skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It all depends on what your goals are. If you just want to train a neural network on a dataset you have and you aren't all that interested in going into the details of how the NN works or is trained, Keras is fine. It has a nice high-level interface and the backend is either in Theano or Tensorflow (your choice).

If your problem is more complicated and you want to use some unique architecture, you'll have to use one of the more low-level frameworks. I would recommend Tensorflow just on the basis of its popularity (you're more likely to find people who have run into the some problems as you). But Theano, Torch, and MXNet are probably pretty much equivalent in terms of speed and ease of use. I hear Caffe has a steeper learning curve.

If you're really doing something fancy, then you'll have to look into more detail. Torch and MXNet have the advantage that you can adaptively change your computation graph based on the data, but you'd probably have to be pretty far into deep learning research before something like that is useful. Tensorflow Fold does something similar, but I'm not sure how well integrated it is with the rest of Tensorflow (I've never used it).

You might also take a look at this:

https://github.com/zer0n/deepframeworks

It's a little out of date now, but it'll get you started.

Some of these frameworks are more general than others (e.g., Tensorflow is more general than Keras), so you can specify architectures in some that you can't in others. But as long as you can specify the architecture in a particular framework, you'll be able to get a working model. Your choice of framework just comes down to whatever one is easiest to work with for the problem at hand.
In Common Lisp, you write to source code files and then use ASDF/Quicklisp to compile/load that project. If you feel the need to create a standalone executable you can dump the image with an entry function specified. It's essentially the same as python, although standalone executable are less prominent than in-image programming.
Yeah, unfortunately, people like Elon Musk are, in my highly imprecise estimation, 1 in a billion. Here's the sad part about this statistic: That means we should have 7 Elons alive today, but only 1 has bloomed into full potential.

The rest, we will never know about due to them being born into repressed governments, and/or extreme poverty.
A car company.
I don't think he's mocking it, but he might not know much about it.

Swift's probably on par with go. You have to diverge a bit from normal practice or involve concurrency to be unsafe. This is in contrast to C, where "normal practice" often produce buffer overflows.
I'm not sure if you're serious or not. A small company selling a proprietary software product ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT EVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES show you their code before you've signed contracts.
Must be something wrong with their server.
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Given a reasonable choice, I would almost never use a language like Golang that doesn't enforce memory safety (at least, by default). Null pointers, ugh.
Depends on your goal. Ultimately, the three tenets are flexibility, speed and speed of development. All frameworks make tradeoffs between them. Researchers use slower (in both senses) frameworks to implement weird new ideas that require the flexibility while engineers typically use faster (in both senses) frameworks that allow them to have a performant and reliable model for production deployment.
The reason I specifically mentioned skilled work is because there is a significant investment on the part of the company hiring. Labor unions are useful for unskilled labor where an individual worker has no bargaining chips and the company can replace someone at low cost. Depending on what you do in the tech industry, it is unlikely this applies to you. You either hire someone with less experience and it takes months before they become useful or you hire someone who has all the skills you already need and it is likely that people with the exact skill set you require are in low supply. Keeping these two points in mind, people who work in tech often have quite a good bargaining position with their employer.
So in terms of my question, are you saying that if you were presented with persuasive evidence that it is not the case that the global warming we observe is being caused by increasing solar radiation, would you then be persuaded it is instead being caused at least to a considerable degree by human activity?
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I'm OK physically, not Homer Simpson or Mr. Six Pack. I walk all the time, play with my kids outside, but a purely physical job doesn't seem like the right thing for me. Unless I lost my job and had to take on a less-than-desirable physical job to make ends meet, I doubt I will ever leave IT.

I like IT work, I love being in the command line building servers, instances, writing shell scripts. Quite a few of my friends have moved up into management and to a man, I think they are miserable--what with dealing with multiple personalities every day, plotting peoples' time off, ensuring on-call coverage, living in meetings. I fancy none of that.

My fear is that within a couple of years I'll be 50 and still a sysadmin. Now, having said this, I don't find the work belittling or "less than". My wife, thankfully, is in full support of whatever I undertake as long as I do my bit to provide financially to the household. She has encouraged me more than once to strike out on my own and do my own thing. Like most people, I'm terrified to fail, so I sit and do nothing, wondering why the status quo sucks.
Lisp is quite abstract, let us say more so than C, where we can visualize the pointers and memory chunks and operators fairly accurately while programming. Lisp is more symbolic and ethereal; like the ocean full of its interlocking organic forms. One would wonder what lies below the surface upon merely apprehending the calmly undulating surface...
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To add to what @macco said: No reader macros. Apparently this extraordinarily powerful tool violates a religious principle with the inventor Rich Hickey.
The API docs themselves are a Glimmer app: https://glimmerjs.com/api/. The source code is here: https://github.com/glimmerjs/glimmer-api-docs

You may also enjoy the prerequisite turbo-stress-test app:

https://glimmerjs.com/demos/uptime-boxes/

https://github.com/glimmerjs/glimmer-demos
You don't have to (and should not) request access to the whole codebase, simply asking to see a single medium sized file from a project you would be expected to work with is often enough. I've asked for this before with great success, some companies will ask you to sign a short NDA beforehand, most don't even bother. Sure, it leaves the chance that they will simply show you the pretty parts, but at least you'll know that there are some pretty parts at the very least.
It sucks at college too. Get sick for a week? You missed a few lectures that you now need to get notes for from someone, maybe missed a test that you have to schedule a make-up for with your professor, probably missed a TA help session that makes the upcoming assignment comprehensible, etc. All that times the 3-6 classes you're taking, good luck ever getting caught up. You get more time off as a student, but it's not really as flexible.

So much of our society punishes you for illness, and it's sad.
>So long as the valuation goes up enough to compensate for the dilution, the per share stock price will be the same or higher

But per stock price is the "valuation".

My comment re: being detached stems from the fact that on Day X, you can buy Tesla for price $Y. Then Tesla sells more shares (dilution). So now each individual share represents a smaller proportion of company ownership...yet the next day people are willing to pay more for that smaller ownership.

Obviously there are far more dynamics at play; but generally, dilution should cause the price to drop.
I think Ember is really good at marketing the stuff they work on, but it is usually overhyped.

Fastboot, for example, was announced what, 3 years ago? The readme says it's still not ready to use:

> The bottom line is that you should not (yet) expect to install this add-on in your production app and have FastBoot work.

https://github.com/ember-fastboot/ember-cli-fastboot

I find this is often true of Ember projects (like Glimmer 1), a lot of hype for something that has a lot of rough edges.
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If you're looking for books I recently made a list of good books for Scala - https://blog.matthewrathbone.com/2017/02/14/scala-books.html.

Otherwise Scala School is awesome: https://twitter.github.io/scala_school/

When I worked at Foursquare we would send folks to the Scala School website as homework. :-)
> He expected all employees to put in more than 8 hours most days.

I'd leave the room at that point, indicating that the next interview should be for replacing that persons' position.
This is a good question, and I actually don't know the way they calculate this exactly (except what my sibling said about GDP vs workforce). What I can point out is something in your analogy that I think generalizes, and demonstrates part of the issue:

Realistically, across an entire company or economy you're going to hire a lot more 1-inch paint brush people to paint your rooms. So instead of having a dude with a roller doing it alone, you have 2 or 3 people with brushes, maybe working in shifts to get it done.

It's obviously more efficient to use the one guy with the roller, but what if he gets sick? It used to be that Alice, Bob and Candice were all working together. Alice could cover for Bob if Bob got sick or needed to bring his kid to the dentist. Now it's all Steve, and Steve feels the pressure to GET SHIT DONE, because there's no one else to do it. He'll work while sick, his kid won't make it to the dentist.

So sure he's more productive. But back in the day, with the shift work, even if the naive calculation indicates that input effort per employee was the same, you have these soft factors that made quality of life way higher.

And that's without even getting into cost of living/inflation stuff, nevermind student debt. People are hurting out there.
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Yes, but it was also his "fist" which through a paranoid mind killed off much of his military brain trust --which left him with amateurish (unseasoned) upper ranks to run the military when war actually came.
Another possibility is to work on your ability to work out the different algorithms and data structures on your own with perhaps a minimal specification or statement of the requirements.

This would require a focus on understanding as opposed to memorization. Also, this ability has broader application than doing well at interviews.
Sounds like you are arguing to take up the Whiteman's Burden:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden

Take up the White Man's burden, The savage wars of peace—
Fill full the mouth of Famine And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly Bring all your hopes to nought.

The Canadian government tried something like this with the Residential School System:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc...

The residential school system had a lasting and adverse effect on the transmission of Aboriginal culture from one generation to the next. Over 150,000 students attended residential schools, constituting approximately 30% of the population of native children in Canada.[1] The legacy of the schools on Aboriginal communities has been referred to as a "collective soul wound." A sample of 127 survivors revealed that half of these survivors have criminal records; 65% have been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder; 21% have been diagnosed with major depression; 7% have been diagnosed with anxiety disorder; and 7% have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
I also think it's the future, the problem is that I don't believe that Dyalog APL is the future, even though it's really nice. It just should be opensource to succeed imho., why still be so greedy and take money for a language. Also the IDE is really weird. I love APL and J, but I think there is a lot of space for improvement. And I want that improvement to happen in the open. They can still charge for Consulting, Hosting whatnot.
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I'd replace the first few steps with "Install Roswell" -

https://github.com/roswell/roswell

Roswell will install a Lisp and QuickLisp for you, and give you a single point of entry to install libraries, create and run code, and launch en editor (Emacs with Slime of course).

I can't recommend it highly enough (I'm nothing to do with the project, just a very happy user).
Maybe using impure functions is insane? :)
And even those that are do not need to be headed by a coder.
How is having Javascript enabled less secure?
telephone lines owned by the Government (Telekom, private in theory, owned by the Government on paper), no less!

there is some DOCSIS (cable) service, mostly from Vodafone but also a smaller provider named telecolumbus.

There was versatel, but 1&1 smartly purchased it at what I believe to be an absolute steal. They have what is clearly the widest fiber network reach outside of Telekom, and 1&1 is actually going out there and selling it.

I could, if I really wanted to, get 1Gbps symmetrical for only 500EUR/month. The catch is the ~3000EUR install and minimum 3 year commitment. but, at least the option is there. Telekom, if they have fiber "available" at your address, will offer you 20Mbps for around 700EUR a month, then do this really weird delivery of an STM-1 (155Mbps) circuit, broken out into E3s (45Mbps) to a Cisco ASR1002 (a 5000EUR device, easily), that is converted to a rate limited GigE interface. Oh, and the install fee is about 1200EUR and takes a solid six weeks...but only if you call every day to remind them.

Berlin internet connectivity is a sick and twisted joke.
But that's not what I said, is it?
>But on specifics, it would be good to get a clear answer to the question - how come CO2 concentration was much higher in several past periods and it didn't turn the Earth into a desert?

So are you saying that if you got a persuasive answer to that question, you would then be persuaded that human activity is causing global warming, at least to a considerable degree?
I am open to evidence that clearly shows that climate change is in part or completely caused by humans. Subjectivity would be one measure that I would apply.
It's good to see more people developing in Elixir.
But having said that, I'm against server-side forms. I feel client side frameworks like vue.js completely alleviates the need for server-side form objects and does a lot more. Server-side forms at times can be a real pita to work with.
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Nice to hear, I haven't used Ember for about 2 years now. When they started putting more effort in their CLI, this was the signal for me to jump ship and go for something more light weight.
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My first time hearing this. I would love to drop some coin if it improves my life, and I think a service like Kite was just waiting for someone to make it happen. I'll test out your demo version today to see if it helps
I have very poor visualization but have been able to learn to read and write over 2,000 characters as an adult. It's all motor skill and thinking in metaphors (for _me_).
Chinese is different, regarding homographs. Written English forces a lot of disambiguation of a purely abstract kind (English homograph collisions don't usually reflect associations, just random collisions) else you can't cope with the homographs. Ideogram collisions or overlaps are far more meaningful, generally non-co-incidental. (Terrific for poetry.)

Examining all this, some while ago, a Chinese professional philosopher and I concluded that this had indeed had some real influence on the two cultures and thinking. This point isn't about visualization per se, but instead the fact that ideograms combine concepts, not sounds. Thanks to its extreme borrowing and therefore an abundance of synonyms, English is no doubt the most extreme example of a language with random homonym and homograph collisions, forcing both listener and reader to make constant choices between abstract (unassociated) options. That's not generally how the human mind works, brains are association engines. So it's a good bet that the fact that English is the language of science and technology (for now) is not entirely coincidental.

This is no bar to progress for China today, however, to the extent that the hànzì alphabet is adopted for text.
The whole "we don't keep logs" statement is snake oil.

Picking a US server at random, (US20) it seems to be hosted here[0]

In what appears to be their NJ datacenter located at:

DuPont Fabros, 101 Possumtown Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854

Per their own privacy policy available here[1], they mention the following

> Internet Protocol (IP) Addresses

> DigitalFyre uses your unique network address and SessionID
> to help diagnose potential problems with equipment, to help
> tailor content to match your preferred interests and to
> otherwise administer the Site.

So while NordVPN (and frankly, any VPN service that colocates or rents servers) may claim not to keep logs, their service provider most certainly does. Even though your ingress traffic is encrypted, it would still be trivial to match it to egress flows based off packet counts, sizes, and flow durations.

[0] https://www.digitalfyre.com
[1] https://www.digitalfyre.com/privacy-policy/
What about applications with soft or hard real time requirements? (So, for example, a video game or an audio player.) I am not aware of any GC language which is suitable for use in this space. Go certainly is not.

What about any application that cares in the slightest about performance? In this case, memory layout is incredibly important, and many (most?) of those higher level languages are immediately disqualified.
Smart phones should be fine for tracking fares, even if the network goes down (assuming they were well-programmed). Especially if the customer can run his own "meter app" on his own device to verify the fare.

My objection to Uber: I prefer drivers who have a track record of not being drunk and not on drugs. I don't need the government to regulate that, but I would be willing to pay a premium for drivers who are willing to undergo some kind of occasional testing program for drugs/alcohol.
Why would you want to build a bespoke React-based framework for every app you make? Why not simply have everything you need out of the box, plus the ability to easily integrate any npm library into your app via first-class build tooling that is miles easier to use than something clunky like Webpack?
Is there a less toxic (but equally effective) cas9 available, or are you saying this is still under research? Sorry, I do not feel like searching around right now.
Common Lisp implementations do whatever you want.

> I'm used to languages like Python, that have a number of files that are modules, and to start a program you run one of them as an entry point.

You can do that. start a Lisp with a file to load at start, it can then load the dependencies.

> C programs consist of a lot of files that are compiled and linked into a binary executable.

You can do that, too. That's typical when you create a 'system' declaration which describes your software. ASDF would be a tool for that. You then compile the software, load it and dump an image. Some implementations have a more elaborate way to create applications or can create loadable libraries, which you can integrate into other applications.

> You build an in-memory state by adding things to it, later dump it to a binary. How do you get an overview of what there is?

Typically you would work with files. Write the code in files, evaluate the code from there and build the software from time to time as a whole. If you use SBCL, then you get tons of compile time information, type checks, efficiency hints, warnings, ....
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You still need server side validation so a form object with validators is still useful.
> It's the loyalists who keep promoting this device as if it is going to be anything other than another phone in a crowded market.

Fanboys, cult of Apple, blah blah.
Can someone point me at an argument for why I'd want to write CL in 2017, given all the great alternatives available now?
i do not. as i pointed out, it's a classic complex mechanism that might not be able to be attributable to one single factor.

i guess i'm also not convinced that the warming of the past 150 - 200 years is out of the range of normal variation (esp. with the latest warming pause) when looking at geologic times. i know it's a difficult thing to prove since constructing geologic GLOBAL temperature is very difficult, but i just don't know.

it does seem like the increase of carbon in the atmosphere is abnormal, if not entirely unprecedented.
Can anyone compare this to Vue?
Found it: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0738-vari...

It still seems bizarre to me that a purely type-level expression is forced by an effectively non-existent term. That RFC specifically states that the main problem is that the results of variance inference are largely erased by assuming invariance. That seems like a sensible default for unused type parameters too.

It seems from the conclusion of that post that PhantomData only survived because this was the smallest change they had to make to get this all to work better, and because some of this PhantomData could be used for other analyses in the compiler (although it's not clear if better type information could have replaced these uses anyway).
How would they get seat sensors and fare meters into the cars?

I'm on board with things that are actually done for sensible reasons (e.g. background checks for drivers in Austin) but this is too much. I'm an adult, I can choose if I want to trust Uber or not to charge fairly.