skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How humans write programs
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Why does HRESULT begin with H when it’s not a handle to anything?
Wow, I would love to hear how cryptocurrencies stop crony capitalism. Please explain.
I define small as in small business, as in less than 100k records. I also don't consider a linear regression to be "AI". Things like genetic algorithms and neural networks are probably overkill for an average small business. There's also little evidence to my knowledge that transfer learning is really effective on non-vision applications.

Besides, the fact that you said that linear regressions can be useful for small datasets is exactly my point.
True, but you really want to be making textiles for rich countries, not for your local market.
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If that $200 pair would have perfect fit and last about 5 years of daily wear, I'd be more than happy to buy. Sadly it's more random than that and buying a 30% chance instead of a 20% chance at 10 times the price is just not worth it.

added: What works for me is to get the $200 pairs from the local flea market for basically free.
Downtown Toronto is making a little more of a push for this these days as well.

My girlfriend and I have taken up being more strict with our sorting and we almost never through out a bag of actual trash anymore. We don't often dispose of textiles, as we reuse old shirts (ice skate rags, and other cleaning) or donate other clothing.

I didn't know about Markham's textile recycling program, though. That's great.
Ask HN: Are there any AI/ML focus groups/committee for non-researchers AI folks?
Most AI groups that I find are from ACM/ IEEE etc. I work in industry and I do not have much research background but I am looking to join few groups or volunteer in a committee that entertains non-researchers AI practitioners? Are there any such groups?
It feels like they got good at optimizing for revenue at the cost of quality, and who can blame them? But all I know is an old pair of jeans was made of heavier gauge thread and didn't wear through like today's.

The most frustrating thing is the tags are not detailed enough. "Cotton" may describe the material but not the weave or the gauge of the thread.
I can't speak for OP, but I'd expect to download the generated model otherwise my business is locked into this service.

If Google is worried about people just generating models and running, then charge for training time/resources.
Same here. I'm starting to wonder if they're doing that on purpose to profile real users according to how fast they solve multiple captchas, say by measuring reaction times between every click on a "car", or to refine their anti bot algorithms by doing a deeper analysis of real user behavior.
Whatever their intentions are, it's frustrating.
To grossly overgeneralize, most men aren't as inclined as many women to get rid of clothing just because they're tired of it after wearing it a few times. Sure, I buy things that I decide aren't as comfortable or look as good as I thought they would be--and I'll donate them. And then there are the copious piles of giveaways I seem to end up with in spite of my best efforts. But by and large, I'm probably fairly typical in that I keep most things until they're stained or worn out. (And sometimes even then if I really like them :-))
Adversarial noise is interesting, but I think it's more of a toy problem that will go away as we switch to more sophisticated models with life-long learning that are able to develop complicated, hierarchical/compositional classifications.

For instance, there was a talk at NIPS this year where the researcher developed virtual stickers that can be added to a photo and cause the image to be misclassified (eg you have a "banana" sticker that you can apply to any picture to make the classifier classify that picture as a banana). The underlying issue, IMO, is that the classifier has only a limited number of categories from which to choose, and can't develop new categories (such as "adversarially perturbed picture"). The modified image does look more like a banana than anything else, and as the classifier never trained on adversarial images as a separate category it doesn't really make sense to make any other classifications.
It's not that weird. We also generally draw a legal/moral distinction between killing someone and allowing them to die.
GitHub actually straddles the line a little bit. You'll note that when browsing around through folders in a repo on GitHub that you get the faux loading indicator along the top, and then it shows the contents you're navigating to. Same with switching between code and issues, for example. But switch to a different repo and you get a full page refresh.

For my company's product, we're much more on the side of a traditional server-side app, because users will send off a batch of information (their customers to open a line of communication with), and then wait for the responses to roll in. But the dashboard page where we show responses is a partial-SPA, similar to GitHub: new responses are loaded asynchronously, and you will soon be able to switch to different views of the data without a reload. It's a good balance for our application.

I realize it's not answering your question about how to measure it, but hopefully it provides some anecdotes.
This is really good to hear, as it seems like a very viable business in a small town like the one I have moved to.

We have a high population density in the downtown area and folks favor local over corporate offerings around here.

Keep up the good work on documentation - it was very interesting to read yesterday.

One aside, what do you consider an appropriate salary to pay yourself when you reach that 300-500 user mark.

I currently run a business and it's been a situation where at times I'll trim my salary back, and make my money on the backend when I am profitable. I'd presume much of the same approach would work here, just curious.

Also seems 100MB rates down and 5mb up in my neighborhood costs around $40/month - do you try to compete heavily on rates?
Reading these comments is a fascinating look into the ontology assumed by militant scientific materialists.
NeoPG – an opiniated fork of GnuPG 2
right yeah i mean first party, since i'm under the impression that matrix.org developed the jitsi widget for their platform; i could be wrong about who actually did what though.
I was about to type a very similar comment, but this is much of what I had in mind.

I've also seen it used to justify insufficient validation - resulting in strange generalization failures.
I remember when people used to run SETI with spare CPU capacity, and still wonder why no distributed weather forecasting system has sprung up. So had aquick google: https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-distributed-computing-pro...
Yeah, that's inspiring and all, but if you have a domestic and a naturalized candidate for the job who are both equally qualified, and the naturalized one has a 10% higher chance of being turned, just go with domestic right? Might not be "fair" to the naturalized candidate who worked hard to get where he was but fairness is not always the priority.

Reminds me of the diversity debate at Google where google jobs are talked about like some kind of award or trophy of excellence and not just selling your labor to Google
Cyprus citizens who had their deposits confiscated in 2013 by their banks emphatically disagree with you. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-10/new-laws-allow-gove...

A man who was moving across states carrying his savings in cash and who had everything confiscated by police under civil forfeiture law emphatically disagree with you. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/07/dea-asset-forfeitur...

Venezuelans who see the value of their currency evaporate and inflate 4000% yearly because of incompetence from their central bank emphatically disagree with you. http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/22/news/economy/venezuela-curre...

You see, despite being volatile, Bitcoin still solves important issues. Fundamentally it gives people the ability to carry "digital cash" and encrypt it, protect it, back it up, in a way infinitely more robust than a banknote in your pocket, or digital numbers in a computerized bank account.
For deep learning:
Surprised no one's mentioned Nando de Freitas's YouTube lectures, great series! Hugo Larochelle's YouTube course is great as well!
But how is that a problem of SPAs in general? This sounds more like a problem of using Firebase for prototyping.
I think when they got started they had a very low subscriber base and were very competitive.

I'll admit though I was paying $100/month for 300/15 in Bushwick before I moved. It's probably hard to remain competitive.
'on the bus' is quite a bit different from '1 meter of drywall away' though...
Yeah, when i was in college, i went to thrift stores. I'd get decent things on the cheap. By things i mean pants and shirts. No shoes or anything more personal.

Today i donate my stuff to them. Even if they have holes, they can be recycled.

I recall some guy in college who bought used clothing and shipped it to some guy who sold it somewhere in the Balkans, iirc. Do even if there isn't a local market, there probably is an intl market.
Thank you for your feedback!

> This will depend on part on the kind of work you do.

We're a SaaS.

> A nearby college.

The city is closer to the engineering colleges, the rural area is closer to the liberal arts colleges.

> Research facilities, chamber of commerce or other business support.

That is definitely one of the factors I want to use to express my view. Both locations have great Chambers of Commerce but the city has (rough guess) 30x more businesses in it.
As many here seems to doubt the market for this thing:

Less than 10 years ago I was hired to do a job that was 80% mindnumbingly boring. (Think copy and paste to Excel.)

I was paid well above the USD50' that is mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

There was a team of us with widely different background and I think only me and one other had degrees in IT.

One of my colleagues came straight from a job as taxi driver (got hired after talking to someone in the company while driving him to the airport).

In case anyone wonders: he turned out to be really good.
This is the way I see it as well. They at the very least never claimed to be a charity and operated this way.

To that end, I also donate items to the Salvation Army who also makes a visible positive impact on lives and communities. They operate on a non-profit basis.
Where I live (Caribbean island) you often find in dump place or trash clothes that are still in good condition, sometimes very good.

For example last week, I found an almost new suitcase near a trash bin. Out of curiosity I gave it a look. Inside were brand new clothes, new shoes in their box with still the price on it (around 250€).

I don’t know what people thinks...
> I actually agree, but that's not the approach that's pushed. In python the "tiny http server" is explicitly advertised as insecure and unsuited to production use.

Sure, but we're talking about developing, and that's a pretty easy way to get started.

In Python, don't you have Gunicorn, Tornado and Twisted?

In Perl there's Mojolicious and Dancer.

Ruby has Rails, Sinatra and probably a least a few more.

Java... Well, IMO Java has a habit if either not delivering simple smaller projects, or communicating they exist very poorly (but I'm not really in the loop so my opinion may be very uninformed). Tomcat was too big and complex to fit this need a decade ago, so I doubt it does it well now (but maybe I'm wrong?).

> What other language than PHP can I dump a single file on a shared host and have it be running?

My point is that needing a shared host to get started is actually a step you often don't have to wait for now. If you're a developer, it's easier to just start up your dev locally and work out hosting in a bit.

If you're developing something beyond the simplest things, the host allowing drop in scripts is not actually a problem I think. For anything that's super quick and dirty, you still have CGI.

That's the point I was making. The drop in script support isn't really all that beneficial to PHP developers, but it is very beneficial to regular user that just was to deploy a PHP webapp of some sort, such as a bulletin board or blog software.
In my experience you can/should skip redux if you use firebase-firestore. One good reason is that if you try to use them both, you will end up writing a lot of "mee too" action and reducers that will just wrap firebase update events. It is really not necessary to always use Redux.
It's more than just intelligence. It's the amount of time to acquire the necessary context and domain knowledge.
Seems like a legitimate trademark defence.

Twitter have gone lumbering into Leo's registered trademark class: "IC 041. US 100 101 107. G & S: Entertainment in the nature of visual and audio performances, and musical, variety, news and comedy shows."

What do you think they'd do if he started a microblogging service under the TWiT name?
I see this trend in the U.S. too -- while a used shirt might cost $5 at Goodwill (although it's among the priciest of the thrift stores) a brand-new shirt at Walmart that delints after a few wash cycles might cost $8. OTOH, I have 30-year old Polo shirts that are still in decent shape.

(If we didn't machine-dry our clothes they'd last a lot longer, but that's a different story.)
Well, now you see why so many companies relocated to China! They don't want to cover their environmental footprint because it's cheaper and simpler to just avoid that by having the communists sweep it all under the rug.

We're all to blame for this behavior--everyone who buys Apple products is to blame. Hell, anyone buying any products is to blame because companies have been getting away with this crap for 200 years.
1. There's $160B of BC out there and it's still a pretty novel thing.
2. People say this every time there has been some volatility in BC. There's been a bubble that is bursting. It doesn't mean that the currency doesn't have worth.
3. Just because BC and its mechanics don't end up working out doesn't mean that a central bank is necessary.
4. Nothing is "proved" at this point.
People like round numbers and orders of magnitude, that's why it's significant.
That company is going for the premium market. If someone figures out how to automate more it would be cheaper once mass production takes off. But when you have cheap labor and shipping there isn't a lot of profit margin - we would need a much larger world population, or much less poor people who find working for $.50 an hour their best option for life.
I was going to say the same thing you said. Angular/React routing, if done correctly, don't have those problems at all. If you let the SPA framework do your page-changing for you, open-in-tab and history still works. If you do amateur stuff like, you bind a button to a function, and the function does an document.location.href update, then you're going to have some weirdness.

My biggest problem with SPA the last time I did it (a year ago) was optimizing it for search engine crawling.
If it's anything like 2013, it'll be a long slow fall to the bottom.

Nov 2013 $200

Dec 2013 $1100

Jan 2014 $800

Jan 2015 $200
Microsoft's own blogpost sure doesn't help (https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/microsoft-creates-ai-can-read...)

>Microsoft creates AI that can read a document and answer questions about it as well as a person
I forgot to mention, these guys don't just optimize their speed test to show high results.

They are getting real unthrottled results from their users who have had similar speeds from Spectrum / Timewarner / Optimum.

I think their pitch (at least a few years ago) was that they would deliver the actual speeds they are promising equally.
Right - I agree that deploying a human-used password is not a viable option.

I'm thinking more in terms of deviating from your described solution on storing keys (particularly long term ones), by storing them hashed (and thus require some kind of account identifier prefix in the Bearer token string).
This leaves a big hole. Many malicious packages will solicit trust from the user.

That is, we seem to be plagued by misplaced trust moreso than untrusted applications.

The analogy to civil engineering is we trust building makers. Few of us enter buildings we don't trust to stay up around us.
This describes the benefit of being diversified but it doesn't explain how you get there in the face of YouTube's efforts to prevent that. I mean you could plug your Twitter then plug your patreon there but then you're relying on the YT -> Twitter conversion rate multiplied by the Twitter -> Patreon conversion rate.

You could just plug it verbally and skirt the enforcement of the YouTube rules that way, but if they became concerned enough they have automatic transcription and did start enforcing it on annotations/descriptions...
Because it's a discussion we need to have, and I realized that my standalone comment wasn't going to accomplish that.

My later comment did, BTW, even though it's now "hidden" to some extent for some unknown reason. HN mods being pro-Mozilla?

(BTW, an accusation which you claim is not an accusation is a poor accusation indeed.)
> Who subscribes to videos about fixing stuff anyway?

Me. I subscribed to a few DIY home repair channels, plus a channel on modding a Mark7 Golf R.
Any power of 10 is a milestone number. Bitcoin crossing $100, $1000, $10,000 were all significant milestones.

As humans we like to reduce information so we think in terms of milestones.

A typical conversation might go like this:

"What is the price of Bitcoin? $9,400. Oh - it fell below $10,000, wow!"
As soon as a price goes above a round number like that and stays there. It isn’t any different than in technical stock trading (please note I’m explaining this phenomenon/belief and not condoning it.)
Yeah exactly - comcast will let you speedtest at that speed, but do you get that speed off Netflix?

These guys are just a small business trying to deliver a high quality network.
I'm looking forward to it. I have some ideas of actual use-cases for smart contracts, but the volatility of crypto-currencies is a major turn off. I want the speculators to go away so Ether can normalize at a reasonable value and it becomes sane to use them for their actual purpose.
The previous large decline in price (where the price dropped by 80 or 90%) had a similar trend.
> Why don't they ask people for a dollar for each Tether coin and then store those dollars indefinitely, wouldn't that guarantee that the currency is pegged? They would always be able to exchange the Tether back to a dollar.

They could do that, but why would they when they can instead ask people for a dollar for each Tether coin and then spend those dollars on crack and hookers?
I'm fine with with self-hosted analytics, and use a log analyzer myself.

My primary objection is automated profile-generation and identifier sharing - third parties don't need realtime updates on my reading habits. I like to think folks who run their own analytics aren't sharing identifiers with adtech shops, but of course can't know.
Most investors knew Madoff was cheating some how, they just all assumed they would get out in time.
The answers to the first difficulty are called "Universal Rendering" and "Isomorphic Rendering". Universal Rendering will render the page at any URL server-side, then the client will render other pages from there. Isomorphic Rendering is a special case of Universal Rendering in Node.js apps where the same JavaScript code is used to render pages in the client and the server.

Anyway, the article is right. Of course presenting users the current state of things in real time and allowing them to mutate this state in real time will always be harder than issuing requests to query the current state and requests to mutate the current state. It'll always be harder because it's way more complex and powerful from a user perspective.
What are your preferred news sources?
Aside from this esteemed website, what are your other sources of news?
We don't fully know that.

We know it was forced onto browsers in a manner which reeks of spyware.
I’m sorry, what? This is great news — clothing is now so cheap that providing it to everyone on Earth is a solved problem.

Of course, wealthier individuals will purchase and discard more as a result, and the refuse can simply be thrown into the ground. We are not running out of space to discard things.

http://www.waste360.com/operations/regional-landfill-capacit...

“Nationally, Staley says he estimates that the U.S. has about 62 years of landfill capacity remaining in its current facilities.”

Also, I firmly believe that our future technologically-more-advanced selves will have automated processes for reprocessing landfill waste, so this isn’t even a permanent state of affairs.
Isn't the 10K hours thing based the research of Anders Ericsson? I thought Gladwell just came up with a catchy encapsulation for it.
The problem with some bubbles is that not all are easily seem from inside, or during the bubble.

Because it's easy to see the dotcom bublle nowadays, but those who invested in some companies got a big money back.
Especially as I think many dev jobs will disappear.

More free, open source platforms that are powerful and free but just need some configuration, customization and support.

Developing getting simpler to becoming just config anyway. We're already seeing this, you dont need to know anything about pointers any more, just hooking up libraries.
I attended a GDPR session at Re:Invent this year. Basically, there's two types of organizations: data controllers and processors. Datatomic, AWS, Azure, etc. would all fall into the processors category. Amazon.com, however, would fall into the data controller category.

From a processor perspective, they have their own requirements/regulations: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-and-the-general-da...

See also: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/eu-data-protection/

AWS/Datomic doesn't need to know what kind of data their customers store - it's up to the customer to be compliant with their part of GDPR.
Bitcoin is a great prototype for something that people will actually want to use.

It has some utility, but there are armies of other cryptocurrencies with higher utility waiting to be used.

It may be that people will still assign value to Bitcoin in a couple of decades, like they do with gold. It may also be that you'll need 100 Bitcoin to buy a pizza.
It's not that simple. You can't go around firing your lawyers every time you feel like it and causing trial delays and mistrials. The state has a right to try you, and you cannot avoid that through shenanigans. Client had already had trouble and fired his Public Defender. Client had hired counsel and retained him without complaint until trial started.

If you allow shenanigans to stop a trial in process, you are essentially giving the Defendant veto power over a trial when it doesn't go his way.

At some point the Judge has to make the case happen. When and how is a tough question I'm pleased I don't have to answer.
Why does every lefty beat on the Kansas example? It's anecdotal at best, it's certainly not the norm you would expect when lowering taxes pretty much always has a positive stimulus on commerce. If jobs didn't materialize in Kansas, there are probably extenuating circumstances. But no, all I hear online from Marx's acolytes is "Muh Kansas!"
`List<T>` is technically immutable. You can make it mutable by casting to `MutableList<T>`, but that's something you have to explicitly do.
If I buy a $10k car, and expense it to my employer I would say the car cost my employer $10k. I may have been the one with agency, but the cost is not mine to bear. The idea of representative government, is that we're employing the government to decide how our money is spent.