid a lot less than I am now.

The big players like AmaGooFaceSoft are routinely paying $300-400k for mid-level talent (5-10 yrs exp), and more for more senior.

In any case, these numbers ought to be known - much of startup-dom hinges on engineers not knowing what the big players are actually paying. If you can successfully convince someone that Facebook doesn't pay more than $200k, a startup salary suddenly seems more attractive. As someone who spent a lot of time in startups personally, I know my jaw hit the floor when I first found out about how high comp can get in BigTechCo.

And then I jumped ship.

Also worth noting: BigTechCo itself hinges on engineers not knowing what they pay ranges are. They absorb tons of talent coming out of startups and academia who were being paid a pittance, and even if they're willing to pay top dollar for this talent, they surely won't volunteer. All the more reason to not answer the "how much are you making right now" question, ever! Revealing your (comparatively low) startup/academia salary is a good way to make sure the "$300-400k" range immediately gets pulled off the table.
Slowly is infinitely faster than not at all.
Really? Where?

You still use dark patterns all over the place. Misdirection to get users importing contacts, burying opt-outs (try figuring out how to disable InMail), removing features from free accounts.
QE leads to deflation?
Prime for Instagram
Wouldn't CoreOS be the better host though, if just hosting containers is the only goal? Or are there things Alpine would do better?
Prime calculates you or your brand's best time to post to Instagram; and schedule posts for later, or view the success of past ones!
I think it could be that he is able to see what is about to happen to the tech market (well, is starting to happen already).
I think he's a rude despicable human being, but he's an American citizen with rights, and he has no obligation to answer to Congress. Congress could legislate drug price if they want, but they won't.
London is a weird spot for property. I see it as more inline with the gold market. A "safe" investment for people who need to invest. That makes your last point more likely if anything I'm saying is true, but what happens when in London is unlikely to reflect the properly market in general, which is based somehat on fundamentals.
Blender definitely has a non-standard UI. There are settings that make it more "standard". You can set it to "Maya" mode for example.

But, pretty much all 3D software is hard to use and takes several weeks to understand. I spent at least 3 weeks on both Maya and 3DSMax just going through the manual a chapter at a time and working through the tutorials back in the day. There's just too much to do in current 3D software and there's no escaping that all of them are huge huge apps.

Maybe VR or AR will finally fix this?

Note: I'm not apologising for Blender's strange UI. It put me off Blender for years and I'm sure it still puts people off. That said, a few months ago I tried it again and found the "Maya" option which at least meant I could click on objects to select them and have the camera controls match. The rest is still overwhelming but that's true with all top end 3d packages.
Twitter Shuts Down 125,000 Terrorism-Related Accounts
Yeah, if they're talking about what I think they're talking about, yes, something like LINQ could be implemented with macros (compiler plugin variant, I think) in Rust.
You didn't answer my first question.

Additionally, why would you do your best, though? As you said, it has zero impact.
Blender's choice to use completely non-standard UI features makes it harder to approach. 99.9999% of all software is "click on object to select it" then pick things to manipulate that selection. Blender's default UI doesn't do that so where as most noobs can at least run other 3d software and fiddle with it before spending the requisite weeks learning how to use it, for Blender they can't even fiddle. The must read the manual immediately because the UI doesn't conform to any other app period.

I know at one time even the menus were non standard as in users expect a menu bar with options they can browse but Blender didn't used to have that (it does now)
Thanks for the pointer to 'size'. I so rarely compile code these days. FWIW, on my Mac with 3100200, clang -Os -m32 is 495,508 bytes while gcc is 507,378.
Yes in the video he says that. Now what's your point?
The Everykey device holds a decryption key (or key-equivalent) for your keychains, and it has over-the-air upgradeable firmware? Even if the firmware is signed, and the upgrade procedure is password-protected, the feature may expose the device to a variety of different attacks.

(Not to mention hardware attacks, since even if the device has a secure element, it has to send key material back to the device with the keychain.)
The universal approximation theorem just says that you can construct a giant NN to fit any function. By making it a giant lookup table basically. It says nothing about fitting functions efficiently. I.e. generalizing from little data, using fewer parameters.

In order to do that you do need to use multiple layers. And the same is true for digital circuit, which NNs basically are. I'm sure there is mathematical theory and literature on the representation power of digital circuits.

There is a limit to what you can do with only one layer of circuits, and you can do more functions more efficiently with more layers. That is, taking the results of some operations, then doing more operations on those results. Composing functions. As opposed to just memorizing a lookup table, which is inefficient.

That's why multiple layers work better. It isn't some strange mystery.

>an infinite number of layers and convolutions makes no sense - I think you meant to use the word arbitrary

A better way to word it would be "as it approaches infinity" or "in the limit" or something. That is, the accuracy of the neural net should increase and only increase as you increase the number of layers and units (provided you have proper regularization/priors.) Since bigger models can emulate smaller models, but not vice versa.
Show HN: Celebrating Chinese New Year by Sending Beautiful New Year ECards
Ask HN: Is anyone working on an Intellij alternative?
Tolkien Ipsum
I've referenced Charity Navigator* a few times, but haven't looked much deeper than that--basically using it as a quick reference.

* http://www.charitynavigator.org/
How is a strong-typed language, such as CL, is less safe?

Edit: let's paraphrase - how excessive safety nets for construction workers makes buildings more safe?

A strong-typed language without implicit coersions is not more "unsafe".

Baning heterogeneous containers and conditionals, maybe-wrapping of everything to be able to check some constraints at compile time and catch simple errors (which also would be caught in a strong-typed language at run time) does not quality for this "safe" meme.
“RIP Twitter”: Twitter to Introduce Algorithmic Timeline as Soon as Next Week
The next question that popped into my head is, what's the thinnest Roman Prime?

Took me about sixty seconds before I realized that was a stupid question :)
Mossberg: Apple's apps need work
Oh well. Tonight I'm gonna party like it's nineteen ninety-nine
I thought 3888 will be wider than 3889 because VIII certainly feels wider than IX but I am not font expert so I don't know
When you are trading at a P:E ratio of 50 you are expecting some phenomenal growth and at LinkedIn's size that growth is pretty hard to get. Scaling it back to 25 seems pretty damned reasonable honestly.
One of the better websites on the internet, from the founder of Autodesk:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/nav/topics.html

Suggested starting point:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/atlast/atlast.html

He recounts lots of Autodesk history. An early software company success story, from the days before the www.

Highly recommended.
This is pretty cool, makes me want to take a look at Rust.
Randall is pretty chill about people using xkcd strips as long as you aren't selling them commercially:

https://xkcd.com/license.html

I do offer ebook sales, but of course I'm not selling the individual strips themselves, and the online version is free. Still, your comment has made me realize it's probably a good idea to double-check, so I'll probably drop Randall a line just to make sure.
Back in the day a reporter asked JPMorgan what would happen with stocks and he said they will fluctuate.

That's what stocks do.

Capital Markets are not healthy today for instance people all over the world and in cities in the US all what better internet access but telecom companies can make more money with inferior service because there is no competition and customers make no choice.

Just a few companies have access to public markets, some company like Fitbit that just screws their customers and doesn't care about the future, they can cash out and get fuck you money even if their company incinerates the cash of investors. There are all the companies like hortonworks that have no differentiation, no patents, no moat, that get access to capital because of geographical bias that is no different morally from racism. If they were from Peoria they would be treated like dirt.

I will grant Y co that they give real mentoring, but their success has a lot to do with the fact that 99% of America is redlined, if you tried to do anything in any other city you would not have access to IPO money.

I hear that Y co peowould rather open an office in Singapore or Madras rather than Las Vegas or Chicago and if that is there attitude all the 99% can do is vote for Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders. If it all goes down in flames at least I can grow my own food you rich fucks go see what you can scavenge in a world that is half Palo alto and half mad max. Just listen for once.
I thought you were saying to drop compensation for repeated tracks. It looks like you're suggesting the payout be for each song be calculated as

Subscription fee - Spotify's take
--------------------------------------------- = Compensation from 1 user
1 user's plays of song / User's total song plays

Is that correct?
Multiplication Tables Kind of
I'm pretty fortunate in that not only do I not have any debt, but my fuck you fund has enough for several months of full living/lifestyle costs. If I move back to my home country, then I have enough for two years.
It will be after the next ... lets call it business cycle.
But it wouldn't be a prime.
How to be more Alpha? The science behind peak performance
Could you talk about how you're promoting on social media?

Are you building relationships with influencers and getting promoted to their audiences, or have you found tactics / channels to drive traffic directly that works well for you?
If Linode supports ZFS, you could use ZFS send-recieve to make backups to your local machine. But like I said, the ZFS storage driver probably hasn't been well tested.
This was actually pretty well done. Give the guy some credit.
That's the case for a lot of security, though?
My comment can be read two ways, and neither way is wrong. I wasn't really expressing an opinion as much as bringing up relevant facts. People label things that we don't know how to do yet "AI". And then when these hard problems are solved, they seem like they are not really "intelligent".

This leads to both overuse and trivialization of the word, but also moving goal posts for the field. And actual progress isn't taken seriously, because nothing feels like intelligence when you understand it.

It's all a Mysterious Answer (http://lesswrong.com/lw/iu/mysterious_answers_to_mysterious_...), a codeword for magic (http://lesswrong.com/lw/ix/say_not_complexity/).
Already submitted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11041453
6 days left for Theranos
You clearly don't understand how money laundering works or what it is. Anonymous payment systems do not make it any easier to launder money, tax offices can still figure out that you have unregistered income.
How hard is that wood? (2011)
Building bridges != being a loyal employee.

Pull your weight and support the people around you but don't grovel to your company! You're a free-thinking human being with value creating skills!

Masking how you feel and trying to work the system will only lead to regret. Find out who you are and what your principles are and stand by them, only then will you be able to live with yourself when you get old.

Also work can happen outside of the bounds of a company. Your post makes you sound really burned out, I hope you're doing ok = )
In the .NET world we have Dapper (https://github.com/StackExchange/dapper-dot-net), which lets us write queries in plain old SQL. It's a very useful little library. I believe StackOverflow use it for their data access.

Example:

var posts = connection.Query<Post>("select * from posts where user_id = @UserId", param: new { UserId = 1 });
Depends, monospaced font or not? It's either 2 or 5
> "illegal" income

I found the problem. I don't think money has an intrinsic morality. It might be the result of (what some may deem) immoral action, but the money itself should not be illegal. There is nothing about "suddenly" having a lot of money which should be automatically illegal or prevented, and people should not have to explain every detail about how they obtained the money they did.

This kind of thinking leads to things like asset forfeiture abuse, where merely having a bunch of money on your person is apparently grounds for confiscation.

You may disagree, but I'm entitled to my opinion.
Apologies if the following is ignorant:

My exp with tableau was always that they obfuscate the final query...

Fuck that.

Looker doesn't && they even allow a meta Lang on top of them.

So for you to say "just do X" leaves many less sophisticated orgs left in the dark.

So my comment is both:

Fuck their position and yours.

I don't want to pay bullshit fees to tableau (with perf hits) && not be able to see the final query && not need an actually fairly highly competent DBA to know that x+x+x needs to be enabled in order for me to get to root.

If I pay service X give me the full fucking understanding as to how service results are generated.

(Yes yes I do understand how saas blah blah works and I'm just saying I personally find this process bullshit and immoral)
No, you never give out a number. It's like asking the person sitting across from you to show you their cards before placing a bet.

If a company is willing to pay $100K and you throw out a number, say $80K for example, then how much are you out?

If your first thought is $20K, then you'd probably be wrong. You would be correct if you stayed only one year with the company. However, every year you're with the company you're out another $20K not to mention any salary bumps or profit share that is a percentage of your salary, etc... After 5 years, you're out $100K.

You never give out your number.

When you are asked, "what's it going to take", you should always answer with something like: you're most competitive offer. I don't feel this is rude at all.

I usually recap how key points from the interview. Come back with how you believe you would add value to X and would love to work on Y and that your best competitive offer would get the ball rolling.

Your job is to find out the maximum a prospective employer is willing to pay. Likewise, a prospective employer is attempting to get the best bang for their buck.

Never show your hand. I've interviewed probably 15-20 times in my career and have never strayed from this course. Now I'm a business owner. I've interviewed 100s of people over the years and it never ceases to amaze me how many candidates flat out give me a number when I ask.

Head hunters are pain in the ass to deal with. They insist on knowing where you're at because they don't want you wasting their time. Well, tough shit! Head hunters need to figure out what the going rates are for whatever it is they are seeking candidates for. A good head hunter will let you negotiate for yourself.
Yeah I agree. We moved our visualizations from an expensive SaaS product to a few page Shiny metrics app that costs almost nothing.
Maybe "future of the project is a bit uncertain" was a bit too strong. Here's all I originally saw:

https://twitter.com/richfelker/status/662535718267392000

Either way, it seems it's now getting some backing by Docker. I can only imagine that the number of contributors and packages for it will grow and mature.
I wonder if I could post a randomly generated graph, label it with HN-interested labels arbitrarily, and get a serious talk started on HN about nonexistent correlations.
Tableau wrotes the worst queries for Microsoft SQL Server products.
> Tarmac is cheap and easy to apply, other than that it's a poor road surface. In heavy use coupled with poor conditions Tarmac can need resurfacing in as little as 5 years (10-20 is more common). Worse, it can significantly increase fuel consumption for heavy vesicles as the road surface deforms.

Yes, but because it's cheap this isn't a big problem. Not to mention that glass will not last 5-20 years on a highway. It is much softer than the stones and other crap which will be scraped against it with car tyres. It will start to crack when it's hot. It will lose any grip very quickly (thus making it a public safety hazard) and won't function as a useful solar panel much faster than it will stop working. A driveway and a highway are very different problems to solve.

> Concrete is better for fuel consumption and can last 2-4 times as long, but needs regular gaps for heat expansion which can cause noise issues and poor ware patterns. It's also far more expensive and end of life roads often spend long periods in poor repair.

Yeah, concrete is good as well. I forgot to mention it.

> Glass is actually a fairly competitive surface. Though, to expensive for most uses, people have used to for see though driveways etc.

See above. I don't agree. And I don't see why people are trying to convince themselves that it isn't a stupid idea.
What is the fall back if a package is not available? For example, I was able to find an APK for python 3.5.1-r0. However, I can find nothing for Python 3.4 except a bug report and some hacky fixes.

Also, it looks like running anything that require binaries that have compiled against glibc will be wonky as hell.
He said that (most of) the 4k rents are paid by bankers and lawyers. He did not say that most bankers and lawyers pay 4k rent.
One is building visuals into the Java based application. Two are using Flask.
I see. To be able to write world-class kernel code (or projects like nginx) a programmer must posses at least practical knowledge of advanced data-structures and algorithms (including implementation details), machine architectures and automata theory (FSMs for protocols) - subjects about which typical PHP/JS coder have no idea. That's why they are so sure that there is nothing beyond their amazing coding skills out there.
DAMN YOU MIKE TYSON! STOP KILLING ASTRONAUTS!
>Generally data analysts do not know how to program

In my experience, the ones that don't often produce some really erroneous or nonsensical results. Or even if they do get some things right, they have no ability to drill deeper.
That's interesting. Never would've made the connection myself, although now that I think about it, some of the most fascinating discussions I've read on HN involved Japanese work culture.
Is this in any way, shape or form related to TempleOS?
and the vultures are showing up looking for a carcass http://www.marketwatch.com/story/shareholder-alert-levi-kors...
Alpine uses the musl libc and the OpenRC init system. In order for a deb or rpm package to install correctly, the binary would have to be built for musl already and the necessary information to set up services on the init system be provided. I don't know how the latter works for other package managers, be it in a way compatible with OpenRC or not.

P.S. In my experience APK has been rock-solid and simple to use.
Gloomy, but likely correct. A lot of these current valuation numbers just don't make sense.

The implied growth rates in many tech stocks is unrealistically high.

The Bay Area's long-term employment prospects simply cannot support current home values or rental rates.

Once public and private equity valuations drop a lot of software development projects are going to get cut and with them the jobs of many software engineers. Engineers who keep their jobs probably won't experience pay cuts, but new hires are going to be expected to take much lower pay packages.

Why? Because the talent is going to be available at lower pay rates. So why pay more?

This is not necessarily a bad thing. There's a lot of irrationality in the tech business now and it's crowding out the rational participants. There needs to be a weeding out process. It is good that it has begun.

Remember to think long-term. Technology and the Bay Area are here to stay. Let's get the creative destruction process over with as quickly and painlessly as possible so that we can get on with making real innovations.
Wood Shop Enters the Age of High-Tech
> edit: also part of the breakthrough here is that the upper layer is made of recycled glass and resin and is not slippery.

I personally doubt this will solve the softness issues (it will wear down quickly). But if it's not being used on highways, the wearing isn't as serious of an issue. I still think just building a solar farm is a much better idea.

> Bit surprised by the negativity around this on HN.

The "solar freaking roadways" people just pissed me off so much with their dumb crap. Not to mention that so many politicians took them seriously, lording them as an example of innovation. As a result, myself (and probably quite a few other people on HN) have built up a massive amount of skepticism when people talk about ideas like this, because we know they're a bad idea and wish people would stop pushing it.
the "full faith and credit clause", i.e. article iv, sec. 1 of the u.s. constitution, was written after the constitutions of the states that would eventually sign onto the constitution (clearly), and a long (long) time after the term "state" was being used (c.1300 [1]).

Given that a cursory reading of the wikipedia page on this clause states that"At present, it is widely agreed that this Clause of the Constitution has little impact on a court's choice of law decision," I'm at a loss as to how I'm to interpret your one line response as relates to your argument that U.S. states are not as sovereign as a state such as Germany or China.

idk, maybe you were just bored and threw this out into the universe, to see if it would stick, or something.

[1] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=state
thank you Terry!!

TempleOS is TRUE ART. Terry is like BACH.

if you haven't tried it in a VM you REALLY SHOULD, it boots up in two seconds and is REALLY INTERESTING!
Does DNS based service discovery work yet? If not these images don't play nice with kubernetes.