skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know how I know when to pull my money out from the stock market? When your neighbor tells you to invest money in the stock market. The idea is that there's a big lag between when the smart money have left and when ordinary people start crowding in.

Same with China. Now I'm hearing from friends somehow China is the place to be that gravity is Falun Gong and doesn't exist and China will overtake United States in 10 years, and other extreme optimism that reminds me a lot about past bubbles.

But I'm interested to know if you have any source on SaaS in China.

I am optimistic about China in the long run but not with the current communist government. Only when China is unrestricted from free trade of knowledge, information and expression, only when such basic human rights guaranteed in other developed Western nations are present, can China truly become something worthy to be taken seriously.

Who want's to live in a China even Chinese people don't like or want to stay in? If you haven't noticed all the rich chinese people are getting the fuck out of China, people are so desperate that they are willing to embezzle, corrupt, steal, kill, fuck over anything or anyone. You really expect SV companies to uproot and start a new life in China?

Are China thumpers really this naive?
Especially given today's post on the Google Research Blog: http://googleresearch.blogspot.ca/2016/03/deep-learning-for-...
This is awesome. I love that there is more and more interest in space exploration lately. Hopefully real life events will soon inspire beyond what recent movies like Interstellar and the Martian have shown us.
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Ask HN: How do I improve my memory?
I feel like my lack of discipline over the years has gotten me to a point where both my short term memory and my long term memory have suffered greatly. I have trouble focusing and holding pieces of non trivial systems in my head. Sometimes, at the end of the day, I barely remember any of the interesting things I've read during the day. A day after watching a technical presentation, I barely remember the main points it addressed.

I'm not looking for quick solutions, but rather what exercises or life style changes should I adopt to improve my memory?
Ah. I just provide all my answers in an obscure language they won't know, but has lots of "nerd-cred", so they feel uncomfortable questioning it. Like OCaml, Erlang, or Haskell.

Then in the rare case they question it, which usually goes something like, "Can you do it in Java? We don't use whatever language it is you're using there." I respond with, "Oh, will I be spending a lot of time at this job coming up on-the-fly with somebody's PhD thesis from the 60's?" To which the answer is always, "No." Which finally ends the conversation with me saying, "Well then you asked me to solve an irrelevant problem, so I'm happily providing you an irrelevant answer."

I have a fair bit of contempt for the pitiful state of technical hiring and assessment process out there. I think that comes mostly from my opinion that hiring is probably the most important thing any company or manager does, and that if any one of these companies/interviewers put even 10% the amount of effort into learning about educational/occupational assessment, psychology, and neurology that they do into obsessing over the dubious idiosyncrasies of the latest framework-rehash-of-the-month, then these terrible interview practices wouldn't endure very long, and we'd all be spared the indignity of the farce on both sides.
I find myself having to think about efficiency at least a couple times a week. I'm working on database implementation, and in the query processor we have to consider all the time how to evaluate various things efficiently.
I actually do what you suggest. I pick problems I've never did before and try to solve it in less than 1/3rd the time I allot for the interviewee to account for interview time pressure. Even then there are probably biases because I pick problems that I can solve so I periodically review the candidate success rates on problems and change them out if they are too simple or too complex.
Gone are the days of billionaires buying sports teams, buying newspapers and blogs still seems to be in but not quite as hot as space exploration. With SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin sort of seems like a "me too" venture...
Lee seems to be ahead so far in game 1
More generalizing: I have found that Generation X parents are absolutely awful.

I'm not sure why, but they are terrible at creating happy, healthy, and intelligent children.

Your post adds more fuel to my inner argument.
The overall trend is down, consistent with the tenor of the OP article, and consistent with most of the economic news coming out of China.
That all sounds reasonable. I was surprised at how much the batch size can matter on different hardware. Maybe you've seen this post:

http://svail.github.io/rnn_perf/

It's primarily RNN-focused, but the discussion about batch sizes on GPUs is interesting.
My money is on the human. This time.
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The Python developers built the language they wanted to build. They were never obligated to do anything else. They are largely unpaid volunteers working on open-source software, and you're complaining that they're wasting... who's time are they wasting, again?
Why do you assume it's a 4 digit PIN?

iDevices can have longer PINs and PINs with letters and symbols.
> The maintainers of the free BSD's have been carrying that torch, but they don't believe in features.
Stepping into a BSD variant is like a trip back to the 1980's. Not exactly the real 1980's, but a parallel 1980's in which Unix is more robust---but the features are all rolled back, so it's just about as unpleasant to use.

Sorry but that's all BS. FreeBSD is definitely a modern system, has lot's of features and is emphatically, millions of times better than a 1980's Unix. Linux may have a larger community than the BSD's but saying the BSD's are like stepping into the 1980's is rather disingenuous.
Employees can give tours to friends and family. Also, don't beg for tours over the internet.

You could also get a Tesla and enter the contest:

http://www.teslarati.com/tesla-referral-program-ludicrous-mo...
Well when you compare the average income of an American vs Chinese which haven't reached even Japan's level, I would say Japan would be a better market for SaaS considering they have the money to pay (or should according to income levels).

Also consider the non existant IP laws or any type of bad actor reducing enforcement mechanisms that exist in North America and Europe, means you are in a much more crowded and competitive market.
Right, I'm shocked that everyone can't see that it's a club, to fund people who went to your school over others. I bet the original guy who posted that was in the club :-)
It definitely doesn't. People writing Python packages make reasonable assumptions like that you've got a POSIX command line, a UTF-8-compatible terminal, and a C compiler that's compatible with the Python development headers. On Windows, you probably don't.

It'd be nice if Windows made an effort to provide a sane environment for Python, because the Python devs certainly aren't doing anything to make things sane on Windows.
I grew up on welfare, in a single parent home. Parent chainsmoked 2 packs a day, which barely left enough money for decent food let alone toilet paper. And yet, somehow, we stocked up on toilet paper when it was on sale.
"Mark Mattson, a neuroscientist at the National Institute on Aging in Maryland, has not had breakfast in 35 years. "

and his squat+dl+bench total is?
Yes, it's in the article.

> I don't see how [. . .] is undefined behaviour.

This is a perfectly meaningless sentence. "Undefined behavior" doesn't mean "things which don't make sense in a particular implementation", it literally means behavior not defined by the spec. The spec declines to define the meaning of p==q when p and/or q is a freed pointer. There's nothing to "see" here: it's just not defined.
It took a few hours and "it really was an easy piece of work?" How considerate of you. Who was it an an easy piece of work for, someone with unlimited free time. An unemployed person. What a joke. Any problem is easy when you yourself contrive it. Here's an idea, how about you pay someone for the 3 hours or work you are giving them. Say a lot about you.
Almost always to call people, yes. "Call [name of person]" works really well.

I look up my team's score, occasionally. Unfortunately that team is Sunderland so it's rarely a happy outcome.

"Remind me to do x when I get home" is another good one.
That link is not working for me, Github is throwing a 404.
Redwoods, falcons = real friends
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You can choose to store some, yes, but it's encrypted by your backup password. At least that's my understanding of it.
Im been doing this but skipping dinner instead of breakfast. I don't eat anything after 14 p.m until next morning around 6 a.m.

Few first days was hard, lots of cravings, but after a week/week and a half I get used to it.

I feel more healthy (yeah, I know, I know...) than ever. And I'm losing weight at a steady pace (without the usual hights/lows, etc.
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I don't understand. How does AWS or hook.io make the architecture "server-less." It just ends up that you don't control the server, but there still is one.
'Course there's a market. Just because you can't afford to visit space doesn't mean there aren't commercial buyers. NASA awards contracts, as does the US military. Plus there's huge interest in telecommunications satellites.
It was pretty much the human condition until the invention of laws, writing and so on. Europe used to be pretty bad a few centuries back. Progress is just taking a little longer to reach central Africa but it probably will with the spread of the internet.
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Browser seem to include the end quote when clicked. It mush be removed for the url to work.
Ha ha. Wrong. Actually the biggest demand is remote communities currently burning lots and lots of diesel. Military is way, way too slow moving.
hook.io is a 100% open-source project: https://github.com/bigcompany/hook.io

You can run your own hook.io server anywhere. We even have a working Docker image, so it should be almost zero-configuration.

"serverless" refers to the fact that your applications don't each require their own backend servers. You build your applications to depend on the serverless service provided by AWS or hook.io

:-)
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and used computer vision algorithm to register the opponent's moves...
I'm pretty sure I am. But which one is a secret even from me!
Does the NSA have American citizen's data because other countries share it with them? I thought that they were forbidden from having this type of data...
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I am so stoked for this match, Lee Sedol is a child prodigy and a legend....I literally felt as excited as I was going in McGregor vs Diaz before the fight.

I used to play Go when I was a kid on televised matches in Korea during the 90s and have woken up early on saturdays watching every game live on tv. Then I'd go to these Go school after class and there'd be like 30 students studying and fighting.

Go is a hugely appealing game to intuitive people rather than logical people who prefer Chess. Go is an infinitely more complex and at these Pro levels a demigod like Lee Sedol have the same fanatic followings.
Kitchen & laundry timers. The weather. Creating reminders. Sending texts to my wife while I'm running or driving. Directions while I'm driving.
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A bidding war between the bad and good guys would be interesting...
not yet! but i'm planning on adding admin options soon :-)
"They eat large sprawling problems for breakfast, but they balk at 45-min algorithm challenges."

Care to guess what we're looking for in screens and interviews?

Some of our best performers were poor interviewers. Likewise, we've had interview aces not pan out. Rather than expecting the world to become interview clones (and make our hiring decisions even more difficult), we're learning how to be better interpreters of people to get to the answer of our real question -- is this person an engineer we'd like to have on our team?

It's still a work-in-progress and we're nowhere near perfect, but we're simply not going to outsource our decision-making to the status quo of technical interviewing in 2016.
Who cares? The /r/fitness inspired idea that strength training is the end-all-be-all for health and fitness needs has really gotten out of control.
Massive batteries is an idiotic idea, as you said. Which is why the constant and large and instantaneous fluctuations from solar and wind are smoothed largely by natural gas. Recommend checking out the video of RFK, Jr saying a solar or wind plant is a gas plant.
I do disagree slightly with the cajoling into playing instruments. Now, my experience is just that- mine, so I'm not saying you're even probably wrong or right. My brother, sister, and I were all cajoled into at least trying music when we were young.

Our elementary school did mandatory xylophones in 2rd grade and recorders in 3rd for all the kids. From 4th grade on you could opt in to playing any instrument, though if you needed to play a school instrument is was the usual suspects of violin, flute, clarinet, sax, and trumpet. If you already had access or were playing one you could bring your own.

I was gonna bag it and not opt in. My parents (strongly) suggested I pick one for the year and give it a whirl. I tried the violin and sucked so very badly. Mid year I switched to clarinet because that's what was available and I was going to quit entirely if I had to continue with violin.

Side note- my sister played as well and has gone into software development after excelling at school and university, specifically science. My brother did terribly in school, didn't graduate, and gave up on music on about day two (he's wound up being very successful any way though).

By my 8th grade year I was an extremely accomplished clarinet and sax player (first chair, solos, competition band, marching band, performed on some recorded albums, etc.) and I swear I started feeling dumber after I gave it up. I played in my very limited free time in highschool as I was way more dedicated to sports and our HS band was good enough that you could do sports or band, you could absolutely not do both.

I looked into it and there are a few studies that suggest people that participate in playing instruments often do better in school and are more mathematically inclined. I'm lacking sources as I'm on my phone.

I agree that most busywork homework is bullshit. I'm okay with the monthly/bi-quarterly assignments that require free form thinking and finding your own way on a subject like research papers, craft based projects, book reports and such. Anything that lets my child delve into their thoughts I'm okay with, as long as they get a sufficient amount of time that they are able to go deep, and not just churning out crap.

I will absolutely cajole my kids to try a plethora of instruments. If we get through strings, woodwinds, percussion, and brass and they haven't found a winner- then we can bag it. I expect it'll be two or three years of trying. If they seem like they really hate it or we've exhausted our options, we'll let it be. Given the amount of music we surround them with now, and how they interact with it (drumming, Casio keyboard, dancing), I think we'll find a way to keep them involved in music.
If you can't talk about design implications quantitatively, nor have a rigorous understanding of how to build data structures - not memorize anything - you can't get mad that I make $100,000 more than you do and work half as much.

If you're a career programmer, and you've never bothered to hone these skills, don't be surprised when you can't easily find work in 10 years. The cheaper guy or girl who comes with less risk will beat you.
Wow, I'm glad I have so many better hobbies than this.. This seems like a sad state of affairs to me.
Agreed. My first thought was to use `new_string = long_string.title().replace(' ', '')` or the generator you mentioned.
Or maybe they just don't care to buy sweatshirts, jackets, bags, when they get them for free from their company? Who cares what people wear on CalTrain??!?
Very cool! Well done! My only suggestion would be to replace the font used for the letters with something more generic. As it is now, some of the letters don't really look the way they usually do in popular fonts. I think the best examples of this are the "G", "Q", and "S". The "G" actually looks better in Firefox 44 than Chrome 48 (both on Mac OS X 10.10). I like the animations, though, and I like how the letters animate when you hover over them.
Oklo.com. You can sign up for the mailing list there, for updates once info goes live.
Progress is not cheap, nor easy on the soul.
The NRC can handle advanced reactors, but it could be better. Much of this comes from understanding the regulatory process, as well as design choices. Only 3 or 4 of the nuclear startups have an actual regulatory team, and I know Oklo is one of them. Fuel qualification is the elephant in the room. If you are doing something new, it gets expensive and takes time. Going international opens some opportunities, but there is nuance and the grass is not always greener.
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SpaceX has proven the ability to obtain orbit. Blue Origin has not. NASA and the US military want to get to orbit, not the edge of space.
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Better: rationally prioritize the means of achieving your goals. Really it has nothing to do with "what you're good at," because you might be very good at being evil.
It depended on my teachers. I can only think of a couple classes where it was a major part of my grade from third grade on. I distinctly remember not going on field trips because I wouldn't have enough homework stickers on boards when I was in grade school. I only completed homework that I could do before I left school, and I never took anything home. I did this through college, including writing papers, speeches, etc in non-demanding times of each class. I went to a catholic school, so things like theology, art appreciation, and history could be memorized at the beginning of the year, and then you had those lectures to handle various science, math, and english homework. I never really minded doing math problems or completing worksheets (it was always fun to see how fast I could complete them, and I was always proud of being the first to finish on worksheets or tests throughout school), but I loathed the idea of spending any time outside of school working on school stuff. I finished middle school with an 87 average and high school with an 85 weighted average.

This really fucked me in college. I never learned how to study, just how to memorize things from a quick read and complete the minimum to pass a class. When I went into an engineering college, this fell apart around the fourth semester, as I was getting slower and slower during tests. Since I didn't study and homework wasn't mandatory to pass (or so I thought), I never really learned material until I saw it on a test. I learned a lot on tests (and I like working under pressure), but as the difficulty of the material increased, I wasn't able to teach myself at test time. This devolved quickly, and I left college.

tldr; homework's portion of your grade doesn't matter. Learning the habit to set aside time to work outside of what may appear to be required is the real skill. If you choose to encourage skipping homework, please impart this habit in some other way. It is not obvious to each individual, no matter how quickly they might grasp certain subjects.
I tested it back then. And WinFS beta2 also on WinXP. It was really slow.
We flat-out ignore credentials in hiring decisions.

If an elite school is intended to signal competence and brilliance in someone, then those qualities should shine through in a candidate without us having to know where they attended college.

Simply stated: we're hiring you, not your certificate.
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Over-secretion of both insulin, and subsequently glucose, is the _result_ of insulin resistance as your liver tries to adapt at various stages.
Here are the days of billionaires putting millionaires in metal capsules, then blasting them into space? ;-) I don't know whether this is a step forward, as I enjoy reading the newspaper.
Different orders of magnitude. We spend approximately $600 million every year on countering all conventional military threats, all over the world. China exports around $2T worth of goods every year. China dropping the ball militarily would not affect our priorities at all.
Bitcoin staging: migrating to a new blockchain, without a fork that duplicates the money supply and creates double spend risk:

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2013...
S/what you're good at/what means of achieving your goals you're good at
yes, but there are others too. And MySQL and Postgres support some of those functionality as well.
Good catch, units must have been IU then and not g.
The info might be useful to someone, but not to the people who are buying vulnerabilities on the black market.

Imagine going to a tech trade show and setting up a stand for your lumber business. What you're selling has value and is useful, just not to the people you're trying to sell it to.
And why do not they enjoy freedom? Because they do not have enough free will to fight for it. Read Harriet Beecher Stowe classics on psychology of slavery. Hence, if you not command yourself, you subdue to the other. No one forcibly keeps those guys and gals at factories.
No, if this way of thinking came out in an interview, where the candidate's first response to the hypothetical was basically "I don't really understand what the problem is but I'm sure 'they' can mostly fix it" (and obviously I'm paraphrasing into how I interpreted Alloy's response), I wouldn't hire them.

Now granted, I'd try to give them a chance to step away from that statement and let them show me that they are interested in understanding the issue and interested in reducing their impact on the product. I'm okay if they don't yet know HOW, but if they basically just throw up their hands, say it's someone else's problem, and leave it at that then no. In fact, hell no. I'm not interested. It's shows a level of entitlement and a lack of interest in their craft and I will not subject my team to someone like that.
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Exactly! Most all of these concepts do not have proliferation risks. And many can destroy weapons material. However, these groups have to be careful about what they can do with the fuel cycle. Transatomic gets a lot of press, but their technology has glaring holes. They cannot burn waste well at all. You have to have fast neutrons and only fast neutrons to do that. Their claim of a dual spectrum is a brush over of this issue. The thermal neutrons account for 95% of reactions and thermal neutrons have a tendency to transmute fissile actinides into higher and higher transuranic actinides until you have so much stuff like Pu-240 and Cm-244 that you cannot continue the chain reaction. TAP only gets an extra 30 MWD/kg out of spent fuel at most before their salt saturates with too many non-fissile actinides so the reaction cannot continue. Compare this to a fast reactor that can get 200-700 MWD/kg. There are salt designs that can do this, but not this one.
Apple is also on the group, yet it is going with Metal. It is the slowest vendor to adopt OpenGL versions and it has a very bad OpenCL implementation, a standard that they created..

Being on the group means zero if the actions don't follow.

When are you going to properly start bashing Sony, Nintendo, Apple alongside MS?