skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the human mind is not ML

Pooling layers in CNNs throw away lots of information about spatial co-occurrence of features, which leads to a possibility of adversarial images where adversarial features are scattered all over the place and so they don't significantly affect humans' visual processing.

The conclusion should be "Human mind is not that kind of ML".
To soak up new code, infrastructure diagrams, etc I’ll print it all all, 3 hole punch it, and put it in a binder to leaf through with a pen or highlighter on the couch.

So much more information is retained I find doing it this way over using Visio or Sublime.
> How do you think those rights found their way in to the legislation, and remain there?

Look I not blind to the history, and protectionisms which came about from unionism. But that is a common retort, but also a bit of a straw man argument.
Combine this with the new Pimax, and infinite workspaces start to become a practical reality. Which could help propgate the technology more which would lead seamlessly into more teleconferences, which have a feeling of personal interactions... which is important, even if we as programmers don't always appreciate it.

The other day I was playing a game of onward. It was the rare instance that a team wanted to work together on a shared goal. In the 15 seconds before the match, while planning some tactics... it occured to me how natural the meeting felt. It was like we were all in the same room. I felt engaged with EVERYONE. That doesn't happen on conference calls.

I work from home full time, I think the biggest downside are the missing meaningful interactions with other people. I think VR has huge potential to bridge that gap.
Someone give that man a Yubikey
that's market salary, maybe little bit below the market. It's not competitive.
I doubt you would classify other members of the five eys as hostile, for example.
I'm probably speaking for a lot of iOS developers here.

Objective-C is really odd looking, super verbose and bracket heavy that makes most programmers wince when they see it.

Not sure when or why my mind changed. Maybe it is a case of Stockholm syndrome as we had to use it (before the times of Swift). But now I very much enjoy the verboseness of the code, makes it easy to read and most things are super clear just by reading the code.
Hostile as in, currently harmful to US efforts worldwide.

Hostile as in, attempted to influence US elections.
It is possible to say no to the incentives of doing evil work; I would describe those who say no as the people with "a strong sense of personal values and ethics". This phrase has no meaning if you apply it to people who routinely violate their own beliefs in order to make more money, especially in a highly-compensated profession with a booming job market and plenty of available positions that don't require unethical behavior.
I'm embarrassed at myself as I now realize how I surrendered to textbook assumption on an internet thread. Sincere apologies for that!
2017 Camry: 40 MPG> for hybrid or 27mpg (2.5l)
2005 Camry: 25 MPG (2.4l)
1995 Camry: 23 MPG (2.2l)

Meanwhile the definition of "Camry" has changed - they are a lot larger, more powerful and more refined now. Note, for example the engine sizes going up as the MPG gets better.

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/findacar.shtml
It does take time. But I would put it up in the trifecta of Most Important Things a person can do. Everyone says exercise makes you happier, but I will take it a step further: it fulfills a fundamental need for a person to be comfortable in their own body. Denying yourself exercise for any reason at all is self abuse.
That would put them on par with the right wing crazies who pop up from time to time.

Those guys end up dead, imprisoned, on watch lists, etc...
> Why not just operate a company in such a way where unions don't feel like they need to exist?

And watch as investors and the rest of the financial community trash your company for not putting profits first.

1 http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-american-airlines-rais...

2 https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/18/chipotle-downgraded-employee...
"What is stopping the founders from “just finding another job”?"

Do you really not understand the concept of equity?

"suggests that the founders will actually lose money if the business fails, where in most cases the business goes bankrupt and the founders only lose whatever seed capital"

Oh, they only lose their "seed capital" (plus all the --usually unpaid -- work they've put into starting and growing the business).

That makes it okay, then!

"The employees also lose eveything they put into it"

The employees got paid every week, dude.
That does seem more secure compared to the way people often talk about onion link lists and search engines.

But the blockchain can still be flooded with fraudulent onions and at some point you're still putting all of your trust into a form of authority.
> And yet, 2017 looks a lot different than 1917.

Yeah inequality is worse in 2017 than it was in 1917.

http://peakwatch.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83452403c69e20120a57377...
why do you have "hipaa compliant" badge at / while every organization processing PHI/PII must be hipaa compliant?
Or when google was facing anti-trust issues and they solved them with a bit of lobbying and some promises.

I'm so glad to see the tide turning. People finally waking up to the things these companies do.
In their defense, it was very nearly doomed for 10-15 of those years :-P

But I agree, anyone who has said this since 2007 clearly isn't paying attention. Almost all the people with iPhones are going to keep buying a new iPhone every 2 years for a long long time.
> There's an entire holiday in the US, Labor Day

For those of us whom are not American, there is a similar day strangely called Labour Day, which is celebrated world wide for similar reasons, Small world hey :)

But in context what the unions did was important, it doesn't mean that they are needed, relevant, or beneficial in current day. We celebrate Xmas, but that doesn't mean that we have a guy wearing a Santa (non-christian) uniform everyday.
"Lower wages is good for the employer"

Not if the wages become so low that qualified employees refuse to work there, it isn't. There's nothing more deadly to a business than crappy, unmotivated employees.
I'm glad to see many people defending unions in this thread.

If you are interested in learning more about unions, I recommend reading Confessions of a Union Buster, by Marty Levy. Any other book recommendation about the topic?
If the stock market were truly random, then yes, all stock picking would be equally risky. But the stock market is a voting machine voting on the future of companies, and is definitely not random. So you could look at two stock picking strategies: 1) throw darts at the Wall Street Journal and buy whatever it hits, 2) buy new companies that are being used by lots of people in your area (the parent's strategy). #1 should give random results centered around the performance of the entire market. #2 will probably give better results, because it incorporates some information relevant to the voting, namely that customers like the product. Which company would you rather have: some random company or a company that people are willing to stand in a visible line for? If there are lines, either people need the product or they love the product, and either way that tends to correlate with profits.
You are missing the point the grandparent was trying to make: it's not about the founder/CEO having more ownership, that's fine, but let's not pretend that "everyone sitting at the same table" means everyone has the same voice.
Alternately you could remap esc to caps lock and get used to it in like 48 hours
'Drone this guy' in an embassy in the middle of London?
When you change channels it has to wait for the next key frame before it can display video.
Unless the bookmark entries in your directory are encrypted with a passphrase only you know.

So... it sounds like what you're looking for is a password manager.
Come on Apple. Buy Tesla. Let's go. OBVIOUS.
>The extreme left has no voice in this country.

The fact that one could gather a bunch of open communists and they'd be able to march in any major city in the US declaring their wishes to install Communism, and no one would have a problem with it should give you pause as to whether or not the "extreme left" has no voice. Rightfully we get quite irritated when the "extreme right" does that.

>We currently have a center-right party and a batshit-right party.

Seems like it's the exact opposite. A center-right party (the GOP) and a batshit-left party (The Democrats).
“You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store”
> "Many rights of workers are protected by legislation" - sure but employees are rarely able take the case to court without union backing.

In several countries where I have lived you don't need a court for industrial conflicts, there are arbitrators, mediators, and small courts which deal with such items.
I believe this guy is the owner of Gothamist, whose staff recently voted to unionize. He closed the company today.
No, they pay exactly what they owe. It is in fact their job to follow the law and find ways to pay as little taxes as possible under the law, which is what they do.
>How much of the warming is down to CO2? Contentious, again - e.g. see this book for an argument of how we could explain much if not all of the warming down to various natural cycles: [...]

Unfortunately, you have your conclusion in this sentence wrong: the natural cycles barely affect the global temperature increase, found in [0]. You should stick to scientific literature for scientific facts instead of some quack.

[0] -- http://ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/
Yes the inefficiency in mining coins and the hefty fees impact the game theoretic value of this method but it doesn't mean there is no value in that form of compensation.

If the choice is between a barren wasteland of providers removing useful content from open access or waiting on 1% of users to subsidise the rest or giving the option to users to pay while they're accessing content, I'll take some form of choice to put my hardware to use for a while if thay eventually pays for hosting and a couple meals to the admin.

I think we agree that this does not work at scale but for small operators and some niches, I'm convinced this is a safe option for the siteowner not to have to mess with a payment processor and personnaly identifiable information.

This last point especially might become more important with the EU regulations on the horizon.
My ipad 2 is certainly much slower tan it used to be. I believe the reason is the new iOS versions. Even switching between apps feels annoying.
As for 1 and 2, yeah, it's pretty rough. Though I think part of the problem is how patients make use of doctors. The doctors have to assume that something has gone terribly wrong by the time you get to them, so they will have a default chance to harm because they're biased toward action. Not saying it's justified, but I will say that it's understandable. Being in a hospital (i.e, near more infected people than usual) also carries its own risks, this is why I think some special use clinics such as birth centres are a great idea as soon as your general hospitals get past a certain size.

As for 3, I don't think that modern professional medicine is responsible for the "opioid epidemic". As somebody who is relying on opioids right now to relieve pain so severe it makes me wonder in the moment if I am going to live, I think that there must be a better balance to be struck.

I am almost certain not to become addicted to opioids as a result of this course, I have conscious control of my dosing, and so do the vast majority of patients who seek to reduce suffering through the wonder of opioids. The withholding of opioid medication to the elderly and those recovering from injury or surgery is cruel and not supported by the research, it's just the easiest target.

Blaming professional medicine for opioid addiction, and demonizing wonder drugs like fentanyl which have fewer side effects (when administered correctly) than the alternatives, is almost certain to inflict immense human suffering, with little or no improvement in public health.
I think if the same volume of steam is being produced then it's going to cause problems regardless
The obligation to the country is to follow the law and pay the taxes the law requires. which they do. Do you avoid taking deductions and send the IRS more than is required each year? Why, just because Apple makes a lot of money, do we expect them to pay more than the law requires of them? That's just absurd.
This one: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/55870/55870-h/images/i_129.jp...
Temporal drift of concepts is definitely a thing - there's a good paper from Stanford's NLP group showing it in word embedding for English.

The interesting thing is that this model might automatically correct for it (although of course it couldn't translate things for which no concept exists).
If it's not all that much, why not share it equally among all employees. You want everybody to be sitting in the same end of the seesaw, right?
to your account yes, but not if you want to send money to your friend or employee.
> We celebrate Xmas, but that doesn't mean that we have a guy wearing a Santa (non-christian) uniform everyday.

But everyday we enjoy things like child labor laws, paid time off, safe working conditions, limits on shift-lengths, overtime pay, maternity/paternity leave, and myriad others.
Great, we'll ignore them and focus on companies like the author's: Ameritrade. Also, every Silicon Valley company. And the point isn't whether a company exits or not -- the point is that the potential rewards are so lopsided, any notion of "we're in it together" is just idiotic.
A Manson girl’s life after the “family”
I've always felt that unions are the wrong solution to the unchecked imbalance of power between management and employees. Two wrongs don't make a right - the antagonistic atmosphere created is absolutely poisonous. Unfortunately I don't have a better answer.
Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers
And if you don't want to trust some random Chinese servers for accessing your IoT Home stuff, TOR is an excellent way to do that:

https://github.com/n8fr8/talks/blob/master/onion_things/Inte...
One line of thought I was going down recently was information encoded by printing very specific and precise three-dimensional "monoliths" that display information based on postion of the nearest star (which I assume would still be Sol, and would still be around in this distant future).

To give an illustration of what I am trying to describe, I am imagine something like the cover of GEB (https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1331382003l/24115.jpg), but on a multi-dimsensional scale.

Full disclosure: [7] ;)
Alternately, how about the US not have absurd laws taxing money made in other countries? This is not a normal thing and most countries don't work this way. If we had sane tax laws, Apple (and ever other multi-national company that works exactly the same way) would bring the money back and put it to work in the US
And you have to do it on the first of the month right? Because the one month doesn't become affective until the first of the month so if you quit mid-month then you actually have a month and a half left at the company. At least this is what I was told by a friend who lives and works in Berlin as a tech recruiter.
A bubble is "everyone buying because everyone knows someone will buy even higher." "Everyone uses..." is a great example of a revenue generator. I assume you are meaning that you buying based on popularity of places you frequent is an example of an echo chamber?

Regarding non-consumer facing companies, I don't see what the problem is. If you have no information about the company, then it's gambling to buy it. So you miss out on some companies, no big deal. Most people only have enough money to make a few bets, so you should bet on what you know about. It's not like a test where you lose points if you don't answer a question; you don't lose money if you don't buy a stock you don't know about.
So Facebook figured out how to cram ads down the throats of people that took specific action to avoid them. Why on earth would advetisers pay to display ads to this group of people? The only group that benefits is Facebook.
There is a pluggable name resolution proposal:

https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/279...

You'd be able to run namecoin and other systems

edit: to add, I haven't yet completely bought into the new onion services. I like a lot of the security improvements, but it is really going to depend on how name resolution works and how authenticating endpoints will work for users. Running a pluggable name resolution system means we can try out different solutions and see which takes off organically and practically.
Wow, I'm very surprised by the amount of people here who dislike videos. I absolutely love video courses, and I have learned 60-80% of everything I know about programming through them.

As a specific example, Stephen Grider's udemy courses took me through the process of learning full stack Node/React app development, and it was awesome.

I find it much harder to focus and be productive while reading books, videos (especially with good slides and diagrams) feel way more natural.

I wonder what percentage of people prefer learning from books to learning from (good) video courses. Is this HN being contrarian, or does the majority really prefer text?
Founders have the courage to sit on the risky and stressful side of the seesaw.

Haven't you heard? Founders are not free to just walk away! The horror.
Actual naval experts in HN notwithstanding, I think it's worth remembering that a little knowledge, at times, can be a dangerous thing. This is true of many topics on HN that are only obliquely related to software engineering. Silicon Valley has earned a great deal of confidence by disrupting other industries by out-thinking their experts, but perhaps we should temper that confidence a little, least it becomes hubris...

Bottom line, if we're going to dismiss experts, I think we should be armed with a little more than the knowledge we garnered from an internet article.
The founders were just gambling with 'their "seed capital" (plus all the --usually unpaid -- work they've put into starting and growing the business)' - they knew as well as you and I what percentage of businesses fail, and what percentage exit at tiny returns.

It's a tempting gamble - hoping for a 100x or 1000x payoff on that bet, especially since most people who take that bet believe they can "make the difference" - but if they're unhappy with the prospect of "losing it all", they perhaps should "just find another job".
> If it's not all that much, why not share it equally among all employees. You want everybody to be sitting in the same end of the seesaw, right?

Ok, but remember you take the good with the bad. Statistically more business fail than survive, so if you want to take that risk then why not. But even easier you could start your own business and share the utopian form of employment with your staff.
Yeah, I think this is the first time I've ever even heard 'toniest'
Advanced Topics in Programming Languages: A Lock-Free Hash Table (2008)
I believe the general thought here is more to have the mining (and content) behind a good old paywall, featuring prominently your different options, with "mine for access" just one of the available options.
Should we also BAN the ability of Management to fire their workers?

Because layoffs also promote a corrosive us-against-them dynamic that destroys the esprit de corps businesses need to succeed.
An I the only one who lost the ability to touch type for a moment after reading this article?
Good-- enough of this free market belief while other countries gut punch us industrially. Quid pro quo.
This is a fantastic talk that demonstrates the design of a Java-based Lock-Free hash Table using "Compare and Swap" (often called "CAS" by the speaker).

There are very few memory barriers / fences, and the "State Machine" analysis was new to me. It seems like the "State Machine" methodology might be broadly applicable to other concurrent data structures.

This talk is for those who are already familiar with atomics, so its best to familiarize yourself with "Compare and Swap" at very least before watching: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare-and-swap

It might be old, but hopefully someone out there finds it as beneficial as I did.
The Importance of Authy
Well, that's the canonical Japanese breakfast, in the same way that a canonical American breakfast is eggs, bacon, baked beans, hash browns, pancakes etc -- but most people scarf down some cereal instead.

Rice for breakfast is definitely a thing though, but it's a lot simpler than ryokan fare: in my student days, I often just had last night's leftovers with a cup of miso soup and maybe some pickles. Here's an interesting view of various actual Japanese breakfasts, although I suspect these are also towards the elaborate end of the spectrum:

https://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/02/20/whats-really-for-brea...
Leeches are still used to prevent blood from pooling in tissue, and a variety of other things.

The pharmacists I'm related to order them from the almost comically named "Leeches USA": http://leechesusa.com
$87 billion projected for Q4. What an empire they have built. Amazingly impressive. And all I heard over the last 4-5 years was how Apple was doomed
It's immature and doesn't rise beyond the maker's biases. Putin is certainly a Machiavellian figure and certainly not a good person but that is an incomplete picture which this "documentary" doesn't even attempt to uncover.
True it could be stronger. Some states like California have more stringent versions.
Yes you/we do, for that we should be appreciative. But that doesn't speak as to the relevance of unions today.
It took me a while to understand that by "Indeed" you refer to the company.
I think FT8 is a necessary evil at this point. It's good to see problems with a mode basically getting too popular rather than the bands being dead. Some of those users will move to explore new digital modes as they evolve. The future is bright for ham radio.
In Silicon Valley companies at least, founders are not pouring their life savings into companies, paying for employees out of pocket until they reach revenue. No, the only real difference between founders and early employees is:

- The founders had the original idea / area to work in (usually not very well-defined yet).

- The founders raised capital. Yes, this takes some number of unpaid weeks or months, toiling deep in the mines of Palo Alto coffee shops.

And yes, they do a bit more than that, but that's the essence. Then you hire your first few people and off you go.

Founders believe that effort is worth 10-100X more than early employees' contribution, and at least 1000X more than the later ones. Employees, often unaware of how lopsided their equity is, go into it believing they're "in it together!" with the founders.
I guess watch and make sure your subcutaneous fat doesn't disappear.
Air France 477 was caused by UI stupidity, too.

Linked controls (nobody realized the junior copilot was making opposing inputs, which were then averaged with the pilot's) plus poor autopilot UI that they were accustomed to ignoring, made it stall and crash after a single wind speed sensor iced up.

If nobody had touched the controls, autopilot would have flown safely through the storm.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447