skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then again, you are probably (assumption warning) a reasonable conservative, and would never identify with the Tea Party.

You'd be wrong there, but I get the fact you have no clue what anyone in the Tea Party actually believes. FreedomWorks continues to be spot on about a lot of issues.

I don't read Rolling Stone as they seem to make up quite a lot.

and once again, where is this Republicans hate plastic money crap?
http://cs224d.stanford.edu/syllabus.html

covers RNN on lec 8
Software isn't valued as much in Japan, and the pay isn't that high.
The Pros and Cons of Taking a Federal Job
Really? System V init, which is what it replaced, did all of those things. It handles daemons and starts login, depending on the runlevel, and the startup scripts turn on logging, network services - and you use those same scripts to stop and start services.

So what in particular, other than Lennart's supposed abrasive nature, do you have an issue with? I'm genuinely not following some of this reasoning, at least from a purely technical level.

Incidentally, really need to speak to some of the BSD guys about what they think of SysV-style init. Now that could prove to be an interesting flame war :-)
> The F-35, for all its frustrations, is a staggering piece of technology.

It's staggering alright.
> That's the opposite of reality. Users hate it. Overwhelmingly.

You have absolutely no evidence of that.

On the contrary, there is abundant evidence that SPAs increase engagement.

You're living in an echo chamber if you actually thing the average user would like to return to the web of the 90s. They love things like the infinite scroll on Facebook, Google instant search, Slack, Trello, etc.

If you think the huge companies implementing these things haven't done extensive user testing to show that people prefer these experiences, you're letting your political agenda cloud your judgement.
What's wrong with having an ethical position?
Agreed. And upstart didn't suck for that.
Good q. That scale of complexity sounds to me personally more like project management than a to-do list, and I imagine Taskwarrior or another purpose-built tool would be a better fit for it. As tedmiston points out, if your needs are much more elaborate than "buy_eggs" or "send_report--DUE-MAY17" you'd end up with scripts and aliases and pretty soon you'd have reimplemented a custom Taskwarrior. I don't think I ever find myself worrying about dependencies and prereq's (which is why I use a pen), so the extreme simplicity of it appeals to me.
"Conclusion
By separating the concerns and trying to create more efficient abstractions, we can build a small amount of functions that are perfectly decoupled and reusable. This way we don't need to think too much when making changes to the domain."

For me, that is the case for small _functions_, not small -modules_.

The problem with small modules is that they run the risk of being slightly incompatible with each other. You create some object of type T with module X, pass it to module Y, but the modules disagree about 'minor' details of type T. Proponents will argue that both should build on a module defining T, but before you know it you are handing with types T, T', T'', etc. all being almost the same thing. Even if you don't, the modules will disagree about how to return errors, do logging, etc.

That problem can be solved when one party packages a set of potentially well-interacting modules, removes redundant functionality, tweaks them to interact really well, and ships the result as a larger module.

Now, that still can lead to many modules shipping overlapping coherent functionality. In that case, I think competition should drive competition from the market. It also can help if a large party uses his power in the market, as happened with Microsoft and .Net. Compared to Java, there's way less chance that you will find that you need two XML parsers or two different concurrent set implementations in your project (yes, in some cases that is 'solved' by making XML parsers or logging libraries pluggable, but I think that overcomplicates things.

Because of that, I think there is some kind of "seven plus or minus two" equivalent for modules: they should form a tree that has a limited branching factor, so that both the top level module and all submodules build on not too many other modules (value of 'not too many' TBD)

You don't see a C program do

#include <strlen.h>
...
#include <strcat.h>

it just includes a single header that brings in a set of related functions, and lets the linker ignore unused ones.

Of course, in the JavaScript world, there is no linker yet (or at least, proponents of tiny modules haven't (fully) realized that their minifier could/should strip out unused functions) so people waste time manually specifying exactly what to include.

Also, the JavaScript world still lives in the Wild West, and it will be a while before larger libraries will start making sense. That JavaScript is so loosely typed doesn't help, but I expect that the move to Web Assembly (or whatever the idea is called nowadays) will see this change rapidly. That certainly will happen if/when entities start shipping web assembly binary blobs.
As the article pointed out, the ternary operator, lambdas, and &&/|| make it easy to miss a tail call. I tend to agree with you - the later will see reduced use with named arguments while optimizing for the former doesn't make much sense.
Apparently it was a surprise to the AI NLP teams [...]

Similar techniques were well known and used for years in NLP. E.g. Brown clustering has been used since the early nineties and have been shown to improve certain NLP tasks by quite an amount. NMF also been used for quite some time to obtain distributed representations of words. Also, many of the techniques used in NLP now (word embeddings, deep nets) have been known for quite a while. However, the lack of training data and computational power has prevented these techniques from taking off earlier.

Just make a 300 dimension vector of the occurrence frequencies of word combinations and out fall the rules of language!

The 'rules of language' don't just fall out of word vectors. They fall out of embeddings combined with certain network topologies and supervised training. In my experience (working on dependency parsing), you also typically get better results by encoding language-specific knowledge. E.g. if your language is morphologically rich or does a lot of compounding, the coverage of word vectors is going to be pretty bad (compared to e.g. English). You will have to think about morphology and compounds as well. One of our papers that was recently accepted at ACL describes a substantial improvement in parsing German when incorporating/learning explicit information about clausal structure (topological fields).

Being able to train extremely good classifiers with a large amount of automatic feature formation does not mean that all the insights that were previously gained in linguistics or computational linguistics is suddenly worthless.

(Nonetheless, it's an exciting time to be in NLP.)
> (Which is why small notes were switched first)

That's good planning although I still wish the $1 coin would catch on. Its good to hear at least one attempt at material advance works. Is it cheaper over the long run than the dollar notes?
Article itself is pretty light on the details, but good opportunity to ask the HN community -- which podcasts really fire your neurons?
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Just in case that came across wrong, I wasn't taking a dig at you. I'm enjoying and will use the knowledge from your course even if we opt to go with GKE. I started with ECS just because I have a lot more AWS experience.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v532/n7600/full/nature1...
What are you thinking of? MIT/BSD/Apache/etc are all considered Free by rms and the FSF (even if they prefer copyleft licenses).
Core M is in a different price bracket, it certainly can't compete price-wise with cheap ARM counterparts.
At least partly because it's a very rare and specialized skillset - you basically have to have run large divisions in large companies or other large organizations, or been the CEO of a smaller company to be considered for the top spot at one of the large companies that pay these outlandish sums.

A good CEO can be worth an incredible amount of money to a large company, which is why they command such amazing pay. Just think, how much is it worth to Apple to have Steve Jobs as CEO vs. someone else? His leadership helped add hundreds of billions of dollars to their market cap. Naturally, the owners of the company are going to be willing to pay him a lot to help keep his interest.

CEOs are a popular scapegoat because they're easy to identify and their rewards are outsized, but they're not the actual problem, and it's counterproductive to focus on their compensation.
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At least one has

>http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Phones/Feel_At_Home

>Use your phone abroad at no extra cost in

>Australia

>Austria

>Denmark

>Finland

>France

>Hong Kong

>Indonesia

>Israel

>Italy

>Lanzarote - Spain

>Macau

>New Zealand

>Norway

>Republic of Ireland

>Spain

>Sri Lanka

>Sweden

>Switzerland

> and United States
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Seems like the kind of thing one would have multiple of, along with voting, it should also contain a kalman filter. The software correcting the rotation should have been run in a tighter feedback loop so that it would stop making the problem worse.

Lots of these subsystems can be tested in a pure software simulator. Esp when it comes to faults.
An echo chamber? Where? Show me this echo chamber. The echo chamber is the one repeating the same baseless nonsense you are. And where on earth do you get a "political agenda" from pointing out the fact that user testing shows javascript messes are bad?
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I'm totally surprised. I had the chance to go in Tokyo but only because my friend could find in re-sale bid at 5x the original price. They got sold out here so fast.
I used to listen to the "classics":

- This American Life

- 99% Invisible

- Serial

- Invisibilia (sp?)

- TED Radio Hour

- Radio Lab

But after a few years they all feel very boring.
I think you very much overestimate it. Yes, I know several. Their jobs are essentially babysitters. Getting paid $80k/year to put snow pants on kids for recess and then take them off again after, and tell them what books to read is an incredibly cushy gig.
Nintendo seems to care quite a lot (I worked at Opera when the two companies built the Wii browser together. Wow. They were incredibly brutally perfectionist, in a painful but somehow admirable way. I've never seen a company doing so many iterations of some particular detail before that.)

But yeah, I agree, whenever a large Japanese company that is not Nintendo does software (at least for consumers), you can pretty much expect a disaster.

(I know there's a small group of startups that do good stuff - I am not talking about them.)
That sounds like a final straw; if they'd been well managed and healthy, would that have necessarily been a killing blow (I don't know about those details of their fall, just the decline that preceded it and made it inevitable).
isn't this nomad-orientated market a bit crowded now?

Your website would probably also not need that .gif loading as the background picture, considering a lot of nomads have bandwidth limitations.
In my totally unscientific experiments, tanh worked better on shallow networks.
Yes thank God someone came along to shoehorn all this boring stuff into a product! Now that it can make money, it actually MEANS something!
I am not 100% sure how Taskwarrior does it, but when I built my own dead simple task manager (for people that want to finish tasks and not organize them), I gave the tasks random unique IDs.

https://github.com/prophittcorey/t.rb
And that's been seriously proposed in California, which is pushing through another wave of gun control legislation, one bill of which would effectively shut down all gun stores in the state, and certainly favorably talked about elsewhere ... maybe Maryland?

Just skimmed it (too much going on right now to look at it in depth), but I'm seriously impressed they did so much work to get in things like the classic "shoulder thing that goes up". In their defense, New Jersey's law is, as I recall, much older.

I'll mention one other bottom line: we wouldn't even consider it prior to all law enforcement officers in the nation being required to use them, and only them.
This discussion 2 weeks ago was filled with recommendations:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11509835
It's not about the plastic money, it's about "change" being dictated by the Federal Government and "imposed" on the states/people.

It's a lightning rod and an opportunity for politicians to manufacture outrage, like the other poster said.
Things I learned about systemd
It's a little disappointing they didn't bring up the fact that Hatsune Miku's songs are created by the fans. Anyone who wants to make a song just buys the software makes a song and posts it to Youtube or NicoNicoDouga and if it takes off it becomes part of her hit list
> Getting paid $80/year to put snow pants on kids for recess and then take them off again after, and tell them what books to read

So you're talking elementary school teacher, then. An absolute world of difference away from high school teaching.
So the rate of downvotes seem to be one per ten minutes since the time of posting.

Why?
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I'm surprised that they had to design custom inertial stabilization, considering how many times it's been done successfully before. Was it NIH mentality? Or did it have some requirement for more precise stabilization than other space telescopes?
> I don't know how you read that question (well, ok, I do), but it's not how I read it. Whiff of an insult duly noted.

I don't know how you read "provide search engines with indexable dynamic pages" as implementing your own search engine. It was pretty clearly referencing the well-known challenge of making your JavaScript-rendered pages indexable by Google/Bing/etc.

> Whoever said we were railing on SPAs?

You are. When you say we should just abandon all this JavaScript and instead render everything through Rails, you're arguing against building SPAs.
The Army is overspending on helicopters to skirt the letter of the agreement. I agree they should be allowed fixed wing aircraft if only for the improvement in safety and lower operating costs.
Its really hard for product designers to get how problematic temperatures are in Canada and the upper plain states. It comes up a lot when dealing with poor people and vehicles. You need to keep it running in -20F / -29C to 100F / 38C. Heck, I remember one winter (89?) where the temp went from 60F to -20F in one day. That was problematic.
Nice, missed that. Thanks!
OK, let's look at the facts of carried interest, which is taxed as capital gains, and do the math on that. A hedge fund manager is paid for his labor by his investors - it is quite literally a transfer of money from investors to the manager for a job performed. Why should that labor be only taxaed at 15% when his w2 secretary is taxed at a much greater rate.

The discussion about "rich vs middle class" misses the point if, for example, you only look at the top 10%. The issue is really about the differences between earned and unearned income, and that is where you get this degree of what people believe is fundamentally unfair, like Warren Buffet paying a lower effective tax rate than anyone else that works in his office.
I, too, have build a task manage with Vim support:

https://github.com/prophittcorey/t.rb

https://github.com/prophittcorey/vim-t

I did it for the same reasons-- simpler is better, focus on finishing tasks and not organizing them. The more I can stay inside Vim and not out of it, the better!

I didn't add any history support because all of the tasks are stored in .tasks.json, if you want history, just check it into git and bam, history.
Rethinking PID 1 (2010)
Sure it does. Letting systemd handle startup dependencies is a very good thing, IMO. You configure some unit files to allow for one unit to start after another, otherwise they run in parallel. Not sure what the issue is with that?

As for those other tools... well, the systemd init process doesn't manage those either. The anciliary modules do, and quite well too really. I'm not entirely sure why people think that this is much different to running a SysV script to execute start a daemon!
The euro is printed on paper.

Romania is the only European country to use polymer notes.
You just said "teacher". You are suggesting that a profession is difficult and underpaid, and "teacher" is not. If you want to argue just about some specific subset of teachers then make that argument.
So no one plants a new seed
GNU's kernel efforts had an entire team debating, discussing, prototyping, and eventually working on Hurd before Linux even existed.

Linux was initially written and released by one guy.

Linux obviously gained a wider team while Hurd languished, but it's still interesting that GNU's kernel efforts started with far more initial human resources and were still quickly overshadowed by Linux.
Oh, i see - Thanks!
Value classes solve this problem without the overhead of runtime allocation...
Kenya sets ablaze 105 tonnes of ivory in fight against poaching
Cyclic graph with distributed/parallel execution means infinite loops don't halt the entire system. Some specialized neurons being tightly recursive don't generate new information, thus wouldn't build expertise, but obsession can be fruitful
It was an entertaining movie. Just don't expect any actual history.
Money is a known function of the Federal Government. They change stuff all the time. The state quarters were quite popular.

Once again, I don't believe any of this foolishness about Republicans opposing the changing of bills to a different material other that any Senator / Rep of any party that has a special interest in the sourcing.
I'm far from the most conservative and cynical, and this form of art lowers my opinion of people in general.
"Systemd" isn't really a single program, it's a collection of 69 binaries, that together handle a number of functions that were traditionally handled by separately-developed pieces of software. It handles init, user logins, the console, system event logging, network interface configuration, time+date settings, and device management (udev was merged into Systemd in 2012, apparently).

A lot of those components have interdependencies (so they can't all be replaced piecemeal), and some userspace things like Gnome have come to have dependencies on things provided by parts of Systemd.

This has benefits: Things tied tighter together know more about the states of other parts, and that enables various optimizations. This has issues: Replacing individual components (if you don't like their behavior) becomes more difficult. Whether it's worth it or not seems like a philosophical debate.
I swapped some bills with a Canadian friend when he came to visit. They're nice and space-agey, but I couldn't feel the difference between them and the receipts in my wallet. I'd miss the ability to distinguish between bills and receipts by touch if we ever moved to plastic money.
I didn't downvote your original comment (just saw it and this one at the same time), but perhaps it has something to do with your blanket categorization of all Japanese software?
Bull. These things are not created by a single person.

For a more western example Toy Story 3 might have been a moving story, but it's no single persons vision given form. Instead it's the passion from many distilled into it's most marketable form.
He turned -28? Did he invent a time machine, too?
I would have thought a fast boot would be important to pretty much everyone...
Most ethical theories of "rights" are sufficiently incoherent that there's very little difference.
Agreed, they're all same-ish now.
Percentages also don't mean much when you split "rich" vs "middle-class" based on some arbitrary top x% of income. The real difference in the US is between the landed gentry (people who live off their investments) and people who are paid for their labor. That is where many people (like Warren Buffet) see a fundamental unfairness, especially in cases where people who are paid for their labor manage to get it taxed at investment income levels (e.g. carried interest).
No you don't. It has built in welfare so for example a married couple gets more from Social Security than a single person. Blind from birth? You to can get a social security check.

Remember, there was no investing. Year 0 people got welfare without paying anything in and now wealthy people get to dog a welfare tax by saying it's not our problem.
So, instead, I have to pay "taxes" to plutocrats as insurance premiums. Yeah, that makes sense.
A lot of it depends on what you're into. If you like history I'd suggest "Hardcore History" by Dan Carlin or "Revolutions" by Mike Duncan.

For economics, there's NPR's "Planet Money" and WNYC's "Freakonomics".

If like the tech/startup scene (as I assume many of HN readers are) I'd suggest "Startup" by Gimlet Media.
amen - but is there any hope for the rest of the world?

I'd love to throw out my santa sack of international sim cards. Maybe I should stop whingeing and just buy some telco shares. Can't beat 'em-
If the better approach is to focus on the "who", why does the NRA oppose background checks?
Amusingly, I heard about this research on the Nature podcast.

I was skeptical at first — these fMRI studies are a dime a dozen these days, with dubious results — but this one is pretty robust. The use of training data is nice, and definitely adds a level of verifiablility to it. It's a nice step toward actually understanding how the brain processes not just language but ideas. There is definitely a future where we can understand what people are thinking by observing their brain.
Unless you believe the poor are paying 32.6% of their income in sales taxes it won't change the conclusion. (Google suggests the highest sales tax is 9.45% in TN.)

You must be so happy to have discovered that the USA really is as progressive as you always wanted it to be.
Lunch with the FT: Susan Wojcicki
Some of the most useful things I've written have been the simplest.

In fact, I'd say there is a pretty strong correlation between simplicity and usefulness (for some reason).

You don't necessarily need a heavy framework to make a useful app.
I simply don't understand why anyone would pay to go to that. I'd rather feed pigeons in the park, or pay strangers in the street to do their best version of a Taylor Swift song.
Except they weren't.