skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll stand by my statement that the hard work you put in when raising an infant is rewarding. Just as cutting firewood to stay warm in the winter would be, but I digress...

When they go to school is when the stay at home parent has time to indulge in their actual interests. By that time, if one partner is working and the other is SAH, the finances should be pretty stable so the at home partner should be able to enjoy their free time a bit.

I still maintain that a huge part of the problem is that people tie their identity to a career. When the child goes to school, the at home partner should not just sit around watching tv and getting existentially miserable. They should start working on their interests. It's really a valuable opportunity and a bit of a pay off for all the hard work they did when the child was an infant.
Anybody want to create a chat app tailored to securities trading? Seems like there is a market demand for an unobtrusive messaging app in this space.
> But what's the point?

Autoencoders don't really have much practical use now, but that's not the point of them. The point is we really want to figure out how to do unsupervised learning well and autoencoders are one of the few ways of doing it.

We want to do unsupervised learning well because most learning that humans do is unsupervised.

The idea behind autoencoding is that by forcing the network to try to learn efficient ways to compress the data, it could learn important features of the data. The fact that the pictures are so blurry means that this doesn't work very well, but that's why it's a research problem.

Autoencoders don't work well, but some unsupervised techniques that extend on them do, and we get impressive results like https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06434.pdf (see page 5) where the network learns to generate natural-looking bedroom images.
I asked a former oil trader about this and he said, "Every oil trader/broker is on it globally. It replaced a large percentage of the voice traffic. It always shocked me that Yahoo never tried to charge for it. Even just a penny per message would be massive."
At least in NYC, the local chains will do same day delivery.

I think it's a matter of geography/density
It applies the unsupervised learning technique of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoencoder

As for why it's important and not just another encoder like mpeg4, see my response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11830437
I've heard the same thing from doctors; falling asleep in less than 10 minutes is generally considered indicative of sleep issues of one sort or another.

OTOH, ~90% of the population uses caffeine regularly, and given that it takes ~48 hours to completely purge your body of caffeine, I think that saying is only relevant to caffeine drinkers.
Hopping on the bandwagon :) my Chrome extension to improve the Youtube video editor: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pro-mode-for-youtu...

Source is on github as well: https://github.com/kldavis4/yteditorpro
The quest to replace my salary as a well paid software developer
I don't know where you're from but in my experience when people use "I think" it implies that they aren't completely sure what they are saying is correct. It's used similarly to "to the best of my knowledge".
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Facebook is forcing Android users to download its Messenger app
His media lab bio:

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Ito has served as both board chair and CEO of Creative Commons, and sits on the boards of Sony Corporation, Knight Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The New York Times Company. In Japan, he is executive researcher of KEIO SFC, and he was a founder of Digital Garage, and helped establish and later became CEO of the country’s first commercial Internet service provider. He was an early investor in numerous companies, including Flickr, Six Apart, Last.fm, littleBits, Formlabs, Kickstarter, and Twitter.

Ito’s honors include TIME magazine’s "Cyber-Elite” listing in 1997 (at age 31) and selection as one of the "Global Leaders for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum (2001). In 2008, BusinessWeek named him one of the "25 Most Influential People on the Web." In 2011, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oxford Internet Institute. In 2013, he received an honorary D.Litt from The New School in New York City, and in 2015 an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Tufts University. In 2014, he was inducted into the SXSW Interactive Hall of Fame; also In 2014, he was one of the recipients of the Golden Plate award from the Academy of Achievement.
If you want to get more people involved help, post it also on reddit
New Edition coming, with his foreword. It's at the bottom of the article. It's a publicity piece.

And it worked. I'm going to buy it.
The author's own blog https://medium.com/@Terrybroad/autoencoding-blade-runner-889... makes it clearer that this is primarily an art project. It's supposed to make you think about how minds understand things, not to be a superior encoder.
When I lived in New York 5 years ago, every grocery store I went to had some sort of delivery option.
Sure - that is always an option especially in deep learning right now. But this current crop of models (counting in DCGAN and LAPGAN/Eyescream) has really made a leap in my eyes from before "oh cool generative model" to "are these thumbnails real?". They are really generating a lot of cohesive global structure, which is pretty awesome!
Also, shortcuts that work without focussing the video. Press space to pause the video, it scrolls down instead. So you learn about "k" which pauses without focus, great. Then you want to skip forward/backward with the arrow keys. Again, doesn't work without focus...
There are companies in the US that will set you up in Mexico or the Cayman islands where the regulations are more favorable (in that they do not exist). It's pretty exciting. FDA is lagging, but it's hard to blame them for caution given all the troubles they've experienced since the 90s.
I've not been following the AI-music-making scene in depth so maybe this has already been explored: Instead of (or in addition to) focusing on creating AI that can compose entire works, is anyone attempting to use AI to assist composers/musicians in getting over 'rough spots' in their own music.

For example, I often write pieces of music where I can pinpoint very specific sections where the harmonic, melodic or rhythmic choices (separately or in any combination) sound trite or boring/predictable. I'd love to be able to feed the entire song into a machine, point out those specific trouble spots to it, and have it generate alternatives for just those sections, perhaps on a spectrum from 'not-too-far-from-the-rest-of-what-you've-written' (harmonically/melodically/rhythmically) on one end to 'way-out-there' on the other.

Even if none of the output on its own was usable it would still have value in stimulating my imagination with ideas that otherwise wouldn't have occurred to me and that I could build on or refine.
Cutting firewood to stay warm in the winter is practically the definition of pointless unfulfilling labor.
> Then host your own Firefox-Auth-Server and Firefox-Sync-Server.

Only a server which you physically control — if it's in the cloud, it could be tampered with without your knowledge. And you must still use a high-entropy, unmemorable password.

> But hey, you'd still be running Mozilla's code in and as your browser.

There's a difference between trusting code at a point in time and trusting every single response ever. Sneaking a trojan into code which is visible to the world is hard; sneaking a trojan into a single targeted response is easy.

> But at least Mozilla has a history of standing for the consumer and protecting user rights.

Sure, but that doesn't protect you against a single bad employee or against any government which Mozilla is subject to.

> And Firefox is perhaps the only browser that allows hosting your own sync and auth servers without having build your own copies of the browser.

Yes, and I appreciate that. What really hurts is that Firefox used to have great sync security. I ran my own sync server for years, and was very happy with it. But when they revised the protocol they destroyed its security. Firefox Sync is unacceptable for password storage (as is every other sync system of which I'm aware).

It's a distressing situation.
Math in JavaScript: Broken Irrational Numbers
ShowHN:  A tool to help manage lab data
Opera's mail client was awesome. It was much faster than Thunderbird or Outlook. Those would blow up with my inboxes of 500,000+ emails but Opera just chugged right along and worked without any problems.

It also synced IMAP from scratch way faster, too.

edit: The search was incredible as well
> whoever decided to file the takedown

maybe that was a bot, which would add another layer to the story.
Ogg containers have this problem that to change the metadata you have to rewrite the whole file whereas with ID3 it's always the last bytes at the end and highly efficient to edit.
Delegate with the understanding that people will make mistakes and be supportive. Seems like you're transitioning to higher leadership. Focus on checking in frequently and make sure things are moving in the right direction while providing the needed help in problem solving when necessary. It takes a lot of trust too.
I wish I was like this. It takes me at least an hour to actually fall asleep, even if I'm so tired that I can't stay up to actually do anything.
I think it is great that you are into this kind of stuff. I am as well, as I find it one of the most interesting things to do. "The AST" is subjective, however. We know it is a tree data structure, but most compilers implemented it differently. Also, AST generation is typically derived from the parsing stage, then the AST is taken to be compiled. I think you should look into GNU Bison.
I don't think merge has been updated on the store yet, has it?
There really isn't much on iTunes in lossless, though. At least, there never seems to be when I want to buy something.
It makes no sense to me that this is marked dead. Seems like a totally reasonable question.
> And it doesn't matter much.

Yes, it doesn't because whatever reason they had then, they can't use it not to support FLAC today. Today it's clearly their arrogant NIH attitude.
Interesting workflow. Whats your preferred subset ?
I was under the same impression. I've never developed a chrome extension, but just from following developer communities I thought I had seen complaints in the past about broad access to website data that the Chrome extension API required you to request.

Now that I look, it's probably a misunderstanding most of us have because of the lack of granularity in Chrome extension permissions: http://lifehacker.com/5990769/why-do-chrome-extensions-need-...
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- Obvious most annoying missing feature: You cannot search your history
Always sunny in Philadelphia... you guys may want to update the background images to reflect the weather conditions hehe
WHITE SUPREEEEEMISTS! WHITE SUPREEEMISTS! WHITE SUPREEEMISTS!

I'm getting so bored of this mantra.
JavaScript libraries that power Google's interactive LED lobby artwork
> You do realize that Chrome is proprietary

Chrome is a build of the (completely open-source) Chromium browser, with some additional media codecs and a different logo slapped on it.
Same. Most veggies we either grew in the backyard garden or were frozen from the store. People don't remember that the vast fresh produce sections you see at most supermarkets today are relatively new. Back then you might have lettuce, carrots, potatoes, and maybe a few other things available fresh and the quality was not always great.
That's only the partly LGPL Chromium code.

From https://vivaldi.net/userblogs/entry/a-few-words-about-open-s...

> Our source code package is available here: vivaldi.com/source. This links to a copy of the Chromium source code with the changes we made to allow our HTML/CSS/JS UI to run.

> All our changes to Chromium source code are under a BSD license and hence can read by anyone. The details are explained in the the README and LICENSE files, within that package.

> In addition, all of our UI code (included in normal packages) is written in plain, readable text. This means that all parts of Vivaldi are full audit-able and open from that perspective.
Firefox can play it as .opus
soon I will be switching to cloudscribe.SimpleContent (which I created myself) for my blog because I like aspnetcore https://github.com/joeaudette/cloudscribe.SimpleContent
Socrates of Amazonia, on “The Philosopher: A History in Six Types”
"You're a founder. They're not. They are never, ever going to be as committed as you. They're going to do the 9-to-5 and then go home and think of other things. This is fine, because their compensation has a bounded upside and yours doesn't. Unless you're giving them a huge equity stake, which doesn't sound like the case. You have to reconcile yourself to this. Trying to make the whole company out of founder-level committed people is like the old joke about "you know the indestructable aircraft black boxes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?""

I could not have said this better myself. I worked - as an IT manager - in a relatively successful startup recently and experienced that same realization. The founders were very young, in their early 30's, and had a daily, constant serious, ornery, mistrustful attitude towards staff. The founders worked 6, 6.5 days a week, 10 hour days. However, some of the most junior staff also worked like that. They were mistrustful with regards to the amount of time people put in, and these founders paid almost everyone under market even though they themselves were standing to make millions off of the expected sale of the company.

While the founders believed everyone in the company was swindling them by cheating their work time, as a manager I knew that people worked very hard, with enormous stress.

As you can sense from the original poster of this sub thread, the two positions (founder v. salaried employee with a little bit of stock options) are irreconcilable EXCEPT if the founders start to realize the added value of the employees versus their cost. "An employee's cost" == short-term thinking. In my opinion, if you're churning through 10 people and you're only still 3, I'd wager (without knowing more facts it's just a wager) that the comment about not finding 'top talent' is a rationalization for something else that's wrong managerially in that startup. Mentorship, training, higher pay, patience, better interviewing are all possible avenues to pursue to AVOID the 'churning through 10 people' scenario.
DAOs, Democracy and Governance [pdf]
Maybe a good idea would be to require a comment from the first 5 down voters of a comment.
Very irresponsible behavior.
New cool ecofriendly water and dirt repellent spray on Indiegogo
I said "widely available." When distros bundle an ffmpeg encoder, it's widely available. When libsndfile and sox support it, the format migrates toward common use. "build ffmpeg" is a nonstarter for most mortals.
I think we have very different definitions of unfulfilling. Doing something hard to stay alive is the definition of fulfilling in my book. What does fulfillment mean to you? The task in and of itself has to be rewarding? I'm purely judging by the outcome of the task and not how difficult the task itself is.
The alternative is using that same money in the US to generate sales, meaning there is sales tax eventually on it anyway. It is still saving hundreds of millions in tax by not repatriating it.
I built and used this back in 2007 in second year of college. While it might be a bit tricky to get it working, it's a great way for new users of Linux to understand how Linux distros are structured and how the GNU packages work with each other. That being said, it's a bit time-taking to use as a day-to-day distro.
The impossible task of creating a “best VPNs” list
Comparing the delay of the UI with many tabs (30+) Vivaldi wins easily over Firefox and Chrome.
Yah, basically, what I did was buy more of the competing companies, even though I didn't think they were as as well positioned. Turned out to be a fine investment, better than the BRK would have been.
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Do you only support autogenerated inputs? Is there also a way to create scenario-like examples?

I say this because I'm working on an app with a large drawing canvas component at the moment, and being able to produce hand crafted examples of specific drawing scenarios is really powerful.

I'm doing with this devboard[1] and I've created a mini-DSL within my cards to describe a series of mouse interactions, which can either be played back immediately or one-at-a-time to display the interaction and animations.

Being able to combine this with fuzz-testing would be really cool!

[1] Shameless plug :) https://github.com/glenjamin/devboard
Yes. You're correct.

BUT

What the study revealed was that people would buy more of a brand based on compliments not how the product by the brand actually functioned for themselves.

I have very, very blue eyes, and a generally well-shaped face (attractive, not movie star handsome, but good looking when I'm fit). But my eyes get the most compliments and notice from women. I bought a shirt from Joseph A. Banks, it happened to be blue-dominated in its coloring (checkered/plaid pattern), that quality of the shirt makes it very well liked by my girlfriend. The rational thing to do is to buy other shirts with blue in them (which may be Jos. A. Banks). The irrational thing, which people seemed to do per the study, was to buy more shirts from Jos. A. Banks. If I go back and buy a red plaid shirt, it won't get the same reaction as the original because it doesn't have the same quality that got the original compliments.
Can Your Smartphone Replace Your Camera? (2010)
The anti-Walmart meme makes it easy to assign responsibility to Walmart while still assuming the status quo regarding access to the health care system and the underlying economics.
What is the string on the BillForward job ad?
This job ad on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11829255

gives a 36 character string as the contact details:

> contact aWFuIEFUIGJpbGxmb3J3YXJkIERPVCBuZXQ=

What is this? Is it a puzzle for applicants to solve? Or a new way of avoiding email spam?

Sorry if this is an incredibly stupid question
You don't need to summon irrational numbers to get wrong results.

For example: 0.3-(3*0.1) is non-zero, no irrational numbers involved.

The reason for this is that 1/3 cannot be precisely represented in decimal but (maybe somewhat surprisingly) it can be in binary, hence the correct result for 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 = 1. On the other hand 1/10 or 0.1 has no precise representation in binary and is round. The rounding adds up and you get wrong results.

This also has nothing to do with Javascript but is a consequence of the way numbers are represented in a computer. Most programming languages deal with numbers roughly the same way and will be affected by this types of problems. Some try to hide their shady slopes though. Microsoft Excel has some heuristics that fudges the results for simple formulas, so you get different result depending on the heuristic.

For a more detailed explanation see the classic "
What Every Programmer Should Know About
Floating-Point Arithmetic" [1]

[1] http://www.phys.uconn.edu/~rozman/Courses/P2200_14F/download...
I think your response gets at part of what I wanted to say, but couldn't think of how to say at the time.

War is not in the interest of those who fight it, most of the time.
These are all so frustratingly small that I can't make out what they actually are. Looks like a huge amount of text under the band names but what could it possibly say?
No, it does not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Nosal

(Further: even without that case, CFAA never allowed TOS writers to invent their own felonies).
That makes a difference, if at all, in only one direction. Amazon at least used to let you specify "I own it" for books that you own but didn't buy through them, which greatly improves their book reccomendations.

Amazon will also show you "I'm reccomending X because you bought Y", and let you say "don't use Y to reccomend me things". Youtube doesn't.

And the three dots don't appear for the one reccomended video that lurks among the related videos on the right of a video you're watching.
"J" and "L" skip backward and forward respectively. (Lowercase works as well.)
Some advice for Clojure that applies to all lisps: write code bottom up in small pieces making heavy use of the repl for development. Really understand what your small piece of code does, clean it up, put it in a separate small file, and once you have confidence in it think of it as a library that just works.
Vim can be adventurous. [0]

[0] http://vim-adventures.com/