skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you, but many people do not share our view.

The general counter argument is that if you make it difficult for companies to terminate employees, then companies will search for alternate mechanisms to sustain profitability. For example, instead of terminating an employee, the company might reduce executive pay, or pass the increased expenses on to customers.

Again, I agree with you.
It is the biggest outage since May 3rd.
PyTorch use the same backend as torch (cutorch for GPU ...) But PyTorch use almost the same Python API than Chainer. On this point we can say PyTorch "copy" Chainer.
Because the bitcoin bubble has expanded so much and tech people like to think they should all be millionaires now. Greed.
Its not necessarily a bad thing having to see how other real humans live their lives.
And for many, “like more” is an understatement.
Front End (React) Developer | Amsterdam | €40k - €60k + equity | https://www.iampop.in

POP is looking for a medior/senior front-end developer to help build a platform for artists to connect with their fans. If you love front-end development, have a keen eye for performance and want to work within the music industry, then we have a home for you at POP!

The platform consists of a CMS through which artists can send relevant notifications to fans through the Facebook Messenger platform and a CRM, which collects essential fan data for artists.

What you’ll be doing

Working directly with the founding team and helping build out our product
Building our frontend written in React
Building or integrating with our backend written in Ruby on Rails
Planning work in sprints and coordinating with the rest of the team so everything gets done on time
Translating design concepts to functional code together with our lead developer and product owner
Developing yourself and always looking for better ways to build things, regardless of language or framework
Working with Rails 5, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Heroku, GitHub

About you

You have 2+ years working in React (additional Javascript experience also desired)
You have 2+ years working on a high level web framework (Rails preferred, but any experience is beneficial)
You love Github, like working in sprints and know the importance of unit testing
You like working in a small team and having a lot of responsibility
You have a proactive personality
You're always eager to learn and are not afraid to get to know your way around new technologies
You’re organized and are good at helping others stay organized too
Does the binary size matter? Memory footprint is more important.

There's always PyQt which works cross platform
But as a conservative, he probably is against Martin Luther King and what MLK was after, no? So calling MLK a SJW would make sense from conservative point of view.
This is what the bulk of Meditations on Moloch[0] is about - under competitive pressure, if you can forgo a value in order to get ahead, you outcompete those not willing to do so. Iterate over it, and you can see how competition gradually throws all values under the bus, until all that remains is the money-making core.

(I like to sometimes phrase it as "the market optimizes for creating the most useless thing that you can still trick people into buying".)

--

[0] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
In Germany you are called a Nazi by some very left wing politicians if you say that maybe the rejected asylum seeker from Pakistan who cut the throat of his 2 year old daughter* should be deported.

* Current news! They just caught him on the run in Spain a few days ago.

So you'll excuse me if I don't take every accusation of nazism 100% seriously.
Nordic Semiconductor | IoT Backend Developer | Portland, OR or Trondheim, Norway | Onsite (Relocation package) | Full-time

For our cloud services team working from Portland and Trondheim we are looking for a candidate with a strong interest in developing cloud-based web applications using AWS and JavaScript. Our applications are helping our customers make excellent products based on our system-on-chip products (nRF microcontrollers).

The Nordic Semiconductor R&D team is a group of talented development engineers of many nationalities based at our R&D headquarters in Trondheim Norway. You will be working closely with both hardware designers and system architects as we develop and validate a highly scalable IoT infrastructure to enhance our existing and future products.

We are also hiring a Frontend Developer for the same team. Check out the the job posts here:

- Experienced Backend Developer for IoT: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=27...

- Senior Frontend Developer: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=27...
Tee-hee. :)

In my experience HN actually does a pretty good job of filtering signal from noise. All of our attempts to _force_ something to the homepage failed, but when we have had genuinely interesting news to share (such as this) we glide there effortlessly. The take-away for me is to focus on doing genuinely interesting things! :^)
As a reminder, everyone doesn't work in front of a computer all day.
There's a difference. With auto-generated root certs you can't just steal one private key, sign your malware with it and push it to all users of the original software.
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"It's important we discuss the part played by genes in cognitive ability"
That doesn't make it any less true.
Sounds like my job, my life. IN the grand scheme of things, nothing much has changed in millennia.
Because 'we' prefer it? I like going into the office. The morning walk to the office with its clear demarcation between work and not work, the ritual of grabbing a coffee in the morning with some colleagues and catching up on what's happening in their projects even if they're not directly related to anything I'm working on, having a dedicated space and a dedicated computer that's just for work, all those little things and more makes working at the office far more productive for me.
In my opinion, the real deal with Pytorch or Chainer, there are similar than numpy API. So the learning curve is flat. The NN construction part and gradiant part are specific but all the glue is regular python unlike Keras, tensorflow ...
Otherwise know as the "Day of the App-pocalypse"
I find it much more enjoyable than looking at a monitor on my desk.
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>> I don't get what's so great about the area, anyways. Every time I've been it's just seemed like an insanely expensive shithole...but I guess I'm not the one splashing billions of dollars around.

> If you are an entrepreneur in a certain field...

more prosaic: sure, it's changed some, but it's still pretty hard to beat culturally for certain sorts of people. if you like both art and technology, especially if you want access to both internationally recognized things and little-known indie things, the only other places in the US that feel like they really compete with SF are LA and NY.

i don't have a job at a tech giant, but i do have what i think is a very interesting software development job, that'd be harder (but not impossible) to find in other places. realistically, because i'm cheap/frugal and interested in saving money, rent control is the only reason i can still afford to live here. but i also really take advantage of the city that i live in: in the past couple months, i've seen p-funk, actress, flying lotus, a local industrial-ish electronic duo, a handful of local noise acts, JLin, hauschka, a screening of "sun ra's space is the place", pharaoh sanders, philip glass & kronos quartet, curren$y, and a bunch i'm forgetting since i'm just listing stuff off-hand. that's an especially good few weeks in an especially good year, but even in slower times, i'm usually going to at least one show i'm really excited about every two weeks to one month. i can also eat delicious food for cheap either from taquerias or by going to the grocery store, or if i have the disposable cash, i can choose from a wide variety of higher-end options across a range of prices. i get to meet people from all over the world. i went to college here, and because of all the above, a number of my good friends from school stuck around, and so i have a very solid social network here. i volunteer at a great community radio station, where i met my girlfriend.

so, for a lot of people, even transplants, wanting to stay isn't so crazy. if my GF and i both happened to get evicted, i'm not sure what we'd do. that seems unlikely, but it does always feel like a bit of a worry.

i don't quite understand the resistance of the natives to the influx of new people, esp since this has literally always been kind of a gold rush town. but hey, i moved around a bunch as a kid, and i like meeting people from different places.

when i told a cabdriver that i'd lived in SF for 11 years, he joked that i wasn't a native, but that i could say i was a local. so as a local, i'd say i'm very strongly YIMBY. fucking build. build housing. build better/faster/more regional transit. e.g., make it fast and easy to get from the SJ suburbs to SF and vice versa, whether it's rush hour or post-last-call. some old stuff will have to come down, some neighborhoods will change character. so it goes. better than steadily pricing out all but the most affluent and pushing them to the far edges (or entirely out of) the region.
You're going to need to address each and every one of these sources and then provide equally substantial evidence in the opposite direction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee_...

It's a bit disingenuous to claim there is no evidence when it is so readily accessible.
The remark is that the two words, while apparently interchangeable, in actual use are not. One is often used with positive meaning related to dexterity and so on. Also, they have different political meanings. So they are not at all symmetric in actual use, much like every other word pair
Yes! Plenty of us are still stuck on mediocre internet connections that have data caps. My cap at home is 5GB/month!

100MB/app is in the range of "I am not going to download it" unless I have a damned good reason to. Doubly so for updates...
Something related to data siphoning have happened, just now, it's restored.
> When was the last time it removed support for a feature?

why should it ? Adding features is enough for simplifying stuff.

eg take the following code:

for(auto& val : {1,3,12,17,20}) { val++; }

it leverages three new features: auto, range-based for, and braced initialization.

How would it look in cpp03 ?
Two possibilities:

std::vector<int> v;
v.push_back(1); v.push_back(3); ... v.push_back(20);
for(std::vector<int>::iterator it = v.begin(); it != v.end(); ++it) {
(*it)++;
}

Or

int v[] = {1,3,12,17,20};
for(int i = 0; i < (int)(sizeof(v)/sizeof(int)); i++) {
v[i]++;
}
Torque converts are the niche choice nowadays, a lot of modern cars have dual-clutch transmissions which are always more efficient than manuals. They use less fuel, shift quicker and commonly have more gears for less strain and better efficiency(almost all new MB cars ship with 9-gear dual clutch tranmissions nowadays for example).

But yes, after owning manuals for years I would never go back, an automatic allows you to be so much more focused on the road and enjoy it more - I love driving and have a sports car, would never ever swap the transmission in that back for a manual.
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> Calling it an incompatible change is perhaps a little strong.

Definitions of backwards incompatibility are either tautological or disingenuous (provided we talk about documented behavior).

The right way to do that change would have been to allow both names without warnings in a point/minor release (with the docs stating where the project is headed), add the depreciation warning with the next semver major one, and remove the old name on the next next semver major release.
Whatsapp goes down for users across the world
Presumably, he must have had a good public library nearby in order to find enough reading material for that time frame, and also to be able to afford those books without a job.

Learning is a luxury, and reading is key to it. That said, if you think about fields like mathematics or even programming, reading about them will hardly lead you to mastery: you need to sit down and get your fingers dirty, trying to do it yourself. Have you ever had this happening to you: when a teacher shows you a new method to compute something, it all sounds perfectly clear and simple, until you sit down and try it out on an unseen problem yourself?

If you're on Hacker News (which you are) chances are you love reading to -- after all, it's a site that provides links to articles (sometimes videos). But increasingly, I realize that my time is better spent building something myself. Being a "hacker" (in the original sense of the word) implies doing something actively, while (to me) reading is a rather passive occupation. Enjoyable, yes, but at the end of the year, I'd like to look back and say "this year, I made X and Y" rather than "I read about X and Y".

Has anyone actually read Campell's classic "The hero with a thousand faces"? I did when in college, but to be honest, I found it too dry to make it to the end. But I still have my copy of the book. Maybe I should get it out of the shelf and give it another try.

Not for 9 hours of the day though. There's code that wants to bet written...
I think working from home works perfectly if you know exactly what to fill your workday with or if you're in a position where you can make decisions smoothly. If you're not sure what's expected of you or your team has poor communication, remote work seems to lead to some issues, such as being unsure if you're doing enough, feeling more guilty about slacking (even if a break is needed) and an increased amount of blockers if you can't get a hold of someone you need to talk to since you're not at the office.
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Sure, don't believe your lying eyes. Point out a single scratch that indicates anything other thana 90 degree impact with a stationary vessel.
Yeah unfortunately it fails at the "10 MB" bit. Hello world in QML is like 50 MB.

Also you can't statically link the GPL version which is just a bit of a pain.

I agree if it allowed static linking and wasn't huge it would be perfect. Even so there aren't any better alternatives, but it sucks you can't make something as small and portable as e.g. putty.exe, or depends.exe.
If you think about it, it doesn't - at least not on an individual level.

I suspect it's more likely that the selection happened between tribal groups, not within them.

Given independent groups with similar challenges, some would have the intelligence and luck to survive, and some wouldn't.

After a challenging event like Toba, tribes/herds with a culture that couldn't adapt or survive would be culled fairly quickly.
Remember that in advertising, they scam each other as much as they scam their users. Videos may or may not be actually more effective, but that's irrelevant if they can be spun as more effective to those who pay for the ads.
Not for me yet. Any info about the data siphoning?
I think it's wrong. If you think I am some kind of shill (?), then I guess it makes sense that you would be some kind of conspiracy theorist, given your unwarranted skepticism about the conclusions of the official report.
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> Are you going to choose to crash into something because it's wasting fuel to vent part of the steam?

Under emergency you will vent, but under normal operations where you just want to slow down you care very much about efficiency.

Not just for monetary reasons either (though that's a factor) but because the lumps of coal you're not burning now could save your ass in bad weather and make you reach safety instead of being stranded in the middle of the ocean.
> Under that proposal, people looking at your code will have to look up definitions of basic things that ought to be keywords---like "interface"---in order to reason about the code.

That's a good thing: now you can refer to 20 lines of code instead of 15 pages of standardese to understand what happens.
Nope, ISP gives us fiber that goes from our PoP in Shenzhen to Guangzhou to Hong Kong (roundabout way because they have no fiber direct from Shenzhen to Hong Kong), and somewhere down the line, it hooks up with the submarine cable. No VPN at all.
The scans focused on a particular area. The technology works by placing 'plates' in desired location and collecting the particles that hit those plates. They could only place plates inside the pyramid where they had access, and collect from particular (sic) paths. They aimed for a best-guess area previously unknown but speculated upon. I assume they will repeat the experiment wherever possible to gather more data in the future.
Just look at this nonsense [1]. We have brand new technology with unlimited potential for new abstractions and paradigms. So, what do we do? We make a virtual desktop workstation, the same one we had since 70s! We limit all rendering to a 2D surface, make it curved and put a nebula in the background. Is this really the cutting edge of information technologies?

Also, we need both mechanical keyboard to sense key presses and 3D tracking of finger movements? I get it, Logitech wants to keep selling keyboards, but for VR experience I would rather have tracking of facial features and eye movement.

[1] https://d201n44z4ifond.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/sit...
There are lots of such implementations (virtual whiteboard and/or pen and paper).

Search for: "collaborating writing tool", "virtual whiteboard" etc.

The latter are usually part of teleconference tools. Here's from an open source one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MNqiMEblgo
You make it sound like he doesn't have a choice in the matter, which is extremely unlikely and also very sad.
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The theory is generally sourced from a popular mechanics article. There's nothing particularly authoritative about that "independent analysis". Goodness knows what you mean by the "same data". No third party has access to all the data recovered from the flight recorders and the wreckage.

>conclusions that could result in the grounding of the entire worldwide Airbus fleet

Concluding that the sidesticks were a contributing factor would not have resulted in the grounding of the fleet. That only happens in the case of extremely severe and extremely immediate threats to safety. UX tweaks would more likely just be included as recommendations. And in fact the report does make some UX recommendations, IIRC.
Funny, I do a lot of enterprise stuff, and our biggest pain is getting organizations/individuals/clients to not use spreadsheets. Like, we'll have clients wanting to export/import data via sheets, but it'll be complex multidimensional data that cannot be represented in a 2 dimensional data format like a spreadsheet. As soon as you start needing to do lookups, stuff is gonna get hairy. Or organizations that don't understand that data needs to be aligned properly, etc... Sure, you're a human, you can look at this, and understand it, but when you change where you put your labels constantly, it's a nightmare.

Oh, just let some customer send their data over, and we can copy and paste it in.... HAHA right... good luck with that if you don't teach every single user who touches that data how to sanitize it. That's too much for a bunch of humans to deal with, generally, for anything remotely complex. It's too easy to make too many mistakes, whether it be typos, copy/pasting the wrong thing, referring to something by a slang or localized terms, that fails a lookup, so they create a new record, etc... Sure, I'm sure some nutter has implemented a fuzzy search algorithm in Excel, but I doubt it's truly production quality... Most people would just use Access or a real database at that point.

So my solution is to build software to solve these problems. Spreadsheets are great, especially collaborative ones, for certain tasks. I've seen plenty of large companies running their whole business off a gigantic shared spreadsheet (on google drive) complete with colored spreadsheet dashboards up on TVs, and everything. (and yes, we built new pipeline software for them, using those formula, it was invaluable)

Spreadsheets just don't scale though (depending how you use them), and for anything remotely complex, humans will make mistakes. At some point you might as well be doing some kind of light-weight bespoke software development, as you'll gain more flexibility and ease of use in the long run, and you'll probably save time/money/hassle with proper data warehousing, etc...

I'm not saying I never use sheets, it's ideal, but you have to build in lots of validation logic, etc... I use gspread myself, personally, when doing very specific data tasks for clients, but I hate giving clients direct access to a sheet that interfaces with code, or I do give them access to a sheet, but not access to run the code against it. Too much room for pain and confusion. They will break it, and most customers are not the trial-and-error type, and not all tasks are even safe to attempt with brute force.
I specified that I'm an European in that same sentence, so that's a straw man.
You're certainly lucky to be able to walk to your office. Most people in my company need to drive at least 50 minutes to get to the office.
You don't seem to understand how 51% attack works. It allows you to roll back correct transactions, but it does not allow you to perform incorrect transactions.
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Is that a belief or a fact? I believe, but cannot prove, that symbolic representation is not isomorphic to pattern matching.

If you reverse the output of a CNN "hand" classification, it'll give you images that resemble the geometry and shading of fingers, palms, nails, knuckles, etc. -- these, I submit, are the distillation pattern matching for the actuality of "hands". Under no circumstances will it give you the five widely-separated fingers which a child draws. That's because the child-drawn hand is based on literal visual stimuli, but rather on an abstract logical model of a hand. That logical model is fully integrated with a similarly abstract model of the world, and includes functional relationships between abstractions, like the knowledge that "hands" can open "jars". The value of these being logical models rather than matched patterns is that they can then be extended to include never-before-seen objects. Confronted with a strange but roughly jar-sized object, a child can surmise that maybe it, too, can be opened with hands. That isn't pattern-matching: it's algebra.
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I may be in a minority, but I believe the incentives of this method are "better" for the spirit of the open web, and I for one am prepared for the low revenue if it means this ideology may perdure.

The motivation is not to use *coins for their own sake, but that the alternative is getting scarier everyday.
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