skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with some of your generalizations about witch hunts. I don't really see how that applies to this situation, though.

Jon Ronson (a journalist) actually wrote a book about that exact topic[1]. I think it might be of interest to you.

> has anybody ever taken a look at the editors, bloggers, and writers at media outlets

Yes. After Trump was elected, many journalists commented on the lack of diversity in journalism (although it came up before that, from time to time)[2][3].

For some reason I can't find the article now, but I remember the demographics being something like, "mostly white, almost 100% coastal, highly educated, and from wealthy backgrounds" (referring to the mainstream news sources).

After Trump, a lot of the focus was on the lack of rural/Midwestern journalists.

> Probably not the group of deep thinkers and intellectuals we'd like to believe.

I don't know if anyone thinks all of them are deep thinkers and intellectuals, but some of them certainly are.

1. https://www.amazon.com/So-Youve-Been-Publicly-Shamed/dp/B00S...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/aug/04/journalism-div...

3. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/minorit...
Atlassian doesn't sell Cloud licenses for instances beyond 2,000 users. At that point, you need to dial up your own "on-premise" Data Center version yourself on AWS in order to scale further - not to mention federated use cases, which Atlassian themselves employ, e.g. a public-facing instance for tracking suggestions and public bug reports, and an internal instance for development itself.

Atlassian Cloud hosting is for small players.
The versioning on ARM confuses me frequently, but there is one hopeful line in the article:

> In addition, I've added support for other Allwinner SoCs (sun8i-a83t, sun6i-a31) to the kernel and have tested booting the same kernel across all 3 SoCs.
Were you working for Sean and Harold?
Rather than steal, I just don't consume.

Thank you.

I don't understand why this isn't a bigger thing.

But maybe I'm ignorant. I'd love to be disabused of my opinion. Which is:

You have no right to anything produced by content creators who choose to make their content available under terms that you don't agree with.

Instead of bitching about that, you should support content creators who distribute their content under terms that you agree with.

What am I missing?
If Twitter is your thing, see https://thefeed.press. Curates news links shared by your friends on Twitter
> consider you ... weirdo

Unlikely. After all, they'd expect you to act the same way as them -- friendly despite not being a friend.
There really isn't a polite way to say "Do you have anyone competent in your office you could maybe ask first?"
Article quote-ee here. You're not describing the same thing the people in the article were describing.

The bugs that Apple is looking for take time and resources to find yet you can't depend on the $200k of revenue to feed yourself. E.g., even after you spend months of real work you sometimes fail and get no payout. That's an acceptable risk for a $3k bug bounty. It's not at $200k.

Every other issue you cited is secondary to the economic one.
Good thing you don't decide what gets published, then. The paper is cited by 29 other papers. And...

"Entropy is an extensive property. It has the dimension of energy divided by temperature, which has a unit of joules per kelvin (J K−1) in the International System of Units"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy
Given that this is primarily an entrepreneurial site frequented by at least a few people who will build sizable companies in the future...

Maybe it's time that someone laid out a cost benefit analysis regarding offshoring support and presented a good alternative plan.

It's obvious to a lot of us techies, but there's a different perspective that we should be talking to if we want to see industry change for the better.
How do non-technical people become managers of engineers in the first place?

It seems like something we should try to avoid.
Finding patterns in answers is solving problems.
An entirely sedentary lifestyle has incredibly high mortality. Similarly so for extreme exercise/steroid abuse.

By definition, there is a point in between which maximises longevity on average. This may not be the same as the point which maximises quality of life.

How exactly does exercise "damage all your parts"? You need proof to back up that bizarre claim. Humans are evolutionarily designed to be long distance athletes.
Yeah I'm not sure that's the best way to go about it. Gender plays little-to-no role in being friends with someone. I'm too old to let sexual whatever get in the way (and too committed to the one person that seems to love me just as I am).
The issue is that content creators rarely have any choice. If they don't work with labels, their careers are DOA.
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This was my reaction. This article seems to be training people to get their engineers to devlop completely unmaintainable projects, and generally make the managers trust the engineers less.
I would assume this is about systemd. Personally my experience with it has been great - the occasional screw-ups (they did happen - something related to dbus made all systemctl commands fail until a reboot) were nothing compared to the time I gained not having to worry about prehistoric initscripts.

So while it isn't perfect, it's IMO a step in the right direction, if only by lowering the barrier to entry to actually using and managing the thing.

If you are worried about stability then you shouldn't rely on a single machine anyway. Personally I manage systemd screw-ups (though I haven't had one in production yet - all of them were on my personal machines while monkeying around with Archlinux) just like any other hardware failure - by making sure my app/service stays available even if I yank the power cord from the machine.
Physical objects degrading under use by natural forces, is a common pattern and all a part of entropy and so on. We also happen to be physical objects. We can propose, and we know it's true that the body has repair mechanisms. However, it is a far more complicated effort to repair everything than to damage everything. Therefore, one should be open to establishing where the burden of proof lies, so that we know how to process the science, which tends to be rather unconvincing, frequently contradictory, etc. when it comes to issues like this.
Oh lord, my friend, please don't force non-mobile users to click-drag those pictures. Put some arrows on that gallery for the love of UX! :)
One does not need to invoke SGD or NN for the momentum term.

Its there in conjugate gradients method, its just not called momentum. Its there in heavy-ball methods much more overtly.

In fact if the cost function is convex and has smooth gradients one can show that optimal momentum equipped methods would converge faster than gradient methods.

These methods achieve the best possible (black box) convergence rate bound for minimizing an arbitrary convex function using local information, gradient descent methods do not. The old references to consult are Nemirovskii, Nesterov and Polyak.

One has to be careful about the claim though. The optimal convergence rate result mentioned above applies to arbitrary convex functions. For specific convex functions where you can exploit problem specific structure you may be able to do better.

The other caveat is that these (batch) momentum methods tend to be quite sensitive to the convexity and smoothness parameters. Gradient descent is a lot more robust and you can get away with a lot. However if you are sure that the you can evaluate the exact gradient, then momentum based methods are arguably the better choice. Dont panic if the cost function goes up and down (that's expected), they do not reduce the cost function monotonically.
> We wrap the kernel in a U-Boot header that claims to be a Linux kernel; this is no accident! This tells U-Boot to use the Linux boot protocol when loading the kernel, which ensures that the DTB (loaded by U-Boot) is processed and passed to us in r2.

Hah, reminds me of Linux pretending to be recent versions of Windows to ACPI code.
I'll agree with you that it's much harder than it should be (thankfully, finding the implementations is the hard part, not using them), but yes, these methods do exist.

DeepLIFT (the method I linked in my original comment: https://github.com/kundajelab/deeplift), takes a Keras model (with Theano or TensorFlow backend) as input and provides feature importance scores for any desired layer of the network (raw data inputs, inputs to dense layers following convolution, etc.). Keras-Vis (https://github.com/raghakot/keras-vis) is another nice package that allows for easy visualization of saliency maps and convolutional filters. Perturbing inputs and looking at the effect on the output of the network is another technique people use pretty often.

I think there's a lot of room for this space to become easier to use, especially for newer deep learning practitioners. To that point, I definitely agree with the author of this blog post.
Since crashes (especially segfaults) are often indications of an exploitable vulnerability causing the kernel to crash isn't exactly a good thing. It prevented one attack, caused a (probably short) denial of service, and may be further exploitable.
And, in as much as it's my legal sales revenue that's paying for their bullshit, I'm all the more inclined to stop paying and look for other means of access.

Fuck you, BMG.
Sure. While Multics was a wonderful operating system for folks who were into systems programming and similar activities, for those of us who were trying to write applications it was a nightmare. It was wonderfully flexible, but nearly impossible to understand from the application programmer's perspective. In reading the doc you'd find something you didn't understand so you'd followed the reference to the next piece of doc, and then on to the next and so on. After about 4 levels of this I'd have a headache and give up.

For all it's problems the IBM 360 was much more accessible. Initially, the doc was of little use, but by this time, IBM has its act together and there were some truly useful docs.

Multics, for all its brilliance, was nearly useless for many.
I think that’s a terrible oversimplification...

I think requiring a more thought out business plan (ie. one that includes steps to turn profit within some timeframe).

Some investors I’ve met do this and do it well, while still investing in ideas that may not seem all there upfront.
Complete with the device mfg's unpatched 3.10 kernel.

Thanks, but no thanks.
> I can fix it in my own dictionary immediately. If I submit the correction to Google, it just changes some weightings, and hundreds of people will have to submit the same correction before their deep learning will finally catch on that it needs to change something.

This isn't a problem with deep learning, but a problem with verifying a data source. You are trusting yourself to submit a proper correction, but Google doesn't know you from John.

To use another example, imagine that someone says 他的 is "they're", another person says it's "their", and still another person says it's "there". Your approach would just accept all three in a row, wouldn't it?

Google's approach presumably trusts that the crowd + what it sees on the web is correct and thus attempts to verify that a submission is typical language use before actually putting it into play.
> "... is trying to sync it with a 32-bit client".

Upon reading this I got the impression that the issue was [customer] using 32 bit Windows and therefore not able to use the 64 bit version, however checking out e.g. https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-version-of-Google-Drive-in-..., and also installing google drive myself right then seeing it appear in C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Drive, there's clearly no 64 bit version of Google Drive available at present date (2017-07-10).

Perhaps giving alerts when hitting usage limits would be of help to customers with such a high amount of files. Best of luck resolving it!
Modified the problem from this post to also include debt. If someone doesn't have the funds to pay during the turn, they have to borrow money from the person they should be giving it to, and pay back with interest.

Check out the source and the produced animation here: https://gist.github.com/kirillseva/961fa1f5b5d64254e0117caf1...
> If the government runs a program whereby they give $1M to everyone who gets a perfect SAT score after they graduate from college, then the mean GPA of millionaires would skew much higher

I don't know. It seems like the GPA of people with a perfect SAT score might fall if they knew about that program.
GAME DEVELOPMENT VS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: WHICH IS BETTER?
> Do you expect them to have a right to the same high end speakers/headphones that you have? To the same sound-treated room?

If they can make an identical copy of those items, without removing from the marketplace the original that they were never, ever going to buy anyway, sure.
I'm against BMG here, but don't we do this with criminals?

Sending people to prison is revoking their right to freedom.

If you're convicted of a violent crime, you lose the right to arms.

I think there is a case to be made that some people need to have their rights restricted to prevent them from violating the rights of others. But this is not one of those cases.
For those interested in some video footage of animals in the radioactive zone a decent video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG-nwQBBfmc

TLDW: No massive mutations like VICE teased with the 3 eyed boars etc.
I would agree entirely because I recognized this sometime in my early 20s and never looked back. Now I have a very, very select handful of friends that are all incredible people, but can't get along easily with 4 out of 5 people... I think mostly because I'm suspicious of why they're being personable and talking to me right now. Hell, I think Dale Carnagie made me so jaded I can't function in society, but that's mostly on me.
> I don't think anybody has a unit for entropy.

S = k log w. [1] S has units of energy divided by temperature.

> Every time you eat, you increase entropy.

Globally, yes, but it is very common to take the entropy of a bounded system. One can talk about e.g. cardiac entropy - the number of microstates (e.g. differentiated cells or even their individual molecules) that can form the same state observable at the boundary of the heart. One can likewise talk about cellular entropy (the boundary being the cellular membrane), or about the entropy of an organism (the boundary being its outer surface, like the human skin and related exposed structures).

The entropy of all of these is much lower than that of a container of 70 kg of water at 310 kelvins; you can swap a molecule of the water in one part of a container with that in another part without wrecking observables of the water at the boundary, repeating the process until you have moved every molecule of water. You can't swap many brain cells with liver cells and expect the organism not to die; you can't swap molecules from the cellular membrane with molecules with the genetic molecules in a cell and expect the cell not to die; and so forth.

"Non-swapability" goes hand-in-hand with "low entropy".

> Just because you entered the world, you have increased entropy

Globally, with the boundary at the horizon of the observable universe, entropy always increases.

As a human embryo grows into an adult, the entropy at the boundary of that individual's outer surface (mostly) increases, because the overall matter increases, with the increase in the number of differentiated cells offsetting the decrease in entropy from the non-swapability of cells that have differentiated into e.g. smooth muscle or glial cells. However, growing humans are still very low entropy.

Once the mass of an adult human stabilizes, it makes sense to think of the entropy of fatty vs non-fatty tissues. Adipose is relatively high entropy (you can move bits of it from one cell to another without killing the cells or the adult human; this is a normal part of fat metabolism even, and moving adipose tissues around is routine in cosmetic surgery) compared with e.g. the kidneys. The skeletal musculature, grossly, is lower entropy than fatty tissues, because moving a large piece of a whole muscle from one joint to another (e.g in some orthopedic surgeries) affects the observables of the adult human (e.g. by changing his or her gait or the range of motion of the affected joint(s)). However, as one "bulks up", there is more skeletal muscle, so the entropy of each, and the overall entropy of the individual, increases.

> I can't believe this got published.

vs

> They are falling a fallacy.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Divine_fallacy

A correlation between Boltzmannian entropy of an individual and the individual's lifespan is interesting.

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[1] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Boltzmann%27s_entropy_formula
> which, given the demand from legitimate users due to Apple's insistence on locking down their devices for reasons that are more about business models than security

Well.. except that's not really true. iOS is de facto the most secure consumer OS out there, precisely because it doesn't allow arbitrary code to be run, and because of the restrictions placed on the process of getting software onto them. The value Apple gets from users not worrying about viruses, malware, or other security threats far exceeds the piddling revenue from the App Store, because that peace of mind and brand reputation drives device sales where that value is captured.

Meanwhile, the more permissive consumer OS' of Windows and Android seem to have continued issues with security, and the average - even informed - consumer never really knows what the software on them is really doing.

I don't disagree with the rest of your comment though!
That phrase is easily modified to take on a darker tone: "find a person, learn about each other's personal lives, gradually escalate to sleeping with them" makes me cautious. The very notion that it's possible for one person to engineer closeness has echoes within the pickup artist community, so it's worth unpacking the differences.

If one person has zero interest in the other person past as a means to a very specific end (sex), and is wholly untruthful about that, then it veers away from scientific study of friendship and closeness.

Taking it a step further: "find a person, learn about their personal life, exploit their weaknesses, escalate to sleeping with them" is definitely red-pill territory, and while it might be unfair to judge the original phrase after being modified, the only difference is the knowledge and intentions of one party within an unchanged process.

"Learning about each other's personal lives" has a strong assumption that the stories themselves are truthful and without pretense past a socially-acceptable normal level as human beings.
SyncThing needs a lot of UI work. Compare to Resilio Sync (formerly Bittorrent Sync).
I'm guessing it's a matter of making it harder for some and easier for others, in a way that makes the "total difficulty" stay the same.
Okay, I am happy to leave this part of the discussion. I think biological processes are highly distinguishable from non-biological ones, however (i.e. heavy brain usage is highly beneficial).

However, the article just says minimum exercise should be maintained for minimum entropy... there's no analysis as to why minimum entropy is a good thing. Longevity and wellbeing are complicated, multifactorial goals, and are certainly not determined by something as reductive as "biological entropy".
The internals of systemd are maybe not the best. But the UI is definitely easier to grasp than what existed previously.
A friend of mine had one of those. He was making fun of my then fairly new iPhone and was trying to show me how he could run X Windows on his device. After about 30 minutes of trying to get it to work he gave up. I then sent him a text message, which took him another long period of time to figure out.

He finally concluded his defense of the device by saying "Well, this isn't a phone for people who like to get stuff done".
It seems obvious he is referring to systemd. I like systemd, but Linus hates it when people break userspace, and systemd has broken userspace a lot.

Poettering seems to take the advice of "release early and often" to heart and pushes things into widespread usage long before they're quite fully baked. PulseAudio was awful for years, and then it was good and we all stopped complaining about it. systemd was kinda crap for months after it became widespread...a ton of breakage, including in ways that were occasionally dangerous. We're lucky, I guess, that systemd didn't take as long as PulseAudio to stop sucking all the time (systemd still sucks some of the time, but what it replaced sucked a lot, too).

So, yeah, you can't break userspace if you want Linus on your team, and systemd has broken userspace now and then.
Gotta say, I'm impressed. I just tested this in a few throttled (CPU and network) cases in Chrome and barely noticed a difference. Bravo!
You are right about questions asked in good faith. Media has gotten us used to assertions and allegations made from behind a question: Is Obama and American citizen ? Is your mother a whore ? etc etc
As a cynic, yeah it sucks, but a lot of time it develops as a defense mechanism and feels like it can be defeated with a lot of soul-searching, self-improvement, and just trying.
Humans aren't cars...? Don't use an analogy unless it has a logical basis.
> If I go to Google or Facebook and ask them to, say, turn off some key security features on their site so I can find more bugs they're gong to tell me to go take a hike.

It isn't that uncommon in bug bounty programs to get specific restrictions (say rate limiting on web apps) turned off.

When I do security audits i'll often ask for shortcuts (give me access to X machine as if I phished it, etc). These shortcuts will shave a month of the low level grunt work off so I can spend my limited time working on the core vulnerability.
In specific, obviously because Reese Witherspoon is known for being pretty. I'd also bet that "Is Bill Gates's daughter smart?" is a more popular search than "Is Reese Witherspoon's daughter smart?"
I think it's healthy to be skeptical of people claiming to be solving a more general problem than the actual problem at hand (which is a large fraction of the advice in this article). Unfortunately, a non-technical manager trying to drill down into an argument about cross-platform, generic, or framework solutions to problems is quickly going to get lost and/or piss off engineers.
He Became a Hate Crime Victim. She Became a Widow
Sure, but it also decreases mortality by reducing the risk for hundreds of diseases, including heart disease, the leading killer for over-65s. You have to balance pros/cons, obviously!
"We" should find managers that best facilitate the engineers meeting the objectives of the business, whether that person is non-technical or not. (though I tend to agree that some technical grounding is important)
They also depend less on browser quirks. Except in very extreme cases, PDFs look the same and work just as well (aside from form-filling, unfortunately) regardless of which viewer you're using.
The non-technical person above them hires them -- probably because they "speak on the same wavelength" or something.
Non-technical managers often fail to account for the Inventor's Paradox [1]. They assume more general solutions will necessarily require more resources. This is often not the case even if you ignore the resources which would be allocated to problems (solved in the general case) that you do not yet have.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventor%27s_paradox