skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After reading the article, my summary of the message is not "backpropagation is a leaky abstraction" but instead "if you don't understand how the derivatives are being calculated, it will come back to bite you". The author talks about issues that arise with s-curve activation functions having saturated outputs and minimized gradients (part of the historical reason for moving away from these functions), the vanishing/exploding gradient problem in RNNs caused by repeated multiplication, the issue with clipping gradients as a solution, and the issue with zero-valued gradients in ReLUs. This would be equivalent to being a DBA without understanding indexes, or being a web developer without understanding the DOM. Yes, you can get by for a while, coasting on your tools. But when the stakes are high and you need to get it right, that ignorance will hamstring you. You don't want to be put in the situation of building a NN for someone and having no good idea about why it isn't working yet.
You could keep a virtual machine on the SSD, with each docking host having the same VM software installed. Then you'd literally be able to hibernate the VM and physically move it.
So all your products are made with child labour and indentured slaves ?
Moreover, they make the point in one of the episodes (3x06, "Booby Trap", IIRC) that the ship's computer's intelligence is INTENTIONALLY limited. The reason that Data is unique isn't simply due to his status as a fully sapient being. It's because of his positronic brain.
Uber drivers are severely punished for not accepting a hail
Part of this is promised by Microsoft with the upcoming Surface Phone (hinted at April 2017).
This interesting, I have never seen setcap. It seems it doesn't work with scripts (ruby, python) and if you are using JVM/mono/beam you will need to setcap the whole VM, but a very cool solution for a language like Go with binaries!
>Democracy can survive people lying. It can't survive granting the government the ability to determine which "facts" the people are allowed to believe.

This only holds assuming we have time to work things out naturally - unfortunately that is not the case at least in the context of climate change to ignore all other issues. Of course if you drink the fake-news coolaid you'll debate that climate change is happening or that its not man-made or wherever the goal-post has been moved to today. Hey everyone's opinion is the same though right? Your fact is my fiction!

We're not talking the esoterics of democratic theory, we're talking the basic ability to educate people well enough to make decisions affecting the survival of our species as we know it. To me its very similar to taking no action on climate change because the market will eventually handle it. It all assumes sufficient stability for sufficient time and that may not be a safe assumption anymore.

I never suggested the government specifically take action to say who can say what, but that doesn't mean that there can't be an open ranking system used by search engines and social media to people from accidentally falling into fake news through a ad that looks like a link from a more reputable location.
I am having the hardest time getting goaccess to work with the IIS 8.0 W3C logs. It keeps on complaining about the date / time format. What is your secret sauce?
NSFW. Should've guessed due to it being attrition.org.
I think it's worth pointing out that he started his mobile efforts by talking about how easy it was to make a Facebook Messenger bot, something they're heavily pushing... and then said shortly thereafter, to do what he wanted, he had to switch to making his own app, because Messenger couldn't do what he wanted.

If a Google exec wrote this post, it would be about how amazing a Google product was as a solution to the problem, and that would be the end of it. But here's Mark saying "you know what, Messenger is great but I needed more". And maybe that could turn into some pretty big advice for his Messenger team on what to add next, but he seemed to be pointing out where the industry (including his own company) could do better.
Can you explain? I agree with the parent poster. I was curious what he considered pre-crime.

My original question was an honest one (as is this one). Yeah, maybe the question was ignorant or stupid... my bad, I suppose. I don't understand why I'd need to pretend to understand anything... that seems dishonest.

I do not understand why an honest question deserves your downvote.
Thanks but I'm afraid this is not the one I'm after. That one shows a sort-of bird's eye view of the entire roundabout, with several roads leading out, with individual signboards (white on green) for each road, showing the country name.
Wow. 14% is really damn high.
It's quite possible that either or both of those are true. Or it could be that they have limits on their manufacturing capacity and would have to cut back on production of something more profitable to make more Bolts. There are probably other factors that you and I wouldn't think of in a million years.
http://www.shakelaw.com/blog/employee-inventions/

"For example, the California Labor Code stipulates that regardless of what an employment contract or PIIA says, an employee owns the copyright and patent rights to his inventions if the invention is made entirely on the employee’s own time, without using any of the company’s equipment or technology, as long as the invention (a) does not relate to the company’s business, or (b) did not result from work performed by the employee “as an employee” of the company. Washington state has a similar law protecting employee projects outside the 9-5 bounds."
>>Can you tell why I never got married (walked once, stood up once)? :-)

Not really. But it sounds like an interesting story if you care to share the gist of it.
It absolutely cannot "protect the people [you] care about". It may, perhaps, lead to apprehension after the fact.
Uber's self-driving cars can't handle bike lanes
There are currently 4 billion people on earth with no access to the internet whatsoever [1]. If that's not a massive problem that also represents a massive business opportunity, I don't know what is.

1: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/05/4-billion-people-stil...
And this is the same system that the public sector uses (grandfathered exceptions exists, of course).

Of course once your super fund runs out, and it will very likely run out, you're back on the tax-funded age pension.
I wonder how much the emergence of fintech is affecting this trend?

Debt is a powerful, but often fairly complex, financial instrument. Much like venture capital. The difference is that most folks in the financial industry are intimately familiar with debt but relatively unfamiliar with venture capital; or worse, to those coming from a PE background VC can often appear completely insane.

The growth of fintech has indirectly added a whole cohort of founders and entrepreneurs who are much more likely to know how to work with debt and be able to use it in tandem (or in place of) venture capital.
What we need are community restaurants that are serious about inexpensive healthy single servings to take care of this for us (the market does not seem to support this; maybe some sort of space/location subsidy is necessary).

If it isn't convenient (timely and open at desired times), tasty, and inexpensive it won't compete on the three metrics that the actual competition is winning on.
Tesla has a lamentable number of luxury options. It has even fewer than Porsche has in its 911, and that is a car known more for its speed and handling than anything.

People looking for luxury would be better suited buying Mercedes, or BMW for that same price range.

Tesla is a luxury car, but not of the 'lovely interior' type. It's more like Porsche---luxury in terms of an extreme in high technology related to driving.
I believe that's supposed to be the unique selling point of Microsoft's continuum approach to mobile.

Where at the mo they need to overcome the issue that desktop apps are x86 but for battery reasons mobile apps need to run on ARM
Perhaps you've seen The Big Lebowski. "Leads? Leads?"

The odds of the SFPD "investigating" a mere wallet theft are even lower than the Malibu PD trying to figure out who stole Jeff Bridges' car.

For one thing, after Prop 47, stealing anything under $950 is a misdemeanor. A misdemeanor is basically a traffic ticket for anyone already involved with the criminal justice system. Misdemeanors basically do not result in any kind of custodial sentence in CA today.

Only a reporter could get them to care at all. ("Journalist privilege" is real.) Even then, they can only care so much.
Thanks. After some more effort I found out much of my frustration was due some bugs and some bad config settings.

Lisp-paredit is buggy for me (must use a shortcut twice to get one motion, can't hold down modifier keys when changing direction e.g. from slurp to barf). Very troublesome. Also lisp-paredit strict mode fights with parinfer, so you must turn it off to get the expected parinfer paren closing behaviors. I'll give parinfer some more time to sink in now that I have it working better.

Adding some familiar paredit keybindings (to keymap.cson) helps a lot too:

'atom-text-editor[data-grammar~="clojure"]':
'ctrl-right': 'lisp-paredit:slurp-forwards'
'ctrl-left': 'lisp-paredit:barf-forwards'
'ctrl-alt-right': 'lisp-paredit:barf-backwards'
'ctrl-alt-left': 'lisp-paredit:slurp-backwards'
It is amazing how much react resembles php and classic asp from 15 years ago. I guess that's what happens when you don't hire anyone over 30.
Speculating Uber's future is just a silly as speculating the NFL draft. The better question is - how do you provide as much value as Uber?
Yup, the iPod is what helped make them relevant again.
Invalidate my VIP ticket but please don't steal the magic
I think it goes beyond just food. People have it ingrained in their heads that "you get what you pay for." Which naturally leads them to the conclusion that "if something is cheaper, it must be worse." In a perfectly rational and perfectly informed utopia, this might be true, but certainly not in our world. There are plenty of companies that provide worse goods at higher prices, and they get by on the backs of marketing/brand-name/ignorance. I've often found that 10 minutes of googling can get you recommendations that are strictly superior to what the average guy ends up buying without thinking twice about.
Hi!

Your progress is very impressive, and you seem to be picking up all the right stuff. Have you considered using triplebyte?

They have an online code screening as the first step, and then they help you find a good fit.
I'm a fan of GTD, though I don't follow it strictly. My main takeaway is well summarized here: http://gettingthingsdone.com/fivesteps/.

Capture my goals (make running a habit, learn Rust, learn Spanish).

Clarify what that means for each of those things.

Running: MW go for a 5k run @ about 4pm. Done. Now it's in my calendar.

Rust: read the Rust book, create a practice project (which goes into more actions).

Spanish: Get a grammar, a frequency dictionary, a tutor, set aside daily time for reading/review/flashcards.

Organize these, in this case by scheduling time. Sometimes material resources or coordination with others (tutor in the Spanish case), as well. I try to decide whether an activity needs a set time (running) or just any time each day (Spanish w/ Duolingo and Memrise). Look at the calendar and schedule the ones that need a proper time. Daily activities get put in for every day, I can see when I have too many and need to cull my projects, aspirations, or start setting aside dedicated time (Duolingo now actually gets 6-6:30am, basically the 3rd thing I do after waking each day).

Different tools I've found useful: OmniFocus for general organization and project management. Org-mode for delving into details on projects (particularly programming). Notebook and pen for carrying around daily and writing down these things before I forget them.

Get used to working towards your goal daily/weekly. Try to be consistent on the time, schedule it (specific time) if you have to. Otherwise you slip a week, and it becomes two, and then it never happens.
Fascinating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzwle9gjC2E
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Yeah, here in Alberta, Uber wanted to be able to do their own background checks, but they were forced by the government to have the local police run background checks as well. Presumably there were a bunch of criminals passing the Uber background checks in the states and this needed to be addressed to meet the regulations.
I found the problem with inventions (personal projects) is, you have to maintain them after. And once you're maintaining too much you've run out of free time for the rest of your life - I've been running one for ten years that is famously unchanged and isn't going to.

If you're just talking about tech, the life pattern of forcing everyone in the industry to move to Silicon Valley and work all day on someone else's ideas to cover rent can't be helping.
You linked christian science monitor and an economist fluff peice fta: "take a bow capitalism," yea - quality, unbiased, non-ideological sources here. /s Neither mentioned the concept of BI.

Obviously after implementing BI the economy may not adhere to previous economic models since youre changing part of it.

What scientific studies would you reccomend? I dont consider ted talks to be a rigorous science community and I dont think its conjecture that products are designed for the people who will ultimately pay for them.
To protect myself from ransomware, I should download and run a program from a company I've never heard of?
"I'd expect that as soon as those with power to change the law are negatively affected by poorly written laws, those laws would soon be changed."

1. We have way too many laws now, and they just keep piling up year, after year. I once heard in California, if you add up all new changes, and bylaws, we are enacting/changing 12,000 laws a year. (I don't have a citation. Just something I heard.)

2. I given up arguing over what laws are needed, and what just sound good.

I would like to see the punishment of all laws (criminal, federal, local, etc.) tied to income. Rich guy runs a stop sign, he gets a $5000 ticket. The poor man gets the current $500 ticket.

I heard Switzerland is trying this?

A poor man gets a $500 ticket; it might just be the last straw?

A rich man gets the same ticket; he mentions it over dinner.

In my world, high fees for Revenue, is not the way to tax. In many cases these fees seem unconstitutional, but who even cares about that old document anymore?
I agree that dimming should be a function of constructiveness rather than agreement. If flag is to be used for that purpose, there's currently no way to express "I think this is a constructive comment", no way to balance "I think this is not a constructive comment". Having such a button is effectively the same as having "constructive/unproductive" buttons: the flag link would be subsumed.

As for karma, I think it serves two purposes: it acts as a gating function to ensure members have contributed usefully before allowing them to behave in a potentially unproductive manner (e.g., creating throwaway accounts to down-vote or flag). It also encourages continued constructive contributions. Yes, it's artificial, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it can't serve that purpose. I don't think karma is perfect, but I think it is, on balance, a constructive feature on HN.

If there are other methods of serving those two purposes more effectively and as simply as karma does (and I admit to ignorance here), I think they'd be worth exploring. I think there needs to be some pressure over the lifetime of an account to encourage constructive comments, non only on a per-comment basis.
It's opt in now:

http://blog.atom.io/2016/10/11/atom-1-11.html
How terrible. Having to spend 1-2 minutes downloading an app.

Expect Austin to occur elsewhere (Uber and Lyft leaving due to local regulation, and competitors filling the void).
The same thing lures people in every time. You sit down, open a single file and type for 5 minutes and you've got a baby web app. Whee! The pain comes later. So much pain.

Its like the payday loan of technical debt.
"For assistants like Jarvis to be able to control everything in homes for more people, we need more devices to be connected and the industry needs to develop common APIs and standards for the devices to talk to each other."

This.
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> Uber's car ... blows stop lights and can't make a right turn.

Just like my last few Uber drivers.
"Apple's laptops are the sweet spot. I want them. The price is right."

Is it, though? After evaluating the 2016 13" (and having owned a 2012, 2014 and early 2015), I now have the Kaby Lake XPS 13".

$1799 for a _similarly_ (because yes, I know it doesn't have Touch ID, or the display - but build quality is similar, the display is better - 3200x1800, more connectivity options) specced model that costs $2499 from Apple.

$700 is a decent chunk of change, and yes, over the course of a couple of years life, for a developer, it's not earth shattering. But it is nearly 40% more expensive, for questionable value.
If they don't have internet access, they probably don't have much disposable income. Also, those 4 billion people are spread across diverse legal jurisdictions, not to mention diverse geographic, linguistic, and economic regions.

I agree it's a massive problem, and I don't doubt there are business opportunities. I just question how massive are those opportunities.

It's like shale oil--there's tons of it, but it's only profitable to extract under the right circumstances.
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Yes, that's what I do too. But if I could detach the keyboard and display then I could fit what remains in my pocket instead of having to shlep it around in my backpack.
It's all niche ptoducts with no reach, though. I'd like something mass-consumer-oriented and ubiquous, so I can actually get (roughly) the same experience everywhere from bus stops and coffee shops to my office. The current situation is like pre-ipod mp3 players: the tech is all there, the ux and marketing effort is not.
Patients of female doctors likely to live longer, avoid hospital readmission
Then buy less of things that don't lend themselves well to this sort of contingency. Lettuce does salad, and nothing else; bananas are for being bananas, and desserts; if you don't happen to be in the mood for it, they're useless. But things like mushrooms, kale, spinach, leeks, onions, sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, cabbage, broccoli, asparagus, carrots, collard greens, peas, brussels sprouts, dandelion greens, cauliflower, celery root, sunchokes, and green beans- to name a few from the produce aisle alone that I can speak to from recent experience- work perfectly fine in stir-fry, so you wouldn't be limiting yourself too much.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13209474
> Apple might be one of the few manufacturers able to sell desktops at a loss

I wish this was true, but at the price points they're selling the mac pro; I have a hard time thinking that they are losing money on each unit.
Exactly. And all my running processes too.
Brainfuck for dummies
In the dryer. The tumbling around makes it a nice smooth ball of aluminum. Bonus: my cat likes to play with them as well.
I want more materials (ie stainless steel, brass), greater capabilities (ie 5 axis mill, welding), and it would be nice to have guaranteed compliance for regulated industries (ie food, medicine).

Other than that, you are more expensive than hiring a machinist the old-fashioned way for one-off parts. Apparently I just don't understand your business, because I'm clearly not your customer.

Also please don't name drop your investors - nobody cares. Funding is a vanity metric. Focus on how you can be profitable when your business is no longer subsidized by external funding - that's what will make you successful. Growth is great but it doesn't help if you can't ever sell at a profit.

Anyway, while I may not understand your business, I wish you luck. If you can truly revolutionize manufacturing the way you say that would be great.
After the tens of articles outlining Uber's bad business practices I've been trying to use other apps as much as I can. What's amazed me is how many drivers on Lyft and the like are former Uber drivers who left the service. I'm sure that they've been able to replace those drivers but I wonder if they'll he able to keep this up for the time it takes to introduce self driving cars. I suspect not.
That seems awfully nitpicky. Cameras cannot physically stop a crime in progress, but neither can any other remotely reasonable public safety measure.
This was exactly my thought, and it's not like I'm even that old. We should know better by now. I went from writing PHP in high school that looked exactly like this, to using Python CGI and then finally Flask to write (I think) very modular, maintainable web applications.

Now several years later I'm inheriting Nodejs and [flavor of the month] Javascript framework projects from coworkers that look like the PHP video sharing site I wrote in 10th grade using XAMPP.

I feel like I have (or everyone else has) contracted some sort of amnesia. Didn't we already hash this out guys?
Your analysis looks correct.

FWIW:

(setf (values X Y) Z)

is roughly equivalent to the Python:

(X, Y) = Z

So

(setf (values (register r) flag)
(<<_8 (register r)))

might be idiomatically in python:

(registers[r], flag) = leftShift8(registers[r])

And in any event is using the same register "r" as both source and destination.
Apprehension after the fact does actually prevent the perpetrator from committing a substantially similar crime, as least for as long as they're in custody. In addition, things that increase the likelihood of getting caught serve as a deterrent for other potential criminals.

Which of course is not to say that on balance mass surveillance of public spaces is a net benefit. But it does have some benefits, and it does the debate disservice to deny them.
I did this for my home at a much smaller scale. Using a rasberry pi connected with a IR emitter I can control light switches in my house. Got the cheap $20 for 5 IR sockets.

With computers getting smaller and faster exponentially, a lot of science fiction is quite close.

The hard part is how we can handle this new power. Facebook face recognition can identify me anywhere. Cars can see people/kids in 3d space. Everything I say can be recorded to speech and be searched .

It doesn't take long for AI to realize humans cause a lot of pain to lesser species and eat them as food. They also pollute the planet like crazy and a way to save the planet might be to exterminate some of them.
Uber actually is. They've been taking on straight debt.[1]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2016-06-15/uber-s-...
"How ironic of you showing in the particular post. He's precisely referring to people like you and your illegitimate interviewees at IndieHackers who all claim to be overnight successes."

This is a complete bullshit statement.

I've read every interview and Csallen has made on IH - it's a solid site with great interviews. I haven't read anywhere where he or any of the interviewees has claimed overnight success. Quite the opposite really. He's done a lot of hard work.

I don't think he's misrepresented anything and he built a great site. I wish him all the best!