skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great name for a band :-). That said, I found the paper really interesting. I tend to think about LSTM systems as series expansions and using that as an analogy don't find it unusual that you can figure out the dominant (or first) coefficient of the expansion and that it has a really strong impact on the output.
This is not an unreasonable suggestion. Google seems to have taken the Yegge stuff and Cracking the Coding Interview to heart and published a lot of info on the interview experience.
I've been actually answering that question twice, yunoreed.
Just FYI: starting with 9.4, PostgreSQL supports the FILTER clause. This would change this:

> array_remove(array_agg(producer.last_name), NULL) AS last_names

to that

> array_agg(producer.last_name) FILTER(WHERE producer.last_name IS NOT NULL) AS last_names

I wrote about FILTER here: http://modern-sql.com/feature/filter

And how to use ARRAYs rather than concatenated strings here: http://modern-sql.com/feature/listagg#alternative-array
I wrote a long response, taking a wider and wider perspective, and trying to be nuanced and yet opinionated, until I realized that if all this climate change stuff that's been posted on HN these past weeks/months is true, and I have little reason to doubt it, the only discussion worth having to me seems to be on the level of 'should be work towards a global government, and if so, how tyrannical can it be to still be worth the alternative of mankind disappearing?'

I'm not being snarky or theatrical, or judgmental; this is something that's cropping up all the time and I'm kind of wishing someone wise would tell me I shouldn't be as worried as I am about climate change fucking shit up on a level that dwarfs pretty much everything else.

And to be clear, I personally love spending time discussing the ins and outs of, say, The Lord Of The Rings, and I'll keep doing that to stave off depression. But for both good and bad I'm starting to wonder if I should go all-in on working toward solutions - if any - to playing a part in preserving humanity.
This is literally what the article is about.
It might be possible for the government to get a court order compelling Apple to turn on iCloud syncing for particular individuals as a way to get around device encryption. Maybe that is what is going on here.
Appreciate your response, Patrick. Quick question - is it necessary for a start-up to have payment side to apply for the program? What about a start-up that is pre-revenue?
I just built one partly for this purpose. I went with AMD's new Ryzen 1700. It has 8 cores and 16 threads. More threads are great if your application can use them. My understanding is that TensorFlow, for example, does[1]. i7s do better in applications that only use a single thread, but you get a really good cost/performance ratio for multi-threaded work from Ryzen [2]. The 1700 also comes with a serviceable air cooler, so you save some money there too.

The other components are a geforce 1060, Asus Prime X370-pro (lowest-priced x370 motherboard), and 16gb ram.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39395198/configuring-ten...
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-ryze...

edit: added other specs
Yes, in high school, I remember using "Mr", "Mrs" or "Ms". In college I remember referring to professors as "professor."

But it seems different for a teacher to put themselves above other teachers at the same school and expecting others to remember that?
This is totally the way to go. The cost for their compliance department to deal with a set of complaints will far out weight the money they owe you.

Also, switching to a smaller regional bank if you have the possibility is a good choice.

Remember Bank of America is the bank that took all the farms from the farmers during the Great Depression.
See "natural law" vs "positive law" debate.

(I am strongly on the natural law side)
It's probably a question of definition, but if you exchange cattle, tobacco or gold you are not using "money".

I would argue that money is an IOU, a promise of something that can be used generally, not only between the two initial parties (that would be a contract).

What would be the point of calling 'money' to cattle?

"That form of "money" has been happening for thousands of years. "

Can you give me some examples? because I have read about it and it seems that it's not the case. At least, not in very relevant contexts.

'[..] people will fall back on underground "organic money".'

Actually they start using currency of other states.

And it's not a "faith" thing, it's related to a real loss of value of the currency caused, in the cases that you mention, for supply shocks in the country (see http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=3773 ).
Aren't LLC's problematic for offering employee equity options?

I've done lots of startups, and you want a structure that makes it easy to put together employee pools, easy to raise funding with, and easy to sell/merge.

LLCs are easy to setup, but if they create lots of problems down the road it's not a structure you want.
Of course they are. Most things on the web are documents. The fact that it is abused for SPAs means that yes they are contorted and abused, but that is inevitable because Gall's Law.

It's easy sit in an armchair and point out all the warts on specific tech, but if you were to build a better solution to broad technology segments like this, and magically get adoption, you'd find that you only understood 5% of the application space, and your better version is subject to whole swaths of criticism that you didn't anticipate. Better to find one small/simple thing you can do well and build from there.
What I find interesting, is the parallel in movie content, where 4K UHD content just became available late last year (while 4K movie content was available earlier, all the stuff I'd seen was poorly encoded or heavily compressed). I see a lot of people on AVSForum complaining that there's absolutely no visual difference between 4K or 1080p, sitting on a couch at normal distances, based on scientific arguments of the human eye's resolving power, or their own subjective experiments.

Given that the market reception to 4K TV's and UHD players seems to have been tepid at best, I find it interesting that Microsoft thinks 4K will be such a huge draw to consumers. Is it just bragging rights (my 4K's bigger than your 1080p)? 4K rendering will really make the 1080p look that much better? People playing these things will sit 1-2 feet from the screen? Or maybe VR headsets will benefit the most?
They ask you to reverse a linked list then politely ask if you have any questions when you don't do it to their liking.
AI Podcast: How AI Puts Lettuce in Your Salad Bowl
IBM and Intel have centralized planning on an immense scale.

It's a bit of a different situation. Giant companies can still look to prices on the market to make decisions about how to use their resources. Central economic planning, as I understand Hayek to have meant it, means getting rid of market generated prices.
Basic question: since the entries form a chain and reference the previous, is there no way to edit or delete your old entries? (I see it "prevents tampering" and there's something of a philosophical question here about whether you're "tampering" with your own history when you editorialize -- I agree with the crypto interpretation, but in the context of offline interaction, social communication isn't burdened with such expectations of accuracy or time-invariance.)

If so I see that as a fairly large limitation for the common user. Even though truly removing something from the internet is effectively an impossibility, I think most non-technical folks aren't actively aware of this, and I'd at least like the option make it harder for folks to uncover.
I really hope Twitter goes bankrupt and we all switch to an open alternative. That, or become an NGO.
I'm aware of how fractional reserve banking works. It does not mean that the money is generated "out of thin air."
Are you working on a fully decentralized architecture?
Create-graphql-server, quickly scaffold a GraphQL server
> NPR is hard left

you can't be serious. NPR is what the American media complex calls "liberal" which should be translated to "center-right by global and historical standards, but left of the extreme right wing of contemporary American politics".
Oh yes, I agree completely. But OP's scenario involved a school teacher on his/her first day teaching the class, and so I felt that OP was overreacting. Obviously, demanding that random people call you Dr. is absolutely rude.

Well, it's news to me! I never noticed this thinking before, probably because it's not a common topic of discussion on HN.
I wasn't thinking that they're physical, just that physicists are used to playing fast and loose with approximations because it's a technique that usually works in physics. Or to not really care about what a Dirac distribution really is. Or that defining a tensor (field) as something that transforms like a tensor is a satisfying definition.

I am skeptical of the methods that they're used to. But it doesn't look like they're doing that, so I'm probably wrong.
Tech advocacy group slams notion of SF income tax
Just to clarify this a bit.

Most streaming sites authenticate you before letting your client know the IP, port and path of the stream. Once that is known, you can turn off the VPN or whatever, and stream like normal, so it should stream at a higher bitrate.
Even worse, they cost substantial money.
Frontier Diary #1: VM Life
MantisVPN – New Chicago Startup
Hacker news voters are very harsh about humor.
I don't have a ton of time at the moment, but here's the cliff's notes:

* i7-6900K CPU

* 4x GTX 1080 GPUs

* X99-E WS/3.1 Motherboard

* 128GB DDR4 2400Mhz RAM (8x 16GB sticks)

* 14 TB between SSD and HDD (Plex, datasets and applications on Ubuntu 14)

* 14x 120mm fans run at lowest RPM

* Custom liquid cooling loop with dual pumps

* 4x Radiators (1x 120mm, 1x 240mm, 2x 480mm)

It's not just deep learning, a lot of what I like to do with this is research or projects parallelizing things like cryptanalysis. For the rest I do financial modeling (which has a fair overlap with the cryptanalysis from a signal processing perspective anyway). I used to work primarily in application security, but have been slowly moving into cryptography and data analysis; the latter mostly as a supplement for cryptography as a research interest.
Fun killer
its not even a little surprising
The very old Pro, and external GPUs:

>Currently Mac users are limited to Maxwell GPUs from the company’s 9-series cards, but next week we’ll be able to finally experience Pascal, albeit a $1200 Pascal model, on the Mac.

>We have reached out to Nvidia for a statement about compatibility down the line with lesser 10-series cards, and I’m happy to report that Nvidia states that all Pascal-based GPUs will be Mac-enabled via upcoming drivers. This means that you will be able to use a GTX 1080, for instance, on a Mac system via an eGPU setup, or with a Hackintosh build.

https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/06/nvidia-titan-xp-beta-pascal-d...
Twitter's swan song?
Is this correct? My sense from the article is that they did all the training on unsupervised, and then checked one of the recurrent lines for a correlation to sentiment, not adding a layer and doing more training.
Not a city, but close to Barcelona there is an old factory which has been occupied and had a strong cyberpunk vibe when I visited https://greenhousingwelfare.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/ca-la-f... (they self describe as an eco-industrial post-capitalist community)
ECDH for key exchange (nist p256) and ECDSA for signing.
Every next message delivering with new key calculated by ECDH.
Sure, so hide the ads instead?!
Unofficial Startup School community
I wasn't aware of that feature. Now I really need to push for upgrading PostgreSQL to a newer version.
Note that after the turn of the 21st century, people were not expiring non-binaries posts on Usenet.

I observed in 2011 that HighWinds Media had not expired any non-binaries postings since 2006, and that Power Usenet had not expired a non-binaries posting for eight years ("3013+ days text retention" was in its advertising at the time). People effectively just turned non-binaries expiry in Usenet off, in the first few years of the 21st century. I did on my Usenet node, too.

I observed then that the Usenet nodes' abilities to store posts had far outstripped the size of the non-binaries portion of a full Usenet feed, which was only a tiny proportion of the full 10TiB/day feed of the time.
I don't see it that way. The request was within the boundaries of the classroom. It would definitely be different if the teacher also expected his/her peers to do the same.
I think screens themselves could get bigger, but the devices themselves are as big as they'll ever get. Bendable screens are already a reality, now we just need to get them to make sharp folds. Then you could fold your screen up and put it in your pocket. :D
You're not just missing data, you need some ceteris paribus and when severe weather events happens you are very far from it. Randomness does not allow you to validate the conclusion you want or that makes most sense to you.

I live in a southern city that occasionally gets ice, vast majority of people take that opportunity to just stay home. Nobody in the south can drive in ice. When that happens. Traffic is light whether school is in session or not. Therefore, I say kids have zero impact on traffic. Ha!
Most probably this: Someone would create a second bank and a second currency.
Even more confusing: In the picture the shroud is labeled "TITAN X".
Introducing Pricing for Figma
This actually demonstrates something very interesting, I think: you can take an ML model trained with the "low-level prerequisite knowledge" of a subject, and then very quickly and easily teach it a high-level concept that relies on that knowledge.

Which, now that I think about it, makes the human brain and its amazing adaptive general-game-playing abilities a bit less mysterious. Since we humans all have these huge corpuses of sense-data we've been receiving reinforcement signals about since birth, we've likely built up all sorts of low-level models which we just use to predict the world for reflex responses a little bit better and faster (speech models so we can respond to what people are saying even as they're still saying it, visual models so we can throw spears where lions are going to be instead of where they are, etc.) But those low-level predictive models make it nearly effortless to build higher-level models.

I wonder if we'd take a giant leap forward in AI if we just managed to scan+emulate a regular animal brain (say, of a rat), and then built the AI as a neocortex-equivalent for that brain. It would have instant access to thousands or millions of pre-trained low-level predictive models, which it could easily discover as having outputs correlated to success and thus "attach to" during its own training.
> I've installed Steam on said laptop but it's just not the same as having a console.

So, assuming the games you want to play are available on Steam for the Mac (a big if, likely), how bad is an Xbox USB controller, HDMI out to your TV, and Steam Big Picture mode? Is it sub-par, or have you never bothered because you have the xbone (or because it doesn't have what you want to play)? I have neither, so I honestly don't have any data on this, and I don't use Big Picture because I do my gaming on a desktop.
Puzzles Collector, 0.16.2 released
Why should the other person get to decide and be judge on what's rude and disrespectful? If I believe it's rude if you do not kiss the ground I walk on and that's it's disrespectful if you don't obey my commands, tough shit for me and anyone else who thinks that way.

If someone is rude to you in your eyes and based on your standards, how you react is still on you and is your responsibility. You can still be respectful to rude to people.

Respect is a two way street.
This is a very very bad idea. The so called AI is changing, far from being stable. Software can change, hardware can not.
Where does the pink term border come from?
There is no way (as far as I know) to delete old entries, and I think this is good because with gossip mechanics we cannot lie to ourselves: there is no way of stopping that information from spreading.

What's possible, on the other hand, is to make a message type "ignore the previous" which client apps would interpret to hide them, but obviously a client app can be configured to not hide them.
What they really need to do is maybe just start completely over on the whole Xbox Dashboard.
For something that could be so simple and easy, the whole experience of trying to use the Xbox for anything other than playing a game is insanely frustrating. Every time I sit down to try to use it I'm just tearing my hair out!

It's been, what, over a decade they've been working on that Dashboard and it has always been just a steaming pile of trash.

Everything from initial setup trying to make accounts for the kids, to setting up payment methods, trying to switch between users constantly as things are authorized in one place or another, trying to install apps, constantly turning it on to find its forcing an hour of updates that must be installed to basically unbrick it. The media player app is insultingly bad. The App Store is a wasteland. The UI is a total train wreck.

I went to install Amazon's app to stream some Prime shows last week. You would think probably some other people have tried to do this before, what could go wrong? What a mistake. App constantly crashing, took over an hour, including power cycling the Xbox twice before I get it to the point where I was actually watching a show. This for what is a < 5 minute process on a smartphone.

Every time I try to do anything with that infernal machine, I just end up tearing my hair out. I really don't understand how they have millions of users and so much basic shit Just Doesn't Work.

And don't get me started on the UI..... Everything I want to do buried the absolute maximum amount of clicks away from where I would expect to look for it.

I try not to complain about it usually because it just gets my blood boiling how could MS put out such absolute garbage? Please tell me I'm not alone in feeling this way :-)

The hardware rat race is great and all, but for a platform where they have Apple-esque control I would have expected two orders of magnitude better results than what MS has managed to deliver in 2017 for a living room experience.
Looks like it showed up with commit b814da891e, and has been around since Git v2.0.0.

The online docs mention it in Git v2.1.0: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config/2.1.0
Good to hear! I see a lot of people who don't understand the distinction and think that you can lose your entire warranty if you do something wrong, and I (incorrectly, obviously) thought you were talking like that.

The question of proof is an interesting one. I guess that, like most things, it'll come down to who's willing and able to prove their case in court, or convince the other side they can't win.

That's one reason I find this case to be interesting. Companies often try really hard to mislead customers about their rights, which seems to be why so many people think you can void your entire warranty by making a small change. They usually get away with it as long as they cave in when they encounter someone who actually knows their rights. But all those people who don't know get screwed over.
Deploying Brotli for static content
Unesco warns the W3 Consortium that DRM is incompatible with free expression
After realizing that there is no common platform for people interested in Startup School (founders and spectators), I decided to start one on my site. The idea behind this community is to bring together people who were accepted into the MOOC, people who were not accepted and people who just want to watch the action as spectators. The following are some features available to this community:

* A wiki like document that will be updated as each lecture is posted with links to the video and lecture slides.

* A chat room

* A question and answer forum

* A forum to discuss resources i.e submit a link to an external resource + a comments section

Note : This is an unofficial community. Since YC has not indicated that they will bring together all Startup School enthusiasts onto a single platform, I decided to start one.
My personal experience was that the recruiter actually gave very good answers to these kind of questions. So, not a bad idea.
(Chrome 56.0.2924.87 (64-bit) / Ubuntu )
Thanks for the feedback. Can you be specific about the API features that you're referring to that are "all over the place"?

I'm personally really excited about this, and this is probably the most cohesive a strategy I've seen for the API platform. We're very focused on fundamentals right now.
Coming from a heavy KDE user (on 3 different laptops, a Dell Latitude, a Thinkpad X220 and an MSI): the number of little bugs and glitches in that DE is wayy too high for it to be adopted by the leading desktop distribution.

It makes much more sense for them take a better base to start with, and then rally developer effort to make it more customizable/productive, than take a project with a huge featureset but very fragile and unstable.
A weird thought: at some point AI short stories may be far more profound than our own.
> Most bars in the suburban US don't stand alone

I don't know if that is really true. Or to say, what is your definition of a suburb?

I've seen plenty of bars out in the middle of nowhere, especially in small towns surrounded by rural communities.
"Ride-hailing apps may increase alcohol-related health problems"
> that work across NATs without issues

You say that as if stun didn't exist in the udp/tcp realm. bittorrent clients in fact engage in serverless stun by using mutually reachable peers. real sockets are strictly more powerful than webrtc, period. Also, that argument is becoming more and more obsolete as ipv6 adoption increases.

And again, this is not about utility, it's about control and freedom.

> In any case, WebRTC doesn't strictly speaking need discovery servers at all.

Even if you don't use a server you need to exchange one-time connection tokens out of band. You can't re-establish connections at a later point either. And it does not support multicast either. So no, you can't just have devices talk to each other.

Anyway, you're not even responding to my central argument. Web content is not a substitute for unfettered native access because you need native access to things (e.g. running a server) to even be able to run web content.
That's a good point. I've lived in poor neighborhoods but I'm not a minority.
Does this mean you're also hoping to expand into Delaware PBCs, too? Lots of open source projects are considering this approach due to a combination of poor response to open source nonprofits from the IRS and flexibility in figuring out their funding sources. There's only trivial differences to a C Corp in terms of filing.

I'd been planning to reach out to Stripe about this when it made sense; I probably should've just emailed you! We're advising folks we're bringing onto our Stripe Connect platform as managed accounts to go use Stripe Atlas where possible, but plenty have voiced support for having B Corps be part of that happy path.

Honestly, I might even just pay a lawyer at some point to open up some standardized set of docs for this.

Do you hope to have any way for Connect platforms with managed accounts to more directly refer people into Atlas? Having an API for the application process would be amazing.
From a storytelling perspective, the sound of a two stroke engine probably conjures up the image of a motorcycle when the bike is not in frame (similar to the way the screech of a red tailed hawk is used for storytelling).
This is a valid point and I don't trust my computer. I would trust, however, a Ledger Wallet http://ledgerwallet.com/ and theoretically and economically it's feasible to have a Ledger wallet app to sign every SSB message. This would be awesome to have.