skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't found Facebook translate much to write home about either but I've mostly used Spanish to English and Tagalog to English.

I just went back and checked again and the translation quality ranged from ungrammatical-but-broadly-comprehensible to entirely incoherent.

Of course, neither Spanish nor Tagalog is very close to English.

Still, this gives me the impression the RNNs represent at best an incremental improvement in automatic translation.
The layout for doc,odt,epub,rtf,txt is as good as the medium article, for the pdf you are right, we are fixing our pdf renderer to not overflow element right now. Will keep you updated once done.
> too but found it to be slower than Xfce.

Yes, I wouldn't be surprised if Mate is slower than Xfce, since it's traditionally considered more featureful. Besides, even using a cheap $200 netbook, desktop environment speed is just not an issue for me as long as I use linux + any reasonably fast DE.
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>The 130-page report reminds me of those old Coca-Cola ads that promised to cure everything from headaches to exhaustion. The ads worked because nobody really knew what was in a Coke bottle.

I would have thought it was the coca.

>Similarly, the term “blockchain” has been so misappropriated that no one knows what it means anymore.

Thankfully, those who no longer know can just grab the paper at bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf and get a refresher.
I'm not defending Roundup at all, but the kicker here is the antibacterial chemicals don't do anything. If they did prove more effective in cleaning hands, I'd guess the FDA would probably look the other way on the side effects.
Yes, which is one reason why I think of the system in the US as being very much closer to a fascist system than many or most are comfortable contemplating.
> Don’t Parallelize when it is already Parallelized

For the uninitiated -- there's probably a large list of "don'ts" that would be good here, too. But maybe a prerequisite is ideal: why are you trying to write [this code] to execute in parallel? "It's slow" isn't good enough. You can save yourself a lot of time and headache if you use profilers to understand what the system is doing that makes it slow.

Using that profiler will at least help partition the problem into one of two big domains: compute resource bound (cpu/bus/mem/cache etc) or maybe it's just pending results from some other async task in the system. The latter happens much more often than you might expect. Filesystems, critical locks/exclusion, networks, databases, IPC -- there's lots of stuff that having multiple tasks in parallel for might not help much.
I agree. I think most people come here for a business / political angle on tech, not just for tech itself. I also often notice that the best discussions disappear really fast here.
It is not heavy-handed at all. Educational campaigns have no chance against strong marketing.

How many smokers quit due to them?
Not to mention you most likely get out of jail more quickly by taking the plea than if you waited for a trial.

Restating for emphasis: These deals work because you'll be in jail longer if proven innocent than if you falsely plead guilty.
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Guccifer sentenced to 52 months in U.S. prison
Because there's a lot of different ways to interpret laws, judges have a fair amount of flexibility in sentencing, and elected judges aren't by default just cronies of whoever appointed them.
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That's not true. Seversl of us are quite happy to contribute our LO patches to OO. But they just don't have any manpower to merge them.
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Are they, though? I suspect most butcher shops and restaurants are using antibacterial soap at this point. I go out of my way to try to buy non-antibacterial soap and it's often impossible to find. I imagine most businesses just order whatever's the first thing they see in the catalog/web site, and it's probably antibacterial because that's what most people think they want at home.
Untrusted TLS does not mean that nobody else in the coffee shop is snooping on it.

That Starbucks access point you've connected to might actually be the Pineapple belonging to the guy at the corner table, and he's injecting his own untrusted SSL certs into your HTTPS traffic and snooping/injecting into all your traffic.

EDIT - and to clarify what others have said: HTTPS implies a trusted connection (unlike plain HTTP). And a self-signed certificate cannot be trusted under any circumstances.
Soap is a remarkably good antibacterial as well. Im on mobile but will try to look up refs for this later. I used to work in this area and a colleague was an expert on antibacterial properties of detergents.
I'm sure someone is going to tell me there is an obscure compsci reason why it couldn't have been this: [...]

This "obscure" reason is actually one of the core features of the language and one of the reasons it's called Haskell. A thing that you are going to use all the time writing Haskell. The reason is called currying: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currying
Admittedly the poster's complaint was about Silicon Valley, not SF.

I have looked at the homelessness statistics in Silicon Valley and the vast majority here actually lived here before becoming homeless. You don't usually see homeless people in most of the valley because they tend to stay out of sight by the creeks or other out of the way areas, but you do see them in downtown San Jose and to a lesser extent downtown Palo Alto.

I don't know the budget for homeless spending down here in Silicon Valley, but I doubt it is that high.
On some epub reader we have also an overflow, fixing it now, will let you know once fixed.
You don't have a right to endanger public health.
It'd be a very interesting argument, if you could provide statistics to back up the notion that Office products today are really as marginal as you make it out to be. I'd expect them to be comparably central to corporate and civil service jobs in the economy in total as ever, just because economy in bulk is a very sluggish thing and they do the job, but I'd be thrilled to be wrong.
This is a good reminder. I should check up on my local prosecutor's position on "innocent until proven guilty." This is not directly enshrined in the US Constitution. Rather, it is inferred from several places. Apparently, this leaves some room for local jurisdictions to soften or abrogate this principle for the sake of enforcement/deterrence.
Kirk's Castile is pretty nice.

https://www.amazon.com/Kirks-Natural-Castile-Soap-Original/d...
> it's not like AOO owes the world anything.

It arguably owes its users not distributing security holes to them. Sitting on the vulnerability since October 2015, only revealing it in July because the reporter said they were going public with it ... there is no way that is responsible stewardship of end user software.

In fact, I just checked - I went to www.openoffice.org, went all the way through to download, and it still gives me the vulnerable version and doesn't give me information that there's a vulnerability or a fix.

You're an AOO dev. What do you see as your responsibility in this regard?
User<>CloudFlare and CloudFlare<>Origin use separate SSL connections, so not quite end-to-end (CloudFlare sees the traffic unencrypted)
Yes, I believe that's what I was saying, but your comment sounds like it is disagreeing. Could you clarify?
Not if you're covered by the "white collar exemption", which any engineer-type is going to fall under. Folks working 80 hour weeks at startups don't get any overtime for it.
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Why can't you place multiple bets? Hedging?
> How do you know what the commenter (erichocean) meant?

Because "bucket" is a well-defined term-of-the-art with regard to cuckoo hashes, because Erich has demonstrated deep knowledge of similar algorithms in the past, because I've been thinking about improving the memory locality of cuckoo hashes for years, and because I would have used approximately the same phrasing as Erich did to describe the memory locality advantages of "buckets".

If they say that using "buckets" can mean the same locality of memory references as linear probing, their interpretation of what "buckets" mean must deal with that problem in some way.

Not only do buckets "deal" with locality, because of the granular nature of cachelines and parallel abilities of memory controllers, searching two compact small regions turns out to be just as searching one region of twice the size. Vectorized linear probing and SIMD cuckoo hashes are so similar that your question very likely indicates that you are not using the same terminology as others are.

Here's paper that offers a good comparison:

Rethinking SIMD Vectorization for In-Memory Databases
Polychroniou, Roghaven, and Ross (2015)

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~orestis/sigmod15.pdf
Have you never swallowed a fish bone? it's probably a bit similar...
Examples then? Are are you speaking only in unverifiable "if only" hypotheticals?
Just to note, your first and third links are the same article under two different aliases. So it is two people who have publicly declared this. Though there may be more who have unspoken dislike of the man.

I can certainly imagine myself to be drawn to a conference where Douglas Crockford was speaking (in fact, I'd be likely to attend if he were the only speaker), but having "lightly googled" the other two I'm not sure their contributions to the community would be enough to draw me in to the talk.

Which is fine I guess. My opinion is worth what it cost and the conference organisers can do what they want.

I really hope this doesn't blow up into some sort of "DongleGate" or anything of the sort. I just don't fucking care and would very much prefer it if every interesting headline wasn't drowned out for the next two weeks by "My opinion on Crockford-gate"

I don't want to read about the visceral stalking reaction that the above people got in response to their SJW-ing, or how SJW-ists are ruining the world. I don't wnat to hear about how "we can do better" by not uttering threats to people who don't want to hang out with Crockford. A don't want them to be threatened.... none of the anything that happens every time any of these issues poke their head up.

I'd love it if we could all just say "OK" and move on.

I'll keep an eye out for a conference that will invite Crockford, I'll skip Nodevember (which being in tenessee I wasn't going to anyways, but the same theory applies to this stuff when it is in Toronto).

Anyways - obviously I'm already getting a bit "ranty" which I don't mean to but we've all seen this "outrage" thing so many times now. Are we smarter than the same old song and dance yet? Live and let live. They can uninvite him, the people who disagree can not go.

Everyone is happy and who knows? Maybe Crockford (if he cares) decides to moderate his behavior. Maybe he doesn't care. Up to him.
Smoking rates are declining in most of the world due in a large part to educational campaigns and warning labels.

I agree with the FDA ban, but I don't think smoking is the best way to make your point.
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I don't think I heard how long it took for him to get it or how severe it
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>Is this because antibacterial agents in soaps are not funded by Monsanto? (okay, I asked that facetiously, but still)

I mean, basically, yeah. Firstly, there's no market-spanning hand sanitizer megacorp (megacorps make hand sanitizer, but there's lots of them all doing it). I'm not scientifically convinced that Monsanto's shit is bad, necessarily, but I do know that they fuckin' run shit along multiple axes in the agribusiness world. Monopoly + legally-ironclad yearly subscription and licensing generally equals abuse, on some level, in the tech sector, and permanently equating the Big Evil Corp Monsanto with the utopian-futurist promise of GMOs is awful, IMO.

Secondly, banning Roundup/Roundup-Ready stuff means Monsanto instantly loses tons of money, but banning anti-bacterials in hand sanitizer doesn't really make hand sanitizer work less well and probably won't result in much in the way of lost sales. After all, it's not like alcohol-based hand sanitizers aren't killing nearly everything on your hands already. People who buy a lot of hand sanitizer aren't going to _stop_, they just might be irritated about the loss of one of the 9s in the fractional part of the percent of 'bad things' killed. Triclosan et al are basically just the feature-add version of this [0].

Therefore, there's no need for hand-sanitizer-selling megacorps to protect their product by muddying issues of its safety, because the removal of one ingredient, important only because of the extra 9 on the label, doesn't change the product's value to customers or the megacorps. Banning (or even seriously investigating) Round-Up because of health concerns, real or imagined, would immediately harm Monsanto, which is a hueg important megacorp heavily reliant on the civilized world using its pesticide (and pesticide-compatible crops).

[0] https://xkcd.com/641/
I think they are referring to post-bitcoin days, the quote was referenced from a paper released just last month.

Resistance to new technology is definitely a thing at banks, I remember when I worked at one I mentioned blockchain one day and everyone looked at me like deer in the headlights.
FWIW, I think the closest English analog would be 'liberated', a synonym of 'free', though not that this a substantial improvement.
Considering right now it's the federal government protecting civil rights and not the cities, states, and municipalities, then yes, I would say we need this.
At the time of the donation, The Document Foundation had an (understandably) antagonistic relationship with Oracle and legal foundations which were firming up but not yet solid. The assets were not going to TDF from Oracle directly.

In accepting the proposal for a new Apache OpenOffice project, the ASF accepted not only the assets from Oracle but also a community, distinct from the LibreOffice community, that wanted to work with those assets. That community had to be given a chance. Without all those things, the deal could not have been completed.
> The technological innovation of a blockchain is that it combines cryptographic signatures with a fault-tolerant distributed database.

This is the naive view that has allowed the financial industry to ditch Bitcoin and run with blockchain. The problem that Bitcoin solves and private blockchains do not is called the Byzantine generals problem which did not have a known solution until Bitcoin came along.

Private blockchains cannot solve the Byzantine generals problem because they cannot ensure that one of it's limited number of parties is not employing massively more computing power in order to cheat. Bitcoin only works because an unlimited number of players are mining as hard as they can making it improbable that a single entity can exceeded 50% of the total hash power. With private blockchains it will always be reasonable to assume that cheating would be with in reach.
It matters if you have years of documents that you still need to be able to view/edit. Not everyone wants to upload these documents to an online service (i.e. google docs), so having a free option that is not tied into any monthly subscriptions is nice. Sometimes it's just nice to keep things local and not have to rely on the "cloud".
It's not like the federal and state governments dictate taxation and revenue (entirely), take their cut and leave the rest with local governments. Local governments can raise revenue with various kinds of taxes independently of rates and schedules at the Federal or State level.

The real reason local governments typically lack resources for truly local needs is that the most vocal locals tend to be NIMBY typea and anti-tax types.
How do I ask a good question?
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I'm ready for ornithopters if you are. And then heighliners.
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I go into this a bit in the article. The worst thing about the polar requirement is that it means adding 1000 miles of cross-range gliding capability to something that really, really, really doesn't like to glide.
Hmm. Yeah, it does read from this analysis that it seems to be more of a fear rather than a confirmed fact. At this point they may be just being overly cautious I suppose. From the abstract they seem to rule out a lot of the posed threats and leave the rest as "Have not been accurately studied".

As far as I've read from this though, it doesn't apply to the use of actual antibiotics, which do cause strain resistance. That is the issue that I am definitely in support of, and it seems I wrongly correlated anti-bacterial soaps in that issue as a fact when it does not appear to be so.
The performance impact of HTTPS is negligible.

Article from 2010: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.h...
These are all "ego-involving topics" here, to borrow an excellent phrase from the parent comment. I'd say most of the time, predicting HN's reaction to a topic or even a specific comment is easy and almost makes the comments section superfluous at this point for certain topics.
Some would equally argue that use of recreational drugs is harmful to the user, harms relationships and undermines society in a lot of respects. These things can all be true but it's not necessarily enough grounds to use the power and resources of the state to actively ban a substance.
It's not a misconception.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triclosan#Resistance_concerns
And we shift every point to its corresponding mean. Then, we repeat it until convergence (every point is fixed).
I wonder if they have tried or are considering spreading a scented substance (a powder?) in the immediate area. It wouldn't stop birds from flying into the solar plant, but it might condition the roadrunners such that they know not to run in that direction when fleeing a coyote.

It could be costly anywhere else, but in the mojave desert, scent probably lingers for a much longer period of time. That's my guess, anyway.
There's something to be said for simply polling high enough to get into the debates. Debates where a candidate could, for example, offer an alternative view on drug policy.

If a third party gets 15%, they get a third podium on that stage, which I think would be worthwhile and healthy for American democracy especially in the face of the two most hated candidates in history.

I don't particularly care if it's Johnson or Stein but I'd like it to be someone. Ideally we'd have both. Johnson is pretty close to breaking 15% in a lot of polls.

Of course this line of reasoning simply suggests that pre-debates, if anyone asks you should /claim/ to be voting Johnson (or Stein), not anything about where you should actually vote.
I applied, but it sounds like a laptop is mandatory?

Also kind of left it last minute, because I only just found out about it today at work. oops :p
Are you using http://www.jsoneditoronline.org/ for that?
As far as I understood from the description, in LeNet the convolutional layer lets you avoid training parameters that will effectively be doing the same thing as a convolution. Adjacent pixels are highly correlated, so convolutions can capture most of the information in groups of adjacent pixels without having to train a fully-connected layer of neurons. Effectively, you're kinda downsampling the image without losing information.

So, if you're using 1x1 convolutions, I think you're basically having a neuron per pixel, so you're forcing your fully-connected layers to learn the spacial correlations of pixels, instead of capturing that information in a convolutional layer. In other words, you're wasting training on capturing spacial correlations of adjacent pixels instead of other correlations.
Mental Image Projection Technology
Are we going to do away with optical projection technology in the future? Would such Mental Image Projection technology, a technology which projects images on the brain without optics be able to create direct emotions inside us? And would that be the end of the film?
Simply decrypting and re-encrypting web traffic in an intentional and authorized way is not MITM and should not called that.

So, why do people call CloudFlare MITM?

1) They honestly don't know that MITM is just the name for an attack, not a neutral term.

2) They think any mid-route decryption/re-encryption is bad and dangerous.

3) They are mad about some aspect of CloudFlare's service, and call it MITM to make it sound worse to everyone else.

Folks in the 1 and 2 camp just need to get educated. Folks in the 3 camp might have good points on the substance, but they are contributing to the misunderstandings of 1 and 2.
> making it improbable that a single entity can exceeded 50% of the total hash power

Not that improbable: http://www.coindesk.com/ghash-io-never-launch-51-attack/
It could have been

add :: (Integer, Integer) -> Integer

but then you couldn't write

add 1

and use it as a function. And that would be just stupid, sorry.
> which is much longer than most surgeons scrub.

How sure are you about this? There's usually some kind of timer (and, sometimes, an assistant) to ensure that you wash for the specified amount of time.

Also, I always figured that scrubbing was essentially a precaution in case the gloves ripped or snagged (which, being thin latex, is far from improbable).
Please don't create such novelty accounts to post jokes with—we ban them, and then the main account if it continues. Comments on HN should be civil and substantive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes it can, but not in the context of the post I commented on.