skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always wanted to apply the knowledge of the deep learning to my day to day work. We build our own hardware that runs the Linux on Intel CPU and then launches a virtual machine that has our propriety code. Our code generates a lot of system logs that varies based on what is the boot sequence, environment temperature, software config etc.
Now we spend a significant amount of time go over these logs when the issues are reported. Most of the time, we have 1 to 1 mapping of issue to the logs but more often, RCA'ing the issue requires the knowledge of how system works and co-relating this to the logs generated. We have tons of these logs that can be used as training set.
Now any clues on how we can put all these together to make RCA'ing the issue as less human involved as possible?
You are lucky - you could have been hired. It's a horrible place to work -I've got first hand experience.
As far as I know all of Apple's framework code is in Objective-C, and there are two big problems standing in the way of converting it to Swift: AppKit and the like still has to support 32-bit apps (and it's apparently challenging to back-port that support to Swift) and Swift doesn't yet have ABI stability. (source: the SWIFT ADOPTION AT APPLE section here: http://atp.fm/205-chris-lattner-interview-transcript/)
> Is this hyperbole?

No. Just checked and this is an 8GB machine, running Slack with ~9 simultaneous networks (unfortunately lots of open source projects are moving to half-deserted Slack networks instead of IRC channels) can easily use more than half of that.
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I was just talking to a friend of mine the other day and he disclosed to me that his twin sons were conceived by IVF.

The first successful birth from IVF, or "Test Tube baby" as it was called back then, was only 39 years ago. Baby Louise Brown was a worldwide celebrity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Brown

Now they're my neighbors. And nobody bats an eye.
AFAIK the main difference between vSphere & something free like ProxmoxVE is the latter lacking automatic guest VM migration for load balancing. But I've never worked with any VMWare product aside from tinkering with ESXi years ago.

My (limited) understanding is that a well thought out DRBD configuration would be just as effective, & quite possibly a better use of finances.
Yup. The Osborne effect[1] is widely known now, so most companies are very careful not to telegraph a future change that may impact current sales.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
ReutersTech: Yahoo says investigating creation of forged cookies
Was this it?

https://stanford.edu/~jlmcc/papers/PDP/
If this article were actually true, Apple wouldn't exist as the company it is today. Steve Jobs, while not a developer, was undoubtedly brilliant, and most definitely a jerk.

It's unhelpful to pigeonhole people and then extrapolate out their actions from there, because for the most part people don't conform to whatever mental model of that stereotype you've built in your head. People are complex beyond imagining.

Besides, what's the author's sample size here? One? Two? It's an anecdote worth relating, to be sure, but I think it'd be better served by leaving the "Brilliant Jerk" bit out, and leaving it as a story about team morale being more important than the contributions of any single team member.
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The DAO existed mostly to funnel cash to an IOT startup, Slock. They were going to sell network-connected door locks, with some AirBNB like service to manage them for rentals. The COO of Slock was from Etherium.

This was a lot less decentralized than the PR indicated.
Depending on the event, this could make things worse for the arts. Society is seeing a decline in arts attendance in terms of the "older styles" such as theatre and lesser listened to genres (jazz, classical). I'm no expert, but high prices only deem to pull the "common folk" away from events, away from culture.

Imagine if people were attending more events, experiencing more diversity, more art. Culture would probably be a bit less two-sided (in my opinion).
> in the IPv6 world there's no technical reason you can't just let every service bind a different IP address.

I'm not a networking expert, but is that true that you can create multiple ip's for a single device using ipv6? Sounds like it would end up very messy.
We all have that part. The trick is not to let it make you an asshole. There might be times when that's the right thing to be - satisfying a pedantic quibble over a style preference, to the detriment of morale and team cohesion, is never, ever one of them.
More patients with early-stage breast cancer may be able to avoid chemotherapy
Nice false trichotomy there, Joker. I'd rather have brilliant developers who are also decent human beings.
Is drinking coffee on an empty stomach actually considered harmful? I do it daily every day of the week. My first meal of the day is lunch a few hours after I've had either an Americano with 2-3 shots of espresso, or a regular coffee with 1-2 espresso shots in it.
Almost always black.

On a low carb diet, I get GI distress generally after eating lunch, but outside of dieting I haven't noticed any adverse effects related to it. I've been doing this every weekday for over 2 years now.
This is definitely interesting, scientifically, and may help us better understand Autism (and its causes).

I cannot imagine this will see widespread adoption outside of research. MRI scans remain expensive and many MRIs have waiting lists at hospitals. Even today, they regularly use less safe technology (e.g. CTs) because they're less expensive and there will be more available.

There's no safety reason why you shouldn't do this. MRIs are darn near harmless. It is just an economic issue with gaining time on an MRI to discover information which may not change the overall outcome for the child (pediatricians are getting better and better at detecting early signs of autism).

Heck, if MRIs were readily available they'd quickly replace ultrasound during pregnancy (since MRIs are likely safer and superior given that they better represent depth). But alas, a MRI costs up to $1m for a "basic" one and up to $3m for a fMRI, and that's ignoring the space/training/power utilisation issues.
> it may have actually cared about Yahoo's disastrous data breaches and its cooperation with the NSA. But because is Verizon, the cooperation with the NSA and the spying infrastructure being already in place is probably why Verizon didn't want to cut too much from the price.

Exactly what I was thinking. Verizon seems more desperate than Yahoo. Been trying to figure out what a phone company wants to do with these online user accounts. The only thing I can come up with is data-mining, surveillance and data-sharing. This seems to be what motivates those in power these days. It's about control.

I just don't see a telephone company getting excited about email, news feeds, Yahoo Answers and some of the other properties available for it's own sake.

The next question is: how deep is Verizon into surveillance already and, aside from marketing and ads in a business they know little about, what their ultimate goals are?
This could be turned around: Nice Mediocre People Cost More Than They Are Worth.

I've seen a lot that socially desirable behavior is evaluated and preferred rather than people doing excellent work. Group dynamics quickly exclude these by creating a consensus of what is accepted and what the goal of the group is. This is especially easy because these brilliant people are always -by definition- a minority,
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This is literally a plot line from the show "Weeds".
I played with legos far more than is healthy as a child, and grew up to be a software engineer :)

Can't help but think of it in literal lego terms.
> And yeah ECMA is a totally open standard with committee members from all sorts of companies and backgrounds. Dart is not.

Dart is an ECMA standard: https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ec...
Question for my American cousins: In your opinion, what percentage of fellow Americans see themselves as part of the global community? I've read a few comments on HN on many different topics along the lines of "but that wouldnt work in the states because we are different". I'm genuinely curious how disconnected from the rest of the planet people feel/are. Thanks in advance.
that really doesn't sound like Swift - are you sure that's an accurate quote?
Hiring a full time employee is an investment to the company. However a Freelance Developer is not they are there for short term or small projects. This article fails to mention this an only goes over the numbers. There is no way to quantify the value of a full time employee knowledge and experience within the company
The PDP papers are in a bunch of volumes, in addition to the handbook. Chapter 3 of the handbook, I recall, has a little bit from Hinton's original BM work which is of interest to the cognitive scientist, as well as a pretty obstruse but very good description of the entire process. Very historical, very strange by modern ANN standards.
We're in the business of shipping working things on time. I'd take the "brilliant jerk" over most alternatives.

Grow up, ignore the jerkness, and enjoy the code. Seriously - great developers are so rare anyhow.
Hey Jim, one of the JustWatch founders here - we'd love to have linkouts as well. Unfortunately, interests with IMDB aren't super aligned at the moment and they're in business much, much longer than we are. Let's say they keep a pretty close guard on their data, as they've spent the last dozen years collecting it.

But rest assured we're working heavily behind the scenes to make our site & UX better and better every day with free and open movie data sources - but always trying to stay safe on the legal side.
When does a man say “I’m the father”?
it's also a way to minify js https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/
Not mine - but looks very interesting
Oh that's cool! Although not AI, just a script "when met post this" sort of thing but awesome non-the-less. Too bad you can't get access to them "Hey, if you happen to pass over this person's house, take a picture" haha. Awesome though. Would be cool to see a readout of real-time sensor data.
That, or they had a reputation for "moving fast and breaking things" without submitting to any secure practices, and the abrasive jerk who knows security never bothered to apply there in the first place. Or the polite person who knows security, for that matter.
> The last thing I'll mention is the worrying lack of "purpose" for Swift. Talk to a Haskell person and they'll do the same.

Really? Real type safety and no null pointer exceptions unless you really want it are not a purpose? A compact syntax that is still as descriptive as Objective-C's syntax?

My programs are much more stable in a lot of regards since I started using Swift.
Yeah that's definitely something I could do. Are there any proposed projects you know of that could benefit from this type of data?
No matter how much two such folks might deserve one another, I'm not sure companies could afford to watch their final two coders refuse to cooperate over trivial shit like line length.
I actually skimmed this article before posting, it seems to conclude that it's from Swift (or at least, a rewording of something he said originally):

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/07/10/reason-out/
I've just emailed you for details; I'll try to get the right person to help.
Show HN: SuperSimpleCallRecorder – Record calls without signing up for anything
So this is an embarrassingly simple Twilio app, but since I found it useful myself and couldn't find something analogous, I figured I would share: http://lippytak.github.io/supersimplecallrecorder/

Basically we forward your call to the destination number, record it, then text you the recording URL after you hang-up.

Personally I'm using it to record user research calls but one can imagine other use-cases. There are many more obvious features/polish to add, which I'll consider if folks are interested. Let me know!
Many physicians choose insomnia meds based on habit
Use dumber ML first, try some random forests. Not even because they're even that much better or worse, just because DL requires an enormous amount of knowledge and fiddliness but what you prolly want is for the bulk of the actual work to set up the data for ML, not hyperparameter fiddling and architecture fiddling.
spot on, I have seen people like this who you wouldn't even call brilliant but excellent Prototype-Masters. usually they flourish because they can provide cover for some deep seated insecurity of their bosses (like knowing you are technically incompetent). the problem is that such people are credit suckers because their quick & dirty prototype can pass for the real thing in the eye of 'innocent bystanders'. Overall it just lowers morale of the team as nothing seems worthwhile anymore.

Thank god I dont work there anymore!
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Agreed. Notice how another child comment was down-voted and there's whining in the responses about how hard it would be to write unambiguous specification. The idea that you could write a "reference implementation" that "proves your implementation meets the specification if it interoperates with the reference" is silly.

Unfortunately most people find it "exciting fun" to "just write code" and "boring work" to carefully consider exactly the behavior of their software in all conditions.
> self driving commercial trucks on dedicated lanes

It takes forever to get new HOV lanes added to big interstates - I somehow doubt that 'dedicated' lanes are going to appear faster than self-driving tech takes hold.
Objective-C(++) are not going anywhere. I would start a new project in one of both languages without hesitation. It works, it's stable, there's tons of software out there and last but not least it's compatible with Swift.
It's all about chemistry. Without it, work isn't fun. In this case, removing him helped restore it, so that's good.

There may be teams that can take a jerk, perhaps with a "handler" (in the team).
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What percentage of domestic students have no close friends on campus? Neither the linked article nor the article it cited gave a number.
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Elison and Jeff Bezos each nurtured that sort of person (and were themselves that sort of person). They utterly steamrolled the kinder and gentler companies in their respective markets.

Sometimes reality and what you want to be true are not the same.
Reminds me of the R4300 multiply bug, and the lazy compiler fix that just always emitted a nop between them if it saw two mults in a row. It was a real, hardware bug tho.
I really want to get into this eventually. My own AI I know, I'm not a brilliant mathematician or anything. I just have that obsession (I'm lonely) hahaha.

I'm looking to build these wall-mounted raspberry-pi servers with cute little USB-rubber-ducky antennas. But I don't know what kind of hardware you need (or cloud-base it) to run some of these. My current thought/approach is something that's always on, analyzing stuff (telemetry) specific web traffic, my own thoughts (analyze posts to a journal for example).

I don't know... some point get into it busy at the moment.

Like I'd like to hire some vocalists (girls) and have them recite sentences, deconstruct it (copy it essentially) to be able to build full on-the-fly sentences without those word-break-word types... ahhhh. Not a programmer though at this point eg. C#,C++,Java,Python though I use PHP for scripting. Ahhh. Yes I like the movie Her (2013) a lot, though I only watch the intro part primarily where he unboxes OS 1.

Thanks for this link.
Exhibit B: Steve Ballmer.
> What do you mean, if you include work hours

If I employ someone to do something, they are acting on my behalf, as proxy. These lose the free time I pay them for, and I gain it. Hence an individual that employs people maybe have more than 24 hours a day; e.g. If I pay someone to wait in line for an hour (for a ticket), so I don't have to, then I just bought an hour of free time.

> I think they'll all work about the same in this context

It sounds like you're just guessing then. I tried working it out, but it depends on what you are trying to measure.
He's missing a crucial piece of evidence. Apple has done a lot of work to make sure that Swift and Objective-C can coexist in same project. You can call Swift code from Objective-C and Objective-C code from Swift with little fuss. This is completely unlike Microsoft's C++/.NET situation.

If you look at the source code of the Swift standard library, "toll free" bridging code is everywhere. It even affects the language design of both Swift and Objective-C.

Yes there are still inefficiencies, but they are small. Apple has done everything humanly possible to make this interface efficient, seamless and sustainable.

So I think the plan is very clear: Don't force people (including Apple itself) to rewrite old code. Make it possible and desirable to add new features to old Objective-C projects in Swift. Maybe let Objective-C die of old age at some point in the very distant future.

There is a ton of evidence that they are in this dual mode for the long haul.

I think the one flaw in their strategy is that people who like Swift will start to hate the antiquated object oriented design of Cocoa and some lower level OS services.

My prediction is that more and more of Cocoa will be wrapped with idiomatic Swift code that Objective-C devs will not want to adopt. At that point, there will effectively be two competing system APIs.

The pressure to make a clean break with Cocoa will grow because some un-idiomatic parts of Cocoa will be hard to wrap and people will call for a modern replacement for Cocoa long before Objective-C is gone.

So I think, most of the friction in this transition will arise on the library side, not with the languages themselves.
Im still fairly convinced it has more to do with environment than genetics
Both the main and the emergency spillway send water into the Feather river.

When the reservoir is at capacity, the dam operator has no control over how much water goes into the Feather River nor whether downstream towns are flooded or not. Any water not going down the main spillway will go down the emergency spillway and into the river.

(edit for typo)
Maybe it's just me but most truly brilliant people with whom I've worked, have been the opposite: very nice. They were not only smart in their own field but also smart on an emotional level. They were the kind of people you wanted to be around, and they were constantly learning from other brilliant people, recognizing that a bad personality creates friction to learning.
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Anyone making an engineering level salary in the US should be saving a portion of their money and investing in the stock market. There are a wide variety of options that involve no commissions and allow you to own a broad cross section of the market. The Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF is a good place to start. As are Vanguard's age based funds and automatically reallocate to more conservative positions as you get older.

Writing off the stock market as a "casino for rich people" is a good way to make yourself poorer.
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What you could do is assemble the data in tabular form so that your data is in the shape:

Issue System log
-------- ------------
issue_1 corresponding system log
issue_2 corresponding system log
issue_3 corresponding system log
issue_4 corresponding system log
issue_5 corresponding system log

Once you've done that, you can train some sort of classifier on it, e.g. something like [1]. There's a bunch of stuff you want to do to make sure you're not overfitting (I'd scale your data & use 5-fold cross validation), but that would get you started.

[1]: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/tutorial/text_analytics/worki...
OTOH, you can make a pretty strong argument that for, say, MS, Oracle, or Apple, it's precisely the 'jerk-y' qualities of their founders and CEOs that led to their success today.

Say what you like about MS's business practices during the 90s, but I think the history shows that a large reason they were able to continue their dominance was because of the unfair and frankly anticompetitive practices that they embraced back then. Bill Gate's willingness to be a jerk was what kept their company on top.

Of course, that was directed productively and outward, not destructively inward.
Their personalities could not be more different. Their approach to business and life are completely orthogonal.
The piece is really well written and makes some good points (especially about Apples code base, the costs of rewrites, etc.)

I'm still perplexed by the argument that there are boxes like "Objective-C programmer" or "C++ programmer" and that this categorization is a good abstraction for thinking about these problems. In earnest, nobody working as a developer can expect to use the same tools in 5-10 years that they are using today, especially in fields like mobile.

It's not that hard to learn a new programming language if the paradigms are known from another language. Swift is not that different from other imperative languages that there would be a particularly bad learning curve.
To be extra pedantic, Moore's law says nothing about clock speed.
There's a difference between a cantankerous curmudgeon and being an asshole.
Usually? The overlap in the Venn diagram between "Truly brilliant developer" and "giant baby who has no social skills" is probably non zero, but I work with many brilliant non-jerks. Perhaps you've been unlucky.
I'm not convinced that the NSA counts as a counterexample. From my very limited knowledge, it appears that the NSA's programs are known an approved by a reasonably large swath of government. I think the response of the article would be that, rather than being the result of scheming by a small group of people, the NSA programs arise from a combination of initial government consensus and subsequent expansion of powers. For example, Obama could have stopped programs like PRISM when he became president, but chose to continue them.

The point I got from the article isn't so much that secret and far-reaching programs can't exist. It's that these programs do not come into being based on the will of a small group of people, but rather based on a complex bureaucratic process in which many parties partake.
Not surprising, US universities have been educating despots and their cabinets for decades.

Care to guess which nation has the highest number of US college alums serving in any foreign government cabinet in the world?
http://www.businessinsider.com/does-it-matter-if-irans-leade...
Its good to opinionated about technology. Just don't take it personally when someone disagrees with you.
I'll rephrase: politicians should consider making easier for both employers and employees to just work less hours with exactly the same hourly wage.
Would it be so crazy that the HOV lanes would just become self driving lanes?
O tempora, o mores!
Expert outlines expressions of conditions misdiagnosed as brown recluse bites
A bit dated in terms of code, but good - even beyond deep learning:
https://www.amazon.com/TensorFlow-Machine-Intelligence-hands...