skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back 5+ years ago Qt was my go-to framework for cross platform GUIs. You would get the kitchen sink, but the abstractions provided were quite sane. Signals and slots, nice OpenGL and painting libraries, reasonable asthetic and layout options with snappy performance.

A while ago I entered a hackathon visualization challenge using Qt painter for rendering. I expected C++ and Qt would slow me down but the rendering speed and expansive drawing primitives were valuable! They greatly reduced my iteration time and increased fun.

Today I never create new frontend projects with Qt. I may use Qt creator with cmake for backend components, but the frontend is HTML and JavaScript with libraries like React, Three.js, D3, and bootstrap. The experience is still cross platform, but also one step away from launching as an internal portal. Distribution this way is much easier, but the tools are so flexible you need more diligence to keep the code maintainable over larger teams.

I struggle to see where you would prefer Qt for frontend code if you don't need a native app.
The UK is actually an island off the continent of Europe. If we are being pedantic. It may belong to Europe culturally in some respects but geographically, it does not.
Yeah. That may or may not be the US's prerogative, but it's dishonest media to act like its new.
There’s No Magic in Venture-Backed Home Care
> "not allowing terrorists/drug dealers/illegal workers etc. etc. inside"

All three of those have an access to a very sophisticated immigration scam operatives. Terrorist get extensive training in faking their identities, drug dealers have huge network of contacts and insider moles and illegal workers know the trafficking cartels.

The real reason of American immigration fiasco is deep rooted racism and against primarily non-white people. You will barely hear anything from any politicians about white people who illegally come and stay in USA from Canada and Europe. If H1B beneficiaries were mostly British or Canadians US government would have increased the limit 5x by now.
I'm a published author and I agree that you shouldn't compromise the elements of your storytelling, but you should at least value their input and look for patterns. The rest is noise.

For example: I got criticism for character names, too much romance, too little romance, not painting settings enough, too much description in certain places, etc
This also reminds me of the Michelson-Morley experiment[0].

A pretty sofisticated setup (at the time) was preparated to prove the fairly established idea that light propagated through Aether.

Well, the failure of the experiment motivated a lot of scientists to improve and test other models.

I can't exactly recall right now, but Einstein's work was supported by the work of many other scientists.

It's not the case that at the time an alternative theory of gravity, space and time was unpopular, as you can see in the works of Lorentz and Minkowski for example.

Not to degrade Einstein's contribution, but to shed light on how the actual scientific process diverges from the popular perception (even among fairly educated people).

In quantum mechanics and analyzing the history of it's development this is much more evident. E.G. Max Planck on his solution to the Ultraviolet Catastrophe[1]: "My unavailing attempts to somehow reintegrate the action quantum into classical theory extended over several years and caused me much trouble."

0: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_e...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe
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We actually are hiring, but i have no idea how to reach you. If you go to my blog[1], my email is at the bottom of every post.

1: https://blog.benroux.me
Because every other observation for hundreds of years is explained perfectly by "The equations", so you need to "Fix" them in a way that doesn't change any of the existing answers.

And yes, as Cozzyd points out, matter is actually part of these equations. The simplest changes involve adding an extra term to the equation with such-and-such properties that disappear in the normal cases - that is dark matter.
This is a great demo. But I would caution you to provide something in the initial writeup introduction that the concepts presented aren't for beginners in machine learning, and that you don't intend the following writeup to be a tutorial or anything like that.

I only say this because as I was reading it, I was looking at it from that standpoint, because on initial review, with the 2D nature and the "cartoonish" graphics (nothing wrong with that - in fact, it makes it very approachable), there is a subtle expectation that this demo might be for beginners in the field.

I continued reading, and as I read the technical background, it became quickly apparent that this was not using a simple multi-layer backprop ANN, but something seemingly more advanced, with little to go on to understand how it worked. There is enough there that an interested learner could research the topic, but I think a beginner to the topic would quickly become overwhelmed, because none of the various jargon and other terms ("hyper-parameters? what the hell are those?", I can hear such a newbie exclaiming) have been defined.

I don't believe you ever intended this to be understood or used as an introduction or a beginner's tutorial to machine learning, but because it appears like it could be, mentioning that it isn't at the beginning might be appropriate.

Furthermore, this could be an opportunity for you or someone else to create an approachable series of interactive "run-in-the-browser" javascript machine learning tutorials, starting with the basics, and culminating in something like this. Such a series would need to be planned well, and first defined what should be shown and in what order (ie - Do you discuss basics of linear algebra or probability? Do you incorporate classic ML techniques in the series along with neural networks?). Hmm - now that I think about it, I can actually envision a whole sequence of series of lessons, building from the bottom ("What is a vector?") on up...

Ultimately - I found this demo fascinating and interesting. Thank you for sharing it!
Agreed. I wish things were different, but this is my cynical / pragmatic approach to things, gained over many years working in Corporate America. And to be fair, I'm sure there are exceptions where you can work for a big company and find that kind of fulfillment. But I wouldn't go in expecting it.
the soviet union and eastern block were europe too, stop creating absurd distinctions.
Artists 'have structurally different brains' (2014)
Moto G (first version) are small, and they run LineageOS.
The only appropriate visa to get paid is a work visa, like H1B, O1 or J1. He didn't have one, his J1 is expired. His situation is peculiar because as a scholar there is an exception. But if it had been to, say, tech talk at a conference, you can't get paid.

So I think it's relevant to the article because that's probably what the CBP agent was thinking. And the fact that he'd have been doing it for 30 years doesn't change anything.

Otherwise as French we don't need a visa just to visit the US, we are on the visa waiver program (ESTA).
Seconded! Here in Kansas City we just completed our first downtown light rail. And they are already discussing plans to expand it. It's been such a great new mode of transport for visitors and locals. I think most of us couldn't have been happier with it now that it's done.
Makes sense to me as I figure all the training data had colored pixels all the way to the top and that some recognition of cat parts would include an edge of the frame and not always be perfectly centered.
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Sorry but that is the worst idea ever. CS is a far too wide a subject and border agent is a pen pusher who does not possess competence to ask any questions on that subject.

I know several engineers who are very good and probably have never heard of BST because they are too busy writing CSS or designing circuitboards.
I hazard the latter since they have had a series of problems except the one here.

There was also a time that when you uploaded to Dropbox a file that was already on its servers, instead of storing the new file they stored a reference to the old one (that they already had) as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2478567
Exactly, events only represent changes in state. Furthermore, you aren't storing everything in the events; the business logic on services can add and build up models to much more than what the events hold (for example, an event could hold an id that the service uses to populate a bunch of properties into the actual model snapshot, something as simple as an order number would map to all kinds of order details).
Stop looking for the 'one thing'
I found that there is reverse, it just takes a while sometimes.

That said, they like to try and crash their way through... https://www.dropbox.com/s/rh76osvip4zavv4/2017-02-27%2016.10...
I noticed this before they instituted the "random arrow iPad." I'm not sure about their level of social aptitude though. I got sent to the quick screening line 5 or 6 times in a row, but the people I saw flagged for the slower screening were people who I thought looked calm but less whitebread than me. People with their hair dyed blue, holes in the knees, etc.

I think the person who is actually reading people is the person who checks your ID and boarding pass. Though honestly I think that process would be pretty easy to fool either way.
They might not be making the decisions but they are the only ones who can affect them. How can foreigners demand that the US government changes its policy?
NOTE: Step 2: Write the Novel ... You know, the easy part.

For those who have never written a novel, writer is being sarcastic here. The equivalent in terms of reference more familiar to the regulars on HN might well be: "Step 2: study for a CS degree, then decide which industry you intend to disrupt, learn how it works, and come up with a strategy. Oh, and write the killer app."

This is just the framework for the business plan: it's helpful, but it's insufficient on its own.
The infuriating silence of Donald Trump on an Indian engineer’s murder in Kansas
I like this a lot. When I first became engineer I went to our infrastructure team to have them explain to me what every tool we have does and how it fits into what we do. It took a few weeks but at the end of it, I could see the way the business ran much clearer than I did before. This helped me tremendously over the next few years.
The question is, who is the Gomer Bolstrood[1] of our world?

[1] Of Cryptonomicon/System of the World Fame
Stop looking for 'one thing', or One True Way.
can the same correlation be made from grindr?
UK Work Permits are trivial to get for tech workers from anywhere in the world.
Webcomponents.org
Find a mentor.
Read a shitton of open source related to your area and try to apply it to your project.
Make it an iOS app and everything else will seem like cake for the rest of your career, unless someone else figures out a way to make the process even worse. Technical issues can be worked out by anyone, being able to handle red tape issues is a skill most developers don't even want to acquire.
Geologically however : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Plate
It's possible if the government plays around with the tax system too much while being composed of idiots who don't understand basic math or don't understand why tax rates over 100% are bad.

As an example, former Croatian prime minister Jadranka Kosor introduced a new tax according to which if your after-tax income was above a certain limit, you had to pay an additional 4% of that income as tax. Of course this resulted in >100% marginal tax rates.

I assume Sweden had a similar situation, where it wasn't actually a 102% tax rate, but a combination of multiple different taxes that resulted in an effective tax rate over 100%. The people who created those taxes either didn't care or were simply too stupid to notice the problem.
Seems my point flew over your head again. You keep calling things irrelevant that you don't like. I'm done.
engueuler = bawl out
I also thought it was strange that the fight was over "winning" permission from the government to have a relationship rather than ditching the idea that permission should be needed.
To expand on this -- understanding a level of abstraction both above what you're working on and below it.

For example, if you're working on the back-end, an understanding of how front-end developers (or, more to the point, API consumers) will be using your services goes a long way to doing work well.

Similarly, a minimal understanding of database engines goes a long way too. While premature optimization can bite you in the ass, simple fowl-ups like N+1 queries can be avoided by learning just a little more.

Writing well-structured code that is debuggable and loggable works well too, for when someone else is looking at your code. Reducing and preventing code smell[1] will prevent unpleasant bugs from cropping up. This can be summed up as the boyscout rule -- leave your code better than you found it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_smell
Also, learn to write clear and correct sentences in your primary language. You will communicate better and you will be perceived as more intelligent.
Ask HN: How can AI companies have proprietary technologies?
Machine learning technologies have doubtlessly been improved and AI companies are emerging these days.

Almost all of these technologies are open to the public, including the source code, in some cases. How can a company own a unique AI technology then?
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Superbug infections rising rapidly and spreading silently in kids
We could return a confidence interval for the forecasted values, you're right, it can help in cases where it would be used for simple anomaly detection (and it would give a greater sense of security/control over using the forecast).

I do believe we have some similar feature in the pipeline for development, I'll make sure to push it forward. Thanks for the feedback.
> I was sure nobody would allow that; who will give a third-party their bank username and password?

Banks have been extremely reluctant to hop onboard with APIs. KeyBank wanted to charge me $20/month to turn on a Quickbooks export, for example.

Capital One has a neat ability to generate read-only credentials for use with stuff like Mint. Wish more banks would do that.
One Writer's Public Records Request Triggered Waymo’s Self-Driving Car Lawsuit
Must be why I've often met with astonishment and incredulous remarks when I meet new colleagues. "He's got to have a lot of money; why does he drive that crap car?"

I always answer: that's why I have a lot of money.
Let's ignore building racist AI for a sec. This is hugely flawed because most street view data is NOT updated on a yearly bases. Many images are years old. Doing yearly door to door will get fresher data.
Hot Reload all the things!
> If they were driven, had a previous math/EE/mech E degree from a top university, and a great GitHub project why wouldn't you hire them?

The woman in the example given in this thread failed; so certainly wasn't 'previous...degree from a top university' calibre.

To be absolutely clear, I'm not in anyway 'against success' for any woman. The sort of merit-based hiring you described is exactly what everyone should be doing.

But if candidate A is better than candidate B: hire candidate A! Whatever their gender, or fit for whatever other quota; scrap the damn quotas and targets.

The only targets should be relevant capabilities, traded off against cost of course.
Having the buck stop with you. With nowhere else to turn, you have to step up pretty fast. It forces you to own your decisions and not run to more senior people to help with your problems.
When I read statistics, I consider the source and it's probable motivations. Pediatrics is a journal published by the American Medical Association. In general, I hold the belief that it publishes material in furtherance of medical science and public health policies which are intended to produce positive medical outcomes subject to normal variation in human ethics and fallibility. Maybe this is a liberal or conservative or marxist or capitalist political position, I can't tell. Maybe it's agenda is secret. Maybe it's not.

Any statistical study can be criticized as 'only being likely, not being certain.' Briggs does not provide contrary epidemiological evidence. His critique is based on the possibility of alternative explanation inherent in all statistical studies. At best there's a failure to understand the epistemological character of empirical knowledge.
I would say it's the western Buddhism :)
Given how many years Ted Nelson spent on (the admittedly more ambitious) Xanadu concept, it doesn't overly surprise me.
> But the amortized O(1) lookup of hash tables is hard to beat.

On the other hand: the performance characteristics of trees are much easier to predict.

And in many cases a HT lookup isn't distinguishable from a tree lookup, at least if it's a dedicated application data structure, like some index or so.

I feel like HTs are very good for smaller structures (excellent example: dictionary/hashtable-based interpreters), but for larger data structures (e.g.: indices) ... not so much.
There's a lot of t-shirts sold in Vienna tourist shops with kangaroos on it - they seem to have embraced it :)
Yes from the state of border control and not just this one. CBP is doing industrial espionage with their phone data seizures. I'm avoiding US conferences because of it where I have options elsewhere. I imagine many are doing the same. I probably have to bite the bullet this fall and go to San Fransisco for a conference. I won't be carrying any electronic devices for that trip as a security precaution that CBP asks me to unlock my devices so they can read data. It would be gross negligence towards my employer if I were to allow them to copy my email correspondence, some of which contains details about product development. I'm not being hyperbolic about it. I just need to mitigate the risk.
This advice echoes the first chapter in The Passionate Programmer. Recommended.
Married people enjoy benefits in the eyes of the law.

Of course the commitment of those involved is the most important part of a marriage, but given the way our society works, the legal rights are also quite important.
As long as the first part of the diff shown appeared not to be abnormal, some users might be fooled.

For example, a file could be created that appears to be a normal source file at the front but contains some other behavior further down.
> I find this a stunning indictment of mainstream scientific consensus

How exactly ? Climate science is thoroughly in the humanities at this point, very much not in exact science, and this is hardly the only wrong-but-we-can't-do-better consensus that exists. People believe this and it provides them with things to do, with the "ability to predict". Except, it's not correct use of math, with the predictable result that the outcome doesn't match reality. We "believe" a lot of things for political reasons. For instance, starting in 1995 or so papers suddenly started showing that all races are equal in everything, from iq to running speed. It's becoming controversial to state that Africans need supplemental UV at high latitudes, despite the medical consequences of not doing so. Looking at differences in their performance is systematically removed from all textbooks. Now look at reality. You have watched the olympic games recently ? I assure you the impression you get from those races is more or less correct.

As for this specific one, you can simply look this up. That's supposed to be the beauty of science, except, of course where there's "scientific consensus", whatever that means. And you know, worst case is you learn something.

For the lazy, google it (this looks reasonable): http://clivebest.com/blog/?p=2208 (but obviously download the IPCC AR0 and check the data in a table as well)

Obviously there is scientific consensus in the statistics community too that you can't do what climate models do without destroying your credibility, but coming out and saying that ... isn't happening. And sadly, I know why.

Even if you disregard results, you know how the IPCC arrives at their 95% certainty interval ? They take 20 highly non-linear climate models, assume normal distribution of the results per-year (think about that for 5 seconds), and come up with confidence intervals. To claim this won't provide accurate results ... does that really require data ? At what point can you just call bullshit without further study ? One statistics paper humorously provided a proof that with this process, you can create any outcome you want.

And for the conspiracy nuts : the most recent IPCC AR leaves out actual numbers entirely. Because apparently (yes really) they're too easy to criticize.
Responding to the title, in case it misleads, such "Denial" isn't rare or controversial for topics as far into the unknown such as this.

Don't mistake it with scientific topics like e.g. Climate science "Denial".
My 2015 MacBook Pro Retina Exploded
You can borrow money against outstanding contracts easily.
Exactly. 110k USD is like a penny for a top 5000 company and foreign state actors.
>... whilst the 2.4” polarized and curved screen window makes for better readability in sunlight.

As opposed to the perfect sunlight readability of the original monochrome transflective screen the 3310 had.

I have a Nokia 1100. I've had the thing for over 10 years. It appears that I will run out of 2G networks to connect it to before I can buy a technologically more advanced phone.
> or you would be comparing apples to oranges

Do the other programs use that same hash table algorithm?

http://www.sebastiansylvan.com/post/robin-hood-hashing-shoul...
Profiling Android apps with flame graphs
Section 164(7) requires the driver to either immediately produce a receipt (option a) or produce within 7 days a receipt (option b). But that receipt is for surrendered licences under the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988.

By not immediately producing the document you've committed the offence. (Section 164(1-6), unless section 164(7) applies (it almost never does)) It's a defence to produce them not more than 7 days later, this is in section 164(8).

Strictly speaking: you need to carry your licence and produce when asked. You commit the offence if you do not immediately produce the licence, but it's a defence if you produce the licence within 7 days to a named police station.

> Nothing bad can happen to you (e.g. you can't be detained) for driving without your license on your person.

That's not correct. If officers need to identify you and they can't from the information you give you're going to have a bad time. They most certainly can detain you until they identify you. (If you're the driver.)
I don't know anything about neural networks or what type of work went into this, but it seems pretty easy to break.

The reversing is undeveloped and collision-detection is too basic (it looks like you're using a really small number of sensors). A car can get wedged between an angular object easily (and most times does).

As well, it seems like cars travel a set path and if gets obstructed, they get stuck trying to ram through it.
Test and Code 27 – Mahmoud Hashemi – unit, integration, and system testing
> It's illegal to discriminate based on gender.

And yet, it's only seen as a problem if it's to favour the incumbent advantaged.
Yeah, it's kind of verbose right now :p We'll get around to it when we make sure the forecast is the best it can be.

EDIT: But XML payloads are actually a really useful idea, it's going ASAP to the Trello board. :p