skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, that sounds about right, at least on the data formats. A survey now is gathering orders of magnitude more data than it would have in the 80s (especially 3d/4d surveys), but I guess the formats didn't really need to change.

I don't miss writing code to guess whether a file has traces encoded in IBM floating point or IEEE; or handling SEG-Y headers which ought to be EBCDIC but are sometimes ASCII :-)
Not at all, deep nets are difficult to train and they need lot's of processing before they learn same kind of classifying features than ie. SVM has. So yes you can simulate SVM with deep networks but usually it's not very good solution.

SVM can be also used as part of the neural network such as in classifying layer
Even with the firewall, you can't control what's going on inside of China, and you only need one node inside to fetch something from the outside, and that's it.
>Bring back the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

So you want to put a bunch of poor people in labor camps. Inflation adjusted wages of the CCC works out to about $550/mo. If they get injured on the job they will be sent home with nothing.

>over-pay the employees

In a country with a minimum wage, how do you know they're not already being overpaid?

>on the condition half goes into savings accounts for family use or to pay down debts of some sort.

Because "poor people" are too stupid to determine how they should best spend their own money that we should infantilize them and take away their personal autonomy.

>able bodied with Bachelors and $8/hr job

It's nice to know that a person's pedigree determines their market value, rather than their productivity.

>Yes it will cost a fuck-ton of money but because these low-level employees will have money to spend, the wheels of US Consumerist economy will be able to pick up.

US unemployment is already at 4%. Those US consumers are going to be buying products made in Mexico or China because US labor costs more and comes saddled with more health, safety, and environmental regulations. I'm not necessarily opposed to those things, but make no mistake, that money is getting shipped overseas very quickly. And your new CCC workers will be right back where they started.
[TL;DR] you should read before assuming
I'm not talking about the Overton window, but what sorts of policies you can get significant support for among actual Americans. There are certain issues like climate change that have become lightning rods, but there is broad consensus on other issues. For example, 52% of Republicans polled stated that the country "should do whatever it takes to protect the environment."
Pew: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/20/for-earth-da... (down from ~67-70% in 2005). A majority even of republicans want stricter air quality standards for many pollutants: http://grist.org/climate-policy/2011-02-16-public-trusts-epa....
We Are Sovereign
CRISPR Reverses Huntington’s Disease in Mice
I'm sorry to say this, but this employer sounds like a scumbag. If this is how he treats you (by lying and trying to exploit you) at this stage, how is he going to treat you once you're stuck with him?

> he has to pay thousands of dollars to hire a lawyer to include the terms

This is utter bullshit. Call 5-10 local lawyers, tell them what is needed, and find out how much it would cost. Present the employer with the names of those lawyers and their prices.

> Is my request unreasonable?

ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! Always get everything in writing, no matter how much you trust someone. For all you know, the person who made you the promises will be at a different company or dead in a few years.

It's completely normal and reasonable to get something in writing, and it's either naive or malicious that someone is refusing.
Pretty small, but not cell-phone sized. https://www.amazon.com/MicrOptix-VSA-100-Analyzing-Spectroph...

Ones that detect particular contaminants can be a lot smaller, especially if they are single-use.
Running Selenium with Headless Firefox
It would be interesting to see how far/intense the Tacoma Aroma extends.
Source Code Management and the 10-Step Delivery Lifecycle
(Also, assuming your HN username can be traced to your real name and therefore your future employer, I'd suggest deleting this and re-posting it under a throwaway username that can't be traced to you.)
You can also hold political bias and fake a "strong" analysis, especially if your audience already agrees with or desires the outcome in your conclusion.
Interesting the local f1 team RBR (red bull) a couple of years ago had two DNF's from not correctly managing the fuel load.

I did do a spec job application always wondered if I would have pointed out that as a mistake that I would have not made more than once :-) BTW my first job was at the worlds leading rnd organisations in fluid dynamics which is also nearby on campus at cranfield
Perhaps lesser known: you can find node.js download metrics here: https://nodejs.org/metrics/ - you can also download raw (anonymized) data to draw additional conclusions (link at page).

If you find a bug, feel free to report it with our infra/build team: https://github.com/nodejs/build
would be amazing to see the Rubic'sCube and Chess speed solvers burn this algorithm into their heads and start a competition to replicate a provided item.
It hasn't been requested so far. Is it actively used by C/C++ or Java developers?
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Less work is good, capitalism is the problem.
Deep nets ate everyone's hype. The lunch is still there. SVMs have many advantages over ANNs that recommend themselves to practical applications still.
That's fascinating. Is there any reason to do this in production vs. a staging environment (assuming you've got one prod-like enough with replayed traffic)? It seems a little risky to me!
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You can connect to our data ANY HTML/JS compatible visualisation. Moreover Luna has some basic (and they are getting better with every day) bindings to drawing over webgl canvas, so you can define visualisations using our nodes. We will be showing examples how to define efficient heatmaps / custom plots using few nodes interactively in Luna. We will be more than happy to collaborate with you and anyone interested in data visualisations soon, so lets stay in touch! :)
I do not know that there was no conspiracy, and neither do you unless you have nonpublic information. We have a very narrow slice of information that has been filtered through the legal process.

Your particular slant on the story is great, enjoy. At least you've dropped the cheap media bashing; that was my primary point.
Firefox 55 introduced major changes in the process model. My scrolling on the Mac is slow and not smooth. Others have reported the same. Maybe focusing on stabilizing this big change over one or two releases would be a good thing?

Of course headless is also needed as the PhantomJS solution is not maintained anymore since April. See discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14105489
I was looking into this for identifying other animals.
iNaturalist has a community that adds observations and identifies species. They have an API as well as a dataset for research https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/developers
Yes, I definitely did, damned spellchecker.
NAND Market Hits Speed Bump
This is just plain wrong. FireWire was part of what made the first iPods so great, but the runaway iPod success made Apple an iPod company and PC users who dominate tech markets wanted USB iPods because it is what they had and critically because USB was cheaper. If anyone is to blame then it is Microsoft and PC makers for not adopting FireWire, but their customers did not want a more expensive alternative.
I had actually begun to feel bad that no one showed up ("poor chap"), when I landed on the next sentence.
Oh really? So drivers are sending their maintenance bills into Uber and getting reimbursed for them?
I don't understand your argument… if the analogy were true, listening to a CD or streaming from the web would make most people think the recording is "fake" or artificial, longing to listen to it on vinyl. Which I guess most people probably haven't had the chance to compare to CD yet.
Nevertheless I opened a feature request to track demand: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/SourcetrailBugTracker/issue...
It's apples to apples depending upon the needs of the project and business. From my experience few projects can go 100% serverless. Once you give that up, much of what you talk about is back into your view anyways. Beyond that, cloud vs physical servers again depends upon the requirements of the project and business.

We do a mix of cloud and physical servers, and I'm pushing our company to go more serverless (and cloud), but that could easily change based upon which projects gain traction. Some are high revenue like ecommerce, but others are more ad based and the cloud would probably dig into margins too much. We also aren't a VC backed startup nor are we a huge business so the needs are different. But at our scale, colocating, much less virtual servers, is not even a full time job.

And when I say requirements, I mean actual requirements. Many like to talk about 100% uptime. Then most seem to build their project to only work on a single region of AWS. Single region SLA of AWS is 99.95%. Guess they didn't need that 100% uptime. Of course, multi region is much harder, which is why they do it. But still, I wish people would stop talking about benefits they aren't actually taking advantage of. It makes it difficult to separate the signal from the bullshit.
> both quantitative and qualitative information of varying quality from disparate sources

sounds exactly like the kinds of 'easy' problems that 'machine learning' has totally figured out. Good point.
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About 360 camera setups for self driving cars
That's practically tautological, and therefore not terribly helpful in analyzing the distribution of costs across parties to the transaction.
No, I don't think so, not even in terms of being purist arguments that people make.

Long version if you're interested in why people some people may think vinyl sounds better than CD: http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Myths_(Vinyl)

It's hard to compare these two arguments since "CD sound" is the standard these days, whereas the "technically inferior" 24fps is still the cinematic standard. So, while people may label 60fps video as "unnatural", nobody would label a CD recording as such. Also, there are people who've never listened to vinyl to this day, whereas almost anybody will be used to the "film" look of 24fps, which has been the de-facto standard for decades.
No, that's not it. The main point of the article has been that the rich, instead of spending outrageous amounts of money on material things, are instead opting for non-material things to spend money on, and to signal their socio-economic status amongst peers. This has traditionally not been the case, where the rich spent a lot of money on fancy cars, houses and such to be as different as possible from other strata of society. Now such ostentatious displays of wealth are no longer sufficient to signal your high socio-economic standing and that is a rather huge change.
The VFX elements for TNG were mostly kept, so it was mostly new post-production - it was DS9 that got bit hard, since there was much more CGI in the later seasons making an HD remaster too expensive.
And you don't have true freedom of speech unless you allow speech you disagree with... I wonder how we got to the current "speech is free unless you're someone we don't like" society, and I say this as someone who dislikes Nazis.

I want to write a post on tolerance one of these days, and how tolerating things you like isn't really tolerance.
> could this be applied in some manner to understanding protein folding?
Ehhh. Probably not? It's hard to say without the algorithm, really.

The main problem (apart from not modelling any of the chemistry of proteins) would be what your target shape would be. You can consider a folded protein to be the 'blob' formed by taking the surface formed by rolling a water across the outer atoms. Or you could consider just the backbone as a kind of tube.

An origami pattern for just the surface would have no internals. On the other hand, the pattern for the backbone would tell you nothing about how the sidechains and backbone interact.
True. Do you have reason to suspect that's the case in this instance?
Are there any papers you would recommend as good starting points?
I do not condone all the dirty practices but i always find it amusing how lyft gets a good guy trophy. Well without Uber being there doing the dirty work of fighting regulations Lyft would not exist. I would not want Lyft to go away because it is nice to have that option and competition but I would not wish for Uber to go down after all the major changes they did in last few months. Many companies get away with doing far worse. Uber more than redeemed themself.
I really want something like this for heterogenous codebases. Maybe along the lines of ollydbg and ida but for "reverse" engineering Ruby, python, and go.
Looks cool! This hits a pain point of mine working in a legacy Python and C/C++ codebase. Any plans for Python support?
This.

"Ultimately I am sad that the company that is trying to reform the taxi industry is so corrupt."
If Taxi Trips Were Fireflies: 1.3B NYC Taxi Trips Plotted
How does this compare to NoFlo?
Uber isn't going anywhere as long as the industry remains viable. Worst-case scenario, the company is restructured and investors lose their shirts; but you wouldn't kill the world's most recognizable ride-hailing brand.
Be very careful with this one!

-thumbnail causes ImageMagick to embed "freedesktop.org Thumbnail Managing Standard" metadata into the output image. Such metadata includes the full local path (!). I found this by accident on our wiki (Mediawiki, which uses ImageMagick).

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108616
The Elements of Euclid with coloured diagrams [pdf]
From that series:

Uber’s real problem is that it is a staggeringly unprofitable company with fundamentally uncompetitive economics. It lost $2 billion in 2015, $3 billion in 2016, and another billion in China. It is a higher cost, less efficient producer of taxi service than traditional operators; all of its growth is explained by these multi-billion dollar subsidies as it has flooded markets with additional capacity offering unprofitably low fares.

It has none of the scale or network economies that allowed other startups to quickly grow into profitability. In its fifth year of operation Facebook had achieved 25% profit margins; in Uber’s fifth year its profit margins were negative 149%. Absolute Uber losses have continued to worsen with recent growth. Margins improved somewhat in 2016, but only because Uber unilaterally reduced driver compensation by $1 billion, leading to news reports of drivers sleeping in the cars in order to make ends meet. Uber never had any hope of profitability in a competitive market, even at its present scale.

That's Uber's big problem.
I think there is sufficient analysis for a "news" article. Its not a scientific publication. And the crux seems to be this quote:

> The US Consumer Expenditure Survey data reveals that, since 2007, the country’s top 1% (people earning upwards of $300,000 per year) are spending significantly less on material goods, while middle-income groups (earning approximately $70,000 per year) are spending the same, and their trend is upward.
You don't need it to be fully automated. For dynamic languages you would have people in the loop to annotate the parts the tool couldn't figure out.
In Yemen’s secret prisons, UAE tortures and US interrogates
I just finished writing an article that explains how to connect WebDriver to Firefox running in the new headless mode on Windows if anybody's interested: https://intoli.com/blog/running-selenium-with-headless-firef...

It should be pretty similar on Linux, and probably macOS when it comes around.
University of Missouri to push cheaper textbook plan
The thumbnail flag doesn't change the way Imagemagick creates a pixelmap of the complete image.
You need more than rich people, you need people who are rich and who embrace the kind of risk that startups offer. There's a big difference in the kind of investors you meet in NY compared to SV.
I understand you are a lawyer, but "After further discovery that could turn out to be wrong ... what matters is that there was some factual basis to begin with." does sound, to the lay person, a lot like throwing mud and seeing what sticks.
But then is it not a security problem that other IPFS apps retrieved through the same gateway will be seen by the browser as being of same origin?
HN's discussion last year on this blog's more thorough analysis of the economics:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13079023
Hi! I'm always very happy to hear that Luna would help in a domain that I personally don't know much about! :) I would be very happy to collaborate with you. Contributing to Luna in any form, including creating libraries is more than welcome and we will do our best to help you achieve your goals with Luna, so let's stay in touch, we are working hard to make release as fast as we can! :)
Taken out of context, of course. But as a sibling mentioned, in the context of middle class being able to afford luxury goods without bankrupting themselves, that statement does make sense.
To some extent this analogy works for me, but I'd argue 24FPS can still be a legitimate artistic decision - it can lend a film a more 'dream' like quality, for want of a better description, that the hyper-realism of high frame rate recording can lose. I think this was a large part of the reason so many people didn't like the "feel" of the Hobbit when it was screened in some cinemas at 48FPS. Rather than just assume that more is better, hopefully the future will see frame rate as just one more artistic choice in the same way focal length or aperture is used today to convey different feelings or effects.

The warm sound of vinyl on the other hand is just poor sound quality masquerading as something desirable.
You can certainly control incoming traffic to china.

And once inside, you are subject to extreme government spying which can easily mean that everyone who gets a hold of unallowed content "vanishes".

Furthermore, this is an issue not even encryption can fully solve, you still need to do a key exchange which means you need to either find a source of trust in the other side via sidechannels (aka PKI, TOFU or similar) or you allow everyone to easily intercept the data without much effort (aka skip-verify on TLS)

The internet in china is not lacking in surveillance and censorship.

This is an issue that even Tor is still chewing on a lot, afaik plain Tor connections in China are not very welcome and even blocked.

So unless you claim that your crypt and security is better and more battletested than Tor, I'd say IPFS is anything but censorship resistant.
24fps is a form of impressionism, plain and simple. An engineer claiming that 60fps is better simply because it offers realism, is as naive as claiming that a hi-res photo is obviously better than a Van Gogh because it "has more detail". Can you imagine commenting on an impressionistic painting and remarking, "well it's nice, but if the painter has used finer brush strokes we'd see more detail and it'd be more life-like". The lack of detail is precisely the goal of the artist.

Films at 24fps are precisely the same thing. Their lack of detail and realism is precisely what has made the medium so successful over the last 100 years.
Why the hell does the header image show people sniffing their mobile phones?

TechCrunch may not know how "Using a smartphone to send a message over the Internet" works. Surprising for a tech-journalism-focused organization, I know. ;)
I thought this was all a joke, but apparently only some of it is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenoptera_training
Opportunities Amidst Crisis on the Road to Fashion’s Digital Renaissance
yep, and I've used Labview (and Simulink, and other graphical editors) in the past for some of this.

Why I'm excited about this is:
1) It's open source, so we can extend it and hack on it as needed. Thos is probably the biggest reason.
2) The dual textual / graphical representation is really useful in cases where you might want to switch between the two, or one makes more sense than the other. You can do some with text in some the other tools, but the last time I tried, it felt like an after thought more than something expressly designed into the language.
3) It looks to be designed as a general programming language, focussing on having a good compiler, good tooling and a nice foreign function interface. My hope is that this means we can incorporate it into our existing code bases easier than labview, where it kind of wants to stand alone. As an example, perhaps I have a large existing codebase for my robot written in C++ with ROS. Perhaps I could use this to create a new ROS node that does my vision pipeline, by taking advantage of the fact it compiles down to native code, and has a foreign function interface designed in from the start. (Or maybe I'm dreaming, but my hope is it would be easier and more performant than doing the same in Labview!)
4) Did I mention open source :-)
We needed to design everything from scratch to make sure the two representations are truly interchangeable. Every design decision in the textual language needs to be backed by its visual counterpart, and we found this way of thinking impossible with any other existing language.
Then there is the problem of complexity of existing, typed, functional language. We aim to make things as simple as possible, while not sacrificing the power of types, in order to make the language accessible for a much broader audience.
I'm super happy to hear that you like it, make sure to sign-up for our newsletter, so we can stay in touch once Luna is out :).
You can hide the posts about Uber, and go about your day.
His PR is top notch, for sure:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-lyons/amazon-drones-60-min...
We should all be cheering. Human beings have far more potential than being a trained interface between another human being and a basic assembly line. I also am cheering for the companies that are trying to remove the humans from the basic assembly line[1]. Maybe one day the only time a human makes a burger is because they want to, not because it's required for them to demonstrate value to the market.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4602682/Robot...
The linked article is also very interesting

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-consett-companies-s...
What would you use for load balancing, where would you put it and how would you run it (say, DNS wise)? It's been a few years since I looked at it, but I couldn't find a cheap, reliable way to load balance a web app between providers.
To be honest: We have not decided what language we will pick up next. Our first priority is to improve on our Java coverage. In a few months we should be ready to choose our next language. We are thinking about either tackling Python or implement support for a more recent language like Kotlin, Swift or Go.
Just how many nested templates are we talking about here? You can have that problem (obviously) with or without templates. Most sane template designs don't exist when the program is actually run (Debugging them when they don't work is another matter)
I used Sourcetrail a few months ago to figure out a ugly ball of embedded C code that I needed to reimpliment. Sourcetrail was super helpful for this. It paid for itself in an afternoon.
Did the title of this article change after it was published here? It says "torpedoed by corporations" now.
Everyone doesn't hate Status. They're one of the most serious outfits in the space, with alpha software already released and a solid roadmap.
Thanks that sounds great! I just signed up for the mailing list, but feel free to reach out to me at any time! (my username @ gmail.com)