skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Singlehandedly? Absolutely not. Why, am I the only Haskell skeptic you know? There are more on this page alone. There are even PLT researchers who warn against overselling results in PLT, and especially typed FP.

And we're not saving the industry; the industry as a whole isn't suicidal and will never bet too much money on unproven technologies. The industry isn't so fragile, but research is. Given the amount of money in the industry, even small parts that do bet on unproven tech can cause a funding surge followed by a research winter when the disappointment hits. We're saving Haskell.

If those who adopt Haskell do it with clear vision and not by believing some messianic claims, there would be no great disappointment and no research winter. Nothing is more dangerous to research than wild claims. You need to promise less and deliver more, not the other way around. And because the industry is competitive, it is actually quick to adopt ideas once they show actual significant benefit -- i.e., once they're ready. The industry adopted garbage collection almost overnight; it was almost 40 years after it had been invented, but almost immediately after it's been productized well enough to provide a significant advantage.

If pure-FP is really the way to go in general-purpose programming, eventually the industry will adopt it in some well-productized form. Getting there does require some early adopters, but they're already here and overselling doesn't help to get more good ones. It helps to get precisely those adopters who will end up causing a research winter.

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What bothers me in terms of harm to the industry is the waste caused by people switching from one language to another, rewriting libraries over and over and thinning out the effort. I think we're losing years of progress. But there's really nothing I can do about that because even if I can convince someone that a language that is 1% "better" than another does not justify the effort of porting libraries over, there are already too many languages and platforms around, and there's always the question of, so which few languages should we pick, and why should it be the ones you like and not the ones I like. Haskell actually does not contribute much to this problem because its adoption rate doesn't yet make a dent.
$100 bonus is insulting for self driven creativity work. It shows management has no clue on how to motivate people and reward people. That might demoralize not just you but the rest of the company. It might be a cause of concern.
I have not read those articles, nor the patent links in other threads, but your description is consistent with "instant sugar"[1].

How can a vending machine add rapidly dissolving sugar to a cool beverage? Smaller sugar grains dissolve faster, but handling suffers as they cake and stick to surfaces. So you create aggregate grains - fine grains (dissolves fast) stuck together into larger ones (handles well). Sintered agglomerates.

The final sugar particles in chocolate seem relatively undissolved (pointy)[2], and sugar particles are often stabilized by coating with stuff, so a hypothetical PR faux "breakthrough" matching your description might be "instant sugar... now in chocolate!". And didn't Intellectual Ventures move into food industry trolling a few years ago, so there's likely a market for such. And this is Nestle.

[1] http://www.nordicsugar.com/industry/instant-sugar/ - sales brochure, with a mediocre micrograph, under the center button.
[2] http://soft-matter.seas.harvard.edu/index.php/Physicist_as_C...

Not my field, but last year I did a video to help teach scale: http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/RBigE - the "Sugar comes in different sizes" video.
I can imagine how many applications there could be in more expensive products like makeup for example. Looking forward to have this in our daily lives :)

P.S.: "Open sauce operating system"... wat?
Solar Power tariffs continue to drop
They use Clarifai

Source: https://www.clarifai.com/

> In order to connect brands with the images they’re looking for, Foap uses Clarifai to consistently tag all these photos to make them easily searchable.

Pricing: https://www.clarifai.com/pricing

More on Foap <-> Clarifai: http://blog.clarifai.com/uncover-buried-stock-photography-tr...
Hmm I got the Uber challenge quite frequently but I've never gotten this Google one. How do I find this?
I'm going to go all in here and say that software / information has done more damage than nuclear weapons ever will.

I think that's just go it works: each new technological development brings with it new ways to create and express, and new ways to destroy everything.

If we think we've got a problem with burning carbon based fuels, wait till we develop a truly clean and cheap energy source.

Computers (AI, whatever you want to call it) are truly freaky now, and not necessarily because of what they're capable of, but because of what people are willing (lining up!) to hand over.
>> Figure-2 shows that performance of deep learning is much better than non-deep learning algorithm.

This is a nonsensical over-generalization.

>> In addition, it is automatically do the feature extraction.

At the cost of interpretability. Let's not even mention the dreadful nights of tweaking parameters (such as dropout probability, activation function, network architecture, learning rate, optimization function, various pre-processing tricks, pre-training to warm-start, convolution parameters, maxpool parameters, and so much more).
My backends usually default to Perl - usually CGI::Application, but I'm using Mojolicious and Dancer a lot more these days, along with a couple of microservices which are written in golang.

For the front-end I suck at design so I use bootstrap, and am planning on spending this upcoming weekend looking at themes to improve a couple of sites. Too many of the bootstrap-themes I see are spammy things that are just landing pages, not setup for actual applications so I expect it'll take a long time to find something that I like and can actually use.
"By the mid ’80s, the two superpowers possessed a combined sum of more than 70,000 nuclear warheads, a number sufficient to put 357 warheads, each with yields far exceeding that of the Hiroshima bomb, onto every capital city of every country on the entire globe."

That one line from the article scared me more than most things I've read in my life. The fact that humanity once wielded the weapons capacity to wipe everyone off the face of the earth hundreds of times over. Staggering.
I find my feed, even though filled with different people is really really repetitive. You've got the ones about their image, sometime sneaking in some never-heard of brand of protein you wouldn't give your dead dog, you've got the arty ones posting their latest work, you've got the "I'm only doing shots of my girlfriend from behind", the cute dogs with the outfits, and so on.

I swear if I could compare it to my timeline from a month, or 3 months ago, it'd be the same.

Turns out, even though a picture is worth a thousand words, we keep writing the same sh#$% over and over!
How a rogue train was caught with data
Google Earth Timelaps
That's the basis for BDD's `pledge(2)`[0]

[0]: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man2/...
I wonder if Aryeh Deri has picked up a directorship at DNA Bioscience. This is what David Blunkett did in the UK while he was pressing hard for a biometric identity card and national database for the UK.

Checking his wikipedia page, it seems there's no need to give him a directorship. He'll accept cash:

"""
After Deri was convicted of taking $155,000 in bribes while serving as Interior Minister, and was given a three-year jail sentence in 2000. He was replaced by Eli Yishai.[1][2] Due to good behavior, Deri was released from Maasiyahu Prison in 2002 after serving 22 months.[3]
"""
I think it promotes those opinions that are healthy for the business and the world in general.

I mean, you could theoretically accept any viewpoint, but you don't really want nazis in your company to be an accepted thing.
Diamonds aren't worth much because they're actually not that rare. The only reason they command the price they do now is because of the De Beers cartel.

The "diamond alternative" meme is becoming increasingly popular with our generation, such that I predict that in a few generations nobody will care to buy "real" diamonds for engagement purposes. When this happens, the price of diamonds will fall dramatically (if it hasn't already by that point).

Diamonds are so overrated.
Where do you go that uses ethernet ports anyway? If it is at your job, just leave the adapter there, same with at home.

Any other place will use WiFi anyway.
Google's Vision API FWIW unsurprisingly blows Clarifai out of the water.

https://cloud.google.com/vision/
> I hope this doesn't put him off using psychedelics for the rest of his life

I think a lot of people could benefit deeply from responsibly using psychedelics, but they're not always the answer. They're powerful tools with great potential for good and great potential for harm. When or whether to take psychedelics is a very personal decision; our psychological landscapes can be very difficult to map out even from the inside. Part of being responsible about psychedelics is not making blind judgments of what other people should do with their minds.
Can Wikipedia Predict the 2016 US Presidential Election?
Why do you imply that I go inside the building I asked Uber driver to stop by? Actually, most of the time I get out on the corner and walk to my destination (which address I did not provide to Uber), because of traffic restrictions in city center.
Using tour car battery as electricity storage? That's brilliant. Only that one is normally at work when their car is idling during peak solar hours, so it would rather make more sense for companies to build parkings with solar charge stations and provide them as emplyoment benefits to employees with EVs.
I call bullshit on not knowing that Facebook is a privacy whoring company before WhatsApp sold to them.
Maybe I was wrong on some of this, but my use case (due to my employer's industry being finance) is lower latency, where Linux absolutely and positively crushes anything else.

Actually, while we're on the subject, SmartOS with CPU bursting from illumos is the leader in low latency trading:

http://containersummit.io/events/sf-2015/videos/wolf-of-what...
Do you honestly think US-based services are exempt from NSA/NRO/CIA snooping and should be trusted?
Talk to your boss. That amount so low that there's no question of overreacting: you basically didn't get a bonus.
Having worked before in larger tech companies, I would entertain the idea that the amount is a fluke of accounting rules--you said you only started six months ago: maybe there is some kind of vesting rule. It's very likely it's nothing personal. If the company is indeed doing as well as you say, they would either give you no bonus or something real. If it's the former, they'd probably be talking to you about leaving. It's unlikely that this is some kind of passive-aggressive gesture because they secretly want you gone.
Unlikely, but not impossible: bad management definitely exists, so anything is possible. If this was an intentional act then definitely leave at your earliest convenience. But I bet it wasn't.
>white dudes connected to VCs

Stop being racist. What does being white have to do with any of it?
Didn't Uber also do tracking of user battery and establish that they can charge more, more reliably when the user has low battery?
People that need to use the bathroom or want to buy food, a soft drink, beer, cigarettes, lottery tickets, etc.
If you already know a bit about Machine Learning don't read this, you will gain nothing.
If you don't already know about Machine Learning don't read this, you will not learn anything here.
I have no idea how this can be trending. Over-simplified, generalized bs.
Dunno. About 2 paragraphs in, "oncoming trains" was the first thing that popped into my head.
So is a dose like 22 caps?
The document you link to says:

The marginal tax rates include the combined effects
of federal and state individual income taxes, federal
payroll taxes, and benefits from the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program and cost-sharing subsidies
for health insurance, generally on the basis of 2016 law.

Unfortunately, SNAP and ACA health insurance subsidies are not the only means-tested welfare bits, and the other ones are _not_ being included here. Most prominently missing are Medicaid, TANF, and Section 8 housing, but there are a _lot_ of means-tested programs (e.g. Pell Grants) that only apply to certain households.

Now I do think it's true that the income ranges where the effective marginal "tax" rate is over 100% are fairly narrow for most households. But the ranges where the rates are less than 100% but not much less are far wider. And that gives you an effective take-home hourly wage that is tiny. If you happen to have kids, it almost certainly doesn't cover daycare costs, for example...
I was quite wrong - IPv6 was just announced by AWS :-)
Ik heb vluchten naar Edinburgh op Wherewefly voor 37 € gevonden
Six maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure Washington Post
I would have liked to see him continue the test without the photography, keeping just the bots and offshore friend farming - I have a feeling that's most of it.

TL;DR:

How to get Instagram followers:

- photo quality is very important, pay for a professional

- submit 3 posts a day, try to make them interesting, but that's only medium important

- pay for bot to like and comment on posts with similar hash tags, so their owners can see your profile and hopefully follow

- use offshore friend farm to boost numbers. They don't outright say it, but the last service had to be that. One day his followers surged for a couple of hours then stopped.
On Bootstrapping Planio to $75,000/mo in Revenue
"large" is the smallest instance with fixed CPU allocation that AWS is providing these days.
I agree OOP PHP is way to bloated for a dynamic language. Did they have to copy Java?

I feel like PHP5+ was made by Jetbrains to sell their overpriced Web IDE solutions.
Liberating the Network
“A cure to all ailments”
> such as protesting against binary gendering on toilets
> So if I support binary gendering on toilets, I'm not welcome at Google?

Why do you think that allowing employees to protest male and female only toilets means that you are not welcome? Should all dissenting voices be silenced? I'm for unisex toilets, it is just more convenient. But that doesn't means that I HATE people that has a different view. It is my preference, and I think that at least I should be able to express it.
If you read up on research regarding bonuses they also seem to lead to worse performance when it comes to cognitive tasks, and I'm unwilling to work with a company that doesn't use data, facts and reason as some of their driving factors.

Doesn't that exclude you from all major tech companies? Also, I'd be interested in reading this research if you have a link to it?
Are these also going to be artificially inflated like mined diamonds?
Agreed, but if it's truly a bad fit, there comes a time when you have to stop throwing more money into a failed investment, to use your own terminology. It's up to the manager to decide if/when an engineer isn't a good fit for his or her team. Obviously, some managers are better about it than others, but hopefully senior management is looking at team turnover, and noticing that certain managers' teams tend to have higher turnover than others.
I wonder what their color range is; if I'm reading right, this isn't necessarily the same spectrum range that we are accustomed to.
What about year end hikes ? Aren't they variable too.
Agreed. Thinking about it any other way is what I would consider insane. Only thinking the "business" is allowed to be a greedy bastard is what leads to income inequality. If the employee doesn't assert their own worth, no one else will. You can't be "business" on one end and "personal/loyal" on the other. You'll get used, abused and see no rewards.
Good luck convincing musicians that "THAT's your genre"
Wonderful pictures if I may say so
You seem very knowledgeable about the data recording system of the Singapore train system. Perhaps they should have called you.
Yeah, the Saudis, North African states, Iran and Russia will be making a lot less money from oil. What's not to like about that? Their economies are almost entirely oil and gas reliant.
The situation is getting serious in general. There are many many apps that people use daily. How can one find out what data is being collected per application? It would be really nice to a have a web site where the community (technical people who can inspect the apps) could maintain this information per application and a user could see a simple green/red bullets and decide whether the app is worth it or not. Really, really high level, designed for end-user (non-technical).
One possibility is "instant sugar... now in chocolate!" discussed below. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13087023
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> I saw this earlier and had hopes that the update would just let me choose "While Using" in the app settings, like some other apps allow you even if they request access even while not using the app, but the settings only allow for "Always" or "Never" on iPhone. However, you can use Uber without allowing GPS, so it's not all or nothing.

You can force quit the app after using it, so it doesn't get GPS access. "Always" only grants access while the app is open in the background (of foreground of course). Not pretty, but a workaround.

> (as far as I know you only can see that some app is accessing your GPS currently, not which one(s) exactly

Don't have my phone set to English, so wording might be slightly off. Settings -> Privacy -> Location Services. A purple arrow means the app used GPS "recently" (so a few minutes ago)
It shows that your boss basically thinks you're an idiot. Management types often think that engineers have some sort of autism and so are easy to fool; the reality is that most of us know exactly when we're being fooled - We just go along with it usually because we are too nice (and care too much about other people).

I would quit on the spot if I were you. This guy is making tons of money on top of your superior brain and then he has the audacity to treat you like some idiot.

You have to be aggressive. Find other key engineers who also feel mistreated and threaten to quit together if you don't get what you deserve.
Privacy-by-design now is more important than ever, this is why we build on this with https://snips.ai
Apple to build drones to collect locations data
I actually noticed this - iOS has this nice feature of giving warnings like "Uber has been tracking your location", which was a WTF moment for me because I haven't used Uber that day at all. So in response I've cut its location access completely.

I've also had a similar experience with Waze. WTF are these apps doing with my location while I'm not using them?

Btw, for all the badmouthing I've given Apple and iOS over the years, this is one feature of iOS that I like. But I would have preferred the option to force location tracking only while using the app.
If one side deletes the trip data, you can anonymise it, destroying all possible references to that user ID. The driver still has his history.

A receipt is a proof of transaction and completely separate from whatever data you collected about your customers, your statement makes little sense. That it facilitates disputes doesn't change the nature of data privacy, it is just convenient for you and the bank.
NSL's are unconstitutional and should be illegal, sadly nothing is technically illegal if you are the govt.

The govt should not be allowed to operate in secret and issue gag orders, because then there is no recourse and no oversight, which is exactly what happens in practice.

Sadly most people in this country today couldn't care less because fear mongering and appeal to American nationalism work wonders. No one cares about human rights, due process or holding people accountable.

Organizations like EFF, IA, Wikipedia/leaks are the target of state sponsored attacks and media portrays them as evil.

For every time you hear of a case like this, there are thousands probably where the recipients lack the means to fight the order or are simply forced. The fact that the FBI withdrew in order not to set precedent proves they operate illegally, but of course there will be no mainstream coverage or consequences.
I'm from Amsterdam and every year or so a tourist dies or gets injured from jumping out of a hotel window while under the influence of mushrooms. Probably less than a promille of all users but I would say that the conclusion that support is needed is definitely warranted.
I dunno somewhere out there is a healthy business social structure where employees are serving companies and companies are looking out for them as well, and maybe companies like Google have it. But we are far away in our business landscape from those waters in the majority of companies. It's an assumption from both sides that everyone is out to get the other. And therefore everyone acts as if that's the only way things can be. Though it's not the case. But the problem is that people are trained in this sort of environment so that's all that they know.
Sorry, I meant the last link of the article with the resources. The main link was fine you're right. https://web.archive.org/web/20100712083633/http://www.cs.ind...
> There are thousands of engineers now working here and we would be the first ones who would stand up to management if we felt that something nefarious or even careless was being done with user's personal information.

How would you even know if "something nefarious or even careless was being done"? If there are thousands of employees, wouldn't it just be difficult for everyone to know what everyone else is working on, other "secret initiatives management has sponsored", etc.? There could be so many things happening right now where the information is "above your pay grade". My point is that even if the CEO or CTO or anyone else makes these statements, it's easy to be skeptical considering Uber's history and ethics.

I know many companies that allow one to report issues much higher in the chain, have "no retaliation" policies, and so on, but it's really a stretch to ask employees to fully trust the system and worse, ask people outside the organization to trust the employees and the system.