skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean this idea?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_detection

There's another aspect to proto-religion which has to do with power rather than agency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mana#Pre-animism

All this is speculative, AFAIK.
I've run dual boot systems before. Not a fan of having to reboot to switch basically between programs. Thats why I used a Virtual machine and now I use Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Once we move to fully .net core shop, I'll be making the move to linux completely.
I wonder at what point and how strongly some people may resist this kind of takeover. We've all lived through Walmart eating our local mom and pops, now it's time to see if Amazon can eat our local/regional chains.
This may sound a little random, but one of the things that varies most between APIs is date and time formats. Many API implementations come up with their own. Looking at what the date format is tells you how much thought has gone into looking the API design. Hopefully it one of the ISO 8601 options, otherwise I'd start looking more carefully at the documentation
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It's a bit unbelievable they were able to double the range of the already highly efficient model S...

Maybe a significant reduction of weight + increase in battery? Whatever it is, it's amazing that they were able to pull it off.
No, because as you said there is no commitment. Pension plans, however, generate liabilities if underfunded.
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Remember last year when Kaspersky accused[1] Microsoft of anti-trust for disabling their antivirus? And Microsoft admitted it was done in the name of compatibility.[2] Something about that seemed fishy to me because none of the other AV venders were complaining. Was Microsoft told to intentionally sabotage Kaspersky?

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3141470/security/kaspe...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/20/15836208/microsoft-kasper...
Alphago Zero has beat all previous Go engines without examining any external games. I don't see any reason to believe Chess is a special game where humans understand it better (to write AIs) than computers can do "on their own". They are both turn-based deterministic games where the only asymmetry is which player gets the first turn.
It's true that writing can influence language (as can lots of other things). I wasn't claiming otherwise. The magnitude of each direction does not matter and is not related to the point I was trying to make.

The point I was trying to make is: an inconsistency between writing and language, which are two different things, is not evidence of an internal inconsistency in the language.

It is like saying the Linux syscall API is "irregular", because it is incompatible with the Windows one.

The fact that "bough" and "trough" are spelled the same is not a fact about the English language so it doesn't prove anything about whether English is irregular or not. It is a fact about the writing system commonly used to represent English.

Edit: with your comment about apes to humans, you make it sound as if writing was invented in some earlier stage of evolution (but after language). Actually this is not true. Writing was invented by biologically and behaviorally modern humans indistinguishable from you and me. It is still an optional part of the human experience and not used by all cultures. The complete opposite is true of [spoken] language.
Oh yeah.. absolutely! :D
70% of internet resources are delivered on mobile phones or tablets these days - a market in which Microsoft has negligible foothold.
Yes, paying one founder more than another can cause conflict. But it doesn't have to. It really depends on how everyone in the founding team feels about it.

FYI, Zendesk was a "pre Point Nine" angel investment from me that I made in 2008, but I wasn't aware of these discussions among the founders. Maybe they took place before I joined or they wanted to keep them to themselves.
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> Rome was not built in a sprint!

Now I have to have this T-Shirt to wear to sprint planning meetings.
Good question. But according to this map[1] there should be plenty of beaches where orcas and humans might encounter each other.

Given that orcas are able to learn how to drown white sharks, and catch birds by baiting with fish, couldn’t it just be that they have learned not to hunt humans, as they’ve experienced retaliation in the past? I’m pretty sure pre-historic humans would somehow retaliate if an orca grabbed a child from the beach and, because of that, it would make sense if orcas have simply learned not to do this.

[1] https://dailyzooniverse.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/killerwh...
> Since atomic cross-project commits are possible, the repository can always be in a consistent state – at commit #X, all project builds should work.

At Google this regularly failed. We spent hours unable to commit changes (unless a disaster could justify ignoring build and test failures) because someone we'd never met had broken the world and the fix was still making its way through the enormous backlog of projects to retry. Every project needed people taking turns in a "build cop" role diagnosing this stuff and demanding rollbacks as quickly as possible.

It's essential to pin known-good version of your dependencies and upgrade when you can handle it. You can't expect every commit anyone ever makes to be production ready.
WebAssembly is probably the closest similar technology - the ability to compile any language into the browser.
I hope you did not get the impression my previous reply had an air of chastisement; and if you did, then I'm sorry, as I did not intend it that way, nor did I have any intention of chastising you in future replies.

You're right, HN is not the place for an extended discussion of these matters. In a polite way, I would note that I believe some of the latent assertions in your previous reply are not factual, based on my own studies of the Church's history, including the bright spots as well the ugly sores. I wish you all the best, and if you'd ever like to discuss any of the points further, feel free to send me an email.
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I am getting a bit irritated when I read the news about Alzheimers since for a couple of years there is a treatment which was developed by Dr Dale Bredesen. Dr Bredesen looked at all factors which were linked with Alzheimers and combined many together into a treatment strategy. He also defined 3 subtypes of Alzheimers. The result is that his treatment cures 9 out 10 patients with mild Alzheimers. The fact that Bill Gates invests in new drug treatments is insane.
If your goal is not to double every year, at least for a number of years, and to eventually create huge enterprise value, you shouldn't raise venture capital. If your goal is to grow a little slower and to get a good salary (or dividends) rather soon, you should use a different way to finance your company.
The quotation doesn't reflect my opinions, but I think you are taking an overly simplistic "people are driven by money" line.

It's not unusual to encounter this kind of view expressed on HN, and it's disturbing because it is so reductive. I mean, seriously, you think "geeks" in general have no choice but to build the software that maximizes revenue? Geeks are, if anything, more likely than other people to pursue activities for intellectual satisfaction, to attack difficult problems for fun, etc.

The previous time this came up, someone was claiming that every restaurant owner only cared about their bottom line -- and that absolutely no restaurant owners were in it for the love of hospitality (as a social good or something more professional) and self-expression/self-actualization. Honestly.
> If you’re upset about us doing it because it’s wrong, why wouldn’t you also be upset when it’s done to us?

Because people don’t seem to get upset about it. Because “democracy is best”
Nothing else matters if the vendor stops operating or refuses to continue services/pricing that you'd been relying on.

If this API is mission-critical, write drop-in replacement drivers for other vendors and/or get a commitment from them in writing.
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I'm pleasantly surprised that you support DNS over TLS but I barely know how to use that. Dnsmasq doesn't support it yet for example and that's the forwarder I use at home.

To clarify, I have a dnsmasq but I also have a dnscrypt forwarder. Dnsmasq only resolves LAN names and forwards the rest to dnscrypt.

So I'd have to forward to a service that supports DNS over TLS to use quad9.

Edit: Unbound does this.
Usually if you leave a footnote[0], you have to actually include the note in the footer of your comment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Note_(typography) Like so.
There is a problem with some third-party SSDs on certain Macs during High Sierra installation, apparently during conversion to APFS. [1] Maybe that's one concern?

[1] https://blog.macsales.com/42466-a-note-on-high-sierra-compat...
Good. I'm glad I'm off the ancient HFS+ now, and the newest Safari is faster and better than Chrome. This is long overdue, and while the transition has had hiccups, the longer we wait the more painful it will be.
Same here. I think this is the right attitude. By the way, this even goes for micro VCs, we didn't (couldn't) pay ourselves a salary in the first year or so.
Quick question: once you monetize it, will it remain open-source?
Not OP, but the assertion that the two datasets be similar is just too incomplete to be correct, considering the topic is rather nuanced.

As the article states, the majority of the hidden layers, particularly the early ones, are very general ones that usually work out to identify edges/colours/etc... that generalise very well.

Because you pop-off the last fully-connected layer, transfer learning a network that has been trained on something like imagenet still generalises quite well to something completely different like medical imaging of tissue samples, although distance between the two sets will still be your main limitation.

Before I get ahead of myself, I'll refer you to this paper that tests the degree to which transfer learning is generalisable [0]. They conclude that difference between the two datasets is the main limitation, but that those models still work out better than random features, which I think proves that it's sufficiently generalisable for most tasks.

[0] http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5347-how-transferable-are-featur...
You could in principle write anything you want in any script you want. But if you write a word that is typically written in kanji in hiragana instead, you are not writing according to standard Japanese writing conventions.

This is a non sequitur, it is like saying "Chinese writing is not irregular because you could always just write everything in Cyrillic"
I generally don't look at the warranties of products, so, literally everything I've ever bought except for my car.
It is a proxy for how likely the library will continue to exist, and how likely you can hire folks that know these libraries, in several years
There is a surf spot in Morocco (Killers) named for the Orcas spotted there. They apparently show up periodically. Water is plenty warm.
The reason why I ignored the data is that it was in stark contrast to several other data sources that I've seen. But it's a good point, I need to look into this again. I will also contact the research team of that study and ask how they collected the data.
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Have you test-driven a Tesla Model S?
My first take is the maintenance cost. When labour is plentiful and cheap, you can have teams of cleaners to meticulously brush each corner in the intricate rooms, corridors and decorations of an Art Nouveau building.

When the cost with the labour force rises, you need to clean with fewer people, and faster. You need to use larger tools to cover the same area faster, and the tools require simple large shapes where, a vacuum for e.g. can easily go in any corner - hence a cube. Add the need to build fast and cheap, so concrete is it, or, after technology advances, just metal, glass and drywall - who has time to wait for the concrete to set? - so you end up with utilitarian cubes of cheap materials.
This is a crazy form of propaganda instilled by both sides of the political spectrum in the US. Germany's population is 82M+, and much more diverse than you think. You think you have nothing in common with someone in Alabama? At least you speak a common language and share a constitutional tradition. German unification was completed 60 years after Alabama was admitted to the union. A Schwäbisch person has as much in common culturally with an Ossie as you do with an Alabamian.

This 300M+ logic is the perfect strawman for people who don't want to solve problems, because the population of the US is only comparable to few countries in population and they are not in a good position...
You haven't seen how paradigms change yet, have you
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You are going to be drinking that water anyway, no?
I keep screenshots of battery use in iOS. I went from 10.3.3 to iOS 11 when it was available. Gave it the obligatory 3 days to "stabilize" and was amazed at how crappy it was. Given my usage I was seeing about 4.5 hours Usage at the 50% mark on 10.3.3. On iOS 11 it was down to 3.25 hours. I tried all the Public betas up to 11.2B1. I DFU'd. I set up as new. I ran without my usual assortment of apps and just used the stock ones. I jumped through every single hoop I could and iOS 11 was just a downgrade for me.
Point is, people want the same (what you said) but have entirely different reasons why they would get it from their framework of choice.
It might have something to do with the "contempt" setting used by the developers for this tornaument
A huge fraction of "stupidity" is actually owed to engineered propaganda. The "public affairs" that one hears about are almost entirely dependent on the filter bubble blown by the media sources a person trusts. You could do a very good job of filtering by political party based on what current events a person had seen in their news.

Whoever wrote the test would control which culture-bubbles got to vote.
I agree. It was largely the same in Africa. The worst slavery happened because, taken out of context, Africans were instantly identifiable as slaves.

I think there were some positive aspects to slavery. Currently widespread prison system has a major problem - the prisoners are a money drain on the society. There was no such problem with slaves because by definition they worked to support themselves. Unfortunately, often in ruthlessly harsh conditions. Still, it was more profitable to raid a village and enslave the survivors instead of slaughtering them.
They are fundamentally the same mechanism by our current understanding of physics. It is not a pedantic point.
gifski is awesome and, be careful, produces big GIFs.

Linux users, it's available in peek, a very usable GNOME-ish screencasting tool. https://github.com/phw/peek/issues/212
I don't know why you blame GCC. It doesn't stuff any such metadata into binaries on its own, but because it was asked to do so. Also, I'm pretty sure most reproducibility issues has nothing to do with a C compiler anyway.
But that would be detrimental to the performance of an SSD, no?
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I think it's really hard to parallelize alpha beta search, there might be a point where other approaches become more useful
I don't see a technical advantage either.

But I wouldn't say there's no advantage to users-- an ICO can let the founders (a) raise funds, and (b) give them a financial incentive for the project to succeed.

So in theory, ICOs can help users win because they can lead to great products that otherwise wouldn't exist. (That said, a lot of teams/projects are total junk.)
I have seen poor performance of git on Linux in very large repos, so I'm not super convinced that the dentry cache magically makes things better.

In particular, if my repo is big enough, I often don't have the entire tree in memory (because I'm doing other useful things with memory and caches got evicted). core.untrackedCache makes things a little better, but it's still not great.
I could swear Toy Story was a Pixar production long before it was Disney...
Yeah, I'm seriously considering replacing my pfSense router and repurposing the hardware as a Plex client.
The pricing is great.
They refer to the learning cone a.k.a. the learning pyramid. That model needs to die.

See https://www.worklearning.com/2006/05/01/people_remember/
I'd love to come but so far the green card lottery hasn't yielded immigration rights. any other options for entrepreneurs?
For anyone else curious, versor is on github: https://github.com/wolftype/versor
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I think this is a pretty good overview. In my last job I joined a team of 25 that grew to 250. In my current job I started on a team of 8, we just hit 35 and we're in that "30 to 50 employee" awkward zone. I'm much more comfortable with it now, having seen the same kind of chaos very recently, and I'm trying to help the younger employees understand that it's all normal!
Lots of the parameters of the evaluation function are (at least in part) automatically tuned. Here https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Automated+Tuning you can fnd some of the most successful methods
Two big questions:

* How do they handle deprecation?

At some point, they're going to realize that their API design is wrong, could be better, or could take advantage of new patterns, methods, or even customer usage patterns. As a result, they're going to have to restructure and potentially deprecate things. Do they handle it with transparency, honesty or even just make sure your stuff still works?

At Twilio, the 2008 endpoints have been deprecated for 5+ years but still work and - to the best of my knowledge - there's no sunset announced. Yes, all the examples, docs, sdks, etc encourage you to use the new endpoints but the old ones are there. Compare that to Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc which turn on and off APIs and break things with little regard for end users. Which leads to the second question..

* What's their business model?

If they make more money as you use the platform more, that's great! In biz speak, your interests are aligned! They're going to make sure you get started as quickly as possible, minimize downtime, and make sure that your stuff works now and forever. Once again, that's the Twilio model.

If you scale from 1 to 10 to 1M requests/day and they make the same amount of money (or none in many cases), then they're going to be less concerned if you can't make 1, 5, or even 10% of those calls. Even worse, if the API itself is primarily used for market penetration purposes (once again: Twitter), they may treat you as a free R&D group and let you do the exploration and prove the market before they step in.

* Early Twilio employee, current Okta employee, wrote a book on API Design
I wonder if someone were to come up with an neural network based, AlphaGo-style engine that was competitive with these other top engines, how they'd deal with these sort of rules. An "opening book" of sorts would likely be baked into the neural nets, unable to be turned on or off.

AlphaGo, for example, has definitely played well-known human openings (and innovated on them) despite having no opening book.
Use word vectors to compute similarity of the page content to banned topics, and if it is > threshold, then avoid that page. When word vectors are trained on billions of words they can pick up even the slightest hint of pedophilia. They also understand slang and memes, if present in the training corpus. I think SOTA in content filtering and classification is pretty good today for both image and text.

Another way to filter pages is to follow it in time, for a longer period and if it has multiple positives, then ban it entirely.
Anyone remembers Pachelbel Rant? First time I got aware of this topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM
Google abandons open source projects all the time, I don't see how that is a strong argument. Facebook actually uses React, IMO Angular 2+ was built for the sole purpose of consulting, thus more breaking changes and magic DSL.
You need 'legal rights' because it's (almost) the only way to enforce agreements.

Suppose you use BTC to buy something, and someone ripped you off. Do you get a gun, and 'take care of your own business'?

Do you grasp that 'the law' and 'the government' is there to manage the social contract that we have in place?

Commercial law is there to help us sort out agreements we make with one another.

Crypto-currencies have very limited ability to do that.

Also - owning a 'coin' is owning an abstract number that someone made up, which does not give it a whole lot of value.

Owning a 'share' implies ownership in the company ---> The company's money in their bank account, their real-estate etc. - it belongs to you. That's a really big deal - someone giving you their cash, and their future earnings, the IP, in return for 'money now'.

"It's not a utopia - it's a vision for the future unfolding, 'happening right now'"

No it's not. Nobody is using coins for any kind of commerce, and ICOs are turning out to be scams so they will disappear fast. BTC is just a pyramid scheme. It will be 'around for a while' because more people will find out about the scheme and 'want in'. Eventually it will lose steam. My bet is that BTC crashes when the first economic crash happens in the West - people will need to liquidate their BTC and prices will fall - as soon as their is legit downward price pressure on BTC it could go to zero pretty quickly.
Minor correction: you can disable it, but this doesn't change the status of the data already deduped. This is in fact true also when you enable it: current data is unaffected by the change, you need to move/copy it.

The biggest issue is that there is no official tool to have a list of files that are currently deduped (I had to write a script that parse the output of zdb) so if you're not sure you have to move all the data out of the dataset.
> Amazon Smile only works with charities.

They work with any type of nonprofit, not only charities.
They had two on stage. One tall, one less-tall. That's the latter.
More like “IRC bot archeology”.
I'd agree with your perceived trend. Ubuntu has the right idea with the LTS releases. Microsoft had the right idea with the LTSB, but ruined it by making it limited to enterprise customers.

I hope Apple and Microsoft will start to realize many of their customers see the OS as the layer for getting things done, and not as an end to itself. Annual, or semi-annual, feature updates are not fun, waste time with a slow install, and the features are frequently unwanted. And with the lack of QA in both companies, each major update brings a whole host of new bugs.
A Linux util is more like a program function than a piece of software. The fact that it’s compiled as a separate executable isn’t really relevant as it’s typically deployed as part of something bigger such as a Linux distribution - which is a piece of software that is certainly is complex enough to have bugs forever. “Bug free” software might exist but it’s rare.

The most important thing is that I need to be reassured that if a major bug is discovered in the software I’m using, then it will be fixed. How can I be sure of that? The absolutely simplest way is if the software releases regular updates with very small changes. It’s a heartbeat to let people know there is someone that will solve the future problem.

I don’t even need to install these updates! They are mostly symbolic, that doesn’t make them irrelevant.