skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't find a link in this article to Gurley's article, but apparently, this is it:

http://abovethecrowd.com/2016/04/21/on-the-road-to-recap/

(HN discussion, a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11539791)

And today, we read that Uber got a $3.5 billion investment from Saudi Arabia’s investment fund:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11817959
Go 1.7 Beta 1 is released
Just curious, which purifier?
You can create emergent behavior even with very crude, seemingly simplistic rule-based models. Forget about AI. Think about modeling processes. You can model a process using a very crude set of hand-crafted rules and still get useful simulations that give you valuable insight into the original process.

There is a wonderful free course about this kinds of stuff:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/model-thinking

Highly recommend it.
That is one of the economic maxims (Phillips curve is another one) that used to be true, but are no longer axiomatic. Availability of cheap revolving credit (ironically) distorts the spending cycle - people spend when times are tough and deleverage their debt when their wallets get fatter, e.g. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2016/04/16/why-l...
That $5.5 million was a gift to Carnegie Mellon, I believe mostly for public relations. It does not include salaries, bonuses, or operating costs for Uber's Advanced Technology Center. The real cost was/is much higher than that.
What are "traditional nets" ? What are the "other learning algorithms" ? What is a universal algorithm (and for what)? Neural nets are universal function approximators. There isnt something [edit: a function] they can't learn. When stacked they seem to produce results that are eerily human-like.

I think the "universal algorithm" in the article refers to some kind of emergent intelligence. Well, nothing that he mentions precludes it. Our brains aren't magical machines. Neural nets may not model real neurons, yet it is amazing how they can produce results that we identify as similar to the way we think. There is nothing in computational neuroscience that comes close to this. If anything, the success of deep nets bolsters my belief in connectionism rather than the opposite. I would expect it is very difficult to formulate "intelligence" mathematically, and to prove that DNs can or cannot produce it.
Use a gasmask
I see otherwise, those end2end approaches are indeed leading me to think might that deep learning is the one algorithm that could help us discovery the universal representation of knowledge.
Calling non-cops "civilians" irritates me to no end. Occasionally you'll see journalists using this terminology as well.
I'm fascinated by generation Z.

I wonder what comes next.
It was all changed to termguicolors finally around 7.4.1809 . Example config:

if has('termguicolors') && !has('gui_running')
set termguicolors
endif
JavaScriptCore CSI: A Crash Site Investigation Story
Commuter from Seattle here. BRT is an improvement here (I'm on it now) but vastly inferior to rail. Downtown to UW is 10 minutes on rail. My similar distanced BRT commute is 25-60 minutes.

Grade separated rail makes a gigantic difference and moves leagues more humans faster than BRT could dream of.

Unless BRT gets dedicated lanes it's no better than any other bus, except it stops is fewer places more often.
Xero does make money – but only just
The Werkzeug password hasher looks interesting. It uses PBKDF2 under the hood but bcrypt seems to be considered more secure:
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/4789/most-secure...
In the order importance:

1. Driver issues on Linux

2. Discrete graphics failing and taking the whole logic board with it. Most of my laptops have died this way.

3. Battery life

4. Heat
Location: N/A, e-estonia

Remote: Ok

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Any scientific computing, any distributed systems. Learning ai.

Résumé/CV: On request

Email: noethersym@gmail.com
Spin Doctor, Power Pete, and Slick Willie were the games that got me setting up an OS 7 emulator myself a couple of years ago. I have very fond memories of playing them in the mid '90s, and it felt so good to experience them again.

Well, except Slick Willie. That game just doesn't emulate well for some reason. But the other two played perfectly!
http://www.dw.com/en/mark-zuckerbergs-offensive-on-hate-spee...

http://www.dw.com/en/berlin-police-raid-homes-in-crackdown-o...

And one on a "mainstream dissident" that's quite controversial: http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/15/europe/germany-erdogan-joke-pr...

Also, while we're on the topic of "slippery slope": http://www.politico.eu/article/twitter-suspends-darthputinkg...
I dont think it will turn into a controversy at all, but a smart competitor versed in propaganda could easily hit that attack vector. "Ride with Uber and help raise money to suppress women!" "How do you feel as a Uber driver knowing board members dont think women should be able to drive and your actions help support that?"
Hmm, I just installed vim-7.4.1868, so maybe they removed it again? The closest thing I have is `termguicolors`, which I believe was there before.
I laughed out loud when I read this
I would say the main deterrent to riding a bike in LA is the fact the city is not dense, not the lack of bike lanes. Very few folks can afford to live anywhere close to where they work in LA. I don't know how one would solve that fairly, but, I don't think making bike lanes where they have little use (e.g. where it is a bedroom community) helps.
:) Fantastic, that's the setting!
> #3 seems improbable, as (a) I don't know Lisp

It is not hard to re-invent/re-discover Lisp. In fact, it happens all the time. So just because you don't know Lisp doesn't mean you haven't re-invented it, though it does likely mean that you have re-invented it badly. Re-inventions of Lisp are sadly common. Good re-inventions of Lisp are rare. And good re-inventions of Lisp by people who don't know Lisp are unheard of.

I have never understood, and still don't understand, why you choose to wear your ignorance with such pride.

BTW:

> Hoon is a typed language

So is Lisp.
Reviled by Many Russians, Mikhail Gorbachev Still Has Lots to Say
Perhaps Benioff knows something the rest of us don't about the long-term potential. That or he had the money burning a hole in his pocket and had to spend it on something...
Educated Singles Marrying Each Other Hasn't Changed Our Genetic Makeup
Modern corporations (at least those with cash balances that matter) have a choice of monetary systems, and will overweight those competing for their money and underweight those penalizing them.

On a multinational scale penalizing Apple and Ford cash reserves, but not extending the same penalties to Samsung, Xiaomi or Toyota, gives the foreign players greater flexibility.
So it's an OS in the sense that the JVM is an OS.
I had unlimited vacation on my last job, and I think I personally did great with it (4-5 weeks per year, very little email checking and such).

But on average, I'd say you're right. Many of my coworkers took almost zero vacation. At one point, the CTO just started scheduling a week off at a time for people who hadn't taken one in a year+.
Uber and Lyft are paying their largest referral bonuses in the "mature" markets (major US cities, e.g. $750 in Chicago recently). They are churning and burning part-time giggers who leave after the bonus is earned or the incentive expires.
Universal cancer vaccine on horizon after genetic breakthrough
Location: Leicester, UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Go, Ruby, Python, (Emacs-)Lisp, Scala, Haskell, C#, Docker, CoreOS, AWS, Redis, Postgres, Unix, bash/zsh

Résumé/CV: Contact me

Email: sambroughton@hotmail.co.uk

I'm mostly a back-end guy, currently working on distributed Go services running on AWS. I have a very strong mathematical background along with a constantly growing set of tools in my belt. Seeking interesting opportunities and problems to solve, and interesting people to do it with.
Also, it's counter to basic english/etymology. Narcotics are drugs with sleep-inducing properties. Easy way to remmber that: it's the same base as narcolepsy.
I don't believe speech or text is the future of communication. Videos and images are much better candidates, but they will need to be augmented with something else.

I believe that we'll see a new visual language arrive soon enough, and it will be adopted faster than any previous language in history by generation Z (and the next). I suspect needs in AR will lead to the design of such a language. I wouldn't be surprised to see it prove the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
This investment didn't change their valuation.
The issue here isn't whether there is something deep learning can't learn -- with enough data and engineering even nearest neighbor can learn everything.

The problem is, would deep learning scale efficiently that it is feasible to learn the "universal algorithm" with DL?
It's like uber for pizza.
Sure!

https://twitter.com/urbit_/status/738099830233272321
This is impressive. Java is a minor bother, would be running it in dev and then dropping the bash script onto prod anyway.
FOAAS: F**k Off as a Service
"The automatic encoding of features which previously had to be hand engineered."
Yes, that is the main benefit.

The drawback is that we are still hand tuning architectures, slowly inventing (or incorporating) things like LSTM and the like into the model.

One goal would be to achieve a universal building block that can be stacked/repeated without the need for architectural tuning.

Maybe something that combines recurrence, one-shot learning, deep learning, and something stolen from AI (like alpha-beta, graph search, or something self-referencing and stochastic with secondary neural networks) into a single "node". Then we won't have to worry about architecture so much.
TENDRA USTED EL GEN REPTILIANO? – ESTUDIO BIBLICO
As long as property taxes are paid on time, the local economy has probably extracted bulk of renumeration from that property. In the age of giant corporate retail chains and Amazon, how much of the locals' spending goes towards their local butcher, seamstress, blacksmith, cobbler, milkman and vacuum repairmen anyways?
I'm in the same boat as you and I am beginning to worry about the effects of these increasingly frequent and exaggerated articles about stimulant use.

I feel like a narrative is being constructed that will eventually lead to it being extremely difficult treat conditions which benefit from stimulant medications.
I think this is a bridge until the driver-less car can be developed. Once they hit the market, automation will take over but, that same automation will allow for a company with hyper-thin margins or people to loan out their car to a service that transports people.

Uber wants to be that company but, there's nothing really stopping the market from having 50+ companies like Uber in it.

There will probably be marketplaces that aggregate these smaller services into larger competitive exchanges with spot prices for a ride.

If that's the case, it seems like it might take an awful long to make back the billions that Uber is pumping to make markets around the world.

On the bright side, everyone has cheaper transportation.
Nobody wants these features, but Facebook doesn't make them for the users. They make them for the advertisers / suppliers to increase sales.
The universal approximator approach is another big one that people lean on from the opposite direction (I suppose you could call it the "anti-deep learning" school of thought). Most people don't take the time to consider what a universal approximator actually is.

Are humans universal approximators? Absolutely not. The mere proof that a nn with an infinite number of hidden nodes (which isn't practical, which could end the discussion there) can find a statistical mapping between any two input and outputs is hardly a benefit. There is something so much more to intelligence --- the ability to generalize well (aka not overfitting) is first and foremost.

I'd push you to ask why you perceive that stacking RBMs produces "eerily human-like" results. I'd argue that they don't: http://blog.keras.io/how-convolutional-neural-networks-see-t...
Actually, as a great fan of what has come out of the current deep learning hypefest, I'd question whether "deep" really matters. Most of the great successes have resulted from medium depth nets using the same shitty backprop algorithms that have been known for decades.

"Deep learning" is a red herring. They're just doing exactly what the shallow learning pioneers told them to do twenty years ago, just with more computing power.
Many are in research to get paid for something they would otherwise do for free.

Those interested in cash will grow tired of the funding cycles and move on.

There isn't much of a financial reward in research. You believe you're on the brink of discovering something others have tried and failed to explain.
Most US-traded companies prefer to limit their foreign currency exposure and keep their offshore assets in USD by buying short-term US government debt, so in effect they are loaning it.
Elizabeth Holmes, Forbes 2015 richest woman, estimated wealth drops to $0
Many overflow checks can be removed with optimization. RISC-V's compressed encoding has shown to be ~70-80% more compact, so it has room for overflow checks. The efficiency of the architecture can always compile it out by time it hits microcode

http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/12/19/safe-native-code
I think neural nets are approved that with more than 2 hidden layers, it can approximate any functuons. Is there any literature for other algorithms as well?
>I can't help but ask myself whether we should be wondering why Americans can't make it without drug-modified behavior...

Can't or don't want to? Drugs can make things easier, at least in the short run, and the stigma against pill popping is pretty much gone.
The "poor infrastructure decision" would be to assume that because there's a network split it is automatically going to be unsafe to, for example, keep scheduling containers in each data centre, even the minority, without knowing whether or not constraints have been put in place to ensure this is safe to do.

How many separate data centres do you want me to host in? Two is certainly insufficient, as if the data centre with the majority of Etcd nodes now falls of the network, you're SOL.

Three? Think you can't have two fall of face of the earth the first time? Been there. Redundant connections doesn't always help if there are major external connectivity issues and you don't have multi-million dollar budgets for connectivity alone.

Most small to mid size companies do not have the budget to run a system that is sufficiently redundant to be able to guarantee that they won't sooner or later be in a situation where either 1) the most viable partition is the minority, or 2) the Etcd cluster is centralised enough that too large parts of the cluster can loose access to it. When fighting large scale failures is the last time where you want to have to fight your tools to be able to convince them that you know what you're doing.

For those kind of situations, Etcd's lack of support for more fine-grained control of consistency or for intentionally breaking apart the cluster and letting them continue to operate independently when you know what you're doing basically makes it unsuitable for running multi-data centre clusters for anything important.

Which basically means any tools that assumes a single underlying Etcd cluster is appropriate as storage, for, say, a cluster scheduler (cough) becomes an inappropriate tool for those kind of setups.
> He's freely declared himself so reprehensible that it impairs his ability to lead any project because it will inevitably attract this type of discussion.

He's incapable of leading a project because you're unwilling to control yourself?
I think the concept of "interpretability" is what you are getting at. I group that in with automatic feature engineering, since they are the same idea from different perspectives. Sometimes that is a benefit, sometimes it's not: http://blog.keras.io/how-convolutional-neural-networks-see-t...
> I pay into SSI and there is an expectation that I will get a certain amount out of it based on when I retire and when I die. It is known today what I will get out in the future.

It isn't. Congress can change it whenever they want, and they have more than once already.

> Also, since the Social Security fund holds a ton of T-Bills (Think savings account), the argument that people who are retired now are getting someone else's money is technically wrong. If the Social Security fund held no T-Bills and young people were paying into a fund that was then immediately paid out to retirees, then I would agree with you.

The Social Security fund doesn't hold enough T-Bills to satisfy its "obligations" and the shortfall (and then some) is made up for by current payers. The only reason it has any T-Bills at all is that the population has been expanding so more people have been paying into it than collecting benefits, and the government promptly loans the extra money to itself and spends it on F-35s and gifting tanks to ISIS.

Moreover, T-Bills in the hands of the government issuing them are not money. The government can't redeem them to itself to get money because that action would only cancel out. The only way the Social Security fund can actually convert a T-Bill into money that came from somewhere other than current-year taxpayers is to sell it on the bond market. But that has all the economic consequences of the government issuing new debt.

In other words, the only place the money paid out to Social Security recipients can come from is either current-year taxpayers or by selling into the bond market. Which is exactly the same as any program that isn't holding any T-Bills. The trust fund is an economic no-op.
Ah the old artist vs designer dilemma...

> When you paint a picture, or sculpt a sculpture, or write a song, you're not competing with other artists to make what other people will judge to be the better picture, sculpture or song.

You're right... it depends where you're coming from. From an economic point of view, paintings and concerts that are sold have a price point, which if set too high will cause patrons to look elsewhere. The alternatives can be seen as your competition, since they will dictate your pricing.

If Netflix doesn't carry one movie I wanted to see, I'll happily watch another to fill my movie night. And when I'm choosing to see which movie to watch, I'm judging those movies based on their directors, actors, genre, reviews, etc.

So when you say that statement, it has to be taken from your (the creator's) point of view. Because when I'm integrating a library into my project, I will be looking at it from the user's point of view, not the creator's. I'm going to pick a library, and I'll pick it based on their API, how many users they have, the quality of documentation, etc.

Reminds me of a quote: "Art is like masturbation. It is selfish and introverted and done for you and you alone. Design is like sex. There is someone else involved, their needs are just as important as your own, and if everything goes right, both parties are happy in the end."
Internet trends 2016 - pls ignore. There's already one trending in 1st page
This is why picking stocks is more difficult than looking at a PE ratio.

Does the board of directors contain competent and trustworthy people? Does an activist investor wield outsize influence? Are buyout rumors circulating?

Hard to know these things, that's a big part of why index funds are so popular.
Very true. I also hope all of this finds some sort of equitable way to de-sprawl somewhat. Transit in LA does have such an interesting history of missteps. Can you imagine what things might be like if they never got rid of the red car system?!
What emulator did you use?
The worrying part is the value is something NO ONE will pay.

"Things are worth what people will pay for them" is pretty much rule #1 for valuations.
> Well, since you seem to know who I am, you
> probably know which challenge I was given.
> Do you really think its not an OO problem?

OO is indeed the most common strategy for solving the problem you received. However I'm sure you appreciate that you could use many different techniques.

I think that after OO, ~functional solutions (ie: 90% pure functions, 10% non-pure) would be the next most popular. Such solutions can be quite elegant.

> Otherwise, you can probably have some of
> your other engineers review these tests if
> you are too busy to do it yourself. Not
> like this is rocket science. They can at
> least weed out clear failures like me :D

I know you're joking but I certainly realize that I reject many candidates who would actually have been great hires. It isn't possible for me to evaluate people 100% accurately, so I have to settle for conclusions drawn from an admittedly imperfect process.

As for getting other engineers to help with the review process: I've been reluctant to do so in the past for a variety of reasons, but after 8 years (!) I'm actually considering it.

Cheers,

Diarmuid
Yes, Urbit is (or at least is designed to become) a personal server which solves this problem among others.

One: a chain of specialized Posix programs would work for that. You would have to be someone who can manage a chain of specialized Posix programs, though.

Two: serving as a general-purpose stateful HTTP client is a subset of what Urbit does, though an important subset. It's also a server on a public network.

The second problem can also be solved with Posix programs, but it pretty much seals the requirement for a trained professional. It is possible to imagine a high-usability personal Linux (Sandstorm, for instance), but not really a high-usability general-purpose Internet server (at least if it implements social apps via decentralized protocols).

(In fact, it's not even clear that trained professionals are comfortable with decentralized protocols -- see under, Google doesn't even want your XMPP traffic, etc.)

Urbit may or may not be the perfect solution, but I think it's clear that if ordinary humans are going to have their own personal servers, they're going to need some kind of new system software.
Yeah scoring can be made clearer. I'll try to refine that. Thanks for the feedback!
This is annual report by KPCB that is very useful.
At highest level this is true. Any prediction must be based on some model, and that model can be considered a simulation of the subject.
They also own a big stake in Tobii, leader in pupil tracking.

Interesting to see them positioning themselves for the future here.
I don't remember the details, and to be clear this was not with the most recent version of Etcd at all - it was quite a while ago. I think and hope that whatever the problem was is no longer an issue. It has certainly gotten a lot better. My point is mainly that it is way too young to be something to trust important data to. We didn't either - what we lost was a cluster configuration that we could recreate from a combination of backups and redoing a handful of operations, but at the time it was scary to see, and prompted us to be very careful about what we put into Etcd going forward.
UCLA shooting: 2 killed in murder-suicide
Some of these graphs display several non-exclusive (sometimes totally independent) things in a pie chart.

For example, the second one shows "on-site", "full-time", "remote", "intern", and "visa". Remote/on-site seems like a mutually exclusive pair, but full-time/part-time seems logically and practically independent from that (and "part-time" isn't shown in the pie chart); "visa" probably logically implies on-site; "intern" likely implies on-site in practice; and both "visa" and "intern" probably imply full-time in practice, but not logically; and I think "visa" and "intern" are probably logically and practically independent of each other.

And many jobs list multiple languages, multiple frameworks, and even multiple of the things in the "databases" category.

I suspect each datum is best considered by itself, as "N% of postings mentioned X". Could be displayed as a bunch of bar graphs or something.