skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which Google blog post made it sound like that?

"A Neural Network for Machine Translation, at Production Scale"[1] says:

Machine translation is by no means solved. GNMT can still make significant errors that a human translator would never make, like dropping words and mistranslating proper names or rare terms, and translating sentences in isolation rather than considering the context of the paragraph or page. There is still a lot of work we can do to serve our users better. However, GNMT represents a significant milestone. We would like to celebrate it with the many researchers and engineers—both within Google and the wider community—who have contributed to this direction of research in the past few years.

That seems fair to me.

"Found in translation: More accurate, fluent sentences in Google Translate"[2] says:

Today’s step towards Neural Machine Translation is a significant milestone for Google Translate, but there’s always more work to do and we’ll continue to learn over time. We’ll also continue to rely on Translate Community, where language loving multilingual speakers can help share their language by contributing and reviewing translations.

"Zero-Shot Translation with Google’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System"[3] says:

In September, we announced that Google Translate is switching to a new system called Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT), an end-to-end learning framework that learns from millions of examples, and provided significant improvements in translation quality.

[1] https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/a-neural-network-for...

[2] https://blog.google/products/translate/found-translation-mor...

[3] https://research.googleblog.com/2016/11/zero-shot-translatio...
And what about the rental market? That's also part of the housing stock no?
The nuanced difference between avoiding small talk and pursuing deeper conversations is quite significant since telling people to avoid superficial talk usually leads to the misunderstanding of the value of such.

Starting out with a topical interaction is often the easiest way to establish a relationship and one can become quite close despite restricting each other to serious topics.
But, there will always be a serious limit to how far you can go with just that. It is quite difficult to call someone a friend if you never shared something personal and trivia, but it works well if your aim is to stop at a working relationship with that colleague.

And don't forget that the 7th point is about the general approach to socializing or life rather than specific gatherings only, hence my broad descriptions.

>I'm about 100x as likely to have a serious conversation at a hacker meetup as a random night at the bar.

That is actually not a valid comparison. If you meet with someone of some common interest in a bar there's little preventing you from having a serious debate. You just need to seek out a location that allows you to converse comfortably.
The London Ambulance Service's Computer Aided Dispatch system failed around midnight - the cause is not yet public, but it is conceivable that the leap second of 2016 could have resulted in avoidable deaths.

Yes, due to a software problem, but with real consequences.
> Since the stop was properly listed, the soldiers had not violated any regulations, but they still received verbal counseling because their actions created an appearance of impropriety

But huge donations to a senator's campaign is not? I hate this kind of top-down hypocrisy.
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The Chinese room argument is just a modern rehash of incredulity that physical systems could give rise to consciousness - which is absurd because that's what we know we are.

The argument goes - "when you look inside, it's just things pushing at each other. How could that produce perception and the conscious mind?"

So, a failure of imagination and incredulity based on how they understand the world and the mind makes them reject AI. They feel that the special place of the soul was traded for "information processing" which is dry and mechanical - a form of dualism creeping up in our day and age.

I would have felt the same if I didn't learn and use neural networks such as CNNs, RNNs and MLPs. Now I know how simple mechanical systems can recognize patterns and process information to generate complex behavior and I don't feel that "explanatory gap" any more.

Reinforcement learning is a good base for consciousness research - much more precise and with scientific results, not just p-zombies and bat based armchair experimentation. There's a limit where you can go with just pure thinking and then you need to start direct implementation.
Not sure what you're getting at with the condescending tone. My point is that the satellite owner did not realize a $200m loss; SpaceX being at least partially self-insured, from what I've read, is more likely to take a hit. There were 85 launches in 2016, one rocket blowing up is not going to significant change the landscape (heh).

Disclaimer: I don't know shit about the space industry, so don't waste your time.
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> I think you're presenting a false choice. We live in a society where an awful lot of money goes to things and people that don't particularly need or merit it.

That's why people don't have a higher savings rate. Most people are idiots when it comes to spending, the dumbest habit of which is increasing your spending on pace with increased in income. Okay maybe not the dumbest as it's even dumber when they increase it faster than income (ex: new job => new car with higher monthly payment v.s. difference in salary).

> What you mean to be saying is "accept the fact that without a radical change in how we view the purpose of employment and retirement, most people cannot . . ."

> Basically, what's the goal? The goal right now is for each entity in the system to hold onto as much money as it possibly can.

Why is the company holding onto anything? If you're working as an employee and want to retire one day, demand to be paid for the services you're providing now, save them up, invest them, and then it's yours to spend. Why have the company guess at how to manage that? It's putting an awfully lot of eggs in one basket as well as if the company goes under, your pension will take a hit as well (since no company actually has a fully paid for sinking fund).

> It's a company-first view of the problem, and therefore not one that really addresses the main point: People shouldn't be expected to work into their old age.

Why not? What else are they going to do anyway and why should they be granted N years of do nothingness just because they're old? Sure sounds like a ponzi scheme to me ...
I don't have a ton of data in Dropbox but it's large and growing.

Any word if they're going to hook up a "import from Box/Dropbox" feature here?
And this is a White House policy, with their official blog post and rationale here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/06/08/https-everywhere-...

"It is critical that federal websites maintain the highest privacy standards for the users of its online services. With this new action, we are driving faster internet-wide adoption of HTTPS and promoting better privacy standards for the entire browsing public."

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50% would be enough to retire in 7-10 years btw. Actual required savings rates would be lower.
Correct...The only way around this that I see would be to allow voting in which the crowd would decide if the article would be in the correct column or not.
Yes. It's a Catch-22 in current US culture. The solution to said Catch-22, at least in the US, was supposed to be the wording of copyright in the US Constitution, but it hasn't been strictly interpreted since arguably the first extension term act of congress and Eldred v Ashcroft all but sunk any hope that it ever would be...

Copyright, just like Patents, was designed as much to force things to expire as to hold them hostage to creators/owners ('limited monopolies' to encourage creators/owners with an emphasis on 'limited' to eventually win out for the public good). All copyrighted things should eventually expire, for the public good (that's what the US Constitution tried to provide for, originally).

There likely isn't a solution that our corporate overlords would accept that includes decent expiration terms, but that doesn't mean we should stop trying. It's the entire point of Copyright to regulate this sort of thing. If Copyright doesn't regulate expiration terms than what is the point of having Government involved at all? Might as well save the courts time and money, cut out the middle man, and let the megacorps build their own "Mickey Mouse cops" to police copyrights at that point... We don't have to live in that dystopia and we can as citizens demand that the federal government do its constitutionally mandated job of providing for the public good.
You think that people willing to spend $500 would rather just spend tens of thousands instead for the same value proposition?
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How hard is to have virtual-dom by default in the browser?
Why limit contributions?
Just wanted to share the thread here since I think it generated some good input there.
> That's why people don't have a higher savings rate. Most people are idiots when it comes to spending, the dumbest habit of which is increasing your spending on pace with increased in income. Okay maybe not the dumbest as it's even dumber when they increase it faster than income (ex: new job => new car with higher monthly payment v.s. difference in salary).

It's also why megacorporations and a very small percentage of people have such immense amounts of money and give essentially nothing back for it.

> Why not? What else are they going to do anyway and why should they be granted N years of do nothingness just because they're old? Sure sounds like a ponzi scheme to me...

What is so valuable about forcing everyone to work their whole lives? Who benefits?
Great perspective, thanks!
Why do you say German is notoriously bad? I don't speak German, but that linked page reads fine to me, and their neural translation system has state-of-the-art performance for both English->German and German->English at least[1]. I would have thought that the well-structured nature of German makes it reasonably easy to translate, assuming you have a NN architecture with sufficient memory range.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.04558
I do advocate for open-source, but that is often not a practical solution. MITM is more powerful.
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The other issue I've seen is that people that jump quickly into veganism from climate change reasons alone, is that in those moments of "weakness" later on, they're much more likely to relapse, and go straight back into eating meat.

When there's a more fundamental change on an ethics basis (i.e. you do a mental switch and stop looking at that stuff as food to be consumed at all), then the changes seem to be more long lasting. Then it stops being "I shouldn't do this" to "I can't do this".
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No, but it may have come to them via a press release.

Paul Graham on PR from 2005:
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

"PR is not dishonest. Not quite. In fact, the reason the best PR firms are so effective is precisely that they aren't dishonest. They give reporters genuinely valuable information. A good PR firm won't bug reporters just because the client tells them to; they've worked hard to build their credibility with reporters, and they don't want to destroy it by feeding them mere propaganda.

If anyone is dishonest, it's the reporters. The main reason PR firms exist is that reporters are lazy. Or, to put it more nicely, overworked. Really they ought to be out there digging up stories for themselves. But it's so tempting to sit in their offices and let PR firms bring the stories to them. After all, they know good PR firms won't lie to them."
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Defined contribution plans are such a simpler system.

Defined benefit plans need professional actuaries to estimate a future with so many unknown variables: interest rates, rates of investment return, employee lifespans in 20+ years, retirement ages, voluntary employee exit rates (just to name a few). Plus you have the problem of so few companies lasting anywhere near as long as a pension plan would last, so these legacy pensions have to get offloaded to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation.

It's no wonder that the private sector has moved from 30% defined benefit and 10% 401k back in 1980, to 2% defined benefit and 33% 401k today.
Bitbucket product manager here.

Sorry to hear you've been having trouble. What you describe is most definitely unusual so I'd suggest contacting us (or having your admin contact us) at support.atlassian.com so we can look into it.

The team has spent a great deal of effort over the entire life of the product to ensure it performs at scale for broad range of load profiles. The notion that we only recently had a very large instance for test is untrue. Perhaps someone got the wrong idea from our most recent series on how we build Bitbucket Data Center to _already_ support massive scale: https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/12/how-we-built-bi...
I'm not reading 5 walls of text to know what a good intro text could tell me.

I would only read them once there was an intro text that made me interested in the project.
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I understand the curiosity aspect of "Can/could I do this?", but from a practical standpoint, why? A gaming desktop is more practical, cheaper, easy to improve and change, etc. But if your problem is mobility, a gaming laptop is probably cheaper to start off with, then it definitely is after the external gpu.
Having to do your homework rather than it working out of the box is frustrating.
Along these lines, I was also curious about the quote

"the kind of CPU I could buy for cheap would be comically underpowered compared to the i7 4850HQ I already had in front of me"

Specifically: will the high-end i7 in a MBP run at Full Turbo indefinitely, or does it throttle down hard after a couple of minutes at full load to avoid overheating, like the one in my Dell Precision does?

I'm suspecting the latter, due to the basic physics of heat dissipation from a high-TDP chip. In this case, a sub-$200 Haswell i5 will run circles around it.
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I'm not sure I'd call the invention of grain agriculture relatively minor; all human population expansion depends on the availability of grain as a food storage mechanism.
Oryol author here. A lot of the motivation for using such a 'simple C++ style' comes from my own frustrating experience of integrating big C++ libraries (mainly game development middleware) into complex million-lines C++ game code bases, I didn't want to have this frustrating fight in my spare-time projects.

The more language features and dependencies those game middleware libraries use, the harder they are to integrate and combine with each other. Some may require compiler options that contradict each other, or require a very recent compiler version, some do an absurd amount of dynamic memory allocations (which is easy when using the STL - ahem stdlib - carelessly), some may depend on exceptions, or on boost libraries etc...

It was always the pure C projects, or the 'simple C++ style' projects that were easiest to integrate, while projects which used a boost-style 'over-engineering' approach caused a lot of little problems during integration and also afterwards (they are usually much harder to debug, take much longer to compile, and so on...).

The only sensible thing for C++ libraries that aim to be easy to integrate is to avoid many of the typical 'modern and old C++-isms' outlined in the Orthodox C++ document (but nothing in there is particularly new or special or revolutionary, it's a collection of pragmatic advice learned the hard way, and should be fairly familiar in embedded and game development).

The other big problem (besides integration) is that some C++ features (like iostreams or RTTI) increase code bloat, and basically violate the "don't pay for what you don't use" principle, or dramatically decrease performance on some platforms (mainly using C++ exceptions on asm.js). I have written a blog post a little while ago which goes more into the details, the TL;DR is basically that a 'simple C++ style' may help to reduce code bloat and increase performance: http://floooh.github.io/2016/08/27/asmjs-diet.html
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Personally I agree. Practically and politically, good luck convincing the 99% to go along with the 1% deferring taxes on their income indefinitely.
Do shorter hours or higher wages make better teachers?
This comment attributes many things to my thinking that are the creation of the commenter, some of which are contradicted by what I wrote myself, such as:

> you think the downvotes are about disagreeing with your principles about press releases
Seems like they also copied Apple's pricing strategy
I think my extra arguments week pretty self explanatory. Species extinction and deforestation of the Amazon most ecologists would agree are bad.

Of course niche cases require niche solutions, but I think considering other huge factors is also important rather than blindly ignoring them to make animal ag look better. As I said, this is the Holocene extinction event, clearly what we're doing needs to change and reduction in land use and species extinction is a good starting point. How we handle reclaimed land is important to consider of course, but honestly seems like a luxury until we get there. Besides saying we should stick to CO2 the main thing I get from your comment is arguing for status quo, which isn't a solution.
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FYI it looks like when you copied the posting it took the link abbreviations literally.

Correct links are:

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The crypto in OpenPGP is actually far from ideal. They combine some arcane block cipher mode with something called mdc ("modification detection code"), which isn't a proper authentication. It's kinda surprising that this hasn't caused more issues (though there were some authentication stripping attacks). It should switch to a proper AEAD mode.

Also for RSA it is using PKCS #1 1.5 and SHA-1 is used all over the place.

This is all not super serious, I wouldn't be too bothered about it. But it's not a solid crypto design by modern standards.
ARM64 probably for this qualcomm SoC:

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