skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read was interesting, but I found myself pushing through by force of curiosity. It was hard, since the post itself was very agressive to me - the reader.
I'm officially too dumb for that.

(loop for system in (list "sxql" "cl-ppcre" "dexador" "clss" "plump" "plump-sexp" "datafly" "xml-emitter" "local-time" "hunchentoot" "cl-who" "lass" "smackjack" "parenscript") do (asdf:load-system system))

I get a load of warnings about "redefining functions". Rather annoying...
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Yes, thank you. This has been my biggest problem with React as well. It feels like they are fighting against some of the most natural ways to use CSS in code. Which is too bad, b/c CSS is awesome, and React is awesome. But together it feels like they don't play well.
> People drive reasonably well using vision primarily

This is not accurate however. Other important senses in use include proprioceptive, hearing and tactile feedback from wheels. In addition to vision and the improved dynamic range of eyes, there is the important fact that human vision integrates a world model into expectations. Human vision also models time and motion which help manage where to focus attention. Humans can additionally predict other agents and other things about the world based on intuitive physics. This is why they can get on without the huge array of sensors and cars cannot. Humans make up for the lack of sensors by being able to use the poor quality data more effectively.

To put this in perspective, 8.75 megabits / second is estimated to pass through the human retina but only on the order of a 100 bits is estimated to reach conscious attention.

> Computer learning networks can classify imagery at least as accurately as humans and sometimes more so.

This is true but only in a limited sense. For example, when I put in the image on the right (of a car in a swimming pool) from http://icml.cc/2015/invited/LeonBottouICML2015.pdf#page=58 (which you should read and find the talk of but) in ResNet I get as top results:

0.2947; screen, CRT screen

golfcart, golf cart

boathouse

amphibian, amphibious vehicle

For LeNet it's:

0.5422; amphibian, amphibious vehicle

jeep, landrover

wreck

speedboat

The key difference is learning in animals occurs by breaking things down in terms of modular concepts, so even when things are not recognized new things can be labeled as a composition of smaller nearby concepts. Machines cannot yet do this well at all and certainly not as flexibly. Things as lighting and shading do not move animals as much in the concept space.

> The execution strategy appears to be to run classification and command prediction all the time, and while the human is in control consider it supervised learning.

This strategy will not learn from accidents because the signal there will be far from optimal usually.
While I agree with you about AirBnb, I think Uber is still doing a good thing and improved the way I use taxi/limo services, gone are the days where I have to guess how much the trip will cost or if I can make it in time to destination without calling at least couple limo companies or being screwed up by a driver in a city I visit for a first time.

Uber use of technology is what I think separates it from airbnb and even tho they are burning investors cash they at least doing something great to improve customer experience.
I think given the gp, this is quite a perfect reply. 4.2mb of js on a text-oriented docs page is either an infrastructural problem or it's by design. Dismissing it casually as something that can be considered a simple "issue" solvable with a PR or two seems a pretty clear sign of "people who don't see performance problems".

I appreciate that it's open source, so inviting PRs and general contributions is cool, but there does seem a bit of a dearth in understanding of the problem.
I forgot, what kind of data is this? Is it images? rows in a table?
Evidently this is a strange idea, but using lethal force as a first resort is not a part of America's gun culture.

And therefore whatever we're doing about those other issues is effectively anonymized, aside from things like supporting the NRA's fight against McCain-Feingold's censorship of core political speech.

As for "police shooting citizens dead in the street to the fury of their community", if the dead earned it, and we're much more able to analyze deadly force encounters than those who've never shot a gun, we only care when that "community" decides to rape and pillage innocents in return. And some of us are known to take action in such situations: http://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2014/11/25/armed-business-owner...

The vast majority of BLM protests are of this nature (in fact, while I think I'm forgetting 1 or 2 cases, this is true of all the ones I can think of), whereas true victims like Eric Garner ... well, yeah, you're right, all we've done about his murder at the hands of NYC's finest is talk about it, quite a bit. And buy more guns and ammo, and practice with them....
Moving goalposts.
HN is about startups, VCs and using free software to profit. There is nothing remotely wrong with this but the priorities of this forum and users are completely different to someone like Stallman.

In this case he raises critical and pertinent points for users to consider, but those vested in building Uber, Google and the entire surveillance economy are going to reject or dilute these points. Just like those who risk losing their livelihood from global warming reject it.
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Long ago, a cousin of mine and her husband raised their family in Durango. I think they all felt it was a great place to grow up, especially because they were passionate about exploring the wilderness around them. Attempting to settle there as an adult with only a high school education and build a life is another matter. Three of their four sons moved to the Front Range to go to college, raise their families, and pursue careers.
I didn't see any chance for a debate. Once one side was labelled misogynist, racist, antisemitic and homophobic, it was the end of public discussion and open season on every one of its supporters.
Surveillance and Democracy: The Effects of Uncontrolled Spying Around the World
> ... humans don't need LIDAR to drive, why should computers?

That being the case, wouldn't we be limiting self-driving technology to the same traffic-related death rates as humans? Maybe 10, 20% better, but still fundamentally close.

For self-driving cars to be truly successful, the death rates will need to be an order of magnitude better. An incremental improvement won't convince governments and the public at large to trust their lives to an algorithm running inside a black box.

To be an order of magnitude better, you'll likely need to go well beyond simply processing pixels, including LIDAR and other sensors.
Relax! its more complicated and worse than that. You can't put in 1000's and 500's into ATM's anymore. Nor can you put 2000's as dimensions of the notes have changed! What that means is you need to put in all 100's. Basically the capacity of an ATM just came down by a factor of 10x. Worse there not many 100's going around. Whatever people get is going into hoarding(due to uncertainty of the future). Now imagine moving that kind of cash across every single ATM in India. And replenishing those machines every few hours. This is a logistical nightmare at gigantic levels. Banks aren't dispensing meaningful cash either, nor do a lot of people have bank accounts. So its a double whammy.

People aren't buying non essential goods. Clothing, Electronics others etc industry is suffering by the minute. There is no money to payout lower middle class and poor people. On top of this you see secondary effects like food running out, or getting expensive. No fuel. Emergency services in peril because hospitals aren't taking cash.

They need to find solution to the crisis within Monday before the poor have a last-straw-on-the-camel's-back situation, and something ugly unfolds from there on.
Webwork.io (Anyone need programming services? )
iPhone safari doesn't show the docs overview page in view (cropped pretty bad) + can't scroll the page at all.
> It's like saying information economy can be called so only if everybody uses open source and nobody is making profit from information.

No it's not. Sharing is a word that has a meaning. What it's like is saying that you can't call the trade in oranges the information economy, because trading oranges has little to with information. Selling is not sharing.
I think doing it on the side is less feasible because (1) work takes up too much time for me to make meaningful progress in say 6 months, it will be very slow progress (2) I find that the best coding bootcamps also help in getting you a software engineering job which I think will be a lot harder just studying on your own
Quitting your job isn't the problem. It's takes courage to do what you do. The problem is coding boot camps. They promise things they can't deliver. As a programmer I can tell you all the things you learn in those three months can be learn from any beginner textbook you download from amazon. $50 versus $10,000.

Some of the problems I deal with in programming can take months of thinking to solve and any course that says yo can become a professional programmer in three months is a joke. What happens when you stumble a problem that doesn't have a ready made answer for you or you encounter a bug take days to discover.

If you want to become a professional programmer, just start coding. You don't need certificates to tell you who you are. Programmer is an occupation based mostly on meritocracy, It's a well known understanding in the industry that the best programmers are self taught.

Start by learning some text books and doing side projects. Try and get a job from there. It will take you 4-5 years of hard work to get to the level you mentioned. And note. There are many bad programmers out there that stop learning after 6 months and just accumulate time. Don't fall into that trap. Learning is hard but the personal reward is great.
We're well overdue anyway.
There's one issue in Trump's current ideas: That he wants to "punish" countries that don't take back illegal immigrants by limiting visa access to their citizens.

So if the Trump administration at some point considers Liechtenstein to be not in compliance with Trump's ideas of handling illegal immigrants, fully compliant H1-Bs from Liechtenstein might get in trouble the next time they need to renew their paperwork.
Why would he do that? It's been abundantly clear he's been in favor of it all along.
> This is only true for companies where minimizing the cost is the best (sometimes only) strategy to increase profits. Tata, EDS, Accenture, and the many IT body shops are all in this camp.

It's true for any company. Did we forget about the Silicon Valley wage fixing already?

> This is much more valuable than saving 30% off in an individual's compensation -- at the expense of high turnover, when said worker realizes he/she is being underpaid.

That's the entire point, if you underpay, you get high turnover. But what is considered underpaying is relative to the market rates. And if you get more supply, market rates drop.

As an example, interns at Google in the US earn about $7000 a month, while in London they get about £2000. That's because of market rates in London are far lower than in the US. Ideally, tech companies in Silicon Valley would really love it if they could have the same employees as they do now for half the price.
its impossible to label an article presenting a theory or perspective as non-factual. no one ever said it was fact. anyone trying to claim it is fact is a fool.

Facts are things like:

I have 20$ in my pocket

Creationism isnt misinformation, even if it is lacking in evidence.
Surveillance and Democracy: Chilling Tales from Around the World [pdf]
Hi hn.

I had an itch and scratched it with FormSync. I see lots of ways to improve, but I thought this was a good place to start open-sourcing the idea.

Idea is that sometimes people who start filling out an online form, and something happens (real life, tech issues, whatever)... what happens to the info that was being added? Poof. It disappears. That's why I made FormSync.

Example: https://jsfiddle.net/acoyfellow/2se2rLq2/
Sometimes numbers stored as text are useful. For example, if you have telephone numbers in Excel, if the numbers aren't stored as text then leading zeros are dropped (e.g. 01234567890 would change to 1234567890).

Also, it's easy enough to see when numbers are stored as text (via visual cues and the format type field).

That said, perhaps the formulas could be made more flexible. Excel formulas are somewhat Lisp-like, it'd be great if Excel had Lisp-style macros for customising formulas. Probably won't happen though. Microsoft is developing the 'Power BI' side of Excel, I could see it becoming more common to create custom functions with M or DAX when the related editing functionality improves.
There is so much awesome stuff to be discovered in our own seas. Would love to see space exploration and deep sea exploration on the same level of excitement, investment and pursuit. I would even argue that Google, the company who's mission it is to organize the world's information should focus on these things vs building Chat apps
Oh well that makes sense, if stochastic calculus is all you need to know, i was half considering becoming a Quant there for a second ;)
Yup. No reason to doubt bell
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I think you nailed it, but I'd add that it was also about how 'literary criticism', at least the kind taught in the school(s) she went to, seems to try to avoid all that 'emotional' stuff for a purely intellectual analysis of the text.

So she felt like she 'wasn't supposed' to do that 'complete immersion' think that you (and I!) like so much.
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The nonstandard definitions and notation, the lack of proper typesetting, random clip-arty images, the precociousness of "Grand Unified" whatever, and the general pretense that this isn't covered in most intro algebra graduate courses, all of that doesn't help his case. :(
Whether or not the intent was to artificially limit the supply the effect is the same. Barriers to entry prevent an influx of labor from pushing the price down.

Here is an article from fortune on the AMA...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2014/09/03/the-docto...
1. Go to your jeweler and ask them to sell gold with a predated receipt.

2. Pay loans to small time farmers at a discount and have change that at the bank.

3. Buy cars at pre dated receipts for your relatives etc.

4. Invest in innovative chit fund schemes/pygmies.

etc etc.

White wash jugaad's are plenty.
well they can probably include a better storage layer.

at the moment you can just setup multiple mount points, but I guess it would be superior to actually setup a moint point or object storage. I'm pretty sure that you can put git into something like s3.
On the Wii U eShop, at least (don't know about the Wii or 3DS shops), you can sort titles by "most downloaded." Many SNES (and GBA) games rank highly—often as highly as Nintendo's new releases. Virtually none of the NES titles do, even when discounted.
Zoning laws are not arbitrary rent-seeking enablers; they're protection against damaging behaviour that is difficult to enforce on a case-by-case basis.

They're also am excellent way to separate people out according to social class / lifestyle.
> my guess is the prior comment was by a person who appeals to Haskell more often than uses it.

Two points:

One, I'm not keeping an exact score of how often I mention Haskell vs. use it, but I can assure you that I use Haskell almost every single day.

Two, this constant anti-academia thing is really getting tiresome at this point... but just for the record: I've never worked in academia and didn't even encounter Haskell until I was out of university. My interest and praise for Haskell (and Ocaml) is entirely based on practical experience.
> As an example, interns at Google in the US earn about $7000 a month, while in London they get about £2000. That's because of market rates in London are far lower than in the US. Ideally, tech companies in Silicon Valley would really love it if they could have the same employees as they do now for half the price.

Just speculating, but I imagine for Google the real estate cost of moving their headquarters to London would far outweigh the small amount they'd save on labor.
At a certain scale, it's better to just take that responsibility rather than rely on someone to be able to handle that burden. When something fails, the worst thing is being out of control of it and unable to do anything about it.

Last time I had a failed storage controller, HP delivered a replacement in four hours. Last time a service provider went down, I had no visibility into the repair process, and had to explain there was nothing I could do... For five days.

It seems like you've outright admitted you can't guarantee what they need, yet you still urge them not to leave your business model. Maybe come back when your business model can meet their needs.
Trump isn't even in office yet, and already he's done more to advance the libertarian agenda than 40-ish years of libertarians have managed.

Democrats are coming out in support of the Second Amendment, the right of secession, and limited government. They're now apparently opposed to the surveillance state and the expanding powers of the Executive.
Humans don't use accurate depth maps to drive.

Humans are very good at estimating distance from a combination parallax visual cues and experience. We don't need to have seen a specific model of car before to judge how far away it is with a high level of accuracy.
There's a manager where I work who sets his phone to forward to voicemail 24 hours a day. He doesn't get your message until he checks his messages and it's frustrating as all hell to try to get him on the phone.
There is a less authentic version if you look around on youtube for those of us not in the UK...
I don't put liquids in the bin. Food scraps are composted.

I also used store bags to take my lunch. Does anyone not reuse plastic bags?
According to the link,

> It scales from a single node, to multi-PB clusters spread geographically
s3fs? ;)

A) I think it would be kind of difficult to store git on S3 (the magic would be in the caching / consistency layer to keep it performant)

B) it would make sense for their customers that run on AWS. However, many of them just run on a single VM / physical server.
From the sounds of it a Trump Presidency would be for removing red tape that effects Airbnb but against the dumping practices that Uber does.

There are a lot of talk that Trump is going to break up some of the Silicon Valley companies up. Especially the ones who don't care about American jobs.
Looks to me like each one was taking 10 μsec, so 100k of them shaved a second off. I am really surprised at how SQLite can insert a single record in 100 μsec, though.
I recommend going to Panama City, Panama, and finding out what life is like when those laws don't exist. Traffic is miserable, most taxis are in extremely poor repair, the taxi drivers are making next to nothing, and half the time they will either not pick you up if you want to go across town, and/or overcharge you because you don't sound like a local.

One of the bigger reasons for medallions is congestion control. For-hire private transportation provides a financial incentive to have more cars on the road. This system will only begin to self-correct after the point of gridlock (assuming that taxis lose money while in gridlock), or not at all (if they get paid to sit in traffic). If that sounds like a future you want, you can go down to Panama and enjoy it any time. If it's all the same to you though I'd prefer not to import third-world living conditions.
His walk back of Obamacare is incoherent. He claims he will keep the pre-existing condition stuff while ditching all the bits that make that economically viable. Which would lead to mass defection from insurance for healthy people and skyrocketing premiums for the ill, causing a vicious cycle that would destroy the whole market.

Or was I not supposed to take that literally either?

If he actually wants to make it better he should talk to his buddies in the GOP and get the states who have refused to play ball onside.
I know a lot of people who identify as a "Democrat", few who can't find things to nitpick about any given candidate (including Obama). I'm surprised our experiences are as different as you describe. Probably presentation is different when discussing with people they view as allies versus those they view as opposition?
Just to add another anecdotal experience:

Performance is 100% acceptable and fluid on an iPhone 7 in Safari.
Fwiw, this is pretty much exactly the situation we had from the very start, since the early days before "big data" was even a thing people talked about, and why I went "bare metal" from the beginning.

At the time (about 2005 iirc) I was read/writing between 500GB and 2TB a day, with heavy calculations across two high performance desktops. Then as I came to scale up AWS was announced, but when I priced it, just what was running already on those desktops came to more for the first month than buying 6 heavy duty dual CPU Dell servers with tons of storage.

So that's exactly how we started.

The only "shock" I got was how much of a b!tch keeping all that cool is, and that took a year or two to get that "just right".
multiple filesystem != multiple storage backends unfortunatly.
I once saw a super awesome way to fold a map. It just magically expands and retracts: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miura_fold
Ask HN: Someone here to team up with me on a project to learn React together?
Hey there,

I'm a self-taught web developer and I want to learn React right now. Is here anybody who would like to team up with me on a project in order to get learning react together?

Thanks,
Alin R.
Apple is doubling down on open source
I'm not a Political Scientist or even particularly well read on the subject. But 'The Clash of civilizations', by Huntington Is a fairly standard big picture view.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_Civilizations

America is unfortunately now immersed in tribalism. Those who should be trying to reverse the trend such as the media and Intellectuals have embraced tribalism as much as the rest. There is no civilisation that can withstand the forces of tribalism.

The breakup of Yugoslavia is an informative example of how a state collapses when ethos is replaced with tribalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia
Can you provide any evidence that medication cures depression at all let alone 50% of the time?
I'm confused, how is a company who hires H1-B visa holders "illegitimate"? Maybe I'm taking this too literally...
How can today’s college students future-proof their careers?
It sounds like the medication didn't cure your depression. It helped you manage it, and the EMDR was the cure.
Thank you for taking the time for writing this and being so open.

However, I think this approach should be criticized. It's a very concrete improvement for the 0.1% of users dropped in favor of a very vague improvement for an unknown subset of the 99%. Also, the bugs have severe consequences for the users (as in the OP or the Dash case) it would be downright irresponsible to be customer of a company that acts like this.
Now more than ever European Union must get together, starting from the language
I don't know anything about Qt but if it's so good, why hasn't someone made something equivalent for web that just generates the underlying HTML/CSS?
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