skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nothing weird in catchy title in a blogspam article. Not even sure how this got to the frontpage.
The comments are more useful than the article (which doesn't really address the topic)
> hey are either organized for recruiting purposes or to get cheap labor (sometimes both)

yeah, i'd argue that in many cases the original meaning of the term "hack" has been co-opted by capitalism

these days i mentally find/replace "hack" with "work", for amusing but arguably far more accurate results: e.g. do i want to go along to a 24-hour workathon for the possibility to win prizes or whatever? nope.
I hate those business oriented hackathons where 90% is about the pitch. I tend to prefer ones where actual coding gets done.
It is indeed. Much faster, because of almost no setup.
You can also use Google Spreadsheets for your Sketch prototypes https://medium.com/@Fif/create-your-own-api-for-craft-data-p...
Hi HN, I have written this tool 2 years ago to speed up my downloads from Google Drive shared files. It has a basic functionality and it works but I'm willing to add different features like custom headers if people show interest.

Edit: a word
I don't think you can generalize it this way, ASTs could be compiled to fast machine code, also it really depends on the solutions the algorithms come up with. The NN is bound to its number of parameters, while the Genetic's program varies in length and can become quite small if length is part of the fitness function.
The problem with that land is that it is trapped between 101 and the Bay with only 3 already-crowded ways in and out.
Yeah, because I realized it's useless. Thankfully others seem to be doing it anyway. Or perhaps I should say sadly, knowing they're just feeding a troll.
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It would appeal to me...or to be exact, it would have appealed to a two decades younger revision of me. No more.
Every robotic task tangially related to Auditing. I work with robotic task automation at one of the big 4, and it's really amazing how much trivial work that's being done by humans.
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Maybe there's not yet good open datasets available for this kind of material?

This gives Amazon, Apple and Google a nice advantage since they are able to collect huge sample sets of actual voice commands used by people and to some extent also correlate them with the actual action taken by the person.

How could we collect such dataset? It's a bit chicken-egg problem. I don't want to talk to some open source system unless it has fairly good chance of understanding me. Should we try to half manually (through crowd sourcing) come up with potential requests like "Check news from CNN.com", "Order me quattro stagioni" which could be then fed to platform like Common Voice?

Or should we work on higher level. Come up with task descriptions ("You want to order taxi to get to airport for your morning flight at 7am") and then let people record how they would actually request this from computer with voice. This might more accurately capture the language we actually use when speaking. Through some simple automation you could generate variations of the requests and at least partly the same base material could be used for different languages (task given in English, ask person to make the request in Finnish).
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let's be all accepting :)
"...but for some specific inputs it literally sets the device on fire."

That would be something fun to show.
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Yeah, that is why i don't attend. There is always a motive from a company behind it.. If i just wanna screw around with code it's better to do that from home, with friends, or on lan's imho.
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Property tax can go up 2% per year. Inflation has been below that for many years.
> micromort

Today I learned this.
There is this website, donorschoose.org, that allows you to donate to schools within the United States. Teachers are able to post projects that are open to funding - art supplies, music, books, etc - and their projects would be posted in a public space and open to funding from individuals or organizations.

Donors Choose also has an API that one can use to programmatically list projects. I paired that API with Zapier to notify me about projects that I cared about - namely, classrooms that were filled with lower income students who had trouble getting fed at home.

Now I get a notification whenever a new project is created that fits the profile of what I want to donate to. Doing the same with IFTTT, from what I can tell, is kind of impossible. I looked into writing a shim API that would enable that type of notification but I couldn't get keys for the IFTTT service.

I dunno. Zapier seemed to offer better functionality and I didn't even have to pay for it.
I wouldn't say it's exactly what they do. First of all, you end up reading the news through Blendle, where you have to see all kinds of news you don't want to see (in particular giving Blendle the opportunity to become a gigantic tracker); then (it's only available in a few countries so far) by far not all big publishers are on board, and finally it's not transparent how much of what you pay on Blendle makes it back to the original newspaper.

edit: Having to go through the Blendle site also means if you're looking at an article on wsj.com from a few months ago you won't be able to jump to the Blendle version to the best of my knowledge. Archives aren't Blendle's thing.

edit: Basically, I'd like to say: Don't sign up for Blendle.
I agree. In USA you are looking at 34,000 deaths a year on the roads. I'm a diver (not caves though) but my closest shaves have been while commuting! Cycling to work is probably more dangerous than cave diving.
Documentation Utilities (aka Docutils): http://docutils.sourceforge.net/. Allows reStructuredText markup, programming of custom "roles" and "directives", HTML and PDF creation

Sphinx Doc: http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/. Builds on top of Docutils. Allows API documentation (http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/ext/autodoc.html) and cross-documentation linking via intersphinx (http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/ext/intersphinx.html). epub, PDF, and html output.

I've created mini technical manuals at previous workplaces using sphinx.

More clickables:

For graphs, grab aafig: https://pythonhosted.org/sphinxcontrib-aafig/ or graphviz http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/ext/graphviz.html

For enhanced python documentation (numpy and google style api docs) http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/ext/napoleon.html

For creating your own API docs outside of python use sphinx "domains" (http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/domains.html):

- HTTP: https://github.com/deceze/Sphinx-HTTP-domain

- .NET: https://github.com/rtfd/sphinxcontrib-dotnetdomain

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- Scala: https://pythonhosted.org/sphinxcontrib-scaladomain/

- golang: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinxcontrib-golangdomain
A Paywall Extension, hmmm? What if it were part of a dev tool bundle?

It's arguably unfair that users of Facebook and Twitter and other social media sites should have access to more content than someone who has decided not to use those platforms.
Is cheap labour really a consideration? Are companies seriously basing products off code written at hackathons?
Depending on the skill, "all the business crap" is usually minimal, and millions of freelancers have no problems do it.

The business side is only a hassle at scale, at which case, you can afford to hire some assistants.
Also, in Sydney, quite a few of these make you sign away the rights to the end result in exchange for the prize. (Free publicity and you can work on it further for funding as a contractor). Imagine if you actually had a good idea and you came to one to colaborate and ended up losing your rights to your own idea.
Well, you are just piling on more unfortunate choices of words. You are accusing him of dishonesty ("then only gave credit"), and laziness; your "95% the same" comment implies that you think of a language only at the syntax level.

That "5%" of F# that you imply is different from OCaml involved redoing the entire .NET framework, getting generics into it.

For example, look at the early papers (from 2001) on "ILX: Extending the .NET Common IL for Functional Language Interoperability", they considered Haskell, OCaml and ML. The compiler was written in Haskell. Or "Transposing F to C#: Expressivity of parametric polymorphism in an object-oriented language".

See Don Syme's talk on F# (https://www.infoq.com/presentations/F-Sharp-History-Today-To...).
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I build developer tools, and so hackathons are a useful way to evaluate various assumptions about the toolchain: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/msgflo-noflo-in-hackathons/

That said, I hate the "build a fake startup during a weekend" concept that pretty much all hackathons here in Berlin follow. And since the judges are typically 100% non-technical, the best powerpoints win, without consideration of what actually got done.
Hackathons are a professional embarrassment.

Developers get all excited about coding overnight, but in reality they're being taken advantage of - what other industry do we see this in? You don't ask a lawyer to stay up all night eating pizza and churn out a bunch of legal documents. Why? Because they'd tell you where to go.

"Non-technical" people see a neat demo coming out of a 24 hour hackathon and wonder why it takes their company's developers 6 months and 300k to build an app for them. The expectations this sets (that developers work for free, all night, without any quality or discipline) are not acceptable.
Why the downvote? Am I not allow to link to a book that shows fact has caught up with fiction?
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Seriously. A solid powerpoint presentation is all you need to win in those ones.
>That is: "work", nonetheless.

If we contrast it with sitting at home or at some beach drinking Daiquiris (which is still a huge part of his time), then yes.

If we contrast it with what is actually work, stressful hard work, then no.
I'm in the second group. No interest in doing a hackathon. Also I really like the thinking part and take my time when I can. My work is maybe 15% coding and a lot of other things. I do code for fun at home.

Also I'm kind of a solitary person.
The speedup from traditional MPLS already comes from the simple next-hop only lookup required by the router. There's no complicated decision making going on. Something central still manages the labels, that's the complexity but that's not new either.

Google still buy and use a ton of traditional mega (tera) high bandwidth networking gear. All of which will support regular label switching. But that doesn't sound cool and exciting so they always play that down. They can spin it that way if they like, network hardware vendors don't care because they are still selling them their boxes.
This 100 times. I have raised eyebrows before by declining to participate in a company hackaton or by saying I don't go to hackatons during a job interview.

Somehow saying that is a red flag although I gave them rational reasons:

- I have my own open source projects I would like to contribute to in my free time outside of work

- I am definitely not coming to a co-working space over the weekend (so losing my two days off when I could spend it with friends or doing my hobbies or just relaxing after week of work), work for free and eat unhealthy pizza and soda drinks so even my health suffers

Some companies will be shocked to hear this opinion.
I have to say I'm a bit surprised he moved to Colombia. My aunt lived through her teenage years in Colombia, and even though she has family there she absolutely refuses to go visit because of how horrible it was.

I'm sure it's changed since she lived there, but it's not like she's been isolated from the country's happenings the last 30-some years. (I mean, she has family and friends she can call or message.)
That's a very good insight! We treat spreadsheet more like a database with a schema. What you propose is a schema-less approach. I like this idea, and I think we will try to implement it, as we see that in such solutions schema is needless and is adding more complexity for the end user, which, in most cases, don't care if there is any schema or not - she is just a spreadsheets user.

From the other hand, it's hard to map JSON to a spreadsheet, because - what to do with the nested keys. Any ideas?
That's a good comment, and yes, SVM are very powerful in itself, they might not be "deep learning" but they're more powerful than linear learning and good for a lot of cases (as a last layer, as you mentioned, it's a good use case)

Yes, we'll have GAs building CNN architectures, or a mix of several techniques, I'm enthusiastic for what the future holds
Yes, also I'd highly prefer a universal solution by a big company like Google (who already tracks everything anyway, but can be trusted to a high degree).
The terminology is a bit confusing. They are saying that they want to build voice recognition but it seems like they actually might want to build a speech recognition engine. Speech recognition is about recognizing the speech, the spoken words. Voice recognition is about recognizing the speakers voice, i.e. identifying the speaker. Also, maybe they also want to build a text-to-speech (TTS) system but I'm not sure.

No matter what, the collected data might be useful for all of that, maybe except of voice recognition actually, because I guess the data will be collected anonymously?

Note that there are some other existing big open speech corpora such as LibriSpeech (http://www.openslr.org/12/) which could already be used right now to build a quite good speech recognition system.
> You don't ask a lawyer to stay up all night eating pizza and churn out a bunch of legal documents. Why? Because they'd tell you where to go.

That's precisely incorrect.
You can actually just do this:

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Since I had kids, I haven't gone climbing natural rock. I still go to climbing gyms (mostly to boulder these days, for unrelated reasons), but not outside.

I've discovered that I now get too fearful while climbing, too scared something bad might happen and I'd leave my children without me in the world.

It breaks my concentration, makes my actions erratic, and most crucially, makes me not enjoy it.

Who knows how I'll feel once they're older, but I suspect it won't ever change back. And that's OK.
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> enterprise companies with a large dataset

If you want to do it properly it will most likely take around 6 months.
Thanks, I'm familiar with Kaggle and how most of the time a Random Forest (or XGBoost, or something like Vowpal Wabbit) will solve your problem
kOS sounds like a dream. I'd love more info on it. Related HN link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8475809
They don't base products off them but it is useful as quick prototyping / hacking together some minimalistic MVPs. Outside of hackaton they would have to actually pay developers to do this sort of prototyping / hacking work but they can get it for free in hackatons.

It's obviously not a major thing but it still irks me, especially when hackatons are over the weekend when you would normally charge double of normal rate for overtime if it was a part of normal work and you agreed to do it for some reason (meeting deadline etc).
The fallacy there is glorifying consciousness. Full consciousness as in omniscence is an unachievable ideal. If we prescribe consciousness to ourselves, depending on the individual theory of conscious thought, that's likely faulty in some respect already.
I'm not sure what's most offensive between the paper mask and the URL using backslashes.
> Well it's not like there's any option to deny them. You can only not install the app, unless the app chooses to build for the Android 6 permission system.

On Android 6 or newer you can always deny permissions, even if the app targets older Androids. (Settings -> Apps -> <app> -> Permissions).
I haven't had a single problem with it.
And at least recommend another front end then, because straight MPV is a horrible user experience.
there is also this paper: http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/steal.pdf which also describes something similar.
> If Party B is charging too much for the loan, surely another "greedy" party will undercut them and offer better terms to Party A.

You are assuming perfect competition in the area of loans to nation-states: this is certainly not the case. There are only a handful of lenders playing at this level, and they are mostly driven by politics, not profit.
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I don't think we'll see a deep svm, but if we see one I think we'll have something very powerful

Same for a deep decision tree (forest?). Or maybe a combination of several techniques, etc
Only if the adversarial image printed doesn't look like the stop sign, though the example in this article shows that it's entirely possible to make an image that just looks like a distorted/badly-printed kitten to a human but completely different to a computer. A similar image for a stop sign might just look like wear in the paint or weird reflections or something but still look like a stop sign to a human.
IPFS+Ethereum = incentive. Please do not be so flippant to reject something until you've grok'ed it sufficiently well enough to argue against it. If you have looked at IPFS+Ethereum and found it wanting, I'd love to know what exactly - because from my perspective this is precisely the kind of technology that delivers your stated requirements.
They can start a Patreon instead if they need support, instead of closing their site to the ones who pay only.
The lawyer will charge you a hefty hourly rate for overnight work (couple hundred per hour) while developers will get free pizza and beer / soda drinks. So it's exploitation in this way. I wonder how many companies would do hackatons if they have to pay their devs overtime rates for their participation.
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It is there. https://tio.run/#cpp-gcc
Nice. Being able to squat or deadlift your bodyweight and more is definitely a good sign.
It does, but the algorithm doesn't seems to be state-of-the-art, it's more like current ML algorithms, which need lots of data to work successfully in each new domain. Well, there's a lot of improvement possibilities, at least.
Same situation in Melbourne. Heck even the proper hackathons are selling out now.
In respect to value, at least, bio/organic (real, not just misleading labeling) is suppose to be free of pesticides, and that's actually a good thing... I'm sure.

Regardless, I don't think even the WHO suggests there's a preference to organic food, but clearly indicates the danger of food contaminated with pesticides.

Even if most pesticides are now forbidden in most developed countries, we can see that in the USA legislation and regulation is being again "relaxed", which is not a good thing.
> I see a hackathon as literally all the worst things about software development compressed in to a single event - practically no planning, very little testing, zero documentation

On the bright side, sometimes this is exactly what's needed. I've seen a hackathon which produced, among other things, a simple technology demo that wasn't meant to see any serious use, but if the company were to develop it normally it would have taken a week or two of planning, bikeshedding and review.

Some people just need alcohol to get over their ideals getting in the way, apparently ;)
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Anyone got an insight into how well this is going? Compared to when the company was active, how fast is progress? Would you bet on Rethink in this day and age?
I really like "your.bank"

I wonder how many people would believe that works.
Companies want to pay the lowest salary for the best worker.

Companies think women are not as good workers as men.

That is why men are still hired.
The some of the shit that goes to prod man.
The obvious answer is that "non-profit" doesn't have a meaningful definition outside of the tax code. "Profit" is an accounting trick, for one, so any "excess money" (the commonly-understood meaning of "profit") can easily be funneled into grants, administrator salaries, larger workforces to satisfy administrators' urge to play primate dominance games, etc.

Another one is that "non-profits" (in the tax-code sense) are actually allowed to make a profit (both in the accountants' sense of the word, and the ordinary sense). Hospital systems, for example, often make huge profits, while hiding behind a non-profit status that they've inherited from the bunch of actually-charitable nuns who started running the hospital 150 years ago.
I think we're still very far from peak tracking if there is such a thing. Imagine I know all the books you've bought within the last 10 years, how scary is that? Certainly a bit scary if I know the shopping habits of millions of customers to which I can then relate you and (maybe because they've filled out surveys that you haven't?) learn the approximate income of your household (so that maybe I'll start showing you higher prices?).

It gets quite a bit scarier if I have the computing power and access to the full texts of all those books (like Amazon and Google Books do) to search for patterns in those texts that tell me about your fears, political affiliation, sexual desires, etc.

edit: I'm not sure what you mean by trusting Google. I trust Google to get the technical side of things right.
I've definitely "grok'ed" it.

Which is why I find Swarm a better solution. It is literally IPFS+Ethereum with additional support for ENS lookups, deniable storage, redundant storage, etc. This allows for far better privacy and being able to compensate the loss of parts of the file, both features lacking in IPFS itself.

The current swarm testnet performs, as per my experience, better than IPFS in terms of bandwidth and latency.

http://swarm-gateways.net/bzz:/theswarm.eth/
> Speech recognition is about recognizing the speech, the spoken words. Voice recognition is about recognizing the speakers voice, i.e. identifying the speaker.

Perhaps they want to do both eventually (?) That could explain the name.
Partly time, but also it's much more difficult to get "something that works" in Rust than it is in C++ due to the borrow checker.

Of course your C++ code will probably not be as safe as your Rust code, but many people don't care about that.
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Well, the accrual of "useless code" (there's a name for this that I forgot") is a known problem, but it is also something that stabilizes the learning process

I don't think it's as simple as putting the length of the AST in the goal function (but it's something interesting to try).

Depending on compile speed vs running speed you might be better off interpreting your ASTs
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