skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly wouldn't recommend it for all sorts of learning. It worked for me because I had literally gambled everything on it - if I dropped out or got kicked out, I'd be 17k in debt living in the most expensive city in america with almost no savings. Failure wasn't an option. Furthermore, my fallback options were shitty. 40k/year doing sales or recruitment, busting my ass to reach 6 figures, being stepped on the whole way up the ladder. Maybe teaching english abroad, end up being that 40 year old white dude trapped in Taiwan, stuck every night in the foreigner bar and droning about what could have been. Nope no no thank you.
I'm definitely going to give this a shot, thanks for the link. Approaching ML at a higher level is exactly what I need to develop a better interest in it. I realize that underpinnings are important, but waiting 30 minutes for mnist on to process on my localhost is just unbearably boring.
It should have said "Wolf Prize." Not vastly off (while being of course completely wrong.)
To put this quote in context: this isn't specifically about PyTorch. Every couple of months since mid-2015, a new deep learning framework gets released. In the following week, someone inevitably asks "will X get added as a Keras backend?".

Supporting several backends is a strong positive. But chasing every new framework as a backend is a quick way to kill Keras, via bloat, support issues and general technical debt. We should only support a backend that is considered mature, and we should stay away from the hype surrounding the release of every new framework. There will be another hyped up framework next quarter anyway. And the one after.

It is in fact possible that Keras will eventually support PyTorch. But if it ever happens, it would be at least 1-2 years in the future. When PyTorch becomes "uncool", just like Keras :)
This looks to be "language features" only - so, lambdas, but no Java 8 APIs. Optionals, streams, etc are not included.

...I hope they fix IntelliJ's default suggestions, which try to turn all of your loops into `.stream()` calls!
Using the optimized video code paths for GIF was discussed by the Mozilla graphics team several times. Basically the conclusion is that it's a lot of work when there's a perfectly good alternative which is using a video element. Effort that can be better spent elsewhere.
Obama administration spent 36mm fighting FOIA requests in its last year
Regardless if the ethereum language is turing complete or not, you can still formally verify individual contracts. You can't determine whether every contract will halt or not, but that is a separate issue. The DAO contract should have been formally verified, and this was an oversight of the creators and as well as the participants to not demand this.

Also, the DAO is separate from Ethereum. It's a contract running on ethereum, not ethereum itself.

You are being very hyperbolic with your criticism.
The jot uses a phone app and the phone's camera to get the picture. So I don't think there is any way to read the screen on that device.

However the sync has a button which you can save the screen image and later upload it to your computer. What I'm wondering is on this device if you could do the reverse. I know being able to record the screen's state doesn't mean you can reproduce it. Just wondering if you can in this case.

I know nothing about ChLCD and that type of stuff. So this isn't really clear to me.
I agree. I find it amazing how unfocused the human mind can be, but at the same time am not really surprised given how we evolved.

I also have somewhat of a pragmatic view of solving this problem.

Anecdotal, but since I started taking the antidepressant Valdoxan (aka Agolmelatine, sadly illegal in the US) I've found that I feel it's easier to win that battle. When I say I'm going to do or not do something, I'm more likely to stick to that.

I've finally, for example, gone to my parent's house and not binge eaten on my mum's generous cooking. I went to the bar and actually had two drinks instead of six.

I haven't taken them, but I also understand that there may be some other medications such as AHDH or concentration drugs that have a similar effect, possibly with different time scales and mechanisms.

I'm still a total coffee addict - haven't kicked that one yet - and I'm by no means perfect. But my self control was pretty much non existent before, and in the last two months I've made alot of progress.

I hope that we continue to find better ways of managing the brain's chemistry (and the side effects of doing so), but just as much that the methods we have now become more widely available, and less illegal and stigmatized.
Why Online Dating Sucks for Men (2013)
The front page often is a bland pile of lowest common denominator crap. We couldn't even go a week without dumb political stories which are covered everywhere else (though charitably more because of miscommunication that it was meant to be an experiment and only a week long, still). Lots of people don't even look at it because they gave up, though I'm not exactly close to that point.

This is all beside the point that flagging is (no matter what it ought to be) an extra signal that has broader uses than merely spam/rule violating. I could also argue that "off topic", a use mentioned earlier and on the guidelines, is sufficiently broad and subjective that "something I think the HN community would be better off not discussing" fits "off topic". In any case the flagging mechanism is still there. The site does remove flagging privileges if you use it too often, so there is clearly a sense of how flags ought not to be used too often (or else you lose them) but that hardly influences why flags ought to be used.
NN was never codified but it has always been the agreed upon practice. Except for a few exceptional breaches (like the netflix/comcast deal https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/business/media/comcast-an...) it's just what carriers have always done. It's only now that they're getting greedy that they demand to be paid to deliver content to their customers.
Show HN: Apple ID data leak in 30 lines of python
That's no argument against ZFS, or backups, or any other form of redundancy. Only the insane would buy computers without ECC.
They're actually unassigned, but you can pay $35 to reserve one. It's like Southwest Airlines.
Abzu is not a That Game Company game. It is made by Giant Squid, a studio founded by the art director of Journey.
If for some reason you'd like to actually Run this notebook,I uploaded it to:

https://notebooks.azure.com/smortaz/libraries/MonteCarloPi

You can click on it, sign in to run, edit, etc.

Sign in: any outlook, xbox, hotmail, or msft ID.
Nothing is perfect. Better let a few fall than many suffer. I don't think letting this man get this way is a success for our society in preventing suffering.
> A tracked vibrator does not accomplish that

Note that the We-Vibe couples vibes are designed/promoted for use during intercourse, in addition to "solo" use--and we found design documents for future models that included functionality to detect and measure partner movement. So it's not just one-sided data collection.
HOAX
Is there a style guide for that? Looks incredibly useful (i.e. a Haskell pep8)
Profiling and optimizing Go web applications
Don't crap in Sid's Cheerios. For a project mostly made by one dude, Scala.js is amazing.
Show HN: LottieFiles, Share your animations for Lottie
This is like saying dog turds are really just stardust and no different than the Pleiades in this regard.
> Leaking lift gas is expensive & difficult to prevent. Also explodey! (if H2).

Expensive OR very cheap and explodey. (Gasoline is also explodey)
The mathematician in me has kept me from jumping into deep learning before I understand the mathematical and statistical underpinnings of the algorithms involved. Looking forward to reading through the latest book out by mit press and giving things a whirl with Keras which I've heard so much about.
It's about time someone said it. Rise up against the machines!!!
(I'm being facetious if it wasn't obvious)
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Hi Everybody,

I'm a solo-founder, still bootstrapping alone after having a product on the market for a little over one year... But this is the fourth major release of my cloud-based writing platform for Windows & Macintosh, and I thought it might be nice to share my progress with a community of other entrepreneurs.

The cool thing about this release is that I'm finally ready to offer a legit product that includes both a free tier and a paid subscription:

https://blog.shaxpir.com/shaxpir-is-for-everyone-27a72086f46...

It was hard to segment the product until now, because a young product doesn't usually have enough features to legitimately offer both a "free" and a "pro" version.

I'd love feedback on the blog post announcing the new release (this is my first post to the blog since relaunching it as a Medium Publication) as well as the clarity and polish of the website.

Thanks!

benji
"I'm a DoD contractor"

As for feeling guilty, why? Are they doing bad things with your work?
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There's no wisdom here.
As a user, I'd really hate something like this. I know it's technically possible, but I expect that the owners of the site don't see it until I hit submit.
I'd say 7 days to die(with friends), I'm 33 now and we pour a lot of our free time into it (I'm at over 400 hours in the last 2 years)
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It has to be juvenile because you disagree with the tactic I'm proposing? I'm not insulting anyone, I'm trying to outline a potential plan... which no one wants to discuss. I get it, people here seem cool with just complaining about surveillance without even spitball-ing a solution. That was the mistake I made... thinking all of the people here who seem so passionate about this issue might want to discuss potential actions that might be taken.

My point was that those actions have to be taken inside the democratic party because allying with the republicans would mean empowering them on voter suppression or you name it.

People said that partisanship is what is wrong with politics and I pushed back saying that any potential solution would require a strategy for working through the two party system.

Criticizing the Republicans for their wrong headed positions isn't an insult its an observation. The Democrats aren't great, they are just all we have.

So, does commentary have to be bland to be mature? Do you have a counter point? Who in the republicans can sway the party towards dealing with climate change or away from supporting creationism in classrooms? I'm not saying that there aren't republicans who wouldnt support those things, I'm saying they are powerless to change the direction of their party and that the majority of republicans are staunchly opposed to things people on this site claim to care about.

I don't see how that's being juvenile.
Listening to the essentially random sequence of notes, fancy recognizing Feynman's point
Kill the program now.

Use existing aircraft until we have the smart drones that are the future .
The internet is not free and open because some companies are complying with regulations. The internet is free and open because that's what the internet is. If ISP's, content providers, whoever else wants to provide services which aren't free and open then they're not part of the internet. It's sad if lots of people lose internet access because Comcast stops offering it, but the internet won't go away. Other companies will offer free and open access and the internet will live on with those folks.

If it comes to it, you can come over to my house and plug into my ethernet and we'll grab a Slackware CD and start a new internet if we have to. Deal?
Swedish and Australian diesel-electric subs have also 'sunk' US carriers in war games.

see:

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/swedens-super-stea...

http://nation.time.com/2012/12/04/more-than-the-navys-number...
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>I bear some responsibility by choosing this field

You bear 100% of the responsibility for accepting a DoD grant. You can't absolve yourself of some nebulous amount of responsibility because of who's writing the check.
Updated graphics benchmarks, including SVG: http://browserbench.org/MotionMark/about.html
Now We Know Why Microsoft Bought LinkedIn
This assumes that labour is perfectly re-locatable and everyone has perfect pricing information.

Google literally does offer $1 million salaries for the right positions, the problem is that most of the people who could make that work have already been recruited.

Which is why they pay interns six figures to show up for what amounts to a long job interview, to make sure they get all the new talent the moment it's minted.

If you make it more difficult to recruit people from untapped populations abroad, they won't pay lower tier people more, they'll open offices aboard to capture their acceptable talent.

So yes, there is a shortage of talent that meets the bar. While everyone trained as a book keeper can almost certainly fill any book keeper role, not everyone trained as an engineer can actually fill any role. Not just because some people are shitty engineers, it's because engineering involves spending long periods of time learning domain knowledge that isn't transferrable, even setting aside the fact there are literally thousands of types of engineer.
Is it significant when you are talking about​ analytical queries which are running for minutes or hours? Seems like it wouldn't be a huge amount of code to JIT compared to the payoff?
Dark Souls.
Are there better methods that don't require the user to have immediate access to electricity?
They effectively have redacted whatever they're not comfortable showing.
Look at PostgREST, then look at what &select parameter does, you'll see a mini GraphQL query there. Every request generates a single query. Then know that it's possible to have PostgREST execute GraphQL queries :)
I cannot stop playing 7days, so much fun.
This was exactly my point. But usually you're doing a full scan across all shards, so disk i/o is being saturated by virtue of the MPP sharding.
Frankly, just saying that you expect people to pay attention and that's why the names aren't typed out seems lazy. If the snippets are as simple as people state then the names won't ever reach the Java style AbstractionFactoryGeneratorSingletonInterface that are difficult to parse due to the name. If they did end up getting that long that'd be more of an indication that the pieces of your code are doing far too many things, or are too complicated of an abstraction anyway for people to be easily able to understand the snippet. Not specifying what you mean when teaching/demonstrating has no benefits in my eyes
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Which makes the timing all the more inscrutable. AV1 is supposed to have its bitstream finalized this month. Why now, when WebM is so widespread and there are new formats on the horizon, resurrect APNG after neglecting it at the only time it was relevant?
I enjoyed the article and the determined attitude of the author, but he failed to answer some important questions. What makes this employer worth all the work? And the job? How long is the long time he expects to work there? And what leads him to anticipate that about himself and his employer? Neither are likely to be the same in a few years.

I stayed with IBM for 4 years out of university. In hindsight, I wish I left after two years as it was in those first years I learned the most about how the large operate. The next two years was me getting too comfortable. I could have kept my energy and learning higher by seeking new professional experiences that are not available within an org.
Extending VR to the web and to other sets of developers is great!

However, I don't see any useful abstractions here besides a bunch of declarative boiler-plate.

Creating something that allows more people access to a creative medium requires real abstraction, not just wrapping a bunch of Three.js API's in react components.
Awesome.
Yet "codebases written in Keras 2 next month should still run many years from now" given that deep learning is no new, how can they that confident that this API will remain relevant years down the line?
A friend was "recently" working on one of them "big firms" that had "be yourself" posters plastered all around the place. He soon realized that what they really meant was: be a sociopath, be ruthless, go for blood/glory, be whatever you are (but-not-really-better-go-for-blood-like-the-big-bosses-around-here).

Worse part is that they were frequently hosting school children where they were brainwashing 10yo kids to become ruthless blood-thirsty-money-making-drones.. (investing in future generations to pass down the torch!)
Don't get me wrong, I certainly understand that power is anything but binary in it's function, however, as far as how consumers interact with it, very very few care as to what the copper in their walls is doing, only that it turns on the lights.

To extend the argument of net neutrality in this direction, I think an important distinction needs to be made, because surely you could argue LED's over florescent bulbs due to power consumption, but consumers already pay for different speeds and data caps, the argument shifts to your utility offering different prices based on who is making your LED's, even if they are functionally identical. This is where the comparison breaks down, because the bulbs don't magically become more efficient for your utility because they are somehow peering with the manufacturer.
So, by your own words, the guy who replaced you was better at the actual job you were supposed to do?

I'm going to guess you have no idea what his compensation actually was, but you're assuming it's low.
So my take home here is that webscale makes https://github.com/philipl/pifs possible.
Sketch is already used in 60% of all the tech industry, while Photoshop and others sit in the 40%. Sorry.
http://www.naver.com/
Happened to me with a webp (on another site). And of course it had a .png extension because that was the original URL. After finally figuring it out, I had to go back and visit with another browser to get the right format.
But with scalpers you make the initial rush a much harder battle (you compete with scalpers now too) so more customers are losers at that stage, and then losers again if they have to be gouged by scalpers.
Ask HN: If your product succeeded, did it happen quick or start off slow?
If have this idea that if you've got something really great then people will be almost immediately interested.

But then I got to wondering maybe there are products that became very popular, but only after a slow start.
What was Feynman's point? I've got Pi/Listen going in the background, and it's quite pleasant, so I'm doubly interested.
Telstra in Australia invests a phenomenal amount of money into "Stan" / this.
You can try the same with quasi-random rather than pseudo-random numbers (Sobol, Halton, or even just additive). Should probably get better accuracy with the same number of iterations.
Good luck with that.

"A few days later, as part of the RIMPAC 2000 exercise, [HMAS] Waller was assigned to act as an 'enemy' submarine, and was reported to have successfully engaged two USN nuclear submarines before coming into attacking range of Abraham Lincoln." [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Waller_(SSG_75)#Operation...
It's worth noting you can implement something similar in OOP languages using Church encoding: http://blog.higher-order.com/blog/2009/08/21/structural-patt...
Saying it will not become the largest company is not the same as saying the stock will go down.
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What do you think about YouTube and Facebook's edge servers?
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So get a used one for cheap from goodwill/eBay? That's my plan at least.
It's not that the first frame is a normal PNG and that the rest of the frames are hidden. That's close, but it's not exact.

PNGs are stored as files with multiple kinds of chunks inside. The relevant one here is the IDAT chunk, which holds image data. Most PNGs have just one IDAT, but APNGs carry multiple (one for each frame). Readers that don't care about animating will simply display the first IDAT and stop reading there.

So it's a bunch of PNGs, coalesced into one, with some frame timing data. And the code for reading them is tiny if you already have a PNG library, because you display them like you would a regular PNG, but making sure to read out every IDAT, at the speed denoted by the acTL and fcTL chunks.
Yay, making deep learning uncool again! ;) (http://www.fast.ai/about/)

But seriously - does it even make use to have a "define by run" dynamic framework as a backend? It seems to me that keras is particularly suited to wrapping frameworks that define and run a computation graph.
Yes. Despite the potential, the most profitable/frequently used applications seem to appeal to the most basic parts of our brains, and thrive off of providing the dopamine hit. And just like heroin addicts, we've become slaves to getting that next high.
...and a higher, steady framerate, higher resolution, better anti aliasing. Just about everything. I'm not asking for changing the look of the game, I'm asking for it to render properly on modern hardware.
maybe let Mozilla know that it would be very helpful to their non-profit cause if they spent some time in rust making this work better.

they spend a lot of time adding new milestones, but this is one which could improve the quality of the web.

or they could design an extension which converts gifs to pdfs and we could continue to use their software for what it is:

zero day gateway with attached subscribers to a non profit software engine company which spends a bunch of time doing what they feel could make their impact last any longer than it already has

at least then the pdf would open in chrome :)
Aspects of running a cloud backend
This ignores the wild disparity in wages across the US.

Not every company is in a place where they can find enough local customers to support a 2x increase in their salary costs. While that has been made somewhat better by the reach of the Internet it's still going to be a powerful force to move companies from lower density areas where it's almost impossible to recruit, and into high density areas that already have the bulk of the talent and customers.

You're effectively fucking middle America into relocating both their people and businesses.
It's trivial with 'max' merge param: https://github.com/fchollet/keras/pull/3128
>"RoR or React?"

Whoever asked that "real" question is confused. They're orthogonal.
String performance is better in 0.6. It is in alpha, so should get released fairly soon.
They don't need to compete graphically, they have their own style, and that's awesome. What they need is the power to show it. Sub 20 fps dips in 2017 is unacceptable. The game barely runs 900p at 30fps. That's insane.
Im one of those. Anytime Python / Django doesnt cut it I use Go. Works very well.
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