skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The police were way out of line and completely disregarded the accused's rights.

First things first, the victim has rights too. Moreover, if the police were called to respond to a domestic disturbance/dispute and come to find a women who was obviously beaten, but likely to afraid to give a statement, the police were not exactly out of line, they made a decision to secure the video evidence of the crime before the accused had the opportunity to destroy it.

Sure the evidence was suppressed under the 4th Amendment/illegal search and seizure/fruit of the poisons tree doctrine, but I could easily see (and have seen) Judge's arrive at different decisions in similar cases, for example drug cases where the defendant was actively flushing the evidence. You can't exactly blame the officers for not having a crystal ball, knowing what Judge this case would ultimately go before, and how the Judge would rule.

Nevertheless, you can't exactly feel bad for the defendant, even if you think his rights were violated, because the Courts worked exactly as they are supposed to and upheld his rights resulting in 47 felony counts essentially going away and him being able to plea out to 3 years probation, 1 year domestic violence courses and 25 hours community service. Keep in mind the prosecutors could have easily still gone to trial and convicted him without the video.
It's also worth noting that Vanguard's index funds are usually offered to the general public in two share classes: the "Investor" shares, and the "Admiral" shares. The Admiral shares have lower expense ratios, and generally require a $10k minimum investment -- down from something like $50k several years ago.

Some of Vanguard's funds have corresponding ETFs, which hold the exact same investments the funds do, and usually offer the low expense ratio of the Admiral fund shares with no minimum investment.
$35 sounds a bit high to me...
or they have sufficient empathy to know that what they're doing might be painful but will ultimately save your life or increase your quality of life, and thus is absolutely worth doing.
That's just because KNL is the only chip available right now with AVX-512; presumably this will be available on other CPUs in the future.
Best guess is there was a Victoria Zubkis, daughter of Steven Zubkis, who's body was found washed up under a pier in San Diego.

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Ocean-Beach-Pier-Death...

Apparently that's the CEO's daughter? But the only references I can find say the death was ruled to not be a homicide, so I don't get the references in the text to being murdered by a loved one. And why he put a eulogy to his daughter into the footer of all his web pages are beyond me.
Would lights need to be run on the UPS, or just the audio equipment?
I have been to a house in Dallas that has a separate 110v utility pole to feed a system that costs 4x the house it resides in. The center piece is a set of focal grand Utopias em (160k retail) each fed by custom made 750w mono tube amps. He has a studer 8 track reel to reel and multiple technics sp-10 and sp-15 turntables with 2 arms each and multiple 5 figure hand made cartridges.

This is a friend of my uncle. He has a record collection that DJ premier would envy. I spent 3 hours just listening to music on what was probably the best stereo I've ever heard and will ever hear. I don't know what was the halo effect and what was real but it sounded incredible. That said, the music is still the music. I am an amateur recording artist for about 20 years. I've had brushes with major releases and recorded in big studios. here is my point I think it's slightly ironic to see people spend so much money to listen to records that are sometimes recorded on awful gear or made to sound distorted on purpose.
The Fundamental Physical Limits of Computation
Recently, someone shared a link on Hacker News to this website: https://pomax.github.io/nrGrammar/. If you look carefully in section 1.1.4, which aims to visually compare the differences between the Hiragana and Katakana scripts, you can see that there is a "logic" in transitioning from a character in Hiragana to the same character in Katakana. In the same way, it seems that an autoencoder is capable of capturing this logic.
Canada is a great place to live for most people, frankly, probably better than the US.

It's not a good place for talent.
People feel that way about their banks until the first time money is taken out of their account without their permission. Certainly very possible in the United States.
Why no one uses services from providers like Digital ocean and linode . They are cheap and reliable?
A terrible and disingenuous trope. Surgeons make numerous decisions during surgery that require extraordinary empathy to deliver the best outcome. And, unsurprisingly, surgery outcomes are strongly correlated with strong doctor-patient relationships.

Moreover, your use of the word "handle" is peculiar. Modern operating rooms are not horror movie sets.

(I apologize for my aggressiveness. This is a major pet peeve!)
> the first one, I believe in 2013 or so?

That wouldn't be the first one; from some Google searches, I think the first was in 2005: http://lanyrd.com/2005/startup-school/
Forgive me if I missed it, but has Gawker been "critical" of Thiel in the traditional sense? I'm tracking that they outed him - not that they've been publishing anti-Thiel business editorials - and that they published a sex tape without the permission of those who made it.

It appears that we're starting to conflate protected free speech with invasions of privacy. It's not immediately clear that shouting "Faggot! Faggot! Hope you die of AIDS!" falls into the latter category, so I don't really see how that's relevant.
The U.S. Economy Needs to Kick Its Car Habit
http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9908043.pdf
Does anyone know why the pay is so much lower? It seems lame to blame it on "culture" (if it's really true, that's a great arbitrage opportunity). Are there systemic country-wide forces that push down on the salaries?
Okay, then that's not as surprising. If you have a comp sci or engineering background it would be different. Breaking into the industry is hard without the correct education background. Until you have experience companies will lowball you to compensate for the risk involved in hiring you. This is the same pretty much anywhere.
The market will decide. Apple sells around 70M phones a quarter, time will tell. Corey is free to buy whatever phone he wants.
There's an element of "not missing out", but for many investors (especially angels, who do not invest professionally), there's also elements of: (a) wanting to co-invest with friends and (b) trusting the judgment of people they know well.
$70k-$110k is pretty much standard for mid-level devs in Vancovuer as well.
Why wait, check out PocketCHIP for a neat handheld low cost computing environment.
It'll never stop being an issue. You're in tech you go to SV, you're in entertainment you go to LA, you're in international criminal law you go to The Hague, you're in particle smashing you go to Europe, you're into iron ore mining you go to Perth, etc.

Countries will just blow tax money trying to change things. Focus on your core competencies.
There's no theoretical reason why multipaxos can't be implemented hierarchically in order to increase throughput or expand the key space beyond what a small number of machines can handle. But paxos itself is complicated enough to deter almost all implementers, so add two additional levels of complexity? I don't think I'm surprised no one has tried.

Paxos: Agree on a value.

Multipaxos: Agree on a Leader, who will coordinate a set of values.

Hierarchical Multipaxos: Agree on a Leader, who will coordinate a set of Leaders, who will each coordinate a set of values.

If you squint hard enough, this looks almost like a B-Tree.
When reading those excerpts from old texts, I am thankful for the scientific method.
It's not that far off. $120K is somewhere near normal at Google and a decent startup. Not including exchange rate, but most of the exchange is eaten up in cost of living.

Exchange can be normalized for most us/ca comparisions, i.e. 100K in Canada is only 70K US but most prices are normalized for that.

The Bay Area is mind-boggling expensive though - and you'd all be naive to not consider that.

My flat in Montreal would be $5500 a month, USD anywhere in SF. It's amazing. And cheap.

Also consider that startups in the US have to cover healthcare, which is very expensive. That said, if you have healthcare in the US, it's better than in Canada. Again, it doesn't really matter for normal people under the age of 30.
In another post, the author states outright that she likes many styles [0], so the idea she promotes "sterile, totalitarian looking architecture" is off the mark. The original post itself includes a diversity of good examples, so I'm not sure where that came from.

I guess I find it hard to take your claims seriously until you explain why you've concluded the author wants to enact her tastes into law rather than just discuss them.

>People find "careless" designs interesting.

I didn't mean to suggest otherwise. It just that in some (many?) cases, careless designs are less likely to be widely appealing or stand up to scrutiny.

[0]: http://mcmansionhell.tumblr.com/post/148836824926/man-i-love...
I am setting a unit up now for a customer. In the years I've been working on them, the toolchain you need has not gotten much better ... no ... it went from complete crap to meh.

You really can't not use the intel compilers for them. Gcc won't optimize well for it at all. This means that in addition to the higher entry price for the hardware, you have a sometimes painfully incompatible compiler toolchain to buy as well, and then code for. Which means you have to adapt your code to the vagaries of this compiler relative to gcc. These adaptations are sometimes non-trivial.

I am not saying gcc is the be-all/end-all, but it is a useful starting point. One that the competitive technology works very well with.

From the system administration side, honestly, the way they've built it is a royal pain. Trying to turn this into something workable for my customer has taken many hours. This customer saw many cores as the shiny they wanted. And now my job is (after trying to convince them that there were other easier ways of accomplishing their real goals) to make this work in an acceptable manner.

The tool chain is different than the substrate system. You can't simply copy binaries over (and I know they have not yet internalized this). The debugging and running processes are different. The access to storage is different. The connection to networks is different.

What I am getting to is that there too many deltas over what a user would normally want.

It is not a bad technology. It is just not a product.

That is, it isn't finished. It's not unlike an Ikea furniture SKU. Lots of assembly required. And you may be surprised by the effort to get something meaningful out of it.

As someone else mentioned elsewhere in the responses, the price (and all the other hidden costs) are quite high relative to the competition ... and their toolchain stack is far simpler/more complete.

The hardware isn't a failure. The software toolchain is IMO.
DDG: Quack and Hack – Philadelphia
Secrets are valuable because they can create an information asymmetry that the holder of the secret can take advantage of. However, it is often the case that sharing the secret is more beneficial than holding it. Which you should chose depends on what you are trying to create, and how you are planning to derive value from it.
>Canada is a great place to live for most people, frankly, probably better than the US.

No it's not. Most youth have zero dreams related to property ownership, as everything near the core and cities that are near the core are prohibitively expensive. There is a general apathy and malaise here.

"Just move outside of the city" they say, to suburbs that are also priced 500k+, and just far enough to only have to spend an hour and a half commuting to your city job.
Who's the Shop Steward on Your Kickstarter?
DNC Creates a 'Cybersecurity Board' Without a Single Cybersecurity Expert
Big ass -48vdc battery banks, float charge controllers and precision sine wave inverters are a solved problem. If it's good enough for a $235,000 Infinera DWDM platform...
Side note unrelated to your question itself, the name for the reference that a pronoun points to is an antecedent.

Not trying to correct you, I just think grammar is nifty.
Maybe but they address this very point by saying the hum is only in the past few decades but tinnitus has been reported for very much longer. No idea how much data there really is either way.
Why is AWS so popular? I don't mean that as a question with pretense, just genuinely curious.
To be clear, vendor directories are still optional to use, you just don't have to enable them by default.

We use a unirepo for all of our Go work, and being forced to use the vendor directory would be a massive headache.
They likely knew they would have to train you in multiple areas, but liked your hustle and made an offer based on the cost of training you. At least, that's what I'd do - if you have limited experience, I'd need to teach you how to write code, how to work with code reviews, versioning control, etc, etc.
Well, the problem is that Intel started with something way worse than OpenCL when they brought their first Phi to market: OpenMP. The claim was to just wrap your loops in OpenMP directives and everything will be fine. Yea well...

If they had went full on OpenCL, including a unified programming for vector and multicore parallelism (the way CUDA works), I think Phi might have taken off much more already.
The USA has many natural advantages against Canada when it comes to 'exceptionalism' - mostly scale and clusters.

It's almost impossible to do anything A++ in Canada because it gets sucked into the US.

So Canada is a great place for the 99%, but for anything that's exceptional, it's the US.

The way market economies work 'exceptional' companies suck up most of the profits and surpluses ...

So it's a perennial problem for the talented.

But again, for most people, Canada is a better place if you can hack the weather.
He said good JS terminal emulator.
> Society must bear the cost as well

Society isn't bearing any costs. There is one woman who's bearing the costs of your high standards of righteousness by being kicked in the head/groin/etc. more than a hundred times.

Now I do get the sentiment, but in the context of a a few well-publicized cases of "alleged" police misconduct over the last year that went nowhere in terms of sanctioning it just rings a bit hollow.

You're also awfully quick to dismiss alternatives. I don't see how letting this guy off the hook is a stronger incentive for those police officers than kicking them off the force. In fact a good firing has proven 100% effective in preventing repeat offenders. Add some career-slowing disincentives up the chain of command and I'm pretty sure you'll see results.
Professional, reliable, good tooling, lots of offerings
>Or you could whine about why you deserve to get Canada's best at insulting wages. Maybe that will work.

Had a opportunity with a Ontario based startup, their starting package was 40k and they wanted me to relocate. When pushing for a better salary, I was told this was the best they could offer. Fucking insulting wage for a backend developer (Go/Appengine)
Cuda did not share many similarities to the graphics pipeline back then. Even now it's a stretch to compare the two.

x86 was and is still a weak selling point. Developers from all backgrounds are deploying their apps on varying architectures like ARM or the JVM without much stress. The hard part about writing code that is fast for an architecture is only made more complex by having your compute units be x86 rather than simple SP vector units of a GPU.

I know many folks without a graphics background writing cuda apps but no one outside of hpc research environments dabbling in the complexities of xeon phi.

The reason for this is simple; if you get your code to be in a cuda friendly structure you have created a data parallel rewrite that leverages the highly parallel memory bus of GPUs to get a pretty easy speedup. By being constrained to a semi opinionated programming interface people can see real speedups and not get bogged down in multithreading, multiprocessing, and buggy device drivers.
One thing a bond fund can offer that a savings account simply cannot is access to TIPS. TIPS bought and held to maturity are about the safest investment there is, and bond funds can capitalize on that (although I'm not sure how great any of the popular TIPS-based funds actually are).

There are other answers to your question, of course, depending on the situation. Munis or treasuries will have different tax advantages and so on, while the money your high (ahem) yield savings account pays will probably be taxable income.

You probably know all this, just thought it worth pointing out that all of this stuff can be used sometimes for a good reason...
The last time Motorola tried something similar (webtop), they could never stick to a single device design across releases.
I never take acetaminophen anymore and generally only take ibuprofen, and only a few times a year. Serious question: Why do people even take acetaminophen anymore?
> Perl6 made a lot of improvements https://docs.perl6.org/language/regexes

IMO the word "improvements" should be in quotes. Pathological regular expressions are an issue because of things like back references and look-behind matching. If Perl hadn't enshrined the idea of "a regular expression for every problem" people would probably be less skeptical of regular expressions in code.
What do you consider "source code" then if Python doesn't qualify?
IMO, there's no way to treat animals humanely while also killing them to eat them just for their taste, there are perfectly good replacements for all the nutrients you can argue meat provides.

Even in "Humane" Farms there is sexual violation and exploitation (via forced insemination), separation of mothers from their babies, routine mutilations (debeaking, castration, dehorning) and many other things that disregard the animal's instincts and preferences.

Sorry for the rant.
Having lived all over the world, all over Canada, and in Texas and Cali for many years, I can assure you that Canada is pretty good.

You have clearly never lived in the Silicon Valley if you're talking about housing.

Housing in the Valley is beyond unaffordable. A choice job at Google and you still won't be buying a home.

You're probably young, and single. Your class has always struggled with home ownership. Most couples can afford to get in on the housing ladder by buying and apartment, and in some year, buy a home.

That said - Toronto and Vancouver are distorted markets right now. Everywhere else in Canada is pretty normal and home ownership is similar to most places in the US that are not NYC/SF.
Like wooden vs. plastic volume knobs? :)

http://bobbyowsinski.blogspot.com/2012/05/485-volume-knob.ht...
By some OSes, you mean any Linux distro with Avahi installed, right? I'm assuming getaddrinfo checks NSS for where to look up hostnames.

I should also check how Windows with Bonjour behaves.
Ah, so there are actual contact points between the mod and the phone.
Discussion from 3 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11671730
I have engineering background, just not comp sci one. In the end, I made six figures and some hefty bonuses right out of school. Don't offer me the job, but don't try to lowball me.
It is probably the net package. The net package depends on cgo and libc for some DNS resolution. There is a pure Go implementation, but the cgo one is used if cgo is available. If you disable cgo as the other comments say, the pure Go implementation will be used instead. Alternatively, you can not include the net package.

Search for systemConf().canUseCgo()

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/lookup_unix...
> I don't think Apple fully appreciates that they no longer have the power to set the standard for this kind of thing any more.

I can totally see Apple getting away with this, however, only time can tell.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12285545
I wouldn't use "--get". If I wanted to use the long option, I'd use "--extract".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12293870
Yeah, the use of the word "allegedly" was a clever trick, in the past.
How to be successful at Amazon (or any other large company for that matter)
I do not disagree.

I think you should do some reading on what an operating system is.
>Most youth have zero dreams related to property ownership

So what? If renting is a better financial decision than buying in a particular market, you rent. It's that simple, or else you're making an emotional decision based on value judgments rather than objective measures of benefit or cost.
TL;DR Banks stopped lending to Porsche before it could seal the deal because 2008 happened.
>Voting "no" is better than giving up your vote in favor of someone who will undoubtedly vote "yes"

Is it? What do you think does more to further the cause and draw awareness, a no vote that doesn't matter and gets no attention or news articles Peter Thiel resigns Facebook board seat over moral objections to FB Privacy Policy?
Why Computers Won't Takeover the World, with Steven Pinker
I'm a fan of side by side programming.

This is where both people have their own computer. Both work on quasi-independent problems, but are free to ask the other questions and bounce ideas off them. Basically, stay far enough away in the code to not create to many merge conflicts, but close enough that you both can keep a mental model of your work and the others work.

I prefer to share a whiteboard rather than a keyboard.
The one thing that really pisses me off about the way Go handled vendoring is that they did it in a way that makes it incompatible with GOPATH. Previously in runC and Docker, we had build hacks that would symlink (or full copy) the current directory into vendor/src/<package> and then set the GOPATH to vendor/. This was compatible with every go version. In addition, many other projects did the exact same thing.

But the way that vendoring works in Go 1.5 and up is that you make vendor not a valid GOPATH and you have to now either create a fake GOPATH and move your current directory into it, or you have to do some symlink stuff within vendor/ that doesn't really work. Why was such a small cosmetic change seen as a good idea? It's needlessly incompatible with previous ways of making vendoring work seamlessly with Go.

I'm hoping that the packaging discussions that are going to be happening over the next few months don't result in a similar decision that "we know best".
Thanks for pointing this out. The same acronym is used to refer to both versions. I like the description of Recursive Neural Nets versus Recurrent Neural Nets in this Stack Overflow post [1].

> A recursive network is just a generalization of a recurrent network. In a recurrent network the weights are shared (and dimensionality remains constant) along the length of the sequence because how would you deal with position-dependent weights when you encounter a sequence at test-time of different length to any you saw at train-time. In a recursive network the weights are shared (and dimensionality remains constant) at every node for the same reason.

In the TreeRNN (Tree Recursive Neural Nets) Github project and associated paper [2], there is indeed an implementation of a TreeLSTM which is a recursive LSTM inspired by the recurrent version.

[1]: http://stats.stackexchange.com/a/158995/92040

[2]: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P15-1150
You make $250k-$300k/yr for an entry-level software engineering job?
Idea: Make the Roomba treads light-colored. Point an LED and photodetector at the top of the tread, the part that's inside the robot. If the reflectivity of the surface ever changes suddenly, then either something is stuck in the wheel or the wheel is tracking something around the house, so the Roomba should stop and alert the user.