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There's an error in the article about PyTorch:

"For instance, Caffe (C++) and Torch (Lua) have Python bindings for its codebase (with PyTorch being released in January 2017), but we would recommend that you are proficient with C++ or Lua respectively if you would like to use those technologies."

You don't need to know any Lua to use PyTorch. That's the point. Lua is for Torch.

Edit: The author may be confusing the PyTorch released by the Torch developers with the earlier pytorch project that did wrap Torch.
If that were the case, then you should see Chinese international students hanging out with Japanese and Koreans.

But from what I've seen, the various East Asian groups don't interact much. And each group speaks their own native language.
Use free Cloudflare caching maybe?
Yes, of Google. Let's say you have the super bright idea and somebody like him gives you 100k what percentage does he want?
The problem is that all of the points as a whole don't really amount to anything particularly bad.

Like, sure they aren't good, but if you have skin so thin that a few immature remarks and the lack of a gender in a video game is damaging to your life, it's nobody's problem but your own.
I'm not referring to .NET. I know tonnes of people getting on board to .NET train. I'm referring to the UWP apps. Nearly no one seems to be getting on board that.
NSA's existence and its activities aboard were well-known. What wasn't well-known was that NSA was spying on American citizens, not just a few suspicious ones but ALL of them. That revelation hit most people like a ton of bricks.
Yep all true. There's probably not any snow below even _6,000 or 7,000ft_ in the Sierras right now because the last storm, which was warm/rainy, melted it. This is another reason why the next storm won't put as much water into the reservoir.
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Bumble forces women to initiate contact, which greatly cuts down on the nasty messages from men.
http://www.xojane.com/sex/feminist-dating-app-bumble

> The best thing about Bumble is that regardless of who I swipe right on, and who swipes right on me, I easily avoid those horrendous first Tinder messages that ask me for threesomes or whether I like dragons, and if I do, whether I want “these balls dragon” across my face
You're competing with what's possible rather than merely what exists today. DistroKid is better technology and a hint at the great future of the cloud. Congrats!
>I've heard from so many women how they tried for a few days and just got DTF

Women are DTF, but only if you're a guy who is in the top 20% of good looks. Check out our friend David (upper left hand), and notice how responsive women are: https://i.redd.it/2ci850jos81y.jpg

"Oh fuck yeah whenever you want"

"You had me at no ambition"

"Come over. Doors open."

However, when a guy who isn't in the top 20% of the gene pool opens up with those DTF lines, then women find it creepy, offensive, and turned off.
No, that's not right. MIT takes few foreign undergrads, and the graduate students are almost all paid for by grants. It is actually harder for MIT to find funding for foreign than domestic grad students.
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The principal issues are

- MIT values the skills and intelligence of foreign grad students, who contribute greatly to the research enterprise.

- MIT's president is a Jewish immigrant from Venezuela who understands well illiberalism and is horrified by seeing in the US some of the things he saw in Chavez. Reif has been quite apolitical (see his bland letter after election), but the immigration ban has riled him up.
You just reminded me of something I've learned about in school:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_curve
It's not really accurate to say that the VC game makes $0.50 on the dollar. If that was true, they wouldn't be in business. They make money by hitting grand slams--throwing out a BS number here--every 30 times at-bat. That's all they need. What's unfortunate about the VC model is that 29 out of those 30 at-bats is made on the backs of people who genuinely believe that they have a strong chance of being that grand slam. It's those startup founders who end up with the grey hair and circles under their eyes. As long as their are optimistic dreamers, there will be VC patrons.
What? Well I'm sorry my comment was not helpful to you. In the future should we judge everyone's comments with respect to someone in a position to offer better information?

For example, here is a comment by you:

>Disclaimer: I don't have a comp sci degree.

>I've found having an understanding of the underlying theories supporting the tools (that includes languages and libraries) I use makes me use them better, understand their strengths, weaknesses, and how to improve them. It also helps me look at problems from various perspectives and see how other solutions may fit, including those that don't already have a tutorial or library.

>I suspect that if you're an effective programmer, you're doing more than copying and pasting and growing in experience, and you're actually absorbing and apply more computer science than you realize.

You also post observations without being an authority. That is fine. You need to relax with the, yes, hostility.
Is https://code.Facebook.com down?
Wow, this was a major TIL for me.

I don't read about Android and iOS [hardware] nearly as much as I'd like to, and HN doesn't seem to generally cover the subject too well. What are some sources you could recommend I read to stay updated?
I get what you're saying, but a rock in the middle of the desert makes more money (or at least loses less) than most startups. The attempt to achieve greatness, even if they fail, that startups shoot for is noteworthy. At least it is to me. Taking on something risky and convincing someone(s) that your thing is worth a multi-million dollar investment is impressive.
"Even if you had the state of the art microservice architecture running on a kubernetes cluster on your own hardware, you still wouldn't be able to source disk/CPU fast enough if your service happens to experience loads beyond what you provisioned." That basically means you never planned. As everyone moves to cloud what makes you think AWS, Azure wont have same issue. If entire region is down do you think other regions can handle the load. If you think so you're kidding yourself. Unless you have business where you dont know your peak number then cloud does not matter.
Great to see this. Stoked to hear that it is the same guy who started Fandalism. I used to use Fandalism years ago to post my clips but just kind of stopped. I never got any emails or communication from them and just assumed that they faded away. Spurred by this article, I checked, and am amazed that it is still going strong. Must remember to get back to posting on there again.
If you didn't live in the DelMarVa area, and stuck your head in a hole, maybe. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Fortress
Written in I think 1998.

Agree with DoD or not, to be unaware of NSA in the 2000's, that speaks more of ignorance.

http://www.aaroads.com/guide.php?page=s0032wamd

Page updated 2009. A road sign.

The Simpsons creators may have just be living in a bubble.
This brief is interesting because of the MIT president's personal engagement. Rafael Reif is a Venezuelan immigrant who has been moved to speak out against an immigration ban . Reif understands the immigration issues well as a Jew whose ancestors were refugees to Venezuela, and who has watched his home country disintegrate under Chavez.
Let's be honest. Many "VCs" are just geeks who got a windfall on some deal they were involved in and suddenly find themselves in positions of power/authority.
Just because a person suddenly as money/equity to invest doesn't mean they are Warren Buffett. Few people can truly determine the value of a product or company in the future (even WB).
Just take a look at what post 2001 dot com era has done to the startup and tech world. Uber is still negative to an astounding degree, and countless other companies have been funded that have no clear path to profitability.
And look at the SF real estate market. Briefly wealthy nerds have bought properties with little regard for their real value, artificially (or realistically-temporarily) driving up the prices. It means nothing to the few players involved because their salaries are significant compared to the masses and the properties available.
It's the euphoria that has pushed the US into new and incredibly absurd territory which can, frankly, allow for the absurd political climate that we see now.
This whole "VC" idea is bunk, because it is based on the "fake" (sorry to use the popular word) economics that have created never-profitable dot-coms that have been bought by barely-profitable dot-coms where the early players cash out while leaving the stupid average people to suffer the AOL sized losses.
Is Chez "scheme all the way down"?
Yeah. Nothing has really come close to offering the same experience as HyperCard in my opinion. The key feature that no subsequent environment has really been able to copy is that there's no distinction between "running" and "editing" your program; while the UI is modal, this is mostly a convenience to avoid clutter, and fundamentally, your stack is always "running", whether you're authoring, editing data or just browsing.
Arc works fine on newer versions of Racket using the MzScheme legacy language bindings.
All of Siri and Azure runs on top of DC/OS, it's certainly demonstrated it can be used for massive data centers
Let's be clear here: Andrew Wakefield falsified his data and was stripped of his medical license for it.

He was invested in a company developing a new vaccine preservative and the study was purely a scare tactic to get vaccine makers to switch from a cheap patent-free preservative (thimerosal) to an expensive patented one.

Vaccines in the western world have completely dumped thimerosal out of an extreme abundance of caution. Many of the vaccines don't even use a preservative or use a trace amount since we have good refrigeration and fast transportation networks. Despite all that the rate of autism diagnosis has continued to increase completely unchanged. In fact rates of autism diagnosis hasn't been affected by anti-vax parents refusing vaccines either. If you properly control for induced bias there is no difference in autism rates among anti-vax parents and rational parents.

When you hypothesize a causal relationship, remove the causal factor, and the outcomes are unaffected we call that hypothesis <i>disproven</i>. There is no link between vaccines and autism. Period. Zero. Zilch. Nada.
I'll pay the $5 if I'm paid a living wage for my time spent in the interview process.

Also, I find it amusingly disturbing that the response to such a scheme giving wealthier candidates a disproportionate advantage is "lol tough luck bud".
I enjoyed reading your story of the mental hospital. I've spent too much time visiting my friend at the mental hospitals over the past year and a half. They refused to treat her substance abuse problems, and gave her drugs that made her more depressed than before.

Lots of mental problems stem from a suboptimal metabolism. My latest shipment of t3 thyroid medication just arrived from Mexico... ;)
Speaking as the lead of marathon, I'll say this:

We have to support the company first which has a more integrated solution that actually has to make money at the end of the day. We are also a pretty damn small team with a huge backlog to deliver, so it sucks that we had to abandon the UI outside of DCOS. We hope that the components of the DCOS UI for marathon can become the native UI for marathon, but again, it's a balance of priorities.

Marathon by itself has a lot more coming in the future, some will be restricted to DCOS, but not everything, it's a balancing act. Given our history of changing course publicaly (I wasn't involved in these decisions), I'm waiting to share our plans for 1.5 until I'm confident we're committing to them.

Just a quick two cents.
^ This is always amusing to me, because people who get really successful do it by compounding earlier wins over decades. I'm reminded of @pmarca's advice for startup founders who want to meet VCs:

> The best way to develop contacts with VCs, in my opinion, is to work at a venture-backed startup, kick butt, get promoted, and network the whole way.

> If you can't get hired by a venture-backed startup right now, work at a well-regarded large tech company that employs a lot of people like Google or Apple, gain experience, and then go to work at a venture-backed startup, kick butt, get promoted, and network the whole way.

> And if you can't get hired by a well-regarded large tech company, go get a bachelor's or master's degree at a major research university from which well-regarded large tech companies regularly recruit, then work at a well-regarded large tech company that employs a lot of people like Google or Apple, gain experience, and then go to work at a venture-backed startup, kick butt, get promoted, and network the whole way.

> I sound like I'm joking, but I'm completely serious -- this is the path taken by many venture-backed entrepreneurs I know.

– http://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part3.html
Reminds me of a lab in college where we were doing MIPS assembler. This particular lab involved output to the console using trap handlers (basically a glorified hello world). I was the only one in the lab to get it to work at the time, and I could explain how. I had a random assignment of a strange hex number to, I think, a register (it may have been a memory location) preceded by a comment to the effect of: "Do not touch this. I'm drunk. I don't know why this works or how, but it does. Sober you will not understand." And, true enough, I didn't. And this was before google was a thing, so I'm still not sure how/where I found that magic number to make things work.
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I would say because Japanese takes so much of Chinese in terms of their writing system and numbers, the Chinese have a running start. Sure, it may be considered basic Kanji to the Japanese, but arriving to Japan and knowing immediately 2000 (or so, I don't have an exact number, I made it up.) of the basic Kanji is key to survival -- all you need to pick up then is the grammar rules and hiragana/katakana which are just 72 chars each so 144 total.

I, myself have fallen into the English foreigner trap. It's exhausting to make Japanese friends, that in the end you really don't get anywhere with, casually.

I've gravitated towards existing hobbies, and soon will enter a bekka. I still want to blame my non-existing Japanese for my lack of true Japanese friends.
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Great post, thanks for the resources.

I find there are a lot of online resources for those looking to learn algorithms and data structures but I've had trouble finding the same breadth and depth of resources surrounding the math behind CS (discrete math, probability, etc.). Any suggestions?
Our ability to understand our genetic code is a bit less than the ability of an Ancient Egypt scribe to understand Haskell. With a bit of effort he could figure out individual letters, with a genius level of insight he could figure out a few words. From here to functional composition or monads it's a long way to go.
They're letting 100,000 Cubic feet per second flow over the spillway. Niagra falls has an average flow rate of 85,000 feet per second.

I don't think you're going to be able to make a siphon quickly that is large and robust enough to handle a significant fraction of that.
Could MacBook Pros (with Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB, to be more specific) train with GPU? I've always wanted to train algorithms but without using the GPU it is really slow.
Please don't post comments that are dismissive of other people's work. It may not be at your level, but everyone needs to start somewhere.
Sure that makes sense. Statefuf especially databases would make me nerovous as well. am curious, what are the advantages of GKE over deploying K8 on AWS? Or were you already GCE?
Rode $EDIT from $30/share to $15/share, here we go (designer) baby
PDFs are free and all students already know this. The only people who care are the people with a vested interest in selling pointless and useless garbage(textbooks). I didn't pay for my textbooks in school. Nobody should. If it's useful you should copy it and share it with your friends. Software, textbooks, tools, designs, ideas, whatever. Information is free whether you believe it or not. The medium is what you should pay for....but it is not the message.
I think you're exactly right - more frequent, less expensive testing means we have to change the criteria that mandates further investigation.

One dilemma I've been thinking about recently is that there's an unfortunate burden put on care providers due to litigation that results in increased cost - the provider or radiologist that sees a "maybe" or a "shadow" on an image has to order a biopsy just to protect themselves from being sued on the off 1% chance that the thing becomes a serious health concern. In an environment where consumers evaluated their medicine based on value/$ they would be further dissuaded from a biopsy, but in America the nature of medical insurance disincentives this sort of cost analysis skepticism.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13654240 and marked it off-topic.
I'd say that's a worse answer, because while it explicitly answers the question, it doesn't address the flawed assumption in the question itself: predictive failure in micro implies predictive failure in the macro.

ofc, answering the question as well would still be useful.
Raw performance isn't all there is to a programming language. Racket is so much more flexible and beautifully designed than Python.
Async/await will be an improvement to be sure, but I think it still leaves a lot to be desired. In particular, I'm not a fan of bolting (a)synchronicity onto the function definition; instead, it's nice to be able to run a function in either a sync or async context. But yes, props to JS for continuing to improve.
Seems like they are dropping super sacks of rock. They might be dropping super sacks of dry mix, but I highly doubt it - the money just wouldn't be there. If they're just looking to armor then the rock would more sense.

Shotcrete and concrete are difficult to place via helicopter. Both need to be pumped (or hand placed) to get a good product, which can't be done via helicopter.
Also the brand/form of L-theanine seems to matter as well. I've tried several and the random cheap brand I purchased at the local health food store seems to have had the most noticable effects.
Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's not a great article, you're right. But you've made the thread worse by complaining about it in a way that... made the thread worse. We share your concern for the quality of HN, but it's also important to let go sometimes.
Is it possible to bootstrap from a compiler compiled from C, or another language? Or is there another way to ensure there aren't any sneaky compiler backdoors?
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I'd be more amenable to this if all $5 went to a charity of my choice (and if I'm the one credited for the donation). I'd be even more amenable to this if I could pay the $5 by some other means (e.g. by volunteering for a charity, or perhaps by donating blood).
So what are some good resources for Data Structures out there, you can vouch for ?
racket is just a pure pleasure to use as a language, more so than either scheme or python.
I'm inclined to be very sympathetic to this article, even though I don't agree entirely. In an age when conspiracy theories about "global elites" are rampant, it helps to remind everyone that most human designs fail due to unforeseen complexity and unpredictability. When faced with people who actually believe in "master-plan" type conspiracy theories, I have to really wonder if they've ever actually tried to do anything hard.

That said, it's certainly possible to apply long-term planning and coordination in a very effective way. It's just that hindsight and selection-bias tends to make success stories look like the human agency involved was hyper-competent, while glossing over all kinds of factors like simple luck or even just gross incompetence on the part of those who were opposed to the goals of the planning.

And how exactly is the NSA a refutation of anything? They leveraged enormous government resources to pull off massive surveillance covertly for a while, but now we're talking about it publicly so I guess they weren't exactly so hyper-competent after all.

Seeing hyper-competent human agency and design behind everything is essentially just another example of the general human brain-defect called Apophenia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia).
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The PDP book is the main textbook for a course I'm taking at CMU called... PDP. It's digestible, but man is it weird to see things like "this is an ongoing area of future research" where the future = after 1986.

I find it kind of hard to relate to for that reason — how do I know (besides asking my prof., whose PhD advisor was Hinton, or doing my Googling) what ideas ended up "sticking"? What areas of future research went nowhere vs spawned whole new subfields?

Is there a more modern textbook of the sort I could cross-reference?

edit: here's a link to the course website: http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/~plaut/IntroPDP/
If you can retain board control there isn't a ton of leverage unless the VC wants to hurt your business out of spite... in which case you picked the wrong partner.

What the VC can do is ignore you, in which case why did you take VC money when you intended to pass up the networking opportunities? What if you change your mind about raising another round of funding in three years but you already burned the bridge?

You should also remember that your cofounders will be on the board. Often the VC only needs to convince one of them you need a change in direction. A lifelong friend as cofounder will stab you in the back without a second thought if they smell a billion dollars at stake. Hence the advice to be careful about who you get into business with.
Please don't do the programming flamewar thing on HN.
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> and can make real binaries (I think anyway)

No, it cannot currently. It makes boot files which still need to be launched with scheme / petite.

The build + library/module system with chez is also pretty unusable. If you want to write scheme for a system where you deploy an entire OS, it's not too much to work around. If you're trying to write a 1-off binary, you should go with chicken.
Get a proven track record first. Then setup a retainer with smaller companies. Then move your way up.