skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What sort of press coverage is best?
The main trade publication that covers my industry has offered to write an article about us — any sort of article, it's totally up to us. We're a pretty small team, iterating on a SaaS service that caters exclusively to this industry. What sort of article should we ask for? A profile of our service? A profile of our founding team? This is the first opportunity we've had for direct press coverage about what we're doing. It's a very open-ended offer, so I'd love to best capitalize on it, but it's so open-ended I'm not sure where to begin, and I don't have much PR experience to draw on. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I loved Anathem. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that I heard about the Long Now foundation and their work at roughly the same time. Stephenson's wanderings into tangential topics is annoying at times but I stopped judging and just read it like a stream of consciousness kind of thing and it worked out quite well.

Everyone I've recommended the book to has either been overwhelmed because of the size or bored because of the length.
They don't have first class support for Nvidia's drivers on Tumbleweed, and Leap's cycle is too slow, so that rules it out for me at least.
I'd always conceptualized decreasing batch size as a performance/memory optimization to deal with the fact that datasets don't all fit into memory and to reduce overall training time. You look at batch_size samples and compute the sum of the gradient of the errors to update the network weights so as to reduce the error -- shouldn't a larger batch_size inherently provide more information about the optimal direction of the update?

It seems to my naive view like it should be "nice" from an accuracy perspective to look at more samples before making an adjustment to the network weights ...?

In general, does changing the batch_size hyperparameter make a lot of difference on different problems ...? Does the right value for
batch size tend to be problem specific and/or network architecture specific?
Especially because there is an entire category of dev jobs that simply don't exist in Canada: the $300-500k senior dev roles at institutional BigCos like Google, FB, MS, Apple, etc.
Blogging for Startups: How This Blog Earned Us $750k+ Worth of Traffic
Now that I know it, I'm going to be forever sad that #c0ffee color is not the same as the color of coffee :(
What to buy for that burgeoning spy?

How about the new Amazon Best Seller: String of Purls!
The Blue Brain Project Discovers Brain May Be Processing in Up to 11 Dimensions
This is beautifully done. I'm happy about your successful implementation and half annoyed that now, I'm going to get even more books in my "to read" list. :-|

Back when I worked on openlibrary, we had something called "subjects" (e.g. https://openlibrary.org/subjects/architecture) and at the bottom, it would give out "Related..." books (by subject, place etc.). It was an extremely simple algorithm but gave me quite some nice things to follow.

Good work!
Good post. Here's an even more visionary post (at least in terms of adopting it even earlier in 2011) from the founder of the Swedish Pirate Party:

https://falkvinge.net/2011/05/29/why-im-putting-all-my-savin...

Personally, I'm not so sure it's Bitcoin the one that will be worth $100,000 or $1 million per coin, and it may not be Ethereum either. I think there's a long way to go till we get there, and a lot of new innovative ideas and coins will come-up until we do.
Did you make the website? I've thought and tried to make a similar one (angled style) but never gotten the design nice. Made it yourself or got someone (who?).
The need for speed in kernel datapath – improvements in UDP packet processing
Syntax is usually used to describe those rules of a language that are easy to compute; so easy that you don't have to understand the meaning (semantics) to do it. E.g. you can point to a missing semicolon in a C program without understanding what the program does.

Of course you can call the rules of well-formedness "higher-order syntax" in the sense that the computation required to decide it is of a higher order than syntax, but the distinction between syntax and semantics is by no means unnatural. It has been discovered independently several times; some ancient studies of the syntax of Sanskrit have survived to this day.
An Alvearie of Wishful Thinking: On Shakespeare's Language (2014)
I don't see why not. What problems are you having?
While it's true that the graviton has never been observed, the point is that string theory was not, originally, a "theory of everything" candidate! It was originally a way of trying to understand QCD and strong dynamics. In 1974 people discovered that the massless chargeless spin-2 boson "popped out" of the theory accidentally! Since people knew that such a particle behaves like a graviton, and is manifestly quantum-mechanical, suddenly it occurred to them that string theory might be a theory of quantum gravity. In fact, General Relativity can be viewed simply as the low-energy effective theory of massless chargeless spin-2 bosons, as emphasized in Feynman's Lectures of Gravitation, where he derives GR from a particle-physicist point of view, rather than a differential-geometry point of view.

This led to the tongue-in-cheek saying that string theory post-dicted the existence of gravity at all---since it isn't built into the foundational assumptions of the theory at all (which is more than a lot of the other models, such as the "gluing" you propose, can say). And since string theory is guaranteed to be quantum-mechanical, a lot of interest developed towards understanding it as a theory of quantum gravity (most other models fail to account for how GR can be made compatible with quantization and how the renormalization works sensibly).
I would love to be in agreement with you but my experience has taught me differently. Social relationships are business relationships. There isn't a way to separate the two. If you don't like someone you work with directly eventually one of you will leave if you both are working two closely together. The tension could also cause other business problems in some form or another over time. 9 to 5 doesn't work for everyone.

For some people working different schedules is what works for them. What about that type of inclusion? Inclusion of those who don't want to do the standard 9 to 5 and those who do want to socialize with each other.

I think there is a tendency for individuals to do 180 on business-related processes every time a new article comes out about some business is doing X and it appears to be successful for now.

When times are rough having a social relationship will help keep the business part of the relationship in tact. Things will not always be easy and there will be rough patches and stressful situations. It's also helpful to meet and get to know people in other departments before you need them for something.

If you work in any kind of large organization with lots of departments and moving parts you will need to know now to navigate the organization. Social situations allow you a chance to build relationships with people working on other parts of the business that you may or may not need help with later on down the line. People have to socialize with each other to get work done. It's not an option to not have at least a somewhat social relationship with someone you work with closely. It's not realistic.

Yes, I think it's helpful to understand someone else's point of view(and/or motivations) and where it comes from. Knowing these things can stop you from being offended by something that may be said or done that wouldn't otherwise be considered offensive. Many times you will already know how someone will react to certain situations and decisions as well as figure out ways to effectively navigate that.

Its easier to get a co-worker to care about and help you with your problem if you have some common ground with a co-worker or some social capital. A "business only non-social" environment means you have a whole bunch of people working who ultimately undermine each other.

You wind up with duplication of effort etc... I've had people tell me flat out tell me they don't want me to tell them the solution to the problem they were having that was already solved because they wanted to figure it out by themselves. This type of "business-only" competitive attitude is wasteful of the businesses time and money. This happened at one company I worked at who was steadily laying folks off while this sort of wasteful behavior was happening.

All in all trying to take the people out of the people in my almost 10 years of experience doesn't actually work out well and can actually be wasteful and hurt the business.
Not OP, but something like like:

1. Receive code in an email
2. Enter code in app X to license
3. Use app X

So maybe a scenario you purposely are not supporting
There's energy-cost in vs. energy-cost out.

Put another way, you can, for a crude estimate, divide national GDP by petroleum consumption to arrive at the net economic gain per barrel of oil consumed.

In the U.S., that's about $1,000. For India and China, it was about $400 - $500 as of a couple-three years ago. For much of Europe, about $1,500, peaking with Switzerland at about $3,000/bbl.

Put another way, figure what you spend to get a barrel of oil, and subtract that from what you gain by it. Or divide to get a multiplier. At $10/bbl cost and $1000/bbl value, the US gains $100 for each dollar spent on petroleum. At $100/bbl cost, that falls to $10 per dollar.

For countries with lower value per barrel, those gains are even smaller.

A couple of other perspectives:

* In India and China, there are low-value activities enabled by energy usage which would be driven out by higher energy costs.

* There is the question of total net energy. It's one thing to say "but we've got $10/bbl oil". But if there are only, say, 10 billion barrels/year of $10/bbl oil, vs. the 35 billion barrels consumed annually, well, that's 25 billion barrels/year you've either forgone or need to substitute by other means. And our substitutes for petroleum, most especially in transport, are exceedingly limited.

* There's substitutability, generally. Passenger vehicle traffic may be electrifiable. Transit and cargo freight as well. Marine freight not so much, and commercial air travel almost certainly not at all. Options for alternative liquid fuels are at best highly problematic. Some exacerbate current problems, most create new ones.

But answering your point: what's changed isn't the amount of fuel, or the benefit gained per use. Rather, market price has climbed (and fallen, and climbed, but that's another story, unless you owe or hold loans based on market price assumptions...) to the point that previously noneconomic reserves are now economically viable.

The limit of energetically viable deposits is, however, a hard cap, and barring some massive developments in technology, are unlikely. There's that little emissions problem as well.

Hydrofracking is a technology which was first developed in the 1940s and 1950s. It wasn't used until the past decade simply because it wasn't necessary or viable. And while there've been some select specific technological improvements in application, the fundamental concept is as it was first conceived.
The out-of-the-box support for joining an AD domain through YaST makes openSUSE the obvious choice when I need Linux and Windows systems to play nicely with one another. No other distro that I've tried comes anywhere close.

Hell, no other distro that I've tried offers anything really comparable with YaST in general, AFAICT. It's why openSUSE w/ Xfce is my go-to for migrating folks off Windows desktops (especially XP).
> The cool night air, the relative silence, the reduction of the horizon to whatever range of light my eyes can perceive...

The serial killer hiding in the bushes...

Edit: Jokes aside, I agree. It is very calming.
I would imagine a neural network that fed parameter values to Voc would be far faster (real-time?) than something like WaveNet which needs to sample the output thousands of times a second.
There are a lot of weird things...

You are assuming 8 bits per byte, but a byte can be any number of bits.

With two bytes of 7 bits each, the range is only about 40 years.
Is is also impractical when the storing media is punch-cards, and the systems adder unit only counts in binary coded decimal.
You are not refuting it, you are cherry-picking one phrase of my comment which is not central to the thesis and pushing your own agenda. That bit of my comment can be completely replaced without affecting my comment but giving you no stone against which to grind your axe. Compensation is one thing, feedback on performance is another. Unless you think everything should be a cooperative with equal ownership and that will magically solve all performance problems, in which case go do that, but I will neither found a company like that nor work for one and I have two decades of experience on both sides of the table.
Experiment with a different screen and ambient brightness level everyday till you find a combination that's most comfortable for your eyes. For me, it is keeping displays on their lowest brightness level + no bright white lights around. Been doing this from 2+ decades now, and spent hours daily in front of every kind of display including 45 Hz bulky CRT monitors. Only time I've had eye pain was when there were bright white ambient lighting around.
Problem is, that wouldn't satisfy the "humans are evil, and the cause of all nature's ills" narrative that underlays much of the activism around climate policy and other environmentalist causes.

The solution always has to be fewer humans and less human activity, with the possible exception of temporary "sorry, we were never here" cleanup efforts.
Probably because it's generic enough to be applicable to the broader Unix ecosystem. I refer to the Arch Wiki all the time even though my Linuxen are almost exclusively either Slackware or openSUSE.

The downside, though, is that some distros have specific tooling for solving a problem, and that tooling is often more appropriate than the information in the Arch Wiki (though the AW still helps if you want to understand what those tools are doing and why).
Uber insiders are eager to sell shares but they can't find a market
First, let me say that, according to the events described, it sounds like you got a really, really raw deal. I feel for you.

Second, I'd like to remind you that there are decent human beings out there. I know that's hard to think of right now. Betrayal breaks not just the trust of one, but the closeness of all. God forbid you risk letting charlatans, monsters or animals-in-human-skin near you again. You have every right to be stingy with that trust.

For now, at least. Besides the obvious of watching out for warning signs, I would recommend gradually working up to your normal level of trust, starting first by re-establishing your faith in the decency of others. Those people who you may not know or even like, but who will when the pressure is on, do the morally upright thing at some cost of their own self-interest. It is the inner strength of the few good folks out there makes life just. Not all of humanity, just a part of it we may never even meet or never even hear about. If we don't have faith that those people exist, then we're done for.[1]

While I'm not religious, Judaism reifies this concept with the "Tzadik Nistar"[2]: at any given moment, thirty righteous people justify the world in God's eyes. If any of those people disappear and are not replaced, the world comes to an end.

Lastly, regardless of my previous advice, I would encourage you to at least know that there are people on here who have been in the same or similar boat. Some of us want to help, to listen and even to care. Yes, some commenters will either delight in your misfortune, or will dispense un empathetic bromides. But I would encourage you to ignore those cretins; they don't matter.

You matter and your faith in humanity matters. It is the key to trusting others again.

[1] Slightly political so feel free to ignore. People who've given up on decency in the world seem to think like this:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/10/donald-tru...

> Trump’s worldview, based on hundreds of interviews in the last year and a half, as well as an extensive, ongoing study of what he’s said and done for decades, is that everybody is out to get everybody. Life is a zero-sum struggle, and you’re on your own. For him to win, others must lose. “Man is the most vicious of all animals,” Trump told People in 1981.

> “The world is a horrible place,” he wrote in Think Big in 2007. “Lions kill for food, but people kill for sport. People try to kill you mentally, especially if you are on top. We all have friends who want everything we have. They want our money, our business, house, car, wife, and dog. Those are our friends. Our enemies are even worse! You have got to protect yourself in life.”

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzadikim_Nistarim#Their_purpos...
How is GNU `yes` so fast?
Hey there- Dana from Google here, I lead the efforts around Terraform from our side. You'll be happy to know that in the last 2 months alone we've added import for:

- google_bigquery_dataset
- google_bigquery_table
- google_compute_address
- google_compute_disk
- google_compute_global_address
- google_compute_route
- google_compute_network
- google_dns_managed_zone
- google_sql_user
- google_storage_bucket

, with more to come shortly!

We only have one open issue around import, so if there are other resources you'd like to see imported feel free to file an issue: https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-go... (just moved to a new repo a few days ago, and we're still in the process of getting existing issues moved over). A big factor in our prioritization of what to work on is based around issues filed (and thumbs ups on those issues), so that's a great way to get in touch with the team.

If you have any other questions around the Terraform+GCP experience, feel free to ask us in the #terraform channel in the GCP slack (https://gcp-slack.appspot.com/ if you aren't already there). Best of luck, and do reach out if you need anything!
Libtrue
[Warning: far from an expert here]

No, batches also help you escape local minima.
2tb is $10/month on iCloud, and it's not designed to a) mine your data b) loss-lead and kill the competition.
You can't.

People minds are dynamic systems. Even if you trust a human now, you can never be sure what changes will occur in the future to make that human choose differently then expected based on previous experience - child sickness, family troubles, hormonal disturbances, environmental toxicity, parasites, whatever really ... anything can influence human behavior in radical manner.

Notice that time here is relevant. Given small enough time scale, you can definitely trust people. And vice-versa.

So, the question is not how to trust people, because you can't trust anybody given enough time, the question is how to plan things in your life so that broken trust isn't detrimental for your status.
Correct. WaveNet is a very brute force approach to speech synthesis.
Yes because what we have always known about sarcasm and what this thread is a perfect example of is how you can define something as sarcastic/not sarcastic just by how it subjectively "comes across".
Yup. I'm also canadian that also moved down the US. That describes my experience perfectly. While rent also easily tripled (from Montreal to NYC) I can say I now manage to save what I'd make gross in Canada, with a better quality of life.
it is a very interesting idea, considering how GD updates are inherently a serial operation. I've always wondered how they pulled it off in spark... I've also read about hogwild which allows parallel SGD on sparse datasets...
The Toy Mogul Who Became a Billionaire Through His Fight to Death with Barbie
Definitely a popular choice. There are open source libararies for public/private key license validation (CocoaFob is a popular one for macOS), and I don't really think this aligns with the current product i.e. the API. Maybe in the future I can expand if there's demand for it, but I'm not sure what I could offer that the open source community can't already offer. :)
Here is a writeup on Google's S2 library for considering addressing the surface of the Earth as 1D, using Hilbert Curves.

http://blog.christianperone.com/2015/08/googles-s2-geometry-...

And 2015 HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10066616
Sorry I don't know much about Mac update schedules, and just took the previous commenter's word that it was outdated, since no one seemed to be claiming otherwise.

But the author also says he runs 10.9 in another partition, and claims to want to run 10.2, although looking closer that appears to be a typo.
A movement is composed of people, and those people can be reasoned with individually. If we reason with enough of them, the narrative changes.
The part you are missing is that the magic is illusory.
Why Alex Honnold’s Free Solo of El Cap Scared Me
Also: it's the coolest example of type classes Simon Peyton Jones knows and he explains why here (around 34-35 min):

https://youtu.be/6COvD8oynmI
Does somebody know which blog engine and theme was used here?
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Does it work with a mouse? One of the most important client applications for me is an RDP connection to a VDI machine on Windows.
I don't think so. These rigs look massive and permanent, but in reality they are constantly deteriorating. Thus, they should not be compared to an island. Salt water is very bad for steel. And the ocean waves and winds constantly put stress on said steel.

If they get left without being dismantled for a while, they will get into a very dangerous state where they are about to fall apart and it is too dangerous to even approach them. Then dismantling them will be much more expensive.
So given Higgs bosons exist, doesn't that account for mass? Why are gravitons needed as well?
Interconnect between the servers is 50 Gbit Ethernet (see section 4 of the paper).
To put things in perspective, 2 billion games in 10 years is half a million games per day on average over the 10 years. Considering you didn't start at that rate and that it's an average, it means you have way more than half a million games per day now. (that's also more than 6 per second!)

Congrats on such a success.
I think you do need to assess what your product is worth, simply because you don't know how many customers you'll get at each price point and if you experiment thoroughly it'll take time and may ruin your market.

On the other hand, if I conclude that my product provides X dollars of value to my customer, I know I should be able to set the price at X-Y and get many customers.
My boss was French.

Socially Adept Frenchman: 1
Human Resources: 0
Dandruff has a barely noticeable impact on your life. Following medical advice can do much more.

Some problems aren't worth trying to fix.
I don't currently offer usage-based plans, so not sure where that came from. I offer $24, $49 and $99/mo plans with custom plans offered to companies who have more than 5,000 active users (which is a lot if you've ever launched a product before). Either way, at the lowest plan you're spending $288/yr, which is far less than the average cost it would take to build a homegrown licensing solution, assuming you don't value your time at $0 (which developers tend to do when opting to build things themselves--Mike Perham of Sidekiq has a good tidbit on this[0]).

[0]: https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/wiki/Build-vs-Buy
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Fwiw, this page blocks when you come from HN. I suspect the author wouldn't want their stuff posted here.
Yes, I made the website. Feel free to dissect it and see how it's built. :)
Eh, still worth it if you ask me :)