skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But gold isn't just great, it made massive amount of people crazy. Is it the color that tickles our brain much more than red green or blue ? ...
Actually, out of curiosity, would there be some way to use the inverse coloring transform + a lil noise to generate some kind of equivalence class of free training examples, sort of a la skip-gram?
> A popular criticism of Silicon Valley, usually levied by people not building anything at all themselves, is that no one is working on or funding “hard technology”.

I'm not critical of Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley includes many companies working on hard problems, or investing money into long-term moonshot programs.

The criticism is levied towards, for example, the social media giants that pull in top engineers to work on social media problems exclusively. The criticism is also directed at Silicon Valley VCs, who lure smart young people to work on semi-trivial problems because it's the quickest path to profit.

It's not necessarily fair criticism. VCs have an incentive, first and foremost, to fund successful businesses. If their surest path to success in today's economy involves building semi-trivial apps, that's what they'll pursue. The same can be said for the finance industry, where the most successful players are employing our nation's top mathematicians and scientists to extract money from public markets using high-frequency trading. We can't expect them to self-regulate. But how can we incentivize smart people to work on something less lucrative?
I agree with Golf being the exception. I love my (mk7) GTI, and still smile when driving it--a year after buying.

Tried a (United States) Passat for about a week, and it felt like a waterbed on wheels :( not sure if it was "because rental" or if that's how they are; any owners care to comment??
Dwarf Fortress, as an example, has Armok Vision [0] that uses DFHack [1] which reads the data structures directly from the Dwarf Fortress process to provide an API layer to other tools and scripts. Armok Vision provides a 3D visualization to the 2D of Dwarf Fortress (in a separate process, by reading memory through Dfhack). It's pretty rad.

There's also the 2.5D "Text will be Text" plugin that actually alters how Dwarf Fortress renders tiles, stacking 2D planes so you can see more than 1 Z layer at a time [2].

[0] http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=146473.660

[1] https://github.com/DFHack/dfhack

[2] https://github.com/mifki/df-twbt
Jetta small? The VW Up and Lupo are small...
AI is cheaper than you think. A ridiculous deep learning cluster can probably be had for < $30k.
The Polo is still fairly large in some configurations, the Fox and Up are quite a bit smaller still.
It was meant as an encouragement to do better.
I remember meeting one of the founders 2 years ago in a party and congratulating him for doing a startup with truly innovative goals.

Amazing to believe 2 years later they got bought for a billion dollars.
I think the 'ethical' choice is some kind of a middle ground approach. It's true if everyone blocked all tracking and analytics the web could not exist as the largely free service that it does today. Websites also would struggle to improve their quality without the analytical data.

That's why I think the orbital strike option of block everything all the time is ultimately selfish. I think individuals should make some attempt to block ads/tracking that they think is itself immoral but not block what they consider fine.

For example, I don't block ads in google search results since they are unobtrusive and clearly marked as ads.
The premise of the crypto wars are that we don't really have a right to encryption.

Shouldn't we stop pussyfooting around this issue and instead demand that encryption is a fundamental right just as freedom of speech is a fundamental right?

Since everything we say and do today involves computers and the Internet, we can't have free speech, privacy, liberty, or personal security without encryption.

We should assert that right. We should have the right to use encryption for our communications and to secure our documents at rest, and never be compelled to reveal a key or passphrase. Doesn't this sound like something that would have been in the Bill of Rights if it were written today?

We can still mention all the other reasons why encryption is good and beneficial, but always starting our conversations with the words: encryption is a fundamental right.
And, many VCs are sheep wanting to know what other VCs are doing instead of what is likely to succeed. When I went through the rounds at Sand Hill in 2001 before the bust, all they could talk about were pet sites. And I mean all of them talked about it.

Another sign that they were sheep was that three or four were definitely going to buy in to my startup, but they all wanted another VC to be the lead VC, which none did. Very frustrating. And this after my previous two startups being successful with IPOs.
Really? Wow, a lot to learn in this thread!

Seems like we might not be very palatable for many creatures (or are just too bizarre for them to eat).
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OT: The point of that poem was that they were not good neighbors. The neighbor is indifferent to the narrator except in expressing that sentiment and in the task of building a wall between them.

EDIT:

Poem text, "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost, for those not familiar with it:

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/mending-wall
from the paper..

they fail to explicitly define strict, but it is implied from the survey question:

4. Exhibitionism: “Have you ever been sexually
aroused by showing your genitals to a stranger who
was not expecting this?”;

but the paper does explicitly define extended:

An additional item—“extended exhibitionism (couple)
which refers to having sex with a partner in front
of other people or where you are at risk of being
seen

so i think you can get from this that strict implies solo, and extended implies multiple participants

which draws a clear line as to why more experience than desire: fulfilling a fantasy of at least one less than the number of the participants
I am the 42 school and (a french progamming school) and evryone is playing it (myself include). This is a trendy game especially for programmers (for those who love problem solving).
Hah. "Begging" is close :) He wasn't a speaker, but asked for a mic and started 15min speech for the newcomers, explaining that "Go has no immutable types", "channels cannot solve all the problems", "don't use Go, switch to Clojure" and so on. He also made up some example of board game, as a proof that language without immutable types is flawed and channels are not enough.
It was pretty awkward, really.
> This is not a democracy, this is a republic.

I'm sick of reading this too.

We have a representative democracy in the U.S. We also have a republic. The two terms are not contradictory.

"Representative democracy" tells you how decisions are made--we select a few citizens to make decisions on our behalf. "Republic" tells you who is sovereign--in the U.S. the individual citizens have the right and power to rule, and have used that to construct our own government.

Counter examples:

The U.K. is a representative democracy, but not a republic. It's a monarchy.

North Korea is a republic but it's not a democracy. It's an autocracy.
It doesn't work on my macbook pro, either (running chrome). It's so broken it's kind of amusing.
Some of the criticism has just been that there's kind of a category error being made: not that these aren't good businesses, but that they aren't really tech companies, and calling them "tech companies" is more of a PR move. For example AirBnB is a successful business, but very little of its success has to do with technology it builds. It certainly operates in a field shaped by technology, and does need some amount of technology to operate the business (a website, some billing infrastructure, etc., roughly technology on par with any airline or hotel company). But, like Wal-mart a generation earlier, its success comes mainly from noticing that ongoing changes in technology and purchase habits open up new kinds of business opportunities as a specific kind of intermediary, and pushing hard to exploit that market opening.

Craigslist is perhaps an even more pure example of that, a "technology company" where having almost no actual technology, beyond the very basic level of "a webpage", is kind of their ethos.
Claiming that history is a progression of civil rights losses is a monumentally myopic statement. Recent tumultuous fights over the application and scope of law as it comes to new technology is not an indication of the trend. Human rights and freedoms have progressed hugely in the past centuries.
You are absolutely correct. Not only are groceries disproportionately expensive in NY, economies of scale kick in, as well as intense competition in an already low-margin industry drive the price down for restaurants. A high-quality and tasty meal that I might enjoy at a neighborhood pub for ~$11 would definitely cost me over $20 if I was to recreate it at home, plus I would have the opportunity cost of the time spent making it and cleaning up.

You may not notice this effect if you are only in town for a few days and eat mostly at tourist-friendly spots in midtown. Not to mention several math-impaired people seem to believe they only spend $1 a meal. Where do they live, India?
This is pretty much "Gee, Whiz!" reporting at it's worst, like the urine-powered battery that comes around every few years, and has yet to revolutionize our lives.

Really, can you imagine this happening? After watching what happened during F-35 development? The whole thing would turn into a huge ripoff of taxpayers, just like the B-1, the "midgetman" missile, the F-22 and the F-35. Oh, and the Littoral Combat Ship. Requirements would creep, weights would grow and grow, software would become so complex as to prevent it from ever working.
It might cost less, about the same, or slightly more. It's not clear without more information from their side. Let's just say the techniques I considered are widely applied in industry in cost-sensitive HW. Even products build around 8-bit SOC's use similar techniques sometimes.
Thats quite a fascinating difference in culture/preference. Most people I know think Jettas are "too big" unless you have a family of 5 and need the extra space. Don't people find cars even bigger than that awkward to park in crowded parking lots?
Appreciate the suggestion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11262408
>> For founders, the trick is finding that sweet spot where a problem sounds hard on paper (such as self-driving cars or VR headsets, wooo!), but actually is feasible using current technology

Or create short-term intermediate technologies and make money of them and use that for r&d on the hard part.
Not only that, but plants respond to stimuli, remember, chemically 'moan' when sick, scream when they are being harmed or killed (grass cutting), and talk amongst each other (again, chemical triggers).

If you don't eat living things, that leaves milk and honey.

I'm not saying "become X-ist". I'm saying that in order for us to live, others must die. Plants, animals and others aren't inherently worth more or less than we humans. But it's our responsibility to remember their sacrifices so we could continue.
Yes. Impressions probably depend on who you know and where you are. I think Cornel people are much friendlier to cyclists than the average resident, but I don't live very close to campus.

I should add that in general I think it's a great place, this is one sore point for me.
I would disagree. I really like the MKV model (the one that ended in 2010). However, they really cut costs+quality on the car in the next generation to compete with the toyotas. It's a shame because they look really dull as a result.
Seconding Zachtronics; TIS-100 is an amazing game.
I like the word "transparent" especially as my main application area is countering subversion or fixing problems. Great idea. :)
go-exc: a tiny exception handling library for Golang
I think this criticism comes from not understanding how much of a positive effect social media has on a modern world. There have been a lot of discussion of the negative sides of twitter, facebook, instagram and others, but the positive effects are either so positive that they don't warrant a discussion or so hidden that no one really has patience to research them properly.
But, doesn't the price they pay matter? Doesn't paying more than 100x the amount invested in the company seem foolhardy?
How am I supposed to contribute to your project if the files required to build it are in one place (the tarball) but patches have to be made in another (the git repo)?

If your best practices require you to make potential users and contributors jump through hoops, then maybe those best practices are a bit shit.
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Only a little more than they paid in the ignition switch settlement. Not exactly pocket change, but certainly not something that they'd really think twice about if they thought the value was there.
Indeed. I was listening to a podcast this morning [0] on the topic. They highlight that salaries should be public, with clear paths to more money. I'm not sure if that would work, but your point is valid.

Glassdoor is ok, but not great because it generally only contains base salaries, and doesn't have enough data on smaller companies. I know that investment banking and consulting salaries are dramatically under-represented on it.

H1-B filing databases are another data point, but suffer the same limitations.

The only sure thing is to test the market. If you get multiple offers, eventually they will close in on your true worth. It's a very delicate game to play, because you have to make sure people know you are interested without appearing disingenuous.

[0] https://hbr.org/ideacast/2016/03/your-coworkers-should-know-...
I'm totally speculating, but it could be that such clauses make the breach of contract case easier and cheaper to win.

It could also be that such clear terms are useful in other jurisdictions where shenanigans like that wouldn't be smacked down without them.
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Welcome × 11. There have been some developments in character sets since the 60s, not that you’d know from our programming languages.
That's one stance, but do you think it results in a more relevant experience for most people (emphasis on "most) viewing ads when they see products that are more likely to interest them (because of audience data or retargeting data) vs. a generic ad?

And from an advertiser standpoint, if the targeted approach is vastly more profitable than the untargeted approach of how things worked in the early Mad Men days (and it most definitely is), I have to say I can't really blame them for taking that path.

I'd be curious if there are any companies out there who position themselves as "ethical advertisers" and do what you outlined in terms of advertising without the privacy tradeoff. I'd also be curious how they might fare against competitors who don't take that stance. Again, people are voting with their wallets, and right now they are saying that they are ok giving up their data in exchange for free content, and that they'll continue buying things from companies who leverage said data to communicate with them.
NPR and other leftist news outlets confuse a great many people, it's not surprising that a young impressionable robot would do such a thing.
He wasn't making a point about China, he was making a point about cutting corners.
Silicon Valley Mourns a Pioneer in Computer Graphics and Gaming Hardware
^that.
Yes - 9 versus 5. Is Berkeley quarterly or semester? Either way, it looks like a much more rigorous program. (I've generally been very impressed with Berkeley Math and CS grads)
There are no real arguments here that do not apply to a large amount of other animals kept in captivity. But I guess we have to start somewhere.

Edit: grammar
Point/joke taken, but let me play devil's advocate: anyone very familiar with regular expressions probably has a lot of experience as a developer. Is s/he a good developer? That's harder to say. But s/he definitely does have some passion for solving puzzles, at least.

I'd even argue that LinkedIn doesn't really even need amazing developers. As far as code goes, they're only really solving problems that have been solved for decades. Infrastructure is another matter, but I doubt they're doing anything insane on that front either.
Just because you call something a democracy doesn't mean it is so. If something is a republic, you can call it a representative democracy analogously, but not literally. Just like a zebra is a striped horse but not, you know, a horse.

Can you address anything I wrote that had substance?
That makes a lot of sense! Thanks.
Congrats to all the IK12 folks! Can't wait to see more of your amazing work as part of YC.
I would just like to say I enjoyed this discussion. Most people don't like my stance on adblocking (I'm not totally against it, I use and love uBlock Origin) and it usually ends up with me being downvoted to oblivion for having an alternative opinion.

Have a good weekend and happy high five Friday.
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I particularly liked his 8th commandment of the con: "Never boast. Just let your importance be quietly obvious."
Author here, you can definitely talk about augmenting your training data with some slight transforms of the labelled set you have. Common strategies are adding noise, rotation etc for images
That's actually not a bad (albeit sad) point, but they constantly refer to 'also known as killer whale' in the article afterwards.

I mean, baiting to click the article ('killer whale') and showing the creature ('Hey, I know that one. Free Willy was a great movie!') should be enough, even if we accept your premise.

I'm mostly repeating what my better half wants me to say right now, but .. why would we call something a 'killer' (often hard to get right for people - killing in the animal kingdom isn't what we associate with a killer)? And why would we repeatedly do so in a plea to stop treating them badly?
Unfortunately due to HN's thread reply limit I can't respond directly to mathattack, but I wanted to note that I found it ironic that you cited the investment banking and legal industries not being well represented on Glassdoor.

I'm actually not sure where they get the data from, but my brother is an ibanker, and I have several friends and family members that are lawyers. Salaries across big banks and firms seem to be VERY well known across the industry at all levels. I wonder what sort of unique dynamics led to that vs. other industries and how we can capture some of it.
Closer aligned incentives, yes. If you give someone money as gradually as possible they will need to make sure they can't pull a fast one and run off, they will actually need to perform.
Another commenter mentioned having written a program that solves it (though not necessarily efficiently).

I think that's what distinguishes the truly excellent/"lazy" coders from the head-down, 9-to-5 types.
Night-Flying Drones Fight Poachers in Africa
Does the old compiler compile the new compiler after which the new compiler can compile itself? Bootstrapping is incredible.
The same to you. Thank you for the exchange and have a nice weekend!
I disagree. Useful, proven abstractions like Futures, Map, Filter, Functors are actually simpler to use and reason about -- not more complex.
Sure, if you ignore statements (from the author!) like:

> Check out the (woefully incomplete) documentation here.

and

> No promise is made about support or long-term stability. This code will evolve without regard to backwards compatibility.

That's not to say I blame him, but you really shouldn't be recommending range-v3 for general use.
Great points, I can agree with that.
Bit extreme, don't you think? What gives you the impression I'm hiding in a basement waiting for success? There are other routes, you know.
Yes - Sam was hired to scale it.
A minor nitpick: aluminum was mined before and after it became cheap, what made it cheap was improvement in the process of refining the mined ore into pure aluminum, not that it was suddenly "produced cheaply" instead of "mining the limited amounts that naturally exist".
I'll try to remember that. Although, my model allows for entirely proprietary software with source available for review, extension, whatever. Any combo of source availability, freedom, or paid so long as a review is possible. I explained more in this essay:

http://pastebin.com/eRGtedU4
The smallest finger - hopefully its the one in your foot ;)
But to be serious, I wonder if cutting yourself would be enough for them to taste you and go away or if it would have opposite effect.
Funny, your comment is the lightest one on this page.
An inside look at how Netflix builds code
It's interesting that it's a "Google company" and not "Alphabet".
Funny you mention the Lords ... I wrote a position paper for the Conservative front-bench spokesman for Trade and Industry about the RIP Act 2000. Worked better than letter-writing and meeting my MP. All this because I happened to play cricket with him occasionally.
I'm down to a few pieces of hardware and wary of doing anything heavyweight with them. I do want to try it out esp it's usability and such. What's resource usage like for it on single or dual core hardware?
I can almost fit a Jetta in the bed of my regular-sized pickup truck...

It's definitely a cultural difference - I always feel like I'm in a death trap, skimming along on the ground with no visibility, getting into a sedan or compact car.

I also grew up in an area with a high rate of moose collisions, and you do not want to see what happens when you hit one of those in a vehicle that's lower than their center of mass.
You are advocating that beginners start using Scala without really understanding what they're doing, and being mostly unable to read other code or read the source, while writing what is considered to be bad Scala from the get go. Contrast this to languages like Python or Ruby, where it is totally possible to immediately start writing code you understand that follows the general gist of good Python/Ruby style.

You are certainly right that someone new to Scala can get started quickly this way. You are wrong that Scala is anywhere close to the same level on this dimension as Python or Ruby or Go.
> Runtime for a few selected implementations should be very well be packaged or installed along with the browser itself. Failing that, it should be cached.

Web Assembly isn't related to this. You can standardize on a new language VM that browsers should ship, like was attempted with Dart. What Web Assembly enables is more efficient VM with better interop to Web APIs than currently is possible, but the most prohibitive thing will not change (having to ship multi megabyte VM along with your application code).
To your point about drones vs. conveyor belts as programming paradigms: I think belts are procedural while drones (and chests) are declarative. With belts, you have to layout routes and concern yourself with coupling (belts literally getting tangled with each other) between different steps in your automation. With drones and chests, you can just set demand for a given input and trust that it will happen. I try to use drones for the most expensive components because that gives the most throughput. Yes, this game is "crack for programmers".