skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the value of attending college and completing a four-year degree at an accredited university comes from the environment you're ingrained in for that time. The people you meet, the conversations you have and experiences you expose yourself supersedes the raw material in the curriculum.

Don't get me wrong, the stuff in the textbox are important but I think you get your real value from the experiences and the relationships you make with your peers and instructors.

This is an extremely romanticised view of university, IMO. Maybe you went to a particularly good one.

I studied computer science. My experience was nothing like that at all. The vast majority of the people I met had no real interest or passion about the subject. They took no interest in anything outside of the course work, and certainly weren't up for any interesting discussions about our field. The motivations seemed to be purely financial - jump through these hoops and get a job.

Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I just hope people considering attending university consider that their experience may match mine. You may walk into a lecture full of shy people, who have divided themselves along ethnic lines, who are not interested in the subject, or stimulating discussion, or being friends, or anything outside their grades. The lecturer will pick up on it and be appropriately unmotivated.

YMMV, but for me it was literally just getting a piece of paper that stopped recruiters and HR deleting my CV. I learned far more chatting in IRC than I did in my courses. I'm 3 years out from university and no longer speak to anyone I met there.
Power went Out
I'd love TypeScript Support.
With the functional API of Keras, it would definitely make sense. In fact I do think that imperative model definition would be great to have at some point in the future. We'll see :)
Glad to see them mention the virtual reality piece, although I think the implications are vastly understated.

Look at that photo of a room full of people; voluntarily absent this reality and immersed in another of one man's creation. Notice how that man is the only one not in his virtual reality, but instead "overseeing" those who are.

And, we all know how addictive VR will be, once it hits a certain point.

Sends a chill up my spine.
Accuracy from one quadrant and four quadrants would be the same, though, and full circle is easier to code (no extra conditions).

To get better accuracy you would need to cut out some parts that are clearly inside or outside the circle, and only throw the points in the areas where the circle can actually be.
Super cool. Thanks for the community contribution.
Except, they did specify what they meant, and longer names would have taken attention away from the syntax which was the point of the article.

Entirely and absolutely appropriate for the setting and audience.
So we should ignore this study? Until we find out if the number of women experiencing sexism in the rest of America is worse than "nearly all"?
I understand "wiki" to mean something editable by users. I'm not really sure that this fulfils that. Maybe brand as a site generator?
Good point re: conflation... I'll attempt to elaborate below:

Due to particulars of our space and product name, we aren't acutely concerned with it being generified down the road.

But that aside, the lawyer suggested that not having an adjective use case to submit would hurt our chances of having our demonstration of use cleared and accepted -- period, at all, from the get-go -- which IS very concerning.

However, I had him look up the demonstration of use submitted by another company in our space, and they didn't have any adjective use cases in their (approved) submission. So I'm thinking maaaaybe this isn't as much of a concern as he's making it out to be.

It would be very awkward to put adjective use cases on our site. Plus, he made it seem as though we'd have to use it consistently, rather than just bury it somewhere.

It would be as if Adobe's page for Photoshop exclusively referred to it as "Adobe® Photoshop® software" (as dictated in Adobe's trademark guidelines) rather than just "Photoshop." That would be pretty bizarre. And after working so hard on the copy for our site, I really cringe at the thought.
If you try the course, be sure to make use of the forums for it too: http://forums.fast.ai . As you'll see, they're extremely active and helpful for all deep learning students (and all practitioners in general).

Disclaimer: I teach the course. Although it is free and ad-free... :)
The knowledge economy isn't a zero sum game.

Adding skilled labour can allow more opportunities to add more skilled labour jobs.

Without the extra slack, there's no opportunity. Part of what makes Silicon Valley work is that there's a lot of talent that is somewhat slack to allow for new companies to get started.
I don't have any such experience. Nearly every nation has a military force, what's the big deal?
Does this mean you don't support the individual's right to refuse to work with non-union coworkers? It's not as simple as you think.
>"Would you rather have a Facebook with people who actually think about these kind of issues, or a Facebook without such people?"

Do you really believe that the average worker bee's opinion at FB carries any weight?

Mark Zuxkerberg controls Facebook:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-04-28/mark-zuck...
I hate calling things formal which aren't. Also, I hope this puts to rest any idea of Markdown being "simple".
Emailing End User, Not Purchasing Dept
Suppose you sell a B2B software, and you want to send emails to help the end user understand how to get the most of out it - how to ensure the right person is getting the emails?

Many companies will be using a purchasing dept or at least someone higher up will be paying. Does that mean they, instead of the end user, will be getting detailed instructions that they're not interested in?

I presume this issue is tackled in an existing neat and elegant manner? If so, could someone tell me what it is, as this is bugging me... :)
I'm intrigued!... The kernel calling overhead and lack of any GPU while/scan/map/etc for Pytorch seems like a limitation, but I guess on 2nd thoughts you can still do all the keras fit/predict stuff and auto-connecting up the layers.
"Expo Easel" Sounds really good! Nice job.
I too will keep thinking on this, hoping to come up with a better mousetrap. Let us know if you come up with a better mousetrap.
I gave up on Firefox at the end of last year, and I don't miss it at all. If I hadn't already done it, though, this would've sent me over the edge. (I do not and will never run Pulse on any of my systems.) Currently using a stripped-down version of Chrome, and web browsing has never been better.

Edit: the downvoting on this site is goddamned baffling sometimes. What about my comment has you guys offended today?
I'm not sure what you comment means but I found it funny none the less :)
They already had something called Jack that let you use java>6 features. It just didn't integrate as well with some parts of the android ecosystem
when i was young, my female friends would say just be yourself, happy, etc and someone will just come along. i did that, failed, and i said why did it go so wrong? then i considered their world view, and i face palmed myself.

same thing happens, women say try online dating, its so easy! my response rate (let alone something that leads to a rl meeting) is about 1/50. not worth it.

i wonder if online dating will become so bad for men, that it will be bad for women too, as the quality men realize its not a favorable arena.
All this might prove is that humans are less intelligent.

We are we wasting brain and heuristics solving problems that would never exist in real chess play? Seems like an inefficiency to me.

An artifact from our lack of ability to play chess as intelligently as machines.

Just like an inferior machine might be able to do something like burn outs because it doesn't have antilock braking. (I don't get cars insert real example here)
Never played Zelda before. First Nintendo device was a Wii but did not buy Zelda. My daughters loved the Wii (sports,resort) but last year it finally went down (green tint screen). I thought about the WiiU but knew the Switch was on track and decided to wait it out.

The game has taken up our free time. I let my daughter drive but "we" played - as Zelda newbies we were helping each other out with ideas. Took about 2 days, but we finished the plateau with just one internet cheat [stasis shrine]. We are still getting a hang of the controls/camera and fighting. The game is so clean, scenic, responsive, detailed, responsible and well thought out. An immersive alternate reality. Kid friendly to boot.

I still know so little since we do not have prior Zelda history. Is there a trick to getting Rupees? Where to find arrows... how do we get powerful tools like swords and bows? Can I sell a horse that I trained? Better clothing? What do you buy vs find? In spite of all that we managed to finish the plateau and when we flew down in the paraglider, it actually felt like we accomplished something. And thats key... we were always making progress or when stuck went and did something else before coming back.

Side note: So what made me buy Zelda given that I had no history with it? Well, it was really the only real game that the system launched with (not counting 1-2 Switch as it is a demo). Lucked into it.

I am not sure how Nintendo did it. Perhaps I did not understand who Nintendo was (via the Wii). This game seems to expose their true capability and soul. Maybe there are other non Nintendo games as fluid as this; I just don't know.

Switch Negatives: Just an opinion... Wii Sports is better than 1-2 Switch.
If GitHub is normalizing comments anyways, I wonder they could have adopted a CFG.

Overall this a step in the right direction but the whole saga is a perfect microcosm of our understructure cranking out pooly-understood stuff which comes back to bite us and cannot be tamed.
Java is still taught in plenty of places and is entrenched enough to stick around for the foreseeable future. The JVM would still be fine even if Java the language declined. Clojure is is a much less vulnerable position than most languages in terms of VM risk, with Clojurescript and ClojureCLR.

The real benefit of native Clojure to me would be for reducing startup time and the JVM overhead in containers. The best option for this right now is CLJS, but it would be nice to just not have a runtime.
> I can offer a proprietary license to the clients for the software in situations they dis-like GPL v3

This is how business works for codes like Qt and Odoo. They didn't choose [AL]GPLv3+ for the software to be free, but (or along with), for the reason that it would benefit them. The same tactic may be used by Canonical (Ubuntu) for their code like Mir, Unity, and other codes with CLA in the near future.

For me, GPLv3 gives the following additional protection:

* Patent protection from the authors (for their own patents that are used in the software)

* More freedom (Eg: A router with GPLv2 Linux + Busybox is simply open source, not free software. That is, you can get the source code of those Linux + Busybox. But the router company may not give you a way to modify the software bundled with the router. GPLv3 protects the users against such locks).

* Easier distribution requirement. If a user asks for source code of some GPLv2 code in a CD or some other offline media, the developer is obliged to (of course the developer can ask for its expenses). for a GPLv3+ code, it is enough to be hosted online/emailed.
Heh, I'm exasperated with the author too, but only because they published their absurdities. I don't judge people for having absurdities in their heads.

As a semi-anxious person, I've found it is useful to deconstruct this stuff.
A sequence of many 9's in a row in the decimal expansion, which Feynman jokingly extended ... and 'showed' therefore pi was rational.
I had a brief panic at just reading ALSA. I haven't used the linux desktop in years, but audio was always such a pain. I hope things have improved.
Yea, I meant the latter. Software is the ultimate "early plateau" career.
Improving grid performance by virtualizing the UI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_nines_in_pi
Set yourself up with a profile as a female - yes, it's very very bad.
Figmentz: In-Home Augmented Reality Gaming
It's a personal wiki, and it is editable by the one user on the local machine, by editing rst or md source files. Could make it editable by other users on the local machine through file permissions.

It's purposefully minimal, so no in-page editing, for example. I wanted to write no software and use what I already have that does the job.

If you want to call it a site generator, I'm fine with that. :)

Personal wikis are a thing, though. TiddlyWiki is more like what you're expecting, but it's still mostly a local machine thing, notwithstanding their recent (to me) publishing features.

VimWiki is more like what I've made, except it's specific to vim. Still local.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_wiki
Puts a new spin on the phrase "give me a buzz", doesn't it?
One of the reasons most women put little/no effort into online dating is because the median quality of men is generally so low.

There are ways of differentiating, like anything else, but it's become much worse in the last 3-5 years.
Is there a way to convert SQL schema to the GraphQL IDL notation?
Spiking Neural Nets and Tensorflow: Nengo Deep Learning Released
How to Remove Nasal Polyps at Home – How to Treat Nasal Polyps Naturally
Li-Fi: Internet via Light
Mass Effect, Last of Us, Uncharted, Metal Gear Solid, God of War, Portal, Metroid Prime, Super Mario Galaxy.

Mass Effect 1-3 is one of the greatest space epics of all time. Seriously, amazing.

The Last of Us is just perfect storytelling, a true last hurrah to that generation.

Uncharted is straight up living the life of Indiana Jones in modern day, in the most AMAZING set pieces ever.

Metal Gear Solid, I don't even know how to begin. From the first game to the last, the vision, the scope, the insane story, the even more insane characters. It's the alpha and the omega in storytelling, and presentation.

God of War has the most insane boss battles.

Portal is just the most unique IP, totally different than anything else.

Metroid Prime brings Metroid into 3D PERFECTLY.

Mario Galaxy, is just charming.
I'm not sure where to take this discussion, on one hand I've went through the process an I'm engaged to a woman I met through online dating.
On the other I remember how tiring it was trying to get responses and make a decent opening.

I spoke with my fiance about this she and she showed me how many messages are got. While a guy may get a few replies. She had so many new messages mine had dropped off the page. Message management was a paid feature, but sending was free as was searching and filtering.

If anything:
Perhaps the problems with online dating aren't simply skewed ratios, but poor design with regards to how users used the Software vs expectations.

Why should a woman search through profiles when she can review 20+ already interested candidates in a day? Why should she reply to every message (I assume the average guy doesn't message every girl)?
why would the quality of women be higher than men on dating sites ? Is it some american cultural thing?

I assumed the quality would be pretty even.
The Condom Industry needs to fight the chemical industry if they want to survive
A Designer’s Perspective on Working with Product Managers
Well, what did anyone expect?

Mozilla has complained for quite a while that their ALSA backend hasn’t been supported or updated in years, and they don’t have the manpower to do so. (Especially with their marketshare falling below 8%).

So, after calls for people to support it, this is the end result.

It’d be delusional to expect them to support two audio backends, and completely rewrite both of them for multiprocess support, when ALSA is used by less than 1% of users (as seen by the Mozilla hardware survey results), and the work can be used better for the other 99% of users.
In-the-wild exploits ramp up against high-impact sites using Apache Struts
Why the Internet of Things Will Be Built on Bitcoin
1. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth - http://amzn.to/2mLuQyU

2. The Startup of You by Reid Hoffman - http://amzn.to/2mXSlFB

3. Strengths Finder by Gallup Press - http://amzn.to/2mqDNuY
Mengatasi Virus
what's the name of the book?
Interesting. I'm getting about 10 e-mail addresses per minute. I wonder how Apple managed to mess this up so badly.
I havent gotten through the intro on The Witcher 3 ... I have tried a few times and the PC controls seem pretty weird. Maybe I should try it again.
What Is Psychological Consulting?
What's your specific beef with Pulseaudio?
What is the stripped-down version of Chrome you use?

Is it something prepackaged or something you've crafted by stripping yourself?
> ...and a higher, steady framerate, higher resolution, better anti aliasing.

That won't make it anymore fun.
In Russia, that's not considered as an insult.
It's not quite that stark. You can have the non changing background solely in the first frame, and have subsequent frames (smaller frames even, placed at offsets) composed solely of "sprite like" things that overlay. And there are tools like imagemagick​ that can optimize existing animated gifs in that way. It is crude, but it's more than just a plain sequence of unrelated full size frames .
The analogy of that to your link is... tenuous at best. Your idea of helping people out is taking it from people willing to wait in line for it to people willing to pay for it. I don't view this as an atrocity like some would, but to even begin to question someone's ethical consistency based off that is suspect. It's clearly a trade-off and not actually a "small but positive change that gets demonized because it's incomplete". It gets demonized because some people don't think it's positive.
Check out Library Genesis [1]. Personally, the only thing I've trouble finding online are books written in other languages than English.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis
pro NN: "Oh my god some service I want may charge me with a pricing scheme I don't understand/like! Let's get government bureaucrats to control that for me!"

anti-NN: "If you let the federal government dictate how packets are treated.... then you let the federal government dictate how packets are treated. Perhaps you are familiar with Ed Snowden, Wikileaks and recent revelations about the NSA etc? no concern at all eh? You just want your Netflizzzzzz. Ok then"
The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The LA Times, the Guardian etc... plus AP and Reuters.

They all have trained journalists, sub-editors, and fact checkers. They all correct errors when they make them.
loooollll
Never said that
PulseAudio is pretty good these days and typically works out of the box for most need. Per app volume is an amazing feature and switching sinks is a breeze. I often play music on my stereo (mobo sound card) and game audio on some headphones (audio over hdmi through monitor). Being able to switch them around live is great.

However, like systemd, PulseAudio large and opinionated so it's not everyone's cup-of-tea.
Men are often the breadwinner and socially conditioned to provide for their families so they might be forced to stay, even when they want to quit, and you have to stay to even have a chance at a promotion unless you were born an elite like Elizabeth Holmes.
I do this with Anveo. Costs me U$0.50 per month. The Anveo UI and user experience is really bad, but it's a surprisingly powerful product. It offers a wide range of forwarding options, I never needed to set up multiple services.
- Go jogging or walking
- Visit girlfriend
- Visit family
- Sleep more
- Leechblock (firefox) or the chrome alternative
Rachel Maddow has Trump's 2005 tax return
I look at it as follows: If you are really undecided about something, it really means that the two (or more) options are not discernible enough (given information you have), and so they are, from your perspective, very similar (they can lead to different outcomes but you do not know). So it kinda makes sense to decide it randomly.
Top 3 Methods to Run Windows Programs Without Installing Them
Yeah this thought mainly occurred to me when a big hubbub was made about 3.1415 day (3/14/15, or MM/DD/YYYY).
The only "math" in deep learning is given by reverse mode AD (or if you're into fancy stuff, "efficient computing of pullbacks"). The rest of it plain old hacking, and empirical tricks with the occasional variational doodads.
Glad that you liked it. Updating stylesheet is not possible as of now. But, I'll be working on making a lot of it customizable, going forward :)
"React Playground" would be a good possibility, too.
I'm in my mid 40s, currently a Principal Engineer at Amazon. My experience is probably not typical for all sorts of reasons
And bring back the <blink> tag, too!
Sadly, pulse is also still quite fragile and has a massive latency.

It’d be preferable if for Linux there was an audio server closer to what JACK is (although both JACK and JACK2 aren’t ideal either).

(That said, I mix hardware mixing and pulse for my purposes)
on arch here. haven't seen the problem yet, and I'm on 52.0. why am I not affected? I don't have pulseaudio installed (only some client libraries. lib32-libpulse, to be precise).

this doesn't look good. thanks for the post.
Thanks for your thoughts on this!

We've already registered the mark -- the application was approved by the USPTO, but there's just one last step of proving that we're actively using the mark in commerce (since otherwise it's "use it or lose it").

You make a great point about risk-averse advice being good lawyerly advice. I guess where that starts to chafe a bit for me is when the risk-averse advice also runs counter to the industry standard.

It seems odd to defy industry standards in a detrimental way in the name of safety. Shouldn't following industry standards be safe enough? As noted in a prior comment, I don't see Adobe exclusively saying "Adobe® Photoshop® software" in the copy on their marketing site... they just say "Photoshop." So why can't we do that? It would be extremely awkward to do it the other way.

You may be right that we could be stuck doing it the outdated/awkward way if we want the (R), but I'm hoping that is not the case! Somehow other (R) owners have avoided this problem... fingers crossed that we can as well. It was just such odd and surprising advice to receive from him today, that I was wondering if any other startups had waded these waters.
What does one thing have to do with the other? Regardless of how "relevant" Keras 2 stays years from now, code written with it now should still be capable of running then, that's the thing they claim.
Yeah... it's sort of a lose-lose honestly, I think the model used in Canada and the UK is quite good - the government forced the big ISPs to lease last-mile lines. Keeps a working free market with competition, many people started switching to smaller ISPs with lower rates and unlimited bandwidth caps, a few years later the big guys increased their speeds, increased their caps and made it relatively cheap to go to unlimited.

It fixes more than just the net neutrality problem, it also fixes the lack of infrastructure improvement by making big ISPs have a monopoly on last mile improvements for the first year or two - they're greatly incentivized to keep improving infrastructure and speeds or lose customers to the smaller guys who can run leaner. It's a pretty clever regulatory model that manipulates incentives quite well.

I'm sure there are flaws, regulatory models are rarely perfect, but from what I've seen over the last 10 years going from 5mbit DSL to gigabit fibre for only about 1.5x the cost, I'd say it's doing a pretty good job, without any net neutrality enforcement or any complicated legislation - just by giving the regulatory authority the ability to compel ISPs to lease lines.
you must be pretty