skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like these kind of "Hello, world!" examples for TensorFlow. As a TensorFlow beginner, I need all the references I can get. Here is what I need right now: "Hello, we meet again!". I can build a neural net model, and train (albeit, often badly) a model, but saving and restoring the trained weights so that I can run the model again is giving me fits. I am clearly missing something fundamental about how to restore a TensorFlow NN model.

For your next tutorial, may I suggest: 1) a list of do's and don'ts for constructing a savable/restorable model, and 2) a wee bit of example code.

Of course, now that I have discovered Keras I'm moving away from low-level direct TensorFlow. But I suspect I'm not the only one a bit foggy about the whole save/restore work flow.
Or just monitor the stories that get flagged off the front page (~25 over several weeks according to the post) and take appropriate measures (e.g. restoring with relative time and penalize flaggers). Of course they first have to decide whether they want users who cares about the stories they submit and therefor think that non bad things getting flagged off the front page is a problem.
What is racist about not wanting things to change? This is a totally separate issue from racism. Calling it "boys will be boys" or "girls will be girls" is a gross oversimplification.
The crimes against dopamine
But those tend to hire/promote CEOs who can actually push things forward.
That's for faster loading, and can be disabled.
It appears we are using different definitions of "central planning". To the degree that the bureaucracy dictates who is allowed to immigrate, when, and for what purpose, the bureaucracy is planning the economy.

If your proposal is not affecting who arrives and for what job, then what's the point of it?
You are not testing a crypto hash. "Crypto hash" means it is cryptographically strong, not truncated to 16 bits. For example ZFS with checksum=sha256 will use the full 256-bit hash for detecting data corruption.
> I'm in favor of a solid border control regime (i.e. "build the wall")

Walls going up are days of sadness. Walls broken down are days of joy.

The thing to keep in mind here is that such walls built to keep others out can be used just as easily to keep the locals in (on either side).
Not that I endorse this reality, but we have been, for quite a long time, a society that has one set of laws for certain segments of society and another set for disparate segments of society.
Is there a threshold to the amount of flags you look at? If I am the only person to flag your comment here, would a moderator wind up looking at that flag?
> But the results of the experiment should not be considered alarming, because neither type of bacterium is harmful. In fact, they're similar to the ‘friendly’ bacteria found in yoghurt.

:)
Instead of writing that, they should first use cURL, and then sh, without any piping. See http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/339276

That way, it is the same as running cURL without piping the output to bash, so people can easily check the code without worrying if the server is sending them different code when they pipe to bash
"Bare bottom"? I'm not clicking on this.
Not yet, but an export feature is on my list. I launched it recently- any feedback much appreciated.
Trying out Bitcoin
I'm new to bitcoin and want to learn it. Can someone help me by donating a very low amount of bitcoin so I can experiment with ?

I have included my public key for bitcoin to be sent.

https://blockchain.info/address/1N9TJaSBe3ihQX5okTD8BytrJYb2QmKJRG
From __past__ import bytes_literals
I'm unaware of what else can run a 3D Wide-ResNet on lidar data at 480FPS. If you do find something like that, let me know!
Credentialism is often a side-effect of rent-seeking, where existing participants in an industry agree to create barriers to entry (eg requiring a bachelor's degree) while often 'grandfathering in' existing market participants who may lack the qualifications in question. It's one approach to self-regulation, and can interact with governmental regulation in various ways.
Stopping immigration from 7 specific countries comprising single digit percent of the human population.
Also, there's this strange belief that getting more people through degree programs will increase the number of people with higher paying jobs. The number of high paying doesn't change simply because we're increasing the number of degrees per capita - it merely devalues the degree - just as printing money devaules currency leading to inflation. Companies don't just decide to hire more candidates just because there's more of job candidates available. Utlimately, they hire to create value based on market demand for their products.
After 24 seasons of Top Gear, do new hosts make the show worth watching?
Actually there are a LOT of Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs I know who moved to the US, worked here, and especially back in India are now building SV-style companies there. Or are putting parts of their global businesses there -- given how expensive labor is in the US and especially SV, it's a huge competitive advantage to be from, say, Ukraine and be able to set up a great engineering organization there.

I agree it makes less sense for an individual worker to move back (unless there are family or other concerns).
When random dude possibly with asperger gives advice/criticism on how to negotiate, reasonable government official will igore him - even if the criticism came in form of a blog. Likewise, succesfull activists ignore armchair advice from people on anonymous twitter. Not sure how is that controversial. Torwalds does not spend his time worrying about whether random bloggers agree with linux core style guide.

You did not demonstrated enough of knowledge/expeciance for me to take your criticism seriously is valid answer.
It's pretty clear that actual immigrants seem to equate them pretty well.

It's why Asian-Americans went from being part of the Republican base to overwhelmingly voting Democratic.
How many of those founders are muslims?
Thank you for your feedback, I really appreciate it.

I plan to solve this issue with providing a web search engine in the future. I have laid out the plan here (https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge-map-search-engin...)
That's a great idea. Did she have to do anything in particular to meet their entry requirements?
Does that count people legally barred from working (e.g. refugees)?
FPGA-based 96Boards SBC boasts quantum-resistant crypto
Exactly. I think it also underscores Obama's unprincipled, opportunistic nature. This is not a criticism of Obama, I think it applies to all presidents, and likely most elected officials worldwide.
More importantly, how can you not think that? Logically a Canadian is going to be culturally a better fit, financially better off, and more educated and skilled.

It's got nothing to do with race or nationality, just a statement about the average Mexican vs the average Canadian. Don't throw logic out the window in service to liberal ideals.
> they have a code quality issue, and the tools are entirely justified in breaking under the load that's being put on them

That's not one conclusion, it's two.

Suppose for the sake of argument we grant the first part and say Facebook has a code quality issue and they should have less code. (I'm not familiar enough with Facebook to have an opinion on the matter, but I'm willing to postulate this for the sake of argument.)

That does not in any way imply the second conclusion! One of the most important differences between a good tool and a shoddy one is precisely that a shoddy tool can only withstand the load that should be put on it, whereas a good tool can go beyond that.
here's your source: eat shit
Codeless app development toolkit Skuid raises $25M
> I think people just want to help others, and do something useful with their spare resources. I run a relay on a server on my home internet connection, so it doesn't cost me anything.

Same. The devs the contribute their time to build syncthing, the least I can do to help their (our?) cause is to spend 10-60 minutes to setup a relay and spend 5 minutes to babysit it every other month.
> I feel the inclusion of people like Camp and Musk hurts the point the story is trying to make.

I think the point of the article still stands. The current immigration ban is limited to a handful of countries, but xenophobic bigotry generally extends towards anyone not born in the US.
I think he is referring to Sundar Pichai
any such decent ones for networking ?? networking as in computer networking.
If you look at it from "most resourceful" it's fairly easy and as far as I remember to have read also how it's normally seen.

I.e. the US get 80% of the most resourceful immigrants while ex Europe get 80% of the least resourceful.

Will see if I can dig up the report.
Also, the government would be incentivized to kill off it's wealthiest citizens.
I concur. Parent's post was interesting, but if we narrow down to datamining and surveillance, it has gotten a whole lot worse to a degree that is beyond appreciable.
You're absolutely correct, and we've come up with early versions of a (much) better GPU and CPU. However, these are really hard markets to crack as a startup, since you need early volume. As a result, we are focusing on the deep learning processor for now.
Yes and that's the perversity of the incentives in the industry. Automation and coding are such high value activities that even the smallest, shittiest piece of code can produce a lot of $$$ that can make up for its crappiness and its maintenance costs.
What about a a car that can only do level-4 on the highway, but that can very reliably sense when it's near an urban area, and tells the driver to take control ? maybe we're close to that ?
> the problem is that we can't afford to "let them all in"

Why is that? I'm genuinely curious. Are you making an economic or a cultural argument? On the economic side, there's no evidence that immigration, even mass immigration, has any negative consequences, apart from some more competition at the very low end of salaries, which should obviously be addressed. By and large, immigrants are net contributors to the economy.

> On the other hand, brain drain.

We can hypothesis that tight immigration policy actually creates more brain drain. It's so difficult to come to the US that you're not likely to go back, even for a few years, once you're here. If you can easily move between your country of origin and your country of immigration, you can probably alleviate the brain drain somewhat. Easy come, easy go.
That'd require some better surveillance to ensure an immigrant permitted in one state does not work in another. I'm not sure that's constitutional, though it is quite practical.
Have asked this before but any reason you don't have in your profile that you are the moderator? Seems very clubby and exclusionary to only have experienced or frequent users know who you are on this site and what role you play. Ditto I used to say this about PG and others (paul and other partners).

Is the secret handshake that important to the success of HN? Why throw newbies for a loop or make them have to think about this?
Or if you publicly support BDS
I think they want F# to be their more experimental functional test bed, and C# to be more conservative.
Cool project! Great idea and nice UI. I have tried recently and it works fine with HTTP.

The problem is with ads served via HTTPS and since today most of the pages are using HTTPS protocol pi-hole is kinda useless.

For reference on this topic
https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/websites-hanging-timing-out-...
How about you can leave no inheritance to your kids if you want to, but you keep your hands off the rest of us's stuff? If you want to talk about "fairness", freedom is fair. Stealing from others (even if done through the mechanism of government) cannot be.
Having zero false negatives isn't a requirement
Stupid question: how does it work when the majority of traffic is through SSL, making a request to an ad and a request to actual content indistinguishable?

I don't think all websites serve ads from a different host. Do they?
I think the problem isn't that a Bachelor's degree is good, but that it is becoming a basic job requirement for any decent job right now, which is rough. Not everyone is capable or has the desire to be a high-level manager or executive. Many just want to do their job and collect that paycheck. Why should a degree be required for a job like that?
Nicely, nicely crafted software, and getting better by each bump.
I have been running it like forever between various Android devices, day to day PC, backup server, and whichever relevant devices have been passing through the household. Just works, can't recommend it enough. The GTK gui is a handy extra.
The "official" way is to use a janky installer with a tonne of parameters and no real way to tell if you've got all the files until you try to install. With an ISO, at least you're starting from a known good base when you repackage things.

I don't think Visual Studio has ever been an MSI, by the way.
The difference is that those apps use time blocking (e.g., block out an hour for a task in the middle of actual calendar events) and are usually automatic in nature. The ideal system blocks out the time for a task -- it's not just setting a due date.

I too have tried most if not all of the tools in @renaudg's post and have come to the same conclusion: nothing really matches Timeful.
I don't think the other way is inherently any safer, because people don't tend to actually audit their sources to begin with.
We have a solid border control regime, so we need to move straight to a rational immigration/visa system.
I'm using Syncthing to distribute files in a web cluster of a few servers instead of using shared storage - thus avoiding the spof.

Works quite well, with a few gotchas (ie make sure you don't sync cache files, session files etc).

Good software!
I actually use OneDrive and it automatically syncs my camera roll from iOS. I use both iCloud and OneDrive and they've both worked basically the same since the day I started using it.
Who is to say that robots wont figure out us and keep us happy for their own agendas.

I imagine a world where we've understood happiness at a fundamental level and how our body experiences it.

The engagement and novelty of experiences are designed for every human to maximize their happiness, while minimizing resource consumption.

Our robots working hard to make the world happier than its ever been, helping us live longer and explore the universe around us.
Rather interestingly, you see this sort of mirroring in other areas of neuroscience as well. One example is the simple cell receptive fields in the visual cortex [0]. If you take a natural image, slice it up into a bunch of small patches, and run independent components analysis (ICA) on them [1], you end up with patches that look a lot like simple cell receptive fields, implying that the visual system uses something very similar to ICA to process information.

In the same way, you can run ICA on human speech, and what you get back are gammatone filters, [2] which are commonly used to model the auditory system!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_cell
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_component_analysis
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammatone_filter
You mean this comment, right? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13858395
While this article offers the clearest presentation of the issue I've seen to date, I think the key point (which the article points out halfway in) is that the truth of Trump's claim that he was wiretapped does not depend on the presence or absence of a FISA warrant.

The system is designed to be used without warrant, so those harping on the detail of whether or not a warrant existed that had Trump in scope are not focused on the core issue.

It would be nice if all surveillance could be traced back to FISA warrants, but Snowden's revelations make it clear this is absolutely not the case.
I agree that it depends on much more than talent, but that hypothesis wouldn't explain discrimination against older workers: There's no reason older workers would be less capable in the non-talent aspects of what you describe, and there are strong reasons that they would be more capable: Experience, acquired skills, and maturity.

On the other hand, part of creating a team is fitting in, and many organizations take the easy way out and avoid diversity on their teams - even though research shows that more diverse teams produce better results (what good is the 8th team member with the same experience and frame of reference?).
The fight against apathy is unforgiving, relentless, and it only works in small doses. As long as the masses have their opiate of choice nothing will ever change.
Maybe? I wouldn't want to live in those states and I think that would be pervasive. Ultimately, economics would drive progress.

All conjecture. If only social science was a real science and we could do independent trials.
>> You have to deny them victories, even on issues that you support. It sucks but the right has outsized influence over the country because of party discipline like I've just described.

This attitude is the reason politics is fucked. Vote based on issues, not party bullshit. If a party is good on one issue you support and bad on every other issue obviously they won't get your support but voting based on a party and not issues is idiotic.
I use my tool: http://serializer.io for this job. Quite often follow links through to a flagged post.
Facebook U.S. Public Policy
"Alright settle down there. Racism exists enough that you don't have to go looking for it. It's a fact that in many places, Native Americans are the only people allowed to own casinos, so it's an entirely accurate statement. Likewise, there's no law saying Native Americans can't own other businesses, so the only businesses that are reliably exclusive to Native Americans are casinos."

Las Vegas and Atlantic City might disagree. I think it implied what it said. Its a cheap shot.

[edit]that "Alright settle down there." is probably one of the most rude ways to start any comment
I'm sorry if my comment appears too "middlebrow dismissal". My dayjob is working as a fluid mechanics researcher, and I have colleagues who work on hydropower turbine design. And I did watch the video, hence my comments about viscous losses. My point being that I know turbine design is an extremely well-understood and mature field, I didn't just google it.

Also, as you say they've built a prototype to test the result. To be taken seriously, they should have also put a few students on the task of building a similarly sized Kaplan turbine and then compared the efficiency. It would have been very simple; there are probably even scale model Kaplan turbines that you can buy for this purpose. (It's basically just a propeller in a tube.) TFA is a bit like an SW dev coding up a new webserver, claiming it solves a case where existing ones do poorly, but then not bothering to benchmark it on that case against, say, Apache or Nginx.

Finally, the big challenges in hydropower are not in increasing efficiency or lowering cost. The challenges are that we've interrupted/dammed most large rivers already, and any new plans to build hydropower face great resistance both from NIMBYs and environmental protection groups.
The stock photo for this article is an interesting choice. The graduate paid zero dollars for his quarter-million dollar education, and was guaranteed a job at graduation. In return, he owes them a full commitment for five years of work, and partial commitment for another three.

The organization that promised to hire him ran the admissions process, set the curriculum, and after training screened him into a particular path for at least the first stage of his new career. He was surrounded for four years by people who will be his professional peers for the entirety of his career. He knows that the likelihood of him reaching the pinnacle of his profession is increased substantially through this network.

Obviously the military is well set up to do this. I am surprised though that other industries haven't attempted to build schools to train their respective employee bases.
You could just make it for employment visa based on the employer. (or edu visas based on schools there). In most of those cases you already trust the employer to some extent, and can rely on audit and heavy penalties to deal with fraud after the fact. You would be doing the important anti-criminal/anti-terrorist screening to a consistent national standard.

It wouldn't be the full immigration system -- it would just be nice for states to have some role. There already are incentives to recruit doctors to work in underserved areas.
As an American, I believe the fundamental reason you don't see widespread organized resistance against lack of universal healthcare and employer benefiting work legislation is due to the absolute lack of social programs.

Americans cannot organize because of the lack of universal healthcare and work legislation such as "at will employment." Doing such would risk one's job and healthcare. There is no recourse once one is unemployed in the US, especially if one does not have a significant amount of money saved. The government and corporations have our back against the wall.
i just realized AR/VR would be a 3rd option.
A 250 years study found that immigrants and their descendants founded 100% of any U.S. business
Swift and Go aren't competitors. Different realms, different audiences.
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> I'm not sure what would need to happen to change this sentiment on a large enough scale to get people motivated into political action.

A couple of razzias where they or their loved ones were taken to gas chambers should do the job.

But we have such short memories.

In just about every Dutch town, usually near the railway station there is a monument documenting just that and it still does not seem to make much of a difference.
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How exactly would you do this?

Certainly by the point a parent dies, the child has already reaped many benefits. Education, networking, travel, exposure the finer things money can buy...

Furthermore, isn't there some benefit to having people who are ambitious with built-in safety nets? What if Bill Gates hadn't been able to go to Lakeside? And would we still have Microsoft if he wasn't comfortable dropping out of college?

Not everyone starts in the same place... some people have more money, some are taller, smarter, prettier, stronger, faster, etc. We have to make sure the rules reflect this and constantly work towards keeping the playing field as level as it can be for those starting out.
First I'd heard of Entroware. They seem to sell several more https://www.entroware.com/store/laptops and only ship to UK, IE, DE, FR, IT, ES (according to their site footer). How long have they been shipping Linux-preinstall laptops and how's their record for service/support and minimizing need for proprietary blobs?
"Immigrants" also destroyed Southern California.

Try making distinctions.
Do you think that there is a need for some kind of ECC at the OS level? There are surely some applications where even 1 bit flip in 25 petabytes is bad. Amazon's 2008 site outage comes to mind: http://status.aws.amazon.com/s3-20080720.html
Amusing that this is sitting just under the "Bare bottom simplest example of machine learning in TensorFlow" story at the moment.
> Rich host countries are poaching productive individuals while selecting against people who are most in need of help

I'm not sure that "poaching" is the right word. The US isn't seeking out potential immigrants and trying to entice them to come here, but that's what "poaching" suggests to me. Rather, it's just trying to filter those who have already established on their own a desire to come here.
That is interesting. I don't know if "what worked then will work now," but I'm definitely not sure of any theories about taxation! Human behavior and motivation continue to surprise us. Of course, arm chair philosophy about taxation is unfortunately ineffective in affecting policy change!