skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But that introduces a huge bias toward political and scientific topics and away from anything else.

Well, some scientific topics. An earlier Boing Boing article (http://boingboing.net/2017/02/14/watching-wikipedias-extinct...) references the WP page for hemovanadin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemovanadin . Two editors worked together to "speedy delete" it.
Folks aren't necessarily complaining about the release, rather, the issue was with the title which previously incorrectly called the release "open source". HN admins have since changed the title, see comments further down.
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It just looks like a one-stop shop to increase discoverability of all of google's opensource project, including the ones not hosted on github, like ganeti[1]. Which is hosted on Google's own infra[2]

[1]: https://opensource.google.com/projects/ganeti
[2]: http://git.ganeti.org/?p=ganeti.git;a=summary
Twitch to start selling video games this week
This kind of proves the thesis. EV is a hobby for the legacy guys that competes with much more powerful (by revenue) business units in the company. It's like expecting Kodak to compete and win with their own digital camera.
When in grade school my holidays were July and August.

Then in High School it was Mid June to August.

Then in university mid May to August.

Then I graduated and started to work: 2 weeks, yay![1]

[1] This is true for full time employment. One way to escape it is to work freelance contracts. I did this for years, and regularly gave myself a few months off between contracts.
Now now, don't give Direxion any ideas
I have been an employee, freelancer and just moved to being/creating an agency. Retrospectively thinking, burning out as an employee felt much better(and safer) than burning out as an entrepreneur.

As an employee - I always loved pressure times, but then retrospectively disliked "performing under pressure" - why? When I do more work - my manager(s) did not say "you worked so hard and stayed up so late". There was a casual "Thanks". But when there was no work - it is suddenly my fault - "You don't work hard to find work and aren't staying full 8 hours". And just one such bad incident was enough to have my quarterly rating degraded for multiple other good incidents.

As a freelancer - I thought it would be easy - But it wasn't. Of course its not because of client(s) demand. When I worked hourly, every hour counts and pays. I realized I had worked as an employee - for peanuts and sometimes for free. I can now put in same effort and get paid hourly. If I am getting a predetermined price - I work even longer - because its easier to work in a project trance and reduce task switching inefficiencies. I worked long hours and I was trapped. It was just a golden-handcuff.

As an agency - The pressure is on me to grow it. Marketing, managing, hiring and sometimes coding and troubleshooting issues and much more draining is troubleshooting team issues. My ambitions are now bigger than they ever were. Even if I am on a not-so-frequent vacation, I cannot stop thinking about work - "after all its my biz now, if I don't think who will" - I keep brainwashing myself with that. Most of my leisure weekends are combined with some sort of low-pressure work.

The answer to killing burnouts is not in the law - but in the society. The society today celebrates "entrepreneurship, grilling and hard work" for material wealth. We celebrate the next Facebook entrepreneur, but we don't celebrate social entrepreneurship. Everybody wants more, more and more material stuff (myself included). We are being brainwashed to want more than what we need. If you look around there are many people working so hard just to make a decent living. They do valuable work too. As an employee I may get paid 5 times more because I create business value - while they create lesser business value and arguably add higher social value.
Async, Futures, AMQP, pick three
Contact center apps are definitely not the most successful at this point in time and as a category is looked on pretty unfavorably by VCs compared to other spaces.
>I do think that sound static analysis tools are far cheaper than adopting a new language

For new projects I don't really see why that should always be the case. It probably depends on the type of project, on the organization, on any integration requirements and on the willingness of developers to make the change.
i completely agree! when we were asking discovery questions, people tend to want to talk about the pain point and that gives you an illusion of validation. as soon as we ask, so how much would you pay for this? the conversation shifts and the true priorities come out.
I think this is a safe assumption. It's well known in the dev tools space that if you do well, AWS will start to compete with you.

A bunch of VCs have articles about how the big cloud players change the ecosystem (esp that AWS will just compete - won't even offer to buy), and Andy Jassy said something like "your success is our opportunity" at the last re:invent.

(I should really have citations for all this stuff but a quick search didn't find them and I'm in a rush, sorry!)
You should show your differentiation by differentiating. But in many cases the ML differentiation isn't the same as differentiating the value prop of the product.
What, we can't have puns now? Lighten up.
The Robert McNamara documentary "Fog of War" has some excellent insight into the WW2 bombing campaign (mostly in the pacific) and the sheer scale of what was done. It is startling to say the least.
So are FinFETs, Quantum Wells, EUV lithography, compact linear accelerators and all the devices necessary for shrinking just "innovation"?

What's "invention then"?
Multi threaded programming man. I've lots of times had a bug which just sometimes occurs, and the easiest way to reproduce it is to just run the exact same program with the same inputs over and over until it randomly decides to not work.
> They will also (should you request it) record
> the calls and store them in S3...

The world's largest collection of customer service phonecalls
might make an interesting training corpus for ML/AI projects.
V10 hardly contained gcc. People imported whatever external software they wanted. Norman Wilson's tape doesn't include gcc, Dan Cross' tape does. However, gcc wasn't used by anything in v10, the system compiler was based on pcc.
I actually agree that under many languages/editors it's so difficult and finicky to set up autocomplete that it's not worth doing. We actually think that's a strength of the Kite model where we offload this stuff to the cloud and provide this stuff as a service.
Just an honest (legal) concern:

Is stack overflow ok with having their answers inside an IDE? This decreases the number of pageviews on SO for each installed client. Is that something you guys checked?
People don't rush into it because they're worried about time, they rush into because:

- its an accident
- they want some sort of benefit, e.g. farm help or gov assistants
- biological urges

Making people immortal wouldn't affect any of those. Which do you think is worse for the poor who tend to rush into kids: a lifetime of poverty, or an eternity of it?
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Yeah, to which I would say:

Isn't the world always in flux?
This is not a proper arms race; it terminates with a victory for the disassemblers in a finite and feasible amount of work.

There is an arms race in whether the resulting output is at all human-comprehensible. The only thing preventing that from terminating with victory for the obfuscaters is that the obfuscators have a finite technical budget with which to obfuscate. Changing identifiers is nearly free, but as you go beyond that and start rewriting the source code itself they start incurring performance penalties and increasing odds that the rewrite will fail as they get more aggressive.
I don't think it was a response to my question.
Psychologists enlist machine learning to help diagnose depression
The Oxford English Dictionary (sample: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/80663) weeps. There's a lot of value to some in listing references to a topic.
>and work at a location where the company employs 50 or more employees within 75 miles

Well, I work for a small MSP, so... unfortunately the government screwed me. Surprise, surprise. Either way, unpaid paternity leave is still ridiculous, no other country in the world does that that I'm aware of.
This quote presupposes insanity is worth defining. In my experience, judgment plagues addicts & they need less of it, not more.

Injecting judgment at the beginning of a recovery slogan seems like the author's continuing to apply judgments and expecting different results.
EVs are unpopular because cheap ones aren't very good yet. You have to choose between almost unusably short range, or a very high price. Something like the LEAF is affordable, but only useful as a city car. A Model S is a great car, but extremely expensive.

The cost is coming down. Chevy is now selling the Bolt, which has pretty good range, for under $40,000. Tesla's Model 3 is coming soon. More will follow. The high cost comes from the batteries, which are getting cheaper all the time.

I'm not sure that "unpopular" is quite the right word. A lot of people really like Teslas. Most of them can't afford them. The desire is there, the means is not (yet).

It's smart to invest in what sells right now... until things change and that's no longer what sells. GM is investing in what sells today. Tesla is investing in what might sell in a decade or two. Tesla's approach isn't certain but if they're right then GM is going to relive their experience of the 1970s where they take way too long to react to a changing market.
Of course they are. I don't care if the car I drive is electric, gasoline, diesel, biofuel, or hydrogen fuel cells. The majority of vehicle purchasers are the same. If you're in the market for a high end electric vehicle, your choices are a Tesla, an i8, and I think that's about it.
Do you have to respond to out of topic questions?
I look at their code. Deeply. To me, this is more important than everything else put together.

I don't like jerk bosses, difficult customers, unrealistic deadlines, lack of specs, reqs, or schedules, tough commutes, or unreasonable pay, but over the years, I've learned to live with them.

I have never learned to live with shitty code.

I'll answer your phones. I'll clean your toilets. I'll even take your daughter to the movies.

But I will never refactor another 800 line case statement with 26 early exits, 14 double negatives, and 90 unintelligible variable assignments inside a 23,000 line module. Never.

I wish I had adopted this philosophy years ago. Oh how much better my life would have been.
If you knew how to do that, you could also solve the climate change / global warming problem, as well as host of other big social issues at the same time. As it is, people simply follow the incentive gradient, and most of the time there's damn little you can do about it.
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Exactly. Kids don't want to use Facebook. That's the end of the conversation. Facebook has a PR problem that they literally will never be able to shake.

Facebook has become the Blackboard of the internet; kids will use because it's a quick way to talk to their college friends and coordinate events and shit and that's it.
There's some really interesting tidbits in the docs section.

For example, apparently AGPL licensed projects can't be used at Google: https://opensource.google.com/docs/using/agpl-policy/
Companies lie about worker burnout so to not seem inhumane when they're well aware of the conditions they create. Short of a statutory or federal law, this isn't going to change. The fact that the salary loophole exists and we refuse to pay even hourly workers overtime if they make too much money (depending on the state and industry) doesn't bode well for our chances of fixing this. Do these same companies wonder why most of their employees are disengaged? Or is that still such a big "mystery" to their blind management?
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> Rust is the new kid on the block.

> It supports a wide variety of platforms,

> and might even run on that microcontroller

> you think can’t run anything but C.

Hahaha.

Oh, you're serious...let me laugh harder...

When the rust compiler can produce code that runs on my micro with harvard architecture, 14-bit instruction words, and 64 bytes (not megabytes or kilobytes) of RAM, we can talk.

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EDIT: loving the downvotes. Keep them coming! Because nothing says "civilized debate" like quiet underhanded unexplained disagreement :)
Oh, I see. My language may have been imperfect, but I think the meaning is clear. Obviously it's possible to differentiate based on return type, by very definition of it having a different return type, and also that the mentioned bytecode does just that. I see no reason why you would assume that the second half of the sentence was supposed to apply to languages generally when the first half mentions Java specifically. "Java needs to decide if you want a method to be public at compile time, so you can't leave out the public keyword and expect it to be public". Not true, says you, they could have made public methods the default.

Anyway, I think we understand each other now, and I shall endeavor to be clearer in the future.
Unfortunately, Boing Boing loves sensationalistic headlines that turn out to be unsupported by data.
Or Excel! It's been able to backend to various RDBMSes for at least twenty years now. Ripe for disruption, no doubt.
I seriously dislike it when people use this sort of false dichotomy.

Look, you can be biased and have an opinion and still treat dissenting opinions, and the people who hold them, with fairness and understanding.

It doesn't happen, but it CAN. It's the 3rd option between "has no point of view" and "crafts a narrative around their point of view".
Uber Releases Diversity Report and Repudiates Its ‘Hard-Charging Attitude
Wedges >> Cart path in terms of scuffing the ball imo ;)

GP, remember the days of playing Professional 90/100 balls? I sometimes miss playing balata balls but definitely don't miss the scuffing!
>I would say I 100 percent know people change the climate.

No, there are lots of people who deny the climate is changing and that it is due at least in part to humans. They argue for instance, that the temperature data is inaccurate, or that any temperature rise we have seen recently is just random, or that it is systematic but due to increased solar radiation. I am rather surprised you aren't aware of these views.
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Is this showing that they haven´t found a Chinese company that could compete against tesla? China is investing a lot in Solar energy, batteries and have car companies that want to become global players, and most of Tencent investments are on Chinese companies that make products focused on China and Asian markets. I do not know if they buying in open market tells more about Tesla potential or about China future in cars and energy.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tencent#/entity
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How do you look at a company's code before you get on the job? I've never been in a situation where my company or my company's clients would have been ok with that.
This is the crux of the issue. Does the company care about their employee. Because a simple this is what works best for me should suffice.

There are jobs where you have to be present X hours. But a knowledge worker, someone who's creating. The end goal should be what's delivered. Not how long I'm present. It's not just the 8 hours 5 days butt in seat. It's that my cell phone is plastered all over. I get lambasted for not responding to an email late at night. Work doesn't end at a cut off. I miss contracting because they would think twice about contacting me after hours.

Shouldn't the company want to get the best possible work out of me. Ensure that their employee has an ideal work/life balance. So that they come to work with energy and able to work properly. Or are we just supposed to be a cog, churning out code.

Again there are checks and balances. The alternative schedule is not concrete. Stuff breaks, you have a meeting week. You'll be working regular hours and then some. That's fine. Just give a balance to not have to cram everything I want to do into two days.

Now I pitched it that writing helps with documentation, the other pieces helped with sales work, etc. So each piece I provided reasoning why it would be better. But that didn't matter.
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Are you sure it wasn't a DMD-5620 (also called the "jerk") and not a blit?
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Most people don't aerate or thatch their yards. Mature lawns are like dense mats.

Water doesn't soak thru.

Other species can't compete.
> If the action of deleting stubs is making Wikipedia worse rather than better, then the policy needs to change.

It is and it does.

> We don't need a campaign of shame and a witch hunt for "deletionists".

Given the lack of official action against what are widely perceived as abusive trolls, I think a shaming campaign is inevitable.
None of those are technical skills
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Is support of 10.9.x (Mavericks) on the roadmap?
> Personally I rate the person higher that tries several times, falls, gets up and starts over. Unfortunately that is not the case.

Did they really fail if they still have the money to try again? They certainly managed to con their investors at least once. What is a failure when it gets others to pay your rent for at least a year?
Ask HN: Does it matter which deep learning framework I use?
On one hand I fully understand there are differences in language and specific features available depending on framework out there.

On the other hand, if a framework "correctly" implements the underlying statistical theory/principals of deep learning, shouldn't I get the same results regardless of whichever framework I use?

If not, how would I know which framework produces "more correct" interpretations of the underlying data?
It's not like the article is attempting to coin a term to characterize people as "deletionists". That term has been in common use describing wikipedia editors who favor more exclusionary policies for at least ten years.

Here's a Jeff Atwood piece from 2006, to cite one example. https://blog.codinghorror.com/wikipedia-inclusionists-vs-del...
But what if it's called "size"?
Yeah I think I agree on the meaninglessness of work these days. And I don't mean that the individual task isn't perceptible as some part of a larger goal but I mean that much of the work I've done was utterly worthless or outright scrapped after the business decided it wanted to go the opposite direction. Not only is this frustrating from a personal point of view but it's also wasteful professionally. I'd rather have unpaid time off while the business finally figured out their strategy or goals for me before stepping into the office. At least then I would have time to do something else (paid or otherwise). Plus, it wouldn't be a waste of other resources such as purchasing licenses for third party software we'll never use in part or in whole or wages that could've been part of another budget for a viable product. All in all, it's this kind of wasteful nature that means the meaninglessness more painful to me since I can't point to a product or service with my fingerprints on it. I can't say "I helped make that possible" or "I helped that company add value to their client's experience."
Amen.

I just spent ~1.5 days tracking down a dangling pointer bug in interop code from Rust to C. It's so easy to do when you don't have lifetimes on pointers. I'd gotten so comfortable with lifetimes that I'd started taking it for granted.

Yes Rust can be hard to write, but the time and pain we spend of the other side of that equation can be just as important if not more so.
Re #2, couldn't agree more.
I was 10 years into my career before I understood the value and purpose of manager as "Enabler", protecting me from unnecessary BS and giving me the tools/opportunity to do my job; majority of my colleagues still only see managers as either productive "team leads / designers", or useless - giving them no other value outside of their technical contributions.
Some big companies have open source libraries you can check out. Smaller companies not so much.
The most effective Allied bombing attacks were definitely those on the German transportation network -- both fuel sources like oil, and other components like rail and road links. These played a significant role in disrupting German movement on the ground, which in turn contributed to their inability to turn back Allied offensives from D-Day forward. So it's correct to say that the strategic bombing forces made an important contribution to the final victory.

The problem is that strategic bombing theorists had been promising something much bigger than just contributing one part of a combined-arms victory; they had been promising that strategic bombing could win the war by itself. And, while it was eventually realized that these promises were over-sold, an enormous number of lives both among Allied aircrews and German civilians on the ground were thrown away in fruitless efforts to prove them.
Insist on it! I can't tell you how sorry I hadn't done this sooner.

If they won't comply, that's a big red flag. Run the other way.
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Thanks. :)

I haven't looked into sandstorm yet because while I want to let people self-host if they want, it's not a priority for me. I'd rather use every free moment I have to improve the app, and because of the end-to-end encryption, the added security/privacy is negligible.

Rewording: using the word "applications" is a good idea, thanks. I need to see how to reword it exactly, but that may just be what I need.
you're right but it certainly implies that there is no limit and can be easily circumvented. Example, they might delete what you uploaded, but that doesn't mean they didn't duplicate it and keep it around. legalspeak.
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All depends on the leadership. In some places, working 9-5 won't get you in trouble, but if you're not around to kibbitz with the management at 6, you're not going anywhere.
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Tesla recently announced they are ramping up their Model 3 production even more than what some people thought was already optimistic numbers: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-27/tesla-mod...

> For Musk to hit all of his targets, Tesla would need to build about 430,000 Model 3s by the end of next year. That’s more than all of the electric cars sold planet-wide last year.

> Even if half of the Model 3 inventory shipped to other countries, 2 U.S. sales under Musk’s targets would outpace the BMW 3 Series and the Mercedes C class—combined.

> To sell that many $35,000 sedans in the U.S. “would be absolutely unprecedented based on what we know about car markets today and how people spend their dollars,” said Salim Morsy, electric car analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance. “It could happen. I’m pretty sure it won’t.”

If they could pull this off this might be a great investment by Tencent.

It's also great for the car industry and environment as well. Especially considering their work on automated driving. If they get that many cars on the road it would give them a ton of data and a big advantage/lead in AI over other companies. But it could also be setting the bar too high and setting them up for failure (even though they might otherwise have nailed targets).

Regardless, as a design fan it would be interesting to see so many Teslas on the road. They are great looking cars.
Which is kind of the point. ROI is not a strong predictor of societal improvement.