skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LSTMs don't "forget" more than "remember the things that matter". They don't necessarily need less data. They do have a limit on the "length" of time steps they can handle though.
Eg: You can't do thousands in to the future (maybe a few hundred or so)

The long part of "LSTM" means remember good long ranging dependencies.
No it is not something Google allows. But for big brands they manually disallow paid results (see "Nike"). I don't see any ads on the uber results page.
Or they stop investing so heavily in platform development. Without detailed knowledge of their accounts it's hard to predict what might happen when capital shrinks.
I originally thought of this as one could imagine "let's add a 64-point shot: for off the floor, off the scoreboard, off the bankboard... no rim", but then I found the remake and there was something more relevant and possibly interesting at play.

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McDonald's Commercial, Original, 1993: Michael Jordan & Larry Bird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oACRt-Qp-s

"No dunking!" – Larry Bird @ 0m14s

The premise of the commercial is "nothing but net".

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McDonald's Commercial, Remake, 2010: LeBron James & Dwight Howard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmrTDZy3f2M

"No jump shots." – Dwight Howard @ 0m22s

The entire commercial became "nothing but dunking".
School is a funny old place. I'm struggling to be honest because I'm a hacker at heart and think like you.

But being observed by senior management, they would see students not learning. You could expect extremely close scrutiny for the next few lessons. To be put on special measures. Not quite a sack-able offence, but ....
- ~ $600k CAD

- 25 yo

- software consulting

- Canada
I have some experience of this, and I've read a lot of the research. In general, and on average, boys and girls react differently to bad teaching. In general, and on average, boys and girls react differently to a lot of things.

In general, and on average, when asked questions, boys tend to just shout out answers, sometimes with no apparent care or concern as to whether they are right. They compete to be the loudest, most noticed, and to get the most reaction from the teacher.

In general, and on average, when asked questions, the girls will sit quietly and try not to be noticed. Those who are actively engaged with the subject will try to work out the right answer, and will still not react or respond when called on.

I keep repeating "in general, and on average" because some children behave according to the opposite characterisations, but these differences are over-whelmingly obvious to anyone who works with children and takes the time to notice. Proving it scientifically is hard, because society in general frowns on experimenting on children in ways that can potentially damage their progress. But the signs are there to be seen.

So yes, a bad teacher really can put children off doing STEM subjects, and this can happen depressingly quickly. What's more, it really does seem to affect girls more than boys. I don't know why that should be the case, but the same story is told over and over again. Your implied scepticism is most likely honest, but misplaced.

https://xkcd.com/385/

Edit: To whomever downvoted this: I just spent several minutes trying to share my experience after giving literally thousands of workshops in math with young people, and attending dozens of conferences on the question of how to increase and retain engagement in the STEM subjects. Given the submission, if you think such a response is inappropriate for HN then I'd really like to know why.
Unfourtuantly, this is so well established that it is hard to find research. I did find this paper [1] which looks into how babies acuire word boundries. As you identify, there are probably phonetic cues; but not pauses.

The best way to see this is to try listening to a language you do not understand, and try to identify word boundries.

Indeed, the paper I link argues that some phonetic cue must exist because babies can recognise word boundries.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8176060
Makes me wonder if the call center will see the HN effect. I was tempted to call it just reading the article!
3 words: Slashdot PT Cruiser. That was the point of no return.
I was pretty young when I interpreted it that way, and I don't think I knew anything about the Mesoamerican origins of chocolate when I thought that, or about the Columbian Exchange. I think I figured that basically the same food species were available everywhere, and there were just different cultural ways of preparing and combining them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_Exchange
>>The waterfall method came out of that, and it took decades to realize and recover.

Seeing as the 'recovery' seems to be largely move fast, break things, worry about security never. I'd rather software not have recovered.
It'll help, but it's not essential. There are practices that we can adopt today that will formalize software engineering. We should look to systems engineering and modeling (as used by other engineering disciplines: prototypes, mockups, math models, etc.). We already have many of the necessary formalisms, either from the fields of Math and CS, or from other engineering disciplines (notably systems engineering).

The problem for software engineering is that it's really easy to model with code, and those have an unfortunate tendency to become the final deliverable. We have short iteration cycles that make the benefit of systems engineering and large scale engineering approaches less obvious. In CE it's quite obvious that a model of a bridge (physical and mathematical) will have benefits towards the final bridge construction. It's also obvious that it's just a model.

In software, the model is too often functional enough to pass as the real thing, but fails in various ways: was constructed haphazardly allowing security vulnerabilities or stability issues; wasn't designed to run quickly or to scale effectively across multiple servers; not developed with maintenance in mind.
> more innovative, producing more patents per employee than large firms

Patents are not correlated with innovation. Tons of innovative things are never patented, and the majority of patents are largely bullshit. The patent system mostly gives tons of money to patent lawyers and power to companies who know how to use their patents to threaten innovators.

It may be true that small businesses are more innovative, but we simply can't use patents as a measure of innovation.

I happen to agree with the rest of your comment.
By all means tell me if/how I'm wrong but this video and it's gonzo-like interview style is something of journalistic beauty. The CEO chooses (or not chooses) to leave Meta's PR to the devices of his own megalomaniacal/egomaniacal style.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1015392865512465...

What are some other cultural curtain-puller interviews like this? This one needs a better web home. It is one for the ages.
finally i can be rich too! too bad i am not an ios dev. these apps are made by people from 'nam. i doubt you could do this in a civilized country without getting sued into the ground though.
It's not a bad thing at all. I'm sorry if I gave that impression, but it's another reason why simply looking at 13 out of 1 million as the suicide rate isn't quite right
I search nike on google and I get an ad. The ad is for nike.
Conservatives lost UK election by only 75 votes
I don't know about Google maps in the US but in Europe it doesn't warn of dangers on the road (cars on the side of the road, blocked roads, etc.). Waze do.
Once Apple stops making money. At 30% for every transaction, this won't happen any time soon.
Not being taught by school teachers can actually be more beneficial than being taught badly. When nobody taints your experience with a particular subject and you attack the problem yourself, you start neutral. It is curiosity and discipline that drives you forward. If, on the other hand, someone taught you the basics but did this in a terrible way, you associate negative things with the subject. Your curiosity is curbed, you won’t pursue the subject further.
I think this is the DSM's criteria for high functioning autism.
Power grid?
> Though, I'm not too clear on why this is a hard problem—couldn't they just, say, throw them into some nitric acid to destroy any organics, like you'd do with chem-lab glassware?

The expensive and tricky part of these (like any) magnetic nanofluid particles is the surface covering that makes them soluble in water but also attracted to oil droplets. Any harsh chemicals would destroy that, and you're left with just fancy rust.
Hey, this is very cool. Thank you.
This bike share visualization is also very good, has many different cities and lets you replay them over time
http://bikes.oobrien.com/global.php#zoom=3&lon=-60.0000&lat=...
Hum I have deployed a SS with just delete and create. No need for a cascade flag. Maybe that is the default?

But yah like I said, not as nice as deploying a deployment.
no idea there was such an academic specialisation (at least not with any substantial focus on software documentation)

we try to hire folks having this domain interest and ideally with academic qualification such as the OP describes, but never had any success--always been a priority, i suppose we just gave up after a while.

(some limited success cross-training black-box testers, but that's not a group we want to cannibalize because those stars are hard to come by as it is)
Sorry I wasn't implying blur was a part of progressive loading. I kept hearing about progressive loading but didn't understand what it was.

I used the blur-up method, low res small file blurred, replace with high res full version without blur.

Thanks for the info. Is it right to assume any photo with a .jpg extension does this by default? I'll go hit the links.
If you are a student you are likely in debt and have a negative net worth
Hunter maybe not, but if African shamans themselves apparently recognize schizophrenics as their own then there could be something to it:

http://www.jaysongaddis.com/the-shamanic-view-of-mental-illn...
Related, Darwin's exploration of emotion: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expression_of_the_Emotio...
While I understand where you're coming from, package management and install shouldn't really be a fun thing. One of the core benefits of linux is having every package at the distance of a command, on the same place, without needing external sites and downloads. I can understand that for some new users this is alien, but it is a necessary, and useful in the end, adaptation that they have to make. And finally, since this would be dedicated to new users, since olders one would just take the simple path of creating the shell script, NEVER TEACH A NEW USER TO JUST curl * | BASH. That's a criminal sin right there
This isn't for cleaning up large spills, it's for polishing water with O(0.1%) oil dispersed, to the point that it's clean enough to release into the environment.
> If I am the only company in America that produces widget x, I have a de facto monopoly

That's not what monopoly really means. Peter Thiel (for whom I have lots of criticism) makes these things really clear in the way he discusses them. You could open up a British Food restaurant somewhere and be the only one in town. That doesn't make you a monopoly because the actual market is for all types of dining. There's not specific British Food market that you've captured. When businesses want to taut their power and monopoly status (whether to delude themselves or to get investors or whatever), they will pretend that the market is as narrow as their particular product. When they want to convince regulators that they are just one in a competing market, they'll widen the market as much as possible…
HN delivers!

Thanks ;-)
My only half-serious musing is that, as with autism, we're all somewhere on the schizophrenic spectrum, in some sense. Hearing one voice in your head is a step above hearing none. Having multiple voices, sourced from different subconscious processes, yet only heard one a time and that you can't distinguish between thus perceiving as a single "you", might be a step above just one.
This isn't the same as when you see a photo load with horizontal lines vertically usually top-to-bottom right?
The centralization of all major cloud engineering workforce in one city is ridiculous. With all the talk about distributed systems and fault-tolerance, etc., they are making Seattle pretty much a single point of failure for their cloud operations.
Having difficulty getting back on track after an interruption is part of ADHD (well, more difficulty than the average person, interruptions disrupts everybody's concentration to some degree). There is a high level of comorbidity between Autism Spectrum Disorders and ADHD-PI (formerly known as ADD).
> Those are issues of centrally planning the entire economy in 5-year cycles.

This is not the only constraint on method. They had some ways to make predictions about future demands, they had some optimization criteria.

> I don't know of what centrally planning a part of the economy would look like, nor what planning by a democratically elected government, as opposed to a self-appointed one, would be. However, as I noted, political power always tries to grow, so the moment you place that much leverage in the hands of the government, you could expect to end up with a totalitarian system, which is my primary fear of central planning.

I agree, this is a problem. But at my opinion, its not a problem of central planning (viewed as algorithm of optimization of economy), but problem of society, which have no idea how to combine in one system democracy and central planning. Nevertheless its a problem.

> It seems to come naturally to distribute the planning computation among independent agents.

Yes, but everything comes at cost. By delegating planning to independent agents you lose ability to find optimal solution of optimization problem. Such a distrubuted planning computation gives all pluses of distributed computation, its great and, probably, unavoidable, because of computational complexity. But such a system will not give us the best solution. We hope that solution will not be the worst.
Practice shows, that such a solutions is good enough, but will such a solutions be good enough in competition with supercomputer crunching numbers and searching for the best solution?

AFAIR, Kahneman told a story about lesser managers who failed to behave risky enough, because from their subjective point of view such a risks was too high. But from point of view of higher level manager those risks were acceptable.

I'm not saying that existing methods is bad, I'm wondering if there are better methods to plan, and is there are possibility to see them implemented in reality somewhere in the future.
Accelerating public data release by automating detection of overdue datasets
It doesn't seem very consistent. Lots of points in Latin America but when you zoom in, they are all gone.
Is it built with discrete logic or an FPGA?
It depends - you've told us nothing. Who rejected you and why do you think they think number theory is relevant?

A few years ago when we were hiring we took enormous efforts to be welcoming and to put interviewees at ease. We know that going for an interview is stressful, so we honestly did everything we could to make the candidates perform well enough to show us what they could do.

After a couple of weeks we got a call from the agency saying "What are you doing to these people?"

The agency debriefed the candidates after they were interviewed by us, and every one of them was saying "Holy F* - those guys are scary!"

But we're not, honest we're not, we just needed to know what the candidates knew, what they could do, and how we could build on their abilities to help them become useful.

So, what were you applying for, and why do you think they rejected you for not knowing Number Theory? Why would Number Theory be relevant?

Speculate.
28 years. I have no debt and own no property so in my case calculating net worth is easy. Just look at how much money is in my bank account.

$103275.00
Try
https://github.com/copy/v86
and
https://github.com/s-macke/jor1k/

The latter one even has complete network support.
Does anyone know if part 2 is a new Coursera offering then? I looked through the FAQ and didn't see any mention of that, only that that part 1 and 2 are stand alone courses.
I am pretty familiar with the hoops and even to me it's pretty much a huge pain. It's not just you with that opinion.
President Trump Propose Border Wall Covered in Solar Panels – Generating 4.7GW
My experience was that biology teachers were universally good as there wasn't much else for them to do, all of mine had done research before becoming teachers.

I decided to become a computer programmer at age 10, I'm old enough that none of the careers literature available when I was at school even listed it as a possible job. I can't remember wondering what anyone else thought about my choice.
So we need to get women out of early childhood education?

(Both referenced articles talk about female teachers, who are the vast majority of teachers at that grade level, transmitting their anxiety about or dislike of math to female students)
For anyone whose skepticism was trickered (tricked into triggering) because of the source of the message, let's think about this briefly:

1. Teaching is hard.

2. Teaching abstract concepts (ie. math) is often harder because not everyone thinks the same way. (This is why rote learning in math was the standard for so long.)

3. Teaching abstract concepts in a gender-biased abstract composition of fields (STEM) in a gender-biased country (USA) is harder to teach equally to both genders.

4. Teaching in that context to kids is hardest.

There we go...now you can forget it was an Obama making the claim and come at me instead.
> Spoken Japanese isn't any more ambiguous than English (for a human, or a speech-to-text AI) because Japanese people pause between spoken words just like anyone else.

Also intonation, which is not captured by the written system at all. Japanese isn't strongly tonal in the way Chinese is, but it has a regional prosody, like Swedish, which helps in disambiguating meaning.
>I think we've all now seen what it looks like when someone who is unqualified for the job and doesn't want the job is given it.

We all also seen what it looks when people qualified AND wanting the job were given it -- we have been seeing that for centuries and it's not pleasant either.

>In fact hereditary offices are a form of sortition, and they have proven not to be a particularly good system.

No, they are not. Sortition must be random in background and circumstances among the represented people. Hereditary office is the least random way of distributing power. Even democratic elections bring more randomness to the pool.
1. Yeah, ARM has one nasty architectural optimization leaking out: the program counter register being 8 bytes ahead of where it should be due to pipelining. Thankfully that got fixed up in AArch64, and if 32-bit mode gets dropped down the line (which is allowed by the architecture) it'll be a thing of the past. x86 has some architectural leaks too, though: the aliasing of the MMX and FP stacks as a hack for compatibility with early versions of Windows comes to mind. This one hasn't been fixed.

2. The REX prefixes are a nightmare: most instructions have one and this tremendously bloats up the instruction stream size. For this reason, the i-cache efficiency is not good compared to actual compressed instruction sets such as Thumb-2 (not that Thumb-2 is wonderful either). Note that if you do extreme hand-optimization of binary size, you can get x86-64 down pretty far, but so few people do that that it doesn't matter in practice.

3. Two address code isn't necessarily a win, especially since it doubles the number of REX prefixes. In AArch64 "and x9,x10,x11" is 4 bytes; in x86-64 "mov r9,r10; and r9,r11" is 6 bytes (and clobbers the condition codes). There's a reason compilers love to emit the three-address LEA...

4. Memory operands are nice, though I think the squeeze on instruction space makes them not worth it in practice. I'd rather use that opcode space for more registers.

5. Immediate encoding on x86-64 is crazy inefficient. "mov rax,1" is a whopping 7 bytes.
This one https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...
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While totally true, there are systemic issues here. Any individual worker has little choice of what to do with their investments for retirement unless they get into taking tons of time and energy to be activist investors or go out of their way to avoid the path of least resistance and invest in unusual ways.

Point is: it's not like workers are all supportive of the VC decisions or anything. It's the concentrated power of the people who manage all the funds that matters, and not the fact that a bunch of otherwise disconnected individual workers have put their money in.

Of course, stuff like openinvest.co seem at least a good direction…
Heck, it doesn't even have to be Iron Mountain if your data size isn't too big! Just rotating tapes to a safety deposit box at your local bank every week will do a damned good job.
My local city has just got a slightly different type of bike sharing scheme where there are no stations/docks for the bikes, but you're allowed to leave them anywhere sensible [1]. From other articles including the guardian one linked above, it seems that this a model that's been used in China and certainly seems to have proven very rapidly scalable.

I guess in these cases it's quite difficult, since it's likely not feasible to update the locations of individual bikes for these guys. I've checked their map and Bristol, UK doesn't appear to show YoBike at the moment, however it's only been in action for a few weeks.

[1]: https://yobike.co.uk/
Google search doesn't really have many options like this, and I'd be shocked if they added this one.

But given the URL format, it should be trivial for a browser extensions to rewrite links or requests from AMP pages to the original. I bet it already exists.
This is just fancy apologetics for exploiting cheap third world labour. It completely ignores the brutal violence underlying the whole story. There are good reasons why people there can't have jobs unless we hire them for buttons. It's not the natural state of things that we are generously saving them from. There's a history of colonial domination in all of these places that was exploited to negotiate very one sided trade deals with western nations. So they are being paid buttons because we hold their governments hostage to get nice deals for our industry. And when they don't play ball, we send in the troops like that coup in Chile for a famous example.
Bloated in terms of instruction encoding. All instructions on RISC architectures usually have a uniform size, as opposed to CISC architectures which are usually variable length. (Tons of exceptions exist in both directions of course.)
yes, but where do the profits go in each case?

To the local store owner, or to remote owners/shareholders?

The point of the local argument for me is that local owners are more likely to invest in locally owned businesses and create more local owners, whereas remote super-owners are more likely to create remote super-owners who further create more remote super owners, the net effect being that the ownership within the local community over time erodes.

The concrete facts of walmart et al as an example only support this argument..
> How does garbage like this get through the App Store

Yes, exactly. How is there no-one at Apple/Google checking the top list of their app stores once a day to weed out all the crap?
Haha I thought this was a how to guide initially as a "good entrepreneur" mind you good to me is subjective, or is it personal. Money is money right? I can't ask my clients to pay me so I obvs don't support that.

Nice into the rabbit hole though, should see how bad it gets with VMs.
Why not bike and get some exercise while you're at it
Fifth!