skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you telling me that modern science is unable to safely remove an elephant's tusk without destroying the animal?

Not entire tusks no. What will happen with these tusked elephants btw? Would you object if I pulled out your teeth? You would be under sedatives of course. I really want this necklace made out of your teeth.
It's a lot easier to be "lucky"--and this applies to life, not just a few normally-cheap creature comforts--when you live in places that aren't...how do I put it...gross.

The next competitive advantage for hiring is going to be "doesn't force you to live in the bowels of San Francisco or New York".
Yep. And the way the developers--on Bravo's Million-Dollar Listing--think, they not only want market price but also to set a new record for market price (per square foot).
I've been following Bucklescript's development from the sidelines for the last couple of months along with Facebook's Reason (https://facebook.github.io/reason/javaScriptCompared.html).

I'm very optimistic about the future of these two projects. Both are working hard to build a soundly-typed platform on top of the JS ecosystem. While there are tons of existing languages that can be compiled to JS, the most successful ones are those (like Typescript) that embrace the npm ecosystem and the huge community investment it represents.

Both Bucklescript and Reason have a huge focus on seamless JS interop and DX, and stand a good chance of bringing soundly-typed functional programming to a much wider audience!
I'd argue with a password manager it's more pragmatic to have a different password everywhere. I know two passwords and use my manager for everything.
Did you know that a Rhino's horn and an elephant's tusk can be safely removed by trained zoologist without harming the animal? In fact they do it to elephants in captivity that destroy fences[0].

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24614538
No you are confused, they are restricted for different reasons.
You really think some kid working the summer shift, is going to meticulously look over every Apple going into your bag? Please. I will never do this, until it turns automated, with machines inspecting every single item.
We call that a "will". They already exist. The new owner pays inheritance tax because they've inherited things. Labelling it something else doesn't change it. People already tried.

I did say that people already tried this sort of thing and that the taxman has come down on them in the past. This has really been tried and really not worked.
Thanks, I'll check into KeePass.
Life expectancy is reported at a 50th percentile, right? Is there any site that shows a 90th percentile?
Callbacks in C++ using template functors – Rich Hickey (1994)
I think it could catch on.. if speech to text worked correctly every time.

If I hit a key on a keyboard, it works correctly every time. If I make a typo, it take a fraction of a second to hit backspace and correct it. Mistakes are cheap to correct.

In comparison, if I talk to my phone, it makes a significant number of mistakes.. making me talk slower/louder/differently to use it. And when it does make a mistake, it's more costly to correct.. I either have to start over, or pick it up and hit backspace. So I disable it and never use it.
Hire a nanny
Blockchain Promises a Third Wave of Social Media
IETF considers renumbering the next version of TLS 2.0 instead of 1.3
How will Instrumentl generate revenue? Taking the person from Italy that found a grant through you, what did that mean for Instrumentl in terms of income and how?

How will those looking for grants find you?
Thats the best strategy. An elder told me of his distant relative, who was producing counterfeit coins like 100 years ago. When he got caught, instead of sentencing him to prison, they hired him in the coin minting place.
> Developers and designers need high end machines

This is simply not true. Explain to me why you need an i7 as a dev but the consumers using your product don't need an i7 to run the exact same thing.
The difference between the App Store and Amazon's model is that it's barely worth Apple cloning a competitors app because compared to their overall income, Apps will only ever be a rounding error.

Amazon Retail on the other hand, sell physical stuff. It's their bread and butter.
subscribe to a news paper. The likely have an "arts and culture" section with things to do
I disagree with the premise where time spent finding an email is wasted time. Personal control over the privacy of one's email is exactly what makes email valuable.

This is true for both sender and receiver because: Larger inbox load means less time/mental energy per message which in turn means lower value per message.

It's like the reverse of a network effect: the more users you have spamming people, the less valuable those emails become.
>How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and TensorFlow

Let me guess: shallowly and for marketing purposes...
That's (very clearly) not what I'm saying.
While the VC backed services drop like flies, neighborhood businesses continue as if nothing happened. I've lived in the same neighborhood in San Francisco for 20 years. The local dry cleaner is still doing just fine, though a bit older and grayer.

I think the lesson here is that the Uber for X model was predicated on people being so unhappy with the incumbents that they would switch. Pre-Uber taxi services were criminally awful enterprises that deserved to get a beating. Local neighborhood businesses might be a bit low tech, but they know what they are doing (so there isn't much to disrupt).
Are you really asking me if I'd rather have my teeth pulled out by a dentist or half my face and mouth cut off with a chainsaw? Which of these two would you choose?
> I'm talking about harvesting and selling every single elephant tusk. That's 100%.

100% of what?

> There aren't that many Elephants born in Africa, and apparently we're able to track every single one of them.

We definitely aren't actually. These are estimates.

> 'm advocating safely removing the tusk via trained zoologist with modern science so that it leaves the elephant without its tusk.

Yeah, that will not happen. Dude stop commenting you are just embarrassing yourself.
The question is, do you have meaning in your life? Romantic marriage is just a way to find meaning, by devoting yourself to someone else. If that sort of meaning appeals to you, then be open to marriage. If that doesn't appeal to you, or you aren't willing to make other meanings in your life secondary, marriage probably isn't going to work out.

Regardless of what you decide, don't be one of those people who is looking for someone to marry. For it to work, marriage really has to be a natural evolution of the relationship.
> The Church-Turing thesis is a statement about which functions of type `nat -> nat` are computable, either in the lambda calculus or using Turing machines.

This is how Krishnaswami frames things. From the TOC perspective, there is no such thing as functions at all. Computations consume and produce strings. Both Church and Turing explain how those strings can encode the natural numbers (there was no talk of types by either). Interpreting a computation as one computing functions on the natural numbers or any other set is an entirely interpretive activity that is external to the computation itself.
We're Uber for laundry... on Uber!
What's the difference between deep learning training and inference?
I would pay $100 for $10000.
> Was it people gaming the system for reputation?

It is more of the system gaming the users, even Atwood criticized it for having evolved to rely on too much of gamification aspects.
I was referring to the Windows 3.x versions, not MS-DOS.
Electron: Desktop Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript
>Those powers are enacted by Congress, which is an elected body which can be voted out.

You mean the congress with an 11% approval rating? Yeah, that's going great.
The key thing is that platforms like Openshift are designed for enterprise deployment and developer use, while platforms like Cloudron are designed for personal and consumer use.
Minix 1.5 for 8086 had a slightly mad decompress program that would fork itself up to 4 times in order to address enough memory to decompress certain *.Z files:

https://github.com/jbruchon/elks/blob/master/elkscmd/minix1/...
A (Mostly) Comprehensive List of Swift 3.0 Changes
Given humans can't be judged it stands to reason that you can just call the machine a human, and bada boom, you just saved a lot of money.
Aligning HR with the Employee Experience: 5 Steps for Success
I'd be interested to see a good in-depth analysis. If you get a vanilla annuity, you have significant inflation risk over decades. The guys who bought annuities in e.g. late 60s saw them destroyed by inflation. It's not a great fit for a 30-year retirement.

You should be able to get an inflation-adjusted annuity at the TIPS rate plus a credit spread. But right now that TIPS rate is effectively nothing. And I don't know whether the credit spread plus the insurance company tax benefit is a good deal.

Packaging e.g. an S&P index fund in an insurance product, so you don't pay taxes until you get payouts, would be a really good idea, but typically insurance companies tack on sales commissions and fees far in excess of e.g. SPY or VFINX. If Fidelity or Vanguard offered that, it would be a good deal, but I hadn't seen that... looking at that Fidelity product now https://www.fidelity.com/annuities/FPRA-variable-annuity/ove...
ISPs could have already tried to ban porn, but they haven't.

Facebook isn't an ISP. Just because a single company has content restrictions doesn't mean every company in the world will do the same.

Namecoin doesn't need DNS to bootstrap. Why would you need to download something? Do you need to download a DNS client for your grandmother? If such a system becomes adopted, OSs include it in the background, like DNS. If you can't be bothered to read the namecoin paper, look at the great success of products like Google DNS. Nothing fancy, but an excellent privately run DNS.
I came to the conclusion that speech recognition is more efficient at input on my cellphone months ago, but could not bring myself to make the habit either.

I only do it when I want to send a message in a hands free manner, such as a text message saying that I am stuck in traffic.
I get the sweating thing too. Powering through doesn't always work, it becomes so obvious that it's awkward not to mention it. It's had a major effect on my life and career.
Zounds, Gadzooks, and Fucking Sisyphus
I disagree. One of the first projects I tried in deep learning was to tweak the LeNet-5 style MNIST example to handle 64x64 color images. It was pretty straightforward. Pretty straightforward doesn't mean it took ten minutes; but it didn't take more than a couple of hours, for someone clueless about DNN models.

If you look at: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorf...

you could actually manage it just by changing some of the image size and classes constants. In earlier versions of that code, you'd have had to manually change a few constants that weren't extracted well. This is approximately easy, once you know your way around the python side of TensorFlow. (Which itself takes some work, but it's not rocket science.)

A better approach would probably add a third convolutional layer to continue to shrink the 80x80 input down to something easier to handle in the fully connected layer.

What's surprised me is actually how slow it is, knowing nothing about their model. My guess is they could speed it up by adding that extra convolutional layer to reduce the amount of work done in the final FC layers. The fact that they're that slow suggests the opposite of what you're noting -- I doubt they had serious assistance on the machine learning side. I'm more impressed by the amount of time it must have taken to get the physical parts working and to collect 7,000 training images!

Training MNIST itself is trivial. You can get > 99% accuracy in only a few minutes of training using a single GPU. This model should be at most 10-20x slower than MNIST (but, again, that FC layer would scale badly).

If you look at the stackoverflow tags for tensorflow, you'll see a lot of very similar problems being solved. ("I want to reuse model X on problem Y, where such and such is different").

TPUs are awesome, but you don't need them for this problem. You could run the inference at 1 cucumber per second on a laptop. And you could train it on a Titan X in a matter of hours at most.

(Source: I was and am still slightly on the Google Brain team, as a non-machine-learning person.)
Thanks, that's very helpful!
You can already do this in Bing with the + modifier
I think for typical JS/CSS/HTML sizes, and decompression times, probably maximum compression ratio, followed by decompression speed is what I'd look for. I don't care too much about compression speed, in the sense that if I have to spend 1 minute compressing JS to crunch it by 10%, but I serve that file a million times, then as long as decompression doesn't negate the gain in network time saved, it's a win.

I guess the other factor for mobile is, besides memory and decompression speed, how do various compression schemes fare battery wise?
This looks like it's only for physical products? I was hoping to see something for digital services built on AWS
1 Bit Flips, 1 Cloud Flops:Cross-VM Row Hammer Attacks and Privilege Escalation
I rented an apartment in Philadelphia earlier this year for six months. When it came time to renew I looked at apartments and single homes. The issue I had with the apartment was the build quality, and building owners. I pretty much lost my security deposit due to the poor materials. In addition the walls were so thin every one was able to hear every one else, and noise complaints were constantly filed.

When I looked around I wanted to be near city transit. Under 1500 one bedroom was the target. I couldn't find anything with good build quality. Sure there were stainless appliances, granite counter tops. But the cabinets were particle board easily chipped. The appliances while stainless were small, and inefficient. The walls were paper thin, etc. Among my friends they target homes, due to the build quality of the apartments, not because they want them specifically.
Thank your @shareywin, I found the site quite useful. :-)
I'm not disagreeing with you: I moved way the heck out to Bay Ridge for exactly the considerations you mention.

That said, a lot of people move to New York for work, and care about one thing only: how long it takes to get to and from work. The supply of places 10-15 minutes from lower Manhattan is surprisingly limited, and downtown Brooklyn is likely to come up on any shortlist of places to look when searching for apartments.
> > Developers and designers need high end machines

> Explain to me why you need an i7 as a dev but the consumers using your product don't need an i7 to run the exact same thing.

Because dev tools take resources that the product doesn't take on the end user machine while running in delivered form.

Whether that's compile/build tools, whether that's running server and client simultaneously on a dev machine, whether that's running code in debug form under debugger rather than "naked" in delivered form, or whether that's just the power to run the code itself alongside an IDE, there's all kinds of reasons why a dev machine needs more than is required for an end user of the code being developed.

Similar, overlapping, but not exactly identical concerns apply to "designers" as opposed to "developers".
AFAIK, they can't remove the whole tusk. For one thing and for another, even if we ignore the morality of this, how do you ensure who removed the tusk?
As long as we're being pedants, it's actually more like 2.6% (8.406 / 318.9) of Americans who live in NYC.

The author does have a grip on reality, I think it's just they aren't talking about what you want them to talk about.
I'm curious if you can share how to synchronize N files without doing at least N comparisons.

the main innovations in s3s3mirror are (1) understanding this & going for massive parallelism to speed things up and (2) where possible, comparing etag/metadata instead of all bytes.

so far, it has scaled pretty well, i know of no faster tool to synchronize buckets with millions of objects.
False dilemma. If you ban ivory sales the odds of you having it cut off with a chainsaw are much lower.
this website is great, but I want to have someone to explain the latest papers to me.
Google obviously thinks it shouldn’t happen – that’s why they have a whitelist in the first place.

This is just a simple whitelist bypass.

But the issue is: How do you check the page you are on is the correct one?

You might check everything the first time, but after that?
The interstate commerce clause has been used as a dumping ground for federal overreach for a long time. It is likely that it was only intended to provide authority sufficient for the federal government to prevent a state like Missouri from treating Colorado cannabis any differently from California cannabis, if either happen to be imported into its jurisdiction. This interpretation is considered obsolete by many federal judges.

Interpreting it such that a cannabis plant grown, harvested, prepared, and consumed entirely within the state of Colorado, exclusively by Colorado persons, may still be subject to federal law is a bit of a stretch, in my opinion. But the prestigious paid professionals still do it.

It took the 18th Amendment to prohibit "the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors...for beverage purposes" at a federal level in 1920. The Volstead Act was able to use that amendment as the basis for its authority. The 21st explicitly repealed it, thus obviating Volstead, which had already been unpopular for years. Note also that consumption was never outlawed. Even so, it was a disaster.

There was no such amendment to authorize prohibition or control of other, non-alcoholic intoxicants for recreational purposes. What happened to the Constitution between 1920 and 1970 that would have allowed Congress to pass another prohibition law like the Volstead Act? Nothing. Nothing at all. Or rather, New Deal politics happened. Federal power expanded without explicit authorization, just because of a temporary confluence between economics and political opportunity.

The various drug war laws are probably not authorized by the commerce clause, just as justices O'Connor and Thomas dissented (Rehnquist concurring with O'Connor) in Gonzales v. Raich [0]. It would seem that, looking also at Wickard v. Filburn [1] and US v. Lopez [2], the SCotUS is not likely to be of any help here. The underlying argument is that "drugs can be sold, therefore there exists an interstate market for them, therefore federal regulations on them are authorized by the commerce clause." Wickard v. Filburn seemed like politically-motivated bullshit to me, but who am I to argue with the precedent?

The laws will, like Volstead, mainly be overturned by the court of popular opinion long before any official federal action occurs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Lopez
Vidarh already explained it quite good.

Also there was no support to display structures graphically (ddd could do it though).

Nowadays modern graphical debuggers also provide a very nice set of features to debug multi-core code.
I worked for a scientific publishing startup (biomedcentral.com) where I wrote a full online peer review system for them. This was around fifteen years ago so prior art is already well established.
I still use tar, for example to copy an entire Linux distribution to a new drive is just:

mount /dev/sdb1 /m

tar cf - . --exclude=./m --exclude=./proc --exclude=./sys | (cd /m; umask 0; tar -xf -)

mkdir /m/proc /m/sys

grub-install --root-directory=/m /dev/sdb

(except you must also adjust UUIDs in /etc/fstab)
Fingers crossed that Seattle heads for this direction!

I've been trying to imagine a scenario which would cause Amazon not to hire for 2-3 years, (and thus tank housing prices? hopefully?) without hurting my own (software engineering) career prospects. I haven't come up with anything yet.
This patent seems rather more narrow than the title suggests.
hm, I've interviewed at tech companies around the US that were "closing their series A or B funding round" and successfully did it

Without fanfare from Crunchbase or the rest of the peanut gallery I was able to find Regulation D documents and pitch decks for those companies on sites like Wefunder.com and other "data rooms", the finance sector term for "overpriced shared file repository so potential investors can look at private securities offerings".

Wefunder would be one of "those sites" you mentioned, and these are 8 figure deals.

These companies are indistinct from any other tech company, so its happening. You might just be missing good deals

According to Crunchbase several of these companies still only have a seed round completed. So much for their scraping.
I don't think that will ever happen. We'll all be traveling via self-driving drones instead!

The roads will just be for hobbyists who like to drive their own cars (and write their own code,) and probably transportation of heavy materials.
Here is a working link: http://aperma.link/Glass_TTY_VT220.ttf
Ok, let's figure this out.

Market rent in my area (Bed Stuy) is $2200/mo for a 2BR. I'm splitting $3000/mo.

Let's assume I'm staying 2 years and that the $2200 apartment would charge one month's rent as a broker fee (standard practice, often higher). I got one month rent free for my apartment and no broker fee.

$2200/mo room * (12 mo * 2 years + 1 month of broker fee) = $55000 total for 2 years.

$3000/mo room * (12 mo * 2 years - 1 month free) = $69000 total for 2 years.

So, the difference is $14000 / 2 people = $7000 per person over 2 years, or $3500/year over market rent. This comes out to 2-3 months extra per year per person.

...

The real question is, is it worth it for what I'm getting? I made the decision that yes, thus far it's worth it.

Could I have gotten something cheaper? Sure. I was paying less when I lived in Manhattan ($900/mo!). But I like having central air (very few NYC apartments do), I like having no neighbors above/below my bedroom (I DJ/produce in my spare time and I wouldn't want to bother anyone. Also in Manhattan I had a situation involving a neighbor upstairs...), I like living across from the train (cheaper apartments are at least a few blocks walk), and I like having a good amount of space to myself. It's nice to have roof access, and the apartment is quiet and bright.

As a software developer I'm making enough to not feel strained budget-wise. I think it makes sense to spend a little extra on living in a nice place. Lord knows there are enough crappy apartments in NYC.
I believe that about the Internet. I don't necessarily believe it about anything else.

I am fine with politics, as long as the political discussion doesn't take the form of "here is what I have inferred about your personal political beliefs".