skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The compounded impact from multiple people is not negligible.
> No major revelations of political support

Why is this one a thing? Almost every business out there beyond a certain size eventually grows into politics, in every industry.
Not really at all. A sufficiently expert programmer may be able to switch between Java and Scala with the same ease of switching between brands of screwdriver. But that same programmer would certainly not use Java and Scala in the same ways, as they would with two different brands of screwdriver.
Does any know if the sources for Dmoz are available? I found http://www.dmoz.org/docs/en/cmbuild.html but couldn't find anything beyond that. While a global directory of the Internet may not be too useful and have largely been replaced by spidering and search, I think specialised directories still have a place and it would be cool if communities could reuse the existing code for that.
Is the train door-to-door?
In the end you are the reason that uber drivers are being paid so little and have such bad working conditions!

Btw, couldn't you ride a bike sometimes? 6 miles sounds doable and would, likely, benefit your health.
VCs can't reasonably invest in a company where their upside is capped at a 5x return, because they need the long tail, 20x-100x returns to pay for all the 0x returns in the portfolio.

No, a VC doesn't hate you at the end of the game if they get paid 5x. That's different than answering the question "Will they invest for a promise of a 5x return?"
> From my very personal point of view, the TurboFan optimizing compiler at that time was probably the most beautiful version we ever had, and the only version (of a JavaScript compiler) where I could imagine that a “sea of nodes” approach might make sense (although it was already showing its weakness at that time).

What were the weaknesses of the Sea of Nodes? Backwards data flow analysis and control flow sensitive analysis being hard?
There's a lot of nice things you can do in CSS for printing. I worked on a project to make web articles printable. The last version focused more on doing the printing via the browser using CSS for creating columns. Here's a video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=854Csokl3QA and some notes in our blog: http://blog.fivefilters.org/post/75603097111/pdf-newspaper-2...

The software itself is free to try at http://fivefilters.org/pdf-newspaper/
x86 Paging Tutorial
Because we'd need significantly more land/pasture to feed livestock that way.
You assume he cares more about the driver than his own internal state.
I was thinking about doing something similar with bigquery and github data to search for uses of strncpy in C code. But I am not that good with the query language and also bigquery didn’t support multiple users properly (this adds friction).

I still think it’s a good idea. It would be even better to search for a few C pitfalls more, but strncpy is probably the easiest to search for.
It was not elitism my constructive point but this: "Unpopular as it may be, the latest tools come pretty good as black boxes, so that creativity is shifted from maths to application domains." There are several tech fields and all the human sciences that are directly benefitting from an 80/20 data science approach and these are the new domains being added, they also have higher ceiling if you want.
Apple patents Roman-style scroll device with flexible OLED screen
This attitude is why Game Development is such a terrible career. You get pennies for doing a difficult job under the guise of "yay fun" as though it is not a multi billion dollar business. You will be hard pressed to find a bigger mug than a mid level game developer. I remember working on the physics of Resistance at Sony for the PS3, and I was picking up 34 bags a year. Pretty much every other programming role I have had since is not only magnitudes easier, but pays way way more. It makes no sense to me at all.
Your point is spot on but only disproves the likelihood of any coming calamity. Understood in the way you describe, automation making human labor input redundant has been pervasive and relentlessly constant for at least 100 years. This sort of technological progress is precisely what accounts for improved economic productivity.

Interestingly, productivity has plateaued these past few years at the same time we're supposedly entering a golden period for applied machine learning. There are a million ways to explain that away, of course, but it's a reality people should really consider carefully before reflexively dismissing as transient.

In any event, if productivity improvements were to kick into high gear tomorrow we could expect more of the same--increasing displacement but not an overall, calamitous reduction in jobs per se. The increase in the unemployed labor force will open up new opportunities for businesses built around human services, while the reduction in prices for consumer goods will allow people to spend more money on those new services.

Things can totally get worse, especially in terms of wage inequality. But the laws of supply & demand make it almost impossible for a complex labor economy to simply fall off a cliff in the ways that overly imaginative "futurists" and "thinkers" would have us believe. In terms of basic economics, nothing about machine learning is substantially different from historical disruptions.

If you were to teleport somebody from 100 years ago to today, and then to 20 years from now, the relative differences in automation and computer intelligence between today and 20 years in the future would likely be indistinguishable from his perspective when comparing either of those time periods to 100 years ago. And yet without a doubt the contemporary and future economies would be far stronger, wealthier, and even more "equal" compared to the time period he came from. All precisely _because_ of that automation, not despite it.
Infinity Multiplication – Chapter 3B – Java
Marketing material and PR stuff...a lot (IKEA catalogue, Lego boxes). I know it's used in warehousing (routes to locations of stuff, basically HUD of sorts) and it's used a lot for product demos/sales (think demoing some machine at a convention).

IKEA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC6t2eEPkPc
Lego (oldish): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uqxsIQNUPU
The ocean cleanup project is working to remove plastic: https://www.theoceancleanup.com/ I'm not affiliated so can't speak for due diligence etc. but they have posted regular progress updates whilst they test and develop their solution
Of course it isn't. But the marginal impact is. That's the difference between "go vegetarian" vs. "convince millions to go vegetarian".

I'm asking for things a skilled individual can do that would have larger marginal impact that changing one's own dietary habits.
If you meant to be sarcastic I still dont get it. If you didnt, why do you attribute the first to the op?
Selling at 1% under market price is only a loss if you're acquiring from the same market.
HN just won't be the same
Algorithms and data structures will be mostly the same regardless of what language you use.

Architecture will generally not be. Scala and Java encourage building applications in different ways. That doesn't mean one is better than the other (though I'd argue you could make that claim), but some problem domains are better modeled with Scala, and likely some with Java. And some programmers work better tending toward a pure, immutable, functional style, while others work better with OO, side effects, and mutable data.

While choice of language/framework may not be as important as many other choices you need to make when building an application, but it's not something that should be dismissed as irrelevant, either.
They're doing good work and I work in the preservation industry. Unfortunately, many games in the last 5-10 years and maybe even a bit earlier than that have been moving to "if the company isn't running the centralized black box server, this game simply can't work" model. I think the main reason being anti-piracy and DRM, but the side effect is those games are much harder to preserve.
Great article, thanks.
> You don't really need advice about funding from anyone, just look at some successful companies and see what they did. Funding is one of the few aspects where you can mimic your startup idols because it's public info.

Survivorship bias, anyone? You can look backwards at all the success stories. That tells less than 1% of the story, though. What about all the failed companies that did the same thing as the successes? What about all the factors that were irrelevant to success, yet apparent in the success stories?

> The fact is, all the biggest unicorns had enough promise and brains behind them to retain majority ownership

Isn't that pretty close to saying, "All the successful unicorns had apparent qualities of successful unicorns along the way"? How do I become tall? Ensure the top of your head is far away from your feet.
As a counterweight against drivers competing for customers on price, maybe customers should compete for social status through publicly verifiable tipping?
Would also be nice with a guide on how to use them
And yet its been commonly limited or forbidden to let services like Uber operate the way they do in the US. Berlin has uber with taxis only, for example.
We also need to treat people that ignore evidence of racial differences the same then.

It is obvious to see - marathon runners, sprinters, etc
More than 10 years ago I was asked to provide some insights about Java and Python for internal use in our lab.
Despite IBM involvement in Java at that time, both Java and Python were see as possibibly immature by my boss.
My own conclusion was exactly what you wrote.
In fact during the Internet bubble there was a recruiting crisis, and Java (Python was not mature enough at that time) was exactly what was needed: A language for undergraduate people that produces good results, was easy to read and maintain, while forbiding "innovative" but often buggy code.
Any chance this or something else could make it into core so that the user doesn't have to go through hoops? Having to add a library to get that is just very...perl lol.
I don't personally care what S3 is built using, but that doesn't mean the people who built S3 shouldn't care. Java, Scala, etc. are all tools with different strengths and weaknesses. Use the best tool for the job, considering the experience and capabilities of the team you have.
Exactly right, we're looking at a hole in modern video game archival history with the way the industry models their games these days. The older games aren't nearly as hard to preserve.
This is a fantastic write-up!

While I've often felt many of the pain points in the article and they were never explained anywhere (that I saw anyway).

I'd often profile/benchmark something, make sure it's fast enough to use in our performance critical section of the code, only to find that once in the application I'd only get a fraction of the speed I was expecting.

I would then hop over to using --trace-opt only to find that functions were getting deoptimized or never optimized in the first place and I'd start playing the game of trying things here and there to get it to cooperate. And in some cases --trace-opt wouldn't tell me anything that I could usefully understand yet my code would still be slow.

Here's to hoping that turbofan clears up a lot of these weird cases!

And slightly off topic, but what are the plans for the dart VM? Is it going to end up using TurboFan or will it stay with Crankshaft?
Its ridiculous that they don't just pick this up automatically but you can specify what you're interested in from your profile preferences on the Steam store. My recommended games became so much more useful once I turned off early access games and filtered out open world survival and zombie games.
FYI in most jurisdictions the tip is shared by both wait and kitchen staff, by law.
Hmm the linux download gives me a .deb file only. I know I could try to extract the binary from it... but I'm too lazy. (ArchLinux user)
As a defense I'll say this: I'm arab, grew up mostly on online and speak and write four languages. Their grammars do intertwine, and I can't help it much. my colloquialisms and vernacular are not on paar with that of a native speaker's - my academic work had a higher quality of writing due to proof reading and tight work with a thesaurus.

And it's been a while since I was a student. Cut me some slack :p

And I know I should've written 'i have' instead of 'i've' - in Arabic we say 'ill efforts blacken the face'
You have cash in your pocket.
The primary reason to learn new web framework all the time is that current are still not quite there yet. It needs more maturation till it can stabilize into something good enough.
GitLab 8.17.2 released
Bill Gates is suggesting that we move from taxing "income paid to employees" to taxing "value of work done".

If my employer replaces me with a robot, and nothing else changes, then my employer saves the cost of my wages minus the cost of the robot. I'm worse off, the robot manufacturer is better off, my employer is much better off, but society as a whole is worse off as it now has less tax income but one more unemployed person to support. Gates' suggestion means that I'd still be worse off, the robot manufacturer would still be better off, my employer would still be better off (but slightly less so), but society wouldn't be as worse off because tax revenue stays the same which (theoretically) covers the cost of my unemployment. Everyone wins (except me).

In the case of "Let's say someone build a free software that automates the job of 100 million people.", why should employers who replace people with said software get the benefit of the software and also reduce their contribution to society? Why can't they 'just' get the benefit of the software?
Out of curiosity - which large projects are actually using Akka?
This is ridiculous?
Yeah, it used to live at http://directory.mozilla.org/ (actually that URL still redirects to dmoz).
That may be the point the OP was making, and if that's so, I'd counter that the point is irrelevant to make. Sure, the user of your software doesn't care what it's written in. Duh. Why should they? If they did, it'd be weird. But the people actually writing the software should care about choosing tools that fit the problem. Not because the end-user will care, but because choosing a more appropriate tool will allow them to build software that gets to market faster, and has fewer bugs and is easier to maintain.
> We now need to limit the artificial growth of Africa by stopping food programs and allowing balance to be reached.

That's not how it works. Check out Hans Rosling:
https://www.gapminder.org/videos/will-saving-poor-children-l...
The problem is that technology on the web increasingly goes through an inflection point.

Prior to the inflection it is too early to standardize, because it's not clear that how something will actually work, or whether it'll actually be use.

Post inflection point, there is an established way of doing things (by sheer weight of running code), so standardization often offers little benefit.

During the inflection point, those involved are generally way too busy to worry about standardization!
Why pricy? Do you know what Zones A+B cover in Berlin?
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I thought Go was the replacement for Java.
I enjoyed reading this.
So if this works well why is there no comparison on ImageNet?
I think GNU should just be rebranded and called Linux. Linux as an umbrella OS brand already includes a lot of software outside of GNU and GNU isn't a very recognized name - I've only heard people talk about it in the context of "that mad guy Stallman who dresses like the pope". The fight is already lost and has been lost for the last 20 years, just call yourselves Linux already, or maybe "Linux System Core". Then we'll be able to run Linux on BSD and the world will finally end.
The difference between an acquisition cost per customer but making money on each transaction and losing money on each transaction is that the first can be a viable business if you can retain customers long enough while the second will always lose money.

Offering below-cost deals to all customers for a time (to acquire them) then raising prices to a profitable level is different from either. Unlike the second, it might make money in the long run. Unlike the first, the ability to make a profit hasn't been demonstrated yet.
A bunch of people from browsers tried to get interest in registering a font top-level type around five years ago IIRC and the basic conclusion on the IANA side was that they did not want to add a new top-level media type and that they should just be under the application media type.

For example, when WOFF was being standardised, nobody in the WG wanted application/font-woff, but it was the best that there was consensus for with IANA.
What are the benefits or drawbacks of Redhat Openshift?
What are the benefits or drawbacks of Redhat Openshift compared to other platforms?
No-Cost VM Migration to Google Cloud Platform Now Available with CloudEndure
Chewing Tobacco Side Effects
Very true. If you can pay €250-350 for a month of uber-ing, vs €100 for bus tickets, and you don't mind spending the money, why not go for the Uber?
Dirt Rally Now on Linux
Are you sure that the reduced FOV is an artifact of opaque rendering? Also there is a physical clicker as well. Hand gestures are not mandatory.
"Yes, but poor people use public transportation to come from bad neighborhoods to good neighborhoods to rob us! We must ban all expansion of public transportation!"

This exact sentiment is echoed by many in the US as a reason to not expand public transit. When asked about criminals driving cars to commit crimes, they were not open to bulldozing the roads over. It's gross.
I'm kind of making the point that in many environments you'll need both? A nailgun (battery or gas powered) for the "bulk" jobs and a hammer for the finer work. I can't imagine anyone being effective in Scala without first having a good knowledge of Java. Or at least without having Java expertise near to hand.
Physicist Kip Thorne sticking his tongue out like Einstein
It's a small european country and easy to get the bike out of it. Unless absolutely every country adopts this system, it will remain useless.
BGP in 2016
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in a 1:1 substitution case. but locally, sustainably (yeah, maybe not the right
word ... organically?) produced meat is more expensive, which should lead
people to eat less meat, but if they eat meat to consume meat produced
locally with a smaller environmental footprint (if that's the case, I'm not an
expert in that field).

maybe that's just wishful thinking though.
Lyft tipping policy shows how US-Centric they are

If they want to grow, they'll have to address that. Fast
I have never gotten a response from them against my YouTube channel, how long did they take to respond back to you? I have 150subscribers and 2k views in a few months
Money enables you to exchange goods without worrying about having the exact thing your neighbor is looking for. Shiny rare metals were money for awhile, and I guess the thing that people tended to value most, gold etc., ended up representing the universal trading platform.

Arguing that the creation of money was tied to the creation of armies sounds like a political view that someone might push alongside the promise of peace on earth.

Yet, animals fight over food. If humans didn't have money, we'd fight over that or something else that maintains our health and well being.
I don't know about the others, but the two visions dataset they compare to (MNIST and the face recognition one) are small datasets and the CNN they compare to doesn't seem very state of the art.

It also seems each layer of random forest just concatenates a class distribution to the original feature vector. So this doesn't seem to get the same "hierarchy of features" benefit that you get in large-scale CNN and DNN.
Very good idea, thanks! I went with #2, as I feel that it's more generic and easier for players to implement.
And these days its also about the tools that a strongly typed well structured language enables. I can refactor many things in IntelliJ in a trice. I've heard Bjarne Stroustroup bemoan the fact that the C++ community "can't have nice things" like this because so much of the community still holds on to legacy kludgy practices like cpp macros.
Interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su
This is exactly how it should be, if companies are going to use automation to save $$ on the heads of people, they should also pay their fair share of the work done by AI
Checkout https://docraptor.com/ - it's great - is commercial but affordable.
I was looking into PhantomJS, this must be added since then. Great!
There's products on the market dedicated to abstracting clouds for using more than one or switching easily. I'd be shocked if there weren't companies using them for the former. Those most concerned with availability usually just avoid clouds, though.
Yeah, I looked at pyyaml's documentation last night while writing pls2upl, and the format is so complex that this looks like it's going to be a clusterfuck. I'm thinking of switching to JSON in the end...
If you are writing code alone, yes. If you are trying to decipher a lot of code somebody else created, not so much.
They typically respond to our requests in around 2-3 days, but we've been rejected 4 or 5 times over the last month.
Oh god I remember reading so much about till and until. covers face in shame

I think I even forgot the difference between conjuncts and adjuncts, too. Grammar 1/2/3 were tough courses.

I'm leagues below the level of a native speaker, I'll admit that! But I did still do a ton of reading, which did improve my English, but won't protect against common pitfalls :P it could've been worse. At least I don't make those "your" "you're" mistakes, too often :D
That's exactly what I was going to post, but you beat me.
I found surprising that they claim competitive performance over neural networks just using a CPU. The advantage I think neural networks have over all other methods is how efficiently they run on GPUs. I would love to see other methods take advantage of modern hardware or parallelism and see if they can catch up with neural networks on image classification.
I'm consistently amazed by how often I see Americans brag about their "right" to shoot up a school. As someone from another country it's such an absurd thing to see that it still surprises me.

Such a crazy cognitive dissonance. What about your right to have a bomb? Or a biological weapon?

Such an actively harmful hill to die on.