skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I prefer the phrase philanthropy to angel investing. As I understand it philanthropy is using your own hard earned money for lost causes of one's own choosing. This is different to fundraising or giving money to charity. With a modest philanthropy budget you can change lives and be able to support others achieve their dreams. Everything can be on an individual basis with no formal framework. For instance, what happens if you pay someone's way so they can finish their degree? What is the potential return? Or, more radically, what happens if you find a homeless person a place to live? Do they get a job and return to society? These things can be found out with radical personal philanthropy. I would say there is good value in this if you do want to learn about society and the human condition. I also think that financial and time losses are an investment. This type of work where you really do invest in individuals should help anyone angel investing to have the chops to do it well.
There are a dwindling number of people who hold their nose at interactions with the bridge and tunnel crowd.
Take a look at this thread. d_ed is a KDE guy and he shines more light on the subject, sticking up for the Qt guys in the process.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6ngh2m/plasma_waylan...
Thanks for pointing out all the wasted square footage in the city. Kill the cars, use the space for more educational facilities, community gardens, and living arrangements for the homeless. Hey, and maybe look into helping the native San Franciscans instead of crying about the bad parking your POS car. That is not a problem worth fighting for.
> what the series really needs is some better writing

And production value.

I love science fiction and I love the "idea" of Doctor Who but every time I sit down and try to watch it I get really annoyed with the (in my opinion) juvenile/simplistic story lines and the poor production value, i.e. it looks very flat and VHS.

However, having said that, maybe those two things are exactly what attract other science fiction lovers to the series and it's exactly supposed to be like that..
Yes, I'm totally aware of that. I'm currently working on a slightly modified version of the code that will include CNN and hopefully better accuracy.
Bezos, Jobs and Gates may be not, but Linus might very well be kind.

He doesn't take decisions that can screw thousands of people to his profit. Whether he would if he had that power, he didn't strive to get that power, and he doesn't have it, so while we can't rule it out, we also can tell that he isn't kind with any certainty.

And surely he's not "unkind" just because he's famous or has a full mouth. That's not what kindness is about -- I know people 10 times as foul mouthed, that were real sweethearts and could give you a liver if you needed one.
No, it's not. Commercial risks of marriage that men might face are incomparable to risks of physical threat and abuse (even death) women face in society (including family and romantic engagement) on a daily basis (still along with commercial risks like wage gap). This state of affairs is obvious given stats on rape and many other disadvantages of being a woman, like lower payment and many others. Just rape and harassment stats alone are enough to safely state that women face far, far higher risks than men in general. Men do not live in constant fear that they can easily get assaulted all of a sudden in any social setting. It's not men who face several times more chances to be threatened, assaulted and killed at any age and any level of relationships just on the basis of their gender.
I really liked the interpolation stuff you could get in MPC-HC. Panning and such in anime was so much nicer.

Edit: Turns out this isn't unique to MPC-HC: https://www.svp-team.com/
Framework of the day? What world do you live in? React and redux aren't new and they're the standard for almost every frontend job I saw when I was interviewing a few months back.
This still doesn't solve the problem because there is nothing stopping you from having both immutable & non-immutable references to the same data structure. And does not enforce that there are no references hanging around when you go from immutable to mutable.

Which is precisely what Rust does.
Virtual DOM? Really?

Does anyone know what patents you are granted with the React license? Virtual DOM work that I and some colleagues did (and have patents for) pre-dates even the earliest internal Facebook experiments with the virtual DOM. We even spoke with the team at Facebook about our work well before React was even publicly released.
For context, the market cap of bitcoin is believed to be around 30 billion right now. Whereas that sounds like a lot, to a country it's chump change. Lithuania makes (way) more than that every year. (Yemen, that famously rich and peaceful state, makes about 27B a year.)

I think the TL;DR of this article is "people are really bad at understanding scale."
I too have done a similar search and generally failed. I found Leo too when looking for a new editor - it's great but somewhat tied to the outliner model IIRC?
His whole line of argument in the medications would collapse if God didn't exist. He may well have been a heretic, but that is very different from not believing in God.

The alleged reasons for thinking Descartes was an atheist basically amount to the observation that if he had have been an atheist he probably wouldn't have said that he was an atheist. That is true, but that is no reason to think that he actually was an atheist. By the same token, if he had liked eating babies for breakfast, he probably wouldn't have mentioned it in his work, but that is no reason to think that he in fact did.
I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say. The patent grant applies to Facebook's patents (if any) on the tech used in React.

> I think the patent grant applies to everything you make

Yes, if you have a patent grant from using React, it would be a defence from claims that things you have written that do not use React violate patents included in the grant.
I didn't realize those were even menus. Was looking through all the other settings menus instead. Oh well. Thank you!
I think it is time to (re)read The Final Circle of Paradise by A and B Strugatskie.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Circle_of_Paradise

Situation in US is quite close to one described there.
I've been trying to do this better recently after having some non-reproducible results. I've settled on taking all hyperparameters (including booleans like whether to use batch norm) from a global dict. Instead of commenting and uncommenting lines, I look up a key with a default value, adding the default to the dict if it wasn't there. Then I print and log the dict with the results.

I end up with a bunch of code like:

if get_param('use_convnet_for_thing1', True):
convnet1_params = get_param('convnet1_params', None)
thing1 = build_convnet(thing1_input, convnet1_params)
elif ...

By logging the hyperparameter dict, source checkpoint, and rand seed, results should be reproducible.

This works well for rapid iteration like in jupyter notebooks. For models that take days to train, you might as well use source control for your scripts.
This strikes me as not even pedantic, just misguided. Outside of high church epistemology, the opposite of reason isn't empiricism, but unreason, irrationality, or superstition. Empiricists and scientists offer reasoned arguments for their positions.
AC Transit and the SF Ferry are the best ways to cross the bay.
Ask HN: Are Chrome extensions a security risk?
>It's not about "difficulty" ... as in one takes 5 calories to type out "that's stupid" but the polite sentence takes the same effort or less.

The difficulty is in suppressing knee-jerk reactions and hardwired negative emotions, not on the energy level required.
The causality definitely runs both ways. If a company is perceived as an NBT, and that results in investors piling on, then the company is that much more likely to actually become an NBT. That's one of the reasons investors like to pile on: just because a prophecy is self-fulfilling doesn't make it any less accurate (just the opposite in fact).
please share!
Setting up a native Cisco IPsec VPN server using a Raspberry Pi
The only time I have been dissatisfied with a keyboard is when typing on other people's Macs and feeling an incredibly short travel distance.

Most cheap keyboard have enough travel that I have no real issue with them.

I have tried the many keyboards that keyboard aficionados around me have bought or built but have never really felt like they were actually better, rather than just pretentiously different.
I own a pair of AirPods, but I judge others for wearing them. Something about them just rubs me the wrong way. I feel embarrassed wearing them myself. None of this is rational and I'm not sure why I feel this way.
Council tax increases also wouldn't have much of an effect on empty properties in central London because of the band system; tax on a property in Kensington would max out at £2124.04 before surcharges, or 0.02% on a £10M house. The property tax on a comparable house in Manhattan (based on checking MLS records for listings in Chelsea and picking a $13M townhouse) would be $44 000/year.
If he was a spy, would a 10-year sentence be unjust?
Vue.js is apparently the framework of the day.

I am seriously considering making a vue.js clone and document the differences!

I need to polish up the current app first though :)
Is this not Hacker News?
This so so helpful. It would take me months to gather resources to learn this stuff and I wouldn't even know what I would be looking for. To the author: please share more content if your valuable time permits
Ask HN: Angular 1 migrating to ______.js
Have an older Angular 1 (and Redux) app and trying to figure out what framework to migrate to.

What framework would you pick and why?

I totally understand people are biased. Curious to see if I missed some of the pros and cons HN can think of. Also, I have experience with both React and Vue.
Is it really? I can't find any evidence of that. Could you link to an article or something that makes the case for his being an atheist?
That's the best policy when re-writing or fixing any legacy system. Shouldn't be surprising at all.
What lesson should this teach founders; don't discount the importance of `looking like` the NBT?
Anyone who defends Uber's behavior is shouted down. Are Uber's actions an example of necessary assholish behavior? In particular their Hell application for tracking Lyfts, which required using Lyft's APIs?

The problem with this vague advice is it leaves it to the reader to interpret what is and isn't ok. And readers are notoriously bad at this.
A more verbose title would've been useful. I shouldn't have to click through to the linked site to find out what the acronym MPC-HC means.
If your neural net config is in a relatively standalone file, or you can mark it with a special comment block, you could have your test runner actually read the source file, regex it out, and concat the source block, date, current git SHA, and performance metrics into a "neural_runs.txt" file. If something else about your data pipeline is changing as well, e.g. filter settings on your image preprocessing, you can throw that in there too.

If you check this in, then every commit will include the diff of everything you tried to get there alongside the final source file, and additionally that file will serve as a single historical record for everything you tried for all time. Asking yourself a month later "did I ever try cross entropy" is as easy as grepping the file.

Heck, you could insert into a database as well if you really wanted to, and visualize your performance changes over time a la http://isfiberreadyyet.com/ . Sky's the limit.
Well, I see it as a fantastic place to play. I look forward to digging into it myself.
That's an odd expectation to have. I would think rendering speed would stay the same or increase a bit; a lot of hand optimizations are going disappear.
" What you're describing for patents is not violating patent law"

The law says I can't reproduce what's in a patent without permission/license from the patent-holder. The law also says that your intent doesn't matter: unknowingly infringing is also a violation but with less penalties. The big players defining markets or entering mature ones file patents on as much of them as possible to maximize chance new competition will infringe on one of their claims. They also acquire companies for their patents. So, newcomers often have to violate patent law or pay some large amount to a bunch of companies just to get their product in the market if keeping it legal.

Or they just build, grab market share, and pretend patents don't exist. That's how almost all of them make it. The alternative is endlessly Googling patent databases about almost everything your business is doing in tech. I say good luck to a startup or SME trying to do that.

"You have an unusual set of ethics there."

The above advice was given to me by people who create patents for big companies. They said it's what their employers do. It's not my ethics so much as the only option that works without putting one player in a defensive, weak situation. That player still might get hit by NPE's, though. Whatever isn't deterred will involve a big payout to patent-holder or a bigger payout to lawyers that, if defense fails, results in an even bigger payout to patent holder.

"I doubt you'd find many people in the tech industry who would equate potentially infringing someone's patent to adopting source code you don't own into your product in a copyright-infringing way."

In their minds, that might be true. It wouldn't surprise me given that patent provisions aren't in a number of FOSS licenses. In legal reality, they're both a monopoly on a something that require a license to legally use. Thanks to bribery of politicians, the game is also rigged in favor of patent-holders and big incumbents most of the time.
There's tons of companies like Clinkle, where the founder literally and figuratively looked just like Zuckerberg. Looking the part doesn't guarantee success, but it often does guarantee a few huge rounds of funding, at very impressive valuations.
Great write-up. Especially the fact that half of it was about finding cleaning and structuring data! You can tell someone isn't applying ML if they aren't spending most of their time getting their data organized. It's the "sharpening the axe" part of the hour Lincoln describes.

For example, they never introduce you to how you can run the same algorithm on your own dataset

I actually think the tensorflow tutorial on CNNs actually runs through training and classification on your own set with inception pretty well.

You mention you're a CV student. Any particular area of focus?
Yes, they can be. E.g. see recent cases of extensions sending all form entries back to a server.
I thought it had to be via WhatsApp web, no?
You don't need to go over a bridge or through a tunnel to upper Manhattan from lower Manhattan
Too fancy for interaction with commoners?
You are kind of right.

My point was that even as second class citizen on .NET, F# has more tooling and available libraries than OCaml ever will on Windows.

For a long time OPAM did not support Windows, and right now cygwin or Linux subsystem still seem to be better ways than straight Win32 application support.

OCaml is quite nice on *NIX systems, on other kind of OSes not so much.
Tardigrades can eat other tardigrades. Boom, infinite life hack unlocked.
Now there are too many rules. I'll just go back to writing crap code.
The Iran traveling expert in me says: we can't tell the truth from this article. Let's say: the threat of US spies is real for Iran as too much of its history has somehow been staged or influenced by the British or the Americans. Those are not conspiracy theories, but history facts. That is why Americans attract the interest of the government there (truth be said, 99,9% of Americans traveling to Iran never have problems). It would suprise me if the US would not try to send spies there, on the other hand I also doubt that every accused spy there is indeed one.
Polish governemnt gives itself the right to transfer the copyright
Turing Award Winner Charles Bachman Has Died
No, it wasn't that. I don't see it on paulgraham.com. It was probably an HN comment.
Yet it is interesting that it is not 20 years or death penality. Sounds like an offer to talk.
Stolen!
Maybe! I didn't Google it; I searched in Overcast, but found nothing clearly relevant. Perhaps if I had the perfect podcast app...anyway, thanks! Even if this isn't the same podcast, I've always been much more fond of the Halo mythos than the actual games, and this looks like being very enjoyable.
If Bitcoin splits, what happens to altcoins?
Some coders like it hot – but most prefer colder climates
the article-writer OP claimed "There is a small cadre of people who actually have what it takes to successfully build an NBT [next big thing], and experienced investors are pretty good at recognizing them." which is hilariously and demonstrably wrong.

we already have one person chime in with a counterexample (the person you replied to) and that is a very common experience. No, experienced investors are not pretty good at recognizing them. It's hilariously wrong to claim they are.
Transfering lead data to Salesforce from Intercom and Slack by sending simple messages like "SQL" or "email@example.com to sf"

Receiving and sending documents to proofreading

I described them in details here: https://www.netguru.co/blog/automating-myself-out-of-the-job...
Nice change of focus - automating mental tasks, rather than just computer tasks.

When you don't have to spend mental energy on it, it's automated. I think that's the real benefit of Steve Jobs's standard outfit: don't have to choose, don't have to shop, just wear clothes and get on with the interesting stuff.
5G Bytes: Beamforming Explained
If it's hard to upstream code in emacs, doesn't that improve the case for a rewrite/fork?
Absolutely agree. Focus on porting the core Linux daemons so we can get C out of the business of parsing remotely provided data.
Actually the "fighting the last war” effect was the reason everyone passed on Google. Almost all the VCs (and other companies) thought the search war and been fought and won five years before. Rather than looking at Google from an unbiased viewpoint (that Google was the first to solve search), they saw it as the 17th competitor in a mature market.

I think the difference with Facebook is the network effect and that it is run by Zuckerberg. What ever failings Mark has a CEO he has one amazing strength which is a single minded focus to let no competitor to Facebook rise. As he has shown time and time again he will buy you out or outspend if you have any possibility of being a competitor.
All embedable languages should come with their own header parser/code generator to save us from the hassle of generating a bunch of class wrappers and boilerplate registration code. I think this high up in the list of concerns in a professional setting.
MPC-HC is already so fast, I doubt that claim is even true. I just double-clocked on a video file after a cold boot, the UI shows up almost instantly, and the playback starts after around a second.
> Users do not benefit from entering their workout histories and NOT hitting save

Allowing people to try out the product without requiring a signup is an extremely frequent piece of feedback here. Very appreciated.
What do you mean by BART congestion? I've been commuting for over 5 years during rush hour, and I can count on one hand the number of times I've had to wait for the next train due to overcrowding.
Looks pretty cool. I also recently developed an app to track strength training workouts. I also used React/Redux for the web app. The iOS app is native though (supports offline mode and offers Watch app) and Android is in-progress.

https://www.rikerapp.com

Good luck with your app!
No, I didn't misread it; the formula he gave was for calculating the mass of a sphere, then he calculated the mass of a sphere with a mile diameter. My point was that was the wrong conclusion to come to for finding a conversion from miles to mass: because each additional mile doesn't add the same amount of mass.

That is, he used the right formula to draw the wrong conclusion. The conclusion, which is what I quoted, is flatly incorrect for each mile beyond the first (and in fact it's only correct for the first mile, exactly, and will be wrong for any other fraction of a mile, if not corrected for using a squared factor of the radius).
Great idea. Never thought about it but why not to find the perfect place. The time will come and you'll find your space.
People warning about AI risk aren't worried about irrationally aggressive machines. On the contrary, their contention is that for a wide range of goals, there is a set of behaviours which rational agents will commonly pursue in service of those goals, and many of those behaviours may be harmful to humans as a side effect.

https://selfawaresystems.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/ai_driv...
"That's cheap for drilling from what I've been quoted. Most systems I looked at when I had a house before were in the $30k range installed.
"

Yeah, i lived near a place where wells were incredibly common, so there were plenty of well drillers.
I can believe 30k installed.
With the 30% federal tax credit that used to exist, and Maryland's 30% state tax credit, it can be worth it.
Now, without the 30% federal tax credit, it's probably only worth it on new home construction.

"I have three friends/co-workers that had the systems installed. None were particularly impressed with the average cost savings. They said bills went down, but not dramatically. One person had the whole system redone at the suggestion of another HVAC contractor (saying the first cut many corners) the re-done system wasn't much better.
"

This depends a lot on where you live, the climate, etc. Also how much you are spending on heating/cooling. You know all this.
I was in a fairly large house in a climate that seems 90+ summers and ~25-30 winters. This kinda sucks for heat pumps.
It's also the case that, as it's become more popular (relatively), there are some crappy untrained contractors looking to make a buck. I definitely did a bunch of research, and talked to a bunch of contractors before doing the system. I think out of 5-6 contractors, 1 was clearly a snake, and 1 didn't really know what they were doing based on the questions i asked. 3 could tell me intricate technical details about the systems (IE one launched into a discussion of the merits of parallel vs series vertical piping and reynolds numbers), etc.

FWIW: I've also meant plenty of happy vertical closed loop people. I haven't met any happy horizontal open or closed loop people.

That said, unlike the air based units[1], all, for example, of the waterfurnace units have detailed submittal that tell you, for a given entering water temperature, what the EER/COP will be, what the pressure drop should be, the leaving air temperature, etc.

http://www.waterfurnace.com/literature/7series/SD2700AN.pdf

Most of these things are easily amenable to sensors.
I had an arduino and a bunch of sensors that told me whether the system was performing okay.

After they first flushed the lines, they weren't sure they got everything out of it and told me to try it. So I did, and the measurements told me something was off. System worked, when cooling, water temps were raising too quickly. They ended up digging the manifold back up, and there was a rock in it (terrain is fun!)
After redoing the manifold, everything was perfect.

So i can also believe that if you aren't watching the till, you may not know if the system is doing okay. But at least, unlike most random heat pumps, i feel like I could know and track that stuff pretty well.
Overall, my system actually overperformed (which means they probably didn't need to go as deep as they did, but such is life).

[1] This data exists, it's just not usually easy to get for air source heat pumps unless you are an installer/technician.