skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that can be mainly attributed to the fact that the last few deconvolutional features are overfitted to features in the image and are somewhat robust to noise. The network does not even learn features to produce e.g. white noise as output. This is probably much less magical than the paper makes it seem to be.
My brother, a Business Analyst implements the prototype in Excel and hands it over to engineering team to develop it in SQL.
I think the variance among grammars is smaller than variance among vocabularies. Just take any two romance languages. Their grammars will be much more similar than their vocabularies are. This, I think, suggests that a large part of the difficulty involved in learning a new language is actually due to changes in vocabulary. Trying to learn a language with completely different words seems like a Stroop task on steroids.
You're making a mistake to make it sound so casual, at least put in a warning to always backup the bios image first before flashing the chip. Not all boards are the same, for example I've got a gigabyte board,I've flashed the bios just setting the HAP bit and it bricked the board because that part of the image segment is checksum validated. Luckly I had the backup ready to flash back so there was no downtime.
This is genius. I't obvious it's genius because it's so obvious. Once it's said you know it's just the solution you wish you had thought of yourself years ago because it's so obvious and would have saved you so much trouble. That is the true hallmark of genius.

As a father of a few children with multiple bins of lego, thank you.
> Google is officially off-setting 100% of its energy usage with either wind or solar power.

A tad misleading, they are still reliant on fossil fuels but are offsetting it elsewhere. That said I think the congratulations are well deserved.
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Actually, “rama” (branch), “cama” (bed), “mucama” (maid) are all femenine.

“Centurión” (roman military rank) and “esturión” (fish) are masculine
I don't see how it necessarily must be TANSTAAFL. Maybe Rust is indeed suited for being zero-cost in memory and speed performance compared to C, but the toolchain isn't there yet.
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Chinese man changes road markings for faster commute. Real World hack?
Talos is POWER9, not RISC-V. And arguable POWER9 is better than all the RISC-V chips on the market right now.
> "And finally, you’ll need to know at least some C. The C++ runtime is far too large for the kernel, so writing bare metal C is essential."

And here I was about to ask if anyone has a similar article based on Rust :)
Most seed stage investments return 0. The ones that return 10x or 100x are the ones that seed investors are counting on to balance out returns.
Re: incarceration rate

We have one of the highest crime rates in the world. If our penal system didn't work the way it did, America would descend into chaos.
What do Gabor filters have to do with this?
This is some solid feedback, thanks for taking the time to write it up. I work on ReasonML, so a lot of this feedback describes problems we’d like to help the OCaml community solve. We are making progress on the popularity front by leveraging the JS ecosystem and it is proving to be an effective approach due to the size and openness of the JS community. Meanwhile the OCaml ecosystem (libraries, compilers, build systems(see jbuilder and its docs)) have been improving in the last two years so I would recommend checking it out sometime soon again.

I had a different experience with OCaml libraries. I’ve found some great gems in the OCaml ecosystem. For example, Menhir is an excellent parser generator used in Reason itself and it’s well documented and very powerful. I think many of these great pieces of the ecosystem stay hidden due to the exposure problem you mentioned, which comes back to popularity.

Another major missing piece of the library story was a way to build web apps using the most common web frameworks so we developed Reason React as part of the ReasonML project. https://reasonml.github.io/reason-react/
It’s definitely not a “bolted on” approach to React - it’s carefully thought out and in my opinion the API improves significantly upon React in ways that can only be done with language level type system features. Reason React is how I wish React always was.

Apologies for hijacking the GraphQL library thread to plug our project.
If you take as your universe the set of all ventures that pitch to seed stage, probably yeah. Most of them are weeded out by investors. I suspect a good many ICOs are weeded out by "investors" as well, but if you pitch to enough people, there's always someone willing to suspend disbelief. (This goes for seed stage ventures as well...some truly idiotic business models have gotten funded.)
Anyone know why the title was changed away from the actual title of the article?
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Yeah but data analysis is only one of many usages for Excel.

Let me give you a practical example I ran last week. I want to construct a portfolio of loans starting with an existing portfolio, such that it follow a certain total balance and maturity profile through time, by replenishing it every month with new loans of various maturity (I am solving for the individual notionals of these new loans).

So inputs are

1. the existing portfolio, hundreds of entries with various parameters: start, end, notional, etc

2. the target maturity profile at every point in time

3. the target balance of the portfolio at every point in time

A simple LINQ query won't do. For the example above, you want to model it in C#, but the inputs are lots of tables. In that case I find the optimal way is for the script to accept spreadsheets as input files (wrote a "xlsx (de)serialiser") and output files. Effectively Excel becomes the UI of the script. Nothing beats the Excel UX in giving you the ability to build a table, change or copy/paste data in bulk, etc.
If you want to understand the motives of the Revolutionary War, look at the Articles of Confederation rather than the current Constitution.
Instead of algo-trading the stock markets?!

There are a number of distributed computing projects (e.g. SETI@home): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_...

The Ethereum White Paper lists a number of applications for blockchains: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper

(BitCoin is built on SHA-256, Ethereum is built on Keccak-256 (~SHA-3))

Proof-of-Stake is a lower energy alternative to Proof-of-Work with tradeoffs: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ

Unfortunately, IDK of another way to find secure consensus (blockchains are consensus protocols) in a DDOS-resistant way with unsolved problems?
Well, a Germanic language, but much closer to the other members of the Anglo-Frisian group than it is to German itself.
This sounds like it makes sense to offer as a service: You should know how to protect against electrostatic shocks and preparing everything is time consuming. It scales much better after the first time.
Maybe mobile phone repair shops would be interested in offering?
Here the post:

https://symfony.com/blog/hello-symfony-4
Or, better, the Declaration of Independence.
Check out http://www.craftinginterpreters.com for something more in-depth.
can anybody share how coderpad is different from hackerrank ?
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Can someone explain why they would transition to a new hash function and not a block chain based system of tracking? If one of the goals of introducing a stronger hash function is signage of individual commits it seems like a block chain would be ideal.
"Abuela"? "Azúcar" "Abuela"?
If you need another OS besides SmartOS for serving data, you have far bigger problems.

Kernel modules are only meant to be installed in the global zone, on the hardware. This is by design. If you need access to that particular device, it can be delegated to that zone with the add subcommand to zonecfg(1M).

Zones do not increase attack surface, I don't know what would make you think that. They reduce the attack surface because one can set up read-only zones, good luck changing anything in there. In a zone, attacker lands in a jail, assuming they actually manage to break in!

What strange times we live in when there is so much misconception. So much knowledge lost! No wonder AWS and Linux rule the day!

Zones are a revolutionary technology in terms of network security. What makes you think zones increase attack surface?
That is a lot of steps to setup a little camera without giving you the core software that powers the whole shebang. If you don't know tensorflow or how to set it up, that seems to be a bit of the most important part. Unless of course, someone knows of a good starting place for setting it up yourself.
It was awesome. I’ve worn out a Revo playing with that. But the most over engineered hinge design IMHO have to be the IBM butterfly keyboard on the Thinkpad 701.
The problem with Excel is that whilst it's an easy development environment, and a vastly flexible one, it's absolute death to debug.

At Uni, decades ago (and using Lotus-1-2-3 rather than Excel), we were given a set of spreadsheet templates for a business management exercise (the project ran much the duration of the course). I discovered looking at these that there was an error in the spreadsheet double-counting all inputs (rows and columns were added and the row-totals included in the grand total). Best I can tell, finding that bug was not in fact part of the course goal....

At an early gig doing analytics we hired an old fart who actually introduced some rigour to our project practices, including code walkthroughs. Some of this involved more obviously programmatic tools, but the process was also applied, over the strenuous objections of the analyst involved, to a project largely done in Excel. Numerous errors were found, and corrected. The spreadsheet was also significantly rationalised by having "dumb" data-entry area, and then relying on a sheet with VBA code rather than in-cell logic for the computations.

The analyst continued to object to the code review, after the errors were found and corrected, insisting that it was inappropriate because he "wasn't a programmer". (I looked him up recently, he's continuing to work on analytic projects, two decades on.)

This was also about the time that I first heard of Ray Panko, at the University of Hawaii, who'd found reliably that 88% of spreadsheets had errors. This still holds largely true.

http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu/

I'm not saying "get rid of all Excel". But I am saying that the tool makes for very, very, very buggy processes, and this is itself a problem.

I'd love to see work toward alternatives that retain the flexibility and versatility of Excel (or other spreadsheets) but reduce the possibility of bugs and errors.
Yes, but ICOs as a class are not counted as seed investment, at least not of the traditional variety that is known to be legal.
TPC-DS has some incredibly complex queries that might be too complex for a database that doesn't have very extensive syntax coverage
I am learning Chinese and have been for 2 years and I think I still will be in 5 more years. Hoping to add Korean and Japanese at some point though.
Chinese has symbols which do not correspond to pronunciation. Each symbol represents a syllable and there are no spaces between words and no capital / lowercase.

IT WOULD BE SIM A LER TO LEARN ING ENG LISH WRIT TEN LIKE THIS.
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If you control the OS, you also control the firmware (if you want a way to install new firmware from the OS). No way around.
Go has traded throughput for latency. The throughput of a semispace copying collector is very high for most workloads, but can suffer latency issues. There is literally zero cost to collecting garbage in the nursery with the algorithm described in TFA (a nursery collection has a cost proportional only to the live data), and the cost of allocating in the nursery is just incrementing a single value. However eventually you need to collect the entire heap, and it's still proportional to the size of the live data, which is usually the majority of the heap (since you've already collected the nursery at that point).
Having been through the track a few years ago at a reasonably large university, it was somewhat limiting that the teaching style basically pushed the narrative that "these people thought this stuff a while ago but they were wrong and here's why, so shut up about it lest you be made a fool." It totally kills the inquisitive and investigatory nature that is the field of physics. A side-effect to this, too, was that when students aren't testing the boundaries and running into all these limiting cases with their own inquisitions, they don't get the kinds of insights that really make understanding physical systems intuitive. For instance, did you know Hamiltonian systems must have an even number of dimensions? It makes sense now that I think about it wrt Newton's 2nd, but I learned this last week in a graduate-level math course.

I'd love to see more of a seminar-type setup for courses where every week an investigation is done and yhe students try to figure it out, while the teacher provides a gentle nudge in the right direction when mistakes are made along with the lessons learned from history. IMO this would make for a much more solid understanding of the scientific method and progress re: "standing on the shoulders of giants."
NewHash is a terrible name - on par with Xbox One [X] and iPad New. Googling stuff will be hard, and good luck explaining to less technical-savvy users what is this all about.

Plus, in 100 years, when SHA-256 is compromised, what would be the name of a new new format?
I agree with the recommendations. I love caverna.

Patchwork is great two player game, by that same designer, that I can even play with my mother. She's not particularly into games either.

My game of the year so far is Yokohama. If you like worker placement, I imagine you would like this.
Ask HN: Favorite product roadmaps?
One of my favorite roadmaps of all times was Dwarf Fortress:

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev.html

It's been greatly simplified since they first started doing it. But it's nice to see a massive project split into arcs, and satisfying to watch things go from white to pink to blue to green. I haven't played the game in years, but I still watch the development.

Initially, a lot of the features came in the forms of stories:

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_story.html

As in actual short stories, and how to implement them into game mechanics.

Does anyone else have a favorite roadmap that you read just because they're enjoyable to read?
>I wish OCaml had the libraries and community

What's wrong with the libraries and community? There are thousands of libs in opam repository and although community may be smaller than Go's, the quality of OCaml community is incredibly high.
1) VPNs are also generally blocked since June 2017. Even a privately run OpenVPN without the obfuscate module will not work either. One reliable way is to use psiphon [1], also available for Android. Make sure to download it _before_ you enter China.

[1] https://psiphon.ca/
This would make a great story for The Daily WTF: https://what.thedailywtf.com/
On the other hand cheap flights and the internet make it easy to travel. You get the likes of Rupert Murdoch with bases in London, NY and Aus and the businesses held by various tax haven trusts and not much tax paid.
The best explanation I've heard of tones is the different pronunciations of "really" in "Really?" "Really!" "Really hungry" "Really good" etc
Let them eat Emacs?
Almost all commercial VPNs are blocked, also many openVPN style services are detected and blocked too.
What makes me skeptical, is they rate Arabic as much more difficult than Hebrew, two languages with some mutual intelligibility.
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I would argue that the keyboard is already the optimal device to both input and manipulate text to the point where touch adds little.
Dude that elitest crap you're spouting is exactly what killed Solaris.

I am not farm help and there is no need to insult me. It won't help you.

Repeat after me: I read the manual pages and it's still crap.

Then you need to go back to the basics and learn UNIX. Start with "The art of UNIX programming" (it's freely available on-line). If you don't grok UNIX (not Linux) manual pages, it's time for back to school. It'll help you being better on Linux too, because you'll grok the overarching concepts.

When I asked Joyent in 2013 for information needed to improve the wifi stack there was exactly zero interest.

That is completely understandable to me; Joyent doesn't want to finance the development of a driver for your laptop because their resources are constrained and their focus is on serving data across datacenters. In the UNIX mantra: "do one thing and do it well".

They will however help you to learn how to write device drivers but you obviously have no interest in that, otherwise you'd have done so like for example Murayama-san did.

Here's the 425 pages Oracle document that provides a tiny intro to how you "could" "maybe" get started

You only needed to read the manual pages for dladm(1M) and ifconfig(1M) and to have looked at the EXAMPLES sections. Crossbow, the underlying technology in both Solaris and illumos remains unchanged or at the very least backward compatible.

Judging by the way you talk I really seriously doubt you have any meaningful architecture running on SmartOS that's self managed.

If you equate "self managed" and "architecture" with clicking around on little VM buttons in a (web) GUI or editing Docker YAML files, then you are correct. I do my (configuration) management with operating system packages. When configuration overlay packages are installed, systems talk to each other automatically. If a human has to click on anything anywhere, it's a bug and gets logged and corrected as such. I on the other hand suspect this is a concept so alien to you that you probably think it's absolutely crazy. Fact is, it worked for 70,000+ systems for the past 12 years and continues to do so.

You're the zealot here. If I may ask, have you ever contributed to illumos codebase in any way yet?

Yes I am because it's excellent technology; I don't hide it and I don't pretend otherwise. And yes I have.
Not saying that telemetry should not be opt-in, but sending every keystroke to amazon and sending aggregated, anonymized data is not the same.
Carcassonne is one of the best examples of this imo.
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I'm Italian and I can read both French and Spanish well. On the surface they look like Italian with different words and different pronunciation. However when I try to write them I appreciate the differences in how the sentences are built. One gets unnatural results trying to write French and Spanish as if they were Italian.

English* is definitely* a different* language* even if some words are about the same. I marked* those words with an asterisk* . German is much more different* and difficult*.

Computer language metaphor. If you know Ruby you can immediately understand Python but you discover you can't write Python as if it is Ruby. People would laugh at your scripts (and where are all those blocks? Easier the other way around.)
You also think you can understand Elixir but this is not really the case. It is difficult to understand Erlang
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In that case why bother with using a data url at all? They could just use "www.paypal.com.cgi-bin.webscr.xxxxxxxxx.myevilsite.com"
It does if you want to be awesome like jacquesm and have it auto-sort the pieces: https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego
Former finance developer:
1. Without Excel, every finance company will need another 100 developers, BA's, managers and QA to do programming and updates. $$$$.

2. Most of the data sources I've seen are heterogenous or very expensive. It comes in from big companies via secure FTP overnight, small companies via pdf. Big companies won't change their rules for you, small ones don't have the staff to do it. You can quietly and immediately export to excel from a terminal at 5pm, or be charged an extra 200K a year for the overnight deluxe data export package and still not get the same bond valuation you need to reconcile. (looking at you, Bloomberg!).

3. Every rockstar portfolio manager has their own models, and not even the VP of IT dares tell them what to use. There's no "bog-standard model" that everyone uses. That's the expensive PM's edge.

4. Speed. Requirements, test cases, test server, scheduling personnel, project planning, testing, promotion to prod, signoff, takes a month for trivial stuff if you're lucky. Trading opportunity long gone. Analysts grab a spreadsheet, do it in half a day, make or reject the trade.

5. Capability. Pivot tables. Compact, resizeable, color-coded, read/writeable grid, notations on the side, instant recalc, reorientable text. Row inserts. Printing. Ugh.

6. Risk. Analyst does the spreadsheet, IT hands are clean. "Not our fault if you screw up".

7. Resumes. What developer wants to spend 10 years coding models and reports that are regularly modified or discarded with each new analyst and PM's whim?

8. Time. FO spends 16 hours a day trading or researching under immense stress. Asking them to find, let alone spend, 2 hours a day explaining workflows to devs is... unrealistic.

9. Education. Devs know development, not financial instruments and regs. SME's who understand both software design and finance are rare and expensive therefore used on major projects. This may hurt egos here but most devs are some combination of untrained/low social sensitivity/ESL/fragile egos/tend to start explaining a solution instead of first listening to the problem.

Devs do major dev stuff where it's warranted. Analysts can keep Excel where it's not.
Do they include the script? I bet the Hebrew script is much easier to learn than the Arabic.
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I would think that too, if not for this excellent comment downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15822024.
Which keystrokes does firefox send opt-out to google by default, to display ads? Don't spread FUD.
You need less and less money at seed stage so expectations are higher and one would expect less funding activity.

It's definitely true that starting a tech company is cheaper than ever ... but only for a certain type of tech company. If you're a developer starting a SaaS business in an industry you know and you have connections to get customers already you can get to the stage where you have your first paying customer by spending about $5/month (write the code, stick it on Digital Ocean, take payments with Stripe's pay-as-you-go tier).

However, there are a lot of businesses like physical manufacturing, knowledge-driven research, complex software, etc that you can't do that with. You need the money up front or you can't even start. If seed money falls away then only the already wealthy will be able to start in those industries. I think we'll miss out on some great ideas that could turn in to huge businesses if that's the case.
I think the converse doesn't always apply. I imagine it is easier for an English speaker to learn Spanish than it is for a Spanish speaker to learn English.

To see why, look at the common English-Spanish cognates. Most English speaker will recognize the cognates that one learns in Spanish 101 - dormir (to sleep, from dormitory), comenzar (to begin, from commence), mascota (pet, from mascot).

But reverse isn't true - words like "sleep", "begin", "pet" will sounds completely foreign to a Spanish speaker. Sure, the cognates will help them learn "dormitory", "commence", and "mascot", but those are advanced words that a learner of English may not encounter in a long time, if ever.