skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who gives a sh!t that Apple was not at the meeting. I think the main takeaway is that 4-5 companies might control one of the most powerful technologies/ideas of the last 5 years. Its already hard enough competing with these companies how is this good for everybody else?
Deep learning is not a simple statistical clustering algorithm.

Trial and error is a main way that people learn and it works.
Don't you think that many companies (with big budgets) will nurture the deep learning/data science projects inside the company instead of outsourcing them? How do you compete with those internal initiatives?

I am not only talking about Skymind since this issue arises in many other specialties.
I've a hard time positioning this along side the effort to support rkt in Kubernetes. Would OCID be necessary because there's too much Docker-only code to interface with the container runtime in Kubernetes?

I think I expected rkt to be fully OCI compatible in the future but it looks like Kubernetes itself needs to be able to interface with OCI runtimes and there's work to be done in that area? The Docker integration cuts too deep currently?
I actually had to look that up. When I did I said to myself "Well, sure, what else are you going to do when you need to make a left-hand turn at a non-arrowed light when there's constant traffic the other way? :-) (Well, that or sneak left after the light has turned red but before the cross traffic has started.)
Here is an article from the google quantum team:
https://research.googleblog.com/2015/12/when-can-quantum-ann...

From my understanding, these things do beat classical computers, but no one cares because the problems they are solving is not useful for anything.
He's not my CEO though. I would be glad if it was that way. Being a googler.
You're right, they're much more likely to have a prescription opiate habit.
>The cost of bringing a drug to market is mostly in the clinical trials.

I would not say mostly, although clinical trials are a large part of the cost. (Roughly speaking) For every drug that makes it through final approval, there are ten that failed in trials. However, for every drug that makes it into trials, there were ten that didn't - and the R&D for those unseen drugs is also a huge cost for pharma companies.
This would seem to indicate that it's an above average salary:

* https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/seattle-senior-software-e...

> because they wanted me to join at in one level down than my current role.

As you move between companies of larger or smaller sizes, to/from different countries, between industries and the public/private sector, I think you might be doing yourself a disservice by being too focused on a specific title or rank.
Internal 'clock' makes some people age faster and die younger
FDA approves Medtronic's 'artificial pancreas' for diabetes
It remembers me of these books:

https://www.amazon.com/New-Lies-Old-Anatoliy-Golitsyn/dp/094...

https://www.amazon.com/Perestroika-Deception-Memoranda-Centr...
The Age of Walled Gardens
Your argument is basically "everybody's doing it, everybody is breaking a law somewhere" and that it's OK for people to break one law because other people are breaking a different law.

I think a more sensible approach than saying "lawbreaking is OK" is for the parties on Capitol Hill to forge a compromise that involves (1) easier legal immigration (2) better funding and more enforcement of existing immigration laws (yes, including significant deportation for illegal immigrants that moved to the US as an adult)

The only way to make progress is to move further away from casual law breaking, not to continue encouraging it. (And yes, a "one time amnesty" as you suggest would encourage more people to break the law.)

Side note: My own personal opinion is that legal immigration should be so easy that virtually anyone can come to our country who doesn't have a criminal history, but that's not on the table as a viable option.
Yes, but you don't get to just input any optimization problem into the dwave. The problem is that the specific kind of optimization that the dwave can do (even ignoring the fact that the output doesn't correspond directly with a solution) hasn't been found to map to any problems classical computers are actually bad at.

If you really think the problems you work on are that novel and up the D-Wave's alley, I suggest you email one of the academic teams looking for problems that the D-Wave is good at. They've yet to find any.
> It's pretty demoralizing to go to work and leave work in complete darkness for days on end.

Those are clouds. The sun is still there - you just can't see it.
So basically you have a market place but few or no customers to pay you, or your suppliers? Organic SEO is fine, if it's happening, but if it's not, you need to make it happen. If you have demand customers, reach out to a sample of them individually, and ask them what brought them there, and for any suggestions for you to consider that would make you easier for them to recommend to friends/colleagues.
While I'd concede that 1,700 services is a lot, and probably a function of the fact that they're hiring too many engineers too quickly (there's no possible way to indoctrinate people into sane and standardized engineering practices at this sort of hiring growth), I don't actually think what he's describing is that unusual for a company at Uber's scale or experiencing Uber's rate of growth.

I work at Airbnb and while we have many fewer engineers and services than Uber does, most of the issues he talked about in the talk resonated with me to one degree or another.
> However, Alphabet its influence and reach is far, far beyond that of Apple. Its just not as flashy & visible.

You just gave some very "flashy & visible" examples of Alphabet's influence while citing only a "big pile of cash" as Apple's flashy & visible trait.

Apple have always been the most secretive and they almost NEVER announce something before they're ready to advertise it.

Did anybody see the New Mac Pro redesign coming? What about the fact that they were developing a whole new language for 4 years before anybody suspected it, Swift? Now it's one of their biggest things ever (one of fastest growing languages on GitHub by some metrics.)

Hell, even the PowerPC to Intel jump could be considered a surprise, even though they had been working on it for 5 years. [1]

Now, just recently they revealed a bunch of stuff powered by offline machine learning in iOS 10 and the macOS Photos — all without sending your info to Apple — and frankly I'm more impressed by this and the differential privacy thing than with Google's efforts towards centralized AI.

If one were to make any guesses, I'd say Apple is in a unique position to build an AI network distributed across all their devices, without leaking privacy to Apple or anyone. This is very attractive to me as a user, even if I have "nothing to hide." There are over a billion iPhones and iPads and Macs combined, with beefier processors on average compared to the majority of Androids. Android's fragmentation may also make it harder for Google to pull off the same, even if they were to make a commitment to user privacy.

I think the winds of the world are changing direction; people are becoming increasingly aware about privacy concerns, and these issues keep making the headlines. EVEN if Apple is just using it as PR ammo, Google and Facebooks are objectively the worst offenders in this area and they don't look so nice and shiny a People's Champion in a privacy-focused future. It may take just one good open-sourced and distributed search engine, or a newer and more hip social platform (Snapchat looks like a good contender there), to unravel all their prospects.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY_ABCZJcpc
I don't know where you plan on working, but do not take a job from Amazon. They will eat you up and spit you out as soon as you're not necessary anymore. That is to say, if you're project ends, you're fired. If you survive there that long.
I guess my point is that the valids could have been 100x better athletes than all the invalids which wasn't the case in the movie. For example, they could have retractable fins and could breathe under water.

Something which would make them swim a lot faster and the point of the movie would be lost.
Another gem

> My belief is that the inexperienced, interested person will outperform the experienced, uninterested person over time.
This weeks forecast doesn't look that dismal.
>The D-wave device does not have a superposition of states, rather it is tracking a single classical state

I'm going to need a citation on that.

Even if only some small fraction of the qubits in the 2^2000 search space are fully entangled, that's still a massive improvement over the current state of the art using conventional computers because of how absolutely huge the space is.
I'm still bitter about PulseAudio...

It completely fucked up the audio on my desktop at the time. Lots of cracking and hissing, some really weird delays as well.
A gold coin would be melted down and re-struck again and again as it traveled or as kings died or were usurped.

A copper coin, however, would not be worth the bother. This coin had plenty of time to travel
Tech Giants Form 'Partnership on AI' to Tackle the Ethics of Artificial
No, it's actually not. You are not required to assume any risk for my sake; nor I for yours.
Even though some cheeses are made without rennet, it seems more likely that the easier method with rennet would have been discovered first. It seems tricky to get the milk to coagulate into curds before turning sour unless you have rennet.
The irony here is that by having a bot write an anti-bot story the author actually undermines the argument that bots will spin out of control.
Personally, I don't think so. You can make more contracting as a developer ( 1099 ). Also you get more tax writeoffs, too.
The most basic Erlang service ⇒ worker pattern
> The vote was a blow to Obama as well as to Saudi Arabia, one of the United States' longest-standing allies in the Arab world, and some lawmakers who supported the override already plan to revisit the issue.

US doesn't have "allies", only interests.
Was the context you were creating the CRUD app in the same each time? I find I end up having a lot of influence in the circumstances.
I really like the look of those icons. Something about them reminds me of Haiku's
edit: "The group plans to make discussions and minutes from meetings publicly available." I guess that is cool. But what about the competitive advantage these companies have right now? Does anybody monitor that stuff? I am not talking robots and singularity crap but rather companies that have means and the ability to make every decision with ML and the data to create an insurmountable competitive advantage.
Musk’s Mars moment: Audacity, madness, brilliance–or maybe all three
Having an income tax doesn’t make a country socialist.
I'm not sure I would classify printing hand written strings as having a bot "write" the article.
The iPhone exploited a rift in the space-time fabric.

The right features at the right time, everybody had to have one and the margins are totally insane.

That can't last. The market is nearing saturation, and competitive pressures will erode margins.

It seems unlikely they will have another product that generates as much cash as the iPhone.

They will still be a very profitable company, but perhaps not the cash printing machine that we have seen over the last 5 years.
> Now, some people may argue that these algorithms are not examples of "intelligence". The obvious conclusion must be that hiring people, beating people at Go, and playing Super Mario must also not be tasks that require intelligence.

Or it could be more nuanced than that. Effectively we have shown that given enough time (and data, and clever learning algorithms) we can teach machines to answer questions that we tell them to answer. But that is only part of intelligence---which itself is a tricky concept to even define. An intelligent agent is able to pose questions that need to be answered. (Or at least, we can probably come to a consensus agreement on that statement.)

And yes, this is a minor nit about a careless statement that was made, not an analysis of the full article.
>The argument is essentially that China's economy doesn't function as a proper market economy.

Which is true. I really hope this happens, it's time for China to start playing by the rules of a real market economy or lose access to the global market. We should not tolerate China subsidizing their industry, at the expense of other industrial countries.
You only pass on your genes if you have a biological child, and that is important to some (but not all) people.
Google should just fork Docker and make it part of Kubernetes.
Please tell us more. How? Where can I find these contracts?
U.S. Army Racing to Catch Up to Russia on Battle Drones
You're right, it's definitely a bit of a rip-off, but

1) The Ministry of Sound logo is imitation of an official government ministry logo anyway, eg https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/the-office-of-th... or https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations

2) The Ministry of Sound changed their logo: http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_logo...
That's actually a pretty funny definition.
Innovative Australian-made ion thrusters to fly on ISS (and belyond)
Yeah hillary will handle it like she handled the whole benghazi affair...ignore any people on the ground making warnings, ignore any crisis that comes up in hopes it will go away. She handed putin the reset button so he hit it and the KGB is back. No thanks.
"I fail to see how what an "oh by" code achieves that cannot be achieved by an URL, save for the subjective beauty of the format looking like 0xffffff."

You're correct. Sadly, in 2016, it appears that most people aren't creating and maintaining their own web pages. I wish this weren't the case, but it is.

What's nice about an Oh By Code, other than being a lightweight (throwaway ?) website that you can (optionally) create for free is that you can communicate the "URL" in real life. You don't need a computer to pass on an Oh By Code. You can chalk it on the sidewalk or write it on a post-it note in a way that is difficult with URLs or other schemas (like email addresses).

In fact, it's even shorter and quicker than a phone number.

"Plus, if this became a thing, everybody would have to put their total trust in "PERFECT PRIVACY, LLC""

That's true. I'd say we have as good a track record as anyone. It's worth mentioning that the rsync.net warrant canary, which was the first warrant canary, turned ten this year.

"Would you mind expanding a bit and explaining how this system can be used to log into services? That doesn't seem to be so obvious."

I'm not sure. We're brainstorming ways in which it makes sense to give people an Oh By Code instead of giving people a phone number and this seemed to relate to this discussion. As I said, my new business card will have nothing on it except 0xJOHN.
I don't think thats true. I have friends who worked on multiple projects. The bad things that i have heard are about work intensity and salary hikes nothing related to firing at will.
Why? Many of the flaws that jump out at me are not so significant that they would be worthy of concern on their own and I appreciated other people clarifying the group's affiliations(I probably wouldn't have been curious enough to go back and read a bit more otherwise).

Though honestly if this is a scientific study it is very strange that they omitted their methodology entirely(how did they select the data, how did they compare the statistics before and after, how did they account for confounding factors, etc). That is pretty fundamental to this kind of analysis and in its absence I would be hesitant to put much faith in even their weak conclusions.

The graphs themselves are definitely interesting though and I would not at all be surprised if they were on the right track.
Take a look at this post

https://blog.step.com/2016/04/08/an-open-source-project-for-...

it's pretty useful to judge if your comp is inline with others.
An expensive line of code: scaling Node.js on Heroku (2013)
Traffic Sucks, thus make sure you live close enough to work so that you can walk ( all year round ), in general too steep and too much traffic to ride a bike, unless your close to work. Much of downtown is insanely steep, and thus not safe in winter on a bike. If you like to Bike, go live in Portland, where its flat, and every direction from downtown is fairly 'hip'.

Problem with Seattle is that only few of the area's are HIP, most of Seattle is BOEING or DEFENSE ( ex-mil ), very conservative, and Seattle has it Barrios all over, which means NOT safe, or clean to go out at night. Most of PDX is safe, also PDX doesn't have as bad traffic problems.

If you can live near the Univ-of-Wash, that is best, and do a startup and hang out with other creative CS type, like the guy say's, if your just going to work for Microsoft, Amazon, or any other BIG-BOX in SEA your life will suck shit bad. The happy guys I know are working on the islands off shore of seattle, and work from home remote, mostly for SV companys', all making over $200k/year.

Winter light at 8am, dark at 5pm, summer light at 4am, dark at midnight, puget sound islands ferry system, if you manage to work downtown, taking the ferry to bainbridge can off a real nice lifestyle, that said if your high-tech for $180k, then I assume your working 18 hrs/day 8 days a week :), and it doesn't matter where you live or what you do, as you will never have a life,

If you have a life, then san-juan islands most nice, close by skiing in mountains all year round the music scene in seattle is AWESOME so is nightlife.

Seattle traffic started to suck in 1975, now its insane. Certain places like Bellevue where Microsoft live, are like chandler Arizona with rain, ugly boring, mono-culture, again you must live/work downtown near the Univ-of-Wash, or else you will be having to drive everytime U wish to have-fun. Driving means you will have to find a parking place, think san-francisco,

You $180k don't mean shit in seattle a shit house is $1M, and a condo up there too, sure buy stuff why not, the only way to 'keep' money is real-estate you have already figured out that 'stock' is for suckers. Your $180k will not get you much in Seattle, but if you try to commute you will go insane, even 10miles out in Seattle can mean 4 hours a day sitting in traffic, for instance east/west from Bellevue there is only one narrow bridge,

Your married, so I can't give the good, the women are plentiful, beautiful and easy, so if your single PDX/SEA are most EXCELLENT. If your married I would advise working downtown, and living on Bainbridge Isl, buy a house, and when you go out at night just take the ferry into town, and then stay on the 'island' on the weekend's, if you can.
If you are making 80k per month then your developer should get a real salary and benefits.
How Exactly Does Sonic and Knuckles' 'Lock-On Technology' Work?
If, Cthulhu forbid, it's Amazon, also remember that you need to stick around for a while otherwise you have to pay back that munificent sign-on and any relocation money.

I do know people who happily paid both back to get out of there.
Whether or not you agree that D-wave has proper superposition and is properly performing quantum annealing your original statement was different from this one. You wrote: "it can test the superposition of the entire search space instead of picking at points here and there."
That's similar to common misconceptions on how quantum computers work which might attract some of your downvotes, but more importantly you're also misrepresenting why quantum annealing is faster than thermal annealing.
Android, ChromeOS, Go, Dart
It's more probable that the original was a goat:

"Upon killing a kid, a farmer simply takes its milk-filled stomach, ties it off in a tight knot or sews it shut, perhaps covers it in mesh to keep the flies off, then hangs it from the ceiling of a cool, dark room. He then waits for a few months until the natural rennet within curdles and hardens the milk into a thick, creamy cheese..."

http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2015/the-secret-life-of-cheese/
>>The fact is, immigrants have higher labor participation, lower crime rate than the native born population.

Do you believe their higher labor participation is due to the pressures we put on them? What about their children?

At face value, the proposition for wholesale legalization of illegal immigrants is to create several million low income Americans.
The problem with this anecdote, and many of the comments I see about "Amazon delivery" is it only manages to address Amazon as a last-mile carrier.

If you look at the "Ground Control" infographic in the article, a significant portion of logistics is in the linehaul network: tractors + 53' trailers full of thousands of packages. At the end of the day you don't really know if Amazon, Fedex, or USPS handled these shipments, all you see is the guy who shows up to your door. I imagine there is the potential for huge savings to have Amazon vertically integrate this.

Sure, personalized delivery to your doorstep is a tough problem to solve. But delivery of thousands of packages between point A and B? Not as tough.
You appear to have already made up your mind about the issue. It's going to be rather hard for you to see why there may be a problem when it depends on some assumptions you've already rejected:

> If you've passed advanced mathematics and are lost in basic programming, CS probably isn't the best profession.

I think you're vastly underestimating the benefit of preparation, especially an advanced form of thereof. CS may also require more preparation than other fields do due to its inherent unintuitiveness. The gap between those who dabbled enough to get the basics and those who have never seen it before is rather large.

CS 101 is not basic. Even a high school CS class is not basic. Especially at some places. You're lacking perspective here.

> I cannot for the life of me grasp this insistence that we have equal representation across all professions from both genders. It turns out males and females literally have difference chemical make-ups and gravitate towards different professions naturally.

Many people are not ready to simply accept the latter conclusion because of recent history. Most of those people are similar to the same people who have found that kind of conclusion to be false previously.
Actually, a lot of the force of your criticism disappears when you realise that they are both derivatives of governmental logos used in the UK -- not surprising since both bodies are British.

The Ministry of Sound logo is a derivative of the crowned portcullis logo of the Parliament of the UK - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingd...
> amazing car ferries

What's so amazing about them?
Sounds pretty good to me. (My office is in Seattle.) There's lots of stuff to do, just depends what you like doing. It almost never snows, maybe a rare week long "snowpocalypse" every few years, it doesn't really get cold. (I'm a transplant from the concave corner of Utah though...)