skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or the scene in Iron Man 3 where his (privately-owned) autonomous drone-suits bludgeon a bunch of rogue veterans to death on a boat.
In USA those networks were built largely by government granted monopolies to right of way
"One should not need to have much experience in any particular language to read and understand what a particular piece of code is doing."

I'm not sure I agree with this. I think every effort should be made to keep your code readable to others with similar knowledge. However, I don't think you need to make everything readable by a junior level coder.

Maybe a decent analogy is that not all books target a 4th grade reading level. The varience of information density isn't just about saving time for those that understand it, but also for keeping you interested (or disinterested if you aren't ready for it yet). For example, reading young adult fiction in your 30s usually wouldn't keep you engrossed.
You’re definitely right on the uselessness of the self promotion part being a turn off I.e. “We’re the world leader in blovation software.” (That also goes for the recruitment firms adding a paragraph at the bottom of the job ad about how long they’ve been in business, etc.)

[Edited] I had posted some some suggestions for making the job ads more attractive but then I realized, as a recruiter, you can’t really change the negative aspects of your client company’s culture. The tips I had written would simply allow you to change your clients “messaging” to hide their negative “tells”. Letting you know those “tells” would be a disservice the to my fellow developers so I deleted my comments. I hope you understand.
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Compiling on demand is cool, but why is it needed?
They are testing 280 characters but not all accounts have that new ability yet.
Couldn't this same reasoning be used to argue that we don't need for loops or functions because we have GOTOs? Boilerplate is tedious and error-prone to write and to read/understand in my experience.
i think it was all done by Skynet.
Helps to cover up any negligant details that can hinder progress.
Search doesn't work - for instance enter "Utah" or New Mexico and it either cannot find anything or return jobs in Switzerland.

A smarter search for catching states, zip codes, or cities would be greatly beneficial
I've been holding of targeting UWP, until proper F# support.

I have experience with plenty of languages and technologies, including C, C++, Rust, Scala, OCaml, Haskell, Clojure, Elm, Idris, WinForms, WPF, DirectX and dabbled with Silverlight. Migrating from WPF or Silverlight towards UWP shouldn't be a problem.

F# has been my favorite language since 2008, but the hostile anti-UWP, anti-Windows community, compounded with the lack of abstraction features such as ML functors, higher-kinded types, type-classes and terrible modern Windows client support, are driving me away from it.

UWP is pretty mature now and all modern default 1st party Windows apps and critical UI components such as start menu, action center and settings rely on it, and more is being migrated towards it all the time, there is no sign of UWP going away anytime soon.
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Star Wars is science fantasy in the style of old 1930's pulp serials and stories like the Lensman series or Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars books... which still makes it a subset of science fiction, if not necessarily by modern standards.
A great real-world example is the Russian Federation's program of new and improved military aircraft produced by several suppliers. Westerners constantly vastly underestimate the capabilities of Russia. Probably because Russians are smart enough to encourage this kind of thinking.

But when you look at the history of Russia who went from an agricultural peasant nation in 1917 to the WWII powerhouse that beat the Nazis in 1944, followed by an encore in rebuilding their country to the point where they had the first TV network in 1950, first space satellite, first man in space, detonated a hydrogen bomb only 10 months after the USA, you can see that these people are not dummies.

After decades of studying the Russians, I think the clearest way to explain who they are, is they are a nation of builders. Of course they are human and not perfect, but overall they know how to build all kinds of things and they fearlessly push forward with project after project all over their vast expanse of territory.

99% of what people say about Russia is wrong and rooted in ignorance because too few Westerners will learn Russian and get their info direct from the source. This means that Russia has not had to worry about keeping secrets from the USA because the USA does it for them. Electronic warfare capabilities are a case in point. And when you learn how the Soviets defeated American stealth aircraft capabilities even before they were deployed, you wonder why the USA spent the money to develop it.
When a person submits their email for free Wifi at a place with Zenreach, they pull from databases and build a profile on the person.

I don't know which services provide this or how they gather data, but the thought of anyone being able to download a detailed file on you with only an email or phone number is scary.
No, FB is not email. You don't see everything your friends post, you see what FB chooses to put in your feed.
Which is an interesting counter-point to Alan Moore: just because a (sizable) portion of superhero movies aren't thrusting culture forward, doesn't mean that they have to be.

Having familiar characters in a known environment can certainly help pick the audience up to get them to a point where more complex topics become palatable. The fact that these characters are "superheroes" is incidental, and not terribly important to the overall plot of the movie.
I think these type of discussions are really detached from the reality of what neural networks, AI or evolutionary algorithms are.

These are mathematical models that optimise a specific fitness function, they borrow some biological concepts but they are not going to "evolve into ant-level intelligence".
Oh please. Mainstream news is nothing like the completely fabricated often-satire tat gets passed around to whip of frothy hate on Facebook.
So which government gets to decide which government is telling the truth or not? Who is the moral arbiter? China? Iran? Russia? Just western countries? Good luck. What will happen is a limit on free speech of individuals with no qualms, and we all know it.

Facebook is comprised of people, all with moral compasses, but when your user base is increasingly growing to be the entire population of earth...it's hard to moderate. People act like Facebook, Google etc could just flip a magic switch and instantly stop disinformation through social media, which is virtually an impossible task.

On top of that, even if it -were- possible, you create moral hazards of who decides what is real or isn't real...and if you had it over to world governments, that's when you get into much deeper shit.
This would seem to be a fundamental disagreement over the cultural responsibility of creators. The simple Batman=cool paradigm is outdated for the modern world and attempts to update it such as Nolan's shoe-horned and instantly forgotten wall street raid have fallen flat. Amazingly, the most "escapy" version of Batman recently, Lego Batman, has most capably addressed this when the new police commissioner advocates an expansion of community involvement instead of, quote, "punching poor people". Batman punching criminals in alleyways doesn't make sense in today's world and if media is facilitating a retreat from this reality, then criticism on these grounds is just.
And Fox News "we are explicitly not a news company, we are an entertainment company". And same from Alex Jones.

Corporations shouldn't get to choose which laws they want to apply to them. Facebook is picking articles to put in NY feed, Facebook is a news company
The records went from "special vaults inside permanent facilities, complete with foam fire retardant and other safeguards" to boxes on shelves in a modular building.

I don't know anything about Keysight, but I think their actions tell me everything I need to know.
From a sister group at msft: you can load & run the notebooks using https://notebooks.azure.com.

When you create a Library, select +New from GitHub and enter the above path. It’s free, but no gpu support :(.
I hope they do. This is why the commerce clause exists, it's about time someone gets around to showing that the 21st amendment's override is bogus.
I wonder how are FORTRAN arrays implemented. I was also assuming was a bing single arrays + indexes...

If I wanna add this to a language, what I need to consider to be as FORTRAN?
Thanks :) I have it in there as much for me as for anyone else. I find myself referring to it every couple of weeks or so, just as a refresher.
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If I have an Instagram that I truly believe has great content but doesn't have many followers. What paid resources or mechanisms do people suggest? I have tried promotions within Instagram but I don't get many follows, just likes and comments (people enjoy the content).

Everything I google search for is the epitome of the shady internet. Was hoping the Hacker News community could provide some legitimate sources. I don't want to directly pay for fake accounts but genuinely help advertise the account. Thank you.
We used to have lots of failed transactions until we explained to users that the CVV on an Amex is the 4-digit number on the front.
I have always seen evolutionary algorithm as a version of gradient descent that throws away the gradient, and instead just goes randomly in all directions until it finds something that works (which is extremely wasteful).

I suppose this is wrong since people still find these techniques useful, but what are the advantages of these techniques compared to gradient descent? (other than the fact that you don't need your fitness function to be differentiable)
Depends on the person I guess. I like terse code. I like pure functions. Maybe they have somehow a little cost because they can be complex, but the semantics make the reasoning quite cheap. In OO, every goddamn line is a potential nightmare.

Also, I bet 10$ that until you saw some short yet clean and expressive code, you might believe that the choice is either Java verbosity or Perl cryptics.
Facebook beats that by buying every potential competitor.
Because the risks involved with complete knowledge of everyone at every moment are huge. Consider that most developed countries have for decades spent millions in spy agencies to get just enough dirt on people of interest to be able to manipulate them.

Imagine that the same information is now available on all people to many giant companies, some with almost government like spheres of influence, you can see the potential for manipulation grow.

The other part of Facebook in particular is that they sell that leverage to advertisers.
An example of that would be the possibility that Russia influenced the US election. Whether or not it happened in either direction, the concept and possibility is something to be worried about.

The reason we should still care even though it seems ubiquitous already is because we messed up by getting here, but we can still fix it.
We already need to deal with this problem every day as generation sources do not follow daily demand curve.
Adding immigrant parentage to the list would update it to be, per Moore, "most relevant and sufficient to [the] times".
Or in other words, don't pick your stocks, pick your leverage. Interesting read, only thing missing was a deeper dive into the tools used to produce the graphs, or even better, a link to a Github which would reproduce them from the raw data.
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What are you trying to say? What insight do these assertions give us on the human visual system?
I use 1password and it's great. But not having to use a password at all is still faster...
I didn't know I needed a citation for that.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/promotions/chi-ugc-ar...

> The history of cigarettes dates back to as early as 4000 BC in The South America.
I tried kotlin again but personally (I would surely take it any day at work) it's in a bad spot. It makes me miss python cuteness (zero start time and dynamicity) too much, so if I need functional on JVM thing, I'll end up writing some clojure.
Are you planning to describe all that in more detail? I skimmed the 4 blog posts you published, but it's still not clear to me how the music is being generated.

Also, why did you decide to separate the "layers"? Technically, an RNN trained on similar music should be able to generate all "layers" simultaneously.
Normally it's just about stuff that's going on. I've complimented a person's t-shirt, discussed the weather or a parade, talked about something interesting the person was buying, react to their comment about my son or talk to them about their kids, etc. I don't force it or talk in every line. Just when it's natural.
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To allow people to post audio/video messages in Messenger?
The author talked to an employee who talked to the man whose daughter was flagged as pregnant. It would be nice if they could have talked directly to the man, but that doesn't seem too distant. In any case, it hardly seems to warrant a scare-quoted "sources," nor would I describe that as "twist a hypothetical."
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reinforce the quality of the product to make the buyer feel good purchasing again? odds are if someone's of a certain age/relationship status and buying a pregnancy test, they're trying to conceive and will possibly buy more.
An automated company has no need to try to maximize short-term profits from individual users, it should optimize for long-term value to the most number of users, right?

Driving adoption of the platform to the most users and ultimately maximizing aggregate long-term profit and value simultaneously?
Regulation is one of many tools that could be employed, and I don't mean to give smaller media outlets a free pass by focussing on the elephant in the room. "How do we educate our kids about this?" is a more innocuous one.
I didn't get far enough, unfortunately. This was a number of years ago, and not the panacea for ML/AI that we have now. The variance in data is certainly a concern, but the free/inexpensive nature of the app itself was intended to gather as much as possible (anonymity being absolutely key, given the subject) and start looking at data points vs. positive ratings to find the correlation.

At the very least, that sort of data would be incredibly value for academia/research etc.
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Huh? Even discounting now-massive craft brewers like Sierra Nevada and Lagunitas, Anheuser-Busch has at least one huge brewing facility in CA:

http://www.anheuser-busch.com/about/breweries-and-tours/fair...

Besides, the courts would see right through laws that just-so-happened to affect only producers bigger than those in CA. What would be the rational basis other than to evade Granholm?
Whats wrong with escapism? I'm an adult, I can grok the world the way it is. I can also sit and enjoy a comic book movie or just a comicbook. That has no baring on my ability to take the world seriously. In fact everyone needs an escape from time to time.

Moore is just being a dullard trying to poo poo on peoples fun.
Good one, but tbh honest, python evolved since. generators, contexts, destruct so on and so forth. It's far from python 1
> there is no sign of UWP going away anytime soon

Except for Windows Phone getting killed, which was the _main_ device type for UWP. The Windows app store is the same graveyard that it was in late 2015 when the announcements around new Windows Phones piqued my curiosity. It looks like that's simply not a thing anymore. I'm betting my money on Xamarin and the browser for a client application, not UWP. There's just no point to it.
We already could. Intel released quad-core "U-series" parts a month or two ago.
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I mentioned this above: Intel already can. They released quad-core "U-series" parts a month or two ago.
>>Management is finding the right balance of all of that to allow a subordinate to achieve their potential.

Do you mean giving guidance instead of micromanaging which means "to control every part, however small."

The problem with micromanagement comes from one person making all the decisions for her subordinates. Whereas, it makes more sense for productivity to spread the decision making across many people. Another problem that micromanagement causes is subordinates not having confidence in the decisions they do make. So people who are otherwise smart and hard working find their time wasted in second guessing themselves not able to make a decision.

Micromanage is very different than guidance which means "advice or information aimed at resolving a problem or difficulty." Perhaps, a better way to describe what Ray Dalio is offering is guidance and based on listening to that video his principles are more suggestions than demands. More importantly, with a grain of humility, Ray encourages guidance coming from below encouraging his subordinates to offer guidance to him. This is very different from micromanagement which is unidirectional.

The CEO should be making the most major business decisions for the company. However, it is the responsibility of the the employees to realize that vision. The person welding shouldn't have to know about markets. However, the very wealthy people I have interacted with would never go into the galley and tell me how to bake a cake. They would say they have guests flying in and would I make something a little more special to impress them.

To expand on what you are saying. Perhaps, one of the ways to support a subordinate is to offer guidance. The keyword I make here is offer or perhaps a better word, proffer, to offer for acceptance meaning it is ok for the subordinate to reject the guidance.

My experience is that these CEOs hire people who know what they are doing, provide them with the resources they need, and stay out of their way. However, if the subordinate does not produce the CEOs do not micromanage. They simply let them go or move them into a more appropriate position.

Being a CEO is more than not micromanaging but my experience observing several CEOs including a few billionaires closely is that they strikingly don't waste their time micromanaging. If someone needs to be micromanaged, they are let go.
Well, if they're only used for initial training, then ya.

But worth pointing out that right now, there are ~13 active duty USAF F16 squadrons, something like 17 ANG squadrons, and ~5 training squadrons. That's roughly 6:1. The USAF was planning (who knows...) to get something like 1500+ F-35s. Even at 12 active airframes per training airframe, you'd still be able to absorb 108 airframes.

If these airframes can be made into sufficiently good trainer airframes, then it could be okay.

That's a big if though, looks like Block 2B have lower G limits than the Block 3s - don't know if that's a real structural thing, or just software qualification stuff.
"It's like X but more practical".
-> "There's a library for my domain".

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I would expect this to be true only below a certain speed given a certain vehicle mass.

It's obviously incorrect at 100 mile an hour with the engine idling and in neutral.
You're missing the point. Receipts, work-related files, birth certificates, passports.

There will always be information we have to safeguard. It's not feasible to switch all authentication from what-you-know (passwords) and what-you-have (certificates) to what-you-are (biometrics), which is the only way I can see us getting rid of SSNs, passwords, and credit card numbers.
I actually agree. Showing an example of something that is hard and common in JavaScript but easy in F# would help justify using this.
I called them Cgroups. If you're being pedantic about the capitalization, take that up with RedHat as well.
Evernote - I haven't found any other program with such a good capture tool. I also regularly use Google Keep to capture small notes. But all these plaintexts ultimately go to an Emacs org file.
What he's suggesting is that you never send the password to the server, you only send the hash.

The password itself never leaves the client, and never hits the network.
>postmodernism

That explains it.
That's easy to say, but there is typically very little money available for archiving records, and there's very little sense of urgency about it. A friend right now is trying to find money to preserve a sizable collection of SF historical documents, and it is far from easy.
I wonder how many millennia it will be before we can trivially terraform one of these from another planet for fun. Just deploy a hoard of self-replicating autonomous robots and sit back for ten years. Might need some carefully-orchestrated nuclear detonations to increase the average gravitational potential, though.
Proselytizers gonna proselytize.
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I really want a laptop with one of these, but all announced models so far seem to be flawed (as in, just short of perfect).

Envy x360 seems the most promising, but doesn't seem to come with the Ryzen 7 2700U. So probably not.

Ideapad 720S has memory limitations (no dual channel support) and is straight out.

Swift 3 seems to be the closest to what I want - but .. limited to 8GB :-/

Given that I'm currently, right now, in the market for a laptop, I guess I've got to skip AMD for now.
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You could use boost::optional. Or std::optional, come c++17.
I used to work at this company and facility when the document move likely occurred. They used to have a really good library and a librarian on site. After the 2008 financial crisis, they had a massive layoff (over 10%) that included the librarian. I don't remember if they shut down the library, but it seems likely given that these documents were stored in a modular building. The two modular buildings that burned down were like very large mobile homes. They were supposed to be tempory (built during the dotcom boom) but were probably built as well as any silicon valley strip mall.
If student loans could be dismissed in bankruptcy, there would be approximately no student loans. Why would a bank ever issue one when the student's financially optimal move is to take the loan, finish school, and then immediately file for bankruptcy?

Student loans are difficult for this reason precisely - the people who need the money have no assets, and they're borrowing to buy something intangible that thus can't have a lien against it.
While perhaps not immediately pertinent to the problem, the emergence of sexual reproduction is credited as a major factor in the explosion of variation in multicellular organisms. Part of the advantage, ironically, is that sexual reproduction is a rather large burden compared to evolutionary strategies that came before. The fact that sexual reproduction is so challenging perhaps ensures that less is left to chance by filtering out individuals that cannot meet the burden and rewarding those that tend to be better at achieving reproduction itself. Likely there is some relation between improved reproductive success and some novel traits that helped to achieve it. I don't have the knowledge to weigh in on AI analogs, but I could imagine roughly a strategy that involves co-related burdens and goals to improve the chances of choosing the right individuals.
Actually I think OP is implying he just eats all of his kids' Halloween candy and serves them salad instead.