skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All SSD all the time, we may make that our new tagline.

But yeah, we basically look to SSD for everything as that continues to take over market share from spinning disk and when you have to support a product 5-10 years, it's necessary to look ahead, so as SSD prices continue to drop we will eventually switch to SSD for everything and spinning disk will become the equivalent of tape drives in the old days.
I don't know The Dillinger Escape Plan too well, but I like that!

It's funny, but I've noticed that as my musical tastes have broadened over the years, the line between what sounds "beautiful" and "ugly" has become considerably more blurry. I can still recognize particular harmonies as consonant or dissonant, but that mapping in my brain where consonant -> beautiful and dissonant -> ugly has started to really break down.

One of the first times I noticed this was happening was probably 15 years ago, listening to Salomé by Richard Strauss. The last scene has this incredible dissonance, a polychord that's an A7 with an F# stacked on top: two chords that absolutely do not belong together in any diatonic piece of music.[1] When I first heard that I thought it sounded awful. Now it has a kind of strange beauty to my ears and is one of those musical moments that always sends a shiver up my spine.

[1] Give a listen here if you like: https://youtu.be/Op1VoQXXARs?t=431 I started the clip at 7:15, the chord comes in around 8:53 but that whole section is shot through which these ugly/beautiful sonorities.
I used Uber recently for the first time recently in San Francisco and San Diego (I was at the Decentralized Web and NAACL 2016 conferences) and I thought Uber was a nice service. Each of the 8 times I used Uber I sat in the front seat to talk with the driver. All 8 drivers were fairly upbeat about being able to earn extra money whenever they had some free time. A few said that it was their full time job.

I had a mild argument with my son about Uber (he is a fireman and a union guy). He thinks that Uber is really unfair to union taxi drivers who jump through some hoops to get licensed, etc. Besides wanting good service, I rate businesses like these on how much profit is captured by the person doing the work vs. the company that they work with. I don't have any data on this, so I am judging Uber based on the low cost of shared ride service and the general friendlyness of the drivers.
This isn't completely true. You can use it for free commercially as long as you install it yourself. The Licensing FAQ [1] says:

> Also, if you install it on your work PC at some large company, this is still personal use. However, if you are an administrator and want to deploy it to the 500 desktops in your company, this would no longer qualify as personal use.

[1] https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ
I'm just down the road - I might pop past at some point for a nosey :-) The only things of note I'd ever spotted in Govan were Titan Props and Film City - live and learn!
Musk is obsessed with AI just like the rest of us, and he has a lot of sway within the company.

I'm not sure it is necessary to do alongside the likes of Google and other AI experts. Musk does not have a background in AI
Yes - there are many RED FLAGS. One is they skip all the hard parts(Tech Diligence), like security and and are all ready selling to the public.
Growing a pony-tail. I have not had to pay for a hair-cut in more than 1.5 years. When I get a little neck trim-up they only cost 10 dollars. Haircuts are expensive.
I'm trying to figure out which professions it is acceptable to say [JOB] Guy?
Bug report:

REPL on https://polybit.com/ fails to display fonts. See [1] for a screenshot.

Firefox 47.0 on OSX.

[1]http://i.imgur.com/ty8PZT9.png

The console logs the keydown events per pconsole.js line number 308. I see the keys I pressed but nothing shows up.

keydown { target: <textarea>, key: "h", charCode: 0, keyCode: 72 } pconsole.js:308:5

keydown { target: <textarea>, key: "e", charCode: 0, keyCode: 69 } pconsole.js:308:5

keydown { target: <textarea>, key: "l", charCode: 0, keyCode: 76 } pconsole.js:308:5

keydown { target: <textarea>, key: "l", charCode: 0, keyCode: 76 } pconsole.js:308:5

keydown { target: <textarea>, key: "o", charCode: 0, keyCode: 79 } pconsole.js:308:5

keydown { target: <textarea>, key: " ", charCode: 0, keyCode: 32 } pconsole.js:308:5

keydown { target: <textarea>, key: "w", charCode: 0, keyCode: 87 } pconsole.js:308:5

keydown { target: <textarea>, key: "o", charCode: 0, keyCode: 79 } pconsole.js:308:5

keydown { target: <textarea>, key: "r", charCode: 0, keyCode: 82 } pconsole.js:308:5

keydown { target: <textarea>, key: "l", charCode: 0, keyCode: 76 } pconsole.js:308:5

keydown { target: <textarea>, key: "d", charCode: 0, keyCode: 68 } pconsole.js:308:5

:)
You have to learn some tool (react test utils at least) to access and interact with those React components either way. Enzyme is 100% better and more powerful than using the react test utils and way easier to onboard new devs to.

All IMO but I def think you should at least check it out.
It's kind of crazy that they lose so much money just so people could start using Lyft but as soon as they can't afford to do that anymore Uber is just going to capitalize. Unless there's some sort of Loyalty program (like airlines) I'm just going to go with whichever is cheaper at the very moment I'm interested in getting a ride. If one has Surge then I switch and vice versa.
That definitely falls into the field of Fortune's expertise. But I took OP's comment to be a broadside against the alarmist headlines about the recent accidents.
By "limiting" ourselves this way we can go forward much faster than evolution can. We create designs in hours what would take evolution millions of years to achieve. Also, it's a mistake to treat products of evolution as some kind of gold standard. It's literally worst design that could still work. We can do better, but we do it via different means.

Another thing is that understanding is a key component of trust. Animals come to mind here. We can't understand their firmware per se; by observing them over thousands of years, both passively and actively (through domestication, training regimens, etc.), we've learned to expect some things from them but not others. So I can be sure that e.g. my cat won't kill me in my sleep. But I can absolutely not trust it to go somewhere when I want it to go there, or to stay in place when I want it to stay, or even to eat food when I give it. We want to write software that will bear much greater, more important responsibilities than any animal in history. So we need to make them more understandable than animals if we're to ever trust them with those responsibilities.
Just be fair they still employ a lot of ppl in Denmark (164 according to LinkedIn), but majority is in USA (323).

I thing this number may be skewed a bit, LinkedIn is more popular in USA than in Europe.
They didn't get banned in Austin, they didn't want to fingerprint their drivers and pushed for legislation that specifically excluded them from a law. The city of Austin even tried to work with them, offering to front the cost, set up mobile fingerprinting stations, but they rejected this stating it would be too high of a barrier for their drivers, and when the vote came in against Uber/Lyft on Proposition 1 they decided to leave. In other words, in the specific case of Austin, they acted like spoiled children when they didn't get their way and made it so no one can benefit from their services in the city.
There's also this false narrative - the police search TONS of people without finding drugs or anything actionable. They happen to also search people who have drugs. But the only people who go in front of judges are (for the most part) criminals. So judges (and the press) only see the actual positives, not the 19 false positives for each actual positive.

0: http://newjimcrow.com/ (sourced from the book, chapter ... I think 3?)
No, it really does have to do with accounting

There are many VC backed companies that never state their valuation.

There are many VC backed companies that do state their valuation after every funding round and buy up all the press releases [on techcrunch, exhibit a] so everybody knows. So their secretaries, banking partners, trophy wives, and sycophants fawn over them more.

All of those companies have completely different 409a valuations, which are MUCH lower, because you can't just say "well 10% was sold for this much, so therefore 100% is this much". Nobody ever posts those.

The FASB accounting standards are also much more intelligent.

These valuations are literally only for impressionable people that don't want an intelligent valuation.
Look at the incredibly dangerous/unsafe/unfun drugs he did in that list. Duster, meth, huffing naptha... I mean, I'm all for self-experimentation but we know certain things are incredibly damaging to human beings.
Queue Microsoft acquisition.
Oh I get it now - you get money from the EU. Haha, fuck me. You couldn't care less about either argument, you just want your money to keep flowing.

Shit man, I feel sorry for you. Welcome to the real world.
> For >95% of startups, however, technical diligence is a waste of time for a more fundamental reason: in today's world of SaaS tools, APIs, and cloud infrastructure, most startup ideas don't have significant technical risk. That means technical resources are rarely the cause of success or the reason for failure.

While it's a tough pill to swallow for many engineers, there's a lot of truth in it.

The company I work for (Bored Panda) is a pretty good example of it. I was the first full time engineer, and the company already had 20+ millions of monthly visitors and ~2m facebook followers. Surely, there was tons of technical debt to clean up and uptime was... really poor :)
I've read a number of music theory books and guides, and not one of them contained: "unjustified superstition, non-reasoning, and funny symbols glorified by Latin phrases". In fact all were based on mathematics and at least some science.
The issue is that you know in what place they are going to grow in the future - it ain't going to be in Denmark.
None of which can be validated for correctness.
> Being a "jerk" is a defense mechanism.

Being an uncommunicative jerk is considered a more forgivable trait than actually pushing back on the work put on your plate.

In my first job ever, I spent about six months helping anyone who came by my desk for help. As it would turn out, my manager completely hated the fact that I did that because it looked like he couldn't keep me at 100% utilization.

He was much happier after I grew a neckbeard, long hair and turned into someone who'd bite the head off any QE who came by my desk with random questions.

More than a decade later, way out in open-source, I have gone back to being nicer & calmer - because nobody knows your hairstyle on the internet.
You can use C# in Unity which is huge (and partly why I'm leaning towards unity if I ever get into that space vs Unreal)
All of the above can be done relatively easily by any individual. And like I said, the Revolution guys aren't all bad. It's really just revo R that I find uncompelling. Even that wasn't always true, but Hadley and Rstudio have buried everyone else as far as dev/write up/presentation integrated environments go. Plus I like Hadley and Winston and joe better on a personal level. Nothing against David and his coworkers, they're great too. I just find it easy to connect as a developer and statistician with the Rstudio guys.
Arroyo Grande (AG). It's close to Pismo Beach and SLO (San Luis Obispo) along Highway 101.

My wife took my young sons to Pismo Beach often. She let them play in the surf with no worries, because the surfers were vigilant of little kids.

As for afforable housing, we have friends that live inexpensively in rural AG, back in the hills. Very beautiful.

SLO is a great college town. Lots of engineering students and faculty for potential friends. Lots of fun things to do in downtown SLO.
I keep seeing the "130 million miles of Autopilot control per fatality" statistic, especially in the context of "look these cars are better than humans" but I think this is incredibly disingenuous. First of all, you can't just take a sample size of 1 for an effectively random event and then do (total miles driven) / 1 = 1300000000 miles/fatality and pretend like that has any statistical significance.

Furthermore, during those entire 130 million miles, there was theoretically a human also sitting behind the wheel ready to take over if the system failed. If there was no human behind the wheel, the cars would not have been able to attain 130 million miles of drive time without a very large number of crashes. When humans drive, there is no intelligent being ready to take over whenever we make a mistake as is the case for Autopilot.

In my opinion, using this "statistic" is a very lazy way of hiding behind the numbers in dealing with a very non-obvious issue.
Airbnb: One Step Forward in Data Protection
> The only plausible way to fix a bug in an ANN is to incorporate said bug in the training set

My point was not something about manipulating weights directly vs. augmenting the training set. The analogy is roughly, find a misclassification : add particular input to training set :: find a bug : add a patch/test case. I'm playing devil's advocate, of course, and there are obvious, important differences.

> The difference is that all human written systems was once understood by a human

But that's not one of them! In practice, we create software systems by getting some rough intuition about an interface, wiring together some components, then checking the results empirically. Basic components that everything else is built on, C compilers for instance, are based on ambiguous, even contradictory specifications.
>They charge their phones and browse the web there.

What exactly is the problem with that?
If its not public, you have minimal chance of discovering it if it isn't provided, so while it is illegal for them to withhold it, you'll never know it existed and was withheld unless someone who does know of it -- almost certainly the police themselves, or the person shown in it (quite possibly, the real criminal, who would be revealing their own identity by coming forward) -- actively reveals it. So, illegal or not, it makes it much easier for them to get away with concealing exculpatory evidence.
> Don't we all want the future to win?

Just because you call it progress doesn't make it so.
The Taxi fares were artificially raised a lot by Orban a few years ago and the prices are fixed. I stopped using taxis at that point and was forced to bring people to the airport myself. Uber was welcome by all the people in Hungary, with much nicer drivers as the taxi drivers themselves.
I was once told that if you're ever pulled over by a cop in my home town that the only thing you could do was to comply with everything, including warrantless searches even if innocent. That, if nothing illegal was found as a reason to get pulled over, a light would be busted. On top of that, it was argued that since false charges led to enough jailtime throughout the years that compliance was the only choice. At the time, it was stupidly hard to believe that it was good advice, especially after watching the "Don't Talk to Police" video [1].

About a year later, I saw [2] from the Chicago Tribune from my hometown which pretty much completely confirmed what I was told. I apologized to him after reading that. The conversation seriously, seriously raised doubt towards the "don't talk to the police" advice, since it minimizes a very, very turbulent legal landscape.

[1] http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/ct-waukegan-poli...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
On the contrary, I think it is a lot easier to fix shitty CSS than shitty JS, because CSS is not run, but specifies attributes. This makes analysis static for the most part; race conditions and similar bugs usually do not occur.
Truth is as usual in between of two polar opinions - in the golden middle.

Just hire at least one professional for the startup. He/she will simply not be able to do complete garbage. That's meaning of "professionalism" at the end, right?

Good Experienced Professional Engineer also understands real life compromises. For him/her it is not that hard to make initial architectural decision that allows to implement something fast but has a foundation for future expansion. Usually it takes about couple of days for the person that "been there, seen that" to make good architectural decision.

Startups: "We are not so rich to buy cheap things". Well, at least CTO / architect.
I like the separate heaps ala Erlang and GHC. Hope they're small enough by default and initial size can be tuned for actively avoiding GC.
haha yes, epic :)
I didn't realise game engine is 100% of budget of a game? More like 1% (even on small scale). That would put their ideal sales around 15 million, pre tax and expenses per year. That's a long way from $1.5B valuation, even in most optimistic scenarios.
Hilarious. Asking questions (which you have not even bothered to answer) is an emotional knee jerk response...contrasted against science and statistics!
How long should a SaaS free trial be?
If he lacks the emotional bandwidth to deal with people, I'd say he hasn't earned that "IT professional" title he wants people to use.
My Apartment Banned Alcohol
I actually agree with your overall point but generally speaking if someone is making changes outside of your standardized toolchain you have a human problem. Emergencies aside, you use those tools for a reason. Straddling the fence is almost the worst of both worlds.
Every kind of crap can get upvotes given enough people with no judgement.
Must every critical argument I make be balanced with something positive in order to demonstrate I'm not 100% against Tesla?

Tesla definitely done great things. They're just not front and center in the news at the moment.

I think it's best to look at the data or issues being discussed rather than some hidden motive. When I discuss politics, I don't just say "I'm voting for Billy", I try to say, "I like Billy's position on X because Y". Same thing here.
> Whereas a five-year-old kid can play some passable Bach on the piano that we can enjoy as Bach

Then why do people pack concert halls to listen to Joshua Bell instead of listening to their kid cousin playing the violin?

> The result is that performing a convincing cover of some pop music requires a very high musical standard.

The same is absolutely true of classical music. Just because you can recognize what a Bach piece is by hearing the notes doesn't mean it's a good or convincing performance.
So what did he actually do with this model? Why is it better to do it this way? What is the point? There's no evidence or output here.
> From Google description, "Bored Panda is a leading art, design and photography community for creative people. Our submission platform helps artists and creators turn their stories into."

into what? :-)
probably because it can produce meaningless results. it's extremely hard to tell where which bits actually ended up, ram, or disk, or some other intermediate buffer or cache on a controller somewhere.

we use fio with a standard test config across systems for meaningful results.
Q&A on Bots, Self-Driving, Future of Work with Megan Quinn, Spark Capital
Network effects are a good example of something that is both non-technical and defensible.

You can't build the next Facebook anymore because everybody's friends are already on Facebook.
> As many others have pointed out, the difference is you have BLM here and Atlantic articles that point out drone strikes publishing in the US, and there is some movement (although, not as rapid as many of us would wish for) on the ground to make things better

Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lybia, Syria. I disagree with you that any of these events created a better ground for the next one. I would say exactly the opposite, as the US govt started to drone even their own citizens.
> Furthermore, during those entire 130 million miles, there was theoretically a human also sitting behind the wheel ready to take over if the system failed.

Yes. That is the point, though. When Autopilot is used the way it is supposed to be used, it doesn't seem to decrease safety, and it may actually increase it.

I agree with the point in your first paragraph, though.
How does that site knows which libraries are used on the apps?
Eerie pictures show untouched Fukushima 'exclusion zone'
I suspect that people aren't yet convinced that Unity will triumph over the more sophisticated, more popular, established competitors like unreal and frostbite, even though unity is well-placed for, and well-executing, a disruptive "democraticising" play.
No, it wouldn't, nor would the vice-versa option. But wouldn't it be nice if it were easier for low-income players to participate while going about their daily lives?
This is the best answer I've seen, I wish I'd seen it before I wrote mine. Great explanations.

R/S was really meant as "glue" for FORTRAN and C linear algebra libraries (ask Chambers if you don't believe me, and look at how glmnet works). The other stuff is just to get data into a form that can be fed to LAPACK & friends.
This is an excellent point. Funny though how there doesn't seem to be any general awareness of it among the public.
I've found the best testing pattern is to test the interface of the component, not the implementation.

This means treating the component as an opaque function with inputs (props) and outputs (the rendered result). Your tests just need to that verify that different prop values result in the DOM changes or callbacks that you expect.
This. "Go fast!" is often an excuse for putting zero thought at all into sane design or basic layering, which is basically just as fast as doing it the wrong way.
exactly, so that's what happens when a startup tries to iterate quickly, but doesn't have the right technical people who can pull it off.
Well, there's harmony, melody, rhythm, and words. Melody derives from harmony. I agree that this doesn't cover rhythm or words.
With persistent facial recognition it gives Google a very marketable database. The key being that they can store all faces and only need to go back and search them when a customer wants to know all the dates and locations where they have seen that face.
I would assert that you cannot make that claim, as there is no statistically significant evidence in support of it.
Study focuses on how teachers perceive educational robots in classrooms
so, you're not Irish then?

There are many ways to define oneself. "Defining oneself historically" is something Americans in South Boston do.

I'm not sure what you find confusing about "op stated "A lot of the Irish define themselves, historically, in terms of opposition to the British.""

The Irish aren't, never have been, opposed to Britain, Great Britain & North Ireland nor the United Kingdom.
Sweet. This makes digitalocean much more appealing as a potential substrate for a kubernetes cluster.
I agree. I did not agree with everything he wrote, but everyone of his articles were insightful and I came out a better person for having read and thought about them.
Resolution has very little to do with it. Many images from NASA are stitched, even the ones from New Horizons. The important part is light sensitivity (in the correct wavelengths!) and making sure that it can work in the radiation of Jupiter.

You can go buy a camera with the same sensor if you'd like, but they're expensive:

http://www.qsimaging.com/620-overview.html

I believe it's the same sensor that flew on the Curiosity mission and we all know those photos are fantastic. They are also flight tested, invaluable for missions like this where you only get one shot at it.
Can't this claim be applied to any globalization labor issue? Part of the EU is open borders, why stop with the EU member-state borders?
He discusses tuning in section 3.3.3.
So um, if all of these bills have been passed, then why hasn't the problem been solved? I guess one more is needed to do the trick.

We're trapped in the death spiral of late stage democracy.