skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Falcons are not teared apart each time they fly.

I have a better idea. What if we dismantle the Tour Eiffel and use all this useles iron planks to fix bars in any of the windows of Paris. Would serve two purposes, parisiens would be safer against drones or muslims entering in your room at night and zero risk of somebody putting a bomb in the Tour Eiffel. Win-win situation!.

If we forget all about the legal issues, to fly an $4200 eagle trough a lawmower is a really silly idea and an useless method to stop a drone unless your goal is spending so many money from the french as you can, as fast as possible. Eagles can not carry drones of more than 3kg so they will still drop the bombs in a dangerous unpredictable trajectory. With a target big enough the difference between having an eagle or not could be a few hundred dollars more in damages (with eagle). I can understand the coolness of having a powerful eagle sitting in your fist and parade in front of a bunch of chicks, but this is either an hoax, or PR (most probably) or the boys had seen too many times the Hobbit.
It comes down to proportions. Let's say 10% of widgets are awesome and the remaining 90% are not, regardless of colour. Per parent's post, let's assume 1/12 of the widgets are colourful. So now (rounded roughly):

- 9,2% -- awesome, non-colourful
- 0,8% -- awesome, colourful
- 82% -- meh, non-colourful
- 8% -- meh, colourful

If you're choosing freely, you'll (hopefully) end up with the awesome top 10% (1/12 of them being colourful). However, if you're forced to make 1/3 of your widgets colourful (and there's only 1/12 of them overall), you end up with:

- 6,7% -- awesome, non-colourful
- 0,8% -- awesome, colourful
- 2,5% -- meh, colourful

The previously "excluded" (or rather, not promoted) group is exactly just as good as the rest, it's just not numerous enough -- if you want 1/3 of colourful widgets naturally (instead of the expected 1/12), their averages have to compete against the rest's best, and that's where the perceived inferiority comes from.
From my understanding, Susan is well respected within the SV community, and obviously from Uber's response she struck a nerve. I understand what you're getting at, but I think you're ignoring a lot of context.
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Yes, but she won overall. That's pretty interesting for sheer boldness.
Yup. I'm with you. For my money, Ruby could fill exactly the space Python does and do it better...but Python has too much steam in its niche and Ruby got pigeon-holed as a web language; such is life.
I'm not an expert in deep learning (yet) so someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Technically I see no reason you couldn't say that meets the definition of learning.

But perhaps that's asking the wrong question. Dictionaries aside, one might decide that a useful standard of "learning" in certain contexts is to have a level of understanding of the subject. And then we ask, does the system have understanding? What is understanding?

A system that only interpolates training data can't logically become consistently better at the task than the data it learns from. Whereas a a sufficiently deep learning system (including, but not limited to, a human) can defeat its master.
One way to check for overfitting is to compare samples to their nearest neighbors in the training set. Of course that doesn't cover interpolations between two points in the training set, but I would argue plausible interpolations are already something "learned".

A different problem I see with faces in particular though is that our visual system is actually wired to do some really heavy denoising/pattern matching on faces (for example people seeing the face of Jesus on slices of toast), so the generation of faces doesn't actually need to be that good to produce results that seem appealing to humans.
Specifying exactly what is needed is coding. The hope for some kind of high-level language you would generate the actual code from is decades old, see compilers. (And it does reduce coding times tremendously!)
Well, even if kernel images didn't go there, you would still need to access it for grub updates. So it might not be a good recommendation for everyday users.
Bash (de facto standard Linux shell) itself is quirky enough to not have any significant advantage over powershell, however, standard GNU utilities have huge momentum with them. Too many tools are built over standard utilities glued together with shell scripts that replacing environment expectations in higher level tools is next to impossible.

In my view powershell was not designed as a shell, but more like programming tool specific for Windows administration with a REPL. Powershell looks designed for .NET programmers intending to write small administration scripts and occasionally drop to interactive shell. Bash and other Linux shells are designed for interactive use with programming features bolted on. All this makes bash much better alternative for glue between various tooling, exactly what a developer needs
"A tad" dishonest?

1) She was disqualified immediately, but she complained to the person in charge and actually convinced them that they made a mistake and that she didn't cheat. If she had accepted being disqualified, this wouldn't have ended up on the internet.

2) She biked the course later in the day in an attempt to fake the data, but failed because the data is timestamped. I am not sure how she could have possibly been more dishonest than that.
> You know how almost every developer has a Macbook?

...in Silicon Valley bubble?
Should be, but gloves will not do any harm. Toxoplamosis is not the only disease that your cat could host.
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This..

Reading the parent comments felt like they are making cheating acceptable. This did not seem like a little mistake, it seemed more like systematic cheating. She had multiple chances to apologize, but she went on until she was faced with the facts.
A printed Go book with full-color syntax highlighting? Heresy!

Ordered the non dead tree version as the sample chapter is of great quality.
I'll be the lone dissenting voice with regard to the film. I liked it. It wasn't nearly as funny as the book; it was barely funny, at all, in fact. But, it still contained some of the gentle charm of the book. At the end of it, I said to my girlfriend, "I guess I just really like movies about hiking, even when they're kinda boring." (I also really liked Wild, and liked that book, too...in that case, I think the film held up better against the book, as the book just wasn't in the same league as A Walk In The Woods, so the film had less to live up to).
Interested to hear more specifics of the issues you have – "language services" isn't a term I've heard before.

My feeling is that the python language is still one of the nicest around. It takes quite a bit of practice before you get good at writing it though. Distribution etc is a bit rubbish, but you normally go through that pain once and then just leave it alone.
Name droping at its finest...

"Eric Holder", "President Obama"...

What's next Uber? Deleting Uber kills kittens?
It reminds me of Land and Overland by Bob Shaw:

"The setting for the trilogy is a pair of planets, Land and Overland, which orbit about a common centre of gravity, close enough to each other that they share a common atmosphere."

They don't share a common atmosphere, but I guess the delta required for interplanetary transfer is really low.
how so? I never had trouble with mine
I love this idea, but it also needs to be discussed within the context of knowing that (since Snowden) the NSA already has all your social media data categorized and ready to go should it need.

So, in context, this is about stopping one branch of government - CBP - from being able to compile data that another branch of government already has.

I love the idea but worry it might be a form of security theater, given the three lettered elephant in the room.
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wouldn't it be better to plot a course where pitstops could be made at gas giants?
There are alternatives to that would allow Telcos to profit without compromising net neutrality, but are more complicated because they imply cultural changes.

For instance, deploying content systems inside the network would reduce bottlenecks and improve latency, and you don't need to mess with the rest of the traffic to do so. Net neutrality is there because we don't want telcos to differentiate traffic based on their value, but based on value for the customer, and that changes faster than commercial agreements.

However, that means changing business models and creating value for users and content creators, unless today, not only providing the network, but a real service on top.

With the end of net neutrality, small companies (that can start without that close to the home content distribution up to a certain traffic), would not be able to compete with the established ones, so innovation will be hindered (unless we all want faster horses)
Update on Google Play refunds
I received following note from Google Play:

Hello Google Play Developer,

In order to keep Play fair for users and developers, and bring Play in line with the majority of app and game stores in the industry, we are making a change to our developer policy regarding refunds. We will subtract all refunds from developer payouts, not just those made within 48 hours of purchase. The Google Play Developer Distribution Agreement ("DDA") will be updated to reflect this change in the coming months.

With the same goal in mind, we’ve just launched the Voided Purchases API to help you maintain a fair ecosystem in your app or game.

With the new API, you can check which users have refunded or charged back in-app purchases in order to claw back those items for that user in your app or game. This change helps to deter abusive behavior and will make the ecosystem fairer for all users.

We updated the Google Play Developer API terms of service to include the terms governing the use of this new API. By using the new API, you indicate your agreement to these terms

There's a lot open for interpretation, i.e. does this affect both app purchases and in-app purchases? Can a user effectively claim back the money for all purchases a couple of months after he used the in-app items?

I don't really understand how this is supposed to work.
I had quite an insightful conversation with a Nepalese developer on Twitter recently: https://twitter.com/csswizardry/status/832903820539748352
could we send a spaceship there as a projectile rather that have (all) the fuel on board?
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What exactly is the point of this post?
I second the opinion that this shouldn't be on HN. It's just doxxing the poor girl.
Swedish for: says the CEO...
Yes, my Windows experience goes back to Windows 3.1 and I think Windows NT architecture is quite good versus traditional UNIX ones, specially when one bothers to read all relevant documentation like the Windows Internals book series.

Lack of POSIX support only bothers me when trying to compile software targeted to pure UNIX systems.
Shipping is really cheap. It's highly optimised and fast. Only the last mile is a mess, and that's where companies like Yodel have moved in.

Luggage by contrast is expensive. The marginal cost of a checked bag is far more than just posting the thing to the destination.

So the only value might be in ""disrupting"" local customs enforcement. Brazil has a 50% import duty on electronics, for example. So you might be able to do something there - although the customs people are already alert to this possibility.
There's also a discussion on reddit, there seems to be a lot of confusion: https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/5vkria/no_time_...
Good god o.o That's a little unnerving
> Electricity is now 24 hours

This is the best change we experienced as a Nepali citizen. A separate power backup for internet router is no longer needed.

> why aren’t more startups bootstrapping in the country?

There's this new startup https://www.sevadevelopment.com/ which took this step. They started their office in Lamjung (~108KM from Kathmandu). Monthly costs for rent should be at least half of what it is in Kathmandu. ~10 of my friends did an internship there recently.

Akamai and Google have cache edges here. You might have a 128Kbps ADSL line but you get > 1MBps with YouTube and many other sites due to this. Ncell, a telecom here, provides free Twitter and Wikipedia access. It recently started offering Free facebook too. (net neutrality?).

Kathmandu is now filled with poles carrying fiber optic cables.
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And perhaps he is right.. ~70 vs 0 access points in my area.
> But choosing .NET is a choice, and whenever anybody does it, I can’t help but ask “why?”

> Programming with .NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen.

Has the author ever even used .NET? Maybe for their specific product it isn't useful, but just look at (for one example) all the games on the Xbox 360, a platform that dominated. Also, at least in my company .NET is huge internally. Fortune 500's prefer stability, and startups don't (as much), but that doesn't mean the need isn't there.
It's correct, mass is conserved in chemical reactions. The energy doesn't come from converting mass, it comes from rearranging atoms in molecules (which releases chemical energy).
I agree with you, just I don't get " powershell resembles more smalltalk than lisp." part.

While FOSS Lisp environments are pretty bare bones text CLIs, that is not how Lisp should like since Xerox PARC, TI and Genera days.

Sadly Lisp IDEs are all commercial, but the experience is pretty much Smalltalk like, or even better, given that they also AOT to native code.
http://mashable.com/2015/07/29/uber-app-accuracy/#bsS69hn3pg...
What are you saying? That being upset that women are being sexually harassed at the workplace shows that women aren't being sexually harassed at the workplace, or that it isn't a big deal?

Seriously dude. What are you trying to say?

Let's not pretend that these allegations came like a bolt from the blue. They've been floating around Uber for years now. The only thing different here is that someone publically put their name on it.
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quantity vs. quality of the place and the data :)
… It’s easy to add a place using the app
I thought it was about using the current Tech (GPS tracking/social media) to provide evidence.
The bottleneck is file system as far as I remember. I can compile my a linux kernel in VM with static file system in reasonable time. But try to do it in WSL, the file system overhead makes it miserable (Make and Configure open and close file extensively). other than that, ordinary computation is almost same as Desktop Linux (better than VM).

There was a benchmark on http://phoronix.com which proves my point.
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One notable example I've heard of, is symphony orchestras (and if Malcolm Gladwell covers it, it is surely a mainstream concept and dumbed down quite a lot, accessible to a non-tech audience!)

Specifically, it's the Julie Landsman story, where a fantastic French Horn performance of great power and force turned out to be produced by a small woman, and the people hiring lost their shit when they found out.

A funny side note is that, to be a CEO, typically you have to be a TALL white man. Now, in tech, I could see there being a bias for large HEADED people of whatever gender or color, on the (unjustified) assumption that raw brain material volume would help. But surely, the distance from the ground said head is, can't have much to do with it! And yet, it's another 'meritocracy' fail.

AI will be a lot better at this sort of thing (while perhaps inventing its own meritocracy fails). But we're not there yet.
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Nice, it would be awesome to be able to sort the cafe's in a city based on their internet connection speed.
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Here's all the things.
https://djcordhose.github.io/flow-vs-typescript/flow-typescr...
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Maybe he is ignoring context, but I wouldn't assume that everyone who is deleting the app has it. His/her point stands.
Also, how can I get a WifiMask.com ad on your site? :)
> And it is my belief this represents a vast majority of software developers around the world.

You should get out of the SV sometimes. Most of them are doing fine.
We all know it's the vagina. Nobody was able to answer your questions or do anything except downvote my comment. This is a really sexist site, unfortunately.
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Nice tools to have in Jekyll, 0.10 released
Actually, there is a formal method to evaluate generative models. All you need is a validation set. Then you need to find what the odds are that the model would have generated your validation set. That probability is the one you want to maximize [0]. In order to be able to calculate or estimate this probability, you need to make some amendments to your model architecture. But for instance PixelCNN's know the probability exactly, variational auto-encoders have a lower bound on the probability, etc. It is mainly the generative adverserial networks (GANs) which cannot. And this is the reason research in the latter is limited, despite the remarkable visualizations it produces.

But the judging of models by their visualizations is something which is still done too often, and it annoys quite some researchers in the area that those papers still pass review at machine learning conferences. They should be sent to computer graphics conferences, because that is what they actually do /vent.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.01844
You would think the turnaround point would be a natural place for the race organisers to put a timing mat. They would capture an extra split time and be able to automatically identify runners succumbing to this temptation.
I'm guessing I can only add places via the app?

I'm currently sitting at my desktop machine, but could easily add at least 5 Cafés with WiFi near Charing Cross in London. However, I don't have an android or iphone, so am unable to contribute.

Maybe letting people log in to the web version and let them add places? (and also maybe bulk uploads, i.e. every Costa and Starbucks has WiFi and it's trivial to get the location data for those stores.)
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This discussion goes now on since Python 3 was released. Python 2 will not be supported or developed after 2020.
This data is already in OpenStreetMap. Looking around, there are zero places in the Netherlands and I am certain I tagged at least a few places myself so this map is less complete because they want to do it themselves.

It also contains opening hours, addresses, etc., which is all in OSM. I don't understand why people always try to start anew when the data is right there. I can understand there is some complexity in getting your user's contributed data back into OSM and dealing with edit conflicts and abuse, but at least use it as a starting point and see about contributing back later.

(Also, Google Maps is such a confusing map, I hardly even recognize the town I've lived in for 20 years. But that is probably because I'm used to OSM.)
This is because the idea is that you would create a new media-type to represent your resource. It is this media-type definition that would determine what rel-types there are and how a client should interpret them.

for example, the spec for the HTML media-type that when a client sees a link with the rel-type "stylesheet" is should fetch the resource using HTTP GET.

As REST requires that media-types be registered the idea would be that we would eventually get a set of media-types that cover things like audio playlists, and how to interact with them.

So any "intelligence" required by a client would be baked into the implementation of the media-type processor. Instead of "client libs" for specific web services, you would have a general media-type parser/processor which could be re-used by clients of different web services to process common media-types.

But apparently individual client libs for each web service that overloads JSON is better.
I've never once heard rumors like these until recently but I've noticed an uptick in people saying that there HAS been, when there hasn't been rumors to begin with.
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Amazon or Google for new gTLDs?
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The middle course is an illusion. Look at your examples:

> remote/waldoed surgery needs superb data delivery guarantees

It isn't a question of bandwidth or latency, the problem is that life-critical systems need hardware-level redundancy that mass market networks just don't have. Some drunk crashes into the pole at the end of your street and your internet goes down in the middle of surgery because there is only one path.

This is why the hospitals that do this sort of thing have redundant dedicated physical connections on both ends. There is no other reliable way to do it. But network neutrality has nothing to do with that sort of dedicated physical point to point connection.

> providers of ad-heavy contents should be allowed to pay for the data their users consume

Nobody actually wants to do that. If ad providers actually cared about customer bandwidth charges they would spend more than the obviously-zero-if-not-somehow-negative amount of time they currently spend on optimizing their ads for resource consumption.

The entire thing is a sham. Nobody wants to subsidize data. The ISPs raise data rates but zero-rate their own offerings to push customers away from their competitors, then go back to their competitors with their hand out and demand money to reestablish the level playing field. Or worse, charge a toll to get on the high side of the unleveled playing field.

If this wasn't the case then there would be no need to involve the ISP in the transaction. If advertisers wanted to give away their profits to users then they could just pay the users directly. Some have tried this and given up, because it's ridiculous. Users would much rather have more/better journalism or services or whatever thing the ads are supporting than some tiny subsidy which is nothing more than a pittance at the level of an individual user.

The only reason ISPs are involved is that they can charge $PROHIBITIVE_PRICE for data to end customers but $MONOPOLY_PRICE to content producers and it's only by getting this "discount" that it makes any sense for the content producer to engage in the transaction. The only result compared to the situation where this is prohibited is a harmful transfer of resources from high-competition content producers to low-competition ISPs.
I think you've hit the nail on the head here.

I also use someone's GitHub profile as a way to give me a reason to interview them, and some things to talk about in the interview. I also use their resume, and if we give them a small project, the results of that.