skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trend in this field is to do both training and classifying remotely on a desktop. It's hard to see the benefits of keeping everything on the same chip. The primary reason would probably be latency in classification. One would have to argue that remote is slower than local computation.

Remote involves sending the inputs/receiving the outputs and having the computation be done on a desktop, which even at its most basic, is going to be more powerful than an embedded. Local involves no communication, but has to use slower computational system. Since the typical input/output is on the order of a few MB, data transfer latency is likely to be low. Considering deep nets require significant number crunching for evaluation, the advantage by using a faster machine might make up for the data transfer losses. Thus while there might be benefits here, they aren't going to spectacular.
I haven't come across anything similiar to what you're suggesting, although I'd probably be very interested in opportunities like that.

The closest thing I found to something like that was Simbi (https://simbi.com) but I hesitated to make an actual step forward as I never heard or read of anyone going down that route and wasn't sure if that was the "right way" to do it.
What about "hardware"? I bought to my daughter a Snap Circuit kit, but she was younger. https://www.google.com.ar/search?q=snap+circuit&tbm=isch
Daily Aspirin is very harsh on the stomach.
Yeah I can see fauxbuy losing customers. I'm not going put a "buy" button on a product page that doesn't actually allow people to buy said product... what would I tell them? "Smile you're on candid webpage"? "Thanks for your interest, we look forward to giving you this product in several months!"?

If the product is ready to ship, then ship/market it and see how it does. If it's not ready to ship, then do what research you can to make sure it's not absolutely stupid and then build it and find out. At the end of the day the market is unpredictable past the broad strokes.

Sorry to shit all over your idea, something that would help validate prior to shipment would be nice. I'm not even morally opposed to the idea of pitching people a fake product and seeing if they click, you'd just need a way to separate the fake product from the real thing you're building and hope they come back for the real deal, and that could be tricky.
It's not like the voice channel was ever a good fit for the task...

- I'd like to order a pizza.

- Great! What kind would you want?

- I have no idea, what kinds are available?

(Silence while somebody asks themselves if they really want to dictate 100 different kinds of pizza for you)

- Do you have $POPULAR-KIND-THAT-IM-ALREADY-TIRED-OF-EATING?

- Yes! (Relief by not having to dictate all of them)

- How much is it?

- Oh, it's $$$.

- What?! $$$ for a single pizza?

- Yes, that's a MOST-EXPENSIVE-CATEGORY-OF-PIZZA, it's totally not the simple pizza you were expecting from the name.

And so it goes.
Why is targeted advertising acceptable? it is not ok for a seller to stalk potential buyers.

I get that everyone has accepted this as a "fact of life" but consider how TV advertising was done. The advertisement is tailored to the show you are watching and the time of day.

In other words, if I'm on a tech blog, advertise to me tech products, if I'm reading a cooking recipe, advertise kitchenware,grocery delivery and the like.

As a consumer, I am more likely to remember an advertised product if the AD is within the context of the web page I'm visiting.

Target pages not users! not even as precise as I mentioned above but statistical approximations can be made, much like with TV ads (for example, "ycombinator visitors are likely to buy artisnal cookware compared to people visiting nytimes" )

The problem at the end of the day is that users in general don't like to be tracked. some may sacrfice the privacy for the convenince but most will prefer if the sacrifice wasn't neccesary.

I think better advertising solutions are what is needed. It is unfortunate how much money is instead spent on technology to stalk users, as if using a complex computer system makes it more accpetable or ethical.
That information is out of date - in particular, "priority" is long gone. Nowadays most miners (and Bitcoin Core) maximize for highest fee profits - basically select transactions highest fee/kb first.
Good question! When a designer is extracting content from a customer's old website, they save all of the structured information about that customer in a single context, keyed by the customer's ID.
I don't mean to propose that people spend their off hours writing work samples - that's unreasonable for all the reasons you've given and more.

What I mean to propose is that we dramatically alter the current on-site interview process used by most companies.

Instead of 5-7 interviews, consisting of 5-7 independent but ultimately equally contrived algorithms questions on a whiteboard, use the several hours you have the candidate to produce real, working code that reflects the work that your company does.

Which is to say, this requires no more time commitment than the existing interview processes at typical tech companies.

If the work your company does is deeply algorithmic, this will be reflected in the work sample produced via this process. If the work your company does is more heavily UX-oriented, this will be reflected in the work sample produced, also.

Instead of "over the course of a full-day on-site round of interviews, candidate produced several short snippets of hand-scrawled code solving various CS textbook problems, which we will now use to infer general engineering ability"...

... you can say "over the course of a full-day on-site round of interviews, candidate designed and produced a module of code that does [X small thing that company does], which can be assessed with the same rigor and methodology we already apply to our existing work and employees"
It happens with cash too though. Sometimes you hand over a 20 when you meant to hand over a 1. To be fair though US cash does have some UX issues, with the same size and similar coloring.
This truly is the death of the open web. I hope the appeal is successful. Freedom seems to be losing on all fronts these days.
> I agree for the most part, but I think it really depends on the product your team is building.

I completely agree. However, 1) Google---whose CTO is the originator of the claim in discussion---definitely works on hard algorithms and 2) you never know how your product could grow. A feature which could get dismissed as "impossible" might be implementable by the right talent. Presumably these teams don't need to be full of top algorithm folks.

> I'm curious, would you prefer an engineer with solid software engineering and design knowledge, or one with minimal experience building real software, but very in-depth algorithm and CS theory knowledge?

Depends on the size of my team and what I'm trying to deliver, I suppose. In general I'd aim for a balance in the team, maybe 3/4 engineering/design + 1/4 algorithms. I feel like it's easier to learn design patterns than how to use algorithms creatively.
You updated your comment after I replied to it, and so I updated mine.

Source: I ran a work-sample recruiting process for the largest software security company in the US (after it acquired my startup, which was one of the top 5 in the US), and our process most definitely was not biased to younger workers. Work samples drastically improved diversity.

Edit

You've edited your own comment again, which makes you very hard to respond to. If you want to rebut anything I've written so far, can I ask you to copy it into a reply to this comment?
More like paying a $20 bill with a $100 note and not saying "don't keep the change"!
I believe this specific fear is why Safari waited so long before enabling it for everyone (for a long time you had to manually turn it on in the Develop menu).
There was a recent thread in r/Bitcoin about someone missing a 200k deposit on Coinbase. With the quote "say what you will about the banks, at least you can get on the phone with them." These super anti banking activists want banks when shit really hits the fan, surprise surprise.

BTC will never be a currency for anything legal. Anyone telling you otherwise is pumping so they can eventually dump. Regulations, inflation, etc these are all features, , not bugs. None of the Bitcoin true believers want to spend theirs which is exactly the problem with deflation.

Maybe it can be a store of value. Maybe. It's primarily a Ponzi scheme and a way to buy drugs.
I'm the developer of a few writing apps, and I've tried this approach, you get shut down really quick if you create an account and advertise your app on most forums. I got banned on a lot of them right out of the gate.

Instead try searching for reddit threads on r/writing looking for writing apps, and reply there.

You can also make a twitter account and follow all the thousands of nanowrimo groups and writers groups on there. Most will follow you back and you'll get some traffic

I haven't bothered with Facebook yet (I suck at self-promo) but I'm sure its similar
You're correct that amassing all the wealth in the world, divvying it up equally, and passing it out to everyone won't work.

But I think your view of letting free enterprise run rampant is the exact opposite of that idea, and will work just as well at "lifting" those who are in a more desperate situation. Not only does free enterprise destroy cultures and local economies just as badly as your example, it tends to poison the planet we live on at a rate we just can't ignore anymore.

Not to mention, our economy is growth-based. Most of our growth comes from exploitation of other countries...pumping our wealth into their country (arbitrage, as another comment put it). Eventually, when those countries are no longer third-world, and a hamburger there costs $10 like it does here, the companies exploiting the cheap labor there move to the next third-world shithole.

What happens when all the third-world shitholes are gone, though? Our growth economy runs out of fuel to grow. On top of this, as populations find equilibrium with our amount of resources (and resource distribution mechanisms) there will be even less people to exploit at our current rate of growth.

I believe, in the next 50-100 years, our growth economy will collapse because the people driving it believe that growth is infinite, and the resources that drive it (developing nations/growing populations and all the resources that they require) are also infinite.

The entire thing is based on an equation that doesn't balance. We're scrambling to get to the top of a mountain that will crumble. Free enterprise won't solve this, in fact, it's only accelerating the need to find an economic system based on equilibrium, not growth. Whether that means private/public/mixed ownership, socialism/UBI/etc, we need to start thinking now about how to fix this.
Ignore the `1080 Ti`s and go for `EVGA 1070 FTW Hybrid`.
They are watercooled and can easily do 30MH/s so in current ETH difficulty they'll give you around 2.46 ETH per Month.

They will also greatly reduce the price of the rig.
Yep chatbots sucks. The trick for good customer support is to enhance a human agent with AI and not trying to replace it. Suggesting answers to the agent and automatically replying when the confidence is very high.
Reproducible Research: StarCraft Data Mining
Copying my post from the who's hiring thread to here. Always been a fan of SC and clearly there were a ton of talented people working there. If you are anywhere along the spectrum of data scientist to data engineer and interested in python and go, shoot me an email.

Short term contract-based jobs are available if you are just looking for something to generate a little income while you explore the market.

Job posting:

Exigent Capital | Chicago | Data Scientists, Data Engineers | Full-time, Contract, Part-time | Onsite or Remote

Market Making / HFT group focused on cryptocurrency exchanges. Looking for quant / data scientists to find new edges in the market and talented Go/Python engineers to expand the trading platform.

Contact wes+hnsc ||at|| exigentcapital.com
I think cryptocurrency have a future but things like that will prevent it from mass adoption. Good luck explaining this to a non-CS, why a transaction cost .5$ one time and 5000$ another time.
No, the article says they claimed they were offering it unknowingly. Here are the facts:

> In 2012, a lawyer for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nonprofit Washington law firm, called Hobby Lobby's general counsel to inform him of the health law's contraception requirement and to ask whether the company wanted to file a suit.

> Mr. Green says he was shocked to discover Hobby Lobby was in fact offering in its insurance plan some of the emergency contraceptives at issue. He called for the insurer to revoke that coverage and signed onto the lawsuit.

He only dropped the coverage subsequent to being approached by a lawyer from a conservative group shopping for people to use to sue the government.

Readers will draw their own conclusions but to me that does support the implication.
Your username is "analog31".
The reasoning goes that EME is a standard that specifically allows for attaching a closed-source black-box to the browser in a standardized way. This code is not auditable by outside sources, and therefore could be a breeding ground for malware and exploits (standard open-source philosophy that "sunlight is the best disinfectant"---many eyes on open source software minimizes the opportunities for exploitable bugs to hide). We've seen codec software---even open-source codec implementations---used as an attack vector in the past.

This reasoning, IMHO, ignores the fact that the user-agent still asks for consent, so the user may choose not to allow anything they can't audit. It's just the "Do you want to allow Flash to play this cool video?" story all over again.
I'm building https://ewolo.fitness/ - it's a no-frills workout tracker that's built from the ground-up to be mobile friendly.

I decided to do it after seeing a total lack of decent workout trackers that work well on mobile and provide a web interface.

It's made using React, Redux and I don't expect it to make any money :)
I was just thinking how well this correlates with the presidential election map.
We, Computer Users, Demand the Right To
Something to be aware of: on Windows, certain third-party executables are signed with a WoSign cert. One popular example being the npcap library (part of nmap). If you distrust WoSign roots, side effects may occur upon using nmap.
Lessons from 2016 and what's ahead
Humans generally are more valued for doing desk jobs vs physical jobs today. You can survive doing physical labor, but it will be a low paid job. The jobs where you sit behind a desk and your only exercise is pushing a keyboard/mouse are much higher paying, and more stable. As such it is an evolutionary advantage to sedentary today: you are more likely to be able to afford food, and since you are not active you need less of it.

The above might sound good, it won't work that way. Exercise hard or be a couch potato - either way your DNA is not a dead end. Either way you get enough food for your and your kids. You will have more luxuries from the sedentary life, but those are not things evolution cares about.

There are other shortcuts. Bio engineering is promising. There are lots of other advances in medicine. Any of them could solve the problems of sedentary life in the future. Or maybe not, we don't know what the limits of each is.
Adding to the good points here, I think coding competitions superstars are also potentially more likely to have a diva-complex, while others are more likely to have an impostor complex when they get into a company like Google. The right amount of impostor complex (where it enables you but does not cripple you) is actually very helpful as it helps you learn and better yourself.
This story reminds me of a friend of mine who has a second Amazon account just for his Kindle. He does that because he read a story where someone lost access to their Kindle books after Amazon closed their account.

Guess this idea applies to AWS as well.
> No you are completely wrong. This is exactly how you become part of Al Queda - you start an affiliate

Which doesn't change that for the first five years of its existence the group that later rebranded as al-Qaeda in Iraq was not an affiliate, nor, more to the point which you falsely claimed was incorrect originally, does it change the fact that just as the rebranding from AQI to ISIS was a rebranding of an existing organization, so was the rebranding to AQI in 2004.

The arguments you make seem to be directed against the claim that the Zarqawi organization was not, at least when it was called AQI, really part of al-Qaeda. This might be a fine point to argue against, but for the fact that it's not an argument anyone has actually made in the thread, and your arguments against it are completely irrelevant to the comments they actually respond to.
They said they were the ones who mined the block, so they have all the transaction fees in that block (in addition the new Bitcoin created)...
I tried this when purchasing my last house. I offered a pretty hefty hourly fee, knowing full well there's no way the hourly fees would approach 3% of the transaction. IIRC the response was essentially that they are prohibited from doing so by their Realtor organization (?). This was in Georgia.
People who enter programming competitions are looking for some sort of glory: to be stars. When they don't get it from the job, they get bored.

I suspect that the people good at programming competitions could easily perform well on the job, if the motivation were there. I don't think it necessarily has anything to do with short-term versus long-term problem-solving focus.

There are plenty of short-term problems that you have to solve on the job to be effective. You're not doing them in competition against anyone such that if you procrastinate, you will lose, so the motivation vaporizes.

Also, since job interviews are like programming competitions, people who are good at programming competitions figure they can easily get a job anywhere, and to do that repeatedly. They are not motivated into working hard by job security concerns.
How do you think that? I think myself a decently productive engineer and I always loathed the fact that I have to study for most of my interviews. Study things that I have almost never used in my actual engineering career. In a situation nothing like actual engineering work.

My favorite interview process (given by the company I currently work at) consisted of one coding prescreen that wasn't terribly difficult, one session where I simply talked with two engineers about past projects I worked on, and then one higher level architecture problem that involved pseudo-code but not some esoteric algorithms.

That interview process, I think, is way more representative of my actual day-to-day work than any algorithm interview I've done. It deemphasizes the ability to figure out / reguritate previously memorized tricky algorithms on the spot (when do you ever need to do that during the work day?) while emphasizing the ability to communicate how and why you make decisions.

Which is an incredibly important part of engineering, way more important than whatever skill whiteboard algorithm interviews test.
And securities. Quite often people sends orders with the number of shares accidentally set to the intended nominal value.
From that same paragraph: "There is no fee to receive bitcoins, and many wallets let you control how large a fee to pay when spending. Higher fees can encourage faster confirmation of your transactions." The more you're willing to pay in fees, the faster your transaction is likely to get processed. That's what it says.
Many said similar things about Trump's rhetoric a year ago, yet here we are.
They are giving the money away. Roughly $195,000 USD.
The hubris of this forum is astounding sometimes.

Zillow and Redfin have attempted to automate just the valuation of properties (with enourmous resources behind them), and still aren't as accurate as traditional appraisers. It's easy?

Edit: Even Zillow agrees. There's a million dollar prize if you can do better.

http://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/D24B68EC-4090-11E7...
Oh wow. I've been out of touch with Bob for decades. For a little while there we were both active in the Loglan community (this was before Lojban). I remember once riding my bike from Belmont, MA to meet Bob at some little airfield, where we tossed the bike in the back of his two-seater Cessna and took off for a Loglan meeting somewhere north of there (New Hampshire?).

RIP, Bob.
you have a closed source, big binary that is the predictive model, it is the result of crunching all the data they have.
Doltish focus on efficiency makes for illiteracy.
Even if you hand-roll a transaction, when you try to send it, Bitcoin Core will parse it and refuse to send it if the fees are too high:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2949
> And no revolution was ever the result of conspiracies, secret societies, or openly revolutionary parties.

Preceded by:

> No revolution, no matter how wide it opened its gates to the masses and the downtrodden—les malheureux, les misérables, les damnés de la terre, as we know them from the grand rhetoric of the French Revolution—was ever started by them.

concluded with:

> Revolutions always appear to succeed with amazing ease in their initial stages, and the reason is that those who supposedly “make” revolutions do not “seize power” but rather pick it up where it lies in the streets.

I saw this first hand as a kid. These guys were well organized, well trained. So the question for Hannah is this: do you honestly think you can just pick up power on the street without preparations?

> Wherever these disintegrative processes have been allowed to develop unchecked ...

http://flashbak.com/la-porn-revolution-the-filthy-sex-propag...

Hannah wants us to believe that that sort of concerted, very accurately aimed, propaganda to diminish the prestige of the French royal family was not a "conspiracy".
A house sale is really a large contract agreement with a number of finer points. The legal fees were maybe $750 - 1200 but memory is sketchy on that. There are filings necessary with the state and other items that make it legal, and at least in Massachusetts USA, it is a lot different than say selling a mountain bike. Banks need certain info for loans, there's the deed, etc, inspections, etc.

When you are signing your 20th piece of paper, you realize you needed the lawyer. One dirty secret of realtors is that all this work is handled by lawyers, and the impossible-looking parts of a real estate transaction are handled by lawyers who understand it and have it down to a fixed-price cookie-cutter process for their locality. They did "consult" with me a bit and gave some "free" advice, but I just paid the fix price for doc generation mainly.
Ask HN: How do you backup your linux system?
Describe your backup workflow
> the success of the those in the pool after the selection will negatively correlate with that thing

Could be relevant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox
Music preference is not something you can generalize to a group of people. For example, I may like one song from Taylor Swift but not anything else. You may be right for popular songs but where Pandora's genome project shines is recommending music you would never otherwise discover.

If your suggestions are based on crowd sourced data like play count, your recommendations will be further encouraged by recommendations and thus become obsolete over time.
It is every non-employee-owned company.