skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the clarification. gRPC is slow. We have in-house experiments showing on RDMA-capable networks an optimized implementation can achieve significant speed up over gRPC. And I bet Google's internal version is even faster.

MxNet has a highly efficient network stack that's open source; Caffe2 uses gloo, which is open source; CNTK primarily uses Open MPI, NCCL and soon NCCL2.0. I think it's fair that Google also open source the internal network stack because it is the key to scaling.

Most convolutional networks are not a stress test for scaling because the model size/computation ratio is too low. Use a speech model that has many fully connected layers, or VGG16/19, the communication cost will dominate, and that's when CNTK's 1-bit SGD and Block Momentum really shine.

Again, I work at Microsoft.
"The fake search engines include tracking pixels used to collect the users’ private information"
AFAIK tracking pixels can only collect info from HTTP headers. So is that line FUD or am I missing something?
I renewed my ESTA back in February, then they had a section with social media accounts but it explicitly said that filling that section out was voluntary.
"However, my point is that unchecked executive pay is not good for anyone. We don't live in a free market. There ought to be some way to cap pay."

Why? To all those questions.

I mean, in some specific cases you might be right, but in the case of shareholders, who own a company, deciding how much to pay to the executive that they choose to run that company, why would someone else need to be involved in that decision? Who is supposedly losing out here? The shareholders themselves?

They (vicariously) own the money in the company, and choose how much of it to pay to the executive, because they believe that's the best way to make more money in the long run. Why do you think you know better than them, when they're actually betting money on it?

Or is someone else being hurt here?

Also, as far as I understand it, you're mixing two different things by proposing to "fix" this with an income tax. You said in the paragraph above that executive pay is not good for anyone, which I presumed to be about (or at least to include) the shareholders of the company. But by introducing taxing, you are quite literally talking about taking money from the shareholders and giving it to the government. So at least in this way of doing it, you're quite literally not protecting the shareholders but rather "harming" them. (This doesn't make income taxes bad or anything, I'm just pointing out that one thing they're not good for is to protect shareholdres, IMO).
Because airbnb has been around and haven't done anything recently that would cause such a dip.
Travel to the US is down.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-01/donald-trump-slump-cou...
By following multiple blogs and articles, that was the opinion I had built regarding Longhorn's failure. A sabotage caused by the internal politics between Microsoft teams, specially WinDev and DevTools.

Now with .NET Native, C++/CX and UWP, one can say the design of Longhorn is revenged.

The COM based infrastructure could already have been a thing, if there was a desire to collaborate during Longhorn's development.
Which social media are listed outside of FB, Twitter, and IG? Can't seem to find this. The article mentions it includes email. Is this included?
Maybe you're not the intended audience then? Personally it got a smile out of me, and I do find some xkcd comics funny. If you don't, that's fine, but it doesn't make them not jokes.
It's currently optional. I've no idea why anyone would voluntarily hand over that information
You are mixing Windows with GNU/Linux.

The drivers ABI has only changed a few times, instead of every point release.
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Note: This is a completely optional feature of N3:

N3 can also express rules to apply upon data.
For example, add this to the above definition:

{ ?x :studiedAt ?y } => { ?y a :EducationalInstitution }.

and that infers the following object definitions:

:Yale a :EducationalInstitution.

:Stanford a :EducationalInstitution.

:Miskatonic a :EducationalInstitution.
As if they don't know already? Check out Canadian immigration papers as well - same thing.
Neat (and unoriginal) idea, yet I have never seen a convincing evocation of Mondrian's seemingly easy-to-reproduce aesthetic.
Everyone in the world should enable Google location history tracking, just in case they want to travel to the USA in the future.
That's true, but that happened before these new requirements were instituted. Indeed, I wonder if rhetoric from administration and the campaign before election had more to do with it than these requirements.

Not that I approve of them, mind you.
Previous discussion of Reuters story linked from this article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14465534 (84 points, 50 comments)
It is on the non-visa ESTA (the visa you have when you are pretending you don't have a visa).
Symbian had them first.
No its there. Filled it in 3-4 weeks ago and there was already a field for it back then. Was marked as optional though
What? I didn't say finding 15K users and getting them to pay a cent an hour was easy. I said setting up a website that can easily support 15K users is.

I've already provided instructions on how you can trivially setup a phpBB forum using cPanel.
My hypothesis is that dreams don't actually happen as we sleep, just that the conscious state "arrives" in the brain before the cleaning/storing processes have completed. The brain then creates a memory to explain what's hanging around from the clean-up. So the dream happens during waking, the brain inventing new parts as we try and recall the dream so that the dream state can be established from a logical timeline.

Analogy: a magical secretary is tidying your desk and files. They pull out some files to re-order, put some files you were working on away, lift it pages/images to see where those files should go, etc.. You interrupt them and they scuttle away. You don't believe in magical secretaries so you quickly (and inconsistently) imagine that you were working on the files that were out making a story that explains how those files came to be there, in that arrangement.

Presumably if scanning techniques can show images of what we see in dreams that provides some evidence against this hypothesis, however it doesn't defeat it unless it shows we _experience_ those images through the period when we suppose we're dreaming.

Evidence that refutes this idea gladly considered.
You still have to apply for visa waiver tho through ESTA so they can still deny you.
Normal rules don't seem to apply in Silicon Valley.
For me it is the accumulation of all these annoyances together, not each individually, which makes a trip to the US now really unappealing. Long queues for passports on arrival, long queues at the security, laptop & tablet ban (some planes are still using VCR based flight entertainment, and most movies suck), this attitude that airports, airlines and law enforcement have of ending each interaction with their customers with a threat. Now this. Some people actually like to spend their holidays in some boot camp where they will be shouted at and get their ass kicked. I myself don't enjoy that.
It makes me feel old when people talk about doing historical research on events that I lived through.

When yahoo first started out (and at that time I was using it) the role it played was equivalent to that which search engines play today. At that point in time there were no search engines, the only way to know about a website was to already have the address, or two read someplace that referenced or linked to it. Yahoo was initially "just a list of websites" but the role it played was very much the role that Google plays for so many people today: the site you start out on, and the place you go if you want to find something on the Internet.

They eventually lost that role to search engines like Alta Vista, and later incarnations of Yahoo became a"Portal": a site you go to because it has decent implementations of many different features such as news, movie listings, stock quotes, and everything else that Yahoo offers.
Very unlikely in my opinion. The economic barrier to entry to bootstrapping a mobile ecosystem appear to be so high that extremely well funded efforts have floundered, I see very little reason why Sailfish will succeed where others have failed. List of failed efforts to jumpstart mobile ecosystems are - Creative (ziilabs), Microsoft (multiple efforts), Blackberry, Nokia (Maemo and Symbian), Ubuntu (Ubuntu phone).
Any damage to the social media ecosystem seems like a happy side effect to me, and a long term win for privacy.

A system will come along shortly designed around these current issues, adoption will be de-facto. Which will just launch a new set of issues. Tech is fun.
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You are painting with an extremely broad brush. Before you give up on this idea, just try this exercise: enumerate the markets and financial instruments that you could potentially trade in, and characterize the current trading environment in that market.

An ultra-HFT liquidity provider being profitable has little bearing on the potential profitability of quantitative trading on significantly larger timescales. There isn't sufficient volatility in most products for these actors to eat the lunch of actors who have alpha on trades that can hold for significant periods.
I defined public information as having the property of: free access. I don't believe information inherently is public for the same reason I believe in privacy.

is there public information? sure. there's also private information.
Do you know if Saxitoxin decays with something like heating?
No mention of them requiring a password as well though.

I wonder what happens when I don't remember -- I deleted my facebook account over a year ago, and legitimately don't remember my handle. All I can say is that my usual username (hobarrera) was taken.
And it's going to plunge envenimé more, foreign student enrollment is down 40%, and a lot of students are staying in the US until they finish their studies and definitely leave.
Single quote denotes a symbol in scheme. But this snippest is not strictly scheme. Perhaps it is SXML but I am not familiar with it.
> you could never have made the monkey make it to the interview

You phrased that correctly. The hard part wasn't to do a good job in the interview, the hard part was getting invited to the interview in the first place. And to be fair, Melissa Myers' resume justified her being considered for the position.
It's part of ESTA.

Travelers from many countries require a visa to visit the United States for any purpose.

Travelers from 38 countries can visit the United States for a variety of purposes (including tourism and business) without a visa, under the Visa Waiver Program.

ESTA -- Electronic System for Travel Authorization -- is part of the Visa Waiver Program, and is an online form to help determine eligibility for visa-free travel. Using ESTA to determine eligibility in advance is required for arrival by air or sea.

The linked article is concerned with visa applications. Travelers using ESTA/Visa Waiver Program are not applying for visas. So what is described in the linked article is not something that applies to ESTA, and ESTA questionnaires are not what are being described here. While ESTA may use similar questions, this is not the same as a visa application.

Also, if you click through to the actual linked article or its Reuters source, you'll find that the HN headline is incredibly misleading. The headline implies that all visa applicants will be required to provide this information, but the articles say the information is voluntary and describe it by saying "consular officials can" request the information at their discretion.
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I've worked in similar industrial facilities - it's easy to get things right until you don't.

It really takes someone that knows their shit when a single ingredient has changed ever so slightly and the final result isn't quite right, the heat patterns and cycles of the ovens, changes in temperature and humidity of the inside of the plant...
Your post is full of good insights, and I also highly recommend these pointers and environments!

I only want to briefly comment on the question "Are you comfortable not knowing how many answers there might be if you let the program keep running?", which I think is well worth thinking about. If you really think about this, then the most interesting programs you can write typically have this property, because they search for things that we do not even know exist, such as new theorems, some structures with unique properties, or even mistakes and race conditions in programs!

Also, in my experience, the more you focus on declarative properties and fundamental principles such as termination, the easier it gets to apply Prolog in practice. The difficulties I have seen many beginners struggle with often arise from trying to reason about Prolog programs in the way they reason about imperative programs, which indeed gets too hard to do in practice very quickly. In contrast, if you think in terms of generalizations and specializations, and program fragments, you can reason much more easily about Prolog programs in practice. However, it requires that you stay in the pure monotonic core of the language, of which constraints are also a subset.
This would be amazing if a fashion for recycled clothing drove a market for reclaimed polymers from the sea.

Re: sports, I note the company's website https://www.vivobarefoot.com/ lists a number of sports shoes, suggesting they have some experience of this area.
When you're presenting yourself to garner the favor of an agent, there is no such thing as optional.
What is Stackato?
I will raise my hand to say I, for one, would have been glad to perform the job of “Fail to turn Yahoo around” for a mere $1MM. Yahoo shareholders sure got ripped off!
While I don't write Scheme, I believe it is Scheme -- one of the goals of the GNU project is to have every GNU tool be configurable with Scheme (which is why GNU has a Scheme implementation as opposed to a Common LISP implementation).
Also in Solaris, it was tried and abandoned.

Although they have their own set of issues, Windows fibers are also barely used.
Why is everybody blaming this on the current administration?

That doesn't seem to be especially true (so far here people are mostly discussing the details of the implementation).

In any case, the current administration is responsible for choosing to continue existing policies. That doesn't make the current administration solely responsible for the trajectory of US immigration policy, but it shares the power to change things with Congress and so will of course be a focus of criticism.
I'm trying to read the code now. I'm not sure whether I do or don't want them to use cgroups. Anything is better than using ptrace.
US Disgraceful Exit from the Paris Accord
Hard work is destroying the planet. Just stop doing things, please. The ideology you've been indoctrinated into is wrong, we're no longer in a place where working hard is beneficial, it's ruining everything.
Voting for 2 seconds every 4 or 5 years does not make you sovereign, in theory, practice or in day to day reality.
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I use Swift daily in a mixed application of both languages. I worked with ObjC since back in the NeXT days and I used to like the language but today nothing could ever drive me back. Xcode on the other hand is nightmare I despise daily but that's a different issue. The sooner ObjC goes away the better.
Puerto Rico’s Exodus Is Speeding the Island’s Economic Collapse
Yeah they need to fill in the ESTA forms which asks for social media. Last time I saw the form it was marked as optional though - unsure whether that part changed
Yes, the "game" part of the title is slightly misleading. I have never touched any game related code and I still found the book very helpful.
Answering email on vacation wipes out your good memories
Because it is popular to hate on Trump. This is by design, he plays the classic 'heel'. Much like in 'pro wrestling', he plays the bad guy to get attention, and it works amazingly well. All the press, demonstrations, and vitrol he gets only boost his name, and distract the public. He is now the most mentioned person ever to exist. Let that sink in.
The biggest problem Swift has is breaking changes from a version to another. Took me about 10 days to manually convert a Swift 2.5 project to Swift 3 to find out that Swift 4 will also introduce at least two breaking changes.

I'm all for progress and modern ideas in a programming language, just don't break my old code!
I don't use Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/etc, but ordinary people seldom believe it ("come on, you are a programmer, how come you don't use web?!") and often assume I don't want to share my profile with them. I'm afraid the gov agencies will take the same approach and automatically assume the absence of the social media as an attempt to hide something. Luckily in this case, though, I hope not to have to visit USA anytime soon.
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I find it disgusting to think that such a horrible industry that pillars on exploiting sentient animals up to the point of their death from exhaustion handles so Billions.

It's even sadder how people seem not to care at all, and are okay with all the torture and mutilation that goes behind the milk/cheese industry if they've something tasty in front of them.
>"In terms of corroborating evidence, remember that the two independent LIGO detectors - 3000km apart - saw the event within 10ms of each other. That's enough corroborating evidence for a lot of people."

I don't see what the first part of the post has to do with the null ("background noise") model being inapplicable to situations where special human intervention comes into play. Do they include any events like that in the background timeseries or not? I am suspecting not (which renders the model false and hence false alarm rates/sigma values meaningless), but do not know for sure.

Second, that is just a detection. Corroboration occurs when your model predicts multiple types of observations related to a phenomena (measured by different types of instruments). This weakening of definitions is concerning to me if it has infected physics. I have seen that trick used a lot by "softer" fields such as medicine/psych (eg their definition of a replication is just seeing "an effect" in the same direction).
Sorry, it's not Chrome-only. I don't particular care whose idea it originally was. It's a good feature and other browsers are implementing it.
If Windows Update was able to fix the problem after being reinitialized, then your original description sounds more like a Windows Update hiccup rather than an inherent driver issue.
They're cows. An animal that we've created to be docile, stupid, and, and food. Don't care.
A progressive income tax that caps out at 90% of income above $3M a year? So if you make $3,000,001, you pay 90 cents in taxes on the last dollar you earned sounds fair to me.

Sounds fair to me too. My attitude is that the CEO of a business is homo economicus. Their job is to grab as much value from the company as possible for themselves, just like every other shareholder, employee, supplier, customer, etc. It's none of my business how many billions they take home, but they should be taxed up the wazoo.
Only until Solaris 8, Solaris 9 dropped support for the LWP model.
Improbable has SpatialOS with an amazing future. However expect being neglected after the interviews.

I had 2 interviews on Hangout and I've been told we are waiting for our engineer to be free to have the third chat. after almost 2 months they refuse to update me and answer back even though I have been told "we are very excited to continue the process with you".

Thumbs down from me.
It would be interesting to push this out to the crowd of people interested in privacy. Maybe we could put a setup like this in our own cars, or at least run an app on our phones. It would really harm their surveillance efforts if 1000's of people were contributing to a global map.
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The most horrifying part of this for me is that (as someone who doesn't want to be part of the Facebook grind)... this actually compels me to sign up for Facebook for business visa reasons.

So in a way this policy nudges me to patronize the business of particular named corporations.
Prefetch is a different thing, and it doesn't give priority to fetch the resource. Preloading, for example, a script is exactly equivalent to adding the script tag minus the execution part.
"people use spreadsheets for just about everything"

That is so true. I used to do consulting for small businesses and was amazed at how non-programmers used Excel to solve so many problems outside of finance and accounting. The CRM/HR solutions were very common and interesting (e.g. Lead/prospect management, sales, timesheets, vacation schedules, etc.).
Moving goal post? Preloading is useful on every single web page that, for example, loads a script. Not just 3D games, but any web page with scripting.
The author says they lost a week of their life to the Swift 3 renaming but wasn't there a utility that helped with that?

I agree that Swift has seemed to been infected with the disease so many open source projects get; focusing on over polishing instead of big picture and innovation but it's still my favorite new language.

Edit: I missed the author mentioning the utility sucked. Sorry!
"Yahoo was initially "just a list of websites" but the role it played was very much the role that Google plays for so many people today"

More specifically - you went there and could "search" the directory. You put in a word or phrase and it searched the directory listings to find matches. It was just only searching its own very limited set of info, vs a crawled index of all the content of the sites. IIRC, they'd also started charging ($250 IIRC?) for adding a listing to their directory sometime in the late 90s or so.
You are missing the point. Cash is a way to get around the system when it fails. Every system fails at one point or another. By making cash harder to use, it makes it harder for the population to protect itself against a failing system. Be it war, dictatorship, banks taking over your money like in europe, or just plan economical crisis, an electronic money only country is in a terrible struggle.

More than ever, we need fail safes. Our systems are not bullet proof and they may put us in bad situations in this very life time.
Which countries are you applying at?
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People have been writing client software in those languages for almost 10 years now. Object J came out in 2008! Not saying WebAssembly won't make this better, maybe even a lot better, but this is not opening new capabilities the way that, for example, shipping modules would.
Got really excited for a second thinking this was discussion on transport technology as opposed to encoding.
He mentions it: "The migration tool caused more issues than it automatically resolved, leaving a manual migration as the only sane path forward. How that migration tool ever made it through QA is beyond me, but I'd have felt better if Apple just said 'good luck' instead of offering a half-baked utility."
> but wasn't there a utility that helped with that?

Yes, but in the article he writes, "The migration tool caused more issues than it automatically resolved, leaving a manual migration as the only sane path forward."
> all she could do was carve up the assets and distribute them in a way that is most lucrative

That doesn't explain the dozens of acquisitions under her leadership.
Ini files are awful, no fine grained control over permissions, spread all over the place, every one looks different. I'll take the registry any day.
Trump is wrong: India is building more renewable energy than ever before