skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article leaves me with a very sour taste in my mouth. I echo the sentiment that others have expressed about pawning off the work of connecting with the person in need to be a bad thing. I also don't think that just because Facebook is in a position that they can do something about it that they should. It seems like a far too personal matter for them to be sticking their hands into.
The site is getting hammered it seems.
It's funny that the article mentions that Intel went through a number of these projects and optimized them, just so they could try to say that :)

I expect if AMD went back through again, they could improve them even more.

(In the handbrake case, most likely it's half-speed AVX2 that is hurting them)
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Yeah, the obsession in America over IPAs really needs to end. I'm sure this is a good brew, but the vast majority of them seem to me to be an exercise in absurdity. Too high ABV and so bitter you can't taste the fact that most of these beers have nothing else to offer in terms of body or flavor.

I liken it to Starbucks drip, you like it because in order to make it palatable you have to dump sugar and cream into it.
Here's an extensive discussion about this problem, with good points on both sides: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13374715
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The benefits of AST editors is that the source can be stored and revisioned controlled much better. And the AST can be projected to different visualizations or text representation.
The weather may not permit that option. Although I see people riding bicycles through winter in the city I live in, thats a risk I wouldn't take myself.
Enact a tax on automation. Don't do it immediately, do it when the tech hits the knee of the adoption curve. Use the income to implement a guaranteed basic income. Otherwise it's going to end in dystopia.
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Is there any date on when 1.9 will be released? I searched a little bit for the date but couldn't find anything concrete (I know I can access lambdas and that there is a spec "antishim"[1] for 1.8 - I'm just curious).

[1] https://github.com/tonsky/clojure-future-spec
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This study is unmitigated bullshit. They intentionally conflate the effect of robots with the trade deficit in their model. A $5 million California house bought every year by a Chinese oligarch is considered equivalent to 20 $50k/year jobs and Foxconn's 1.2 million employees are considered mathematical robots.

They effectively build an assumption into their model that offshoring only causes jobs if the offshored labor costs the same as American labor.

>There is tons of other research

None of it is good.
You're describing the world in terms of "should/ought" rather than "is". Yes, it would be nice to live in a world where every person has friends who are capable of connecting with and supporting them, but that is not the present world. The point of tech is scalability - you can implement something which can rapidly help _everyone_, especially those for whom other systems have failed.

Additionally, you're ignoring how hard it can be to adequately support a suicidal friend. Often times people want to help, but feel out of their depth and don't know how, and many people are unaware of the availability of resources such as the Crisis Text Line or Suicide Prevention hotline (which is what FB connects you with).

As for the "responsibility to connect with them", at a certain point your responsibility as a friend is to get someone professional help and intervention. Trying to keep a depressed friend afloat as a layperson is enormously taxing, and often unsuccessful. Yet people think they have a "responsibility" to keep trying, as a good friend, and can easily burn themselves out, with disastrous consequences for both themselves and their depressed friend.

I welcome any extra support technology and AI can provide, at least in terms of connecting people with the correct resources.
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Isn't this the case for many people travelling to the US?

It's really not about the travel ban, or being Muslim.
Reminds me of

http://www.lamdu.org/

while trying to remember the name I discovered:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/prune-a-code-editor...

http://jetbrains.com/mps

https://github.com/cxxtree/cxxtree

http://www.greenfoot.org/frames/

http://unisonweb.org/

https://github.com/chrisdone/structured-haskell-mode

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit

https://github.com/projectured/projectured
I've been lamenting this ever since CoD 4 which many hail as a pinnacle in gaming.

That was the day that gaming went from performance to grind.

In QuakeWorld when I started a match, I had the exact same pre-conditions as Thresh, other than me sucking as a player in comparison. The same was true in Counter-Strike (any iteration), and now Dota 2, which I've played for 2000 hours.

I've stopped playing every CoD, BF, LoL and any other metagame-unlocks/progression game within 100 hours because they've replaced real progression (you getting better) with synthetic progression with account levels, unlockables, game-affecting items, (microtransactions on top of that) etc, and some strategizing on what to equip out of what you've unlocked, but that's a poor reward.

I'm glad more big studios are going against that grain.
The reason why Polish citizens still need visas to US is that in the 90s, right after fall of communism in the country, a LOT of people went to US on tourist visas and simply stayed. By the time US was reconsidering whether to grant visa-free travel to certain European countries, Poland was above the arbitrarily chosen % of people who traveled to US on tourist visas and stayed, so it was decided that visas for Poles would remain a requirement.

Fast forward to now, and it's almost silly - I don't know any young Poles who would want to work in the US, literally any EU country is a better choice, and I know loads of people working in France, Spain, Germany, UK, Italy, Austria and Sweden, to name a few. US was a massive thing 27 years ago when people got passports for the first time and US was the big world, but nowadays? With its difficult job market, expensive healthcare, barely any employee protections, why would we go there?

I'd still love to visit to see all the touristy places in the US, but the idea of spending hundreds of dollars just go get to a nearest embassy, have to talk to a consul, prove to them that I am definitely not going to US to work, pay to get a visa, and then have to stress over whether TSA agents are having a good or a bad day and whether they will want to search my phone/laptop or not - no, thanks.
I couldn't agree more. I've trained regular volunteer soldiers and even then it's hard to motivate some of them from time to time, I can't imagine how hard it would be with conscripts...This also annoys me when idiot right-wing politicians vomit out the idea that criminal youth etc should be pushed into the army. It's both an insult to volunteers and professional pride/cohesion and impossible. This is not the 1930s, NCOs are quite rightfully not supposed to or should be going around kicking the shit out of people to "motivate" them.

The world and the military has moved on.
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>What we want are tools that allow us to build performant, maintainable, reliable code.

Virtually any mainstream language is capable of building performant, maintainable, reliable code. Virtually no developers are capable of creating performant, maintainable, reliable code. After decades in the industry and generations of new whizbang tools, libraries, and languages I've come to terms with the fact that the problem is "us." I've seen exactly one significant sized application keep those 3 qualifications for more than a couple of years. Once all the original core developers on the project moved on, it was less than a year before the code base was a total mess.

I think what you're really asking for is a tool that forces you to build performant, maintainable, reliable code. I'm not sure that's entirely possible until we get AI writing and maintaining its own code. Humans suck.
I'm a huge fan of trains and hate cars, but the motion sickness bifurcation you describe is unusual, so I would avoid trying to use motion sickness to carry water in pro-train arguments.

The vast majority of people who experience motion sickness in cars will also experience motion sickness in trains.

It took years for me to really understand why so many people don't love trains like I do: motion sickness makes the freedom, relaxation, and ability to focus on work I experience not universally shared.
This is hyperbole, Kotlin has fine adoption considering it only went 1.0 a year ago. Exactly how many times could you have tried and been denied the ability to use it within a year?

Spring is adding dedicated Kotlin support in 5.0 which is likely to give it a huge amount of credibility and make companies running on Spring more comfortable with adopting it.
Arlington resident here. Your comment in no way debunks the parent. The commenter did not say Arlington is a bad area. If I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt, you either misread or do not understand.
"Declared dead"? Maybe we've just seen different bubbles, but I've seen nothing but excitement for the switch. They have something like 100 titles from 75 different dev studios lined up for the first year. Obviously the Wii U died on the vine, but that was due to some terrible limitations and lack of 3rd party support, or so I am lead to believe.
What makes you think the switch needs saving? It isn't even out yet...
> save the Switch

From what? It isn't even out yet. How can something need saving if its not for sale is most of the world?
The fact that different algorithms are best for different tasks has more to do with computational complexity.

If we didn't care about resource usage then we could just pick a sufficiently expressive model class (e.g. all algorithms) to mix over, and perform Bayesian inference. You can look up AIXI and Solomonoff induction for more thoughts along these lines.
Yeah, the messaging around both companies needs to get a lot better.

Futurescaper is a tool for collaboratively creating and analysing crowd-sourced systems maps. The purpose of doing this is to better understand the dynamics of a complex problem domain, where many different perspectives are required to get a complete picture. It's not really about annotating documents; more about getting people to tell stories in ways that can be converted into causal graphs, which then can be combined with each other to produce a detailed map of the possibility space, which can then be inform strategic planning. If that makes any sense!

Our biggest customer is the United Nations, which uses it for projects like this one: http://www.la.one.un.org/media-center/publications/252-un-su...

The advantage of doing in this way is that it explicitly encourages the people who interact with it to take more of a systems approach to their thinking, helping to surface hidden root causes and predict unintended consequences or emergent knock-on effects.

It's a bit of an odd company, but happened kind of accidentally: just a weekend coding project (to assist a friend's dissertation on crowdsourced scenario planning) which spun badly out of control.
It's been more than 10 years since I've read such an uninformed comment
I used to feel similarly about the Windows software ecosystem.

Then I spent about a decade and a half trying to embrace alternatives and I concluded that software that handles general use cases is actually a hard, specialized-skillset problem, and there's a lot of benefit to the full-stack control (and large developer culture, and multi-decade legacy history of successful product) that a long-legacy monoculture provides. Most of the friction is in wanting to use something that isn't in your monoculture, and trying to solve that by building a more general solution really just adds another monoculture to be incompatible with your favorite one (see https://xkcd.com/927/). Virtualization has basically solved
that rare problem in my use-case.

To each their own, of course; I got bored with the game of making the computer architecture work over paying someone else to do that and then using the computer to make things.
Sweden had conscription until 2010, and there has been some political rhetoric about resuming it ever since then. So it's not the same thing as if, say, the US started a conscript today.

edit: and when I was conscripted in 2003, there was still a culture of "conscription is where boys become become a man". among my social group there was pretty widespread support for it (ranging from support to apathy to "it's just a waste of money". you could also be a conscientious objector and get civil service instead.)

edit2: random local news "asking youths on the street" article about the decision. ranging from positive to "i wouldn't agree to it" responses. https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2017-03-02/malmoungdomar-positiva...
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It seems to be be a bot crawling and posting contents of other people articles and blogs without giving due credit. I could see my own blog post appear there. Though I don't mind if someone publishes my post but a due credit must be given to the original author.

The link to "original article" seems to be broken and redirects back to its own homepage which makes it all the more suspicious.

Whois lookup didn't give much info on the owners also or any contact about them.
> k8s, for example, incorporates service discovery. As far as I can tell, swarmkit does not. k8s incorporates networking, containerd does not. Similar for things like ingress load balancing.

Swarmkit does in fact implement service discovery, networking, and ingress load-balancing. It also implements out-of-the-box node security and mutual TLS, secure secrets management, a built-in raft store, infrastructure-agnostic overlay networking, and various goodies which we needed to make Docker work great out of the box.

containerd is a different type of component entirely - in fact it is very complementary to kubernetes.

> There are certainly potential customers debating, directly, k8s vs your full Docker platform

They typically debate Docker vs kubernetes-based platforms (among other possible alternatives). If they're a Red Hat shop, they typically evaluate Openshift. Sometimes there's a team building an in-house platform. Nobody ever deploys kub alone in production. There is always some form of platform on top.
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A little searching brought up a recent survey of available "large" e-ink based readers which I'm pasting here in case others also find it useful: http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2017/01/19/large-e-ink-erea...
While optimizations to cost by ditching GPUs as a requirement are important (and presumably these systems benefit from GPU optimization as well, seems unclear from my skim of the paper), cheaper training is NOT just about saving your wallet.

A real emerging area of opportunity is having systems train new systems. This has numerous applications, including assisting DSEs in the construction of new systems or allowing expert systems to learn more over time and even integrate new techniques into a currently deployed system.

I'n not an expert here, but I'd like to be, so I'm definitely going to ask my expert friends more about this.
You can "expect" this all day but as long as you keep throwing your dollars to companies that try to pay their workers as little as possible (like Uber) they will continue to squeeze them as much as they can.
I'm not sure why Sweden would be concerned.

I read Russian news/propaganda occasionally. Over the last few years, Russian news/propaganda prepared Russian minds for interfering in Ukraine. And the propaganda includes arguments to justify a military buildup. And it seems to be preparing Russian minds for a possible invasion of Baltic states one day.

But I don't think I've even seen Sweden mentioned in Russian news/propaganda. I don't think Sweden is a target.
There will also be a sizable number of people who pick it up for Splatoon 2, Stardew Valley (for people who miss the old Harvest Moon games), Fire Emblem (2018), and Mario Kart (April 28th). Each of those has a large, dedicated fanbase. Although Stardew Valley may live on mostly PC-only due to the ability to mod the game.

If you're not a fan of Zelda or any of the above games - most of the other upcoming games aren't exclusives and you're probably better off getting the PS4/Xbox versions of the games (most seem to be PS4/Wii-U). Unless you see a 3rd-party exclusive that catches your eye.

I bought a Wii-u and played a whopping 2 (tomorrow will be 3) different games on it. I won't be buying a Switch since the Wii-u was such a disappointment, and I wasn't even expecting much to begin with. If the Wii-u can prove itself with better 3rd-party support and exclusive titles worth picking up, I'll do so. But I also own an PS4 and One.
Historically, technological advances do not lead to widespread unemployment, though they do generate widespread speculation about future unemployment.

If this time is different, then I think the answer will be in something like universal basic income. Preparing for that and avoiding chaos means introducing social structures and ideas that can lead us out of capitalism.
I read so many of these kinds of articles out of curiosity and rarely understand them.

Thank you for adding in the part about the bank teller.

For reference:
"it would be like hiring a bank teller who was trained to hand over all the money in the vault if asked to do so politely, and then entrusting that teller with the key."
Was there motivational problems among Brits in WWI and WWII? Maybe there is difference when you train to defend your own country versus going to some foreign country to fight abstract and vague threat or advance foreign policy goals.

At least here in Finland the motivation comes from clear and well defined threat. Enemy comes always from the east, if we don't fight we suffer other ways.

>What do you do with a conscript who never wanted to be there and possibly fundamentally isn't suited to military life anyway gives up?

Conscription does not mean that everyone serves. Everyone is called to be evaluated, some are not called to serve, some are sent home because they can't make it.
I agree. I'm just too lazy to add that. Actually on http://cirru.org/ there's a button named "Show me data". By clicking at the button you get the data in vectors, which is almost the thing you shown in the png. Personally I'm already familiar enough to read AST from the UI with nothing like assistant.

I think reading by a JavaScript programmer, TCO is "Tail Call Optimization".
The 2005 Doom was a movie....

[EDIT: Yes I know the post above has been edited to fix/clarify, no I can't delete this post.]
The general idea (using word frequencies in context) is Firth's distributional hypothesis [0]. Related to this is the idea of a distributional representation which is covered by Gardenfors in his book on conceptual spaces.

For word2vec and such, several papers in this year's TACL explain why these methods should work [1,2].

[0] https://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Distributiona...
[1] https://transacl.org/ojs/index.php/tacl/article/viewFile/742...
[2]https://transacl.org/ojs/index.php/tacl/article/viewFile/809...
You can probably get a used Wii U for cheap. It doesn't have a lot of interesting games, but for a low price, it's likely worth it for the Mario games and Zelda, and a few more.
I totally concur with the OP and the solution is NOT public transit. Public transit is designed to maximize the service to cover majority of the population but NOT 100% of the use cases and population due to the limited funding and resources governments are allowed to allocate to public transit.

I've been to 20 out of 30 world's mega cities. None that I've seen has a "reliable public transportation" that covers all the edge cases like what OP raised and yet have more than decent availability and punctuation. NYC's the closest and best of the bunch with 24/7 MTA subway/bus services together with LIRR/Metro North rail services. However, there are tons of pockets of places where public transit doesn't reach or VERY inconvenient to get to. This is true for tourists and visitors as well as regular commuters.

I've been a commuter riding America's third largest public transit system NJ Transit bus/rail for almost 14 years. And I have many many stories to tell you that public transit is far from perfect and it NEVER WILL BE. But for the 80% of the time when it functions well and punctuate it gets the job done. When it doesn't, I picked the lowest fair of ride for hail service, be it Uber or Lyft or anyone else who can help me get my commute's last-mile problem done. That's the consumer's perspective.
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Plus, we have to pad our rèsumès so we can move on to another job before anyone realizes how bad this pile of horse-dookey is and we have to figure out how to maintain it.
> - What is the best practice to define if you should PR the original repo or fork from it ?

It depends the context, if you aim to deeply modify the project by taking another direction, better to fork, in the other hand if you aim to participate to a bugfix or a new feature better to do a PR.

> - What is the Etiquette to maintain the original authors rights when forking ? How can you define his contribution ? is it based on the code yo exactly copied, the idea, the architecture ?

IMO it is a good thing to declare that the base work of the fork is taken from somewhere and is owned by his original author. Then if you plan to make changes you create a file where you list all your own contributions that are owned by you.

> - How to handle cases when there are no license information attached ?

In that case it is a good thing to ask the author in case there is no license. Otherwise you cannot do anything with it.

> - How to handle PRs/forks when you work merges/combines more than one original repo ?

There are some tools that can manage this by highlighting the possible conflicts among all the PRs (Jenkins for example), I don't know for the forks.

> - How to handle cases when conflicting licenses are used across repos that you have referenced ?

Unfortunately you cannot really do something, as legally if a license does not allows you to do something you cannot go against. A solution might be to talk with the respective authors of the conflicting repos.