skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly that. I told them I wanted to be a programmer, and they told me to do CS--I was lied to.

CS is the only field where this happens, as far as I can tell. There's plenty of degrees that aren't really useful career prep, but they're generally well-known--no philosophy major expects to graduate into the highly-paid world of professional philosophy. But if you're studying law or medicine or architecture, you absolutely do expect to be learning career skills.

There's this bizarre hole in CS where students come looking for a law degree and somehow get philosophy training instead. And then we have a thousand blog posts complaining about how fresh CS grads can't code FizzBuzz, and nobody at the universities ever makes the connection.
TF-Slim: A high level library to define complex models in TensorFlow
Also, circles are a terrible metaphor.

Someone I don't know added me to their circles. What the hell does that even mean? Do I now see whatever spammy crap they post? Do they see what I post? Why wasn't I asked for my permission? I've never met this person and I don't want to see their spam and I certainly don't want them seeing what I post. Who are they and what do they want? This sucks, I'm leaving.
Check out http://leafii.com

It's a website with of people that has personal websites.
does monero deals with privacy? last i checked Bitcoin solved the centralization of currency, not anonymity
Enjoying it so far, as an ST user, been pretty effortless figuring out where everything moved.

Few thoughts:

* Where can we give feedback other than here? Github repo or support site?

* Request: For those of us with large monitors, being able to change all fonts (not just diff) would be huge. (On OS X for reference.) Been a gripe of mine with SourceTree for a while.

* Potential bug: I changed the default folder for repositories, but it doesn't seem to have changed the list of repositories sourced from the default folder, when I did that.

* Request: add a 'Done' button to right side of the commit dialog. Having to press 'Cancel' after making commits feels like you're undoing changes.
This is a nonsense argument. I can fling rocks at you with great efficacy without any objective truth grounding my throws.
There is a limited resource here, which is programmers' time and attention. If everyone is scrambling to Rust, they will probably not give D as much attention. Without attention, D will probably not have a healthy collection of 3rd party libraries and tools.
I have to believe that you are intelligent even if you aren't smart about technical aspects. Otherwise, they would not have hired you, and given you the additional probationary time. Let that really sink in. You got a second chance at something most people don't get a first chance at (based on what you described).

I would start by answering two questions:
1) Why did they hire me?
2) Where can I provide the most value?

Apparently, they have a bunch of smart, capable people that are performing at a higher level than you in certain areas. Why, or where are you unique within in the organization, where are they going or trying to get to? These will get you started in answering the first questions objectively.

I don't think blindly focusing on fundamentals will make you competitive with people that are already well beyond you. And if you did become competitive on that level, so what? Do they need another person with the same skill-set?

This brings me to the second question. Other than LISTENING, strategically identifying their weaknesses is the best way to get started on question two. Providing practical solutions in the most efficient way possible is where you provide value. It's great when it doesn't have to be, but often the ideas that move things forward in a significant or meaningful way are cross-functional and collaborative. Perhaps it is part of the reason they can be so elusive. Based on your analyst background, this type of objective analysis might be the right starting point. From there you can drill deeper with more relevance adding further value.

Finally, your commitment will show, and while it may intangible (at first, anyway), that too has value.
I like that; and I like defining it as what part goes with the self. Your definition is probably cleaner but I think most of us feel like the "I" goes with the head no matter what else may change.
They also "discard" the dead head... So, I guess no.
Blockbusting does not have to be caused by white people being non-neutral towards blacks. It can also be caused by white people, perhaps accurately, believing that the neighborhood will change in other undesirable ways (e.g. higher crime).

Similarly, while I'm well aware of (and have practiced in the past) living in black neighborhoods to save money, it was not obviously a racial-arbitrage strategy. The neighborhoods I lived in were undesirable and cheap for a variety of reasons (reduced amenities, higher crime), and it's far from clear how much of a racial delta there was. I don't have any reason to believe that a low amenity, high crime, entirely white neighborhood would have had a different price.

I always viewed it as a crime arbitrage strategy; being 6'6", somewhat muscular and wearing shoes with holes in them, I don't view myself as much of a crime target.

So yes, I'd like to see evidence of either a) whites being non-neutral towards blacks in the statistical algorithms era (e.g. 1995+) and b) a statistical default or prepayment model that incorporates network effects of this sort (or anything mathematically similar).

And incidentally, I'm asking about the networking model because it sounds super interesting. Insofar as network models are reliable enough to use in lending, I'd love to know about it. This would directly affect some of my work if I could port such models into the tech space.
In certain countries religious dissent is considered grounds for extermination. Up to about 18th century this was practiced in Europe. The converse is still being practiced, even as recently as 20th century.

No, we aren't that much more modern when tribalism is still rampant.
Do you want to learn how to use a tool or how to solve some specific kind of problem?

If resources are what you were expecting, Coursera used to have a course named "Mining massive datasets" that covers some of the topics I saw you mentioning in your comments (MapReduce, HDFS, PageRank etc). It was ministered by Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman and Jeffrey D. Ullman.

Although the course itself is not available anymore, the video lectures are still on Youtube, and a quick search returned me the following playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLssT5z_DsK9JDLcT8T62...

If you want some reading material by the same people, you should also check this book:
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds/book.pdf
Keras (uses Theano or TensorFlow as backend): https://github.com/fchollet/keras
Sharing a text post is awful:

* The default option for sharing is "Public" (oh hell no)

* Otherwise you can "add to a collection" (and wtf is a collection in google plus terms now?)

* in order to select a community or a circle (circles should be the hot stuff of Google+, you have to make two more steps ("See more", scroll).
Damn, this sound like a shit show. I hope no one ever works with this guy again.
Which honest company buys 100 patents a year and is either not flush with cash or patent troll (or both)?
If you want to be cynical about it, consider that you already have it embedded in your infrastructure. Your real value is the stuff you've built on top of it. If it's open and widely used you'll have an easier time hiring experienced people; you might even acquire a company with something new and useful to you that's built on the stack you already use; and, you know, someone might even fix a bug or add some great new functionality that you can take advantage of.

Plus if your stack becomes dominant, it's the other guys' (your competitors) problem to change their stack instead.
So now we need ad blockers which could identify brands in tags and then block the entire image. I know it sounds absurd but so is modern advertising. They don’t seem to have any moral barrier. This is a war for protecting our privacy and the web as a whole.
The Elephant Chart
The same argument could be made against the US federal government. Two points:
(A) unified legislation is tremendoulsy important for trade/business (B) larger associations have far more influence than small ones.
The deep learning frameworks landscape, August 2016: https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/765212287531495424
You got this wrong. My point is to not allow to sell IP from the US Inc to the British Virgin Island subsidiary Ltd for a handful of dollars, and deprive the US taxman of billions of earnings. That "ground breaking product" was developed in the US, thus the profits and taxes should be made there.

I love US companies making boatloads of cash. I just hate them to get around paying normal taxes here.
By transferring I meant re-issuing automatically a new certificate, not keeping the signature. Of course this requires to re-authenticate the request. And that process has to be automated. A bit like the renewal of the certificate should also be automated.
Interesting thing about that survey is that it covers PaaS solutions (Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, etc) on top of OpenStack. Other folks seem to be going in the other direction using PaaS to deploy OpenStack. https://tectonic.com/openstack/ http://www.tcpcloud.eu/en/blog/2016/06/27/making-openstack-p...
>Yes, Apple could do that. But then they'd have to pay EU customs and other costs that aren't applicable when you do business inside the EU.

That's orthogonal to the argument though. Just another tradeoff to consider in their negotiation.
Standard disclaimer: It's been a while since I watched that video, but this was before Rust 1.0, and so all statements about Rust in it should be taken with a grain of salt. Lots changed.
The fee goes into a prize pool, the winner bot wins the prize.
Before that, the focus was on religions instead. Same principle.
This is great work. I hated the usability of both Vim and Emacs coming from a Windows background. I knew it could be more intuitive. You've definitely accomplished that. One problem I ran into is figuring out how to close current document but keep editor open. I didn't see it skimming help tutorial or help commands. In most editors, it's called "close" (with "quit" as separate option) or "new." I suggest adding that if the command doesn't exist or putting it in help near "save" and "quit" if it does exist.
It's "progress" when the larger bureaucracy is harder to regulatorily capture, if only because in larger jurisdictions there are more competitors.
I actually thought Wave had potential though. Sure, it had tons of flaws, but it was at least trying something new. Plus is just so.. well, not new. And this is coming from someone who used Plus for quite a while (year or two).

To me, Wave felt shut down too early.. and of course, way over hyped. By comparison to Wave, i'm shocked Plus still exists.
Three concentric supernova remnants found in nearby galaxy
I'm curious as to the OP's source as well. I found a recent investigatory paper at https://github.com/AdamISZ/ConfidentialTransactionsDoc/blob/... but nothing official.
Besides the fact that I already have 15-20 friends that are more than enough to do some testing, I am NOT going to tell anyone they can reach me on google plus until I understand how it works and am satisfied with it. Google is apparently working very hard to fail at both.
They also discard the body of the heart donor.
Barry Manilow was successful in the pop music world, and also wrote several well-known jingles[1][2]. Many/most didn't know he wrote them until long after they had been established.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=bar...
[2] http://barrynethomepage.com/commercialjingles.html
“The fact right now is that it is bleak for startup battery companies.”
Does anyone know if there's a vehicle to short Monero?
I think the parent meant "east coast region". 7 hr drive to the beach sounds lovely compared to my 12-14 hours.
(e.g. there is no good reason for a CA in the US to be able to sign certificates with Chinese TLD CNs, and vice versa).

Sure there is. If you have a .cn domain but don't trust Chinese companies not to MITM your site, you can get a cert from a foreign CA and then pin it using the HSTS preload list.

That way, even if the registry hijacks the domain and sends people to a server with a valid (but fraudulent) cert, you're still protected by the pin.
Calendar time, when it is done truly right, is a complicated topic. There's a nice book that has way more detail on this than most people actually would want (Calendrical Calculations, https://www.amazon.com/Calendrical-Calculations-Nachum-Dersh...).
Agreed on your Plus note, especially since it really wasn't a novel idea. But for Wave, i kind of liked it...or at least thought it was different/innovative sort thing; admittedly it needed much more refinement, maybe focus. But Wave was pretty neat.
They called out "Miranda Sings" for an Arby's commercial.

Looks like the girl is really spreading herself around!

Here's a Taco Bell commercial [1]
Another Taco Bell commercial [2]
Now we are doing Oreos! [3]

Everything undisclosed of course.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy_rqmSXpvg
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DDdBjOWXMQ
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTYoI9diaQQ
Intel's Kaby Lake is a must have for 4k Video
Usually fees are there for a reason, in this case it's part of the game (and the fun) as the fee goes into the prize fund.

In the "ethereum world" most of the community doesn't actually care too much about the currency aspect, it's the least interesting aspect of what you can do with Ethereum.
"Why weren’t top-tier VC firms spending time in Ann Arbor, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Columbus, Chicago, Detroit, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis?"

Because you want to sleep close to your money.

"The answer, we concluded, had everything to do with timing. In the first few decades of the Internet, you had to be physically close to your technology. That technology, the talent that built it, and the ecosystem that maintained it was in Silicon Valley."

C'mon. You didn't need to be close to your technology. PCs and servers and backbones can be installed anywhere.

You wanted to sleep close to your money. But now you're willing to loosen the leash a little if it gives you more bang for the buck.
Those are candy-bars to make you happy, just like the EHRC is keeping the leftists in line while we slowly shift toward an ordoliberal paradigm at the european level. For countries like France, Italy and even Germany, that means social regression and harmonisation by the bottom.

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

Yay structural unemployment in the eurozone! The folks at the commission and at the ECB sure know as hell what they are doing since the EU is a sui generis structure and the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment absolutely did not hurt western economies and destroyed the industrial tissue of those countries. I am being sarcastic.

Now, without any offense, you sound like someone who has red a wikipedia page about the European Union and who nows consider everyone having dissenting opinion to be a stinky redneck who does not deserve a voice.

Maybe that's not what you wanted to convey, in that case I apologise, but to be honest, at this point, I have met so many pseudo-smartass people who think they understand everything that I have very little hope you don't fall into that category of people. Thinking technocracy will magically solves all your problems is lazy, at best.
You read my mind! :-)
Also see "The deep learning frameworks landscape, August 2016" from @fchollet: https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/765212287531495424
I also think there's a lot of people who feel protective about "pure" computer science, in the same way a philosophy major might feel about their degree, and look down on people like me as mere technicians. They don't seem to realize that we need technicians, and they have to be trained somehow.
You can do it on an exchange called Poloniex. Just remember, the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Good luck!
> If there is 'a lot of competition' - it makes cartel-like or colluding behaviour among carriers difficult, thereby facilitating de-facto net-neutrality.

I don't see the point. If Google decides to pay to providers to speed up Google content. How having more carries solves the problem? Is not even worse as then Google will have more power to bring carriers to its side?

What will happen with little content providers? Can they compete once they are slow?

I see that is more difficult for carriers to agree on something, as the more they are the more difficult it gets. But I don't see hot it facilitates net-neutrality on, for example, the situation that I describe.
It's been pretty normal for me.
I think a good example of how to do this sort of thing right is the "Hey Ash Watcha Playin'" videos on YouTube. They make content about games. Sometimes they're paid to make content about a particular game, and when they do they write "(SPONSORED)" right in the title of the video. Still good content, I could avoid clicking on it easily, but I watch it anyway because I like the channel and know it'll probably be funny anyway.

A bad example would probably be that one Kardashian guy who accidentally posted the instructions about how to pose and what to say instead of following the instructions.
[eBook] Data Mining and Analysis
Transportation means buss fairs not cars.

I was given paperwork when I got my undergrad student loans, and it was very clearly spelled out.

If the loans are private, I am not 100% if all of the same rules apply.
Because it would be very difficult for carriers to co-opt entities like Netflix into nonstandard schemes if there were a lot of competition.

You hinted at it in your comment: "the large players started to talk about colluding"

Only a when there are a 'small number of large players' is this kind of collusion possible.

When there is a lot of competition, the entire layer of the value chain becomes weaker.

It's a problem because they control a scarce resource: the airwaves, and also a kind of scarce resource: access rights for fibre etc..
Except I never heard anyone call Vegas midwest.
Thanks! I assumed that was an option I just didn't see it at first.
Agreed. There is a lot of hype around Big G's tech. A year or two ago, it seems some people were saying all microservices would be built using Kubernetes (because Big G's internal tech stack is lightyears ahead of others). Hasn't happened for sure. I think these are the early days ... the winner will be determined by how well the platform scales, how easy it is to maintain infrastructure and how easy it is to use. Just my personal opinion :)
F=ma
Honestly, if you wanted to offer backup as a service for postgresql just using barman would be a much better solution than replication (which still involves shipping transaction logs anyway). If you don't support point-in-time recovery then your backup solution is effectively useless in my opinion, though even daily backups are a better solution than replication for proper backups.
> Stay two miles apart from their properties, if you do not wish to be touched.

Presumably this includes FB-users.
Hum, 4GB is a quite ok size for transferring data from "this one computer here" to "this other computer at the other end of the desk".
It's pretty hard to conceive many¹ situations when you'll need to transport more than this at a single time between a secure computer and an insecure one. Some slowness on those few exceptions is a very low price to pay for disabling unverifiable two-way communication.

By the way, buying a new RW disk every several dozen data transfers is also a low price to pay.

The biggest problem is the very low throughput of optical drivers - writing to them takes ages. Still, if you need to airgap them, it's probably worth taking that hit.

1 - Original OS installation is a very clear exception, but it does not happen often.
Show HN: Beacon, iOS App for picture sharing with strangers across the world
None of the demos are working :S is it just me?
I don't know I thought the circle metaphor was genius. It's quite the common phrase to have a circle of friends or a trusted circle of advisors, etc. List, like what Facebook and Twitter use, seems so...I don't know machine like but circle is a very common part of the vernacular.
Unfortunately they can't guarantee, if I create a website with some crap provider, they can't guarantee a GBps link. A better idea would be to have non discriminatory bridge with any provider. Also it is mostly a US problem, where capitalism is the way, but ironically ISPs have no competition.
Let’s be careful about this “SETI” signal
Pittsburgh is somehow less East Coast than is Philadelphia. Philly is an original-13-colonies port town; Pittsburg was (for them ) way west .

Historically (IMO) , "Midwestern" in the US refers to when a city was settled - if it was ostensibly a then-Western fort settlement, it'll be closer to being Midwestern. So it has at least something more in common with say, Cincinnati than with Philly.

Likewise, Roanoake, Va is pretty midwestern while Norfolk is very East Coast.
Why does it matter when the meaning is clear and unambiguous?
It sounds like you don't like this guy even if you respect his abilities.

If everyone here validates your implied assumption that "a startup can't succeed with a CEO no one wants to work for," what will you do?

On the other hand, if everyone here tells you, "sure it can succeed because people do all sorts of things they don't want to," what will you do?
Apple is not creating jobs for the sake of doing something good but since there is work to be done. Where the work is done is driven by complex factors - financial, legal, logistical, global balancing and other strategic considerations all play a role.

Ireland had an absurd allocation profits and in the past it made sense to allocate all the cost there too. In the future part of these profits will be recorded elsewhere. Ireland will not be such an Apple job growth story but still has a lot of momentum. It would be not surprising if in the medium term Apple may branch other more to other European countries.
One Kings Lane: From almost $1B to 'not material'
Yep, it's on the way! I've got a question for you, as someone who doesn't use RSS feeds personally. Does it matter to you whether or not the full content of the post is included in the feed? Also, what RSS reader do you use?
I withdraw my claim that compile time IO doesn't make any sense, but it is something I would be worried about. I wouldn't want the executable my build process produces to be changed by what files are laying around on the disk. Mixing in all of the state in the file system with something you want to be mostly stateless (your build process) seems like a dangerous idea to me.
>Open a click to write a post, an overlay with a popup window is opened instear of just letting me write. The popup opening is slow as the other stuff.

I thought for sure you were joking - but no. That is actual functionality. A complete pointless and slow animation that makes posting a quick thought take longer than it should was actually considered a good UI/UX by the G+ team...

When G+ originally came out I wanted to like it because the design itself wasn't too bad and I liked the concept of Circles (something other social sites lacked at the time, or were clunky to use). But everything else about G+ was just...bad. Including actually trying to use Circles.

They gave it a facelift but it looks like everything under the hood is still bad...
Would you mind commenting why Tesseract is out of date? I see developers are still active on it:

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/commits/master
On the flip side, in the Internet's nascent days, you HAD to get an in person meeting with the VC before convincing them to part with a 5 or 6 digit sum of money. Skype was not really possible on a 56k modem.