skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question isn't whether the bureaucracy has lots of good, competent people who want to do the job right.

It is whether the people who rise to the top and represent the bureaucracy to decision makers are reporting reality accurately, or telling decision makers what they want to hear.
do you have buy kaggle to hire kaggle members?
MGR was awesome! Not extensible, but simple and clean, and efficient over a slow connection.

I once saw a great demo of it by its author, Stephen A. Uhler. For some reason, from then on, I always associate MGR with great big bushy moustaches.

https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/shrink_150_150/p/2/000/013/3...
...yeah, you're going to have to explain that one.

I seem to recall hearing somewhere that relationships are voluntary too, and there's groups offering help to anyone looking to escape a bad one. Yet, blaming people for not leaving immediately tends to be rather frowned on.

Is the difference just that in one case you're getting paid, and are therefore transformed into a perfectly rational homo economicus? Is it that it's easier to (know you need to) leave if the only danger is to your morals rather than to your physical body? Is it somehow easier to recognize moral danger than physical danger?
This is a ridiculous statement. Would you prefer I don't announce myself as an Uber employee when talking about Uber?
The Blekko slashtag collection is 4 years old, not updated, and only 5MB.
OK fine. But let's stop pretending.

The CIA has access to the search history and phone call log of everything single American, and is blatantly breaking the constitution, and every single one of them should be arrested and sent to jail, for breaking the US constitution.

It is "their job", but it is also illegal and they should be sent to jail for treason.

You are correct, though, that it is completely expected that they have spy tools that blatantly break our constitutional rights.
Thanks for the pointer. The full softmax implementation is here [1]. I have not read the code, but I can trust the developer to have a very fast implementation. Nonetheless, I don't think the reference implementation in your original link is optimal. Exp is expensive and should not be called twice (EDIT: unless you can show a benchmark to prove me wrong).

[1]: https://github.com/Maratyszcza/NNPACK/blob/master/src/x86_64...
WikiLeaks publishes 'biggest ever leak of secret CIA documents'
Ruby version is a pretty clear one-liner:

validated_items = items.select { |item| is_validated?(item) }

Though I'd expect a check for validation to be an instance method, so it'd probably look like:

validated_items = items.select(&:validated?)
Same as Apple - they don't have a free edition of the MacBook Pro. ;-)

As a one man shop, I used to buy Visual Studio but now I don't, so I'm thankful for the Community Edition.
Thanks for taking an interest. :)

I guess it’s still in a “promising but very incomplete” state. Lately I have a pretty clear sense of how I want the language to be, and people seem pretty excited about it. It’s just a matter of finding the energy to do the work…

Also, follow the repo if you want updates. The website hasn’t been updated in like 2 years, and probably won’t be until I need to prepare for a release.
When is the last time they did a big release that targeted the Russian Federation? I'm asking this because I sincerely don't know but I'm guessing the answer is that they never do. Their actions point to at least tacit cooperation with the Russian Federation.

Obviously and indisputably, any organization that really placed openness and opposition to secrecy as their highest values would put the Russian Federation at the top of their list. Clearly, WL has instead placed the United States at the top and dropped the Russians from the list altogether.

Wikileaks objectives seem to line up with the Russians too often to dismiss as coincidence. For example, WL clearly timed and staggered the DNC releases for maximum political impact. It had absolutely nothing to do with openness as clearly working for Russia against the United States in this last election worked against the objective of a more open world. This is not even a political statement but just acknowledging reality to state that supporting authoritative regimes is serving the interests of those who stand in direct opposition to the stated goals of WL.

I'm guessing that WL had integrity at one time but they were compromised and then captured. Their priorities alone make this completely obvious to anyone not in denial.

It's weak to take a hard position claiming something is true that is obviously not true. To those who employ this tactic, I respectfully request that you stop leaning on the crutch of reality denial to defend your positions. Please defend your positions on the merits, while acknowledging its weaknesses, even acknowledging that you're wrong when you are wrong. If you've never openly admitted that you were wrong on something in the course of a discussion then why bother?
"this countries system"

Maybe it's the education system? If it can't teach people how to spell, what hope if there for it to teach people how to govern?
Stuff like this is one of the big reasons I am a fan of web apps over mobile apps. Letting apple or google have control over this channel is just too risky for me.
The difference is that Bell didn't understand aerodynamics and didn't seem to do a thing about it.

The Wright brothers, not happy with they thought they knew about aerodynamics built their own wind tunnel and proceeded to fully understand what they needed in order to achieve successful controlled flight under power.

Bell's design was nearly optimized for all forms of drag.
I appreciate that you are one that can recognize the beauty of originalism. There is something to be said for first principles, and something that we can all learn by doing what we can to abide by the idea that every piece of knowledge that is taught is done so not only by design but with our best interests at heart.

Needless to say, I want to share a little piece of code I wrote that uses first principles in terms of data structures, and is perhaps my magnum opus. It's not sophisticated, but it does work, and it works because I refined it again, and again, and again. And I think that is the gist of this article. Refinement reduces cognitive load more than any other technique (in my perhaps not so humble opinion..haha).

If you'd like to look at my code, please go to github.com and search for justSomeGuyWhoLearnedToCode. The Trust repository has the code that I wrote as a trust fund for some very good friends of mine, but as I cannot seem to get in touch with them, I am sharing it with the world.

It requires some compiling, but man when that thing cooks, it cooks with gas, mi amicis.

I'm working on a sequel using NLP that I am going to add to the repo on Monday, so keep your eyes and ears open for that too.

And if you fret about how well you write code, just remember, the mere fact that you are writing code speaks to your tenacity as a problems solver and your participation in the process is well being commendable if and when you step back from your "self" and look at all of the progress you have made. Don't write functional code, or perfectly simplisitic code, or code that sparkles when you're done, instead write code that reads like poetry. Write your life into it. Write your heart into it. Write your soul into that logic, because that code is forever. It is your statement to the world that you are an artist, and your art is the marriage of logic and beauty, of solutions to probelsm so large we harness the power that binds the atoms together, and have machines building machines building machines to lithograph the transistors that can fit (like so many angels) a thousand on the head a pin.

Bless serendipity, and bless the dudes at Bell labs, Alan Turing, Charles Babbage, Rosy the fucking Riveter, and everyone else who made the computer possible. We are on the cusp of a new age, and quantum computers will revolutionize (a word I almost never use) the way we make medicine, and the way to outer space then become much, much easier and the world that we live in will become much happier as we share our progress with the less fortunate. Get ready, folks, because the whole shmear is waiting just around the next bend.

And for you "older" fogies, check out the Win 10 default wallpaper, and think of the line: "You are in a room, and you see a window".

Peace is God
Sadly I think 5 years to sunset is an optimistic estimate.
The rewrite in TensorFlow is somewhat worrying though, since TensorFlow is open source, meaning that there's no real benefit to google if it's written in TensorFlow (except for recruitment purposes).

It's worrying since it suggests that google might be planning to make it, or at least parts of it proprietary in the future....

For the record, I don't think that google will, but I'm still worried about the possibility....
Wow, inspiring comments. I am a 30-year-old software engineer — not married, no kids, but reading the comments here gets me thinking that however busy I think I am, I wouldn't even dare to compare to what you all are going through. Instead, I should stop fooling myself of thinking that I am busy and cease to be lazy.
The internet and all electronics have just become one big spying and manipulation device and this is further evidence of that. No person who values freedom wants anything like that. I don't want to sit at home knowing that someone can listen in and see and record every thing I do! I am so close to throwing all of these electronics devices in the bin.

You are right that a spy agency should be expected to try to find ways into all of these devices. You are of course wrong in trusting that the spy agency is acting in your best interests. They don't have any accountability as we cannot see what they are doing. Wikileaks is the only organisation trying to bring accountability to the unaccountable.
There was one time that I tried to submit a correction to Google Maps anyway, not out of generosity but just to fix a navigation glitch, and the team that handles that data was quite rude about it.

I was trying to point out that if you're in Cambridge, MA and you voice search for "transit directions to Harvard Square", you should get directions to the well-known public square and commercial hub, not a mall parking lot in Charlestown.

After I tried to convey this through an interface that had no option for "you're failing to give directions to this extremely relevant place", they testily told me that the mall data was 100% correct. A team of people who had probably not been to the Boston area questioned who I was to tell them what is or isn't named Harvard Square.

Eventually I got it fixed by Google's real bug report process: bringing it up in conversation around people who worked at Google.
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> I'm not a C dev, but is "(null != thing)" still a convention? (Based on your comment it sounds like yes)

I'd rather call it a trend than a convention.
Yeah I had the same, I have been developing now at various levels for 15 years since university and I can honestly say I have never once come across anything that has needed it! Then again I would say seeing as I am primarily web based it's not likely I would vs someone coding realtime systems
I'd argue it's great for the cow! Think about it they're doing really well as a specie, never before in history they were so successful and enjoyed such high numbers. Their population has simply sore, that however cannot be said about most other species. Also Daniel Dennet gave a TED talk about this. [1]

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_s_response_to_rick_war...
They run an illegal taxi service. There's an app for it too.
What are you talking about. Julian absolutely hates Hillary, and for good reason. Hillary and the Obama administration hardcore went after him. Of course he hates them. So him being biased is completely expected.
Well I'm not sure if they expose their members' contact info or if it'd be easy for Google to advertise on their site as effectively.
I've recently been looking into React-Native. I'm hesitent to commit because i believe there's 'hot code push' potential and Apple will be a b*h about it. I not sure if this is the case thou.
Care to explain what kaggle means to a woman?

Do you mean kegel, the exercise?
I can confirm that Kaggle runs on Azure because I block all Microsoft IPs (to avoid the ninja Windows 10 upgrade) and must disable the blocker in order to go on the site.
> He said that this leak is naming real departments whose existence is classified.

The example he gave is the IOC, whose existence is not classified. https://fcw.com/articles/2015/10/01/cia-digital-directorate....

He has confirmed nothing that more credible sources haven't already confirmed, and he has added clearly false interpretations of documents that others like Rob Graham have already explained correctly.

As far as his "special expertise," he got so many things wrong in his own leaks that he hardly seemed credible in 2013. Now that we've heard from those around him (see the last two paragraphs of https://www.thecipherbrief.com/article/exclusive/first-ciphe... and his failed analyst test in https://news.vice.com/story/exclusive-snowden-tried-to-tell-... and subsequent success after getting the answer key off the intranet), I can understand why he gets so many things wrong.
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Oh gosh, that sounds absolutely horrible and clearly unfair, I'm truly sorry to hear that (if you live in the states).
I'm a big fan of immutable objects. Best of both worlds in my opinion.
As I said above: Oh gosh, that sounds absolutely horrible and clearly unfair, I'm truly sorry to hear that (if you live in the states).
The value of all of these electronics devices becomes increasingly smaller the more you find that they are all just listening and recording everything you do and sending that information to some powerful entity.

The people who run these electronics companies might want to think about that if they have the best interests of their shareholders in mind.
It's worse when you have a black mark on your record for actually hustling.
>Essentially, the theory can be disproved by contradiction/occams razor.

You haven't disproved anything. You've stated an opposing viewpoint.

I haven't seen any evidence that leads me to believe that someone in the administration leaked this to harm the CIA, but nothing you said came close to proving that that's not what happened.

>the reason this fails as an argument - is that gutting the security apparatus of the state when you control it, is absurd

Your entire argument rests on the assumption that the hypothetical administration leakers will come to the same cost benefit conclusion you did. I can think of limitless situations in which covertly injuring the CIA may appear to be worth it to people within the administration.

The administration doesn't appear to trust the CIA and it's entirely possible they view them as an enemy to be dealt with rather than an asset to be controlled. Again I don't think this is the likely explanation, but it's not so unlikely that you can just throw out "occams razor I'll accept your concession now."
Could you provide a source which backs LA's metro area being denser than NYC's?

I've yet to see any sort of metric (certainly not the US Census) that supports that claim.
I have a 16 month old, do engineering (performance testing, load testing, distributed systems testing, database optimizations, and more for https://github.com/amark/gun ), but also am the CEO. This means I correspond with investors, do fund raising (which is another full time job), and of course have to be around for sales and everything else.

What is the magic sauce to doing it all?

Family.

I owe everything to my supportive wife, who herself just successfully defended her PhD last week and published a paper with one of the most prolific scientists in psychology (and science in general, Baumeister has over 120,000 citations - more than Hawking!).

When you make sure you have a healthy relationship, by edifying each other and promoting each other's ideals/dreams, life becomes a flourishing whirlwind of excitement - psychologists call this "eudaimonia".

Care for, and love what is right, true, noble, and worthwhile. All else will fade away, and then you'll have time for what matters. And never, ever, give up.
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It's amazing how focused Google is on AI compared to the other giants. I think it's a great investment on Google's part and congrats to Kaggle.

I hope the mission of the site doesn't change. I think Facebook did a great job with whatsapp and instagram. I expect the same with Kaggle.
How about heroku?
I can get foo.author.title and foo.post.title no problem using Object.assign:

Object.assign({}, { author: author }, { post: post });

Can you give a better example of where a reference to an instance is any different than copying an instance?

EDIT: I fixed your example. https://jsbin.com/zamuqoropa/1/edit?js,console

EDIT 2: In fact, my Object.assign does exactly the same thing as your example of composition. And
console.log(obj1.author === obj2.author);
produces 'true'.
https://jsbin.com/vafudizumo/1/edit?js,console
Either you're doing composition wrong, or I'm not doing inheritance like you are claiming.
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Are you in finance?
Bureaucracy and honesty does not go hand in hand! I am more worried that when a disaster strikes it will not only destroys lives but then the government resolve to increase taxes and regulation fighting windmills will destroy even more lives. Just like how 9/11 has put America into a perpetual mega expensive war with no objectives.
You're misunderstanding hustle with commitment and energy. See, hustle is urgency for sake of urgency at the expense of everything, including breaking rules and social values.

Going without consensus is also one way companies (esp. small ones) implode or do unethical and illegal things.

What is more, this hustling approach discounts brand perception and PR. We see the effects. You may be fast, but if you damage your brand badly enough in the process you might have as well not have done anything.
Right, they apply different reasoning depending on the circumstances, all of these are linked to their religious beliefs and they feel if their society is contributing to them then that includes them and in turn goes against their religion. Which on it's own is valid too, but then that points to their religion leading them down a path and then not being able to help them, so it's kind of a mess of contradictions. But you can't really have a conversation with someone about how their religion is flawed, that doesn't go well. So hum...
Addressing your last point because I'm not informed enough to argue the first questions: They differ only in the amount of space it takes to give an example. Imagine a loved one being held as leverage to force you to kill someone. You could beg/plead/bargain to avoid it, but if the only email that's published is the one that says "it's done. he's dead" that strips away a significant bit of context. Now, scale things up to state-level complexity and imagine being able to cherry pick the context in which things are said.
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MoonScript is designed to compile to Lua, and there are no good ways to run Lua in the browser right now. It's impossible to write a Lua -> JS transpiler while matching all the same functionality (coroutines), so the only option is to run the entire Lua vm in the browser (The MoonScript online version uses this approach with emscripten).

In the future I'd like to be able to run MoonScript in the browser, maybe web assembly is the answer.

Another option would be to have a JS target for the MoonScript compiler, but there are some issues with different language features that would make code sharing difficult (1 indexed arrays, metatables, etc.)

I have no plans to give up moonscript. I haven't been actively developing it recently though, which I feel guilty about.
I get what you're trying to say, I'm even inclined to agree, but how can "they" fight each other with the truth if only one of the sides fighting gets it's dirty secrets outed?

During the elections I kind of wrote it off as them being prepared for Hillary and unprepared for Trump, but I have to wonder why they haven't run any leaks on Trump by now, considering how willing people seem to be to leak information. Where is his taxes? Where is the truth about his Russian ties?

I mean, take a stroll through the front page of Wikileaks and then tell me you don't wonder about the lack of Russian stories. Does Russia not have leakers?
It's all about finding a routine and following it as closely as possible, and adapting as needed. For me, it's at night when everyone is asleep.

Family is the most important. Cherish every moment. Reflect on those cherished moments. Time is but a fleeting thing.
The CIA is specifically constructed to operate in other countries. I see no reason to think that they are "blatantly breaking the constitution."

There are other agencies like the NSA that are spying on Americans, but I've seen no evidence that the CIA is doing this.

It is the CIA's job to spy on other countries and that doesn't violate the constitution. Nothing in the leak so far says that the CIA is spying on Americans.
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This is unclear from the doc though. "Purchased" could mean they purchased the exploit from a hacking group or from the developers of the software (to keep it unsafe). Snowden'a tweet seems premature unless there are more documents showing this.
Recruitment is an important purpose, though. Having a steady supply of pre-Tensorflow-trained engineers available is presumably why they opened up Tensorflow to begin with. They're not going to benefit more than that anytime soon by closing it off again.
I think their play has been building specialized hardware that executes TensorFlow better than anyone else. "You could use a GPU to do this, but check out our custom ASIC that does it 400x faster for 1/5th the cost..."
I don't care of they're struggling with or without quotes.

What sucks is sweeping generalisations. Which is exactly what is going on. I'm pretty sure most people went were because of tech challenge and/or money. Not because of chasing bro culture or possibility to offend coworkers.

From what I read about Uber, it looks like most people were not happy about what was going on. There were a small amount of assholes (which exist in any company or community). The problem is that management is OK with assholes and give them a pass. However, all the good folks are thrown together with few assholes.

P.S. I'd be happy to see Uber gone. I'm not using it on principle for their "disruption" mentality. As well as the rest of "sharing economy".
I wonder if Nest has support contracts for any Java 6/7 they are still using.
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Makes sense. Azure LBs do not support ICMP and all ping packets are dropped. You can't ping any Azure-hosted services. Kaggle.com fits the description.
Time management, to me, is a more powerful "skill up" than anything that could keep your GitHub green. When you know you have limited hours in the day and you have hard time commitments, you have no choice but to learn and work efficiently.
This is the future everyone is choosing. You don't own your devices, you don't own the apps you write, and you're not smart enough to be able to decide what is "good" code vs "bad" code. Just let the algorithms, corporations, and governments decide what is best for you. It's much easier that way, after all.
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