skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do those extra hours even result in anything productive? I suspect you'd get more done in a regular 40-hour week - but of course it's much easier to measure how many hours you were at your desk than how much you did.

People need to stop enabling this kind of nonsense - a big part of the problem is so many people want to make games that they'll put up with terrible working conditions to do so. Ultimately the only thing that will fix it is the same thing that fixed working conditions elsewhere - unionization - but in a parallel to the "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" line, everyone believes they're the best programmer, so no-one wants to do that.
Those popping sounds give me the impression of a percussion instrument playing, which I find desirable.
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The issue isn't removing the original copyright holders claim. No one is saying that's possible. Oracle is free to relicense the code they own at any time, but that relicense doesn't affect the code written by others and Oracle does not have rights to that code unless they had a CLA. The new OpenZFS code is not under a CLA.
The US should stop defending Europe but alas we are sending more troops there. If Europeans can't be arsed to maintain a proper defense they should reap the whirlwind.
Fuck College. Get Money
I guess it's understandable but why not choose an appropriate word like "different" and keep "unique" a very strong word?
I did not downvote, but I really disagree with this sentiment. Financial independence for young people is probably the most revolutionary concept in Western culture and is definitely the reason behind so much innovation not just in technology, but in society as well.
TIL that Ts'o has been with Linux since the early days.
Former startup employee here that lives in Dallas.

It's ok, and slowly growing, but it is very hard to raise money. There are groups trying to advocate for more startups but they just can't raise the capital. One such group is http://launchdfw.com/jobs/. SoftLayer was probably the biggest exit Dallas has seen. The money is just tied up in other industries and it won't be risked on high tech startups. The lack of capital being raised results in the lack of start up jobs in Dallas. When I was looking for a new job back in August, I think there was maybe 6 postings - one being my current company.

We are just a very IT / Enterprise heavy area. People are more likely to find a job at Match.com or AT&T.
HackerRank, Codility and Other 'Online Whiteboards'
I want to know your thoughts on these what I call 'Online Whiteboards'. I'm in a process of getting a new job and companies keep sending me these 'challenges' over HackerRank and Codility. It's like to have a gun pointed to your head when you are coding and having a timer (e.g 60 minutes). I personally don't think this is the proper way to hire engineers. It's not the way things work in the real world. You don't write software with a timer in your desk and with someone with a gun pointed to your head saying: 'You have 60 minutes to finish this problem'.
Why not do a take home project approach instead? I don't get it why HackerRank, Codility and others 'Online Whiteboards' are becoming so popular...speed of banging out lines of code is not a measure of a programmer
Where do you get the idea that we'll return to communal living?

For hundreds of years, we've been taught that it is "I versus Everyone Else" in economically liberal societies. To think that will go away, and not go into hyperdrive, when people are desperate, cold and hungry seems unrealistic to me.

I truly want my assumption to be proven wrong, though.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/05/23/the-d...

Look at the list of top spending districts, I see two districts with good outcomes (fairfax and Montgomery county) and the rest are urban districts with notoriously bad public schools (plus Hawaii which doesn't have local school districts and has outcomes so bad that pretty much everyone flees to private options, eg Barack Obama).
Which more or less removes any benefit for using optional, unfortunately.
> "If these are your biggest fears in life, take a step back to realize what you've got. Entitlement and bizarre expectations about what "life" is are to blame here. Not every one is above average."

That's not what it's about. I'm a Millennial and whilst I would never word it like the author did, I understand where they're coming from.

The issue is with one of courage vs. conformity. The author fears those things because they see the paths that are expected of them, and doesn't like where they lead. If they were happy to live a simple life (and there's nothing wrong with that, if that's what you want) then they wouldn't have those concerns.

Speaking as a Millennial in my 30s I've realised I'm prepared to give up on quite a lot in order to keep my own dreams alive. I'm not ready to 'settle down' into a life I do not want. My opinion may change as I get older, but for now I would rather avoid the trap of a huge mortgage and the lifestyle that must be maintained to support it (i.e. reduced career options, reduced travel options, etc...). It's not about entitlement, it's about recognising I have options.
Free software has a generally accepted meaning. If you don't like it just use permissively licensed libraries in your projects.
When I wrote that, my thought was that the trades are one of the few ways left for blue collar workers to work for themselves and not for Capital, and it would be a shame to end that.

Thinking about it some more tho, if you're, say, a plumber and you're any good, you're going to have as much work as you want to take on, and you would have no incentive to participate in such a program. If you're a plumber and you do have incentive to participate, logically you're not any good, and why would I as a client want a bad plumber to fix my pipes?
There's an international co-ordination problem there. National governments don't want to foot the bill for research that the whole world needs.
I recommend https://draw.io/ - it's easy to use, doesn't require an account and you can load/save diagrams from Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox (or, of course, from your device). I've created a lot of diagrams with it and it "just works" :)
"To catch fire" is a relatively common term, at least in the USA. "To catch on fire" probably equally so.
All of Paul Monette's writings are worth reading. As a young gay person, after reading Borrowed Time in particular, I am now painfully aware of how lucky I am to have been born when I was. Meeting people who have lived with HIV for a long time when I moved to SF just reinforced that.

It may feel like the country is going to hell and the world is fucked sometimes (though I think the trends are actually more positive than people think :) ), but at least in this one area the last twenty five years have produced miracles. A death sentence has become a manageable chronic illness and, with PrEP, you can even avoid seroconversion in the first place. Wow.
Again, all of those methods in the PBS article are already highly illegal... Straw buying, unlicensed distribution, theft...

Shall we make them more illegal? Or are you unaware that they are illegal already?
I hate Ikea for this reason. The last time I went, I was looking for a bathroom vanity/sink. By the time I found them, I was so annoyed at being forced to navigate the serpentine displays that I walked out. Yes, there are cut-throughs, but they aren't labelled. Time is too valuable to be wasted walking around furniture I don't want or need.
It really depends on what it is - Edge is missing some rather fundamental modern CSS features (filters immediately springs to mind).
Handy smoke test for a good RNG? Not sure I see any case where it would actually be useful for this in practice, but I find the idea amusing in theory.
I know the article and the discussion is about access to drugs, but I must call out that part of the success of medical tourism in India is the lack of stranglehold control over medical care by insurance companies. In India, I can:

- Get an estimate for service before it happens, and plan for it therefore.

- Pay for the service at the time of discharge with/without insurance

- decide by myself if i want to get a specific procedure done or not - no fuss of "does the insurance cover it?". Of course, this is one area where the costs of service being inherently low helps.

- get all my medical records in my hand

These are basic patient freedoms, IMO, that the insurance industry in the US has taken away.

I dont know the history of how it came to be this way in the US, but as it stands, the situation is very geared towards getting mystery service - you dont know what you're allowed until you're refused, you dont know how much the service cost you until months later and even then in multiple bills from various hosiptals, doctors practices and specialists, and you have to ask for your records because you cannot keep them safe!

I have all my records from every treatment in India, but not one coherent,collated record of my last physical checkup in the US. There's something broken there.
> "My generations biggest fear was that there would be a global thermonuclear war that destroyed civilization"

That may still happen, Generation X doesn't get to claim that one as solely their own.
I don't understand your argument. The images are the same size. A 235KB jpeg of the monkey is almost indistinguishable from lossless, while in a 470KB flif, there are already unacceptable artifacts.
relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/
I've never asked about LinkedIn in an interview. However, I do sometimes look up candidates prior to interviewing them, and admit to being slightly curious if I can't find them, although would not let it count against them. Conversely, I have also seen a few candidates look me up on LinkedIn prior to their interview, which I generally take as positive sign, because it shows they are trying to prepare.
Volkswagen's Diesel Fraud
Looks amazing! Really impressive results. Very cool that progressive loading is composed into the format.

However I am afraid that without support from biggest companies the format will never gain popularity. Just think how long it took to make PNG a web standard. And animated PNGs? Died unnoticed. To make things worse, GIF, a stinking leftover from '90, is still in use (even on HN!).
1973 was the first oil crisis. Oil prices went up by 400% and there was a huge spike in inflation.(There's a book waiting to be written about the curiously close relationships between the Saudi and the US oil establishments, and the Saudi influence on US foreign policy since the 70s.)

The oil crisis gave the Right a convenient pretext to blame wage increases for inflation.

This became a standard element of economic orthodoxy, and ever since then increases in wages and salaries - which were a driver of post-war prosperity - have been labelled "inflationary', even though inflation is primarily caused by other factors.[1]

By a remarkable and unexpected coincidence, this was the moment when labour share of GDP and middle class prosperity both started to decline. See e.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_share#/media/File:Adjuste...

[1] The Bank of England always plays on this. About a year ago there was talk of increasing interest rates to "head off inflationary pressure" just in case wages might have started rising in the future. Meanwhile asset inflation in the form of rising property prices is ignored, and more obvious drivers of increasing costs, like consumer energy prices, are downplayed.
This is a excellent and subtle comment. You seem like someone with a tolerance for philosophical nit-picking. Please forgive me if I'm mistaken.

Instead of saying everything is unique we could simply say that there is nothing. A thing is itself an abstraction. The concrete world is without inherently distinct things. We must abstract things for "unique" to describe something at all. As you implied, this process is arbitrary. Every way in which you could abstract things implies a distinct notion of "uniqueness". To simply select one "uniqueness" (like mathematics) is arbitrary. But to consider every possible "uniqueness" equally is also arbitrary. Without prioritizing forms of "uniqueness" we can only construct a partially ordered set. So when you void a fixation on mathematics, things can be more, less or "incomparably" unique.

I suspect most pairs of things are incomparably unique. Further, I suspect most binary qualities are predominantly incomparable. I don't know that you should never say things like "more unique" but it might be fair to issue a warning in a prose linter. Any binary quality used as a continuum requires an arbitrary combination of it's distinct forms. If this isn't specified then it only has meaning for those who already know what it is.
> I question how useful a tool like this is for a skilled writer.

For a skilled writer who takes time to write "proper" prose, probably not very useful.

But for me, as a non-native english speaker who writes a lot of short english texts (emails, documentation, HN comments and so on), it could probably help.

For example, since I write both US and British English every day, a consistency warning is certainly helpful. I would also like a linter to help the flow of text, for example by pointing out when you aren't mixing up your sentence lengths in a good way. Oh, in that last sentence I accidentally missed that I used first person in the sentence before that! A linter as a chrome plugin would have pointed that out.
It is a dense read, but you might have a look at [1]. This is how attention is implemented in Theano. Basically the key is going "3D" per timestep (where 2D per timestep is the norm when doing minibatch training), then taking a weighted sum over the correct axis to get the right size to combine with the RNN state.

Short summary:

I: input length

M: minibatch size (same for input and output)

H_in: input hidden size (arbitrary/user selected)

H_out: output hidden size (arbitrary/user selected)

C: attention feature size (arbitrary/user selected)

Looking at the decode/generator RNN, "context" comes in at every timestep as every hidden state from the BiRNN (I, M, H_in) projected to (I, M, C). We do the normal RNN thing (tanh, LSTM, GRU) for the generator at first to get a decode hidden state (M, H_out).

Next the "first" output hidden state gets projected to the attention size C (so now (M, C)), and using numpy broadcasting this (1, M, C) size thing gets summed with the (I, M, C) size "context" which is a projection of the input RNN hiddens. Now we have something that is looking at both what the output RNN has previously done (and seen), and some context information from the input RNN.

A nonlinearity (tanh) is applied to the (I, M, C) sized piece, partly in order to bound the activation to (-1, 1) and partly just because we like nonlinearity. This (I, M, C) size thing then gets projected to (I, M, 1), or "alpha", then the useless dimension is dropped via reshape so we now have (I, M), then a softmax is applied over the first dimension I. This means that the network has effectively "weighted" each of the I timesteps of the input, though at the start of training it can't know what is relevant, at the end of training this is the thing you visualize.

This (I, M) is the actual "attention" - to apply it you simply take the original hidden states from the input BiRNN and use broadcasting to multiply again. (I, M, 1) * (I, M, H_in) gives a weighting over every timestep of the input, and finally we sum over the 0 axis (I) to get the final "context" of just (M, H_in) size. This can then be projected to a new size (H_out) and combined with the output hiddens to get an RNN that has "seen" a weighted sum of the input, so it can generate conditioned on the whole input sequence.

Note that this whole messy procedure I described happens per timesetep - so the neural network (given enough data) can learn what to look at in the whole input in order to generate the best output. Other attentions such as [2],[3] are constrained either to only move forward or to be a hybrid of forward movement and (pooled) global lookup. [4] is a good summary of the different possibilities in use today.

[1] https://github.com/kyunghyuncho/dl4mt-material/blob/master/s...

[2] http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0850

[3] http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.04395

[4] PPT, http://www.thespermwhale.com/jaseweston/ram/slides/session2/...
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I've been wanting to put "Time's Person of the Year 2006" as an award for a while now. Though, if I thought of it, I'm sure it's not exactly original.
It takes time to select, communicate with, and manage an outside company. It creates a dependency on that company's schedule and the schedules of all the other companys that the outside company also works for. Those costs tend to be non-trivial even in cases where there is a long term established relationship.

To put it in perspective, it may take a couple of weeks of calendar time just to get to a signed agreement. Never mind a few more weeks to get a final product [if it all]. That's a big break in cognitive flow for a small project that can be knocked out in a few hours.
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Twitter for Mac, for some reason, ate way too much CPU, and this was the sole reason I went for Tweetbot.

Other than the price tag, was there a reason you didn't go for Tweetbot?
Have they invented the Tasp (http://larryniven.wikia.com/wiki/Tasp) yet?

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=235788
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"By increasing the server memory to 27GB I manage to create 1024px images on CPU - seven hours per image" - http://spiceprogram.org/artcorn/

And the GPU version requires amounts of video memory that generally do not exist for anything else than research or GPGPU purposes. With 4GB of VRAM you might get a 920x690 image processed in under 1 hour, using recent optimizations added to the neural-style repo.

So a standalone iOS version seems pretty useless. A standalone Windows version might appeal to people with gaming rigs but without the technical knowledge or determination to install neural-style in its current form. It certainly has potential, just not as huge as the cloud version.
> They want to take over the bitcoin network with a fork, which will follow different rules

A simple and clear understanding of which group is trying to distort Bitcoin from its mission can be had by simply reading this informative white paper:

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

I would encourage everyone following this discussion to start by reading the foundation document, and then comparing the design and goals of the system envisioned by its creators and adopted by early-adopters, with the vision being propounded here.

I would furthermore ask everyone who has read the paper, to decide for themselves what it means for Bitcoin that "consensus" can be "reached" by putting all the key players in one room and signing a document.
> You can identify programmers as the people with their headphones on, frowning at the screen.

Yes!
I can't say that I'm surprised that Austin based VC's are more risk averse than SF counterparts. Austin based startups are higher risk for several reasons. This is the city with a start ups desperately searching for veteran engineers when their CTO is 3 years out of school...

The "startup" of Austin is typically one that adds less value to their vertical than their SF counterparts, has less talented technical staff, and has very poor non-technical talent. ...But people are complaining that Austin based VC's are giving Austin based startups less love. I think some of these startups need to re-evaluate what they're doing and stop blaming VC's for not instantly falling in love with their flavor-of-the-week startup.
A simple and clear understanding of which group is trying to distort Bitcoin from its mission can be had by simply reading this informative white paper:

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

I would encourage everyone following this discussion to start by reading the foundation document, and then comparing the design and goals of the system envisioned by its creators and adopted by early-adopters, with the vision being propounded by "Bitcoin Core" versus its opposition teams.

I would furthermore ask everyone who has read the paper, to decide for themselves what it means for Bitcoin that "consensus" can be "reached" by putting all the key players in one room and signing a document.
I fear 2011 was a perfect-storm and a once in a lifetime fluke. Not only was there a lot of fear from the collapse of 2008, interest rates were lowered to a level that was never seen before.

Like many people on HN, this has hit us hard. I had just finished grad school in 2008 and was single - it was unclear if buying a house/condo made sense then. Fast forward 5 years ... married, jobs, ready to settle ... except now, everything seems pretty expensive. Okay .. lets wait it out. 2013-2016 ... prices keep increasing. Everyone and their uncle is investing in real-estate. REIT are scooping up properties and collatorizing the rent payment. If we had taken a mortgage, our monthly payment would have been fixed but with rents, it keeps going up. I also did the math ... I paid about 180K in rent (averaging between 2500 and 3K a month in places where I lived). I have nothing to show for that.

Of course, we all make our own decisions. We have decided to buy (at what may well be the top of the market). We had a need to buy in 2013 and I wish we had not let "expensive prices" deter us. The monthly payment argument was as valid then as it is today. If/when the market turns, we'll buy a bigger place. Right now, we're buying a small starter place and at take a stab at the American dream. That's the logic I'm using. I really wish real estate wasn't causing so much misery but it is... I can't outsmart the market :(
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Patents are not perpetually extended, Disney-style. Only copyrights are. Daraprim is not under patent.

The issue with Shkreli is purely exploitation of bad FDA rules, not patents. The FDA is the problem here.
Ultimately the only thing that will fix it is the same thing that fixed working conditions elsewhere - unionization

I don't know. I've worked with ex game developers in Norway and Sweden, two countries with fairly strong unions, and the story is basically the same. The companies are very good at convincing you that you really want to work under those conditions and that doing so makes you awesome. They also know that if they insist on 'realistic', union approved, working conditions, the publisher/studio will just hand the next game off to another, less difficult, team. Hell, I've known people to straight up lie to their union rep about their working conditions because they don't want the unions stepping in and 'ruining' things.