skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another post of the "If it makes you feel any better" type: I'm a relatively established researcher in NLP, having worked with a variety of methods from theoretical to empirical, publishing in the top venues with decent frequency, and still I'm having a really hard time to get into the deep learning (DL) stuff.

I'm training a sequence-to-sequence model and have been tuning hyperparameters for the last 2-3 months. I'm making progress, but painfully slowly due to the large time it takes to train and test models (I have a local Titan X and some Tesla K80's in a remote cluster, to which I can send models expecting a latency of 3-4 days of queue and a throughput of around 4 models running simultaneously on average - probably more than many people can get, but still feels slow for this purpose) and the fact that hyperparameter optimization seems to be little more that blind guessing with some very rough rules of thumb. The randomness also doesn't help, as running the same model with different random seeds I have noticed that there is huge variance in accuracy. So sometimes I tweak a parameter and get improvements, but who knows if they are significant or just luck with the initialization. I would have to run every experiment with a bunch of seeds to be sure, but that would mean waiting even more for results and my research would be old before I got to state of the art accuracy.

Maybe I'm just not good at it and I'm a bit bitter, but my feeling is that this DL revolution is turning research in my area from a battle of brain power and ingenuity to a battle of GPU power and economic means (in fact my brain doesn't work much in this research project, as it spends most of the time waiting for results for some GPU - fortunately I have a lot of other non-DL research to do in parallel so the brain doesn't get bored). In the same line, I can't help but notice that most of the top DL NLP papers come from a very select few institutions with huge resources (even though there are heroic exceptions). This doesn't happen as much with non-DL papers.

Good thing that there is still plenty of non-DL research to do, and if DL takes over the whole empirical arena, I'm not bad at theoretical research...
You should have used Mosh /s
The war on terror has required the hiring of native speakers as translators for our military. Translators are often promised the opportunity for asylum since it is dangerous to be seen as a collaborator with the U.S. military. A ban on refugees makes people less likely to assist the U.S. military, hence, why some military experts have asserted that this ban will have a negative effect on the safety of our military.
The design of Poly1305 (one time authenticator)
I personally attended an ultra conservative school of about 70 pupils all grades accounted for, based on the ACE system (see http://leavingfundamentalism.wordpress.com for a decent introduction), and while I thankfully managed to escape that scene many years ago (extremely lucky circumstances outside of my own doing), I'm afraid I clearly recognise the vision the author describes. I desperately hope that they are wrong, but I can imagine it being spot on all too well. :( FWIW I too don't have contact with my parents mostly as a result of this, and the level of mental gymnastics in otherwise intelligent and sincere folks is jarring.
Non mobile link:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secrets-Castle-DVD-Stuart-Elliott/d...
Only thing I'm concerned is touch typing. Rather annoying is to look away from the monitor just to locate correct key.
Oops I meant White Noise. That film really creeped me out!
Sounds like someone in your office read about Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon and they were like "This guy just might be onto something."

Do you plan to stay in that place? It doesn't sound like a very positive working environment.
For my part (sample size of one means nothing of course)...

The stratus server I worked with in around 2002 was, I believe, one of the first to move towards standard x86 configurations and Windows OS.

They did so because, no matter how reliable your server, executives were jumping on Windows as an application server bandwagon and developers were targeting it.

There were several driver and firmware bugs that would BSOD the whole server, and bring the entire fault tolerant OS down.

Moreover, storage was a hack job. They couldn't make hardware RAID cards work in that configuration, and Windows software RAID was a joke, so you were stuck with Veritas storage software. Twice we applied Windows Service Packs only to find it would BSOD due to a Veritas software incompatibility. If it was a more average server I'd apply said update to a test server first, but no one could afford a test Stratus so you were always testing in production, which doesn't help reliability.

Here's a picture of it. It became my homeserver for a few years but frankly it was less reliable than a desktop.

http://imgur.com/a/7010z
The funny story is after friday's EO this is a case of "damned if you do, damned if you don't": if you hold the conference in the US, people with links to banned countries can not attend (and anyone arab-looking will get hassled), if you hold it outside US residents with links to banned countries can not attend either as there's a significant chance they would not be able to return.

I suspect the latter population is much smaller than the former, but still a shit situation for a conference organiser, no matter how you do it you will effectively prevent a fraction of possible attendees out, unless you have your conf' right on a border I guess but I doubt that's really possible.

What is the "border status" of Puerto Rico, could that be an option? Or maybe a nearby carribean island which US residents could reach by board from Puerto Rico without hassle going back?
* Nonetheless
Don't kid yourself that secrecy was not the main driver for foreigners holding accounts in Switzerland. Those entities became good at what they do because for a long time they were the main option for people wanting to hide money (legitimate or illegitimate) and with that came the funding to hire people who were good at it.
FATHER AND SON, the first game published by a archeology museum
I'm using Startpage on my desktop at home. I like the general idea but have noticed that it is very slow at times (enough so that I have an alternative search engine I use when I get "annoyed").
Overall it's pretty good though. Basically a privacy wrapper around Google (which of course is also likely the explanation for the slowness and a big danger as they could be hosed by Google pretty quickly).
Thanks Herbst, I just don't have the money for a 4 yr program but am open to learn independently
I find this a bit silly. It wants me to type a whole bunch of things I never actually type. I could type the python function within emacs with less than half the strokes that were required by the exercise. And anytime I'm doing any sort of programming that ends up being repetitive or with frequent structures that are difficult to type I'll build something to make it a few keystrokes to pop a template.

I think the best practice is putting your skill to use. When I play with a new keyboard style (e.g. Dvorak / Programmer's Dvorak) or editor, I give myself a period of acclimation where I _know_ I'll be slower, but the investment in time will potentially pay off dividends once I get used to it. I've gone down a few roads that didn't work out, but also a few that have. When it comes down to plain old typing speed, short burst typing like messaging or command lines have proven to me more productive than typing exercises that mean nothing to me and don't apply to the things I regularly type.

Regardless, the developers here have put together a nice interface and figured out a good way to apply it across multiple languages. If they added a few shortcuts that are commonly present in IDEs to get real completion strokes I think this kind of a tool might get pretty popular.
see "tree style tabs" for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
Some will go under but some new will appear. In long-term uber like companies can't win and make monopolies as tax business is not that hard to get into
CSIRO to take up residency in Silicon Valley
https://arch-anywhere.org/
How to setup Taxes for your WooCommerce
What the market is really waiting for (and the VCs) are the self driving cars. Uber has to tolerate the human drivers for now (for the next 5-10 years) and just make it work. Once the machinery and the laws are in place they can't wait to cut that human labor out of the equation at which point they'll turn into a massive robot fleets of self driving cars. It'd be ideal to have large customer base at that point and preferably as few competitors as possible. This is where the $60+b market valuation comes from.
I've heard a lot of people say that, but I'm still having problems with a single tab locking up the whole browser for 5-40 seconds on FF 53.0a2 Dev Edition with e10 and process count at 999.
Worst thing is that a site does not work with Firefox, so that one is forced to use Chrome.

Happens for the map at Google Flights (https://www.google.de/flights/) that is the No 1 search result when googling for Flights (that's of course a clever move by Google to create a top site that only works fine with Chrome, I wonder how long it will take that YouTube or GMail only work "optimal" with Chrome)

Anyway, I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1329141 but this is only P3 priority (that is, marked a "valid" bug but nobody is working on it). Which I found really "strange" because website not working in Firefox and being force to temporally switching to Chrome (and maybe staying) are the worst that can happen. Eventually, when booking a flight I even had to tell other family members that they should use Chrome for it (who were surprised because normally I tell them to use Firefox ;)
Stop Using Arial and Helvetica (2013)
I've just found it on the BBC download shop thingy:

https://store.bbc.com/secrets-of-the-castle-with-ruth-peter-...

Cheaper by half compared to buying the DVD.
Not if it's over HTTPS, since it guarantees data integrity. Corrupted network bits will cause the connection to fail.

If the file is corrupted at the edge server an SRI attribute [1] can detect it, although it's not supported on IE and Safari yet.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...
> From experience many so called 'security auditor's tend not to have a clue what they're talking about...

Relevant: "How do I give our security auditor the information he wants? (2011)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12434215
For me, it's not really about typing fast, it is more about typing without making mistakes. I find hitting the delete key too often is frustrating and it interrupts my flow. Unfortunately I never mastered that skill, I can type quite fast, but most of it is errorsome. (eg, I made three mistakes alone typing the word unfortunately..)
Have you ever considered a revisit?
The site sells pins with the label "misandrist". What's next? Swastikas? I thought hate speech is off limits on HN.
Show HN: Terminal-based application launcher for Unix-like systems
I expect that 'Skynet' will be descended from spambots.
The Best Data Scientists Get Out and Talk to People
Looks interesting, waiting for linux version.
Does anyone have a reliable source that Lyft was still operating at JFK during the protest? I can't honestly figure out if they were or not.

No horse in this race, just seen it reported both ways, trying to figure it out.
Any laymen explanation ? Not able to grasp the concept.
Another fan of union-find here as well. Simple, elegant and magical.

Also best (only?) practical use of the (inverse) Ackermann function!
High-quality free state-run secular schools is one of the most important social achievements. In that schools a new generation can grow and learn while minimizing radicalization. That new generation meets people from different cultures and religion since they are children and learn to accept the differences. This doesn't solves all problems, is not a silver bulled, but it improves society at large.

I never understood why in the USA parents are allowed to radicalize their children out of society. Now I not just don't understand, but I see how dangerous is the situation.
The EO is cruel and irrational and is something I'm firmly against. It makes sense to not host your conference in the USA for moral reasons.

But, on the other hand, a lot of Americans don't have passports or their employment contracts will only reimburse a number of domestic (non-international) conferences a year. The set of those people who would be excluded probably exceeds the set of attendees from the 7 countries in question. So I'm not convinced it makes sense to do this just from a conference attendance standpoint.
It will run in a loop until someone turns it off. How do you want to pay up? I accept cash and Bitcoin.
This is not a ban on refugees from Muslim countries. It's neither a ban, nor targeting refugees, nor limited to Muslim countries.

Rudy Giuliani has now claimed on Fox News that he helped design the restrictions as a legally valid form of Trump's "Muslim ban":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/29/tr...

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro asked Giuliani whether the ban had anything to do with religion.

“How did the president decide the seven countries?” she asked. “Okay, talk to me.”

“I'll tell you the whole history of it,” Giuliani responded eagerly. “So when [Trump] first announced it, he said, 'Muslim ban.' He called me up. He said, 'Put a commission together. Show me the right way to do it legally.' "
Uber has provided enormous value to consumers everywhere. The efficiency Uber has brought to consumers greatly outweighs any perceived inefficiencies. I attribute it to the great leadership style of Travis Kalanick.

I think Travis receives a lot of backlash because of envy. Many a people think Uber is a stupidly simple idea that they themselves could have done and as such hate on Travis for doing it first, fast and well.
Doesn't a CTRL-F5 force a refresh of all resources? That's always an option (although not one non-technical users will know).
The end to end principle says no, you need application level checksums anyway
Namco's Founder, Masaya Nakamura Has Died at Age 91
Why do you consider your page more useful?
Catastrophe driven language design?
A Python-Esque Type System for Python: Duck Typing Statically
TestCafe Test Runner for VS Code: Test Without Leaving the IDE
I pay about $20 USD a week for a desk.
Zoom is pretty awful, we have constant issues with audio quality.
I mostly love working in a coworking space, the one I'm in is something around 150-200 people.

I work in a small company (6 in the office, and 2 remote/roaming), and I think that working in a coworking space gives me the best parts of a larger company, and the best parts of a small company.

There are lots of social events and opportunities to hang out with other people in the space, we have different events and presentations on all the time. I also get all the nice parts of a smaller company, like knowing all my coworkers and the CEO personally, and a lack of office politics and a chain of command, I don't quite report directly to the CEO, but I am in regular direct contact with him.

Not everyone here is tech either, there's quite a few small non-tech startups and small businesses, which is great to get that contrast.

There are some disadvantages though. Some people are inconsiderate or ignorant of the fact that it is an open office and that you're sitting next to other people, and they have extend conversations, or phone calls (which are the worst, some people practically shout into their phone). We have dedicated noise dampened phone booths that work great, as well as meeting rooms and meeting booths for people that need to be loud, as well as a corner of the space that's for people that need to be noisy.

By and large the majority of people are fine though. Hot desking isn't too bad either, since most people are there every day, so everyone has a seat they usually sit in. I'm pretty minimalist too, so all I need is some paper and my laptop, I don't need external keyboards, mice, or monitors.

It's a great community, it sounds really cliche, but it's more than just a place to work at. It's a great community.
Check the distances on a globe -- "between the USA, Europe and Asia" is actually the Middle East

You sure about that? Let's take Denver, Frankfurt, and Hong Kong as representatives of USA, Europe, and Asia, since they're somewhat central to the regions and have major airports.

DEN-YEG: 1019 miles
FRA-YEG: 4559 miles
HKG-YEG: 6504 miles
Total distances to Edmonton: 12531 miles

DEN-DXB: 7771 miles
FRA-DXB: 3012 miles
HKG-DXB: 3684 miles
Total distances to Dubai: 14467 miles

The most "central" point between the USA, Europe, and Asia is actually pretty close to the North Pole: http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=FRA-DEN-HKG-FRA&MS=wls&MP=p&DU=...
So... are we going to see any kind of evidence for this? Who's the editor? Who fact-checked the story? Or is a first person story by a political activist on a political website what we call "news" now?
No surprise, same story in energy balance circle management to calculate the optimal schedule.
Yes, Ubuntu is the distro that has crashed the most on me. The software updater particularly seems prone to crashing. Actually ended up having to disable Apport in order to get any work done, too many annoying crash reports. I have lost count of how many times I've seen "Sorry, Ubuntu has experienced internal error" or "... problem detected".

It's not like this has been the experience on just a single install or a single system. I've used Ubuntu on and off for many years on various hardware. IMO Ubuntu has only gotten worse.

I've yet to experience a single crash in Arch.

As for those complaining about Arch's install being tedious, use Arch Anywhere; it's a great installer.

https://arch-anywhere.org/
"Germany provides a brilliant example of how this could be done: its federal agency for civic education publishes authoritative but accessible guides to the key political issues"

A single, govt led agency for "educating" citizens about political issues? Deja vu in Germany. Not the answer.
For top schools, money is secondary to building and maintaining reputation and leadership in research. Money comes as a consequence of being leaders,

Think of Carnegie Mellon Robotics professors and grad students poached by Uber. Think of top graph computer scientists who joined Facebook and Google early on.

A lot of this men and women were bright international students/professors flocking to top US univs. These bright people (directly and indirectly) invited budding geniuses from their home countries to come to these univs in the US.

A lot of countries would love to have such a concentration of bright talent (and the network effects) in their univs.
He may be using the "it's only terrorism if your Muslim" definition.
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Get more involvement and leads with your presentation
The value of conferences isn't in sitting through talks. Depending on whether or not you need conferences depends on how much you value networking. If you want to network, then yes, conferences are hugely valuable.
C# and Python are my two favorite languages, but what would be cool is using .NET without C#, but using C# without .NET.

The main reason I don't write C# much of the time is because of the .NET dependency. There has always been Mono and nowadays there even is some Microsoft official version of .NET for Linux-based systems if I remember correctly, but really I'd just like C# to be completely independent of an operating system and independent of $someBigCorp.
Woo, about time someone solved the halting problem ;)
For what's it worth I have had a much better experience (more stable) using Linux Mint and Cinnamon than Ubuntu Unity, Ubuntu Gnome, or Ubuntu KDE.

But like I said above, I prefer Arch (with i3).
New features on Docker compose visual editor “Kraken”,volumes and depends_on
And if you travel with others, an uber can often be as cheap (or even cheaper) than public transport. In London, if you travel with 4 people it's often cheaper to take an uber for many distances compared to the tube (if you don't reach your daily cap anyway). A tube ride is ~£2.5, uber can get you quite far for £10 outside of rush hours.
I suffer from tinnitus predicated on hearing loss and I routinely experience auditory pareidolia as part of what amounts to prior stimulus replay.

For example where I live there is a test of the civil emergency sirens every Saturday at noon and every Saturday afternoon I perceive faint echos of the test well in to the evening.

A more disturbing example is from watching sporting events on TV. I'm a big fan of rugby so I watch a lot of matches. Late in the evening long after the TV has been turned off I perceive faint crowd noise and speech which seems very much to be the announcers (i.e. in their accent) coming from the room where the TV is located. It's enough to drive me out of my comfort to go check on things to make extra-double sure that everything has been turned off (even though I know full well it's off).

It's hard to put into words how distressing these experiences can be. The "fact" that "only crazy people hear voices" being a significant contributor. It's also interesting that just knowing that enough people have had similar experiences that there is a phrase "auditory pareidolia" has turned out to be so comforting.
This isn't news, it's a personal story. You can flag it if it's not the kind of content you'd like to see.
No, there's nothing in ISO 27001 that says "you must have antivirus".

You do a risk assessment, and if you can reasonably argue that you can mitigate the risk without antivirus, you're fine.

It's different with PCI-DSS and other standards: those actually have stricter requirements (you don't get to do a risk assessment yourself).

Ping me if you have more questions! Glad to elaborate.
http://avc.com/2017/01/make-america-hate-again/
you're right that uber's primary market power is over their labor force and that they can extract maximum surplus wrt drivers. however they have no power over riders since they don't have a defensible competitive strategy (they compete primarily on cost rather than on differentiated value). that also means that barriers to entry are relatively low (e.g., uber in china and india).

but that isn't even the biggest challenge for uber. they want to own global last mile logistics (not just people delivery) and that puts them in direct competition with large established corporations like fedex, ups, amazon and walmart, who won't simply roll over and let them dominate that space.

people like to bring up self-driving cars as a strategy, but that's at least 10 years out, so it's a distraction at best. at worst, it also widens their competitive landscape to include all the global auto makers.

uber is by no means a monopoly yet and is in fact still struggling to earn a seat at the big kids' table.
Clickable links.

I think it's the bare minimum to expect from a webpage to have actual clickable links to the resource in question.
>It's weird that so many of us work from home but insist on traveling to see a stage show.

Isn't the interpersonal connection and networking from meeting together at a conference what's really important? The added value of a conference isn't so much what is heard from a speaker but the interaction one is afforded while there.
Hungry penguins help keep car code safe
Any comments on the actual article, or just deflections?