skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate your level response. You're correct that these features are not absolutely, always necessary for success. I would caution that even with a an incredibly compelling core feature set, you still have to negotiate yourself out of not providing these features. Even when you win you might be creating a maintenance nightmare for someone down the totem pole within your customer's org. Part of what we're trying to do with EnterpriseReady is show that many of the non-core (yet common among many enterprise customers) features 1) aren't that hard to understand 2) can be built really well in a way that will delight your users.

* As the OP, when you say: "some are just something someone added to a list because they thought it sounded like a good idea" - I genuinely hope that I did not do that.

100% - Always be thinking about security.
Are there many ML frameworks that only work in 2.7? Scipy and numpy work in both 2.7 and 3.x, so I'd imagine (without being heavy in the field) that any new development using these scientific computing packages could be Python version agnostic as well. Is this generally not the case?
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Works on Windows, Mac and Linux, $150/yr gets you unlimited number of machines and unlimited storage, it keeps unlimited versions for recovery.

Also important - data sent to cloud encrypted.
You disgust me.
tight. compromising human rights values for capital gains! nice!
Anyone here remember "Rails is a Ghetto"? http://web.archive.org/web/20080103072111/http://www.zedshaw...

Zed's Rails article did lead to some improvements in the Ruby community (eg: The 'pickaxe' had meta-programming added to the next version). Zed likes to stir things up, but rather than dismiss him completely over some nit picky issues, eat the meat and spit out the bones.

To the "I stopped there" folks in this thread: why do you think Python 3 is still seeing such poor adoption?
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I was working on a side project and ended up upgrading because I could figure out how Python was encoding my data. I got so frustrated with the semantics I found it easier to jusy upgrade.
I feel like I'm the only one who learned Python from the official site's tutorial page:

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html

I found it really helpful.
Yeah, this is actually government censorship, under the guise of a state-owned company being given the tools to execute it.

We're well past "shirt and shoes required" sophistry spin.
You know who also works hard? Juanita the single mom illegal immigrant who works one job in the chicken factory during the day and another cleaning motel rooms in the evening to feed her 4 children, and still barely scrapes by. How much status does she have?

I'm not dismissing how much doctors study, or how hard they work (outside of GP's and some specialties like dermatology). Many of my friends and family are doctors. While I agree that I might have phrased my comment a bit more carefully, it's awfully lazy to just conclude from what I said as 'doctors are only after the money'.

My real point was - being a doctor no longer (by itself) makes one an intellectual. Knowing quite a lot of doctors myself, I can tell from firsthand experience that many of them are just as (un)informed and (dumb|smart) as the, say, smartest 1/3th of the population. Doctors have lots of highly specialized knowledge, yes; that doesn't make them better on issues that go beyond medical technicalities than a mathematician or lawyer.
This is a common misconception.

> No more so than the wastefulness of mining gold out of the ground, melting it down and shaping it into bars, and then putting it back underground again. Not to mention the building of big fancy buildings, the waste of energy printing and minting all the various fiat currencies, the transportation thereof in armored cars by no less than two security guards for each who could probably be doing something more productive, etc.

> As far as mediums of exchange go, Bitcoin is actually quite economical of resources, compared to others.
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I'd return the round, but alas, once you get three levels deep there's no one left to signal to.
"If you work for Facebook, quit. It is morally indefensible for you to use your skills to make that company more powerful. By working there, you are making the world an objectively worse place. I'm sure you can find a job working for a company that you don't have to apologize for all the time.

You can do it. I believe in you."

-- jwz
I am not arguing that the benefits of prohibition outweighed the costs.
there's also Clean Coders: https://cleancoders.com/videos/programming-101

these videos are quirky (!) for sure, but filled with some real gems and a depth of perspective that's rarely found in other online courses.

the link goes to a free video intended as an intro to the aspiring programmer.

I'm posting this only because I've seen several of these videos and think they've got something special.
Can someone please spell-out for us muggles what sets these frameworks (Theano, Tensorflow, Torch, CNTK, Mxnet) apart ? They all seem to be essentially doing the same thing underneath.
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I don't know. Lots of people in consulting and other white collar gigs will admit (over a few beers) that their job is peddling bullshit, putting together spreadsheets, and really isn't that difficult.

Yea, some people can't cut it in jobs like that, but that doesn't really say anything. Some of my friends that are physicians would struggle tremendously to do the programming and statistics in my line of work, but they will likely always earn more money than me.

Most jobs aren't as difficult as people love to pretend they are. The vast discrepancies in pay across America are probably not warranted in many cases.
Univision isn't a super-PAC.
Stick a fish in your ear. Might get lucky.
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Thanks for your reply, I think this is a matter of interpretation of what functional actually means. I personally consider the fact that Scala allows you to get away with immutability so easily (as evidenced with the implementation of all the immutable collections) a very bad thing. It might be just a matter of taste, though; Scala was my gateway drug to functional programming, and I considered implicit parameters and all these immutable containers something very un-functional.

You cannot get away with these things as easily in the Erlang VM (and thus Elixir). I agree with your assessment that Clojure with its macros is an ugly hack, and requires discipline to get right.

Having said that, Haskell also takes a lot of discipline to get right (no lazy I/O, for example), and allows you to get away with ugly things as well (unsafePerformIO). The type system makes it a lot easier to get right though (or in other words, more difficult to do the wrong thing).
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I'm not so sure amphetamine, and opioid abuse are the result of over-prescribing.

I honestly think people are genuinely misserable.

They are given a drug that makes them feel just better. Some just want to feel better. Of course, it's easy to blame it on a medication, but if it's not that prescribed pain killer, it will be something else.

We need to stop saying we are "The greatest nation on earth." For some, it might ring true, but for the vast majority of us it isn't. It's just a country, with a lot of laws, and becomming very hard to make a living.

We are thrown into a society, and just expected to "make it".

We were brought up being told; you can do anything if you work hard enough.

So many of us are just completely dissalusioned.

I won't get into all the reasons. Oh, the reasons. No, we aren't starving to death, but the pressure to live up to the success of past generations is stiffling.

We got some hope with the invention of heterocyclic drugs. (Prozac, etc). They failed spectacularly.

Doctors went from "The boy geniuses--to mechanics." I look at the average Doctor, as just a luckey guy who got accepted to med. school, and slightly more ethical than the typical lawyer.

Hell--I never had a mechanic say this while under my vechicle, "It's an art too?" Yea, I'm no fan of the golden boys.

So now, on so many levels Doctors shouldn't be the ones deciding policy. They are just too tied to the money their profession that extorts from us. Extortion might be harsh? It's more like being held hostage? We need to pay them in order to prevent disease, or feel better? (The AMA is basically a huge lobby group. They don't want patients doing anything other than making a office visit, and getting a script.)

Do I have a better system? No. That's the problem.

That said, I would like to take the power away from doctors.

I would like to see a Federal Statute put into place.

It would be this: If any patient has been on a drug(maintance drugs mainly--blood pressure drugs, drugs that control diabetes, many psychiatric medications, pain meds, etc) for longer than five years; that person should be able to obtain the same dose of medication without seeing a doctor. Of course antibiotics would be off limits to everyone. And patients would have to provide any required blood work their medication requires.

I would further like to see all street drugs decriminalized. Something on the lines of what Portugal did.

Thats it. Will it happen? Probally never. We will go on spending a fortune on locking people up for just wanting to feel better, or have more energy.

I would rather see that money go into free education, free housing, and free medical care.
Isn't everyone going to want access to this same tool?
I think that the LEAP organisation will have more clout than physicians to end the WoD, and certainly more clout with the proletariat, as you say. Ex-law enforcement officers who have been in the trenches and understand exactly the societal damage caused by the WoD would be better advocates than doctors.

And your point about "doctors come out en masse and state that drug addiction is a health issue" may be a double-edged sword for them since we all know that the opiate epidemic and subsequent heroin use increase are issues created, by a large part, by doctors.
Nice try! ECMAScript is a standardized child of JavaScript, one with less warts and more awesome after lessons learned in javascript hell. ES6 will be nice.
And yet Jeff Sessions, Trump's nominee for Attorney General, is one of the most notorious anti-drug (particularly anti-pot) politicians around: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2016/1122/As-Trump-s-AG...
> if the government is getting involved

How do you draw the line? What would you do if a politician ask you nicely?
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I wonder how many other products are completely fake.
A lot of the basics work in both, or with some minor tweaks.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the idea of perl6 was announced in 2000, and perl6 was finally published in 2015. So there was a 15 year gap when perl5 was perceived on its way to become obsolete, but perl6 was not available.

I am unsure when the idea of python3 (first as python 3000) came to general knowledge, but it must have been some time between 2000 and 2004. Then python3 was published in 2008.

So the time between obsoleting the old version, before the new version was available, was notably shorter with python.
Because Scala isn't nearly as popular as Perl was or Python is. I imagine losing some perceived status is less important to them than just doing the best they can to provide a good product and address people's needs.
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Sorry, I think it's very interesting and makes some nice points with beautiful language, but I don't follow the conclusion. It oversteps in arguing without proof that all forms of enterprise must function just like pencils, soluble by the natural dynamics of a free market. But not all forms of enterprise have the same properties as pencil production.

You could imagine an antithetical essay "I, police" involving a lawless village in which each person trains extensively in martial arts and marksmanship in order to protect themselves. Then each realizes it is more efficient to focus on their own vocation and hire a private security guard. Then a few neighbors realize it is more efficient to pool their money and hire just enough security to protect their block, and finally the whole village realizes it is most efficient to pool their money into just enough security, at which point they realize they have formed a government with taxes and police force. The story could end with "It is a fact most astounding that the forces of an unencumbered free market lead directly to an inevitable centralization into a collective governing whole."

Of course this story does not prove that all affairs should be handled by the government; but the pencil doesn't prove the opposite either.
Some people can be taught to write code, however far fewer can be taught to or have the natural ability to problem solve. This is the 'art' aspect behind software development that I feel the 'teach everyone to code' approach overlooks. With any creative field there is a huge amount of 'prior art' that exists and that is also constantly evolving, and the more of this you are at least aware of or - better still - capable of reproducing, the better you will be able to express yourself / problem solve with software.

I hope I am not alone in feeling that looking at the code of a well-engineered and well-structured project can be quite the artistic-appreciation experience, and that this experience always leaves you with some piece of knowledge and understanding you didn't have beforehand.
>but you were responding to a comment specifically talking about aloe in lotion (or "jelly" as the nsxwolf put it).

In the later part of his comment yes, but I took this part to be a more blanket statement of aloe:

>I think one of the reasons this particular situation went on this long is that aloe is kind of a bullshit product in the first place.

>but I'm not at all convinced in has more value than other modern lotions that also sooth and protect the skin.

I am not here to convince, but recklessly on this issue tell people in this thread, if you do not believe in aloe plant, then I know you don't live in the tropics (where sunburns and aloe plant are common place). Basically what I am saying is deniers have no personal experience with aloe plant and yet it is a very simple thing to test. So far everyone who denied I have asked refuses to acknowledge they have zero personal experience with aloe plant. The problem if what you call failure of proof, someone like me with over 30 years of personal sun care experience is called anecdotal evidence, and yet the people with no proof believe their gut. So I encourage you to get your own proof, not saying get a sunburn, but it is no more difficult to test than sunscreen itself in terms of obvious proof.

>Can you provide any evidence for this claim?

The very reason you have found evidence of aloe being dangerous is because as I said it binds to heavy metal toxins...not just in the human body but in the earth. Moreover, yes if it is grown in polluted areas it will show more signs of those heavy metals than other plants.

The present investigation shows that the A. Vera plant is effective and inexpensive adsorbent for the removal of Pb, Cd, Ni, Cu, Cr (III) and Cr (VI) from contaminated soil by heavy metals. See: http://biomedpharmajournal.org/vol9no2/removal-of-selected-h...

The aim of this study was to assess the accumulation of heavy metals (Na, K, Ca, Mg, P, Fe, Cu,
Zn, Cd and Pb) in Aloe vera leaves grown in different geographical locations of India. The
results also showed that Aloe vera plant can also be used as a good Phytoremediation agent as it
absorbs heavy metals from the soil in high quantity. See: http://www.ansfoundation.org/Uploaded%20Pdf/22/300-304.pdf

General health benefits, including active ingredients and burn applications. See: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92765/
Now that I think about it "Don't worry about detecting attackers, they will get kicked out when we next rotate passwords" is not an attitude you want anyone to develop.
"The social network has quietly developed software to suppress posts from appearing in people’s news feeds in specific geographic areas"

Censorship, suppression tools, fake news, Fb is moving into dystopian Sterling, Stephenson and Gibson territory.

“It’s better for Facebook to be a part of enabling conversation, even if it’s not yet the full conversation,”

Is the mission statement changing here? In 2010 I remember ploughing through "The Facebook Effect" on a plane to Singapore, reading about ^glowing reports^ of dissidents using Fb to organise themselves. The winds have changed. I'm more inclined to agree with Eben Moglens description of Fb as "PHP do-dads where you get spying for free".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Facebook_Effect

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/17/eben_moglen_freedom_...
https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses is what you might interested in
It is not 80% bullshit. It's 80% press releases.
>What is at the heart of ending the WoD is human rights

It's remarkable to me that this WoD still exists. When Obama was elected this is something I thought he would address.
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thx @Fr0sty I'm mighty impressed with the RISCOS effort. You can even purchase dev manuals in print. Must fire this one up on a Pi at home. This would be a good start.
I do think you are correct about LEAP, but I don't believe a large percentage of the police force would ever condemn anti-drug laws. Don't bite that hand that feeds and all that.

I don't think physicians are primarily responsible for our heroin epidemic, in my opinion that prize belongs to the pharmaceutical industry and our politicians...but I'm open to any evidence that proves me wrong.
But you are getting into magical thinking, in that there is no reasonable definition of "understanding" that this system meets. It cannot reason or make deductions. It can't re-write sentences to use completely different words/structures but imply the same meaning. In fact, there is literally no "conceptual" representation here -- there is a vector of numbers that gets passed between encoder and decoder, but it is no more a form of intelligence than the "hidden" state that is maintained by an HMM.

"not having been taught (trained on) any rules (data) about the specific language pairs in question seems to be a strong argument for some kind of semantic representation of language."

Well, yeah, there's a representation of language. But it isn't "semantic" -- it's vector of language-independent parameters for a decoder, which can then output symbols in a second language. Could you theoretically imagine some huge magical network of logistic classifiers that uses this as the first of a (far larger) processing machine that enables something like human intelligence? Maybe. But this is not it. This is bigger, far more complicated/flexible version of a machine that is purpose-built to map between sequences of text.

(That said, I really don't want to go down the rabbit hole of "what is AGI, anyway?", which is about as productive/interesting as hitting the bong and wondering if maybe we all live in a computer simulation after all. I'm merely observing that this is not an intelligent machine.)
Alternatively don't quit and work hard to enact change within the organization because it isn't going to happen all by itself.

I can understanding wanting to quit and wanting others to quit when a company is doing something morally questionable but this simply means the people who object are leaving while the ones fine with it gain a larger mind share within the company. It's my opinion that an inside dissenter has more power than a quit-in-protest when it ultimately comes down to changing things.
This comment strikes me as an example of race reductionism that does more harm than good. The war on drugs unquestionably has a racist component and racism contributed to its origins, but it's not solely an issue of race and affects more than just minorities. Thinking of it being as "about racism" makes collaboration with natural allies more difficult.

In this case those natural allies include the white working class, which suffers greatly from drug addiction, as well as doctors and other health care workers who value the integrity of their profession and believe drug policy should be focused on improving outcomes for drug users.

Social action in America has fundamentally always been about compromise. Race, class and gender reductionism discourage it. It's both possible and productive to say you empathize with the problems someone else faces, your set of problems overlaps, and the two of you can cooperate without debating whose problems are more significant.
As a developer forced to use a very crappy web-based 1990 time tracking tool, this is simply awesome. We track times to bill clients in service requests
> Six hundred thousand people died in the Civil War, a shocking figure which doesn't really capture the toll that this sort of violence took on the country at large. And yet when I think about the Civil War I don't feel sad at all. To be honest, I feel positively fucking giddy.

Why did you redirect this conversation into a debate about the origins of the American Civil War? And now we're arguing about whether 600,000 people dying is sad or not (for the record, I think we can say that we're basically in agreement that 600,000 people dying is sad, while liberating slaves is good)?
I improves the situation by letting china know that some American companies, at least, won't silently roll over and let the Chinese gov trample on any rights they want. And ya, I wish these stands would be made more often against the US government as well, but then we are comparing first world to third world problems.

They made a reasonable call. It was said that Sergey Brin's first hand experience with oppressive authoritarian governments played a major role in their decision.
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"Making the world a better place"(tm) The hypocrisy of Silicon Valley is off the charts.
I thought there was a release in the interim that broke backwards compatibility and the went back to the drawing board. But it's that long ago I might be confusing it with Netscape.

There's also a good chance I'm confusing perl and parrot.
maybe he sees that we are past the point of no return and we need to really start thinking of getting off of this planet ...... maybe
WhatsApp is not and never was mission critical.
I write Haskell for a living and that's never been the approach I've taken. For me writing Haskell is like a conversation with the compiler, you write a bit, you listen a bit - back and forth - unless you're refactoring you don't go too long without compiling.
Even if they stayed, they wouldn't have been allowed to win or are much business there. Baidu was the sanctioned champion, and had huge unfair advantages given them by the government (e.g. They were allowed to index lots of porn).

It wasn't really a net loss given what we know today about China's protective policies.
Do you share the same respect for airline pilots, bus drivers, crane operators and all of the other occupations that can kill multiple people through inattention or ignorance?