skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We just recently ended a war that was started because of that sort of thinking. It even involved that same government agency. You might even say we are still dealing with the horrific aftermath from that war, caused by that same sort of thinking, done by that same group of people...
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I'm a dev and I still run Mavericks. For a while I have felt like Apple's software is getting worse and worse, so I haven't updated. I don't use Safari though, so my browser is modern (the new Firefox actually).
> Notably, having been an entrepreneur puts you in one of those gaps.

Do you mind expanding? Is this something to do with having been ‘unemployed’ while working on your company?
I'd argue that the next problem to attack is manipulation in unstructured environments. Robots suck at that. There's been amazingly little progress in the last 40 years. DARPA had a manipulation project and the DARPA humanoid challenge a few years ago, and they got as far as key-in-lock and throwing a switch. Amazon is still trying to get general bin-picking to work. Nobody has fully automatic sewing that works well, except the people who starch the fabric and make it temporarily rigid. Willow Garage got towel-folding to work, but general laundry folding was beyond them. This is embarrassing.

Many of the mammals can do this, down to the squirrel level. It doesn't take human-level AI. There are rodents with peanut-size brains that can do it.

It's a well-defined problem, measuring success is easy, it doesn't take that much hardware, and has a clear payoff. We just have no clue how to do it.
Normally the company, from its inception, exists to serve its employees—i.e. the founders. It might then not be in the best interests of those employees to hire more employees under terms that share large amounts of profit with them, if they could get close to the same talent while offering considerably less.
I thought Firefox OS could've found a niche on low-end phones. There's still nothing fundamentally wrong with a phone OS that uses web technologies for its UI, Mozilla wasn't even the first to try it (the Palm Pre got there first). Also, there are tons of phone apps that are just websites in an application wrapper, so it's not like they had to start from scratch to build up their app ecosystem. Lastly, whilst Mozilla has stopped funding it, a fork of it lives on as a smart TV OS for a major TV manufacturer, so it did find a niche, just not the intended one.
Hah! Just read https://www.thespainreport.com/articles/1166-170929190146-go...

"The app, available on Google Play until just before 7 p.m. on Friday, helps people to find their polling station via their address"

I downloaded and checked the app (I'm in the UK and I can).

I don't speak the language, but with a few google translate checks it seems clear that it asks for an address and gives you a polling station. No Id, no DOB needed.

So was it really necessary to release a DB of voters personal information?
Came here to say the same thing.

You get the benefit of bi-directional streaming for free as well as the ability to generate clients in a dozen or so languages should you come to your senses and move off of Java :-P
Same for phoenix. This is nonsense.
I like the whole cartridge idea and that would surely help get the human component out of the whole thing.

If this were to happen I would imagine it to not be a capsule, but simply entire rows of chairs.

The main killer would still be the whole transit between the harbor and the rocket, but this could probably shave about half an hour.
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In US, it is broadly legal to say anything that starts with "I believe that ...".

In those other countries, not so much. For example, uttering "I believe that there was no Holocaust" in public.
I agree with your first paragraph. The US has very entrepreneurial may generous bankruptcy law. That’s relevant here too.
The SEC is more concerned with actual economic outcomes rather than ticking off boxes on a requirements checklist. If the ICO community is willing to do a good job self-regulating, then the SEC might decide to be more hands-off. If there's rampant fraudulent behavior going on then they're going to step in.

I honestly think this is a good thing. Most people's (understandable) knee-jerk reaction to big regulatory bodies is to roll their eyes and get pissed at the cost of government interference, but these two fraudulent ICOs is a fine reminder of why we have bodies like the SEC, and of how completely screwed over investors could be without them.
I really appreciate that they tried phoneOS, It was very disappointed that it didn't work out.
Comment from another Reddit sub: "Thank you. Someone finally gets it. People simply do not realize that NEO can simply change the contract price to reflect whatever they need it to reflect. I remember mentioning this awhile ago that it made no sense to invest in gas. But oh well."
It was not an absolute monarchy, that's the point. There was a balance of power between the king, the church and the nobility. A comparison with the current statute autonomy seems difficult since it was an entirely different form of government.
>"an observer" includes basically anything interacting with an otherwise closed system, not just a thinking creature.

Isn't that a bit of a philosophical debate? It could be that things are only "observed" when their cone of causality reaches a thinking creature. I thought that was half the point of the tree question in the first place.
I have been in hiring meetings where lack of social media presence in a candidate was a disqualifier for the HR types.
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Wave was amazing!
Anti-monopoly laws = less government intervention?
I'm sorry you're going through this. No one understands any of it unless they experienced it themselves, and it's normal for friends not to really get it at first.

It gets better though. To the point where eventually you'll look back and wonder how the hell you gave this person even a moment of your life. But time alone won't fix it.

It's hard at first, but try to go easy on the alcohol, even when the pain seems unbearable. "You got to feel it to heal it." Don't know where this came from originally, and it sounds hokey, but it's so true.

Find a good therapist, ideally one familiar with the devastation that Cluster B personality disorders cause, but NOT someone that treats them. This is super important. There are a surprising number of PD apologists and therapists who suffer from a PD themselves out there. Find someone that recognizes the abuse you suffered and is supportive and encouraging.

And finally, cut this emotional vampire out of your life completely. 100% no contact. Every letter, email, voice mail, text, etc. straight to the trash. You will never, ever, ever get closure from her. The fantasy you have of that moment when she realizes that she was wrong and that you truly loved her, that she threw away the best relationship she'll ever have, where she tells you what she was thinking when she did all of these things, and she finally hears what you've been saying in a million different ways as things started to unravel...it's truly a fantasy, just like the relationship, and just like she was. She is a young child in the body of an adult. She has nothing to offer that can help you to heal. That's got to come from inside you.

And while you're working through all the emotional shit from your ex, take some time to consider other people in your life. People who wind up in abusive relationships usually have an issue with boundaries and this attracts others just as fucked up as the first PD individual that caused all this turmoil in the first place. Think about how others make you feel and trust your gut. If you feel on edge around someone all the time, listen to this feeling.

Good luck, man. You can totally do this. Sending positive thoughts your way :)
Somebody would have to empty it. Having someone handle my waste would bother me. I suppose some folks would think that is a benefit. "Yay! I am making poors deal with my poop!"
This is somewhat practical for neural networks. For example, instead of minimizing the loss function, why not tweak the input to maximize a neuron’s activation? Or with a CNN, maximize the sum of a kernel’s channel? This would tell us what the neuron corresponds with. This is what Google did with DeepDream.

An explanation/tutorial, with clean images of the process: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/r0.10/tensorfl...

Google’s investigation of it’s GoogLeNet architecture: http://storage.googleapis.com/deepdream/visualz/tensorflow_i...

Now, I say somewhat because results can be visually confusing, ex Google’s analysis. Even then, we can see the progression of layer complexity as we go deeper into ImageNet. Plus, we can see mixed4b_5x5_bottleneck_pre_relu has kernels that seem to correspond with noses and eyes. mixed_4d_5x5_pre_relu has a kernel that seems to correspond with cat faces.
The developer kit lets you run anything you want. How do you think apps get written in the first place? Rooting Android phones may be more commonplace sure, but claiming Apple gives "no such option" is disingenuous.
That's something for people to decide for themselves, though.

I mean, by the same argument, why not let someone annex Spain? If bigger is better...
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And strengthening the stranglehold of copyright holders, doesn't help them ruin lives in a similar way through court systems?
Possibly, but decreasing the flight time still won't take much out of the equation that would make it a net win against normal aircrafts.

That's not saying there is no market for something like this, but for anything but the longest flights it's going to be a very specific kind of customer.
In that case, ideally you could still be as united as you need to be under the umbrella of the European Union.
When does it do that? Scrolled down and interacted with the whole page, no sounds for me.
It seems like U2F fits most of your criteria: open and free, standardized and easy to implement, foils phishing, etc. It can't be easily cloned though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_2nd_Factor
Right but to extend the bridge analogy what's interesting isn't the materials (neural nets) as such but the structure and why that structure works.
If you are in CA and make under $16k as a single person you also get free healthcare and qualify for other social assistance programs
This is definitely a valid consideration. Perhaps they are replacing "2fa recovery codes" with a backup U2F key.
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0) nonconstant. Yes, for most cases the floating point nonlinearities map x => x, so it is not a constant.

1) bounded. Yes, the nonlinearites are bounded by the range of the FP.

2) monotonically-increasing. Yes. Consider a + b, where fp(a + b) < a + b, in other words, it's been rounded down. examine fp(a + (b - db)), cannot be rounded up to a number higher than fp(a + b), so the the floating point rounding functional fp must be monotonic for the operation +, a similar argument applies for multiply, and thus for any linear function.

3) continuous function. No. Well, you can't win at everything, no computer representation can be truly continuous, but it's reasonable approximation of the approximation theory, otherwise ML on computers in general would be hopeless.
see Scottish nationalism

The original terms of the Union - England paying off Scotland's debts - and in modern times the Barnett Formula, the West Lothian question, the Blair/Brown government, show that far from the shrill claims of the SNP Scotland has done and continues to do very, very well from being in the UK - far better than England does in fact.
Probably works best when combined with other pavlovian employee management tools:

https://goo.gl/f9iNVN

And of course, there may be complaints. Luckily that too can be solved by management innovations !

https://goo.gl/wrKDke
That would define reality as thought.
Fraud is more about whether you were lied to not whether a product could be lied about.
If you're fired for cause, they deny unemployment benefits.

You can't just stop doing your job, show up drunk, and yell obscenities at your boss all day. Well, you can, but you probably won't get unemployment benefits.
So the satellite was rebroadcasting the signal at a frequency where it could interfere with GSM? Does the satellite just rebroadcast whatever it receives, verbatim?
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Yep, I like that. I think its also the way to work on a side project, so doubly relevant in my case!
Yes, really, because the alternative is abandoning all reason and believing a hostile pariah state.
That is a good way to think about it. I am really encourage by new non-sequential architectures, multiple input and output channels, etc., and how these architectures can be expressed in functional Keras. It seems like building with something like functional composition is another paradigm shift. BTW, thanks for your writing, especially about RNNs: really useful when the ordering of sequential data is important. I use what I have learned from reading your blogs and papers literally every day at work.
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Hi,
Working on a feature to improve dev teams productivity. The goal is to identify which commit broke each test. will be happy to hear your process/thoughts.
Micro-services => we'd love to get there, but the code base is still not ready for that
Feature-branches => facing issues when the branches integrate to the master branch.

What we have done so far is described in this video : https://youtu.be/c4GjYByW3-M
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DMT is a psychedelic drug. The essay doesn't explain DMT, perhaps because it's an illegal drug and they didn't want to be accused of promoting it, who knows. It's funny because they try to explain the psychedelic experience with mathematical constructs.
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Did benchmarks on an i7-MBPr (4 cores @2.7Ghz) and an iPhone 7. I'm aware that JetStream and SunSpider aren't about the CSS and rendering but I was curious:

Chrome FFNightly Safari Safari
OSX OSX OSX iOS
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MotionMark(↑) 348.82 190.23 474.55 295.12
JetStream (↑) 166.84 173.96 239.03 171.27
Sunspider (↓) 225.2ms 178.4ms 115.2ms 198.5ms

I was surprised about FFNightly's MotionMark result, so I did a second run which again returned a low score of 182.79. Maybe some could double-check and test this too.
It's capped at a low level, it's not 70-80% for a typical programmer salary. I think I would get like 35% of what I earn.
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Line-rating 100g DC networking is close to plug and play today with Chelsio's zero copy stuff inside a LAN/MAN. Single digit CPU util.

The needs of long haul TCP are a bit harder. Check out the TCP RACK RFC and packet pacing to get an idea of how many timers you have firing off. Also HTTP and TLS vs block protos. Netflix numbers are very impressive with all that in light.
To conclude all

- Magnetic-USB-C OR Magsafe power connector on both sides

- Remove touch bar

- A lot more battery life, even if the MBP is a little more thicker

- A cutting edge silicon lottery intel processor, ideally Xeon

- Face ID

- Super Retina OLED Display

- Inverted T cursor block (arrow keys)

- A powerful GPU

- Multi-boot support for Linux also

- At least 32GB Ram

- Fast charging

People like us makes a living out of these machines. We are not here to "getting used to" all the shit Apple produces.
Uber employees, or people who work for uber?
Could this be generalized to work across frameworks with e.g. https://github.com/prerender/prerender?
Small aside: its/it's and similar mistakes are more common for native English speakers.
Seriously, when we talk so much about the Web's portability, why is a major feature from a major website not even working on identically on the two biggest browsers? Since it's Facebook we can't accuse them of browser favouritism as they're browser neutral. I wonder what APIs are missing from Firefox that makes FB Live Video broken?
Hardware supported TSO and LRO are on by default for any worthwhile NIC in FreeBSD
He was doing the right things to hold power, not the right things for society.
"Lastly, we require complete control over all aspects of our Wi-Fi router."

Perhaps this is something users of Apple's WiFi-only/Ethernet-deficient devices might want.

He provides a useful hint on how to construct a router that allows complete control, utilizing a general purpose computer and two AR9271-driven USB WiFi adapters.

AFAIK this driver is available for both Linux and BSD.

"In my own lab setup, the role of the Wi-Fi router is fulfilled by my ThinkPad laptop, running Ubuntu 16.04. I've connected two SoftMAC TL-WN722N dongles, one for each interface (internal and external). The internal network's access-point is broadcast using hostapd, and the external interface connects to the internet using wpa_supplicant."

"Note that it's imperative that the dongle used to broadcast the internal network's access-point is a SoftMAC device (and not FullMAC) -- this will ensure that the MLME and MAC layers are processed by the host's software (i.e., by the Linux Kernel and hostapd), allowing us to easily control the data transmitted over those layers."
Now that was some debugging! Especially liked the part where they grabbed an old GSM to decode the signal. KISS at its best
If I could have invested in half the tech things I've seen which I thought were bloody stupid ideas, I'd be a rich man.
Well, that is cool and not what I would expect. That said, for practical applications make training easier using leaky-relu, tanh, etc. activation functions.
There's a reason that phone contracts are the length they are. ;)
Warning: you shouldn't be too quick to extrapolate anything about general attitudes in quantum foundations towards various interpretations from this "snapshot" poll. There exist at least two other polls I know of with very different results[0,1]. Interesting quote from one of the abstracts:

> the results do strongly suggest several interesting cultural facts -- for example, that there exist, within the broad field of "quantum foundations", sub-communities with quite different views, and that (relatedly) there is probably even significantly more controversy about several fundamental issues than the already-significant amount revealed in the earlier poll.

Matt Leifer has a quantum foundations blog, and is one of the most impartial voices that I know of. He has written up his opinion on these "snapshots" [2], making the
amusingly astute observation

> What we can conclude from this is that people who went to a meeting
organized by Zeilinger are likely to have views similar to Zeilinger.

[0] arXiv:1303.2719

[1] arXiv:1306.4646

[2] http://mattleifer.info/tag/survey/
Althought crypto is not hard to beat, specially knowing some user data, that is not also an issue.

The only information you would get by knowing some of that data is where somebody is supposed to vote. An information you can already infer from the Zip code. There are, at most, four possible voting sites for each zip code. In some (several) small/medium villages there is only one voting site, so, not to much to learn from decrypting.

Besides, the census (voting places) information is usually (in normal elections), placed (via paper printed listings) on voting places. And there there is more information (full name, for example).
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What do people who post these minimal ‘read this’ comments think people will do? Run out and read the book on a whim? If it’s good, at least say why you might think it’s relevant.
When you pass, say, $100k/m, in OpEx be it cloud, colo, whatever it's time to start thinking about this. I'd say the problem is the exact opposite: many top tech businesses have done an abysmal shareholder value thing by ignoring cloud/server sprawl.. tech leadership deficit.
Ethereum was an ICO too. Perhaps the SEC will be visiting Vitalik soon...
Wait, isn't that completely obvious? As a kid I used to seek them out precisely for the thrill of feeling my brain being tricked. Nobody needs to be told why MC Escher drawings are fun to look at.
Apparently the flag in the image posted was Photoshoped. The Spanish flag in 1714 was white, both for Habsburgs and Bourbons. Looks like flag revisionism to me.
I can tell the difference in daily usage, where I would have to restart Chrome every day or two on Linux because of excessive RAM usage (I do keep a lot of tabs open, and simultaneously run IntelliJ IDEA among other JVM programs/docker containers), and I don't have to with FF 54/55+ anymore. Each tab in a new process became the default in 54/55 as long as all of your extensions are updated. I haven't looked back since.

I have tried switching away at points before this, and something would bring me back to Chrome/Chromium, but not this time.
So you read the entire description of a video before watching it and remember every word of it, including timestamps with comments to note corrections, even when there's 10 of them for a half hour video?
Unless I'm not getting what you're saying, they did. Employers, in the US at least, started including health insurance during WWII. Because of the government needing to exert some control on the effective labor force, they government set a maximum amount a company could pay.

Because of this, companies needed to find additional benefits, non-monetary, to give to employees, both to keep and attract employees. So, they started to offer medical insurance.

Well, it stuck and medical insurance has been tied to employment ever since. But, that incentive has long-since been removed from the books and employers can now happily pay as much as they can afford.

As for other incentives, I don't know of any incentives offered to employers that offer insurance, at least until recently. The current incentive is a fine, if they are meet the criteria and don't offer insurance.

Other than that, a perverse incentive that does exactly opposite of what you're asking, there is nothing else. I suppose you could be referring to the employer not being taxed on money spent on insuring their employes, but taxes are based on profits and the personnel expenses are not on that side of the ledger. There's no incentive, the money just isn't taxed because we tax profit, not revenue.
Yes there are still lots of people trying to take Hinton and other's old approach and rediscovering the many ways it lacks for general intelligence. However, it is also the case that people are making a shitton of progress in overcoming those problems, both while keeping some of those old DL assumptions and by discarding many of them.

The pessimistic articles never seem to be aware of research like these: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00796 and https://hackernoon.com/feynman-machine-a-new-approach-for-co... .
Because was a legal referendum from the UK government, it's very different with the Catalonia referendum
You could also say that tbey are applying the existing law...
There is a quarantine period of a couple of months if you quit. You have to be looking for a job, which means submitting reports of what jobs you have applied for to the job exchange. There are quite severe restrictions on what you can do while on unemployment, but if you want to do a startup there is likely some program that allows you to get the money and do that.
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Python with PyGame !

I think that Python language when used with PyGame is even more fun for beginning programmers than QBasic was. With PyGame you can get some pretty nifty graphics working quickly and also sound, music, etc. It is easy to write simple games with it too. For more older students it is easy to experiment with various physics problems.