skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Their job title is traditionally fulfillment associate, like mine was SDE.
You can point 'react' at Inferno at build time. I believe there's a Webpack plugin that does this.
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Non-standard datasets like these are very fun to play with. If you can produce the training data (source => target aligned text files), it is relatively simple to try it out. Some mappings that people have recently published on: code => comments, ingredients => recipes, bad writing => good writing. I haven't seen the application that you are describing, but it would be pretty interesting.

Note though that NMT is particularly helpful for variable-length output. If you know the target is the same length as the source, then there are likely easier ways to go.
I think that would be a big mistake to add a keyword. It apparently doesn't give much of a performance gain:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13489065/best-practice-t...
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I worked with a woman who was born in India, learned British English, and then learned American English. She had impeccable accents in all 3.

While I agree that 3 months of training isn't going to cut it, it isn't necessary to have spoken in that language your whole life if you are serious about your accent.
Thanks for the feedback - we hear you and I myself have encountered a lot of the issues you mention. I've passed this along to our product team and I'll see if I can turn some of the easier stuff into tickets myself that we can groom next time we jump back into this code.
Good point. I do both embedded (well) and web (so-so) dev, and they are worlds apart in almost every aspect I can think of.
Bezos's famous quotation: "Your margin is my opportunity". They'll alway undercut the competition if they can.
Good reason to not think of Flickr as any sort of photo backup mechanism? I always presumed when you accessed a photo in "original" dimensions, it was the original file uploaded (even if renamed). There's probably some fine print TOS that clearly states otherwise...
Please elaborate. The only thing I can think of that comes close is the fact that the community forums for Rust discussion that are moderated by the Rust team have codes of conduct. But that's a very good thing! And if you don't like that for whatever reason, then you can go use some discussion forum that's not moderated by the Rust team. Nobody said you're forced to use r/rust, or #rust-lang, or users.rust-lang.org to talk about Rust. But regardless, rules of conduct on public forums are not the same thing as saying that the language itself is in any way associated with social justice.
I'm not sure what to make of your response. Texting while driving, or simply driving inattentively, is an existential risk. Investing aggressively on the stock market is not. Yet one thing is considered normal, while the other thing is considered reckless. Businesses tend to take too many risks. After all, decisions are made with other people's money, and there are career benefits to taking a risk that works out but there is hardly a penalty for squandering the company's money. Individuals tend to to take the wrong kind of risks: too careless about getting seriously injured and too timid about financial and career risks.

I'm not claiming that all risks by society are judged incorrectly, just that it happens frequently enough that much is to be gained by being really skeptical towards the consensus views on risk.
I hope these engineers get a few million $ bonuses.
You can also check out https://www.toptal.com/tracker , its 100% free and has both desktop client (for almost any OS) and web client.
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> NASA has a culture of safety and redundancy ad nauseam because people are indoctrinated

I'm not claiming Lattner is missing some innate ability -- it just appears they're putting someone in charge who has never been exposed to this mindset. Maybe they have a culture or other leaders already in place who can foster this within the team.

> It is not fair to judge Lattner's ability or commitment to safety based upon Xcode and Swift.

To be fair, we cannot judge Lattner's ability or commitment to safety at all, because he has no publicly-known experience with safety-critical systems.

Perhaps he has relevant experience that's not public. And if it turns out he has no relevant experience, I'm not saying he can't learn. It's just strange for Tesla to put someone in charge who will be learning on the job.
Is that the new version of the book? I was wondering where that was. I grabbed my link from rust-lang.org. When will the new book take its place?
In the libertarian world you just sue when you are being wronged and justice will be done. In reality if you sue a big company you have to go against an army of lawyers, expert witnesses they can buy and media campaigns. You simply can't win that unless you have a lot of money. We still would have lead paint if the EPA hadn't banned it. How can a single family prove to a court that whatever problems their children have is caused by lead paint? Fund a clinical study for a few million dollars?
The number you're quoting is pre-inflation adjustment, I think? Or maybe I used the wrong endpoints. I used the calculator on that site [1], with the setting being from December '15 to December '16 since I'm not sure what moment in January '17 they measured. If I go Jan '16 to Jan '17, then we end up with 17.952%, which doesn't sound right.

[1]: https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/
Using two standard full-length cards is just lazy design (even if he made it a point to use standard components). The GPUs should be on boards like they are on the current MacPro and attached to the monumental heatsink. This add two fans to a design that absolutely doesn't need them. The SATA disks also seem misplaced - it should extend PCI-E storage or, even better, DIMM flash modules: big Xeons have 4 memory channels per socket, enough for letting a couple of those go to storage. Having one single bus for everything makes the machine much neater.
Hi Dan. I was specifically searching for other Messenger bot owners who had similar "Destination Messenger" ad problems. We did a campaign last week, with 0 conversions. I just saw someone responded that the issue is fixed. We're interested in testing it out again.
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It's retro chic.
I've looked at pfff and couldn't really figure out what's supposed to work and what isn't. Would love to pretty print python with it. (I've been looking at the many different pretty printers in the python world and haven't found anything that I feel works well enough). Did you use it for pretty printing python?
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Wow, that was a great post. I can share quite similar numbers: I run my business for 10 years now. It makes about 12,000€ per month. It grew 24% last year. Most traffic comes through evergreen content. I wrote about a hundred articles with 220,000 words in total. I answered more than ten thousand support emails over the years and generally try to be helpful. I didn't do social media.

I want to add two things:

1. I change articles when I don't like them anymore. I treat articles like shopping windows. Nothing for eternity. I experiment.

2. I don't get the newsletter advice. Seriously. Whenever I read something like this, it's always: Start a mailing list for the simple reason to be able to contact people. I get the idea, but I don't understand the details. This advice never talks about two quite important things:

a) What should you write in your newsletter, if your articles are evergreen and mostly to attract new readers? They're not made for existing customers – at least not in my case.

b) Email lists grow stale. People might read your newsletter for months and after a year or so, they'll forget about it or delete every email. That 50,000 subscriber email list grown over 8 years? Probably way less worth than many people think, because relevant are only the last 7,000 or so. Better than nothing, I guess.

Obviously, I don't have a newsletter, although I have people's email addresses, because people need to have an account to use my software. But I actually never contact them.
> Your real job as a software engineer isn’t to write code. It’s to translate hand-wavy business requirements into detailed specs that a computer can follow.

> Your job is to ask questions and to find edge cases that the product people didn’t think of. Your job is to help operations define processes well enough to be automated.

https://medium.com/swizec-s-nightowls/what-should-you-learn-...

Right now it takes 5 to 10 years to train a human who already knows how to code to do this. Some never learn.

I think we're safe for a while.

Engineers don't "write code", they build solutions. We just happen to use code to do it. And we happen to manually type that code. Even if an AI could type it for you, you'd still need someone to build the solution.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13383692
I think you've chosen a bad example, because the One WTC is a special case, with all the legacy it represents.

The Bank of America Tower, for example, has about the same floor space as the Empire State Building, and "is considered a worldwide model for green architecture in skyscrapers", yet cost $1B.
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It has helped me understand why my marriage failed and made me realise how I need to behave differently when I start dating again.

I must admit, a lot of the commenters there have extreme views and some of them come across as misogynists.

However, for some reason I persevered and started reading some of the theory. What I read aligned so accurately with my previous experiences and the way I've been treated by women that I couldn't ignore it, and I've been hooked since then.

Thank you for at least attempting not to pass judgement!
The NIMBY crowd doesn't care that it's loud, they care that it's there. Loud is a rationalization. It's loud, it causes bird to die, the current causes brain cancer/allergies, etc.
Everyone needs a laser printer.
I have to admit, I find it a little amusing that you're saying that as a C++ programmer you don't have the patience to read a (relatively short) book, given that learning C++ itself requires reading arguably many books, each of which are much larger than the Rust book.
Why not just store that solar energy as electricity, and use the electricity to power heat pumps when needed?
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It's quite a concept that easier student loan debt would create more of it.

Perhaps a better system would have kids starting internships 4 years earlier (i.e. high school) and having the flexibility and context to specialize in a path earlier. And if their career didn't have much use for a degree? Save the time and money. I had learned far more from working/independent reading/independent projects/the Internet in general than in my formal engineering classes by the time I had graduated. Two or three classes stuck out as having a comparable impact as my internships and other ventures, but in reality it's kind of a net waste. I'm more academically inclined than a lot of people, so that really speaks to how important this point is regarding those who grow up not liking academics in the first place.
The most strictly moderated community I've seen, and thanks to that it has the highest signal-to-noise ratio of any online forum.

You could easily make a magazine out of the dozens of incredibly posts each week.
They use lossless compression
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13383682
Boy oh boy, I dunno about that, particularly Chrome.
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>Extensive play-testing revealed that a player who was told that he had a 33 percent chance of success in a battle but then failed to defeat their opponent three times in a row would become irate and incredulous...So Meier altered the game to more closely match human cognitive biases; if your odds of winning a battle were 1 in 3, the game guaranteed that you’d win on the third attempt...

Fire Emblem (another strategy game series) solves this problem by taking the average of two random numbers. If the average is lower than the "to miss" value, an action succeeds [0]. This skews the probabilities at the low and high ends so that an 80% chance becomes 92%, 90% becomes 98%, etc, to minimize the occurrence of "spearman defeats tank" scenarios where players assume a 1/10 chance of failure will never happen.

[0] http://serenesforest.net/general/true-hit/
I just browsed to the first NBC news article I could find and at the bottom of the article was a big button saying "View full experience" which took me to the normal NBC website. I'm not sure I see the big deal?
I find it hard to take an article seriously when they claim that Olaf Haraldsson story is factual.
Well... we have to take him seriously. He's about to command an army and control a nuclear arsenal.
Same, picked up a 26L GR1 this year and it's been wonderful.
I think this is partly the reason games like Rocket League, League of Legends and Counter Strike are doing so well these days. They're just pure team-based competitive games where the only things that affect the outcome are the rules of the game, the game's physics, and the skill of the players.

There are very small elements of luck, just enough to stop the games from feeling sterile or unnatural, but nothing big enough to decide the outcome of a match without being completely overshadowed by the strategic decisions leading up to it.
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Amazon is a company that absolutely does not care about UI, as seen/proven by their website alone.
Man, this and a bucket of chicken.

I posted a complaint here a while back and the response I got made me wonder what I was missing. Like I was the only one who didn't appreciate it.

Yeah, I get that it speeds things up. But, do they really have to prevent you from linking out to the publisher's full site? There is no legitimate reason to serve up the publisher's content and force me back to Google. Can't even share the underlying URL. They are essentially hiding sites, but displaying their content. It's a hijack and I'm not sure why publishers approve.

And, on a recent search, the SERP only showed AMP, without the site name. Had to click thru before I even knew which site it was. Don't know if that was a bug or something they are testing.

Way too much power.
Maybe alchemy and theology was just how he blew off steam. It seems like me did them a lot, but you know, we all like to have our hobbies.

Trying to describe the mindset of newton 100s of years after his death seems a bit reaching.
what language does "lightweight threads" exactly like this?
I'm being down-voted to oblivion by all the pure software engineers on here who think their trade is being challenged -- well, it is. The fact of the matter is that the world runs on hardware and analog hardware is orders of magnitude more efficient.

It's definitely worth every software engineer's time to learn how computers work from all the way down at the laws of electricity, basic signal processing/analog circuits, up to semiconductor physics and microarchitecture.
I hate this system with a fiery passion. On the low end it turns a doable-but-not-great chance of hitting, say 30%, into a you-might-as-well-not-try 9%. I wanted to punch someone when I read about the fake percentages on a forum and suddenly understood why I never seemed to hit anything below 50%.

edit: My example's not averaging, forget which game I was using where they multiplied them together somehow.
One of the reasons rare drops exists in RPGs is to arbitrarily extend playtime by hours.
I think B is the way to go. Most apps aren't as competitive as CS:GO.
do you know if gpg embeds a header in the cyphertext ? It always bothered me that openssl (for symmetric aes) puts "Salted_" as the first 7 bytes in every encrypted file, because it seems to nullify the "plausible deniability" defense and the "cyphertext should be indistinguishable from random data" tenet. Sure, having "Salted" doesn't prove that AES was run on the following bytes, but there's no plausible explanation as to what other program would do such a thing.
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SVG brakes badly in Edge , I check all the time , they'll run fine in Chrome and Firefox but not Edge !
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Absolutely hate AMP and the inability to opt out of it.
The "pseudo-random distribution"[1] used in Dota2 comes to mind as well.

[1] http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Pseudo-random_distribution
Interesting technical detail but for me the main takeaway from that was that we're still seeing expensive software systems ($70k per customer) being procured by large numbers of organizations (~2000 customers) to do safety critical work, and still none of them are mandating security reviews as part of the procurement process (or indeed requiring the vendor to have had a review done).

The vulns found here are serious, but any moderately detailed app security review should/would have found them.

Until customers start requiring security reviews for the software their buying we'll see a load more insecure apps being sold.
I actually find the Netflix UX frustrating. First they removed the straightforward ability to simply say that I never want to watch a show, and then hide it from me. Beyond that I can rate a show 2 stars and yet it continues to come up in recommendations. This gives me the feeling that it doesn't really matter how I rate shows because they are going to shove whatever they want at me regardless.

The only competitor I can compare it to is Amazon. In that regard I agree that Netflix obviously puts more into the interface. Amazon's splitting shows into seasons and not even grouping them together is maddening.
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The blog post specifically mentioned Program Synthesis which is exactly what you're talking about. The article they published was called Neural Programmers but I haven't read it: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.04834

So at the very least they are working on it!
I always want to turn it “off” because it’s too distracting, and the only way is to turn the Brightness down to off. It goes like this: BrightnessDown, wait, BrightnessDown, wait, BrightnessDown, wait, BrightnessDown, wait, BrightnessDown, wait, BrightnessDown, wait, BrightnessDown, wait, BrightnessDown, wait, BrightnessDown, wait, BrightnessDown, oh now it’s off. Then 5 minutes later, the airline starts its welcome mostly-advertising video which TURNS THE DAMNED THING BACK ON AT FULL BRIGHTNESS. Then it resumes DirecTV at which point I have to say: BrightnessDown, wait, BrightnessDown, wait, BrightnessDown, wait, BrightnessDown, wait, BrightnessDown, wait, BrightnessDown, wait, BrightnessDown, wait, BrightnessDown, wait, BrightnessDown, wait, BrightnessDown, annnnnnnnd now it’s off.
I've noticed that the number of applications MI can be embedded into is nowhere near its full potentiality. There's a lot of potential for people who are able to think on their feet product-wise and incorporate MI, even if MI is a black box to them. Echo your opinion.
so, what I'm seeing here is, use continuations.. i.e. async/await
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13369153
Why I didn't:

- Telegram stickers.

- No Windows Phone support in either Signal or Wire (very relevant in my country, Uruguay).

- Signal for desktop is a Chrome app, Wire for desktop is an Electron app; while Telegram desktop is a fast Qt app that doesn't require a Tesla battery for prolonged use nor requires a browser.

- Network effects.
That doesn't sound right even though I support your niche strategy. Many of the successful companies had me too priducts with incremental, ecosystem, or marketing improvements. Intel did with x86 starting as an incremental improvement. AMD turned into huge company doing it to x86. Transmeta and Centaur did well adding power efficiency among other things. Quite a few vendors implemented POWER variants with many acquired or still doing good business.

There's plenty of it on software side, too, with the proprietary DOS's and UNIX's. Foreign cloners stayed doing it with mainframes and embedded CPU's. So, incremental stuff (esp patented) can certainly grab market share and generate revenue. It's been going on for some time even in CPU market even with dominant players.
That is a good question and the answer comes down to physics and the economics of battery technology vs this technology.
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No. It hits the constant folding threshold and calls the sum function with the args.
This is a really neat concept that seems to be inspired by some of the mobile browsers out there. Flynx, Flyperlink and Link Bubble all use the (facebook-chathead-style) bubbles that sit over other apps and the UI. They are very convenient on mobile and allow you to do other things, while pages are loading. In my opinion, this browser consumes too much screen space with the browser windows being smaller windows inside the Neon container. I would prefer if they ditched the outermost container window and let the bubbles handle the hiding/moving of the browser, like the mobile browsers I mentioned above. Maybe there is a bubble that lives in the top right that sucks up and hides all browser bubbles and interface elements, then invokes them all when the user wants to show the browser again. I welcome any experimentation and innovation in the browser space. I do really like the idea of easily-tiling browser windows. In the future, I would love to be able to adjust the size and padding of the bubbles to allow more viewing space in the browser windows.

The original Opera had cascading, individual windows within the browser, before switching to tabs. They have sort of come full circle.

I currently use opera as my primary browser, but I really miss the tab spaces that Firefox had. I feel like the bubble concept provides a great opportunity for pinned bubble groups that contain groups of websites that I use together. I could have a meta bubble for sites that I use specifically for work, or for my favorite news sites.
Yes, but suspension of disbelief is hard (and even harder for us here). The objects you design need to be able to do their jobs or have convincing explanations for why they look like what they do.

Moebius got away with a spaceship shaped like Dumbo from Disneyland's Dumbo the Flying Elephant ride because the technology that surrounded it was so advanced that a spaceship shaped like that was no big deal. Seemed perfectly doable.
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^yep. The original Chromecast can't handle decrypting a high-bitrate stream realtime. It's kind of unfortunate.
The noise is probably from the air conditioner units which is why the person is unsure how often they operate. They can be quite loud and irritating.
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Working hours had been trending down for a while at that time, so it must have seemed reasonable.
Most homes in Japan also have shrine to ancestors too. I have one at my house. Family friends come by regularly to leave fresh flowers and gifts and spend time remembering their friends. It's a nice tradition.
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Or unsurprisingly...
So it turns out the author is a former head of MI6’s Russia desk and a past president of the Cambridge Union and is now in hiding, worried he's going to get bumped off. Not what I expected.
Sounds like it's full of spaghetti code.
It existed, but was quite expensive, and mostly not used in homes. People generally purchased ice blocks to put in small iceboxes. Not like the refrigeration that exists now.