skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is true but only in a limited sense.

Isn't what we need very limited anyway? What the cars need is recognition of obstacles and the type of the obstacle in a very limited range. Basically when something is on the road, it doesn't matter whether it's a moose or a deer - you slow down and avoid, or brake depending on the environment.

"what is in this picture" classifiers don't seem like a good algorithm to use in that case. Object detection / feature extraction seems to be much closer.
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I set up Deluge web on a server, and I use SFTP to transfer downloaded files to my Mac.
what does this have to do with trump?
Out of curiosity, what do you use instead of Quicklisp?
Yeah, I was a bit confused how stating provable facts upset people
Considering the probabilities or just the current ratio of Musks to non-Musks it would probably be more likely to happen by having less people with more resources than the other way around.
Except that project manager makes way more sense than business analyst when you're managing projects.

Business analyst is a different role.
I helped design a DC for a big data mining / science company and we got just under 20% off the higher margin packages. I felt very good about the number and Dell was great to work with on the purchase side.
He is also not afraid to let the KKK march in his name either.

For the record Trump has denounced the protests against him, but not the many white supremacy marches across the country
Supose your facing someone using that strategy. They have a 0.5 chance of a .5+ on their first turn and a .25% chance of 0.5+ on their second turn and a 25% of under 0.5- on their second roll.

Now, you get. 0.500001 on your first turn. There is a 25% chance they got less than 0.5 so you win 25% of the time. Well, if they are randomly under 50% then you have a better than 75% shot of beating them with a reroll. (50% your over 0.5 and thus win and 25% you are under 0.5 and still win.)

But, they are above 0.50 then you gain a 25% chance of beating them (coin flip for over 50% and 50/50 odd or 50% of a loss) your under 50% and have even odds. Thus, you go from 25% win chance to .25 * .75 + 0.75 * 0.25 or 0.375% which is better odds for re rolling.
> I'm pretty sure that the fact that 60-80% of H1-B visas are issued to citizens of only two countries is a sign that the program has been hopelessly corrupted.

Those two countries are also highly populated in the world so the numbers are proportional
Talk to a lawyer. Although there are probably some lawyers on HN, I'm not one of them, and it would be difficult if not impossible to verify the credentials of anybody who claimed to be one.

The US government generally does not claim copyright on its works. However, the Trump name is more likely to be tied up in trademark law than copyright law, and this muddies the waters considerably. It works to your advantage in some ways, but against you in others. Be careful.
Even if you believe the information is unreliable, surely you agree that suggesting the idea and then pointing to a particularly bad example is a dangerous confirmation bias trap?

If somebody told me, "CNN is doing a segment on how Trump's rise eerily parallels Hitler's rise", it would be confirmation bias to start off assuming it's false because I like Trump, watch the segment, record all the errors in the presentation, and then use those errors to support my initial conclusion.

I agree that the Spirit Cooking was better entertainment than it was credible information.
Given how much they seem to stuff onto that FPGA, it strikes me more like they are effectively replacing the internals rather than accelerating it.
Oops. As I was writing this, the original post still talked about copyrigt rather than trademark. It has since been edited. Sorry about that.
I didn't say you shouldn't learn those things, did I?
Let me know if you come to the Washington, DC area!
you don't need to understand statitstics. calculus (calculus is a high school subject and is hardly deep), and what is "algorithmics"? If you mean the study of any and all algorithms, then sure,
Facebook bug 'kills' users in 'terrible error'
California already has separate border controls. Drive from Nevada into California to see. California asks all sorts of questions about plants and pests.
I've seen that version (fold in half, then accordion style), but I assure you that most highway or city maps from the '60s and '70s had folding patterns that made absolutely no sense. Go and find one from an elderly relative's attic and you'll believe me.
Careful, working in a language without a REPL encourages you to explore less. I was working in Python, and I did this and was about to post it, but then I asked myself "well, it can't be so easy, right? Why don't I also run a two-player simulation and make sure this strategy actually beats 0.6 first?", and - see my sibling post - it surprisingly loses. I can't yet explain why[1], but you can't argue with facts.

[1] probably has to do with the probability distribution having a shape more interesting than a Gaussian bell
Antifragility describes a system that becomes more resilient automatically, because it is built such that it must, in response to attack or damage. Such a system doesn't require management. It doesn't require people to actively test, to think about how to make the system better, to implement the fixes.
No problem. My mistake. I would definitely not accept the info as legal advice. But as with most things discussed on this forum people like to point others to what may be useful in their research?

I, as probably most others on this forum, would not put our future livelihoods in the hands of anonymous comments.

That said, I think an open forum conversation brings a lot of perspectives (useful and not) to the table that can help in one way or another.

After all, this is the future POTUS we're talking about.
I'm going to get downvoted for my "elitist" opinion but have to say this, to warn those few who'll listen.

Recently I was hiring on a tight budget. I've interviewed a dozen people from various coding boot camps, self taught web developers, etc. None of them could solve a Fizzbuzz level problem on a whiteboard.

(One thing I've learned after 15 years in industry, 8 jobs, 2 continents - a person who can't do fizzbuzz-type problem is not worth having onboard even for free).

It seems to me that even with best training in the world and a ton of prior IT experience it always takes people at least 2-3 years to start thinking in code in a way where you don't waste everyone's time.
Learning to code is not about a bunch of syntax rules. It's about retraining your brain to use different mental models, developing intuition about where a bug might be, finding your way around a large and hostile codebase, anticipating how your today's decision will interact with all the features you'll implement over next 6 months, and so on.

Basic rules of programming are simple, but so are the rules of golf or snooker, or making bespoke suits, or wine tasting.

If you are prepared to spend next 3 years aimlessly poking around the debugger struggling to figure out the simplest thing only to realize at 11pm you were looking in a wrong place - go for it. It's frustrating but also rewarding.

If you think in 6 months you'll be able to build the next facebook with AI - only thing you'll learn in that time is how much there's still to learn.
They designed for a small operations with limited resources. That might be fair given their budget/funding which we don't know.

At the moment, the discussion in the GitHub issues looks like people who are buying servers to put and run in their garage ^^
Unfortunately reproduction is a largely ego-driven pursuit.
Previous presidents enabled laws around people being considered "working" when they're not making a dime and it's destroyed families because noones considered changing it yet. I'd like to see Trump change that.

Downvote the fuck out of me, do I care? Of course not. I will always stick up for the little guy even when it's unpopular.
Perhaps it's a CSS issue. I've just noticed that when working only with CSS adding and removing classes in JS it's simple. All of the React frameworks feel like they don't meld well with that.

I will not claim to be a JS expert by any means. In my basic usage of HTML, JS and CSS; I find that I can manipulate the look and feel easier with Jquery. When I add in React, I get a really elegant MVC system, but loose the ease of adding and removing classes of different HTML elements.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but that's just my experience.
The city of Durango does not normally pull its water supply from the Animas River but rather the Florida River which is not known for a large heavy metal load. Animas river water is used as a backup supply.
What you seek to do is illegal, and I'd consider any company who offers to take you up on it as suspect.
See my post. As a mathematician, maybe you're missing some interesting theory of why if the opponent has an average of 0.625 and you got 0.55 you should redraw. However, as a programmer, the first thing you're missing is running a quick Monte Carlo simulation and seeing whether your idea actually wins :-)
This. And if you do end up programming and you demonstrate any experience managing projects, you will end up in that role again, just with less respect for it and less money.
This is not about rights. Blackmail is a legal and completely honest strategy if the user agree with that. A good example is the Ashley Madison deal.

This is not about resources either. The company should handle their resources with responsibility.

This is about ethics and responsibility. Ethics because the user did not agree with the blackmail strategy when he start to use the system.
> not with traditional feedforward networks (LeNet, etc.)

I'd argue they are implicitly doing this.

> You can't run the classifier and find tires, then wheels, and then a car;

Why can't you run a classifier for tires, one for wheels, one for cars, then combine their outputs for a final classifier maybe based on a decision tree? You can train all the networks at the same time and it will give you a probability distributions for all 4 outputs (tires, wheels, cars, blended). What am I missing?
Please stop and read this and show it to your boss.

If you are really getting 0% discount you need to private message me and send me $10k so I can tell you this one weird trick.

You simply ask for them.

Just do that. Everyone gets discounts.
Quants are actually all about winning 0.0001 cent on average on every iteration of a game played 1 billion times a day.
You care enough about down-voting to comment on it. Please don't.
I feel like I have to do it and ask the stupidest yet most important question in this thread...

Why didn't you use S3?
The rest of the country normally feels that way about California. Because of this, there is some serious California hatred out here.

It goes beyond regular politics too. We are constantly reminded of how everything is known to the state of California to cause cancer.
It would be illegal if I work AND get payed. The whole point is not really about this. I'm doing this just so I can get to know and work first hand with a bunch of awesome entrepreneurs and also visit places that I haven't been before!
I'm a salaried full time employee at a major tech company.
Rights are not country specific. They're inalienable or the entire concept of rights is meaningless (lest you agree that a Constitution that allows torture of innocent people means that people in that country have no right to not be tortured).
My RT-AC68U router flagged this website as having malware. Seems more related to email than the website though.

Description:
Sites whose addresses have been found in spam messages.
I don't think a PM should quit his/her job to learn how to finish a project. Your comment has me thinting OP should drill through an online course. That way s/he can relatively quickly add marketable skills and background to his/her resume while employed. It might not be as sexy and intense as a "boot camp", but it's probably way more sane and productive.
I do have a business (not work) visa. Which allows me to make business in the US but not get hired. Which I'm not looking for first hand. Thanks!
"Previous presidents enabled laws around people being considered "working" when they're not making a dime"

Please identify any one such law. Bonus points for describing how a President implements laws on his own.
I've been wrong on here before but I've never just invented stuff without facts...

https://github.com/mroth/phoenix-showdown/blob/master/README...
Indeed, "virtualbox-the-crosscompiler" (probably from hell). QEMU would be a few orders of magnitude slower but I think it supports many more archs.

No hard feelings :)
Storage as a first class service means that storage is provided to the fabric directly. Just as routing is provided to the fabric directly by switches and routers so 'networking' is a first class service. In some networks time is provided by hardware dedicated to that so time is a "first class" service.

"Storage" as a definition is an addressable persistent store of data. But that isn't as useful as one might hope for discussions, so I tend to think of it in terms of the collection of storage components and compute resources that enable those components to be accessed across the "network."

So at Google a GFS cluster provides "storage" but if the compute is also running compute jobs, web server back ends, etc. It isn't the "only" task of the infrastructure and that is the definition of "second" or "not first class". Back in the day Urs would argue that storage takes so few compute cycles that it made no sense to dedicate an index to the serving up of blocks of disk. But that also constrained how much storage per index you could service. And that is why from a TCO perspective "storage as a service" is cheap when you need the CPUs for other things anyway, but it's very expensive when you just want storage. I wrote a white paper for Bart comparing GFS cost per gigabyte to the NetApp cost per gigabyte, and NetApp was way cheaper because it wasn't replicated 9 times on mission critical data, and one index (aka one filer head) could talk to 1,000 drives.

That same sort of effect happens in cloud services where if you want 100TB of storage you end up having to pay for 10 high storage instances, even if your data movement needs could be addressed by a single server instance with say 32GB of memory. The startup DriveScale is targeting this imbalance for things like Hadoop clusters.
Nothing wrong with doing that on a feature branch after rebasing, as long as you are sure no-one else has pushed any changes to that branch in the meantime. Although personally i prefer --force-with-lease, which will warn you if that's happened.
Happy to go there. DC is my favorite city in the US. Let's chat!
I still can't imagine tying yourself to a system that precludes mobile. That seems like a terribly bad idea at this point.
Create a Debian package for your Django application (2010)
> Most people aren't in a position to get a replacement delivered from a vendor that quickly

Back when I worked in enterprise services, it was a requirement that we had good support contracts — 1-, 4- or 8-hour turnarounds were standard.

If you're running a serious business, support contracts are a must.
I know, but it was not defined in the spec
Re-draw if the number is smaller than 2/3.
"We" in the way used was intended to mean an American or Americans as opposed to the foreign entity. That it goes directly to the top is a separate issue, and suggestive of increased taxation, which Trump is generally against. Obviously a tariff is an option here, but it won't automatically bring jobs back.

Pollution and other externalities accounting is interesting, of course Trump has denied climate change so I would not expect much progress here.

Have to consider how trading is working with most of these countries as well. We're not selling entirely foreign products, especially when it comes to the ones offshoring American labor. The American companies go in to make use of the labor, and then "they", the American company is importing those products for sale on the American and global markets. "We" again meaning Americans in aggregate, are mostly reaping the benefits.

To have an effective trade strategy which builds in externalities you would have to have a widespread agreement between many countries. Otherwise, if say, an American company operating in China exporting to Africa had to pay those taxes, but a Polish company for example did not, we would be losing.

Ultimately, trying to bring those jobs back is trying to force a sub optimal solution. As it is, Americans are winning, in aggregate. It would be better to focus on redistributing our increased winnings.
Yeah, eventually I see it becoming its own standalone board, but it's nice that it's allowing Amiga users to make use of their existing hardware (peripherals, etc...).

Also, no announcements I know of have indicated this is on the cards, but I'd also be interested to see if it becomes a more general-purpose 68k accelerator, there may be users of other 68k-based machines that would be interested in a clip-on accelerator. Not for any practical reason, just for fun. I think it'd be funny to see a Mega Drive run homebrew faster than a PlayStation. ;-)
This is something I also have been thinking about... specially because I am useless around fixing the house.

I would love to be able to write somewhere "my backyard aluminium door has problem closing/is stuck" and get quotes from whoever is the indicated person/profession to fix that.

I started learning React Native to do that, but darn I just don't have enough time :(
This... rings so right... but me and probably many other programmers here lack the math to see the explanation immediately in front of our eyes when we hear the answer. Can you please elaborate?

Edit: thanks. This is convincing, but... given that we're looking for a fixed point of a process like... [bah, I lack words to describe a vague, non-rigorous intuition]... I expect that there is a convincing one-sentence explanation that also shows it to be the golden ratio. Am I wrong? Can anyone give a simpler explanation?
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Good. Filesystems sometimes seem easy-ish, but starting from something fairly proven is a very good idea in this space IMO.
Short answer: Write Amplification.

Long answer: When the index is created first, new entries have to be inserted into the index (in sorted order) as they arrive. This involves writing various individual records at arbitrary places in the b-tree. Each such write is perhaps 20 bytes in size (depending on your index, of course). But, behind the scenes, your OS is really reading an entire 4K page from your HDD/SSD, swapping out the 20 bytes that you sent to write() and the pushing the whole 4K page back to the HDD/SSD. So your 20-byte random write turned into a 4K byte write. That is "write applification". But if you insert all the records into the table first (inserting into an unindexed table is just an append) then create the index afterwards, SQLite is free to sort the columns to be indexed (using an efficient external merge sort algorithm) then write them to disk in sorted order. That way, each new 20-byte records is appended, rather than written randomly into the file. That means multiple appends can be grouped together to form a full 4K page which is then written exactly once. Much less I/O is required.
The things you own end up owning you.

But seriously, this is so whiny. Yes! Standards change. At least you can still use ‘em. I have a shelf of SCSI gizmos that are donezo.
Maybe you're in a place where Product Management (I'm assuming that's what you mean by "PM") is done poorly? If most of what you're doing is project management and coordination, then you're not really doing Product Management. PM work is about knowing your market, knowing your customers and their problems, knowing the tech that can be used to solve those problems, building a strategy to deliver validated solutions to the problems and then delivering the solution, all while considering company and stakeholder goals. It is a incredibly fun, sometimes, incredibly frustrating job.
The problem with your analysis is that "go for the highest value" is not equivalent to "maximize expected value of the number you end up with"

For example, consider a similar game where you draw and then optionally re-draw (like in the original game) but the amount of money you win if you end up with a number p is p if p < 0.8 and p + b if p > 0.8, where b is some constant. Then you're also trying to "go for the highest value". However it is clear that in the limit of large b, your best strategy is to redraw if p < 0.8.
Couldn't read article b/c of paywall, but I gotta put in a good word for Greenville SC, where I currently live. It's been popping up on a lot of "cool cities" lists recently, and rightfully so. Great & growing tech scene. I personally work for a medical start-up & could be living anywhere, but right now I'm content to be in "G-Vegas" =]
I consider myself a liberal leaning person. I voted for Obama in 2008 with the hope that he would unwind the worst of Bush era policies. He failed to to this in my estimation, and doubled down on espionage prosecutions, so I did not vote for him in 2012. Rather I voted for a 3rd party candidate.

I have long warned friends that Obama's refusal to address the proliferation of technologies supporting a future turnkey totalitarian state was a huge risk to our future stability.

With Trump's ascension to the presidency I am dismayed to find myself perhaps proven correct. At the very best interpretation, Trump will not use these executive powers to target opposition. However his future potential use of these powers will cause a large segment of the population to mistrust everything he does.
I just want a "best" like sort mechanism that weights stories based on the average or maximum number of votes on each sub-reddit. Sometime there is a very voted story in an interesting sub-reddit but it only has 50 or so votes because it is very niche
When all else fails, test.
Ask HN: How to network as someone in 30s?
Hi HN,

I want to ask you all what tips you have for networking?
I am 31,male, Indian and just moved to Seattle.

Ever since I was in school,I avoided people. May be that'd why I am still single. Anyway, I don't have any friends or any professional network that I can count on. I have lived in Boston, Dallas,SF so far. I actually found SF very unfriendly tbh. I used to go the meetups but everytime new people would show up minimizing any chance of repeat contact.

I have plans to build my own startup. Also, as we grow older, most job offers would come from network. Growing up and taking executive positions also come from network.

Indian people have bad reputation for taking away American jobs, especially in tech.

What tips can you provide for building a long lasting network? One that is beneficial for leveraging knowledge and is valuable?
Thank you this is perfect.
I was a lifelong hobbyist programmer that went to a (well-regarded) bootcamp for reasons that only really make sense to me. I do a lot of the mission-critical work for my team/company. I've been solo dev on big ETL projects that my company depended on -- they don't teach you that kind of stuff in bootcamps, but some do give you enough database experience to figure it out.
If it's setup as a freelancer with a business visa (B1), you should be fine.
Imagine being told exactly what number the other guy ended up with. Then, instead of maximizing value you would need to just redraw if you're below that number.

I haven't solved it yet, but it's definitely some kinda recursive formula where you have to assume the other guy is also playing the optimal strategy.
Does this work with Facebook? They turned off RSS recently and it was very annoying.