skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much the same thing has happened in natural language processing. Previously trained linguists would spend lots of time on carefully crafted features. Now you just throw a bidirectional lstm model at the problem and enough training examples and you are close to state of the art.
The Google pixel does that already. It runs quite long on a single charge. I think it's due to AMOLED.
I'd think Durov was the kind of person who uses social network only for PR and is not otherwise interested in it...
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Your responses assume that I'm running in the cloud and AWS specifically. What if I need to run on-premise?
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I think you're not using Facebook appropriately. There are many groups and pages that keep you engaged and entertained as well as informed to some extent. You join the ones that cater your interest. I actually spend a lot of time on facebook daily because I managed to get a good selection of interesting sources. I have heard the same old tired tale that facebook is dying etc and it feels so vibrant right now. I guess some people don't realize that facebook is more than following your friends.

Also instagram is a very limited platform compared to facebook. It doesn't have a vast array of communication tools that facebook has. It's basically just sharing pictures to other people and some limited comment system.
I guess that is what it comes down to. I am now missing a lot of low quality interactions with friends and family. I do still SMS with folks. It was mostly about Facebook. I took the time to plan out how to stay in touch with each and every one of my contacts I cared about or thought would care about me. It is a good question -- what will you really be missing? How did the thinkers of generations gone by live without pervasive and instant contact with friends and family. Did they still foster deep and meaningful relationships? Can we still do that now without a tool like Facebook or Twitter.
Both Europa (around Jupiter) and Enceladus (around Saturn) have gas plumes and indications of liquid oceans. The situation is pretty well summarized here: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-missions-provide-new...

There is a mission in formulation for Europa (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-mission-named-europa-c...) and an Enceladus concept called ELF.
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Mining is actually not the predominant part of the national income - something like 8% of GDP. We're not as dependent on it as people think. Might be different for the state of QLD though.

Another way to look at it - mining has been deflating for the past few years as demand has dried up a bit, but the nation still hasn't had a recession (two quarters of negative growth).
Launchvic are funding the ecosystem rather than startups directly. Grants for hubs, bootcamps, co-working spaces, communities of interest, education/mentoring programmes &c. Even grants for existing VC-backed accelerators to bring them to Melbourne. However, no grants directly to startups, seems to be outside their scope of interest.
I have to say that, despite working with only a few compiled languages, errors and warnings emitted from rust's compiler are far more helpful than any other I've used.
Speaking very generally (and based on slightly faded memory), one reason they liked old things in the Renaissance was because there was a point of view that the prior ~1,000 years, since the fall of Rome, was a waste intellectually, and that the way forward was to revive the Roman and Greek knowledge. I don't think the same conditions apply today, and IMHO perhaps Humanism's goals should be accomplished by other means than focusing on preserving or reviving the past.

(Disclaimer: The following mostly is based on memory; details may be off a bit. Sorry.)

Hegel said in the 19th century (paraphrased), "he would 'put on seven-league boots' in order to skip over the thousand years between the 6th and 17th centuries and, having at last arrived at René Descartes, said that now he could 'cry land like the sailor.'"[0]

Even the name of that prior, wasted period, the "Middle Ages", was given to it by people in the Enlightenment: From their point of view it was the middle between two great periods: Classical antiquity of Greece and Rome, and the Enlightenment.

The Middle Ages ended, in a sense, with the reintroduction of most of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle's works to Europe, where they had been lost for centuries. Aristotle was highly respected and presented a worldview that challenged Scholasticism, the philosophy of the Church. Thomas Aquinas, a name many recognize, made it a mission to reconcile Aristotle with the Church.

It's a good reminder that civilization is a fragile thing, and we are stewards of it. We don't want the next 1,000 years to be lost, too.

[0] https://www.britannica.com/topic/Scholasticism
If you like the people you're working with, enjoy the work you are doing, feel like you're learning and exploring new interesting/challenging problems and feel like you're being compensated fairly, I don't see a reason to switch companies. Remember there is always a risk that you won't like your next job as much as your current one (and the opposite is also true).

I'd look to change companies if any of the following, among other things, apply: you're working in a toxic environment, you don't get along with your co-workers, you aren't being challenged at your job, you aren't learning/expanding your knowledge, you aren't being compensated fairly, or you feel there aren't personal growth opportunities left at your current company.

Full disclosure, I am a recent grad so maybe I'm just being naive.
That sounds like it's fine as long as you have fully enclosed lockable stalls? (i.e. "toilet rooms")
To be clear, Rust's model of locking data rather than locking code is really lovely, but that doesn't mean that it's not possible to mess up locks: Rust only prevents data races, not race conditions in general.

(However, you're correct in that it's not undefined behavior to mess up locking in Rust, at least not without an `unsafe` block involved.)
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I would happily get smacked around if you promised to 'move around' some significant numbers into my banking account.
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GPUs aren't good for everything. The right thing to do is balance between CPU and GPU code, and only do what actually gives any benefit.

For example, GPUs suck at working on texts, or when there is a lot of divergence between processes.

For example, if you have several kernels that branch to
the TRUE side of the IF condition, and several that branch to FALSE, you're paying a huge performance penalty.
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> President Obama touched upon this a week ago.

does anyone have a link? can't find any source. it's a lucky coincidence I'm doing a deck on this topic and a quote like that would be perfect.
It's probably a cosmic ray, which overloads the CCD detector in a streak-like pattern as it flies through the focal plane. All uncorrected deep space imagery has them.
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Please don't let Dave Shing see this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq5h9Uacq0w&feature=youtu.be...
Looks like Google "Street View" photographed inside the Rackspace building, too - https://www.google.com/maps/@29.5082497,-98.3933516,3a,75y,1...
I'll have to watch this later, but I'd argue the issue, at least for me, isn't really surface level understanding. (At least, the kind I think could plausibly be imparted in 4 minutes. :))

The basic idea of deep learning has always seemed straightforward to me[0]. However, at least my perception is that it feels like there's a lot of deep magic going on in the details at the level that Google/Microsoft/Amazon/researchers are doing deep learning. That's honestly true of most active research areas[1], but since those results are also the results that keep getting a lot of attention, the "it's a black box" feeling makes sense to me. :)

[0] Having done both some moderately high level math and having a CS background, I feel like most ideas in CS fit this description, though. Our devil is the details.

[1] For instance: fairly recent results in weird applications of type theory are also super cool, and require some serious wizardry, but those get much less attention. (And are, I think, more taken for granted, since who doesn't understand a type system? /s)
"many of us have had miserable experiences flying United."

That's just anecdotal evidence, which I also have. I have flown United dozens of times, along with other carriers, and don't really have any complaints with any of them since all the issues I have run into were out of their control (the weather).

I am sure I can find a dozen other people who also had miserable flying experiences on Delta for example and then claim "many of us".
Oh, I find your comments interesting and well thought out, just wrong... But I do think you deserve better than just my glib throwaway dismissal, so I added the follow up comment to explain more/better.
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Excellent! It is nice to know that it is at least possible to get some things approved.
I applaud jacques_chester's persistence. On every Docker, Mesos and k8s thread he manages to inject Cloud Foundry and / or Bosh. Impressive.
The DSC is basically paying for a reminder to change your razor, not shave with it till it's awful.

The same could be accomplished by a calendar notification of course.
https://mises.org/library/price-gouging-saves-lives-hurrican...
It's pretty easy for someone to get unbanned if really they want to use the site as intended. Failing that, the vouching system gives banned users' good comments a fair shot at being restored, so even the worst case isn't that bad.
I've been using Facebook for eleven years and I almost stopped logging in. I used it almost only to say happy birthday to friends in 2016. This year only to post some work related news and events. The point is that ten years are a long time and I lost interest. It's all the same routine again and again. Luckily I meet in person with most of the friends I care about and there are many different ways to reach people, messengers and other sites.
>Comparing taking someone's life or, less importantly, their property to getting high shows a terrible lack distinction

But that's not what I'm doing.

>Don't forget, societies have become better places by breaking unjust laws.

Sure that's true, but laws designed with the intention people from injecting potentially harmful substances into their bodies would hardly qualify as those "terribly unjust laws that must be opposed."

If they were making all people of a certain race wear symbols or forcing them into concentration camps, then you have unjust laws worthy of being opposed. That is not on the same level as laws that ban certain substances because research have shown them to have great potential to harm physical and mental health.

If you think that throwing drug addicts into prisons rather than rehabilitation centers is harmful (as your comment seems to suggest) you may have a point. However, that is an argument for prison and sentencing reform not an argument for legalization.
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It's still very bad, though. Exceptions control that badness. There's no excuse to avoid using a useful feature for reasons that actually worsen your code.
It's closer to reality when you consider that this is a 6.3% increase over his current net worth.

But yes. It's a ridiculous sum of money to be thrown around casually.
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:) good luck!
Have you published that paper anywhere on a conference or so? I guess not because it's not really in the common format. But from a quick look, it actually looks interesting, so why not try to submit it somewhere, e.g. some image conference? But you really should work on the format. I assume that this was not done with LaTeX? Then, in the table in your experimental results, what you are also comparing is number of parameters, and maybe train time, and inference time, and maybe memory consumption during inference, so that should all be also in the table. Also, there should be one or two figures which give small sketches of your models blocks, which helps to better understand the difference to e.g. XCeption. Also, as I understand, QuickNet is mostly based on XCeption? But XCeption is not in the table of your experimental comparisons. Also you mention MobileNets which is also not there. You should add that. Then, if you additionally add compression methods like 8-bit quantization, you should have a separate table where you show how much less memory it needs and how much it degrades the performance. Then, to really boost interest in your paper, it would be really nice if you publish some code. It sounds like you already implemented that in Lasagne or in Keras? So just publish that code.
You can also throw extra GPUs at the PCI bus, not so with extra processors.
I believe it's fair to say that both sides are easily manipulated...not just those on the right.
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Fantastic UX! Did you design this all yourself?
What's a successful actor if not a very specific type of businessman? (but yes, I meant to include a caveat there acknowledging that and forgot).
Telegram has solved the communications problem for me mostly. Before telegram, I had, all of the legacy messenger services (AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Skype, etc), plus Slack, IRC and whatever I used at work - now I have Telegram, and no longer sign into those legacy services anymore.

What makes telegram a winner for me is that the desktop is a first class citizen, I'm in front of a computer like 18 hours a day - I don't want to have to stop what I'm going and respond on my phone. Yes, perhaps Signal is more secure, and I may try it someday.. but for now.. Telegram has largely solved my 'communications' problem.
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I'm reasonably certain that advertising has a pretty big reputation as a stress-driven hellscape, at least in the classic Madison avenue format. Lots of deadlines and all-nighters
Of course it is not defined, that is a language specification not a compiler implementation guide.
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Ask HN: What do you use to manage chains of long-running jobs?
For running chains of multi-hour jobs with dependencies I've always used Jenkins but always been unsatisfied with it. I've also heard of Luigi but haven't given it a shot yet. Is there anything else similar I should look at? I've had trouble finding a single name for programs like this to search with.

Luigi: https://github.com/spotify/luigi

Example jobs:

- download a bunch of raw data from different sources
- clean and transform raw data into a single format
- push a lot of data into a DB
- routine ML model updates
- generate reports

These would have dependency relations, some would be short and some would be long, sometimes they fail (which may be important or not), etc...
I have unfollowed (not unfriended) everyone in Facebook about a year ago (before it became mainstream).

What a happy year it was. 12/10 would do it again.
Sadly a recent judgement, rendered well after the date of your link, seems to have jumped the publication requirements way, way up - to my shock and dismay. I regret I don't seem to have the link handy. I've tried submitting a pre-issuance submission of sorts to the USPTO recently and just got back an instruction on how to begin legal proceedings, at my own expense, the submission itself was discarded as far as I could tell.
No dedicated meeting room? Yes, meetings should be reduced to an absolute minimum and can be held in one of the offices or in the stand-up area. This makes them public and everyone easily has the chance to join in. The same is true for client meetings, which in my experience rarely take place at the office if you are an agency, anyway. So, no dedicated meeting rooms necessary.

Sprint planning: in the town hall if the sprint involves most of the team, or in on of the offices. A three people office can accommodate a small sprint team of 6-7 people.

Project brainstorming: In the town-hall, in the kitchen, maybe outside when taking a walk?

Private meetings: In most cases, the privacy of the corner seating areas will be enough, but I think most of the times at least small office will be vacant, because not everybody is in the office all the time.
Hi,

I've been looking for something similar for a while.
My best find so far is https://github.com/NREL/api-umbrella
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What if all comments had information about the poster's IP address. Maybe a unique hash based on IP, country of origin, registered organization?

Maybe that way people could at least identify suspicious patterns themselves.

But even without any new data, a third-party could identify troll rings on reddit, youtube, and twitter by scraping the data.

Some pro-democracy group should probably be funding this kind of technical approach. It's likely to be a lot more effective than waiting for all these companies to do it themselves.
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Yes, all these people know nothing about economics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Libertarian_economist...
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No one is destroying anything. The term for an atheist humanist is "secular humanist".
It probably is for long-polling or websockets?

https://github.com/mkj/wort-templog/blob/master/web/templog.... is my not-quite-toy example - a single process runs from uwsgi with Bottle (like Flask) and gevent. The long polling waits on a global Event variable that's updated by another request, nice and simple.
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why would anyone downvote the parent comment (by andrewkemendo) given that they seem to speak with the authority of an expert in the field. thanks for your comment.
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That's why in some statistics, 10% of the US population counts as the poorest people in the world. Starving people in developing countries usually have exactly $0, in the US most students finishing college are technically poorer than most of the world's population.

Doesn't reflect reality in any way though.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14213364 and marked it off-topic.
Using the serious sounding "Considered harmful" does not give the air of legitimacy that the author seeks.

"Considered harmful", "Considered obnoxious".
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Both can be seen as strategies of searching for a solution in an optimization problem. Why does deep learning (gradient descent) work better? Is it because of the randomness in GA? And are there any problems more suitable for GA, where deep learning fails?
I'm actually using it for the app logic/container in a riot.js app. Libraries like React/Riot/Vue are happy just being views in your Model-View-Whatever.

Angular is another story.
Tried some programs that used to work:

First program:

src/main.rs:65:11: 65:19 error: no method named `join` found for type `collections::vec::Vec<&str>` in the current scope
src/main.rs:65 sline.join("") // return string

OK, what happened to ".join", and who had the great idea of taking it out?

Second program:

$ cargo build
An unknown error occurred

To learn more, run the command again with --verbose.

OK, must rerun because of useless message.

$ cargo --verbose build
Invalid arguments.

Usage:
cargo <command> [<args>...]
cargo [options]

Note that the "Usage" message doesn't say where to put the options if there's a commmand. So we have to guess:

$ cargo build --verbose
Failed to parse registry's information for: chrono

Caused by:
the given version requirement is invalid

The version requirement in the cargo.toml file under [dependencies] is

chrono="*"

which, according to this manual [1] is valid.

I used to like Rust, but after years of stuff breaking with each new release, I don't use it for anything serious.

[1] http://doc.crates.io/specifying-dependencies.html
Overbooking makes air travel more effective than, with less empty seats and less pollution per passenger.

The way it eas handled can definitely be improved, but you can't argue that it is inherently bad.
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> Clearly you don't care or haven't thought

That's unduly personal. Users here aren't allowed to address each other that way, first because it's uncivil, and second because arguments get stronger when such bits are edited out.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14212866 and marked it off-topic.
Oh wow, thank you!
Is Teach for America the one that recruits Ivey league grads and drops them into classrooms in inner city classrooms? I always thought it was a wonderful microcosm of everything wrong with the US system. The exact situation where you need experienced teachers with deep ties to their community is where they put Ivey league grads with no training, experience, or shared life experiences with the students due to their wildly different socioeconomic class. It even has the "white saviour" complex baked into it.
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That's fine, it's:

> terrible "wilderness years" of server templates and jQuery

where things go off the rails.
Why convenience? So people can go 'do what they love'? Or in reality, so people can spend more time on vapid social apps and feel like they're on top of trends?
Doesn't auto rolling evacuation like that give the ability for one malicious user that found a flaw in an app to DoS an entire kubernetes cluster by filling disk space?
Aha; thanks! I'm pretty sure I like the effect even more because of your explanation though!
As a technologist working at a company that helps businesses design & build office space, one item I notice always lacking in conversations about office space is growth.

The article brushes off growth by suggesting you just open a new office when you've grown. This suggestion lacks understanding of how growth happens. It's rarely an instant doubling of headcount. Most organic growth creeps up.

So let me invade your "dream" office with a bit of tough reality. Everywhere you imagined 3 people, 6 months later, put in 5. Then 4 months later, every available "single quiet" space, replace with a full time desk. Then in 60 days put a few part timers and interns out in common area, permanently. Now hold the line for a couple years while we find affordable space to relocate everyone to.

Your dream space becomes just another overcrowded, noisy envitonment due to the realities of cost and efficiency that drive every business.
>>I have heard the same old tired tale that facebook is dying etc

For those who no longer use FB, it is dead.

I feel good about that. I didn't even have to attend the funeral.

YMMV
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Haven't heard about spacy, been struggling with Stanford's NER for a few days. Looks great, will check it out. Thanks!
Rust has not removed an API since 1.0. Your code is extremely old and predates stability.

Yes, star dependencies were removed like a year ago, for semver issues. They went through multiple release cycles of warnings.