skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this sort of thing common in the software industry?

Oh, it's incredibly common. Aside from companies paranoid (perhaps justifiably so) about sensitive information leaking out through the interview process, by default many companies use at least the initial stages of the process as a kind of a "one-way mirror" -- in which they're scrutinizing you for ticks, fleas, what-have-you, and only in subsequent stages do they lift the skirts, as it were, on the actual projects you might be working on.

With the apparent basic message in mind that they (and their projects) are so self-evidently awesome that they shouldn't have to bother trying to sell you in the idea of working for them (by say, letting you know what you might actually be working on).

But it could also be much more mundane than that. Sometimes the reason they won't go into details is because they've already decided to pass on you, and so they prefer to cut the discussion short to whatever extent possible.
A similar law was proposed in the US not long ago:

http://www.burr.senate.gov/press/releases/intelligence-commi...
Indeed, that's pretty much what "duck and cover" was all about. There was even a school teacher in Chelyabinsk who apparently remembered her Cold War drills and had her students take cover, saving them from injury.
I would say mysql is dominant in general.
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>>This is a known paradox
>>So, it's irrational to ever launch anything...

That faster ship just won't appear out of the blue.

You need to launch slower ones to get to the faster ones.

Its like the original inventor of the car opting not to build it because someday there would be a Ferrari.
What if he really had painted it? What duty does he have to authenticate it?
> What you're describing is a GPU

I would say I'm describing something halfway between a CPU and a GPU. It's not just an ALU, it's a complete microprocessor, with pipelining, caches, etc. The main difference is that the instruction set is optimized, backward compatibility is no longer a requirement, and redundancy of the architecture is eliminated.
Thank you for the response! For me, the startup time ranges between 0.3-0.45 seconds. I have an old i5 3rd Gen processor. Presumably, your system is faster. This should give you an idea of the timing of my shells, compared to the latest git checkout of xonsh:

% for i in dash mksh zsh bash xonsh; do; /usr/bin/time $i -c /usr/bin/ls; done
0.00user 0.00system 0:00.00elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1884maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+127minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.00user 0.00system 0:00.00elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1820maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+136minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.00user 0.00system 0:00.00elapsed 50%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 3204maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+251minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.00user 0.00system 0:00.00elapsed 60%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 3092maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+244minor)pagefaults 0swaps
0.41user 0.06system 0:00.48elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 58768maxresident)k
0inputs+24outputs (0major+22347minor)pagefaults 0swaps

Do you think the difference is large enough to warrant a bug report?

I don't mean dropdown menus; "pulldown" was my misnomer. I meant dropdown terminal emulators like Guake, Terminator, Yakuake, etc. They are meant to be running in the background, and swoop down on pressing a hot key, inspired by "~" opening a console in Quake games.
Why is not working a bad thing? Considering productivity gains in the last century, our employment rate is far too high.
Screen-readers can iterate and skip paragraphs. If you have an article and you group your sentences in paragraphs, the document is easier to navigate. Paragraphs would also be helpful if you wanted to write a script to export an HTML document to LaTex/Word/ect as those will automatically indent paragraphs for you.
Because taxis don't do this??
> For that reason, it seems absolutely absurd to me that someone would say with certainty that life exists elsewhere in the universe.

I'm not sure you have a conception of how truly BIG the universe is. In fact, according to current cosmological evidence, it is infinitely big.

But even if we confine our discussion to our Hubble Sphere, there is almost certainly life elsewhere in the universe. It's just that that life might be very, very far away.
1500 is not bad
Check your invoice - you'll probably see the current 50% off promotion
I don't get it. A much more accurate sensor for detecting human movement is a camera.
I agree, it would be more reasonable to rank JS-ES6 and Kotlin with 3.5* instead of 4. And Go with 4* instead of 4.5*.
To be honest, assuming, you get there safely I'd rather be in suspected animation on the slow ship than the fast one. I'd get all the heroism and send-offs of a pioneer, I'd have my name etched on a monument somewhere, I'd have the thrill of exploring something totally new. All that, except when I arrive all the brutal, dangerous, boring work of establishing a self-sufficient biome will already be done and I can jump immediately into the "boldly go where no one has gone before" part.
Hmm, I got that slightly backwards, Win10 will not work on older CPUs

> Going forward, as new silicon generations are introduced, they will require the latest Windows platform at that time for support. This enables us to focus on deep integration between Windows and the silicon, while maintaining maximum reliability and compatibility with previous generations of platform and silicon. For example, Windows 10 will be the only supported Windows platform on Intel’s upcoming “Kaby Lake” silicon, Qualcomm’s upcoming “8996” silicon, and AMD’s upcoming “Bristol Ridge” silicon.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/01/15/windo...
What about in the year 3000?
I don't think the plutonium would be enough to have any real effect, although it might irritate the inhabitants if there are any. Certainly, we've put far more plutonium into Earth's atmosphere by blowing up thousands of nuclear bombs in it, and we survived.

Clearing it with the Galactic Council definitely sounds like a good idea. Do you have their phone number handy? I seem to have deleted their contact info by accident.
> How did Niantic give any of its userbase over to Nintendo?

Niantic's handling of Pokemon Go is driving demand for Pokemon, but not fulfilling it. And some of that unfulfilled demand is going to Nintendo, whose product does deliver a Pokemon experience, and is already sitting in thousands of stores all across America today.

"Sales of Pokémon X and Y, which were first released in October 2013, were up a huge 200 percent compared to their sales in July of last year." -- https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/18/nintendo-3ds-sales-up-80-y...

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> Pokemon Go does very little to advance the Nintendo games - there's literally zero upsell involved (or even any cross-advertising).

It doesn't have to advertise Nintendo's products, it only has to advertise the brand.

Coca-Cola ads drive demand and sales for Coke, even though they rarely upsell the actual product. Coke advertisements can drive sales without explicitly saying "12 packs are $3.99 at your local Wal*Mart".
Off topic a bit, but this article makes me wonder where does one start with Deep/Machine Learning/AI? I've seen a few posts the past few days talking about the topic (Deep Learning with Python, etc.), but what are the core requirements regarding math, statistics, programming, etc? Where should a web developer start?
I knew this would be one of the replies! Just because others do it, it doesn't mean everyone else should be doing it.

Also, now there are not only bad taxis, but also bad Ubers!

I feel like there are a lot more Ubers in an area than there are cabs. So I will get annoyed more often by an Uber than a cab.
I think the problem here isn't that life needs to find a way.

The universe is huge, really huge, so huge that even the distances to other planets in our solar system are so vast, that when you would consider the earth 1mm big, these distances would still cover thousands of kilometers. It's not possible to draw a liniarly scaled map of our solar system, so big is it.

Good news: life has plenty of space and probably also plenty of planets to find its way multiple times in the universe :)

Bad news: we probably won't find this life ):
Proxima b: Closest Earth-like planet discovered right next door
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Google punishes sites with pop-up adverts
You want it to be regulated, and the government also needs to be able to collect tax revenue from it.
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Agreed, it seems they really hand-picked some shining examples for this post, and it would have been more interesting to see the full spectrum of when it works and when it doesn't. Perhaps the README in the Github repo is a bit more honest in terms of representativeness, though it only has 4 examples, one of them is an interesting failure:

article: novell inc. chief executive officer eric schmidt has been named chairman of the internet search-engine company google .

human: novell ceo named google chairman

machine: novell chief executive named to head internet company

https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/textsum

(It's still great that it beats all competition on the ROUGE score, of course.)
Does this have anything to do with the 2.4 GHz band being selected for microwave ovens (and thus, wifi) in the first place, as it apparently has a special effect on water?
Is Rust the right way forward then? Functional enough without obsessing about linked-memory structures / recursion etc?
> Germany, where people are prosecuted for insulting foreign dictators.

This one (§ 103 StGB [0]) is going to be fixed in 2018. Not instantly, because Merkel did not want to intervene in an ongoing legal process.

[0]: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_st...
Regulated online poker is mostly being fought by the brick and mortar casino industry to protect their revenue.
yeah, kinda true -- though there's a great deal of extra uncertainty about M-dwarfs in particular in comparison to more sun-like stars, just because we did have this one example to study of that.

But on the other hand, we see all kinds of planet types around all kinds of different stars that pose similar problems (say superearth habitability), so even that only applies to questions about planets more similar so some of the types we can find in our own solar system.
Wormholes are another. There's some debate whether or not the idea of creatable wormholes really exists in our physical models. But the idea of existing shortcuts through space time certainly does.
Interestingly, Ola in India had already done something like this very recently.

https://www.olacabs.com/olaSelect
Yeah, I get where you are coming from. We all have to eat.

I got the impression from them that they wanted more than 40 hrs a week from me, almost to the point of wanting to own me. One of the managers had a problem with me continuing to support my own apps after accepting the job.

For me, that's a pretty steep job requirement. You'd have to really convince me that what you're doing matters and that lives are literally at stake if I don't come join your company. Otherwise you're just being selfish in my view.

I told them I can't accept the job unless they give me more details, and you're right, there's a good chance they will show me the door.

But then I'm pretty sure that's a business I wouldn't want to work for anyway.
Placebo much?
The strategy, of course, being to make their competitors run out of other people's money first.
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Not sure grappling is a great idea with a gun on your hip.
It’s not exactly a secret that NSA has one or more Russian moles in its ranks -- not counting Snowden.

Good point to stop reading. The idea that Snowden was a Russian mole is quite untenable and basically irresponsible to promote, from a journalistic point of view.
>>So it's probably noticeable for any inhabitants in the area

An intelligent civilization with a 1000 year head start whose presence was just proven by device that arrived at 10% the speed of light would pretty much scare any government on earth.

I would assume it would scare the aliens there too.
Ask most people how they invest and they'll tell you that they are passive investors, they only buy very diversified Vanguard ETF's with low fees.

This makes sense, the US, Canadian and most European stock markets have performed well over the past 100 years.

Here is a though experiment....

https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-GE653_nikkei_G...

This is a chart of the Japanese stock market's returns over the past 25ish years. As you can see it's flat.

Japan stock market has been in a low interest rate, low growth regime for a long time now. You'll notice that its now back to where it was roughly in 1988.

What should people invest in when you are in a zero interest rate and zero growth stock market?

Bonds won't pay much in low interest rate environments and I'd/expect dividends to also be relatively paltry.

This is one area where I believe that active investing, specifically hedge funds, or other "smart beta" funds can be a win over passive investing. Though I might be biased.....

What other strategies can someone use in a stagnant growth and low interest rate environment?

Thoughts??
BRCK founders on post apartheid South Africa
You have every right to dress however you want.

However, if you wear shorts, t-shirt and Tevas in a marketplace in Morocco, they will think of you as a clueless tourist, and treat you accordingly.

(And if you wear a burka in France they will fine you and tell you to take it off.)

Having a sense of what the locals wear shows respect. I wouldn't walk into the Vatican without a shirt on, or an Amish farm wearing short-shorts.
Very cool work but since its easy to get memory-bandwidth bound with SQL I would wonder if it would make more sense to use GPUs with 10X the bandwidth. I know FPGAs will be getting HBM as well so this might help.

Disclaimer: I work at MapD, a GPU database company. (http://www.mapd.com)
Until you realize that the "muscle" coming to collect is your local law enforcement..
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They launched this yesterday in San Diego also. I signed up.

https://www.uber.com/info/plus/sandiego/
I'm not so sure the energy requirements are all that high. Alcubierre suggested that the sort of exotic matter needed would actually be fairly easy to create. NASA's been running experiments hoping to measure it with inconclusive results:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive#Experiments

> In 2012, a NASA laboratory announced that they had constructed an interferometer that they claim will detect the spatial distortions produced by the expanding and contracting spacetime of the Alcubierre metric. The work has been described in Warp Field Mechanics 101, a NASA paper by Harold Sonny White.[5][6] Alcubierre has expressed skepticism about the experiment, saying "from my understanding there is no way it can be done, probably not for centuries if at all".

> In 2013, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory published results of a 19.6-second warp field from early Alcubierre-drive tests under vacuum conditions.[33] Results have been reported as "inconclusive".[34]
IBM has been investing heavily in the toolchain, so LLVM has decent support for PowerPC.
Every time I try to comprehend the sun as it actually is -- its size and composition -- I end up completely boggled and unnerved. A vast and uncaring ball of plasma, mostly hydrogen, supporting billions of years of fusion reactions, so big that the orbit of the planet I live on causes only the slightest wobble in its position; it's no wonder the ancients worshiped the sun. There's nothing about it I can begin to grasp except by analogy.
Amazing! This coastline vulnerability is epic! ...The patch is going to be expensive and sad. :(
Finally!
In 2011, when I was working on optimizing 100Gb databases on dedicated hardware for small businesses, everyone in the database world was talking SQL chips and PCI-E fast storage.
Fast forward to today when cloud and virtualisation and now I'm working on "big data" 400Mb RDS instances.
Its time we go "retro" and #gophysical for some things.
You're a good man. A very, very good man.
Foremost thank you for the link; that does look great.

It has quite possibly the most thoughtful(?) release notes I have ever seen for a Chrome extension, and the author also took efforts to address any privacy concerns, which I thought was nice.
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It's very hard not to see this as another step in making the legal system a pay-to-play system, not that it's not already hopelessly lost to that. Brilliant business, I'm sure it'll make a mint and spawn competitors, but the actual impact other than shifting money between law firms?

I don't see much.
I find it much easier to discover something I don't know but enjoy if I purchase. A bookstore is fun to browse too but I find the chance of success much lower and the investment much higher. I guess it all does depend on the type of store you try. Large retailers are going to be a much different experience than small niche stores although both have their pros and cons.
Largest aircraft in the world on the second flight crashes
Auth0 raises $15M as it beefs up security features
> We "over-complicate" ISAs for the same reason we're constantly adopting new vocabulary: there is efficiency in specialization.

You're making broad generalizations, ironically speaking. If there is anything the article of this thread suggests, it is that we have created a needlessly complex instruction set, and that "efficient specialization" is not valuable to the software 99.99% of the time.

> Good design is not about simplicity; it's about managed complexity.

Managed complexity is simplicity. And it's pretty clear today's compilers and today's microprocessor designs are anything but good managers of their complexity.
Yes, I am now saying the behavior is wrong and goes against user experience. Since IE is going by specifications then I agree my dislike for it in this instance is likely misdirected. On the other hand, it seems the other browsers saw the spec and rightfully disagreed with this behavior; so I'm back to disliking IE.
As a cyclist (in Boston), it's somewhat easier to predict that a taxi might (suddenly) decide to park in the bike lane, and it's more surprising (therefore slightly more dangerous) when another car does it.
I am a 2200 elo rated player. There will be more to the game than Magnus steering "a few games to draws". I suppose it would depend also on how many games are agreed for the match.
For a suitably large number of games, the computer could simply force many dull draws then lash out with a strong tactical game. Humans have the extra dimension of emotions and fatigue to deal with. Switching from positional play to long tactical sequences does not play well to human strengths; in addition getting a draw from a "mission programmed" computer may not be trivial as there is the added dimension that it does not need to choose the most direct route to the draw.

Another factor is that it is trivial to change the computers repertoire of openings and there are a wide choice of these. Humans including Magnus require weeks to months of preparation before they are ready to play new openings or deviate from prepared lines.

Finally, (and I freely admit that this is my own personal opinion), Magnus Carlsen may not be our best choice of human to play against a computer. There is an unmistakable emotional fragility to him which manifests when he is losing (cf his games with Anand); a good deal of his strength lies mainly in the early middle game and ending but computers are superior in the latter; and he often wins games out of sheer stamina- a strategy that wont work with the silicon beast.
If there is oil on it, centaurian bloody dictatorship cannot be tolerated by progressive democratical forces.
We've compiled a fairly extensive list of deep learning papers here: http://deeplearning4j.org/deeplearningpapers

We also Tweet out new ones as they're published here:
https://twitter.com/deeplearning4j
Boston too - https://www.uber.com/info/plus/boston/

Edit: Looks like it's only available for uberPOOL.
> That Doig had to prove a negative is really awful too. It's hard to prove a negative in a court of law

Not really. All that it means to "prove a negative" in this kind of a case (a civil case where the standard is "preponderance of the evidence") is that you have to bring sufficient evidence that the trier of fact (jury or judge, as the case may be) finds that the claims that the other party is making are less likely true than the alternative claims that you are making. It isn't "proof" to a high degree of certainty.
The difference between 3G & 4G both in speed and latency is profound, and nobody seems to design with 3G in mind, so I find from a data standpoint 3G is practically worse than nothing these days.

All of your apps will say "I have data access!" and send a million requests for tens of megabytes, which will never finish, melting your battery as it waits on timeouts and completely choking the access you do have preventing you from doing anything useful.
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You can search for it. Here is one reference but you can find others.

http://asia.nikkei.com/magazine/20160526-FACING-UP-TO-HISTOR...
Vigorous discussion isn't an unqualified good. If it goes somewhere, sure. But discussions on HN of Apple's business activities seem rarely at best to do that. I don't understand why the light:heat ratio in this kind of thread is so low, and usually I keep my mouth shut about it, but today the urge to say something overmastered my self-discipline on the matter. I don't pretend that my comments here constitute any more of a contribution to worthwhile discourse than anyone else's do.
> If they were serious, they'd provide objective evidence for their claims. Papers, source code, numbers. Not "we have the biggest, baddest GPU farm" and refuse to say any more as policy.

But why? Who cares about papers, source code or numbers beyond the tiny segment that HN caters to? Apple has always been about the user experience. When they discuss a vast majority of prior accomplishments they discuss them, many times, in terms of the layman. Does that mean they can't manufacture? Nope. AI is simply harder to show without the papers / source code you mention but this isn't typical Apple to release that.

I honestly don't think they care to go beyond the level of details outlined here. I interviewed with the Siri team twice now and they certainly have some incredibly smart people. Whether they're "winning" against Google, Microsoft or whoever? I say who cares. They want to control their narrative without divulging too much detail like they have always done.
Doige's sister was mentioned in the New York Time's article from July, so that part isn't new.
When non-tech friends need a new computer I always try to talk them into getting either a Chromebook or an iPad. Easy to use and fairly secure. I use each myself a lot.

I don't know what is up with Apple as far as their laptops go. They make money from laptops, so I doubt they consciously are transitioning to an iPhone + iPad company. Although both of my MacBook Airs are very old (and currently running Ubuntu), in the last 5 years I have had three customers loan me nicely tricked out new MacBook Pros while I did work for them, and I am unimpressed.

Apple, I am going to help you out here: build a 13" MacBook Air with a 1080p screen, and make it a little thicker for awesome battery life, and sell it for $1000. You are welcome.
How such planet can protect its water from solar wind? There are probably different possibilities to get magnetosphere than Earth-Moon dynamo, but I don't know much about it.