skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I second this endorsement of BOTNS. It is the best fiction book I've ever read. I think lobster_johnson's description here is a great meta-summary. For the sake of brevity I will curb my impulse to vomit up heaps of sycophantic praise for this book. I highly recommend it if you're up for an intellectually demanding read.
Thanks for the imagery, I love that. Would have to be toned down a bit for a meeting but I can see it working :)
> It's that enormous power which seems to be the root cause which leads people to be so suspicious of it

I would say it was their behaving suspiciously that causes people to be suspicious of it.

> when Obama used the platform to get elected, no one minded. But, when the opposing party does it, everyone judges it negatively

At the risk of getting too political, I believe only one of those campaigns has been confirmed by the company to have been operated in part by foreign powers actively attempting to subvert the election. That's a bit beyond "i like the one guy better" as far as reasons for judgement go.
Things that set off alarms:

+ Lots of unmodified forks or tutorials. A few is fine but too many is suspicious.

+ Tons of empty repos

Things I like:

+ Lots of messing with different projects even unsuccessful work

+ Side projects, even incomplete ones

+ A mix of languages/designs/idioms

Super awesome things:

+ OSS contributions

+ Working well with others

+ Good branching
It was phrased poorly, but I think they meant the Apple's source browser doesn't show line numbers.
In other words, you need to write more than just words. This has certainly been my experience over the last decade or more of chasing the thing. At this point I've written some fairly solid web code and a decent narrative, but as for the marketing... well, let me just post a link[0].

[0] https://goeiebook.ca/story/bussing
Medium is banned in China.
I read a while ago that it's actually going well for them. Couldn't find the article I read then but here's another: http://www.digitaljournal.com/business/guardian-newspaper-av...

The key point to note there is reader revenues surpassed ad revenues in 2016.
You can use GitHub for code dumps sure, but I guess grandparent was assuming we were talking about legit open source repositories, not another hello world.
There is value in growing, you guys will probably grow faster if you had more people doing more things aligned with your growth objective...The problem is that as you grow the human factor comes into play, people are people and have their own agendas, it is a challenging problem to tackle.
A question to the NLP experts out there -- is it possible to automatically detect various pre-defined attributes about a person by automatically analyzing relevant texts? For example, finding out whether a person is anti-capitalist by scanning his blog posts related to economics. I'm not even sure how to approach such a problem.
I'm not sure why this comment was downvoted. I read it as a valid criticism of anti-state discourse. While I'm amenable to quite a bit of left-libertarian philosophy/ideology, I agree from lived experience that hard problems require complex systems to solve them EVEN IF the solutions themselves are simple!
Can I ask what your goal is when highlighting? Is it based on the word or is it so you don't lose your place or what?

I only ask because I don't do it but I sometimes find it difficult to read large amounts of text on screen and I've not a quick solution to it yet. I'm curious if this would work for me.
That's fair, I must have missed the 'windfall' bit
As a computer scientist I think we benefit as a group from having NLP fit under computer science, so yes I think we should call it computer science. The overarching question is: why does it matter what we classify NLP as?
> they've picked the right abstraction for the problem

I hate to agree with you, but "picking the right abstraction for the problem" elegantly expresses what I've been trying to tell people for the last few years now, but far less succinctly (I usually ramble on about "underlying data models" and "what this actually is in the real world, not just how we view it in our application")

The reason I hate to agree with you is that I just became very disappointed that this is a difficult skill to master. "Just use the right model and the code is easy, duh. Why aren't you doing this?" Well. Now I just feel like a jerk. I thought they just gave me the "senior" title because I was old.

It's unfortunate that one of the most important skills in the industry is so intangible and difficult to quantify. Even more difficult to teach.
and what do Corporate, government, academic enterprise customers use graphics cards for? machine learning and 3d rendering (like CAD). that's not a very big market compared to the (hundreds of?) millions PC gamers out there.
The beauty of the web is that you own the presentation tier. Anything that bothers you should beat into submission with GreaseMonkey.
Generally, I'm wondering the same thing. It's not all bad, though. Alan Kay has his VPRI, which has a lot of talented people.

Bret Victor has some good conceptual stuff. But as he said himself:

https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/947177766885081088

"As Kay himself has said so many times, this question is entirely about funding. With ARPA/IPTO-style funding, you get Kays (and Engelbarts, Minskys, McCarthys, Corbatós, etc) With VC and NSF, you don't. Even Kay hasn't been able to "be Kay" since the 80s: http://worrydream.com/2017-12-30-alan/ "

Another problem, I think, is that many people are no longer interested in this kind of research. Two popular lines of thought are:

- Our infrastructural computing is already awesome or at least good enough, so we do not need anything simpler or different, just more tooling and automation.

- Machine learning will fix everything in computing.
They are opposed to a corporate tax rate cut that isn't offset by some tax increase elsewhere.

Why? One of the ideas behind lowering taxes is to incentivize spending, which in corporate means expanding and, ideally, in the end, more taxes being paid overall, while the tax burden remains the same or lower.
I should add, though, the idea of storing the mouse cursor separate from the captured video is a really good one in general. I am pretty sure this is what ScreenFlow does, because you can edit the mouse cursor in their app after a video has already been recorded. The tradeoff is that they need to spend more time and space during the recording phase to get really high quality source video, and then they have an additional export phase when you want to save the video out that does the rendering and lossy compression. That tradeoff is no problem for them, but doesn't fit RetroClip's use case.
Harvard Researcher Uses AI to Tackle Common Cause of Childhood Blindness
HL7 is such a monstrosity. Once you have used it you are forever sadder and that this became the default spec for everything in health is really disappointing.

Edit: for the uninitiated. Excuse the readable line breaks, this isn’t defined in the spec (or at least is done differently by all vendors). You won’t have to suffer long though as you’ll go blind reading the ||| and ^^ when debugging.

MSH|^~\&|EPIC|EPICADT|SMS|SMSADT|199912271408|CHARRIS|ADT^A04|1817457|D|2.5|
PID||0493575^^^2^ID 1|454721||DOE^JOHN^^^^|DOE^JOHN^^^^|19480203|M||B|254 MYSTREET AVE^^MYTOWN^OH^44123^USA||(216)123-4567|||M|NON|400003403~1129086|
NK1||ROE^MARIE^^^^|SPO||(216)123-4567||EC|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PV1||O|168 ~219~C~PMA^^^^^^^^^||||277^ALLEN MYLASTNAME^BONNIE^^^^|||||||||| ||2688684|||||||||||||||||||||||||199912271408||||||002376853
Check Point announces security consumption model to prevent Gen V cyberattacks
That's a big thing that many don't seem to understand: there is a massive gulf between compliance and security.
You view "commit hygiene" as something that does not matter. I view it as one of the most important aspects of a software developer's workflow. If you don't see the value of atomic commits in any software you're creating, I doubt you would properly apply it to our teams' repos.
We use this product, and it is excellent. It is currently a collaborative team inbox with multichannel capability. Each person here who communicates with the outside world the company's behalf, can log into one place, and jointly be responsible for an incoming flow (and conversations) of email plus various social channels. (Plus website "chat", although that has some rough edges for now.) It also doesn't do a great job of handling people's individual email, and it will be nice to have individual email more fully integrated with the collaborative team in box concept.

But.

From the amount of the raise and the interview comments, it sounds like the product is headed elsewhere. Like it might loose focus on collaborative team and box features, and instead grow into (yet another) general purpose well-implemented email application, which then gets bought by one of the larger companies, then shut down, and then 10% of the features reappear a year later in the larger company's product. This would be a great outcome for the Front team, but not for Front customers.

(For those here that are questioning the price, the price isn't bad considering it typically would apply only to the smaller set of people in the company handling customer facing email, and it provides a bunch of value for that use.)
Good ... let the old world wither.

The waves of change will make them both obsolete. This move will accelerate this push.
Does making the hardware HIPPA compliant give any special protections agains FBI requests unlock phone or other government regulations and requests?

May be I'm connecting too many dots but Apple might be killing two birds with one stone here.
Yeah, I'm willing to take the over on that bet. Front is far more than a replacement for Outlook: it's an integrated service with email, chat channels, sales/support management, etc.

Did you not read the headline? YC Summer 2014 and just raised $66M. They're doing fine.
I use github to track repos I'm interested in. I'll fork it. I've seen projects just disappear.

I fork tutorials for the same reason or even good tutorials I want to keep for those I mentor.

:-)
Added a note about other DL architectures.
Bare Minimum Batch Processing with Luigi
I on the other hand need about a day or two (interspersed with real work) to tweak a Linux system, a few more than that to tweak a Windows system, and a week or two for a Mac. And newer versions of all of them keep breaking the essential tweaks, so I am constantly frustrated by the OS getting in my way.

You can prove anything with anecdotes :)
You can do it on Bitfinex by opening a long margin position on the BCH/BTC pair. Bitfinex requires a 10k account minimum and non-US residency though.
I agree with your comment, just wanted to point out that:

> Someone could just have a bunch of forks of other people's work, which they dabble with

is quite easy to spot: those repositories will have "Forked from user/repo" below the repository name (on top of the page, and also in the list of repos of a user). If they committed their dabbling, that is almost certainly on top if you go to the commits screen.
Move countries and watch what happens if you don’t take charge.

My grandparents did and 3 years later it still hasn’t come straight.
Author here. If you have the means to label some data, this becomes quite an easy classification problem. Get multiple examples of posts, and labels (capitalist, libertarian, ...) for a group of users that represents your total population well, and train a classifier.
Why Nobody Can Ever Call You Stupid
> I’m sorry my weekend project only has two commits.

This is like being a graphic designer and saying, "I disable the undo feature in Photoshop for all my personal projects."

It makes no sense to people for whom source control is second nature, and I'd be reluctant to hire someone for whom source control is not second nature.
The Eragon books are an unasahamed knockoff of Tolkein. A cilche-riddled, poorly written, tropey, dopey travesty.
Falcon Heavy Static Fire Successful
Wow! I never really thought of Medium in the same realm as Xanga or Livejournal but you're absolutely right. It's crazy to think that people are moving to it. LiveJournal and Xanga were always kind of a stepping stone back in the day. You had your blog on their first then it started getting a lot of traffic and you moved it to your own domain. It's crazy to see the opposite happening now adays with Medium!
Inferencing Breakthroughs Power Handheld Translator
While there is uncertainty and debate regarding the extent to which lowering statutory corporate taxes to 20 percent might boost worker wages, the CEA’s claim that workers’ income would rise by $4,000 to $9,000 is well above the top of the range of consensus estimates.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/analysis-would-cutting-...
What do you want to remember forever? (In DNA)
I've got many friends in unions (e.g. pipefitters/welders) and based on the stories they tell me, unions need a 21st century reboot. They need a simple platform to organize/communicate digitally. Do you know of anything that exists like that?
To add to that, I've been on the fence about adding audio muxing. I should just do it, and folks who have a Rogue Amoeba app installed would be able to make use of it. Compared to storing the video data, the audio data is tiny, so buffering a minute of it is no problem (even if I stored it uncompressed to save CPU cycles, it would be under 10MB).
I believe this is why Jeff Bezos has the two pizzas rule [0].

Anecdotally, to this day we get surprised reactions (mostly by investors) when they learn that our massive service [1] was built by 6 engineers. More people requires more synchronizing, which leads to more meetings and results to more time waste.

[0] https://lifehacker.com/follow-jeff-bezos-two-pizza-rule-for-...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726224
>they'll want things clarified they don't understand putting undue burden on overworked doctors.

People should be able to have things they don't understand about their body clarified. There's fewer things scarier than not understanding why your body isn't reacting the way you'd expect.
AI Startup? Nvidia handing out cash prizes
All of those locations have something in common, they're all within a one day driving distance of one of the two In-N-Out distribution centers.
I think your comment was fine. I would have had the same kind of thought -- possible bot trying to age an account with content lifted from other legit posts.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/956233892637286400 All good, launching in a week...
The approach I've seen to handling Twitter mentions is to replace all mentions with a "<userid>" token, which handles that potential loss of context, although not perfectly.
Another note to all the people screaming "muh regulationz. What about t3h food poisioningz???"

Anybody... and I mean anybody can already cook for other people in their own kitchen, and serve food to others with absolutely no special legal regulation whatsoever. It's called "invite a bunch of people over for dinner". Or "take a dish to the company pot-luck". Or "take a dish to game night at the local hackerspace". Etc.

This is nothing but an extension to what people can already do. And while accidents can always happen, the bottom line is that anybody tempted to take advantage of the

"When this idea inevitably takes off, people are going to be able to order take-out from their neighbors, from anyone in the city who wants to cook their family recipe. It will change cuisine forever."

bit is almost certainly not interested in killing their customers.
This is, incidentally, the formalization of my intuition about bureaucracies and general organizational efficiencies[0] - basically, organizational inefficiency comes almost entirely from coordination costs. This is why government organizations are inefficient (way too many stakeholders), why big companies tend to be about as bureaucratic as governments, and while small governmental projects are much less efficient than small private project (because "small" government ops still has lots of non-obvious stakeholders that come from accountability requirements).

--

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16205338
Ask HN: What are some resources for sharpening my EDA skills?
Over the past few months I've learned that exploratory data analysis and data wrangling skills are essential for doing quality data science work. Unfortunately, I am not sure how I can improve my skills in order to perform the art well. What are some resources that can significantly improve my skills?
People can't be trusted to write their own records, but they can't not be allowed to see them. The consequences of that access have to be managed, for better or for worse.
In a similar vein, the real task of debugging is not to make the program stop doing the wrong thing. It is to create in your mind an understanding of why the program as written necessarily behaves in the way it does.

Once you have that understanding, actually fixing the problem is straightforward.
This is great news if you or someone in your family has ever:

- Moved and had to come up with child vaccination records from another state (or multiple states) from 5+ years ago.

- Seen doctors across multiple health organizations who all want to run the same tests, or fill out a records request form that gets faxed and delays treatment by another month.

- Applied for disability or anything else that requires medical records and had to fax 10 different records request forms, wait a month or more, then pay printing fees for each.
hosting your own content isn't enough of an incentive?
Astro email app now includes a built-in calendar
Some people will replace their cars when they become cosmetically unsatisfactory - and, if they care about this that strongly, they will take better care, which will improve this issue considerably. In the end, its a combination of how good the materials and construction were originally, plus the owners care. No impact from the drivetrain here.

Then there are the little things breaking everywhere. A light here (leds improve that), windshield wipers, maybe a broken cupholder. These are also not impacted by the drivetrain.

In general though, a car breaking down frequently, or one that constantly gives the owner trouble when they are trying to go somewhere (failing to start properly, etc) is much more problematic. They will end up in the dump. This is where I was aiming my comment at.
Source: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
I do the same thing, although I wouldn't consider it random. I use to to keep track of where I am on the page. Highlighting really helps with poorly formatted pages, where the article is too wide to comfortably read and follow onto the next line [1].

[1] https://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability
And a different view

https://taxfoundation.org/what-evidence-taxes-and-growth

Nearly every empirical study of taxes and economic growth published in a peer reviewed academic journal finds that tax increases harm economic growth.
>the current amount that is being held in reserve or as investments

--which is almost all of the gold in the world.
maybe the reason the narrative doesn't make sense is because it doesn't..

Qualcomm never had opportunity to counter Apple's claim before -- and I'm fairly sure Qualcomm was not allow to directly counter Apple's claim here either.

So what really happened, according to Qualcomm's lawsuit in US, was that Apple first drafted their business agreement with discount "rebates" with the exclusivity. Qualcomm simply acquiesced to Apple's demand, being that Apple was a huge volume customers and in the driver's seat. Remember Apple was never in rush to implement the latest or the best tech and had used Infineon chips previously. Qualcomm probably knew that they were so far ahead that they didn't have to be so aggressive, but Apple was still a huge volume customer. So after agreeing to the terms, Apple started parading around, orchestrating regulatory actions against Qualcomm claiming that Apple was forced into that exclusivity that would handicaps Qualcomm's competitors.

I'm inclined to believe at this point, considering Apple's problem with GTA and past lawsuits with other wireless providers where they often came up with fictitious or groundless accusations, it was Apple's clever lawyering at work.
It depends on the person and my expectations for the role. The best people have everything, including jobs! So I make it a rule not to expect perfection, helps prevent disappointment.

When I'm evaluating candidates from a resume, if they have a link to a Github or personal website I'll visit it about a fifth of the time. I'll open up a couple repos and make note of what they look like.

Are they school projects? That's fine but not necessarily indicative of anything since most academic code is write-once, run-once for an assignment.

Does it look like a personal project? Great! This is what I'm most interested in.

Is it easy to understand what the project is before reading the source code? README files and a clear directory structure/file names can go a long way here.

If I look at the source code, how is the readability? Do they have good variable names (i.e. not a, b, c,..,z) and use the idioms of their programming language?

Bonus points for good comments. Triple word score if I can understand the code without comments.

I'll go through a couple repos this way and use whichever one is best to inform my initial bias. I think it's always a good idea to assume best intent when interviewing someone. I've had some people I wasn't that excited about in an interview become my favorite coworkers over time.

PS - Here's a project of mine I'd consider a "good" example. Mostly the number of unfinished {- TODO -} comments in src/Lib.hs would hurt me here, were I evaluating myself. https://github.com/cbzehner/word-frequency
GPU compilers prefer to inline everything, and they try to reuse partial results if they can, so it’s easy to get out of order dependencies in places you might not expect.
Wow. Not only did you develop RetroClip, but then you developed it again just so you could put up a live demo version in the browser. And it actually works!

That's some dedication...! (and definitely worth 5$)

EDIT: It seems like it doesn't work with DRM content. Or more accurately, Netflix refuses to work while it's running. Unfortunate, but expected (and not your fault).
Having trouble finding this and am curious, if anyone could point it out -
A well-developed README that promotes the project. Screenshots, explanations, an FAQ, release notes, info for collaborators, links to download or test.

Basically, the github repo as a homepage for a product rather than just a dump of text files.

This shows that your thing is a finished project or under ongoing development rather than just a dump of some source code that you once wrote. It's the equivalent of having an app on the app store vs. having a half-baked Xcode project on a computer.
"more views" is relative, too -- the Baremetrics blog had been around quite a while and already was pulling in good traffic, so I could see why their new Medium blog wasn't quickly matching their old traffic.

FWIW I've seen similar with my own blog. Posts that get 500 views/day on my site have a total Medium view count of under 2k, ever. I also sorta suspect that Medium doesn't promote the "Imported" articles as much as Medium-native ones (Imported articles set Canonical URL to your original blog post so you get the SEO juice).
They don't have freezers in their stores, so trucks must be able to travel to the store within a day.
I see this on Android 8.1 as well.

If on the lock screen tap emergency, double tap emergency.
Below emergency contacts there is medical information.
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