skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't seen it myself (there are images elsewhere in this thread). I don't quite understand why a multi-column "responsive" design isn't more widely used. It seems a no-brainer for a site like this. Something like TweetDeck (if one chooses).
> Paid articles that promote products in a way that the untrained user can’t really tell the difference.

You realize that there is nothing new about this right? It's been happening since the dawn of capitalism. Not saying it is bad or good, just noting that it isn't new.
Who would frame a PTA mom?
Even if you don't see anything connected to the pins, there could be an entire computer within the plug, connected from below, where you wouldn't be able to see it :)
Silicon Valley is, and will continue to be, to tech, what New York is to finance. Which means all these other startups will be like regional banks. Good businesses, yes, but not a 'threat' to the big Silicon Valley companies and the tech ecosystem there.
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Looks pretty good.

For an even-poorer-man's google docs, I like to keep this bookmarked:

data:text/html, <html contenteditable>

If you navigate to that string in your browser it gives you a blank, editable page. No saving or any fancy features, but it is pretty convenient to be able to quickly spin up a scratch pad sometimes.
Very difficult to do that with ADSL. The bandwidth varies for every customer, according to the length and the status of their copper cable. They should advertise the minimum bandwidth of some reference cable but how does it help us?

With fiber, yes, that's possible. They're not advertising it in commercials but the website of my ISP has a page with those data. It matches what I experience with fiber.
Your aversion to threatening employees reminds me a bit of the old "just following orders" canard.

Developers are not sweatshop workers beholden to the company store. They have a plethora of employment options. If they willingly choose to work for such a company, the case could be made that they have made themselves legitimate targets for having made this choice.
All other things equal, I imagine people used to eat a lot less calorie-dense food...?
It still is (I think). He was asking us to complete the Luna Mattresses song.

773-202 beep-beep-boop-boop luna

Empire is:

800-588, 2300, empire (late they added "today" to the end)
At this point we're just repeating ourselves, so I think we're done.
Because we haven't always been sedentary. I thought the article covered this point pretty early on.
There's some prerequisite of knowing how Ethereum works and how to work with smart contracts at this point. There's room for more explanations for the public which is not that involved in Ethereum.
You should disclose that Deeplearning4j is your startup.
Extensive discussion of this story yesterday, in which everything mentioned in this article was covered:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12379518

But this article might still be useful, since it provides a summary for those who don't want to read through yesterday's 470 comments.
Looks like applescript, easy to read, impossible to write
I'm not sure what you're basing your projections on, but China's growth rate has been heading down for the past decade. They are currently at half of their max GDP growth rate.

lower growth last years was policy -prevent "overheating".
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/chinas-overh...

now it isnt

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/china/cash-reserve-ratio

still have something like 20 or 30 years left before they reach their urbanisation goals. And things dont stop there.
There's an even more extreme form of that where people fill the USB sockets with hot glue. Extraordinary needs call for extraordinary measures.
I think serial PL designer Wouter van Oortmerssen started
creating languages in his teens...
Maybe you're right, a project like servo (https://github.com/servo/servo) looks like a better fit.

easy bugs to hunt:
https://github.com/servo/servo/labels/E-easy
Sounds about right !

But actually all Deep Learning stuff, tutorials, videos are upvoted pretty quickly those times.
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Monero is currently ranked 6th in terms of market cap[1]. It seems to be the highest privacy focused crypto currency beating out dash.

Bitcoin still controls ~80% of the total crypto currency market cap.

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/
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If it's a genuine endorsement then money wouldn't be changing hands.
I'm blown away by the author's ability to fit so many buzzwords into so little content.
A lot of people are only interested in crypto-currencies for use in the black markets. While probably a majority here are more interested in them from a computer science or investing perspective.
What do black people like me have to lose if Trump wins? Everything
I do too - however, I've found unless you have editor support it's kind of a bear to edit by hand.

Markdown however isn't too hard with any crappy notepad.

Things like drawers, tables, #+TBLFMT: etc are pretty rough.
Investor day was epic - tons of props to software and ops teams!
There are a lot of other new features as well that were introduced in the 2.0-beta release: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/What's-new-in-T...
I mean, engineers are generally pretty smart people, I don't think anybody within the company thinks Google+ is killing it. But the thing is, I would imagine that if you work at Google you are going to work on "unsexy" products too. Working on Google+ today is probably not worse than say working on the Ads Platform or some random internal reporting tool. It's not super mega exciting, but it's a job and you get paid.
It is not always wise advice. ("Now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb." - Dark Helmet)

In an iterated prisoner's dilemma [1] where both players know the number of rounds that will be played, the optimal strategy is to always defect. When the number of rounds is unknown to both players, a good strategy was empirically shown to be "tit for tat" [2] - if your opponent is cooperating, then you cooperate too, otherwise you continue to defect as long as they do, and only resume cooperation after they resume playing nice.

Obviously game theoretic models are just models, but they can be useful and illuminating.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#The_itera...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat
This is roughly how it works in Finland, although the maximum speed can be advertised. It works fairly well.

The real kicker is that the regulator has actually defined acceptable minimum speeds.

Minimum speeds can be stated either as an average or a range. Acceptable averages are at least 50% of the advertised maximum speed measured during any 4 hour period. If stated as a range, 40% of the maximum speed as a lower bound at any time is acceptable.
None of that changed the popular stereotype. And Linux distros, etc. have never been more than a fraction of the volume of warez torrents.
Technically it's true. But reality says that it's highly unlikely, and so it's just as good to say that you can't declare bankruptcy on them. The odds that you will be able to discharge them are incredibly low.
I disagree.

When a company pays a person to endorse a product then it's in the person's best interests not to search for (or promote) a better alternative.

It's great if they would use and promote the product anyway, but it's naive to think getting paid hasn't influenced them in any way.
The validation requirements for 'Extended Validation' certificates can be onerous - complete with in-person ID checks, and photocopies of passports and driving licenses signed by public notaries. I'm not sure automated transfers would be possible.

I suppose you could downgrade on automatic transfer. I've heard people question the value of EV certs, and certainly a working DV cert is better than a revoked EV cert. Or you could insist every EV cert applicant verify their identity with two different CAs.
Ooh, that book looks great. Thanks, will add it to the post.
Not valid, since question comes preloaded with an assumption language designers start a lot earlier ("so late").
Not on the team, but know someone who is, and I think it's mostly the latter. I'm sure there are lots of challenges on the project still to keep someone busy, but they're not completely unaware of how it's perceived these days.
>what would we find when we looked in ....Pittsburgh (home of the leading computer science school in the world, Carnegie Mellon)

Wait, it was 2012 and the venture capitalists were /just then/ figuring out it would be a good idea to be close to the "best computer science school in the world"?

Not that I had any respect for VC's before, but my opinion just dropped even more.

> ... entrepreneurs are building more billion-dollar companies in the Midwest than in the last 50 years combined.

Yes it's called currency devaluation combined with ZIRP.

I do wonder if they'll write such a flowery article when entrepreneurs discover that their odds of success actually go UP if they pass on VC altogether.
Wild cardinal tetras are considered "annual" fish. They take a year to complete their life cycle, and then die. In captivity, 2-3 year life spans are pretty normal.
Perhaps Russell might have been wise to toss in something about not being overly literal, too.
> Yes. If you are paid to advertise something, it is an ad.

Good luck with that definition. Is a person wearing sponsored designer clothing on the red carpet obligated to declare that the didn't pay for it? Or does that obligation only arrive when someone takes a photo of them?

I do think that sponsored posts are a big problem, but it's exactly as much of a problem as the product placement that buffets us elsewhere in life, and equally as impossible to prevent.
Appreciate this deeply. You have made me think about doing something unique and valuable which they are currently struggling with.
Several years on and we still have to deal with the fact that we cannot have good names for our URLs ("vanity URL" or "custom URL" or whatever else you'd want to call it). Want to share your profile with others? Here's a Google+ link with a long string of digits at the end. Want to share your Google+ community's link with others? Here's another Google+ link with a long string of digits at the end. Want to share your Google+ page's link? Here's yet another Google+ link with a long string of digits at the end. Want to shorten these links? Use the built-in shortener and get a shortened-yet-gibberish-like-link. Want to simplify these links for sharing using meaningful names in the URL so people can actually remember it? Oh, then just use bit.ly (or another better URL shortener) and create a custom one with whatever name you like (assuming it's available on bit.ly)! How hard is it to provide custom URLs? Does it cost Google millions of dollars to do this? Does it make maintenance of Google+ a lot more expensive? Facebook provides custom names to be used in URLs for one's profile, for pages, and for groups (first come first served and all that, of course). On Google+ you can do this for your profile (?) after you meet some primitive pre-conditions.

For something that's supposedly social, I'm deeply disappointed with how Google+ has been developed (read neglected) over time. I like some aspects of G+ (like the layout, font, font sizes, etc.), but two things that are grating are the lack of custom URLs and the unintuitive navigation scheme (compared to Facebook). I still post to G+ once in a while (although, there's really no audience there) and look for improvements with the hope that I can start nudging people away from Facebook and get more traction on an alternative platform (another walled garden, but at least not as evil, IMO). It's sad, for me, that even long wait times don't show much for progress. If the strategy seemed convoluted while Vic Gundotra was managing it, his departure left the platform languishing as if it were a part time project.

Anyone from the Google+ team reading this - firstly, please bring in basic stuff to the platform that's important for people to share, and secondly, please copy Facebook shamelessly in whatever it's doing well for user experience.

Lastly, thanks a lot for (reverting to and) retaining the freedom of users to use pseudonyms on the platform!
Sometimes I feel like Google's design practices are on a death spiral.
It's a moral hazard¹, or possibly an externality; the people writing the algorithms that violate people's privacy are not themselves the victims.

Normally in a market system you want to keep the chain between cause and damage short enough to be comprehensible for the people causing it; otherwise, there's no good way to make them avoid it.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard
vonnik: I agree Paddle has a chance in China. That's what I wrote above :-)

As to TensorFlow's dominance, maybe you're right, I could be wrong. That's why I created the poll, to find out which framework the HN community actually wants to use: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12391744
Perhaps your "unit" here should not be the post but the entire Instagram feed - the same way you're talking of a film rather than a particular scene or shot.

The way I see it, she has simply placed a product in her feed, the same way a film places a product in its timeline. Whether you like the practice or not, I'd treat both the same way.

Also, disclosed or not, part of the audience will inevitably figure out the ulterior motive ("Oh, look at that product placement!"), and then some will get turned off ("How blatant!"). It's up to the content creators to do this slily or tactfully enough so it doesn't backfire. Perhaps that's more important than disclosing per se.
Who says they will?
> From the outside looking in it looks to me like Google+ is going to be the hub in which users can interact with all of Google's properties that have a mechanism to work with and collaborate with other, public users. They likely still have millions of users.

Yes, but we're talking maybe about .5% of all Google accounts actively use Google+... what's their goal at this point? 1%? is it a "if we build it, eventually they might come" scenario?
It's great to see people talking about the infrastructure they use to manage their deep learning workloads.

One area where we've had trouble with other orchestration tools (e.g. Docker Swarm) was in managing resources at anything beyond whole boxes. They are all good at managing CPU/RAM/Disk but we've had trouble with give this task GPU2. We had planned to try Mesos (given that we already run it for other things) but it sounds like maybe we should take a harder look at Kubernetes first.
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Sorry, but I will never trust my passwords to someone who can't setup a domain with SSL.
Why attack your own when you can go after the US?
We were poorer, less healthy, shorter and no one was actually measuring obesity.
For another take on the "split" of modernism, read Francis Schaeffer - either "The God Who Is There" or "Escape From Reason".

Schaeffer is a Christian, and his philosophy is explicitly Christian. If that isn't your perspective, you still might benefit from his analysis of why modern thought ended up where it did.
Ok sorry, I was pissed. I understand for "morons" but for "totalitarians"? Totalitiarinism is a political ideology being practiced in this case.
> ...colleges would be forced to lower them to attract new "customers".

This is categorically false. Schools would maintain whatever price point achieved equilibrium with the market's ability to pay. It would not necessarily require any school to reduce their prices.

> ...demand skyrockets and prices rise to meet them.

But that doesn't make any sense in the context of the higher education market..."supply" is neither fixed, nor constrained (within reason). Schools could easily expand their supply to accommodate additional students because there is actually an over-abundance of adjunct labor (rather than full-time faculty) in most fields that are trained and available to teach classes now, at much lower costs than traditional tenured faculty. The costs of providing education have actually fallen during the same period that the costs of running a college have risen. It's not being driven by "demand" from prospective students -- cost growth is being driven by competition between schools.

Schools also can't choose to compete on price because the availability of "free money" in the form of loans makes students less price sensitive. Instead, schools end up competing based on maximizing overall "quality of life" factors within a fixed price.
Unless you're speaking Irish, please don't refer to the country as 'Eire' - it's akin to referring to Germany as 'Deutschland' in English. It's either 'Ireland' (the country's name in English) or 'Republic of Ireland' (its official description) if you're more comfortable with that.
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"especially since Ireland had to ask for a bailout lifeline, and was in no position to negotiate firmly."

Or we could have just burned the various EU and international bondholders...
While its useful to have this kind of info, IMHO its still far from 'infrastructure for deep learning'. What about model versioning? What about deployment environments? We need to address the whole lifecycle, not just the 'training' bit. This is a huge and underserved part of the problem bc people tend to be satisfied with having 1 model thats good enough to publish.
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we have here in sweden providers(Telia) that does infact zero the data on any trafic from Facebook and Spotify.
Wasn't Skype founded in Estonia though?
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Every time this apple in Ireland tax issue comes up it makes my brain hurt, literally hurt to read all these replies who don't seem to look at this problem correctly.

First, Apple did nothing illegal. There is no wrong doing here. They pay tax in every country they owe tax. Period.

Second, perhaps it's not Apple that's the problem? Perhaps it's the tax that is the problem.

If you have mega corps building entities outside its main jurisdiction to avoid the main jurisdictions tax burden, perhaps you need to revamp your insane tax code. Hmm?
"Midwest" can mean anything from Pennsylvania to Kansas. It can mean the Old Northwest (the original "the West") [0], or it can mean "just west of the Mississippi River". As Humpty-Dumpty says, it's just a question of who is to be master.

Pennsylvania is a Mid-Atlantic state, but Pittsburgh is where the Ohio River starts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territory
I think the areas between the Mississippi River and Appalachian system are a bit nebulous as to where they fit in. The Rust Belt has generally been considered Midwestern, but not Kentucky (even though settlement of both regions happened at roughly the same time. Tennessee and Arkansas generally get lumped in with the South. Moving west, Oklahoma is another toss-up, and Texas is plopped across three regional boundaries (South, Midwest, and Southwest).
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That's interesting. I'm used to google knowing a lot of information about me (android phone and I primarily use google apps). You're right though, it's not public information. Even google docs, the sharing permissions are really well handled. None of their products are orientated toward outward sharing bar Google+.
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The question is not whether some tax trickery is legal according to the small print of the law. The issue is that the taxation level of humongously rich corporations is perceived to be unfair. This is especially a sensitive issue in Western Europe where the middle class is taxed through the roof to sustain social-democracies that are having big problems with their budgets. Apple is heading for some serious PR damage if they believe they will get out of this with their traditional cute marketing.
That isn't remotely close to being true in all cases.
Andrew Appel discusses voting machine hacking on air, apparent live hack of WNYC
http://www.wnyc.org/story/ben-wofford-hacking-election/

https://twitter.com/LeonardLopate/status/770676228026142721

- and -

https://twitter.com/PatrikPhalen/status/770679356968534017
The high amount of upvotes and low ratio of votes/comments on deep learning/big data posts is unfortunately accurate.

It's not a problem that HN has topics which are frequently upvoted; topics such as employment and Rust are popular memes.

It is a problem, however, if the upvote-for-the-title crowd upvote articles which are bad and would not get upvotes if they were about another topic. That's a legit hard problem to solve (what makes a good submission?), unfortunately, but one I've been looking into.

(For clarity, this submission is a good submission, but I've seen quite a few top-ranking HN submissions that are just a bar chart on a controversial topic that is poorly sourced. And linkbait about deep leaning tends to get upvotes, but flagged too.)
It's a property rights issue. Specifically, should private organisations be allowed to own major pieces of infrastructure?

The European vision of capitalism is where you can own, say, a cafe or mobile app, and do what you want with it. However, something like a telecoms network or search engine is too important to be kept in the hands of ruthless big business, and the state needs to step in to control who said businesses deal with.

They talk about preventing monopoly, but even with infrastructure, technological shifts mean any purported monopoly constantly faces real competition. (Witness how IBM lost out to Microsoft, which lost out to the internet companies).

Private investment and private innovation is the best way to build infrastructure, and if the state wants to control how the infrastructure is used (and prevents the owners from cutting special deals with their largest potential customers), investment money stays away.

This has happened with pharmaceuticals - one reason there's been so much investment in viagra and plastic surgery is that more useful medical patents tend to be seized by government. It's also happening in the case of European telecoms: the net neutrality rules provide a disincentive to invest in 5G.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/10/12139700/telecom-companies...

(That article is negatively slanted, but gives a decent overview). Here's the actual report by the telcos:

http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/document.cfm?action=display...

Yes, I would rather have decisions made by people in Brussels that understand what they're doing.

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Not everyone lives in areas served by a bus system... none of the paperwork I have ever seen has spelled out any of this like that... it may depend on the school you are attending. I don't know, I haven't found the law or any official statement by the Dept of Ed. on it.
The Sensirion SHT35 [1] is good down to +/-0.2C. However, it's important to note that having such an accurate sensor is somewhat useless if there's not a radiation shield. A sunny day will change the temperature reading by several degrees C.

[1] https://www.sensirion.com/products/humidity-sensors/digital-...
> Probably because that's not what it was designed for.

TF was explicitly designed with distributed training in mind (their initial whitepaper and the DistBelief paper that came before it make this clear) -- I don't know how you came to this conclusion.

Usually when people say TF is slow, it turns out they've introduced a serious bottleneck somewhere.
Hi, why did you have to make your own graphics engine? Does canvas not supply everything you need?