skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You only need to know that if you are studying the field. A good explanation of deep learning is no more surprising to the general populace than general relativity is (spacetime isn't actually the surface of a balloon).
Speaking about names, I still don't understand why Americans insist on calling main dishes as Entrées. An entrée is a starter, it's based on the verb entrer which is to enter. Drives me crazy...
The De Ruyter sank in only 69 metres of water. That's plenty accessible with modern technology.
Ask HN: How do I get started with applied ML/AI/Deep Learning?
Hi HN,

Small background: I have a degree in non-comp sci stream, but have been working as a dev/lead startups/corporates for last 10 years. Currently, I am in one of the big 4s as a SSE, but do not have any background in ML. Tech background would mostly be JVM...

So, how do I get started? Languages, technologies, books, projects, anything would help.
Because the main dish makes the big entrance. I believe French cuisine used to use the same meaning and it diverged when people stopped always having a roast as well as an entrée.
Where does the "dangerous" come in?

What makes the EU government inherently better at governing and representing interests the of British people than a British government?

There is something about local democracy that some people simply don't understand. Voters can apply more pressure on locally elected officials than central officials. Ever since Thatcher's government began systematically reducing the powers of local government, central government can and has often overridden the choices of local voter, because they are not directly answerable to local voters.

If voters don't like some policies set by local politicians and officials they can organize effectively to have them changed and the officials removed. What kind of pressure can the people say Hammersmith exercise over an EU policy they don't like, assuming they know who to address, and can even bring political pressure to bear on them?
Tin foil much? As if what will ...really help NSA and co are 1-2 random comments of technical pedantry regarding MD5 on an insignificant (in the grand scheme of things) forum people go to discuss the latest startup news, JS frameworks, the benefits of functional programming, Golang, tech industry developments, and some CS related news.
> It is not satisfying to objectify consciousness. Yes, we may identify (seemingly) flawless correlations between objective phenomena and consciousness, but they do not constitute any sort of "explanation" for consciousness.

If you are truly seeking enlightenment, rather than satisfaction, you probably should avoid a priori positions that rule out a whole class of possible answers from consideration.
A pretty dick move on her part for wanting to be included in a complete strangers personal circle?

I think that questioning the motive was justified.
What's the "own benefit" part in Five a Day, though?
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That's too bad.

If I were to ask someone to name an American they might say Taylor Swift, or Barack Obama. If I asked someone to name an Australian they might name Kylie Minogue or Hugh Jackman.Outside of a history book, how often are the native people associated with these countries?

We'll lose these cultures completely if we don't start sharing them. And what better way than food!
> What I mean can somebody sit down and for a given DNN architecture, write down (at least approximately) the set of functions that it can learn?

For a two-layer architecture with ReLU activations and n units in the hidden layer, this is the set of piecewise linear continuous functions with n kinks.
>Regarding the use in mobile and desktop, it will have to wait until SIMD extensions are introduced

I'm little confused about this talk and comments in here relating to open source in high performance applications (desktop, servers etc).

The RISC-V ISA is open source, I get that. There can also be open source Verilog/VHDL designs available. They are probably good for small low performance IoT applications and old processes.

But there is long way from ISA to silicon in high performance VLSI processor design for a new processes and foundries. Architecture, logic synthesis, timing analysis, floor planning, routing and placement, and ungodly amount of testing .. I don't see anyone spending hundreds of millions of chip design for RISC-V ISA and open sourcing it.

In other words, if you want competitive RISC-V chip, some company must spend hundreds of millions to develop their own RISK-V chip architecture and they will not open source it.
SyntaxNet – An open-source framework for Natural Language Understanding systems
I would be interested in knowing about an election in modern times (you choose what that means) in which a majority of the electorate in a British election did vote for the winning proposition.
No. JEdit had that feature long before Sublime Text.
Assuming you're making 25% less than $250k/yr, that puts you at ~$190k/yr. Are you saying you pay ~90k/yr ($7.5k/month!) to live 90 min away from the city? If so, what are your living conditions?
> There's practically _zero_ of these mega-successful people (Gates, Buffett, Zuckerburg, Musk, etc.) who don't read

Citation needed, as well as a definition of "don't read".

For example, for several years now I have been reading a lot less books than ever before in my life, almost zero. However, I took several dozens of courses on edX and Coursera and read a lot of documents on the Internet. Just no books, and a lot less newspaper and magazine articles.
Resonates with me, living in Spain and listening to BBC news for the past 12 months wondering if anything actually happens in the UK aside from a handful of headline events?

Seems like anything that does get reported is merely an opportunity to spin the narrative towards their ideological agenda?
What are the "first principles" you based the design on?
Yes, and please clone hosted ELK, or some other log handling stack. The current options are crazy expensive.
Fair observation, but it's worth noting that the person in charge of selecting the audience for Question Time was caught out as being extremely far right on the political spectrum. It's unlikely that the audiences you saw in the leadup to the vote were particularly balanced.

http://www.thecanary.co/2016/12/05/fresh-scandal-erupts-bbc-...
I've had a similar problem. My studies included a lot of econ and I'm very familiar with sunk costs. I was trained to not care about them, and now I don't.

Buy a month's worth of gym visits as a commitment mechanism, quit after the first one without regrets. Sunk costs are sunk.
I think lumina is based on Fluxbox, which is very similar to openbox. Lumina isn't a currently window manager, it you wouldn't compare it dirrectly. Think of it as openbox plus a a start-menu and system tools like a network manager.

I say it "isn't a currently window manager" because the devs have said they are looking at making their own, but I haven't heard that they have started.
Love this tool! (Btw title should be one word: "Shapecatcher")
I like it, I guess. Neat idea. Not something I feel like I would have a use for, but I'm probably not the target audience. Heck, it's cool just seeing Vue in use.

Neater would be a thumbnail-in-the-thumbnail showing a picture of the submitter and author, perhaps on the upper left and right corners. Might require a bit of data mining, though.
Free Sidekiq Batch with nested batches support
The bug is not 'opt-in'. If you need a processor with TPM then it will have AMT. The only question is if the vulenarability is local or accessible online.
You don't need to postulate a shadowy cabal because it's not shadowy.

Does it not bother you that David Cameron's first press officer was Murdoch-stooge Andy Coulson, who had already resigned as Editor as News of the World, and who was subsequently imprisoned for his role in phone hacking?

We're talking about someone who would attempt to hack the phone of anyone with a public profile - including politicians - and who was then employed to run the official government press office.

Meanwhile Rupert Murdoch's attitude to Europe is public knowledge:

https://www.indy100.com/article/this-terrifying-rupert-murdo...

So. It's not shadowy at all. It's not mysterious. No joining of dots is needed.

It's completely overt and out in the open. And it should never have been allowed this level of influence over British politics without being challenged.
It's a power tool—like Photoshop, Blender, Cubase, etc.—so yeah, expecting a flat learning curve is not very realistic.
The point isn't what Soros actually does, it's that the right paints him as the figurehead of a secret Jewish world order.

Read what the leaders and far-right populist movements in Poland and Hungary say about Soros and you can't miss the 'old conspiracies'.
I'd be interested to know how you formed this impression. My own impression is formed by:

* The work I and my colleagues are doing
* Recently published literature and arxiv pre-prints
* Conference talks
* Industry meet ups
* Blog posts

Based on my anecdotal experience from these sources, I see absolutely no evidence of Torch experiencing any kind of resurgence. If I had to make a call about the direction if the community as a whole, I would say that it is very clearly heading towards TensorFlow, with some holdouts using Theano and some using mxnet. Torch is used by some groups, certainly, but I have the impression that it's use is decreasing, rather than increasing.
Is your presentation online?
I note that your profile says you are a strategist & speaker on "digital, UX and branding".

I would hope that a branding specialist would have no trouble understanding the Brexit result. It doesn't require deep analysis. Remain mounted a campaign that was defeatist and based on fear: "ok, our attempt to negotiate resulted in nothing at all, but we must still remain and obey Brussels because if we don't our friends and allies will destroy our economy."

As a logical consequence, they were effectively arguing that there was no future for British democracy, because the trend over time has always been for the EU to take more powers out of the hands of democratic local government and take it for itself.

That's a terrible brand. Leave campaigned on a better future with "take back control" as their byline.

You don't need conspiracy theories about corporations with mind-control machines to explain what happened next.
Do people just not use debuggers?

There's piles of marginally useful stuff in IDEs, but I don't understand how this entire thread hasn't mentioned debuggers or continuous type checking.

I know you can setup vim to do a lot, but this comes out of the box in IDEs.
That's the point though: it's quite difficult to conceive "lots of Jews in Hollywood" as a criticism rather than a pretty anodyne fact unless one is making "Hollywood is liberal because Jewish conspiracies are using it as a tool to push their agenda upon an unsuspecting public" which seem rather more deeply rooted in anti-Semitism than reality
Neat idea!

I guess it's using something like headless chrome to get the thumbnails?
There was great potential for that then as well. Joining required the UK to give up exclusive fishing rights in its own waters and put up tariffs to its Commonwealth trading partners. That the UK did so without much of a fuss is a matter of shame for the country, the trade disruption had great impact in countries that depended on the trade. The Common Agricultural Policy was cemented in to prepare for UK arrival as well, so guaranteeing transfer of wealth from UK into France, an almost direct subsidy of French agriculture. This was the basis on which Margaret Thatcher went all obstinate to get a British rebate in the early 80s.
Your first link is a fine example of the kind of projection that goes on around George Soros. Let's trace the links around how you arrived at the conclusion that an American citizen is financing Islamists in Europe.

Over the past decades, he has donated his time and money to create the Open Society Foundations with the aim of improving civic society and democracies around the world. The OSF have two dozen programs, ranging from Education Support to Fiscal Governance to Public Health:
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/programs

One of these programs is the Human Rights Initiative, which has hundreds of projects and focus areas around the world. The scope of projects is as wide as human needs: disability rights, government accountability, etc.

One of these projects is Islamophobia in Europe. The OSF website explains in detail why this is a problem, why there's not enough data about it, and what OSF is doing:
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/explainers/islamophob...

In France, a NGO called CCIF works in this field:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectif_contre_l%27islamopho...

CCIF has applied and received grants from OSF. It's important to note that CCIF is not otherwise affiliated with OSF or Soros. Thousands of organizations receive grants. CCIF is a recognized non-profit in France.

Within some CCIF subgroup, there are apparently people sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood, a large and rather loose transnational organization that promotes an Islamist society (although the Brotherhood claims to be a peaceful organization and condemns all violence).

So, the connection between Soros and the Muslim Brotherhood is filtered through several layers of NGOs and grant boards. The number of grants made by OSF over the years must be in the hundreds of thousands. It's ridiculous to claim that Soros is personally involved in financing Islamism. (As a Finnish taxpayer, I probably have as much involvement in indirectly supporting some Islamist group -- there must be a botched aid project where Finnish money ended up in the hands of Somalian militants, for example. It's just statistics of trying to do long-term good in a very flawed world.)
Similar tool for mathematical symbols: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
So where does public safety fit in?

For example, I wouldn't say this was political, they have nothing to sell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO5pI5pmYE4 (railway safety)

The campaign that started the "5 a day" thing was called Change 4 Life, and seems closer to education and information than propaganda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb0fLYdPEPM
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"Understanding" is a subjective human concept, and not worth pursuing."

Isn't human understanding of how our environment works precisely how you're able to sit in your chair and write comments on HN for others to read?
Any chance there is a PDF version of this?
In X11, there is a big difference between a "window manager" and a "desktop environment".
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Sure, which brings us to the second point: HTTP's MD5 digest auth is still good enough to keep passive eavesdroppers from learning the password when TLS isn't used, which is its only purpose.
There are many problems with drawing inferences about overall public opinion from programmes like BBC Question Time. The main one is sample bias. Sampling occurs in three stages:

1) Audience members are self-selecting.

2) Audience members are then selected from the group that self-selected to represent a cross-section of the population.

3) Not all audience members get to ask their question, they are selected by the host.

The problem with the second stage is that there is a person, called an "audience producer", who selects people. When that person reposts the social media output of Britain First, an extremely far right political organisation, it questions whether they may have a political bias that may affect the sampling [0].

Watching Question Time could quite easily convince you that you are in a majority or a minority and you could be wrong. Treating Question Time as any kind of meaningful measure of public opinion is a form of self delusion, albeit one that's hard to shake off even if you know it. The only thing a person speaking on Question Time could tell you is that there exists a person with those views, and even that might not be true. Same goes for any other audience panel.

[0] https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourbeeb/tim-holmes/is-question...
Tl;dr - reading FB makes you jealous so quit and read popular Google search requests instead and be happy about how big a mess everybody else in fact is.
Using Fcitx on Linux, any Unicode character can be typed using the hotkey for the Unicode addon [1] and typing the description. So if you ever need the "arabic ligature bismillah ar-rahman ar-raheem" (﷽), it's right at your fingertips!

[1] https://fcitx-im.org/wiki/Unicode
>I'm not sure I agree with the thesis of the piece - that Cambridge Analytica played even a primary role in Brexit happening (I think it was always pretty likely, due to UK tabloids having campaigned for around 20 years on the issue, lack of organization in the Remain campaign, Corbyn failure to engage working class voters etc, hell even a latent feeling that the EU maybe isn't that great after all), but the techniques for doing this will only become more sophisticated and I wouldn't be surprised to see them become a common feature of our democracy.

Not to mention that the EU wasn't ever a great success with many states. EU participation was voted down by several countries populations even when the times and economies were better.

From Denmark's opt-outs to Norway voting against participation in the EU (time and again), to the rejection of the European Constitution in referendums, to Ireland, etc. Add lots of protesting, and tons of criticism (including from Guardian, who know seems to have forgotten all about it) of the bureaucratic and un-democratic way decisions were taken in Brussels.

And considering that the explicitly stated concern of the pioneers of the European community project was to corner Germany and not let it attempt to dominate Europe again, that the EU ended up as a playground for German ambitions, where there's a de facto power center (10,000ft gorilla) that trumps democratic processes, doesn't speak well to the success of the original plan.

It's not like it's some great success, and the idea of abandoning it is batshit crazy. It's not even like EU has a vision for the future, or any answer to the challenges (of e.g. automation, immigration, terrorism, the digital age, etc).
Go on, build that MVP
If that's going to be the criteria fine, but we'd need to kick some countries out of the EU then (e.g. Sweden) since they went in with a similarly narrow margin.
Rust's aversion to exceptions is exactly like Go's aversion to generics - a strongly held position that doesn't actually make anyone's life easier.
Wow, this is done in React Native: https://github.com/spolu/dazzle
Maybe not enitrely related, but I had worked on a Java project where any new object creation was prohibited !

Had a VERY VERY hard time unlearning and catching up to that "paradigm" but I now have a much better perspective on "automatic memory management" .

>> The problem is forgetting that dynamic memory usage is not "free"

Totally Agree.
thanks for the example - means people are doing it.

With a mobile app - it is different I guess in that the credentials are probably staying on the mobile device - they just need to do the proxying on the client - it seems.

I don't have an Iphone to test - if someone has Charles or some other proxy to see where the requests are going, I'd be interested to hear.
It's based on that https://github.com/vuejs/vue-hackernews-2.0
Given that it contains many interactive elements, I would assume not.
it sounds like this article is asking 'when you replace many good jobs with fewer worse jobs + more automation, do you then redistribute the proceeds of that automation?' (i.e. make it illegal to make a profit selling textiles).

Even if they did redistribute the new income to the whole country, it wouldn't bring back the weaving jobs. Those jobs are gone forever.

Separately, legislating low margins in an industry sounds like trouble.
1) Consider installing an adblock plugin into the headless browser you're using for screenshots. Sometimes the ad banner takes half of the thumbnail image, e.g. NYT.

2) The thumbnail images oftentimes just repeat the title, consider reducing the size of thumbnails to fit more text.

3) In the spirit of HN, consider removing all images from thumbnails to give readers a feel for the text.
>Limbo is a programming language for writing distributed systems

Limbo was

I fixed it for you.
> Design and develop it for yourself first and foremost. If it is useful to you, it will be useful to others.

If everyone does this, we would have 6 million note apps, and no garbage truck scheduling software. Meaning there is no money in note apps and tons of money in garbage truck scheduling software.

Pick something where money is. The top reason apps die from bootstrappers is no path to money. Get paid on day 1.
> Previous ML methods usually resulted in models, or formulas, that were small enough to "grasp" intuitively.

Which is not true in practice. SVM in reality is an instance based method, with thousands to 10 thousands high-dimensional vectors as its 'parameters'. Random forests, which is famous for its ease of interpretability is no easy meal either when you end up with 100s of trees with outrageous branches. Not mention that real world model are embarrassingly complex ensemble of smaller but still complex models.
Where do you see women being discouraged from programming? Because I see the opposite everywhere.
Linux didn't instantly become something you could download from kernel.org, compile overnight and get it booting right away. It took hundreds and hundreds of developers, thousands of man hours, financial investments from a large number of companies worldwide and many many years for Linux to become what it is today. All of this done while there were several existing commercial Unix variants which could have been licensed instead.

During its early years many scoffed at it as you have RISC-V. "It is a hobby OS. It will never be able to really compete with the likes of Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX. Heck, it won't even be able to compete with SCO and Unixware."
Can anyone comment on how this compares to MIT 6.041x Introduction to probability [1]

I started that course a few years ago, but never finished, but really liked it. Wondering if they cover the same, if I should do both, or one instead of the other.

[1] https://courses.edx.org/courses/MITx/6.041x/1T2014/info
Public Health campaigns tend to operate on the premise that it's more cost-effective to "inform"/"educate"/"sell" the idea of preventative healthcare than have obese / drunk drivers / heart attack patients clogging up A&E departments. It might be sound logic, but it's still marketing.
Tid isn't a bowdlerization of tit; it's just a different pronunciation from a few hundred years ago.
> bankrolling initiatives to sway elections

That's called politics.

> financing Islamists in Europe

Can you back that assertion up with something that doesn't look like pizzagate propaganda?

> buying off members of EU parliament

The doc you link to is just a lobbying firm's work product.
If you count British Overseas Territories, then Falklands and Gibraltar sovereignty referendums are probably the only examples (I wouldn't be surprised to discover that no free and fair public election has ever achieved a more emphatic result than 99.8% on a 91.9% turnout managed by the Falkland islanders)
Thank you for this cogent response.