skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be a pre-existing contract that the future IP holder would (or should, if written 'securely') be obligated to uphold.
I created a visualization of k-means for some people at my school a few months ago. I'll put it here for anyone who might be interested.

https://github.com/tylerhou/kmeans
Du lich đà lat dịp tết 2016
Du lich đà lat dịp tết 2016 đẹp nhất vào mùa đông
Tiết trời mùa đông ở Đà Lạt hơi lạnh, bầu không khí trong lành, nắng không hanh và đặc biệt là đâu đâu cũng phủ đầy màu sắc của muôn ngàn loài hoa. Là thời điểm chuẩn bị đón chào mùa đông nên trăm hoa đua nhau khoe sắc thắm. Men những con đường, sườn núi và khắp ngõ ngách thành phố thì hoa là linh hồn, là sự sống của Đà Lạt. Du khách đi du lịch Đà Lạt vào mùa đông nên chuẩn bị áo khoác dày, khăn choàng, găng tay và mũ len để giữ ấm cho cơ thể khi dạo chơi.
As long as you can recursively process folders and files without stopping early due to an UnauthorizedAccessException-equivalent (which .NET didn't straighten out 'til v4).

http://stackoverflow.com/a/2663779
Management is almost never incented to understand defects.
I've been using the share button in the browser, then choosing save to inbox. That is of course if you are using google inbox.
Thanks for linking the article, and in particular for quoting the relevant paragraph. Taking that step back and giving people the the benefit of the doubt that they're working in good faith while at the same time recognizing the proper functioning of science is so important.
Sure, but not the best talent. In fact Baidu got a pretty bad rep for cheating in ImageNet.
It's missing some aalewis.
How a Culture of Silence Eats Away at Your Company
XGBoost: Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT or GBM) Library
My own personal experience with research at a first-ranked CS uni; which is no more or less valid than frisco's anecdote ;)
Actually, part of what made Shakespeare successful was that he wrote for both classes. Commoners also went to theaters back then.
UCLA researchers teach computer to read the internet
Ask HN: Anyone know of Denver, CO jobs that offer relocation?
Hey everyone,
I've been trying to find a good job as a backend dev in the Denver, CO area for a while now, with little luck. I live in Florida.

I have gone through recruiters as well, and it just seems really difficult.

Today I got another rejection just based on the fact that I'm not local.

I've done Full-Stack development in PHP+MySQL, Node+MongoDB on the back-end, and JS with JQuery on the front-end.

For the past 2 years I've been working as a Backend Java Software Engineer (6 months of that as a team lead of 5 and growing).

Any help would be much appreciated!
Deterministic Linux heap grooming with huge allocations
It seems we are in agreement? The Chinese grad students (who are presumably the best students, since the western universities are the best for CS) that make it to the US stay there.
I like the idea as a way to distribute gains to employees. Wondering why the units are limited to integer years rather than allowing constant accrual up to the 5 units.

Additionally, it seems unfair that employee units go immediately to 0 upon leaving, rather than some sort of decay. They're saying that employees contributed to the success and deserve a bonus, why would that contribution be worth nothing the minute they leave? Something like an exponential decay on the units seems much more equitable.
I wrote a JS implementation and tutorial on k-means a few years back [1], if anyone is looking for this in the browser. Great writeup, I appreciate the math focus!

[1] http://burakkanber.com/blog/machine-learning-k-means-cluster...
It's Not the Big That Eat the Small...It's the Fast That Eat the Slow: How to Use Speed as a Competitive Tool in Business
by Jason Jennings & Laurence Haughton

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold

What Is Relativity?: An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein's Ideas, and Why They Matter by Jeffrey O. Bennett

Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time—and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything by George Musser

Towers of Midnight (Wheel of Time, #13) by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson

Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Just started reading The Penguin History Of The World by J.M. Roberts & Odd Arne Westad. I'd always found history interesting in a general sense, but other than a couple of specific periods that I found interesting (the American Revolution, WWI, WWII), I had not studied the subject in much depth. So I figured I'd start with a good single-volume overview of World History as a whole, then go back and dig deeper into additional areas that pique my interest.

So far it's pretty fascinating. It's especially interesting when you see how elements of our modern world have roots that can be traced back for millennia. It's also fun to note the extent to which geography and climate have impacted the evolution of human civilization(s). It gives you a lot to think about in terms of dealing with anthropogenic climate change. Even if human civilization isn't wiped out completely, we could certainly see massive changes in the nature of our civilizations as a result. At least history seems to suggest so.
I'm a fan of auth0 since it can glue all that identity stuff together.
I found this resource very helpful when building a solution for handling multiple sub-tasks in a todo application (started with adjacency and ended with closure based on recommendations). I'm assuming this issue is limiting some of the existing software to prevent 1:n functionality. I also discovered postgres has built functionality to support tree structure so might want to investigate if you are exploring options https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/ltree.html.
I think a political detox week is a bad idea. What some see as gratification for their intellectual curiosity and civil, substantive commentaries and seen by others as political rants and flames. I much prefer a larger world view and a thoughtful "fire department" to quell flames when they get out of hand.
Equally confused about why this is on the front page, but happy to shower CZ with love. (And reap the knowledge benefits of people saying "we use another similar tool that is better for reason X")

We're a linux-mostly environment and CZ has been absolutely great for our IT staff in standardizing our desktop images. We use USB images that starts the cloning process automagically on boot.

We've had mixed results using CZ over the network for cloning (PXE boot).

All in all though, it's been a great tool to have and we're very grateful for it.
The analogy is a bit mixed up.

Driving a car has been democratized. Actually going in and fixing/modifying a modern car is increasingly less accessible/democratized, though still possible with quite a bit of training. Car internals are getting more complex every generation.

Likewise, using Google search / getting things recommended to you is obviously widely accessible. It is unclear how accessible ML research / going into the guts of a model actually is.

While I don't doubt you've given talks about applying ML, I do have a little skepticism that the talks went any deeper than just application-related topics.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2006/04/core/4/ has an explanation of how the P6's data buses were only 64 bits wide.
SELinux is probably one of the most well known. They appear to have a technology transfer program[2], but i'm not sure that's been allowed in open source in any way. They have a Github repo[3], unless that's a hoax of some sort. It seem legit on a very cursory glance. Other google results seem to indicate the projects in that repo are named the same as some projects the NSA has open sourced publicly.

I imagine they contribute bits and pieces to quite a few projects that they use in-house.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux

2: https://www.nsa.gov/what-we-do/research/technology-transfer/

3: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency
Second that. Static site generator seems like popular those days. But they don't have much template selections so they end up look similar. Or spend $10 ~ $20 on Themeforrest https://themeforest.net/category/site-templates with nearly infinitely number of options.
Thanks for that - great contribution to this discussion, and an independently worthy idea to share.

Can you (or anyone) describe in layman's terms the significance of 'is x > 0.85?' Looking back to 1993 from today, did the 'critical examination' the author said should happen, ever happen?
I don't get it.

Are you being sarcastic, or are you alluding that the music from vinyl sounded so good you were dancing too aggressively?
Do you have Indian supermarkets where you are in Canada? My freezer is often full of of various types of bread that the GF has brought home.

Honestly pretty tasty if you throw them in a pan with a little ghee or butter.

... I actually sub a few types of them in if I'm making a quesadilla and don't have reasonably fresh tortillas.
You might want to look at how Common Lisp abstracted the filesystem 20-odd years ago as an example of how to do it right and also how to do it wrong (e.g. lack of iterators in those days)
this is what babel enables, though, but it prevents you from thinking about it in your day to day life. babel specifically is a platform for treating javascript as a syntax tree and providing plugins that transform your code to target the minimum requirements you care about now, or in a year.

the alternative you propose is that everyone writes code that only targets well-supported javascript, but does that exclude polyfills or convenience functions? Does that mean that using a polyfill for Array.prototype.map is worse than using an implementation like _.map or a hand-written map function? At best, this choice results in a complex maintenance burden that is borne by developers during future refactors (rather than an infra-focused developer upgrading the babel distribution and its presets/plugins)

the current reality is that the browser ecosystem remains heterogenous (which is why there is still a valid market for things like jquery). A plugin like babel-preset-env for instance allows you to dynamically adjust the "minimum requirements" without needing to write new polyfills and gives the benefit of improving the transformed code with little to developer intervention. It's computers doing what they're good at, i struggle to see the harm in that.
A Plea for iMessage on Android
People forget what they do not understand [anecdote]
The Perfect Holiday Gift for the Designer in Your Life
The filter bubble isn’t just Facebook’s fault – it’s yours
Taking back control of an autonomous car affects human steering behavior
Yeah what a load of garbage, only 20 subjects and bitrates 112kbps and lower.

Clickbait title and garbage content.
Ask HN: Is there a marketplace for small working businesses?
I just realized I'm good ad getting ideas and bringing them to profitable but horrible at scaling them.
For instance:
- I started an online apartment reservation website in 2001 only to keep it small and to be destroyed when Airbnb came along.
- I tried to build a co-living before there were enough digital nomads.
- I was a travel coach before the word even existed (I taught people to travel independently in Bali).

But I never made these things big.

I'm Italian and we have this "keep it small and pass it to your son" attitude. Think espresso bar and Starbucks, or pizza and Pizza Hut.
Honestly, I don't think I can, or should change, this attitude.
That's what I do best.

So the question is:
How to sell a small but profitable running business with a lot of growth potential to someone who has the drive and capabilities to make it big?

I couldn't find a marketplace, so maybe here's another idea for a startup.
Agreed. The ability to query with SQL syntax has been great.
Chat with a random person who voted against you
Florin_Andrei is clearly including recursive/tree NNs when (s)he says current NN's are flat (and I think depending on how you define "flat" I think this is accurate).
I know what OS I won't be running on my phone...
Maybe anyone with yarn experience can tell me what this means for the avarage rails dev that was ok with the asset pipeline.

Basically we get a Gemfile for css und js stuff?
Make your own web crawler
What's new in .NET Core 1.1?
According to Agner the Skylake puts the top-half of the 256-bit AVX execution units to sleep when they're not in use, and during the warm-up period when you first start using them again, 256-bit operations are done by using the bottom 128-bits of the XUs twice.

http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=415
You wouldn't. I'm just observing that none of the CF I've had to deal with is healthy - it's all a mess they want to replace. Probably poor wording in my prior comment that was hard to parse as intended, apologies.
The Black Company by Glen Cook[1]. Gritty low-fantasy story about a more-or-less lovable band of misfit mercenaries.

The Path Between the Seas by David McCullough[2]. Account of the history of the building of the Panama Canal, from the first French attempts, their collapse, the political and business machinations to transfer ownership to the US.

A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire by Geoffrey Wawro[3]. History of Austro-Hungary in the years leading up to the outbreak of the Great War and the disastrous first year of the war on the Austrian fronts.

Old Man's War by John Scalzi[4]. Military Sci-fi. Elderly earthers are recruited, have their consciousness implanted in young, superhuman, and extra-human, clones, and are sent out to the stars to wage questionable war to expand the human race.

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman[5]. Starship Troopers, except with relativity, and so the poor SOBs on the front-lines watch the rest of the world move ahead millenias around them.

Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears by William Hertling[6]. A team at a suspiciously Google-like corporation inadvertently creates an AI system integrated with their email system, which develops beyond its creators wildest dreams.

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I'd be willing to bet there was some other issue.

Also, you needed to buy a whole new SSD? You are aware that an SSD is rewritable, right?
Consider "72 letters": it's brilliant, long but no overly long, packed with ideas and plot twists, and it does stand a chance of becoming a Hollywood movie. (Not that the latter is necessarily a good thing, but still.)
I have met many people at meet ups and other places -- even my own workplace -- that didn't have CS degrees but had proof of skills and got hired
Nothing, they don't need a name. It is an opinion the person holds not a primary key for the the entire person.
No? Goodfellow has a PhD from UMontreal (one of the deep learning academic powerhouses), advised by Bengio. He then joined Google Research and then left for OpenAI (which has a billion dollars in funding and is backed by YC/Elon Musk).

The first author of that paper has a PhD from MIT and is a postdoc at Berkeley. Berkeley is also an academic ML powerhouse, and receives millions per year in industry funding just for ML. The first two authors are also former Microsoft Research interns.
Try flippa.com -- seems to fill exactly the role you're looking for.
In my experience, it's a lot slower than Visual Studio's find-in-files and I prefer the VS Regex too.
I can't believe it's been that long! I've drifted away, but always come back when I notice habits no longer sticking.
I agree, it's not really the language's fault. I'm involved with more than one application that's over a decade old, so I understand what happens.

My point is that a lot of the things still running around in ColdFusion aren't there because they're healthy, they're around because they are too sick to do anything else with. I've got too much personal experience with applications used by the government that I sure would not trust with my personal data! You know, things written before password hashing was standard practice ... and that still don't hash passwords.
What New Grads Make at Facebook, Google, Etc
Having Full Microsoft Office suite running on phone is a game changer.

Word, Excel, Outlook, Access etc...

The cut down versions which are currently on Android and iOS doesn't cover all the use cases like the full versions do.

Also having Visual Studio on phone would be interesting :)
I can recommend grabbing a copy of this book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14617573-a-guide-to-it-c...
Microsoft Partners with Intel on Project Evo to Improve the PC in 2017
Some of us aren't allowed to flag comments because we don't have enough karma. And we don't get enough karma because we are driven off the site by appalling comments that the moderators don't seem to give a shit about. A little bit of a dilemma, eh?
I would take that further and say that using restrictive licenses for opinions shows that the FSF is serious about freedom and not just biased against the idea of restrictive licenses.
We're actually having a debate now as we're starting to process larger datasets as to whether or not we should keep everything on S3 or start using HDFS w/ Hive. I'm curious if you guys considered HDFS and why you decided to go strictly with S3, and additionally, are there any issues you encounter with S3.
This is an unbelievably bad plan to the point of sending a strong negative signal to former employees or any potential hires.

Sure a typical option plan is loaded with cliff, restrictions on sale, vesting/expiration but at least end of the day you end up owning a "share" of the company however unpreferential it might be. Something which has at least some form of legal precedent.

This on the other hand riducules the intelligence of an average employee and is equivalent to playing a near-sociopathic trick where everyone is "equal" so you better not ask for higher share or salary.

To comapre this in same light as options/RSU or even bonuses is an insult.
I should have asked this earlier, but is there a good diagram/discussion of the steps to attach bluetooth audio?
For those working closer to the metal than I: are these special instructions dispatched to dedicated circuitry, or are they actually microcoded?
"minimal", "electron" ???

So running an entire web browser, separate from your actual web browser is minimal?
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Microsoft Plans to Make Mixed Reality Mainstream in 2017
I will grant you that, if I was searching files that are already under a solution that I have open.

But opening VS takes considerably longer than opening Notepad++, even with all the plugins I have added to Notepad++. One of the most common cases for me is searching for some particular message in a directory full of unzipped log files that some customer has sent to us.
I've never even cracked a smile at BBT. It's easily the worst show on television.
I know, but you wind up doing what you're told to do even if it is stupid sometimes.
But if you have a box of 10k 6502's you can use the same 12 pages of docs and get 2920000 transistors per page.
p.s. I see that this comment is getting a lot of up-votes and down-votes. The reason I made it is that I have discovered that my non-scientist friends, especially my smart engineer friends, really need this important principle repeated.
I think your definition of minimal doesn't really match everyone else in this threads'. Opening up an entire chromium runtime just to manage FTP seems incredibly _not_ minimal to me. Filezilla, for it's somewhat outdated look and myriad of options is substantially more lightweight than anything that requires a whole web browser.
> There was no theory saying that the horn antenna should have no hiss.

Then why did they go to such extraordinary lengths to find the source of it? Why didn't they just shrug and work around it?

Keep in mind they initially had no knowledge of the theoretical prediction of CMB, which was fairly recent and controversial. They just had a weird observation and busted their butts trying to figure out what it was.

> It was a classic example of being the first measurement of a thing.

Yes, now we know that. At the time it was not clear that it was a phenomenon worth measuring at all. I mean, they thought it was pigeons. It looked like a dumb error at first.

> Excellent discovery, and easy and inexpensive to replicate.

The "emdrive" is also easy and cheap to replicate.

I'm not saying that the emdrive works, I'm saying that experimental results matter. They should not be dismissed just becaus me they seem to violate theory. Violating theory is why people experiment in the first place.
If one engages productively with the site, rather than constantly complaining and accusing everyone else of being terrible, it is rather easy to pass the threshold of being able to flag comments.
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This, exactly.

It's like a case study in all the bad things that can go wrong when you mix government projects run by people who didn't know what they were doing with 10-15 years of neglect, but need to keep the software alive because it supports a critical government function but there's nowhere near the budget to rebuild it properly.
Megaprocessor – a micro-processor built large (completed)
Have you considered possible interference and noise introduced by other rival devices competing for the same spectrum?

This has been my hypothesis, considering the disruption patterns I've noticed.

At home, well removed from other possible bluetooth sources, I rarely experience signal cut-out, or choppy reception.

When I move into high traffic areas, the amount of signal loss skyrockets. The worst areas are areas with lots of cars in motion.

My hunch, is that noise, destructive interference, and fortuitous signals result in dropped packets. And cars especially, tend to broadcast stronger signals that outshine an handset/headphone channel, cause both ends of the connection to drop packets.

This is just based on observation. In crowded train stations and near busy roadways my headphones act like shit. I get the feeling it's the old "poorly shielded blender appliance ruins the t.v. reception" business, except the interference drops out in the same way progressive scan HDMI monitors glitch up without shielding.

I have no proof that this is the case though.