skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have never read a comment on HN that I found so rage inducing, stupid and disconnected from reality. With the attitude you have, you should think about applying for a job at Uber, because you would fit right in there.

Accessibility isn't hard, go spend some time with a screen reader and your going to start to grasp how dead easy these things are.

If you think the extent of the issues is "tags" then your mistaken. Lets take your color pallet.... have you cut out a rather hefty segment of the population because you chose to do something that made your site impossible to use for the color blind? Were not talking about a small portion of the population either, and the last time checked their money was as good as everyone else's.

"Also $37k to add features for the blind is ridiculously low." Uhhh, it depends on how bad your programers fucked things up. I can name a major financial institution that went through this same process years ago (including the lawsuit). The end result was that the engineering costs were far lower than the costs for lawyers to try to weasel out of it. They literally hired some one to babysit the process, and that was total overkill.

"This will set a dangerous precedent and cost businesses a lot of money and adding zero value to most existing paying customers."

As you age, your eyes start to go, your hearing starts to fade, these "precedents" are likely to apply to you as well. The assistive technology that makes access possible might be something that you want, or even need. You better hope that what every product your hoping to sell only works for or is consumed by the young and healthy.
https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid
P value is a measure of statistical significance. Sample size doesn't matter as much as most believe, as long as your p value is really low.
Food preservation
It's very deliberately a lower level framework, for maximum flexibility. If you just want a bar chart in a line or five of code, there are many libraries which build on top of it.

Long live d3.js!
Those examples you give are good large-scale ones. But the impact of society on science is universal and pervasive, down to the observational biases of the individual humans handling instruments. It is a major project within science to eliminate subjective biases in research, right? That wouldn't be necessary if it wasn't universal and pervasive.

As far as how I 'want' it to be influenced, I think civil society should be entitled to discuss the implications and validity of research that is done (in this case, racial or ethnic factors in 'standardised', culturally based tests of 'intelligence'), as well as set large scale priorities as to where effort should best be focused, like in your examples.
Letting people use the internet isn't an 'aesthetic choice'.
The moment they mentioned sentiment analysis as a core tool and attaching sentiment to individual words, it became evident that this approach is fundamentally flawed.

Their list of most negative words included words like "rape" and "terrorist". Consider a story about a soldier deployed in war who is fighting for his life and then triumphantly says, "I killed the terrorist." Leaving aside politics and considering this as a point in a plot arc, that would be extremely positive - but rated as extremely negative.

Another go-to example for me is the sentence "I hope you die" being often rated as "positive" or "hopeful" by sentiment analysis systems.

I suspect that this study has deep flaws, and that the graphs of stories meant to demonstrate correlation between story arcs instead illustrate systemic shortcomings of the model.
dumb/quick q: why not simply add classes/functions to Keras ? I read the code and it looks pretty simple...
But people seem to think that and they have a reason. When apps replace web content, they quite clearly have something to do with the Internet. Web is part of the Internet. Isn't this obvious?
I like the quiz, but I wish it told me the correct answer when I guess wrongly. You could give the correct answer either immediately or at the end of the quiz; either way would be fine.
Sounds like a scam. Can government prevent such open scams?
TTFB = time to first byte
Serious question...

Can't you make the same argument against using stable for the same reason?

> If something breaks, it will stay broken for quite a long time until the fix makes it out of unstable [and testing].
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TEN THOUSAND? And I thought I was bad, I have a couple hundred.

You have to set aside a block of time to go through them and categorize them and be honest: I have one lifetime. Will I ever really use this?

There is a threshhold on diversification of your focus, beyond which you will ruin any chance you ever had of accomplishing anything.
They could and it would probably not get enough traction. "Just another walled garden and more power for Google to squash whoever they like or don't like, sigh". Hard to get people excited about that. I suppose the idea here is that crypto-based tokens are more open: I'd need to research how exactly it is handled on Ethereum chain but I imagine Brave won't solely be in control over what happens to BAT.
I dunno if I'd even call it a DIY project, tbh:

> lundgren and his team built the ‘phoenix’ in 35 days for just $13,000.

So a team of people spent 35 days building this thing - even if there's only three people on that team, and it's calendar days rather than business days, that's over $30k of labour.
http://www.samurai-sudoku.com makes about $500/month on 170k page views/month but it only has one ad block for a better user experience. Also one page view can take hours solving the puzzle.
Nice! I see it's already available on Linode.
I suspect the same way shooting down separate but equal hasn't led to courts requiring hospitals to not offer obstetric care to women because men can't use it. Judges aren't overly literal robots.
Well, my Tangerine iMac will be sad to see debian support go.
But that's not what it is! We build a react single page app which was certified AAA WCAG compliant (which, that is another complete bag of works) just by making sure we don't go out of our way to screw the markup at. In instances where we used non-default controls we just need to sprinkle some aria tags and it's fixed.
HEADLINE: Stabilize dpkg C library (libdpkg)

DESCRIPTION: Any plans to go ahead and stabilize the dpkg library for buster? Having access to a stable package management library is essential in our software. Ie. being able to verify package signatures and querying the database for files. Both of which are not supported.

DISTRIBUTION: buster
HEADLINE

First-class init that is not systemd

DESCRIPTION

I believe it's notorious that systemd is highly controversial, even spinning off a fork called Devuan. It might be more favorable to reunite the community by including one alternative init system that is, fundamentally, a first-class citizen in the Debian ecosystem.

"First-class" implies that the user is given a choice on new installations in a specified prompt. The default should be the option "systemd (recommended)".

DISTRIBUTION

buster+1 given the expected effort

ROLE/AFFILIATION

Individual and hobbyist system administrator
No voi vaan
Court bans copyright holders' access to details of users sharing on BitTorrent
In train yards you could probably use electric motorized carriages pretty easily, that could be switched to different lines (at slower speeds).
I have founded three companies in the last three months (2 GmbHs, 1 UG), and I think the amount of bureaucracy is fair.

I highly recommend choosing a good notary and tax accountant, they can guide you. My advise is to invest the money in both, it can save you a lot of trouble.

There are also some consultancies that help found a company.
Oh that's nice. I'm about to deploy things to Linode. Will check now.
I listened to the Sam Harris podcast a while ago and found I held some objections that I couldn't formulate until some time passed. The problem with Sam's view is not even as complicated as these authors make out. Consider a similar scenario based on a redfined IQ:

In this world, IQ is measured by proficiency in programming languages. Would it be surprising to find that the high IQ people are not predominately women, or black? Or that this new IQ score is highly predictive of positive financial outcomes, better health, good familiy lives and high life satisfaction scores? Should this result be interpreted as a discovery of the genetic inheritance of intelligence?

We commonly understand "IQ" to be synonymous with intelligence, yet its a test that defines a very narrow range of human capabilities. So these broad studies of various people's performace on a test will confound numerous other variables with the score. In my example scenario this would be the recently surging economic value of pushing electrons around in an orderly way.

I'll try to relisten to Sam Harris's treatment of it, maybe i missed some circumspection at a later part but I'll state the following:

The heritage of human intelligence stretches back through the eons, before there were civilizations or even races as we know them. Human intelligence is primal, in the sense of the primates we descended from and in fact are still.
They don't get paid to view the ads though, there's no real motivation right now for most users to spoof views.

But if you are receiving payment for spoofing, you will have a lot more interest in doing it effectively. Especially if the payment is in cryptocurrency, which can't be reversed.
Depending on the structure, that isn't true, though. To start a business, the most important part is the starting of that business, even if you stay at your current job at the beginning.
> Can't you argue this for literally any company of any kind?

Isn't that the point of the ADA?
Good job on the investigation and the math but that's not how it works. Unlike closed social networks like Facebook, everything on Twitter is public.

Which means their active user count may be 300m, but they reach far wider audience than that through citations through all kinds of other media, either through indirect mentions or through direct embeds.

Of course, the fact that they're not monetizing their influence effectively is another story, but just counting their user number to say they have smaller influence is just being naive.
> X11 is aging, so it's time to switch to Wayland

I can't say I follow the logic. Wayland is aging too, but I assume you wouldn't be on board with the idea "Wayland is aging, so it's time to switch back to X11"?
Selection bias could mean that you're substantively wrong.
Is it too late to change the name? Something like "Basic Interest Token" (BIT) sounds less Orwellian
Do you think that it's more related to adblock usage or rather people ignoring ads completely?
The different currency is the Ethereum users. That's what Ethereum is for, stuff like this.
You seem to have a very malicious idea of how this works. WCAG is not a 10,000-page document of arcane impossible-to-understand requirements. And there's not a horde of bloodthirsty disabled people just itching for you to mess up on the fourth footnote of 90731(a)(1)(c)(3).12 so they can sue for a trillion dollars.

Accessible web sites are not difficult. Odds are if you do web stuff, you have accidentally produced WCAG-compliant websites in the past without knowing you were doing it.

So please stop pushing the narrative about how "they" are out to "find something" and sue you and implying that WCAG is too complex to comply with. It's not, and frankly it's offensive -- disabled people have, morally and legally, exactly the same right to be able to use the internet you do, and WCAG is a guide to how you can make that happen.
My favourite change is the transition to GnuPG 2.1 as the default /usr/bin/gpg. Particularly the "trust on first use" (TOFU) trust model is a really good improvement.
Interoperability I think is the biggest hurdle. There's nothing particularly special about blockchains here except that it's really easy to move between currencies once you've got accounts on the right exchanges.

Without cryptocurrency, you'd need some way for a user to pay all websites they visit. Ads can go on any browser and be served from any company. Ad networks don't need to interoperate. But if a user is paying publishers, it's a huge hurdle to have to pay a new publisher payment processor every time you visit a new site. Sure, 70% might accept Google payments, but what about the rest of them? And what about the users who are not on Google's payment platform?

Not that cryptocurrency solves all these problems. It's still a hard thing to do. But I think it at least lowers the barrier.
Figure out what you really want to learn and accomplish. I've found that as I understand the fundamentals better and have a comfortable workflow, checking out cool new stuff doesn't seem so necessary.

I keep a lot of personal information organized. I go thru bookmarks about once a week and move them to text notes. Something I want to learn? It goes into an anki flash card. General reference? Goes into my markdown notes, or I might edit the appropriate Wikipedia aricle instead. Helpful for a side project? Toss it the project readme for later.

I also use something like Trello (zenkit) to keep a long list of "maybe never" projects where I can toss cool stuff I'll probably never get into. These may be organized as well, so if I see something cool about say, game programming in C, I can toss it into the existing maybe never game coding project note.

Also, if I have unread bookmarks that can be understood/used without coding, I read them on the go with my phone as much as possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_bean#Toxicity
Sure, but I think you're missing my point. Is this a problem that really needs a solution or is it a solution in search of a problem? Are time tracking systems not trustworthy enough already? Perhaps I'm just ignorant, but I've never heard of this issue, and it just sounds like the sort of thing that sounds like a problem to techies, but isn't really a problem in practice.
> I am absolutely 100% against the government doing the equivalent of zoning law for privately owned websites.

If you want to do business in the US, you need to follow certain regulations. This includes accessibility for online stores. A personal blog or forum, for example, wouldn't need this legally.
I've had a bad experience relying on repositories for my golang install.

I'd rather manage golang the golang way.
Atari CEO confirms that company is back in the console business
except Romania, you land a job in IT in less than a week if you have minimal experience. The OP can confirm, he lived a considerable time there ( not sure where? Bucharest maybe? )
Geez, the quality of HN is really declining lately. Cash on hand is meaningless. Amazon operates at barely break even. They can't afford to subsidize anything.
Why not run it on a new box?
But ultimately isn't the first choice for most Python projects to date. So many scripts have python paths expecting python 2 hardcoded and pretty much everything that wants python3 calls python3. I'm firmly against this for compatibility reasons, it breaks too much.
But Silicon Valley is so hungry for developers, there are ample remote opportunities for capable developers.
50 hours per week really isn't that bad if you're getting paid well for it
Organize them into folders. All of them, with no exceptions. Having to take an action on each one will lead to removing many. Hoarding is a symptom of procrastination.
"Non-citizens" includes lawful permanent residents and visa holders.

The term generally preferred by those of us who balk at "illegal" and "alien" is "undocumented."
Ask HN: Do you use any tools to save your cloud cost?
AWS is a 10 billion$ business and Azure is the closest competition. Often, I hear from prospects that their negligence, lack of discipline to carefully manage their resources result in 30% more cloud cost. There are tons of tools helping you to optimize and save you cloud cost. Do you use any or what are you doing int his regard?
I would add a h1 heading with keywords "Lightroom Presets" (?) near the top of the page. But I think the main thing to do is experiment with the size and location of your ads. My highest clickthrough pages just have a stack of three ad blocks in a left side or left-middle column above the fold. I have never been able to get a good result with the horizontal banner style ads.
I don't see Google jumping into this market. Also, it's a lot easier to pay someone in cryptocurrency than in Google token -cryptocurrency is accepted as valid payment in a much more diverse set of places.

The blockchain doesn't need to slow them down if they scale correctly. You'd do most of this stuff through payment channels or a lightning network. And, the lightning network can be made to be cross-chain. You wouldn't even need to pay everyone in bitcoin or ethereum, you could pay them in whatever currency they prefer.
Did you miss the part where he's suing? Apparently it's not a better interface.
Disclaimer: I built dl4j and will be highly biased.

A lot of what we see is deployment to production.
We are embedded in a few apache projects now as well as other "enterprise" suites like knime.

The reason for this is simplicity and integration with the JVM as well as supplemental addons for things like ETL (see: jdbc, hdfs, kafka,spark,..) as well as what I think is the easiest way to do both multi threaded model serving and data parallel training (parallelwrapper and parallelinfernece).

We also made things tunable from the JVM (eg: You can configure cuda, native cpu variables, blas libraries,..) from the JVM.

We import python models as well.

We aren't heavily used in the research world but are used at scale (especially in china).

Something we will have coming up is also the ability to import tensorflow models (right now we have keras 1 and need to add keras 2). The only thing we are missing and finishing out now (among other projects) is autodiff. We will have a lot of the same properties as the other "computation graph" frameworks like TF,theano,pytorch.

I'd also note we have a chainer/pytorch like cmpgraph api built in to our neural net dsl already.

Next release we will also have our new parameter server using aeron. Aeron is miles ahead of GRPC(https://github.com/benalexau/rpc-bench) being used in the low latency/quant world as well as being the default transport for akka now.
Indeed I have, and I agree with this part of the point. However, for Stephen Fry to call out self-righteousness in others....pot, meet kettle!
Smartphones have turned us into helpless bystanders,+not+Activists
sure, if the newspaper had ways for you to purchase stuff directly from the newspaper and maybe deals available only if you can read the newspaper.
Links rot over time.

That's why I stopped bookmarking and started notebooking. Evernote as a personal knowledgebase.
What? No Kookaburra?

It has the most unique call of them all.
Getting Past the Dominance of the Nation State
> it's really easy to move between currencies once you've got accounts on the right exchanges.

wait so the users are going to need more than one kind of token? And they're going to need to open accounts on an exchange?

> Without cryptocurrency, you'd need some way for a user to pay all websites they visit. Ads can go on any browser and be served from any company. Ad networks don't need to interoperate. But if a user is paying publishers, it's a huge hurdle to have to pay a new publisher payment processor every time you visit a new site. Sure, 70% might accept Google payments, but what about the rest of them? And what about the users who are not on Google's payment platform?

Hold on, BAT is 1 kind of token. All the ad publishers need to integrate with the BAT. How is this different than having all ad publishers integrating with Google Token?

If there is a competing token, let's call it CAT, how is that different than the AppleToken competing with the Google Token, from the user's perspective?
To be clear: I think they would all likely be the same valuable businesses. My point is that not one of these companies would be funded by YC today.

They succumbed to credentialism. They traded hackers for MBAs. The proverbial John Sculley has fired Steve Jobs and taken over.
I don't understand what you're trying to say. I want to use Debian as my daily OS because I don't like how macOS does things, and I got a MacBook because they are good quality and have a good warranty and I can run all 3 platforms (Win+Lin+Mac) on it if I so desire.
Really good points. I fully believe in treating others the same way you'd want to be treated. I really hate websites that stack similar colors text on top of each other, low contrast. I never been tested professionally, but one of those quiz things online say I'm colored blind "mild protan".

I went to their website and ran Wave. It looks like from a few pages I sampled most of it is just adding alt-tags. So seems like a single or two developers with the right tools and testing could fix their website page by page over a couple of months probably. A huge store chain shouldn't be a problem to afford unlike a small tiny startup.
Microsoft CNTK. Originally Computational Network Toolkit. Abbreviation remains but now Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit.
If your metric is exits then obviously newer companies are going to be 'worse'. It takes time to build something valuable.
That looks like Grandpa Munster with a bad toupee.
I have to admit that sometimes HN comments feel like writing practice to me. I'm not aiming for internet points directly, rather the immediate feedback gives me a sense of how much my views resonate (or more importantly when they dont)
> It's not, and frankly it's offensive -- disabled people have, morally and legally, exactly the same right to be able to use the internet you do, and WCAG is a guide to how you can make that happen.

I have no right to demand people bend the web to my whim, but I have ever right to use software to render it on my own computer just how I want it. It really seems like better screen reader software and removing of this archaic law is a better solution here.

Also the incredibly nitpicky stuff is happening, even in the physical world - http://m.startribune.com/flurry-of-disability-lawsuits-leave...
Stable usually doesn't get such issues. They are related to transitions. Sometimes it happens, that some packages are stuck in unstable for example, because they don't build on some arch, while their related packages go through. In result, testing gets an inconsistent combination, while unstable is OK. It happens when someone didn't take care to specify that these packages should only move to testing together.

This won't happen with stable, since it will get the consistent result in the end.
I am not sure what the current progress on OpenCL support is, but Tensorflow's configure script definitely asks whether you want to install Tensorflow with OpenCL support.
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Just wanted to say that I absolutely love your blog. I purposefully bought my younger brothers Battleship for Christmas a few years ago just so that I could crush them with the strategy I read on your blog. ^_^
How do we process 100’s of temp emails per second?
d3 is extremely functional. You can write it imperative, but it becomes unmaintainable pretty quickly.
Including Python 3.6, even as a non-default Python, would have required to rebuild all Python packages and handle the non-working ones (either fix the problem or explicitely exclude Python 3.6 support for this package). There was not enough time to do all that.
delaware totally has a whole foods; there is one near wilmington iirc