skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point many are making here is, if you're going to break compatibility as was done with Python 3, then fix the underlying issues with the implementation.

- Python 2 calls out to C code alot? Ok, rebuild the interpreter in such as way that allows for a JIT. Prevent callouts to C or severely limit them. JITs are mature technologies now, many dynamic languages have it.

- Remove the GIL, make it fan out for multicore.

- Add a Generational Garbage collector, remove the reference counted one with timely finalization.

- Add back all the missing features for FP that people are asking for.

If you're going to break compatibility, don't take half-measures, go all the way.
You seem to be presuming that he has not donated a large sum of money to this cause.
So just because?

Because we know it can be done and how to do it.

Have different classes at different speeds.

We already have that. Education is more than a series of classes. It's the social interactions too.

However, to say that segregation of kids should be the norm is a dangerous. IMO reckless.

I find it dangerous, reckless and disingenuous for you to use a loaded term like "segregation".
In the UK too; horse chestnuts are particularly prized as you use the fruit to play conkers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conkers
Didn't know about this, neat. Regardless, my problem will stay, as I have no intention of removing anything.

I'll keep an eye on it to see if there's a specific addon triggering my issues, but it will likely stick around.
Facebook Tests ‘Stories’ Tool in Latest Clone of Rival Snapchat
business is business, i wouldnt be mad/bitter at a co-worker for attempting to better themselves and leave a bad situation for one they thought to be better.
I honestly have to say that this post makes me a little angry, mostly because it's familiar to me.

Why do we feel loyalty to a company and management that makes bad decisions and then punishes us by making us fix their mistakes? Working overtime, weekends.. because someone else made bad decisions. And if they're anything like the managers I've known, they're blaming the developers for not getting things done on time.

Having been there myself, I will never give my loyalty to a company again. You pay my salary, I work the hours we agreed upon. Literally every hour I work extra, I expect to be compensated for. Over work should always be incidental. If they treat me nicely, I'll probably won't job hunt for something else. If they treat me like shit, whatever the reason, I'm gone. If they make me do a lot of work I don't like, I'll tell them honestly and if nothing changes, I'm gone. Life's too short and IT is in too much demand to put up with that stuff.
Ohhh, I thought you were saying that we'll always need doctors to gather the data, but you meant that the ML systems will suck until they get enough data, and they can only get enough data if the process can be automated, so we'll need doctors to do diagnoses until the ML systems stop sucking.
Smart kids are not more important than other kids. And where did you get the idea that default-smart kids will benefit the society more than dumber kids given a chance to become smarter? Lots of examples of smart kids becoming dangerous a-holes, especially when they grow up in environments that completely exclude mid and low level kids.
you ever been to a bar/stage where there's a cover charge at the door? you know why the cover charge is such a tiny amount of money?

this is a cover charge. yes, I do expect it to keep out 99% of trolls and spammers.
The ultimate discussion of big numbers:

http://mrob.com/pub/math/largenum.html

This too:

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/large-counta...

Literally to infinity and beyond! :-)
I think something went wrong here: Acetaminophen is a trade name for acetylsalicylic acid.

Acetaminophen is the name of a drug not a trade name (trade name in the US is Tylenol), and acetylsalicylic acid is aspirin.
You could look at an actual implementation of such a system in Germany. They have a three tier structure and divide students on the basis of their "ability" at a very tender young age of 10 or so ( 4-5th grade).
http://www.economist.com/node/5465005
I agree with you that the NYT's coverage of India is heavily negative, though I think you could reasonably go far less specific and argue that broad focused American media in general tends towards negative coverage period (part of my major problem with it, "If it bleeds it leads" is not a new saying), particularly about international matters (because international matters are often shortchanged anyway, foreign desks have been reduced/eliminated, etc.). With that said, be careful of absolutes. I just went to the NYT's page for the topic of India, and yeah, it's massively negative, but just glancing through the last few months I saw:

1. "A Photographer’s Homage to an Architect’s Modernist City": http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2016/11/03/t-magazine/art/m...

2. "Mark Morris’s Love Letter to India, Through Music and Dance": https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/arts/dance/mark-morris-so...

3. "How Do You Hail a Tractor in India? All It Takes Is a Few Taps on Your Phone": https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/world/what-in-the-world/t...

That's just a quick look at recent news, and given that the NYT has to be feeling pretty down about the overall state of politics worldwide right now I doubt that's even a fair slice.

Honestly some of those are actually pretty nice/interesting pieces, which does bring up a point: I've long given up on making media more positive generally, negativity sadly seems to sell pretty well, so you have to go to alternates/aggregators that are better (including HN). But I really do wish there was at least a filter for "positive stories", a simple binary the NYT or WSJ or WP or whomever would use to broadly categorize stuff that was about /disaster/war/death/crime/terrorism/fights/eldritch horrors from beyond space time/ vs anything else. If you just go making a list of other stuff from a lot of media you might be surprised about the kind of interesting pieces that tend to get lost in the noise, and the important perspective on progress in the world it brings. Broad categorization seems perfectly doable there, doesn't need to be perfect to be highly useful in raising s/n, and I'd love if outlets would just do it themselves and see how their readers react to having a choice. I guess at some point ML/AI assistants might be able to do a helpful job based on word stats, but it'd be best if whomever wrote the article just tagged it at the start.
HAHAHA! One of my first projects were to interact Java with some Oracle CORBA. OMG. That was actually worse than EJB Entity Beans that followed.
Wait, are you saying that startups have huge piles of money to give to Ben Horowitz? It's arguable that the bulk of his wealth has come from the returns from startup investing, but by the time they generate any kind of return for him, they're no longer startups.
Show HN: Quickly build SaaS apps with MVPaaS
MVPaaS (mvpaas.com) provides the common elements that all SaaS apps require: A customizable landing page (with plan and feature sections), secure credit card and subscription handling, and user authentication.

When a user signs in they will be redirected to your backend(with a token) where you can provide the core functionality of your SaaS offering.

I've setup a starter Rails App that you can use to build the core of your SaaS app. I've also setup a deploy to Heroku button so you can get up and running right away. MVPaaS and this starter app makes it really easy to turn your side project into a complete SaaS business.

I'm also offering monthly development retainers targeted at non-technical entrepreneurs.

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That looks like a very interesting read,
skimming through it, it says that France spends around 10% of GDP on healthcare while the US spends 15%, but yet France gets a better health coverage, and a better life expectancy.

One of the first tables compares number and there's the most striking one : Obesity in France 9.4%, in the US it's 30.6%.

Could it be one reason that, with less obesity, French people are more healthy to start with, so they require less care? Does the book address this?

In other words, what if:

Life expectancy with 0 healthcare , Life expectancy with healthcare
France 50 (made up) , 79.4
USA 35 (made up) , 77.5
The e10s project actually stated back in 2009. The project was put on hold in 2011 because the architectural changes and add-on compatibility breakage was deemed insurmountable. In 2013, the project resumed and has been chugging away since.

You can see 2011-2013 pause in the revision history of Mozilla's Electrolysis wiki page:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Electrolysis&offset...

I made a burndown chart of the e10s bugs in Bugzilla that shows the development progress. The bug high water mark was in 2016 and today at least 2,495 bugs (specifically tagged as e10s related) have been fixed:

https://people-mozilla.org/~cpeterson/burndown/burndown.html...
That's a rough measure of the a priori uncertainty.

But you want the uncertainty conditioned to the particular observations you have made.

A ton more here:

http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/yarin/blog_2248.html
Well... it's usually economic news, and the old saw is "economic news is always bad". The US doesn't have the history and cultural ties you see in the UK.

And to be fair, almost everything the NYT says about the US is negative, too.
Here are the links:

MVPaaS: https://mvpaas.com

Starter app: https://github.com/citizens/mvpaas-sample-app
I prefer using tmux for this to be a bit more secure. I wrote a blog post about this [0] since it is a bit of a pain in the ass to set up properly. Maybe you should explore this too for your product.

[0] http://joy.pm/2015/07/11/pairing_over_tmux.html
Well, it's a signal, the meaning of which is up to the recipient.

It's all about signals.
Are they marketed as a single pill?

(eg https://www.excedrin.com/products/extra-strength/ )
For some, the problem is the class is too slow. The slow classes are CREATING the problem kids.
I was so disappointed with this book. Some of the platitudes Zinsser goes into are reasonable, like try to be uncluttered, direct and to the point, but all the worked examples seem to just be arbitrarily chosen to his taste. For example, in the chapter on "clutter", Zinsser picks out this passage from Walden as his exemplar of "uncluttered English":

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

Dense, incredibly difficult to parse, with a non-standard use of "front" as a verb and what seems to be a triple-negative. If I said that sentence to you, out loud, I doubt you would catch the meaning of it on the first pass. The book is filled with stuff like that.

That said, I really do want to get better at non-fiction writing, specifically technical writing, but I haven't found any good recommendations for "canonical" books on technical writing. If anyone can suggest a decent, pragmatic (as opposed to Strunk-and-White style prescriptivism) introduction to technical writing specifically, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks - that gives a better overall picture than the NYT article.
I have. Some of it is quite interesting and beautiful (like that place where they filmed all the ST:TOS scenes with the slanted rocks), others are not so much.

Maybe I should have pointed to some other places. West Texas comes to mind: the area on I-40 going through the northwest part of the state (and Amarillo) is probably the ugliest natural (I guess) land I've ever seen. Just miles of flat, brown dirt.

Of course, there's plenty of land marred by humans that could certainly benefit from being bulldozed and rebuilt anew, if someone is looking for land to "improve". Parts of New Jersey around Newark come to mind here, plus Detroit and lots of other places in the Rust Belt. There's also a bunch of desert north of Las Vegas NV that could use "improvement": it's marked by tons of craters from nuclear bomb testing.
"For those who don't know Telefónica, it's something akin to T-Mobile or AT&T [...] they had to change the name and branding of their phone division [...] because people hated them so much."

Comcast. The word you're looking for is Comcast.
It's certainly not perfect, but I discovered just the other day that the "Big Picture" web browser (embedded chromium, IIRC) does work with Netflix. I think maybe you can't get 4k or 5.1 sound unless you're using Edge or the windows store app though.
Economist Democracy Index: US, 17 member states downgraded to ‘flawed’
I think I do understand machine vision, since I just published a paper using it.
If my figure-of-speech does not convince you, I encourage you to step foot in an operating room if you get the occasion. I guarantee 100% that you will be unable to implement a system as efficient as the attending doc. Because numbers are just part of the job. You already see systems advertised as more efficient than anesthesiologists. Until we see those systems tested in a real, usual OR setting (meaning, hopelessly chaotic), you should take those efficiency statements with a grain of salt.
Thanks for sharing my essay mate!
> One of the biggest Python issues I see is the inability to hide or protect Python source code.

As with other code (source or object), it is protected by means of law.

If you want to hide it, run a service on a computer you control and sell access to the service.
Firefox is trying to be chrome where as chrome is leading the way.

Chrome dev tools are superior to firefox where I remember a time nothing could compete with firebug.

The chrome extension API is now better than the upcoming "Web extensions" which removes extensions access to XUL and dumbs down the API to make it compatible with chrome extensions.

They've been trying to replicate the chrome sandbox for years and it still hasn't made it to production.

It goes on and on. They are catching up and doing it poorly, not leading nor innovating.
All of a sudden they care about fake news... after their billionaire homie gets into office
The Five Meanings of # in Bash. Or What Does ${####} Mean?
You always get your employer's best current job offer with each paycheck. If somebody else beats it, then it's just not your problem.
It's not a dumb question at all. The classification accuracy and "uncertainty" are different, but the explanation depends on what you mean by uncertainty.

Let me try and give one intuitive explanation; if others would like to chime in with something better, by all means.

Let's suppose that you are classifying objects in images - say bananas and oranges, but it could be tumors or anything that you like.

So we train a classifier to predict this, and we find that of 100 classifications on a hold-out set, we get 73 of them correct. You might, quite reasonably, interpret this to mean that if we randomly select a new image of either an orange or a banana, we will have a 0.73 probability of classifying it correctly. (There are actually some subtleties in this interpretation which I'm ignoring, but they aren't so important for the point I want to make.)

Suppose, however, that we draw out an image that we want to feed into our classifier, and we look at it for a moment. Suppose further that this image contains an object that is long, thing, curved and yellow. We'd expect our classifier to classify it as a banana, and sure enough, it does. Now we draw out another image, except this one has an object that is long, but bent almost completely in a circle, and is more orange than yellow. Now, we might still expect our classifier to classify this as a banana, but should the classifier really be as certain about this prediction as it was about the previous one? Intuitively, I would say not. However, the overall classification accuracy remains unchanged, and so we can't say anything in particular about the certainty of this prediction.

So uncertainty isn't just the proportion of your results that you classify correctly.

Furthermore, it also isn't exactly equivalent to the class probability produced by your classifier, though I don't think this is the best forum for me to get into the details on that.
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Google Compute Engine has live migration, so host/hypervisor updates (including security updates!) can be applied without taking VMs offline. AWS doesn't support live migration. Azure has a partial solution with in-place migrations, which involves taking VMs down for ~30 seconds.

(I work on Google Container Engine.)
" The main reason, I believe, is that software is simply cheaper than hardware(robots) so highly skilled positions which require software not hardware to remove will be the first to go."

Very much this. This is how we'll be able to replace general practitioners with, at first, nurses with a bit of extra schooling - and then nurses with a 4 year degree... and then with a 2 year degree. Yet we'll still see surgeons for some time because it takes robotics or some other scientific breakthrough to replace them.
It isn't listed on the page, but the meta description claims that you'll only pay if you get a response.
I would feel sad to lose the teammate (assuming they were good) but happy for them that they found something else that better met their needs.

Look, we all have individual goals. Sometimes these align and we form a strong team. Sometimes they diverge and people move on. I believe you are overanalyzing your role in all of this. Give your two week notice, act like a professional, and ignore the launch calendar.
I'd really like to see this study re-done with multiple fine sizes. My intuition is that monetary repercussion is valued smaller than the social repercussion.

There might even be a optimal fine level to make profit off the tardy parents.
Dropcam Co-Founder Greg Duffy Joins Apple
As a Software Developer, working with Jira is just a pain for me. I just don't like much about it, the less time I spend using it the happier I am. There dozens of views of the same information, but just different enough to get me lost. I have to admit, I did not buckle down to 'tame' the beast. It feels like hiking a steep hill on a rainy day.

Trello, on the other hand I introduced to some colleagues, and the simplicity and ease of use is very satisfying.
Feels like surfing on the perfect wave.
Pale Moon is a superior product.

They've frozen the UI before Australis and had a 64 bit build on Windows long before Firefox.

They will continue to keep XUL in the future once Firefox abandons it for WebExtensions.

Tree Style tabs is the ONLY way to browse ;)
Most Inspiring Game Animation Tech Talks of 2016
First amendment does not cover redress from private businesses dealing with non-protected classes.
Why Sports Drinks Are Killing Your Productivity
This is not my notion of freedom. This is what political thought looks like since the liberal revolutions and for good reasons. At the time there were very real obstacles to freedom in european countries: absolutist regimes with a strong intellectual support. The liberals realized that the tyranny had many tentacles and that the fight for freedom should address every one of them.

And make no mistake: that's also true for modern tyrannies, communism, right wing dictatorships or theocratic regimens.

My point is very simple and I'm sad to see people answering to my comments are not properly addressing it.

My point is that there is not a single country that can be considered free where you cannot safely own wealth. This is not just an idea: it's a fact that you can easily check.

If you come to think about it, it's a very similar reasoning to the one that originated socialism. You can't be free if you're starving or if you're so poor that you can't get out of poverty, or you can't afford proper healthcare, or you can't give your children an education.

In the same way, you can't be free if the State has arbitrary power to ruin your life. There must be some safety, a rule of law that assures that reasonable expectatives are met.
Related to this, the meta description claims you'll only pay if you get a response.
Install this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compat...

And on the add-on screen you will be able to tell which addons are compatible with multiprocess and weather it is enabled or disabled.

You may need to change a few extra things for multiprocess to work, like, accessibility features can block it from enabling.

(my post is now a bit redundant since I didn't refresh it to look for any new comments)
>The implication is that their employers are simply not hiring as many people to make up for the additional taxes they are paying (this is my interpretation, this is really the first I've read about this, so if I am wrong or misunderstanding, very interested in learning more)
reply

That interpretation (hiring is less due to having to pay more tax) is likely only a minor part of it. The much bigger issue is likely the lack of actual physical cash since the demonetization started, which is a few months ago now. (Things have started improving only recently.) Lots of people in India - probably the majority - do not use electronic methods of money transfer (due to being illiterate or computer-illiterate, old-fashioned, being in remote areas or other reasons), so depend heavily on cash.

IOW, yummyfajitas' statement:

>It's not having physical cash.

is right.
While that may be true, I doubt switching to Trello would improve anything if you're already on JIRA. You don't join JIRA for the kanban....
I wish Chrome would also allow changing tabs when a page issues an alert notification. Further, there is no reason that alert notifications other than document/data saving, should prevent closing a tab.
A whole piece about what microphone he chose to use? This is beyond petty.

Media not doing themselves any favors here.
Point 1 presents a false dichotomy. We can absolutely let kids move at different speeds while keeping them within the same school. And we can ensure that there are still shared classes and opportunities for students with different skills and abilities to interact.

Frankly the tone of your comment troubles me. None of these students are more or less "deserving"; the goal is to help every student reach their potential.
The Beginning of the End of Sharing Banking Credentials
Ask HN: Is there a tier 1 internet peering issue?
Using "mtr", I'm testing routes to various destination servers from 3 different sources (home, Chicago VPS, and Scaleway VPS). Depending on the route, some destinations are showing significant packet loss, while others are not.

It appears that the packet loss happens on routes that go through as6453.net or telia.net
Show HN: Anyone want to create a transcript of this video with me? I've been working on a crowd-sourced transcription bot that operates on the Facebook Messenger platform. The end result is something like this: https://presentio.us/t/bbc666

Edit: Send me an e-mail and I can tell you how to participate: transcripts@presentio.us
I've got an app that I started way back in February 2016 using ionic 2, so I've followed the alpha and beta, it's been a long slog, but even back when I started I could tell it was worth it.
I'm currently using Angular 2 for another project - it's awesome.
The compact theme from Firefox Developer Edition is coming to the Firefox release channel in 53 or so. The new compact theme will be optional and available in both dark and light versions.