skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a big advantage. Especially for smaller personal projects. I'm tracking various things I eat and do each day (exercise, art, read, etc.) as well as how I'm feeling (energy levels, sleep quality, etc.) in google spreadsheet. Sheets is great because I can edit from any device anywhere I am.

I like looking at simple things like time series' of what I'm doing, eating, and how I'm feeling and then exploring correlations, and regression betas/t-stats. Stuff that's just a little bit to onerous to do exclusively in sheets. At the moment, I have to download the spreadsheet then open with pandas in a jupyter notebook and then run everything. I'm definitely going to use the python api from now on - thanks a lot for writing this!

Next step is a simple python-based web dashboard to view all the results - but keep sheets for CUD instead of having to build a custom one and use sql/sqlite.

This really is super helpful - thanks again!
>This is also the meaning of Freedom: you are not condemned to follow the editor choices in term of possibilities.

There's also another meaning of freedom: freedom from having to care of worry about the platform, and being free to create, because you have a thing that "just works".

For musicians that's more important than "route everything to everything" (for which there are solutions even for commercial DAWs, e.g. Rewire for those that do care for it).

It's all about tradeoffs, but Jack and "freedom to modify DAW code" is pretty down on the list of priorities for 99% of musicians.
For simple needs Salesforce isn't even that expensive, we have around ~38 "App Cloud" licenses - that adds up to $950/mo to not deal with data scattered everywhere, not needing to waste my time designing a full CRUD app with security, managing a database server, etc.

It helps to have an experienced Salesforce admin though, I love the "citizen developer" that Salesforce always preaches but you can run into a mess if you don't think your data model through like any other database.

> cleaning up or directly working with SF data is an expensive nightmare in my experience even post-Heroku acquisition

Plenty of decent sync products to make this not stink. We happily pay for DBAmp every year to keep all our data on-site so we can expose it to other users and to keep a backup of pruned data.
My dad designed Frequency Response Analyzers in the 60's and 70's that used OpAmps to compute Fourier Integrals and then "solve the right triangle". That is, relative to a sine wave it generated, it would take a return analog signal, multiply by sine and cosine waves, integrate both, and then take the square-root of the sum of the squares and also the arctangent of their ratio, to finally output amplitude and phase-shift of the return signal. All as analog voltages; all with OpAmps (and a tiny bit of TTL to turn the integrators on and off). It simply wasn't feasible to do this digitally; it's not just that doing a real-time FFT in the digital sphere was cost-prohibitive at the time, but also the A-to-D converters weren't fast enough to keep up (at the required accuracy).

Typical users went from aerospace and automotive ("will our wing or chassis oscillate badly when we hit a thermal or pothole"?) to audio (that's how they would make those Frequency Response charts for speakers) to hard disk drive head servos ("if we send the head from track X to track Y, will it get there directly, or "ring" -- slightly overshoot and then overcorrect for a while?").

One fun detail: eventually they had to encase their OpAmps in special little heaters that would keep them at a constant temperature, to avoid drift as the ambient temperature changed.

You can still occasionally buy one surplus on eBay for a few hundred dollars; they were about $10k new (in 70's dollars).
By "vague statements" I was referring to his comments on "America winning" or "being great again." Does Art of the Deal describe those statements in detail?
I think 37Signals is the wrong company to use a comparison of headcount as some great thing. If you read Rework for example, 'they' prefer a small headcount and purposefully keep it so.
I think it is better than if(x!=null && x.equals("y")

You have to take bits of concision where you can find them in Java.
"Thanks to this post http://distill.pub/2016/deconv-checkerboard/ I found out about the alternative deconvolution layer and implemented that one."

Yeah, I saw the same thing with WGAN. ConvTranspose2d is not that great for upscaling because it creates artifacts. That said, the post actually recommends doing a 'subpixel' convolution for upscaling (something like, do a convolution out to channels for each pixel, then use PixelShuffle to map it back into a 3-channel image), not doing a bilinear/nearest-neighbor + Conv2d(3,3).

(A GAN would probably also deliver better colorizing results in general.)
Sorry, wasn't as funny written out as it was in my head.
Except that iframes introduce additional http requests, difficulties with selecting text and all the other annoyances that come with them.
Is there a downloadable version of this, paid or free?
Man some of those examples taken from application of genetic algorithms, and iterative algos that are definitely not deep learning ... not everycomputer optimized design success is an AI success and not every AI success is a deep learning success
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It's a full-stack Python/Django service. But the Docker containers are of course portable, so...
"Any of them MIPS or SPARC? Or how about something a little more exotic? How is it everyone is overlooking that I'm talking about CPU architectures?"

We're talking about a system primarily targeted toward x86 machines (esp desktops or laptops) common for consumers. So, everyone assumes you mean x86 machines with various configurations of hardware. That was my assumption, too. You assessing its hardware support by focusing on architectures virtually no Ubuntu or Linux user is using or wants to use is strange. I'll go further to say it's immaterial to an assessment of Ubuntu's hardware support given its target market. There's other distro's that focus on MIPS, SPARC, and "exotic" hardware.
I think that's reasonable but perhaps not that important. In a school zone, the neighborhood people presumably send their kids there/have friends kids there, and are likely to slow down anyways. Even if you don't, it could be a useful reminder given that it's a school zone to really take it slow. It's not a perfect solution but with how much cheaper it is perhaps still viable.
that's it, thanks!
>The problem for me is not superior VS inferior or impressive VS unimpressive software but free software VS closed software.

The problem for most people is good and inferior, or "getting my work done with this" and "this is lacking".

Free vs closed doesn't even come second to most people's concerns, and I'm not even sure it should.
Haha touché. I guess I just wanted to point that out...
That's pretty much what I thought. I think the concept was pretty neat, and it does a pretty job of smoothing the gradients while maintaining the detail, and I think that's probably the hardest part.

It would be hard for it to accurately get skin color, since the camera is only seeing skin, and it all gets leveled to a similar lightness. So, I'm not surprised that skin color was hard, but the report still probably should not have included the line "Note that even skincolor is accurate most of the times" -- I guess "most" could almost be considered accurate, if the majority of the samples had the same pinkish skin to start with. Almost all the results from the celebrity dataset ended up with the exact same tone, despite wildly different input tones: http://imgur.com/a/daJUa
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Speech synthesis not good enough?
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I'm a k12 educator. I come to HN primarily because of the quality and depth of discussions. I also enjoy considering the intersection of technological progress and our built world. Even if I don't dig into the technical details as most commenters here would, I believe participating adds a level of depth to my knowledge that I wouldn't gain otherwise.
They want to show to their investors they're burning their VC money. Didn't you know that having 700 employees is a lot more prestigious than just having 50?
This is one of the reasons why I liked working with Parse; the data browser was very handy. This seems like a great alternative.
Why, so we can score some freedom points?

If Pure Data was as mature and polished as Max (which it is not) we just as well would.

If not, those things matter more than openness when you have music to record and work to do.
Agreed. It's probably all of the above ... He's reached a point where he has the resources and buy-in and where he understands that the time/cost to accomplish something huge that will support a holistic ecosystem is far outweighed by the value it brings to reduction in cost once at scale. He's not just shooting for the moon or the stars, he's aiming for the edge of the universe.
If it's necessary to build a better product then yes. Slack is on a track to dominate this space and make Basecamp irrelevant.
That distinction of execution tied into the startup concepts is a good point. The site is for thinkers but owner values execution over good ideas. The work Maker in its modern connotations is closer to something embodying all that. Wonder what other single words embody a group mixed with people constantly thinking up or doing interesting things.
"these entities may be in a position to go 'well then, if we suffer the slightest penalty we will trigger global/countrywide economic disaster' with some credibility"

That's when we're supposed to step in and end their terrorist selves.
Odysseus' crew would beg to differ.
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It's also odd that the RMSE increases when adding a nonlinear term. The in-sample RMSE should only decrease when adding additional terms and nonlinearities (that's where overfitting comes from).
If I enjoyed my time "over learnig" is it really wasting my time? I understand that not all learing is enjoyed, but if it's subject I enjoy learning more about it's not wasting my time.
This claims to improve static websites by adding hot reloading, search, React, the NPM ecosystem, and faster page load.

Search can already be done using Jekyll https://blog.algolia.com/instant-search-blog-documentation-j... (same idea of indexing at build time).

Jekyll can hot reload with jekyll serve.

Anyone who is familiar with React is familiar with HTML and CSS, whereas the opposite is not necessarily true. This means if you are able to use Phenomic, you are able to use Jekyll, but not vice versa.

The NPM ecosystem is useful for authoring templates, not for the end user. If I were writing a Jekyll template I'd probably use webpack and npm, but I don't need that baked into the static site generator itself.

Finally, page load is a really dubious claim, here's some numbers:

On phenomic.io, the HTML for the index page weighs 3K gzipped (measured by copying HTML, removing what can be externalized and cached like styles + scripts, and gzipping index.html)

When using Phemonic to do client-side loading, the JSON for the different pages is from 600B to 2.9K (as seen in network tools when clicking on the links in the top nav).

A page load with phemonic therefore saves you:
* 2KB of bandwidth for some pages
* a few 302 not modified requests for static resources, which are negligible if you use HTTP/2

On the flip side of the coin, phemonic.js, the script bundle which makes all this magic possible, weighs 132KB, ie 44 times the size of the content the user wants to view.

I can't see the value here.
I expect they view this problem as something third party developers are capable of handling on their own.
Beware: historian R. J. Evans is known and controversial for having weird theses about Central/Eastern Europe and supporting them with misrepresentative, cherry-picked arguments.

The essay quoted in the article is a prime example:

He compares the humanisic philosophers of Austria to the natural philosophers of the West, while ignoring the significant actual scientific output of the Empire (things like Auenbrugger's invention of percussion as a diagnostic technique, Semmelweis' introduction of antiseptics, Loschmidt's groundbreaking work on ideal gases). He also deliberately mixes events from different time periods into a confused narrative: for example, Baron Chaos' Austria was the massively German-speaking southeastern part of the HRE, which does not fit the description of "too many nationalities, too many fractious nobles and rebellious provinces" more representative of the late, sprawling empire (which, by the way, also had scientific output comparable to the West).
That's awesome! Can I shoot you an email for more information? I'm doing some research where we're trying to improve flight time with IMUs (GPS-denied environments) and AirSim looks like a great environment for us to get more data and train our algorithms!
Cubicles are infinitely better than open space. At least in a cubicle I get my own desk, relative privacy, and freedom to decorate the space as I please.
Ya there was a day tho...
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Well the images were printed in a special media to enhance their supposedly creepy origins. I suspect that the originals looks a lot more boring because they remind us of mundane CCTV footage.
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Tbh, I am very impressed by their perseverance. As you say it was novel in the beginning years but it's tiring now. But they have kept going at it and not let themselves get tired. They have also motivated their employees to build a brand for themselves. Something to learn here...
Interesting. Does that mean California HSR won't have the problems of Acela and will be able to use a more sensible train design?
Just to clarify, that is how Ubuntu's LTS [Long Term Support] releases are intended to work. The 'point one' release fixes bugs in the initial release and keeps the same kernel. It winds up being the actual release that is supported 'Long Term'. Releases 'point two' and later get updated kernels...and potentially new bugs to go with new features.

I won't say that the End of Life illustration is easy to interpret, but it shows how Ubuntu releases work:

https://www.ubuntu.com/info/release-end-of-life
It's just you.

Or rather, next.js uses React Components. You can write those as pure functions or you can write them as classes to have more fancy features (e.g. setState, lifecycle hooks)
It's true. When I first started programming, I was simultaneously learning PHP, Python, Java, SQL, ActionScript, Perl, and Javascript for different classes I was taking and projects I was involved in. When I look back at that time, I wonder how that was even possible mentally. I remember setting up my IDE (which was at that time TextPad) to represent different languages in different colors (I think Java was blue, Perl was brown, and Python was green IIRC).

I've been trying to settle into the exploitation phase now with Ruby, but circumstances are forcing me back into polyglot mode. It's pretty frustrating because it feels like a demotion. Alas, but that's just how the industry is.
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I use fossil for all my projects. It's very lightweight and almost set it and forget it system. Remarkable.
So incase of fraud everyone goes to jail right ?
I think that's very different cases. One is help me I'm in a jam and can't solve my own problems. The other is embarking on a project together. My friend might hate me for not helping out in a jam, but probably won't think much of it if I don't want to help with the project.
Twitter is a great way to get targeted traffic, but it takes work. You need to find users that are interested and interact with them.

I was able to get 5000 signups in a month for a product I was releasing. The product never really came to fruition (problems with my co-founder).

But, the marketing strategy still worked pretty well.
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I am part of two founder team and we have been accepted into an accelerator. Due to my co-founder being in a different country they have decided not to come to the place where the accelerator is run. This is due to too personal reasons I was not aware of when we applied.

I believe in the vision of the company and that I can do it by myself.

Has anyone else had this experience?

How did you handel it?
I would say that the phrase "Yoda conditions" more appropriately describes Ruby's alternative form of if-statements:

if x > 0:
y += x

versus

y += x if x > 0
One of the best bugs I've ever seen was in the game Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. It's a roguelike, and a venerable old one at that, so the codebase is quite tangled and convoluted, with logic for everything in every corner. One of the worshippable gods in the game is Xom, god of chaos, whose effects are just as likely to kill their worshipers as to help them (frustrating for those who might actually want to win, but always good for a laugh). And somewhere in the main game loop was some bit of logic that was only ever supposed to activate while the player was actively worshiping Xom. Guess how this was accidentally implemented:

if (you.religion = GOD_XOM) {

This actually made it to the live test server, where player save files are automatically upgraded to the most recent build, so anyone logging in immediately found themselves infallibly worshiping the god of chaos, every single tick of in-game time (renouncement is futile). Chaos indeed!
I just tried to look up what brought me here but unfortunately my history doesn't go back that far, wouldn't it be nice if HN had a section in the account management section so we could see the articles we have viewed? Granted this would not help in answering this question as most people don't sign up on their first visit but I would still be a nice feature.
Crossed my mind, but more people watch it / know it as a show. Thanks for mentioning that it is in fact a book series.

TBIAB!
Hmm. I'm not so sure. It's very hard to know someone in a meaningful way based on something they've written, and especially such a short piece. I think the author is just trying to be honest but maybe it's come off somewhat awkwardly. Branding him an asshole based on such a limited perspective into his life is perhaps premature.
I don't understand what thought process was used to write this: driving is necessary and will be until we decide to live as we did in the 1800s.
Subsidize driving? Gas tax, taxes, etc are not inexpensive by any means.
>>"When we experienced the epidemic of drunk driving, we didn’t go back to prohibition. Instead, we raised penalties to make drivers more responsible, set tougher limits on blood alcohol content, and put more money into enforcement. People still drink—but there’s a different level of understanding of responsibility and consequences, and fewer people drive drunk."
I have to disagree. The fact they were drunk is just hidden from the public. The penalties for drunk driving are not nearly harsh enough to expect people to not do it. The past 3 accidents involving death I've seen have involved people that were certainly drunk, but the toxicology reports were never released and will never be. The public should know.
I drive 25 miles to school each day. Being forced to live on campus because of the dangerous pollution would be insane.
There should be no penalty for driving besides the costs of infrastructure, which are, in fact, well covered by taxes or would be if it didn't take 2 years to do something that should take a month, cities didn't randomly decide they need to change intersections or randomly add them.
4 deer ran in front of my car this morning. Nothing would have helped besides insurance if I would have hit them.
Driving is dangerous but there is no reason to penalize it or hinder it. Yes, I support walking to work if you live in a city and you're near it, but that is purely logical.
The pollution caused by cars is one factor of many in climate change. It will not magically stop or even drastically decrease by penalizing driving.
Gas is usually $2.40 - that is expensive enough.
Yeah, given how steam tends to fragment game files on disk, I figure Steam probably figures this stuff out for your game(unless we're talking about one of those games you can play before it's all there). If this is the case, I can see why they wouldn't bother adding it to the engine.
As another Eastern European, can I just say good riddance. At least good riddance to the defeatist depressive attitude that followed the collapse of the communist experiment. Our actual traditions and culture don't seem to be in any danger of disappearing coughexcluding the immigrantscough and with the influx of western capital the ones interested in preserving them have the means to do so.
Right now it's extremely scene dependent. If your scene works well with it ( lots of far objects, not too many objects in the clip plane area ) it can get you 20+% perf wins. If you have a scene that doesn't work with it ( small rooms, lots of objects in the clip plane ), you're gonna lose performance, as there is a non trivial cost of running that third monoscopic view and doing the mono compositing into the stereo buffers.

The feature can be dynamically turned on or off though, so devs can work with that :)

We still have issues with transparency around the clip plane area.
I think that's the point of the post. If risk is hard/impossible to assess which would you take?
One thing to note is that the new version (v4) of the Sheets API can access the same fancy functionality that Apps Script can. So if gspread moves to that (which e.g. https://github.com/burnash/gspread/issues/435 alludes to), some of those limitations will go away.

(And the sync thing is neat!)
I named the Basecamp founders because I was able to recall their names off the top of my head. I could have done some more research I suppose.
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That's correct. Fossil is just a single binary and all the 'artifacts' in the repo are stored in a single sqlite file. The built-in server works really well or it can also be used with CGI.
I worked one year as a programmer years ago and now lurk on HN for the reasons Dave_TRS stated.
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I think offering money is the worst. If they really need it let them ask. In my experience, people keep tabs and grow expectations. I never offer to give money. It's become a filter for how I know if some is really really in a bad place. They won't ask me for money unless it's an emergency in which case I usually help. This is crossing more into very close friends and family.
This the most interesting response to date. Not because of the reason you're here, but I can see the parallels to what I used to do in reverse.

I spent over a decade writing software for a medical device manufacturer and was at a fairly senior position. On any given day I had to interact with biochemists, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, production floor technicians, technical support, or customer hotline people. Most of these had little or no interest in software, or the internal operation of a very complex instrument. But yet I had to find a way to translate the reason for some obscure fault or weird behavior into whatever their frame of reference was so they could either understand it and fix it, or explain to the "customer" (internal or external) what went wrong, why, and how to correct the problem.

Just had to say that because a lot of my support tasks seemed very similar to your remark about receiving a technical document and having to make sense of it to understand its applicability from a legal perspective.