skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually the neural net approaches are older than SIFT.

Neural nets learn the distribution and even causal factors in the data. To me it seems that this distribution is often just too complex for it to be robustly captured by something that doesn't learn. Learning causal factors critically depends on learning along the depth of the network of latent variables which is a particularly opaque process, but this is what MLPs seem to do quite canonically (convnet being just a restricted special case of MLPs). I mean discerning causal factors is pretty much canonically the act of accumulating evidence with priors (weighted summation), deciding whether it is sufficient evidence and signaling how much it is (non-linearity).
From WAVM's Github README: "This is a prototype of a simple standalone VM for WebAssembly"

So it doesn't share code with a JS implementation in this case.
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Right now multi-processing use a very expensive serialization to send to one worker to another. Shared memory is much cheaper.

Even if you didn't have the GIL, you would still need locks with threads to manipulate any mutable datastructure. The usual concurreny safety advice always apply.
As an interviewer I am upfront with our hiring process and that part of it is we ask candidates to do a "exercise" after the first face to face meeting. This exercise is crafted to be representative of the job we are trying to fill and is followed up by a second face to face code review session of the code.

The key of the exercise isn't necessarily to complete the whole task (though often people do as the exercises are interesting) but to provide a discussion piece for the code review session. Candidates are told this so that they don't feel like they have to put too much work into it (2 hours is suggested).

The code review session is key, walking through someones code and discussing decisions and trade offs. It provides a layered insight into their smarts, communication skills and thought processes. It is the closest I've gotten to actually working with someone in the interview process.

And isn't that what both parties are looking for?
I've worked for some characters in my time, and some of my elderly bosses were hardcore on this subject. As it happens, in various industries - rail/transportation, for example - there are often available large surpluses of electro-mechanical relays, in copious quantities sitting in large bins, which .. by way of practical application of apprentices .. become a new 'test subsystem rack' waaaaaay in the back of RailtrainCo.'s, computing facility. What I'm trying to say is, "don't power off the back racks, ever, because they are the bosses little relay-CPU project, and its computing .. something .. (actually its running the model railway switching system, upstairs in the lobby)" ..
How can I get VC's to fund my dimension?
Neither fire nor crystals mutate. That's the thing.

A crystals arrangement of its microscopic structure will always be the same, as will the oxidation reaction in fire.

A virus undergoes darwinian evolution and will adapt to its environment
> Example of poor project management: Leonard Paul of Moderngroove stated that Modern Groove – The Ministry of Sound Edition suffered from poor project management because they had no dedicated project manager. Most of those responsibilities were given to the lead programmer, which resulted in an over burdened team. Paul said “I believe hiring a good manager early in the project and having clearer deadlines would have definitely helped the project.”

> Takeaway: In order to avoid conflicts during the development process, teams need to have proper management.

This seems like the exact opposite of Naughty Dog's advice

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-naughty-...
The OP and the discussion is sround technical implementation, but I am interesred in the analysis part of LP.

I wanted to use LP to optimize a budget but my senior coleague said that LP is just too damn hard in the real world. Is this true? Is there a textbook that goes over practical applications of LP?
Instagram made a change that stopped lots of third-party apps from working
> The other problem is many people wont have pre-existing copies of the required private key available.

We're talking about software updates, you embed the key INSIDE the software to avoid this problem.
Actually I wonder if entry level employees would be crowded out completely in an auction system - wouldn't it end up being all senior engineers?
Yeah, but when you have static typing, you can't avoid well-defined interfaces.
I'd question the other side: why are conservatives so stupid? They aren't all, of course, but there's a strong correlation between low IQ and holding a conservative world view.
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I've been a software developer on Oahu for ten years and I'm currently working on my own startup with my brother [1]. There are plenty of "real" jobs over here but to be honest, the community of talented developers on island is so small that you're not going to find the jobs online. Go to the local meetups and ask around and you'll find plenty of people that are hiring.

Not sure what your background is but if you're interested in the work we're doing at Kumu hit me up (think github meets gephi focused on social impact). We're hiring and have found it incredibly hard to find local developers that A) know their shit, and B) don't already have a better offer.

All in all, if you're a decent human being and you're good at what you do you'll have no problem finding a job wherever you look.

[1]: https://kumu.io
Hmm, cite? People I know at universities aren't on H1B visas.
You probably have to explain, as I have a hard time to see him anything but a victim when there are obvious attacks aimed at him.
I vaguely recall that Soviet planners used something based on n-dimensional ellipsoids (instead of Simplex) to optimize resources allocations of Aereoflot flights but I cannot remember anything more specific, alas.

(I read this on the magazine of my country's equivalent of ACM in '80s and it somehow stuck with me all these years)
I do, and I'm a Unix person, even having contributed code to the Linux kernel and I've used Unix - Solaris, HP-UX, NeXTSTEP, Linux, Reliant Unix (Siemens), IRIX (SGI) since 1994.

It's just that over time I fond it more and more of a -useless - hassle to keep a VM with Linux on my desktop, and pure Linux desktop never was a question (for various reasons).

When I install git for windows and ConEmu64 I have a good terminal and a bash and the basic Unix command line tools. The IDE and node.js are the same anyway. I configure the IDE and git so that my projects only have one type of line endings (Unix).

I have zero Windows server experience since that is all Unix for me, but on the (developer) desktop I don't feel any need for Unix.
I develop on Windows and deploy to Linux regularly, zero problems. Most of the projects are purely js with no dependencies on binaries.
I think the biggest loser in this comparison is Closure Compiler, which is around for years with all those features. It's also still active with development on understanding and transpiling ES6 and even TypeScript from what I've heard [1]. There also made a good move recently, enabling ES6 modules packages instead of its own goog.provide/goog.require.

Yet, the available toolchain for it is years behind others. If you wonder how you should have any live reload development with it, you can either rely on community plugins like grunt-closure-compiler [2] or hope plovr[3] is finally resurrected back to a state where it's usable. This all sounds fine until you think about any unit testing. The only karma runner[4] for closure is simply broken and unmaintained. Even worse, most of npm packages you might want to compile with your code will output thousands of errors because there is no clear way to whitelist code as "not my code leave it alone".
I can just hope one day Google will publish a yeoman generator with all those things solved and get it back in the game.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/closure-compiler-discu...

[2] https://github.com/gmarty/grunt-closure-compiler

[3] https://github.com/bolinfest/plovr

[4] https://github.com/karma-runner/karma-closure
People also forget the goal of the hiring process - finding somebody who can get the work done. I am in the game industry and, luckily, not everybody is doing whiteboard coding and puzzles here, but, out of my anecdotal experience, studios that do it also release pretty crappy games. It could be that springboarding discussion is not selecting very good programmers. It could also be that the management who enforces these practices is not competent to run the studio. I cannot tell either way, just my experience.
Also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/index.html
There might be a bias in that metric: Mozilla employees are probably more likely to afford the trip to FOSDEM.
It think this is something that Google is working on. By capturing multiple "facts" about you a company can be fairly certain who is trying to access an account, apart from passwords and phones. For example, they can tell if you spend 99.9% of your life in one country and then suddenly request a password reset from another country. I'm sure there are lots of other minor indicators that are much more difficult to fake, but putting them all together they should be able to get a pretty good picture of who you truly are even without proper 2FA.
Your concluding paragraph needs an addendum:

> It's refreshing to build systems like this yourself, as it puts the destiny of your product wholly into your own hands. Instead of falling at the mercy of the developer who made your plugin or extension.

It does however place you on a long path of rediscovering all of the things which don't work (one bug at a time, in various browsers of varying ages) which someone else may have done already.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11834785
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Capitalism and the wage system
Generally, my friend, if there is a crowd with torches and pitchforks approaching, it does not matter what the guilt is in the situation, one retreats and does not show ones head for a long time, or one will lose it.

You are just lending yourself to number of the many judges of the court of public opinion now, yes? Here, you may take up the torch and pitchfork of office. Wield them proudly. If you can't catch Jake, who do you think you will go after next, now that you are all dressed up and no where to go?
I just wanted to thank you for telling your story.

It's really easy for me to think, when it's not happening to me, that "Of course I would do this, or that, but I'd never do nothing". And we see some of that thinking in this thread.

What people don't realise is that abusing people is an iterative process. The abuser has had a lot of practice at it, and refines the process over many years.

The victim (and that's a hard word to use about ourselves) hasn't had any experience of this kind of situation, and doesn't want to leap to the to them nuclear option.

I hope you're okay, and if you're ever in Cheltenham[1] I'd buy you a coffee[2].

> Maybe what Jake did to me wasn't all that bad.

It was bad, and most people would have had the same reaction as you.

> Maybe I deserved it.

No, you did not deserve it.

[1] The one in England.

[2] Or tea. Or beer.
Let's pick an example:

function renderMarkdownToHtml(text)

And with static types:

function renderMarkdownToHtml(text : String) : String

Well-defined interfaces is mostly not about types.
The Joy of Organising. Container Image Labeling
That's not what I believe, and that's not the law.

Stop making stuff up.
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To save him time and frustration due to his project going nowhere?
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Google probably will have many times the ASICs compared to what it had against Lee Sedol, and there have been lots of new tricks in the past few months with convolutional networks that increased learning speed and accuracy of the learned model. It would be a huge win for Ke Jie even if he could win only 1 game.
This reminds me of this culture of cancer cells from a woman who died from cancer in the 50s. The cancer is still alive in laboratories today and there were even proposals to classify it as a new species:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa
Well, Laszlo Bock claims Google looked at the data and found zero correlation between having a degree from a well respected university and being useful at Google

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/friedman...

So no, using a degree isn't useful for hiring engineers apparently
From reading their page and watching a talk I don't quite get how they merge taxation and anonymity. As I understand it what individual transactions are for is protected but the total money flows are available and thus taxable?
I take it they have categories (capital gains, income) etc. attached to the money streams since they are taxed differently in most countries? That would open the possibility to do some metadata/timing etc. analysis and at least some of that anonymity would get leaked. I would also have to prove somehow that this transaction was for example a capital gains transaction etc.
Similarly I don't see how sales taxes are handled. That would require a somewhat specific location identifier on my part, would it not (in the U.S. you'd need to provide your state)?
I'm also not sure how tax deductions would work. For those I usually have to turn in receipts and declare why the content of the items is relevant for the work.

Let's say I want to buy a book that I think could be flagged for political reasons and would want to keep the fact that I bought that book secret. I'd still have to prove that it was purchase of an item (possibly even indicating a book depending on how complicated the tax code is).

It feels like in practice it would be a rather soft layer of anonymity. I don't know I feel like I just don't get how taxation and anonymity can be merged as soon as the tax code gets complicated a lot of information needs to be leaked.
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Context: http://www.goratings.org/

An interesting thing about that rating site is that it uses Whole-History Rating, a system developed by Remi Coulom which takes the entire match history into account.

After the Sedol vs. AlphaGo games, you could reasonably ask if Sedol was on top of his game, or if his losses were in part a product of a declining rating of his own. WHR effectively considers this possibility, and the similar possibility in all matches - you could say the long-term impact of a match doesn't stabilize after both participants have played a few more games.

AlphaGo has been steadily climbing in this rating. Sedol doesn't appear to be in decline, in fact he had an 8-win streak right after the AlphaGo matches (ended by Gu Li just recently).
Seems to be down with the error 'ERROR 502 - BAD GATEWAY'
A lot of the criticisms I've seen for failed ports describe the exact type of behavior you would expect from an emulated system.

The ports you reference behave like game systems that used to occupy 100% or almost 100% of the resource capacity of a dedicated system failing to execute correctly when they're running in a non-dedicated environment.

They also had the advantage of targeting an exact set of hardware specifications in other ways and didn't have to scale down, up, or sideways (other ways of dividing labor) to the way that other platforms work.

In short, they weren't a game designed to scale to a theoretical platform that then ran on the platforms, they were fit precisely to a single platform and then weren't designed to be portable at all.
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I feel that the question that "if we are in a simulation" is quite equivalent to "if there is a god that reasons beyond human logic", or "is there is a husky dog that has super ability and always be hidden from any kind of human observation".

You can never say that these arguments are wrong, but they are rather pointless since they are always not wrong.
> "I also reserve the right to edit comments that don’t quite reach that point but are noticeably in need of rephrasing."

Wow, really? I'd consider that worse than removing comments.
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Joshua Gay pointed out the website to me over on Facebook, and said, go ahead and delete this if you like, and I replied:

I'm not going to delete it. That would be ridiculous considering my history. People can go look for themselves and ponder what this process means in comparison to any other sort of process that would be sane, safe, and consensual -- and accountable -- for all the people involved.

That site talks a great deal about the failings of the formal systems, but it really doesn't particularly seem to me to account for thttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crucible

I am not impressed. I am so not impressed. Even if it is 100% true, I am not impressed. And I am sorry for the victims if that is the case, and I apologize if they are doing this in good faith but it's wrong, and it opens up such potential for horrible horrible things in the future that they just haven't properly conceived of yet.

I am a feminist, and I have been raped, as many women have. And I say that this is WRONG. And I am a woman with Asperger's and I was chronically bullied and manipulated by asshats when I was younger, and I believe this is wrong.

The places this leads are a very fucked up rabbit hole and series of rabbit holes that go to a place that is not Wonderland, and where the drugs are not as pleasant as Dodson's epileptic fancies.

So Jake, if Jake is this predator, and say he is. Who is the next person that this is used against, this Blair Witch Predator doxxing? How popular will it become? Will it become the next GamerGate trend? Will we find TLAs stirring up little Stasi sites like this?

Or maybe just creating them for fun. How about our friends in Italy, or any of the state sponsored hacker funhouses, this site is so stylish, they could throw something like this up in an afternoon, for any of us. Even me. Even you? Do you have any oppo research? Anyone at FSF? Eben Moglen? rms? Any of my old friends? I'm sure we all have something worth digging up. I've done oppo. We all do.

Let's make this perfectly acceptable in our community. Let's make it meaningful. Let some real HELL into our lives, Joshua. We can make our community hell on earth. All we have to do is let the provocateurs be us.

This is the fastest route away from nonviolence theory and the Beloved Community and straight down that primrose path.
Totally depends what you do with your newly-acquired C-programming skills. Linus Torvalds for example has multiple doctorates, while his actual academic achievements in Helsinki University were close to nothing.
to which I say "hahaha"

In all seriousness, many people choose shit passwords for the accounts they don't care about. I'm sure Mark's password for his admin account on fb is probably harder to guess.
Income tax is how poor people are made, and kept poor. Spending tax encourages the poor to become more wealthy by saving - Income tax encourages people to be (and stay poor) by removing the incentive to work

People very rarely negotiate down their amount of work in exchange for more leisure. Especially in America, land of 2-weeks-a-year holidays. Very few people have the realistic option of working more for more income but are put off by the tax system.

Saving isn't really the route to wealth in a land of near-zero interest rates, either. It's just deferred consumption. Leveraged property speculation is the great route to wealth.

The one exception is the decision of whether one parent should stay at home or the labour of childcare should be outsourced, which is quite dependent on the tax levels involved.
If you're thinking of the same thing I am, then it's different. In some places, the only option may be to defecate on the side of the street by the curb, but that area gets swept frequently. I have never been able to play a dog vs human sidewalk poo guessing game as suggested above, including in the African, Asian and LatAm slums.

Perhaps it's because those people are not a transient homeless population that (presumably) gets cleaned up after, but they actually live there.
Cool, I guess.
Fishing rod with a measurements on it for safe fishing
Cool, but not even slightly relevant.
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Most static type systems really suck and I can fully understand why dynamic-coders don't like them.

It often feels like they are holding you back more than they help.

I also got such a moment with TypeScript.

const a = A()
a.b = new SubtypeOfB()
a.b.attributeOfSubtypeOfB = 123 //error

Because a.b is type B and not SubtypeOfB and so doesn't have the attribute of SubtypeOfB, but a.b gets its typing from A, which can't be changed on the fly later.

The solution was:

const a = A()
const b = new SubtypeOfB()
b.attributeOfSubtypeOfB = 123 //here TS thinks it is SubtypeOfB
a.b = b //now TS thinks it's B

Which felt like "Why do I have to restructure my code with extra variables when I clearly know that this object HAS that attribute?!"

And Java was full of those problems. Numerous different definitions of the same thing that aren't compatible with each other. Hell, some languages even have different string types.

But yeah, TypeScript is generally chill about most things and the hints it gives me were often right and helped to find the right methods without consulting any docs, which is a huge win, even without the refactoring stuff.
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But the gains at age may come from other areas and not from medicine. In this talk

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/return-of-the-m...

the professor mentions as an aside (there is a transcript of the talk)

> And what is interesting, if you take out the childhood mortality, the Victorian person between 1850 and 1880 lived slightly longer, if he was a male, than you do today.

Females had the risk if child birth, an area where medicine did do a lot.

It shows that sanitation/hygiene and food seem to have done a lot for lower mortality outside the risk factors of being very young and/or giving birth.

And that was before antibiotics! Which is nice to know when we get another doom article about the end of antibiotics, because it seems that while sure individuals will suffer it by no means warrants predictions of doom for mankind.