skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GANs are for graphics, not machine learning. They have no test scores as they cannot run on the test set. Therefore, its hard to tell how much they overfit.

But they have uses, like for lossy compression of images or texture generation. Stuff which focuses on the graphical side of things where it outperforms machine learning methods with its crisper samples.

For an overview of this argument: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.01844

The idea of adversarial training is important and relevant in ML though! It allows for setting up losses which are hard to formulate otherwise.
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> "But no regime would go to such enormous expense, year in, year out for sixty years, to inculcate into its citizens a worldview to which it did not itself subscribe."

That seems like an odd and unsubstantiated assertion.
Ok, we've changed to that first link from http://www.enca.com/technology/japanese-inventor-shatters-ex.... Thanks!
It wouldn't be a 3D volume though. A 2D histogram is a 3D volume. A 3D histogram would require a 4D object, so it would be a case of "first build your hypercube..."
Hi, please don't take this the wrong way I develop neither native apps, nor electron apps, I'm just curious.

Is the hostility towards electron mostly from native app developers who are feeling their value diminished, and/or their careers threatened by the advent of electron?

Is this love for 'develop separately for 3 different platforms' backed by some practical/rational thinking?

Edit: Also I feel your analogy is a false equivalence. Perhaps a better analogy would be between a wood fire over, and an electric one.
I dont get the crisis. If 3% disconnect with 1.3, then retry again with secure 1.2. Its only a performence penalty for those 3%. Its obviously less than lets-talk-about-it penalty.
He hasn't really done much to prove conclusively that it's not just coordinates associated with his wifi SSID.

> there is a red push pin right on top of literally the room I am sitting in in the house using Google Maps Satellite View.

why not step outside and try again, see if it moves. or is that room just where he spends most of his time with the phone location services turned on connected to wifi...?
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Things explicit is not (coining syntactic salt)
> Indian IT Outsourcing Industry ⊆ Indian IT Industry

Indian IT outsourcing has been the vast majority of cash flow into the Indian IT sector, that much is undeniable. There is some actually good Indian IT talent out there and it's picking up steam, but that's not where the money is yet.

And to the western/eruropean markets, Indian IT industry == Indian IT outsourcing industry. And the Indian IT outsourcing industry has developed a very strong negative stigma which I expect will completely kill it over the next ~5 years. Does the 'real' Indian IT industry have enough cash and momentum to survive that? Maybe, I'm not sure. One thing is for certain: all the low skilled IT workers which make up 95%+ of the outsourcing industry, they're all going to be permanently out of those jobs and new jobs like that aren't coming.

And from personal experience with those low skilled indian IT workers, I think it would be a miracle if even 1% of them are able to re-skill for the real engineering work that's now in demand. Not only that, but just the fact that you're in India is a strong signal that that you're terrible, even if you're actually not. I've seen Indian IT workers with CVs 3 times the size of mine and glowing recommendations from past employers, and most of them failed fucking fizzbuzz. After you deal with a dozen people like that, you just start to subconsciously dismiss Indian candidates because chances are, they're gonna be another one of those.

tl;dr: In terms of economics, the Indian IT industry is the outsourcing industry, and that cash well is drying up fast. Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka saw the writing on the wall and bailed on a high note.
What those packages fail to realize is that many of us still value more than just our wife and kids.

Relocating means leaving uncles aunts, cousins, mom, dad, grandma, etc. And any friends you have.

I've had to explain to many recruiters that leaving all my friends and family and my community as a whole is just not an option.
You might like Lynis (https://github.com/CISOfy/lynis). A lightweight security scanner that can be integrated as well.
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It was a lot of negative comments about government and president himself. Thats how they solved the problem...
OP said that CHF always causes sudden weight gain; they never said that sudden weight gain always indicates CHF. You're the only person here who implied that.
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If you can find examples of this I'd like to see them. Emailing hn@ycombinator.com is best.
In advanced levels, grammar and lots of homophones are what holding me back.
WaveNet2 is using a variant of GANs to produce the most high fidelity speech (text->to->voice) of any computer system out there - in realtime. WaveNet from last year took 50 sec (i think) to generate 1 sec of audio. By using a variant of a GAN to re-engineer WaveNet, they can now produce real-time high quality text-to-voice:
https://deepmind.com/documents/131/Distilling_WaveNet.pdf
That is true but does it make the article incorrect? If this is really what they do and not a flat out lie then it's honest marketing.
Allianz (huge insurance company) just opened some kind of branded co-working / barista bar / meetup space in the middle of one of Berlin’s “edgiest” neigbourhoods. It’s frankly quite hilarious and a fantastic example of cargo culting. The slogans on the wall, the lighting, the tables: it all feels like a WeWork mashup with a Google office made by someone from some remote island who just read about all this stuff. Google Allianz F200.
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I work for a similar company and all of the IT floors have also adopted the very trendy startup setup. The irony being that IT in large bank is by far the most bureaucratic part of the bank, to an extreme (you will not discuss with anyone without going through a ticket system - even developers, they will rather bankrupt the bank than deviate from a policy or procedure, planned work has to go through twenty committees before anyone will even lift a finger, etc). And they are as agile as an elephant (despite lecturing the rest of the bank on how they too can get stuff done by adopting agile!).
Why would/should the Uber app try to associate SSIDs with coordinates?
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Could it be that Germany's army is so unpopular as a job because of its good social security system?
It seems the US has so many soldiers not because of patriotism, but because of job security and good health coverage, which is already mostly a given in Germany.
I suggest you go and check the senior leadership on LinkedIn for the current stream of startups and large companies.

Even more - we have expats actually building successful and highly funded startups in India. Take a look at Zoomcar, Zestmoney and CreditMate. India is extremely startup friendly for foreigners - maybe not as friendly as the US, but definitely more than Europe, China, etc.

We are one of the world's largest consumer internet and smartphone market ... oh and with strong net neutrality guarantees. Everyone wants to tap into that. India is moving very differently now !

In the last week, I have had 2 conversations with CXO level leadership of companies in the Bay Area, who want to move back to India and build startups here. I get to do this a lot because I run one of the earliest YC funded companies in India (when it was "special" for YC to fund an Indian startup). I end up being the sounding board for a lot of CXO level talent moving back to India.

BTW - Indian startups form the second largest pool for YC applications now (after the US). Not sure what the funding stats are.
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1.2 is still secure. This downgrading/oiling is simple and works for all future versions.

TLS is already so complex and ASN.1 makes xml look like c-struct. This begs the question: why would anyone want to make a crypto overly complex ?
For the exact scenario that the author is describing; attempting to ping your location while you've got your GPS switched off. I don't think it's a particularly uncommon practice.

Not saying it's likely, just something that he should probably attempt to disprove before declaring that the Uber app is sneakily using your GPS after you tell your phone to turn it off.
The point is that you don't need the added complexity of a worker pool. It's another thing to break, so why bother?
If it were a question of letting "passionate, smart people have it out", then sure. Unfortunately that's not what you get in practice on the open internet. What you get are (a) people who want to vent their personal issues for whatever reason, and (b) windbags who think themselves smarter than they are.

These can quickly dominate the threads. That repels the smarter people. This is how we could fall into a death spiral. Worse, the risk grows as the site grows, because then more people are attracted to it for wrong reasons. (Right reason: curiosity. Wrong reason: hearing the sound of one's own voice, or making others do so.)

To sustainably have a forum of the kind you describe, you'd need to close it off from the public internet. We're not going to do that with Hacker News, so we have guidelines to prevent it. This does come at the cost of leaving the site "a little flat", as you say—I've made the same point in the past using the word bland instead of flat. But better flat than dead.
Yeah. Automation makes many webdev jobs redundant.

Let's say you have a restaurant or something. Before, you had to hire somebody to host/design your website. Now, Google/SquareSpace/Wix will do that for you. A lot of these sites also have payment options built in.

Sure, those sites you make automatically won't be so flashy as a personalized one. But, realistically, if you're a business, what you need is the location, hours, maybe a picture, and a list of what you're selling. That's something all these automated website generators provide.
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The SBA, SCORE, many state/regional/local biz dev agencies, chambers of commerce, certain industry groups, etc., all provide consulting services along these lines.

It's not really reasonable to demand an "all in one" brochure covering every legal requirement for every type of business at the local, county, state, and federal levels.
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Maybe it's a clever way to pay property tax. There's no other use for a ledger that couldn't just be a database+transaction log.
Huh. For us, cross functional means very specifically that backend, mobile, and frontend engineers are on the same team (previously there was a backend team, a frontend team, and a mobile team, and getting a major feature done required coordinating all three).
After reading about ZeroVM I was incredibly excited - but then saw the last Git commit was in January 2015 =[

Is it considered "stable" or is it simply abandoned? Are there any successors? Near zero overhead VM acting on data storage is something I'll need for a planned project of my own.
I briefly worked as a contractor for one of the largest ad networks in the world and we outsourced 20K ad review jobs to South Asia over 3 year period. But then came advancement in machine learning and now you only needed a few people to review ads after the adversary networks flagged them.
I agree, but he attempts to shame other firms when they decide to copy something from Apple. He comes across as a hypocrite.

Personally I find many of Apples "innovations" abhorrent and it frustrates me that they have been universally copied. They have popularised disposable, unrepairable, slippery, ultra-fragile phones!
If it’s non crystalline then yes, glass is defined as a non crystalline amorphous solid and there are more than a handful of plastics that fall into that category.
I still don't get why we can't talk about banning "fake news" like wall street journal on hn.

These are clearly hit pieces and as my parent mentioned, part of a coordinated effort to undermine Google. They did the same thing with YouTube. Everyone is worse off because of wsj.
Thanks for the elaborate reply.

> I get where you're at, though. You don't get value from taking notes until you've taken a lot of notes and it takes forming the habit of taking notes to get that value

Exactly, I think.. I struggle with the details of the notes I take. Maybe it is just practice. Do I take a one-liner, a paragraph? Pictures? In between?

My current way of working is to have a Todoist [0] filled with tasks, properly tagged and assigned to projects. Emails that need action go into Todoist, tasks from meetings go into Todoist, any tasks I come up with, Todoist. Next to this I have a Pocket [1] filled with articles, both to read later but I also use it as reference material and future use. Also properly tagged (most of times).

Now that leaves only notes that are not actions. Either from content that is too large to have in my pocket (say longer than a blog post) or not from any content I can send to Pocket at all. Probably the freeflow nature of these comments is what makes it hard for me to write them down. Granularity, quality, and governance are hard here. On my previous tries I either ended up with a huge pile of messy notes I never used or with too few notes that didn't accurately cover my thoughts at the time, i.e. needed to redo the process the note originated from.

I'll try again. Maybe this time things go right. If it is practice there is no shortcut to become a successful note-taker it seems.

[0] https://todoist.com/
[1] https://getpocket.com/
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(2) https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo ?
Hehe, serves me right! ;-)

Thanks for the correction!
obviously worked find for me or I wouldn't have posted it, Firefox Developer 58.0b11
> Lets talk of the Indian 1% when somebody in a Indian university writes some thing the equivalent of a Linux, Perl or FreeBSD.

Easy-peasy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_B._Shah

He didn't even go to IIT - regular University of Mumbai undergrad.

Here's another: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nehanarkhede/ - co-creator of Kafka, attended University of Pune for undergrad.

I'll grant you they both benefited from attending grad school in the US.
Non-paywall link: http://archive.is/XwCtU
Plexiglas is a type of glass, it’s non silicate based but glass non the less.
I'm thinking that if you can stick things that people commonly carry around together just by pressing them against each other that this opens up a whole new area of drunken antics
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Ask HN: What is the best way to learn copywriting?
All energy discharges could be weaponized. Take the bow and arrow for instance.
I spent yesterday rewriting my ZSH config. A lot of the time I spent on figuring out how to map random key combos to unused control characters. So if I could implement both the terminal and the shell from scratch (or make a significant addition), I would implement a scenario like this:

1. Program informs the terminal that it supports "extended keyboard input". This would be done with an escape code, much like bracketed paste.
2. Terminal informs the program that it is now enabled.
3. Terminal informs the program of the initial modifier key state.
4. When the user presses a key (including modifiers), it is sent in a format that standardizes over all the commonly used key codes. Also, if the key represents a Unicode codepoint, that is sent as well. E.g. (mod-status-at-key-press)(key-code)(utf8-char-or-null)(null-terminator).
5. When the user releases a key, a similar message would be sent.
6. When the program exits (or a shell runs another program), it asks the terminal to disable "extended keyboard input"
>Is the hostility towards electron mostly from native app developers who are feeling their value diminished, and/or their careers threatened by the advent of electron?

I'm a web developer (though backend these days) myself.

My hostility towards Electron is purely as an end-user.

>Is this love for 'develop separately for 3 different platforms' backed by some practical/rational thinking?

Performance, memory, speed, following the platforms conventions and taking full advantage of its APIs, looking and behaving best for each platform.

So, anything else except "put something out there fast / attract JS programmers" (which are valid concerns too, but not user-first ones).
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> Obviously no one would ever run something like this 1 vm per request thing irl.

I can see plenty of use-cases for doing just that. Large uploads, time-consuming request/responses such as server-side data processing, RPC, as a backend behind a caching front-end so that it only has to respond to invalidated cache entries, etc.

I don't see many people using this to actually serve general website requests though. It'd probably be modified to serve multiple requests until nothing is left to do and then exit.
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tech-driven kaboom? oh no, not again
Isn't this similar to yoctos bitbake? A bunch of package repos with a small build combiner on top.

I'm also curious how else would you do it? The article make it sound unique but this seems like the obvious solution, at least conceptually. How do other distros manage and build their packages?
"Why do you need a raise? You get $xxx in minimum salary."

Salaries (except maybe minimum wage) are set by demand and supply. UBI will do nothing to demand, will do nothing to supply of high skilled jobs and may actually reduce supply for low paying jobs by providing an alternative that isn't starving.
Cargo 'cult' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
Literally the very FIRST link on the OP article is a link to the page you posted. I wouldn't call that plagiarism per se, as he pays attribution to the original article right from the outset.
Have you found Wix or Webflow to work better for an app web site?
Are they roughly comparable? Or is one significantly better than other?

We want a way for people to sign up to our newsletter, form submission for feedback. It's for a mobile app, so the mobile version of the site is more important than the desktop one. Our designer, who doesn't know HTML/CSS, should be able to work on it. Thanks.
> Without a getter (which is a security issue) or introducing global state or passing the values all around you can't set a temporary value for the title. Is that clearer ?

yes, it is. thank you ! one simple solution might be to wrap this thingy within an 'xprop(1)' invokation. for example, i can do the following:

signal11@fatcat networking % xprop -id 0x2c00022 | grep WM_NAME
WM_NAME(STRING) = "fatcat:~/source-code/c/networking"
signal11@fatcat networking % cd ~/source-code/c/quick-hacks
signal11@fatcat quick-hacks % xprop -id 0x2c00022 | grep WM_NAME
WM_NAME(STRING) = "fatcat:~/source-code/c/quick-hacks"
signal11@fatcat quick-hacks %

WM_NAME(STRING) points to the current title. and when i change the directory, i can query the new name. fitting this mechanism for aforementioned usecase is left as an exercise for the reader :) fwiw, the value for '-id' argument comes from 'xwininfo(1)'
I don't know any Lojban at all, but I do know formal logic and "there exists" (∃) is usually used to denote existence with respect to some universe of discourse, and not necessarily physical existence. Most mathematical concepts only exist as things that mathematicians talk about, not unlike Unicorns. However, I would read the example sentence as making a statement about all unicorns, of the form "∀ U ∈ Unicorns . U ∈ MythicalCreatures ∧ (∃ H ∈ Horses . looks-like(U, H)) ∧ ∃ H ∈ Horns . (has(U, H) ∧ ∃F ∈ Foreheads . (has(U, F) ∧ coming-out-of(H, F)))" or something to that effect.

The sentence about counterexamples to Fermat's last theorem could be written using an existential quantifier without problem, since it appears in a negated sentence, thus not actually claiming their existence, rather the nonexistence of counterexamples discovered prior to 1993.

However, looking at the definition you linked, it appears that "lo" does not have any specific equivalent in formal logic since "It converts a selbri, selecting its first argument, into a sumti. The resulting expression refers generically to any or some individual or individuals that fit as the first argument of the selbri." which seems to be mostly a grammatical function?
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How is a submission considered to be "fine?" Looking at @pmoriarty's history, it seems that his submissions are not highly upvoted...
At it's core all of these things are pretty much new names and some constraints on existing architectural patterns like service/service interface (facade), layered design, and service agent/service. They tend to be a bit divisive in that traditional layers, for example (presentation/business/data) is seen as a constraint, and layers in onion have no constraint. Detractors of hexagonal architetcure suggest it implies no more than 6 ports and adaptors, and so on.

Ultimately none of these patterns matter. The design philosophy that underlies them (separation of concerns, for example) does. It's something that becomes self-evident as you progress from junior to senior and beyond. We as an industry seem to love telling each other how our way is the one true way.
McDonald’s is by far more successful than other burger chains; Starbucks than coffee chains. WeWork is trying (and at this point seems to be succeeding) to be the equivalent for coworking spaces.

Also note McDonald’s burgers are not very different than burger kings, and Starbucks is not better than any other chains. The secret sauce doesn’t have to be in the actual product.
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If he's into programming, he could try writing server-side mods with the Spigot framework.
Australian armed forces have a presence in the Middle East and in Afghanistan etc. We have troops on the ground in firefights, and F/A-18s from our air force conducting missions dropping lethal munitions.

Our forces have fought alongside US and other allies in nearly every major conflict, so our flag and slouch hat regalia would be well known to most on the 'other side'.
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YES, "Tech-driven", but FOR PROFILE.
SO it is none of ordinary people's business.

It is economy, not people's wages.
Hasn't it been coming like every 4/5 years after internet (web) happened.
This could be a new use for DRMs. Certifying that the image stream is real and unaltered (or only by trusted sources).
Blots: A simple paper-based storage format
http://www.nasscom.in/sites/default/files/NASSCOM_Annual_Gui...

As per slide 2, IT outsourcing still is the largest contributor to the IT industry. It is not a subset. As per this report at least. I couldn't find any other credible sources.

"All engineers/engineering effort/R&D in country X is obviously substandard"
This is obviously a very biased statement that suffers from the 'some/all' fallacy based on anecdotal evidences. Unfortunately the world works this way. What the majority sees and believes is what trumps, regardless of the truth.