skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's still easier to build up an understanding of computers under that environment. You may not be proving your programs correct, but you are probably proving them useful.
Also here's the original Cruise HN thread where some skepticism was also expressed. Interestingly the criticisms were more that it was too hard and a $10k bolt on box wouldn't drive safely enough https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7933045
But Amazon wasn't the first. The Sun Grid was first (launched in March 2006).
The cheap option is to lock down everything, other manufacturers will follow suit.

The average person doesn't care.

We thought the same thing about privacy and user data mining, but look where we are.
This is doubleplusgood spellwise.
Well - just my two cents. The title feels inaccurate. You all are tuning hyper parameters with respect to the performance of the classification task. The bayesian optimization is really to optimize the unsupervised -> supervised pipeline. I was expecting some bayesian optimization of strictly unsupervised representation learning (ex. we have an autoencoder and use some bayesian optimization to tune hyper parameters in order to minimize a reconstruction error). This is really just supervised learning with even less supervision (which is quite typical).
The target prevails over the language. The implicit intent is to convert LLVM bitcode.

"Please keep in mind that Wasm is not a user-facing language, it is a compilation target. To justify the extra complexity of this feature for its own sake, you would need to come up with convincing evidence that compilers would significantly benefit from it. I doubt that."

https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/pull/215#issuecomment-17...
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Only once the renters start actually voting.
The workshop is free to use (it's on Google CDN), but the hammer and nails cost money. Seems like a no brainer to use the workshop.

If the hammer and nails were actually better, then fine. But there's nothing actually wrong with $.ajax, that I can tell.
What the author failed to mention is how much work it is to get all of these ad-hoc projects working together.

Ember is a pretty cozy ecosystem in comparison. You get Babel, JSHint, npm and QUnit - out of the box. Most of which can be swapped out for your preferred libraries.
I think that it is part of the same conversation. Many of the workers in SV live up here in SF because finding housing in the valley is such a pain. If there was more housing down south, a good chunk of the pressure would be taken off of San Francisco proper.
I picked this up a few days ago on Steam and spent considerable time on it since then. It's really addictive for people who like automation. It has a nice pace, throwing in some interesting challenges, but generally let's you focus on those little details on how to optimize the structure of your base. Resources are generally bountiful, but they do run out eventually, so you are forced to think about acquiring new sources - and until then you have plenty of time to fill your conveyor belts..

By the way, thanks for supporting this on Linux! Wouldn't play it otherwise.
I'm not completely on board with this argument. In particular, there may not be any patents on React in the first place, and the 'implicit grant' included in the BSD license is legally sketchy at best – AFAIK it has not been tested, which suggests that relying on any BSD licensed software exposes you to legal risk where you do not have an explicit patent license.
They've been led to believe this by a common-sense assumption that police are there to police. The notions of the FBI acting counter to the interest of the public or the FBI lacking the competence to protect the weakened access points they would desire are counter to basic education; people must be taught to think in those lines.

When thinking about politics, remember: most hackers are more paranoid than the average person. A lot more. Because our training tends to show us what damage can be done, and that people will do damage for the hell of it [https://medium.com/@blakeross/mr-fart-s-favorite-colors-3177...]. When the Boston Marathon was bombed, the police put the city on basically a full-panic lockdown to catch two men; a lot of people were okay with this because it made them feel viscerally safer, not because they were trained wrong by a corrupt elite. You disregard the actual state of human nature to assume otherwise, which is probably disadvantageous.
I doubt this article offers any explanation of the bloat observed in many modern web pages. I suspect most web pages built using stacks like this will actually tend to be fairly economical on the client.
Totally agree. Encrypting data then discard the key is no different than burning the data in physical media in the old days.
Correct. You can discharge any financial obligation with the legal tender and the recipient is obliged to accept it. We're saying the same thing.
NIMBYs would just fight both. CEQA has been used to block public transit options all over the state.
I disagree. I think React is a no brainer for any SPA. Try doing a full fledged SPA admin panel in pure javascript. It's madness. But with React you can separate everything else into components and it becomes clean and beautiful.
Runs like a bag of shit on my specced out Macbook Pro in Chrome.
Apparently, this trend continues. For Talos Principle, they programmed bots to solve the puzzles. These boys could learn how to solve puzzles by watching humans do it. They would then run the bots as an automated test suite to test if any of the puzzles were made impossible as a result of engine or level changes, and if there were any places where a bot could get stuck.
> ... don't promote a community that is in total denial when it comes to its language shortcomings.

The point of Go was not to be "up to date" on type theory. The point of Go was to have a language that minimized some of the problems that you run into when you try to maintain 10 million lines of code for two decades. The authors/designers of Go didn't feel that "modern" type theory was the key to doing so. Of course, the modern-type-theory people think the Go designers are wrong.

Who's right? It's too early to tell. But for what it's worth, I'm pretty sure that the designers of Go have more exposure to modern type theory than the modern-type theorists have experience with maintaining ten million lines of code for two decades.
"The Census Bureau estimated [nationwide] real median household income at $53,657 for 2014 and $54,462 in 2013."

-- an easily findable source.

EDIT: Yes, of course there's been a gap between (current) median income in the Bay Area and the national median. But it's a round-off error compared to the more basic confusion in this thread between household and personal incomes. And even less significant compared to the brokenness of defining "middle class" as "able to afford median real estate prices in the current market."
historio.us is my favourite at the moment, but all that red can be annoying at times.
It would only work if the iPhone was plugged into power AND they had turned on the capability for Siri to be activated by voice, which is limited to when the iPhone is plugged in.

I know Android users might not understand this limitation, but there it is.
Using the natural language style assertions is optional though, and only work if you incorporate the 'Matchers' trait in your tests. If that's too magical, you can still use plain old assertions or one of the other styles here http://www.scalatest.org/user_guide/using_assertions
It is entirely fabricated. The team have never conducted themselves that way. Sad this was posted.
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My favorite example of this is the evolution of volume controls in cars. These days you have all sorts of fancy and inferior alternatives that leave you wishing for a plain old-school volume knob. The worst are the purely virtual volume settings with up and down buttons on a touch screen. Or only a bit better, physical knobs that spin endlessly and just send up and down operations to a digital volume level. Reasons why the old school knob is better:

* It maintains its position across power cycles. It can even be adjusted when the car is off. So you can lower the volume knob before you turn the car on and blast loud rock into your grandmother's ears.

* It does not require you to look at a touch screen to find the volume buttons. Tactile feedback is enough. You can operate it while maintaining the other 99% of your attention on the road.

* It physically stops at the lowest and highest possible volumes. Again, no need to look at some display.

Even better would be a physical slider instead of a knob. That would let you feel out the exact position of the volume without looking. The downside would be the limited space on a car stereo dashboard. But please, a touch screen is the worst and most dangerous interface while driving.

The same goes for radio presets. In a car with physical buttons for the presets, I can switch between my favorite stations without having to look. Try doing that with a touchscreen. How is this progress?

Maybe it's just a symptom of an industry that's often more about selling status symbols than selling functional products.
Instead of a subsidy you could just allow the write-off of the structure's depreciation. Structures, unlike land, lose value over time since they have to be maintained and suffer wear and tear.

The bigger the structure, the bigger the tax write-off.

LVTs make perfect sense and won't ever be implemented because we just started off on the wrong path. We're stuck with Prop 13.
As a sample of the alternate term, Merlin Mann's assorted podcasts generally use "Ahoy Telephone."
In the excellent Bill Bryson book "A Short history of nearly everything", a well known researcher was supposed to have opened a case drawer in the London Natural History Museum and exclaimed "oh fuck not another phylum".

The issue is that there are simply not enough trained scientists to study all that can be studied.

Perhaps there is hope for us all once the robots take our jobs:-)
Haha.

At the interview for my current job I was asked how I'd secure a remote service. My first response was along the lines of "Ask someone who actually knows about security, because I know just enough that I'd probably mess it up".
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This is a great example of more technology making things worse. I don't mean badly done technology, I mean that even if this were working and secure, a light switch would be cheaper, more durable, easier to repair, and easier to use.
In other words, it's not just this "one time" for this one "bad guy." The government wants a skeleton key. President Obama just said as much.

Crypto War II has begun.
That's actually backwards. Once you have self driving cars, it will be cheaper for most people (starting in urban, then sub urban areas, but ultimately everywhere) to just pay for taxi service rather than make a major investment in an asset with about a 5% utilization rate. And in that case the companies with the best financial engineering will succeed. Insurance companies will prefer to insure fleets rather than continue to do actuarial analysis on individual drivers, especially when you can continuously "train" (i.e. upgrade) your whole fleet. Basic safety will restrict driving to a small number of people who absolutely need it and are willing to take the extra training and liability. I will need to do this for off-roading but boy I can't wait to stop road driving.

Uber has a customer base and minimal physical plant, which is a huge advantage for them. On the other side, car manufacturers have enormous balance sheets and can be vertically integrated travel providers -- and have a huge incentive not to simply become manufacturers for fleet operators, which will put them in the wrong part of the value chain (basically the equivalent of "dumb pipe" telecom carriers).

Most of the car manufacturers will go out of business. My guess the survivors 20 years from now will be three from the set of Ford, Daimler, VW, Toyota and maybe Renault/Nissan and GM. Almost certainly Daimler will be on that list, not sure about which of the others. And the rest are already walking dead.

By the way cars will become quite boring commodity products (like planes) because the users and the buyers will be different.
Do you have any citations for your assertion about NYC circa '65?

I'm not doubting you, I'm just curious and would like to read more about it.
Ahh close I once made a complete template library under 325 bytes :D

https://gist.github.com/maxpert/989159
> the elected officials are still failing their constituents by not actually understanding what encryption is. They have a responsibility to be educated when their constituents are not.

I totally agree with you on this. Here's a sliver of hope that progress is possible...

http://fortune.com/2016/03/10/apple-fbi-lindsay-graham/
Oh boy, I wish I could get Serious Sam on my Android phone. I've got a PSX emulator and that keeps me pretty happy, but this would complete everything!
That crossed my mind as well. Though, that would require both frontend and backend code. This takes around 20-40 lines of javascript and works exactly as intended, and doesn't require maintenance in two or more different places
Really? Tomorrow night, Google's DeepMind is probably going to mop the floor with a 9-dan Go professional for the third game in a row. What's Facebook doing for fun these days?
I think your conclusion might be vacuous, or at least oversimplified. What is "value"? If we don't assume that it takes a programmer a set amount of time to write any line of code (and I know it takes me much longer to do linear algebra in Haskell than bung out a bunch of arithmetic in Python), any manager would be just as happy with B. B might even be more maintainable- it might be so long because its done in Knuthian-style literate programming, say- or have other virtues above A, increasing its "value," by most peoples' estimation.

What in particular do you mean when you say A is "greater"?
I live on the "urban frontier" in Oakland (east side of Lake Merritt) and it's pretty nice, I don't feel endangered at all.

South of me there's just huge swaths of residential and commercial land that can be developed - and I think will be developed. The main problem is that there are not enough professional/middle class people living there now. But once some move in, more will follow (as has happened in other parts of Oakland).

My point is that the Bay Area has quite a bit of capacity for further development once you step out of SF.
Thanks for the note!

We're using Bayesian optimization to tune both the hyperparameters of the unsupervised model and the supervised model, but you are correct that they are being done in unison with the overall accuracy being the target. The lift you get from adding the unsupervised step (and tuning it) is quite substantial (and statistically significant).

The idea of tuning just the unsupervised part (or doing it independently) is great though. All the code for the post is available at https://github.com/sigopt/sigopt-examples/tree/master/unsupe.... It would be interesting to see if doing that would make for a better overall accuracy.
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I heard German has more abstract words , is that true?
Ramen and a can of tuna can be less than a dollar.

Rice and beans is too.

Not very nice meals, but possible.
You don't have to build O(n). Just build one business as a revenue source. For example theranos sold lab services for pharma companies, which had easier requirements than blood testing(which require thousands of tests, and other stuff). Google's Verily uses the same strategy - selling testing and data services for companies, while build it's future patient platform.
Reading Kafka in german is so much more modern and musical than in english or any other language. Kafka in english sounds almost sentimental, less modern. At least thats my feeling. In english translators often break his long paragraphs and sentences. Samuel Beckett said that he used to read most of Kafka in german, especially the Castle - Das Schloß.
Very interesting. That's more than enough to at least make them a legitimate financial entity. I wonder how much control the government has over YF at this point in time.
There is, unfortunately, nothing easy about "the public part of an asymmetric key that the device owner controls."

How does the device owner control it? Apple doesn't want to be responsible for Genius Bar calls from customers who lost that strip of paper with the huge hexadecimal code on it and now can't ever upgrade their phone again.
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These contractions seem to add a lot of ambiguity though. Since "Backpfeifengesicht" is not commonly used, I thought it described a person who has been getting a lot of slaps across the neck so that his face took that form. Without context, these words are sometimes hard to understand unless they're commonly used.

Another example is Sitzpinkler. While this word is not ambiguous, it still sounds funny. I'd never use that and probably say "a person who pees while sitting". It might be used on some sign, although it makes the place where such a sign is found sound cheap because that word is really colloquial.

Nevertheless, it does create some great words such Schadenfreude, and Werdende. While i would never use Werdende, i believe it is used a lot in lyric (poems and that stuff). Schadensfreude is a really nice word through.

Disclaimer: my native language is German.
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> I'm pretty sure that the designers of Go have more exposure to modern type theory than the modern-type theorists have experience with maintaining ten million lines of code for two decades.

See, the problem right here."Go designers know better than everybody else". No they don't. The standard library itself is totally inconsistent and goes against what Go designers themselves promoted as being idiomatic.

> The point of Go was not to be "up to date" on type theory.

Sure it's a dynamically typed language that mascarades itself as a statically typed one, a bit like C with its void pointers everywhere... Except it doesn't have C macros, which makes it even more painful to program than C.
Cantonese is the best language to swear in!
You're missing the point that middle class is a subjective measure.

It's a bit fuzzy. But not that fuzzy.

They're arguing its based on affordability markers.

That's not my reading of what "they" are saying (aside from the fact which posters here, aside from the one a few up from here, that you're referring to is more than a bit unclear).

But more to they point -- they're welcome to "argue" that point if they like. But if they do, it doesn't seem to have much to do with the commonly accepted notion of "middle class":

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

For which "median income" might not be an exact equivalent -- but is good enough, to a first-order approximation.

"Median affordability in the most expensive large-scale real estate market in the U.S.", in comparison -- just doesn't make very much sense.
This is because German still retains some case, while English has almost completely abandoned it.
An excellent book, and unfortunately one that most people are not going to bother reading. It has permanently changed how I think about problems and their solutions.
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That was it!
? I always just install `isomorphic-fetch` or the browser-only version. Works fine. Why load jQuery instead of that?
Yes, api versioning would be nice. However, with limited resources (as always) this takes you very far without it. Api versioning also only handles breaking api changes (which this doesn't really protect you from, depending on how the users act to the notification), this also notifies the users to refresh their browsers for hotpatches regarding the frontend, and also regular feature releases. So even if you have api versioning in place, I still see benefits from having this in place
I believe it was This American Life, as I came here to write the same post you did. I had my iPhone mounted to an external speaker at the time, which triggered Siri, so we're probably referring to the same episode.
> a high school isn't a school which is high

High school is high. It's higher than middle or primary school. It's not 'geographically elevated', but that's not the only common meaning of high.
The iPhone 6s, and the Apple Watch, are always listening (if enabled) for "Hey Siri", even on battery.
Bitcoin and other forms of non-standard currency depend on crypto.

1. The central banking system feels threatened by competition.

2. Government is afraid that people will use it to launder funds and dodge taxes.

3. Law enforcement, Homeland Security, and the NSA are afraid of losing the ability to effectively search and seize electronic assets; despite the fact that their current practices are a clear violation of the 4th Amendment.
I don't think there's the same feeling of "community" with Go as with other languages, in the same way that there's not really a C community - more a bunch of authors, evangelists and contributors who have a "stake" in the language. That's sort of the point, though. Go doesn't really need much more than it has already. It's a deliberately simple language, with standard format and documentation, a plethora of examples and a comprehensive stdlib. It was designed to serve particular purposes, and it does what it does really well. All it really needs in the way of community is a bugtracker and a StackOverflow section, and I suspect that the a lot of the "Go community are arrogant/negative/dismissive" type complaints can just be attributed to it being the same few people hearing the same complaints about lack of My Favourite Feature X over and over, despite the many blog posts, release notes and list discussions explaining why it's not there.
On the Steam store page it's listed as "Early Access," which is the alpha/beta branding loophole that Steam uses.
It is also getting popular with IBM, Comcast, RedHat and of course Google etc which are older and big companies.
Oops. You're right for little-endian encoders. (See another comment on this thread for a simple bijective big-endian encoder I whipped up just now.) I've always written big-endian encoders or bijective big-endian encoders, so that byte strings sort the same lexographically and numerically.

Though, a simple loop encoder and decoder are still easily doable if the unary length encoding is in the most significant bits. You're right, though, for a little-endian encoder, it's a slightly more simple to put the unary length encoding in the least significant bits.
Lots of the words mentioned in the article are not of common use in German. They are great words, though!
For the attentive reader:
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It might not be, if the protests start to become effective in lowering demand.

Right now, tech workers want to live in SF. But if they see hatred and protests against them at every corner, then at some point those tech workers won't want to live there anymore.

Similarly, if tech workers arriving drives up prices which drives up the homeless rate, making the city less and less pleasant to walk around in, then at some point those tech workers won't want to live there anymore.

A third way to decrease demand is if the city increases taxes on the well-off, making it much more expensive to live in San Francisco if you have a software engineer's salary.

I think all of those are sad, but if we don't build a lot more housing, things will get a lot worse. Either things will spiral out of control, or they'll get so bad that demand starts to fall.
This could be amazing for a product/app troubleshooting guide, maybe hosted inside Slack/Olark/Gitter...