skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am at 10, two kids, going strong and probably forever (who can say for sure, of course?) - and my wife and I have separate best friends.

I really can't see why this has to be the case. There are things my wife should share with someone close that she can fully trust, and sometimes that can't be me. Same is true in the other direction.
iPhone X – Not Yet
My wife was my best friend when we got married over twenty years ago, and that has only ripened and deepened since then. She is the person I want to share the joys and rough times with. When I see something beautiful, I want to share it with her. When I have a rough day, or week, I want to talk it over with her. We're raising our children together, planning for our retirement together, and enjoying the days and years as they come.

And I hope the author didn't really mean the "with whom do you complain about your spouse" line. If people respected and worked with their spouses instead of complaining about them to other people, there'd be a lot fewer failed marriages.
Will you inform your employer about your own company from the get go? I'm seen people get into bad situations with this because they kept it a secret and the employer later finds out when the other job intrudes into your employer's normal work hours. And then there is the question of assignment of IP rights.
You aren’t far away, but not exactly understanding what foreign subsidiaries are. They aren’t created out of mergers (not usually), and they defer taxes, not directly save them.

If Apple directly sold in France it would first pay French corporate taxes, then on the remaining profits, pay another 40% or so as corporate taxes to US and California. They might have 40% left for reinvestment and dividends.

Instead they create Apple France, which pays the French corporate taxes on its profits, but doesn’t send the rest to Apple USA. By holding those profits Apple can defer the day of taxation until a tax holiday (hopefully) so they can reinvest or pay shareholders as much as 50% of their French profits.

This ignores other wrinkles such as moving the French after tax profits to Ireland so the interest earned while they hold it is only taxed at very tiny rates.
Good question, especially since we made it clear to them that we have no business model and no plans to ever have one.

There is a fixed number of Orchid Tokens that are used for payments within the network of relayed traffic (source nodes pay relay and exit nodes).

The only way for anyone to gain financially is for these tokens to appreciate in value, which is tied to the utility of the network.

So there's no exit, rather it's a continuous token incentive for all stakeholders similar to the Ethereum network which was funded by selling the promise of future tokens.
If a satellite phone is connecting to multiple satellites (or at least multiple satellites can receive its signal, even if communication is not two way), something akin to GPS in reverse seems viable.
Tariffs are awesome. Smoot-Hawley helped trigger an American boom they called “The Great Depression”.

You are describing a system that would give Samsung an even far lower tax rate than Apple. You can’t trap capital, it will flow overseas to where the best opportunities are. We are already making this happen with the highest corporate tax rates in the world. Adding foreign corporate taxes as a third layer on every dollar of profit would make our slide to uncompetitiveness go that much faster.
It should be obvious that it's not possible for every programmer to be in the 5% or 10%. And it's not possible that every company boasting they hire only the top can actually do that. It's just simple math. And there are no objective measures or tests for "top" or "best." Productivity is highly situational.
Thanks, I was particularly wondering about Python and R. Will try this out anyway.
Simple Habit Is Hiring a Head of Design/Design Lead
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Liabilities would be a well-defined measurable impact, and much needed since the industry obviously isn't going to change in this environment. $X per user, $Y if the information includes anything that could be used to do serious damage (CC numbers, health history, personal messages to/from other users).
There's nothing wrong with raising money. One reason open source projects without large corporate sponsors haven't succeeded in attaining mass consumer adoption is that they haven't had effective compensation and incentivization mechanisms. With cryptocurrency/ERC20-based-tokens, now they do.
Except it doesn’t work for us. It makes the US a lousy place to invest and drives capital overseas. The US economy is huge because of most of its first 200 years, it’s been stagnant every since.
The only people I ever saw say anything positive about them were people that were pumping the IPO or people they paid to hype them.
If only there was a document describing the details of the design that you could read
"I'm not going to read through a 50 page whitepaper before I decide if it's worth it."

It sounds like this project is probably a little too early stage for you then?

Maybe let people play with it for a couple if years and distill it down a bit. If it still exists maybe try again.
How Do CNNs Deal with Position Differences?
Right? Don't leave us hanging!
Extending Laravel’s migration command to add new options
It demands a government that can actually keep up with the pace of modern technology. Waiting 4 years for major administration changes is too long for the 21st century. Silicon Valley seems set on disrupting everything, so why not the government as well?
The money raised is a total turnoff. How can this be an independent effort with all that big-name backing?
An anti-aging strategy that works in mice is about to be tested in humans
Oh I expect the correction will be way lower than 18000
It's a generalization of SQLi, to cover situations where the queries (or commands, or whatever) built up by unguarded string concatenation are something other than SQL. (Though, oddly, the examples in the current draft seem to all be SQL based.)
The early days of self-driving cars: The Grand Challenge (Podcast)
Looking at the profiles of the two top-voted comments in that thread, that doesn't seem to be the case. But just browse the replies: many HN posters genuinely seemed to believe they'd nailed some key niche and important product details. They didn't strike me that way -- which is why I remembered the post.

The contrast struck me as an interesting example of hindsight bias.
Fairhope! (grew up there)
You're assuming the ideal item must sit at the midpoint of the specification. The ideal may be at 1m 0.1cm, but there is better tolerance for short boards than long ones.

In other words it's not the distance to the edge of acceptance that's important it's the distance from perfection as long as it's fit for use.
Collection of Behavioural Economics articles
Tells the story of "Sandstorm", Carnegie Mellon's self-driving Humvee and the team behind it. See also https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sel...
I think "cognitive dissonance" is the concept you are looking for.
Came here to mention MyPy and optional typing, the preferable term Gradual Typing means something distinctly different.

http://mypy-lang.org/about.html

Dropbox employs the creator of MyPy but it isn't a creation of dropbox.

Type Systems as Macros http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/stchang/pubs/ckg-popl2017.pdf

Pluggable Type Systems http://bracha.org/pluggableTypesPosition.pdf

Propositions as Types http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/propositions-as-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOiZatlZtGU
The Blazing World
Every company is a tech company, and everyone is a techie
I've thought about this phenomena recently and it boggles my mind why celebrities can influence so many people to take action about a myriad of topics that they know nothing about, while the experts in the field are ignored.

Basically it seems to go like this:

1. People listen to an author because they have some interest in the topic they agree with.

2. The listener thinks the author is an authority on this topic through exposure to authority signaling behavior from the author, irrespective of how related it is to other fields.

3. The author speaks on a topic that is outside of their field of expertise or how they gained the original authority.

4. The authority, in the minds of the reader leaps fields and is assumed that they have authority on the second field.

It's this leap in authority that I am credulous to and I am unsure why it is so pervasive that people think this.

I would never expect Peter Higgs to be competent in Machine Learning or Yann Lecun to be competent in finance by virtue of their eminence in their respective fields. So why should I listen to what the eminent boxer of our day has to advise about Cryptocurrency without proof that they are eminent in blockchain/crypto?
I absolutely agree with you. It’s plain and simple. They failed because they were useless.
Like Silicon Valley builds a lot of products out of a perceived need of their local area, which often doesn’t translate into worldwide product need, Snap built something for the Venice hippster cool-kid crowd. Huge where Snap is located. Tiny globally really.
>What’s the point of multithreading if your app is going to spend 99% of its time waiting for data to arrive over a socket?

What's the point of building an app if this is what it's doing. Obviously this is not the case for the majority of web services. The minimum viable requirement for a robust website is that it can serve requests without blocking itself. You don't get this with a single threaded process.

The reactor model popularized by nodejs and nginx is the alternative exception to the concurrency model of traditional servers. At best the only type of memory you can use the app itself for is caching.
See: ICO.
Well, a Brazilian priest attempted a similar feat in 2008[1]. He won the 2008 Darwin Award for it [2].

[1] https://gizmodo.com/5022283/sad-ending-flying-priest-found-d...

[2] http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2008-16.html
The original is Larry Walters, of course.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters
I did not test Wikipedia and dont use Google. Duck Duck Go was unusable.
But they still have to buy it from people who do, and the difficulty is reflected in raw material prices.

From http://www.nasda.org/File.aspx?id=48147

Types of Tobacco & December 2016 Avg. Price/lb.
– Flue Cured $5.12
– Fire Cured $7.25
– Burley $5.09
– Maryland $4.86
– Dark Air Cured $6.54
– Pennsylvania Seedleaf $5.23

For comparison, wheat is around $6 per bushel. A bushel is 56 lbs.
Apple sacks iPhone X engineer after daughter posts hands-on video to YouTube
I think insight is that these Billions encompass more than their "product listing ads" type business.
There are a few things to say about this:

1. If you train a conditional GAN to do image inpainting (for example, left to right), it should be quite apparent the degree to which the model is copying and pasting the training set - by running the model with "given" parts from the test set.

2. I disagree that an ideal GAN could just output the training set. I think the right conceptual framework is that any generative model is trying to produce a distribution similar to the data distribution, and we try to accomplish this by using samples from the data distribution. So if the model memorizes the training set, then it isn't actually that close to the true underlying data distribution. In likelihood-based models (for example the usual generative RNN) you can test this by evaluating likelihood on a validation set.
I am in Czechia as well and I never had this problem. Searching in English gives me relevant results (about the same as if I was in the USA) and searching in Czech gives me Czech results. Shopping works OK even with English searches - I'd get English speaking Czech shops or German/UK Ebay and Amazon.

I have all computer/browser locales set to US English, Google uses that but I remain on the .cz site. Works flawlessly.
One of our startups is in a tough, low tech. market [in the USA]. On a tight budget we had to deliver robust SMS based features fast to meet customer expectations. It would have sucked the ocean to build Twilio's stack from scratch then use it hoping we got it right the first time. As someone else said: "the most enjoyable developer experience of any api I've ever used" is why we signed up and haven't looked back.
Dude what is the point of state if it isn't persistent? You get non-persistent memory in your web application as a GIVEN. It's part of the language, just declare a variable.
See m3kw9’s comment. Responses include explanations for some of the terminology.
Yes. As someone who has a rating of above 2300 USCF (although inactive for a while), I can say a professional Grandmaster chess coach has helped me advance significantly faster. Also Lev Alburt is a great author, and he has a great book about the Benko Gambit from which I've learned many nuances about that opening.
> The mention of gas bottles suggest they're playing this smart.

Or that a gas company has zero interest in (or desire to?) establish a gas line to a shipping container, let alone one with an industrial kitchen in it.
Because a compiler will only load symbols from the current namespace. If you import both Queue.Size and DynamicArray.Size, then try to call Size, the compiler may fail due to the ambiguous reference to "Size". If you wanted access to both of them in the same namespace, you would have to do some form of a qualified import/reference to disambiguate for the compiler. This is the way that any language that does not support overloading handles this, regardless of type system.

It is also possible for the compiler to use type information to attempt to disambiguate. Especially because this would normally happen across module boundaries, a hypothetical compiler could:

1) Infer types based on all non-ambiguous references (or all references within the compilation unit that contains the definition)

2) Disambiguate all ambiguous reference using type information.

I suppose a sufficiently smart compiler could attempt to do type inference and disambiguation at the same time; but that sounds like introducing NP hard problems to the compiler for the sole purpose of allowing confusing code.
This is very true and why I'm staying in the market.

The only reason why I think we're due for a correction is that PE ratios and the like seem out of wack. But you are right, this could keep going for a long time and maybe the economy would grow enough to start to justify the stock prices.
Please note when I say stateless, I mean the state does not persist across requests to the server. Within the time delta of serving the request the server is, of course, stateful.
> Far from gouging consumers, many of their services are free (users pay, in effect, by handing over yet more data)

It's not free. Users pay with their privacy and most of people are ignorant how widespread their data collection is, and how much private data is collected. The companies should compete on this characteristic, but competition is limited.
There also shouldn't be religion specific laws either, yet here we are...
Yes. I would definitely recommend it, as from my personal experience having an experienced grandmaster as a chess coach does help significantly. It's been a while since I've been active, but I became 2300 USCF pretty quickly after taking regular lessons. My coach provided me with many invaluable insights and guidance that a more average chess coach would likely not have had.
Pimax to include eye tracking module, no extra charge, at $3m stretch goal
This is the second "twitter blog post" I've seen in a week. And by that I mean 10+ consecutive tweets. Talk about bad UX.
> Darwin Award

Making fun of people dying. Fucking sick stuff.

It's also logically crap. Often it's people (as in this case) doing things outside the normal. Things as hackers we should celebrate.

It's also often people in extreme poverty just trying to make a living, aka the fucking sick part that we as rich educated people make fun of cause we don't have to do dirty things like recycle metal from unexploded ordnances cause rich.
How exactly does modern php (not Hack or another vm) let you "start dynamic and end statically"?

declare(strict_types=1);

is checking and throwing type errors at runtime, not compile time.
They still take the vast majority of profits from three enormous markets, smartphones, tablets, and PCs. Long way from trouble.
Clojure transducers from the ground up: using them in practice
> After all, if your spouse is your best friend, then whom do you complain to your spouse about?

Absolutely no one. I've been married for 11 years. My wife isn't perfect of course, but she's still pretty fantastic. She is my best friend, for which I'm thankful. I don't and won't gossip about her.

As a second- or third- hand observer, I can't count the number of times I've heard someone gripe about their spouse and felt sorry for them. Marriage, and relationships generally, are so much richer when you can either get over a minor injury without even mentioning it, or respectfully discuss a more serious one. I know it isn't "cool" to quote scripture around here but the Bible says "Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense." Amen.
Over time, of course, this physical connection wanes. While many bemoan this loss of titillation, Dr. Levine celebrates it. “It’s smart,” he said. “If you’re going to be crazy about the other person all the time, how are you going to raise kids? How are you going to be able to work?”

This article is all kinds of horrifying. The above paragraph plus the phrase "maintenance sex" = ick. What does that mean? "We are just going through the motions cuz we gotta. Kind of like plunging the toilet."?

Maybe you should go read a book like "Lovers in marriage" before you go trying to write anymore marriage advice.

My ex was my best friend. That in no way suggested it was platonic.
There was a recent book about sleep by a leading sleep researcher that ought to be quite good (if his NPR interview is anything to go by): http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Why-We-Sleep/Matthew-W...
To be frank - the problem is not poorly defined, you're just not aware of the definition.

In general in generative models, you have some "true data distribution" P and an estimator distribution Q.

The goal is to make P and Q the same, generally by minimizing some divergence between them.

The actual objective is defined as being between the actual distributions P and Q, but because we only have so many data points, we define an empirical loss that just uses the real observations from P. So if the model makes Q just memorize the samples from P, then it actually hasn't made P and Q similar, it's only minimized the empirical loss.

One practical way to get around this with GANs is to train a conditional GAN instead of an unconditional GAN, and then run the conditioned generation task on held-out samples from the validation set. Another good and perhaps more general solution is to train an inference network and to generate reconstructions on held out data points. If they look totally different, then the model is probably not very "representative".
The implication here is that a lack of education leads to a misunderstanding of the risks of smoking.

Whether that implication is true or not doesn’t really matter though, you don’t agree that the notion of “choice” hardly matters when a substance as addictive as nicotine is involved?
One pixel attack for deceiving deep neural networks
> Is a chess coach like Lev Alburt worth the money to someone who does play chess at a professional level?

IMO, the reality is that most professional chess players turn to coaching once their chances of making a living through being a professional player has disappeared. AFAIK, you're unlikely to find anyone ranked in the top 50 or 100 in the world who coaches (https://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=men). Sam Shankland may be a notable exception on that front. Most coaches tend to be older, at least 40 years old, since that's usually long past when most people's ratings peak.

With the proliferation of chess engines and cheap computing power (see how a chess engine running on a smartphone can consistently outplay the world champion), even many professional players have given up the need to have other players who serve as assistants ("seconds" they're called). Famously, Hikaru Nakamura, currently #10 in the world, has Kris Littlejohn, who's rated ~700 points lower and is not a master, as a second. He relies more on Littlejohn's facility with chess engines and software to prepare for opponents and analyze lines than any human chess analytical ability.

That said, it's still the case that for major matches, like the Candidates or World Championship matches, players still tend to bring multiple seconds/assistants with them as prepare for their upcoming opponents.

> Does a world class coach make a big difference when we're talking about amateur chess players?

Something to realize is that there is no special sauce to becoming a stronger chess player. Someone who's rated below 1600-1800 is likely to be making relatively fundamental tactical and positional errors in all stages of their game. At that level, any coach who's a stronger player is likely to be able to point out and explain these errors to you.

When I was a top ranked junior, I had a variety of coaches, ranging from 2100 up to international master (~2400) strength. I can tell you that the best coach was not necessarily the highest rated player. Having someone who was a good motivator, and could suggest reasonable ways to improve was far more important than having a coach who was the strongest over-the-board player.

At this point, Lev Alburt himself has not played seriously in competitions in many years (https://ratings.fide.com/hist.phtml?event=2000156). It's definitely possible that he's a better trainer than his own ratings suggests, but IMO at least some of his ability to command the rates he does is a result of marketing and the 'social cache' you mention. There seems to be an unfortunate association of chess ability with trading ability or general intelligence in the financial world, if not in the broader world. Lev is simply cashing in.
> power

I've been an employee, and an employer. As an employee, one feels that the employer is holding the power, being an employer, one feels the employee has the power. After all, the employee can quit at a moment's notice and go work for someone else. Good employees are hard to find.
> allow a non employee in with a smartphone

I don't think Apple engaging in TSA-type security and patting down everyone to make sure they aren't carrying a cell phone is a good alternative.

And if you're going to say that they wouldn't enforce the ban, just have a policy, then I'll ask why that policy would work when the existing one didn't.
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Maybe, they should start with their fellow social scientists and change their behavior towards publishing garbage (ie non-reproducible, p-hacked) papers.

In truth, there is likely to be a massive selection effect, just like with charter schools. Basically, the people who want to change will enroll in the study. We basically know that a subset of people have enough motivation to make themselves better and that is whom the studies will select.

Finally, this improving human "frailty" has a horrible track record in terms of perpetrating horrible atrocities - from the Inquisition to the Soviet gulags. Often, the most evil people in their own eyes have only the purest motives for the good of humanity.