skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While there is a mention of Hacker News, I was surprised to see that the authors apparently hadn't attempted to correlate popularity with Reddit links. Anything that I've had become remotely popular is because it got a few upvotes on HN or Reddit...and anecdotally, I've seen Reddit/HN launch niche libraries into the 1000+ star group, even if the library is relatively niche (hell, I'll star things that look cool and had interesting discussion, even if it's likely I'll never clone/fork the repo)

Meanwhile, libraries that were ubiquitous by the time Github became popular have relatively few stars. The most prominent example in my mind is ruby/rake, which has just 627 stars: https://github.com/ruby/rake
I think (maybe) you're arguing for using genetic algorithms for generating these things, which would be very cool. Unfortunately, modeling realistic requirements is generally harder than most programmers would think.
> Kotlin comes from industry, not academia. It solves problems faced by working programmers today. As an example, the type system helps you avoid null pointer exceptions.

I'm sorry but you just undercut your own anti-intellectualism better than I could right there.

(There exist languages which have guarded against this without loss of expressive power since before Java and, oh, are from academia.)
Flying Lion – Wild Simulator
It can be a big competitive advantage to do everything yourself, because you see inefficiencies that fall through the cracks between job descriptions. That's what's left after you've specialized and optimized: all the things about the product that suck because they are nobody's responsibility. Fix them and you not only are doing something that your competitors aren't, but you're doing things they can't do without re-organizing and losing all the accumulated domain knowledge that they have.

The flip side of this is that you need to pick a problem where this is actually an advantage. If you're solving the same problem that your competitors are but they have 100 highly-specialized employees but you have one generalist, you're going to lose. Big. But if you identify the problem that they're not solving because nobody in their organization has the relevant expertise or job description, you can get a solid foothold, then use that to hire the expertise that you were missing in the first place.
jwt can be verified by the application without having to make a call to the auth service
> Could one build a neural network...

Short answer: yes.

Long answer: yes, but you'd have to retrain it for each style/form/concept that "well" was defined for.

But yes, it's possible. Would be a lot of work though.
Texture mapping(U ~= X, V ~= Y).
As someone on the other side of the table at a startup, I always ask, and it depends on the answer.

-- Con: flight risk, collaboration risk

-- Pro: for valid reasons, they don't want the founder stress, risk, focus, whatever (say due to family, time, whatever), but love the environment. Such people are amazing: a classic "barrel" (http://firstround.com/review/Keith-Rabois-on-the-role-of-a-C...) .

We've been working the past few months with someone like this, and he is basically a multiplier on our ability to execute!
Why the US never adopted the metric system
The point is that it would reduce the DB/cache load, as the refresh token would need to be verified once in a few minutes or so as opposed to verifying it for every request. Regular requests could be authenticated in the CPU itself without having to go through to the DB/cache layer. This means lower latency and reduced load on the DB/cache.
Java Project Jigsaw – An example usage in a library
Xtend from the eclipse foundation does just that - it compiles to plain java, not bytecode.

http://www.eclipse.org/xtend/

Kotlin follows a very similar path as it does, but to greater success. I played with xtend a few years ago and now I use kotlin for my jvm tasks.
Pretty much. The way i see it is that as there is an upsurge of easy money and/or cheap resources, you get a bunch of talk about decentralization, standards and cooperation. But once the cycle start turning round, everyone goes back to building silos via lock-in and proprietary solutions.

At this point the net may well be seeing its third such cycle.
Hello, author of the post here. Thanks for all your valuable comments. I noticed that there was some talk about neural network driven models. In my follow up post to this one:

http://sujitpal.blogspot.com/2016/06/comparison-of-image-sea...

I describe how I use transfer learning to generate image vectors for my butterfly images from the Caffe reference model trained on ImageNet. There are some other approaches too, but probably not as interesting to this audience.

@GrantS - thanks for the intro and the links, and for pointing out that I was using BoVW incorrectly. Not an image person, trying to get into it from a search/NLP background.

@infinitone and @deckar01 - I measured the goodness of search by checking how many times the query butterfly was the #1 result. I agree its pretty hard to distinguish butterflies from one another, but I needed something to work with, and that was as good as any. I did not want one that crosses subject areas, such as flowers and cars, so a search for a red flower might bring back a red car.

@chrischen - if you got rid of the bucketing portion in my pipeline, I think you might achieve what you are after. But if you are only looking for exact match on color, then hashing might be cheaper.

@rcarmo - thanks for the reference to pHash, I think it might work better in near-duplicate detection kind of cases. Will check it out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UV_mapping

Though daredevildave may have meant environment mapping instead.
Doubt it, that would go directly against every revenue model that have set up. Also it would be serving a tiny segment of the market.
I'm a regular employee at the bottom of the fruit bowl but I would imagine that starting a failed startup probably challenged you in a lot of ways and gives the interviewer the opportunity to ask a lot of deep questions in terms of whether you're a good team player that fits for them or not.

TLDR; nothing different IMO.
I find zika to be problematic. I get that we're all supposed to be scared, and that we should not have children. But there seems to be a severe lack of facts that reminds me of the recent ebola situation. It turns out, ebola isn't very contagious, nor is it deadly to first world countries. I get the feeling zika is being hyped for reasons that have a lot more to do with cya than actual facts in evidence.
Looking at your linkedin background, I see you have some adtech experience. This is perhaps one of the few industries that could actually use this technical manager in the middle of the organization.

I'm building a martech company right now and this is exactly type of people I hope to gain, someone who knows how the tech really works while also understanding the needs of the business and our clients to make the right decisions. They don't need to code everyday but having a grasp of how ad serving works, how logging and reporting is done, how attribution occurs through cookies and other identification, etc. would all help to make them more informed and capable at producing value for our clients rather than turning products into undifferentiated mush that add no value, like the rest of the industry.

Or maybe I'm just that technical founder who will always have to mix the two disciplines and make the call myself - just wish there was a way to delegate this.
Looking at the history of similar fate in other safe stacks, the political reasons or desire to cut research money are higher on the list than technical issues.

Everyone that was able to use Oberon or the Xerox stacks knows that it is possible to have such systems and do productive work on them.
tiny tokens, but needed for every single operation
> It is not "a meeting of the minds" for one side to drain the other side of their total balances, and it violates "consideration" as well since nothing is being exchanged for the extra money. So there is ample reason to claim that these were not valid contracts and should be rolled back.

I disagree. From the Explanation of Terms and Disclaimer[1] on the DAOhub site:

"The terms of The DAO Creation are set forth in the smart contract code existing on the Ethereum blockchain at 0xbb9bc244d798123fde783fcc1c72d3bb8c189413. Nothing in this explanation of terms or in any other document or communication may modify or add any additional obligations or guarantees beyond those set forth in The DAO’s code. Any and all explanatory terms or descriptions are merely offered for educational purposes and do not supercede or modify the express terms of The DAO’s code set forth on the blockchain; to the extent you believe there to be any conflict or discrepancy between the descriptions offered here and the functionality of The DAO’s code at 0xbb9bc244d798123fde783fcc1c72d3bb8c189413, The DAO’s code controls and sets forth all terms of The DAO Creation."

The Code is Law. All parties knew, and accepted this before 'investing'. The contract performed exactly as designed.

[1] https://daohub.org/explainer.html
If a company is swimming in money, whether it's from investors or revenue, then yes, hiring people to handle specialized jobs is definitely the best thing to do.

But there's always a point at the beginning where a company doesn't have a ton of money laying around, and at that stage, I think your advice is bad. It's better to have those jobs getting done poorly than to have them not being done at all.
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Frankly as i grow older i am getting more and more tired of the magpie-like chase of new and shiny in tech. I want my stuff to work tomorrow like it did today, thank you very much.

Frankly if bridges were built like software/firmware is built, they would be blown up and rebuilt every 6 months. Good luck getting that past the planning department, much less the public.

That is basically why people do not update, because they worry that their workflow will be more disrupted by a changes to the tech they use daily than some potential security breach.
Release some money to start combatting Zika? Educating people to start using Deet, tracking clusters, hiring people to start eradicating standing pools of water, doing more comprehensive tracking of impact on people, babies, and, if it actually gets really bad, taking heightened measures to wipe out mosquitos that are vectors in more problematic areas - including releasing male mosquitos that are unlikely to fertilize larvae that will grown into yet more zika passing mosquitoes.
I'm sure that people feel that way. And to some extent they are correct -- ultimately they keep the trains running. But few other teams can do anything new in a reasonable period.

Unfortunately I think that "truth" is a tough nut to crack in political scenarios. Perception generally rules the day, and most of these teams that play that role are successful in acquiring the trappings of corporate power -- fast action on HR, access to the decision makers/purse stringers, and perks.

It doesn't last forever, because like in the Soviet system, these things depend on powerful patrons.
Inability to think critically or be creative often come as a result of management. Positions are too narrowly defined, so operators lack context for their work. Without information, you literally can't think at all.
You don't take an MBA to learn how to manage people.

An MBA teaches you about the fundamentals of business and organizations: Finance, economics, microeconomics, marketing, accounting, management accounting, and a lot of stuff in between.

MBA's are 'business wonks' - they may or may not make good leaders or managers.

The tool of the software developer is code, the tool of the MBA is a spreadsheet or an analysis framework.

It's not remotely about people skills.
stare decisis is not a rule. Moreover, interpretation can and does change over time. The law is not absolute across a given timeframe.
Interested... Can you elaborate on the setup ?

If I'm understanding it correctly you will be faking nameserver entries ?
The article mentions ads & the ability to pay to remove ads.
I thought the same thing. The types of drugs being sold were the same ones.
Tests that verify the behavior of functions when they are passed data of a type that does not support the behavior that the function expects to be supported. I find this to be a very common case.
Good article. Presumably because I did something bad in a previous life I apparently have a PhD in information systems management (fortunately these days I make my living by bending computers to do my will instead). The whole field is infested with ideology. One reason I'm a failed academic is because of the whole prioritisation of convention over a logical evaluation of the actual problem space. Because I prioritised the latter over the former (and my subfield was especially ideological) I worked more slowly than those making convention-based shortcuts. On the other hand my thesis was accepted with spelling mistake corrections required only :P.

Also I was unaware of Taylor's fudging of his data. Nobody ever draws attention to that, and presumably when I was reading the originals I skimmed that part due to looking for specific information which never made it into later write-ups as I couldn't make it relevant enough to my narrative (thus I never re-read the originals).
and we've got enormous casualties during government military operations, and breeds hordes of militants who feast on blood and hatred.
The article looked familiar, and it turns out that I had read the author's book on the same subject published several years later. It goes into a lot more detail about the author's personal experiences in the management consulting business, plus much more history WRT MBA programs and where the whole concept of management as a standalone discipline came from.

It's not my field so I don't know how fair the criticisms were. Still, it was a really interesting window into an area that overlaps quite a bit with the tech industry.

Anyhoo, the book that emerged from this article is "The Management Myth: Debunking Modern Business Philosophy":

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002PQ7B72/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
> What's wrong with centralized decision making and planning out everything for years?

Read Hayek's "The Use of Knowledge in Society"; it's about exactly this.
His review of the literature is old too, with his primary sources being nearly a century old. If he had done a more comprehensive review, he would have found much of value.

For example, there is no doubt that management philosophies from Japan (like ZQC or the Toyota way) have had an influence on American production. Is that all imaginary? Because US auto quality seems to have improved significantly as a result.
I apparently have a PhD in information systems management

I honestly didn't know that was possible.
That's a paradox of freedom.

Nobody will stop me from being flown to work in a helicopter. But nobody will fly me to work for the price of a bus either.
Failure of a startup doesn't mean you're a failure or even that you failed in this instance. There are many reasons why a startup can succeed or fail. Either way, if you've shown you learned from the experience, I think you're likely to find that some of the best teams to work with will value that.
> The U.S. has managed over 40 peaceful transitions of power in that period.

Over 40 peaceful transitions, really? What about the Civil War and the assassination of JFK? Not to mention the recent Donald Trump fiasco. I'm pretty sure if he got elected, we would have a few more presidential assassination attempts coming our way. I mean if you want to prove that democracies bring stability, you need a better example than the U.S..
So am I reading this correctly that there's no solution other than reusing old steel?
You missed the most important reason! To have an "objective outsider" look at a business issue in an "unbiased" way.

Please note my quotation marks.

When I was a consultant, the purpose of hiring us ranged from a temporary extra pair of hands to the above. Most projects were somewhere in between.

In terms of the "unbiased view", every single company knew what they should do. These were smart people. However, internal politics prevented them from getting the ok from leadership. So, you hire an outside consulting firm and when someone says "that's a bad idea" you hold up the McKinsey deck and say "these smart guys think it's the right decision".

Works nearly every time.
"a lot of information"

Well, safe on that count. The only identifying info they've provided is that they are female and pregnant.
Ask HN: Will someone replace Sunrise calendar?
Sunrise calendar is being shutdown 31 August. It has some great features like:
- Easy OAuth integration with Google, TripIt, Trello, Asana, Todoist, etc.
- 'Meet' which allows you to send people a meeting booking link with your realtime availability.
- Cross platform, works nicely on desktop, mobile and web.

Fantastical has been suggested, but it doesn't do any of the three things above :( Anyone heard any whispers about a new company filling the gap?

http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye
Deming! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
Before I read the Fortune article, their remarks were pretty much my initial reaction to the article. Any company that hires sufficiently good pentesters is going to get breached, even an infosec company. I would bet NSA probably does pretty poorly, even to this day, on their annual pentests.

This isn't really news. A company that successfully fends off multiple independent pentests would be news. I've worked for a company that actually did quite well on one pentest, but the testers were pretty terrible.
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How do you know Buzzfeed's source isn't a competitor with an axe to grind? You don't. So this almost-unfalsifiable FUD is useless.
Not sure where i first encountered it, but ever since the idea of Arch as a "humblebrag" distro has stuck with me.
If this were the explanation, they should get a thrust to powered ratio that is lower than the theoretical maximum with the currently accepted physics laws.

The theoretical maximum is 1/c = 0.0033 mN/KW, but all the "interesting" experiments get more, for example 0.4 N/KW = 400 mN/KW.
FWIW, lotus stems (mentioned in the article as an extinct food in the Americas) are widely eaten in India. They're delicious.
No, it's possible, it just requires a pure environment, which costs the manufacturer more than just salvaging ship steel.

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/4opq1p/e...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttling_of_the_German_fleet_...
>Kotlin costs nothing to adopt! It’s open source, but that’s not what I mean here. What I mean is there’s a high quality, one-click Java to Kotlin converter tool, and a strong focus on Java binary compatibility.

The costs of adopting a new language are greatly more significant than implied here. The time it takes to learn it. The time it turns to learn the tools that are specific to it. And if you put it into production, the technical debt you've created by adding another language to the codebase, etc.

If the OP had said that you don't have to start a green-field project to use it, that would be more accurate.
See, I though it was Multi-Troop Transport as a Service (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Multi-Troop_Transport/Legends).

So +1
Mintzberg's work on the structure of organisations, and what's been built on top of it on the other hand is quite interesting. Glouberman and Mintzberg's followup work on organisational structure in healthcare is pretty good too (wrong but good). Glouberman is a philosopher too which fortuitously makes things relevant to the OP.

They make a differentiation between cure (doctors) versus care (nurses). I'm feel that computer hackers are rather like doctors and nurses in that regard. High levels of professional autonomy and prioritisation for the doctor level hackers (e.g. I've been given Dr House level free reign to diagnose and cure a system that's been sick for at lest the last two-ish years, and nobody else has been able to work out what's wrong with it). Junior devs are more like nurses, working under direction to treat symptoms to make the patient better but where the architectural considerations are less important.

We currently have a Clinical Nurse Specialist level hacker trying to bolt some new behaviour on top of a very sick subsystem (written back in the day when nobody knew what they were doing). I'm interested to see what he makes of it - he already dismissed extending the subsystem out of hand, and justifiably so, so I'm looking forward to seeing his next decisions.
Horrible idea of course, but I wonder if there are companies who pick CEOs randomly from new MBA graduates and pay them an extremely high salary with no stock options or other incentives.
Zika was first detected in Uganda. It seems that the first HIV cases occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). And EVD near the border of South Sudan and DRC.

That's also pretty much where we humans came from. Is that just random coincidence? Or is there perchance a reservoir of sequences that are well prepared to mess with humans?
This real highlights the genius of Satoshi imo. If she had not disappeared she would have surely become a benevolent dictator for life and thus a single point of failure. By being anonymous and going silent, that outcome was prevented.
Except that the Fortune article has the benefit of being 100% correct.
assuming the entirety of centuries of civilization has no
clue what they were doing

This is a common assumption in these circles, unfortunately.
OSes written in GC enabled systems programming languages always allowed for controlling the GC behaviour.

So you can have a GC free TCP/IP stack, while enjoying the GC comfort in areas where the 2ms pause aren't an issue.
For the vast majority of advertising, CTR isn't terribly important.
Its not too late.
Another React Native app without an Android release. So far React Native's main advantage is for JavaScript developers that want to make an iPhone app. Which admittedly is probably a lot of people. But doesn't really make sense when you consider that Swift is a powerful modern language which will give you more capability and flexibility over the long-term because of being a first-class language annointed by Apple.
I honestly can't tell if you're joking or not, but interesting argument.
What Was That Ratings (Stars and Fire Symbols) in ProductHunt Profile?
So surprising for the gov to go after a billion dollar company. So surprising. But I think the politics in the US is breaking down a bit. In that petty self-interest is taking over and slowly creating a corrupt system. Happens to everyone given enough time I guess.

They are like UPS has given us 40 million, why has FedEx not paid the Lord this tax. FedEx is in for a smiting.
Holy crap that site basically stops my computer.
This kit seems very similar to the famous Altair computer which spawned MS-BASIC and CP/M. Anything like Unix and C is not desirable on such a system. Even a 'text editor', as we understand them today, is a reach on such machines.

You could build your own world, but you'd probably have to do it writing ASM out by hand and then entering through a cumbersome line editor. For most purposes, that's too hard, so you would probably invent a very 'basic' line-level interpreter. But, given what we know now, you'd probably come up with a better disk operating system.
I hate to disagree with someone like pg... He's a wise man.

I think he should rent an apartment in a building that's been Airbnb'd for 90 days and revisit his opinion on day 91.

"Incumbents" are people, trying to live peacefully.