skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think something that makes even less sense is that in theory this is to protect people from making high risk investments yet there's nothing stopping any random person who cares to do so from opening an account with a brokerage and spending their life's savings on far out of the money call options.
My intro to EE choose in college was like this. We started with just gates, then built one register, then duplicated that register and eventually had a simple CPU. We could do some math but that's about it. No Tetris.
It's more obvious if you use the alternate names "progressive" and "conservative" to describe the left and right. The left is in favour of change, the right is anti-change. So as things change, what the left wants changes, but the right doesn't.
lol, you say this in a place where any on-screen programming that isn't Mr. Robot is considered buffoonery.
A lack of ambition does not necessarily imply a lack of skill but it often does, often enough to result in the "Dead Sea Effect" the author refers to. I've seen it over and over at just about every company I've worked. The people who are really good and have the best career options tend to take those options, leaving behind SOME people who are also really good, but mostly people who don't have the option to leave.
I know that this can happen because my wife started her federal government career in one agency working with someone who retired from the agency shortly after she started. This person had spent their entire career at DOT managing projects along the interstate between Houston and Galveston. The expansion/maintenance over that time period guaranteed that nothing was ever truly completed. Crews/contractors simply shifted down the highway to the next place scheduled for repairs or lane additions.
> Companies that focus too much on technology without putting it in context of a customer problem will be caught between a rock and a hard place — or as I like to say, “between open source and a cloud place.”

Comparing a cloud to a rock, the author needs to work on their metaphors.
I don't really think of it as learning. I think of it as statistics on crack.
> People are throwing their entire savings into this while not knowing anything about it besides everyone in the group hyping it up amongst themselves.

Yeah reading /r/ethtrader it's 95% hype and 5% caution. I keep feeling conflicted for not buying in at ~$120-$130, and every day I think about whether I should buy in. But then I try to answer the question "what about Ethereum makes me believe it will be worth more than $(today's price) a year from now?" and I can't come up with anything other than speculation... Any advice?
When I wrote "magical" I meant "sufficiently performant". Which I will only believe when I see in action.
Stunning System Model May Transport World to Star Trek-Like Future, New Research
BOOM is something like that. But it's essentially prototype reference design that is automatically compiled to 45 nm (10-year old process platform).
>It's absolutely possible to have kids and a happy relationship, just as...

Oh, I completely agree it's possible. Plenty of people do. But what are the odds that you'll achieve this? IMO, not very good. Considering the divorce rate, and how many kids grow up with divorced parents these days, I think the odds are actually against you. I think it makes perfect sense to avoid a situation that has a greater-than-50% chance of horrible failure (and given the struggles I see my single-parent friends going through, I don't think I'm exaggerating when I use the word 'horrible').

>Living in the middle states of the US, with an in-demand skillset relative to the area you live in, and a semi-frugal mindset- it's absolutely possible. In San Francisco or DC? Not so much.

Yeah, as with anything, YMMV. But if you're a software engineer or similar (as is probably rather common here), you're not going to do well in the middle states of the US; there just aren't many jobs there, and they don't pay that well, and you have the problem that if that job doesn't work out, you now have to pack up and move because that was the only such job within commutable distance. So we're mainly stuck in high cost-of-living locales (and to be honest, I've lived in both, and the lost CoL places have their own problems, such as lots of very conservative people and policies, making them not a lot of fun to live in).
I agree with this simple analysis as well, for whatever reason it became accepted to not reach consensus as just a political strategy. It's hard to tell if this is an expected outcome of the churn and burn design of the US political system's natural drift: popular candidates will stick while unpopular candidates will be replaced by popular ones and eventually the group consensus shifts one way or the other. At a certain point that's totally fine, but recently it just seems to be a consensus shift against reaching consensus which leaves us in this weird flux where there is an obvious majority and we are still frozen stiff.

It potentially could just be the outcome of the two-party system needing referendum itself where the coalition democracy designs at least naturally require some level of consensus making from top to bottom.
I don't think that's logically the same thing.
"Espresso" and "drip" aren't types of coffee; they are types of coffee preparation: grind and brew. Drip gets a bad reputation because it's associated with offices, waiting rooms and cheap diners. The espresso method does extract a different profile of substances from the coffee; but it's subjective whether that is better or worse.

Espresso made with poor quality coffee (bad roast, crappy beans, roasted too long ago, incorrect grind, etc) is going to be just as gross as diner drip.

Another thing to consider is: you can make drip manually, whereby you control the drip rate, total quantity, and water temperature. Not all drip is automatic.
There was a study [1][2] which showed most of the job growth in recent years in the US has been via 'temporary' or part-time jobs. So the recovery that Obama took credit for using the blanket statistics such as 'unemployment rate' is heavily skewed towards people who compromised with jobs that were worse than the one they held before the crisis.

As the study mentions, this was heavily influenced by the effects of the 'gig economy' via tech companies which created a larger percentage of contractor jobs.

Instead of pretending the gig economy will go away because we don't like it, maybe we should strengthen the safety net to protect these types of contract workers. Such as expanding unemployment to contract workers who are employed for a certain timeframe. Which would also help provide protections to the large number of web developers, designers, and other tech jobs which are a growing in number in recent years who don't fit into the typical 9-to-5 framework.

[1] Source:
https://www.investing.com/news/economy-news/nearly-95-of-all... (note: this trend started before Obama, within the last years of Bush's administration, but that would be less newsworthy headline)

[2] the actual study
https://krueger.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/akrueger/f...
That's a service provider in that case. You're effectively arguing that outsourcing is the next big thing. Could be a compelling argument to make but I don't agree, if anything I see the opposite happening. Big companies doing everything in house.
> Ethereum Classic doesn't have anything to do with Cryptonote. It's a straight fork of Ethereum.

Other way around. Ethereum is a fork of ETC ;-)
Please don't.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14453783 and marked it off-topic.
And America's love affair with the automobile is a well-known abusive relationship that America will never have the courage to leave.

From what I have read, Millenials are putting noteworthy pressure on this aspect of American culture.

Also, I gave up my car years ago. With the magic of the internet, I work online. I mostly walk everywhere and occasionally take public transit.

I think we can change this substantially.
Are you suggesting that KSP is eternally tainted by Squad's actions? Should we burn the code, and start from scratch?
I don't think there is any secret as to why companies stay private, and again, it has nothing to do with Dodd Frank or Sarbanes Oxley.

this is one of my pet peeves. Someone long ago said Sarbanes Oxley would kill IPO's and it has forever been regurgitated even thought there is plenty of evidence to put that theory to rest.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-06-24/where-hav...

> The study also looked into the old argument that "regulatory and legal changes in the early 2000s, including Regulation Fair Disclosure ('Reg FD') and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act ('SOX'), made it more expensive" to list. These played little or no role because the decrease in new listings was "well on its way before these changes took place." At worst, the regulatory burden accounts for only a small portion of the decline.

When you are private investors can only either love you, and invest, or pass on you.

When you're public people can bet either for or against you, which means you get a very real and not usually merciful view of what exactly you are worth due to the shorts and longs having to come together to agree on what your company is worth.
No, Trump is most emphatically not a democratically-elected leader, and I'm not just splitting a hair. The "technicality" alistproducer2 mentions is the electoral college, a process whereby the person getting the most votes, i.e. Hillary Clinton, does not necessarily become president. What people have proposed is dispensing with the electoral college so that we may have democratically-elected leaders. But, as with most things in politics, it's not quite as simple as that since the United States is a Federal Republic.
Building a Tutorial Search App with Vue
I agree with raesene9 here. Docker plus a proxy (haproxy, traffaek, and docker-flow-proxy come to mind) would do the trick.
Ostensibly, the tokens here are representative of future services on the platform. Is this just a fancy kickstarter?

Was Tesla's model 3 preorder basically the same thing? They raised $400M dollars ($1000 down payment on 400k reservations) on future sales of a product not yet built.
I'm considering entering the space as a NCG, luckily I have good connections and experience in the space. My alternative is to leverage my startup experience and just work in some other industry that interests me. My one doubt with blockchain is that there isn't a ton of non-enterprise money in the space. Seems like founding in just about any other industry is likely more profitable and more technically reasonable.
Ask HN: Where do startups park cash?
Title says it all — what are best practices (or common pitfalls) for startups and cash management?

Brief background: startup is running at break-even and just received investment from NewSchools Venture Fund [1]. Now trying to figure out what to do with excess cash for 3-12 months.

1: http://www.newschools.org/news/congratulations-newest-ignite-cohort/ (we're BeeLine)
Sounds interesting… can you provide any reference? A technical/scientific paper, a book, a Wikipedia entry… I was unable to Google it using both "Backward Drawing" and "Backward Mapping" as keywords.
One idea is to do everything we can to support minor political parties, because they bring diversity to political discourse that doesn't necessarily fit into a two-party system.

Probably the most important change along these lines would be to replace first-past-the-post voting with a system that allows people to express more complex preferences, such as approval voting, ranked choice voting, or range voting.

Other ideas include publicly funded elections, mixed-member proportional representation, redistricting via the shortest splitline algorithm, and compulsory voting.
From Wiki to Vocab: 200k Sentences Mined and Served for Native-English Learners
In its current state (as far as the article says) this is no different than the current ad ecosystem except it has another buzzword 'cryptocurrency'.

> Because the BAT integrates with a browser, a value for advertising slots can be calculated based on precise metrics for the time spent on the page, ad size in proportion to the content, and a detailed profile of the user's tastes

None of this is new.. I do all of this right now. The future plans of micropayments are interesting, but those systems already exist and haven't seen popularity yet. Adblock plus already blocks all ads and opt-ins (opt-outs?) for 'approved' ads.

I really like the idea of improving the ad ecosystem, but I don't think a new browser is the way to go and cryptocurrency is absolutely pointless here. You can't start with the user, you need to provide an opportunity to advertisers that is better than what they currently have. (See native advertising.. not great for users but very good for advertisers).

All that aside, it would be cool to see this gain traction. And my god, I need to profit somehow from these ICOs before they pop.
>Railway systems in Japan and France (taken as example in the article) are high quality and last long as well.

Not only this but the engineering challenges overcome in France and especially Japan are much more than we would likely face here in the continental US. Japan has rail service between islands under the seafloor in one of the most seismically active areas on earth. I have a hard time imagining us in the US matching that engineering achievement without huge cost, debate, litigation.
How do you do that with abortion? (Just picking a controversial topic) there is _literally_ no common ground and it is simply not possible for one group to live under, to them, acceptable rules that are also acceptable to the other group. You cannot have one group that demands the right to terminate a pregnancy and one group that believes it is literally murder ever coexist on friendly terms.

You cannot ban guns and still make them freely available to people who want them.

You cannot combat global warming and still enable people to drive as they desire.

You cannot simultaneously allow trans people to use their preferred gender's bathroom while allowing the people who so desires to only have cis people of the same gender in the room.

You cannot simultaneously allow drugs and ban them.

Indeed, as the days go by I am becoming more and more convinced that the only solution is the one outlined in this essay: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/07/archipelago-and-atomic-...
I find it mostly depends on your personal motivation. If you somehow are magically motivated to slog through a huge amount of crap that seems meaningless and pointless to everyone else, bottom up is preferable. You'll end up in a better place in the end. But... it only works because you see the meaning and point of investing a large effort before the tangible payoff. Bonus points if you find the slog to be fun in and of itself.

Naturally, a lot of professors and highly talented experts tout this as the only way to go. It worked great for them and they don't see the point of any other path.

But, in my observation, "talent" is usually a false explanation of someone who is highly motivated by something I'm not aware of. Most "talented" people I've known were actually putting in a huge amount of work in the area.

On the other end... if the return on investment isn't clear. If the path to the payoff is branchy, windy and foggy. If you are motivated by results, not process. Top down is a good way to determine if it really is worth the effort. In the meantime, investing some extra effort in finding the payoff and the joy in the process would be wise when taking this approach.
The benefits of deep learning have more to do with the number of features than the size of the dataset; e.g when you are dealing with million pixel images, you need a deep net to extract useful higher level features automatically. From there, yes, more data is better, but a better post in this vein would be, "Don't use deep learning your data doesn't have that many features".
Talk about full-stack development...
No, you don't need those tools anymore.

Cook a base VM image that has the docker engine and anything else you need. Do this once and spin up VMs you need after that. This is what images are for, and they're far easier, faster, more reliable and more secure than dealing with all this other junk.
You've been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. That's an abuse of the site, and we ban accounts that do it, so please stop.
> A society that permits abortions doesn't prevent an individual from choosing not to have one.

Yes, but the objecting individual is not fighting for his or her own rights. Pro-lifers consider themselves to be fighting for the rights of the unborn child.

Similarly, a society that permits slavery doesn't prevent an individual from choosing not to own slaves.

The society is not forcing its lifestyle on the objecting individual, per se, but it's forcing its lifestyle on the slaves, whom the objecting individual is concerned about.
Valve seems to have a slow pace for a reason...

With games, you seem to have two choices...

Do you want a game now, or a genre defining masterpiece that maintains playability for a decade later?
Politics used to work by kings beheading nobles deemed traitorous.

More recently, as you say, it often works by having 'sides' that marginalize each other.

I'm assuming that it's not going to be like that for the rest of human history, and suggesting that the polarization might not be a necessary outcome of people's desires, but rather an artifact of a politicians who don't know how to resolve them.
It had a moment there in the AI storyline where it looked like it was going to be a good show. Never panned out.
Great article. Reminds me of Damian Conway's great conference talk on giving tech presentations - that one changed my approach on preparing for talks forever. https://youtu.be/W_i_DrWic88 and http://damian.conway.org/IBP.pdf are the notes. Well worth watching.
> Reward people for business impact

Very easy.

> and fairly evaluate that impact

Very hard.
I have a (relatively poorly developed) theory that learning and intelligence has far more to do with what and how we forget than the quantity of information we consume. It seemingly explains why sleep matters so much for learning, and also why deep neural nets have performed so well with dropout strategies. I'd be willing to bet this falls in line with my theory...that changing locations and contexts facilitates with forgetting noisy information, letting the important things stand out more once they are retrained.
I think it's more relevant for the IoT devices, which run or ARM M0/M4 (see http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/lwc-workshop2015/presentation... and https://realtimelogic.com/products/sharkssl/Cortex-M0/).
Thanks for this simple but eloquent comment. You've reminded me of this truth.
This is correct. I wonder if anyone has tried doing "design and build" contracts where this becomes an internal cost center instead of a profit driver, and would theoretically get optimized out.
Why do you think we need to increase individual clock speeds past their current limits?
I feel you, I still briefly log-in to post blog posts + music that I work on, and a significant majority of my professional network came from a select few Facebook communities that I was heavily involved in a few years ago.

So yeah I think you're spot on with the "active engagement" bit, a lot of value can be generated when it's used in that sense.
Yes, but we love them despite the horrible misconceptions they hoisted on the general public, and the generally horrible accuracy. :)
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Ah interesting, that makes sense. Thanks
Far be it from me to suggest we should not support small parties (I lean heavily libertarian) but be very careful what you wish for: Donald Trump was likely as close to a political outside the US will see as a leader for many years.
It's a good solution, but may be less capable than XPrivacy, at least in some areas.

For example, I think PMP doesn't have options to filter loading native libraries or executing external commands - and this is sometimes useful, e.g. by blocking loadLibrary calls for libYandexMetricaNativeModule.so (some apps would crash, some would survive and would probably leak less analytics)

I believe both tools (and anything Xposed-based) isn't perfect, though - native code can work around this stuff. I wonder if there's QubesOS-like Android-in-Android (using a virtualization) solution exists, besides that Samsung's proprietary enterprisey nonsense...
Could this be the transition point they talk about?
https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/02...
You're free to live how you choose, but don't force others to live how you see fit.
> since when does development tell ops [deployment details]?

Not to be cheeky, but since "devops"!

Docker, Kuburnetes, etc... all of these things live on the point of intersection between developers and operations. Some of the config artifacts (e.g. dockerfiles) typically live in source control, which is usually the domain of developers. But the values with which they're populated are typically set by operations.

It is indeed a dance that the two groups have to work out among themselves, and different organizations will handle it differently. Ultimately, I think you find that it really isn't FUNDAMENTALLY different from the dance that they already do in the old school. There will always have to be a handshake, where dynamic values are stored someplace and code knows to point to that place. How you handle that handshake is ultimately a human process thing.
those contracts often cost more to the owner though since there is less risk for them.
I wonder why is that, I had a shared plan (3 numbers) that gave about 99 GB each month and Apple wouldn't let me download a 100 MB game through LTE?
Yeah now that I think about it my statement didn't make any sense, since each intermediate layer computes a projection of the previous one, which is technically feature learning. I still disagree with the original comment though, because the intermediate representations of the data computed by a fully connected network are nothing like the ones that would be built by a human doing feature engineering. The ones learned by a convolutional layer would be closer to human-understandable features.
Agreed.

A stand-alone server would also be great for those of us that run the game with a different integrator (such as Principia for n-body physics). I too like real-time missions, at least short duration ones, and recently flew Vostok 1 in near real time (though less successfully).
IME outsourcing was thought of as a way to get things done faster. It didn't seem to be a net gain and it was just viewed as a minor extra annoyance the team lead had to deal with.
That really is the crux of the issue here. When a movie gets something so essential to the plot wrong, you rightfully dislike the makers for being so damn lazy and not bothering to do their homework.

When it's only tangentially related, we're far more forgiving.

It can even get downright dangerous when policymakers start getting their ideas from them. For example, shows like "24" that have suspects giving up accurate and truthful information under torture, when any expert in the field of interrogation knows it doesn't work that way.
I have to wonder how much of this is the result of population migrating from the Midwest to the Sun Belt.

It used to be that the Midwest exemplified "typical America". Now, that role belongs more to the Southwest, Texas, the New South, etc. Dallas and Phoenix probably represent the average, everyday American more than Chicago and Detroit do nowadays.
> And America's love affair with the automobile is a well-known abusive relationship that America will never have the courage to leave.

It's pretty much impossible to leave this relationship unless you live in one of the larger US cities. If you live in a suburb, rural area, or city that's not in the top 10-15 in terms of size there's literally no other option that exists or that could easily exist.