skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suspect that like any production, it takes a bit for the audience's ears to adjust and then it likely goes largely unnoticed. As for critical reception, Crystal uses some of this linguistic approach to make very specific creative choices. I would imagine audiences and critics respond more to those choices than they do the linguistic reasons that led to them.
There is a paper discussing higher-order interdependencies between diagnoses [1] on X-ray images (they seem to apply LSTM to derive those dependencies). This could be probably extended to include data outside X-ray images. My take is that it's pretty impressive what we can derive from a single image; now if we have multiple low-level Deep Learning-based diagnostic subsystems and combine them together via some glue (either Deep (Reinforcement) Learning, classical ML, logic-based expert system, PGM etc.), we might be able to represent/identify diagnoses with much more certainty than any single individual M.D. possibly could (also creating some blindspots that humans won't leave unaddressed). It could be difficult to estimate statistical properties of the whole system though, but that's a problem with any complex system, including a group of expert humans.

The main critique for CheXNet I've read was focused on the NIH dataset itself, not the model. The model generalizes quite well across multiple visual domains, given proper augmentation.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10501
You forgot the “/s”
From the author of the AI Winter post:

"I don't think the winter depends on the amount that somebody makes today on AI, rather on how much people are expecting to make in the future. If these don't match, there will be a winter. My take is that there is a huge bet against the future. And if DL ends up bringing just as much profit as it does today, interest will die very, very quickly."
You don't know if you're running any code at all. You double click on a .jpeg file, and suddenly a python script is running. There are many ways to trick systems and users into running something when they didn't want to run anything, but binfmt_misc makes this easier for the attacker.
Northern Ireland had a no-cap for renewable heating, no one bother to ask for money for years until ppl close to the DUP figured how to exploit it and extract a billion pound or something.

Starting with a small sum makes sense, and for every remote worker they attract there might be a spouse, very likely children and suddenly you have two jobs generated on top for free.
Surveillance does lead to that if it's how we identify where someone is located or leads to actionable intelligence which can then be used as justification for dropping a missile from the sky.
It's not the only reason, but that's one of the reasons why I won't move to SF.

There are a lot of reasons why I won't move to a lot of places. Mainly, they're money-related, but it's a big world, and it often pays to be somewhat selective regarding the location issues that concern you most.
Beeing ready to be contradicted. Know everything on everything (be courious on what people are interested in). Know how the language works and the tricks some people use (like fallacies). Learn to reformulate. Detect what people really want (like affective stuffs).
they do have product ads that can be placed on a website
Yes this is a demo so the fallback use cases are not implemented (if the user does not have a webcam, if he does not agreee to share it, if he has no WebGL), but they can be implemented for more packaged apps and the error messages are detailed in the doc of FaceFilter
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you don't need to learn it. :-D you already know it, you just need to write it. There are a few things to understand defer, goroutines,channels, interfaces, structs etc.

We also have to give credit to the author. Good programmers have programs that are easy to read and understand.

However like all languages that are easy to read, it can be deceptive. Once you dive into any big/complex project. Context and design decisions matter more than anything else.
I'd guess the answer is they're not happy about the tax.
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US governments aren't very good at this - because they don't bank the good times. How many US governments have "Sovereign wealth funds"?
Here's an interesting tidbit from my experience. My son was looking at purchasing a Udemy course. He was asking my advice about it as we chatted over the phone (he lives a short distance from me). I visited the site and found the course he was referring to. "Oh, the one for only $11.95?"

"No, it's $19.95"

After going back and forth for a moment we verified it was the same course, but for him it was offered at a higher price. He was using an Android phone to visit the site, and I was on a Linux box. He had never visited the site before searching for this course, and I had never heard of it.

The difference? Not exactly sure? Is it profiling based on OS? Doesn't seem likely. I suspect the price was based on cookie residue he picked up or profiling based on prior surfing. He had been searching the web for a while looking at similar products. Was his surfing behavior calculated into his price, scoring a more likely chance for him to purchase at a higher rate?

I have not yet found out (does anyone here have a reasonable explanation?), but it's a definite turn off to use any more of their products.
Under the new federal tax law there is a $10k limit on how much state tax may be deducted from your income for the purpose of calculating federal taxes, and by opting in to this deduction you opt out of your "standard" deduction which is $12k for an individual or $24k for a married couple.

Under some circumstances it may still make sense to take the up-to-$10k deduction, because it may be combined with other deductions which will add up to more than the standard deduction, but for someone paying much less than $10k in state taxes it is probably more advantageous to simply take the standard deduction, and for someone paying much more than $10k the deduction may only represent a small portion of their state taxes.
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It saddens you that all retailers selling to customers in the same place have the same tax collection rules applied to them?
Likely a pilot program, the cost of administering the program provably exceeds the 125k itself.

I've just received my Danish startup visa. It may seem that every European country is trying to hand these out like candy, but my batch was capped at 50 visas.

It makes sense to start these types programmes out small and observe the ramifications. Cash-for-clunkers is a good example of a large scale program going wrong, where massive funds were allocated to buy back unused cars.
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By arguing what the role of government should be. If the role of government is to protect property rights, it needs to be able to defend the country from foreign invasion. Typically people in favor of "small government" mean small in scope. It is only meant for (and efficient at) solving a narrow scope of problems. So while it may be good as a means of upholding property rights, it isn't great at manufacturing cars, for instance.
10-20 years is a looooong time for quarterly results focused “investment”
Overwhelming majority of revenue for Google doesn't come from consumer devices and services... but rather, from advertising. Microsoft has tried hard to get into that arena, but it seems nobody can really edge out Google.

Of course, most of Google's devices and services funnel data into the advertising system... but they also do have paid services that are pretty popular, GSuite (Google Apps for Business), Google Domains, Google Drive Storage (paid storage above the 10GB they give everybody for free), and some others.
> So we're going to take something that's not really a standard to begin with (Markdown is about as dependent on the renderer as HTML) and add some code blocks? Hmm...

It uses a specific renderer. The renderer adheres to a spec that defines code blocks.
"The asset itself is creating nothing," said Buffett, comparing bitcoin to "productive" assets such as gold or a farm.

wait.. gold is a productive asset now? This is contrary to economics literature.

Gold and bitcoin are very similar. They don't produce anything. Golds history is longer so is safer, but nonetheless, it's just something we've all agreed to use as a store of value.

I would be very interested in what Buffett thinks gold produces as it sits there. He's a smart guy, so I'm going to assume he misspoke.
Plus YouTube which now serves over 1.7B hours of video a day. But then Google also has others climbing like Google photos.

Google has now the most popular smart speakers in addition even though came later.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-overtakes-amazon-in-sma...
Google overtakes Amazon in smart speaker market in Q1 2018 ...
Arguably also off-topic, but the title of TFA is "Read This Before You Buy Any Udemy Course" (my emphasis), so it could be a typo by the submitter.
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Imagine you are the head of the security apparatus in a totalitarian regime and you find out that a well respected international company from your country produces a piece of software that is installed in millions of computers over the world with admin privileges. Wouldn’t you lean on them? How can you not?

I have lived under a totalitarian regime (not Russia) and I can tell you that the security apparatus doesn’t fuck around. There is no asking, only cooperation, or else...

The Russians are also good at spook games, I mean, the dude is KGB trained. They don’t need to compromise the source code with backdoors that someone can find, they just ask Kaspersky to be a tiny bit more aggressive in their sample vacuuming for example. Or they just don’t do anything and sit on it, knowing that one day they can call to collect.

I personally believe Kaspersky is compromised, IMHO. I just don’t see a way that it can’t be.
>Gosh, what would the world be like if our troops and munitions weren't murdering civilians and prolonging conflicts in a monotonically-increasing set of nations around the world?

I imagine it'd be a lot more like the conflicts in the rest of Africa.

> It's not "unknowable";

Yes it is, unless you have a time machine.

> we just have to start voting...

Ah see, but we already do that. The US votes to keep a massive, mighty military.
Exactly!

Most registrars are already redacting whois output to comply with GDPR.

Registrars that aren't doing this for non-EU costomers (e.g.: godaddy) are the exception. The only reason for this is to push sales of their privacy/proxy registration service.
Care about what? Someone using an adblocker?

Because they're in the business of selling things, and many of the "things" they sell monetize via ads. It's an indirect way to killing their rev.

Also, yes, Amazon does lots of retargeting/ad purchasing, so it means they're wasting those dollars as well, again killing their rev.

There's no reason for them to support ad-blocking (other than like, being opposed to massive corporations doing nefarious things, but how could THAT thinking infect a massive corporation)
Yes. This Chinese social credit score undermines the free market in social credit scores, leading to inefficiency and lost opportunities.
When I lived in PA, the joke was that New Jersey was a sand bar off the coast of Pennsylvania.
I hadn't heard that there has been a decline in snowfall, it's pretty stark in the Pacific West:

https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...
As an aside, Newsweek’s UX is pure garbage. Please give me more ads per page. No wonder the media is dying.
> Verbing weirds language

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25

Don't miss the comment pointing out the word "denominative:"

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/denominative
Yes, It is a demo app so it is not very well packaged. The code drawing the rectangles (in /helpers/FaceCut) can still be changed to display more user friendly stuffs :)
they actually tried a "normal" pricing model for a summer, but purchases dropped. very similar to the JC Penney price change. psychologically people like things on sale
Gold can be used in technology and teeth, so it has value. I think this is what he meant.
My small goto has been preact with director plus a small custom redux implementation (which contains thunk, action arrays, event emitter, etc). At less than 5KB zipped, it's amazing how well it performs.

If absolutely simple is the goal, maybe hyperapp?
One thing that gets confused is that ads are a business model not a product or service.
HN actually has a feature so people with a certain amount of Karma can vouch for a comment like that and make it visible.
Even adding a zero to that budget would have little effect. Demographics is an existential crisis and should be budgeted for accordingly.
That's an excellent observation. You are indeed correct that pointers in memory mapped files are quite tricky to get right.
When you think about shared memory in general, this isn't a new problem [0], and the solution is almost exactly the same [1]. Instead of dealing with raw pointers, the library provides an encapsulated fat pointer which contains an offset from the beginning of the mapping.
And when the file is opened, we simply register the new virtual address, and calculate the real address when needed.

[0] - https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_63_0/doc/html/interprocess/...

[1] - http://pmem.io/pmdk/cpp_obj/master/cpp_html/classpmem_1_1obj...
Amazon offers discounted products if you're willing to accept ads on the lock screen.
No course is ever on sale if every course is always on sale.
I can't resist. We are here with tech jobs waiting.

http://www.greenriver.com/jobs

Edit: On the article: COL is similar to Boston in Brattleboro (for the nice lifestyle that we expect as devs) but in different areas. You need a car for any real transportation and while rents and house prices are less other things are more (internet, heat, etc). There are 3-4 cafes not hundreds. There is a surprising amount of art and theater events and you discover that folks do some amazing things here in the woods. e.g. Parts for the Mars Rovers were made 100ft from my desk. My kids can take circus classes from former Circ du Soleil leads down the street. As a kid I took ski jumping lessons a mile from here from a Olympic medalist. And folks have weird job histories. The woman who runs the stables where my daughter takes horse back riding lessons was a developer on HP-UX in the early days
Vermont has higher property taxes, income taxes, and sales taxes. If $10k can sway you, you're very short-sighted.
I experimented recently with writing a user-space ELF loader. Why should ELF loading need to happen in the kernel? Ok, there are some good reasons (the kernel has an easier time of single-handedly cleaning up all file descriptors, memory mappings, etc. in one fell swoop inside execve(). Are there others?). But I think it's an interesting proof-of-concept to show that ELF loading from user-space is totally possible.

When I started down this path, I learned some interesting details of the kernel/userspace interface that I wasn't aware of before, like the ELF Auxiliary Vector, which is how the kernel communicates some basic information to the process, like its arguments and uid/gid.

https://lwn.net/Articles/519085/
> Clicks=more articles about cryptocurrency. I started doing this on CNBC and they became the leader in mainstream cryptonews...

I'm sure your personal clicks on bitcoin articles are what made CNBC focus on cryptocurrency news more. :\
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Gold have many industrial application.
In my experience, Golang was designed to be safely written and understood by people of just about any skill level, assuming basic programming competency. There's basically only one or two neat hacks in the language that are somewhat unintuitive at first, but that stuff is almost entirely relegated to library development.
I'm a University of Vermont alum, and worked there for several years after college.

The IT (and "professional") economy is quite weak. There's a couple bigger web companies, however I know at least one of the biggest off-shores development.

Otherwise, a lot of the professional economy is just satellite of the tourism industry.

I read recently the superintendent of Burlington schools (Burlington being the big city in Vermont where the university is located) was traveling to China to help recruit high school students.

It's a beautiful, mostly rural place - but it's not surprising these initiatives are being taken.
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I think the author would have been using the more common meaning of the word "nemesis"

Or we can all be happy we learned something today and are a smidgeon smarter than yesterday.
There are drugs everywhere.
Really tough to give you advice on this, as you know your individual situation best.

General principles I try to live by:

Do my best to choose what I believe to be right.

Choose for a life and story I admire and can be proud of.
Unfortunately all of these places are in the south.
There's certainly quite a few other areas with decent internet, at least if you are in the main "town" area. Bennington, WRJ + Norwich come to mind as other examples I can think of.

But yes, if you are in a random small town or rural area the odds aren't great for decent internet. (For that matter, that even applies to cell phone service, lots of dead zones in VT).
Keep at it. I find it mentally draining to learn a new math topic that I'm less familiar with. It knocks me out better than anything I've ever found. I accept it as a fact. After a couple weeks of this (if I'm studying more days than not), the concepts and jargon start to become internalized.

This is the source of exhaustion. When you don't know the thing you are actively exercising your brain to recall the terms, topics, definitions, etc. It's really, really hard. This is mentally draining. As the topic gets better intenalized the recall activity becomes easier. You actually know it.

Some things can help here.

One is to read a bit each day, I usually read the same chapter 2-3 times. Once rather briskly. A second time very carefully practicing each exercise and proof. And a third time where I'd only stop on the things that didn't seem familiar enough (almost as briskly as the first reading).

I've become a major proponent of spaced-repetition. Make flash cards, put them in Anki. Study them. This allows you to set the topic down for weeks or even months at a time, and still be able to pick it back up where you left off. It also motivates me to continue when my math deck review gets short (I only have 3 cards to study this whole week?!?). Anki lets you use LaTeX which means you can make some really good looking math cards.
I would be very interesting by having your configuration to solve this problem. Are you compatible with WebGL2 ? (http://webglreport.com/?v=2). If no, which are your WebGL1 extensions ? http://webglreport.com/?v=1
Yes - not because you're doing the right thing morally, but because you're a bad employee and citizen, AND a quitter.

Democracy and governments work in messy, mysterious ways. The government's policies might be in direct contrast with one's beliefs, but they are still the law of the land and you're bound by it.

Your employer is paying you for your (legal) work, a luxury many don't have in the world. If you truly want to make a difference, do your work and let your voice be heard by the one thing you're entitled to - a vote. Vote against the party you despise, that's the only effective way
At least because of this:

* https://developer.amazon.com/mobile-ads

* https://aws.amazon.com/mobileanalytics/

Not as large as Facebook or Google (at the moment ~5% of top Android apps connect to their servers). Apparently, they are going to grow.
Yeah I'm aware. Some guy insulted Varoufakis and I insulted him in turn and dang banned me.

I'd appeal but honestly this place is hostile to any kind of anti-status quo sentiment from the left so I'd just get banned again. This way I just post rarely.
I don't think Buffett was comparing bitcoin to gold. He doesn't like gold investments for the same reason - it's not productive. He's talked about that a lot in the past.
Differentiation is enormous amount of CAPEX required. Cloud is priting money and Azure is solid #2. I don't see both changing. (That is, profitable cloud and Microsoft's cloud position.)
> Something about how the accents of colonies tend to become fixed in time

It's about isolation. Colonies tend to be far away and difficult to travel to and from. So the american colonies only had what they brought with them, and a relatively thin trickle of trans-atlantic traffic, while England remained knee deep in European culture and the linguistic influences that come with it. A few hundred years of that leaves a deep mark.
Yes for awhile. They have a virtual state of California they ride in and have more than a billion miles driving.

Would be curious on accidents? Wish Waymo would share?
You're making a judgement call. Americans value different things than Europeans (or Asians, or ...). For example I personally would rather live in USA than Europe.
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> They need to realize that it is your device, your personal data, and it is you who should be in control.

The idea is sound but it doesn't apply to Amazon, or Google's stores. They're under no obligation to host any app in particular and it should be expected that apps that bite the hand that feeds them would be quickly removed.
Good point.. but that doesn't make it a productive asset. A productive asset is something that produces an output--ie: something that generates an income for the owner of the asset. If I own a farm, the farm produces crops that can be sold.
Yeah, but that isn't why it's worth what it's worth.
You made the choice buying Apple.
Given that Waymo has autonomous cars driving real users around at least one real city with no driver behind the wheel, why are you so confident that autonomy is "at least" decades away? Maybe you mean decades away from market saturation? Or from being able to do literally anything a human driver can do? Even then, "at least a few decades" feels overly pessimistic, and neither of those accomplishments are required to start eating the Uber/Lyft market.
It's a physical asset, that can be used to produce goods. Bitcoin produces nothing but wasted heat.
I'd really prefer any company working on self-driving technology collaborate anyway. I don't see it as important for getting users on the platforms as suggested in the article or even as a 'business' decision.

As we begin adopting automated driving, there comes a point where it's helpful to have the systems communicating intentions with each other; part of the issue with driving manually is the uncertainty over other drivers' intent. Using automation and letting drivers talk in this manner would likely reduce crashes down to manual driver fault and significant bugs or sensor errors as it's adopted more. This isn't what they're after at the moment, but encouraging collaboration in this space could make that an easier path moving forward.

Not to mention, a single accepted protocol with higher adoption could allow a single car to gain much more valuable data beyond what's in their immediate vicinity, but could tell them what's going on nearby and even real-time traffic data along the route.

As for now, imagine the years of experience each technology has being combined into one super-driver. I know it's not that simple - each company may be representing the data differently - but I don't expect that to be an issue that couldn't resolve itself. Couldn't this significantly push this tech forward? (Note: I don't have the answer, this is my suspicion. I'm hoping some discussion could highlight situations where this has had a bad result, if any).
Clickbait title that's mostly false. HN loves to hate Bitcoin though. I can't believe even newsweek can get to top with that garbage.