skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To get higher quality code

--Do code reviews

--allows workers to learn from each other as well as other people outside of engineers.

--Have a coding standard

--Use boring technology as most of the bugs would have been found

To improve morale

--Treat people with respect

--Allow people to explore different aspects of the business

--Recognize people when they do a great job

--Allow for constructive criticism

--Don't let management get out of touch with the business
Random synaptic feedback weights support errorbackpropagation for deep learning
Maybe a stupid question, but why is the case grounded at all (I mean as in "put on a common zero potential", not as in "connected to earth")? I imagine it is convenient to use the case as common ground, but it seems wierd. Is is unavoidable production-wise?
Probably because it is full of bits of whatever is being cut and can't easily be filtered after a run.
That was just an internal working name. Xamarin.Forms has first and foremost been a code patterns library, not a WORA framework (despite how it may be used in practice). It's a unique leaf on the MV* tree. The central insight from it's chief architect was to apply the scenegraph + renderer model from 3D graphics to solve the native cross-platform UI problem. It should be classified something like Model-ViewModel(Scenegraph)-Renderer.

As a practical matter it had to ship with a library of default renderers for common UI elements, but other than the layout system, those all can be replaced by alternative renderers either in part or in whole. But the scenegraph essentially is the data structure that stores your app's business value (think HTML templates + JS). The renderers can too, but those should be reusable across many apps (think CSS/the value prop of Bootstrap). The scenegraph maximizes intra-app UI code sharing and the renderers maximize inter-app UI code sharing.

It's a hard problem space, and there is no magic bullet. Even the Xamarin.Forms team would tell you that. For many use cases, it's great. The bugs are tricky, since UIKit and Android have major thread safety issues and wildly divergent object life cycles (and Android itself is such a moving target, which any experienced Android dev knows, cough Support Libraries cough). Bugs tend to come from the layout engine because that is the heaviest lift. XF eats complexity that you otherwise have to eat on your own. For many small/under resourced teams, that's the difference between "iOS only" and "Android also" support. If you are resourced for two teams, awesome! If not, but have to support both, you face some hard choices. Xamarin.Forms tops a very short list of available options.

All that's to say that some people use Forms to build really native apps because they understand the patterns Forms is built on, and it's limitations. Every framework has a grain. When you cut with it, the results are quick and smooth. When you cut against it, and the results are tough, course, and possibly cracked.
Google also includes the correct election counts in a big box directly above any of the search results...
Not in the "news" section. The complaint isn't that it's the first hit in the regular search results, it's that it's the first hit under news. (Or rather, it was. Now this Washington Post piece is first, and the false article is second!)
That reply doesn't address my original comment, but the IPCC do say just that -- although not in that paragraph. You will find statements all over the IPCC about how climate change is nearly certain to be caused by people, and in particular, by people burning fossil fuels. If you go to the link I posted and search for "fossil" you will that in those notes. You can also read the official IPCC reports yourself to get a clearer idea.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but there's no anthropic principle at work. It would be perfectly fine to say (although it would not be true) that "plasma fluctuations on the surface of the sun are extremely likely to be the dominant cause of observed warming since the mid century."
Most libraries have fallbacks for cuDNN-less operation. Torch, for example, requires you to import a CUDNN library if you want to use it. Caffe requires you to uncomment a line in a makefile if you want to use it.
5mW should be enough for a simple e-ink watch. CPU and display have to stay idle most of the time though and you can't communicate a lot over radio. It should be possible, even with that little power if you can accumulate the energy in a capacitor. However it's not an easy task and poses a real engineering challenge, that's for sure.
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>A healthy democracy relies on an informed citizenry, so this phenomenon is truly a threat to democracy itself.

The concept has been weaponized already:

Russia and the Menace of Unreality: How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare[http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/rus...]

The Challenge of Russia’s Anti-Western Information Warfare[http://www.diplomaatia.ee/en/article/the-challenge-of-russia...]
Absolutely!

Hmmm, I can get cheap ball point pens (round Bic Sticks), and I've been able to find narrow fountain pens, but I gather trying to find good ones in-between these extremes is a lost cause?
Well, it's actually identical on most criteria listed on that page (it's worse on Condorcet Loser and Clone Independence, which I'd argue are less important than Monotonicity, while still agreeing that Clone Independence is a real and practical concern; Condorcet Loser less so), but Bucklin's also not the best of the Bucklin/MCA family. Go back to the link I provided upthread and look at the analysis of the MCA variants (which Wikipedia doesn't include); most versions of MCA also satisfy Clone Independence.

Bucklin and most MCA variants are also summable (mostly k=1, some k=2), while IRV is not summable [0]; this is an important trait for verifiable large elections which Wikipedia'so table omits.

[0] http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Summability_criterion
I've seen some (really condescending) comments doing just that. I thought they were on drugs or just trolls.
The "other way" is to use x_1, x_2, or to just use better variable names.

Haskellers are bad at coming up with informative variable names (and I say this as a Haskeller).
This has nothing to do with the election cycle, this has been going on for the better part of 10 years if not longer.

This is also not limited to the US, crappy fake and editorialized news that are as fact checked as a teenager's first date story is everywhere.
I think that could be good as well. If I were to spearhead it I'd have us hone in on one or two laptop models. Then spend the rest of the engineering time on making the install, upgrade, and user experience as smooth as possible.
Hilarious that WaPo is complaining about other people spreading fake news. Stealing some of their readership no doubt.
> If that value is not reflected when compensating the employee then from an economic perspective, yes, the employee is losing out.

I agree, but it is worth noting that the compensation might not be monetary: To some people getting more time-off for being on-call might be a better "value" than extra pay. There's many other additional avenues for compensation to consider.
Of course it won't compare with a human, not for a very long time anyway.
Memory capacity thought to be 10x larger
Removing them wasn't necessary, but it's better. Elm isn't 1.0 yet, so "does this make the language better" is the metric for feature addition or deletion.
There seems to be a lot of focus on the popular vote and the fact that Clinton won the popular vote but lost the presidency. But is it really useful to look at the popular vote for a close elections like this? I feel like people's behavior would change if the metric to elect the president was solely based on the popular vote. Many people that live in very red or very blue states feel like their vote "doesn't matter" and are not enthusiastic to vote. Not to mention campaigning strategies would be very different. We don't really know how the election would go under a popular vote scenario. It seem kind of disingenuous - like focusing on strikes out in a baseball game instead of the score.
I heard, at Facebook, they use Torch to train a model and they have a tool to convert the result to a caffe model. And use caffe for inference.
There's also just whether you have the time to learn it. It's easier to find time and motivation (and maybe even support from your boss to learn it on work hours) to learn something that's tied to your job in some way: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/04/27/which-technology/
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If the propaganda is good enough, I don't think any amount of critical thinking will save you.

(For example, critical thinking has helped me to date — I believe — because it's not worth going after me as you only need 50% of the population to win an election. Just as it isn't worth trying to write a Nigerian scam email that's good enough to get me because there is plenty of lower-hanging fruit.)
A couple of sites have beta-quality facial recognition to identify models (imagefap comes to mind). Once you have that it's just a question of getting a database to match the model to a name.
Exactly. This is why Arrow's theorem has no applicability to practical use of voting systems in the real world. The dictatorship property is often misinterpreted.
I dislike the "open core" model as well. However, I don't see anything wrong with the copyleft, "release your source too or pay us" model. That provides very similar results: fellow developers can collaborate on the source, and companies building something they don't want to share can pay for an alternative license/exception so they don't have to. But instead of using a proprietary license to do so, that model uses a standard FOSS license, and works with the rest of the FOSS ecosystem.
Well, everyone is talking about Facebook and Twitter fuelling this problem amongst people whose views they disagree with, anyway. Much fewer people are willing to admit the same problem exists on their own side. In fact, you could probably tell most people's political positions based on which fake news they complain about.
Good thing that democracy has been so well-served in the past by an honest and reliable traditional media!
Eh, you'd think the creator would at least type some case sensitive boolean values like True and False.
Good for you. This is why you don't feel underpaid
To what extent is this solution specialized towards porn? E.g., can I use the same software with a different dataset to tell dogs from cats?
If a video hosting website wanted to join T-Mobile's "Binge On" program, they will agree to host their video in such a way that T-Mobile can detect which stream to throttle. This could mean serving it from certain hosts, serving videos over HTTP, or some other out-of-band pen-and-paper agreement between T-Mobile and the video website. See here for technical details for video hosting services: http://www.t-mobile.com/content/dam/tmo/en-g/pdf/BingeOn-Vid...

Lots of video providers went out of their way to jump on board. It had the support of many industry players because "Binge On", at the time, was a net positive for customers.

Now that the infrastructure is in place, T-Mobile can drop the nice marketing.
Everyone in a democracy is informed, there is no such thing as uninformed voters per se.

So depending on how you define informed citizenry I don't think you are right. And I believe that way too much importance is being put on the fake news effect. It has nothing to do with why people voted like they did. If anything EVERYONE is living in a filter bubble and have been doing that since the dawn of man.

The voters who voted for Trump or Hillary were informed enough to make a choice because they voted on what they experience in their everyday. Thats the whole idea.

The idea isn't that someone dictates what it means to be informed (i know you didn't say specifically but you seem to imply something along those line)

News fake or not isn't what drive most peoples decisions and I would ask you to ask yourself if you changed your opinion on something that was you found out was fake. My guess is you didn't even when you thought it was right.
Much is made of voter anger this election, but what if a larger factor turns out to be social media designed to inflame anger and fear? Inflaming emotions equals clicks equals profit.
Sure, but there is a whole separate piece of newish software (watchOS? touchBarOS?) that Apple will no doubt develop, enhance and update regularly. It is perfectly capable of having its own crashes and issues.
What's the advantage of water vs metal blades? Do metal blades not cut through glass/porcelain/etc well?
Instruments, included with Xcode, is a really good tool. I used instruments for profiling and finding memory leaks... I think it was great... except for the lack of reverse debugging which is pretty much necessary these days.

I recommend this video to see some good example about reverse debugging with gdb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=713ay4bZUrw
One big exception: NYC bus routes go down to 1 per hour between 1 and 5 AM in many cases.
I guess Apple had a point with the Mac's mouse.
Yeah it just happened to happen after America's first Big Lie got into office ...
I don't know what's the fuss about 32GB and OS X/MacOS but I upgraded my iMac to 32GB (from 8) and when booting, it still prefers to swap than to use the memory it has access to. For the next hour, it slowly starts using more memory and will use even more than 16GB. I suspect the OS isn't optimized to efficiently use more than 16GB.
The word is 'populace'. Google says they are both composed of identical phonemes, but curiously enough, has a different recording for each.
That struck me as well. The abrasive cost looks to be the killer there.
perhaps "container scheduling across multiple orchestration layers" instead of "new cool open source project" would make more sense for a headline?
Demonetization is not a magical wand that will remove all the black money overnight.
Now people who says it only for red middle and lower classes, know that it affected mostly people with black money in cash. Cash hoarders, Hawala money, counterfeit money and cash involved in rigging elections, help terrorism and many such illicit activities.
Yes, middle class people will have to bear the pain of changing their currency but look at what it is bringing to you.
And yes, it is first step, time will come and other sources of Black money will also be taken care of, matter of time, wait and watch. Even writing one such long comment takes time, let alone removing corrupt money fro a nation of 1.2 Billion where people love to ease taxes.
What problems did you experience with Rx? That's odd. Email is in my profile; can connect you with the core team.
I really think they need to look at what the difference between "news" and the web is. I thought news was a list of sites that I could exclude if I felt they weren't worth reading.

They also have a bug with the interpretation links to snopes.com that has been reported to them[1]. I wonder if that affects any other site? I would doubt it would be just one.

1) after filling out their form on news.google.com, I posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12384851
Critical thinking is already part of literacy.
Not really survivorship bias? Although if you can be clearer what you mean.

IMHO
"Almost all startups fail" - not because they don't have a good plan, a great idea, or "fail to start"

They fail because they don't have the motivation (or capability) to push through the inevitable hard times and come out the other side strong and profitable.

It takes a very special dedication to take an idea from start to profit.

And it seems most "Master Plans" are to cobble together a good idea then sell it for millions to a greater fool.
It is important to look at it to get a sense of how strong of a mandate the party in power should claim. Given the current statistics, it's clear Trump's mandate is particularly weak; if he oversteps his bounds, it's likely to bite him hard in his 2020 reelection bid.
No one is saying that campaigns and voting behavior wouldn't change. Just that the electoral college is a ridiculous system in the first place and should be gotten rid of.
Did you use some service to set up a company, or did you do this by yourself? Was it possible to do online?
F/G don't have a monopoly on ad sponsorship — partly because they refuse to sponsor some kinds of unethical content.
At the risk of introducing unbounded recursion, it seems like you're trying to shame the GP.
I am already missing the days when all information disseminated to the masses was hand-curated by passionate, serious, intelligent professionals who staked their careers -- their lives -- on accuracy and objectivity. Those are days that went out with the internet.
Wow, self-criticism from WaPo? I applaude that.
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I don't see how it's wage theft if you were aware of it when you accepted the job.
> work with a dedicated team of editors, like politifact, to give websites an honestyrank

It turns out that PolitiFact is run by people who have their own unconscious biases and put their own thumbs on the scale. So now what?
ps: I certainly don't mean all sadness is one's own fault, or that medication is never warranted, nor do I wish to minimize the realities we can all face as individuals. But life decisions, perspective, forgiveness, knowledge of purpose and answers to the big questions, support systems, etc etc, seem to matter most of all.
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That's assuming that fake news sites only use Google/Facebook to monetize their sites.
Well a hell of a lot of academics who claim to be critical thinkers didn't critically think about their own bias in this election.

Critical thinking is not a shield against your own bias.
Sure, "Google" as a private entity can curtail freedom of speech on its platform. It becomes less clear when Facebook, Twitter, and Google are effectively public goods.
How do you define 'fake' news sites now after all the mainstream media outlets called the election so completely wrong? It all seems like propaganda with people trying to push their views.
I am compelled to agree that this seems like a deep flaw in google's ranking algorithm, at a minimum.
this analysis completely ignores the fact that reddit.com is the 8th largest website in the united states and a primary source of news for large portions of its users. And I'm sure that pretty much every reddit user ever can attest that multiple viewpoints on political issues were HEAVILY debated and often led to flamewars.

just saying that this is direct evidence against the article's conclusions.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/reddit.com
Honestly can't tell if you are describing a futuristic dystopia or current mass consumerism focused society :)
I think the focus is on the popular vote because,

a) There is a structural imbalance in how the electorate is represented, especially considering congressional district gerrymandering (not directly related to the race for President, I know, and ...

b) People are in shock that a racist and a demagogue has been elected as President and searching for confirmation that a majority of our fellow citizens do not in fact believe in the reprehensible and Un-American values which Donald Trump and his rise to power represent.
for those interested in detail etc. you can find a POC here

https://github.com/jedisct1/blacknurse
Vulnerability in gstreamer! News at 11!

Next you'll be telling me mplayer is riddled with vulnerabilities too...
The article so specifically stated that he was concerned the Germans would dig up the place. Also consider that there might be others interested in a large gold disk
Do you have friends that invite you to things on a regular basis, or groups you belong to that ask you to host or present? It's possible for that to take up all of your spare time if you let it. I kinda did for awhile, I've been trying to reign it in a bit lately.
My bad, sleep deprivation :)

Updated accordingly, thanks for the correction.
Ahh ok, I see. Odd.
This is what I was thinking too, if a big firm hires a amateur cryptographer to make a new cipher it can be very costly later. So you need to be very good at it to get a job. Secondly the jobs mostly exist on the cutting edge of research and revolve around future cryptography implementations.
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It does matter when you claim you have a mandate when in fact, more people wanted the other person.
without at any point refuting his point about the incentive

Grandparent post described a way to create incentive. He posited that without it there wasn't incentive, he did not prove - nor even attempt to argue - that it was the only (or best) way to create incentive.

ability to respond quickly to outages

Depending on the nature of a problem and training of the people involved, there is zero reason to assume the programmer of an application is more qualified to triage and remedy an outage than someone specializing in operations. The problem could be in the infrastructure around the app. Even if the underlying problem is something the developer is well suited to fix, they still might not be have the expertise to deliver the best temporary solution to get online ASAP, and stay there until the real fix can be landed in the codebase.

To conclude, parent poster does not need to waste breath articulating why such obviously fallacious reasoning is bullshit.
Good question. There's an example specifically using caffenet to find cats. Any caffe model can be dropped in without recompiling.
I was thinking "Deep Love" or "2Deep4Me"...
OP didn't talk about using gmail. Only about copying gmail's features.
Who gets to decide what the real news is? Like if you make a white list of legit news, then you are creating an inherent bias.

What if the real news list chooser doesn't like a certain website, so they black list it?

Isn't trying to control this unintentional or maybe even intentional censorship?
Editor of JavaScript Weekly here - we do have RSS :) It's linked on the top of our site. We just don't put a lot of effort into it because e-mail is our top priority, but it's been there for a few years now. (Ditto for all our titles like Ruby Weekly, DB Weekly, WebOps Weekly, etc.)
Which is why access to a competent education is a basic requirement for a functioning democracy.

In my opinion, we aren't there yet since there are huge disparities between education quality across the public school system. One solution (IMO) is to standardize funding; today school districts rely on local funding which can result in tremendous funding disparities (and by extension, disparities in education quality).
Most of the GP's post was opinion, but one part was an object claim: "Absolutely pathological."

So there is something to debate with him, if you're so inclined.
IANAWaterJetGuy, but I think a big draw is that (A) you can make arbitrary cuts and very turns and (B) less risk of shattering brittle substances.
Especially when/if using Xamarin.Forms (and not XAML). It's a very good fit for a functional language. Code equals data.
When people are informed of and led to believe factually incorrect information, I think it's more than fair to say they're misinformed or uninformed.
'Finding a court you both agree on' sounds like a system designed by someone with no experience in law.
While I agree in general, critical thinking alone is inadequate if there isn't enough information or information pathways are constricted such that they deliver only biased viewpoints.
Couldn't the risks of emergency maintenance be mitigated by insurance and built into the cost to the consumer?
how do you figure, dude
Looks like we're about as good at it as we are with advanced math.