skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even though this is "Question Answering", it is trained as a classification model. Thus the model will try to come up with one of the top "1000" answers it has seen during the training. This certainly limits the possibility of answers and sometimes returns very weird answer.

It is not for lack of trying that all the top papers in visual question answering end up doing this as a classification task. Results are really poor when it is used as RNN generation, and also extending it more than top 1000 answers does not yield any better results. 87% of the questions in training + validation is within 1000 unique answers.

Latest models have started using more complex form of memory and more tightly integrating the question vectors. One of the top model called DPPNet trains a separate matrix from the question vector (chain of GRUs) to find correspondence on the image filter weights. Their idea is that some question have more relevant areas in the image features. Yet another model DMN+, by Metamind uses dynamic memory network which they build to do language question answers but the extension to images work pretty good.

Surprisingly the models that use visual attention are not the best and I think it is mostly because this kind of model requires even more data and longer training. Just taking 10 different crop of the question image and doing voting of answer beats attention models (based on numbers reported by these papers).

Right now I am working on converting "End to end network" -http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.08895 to this task. I tried working on Neural Turing machine but I could not make it work for this kind of task, but it was mostly because of lack of indepth understanding of NTM.

Any feedback from you guys are welcome.

P.S Thanks fchollet for writing Keras and for this post. Can't wait to try Keras 1.0
I don't know much about the subject, I admit.

If in the past years manufacturers had to cheat on emissions in order to present improvements to performance numbers, then there doesn't seem to be much innovation or the tech has stagnated.

On the other hand, there seems to be lots of room for improvement/innovation on the electric side.
I wonder how much faster the new Tesla P100 is compared to the Tesla K40 in training neural networks. The K40s were the best available GPUs for training deep neural networks.
weak Vikings - crying quit the moment somebody noticed a probably undeclared krona of theirs. Real men with nerves of steel - like Putin - never quit even when billions dollars of stolen money surface in the clear!
Cryptography software built with emojis would probably the final straw to me burning down my career, destroying every computing device I own, buying a shrimp boat, and living out my days at sea with a Lieutenant Dan stand-in by my side, wistfully remembering the good times when the computing world made sense as Bud Light finds its way down my jaded, cynical throat.

Put it on a .io domain for bonus points.
China's 'Great Firewall' blocks its creator
I'm not asking this to be critical, I'm asking because I'm genuinely confused; how is this any more authenticated than just a password? Presumably anyone with your Github password can go add or change your GPG keys if they wanted, so how would it make you any more verified?
If that is the case, then they would do better to be on Snapchat.
Are there any significant population centers in Oregon that don't have a good brewery or two?
> The fact that one commit = one merge is ridiculous. It encourages monolithic commits for no reason other than that the tool demands it.

That's one way of looking at it. Another is, it encourages small self contained units that build to become a full fledged feature.

> It's unrealistic to ask someone to code review multiple commits per feature, and if you tie in your CI it doesn't make any sense to run your build over and over again for a single feature either.

Re CI - Every change to the code should be verified by CI. With gerrit, you can choose to execute the tests for every patchset as its uploaded, or only once it's received a number of reviews or been approved.

> The patchsets DO allow you to see the history of a code review if you have to make changes, but I'd much rather see that live in my git history rather than in Gerrit's history.

I actually kind of agree here, if you migrate away from Gerrit, keeping the review history is hard. Though, every revision of every patchset is actually stored in Git, as are a history of the votes (in the form of a `git note` attached to the commit).

> Nowhere does the author mention how painful it is if you finish a feature, are waiting for a code review, but have to start the next feature using the code you just wrote. Maybe I'm missing some magical feature in Gerrit that makes this easy, but if you push multiple dependent commits to Gerrit, and one of the early ones gets merged, all of the later ones now have to be rebased because Gerrit created a merge commit in the middle.

This really sounds like your Gerrit admins just chose some bad config options..
We used to call those plug-in hybrids. An all-electric range of <40 miles is a joke, especially when an 80-mile Nissan Leaf costs 50% less.
I never said my code was perfect or near good. I even took time after that, on my free time to rewrite it properly, but still, they didn't give a slight look at mine or the other. One was working, that's it.

The post is not about whining, it's about improving in such environment
Good point.This argument that domestication lowers intelligence (among other powerful abilities) and that we are unquestionably domesticating ourselves is pretty damn solid. The only argument against it seems to be "... but my ego!".

Obviously there is some interplay with the fact that we develop new mental models and thinking tools to augment intelligence.

Also immersion as children in highly abstract ways of thinking further augments/multiplies raw intelligence (most convincing explanation to the Flynn effect imo).

I've lost the link, but there was an excellent article I read related to the amazing Otzi discovery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi) describing how adults of that era (modern humans, primitive societies) would likely have been terrifying to us now in just how much they outclassed us in raw strength, intelligence and stamina. We would be relying a lot on the benefits of childhood nutrition and education to feel superior. This isn't completely convincing, there are a lot of factors in play, but those levels of brutal competition and danger would have a profound effect, especially epigenetically.
I can't recall any discussions directly comparing textbooks with tutoring, but I can recall many discussions that assume in-person one-on-one teaching to be the gold standard, and all other methods are merely cost-effective compromises. It's implied that textbooks, while not as effective as interacting directly with the textbook author, are an excellent compromise because the author's pedagogy can be widely dispersed for relatively low cost (compared to the author personally tutoring every reader).

While convenience could arguably be considered part of what makes something "better", I think it's also commonly not. Like, you might say a restaurant a half-mile away is "better" than one across the street because its food is tastier, even if the one across the street is so much more convenient that in practice, you eat at the less tasty place five times as often.

In this context it's not clear-cut, but even when re-reading great-grandparent it still seems to me to not be considering convenience to be what makes textbooks better:

> Textbooks are by far the best resource you have available for your class work and even though they take the most effort, they tell you exactly what you need to know enough to know what you don't know.

If anything, great-grandparent seems to be emphasizing an aspect of textbooks that's less convenient than a tutor.
We're veering off topic a bit but I've come to learn Mercedes pretty well now. I'd put money on your feeling with the Mercedes being two-fold:
1) The gearing: They're long gears and it defaults to selecting a very tall gear. I have 500hp on tap and doing 50mph in 7th gear isn't fun, but that's what it selects as a default in comfort mode.
2) Traction control: It might not be as much of a problem in non-AMGs but the traction control is surprisingly intrusive and very good at hiding that it's engaging because there isn't a mechanical coupling to the drive wheels. It uses the brakes and I assume some throttle limiting. Even in the sport handling modes it's quite intrusive.

I never drive with traction control or in comfort mode - not even in winter. It's a completely different car with them off - if you get another chance to drive one I'd suggest turning it all off. Unfortunately the throttle isn't linear but any more than 20% will spin the tires.

I also have an S2000. It has half the horsepower and weights 1,000lbs less but it's a blast.
I don't understand what you want.

You say you don't like distractions but there are dozens of ways a webpage can distract you. They can throw an alert() at you and you are forced to deal with it. This is much worse than an ignorable permission prompt.

If browsers were to remove alerts, remove all types of features that need notification dialogs, web pages could still throw a modal dialog over its content.

What you are asking for: a web with JavaScript but somehow with "distractions" prevented, is impossible. The second you allow someone to execute code on your computer, you are allowing them to do things that you might dislike.
At least SF still has the jobs and industry to drive the insane housing prices. Try somewhere like Vancouver where the prices are just as crazy but minus any connection to an actual economic or technological driver; there's zero industry left, zero investment, and a pervasive Stockholm syndrome where the entire city population convinces itself it's the 'best place on Earth.' It's turning into an epic ghost town of real estate speculators and low-rent TV post-production sweat shops with all the real tech talent draining to places like SF and NYC.
Worth noting that Servo uses Reviewable, if someone's looking for an example of its use in a large, active project with many contributors: https://github.com/servo/servo/pulls
> leave it in the bank

cha-ching

That and invest.
For sure the competition is making us both better. Coincidentally we're working on the same feature in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4232 but congrats to GitHub for shipping it sooner.
That's just not true. The Escalade gets a score 258% lower than the average.

That's abysmal. And from your story, it sounds like you could've done a lot worse than to pick up a subscription no?

Look, I'm not a CR fanboy. I only signed up to check out ratings on induction cooktops. Turns out, there doesn't appear to be any (they basically just rate the spec-sheet, no actual reviews AFAIK).

So this discussion is the first time I've used it it's been good for anything. While they may not be perfect, they buy a vehicle, test it, run surveys. I'm not aware of any recent scandals. You're going to have to try harder to discredit them since you're not actually offering an alternative.
Don't tell me that it's easier to RE an entire multi-megabyte messenger app than it is to real the source code. Assembly can lie to you as well. There are all sorts of ways to trick IDA and friends.
This is a pretty bad article, with little science and lots of tabloid qualities.

Like I suspect many other readers, I had never heard of alpha-PVP, though.

Obligatory Erowid link: https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/a-pvp/a-pvp.shtml

"Euphoric Stimulant" ... "Its dose, effects, and duration are similar to those of MDPV. Chemically, it is a synthetic cathinone, and first became popular in the US in 2013."
Its a good thing if you are a well rounded human being and an engineer. There is no shortage of opportunities for an engineer in NYC - Google, Facebook, Spotify, Twitter, Etsy, Thoughtworks, Pivotal Labs and on and on on. Yes, you can be an engineer and meet people who do other things with their professional lives.
Confirming this: my daughter was thrilled that there was something in my field actually called "axolotl".
Essentially you want 3 operations. Generate keypair, encrypt X with key, decrypt X with key.

You want this as a library that's impossible to misuse and a nice CLI on top.

The fact that it took you half an hour to understand the "basic usage" is ridiculous. The GPG developers have failed in the worst possible way when it comes to the design of their software. It's so bad I find it incomprehensible how that could have happened on accident.

If they would be working on something non-cryptographic, that would be one thing but for a cryptographic tool that's unacceptable. The design and ease of use is just as important as the cryptographic algorithms themselves for such a tool because any friction causes people to avoid cryptography.
The french quarter in new orleans is also probably less safe than modern buildings, but I wouldn't want to see it torn down just because rents would be cheaper.

SF does need to build, badly, but I'm wary of the term NIMBY-ism. It is descriptive, but I think it invites false equivalence. There are degrees of NIMBY. I actually think that some of the burbs, like walnut creek or mountain view (especially the latter) have engaged in genuinely shocking levels of refusal to build housing. Mountain view's NIMBYism is especially objectionable since it actually green lighted the corporate construction that brings many new workers to the area, while almost with the same stroke of the pen banned new housing around those places of business. There's NIMBYism, and then there's actually generating the problems that you push out to other neighborhoods.

I'm always a little bummed to read statements by people who, probably out of frustration that I largely share, start to disparage SF's architectural and cultural heritage. It is absolutely possible to grow, dramatically, without tearing down some of the oldest neighborhoods west of the mississippi.
The Icelandic Pirate Party is notable in the very high quality and integrity of its MP's.
GitHub Queue Backlog
Note the P100 is 20 Tflops for half precision (16 bit). For general purpose GPU (I use them for EM simulation) I assume one would want 32-bit, which is 10 Tflops. But still looks much much better for 64-bit computations than the previous generation
What hardware could OpenCL even run on that would come remotely close to what this system has to offer?
International Alternative Model Abraxas and Her Gaming Chair
Since it's intended for an art installation, any shortcomings in the actual functionality of the device can be excused with the magical phrase "we're trying to start a dialog / get people thinking about X, not actually do X"
End of [1]: "The NSA issued a statement acknowledging that an antenna it was using interfered with garage door openers."

I didn't know antennaes could interfere with transmission.?
A History of Technology, via the Consumer Price Index
People hire people like them. It is not as much as the absolute age but the age group and difference in your age with rest of your peer group in the company.

If you entered a field at 35 (appear 35) when most of the peer group in the company is 21, you are going to have hard time getting hired for same role being performed by 21. If the company that expects/has most 40+ employees in management, you are going to have hard time staying in technical role unless you have built bridges with management that want to keep you around.
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Nonetheless, this doesn't contradict the "failing silently" for chargebacks. It's not fraud if they enter the data poorly or there's no credit left so the charge is never made.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the networks usually provide the commentary and coverage? Does this mean that Twitter will provide the sportscasters?

And does this mean that Twitter gets to sell advertising on the stream (commercial breaks, on-screen ads)? Twitter should be able to do some extremely targeted advertising...
> the vast majority of people [..] believe backslashes are the way to go

Not sure you got that right. I'm certain there are more people that use forward slashed in a browser (every OS+mobile) than people who type backslashes in Windows.

My mother has used Windows for years and doesn't even know where the backslash character is. She can type URLs though.
The blatant lies about it did not help his case
Panama Papers 101
Pretty sure the Vermont IBM facility is closed. Most of the surviving workers are at Global Foundries.
I would argue that this box is probably targeted at cloud providers. The Nvidia GRID boards are similar--they're not for consumers, but for GPU/Gaming-as-a-service providers.
Oh, I wasn't talking about NYC. It was regarding 'tech is the scene' description. Sounds like a hell and I'm an engineer.
Y Combinator cofounder Jessica Livingston to take year-long sabbatical
No, not really. Passwords are terribly low entropy, and so having a common password is not a solution, at least without using some sort of KDF or such.
So, I use VPN, and order my stuff to arrive where? If someone doesn't ship to Russia, they don't ship to Russia, how can VPN help there?
This will give Twitter an potentially useful combination of data and streaming rights.

Imagine watching the game on twitter, and you see an amazing play happen. You would be able to tweet about the play right away, because there is a text box near the video. Tweeting reactions is nothing new, but twitter doesn't know where in the game viewers are when they write their reaction tweets. With this new setup twitter knows what play you are talking about, because it is watching you watch the game. It is easy to see where you are in the stream.

They could automate the process of creating a highlights reel, featuring the most re-tweeted tweets as commentary.
I bet most of those users use internet URLs with slashes more often than filesystem paths.
Drat!
Hopefully will at some point, it's one of the few reasons I use SourceTree at the moment.

GPG in Github Desktop would be a fantastic addition :)
What monopoly? You totally have a choice, it's just that NVIDIA made a large bet on GPGPU and it is paying off for them. You don't see AMD heavily pushing their cards for compute purposes or developing computational developer relations.
Anybody can push a commit to a git repo with Linus Torvalds name and e-mail on it. With GPG signing, they can verify that the claimed author signed off on the commit.
I am not a fan of anti-discrimination laws though. I suggested a compromise to limit them to certain kinds of jobs like manual labor for which they are originally designed for.
I don't know how true this is. Have you seen the amount of new construction going on in SF? Soma, Mission Bay, Indian Basin, thats all new. I doubt it's going to drive rents down in any way however.
Religion is history

That's a dangerous statement to make. Yes, religion has been hugely influential across societies. But religion has been equally succesful in rewriting history to suit its narrative.

I suspect religion has destroyed as much history as it has informed.
It's different from organization to organization. In this case, it would be easy to say the preferential treatment granted to a former employee (even though they had higher bids from other companies) could be deemed a conflict of interest.

From the NFL's own Compliance Plan:

Generally speaking, a conflict of interest arises when an employee has a competing interest or loyalties that are, or could be, at odds with each other. These competing interests may occur as the result of engaging in outside or other personal activities, or due to personal relationships.

The personal relationships between the former NFL employee and the current employee in that same position could easily be seen as a conflict of interest.

You can read the rest of the PDF here: http://www.thesportsesquires.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/...
I have been streaming a lot more recently using Comcast streaming. The pros is I can watch live TV, pause/stop/rewind, and catch up on shows. The cons, is that their quality is crap about 75% of the time. Lags, hiccups, poor video/audio quality, and sometimes it just outright refuses to work. The other con is that it doesn't carry the full array of their channels, but that really isn't a big deal to me.

What I don't understand is given they are a cable company and have the infrastructure in place, you would think their quality would be superior or at least equal to other services. Instead it seems they spend more time and money bitching about other services and not trying to make theirs the best.
> "you want to get the other person's central viewpoint out in the open, naked and unafraid, so that there is no ambiguity when you make your case"

Related: you want to face the other person's central viewpoint in its strongest form ("strongest" in the sense of being the best or most compelling variant, not necessarily the variant which has the most supporters or the most vocal supporters.) This is in both sides' best interest, provided both are honest in their motivations.

If someone believes something that's not true, but you only "take down" a misrepresentation of their false belief, you haven't actually helped them, because they know you didn't answer their actual position. It may even strengthen their false belief, because they now have the experience of someone claiming to be able to criticize their position but failing to do so, which they may generalize to "critics of this position have no real argument".

And if someone believes something that is true, but you are able to show a misrepresentation or a weaker formulation of it is false, you haven't done yourself any good. You've missed an opportunity to learn something true, by distracting yourself with a superficially similar position that you can dismiss.
Well, if you want to convert a pirate user into a sale, you need to convince them that the bug isn't present in the retail copy.

So you're balancing making it hard for crackers to detect, and easy enough for players to encounter that shift behavior.
Agreed that AWGs, especially vapor-compression systems, aren't exactly mind blowing technology, but I'm excited for this for a different reason:

I really like the idea of having open source infrastructure. I would like to see people build open source electric vehicles, farming robots, membrane bioreactors, etc. For the naysayers, at least two of these are already a thing:
https://www.osvehicle.com/
https://farmbot.io/

Let's see how far these things get. Open source software has come a long way but there's a whole host of challenges with open source hardware projects which we haven't solved yet (open source toolchains for designing said hardware, open standards for modularity, collaboration tools, etc.). The only way we're going to overcome these challenges [and discover the ones we don't know about yet] is to try it.

To that end, I'm glad that this project IS relatively simple -- I think that increases its chances for success, especially considering that this is uncharted territory for most of the team members.

Moreover, there does seem to be a market for these things:
http://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/global-at...
and I would expect that the cost of energy should eventually go down as we develop less naive means for generating energy.

I'm all for it. Work that dehumidifier.

TL;DR
The meta problem of open source hardware is interesting in and of itself.
I didn't word that very clearly but I meant difficult in the "I will have to fight to get ahead because women aren't necessarily well respected by the men in CS" sense

It is also technically difficult, but if that is a turn off to a prospective student of any gender then they might not be suited for a career in software engineering