skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would wager that a lot of people who "do deep learning" have absolutely no idea about the models they're using.

Hyperparameter optimisation is basically a fudge right now - you try everything and see what works. Even the research groups who came up with the standard network stacks, like VGG, basically lucked out and found an architecture that worked, then tried several variants and found one that worked better. DL papers are full of handwaving speculation about why particular networks perform better than others, but right now it's just that: highly educated speculation.

This isn't limited to deep learning. If you want to try any kind of machine learning, it's totally reasonable to throw different fitting functions at your problem to see which one works best. Unless you have an unusually clear problem category, it's rarely possible to say at the outset that "This problem would best be solved with method <X>". A counter here would be that if you need to classify images, you should almost certainly use a convnet.

You need some understanding about why things might be going wrong, e.g. your loss isn't moving -> crank up the learning rate. You're seeing nans? Probably your learning rate is too high. But that doesn't really need any serious maths to understand. You can get by quite well by figuring out empirical rules.

I'm not arguing that you shouldn't learn the maths, it's a wise idea to, but many people use deep learning models without knowing how backpropagation works for instance.
"Crashed". Ethereum is still up $70 compared to last week. Up $269 compared to last month. This is not a crash.
I understand that, but I have a few reasons for my concerns on TDP... The biggest is noise level, while my case now isn't absolutely quite, it's not bad, I don't want to have to have more noise, or resort to a full water cooling setup (I currently have a closed kit for my CPU, and stock on the GPU, with 4x 120mm case fans (including water block).

The other is the relative compute power... I'm pretty happy with what I have, could always be faster, but if my typical use only sees another 5% of performance, I'm unlikely to notice the difference. And I know that compute will expand some of the backend/unexpected delays on occasion, not sure the real world impact. So seeing similar TDP would be nice so I know noise won't be an issue combined with expanded cores, and similar single-core or slightly slower is okay.

A lot of this comes from farther back when I could upgrade every 18-24 months and see huge gains. It's been relatively stagnant the past decade now. I went from i7-860 to FX-8350 to i7-4790K that I have now, and frankly the changes have been mostly marginal. The extra ram and SSD has probably been more of an impact. 8gb, 16gb, 32gb respectively, and the first SSD was too small (many symlinks to HDD directories), and now running 3x 480gb ssds, and may switch to a 2tb nvme on the next upgrade cycle.

The GTX 1080 was offset by moving to a 4K display. So it's gains and balances... nothing slow by any means (I remember being able to make tea before my first XT with an MFM hdd would boot). But ever the more impatient with things. LOL, aside: at work, I have processes that I have to slow down, because the connected systems can't keep up.
Employee-owned means the owners retired by selling the company through an employee stock purchase plan. Publix, Woodman's etc. are good places to work but they aren't communes or cooperatives.
> Task/Task<T> does follow the pattern but they could have simply introduced a Unit type in the BCL and replaced the non-generic Task type with Task<Unit> instead.

Microsoft could have added some unified Unit type but they did not, which makes this irrelevant.

Just because there is an obvious negative consequence to choosing a particular type schema (e.g. IEnumerable<t> extending IEnumerable) does not mean that the pattern is pointless. Sometimes biting the bullet is necessary since C# has a bullshit type system that makes dynamic orchestration a pain in the arse.
Weird they both announced on a Friday though. Friday is usually a "bury the bad news" day
Most of us already live in a small box in a cold desert. It's just cold in a different way.

I'm not sure Mars will turn out differently. But in the early days, the people will be unique. And that's worth experiencing, even if it's for a short while.

When you're in a situation where you could die tomorrow, and you're with other people who signed up knowing those risks, it's different than almost any other experience available to humans.

Yes, it's a form of craziness. But a dose of crazy can sometimes work out in rather interesting ways.

Or it won't. But there are worse ways to light billions on fire.

People have been writing stories about Mars for a long time. Isn't it worth a few billion dollars and a few million lives to bring those stories to life?
> Also: where's your privacy statement?

Looks like you failed to notice above - this, Sir, is in alpha as of now.
> you can similarly use a password manager to save the email address used for a password-less login

Sure, but it still adds an extra step; my current manager doesn't have a "log into the email address you used to register with this site" button.

But you're right, there are advantages to email-based login.
Use stunnel on port 443 - makes it look just like HTTPS traffic.
> why they have to spend three years as an apprentice?

Have you actually looked at a curricula? A lot of it is repetition from school stuff. Sure the Electricians in my example learned in 7th class how to transform Volt to mV or kV. But they often can't reproduce this when they start their apprenticeship (imo the schools are to blame here).

If apprentices don't have problems with that Kind of Math, can write readable reports they generally get a Lehrzeitverkürzung up to 1.5 Years.

Source: I actually read curricula of Apprenticeships, talk with colleagues who work in the Berufsschule if my pupils might have a shot at a apprenticeship (they never do)

Besides that we have longer apprenticeships
1) so that the "german workforce" is more skilled in general.
2) so that if they choose to become Meister to be their own boss they don't need to learn all the extra stuff.

> If you already knew the one thing, chances are you could've quickly learned the other thing as well.

That does certainly apply to abstract things but it doesn't apply well to craftsmanship. To quote RMS: A if-construct does not generate friction against the for loop.
But if you bend the cables in the wrong radius, 20 years later when the plastic of the wire-insulation starts degenerating, you might run into problems.

> YAGNI
comparing humans to programs? i like to live in a world with skilled human beings that can realize at least some of their potential. an extended apprenticeship might help some to do that.
I'm friends with a founder of Hacker Paradise. I sent him a link to this post so hopefully he can look into it asap.
Fortress?
> there is no self-sustaining city on earth

Indeed. That's an other concept that I'm not sure Musk is fully aware of. Economies, industrial production systems are highly inter-dependent on Earth. In our "technological civilization", even to build something as simple as a pencil, you need lots of people collaborating from all over the planet [1]. So to me the idea of building a "self-sustaining technological civilization" on mars sounds quite ludicrous.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Gppi-O3a8
You are mixing up blue collar and white collar unions.

Go look at the film industry, and the Writers / Directors / Screen Actors Guilds. The WGA doesn't stop screenwriters from negotiating their own terms. Do you think someone like JJ Abrams is getting paid the WGA set fees? That Tom Cruise works SAG and Equity rates? Of course not.

The point of the guilds in these industries is to set minimum standards for pay and benefits. It is designed to stop studios from exploiting people desperate to work in the industry. I majored in film and many of my classmates have gone on to work in Hollywood - I don't know anyone of them who would say their unions aren't a good thing.
I’m not sure I follow. Should we not be impressed and respect someone capable of living off potatoes off the top of Everest? That would be incredible!

At the risk of using stale analogies: In the eyes of many, crossing the Atlantic was premature at best. In the eyes of many, summiting Everest is a waste of tens of thousands of dollars. In the eyes of many, free climbing is border-line delusional.

And that’s the point. This diversity of prioritization is what makes our species so great. Let the dreamers dream. I can see how you might want to make an argument that we shouldn’t publicly fund every naïve dreamer, but it seems difficult to argue that both NASA and Musk are idiots with how much they’ve already accomplished.

“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”
Samsung’s Bixby voice assistant is finally coming to the U.S. – but only as a pr
To this day, I'm still puzzled by the fact that the wage fixing incident didn't blow up in the press. Amazing..
Scientific and engineering ethics kind of stand in the way of letting people throw away their lives just because it's cool.
Could Illinois be the first state to file for bankruptcy?
If you had a stock that was at $750 in January, hit $3000, and adjusted to $2500 today, you would never use the words "crash". Clickbait much?
kevin at anonymousbtcsms.com:

This is not a scam website. I am using Coinbase to process transactions and their platform has had a host of technical difficulties for non-usa based customers. I have been manually updating payments for the last several weeks, such that there maybe a few hours delay between when transactions have been confirmed and when they are tracked on the website.

I noticed your payments several hours ago and I had already credited your account.

While my FAQ does say no refunds, I have always provided refunds when asked. You did not contact me about the payments not being correctly stored.

-Kevin
Foodworks (Helping people start food businesses) is hiring a Full-Stack Engineer
We operate at the crossroads of empowerment and food. We help nascent food entrepreneurs succeed and grow, eating creative and unique food along the way. We care about affecting change in the food system, and we care most about the people that make that possible.

Our stack is React + Redux + Node + MongoDB and we are looking for someone with strong experience with Javascript and at least 1 year of production quality experience with React + Redux.

More details on business: http://thefoodworks.com

More details on job: https://angel.co/homemade-2/jobs/245432-full-stack-engineer
Realtime Location Tracking for Messenger
The assertion which GP responded to -- that cigarettes are luxurious -- is completely subjective as well.
Startups and Time Management: Reasons to Punch the Clock
I work 35-40 hours per week and am quite competent and senior engineer in London. You need to find a company which isn't trying to make employees work unpaid overtime. Lots of companies out there are fine with 40 hours per week and pay market rate salaries for senior people.
> Mathematical notation is basically a programming language.

A very bad one that can only be executed by brains with the requisite existing historical knowledge; in fact it's more like bad pseudo-code that lacks the explicitness necessary to translate into actual instructions. It's basically condensed jargon intended for the already converted.

It'd probably be vastly easier to teach math with an actual programming language than with traditional notation. Scheme would be ideal for this.
A pound of rice and a pound of meat contain equivalent calories.

I do agree with your experience though. Throw a bit of squash and onions in with your bland rice and you'll feel bloated in no time.
Yesterday:"The cryptocurrencies’ prices bounced back later in the day. As of 6 p.m. Thursday, Bitcoin was down less than 3% and Ethereum was down just under 8% over a 24-hour period."

BTC is now $2,484
Which is totally fine. But when that company's main product _is_ a CRUD app.... I don't want think these inverting a binary tree questions are very useful. If your company actually _does_ do that, then I totally agree, a web-designer with some Rails experience, is probably not the right fit.
I think Mozilla may want to encourage non-devs to beta test. And/or us users of the Dev Edition are a captive audience, willing (maybe even eager) to beta test, while still wanting the (extra) dev tools.
Only one bank can be active at a time, so the only RAM you can run the code from is the same bank that you're trying to load code into. Slight chicken-and-egg problem.
I suspect talent is a huge issue for them.

How many designers and engineers who have the choice between Apple, Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Uber, Lyft....or literally any other company...would choose Walmart? The company known for using the United States welfare program as supplemental income for their hordes of low-wage employees?

Their brand image is a big turn-off for the upper-middle class yuppies who make up the majority of tech talent. They would be smart to lean much heavier on the jet.com brand in the future when it comes to recruiting.
I too am bummed that the new stuff they're introducing doesn't work for pre-pay accounts. That annual discount was quite nice, and it's a shame they don't have an equivalent with their new billing.
If I seem to "have an agenda" based on widespread media reports that are far beyond that one NY Times piece, how exactly would you categorize your own stance? What's your relationship to Amazon? I'm only one of their occasional customers.

Anyway, here's reporting about how their warehouses used Neo-Nazis to intimidate immigrant laborers and worked a temp to death. If you have evidence of the drastic measures that would need to be taken to prevent this kind of behavior, I'm happy to hear about it.

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/life-and-deat...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/amazon-used-...
just turn off wifi as the patent works by reading your traffic whilst in store
If a job is replaceable by machines, it's not worth doing.

It's not about truck drivers. If your job consists entirely of stuff that goes in and out over a wire, expect to be replaced by computers.
The real news is that Coinbase can't handle traffic spikes induced by micro panics.

But this was a correction, not a crash. The price of BTC only dropped below the 10-day moving average and remains well above the 30-day moving average, which remains well above the 50-day moving average, which remains well above the...

A chart http://imgur.com/a/TkilO
built with Bitstamp's tradeview. [0]

Disclaimer: I don't own any BTC.

[0]: https://www.bitstamp.net/market/tradeview/

Added question: In the case of a Coinbase crash, can't Coinbase customers use their private keys to make transactions on other exchanges or are they somehow locked into using Coinbase? I always thought you could happily store your credentials on paper and do business wherever, however.
Jeff Bezos eating octopus for breakfast is symbolic of his business strategy
> I don't think A.I. is the problem, it is automation that is the great fear. Regular code is as dangerous as A.I. as far as fear-mongering goes.

I 100% agree. Modern business still organize themselves like firms a century ago but with faster tools to accomplish largely the same set of tasks. We have only begun to realize the productivity gains/decreased labor demand of technology that was boring in the nineties.
Linkbait. That's not a crash... it can go down a few percentage point in a day but the long term trends all show increases.

Over the last week it's still better that what index funds have done in the last compounded 2 years.
"Rational" is overrated, I think a better goal is something like "avoid stupidity".

There are plenty of things that seem irrational because people don't calibrate their risk/reward calculations correctly. Anything can be made irrational with the wrong set of presumptions. History is strewn with wrong "rational" arguments, like phlogiston which started with things we all knew were true and reached the only rational answer. People make mistake in deciding what to include their "rational" calculations.

I am not saying rational logic is a bad tool, but it certainly shouldn't be the only tool. Clearly we need some way to filter out seemingly irrational but beneficial activities like exploration from actually irrational and detrimental activities, like sub-prime lending without losing all control. For rational logic to work you need to be able to fill in all (or at least most) of the blanks, and it you can't always do that.
I wish this were searchable. I mean, it's fun to browse but searching all of the teams for, "location" for example would be nice.
Yeah but, not unlike in the car industry, reliability is a 'good enough' metric for many purchasers. That is to say, beyond some minimum assurance of execution, further improvments in that metric do not further improve the probability that the customer will choose that product over its competitors. So they're only price insensitive up to a point.
> If you're in a marriage with two high earners (lets say > $500k household gross

Well yes, if you are in the top 1% of wage earners in the US your effective tax rate is going to be pretty high. In fact, you'll pay around $200,000 in taxes on that, give or take (if you live in a high-tax state like California). But that's literally affecting 1% of the population, and they're probably doing ok.

> If you earn much more than that, generally companies find other ways to pay you

Most companies give equity in the form of RSU's rather than options, so income taxes hit immediately upon vesting.

> And yes, FICA is definitely a tax.

Yes they are a payroll tax, but just "adding" them into your income taxes is extremely misleading. Income tax is just that. FICA is a payroll tax.
> like 'tne → the'

I know it's not what you meant, but one thing I'd genuinely love from a project of re-typesetting old public-domain works is to ensure that any "typewriter symbols" like "->" or "* * *" are turned into their proper dingbats ("→" and "⁂", respectively.) Also, ensuring the (double and single) quotation-mark characters are used, but that scare-quotes and actual measurements (6'1", etc.) don't use them. Just, general heavy-handed replacement of ASCIIisms with proper Unicode equivalents.

Though, once you start down that road, it brings you to interesting places: if a book says "ye olde shoppe", do you want to keep the "ye", or do you want to consider it a typographical limitation for what should have been properly typeset as "þe"?
The Risks of Low-Code vs. Custom Platforms–The Right Approach for Transformation
AI Is the New Electricity – Andrew Ng – Transcript
Introducing Two-Factor Authentication on Scaleway
Are you still working on Whale? Also, what's going on with Zero-F?

https://zero-f.co/
https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/06/just-kan-zero-f/
Semi-related: I wrote a fb messenger bot [1] which can send any ebooks (including epub) to your kindle.

It's handy if you've only got access to an epub, and a bit less clunky than sending via email.

[1] https://m.me/kindleebooksender
There is a lot of exceptional fintech talent out there, finance probably has the deepest tech talent level of any industry. But if you look at the tech stack and skills they are looking for for Sr Software Engineer, it looks like they are hiring for a web app: "Ruby, Node.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis"

Sorry, you can't build a financial exchange on Ruby, Node, and Mongo.

Get some real fintech people in there with a real tech stack - core Java (not some Swing framework junk) and c++ mostly - and let them do their thing.

These are fairly well understood problems. I don't understand how they can run on such a terrible infrastructure and still be considered a leader.
People were still making great money, just not the ones that lost their jobs.
Good to hear of this fine effort. For the most part, if law were a person, you would say it is incorrigible when it comes to being tamed for efficiencies. It remains a guild system, which severely limits who can perform legal services and how they can be performed. It also remains an apprenticeship system by which personalized and customized services by highly-trained specialists remains the norm and is perennially tied to the billable hour, which can sometimes inject perverse incentives for law firms to stay with technologically outmoded systems that nonetheless yield higher billings. It embraces vast and amorphous technical areas that can bewilder all concerned with their complexity and, even in simpler areas, it can set unsuspecting clients up for being blindsided when they (at times) ignorantly assume that something is standard or routine when it is not. So quality lawyers can and do earn their keep but often at a stiff cost to the client. That part of the system is intractable and, in my view, there is little any technological provider can do to effect systemic changes to limit costs relating to that core aspect of the legal business. That said, the means by which lawyers (and other timekeepers) work can be vastly improved from the stone-age systems one can all too easily encounter in today's legal field. I note that Atrium LTS is (from its website) "dedicated to providing exceptional tools and processes to transform the delivery of corporate legal services" (italics are mine). That mission statement is spot on. Work around the incorrigible and intractable areas, focus on mechanisms and process, and limit the substantive field to those in which you can take regular and recurring transactions and inject massive efficiencies into the doddering or sclerotic systems now in place. Doing this is not easy. Indeed, it is a massively difficult undertaking. But, put together top people who know the problems, add seasoned technologists who can develop the right systems, and give it the backing of serious investors who have the wherewithal to fund a disruption of major industries, and you have the makings of a great opportunity. Good lawyers will not resist this. They will welcome it because it enhances the value of the customized work that is in reality what they sell. Moreover, it is definitely an idea whose time has come. Others who are highly credible are trying to do this as well, from different angles (e.g., Clerky) and, from the standpoint of one who has long labored in this field, it is exciting to envision what will come of such efforts. Very exciting to see it happening.
Side point: water literally just disappears into thin air.
I for one don't agree. If the autonomous trucks displace the truck drivers over the span of 50 years, I don't see the problems. Very few current drivers will be in the workforce 50 years from now.
U.S. bank bosses succumb to email hoaxer
I think the story is partially the decline of retail in general, malls are in big trouble, as people realize they get little joy from driving 30 mins to get a pretzel and a new pair of shoes. Some people are using the term food-ification of everything, coffeeshops popping up everywhere (target, etc), and the last man standing is the grocery store which is generally a pleasant experience and you might bump into your neighbors there (unlike the empty suburban sidewalks of our car infrastructure) so I think the acquisition makes since in an urbanism / decline of retail context as well as the other contexts presented
Summary Video of PHP South Coast 2017
Vault now offers retirement accounts for any independent contractor
Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the update, I'm glad to hear your site is legit!

I can confirm the payment is now credited in my account, although it wasn't at the time I wrote the post.

Can you please remove the text you copied from my site?

EDIT: I've added an update at the top of the article.
Yes Whole Foods started in Austin around 1981 as one small Coop named Whole Foods.
Their firms choose to provide overtime. I live in the US, and so do they. They are underpaid, but so are software engineers (even adjusting for overtime or lack thereof).