skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work professionally as an applied mathematician and I've struggled to understand where Julia fits into the tools already available.

In terms of prototyping algorithms, MATLAB/Octave still seems to be the best choice. We have access to an enormous number of builtin routines that help diagnose what's going on when an algorithm breaks. That's not to say other language don't, but the ability to set a single dbstop command and then run some kind of diagnostic like plotting the distribution of eigenvalues with d=eig(A); plot(real(d),imag(d),'x') is amazing and saves time. There's also a very straightforward workflow to run the debugger and then drop into gdb in case the case we need to interact with external libraries.

Now, certainly, MATLAB/Octave is weak, in my opinion, for generating larger software projects that need to interact with the rest of the world. This includes things like network connections, GUIs, database access, etc. Alternatively, sometimes a new low level driver needs to be written, which needs to be very fast. All that same, that ecosystem seems to be much better in languages like C++ and Python. Though, I've been experimenting with Rust as an alternative to C++ for this use case. At this point, if I have trouble with the algorithms, I can run it in parallel with the MATLAB/Octave to diagnose how things differ.

Coming back to Julia, where is it supposed to fit in? To me, there's a better prototyping language, production language, and bare metal fast language.

I will make one last quip and that's the licensing. Frankly, the big advantage of MATLAB is that it provides license cover. Mathworks has obtained the appropriate licenses for your expensive factorizations and sparse matrix methodology. Julia has not and they remain largely under GPL:

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/LICENSE.md

Look at things like SUITESPARSE. Practically, what that means is that I can deliver MATLAB code to my clients and I don't have to disclose the source externally due to GPL requirements. Now, maybe they choose to run Octave. That's fine and then they can assume the responsibility for GPL code. However, for me, I maintain a MATLAB license and that gives me coverage for a whole host of other licenses in the context of MATLAB code and that makes my life vastly easier than if I were to develop and deliver code in another language.
This is very NYC-centric. A big part of the value of Uber/Lyft is that they provide a similar service in many places where it simply wasn't available before. The automation and deprofessionalization played a big role in making that possible.
Yup. Complexity. You may spend more time writing REST endpoints, but they're very simple to profile and target for optimisation. In situations where you're consuming the API you're writing, just iterating on a REST API is so much faster.
I tend to agree. He's been fantastic at getting the impossible to happen, but he's not as good at just running things.

There was a bit in time when he offered to help Flint, MI with their water. It turns out they don't need the help.

However, if he were to turn his fantastic energy towards helping under-served communities, I think he'd find that there's plenty to do, and very satisfying.
Charité Berlin | Berlin, Germany | PhD Candidate in machine learning applied on neuroscience | Full-Time

Interested in doing a PhD in machine learning for healthcare? We are offering a PhD position at Charité Berlin.

German is not required!
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Deep Learning in clinical neuroimaging

PhD scholarship (starting October/November 2018, initially for 2 years; Promotionsstipendium II at Charité)

At the Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (Charité), we are looking for a motivated and highly talented PhD student for various research questions within the interdisciplinary field of deep learning and clinical neuroimaging. In particular, we employ convolutional neural networks for finding new representations from neuroimaging data in order to predict disease conversion and future clinical disability in neurological as well as psychiatric diseases. Whereas previous disease decoding approaches mostly relied on expert-based extraction of features in combination with standard classification algorithms and thus strongly depend on the choice of data representation, convolutional networks are capable of learning hierarchical information directly from raw imaging data. By this, they have a great potential for finding unexpected and latent data characteristics and might perform as a real “second reader”. A major focus will be on visualization techniques to make the learned content of convolutional neural networks visible.

Requirements for the PhD student:
- Very good degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, psychology, computational neuroscience or related subject.
- Very good programming skills (e.g. Python)
- Experience in machine learning
- Good writing and communication skills (in English)

Please send your application (motivation+CV) in one pdf-file (in English or German) to:

Dr. Kerstin Ritter
Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging,
Bernstein-Zentrum für Computational Neuroscience
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Sauerbruchweg 4, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin
Email: kerstin.ritter@bccn-berlin.de
Insulting the people you want to join you seems line a poor way to get support:

"...work-shy benefit scroungers, strike-hungry air traffic controllers, long-living pensioners, unruly refugees, and all other local pests from the neighborhood..."
Elon Musk Smokes a JOINT Live on Joe Rogan Experience Podcast
Spy cams and secret filming abound in South Korea as police promise crackdown
It shows how much of a bubble the protesters live in, too. Calling startups "sweatshops" is kind of absurd. To the extent that work is harder or pay is worse in startups, it's for the ownership (or at least a sense of ownership) and excitement. Most people working in startups could, if they wanted, sidestep into safe, boring corporate IT work.

The protesters would be a lot more interesting if they'd start reading Marcuse and seeing middle class job security and mortgages and the like as a totalitarian system that works by its addictiveness. But reading the life work of old men who were once angry young Marxists who watched their revolution fail and then their nation turn to fascism isn't as much fun as yelling at Google.
Sonatype raises $80M
compete head on with Mercedes

Tesla’s brand is strong enough that they can charge Mercedes level prices with poor quality interior fittings. Sit in a Tesla, it feels like a car costing half as much.

If Mercedes can maintain their user experience in EVs without a significant price premium, Tesla is toast.
It is partly the fault of the established media that they make his message of censorship believable.
Extending AWS CloudFormation with AWS Lambda Powered Macros
What does "out there" mean? Walking down the street in SF and giving out leaflets? I'm having a bit of trouble imagining how this out there looks like for most of those startup companies - especially considering how a lot of CEOs in larger companies work as long-distance communicators.
> crypto that nobody is using is not protecting anything.

There's only one thing that's worse. Crypto that people think is protecting them, but which isn't.
I am definitely happier after listening to Cal Newport's book "Deep Work" and implementing some of the strategies. I get so much more done so then I don't feel as much pressure to keep working until late at night (even though I have an infinite amount of work to do).
Fully agreed. I spent most of my life in San Francisco, and the past 5 years living abroad has been eye-opening. Many people move to SF from the 'burbs / New York / Dallas and think that the answer to the housing problem is Manhattanization. The reason they think this, is that they have never been to a well-designed city like Barcelona. 3-5 story units, at max, cover most of San Francisco. It could be just as lovely as a city with 6-10 story buildings, and without being as ugly or unlivable as New York. We would just have to have sane zoning that didn't hamper new housing with antiquated parking requirements.

SF is home and I love it, but not all of it is as worth protecting as my nimby friends think. The Richmond, the sunset, ingleside, bayview / hunter's point, South SF .. Most of that wastes space, and could easily be rebuilt to be as dense and beautiful as Paris or Barcelona, but it would require courage and a more social government than what we actually have.
Anyone want to speculate on the chances of this getting approved by the European Parliament? Last July they blocked an earlier version and sent it back to the commission.

Edit:

And as someone living in the UK, I'm also wondering what the implications of this are for brexit[1]. Will the post-brexit interface between the EU and the UK w/r/t copyright be made even more complicated by this, with knock-on effects on digital service providers on each side?

[1] which I continue to oppose
Where Will Apple Go from Here? – EE Times
> If the people need more housing, the solution is, shockingly enough, to build more housing.

I know this is a popular opinion, but is there empirical evidence for this? Isn't this solution based on the assumption that there was a one-time surge of people, leading to a one-time rise in demand for housing?
Two totally different tools/purposes. Wiremock is not used to test your web service, it's mocking the web service so you can quickly code up your client work.

In particular, this is useful if you will eventually be consuming web services which do not yet exist. You can quickly mock up some JSON/XML responses and hit them using real HTTP request and response.
It does have an interesting effect though. Apple now have a mandate that apps must work in IPv6 only mode, so they need to be developed and tested for it. This in turn means they need an IPv6 network to test it on, giving enterprise a reason to at least enable it (even if they haven't transitioned any internal services).
FIREFIGHTER – BREAST CANCER AWARENESS
This is correct, my office is on the same street. You can see the protest posters already for a year in coffee shops, hair dressers etc. It's a broad, if not very big, group.
There is a clickable link to the project website in the linked PDF.
UC Santa Cruz asks professors to house students
> The driver behind a vehicle is primarily responsible for any rear end collision (US-specific, YMMV elsewhere).

Not if you slam on the brakes without cause on the highway.
You seem to have intentionally ignored "and its member states."

What am I supposed to take away from that quality of life ranking? Yes, the US is below a few EU countries and above others. And it's an average, which means it doesn't mean you can't have a better quality of life in the US than you would in Denmark depending on your individual situation. I for one would be much less happy having to deal with more than doubled gas prices and restricted individual freedoms.
Agree with Jacques M on solar, and would also add that much of the battery tech is Panasonic's and self-driving is a long ways away from being road-ready.
To clarify: I find the UK’s knife ban stupid, and it affects me personally (I often cook at friends’ places and, if these friends have no proper knives, I bring my chef’s knife; I also own two valuable antique swords but the rules for bringing them into the country are so complicated that they are indefintely stored at my parents’ place in another country). But like you said, it has nothing to do with EU legislation. And there’s a specific historical context which at least gives some explanation as to why the rule exists in the first place.
Banks and hedge funds aren't always competing for the same types of profits that other market participants are. I've met some very small individual investors who generate legitimate alpha. There are myriad niches to extract outsized returns from. Even the fact that your bank was able to succeed shows this. Banks have shit technology and fundamental information, but can utilize their customers' ideas and order flow to generate alpha. That's a niche that Hedge Funds and prop shops don't fulfill.
I’m not — I’m actually contacting my MEP.
I know the superficial reason why it's called that.

It's done in either self-deprecating jest or as an insult.

To consistently use the diminutive rather than the actual name is to signal to others that you are "in" somehow. That you are "the same". Depending on the manner in which you use it, indicates which group you're looking to belong to. Using these terms and also going full alphabet soup, which happens when people talk shop, isn't for the purpose of disseminating information, but to tell people you are informed.

If you want people to understand you, you should be clear and simple.
There's also a paid hosted version by the creator of Wiremock at https://mocklab.io

It has a great UI, team collaboration and other awesome add ons on top of vanilla Wiremock.
If you're interested in hardening your Firefox profile, check out this repository of user.js settings:

https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js

This does things like blocking analytics and browser fingerprinting, and it's a simple to install or revert---just drop the user.js file in your Firefox profile directory.
Here is the general state statute you're up against (as the person rear ending someone on the interstate):

“Any person driving a vehicle on a highway shall drive the same at a careful and prudent speed not greater than nor less than is reasonable and proper, having due regard to the traffic, surface and width of the highway and any other conditions then existing, and no person shall drive any vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than will permit the driver to bring it to a stop within the assured clear distance ahead.”

Maybe if you have a dash cam. Maybe if you can prove there was nothing in front of the person in front of you. Lot of maybes.
>Sources said they had come to believe that Palihapitiya was no longer putting the firm first in his life

This guy's bad behavior aside, that's a ridiculous bar to hold someone to. Sounds like he hardly cared at all.
Ask HN: Fake résumé generator
I'm looking for a job. I've had a lot of conflicting advice from different people about what to put on a résumé, and how long it should be. Although my background is in hardware, I've had more work experience in software, including recently doing some big data processing and machine learning. I feel like my applications are being auto-filtered and aren't even being seen by humans. The only interview I had simply asked questions about each part of the job description.

Therefore I'm considering writing a fake résumé generator. It would take a job description, find key words, and patch together a realistic profile based on a dataset of real résumés.

If my bots could get an interview, I would then attend and reveal my true identity. Having successfully built a machine that passed their HR deparment's Turing Test, I'd hope that some engineers might be impressed with my sheer audacity. However, I'm worried that it might get me blacklisted from some companies. I feel like there's nothing to lose though, because I'm already unemployed.

What's your opinion? Is this a system that's worth gaming? Would you be impressed or offended if you discovered that a shortlisted candidate was AI, not human?
That's clearly sarcasm. "If media/corporate interests would label you like this to denigrate your opinion, please come support us"
British Airways hacked with 380k credit cards stolen
I'm not sure why you were downvoted. I think there is a real question whether ride-hailing services can be anything more than commodity businesses. I.e. the multi-billion dollar valuations for Uber and Didi are largely around the network effects and "winner take all" aspect of a two-sided marketplace, but there is a real argument to be made that users will always pick the lowest price service (within "table stakes" parameters such as available cars and decent app functionality which actually aren't huge barriers to entry).

So while I wouldn't necessarily say the business model isn't valid, I would say the business model should be more akin to an airlines model than a winner-take-all Facebook or Google model.
Wow, I actually really like the French policy. It would make employers actually distinguish between a temp position and a full hire up front. Too many small businesses try to optimistically hire in good times, only to suddenly realize a few months later that they would collapse under the new payroll when business is normal.
Did you not read my comment?
> You seem to have intentionally ignored "and its member states."

I didn’t, but your comment insinuates that it’s all the same. As for restricted individual freedoms, this betrays a lot about your background. EU contries value equal opportunity over individual freedom for a select few. For minorities and poor people, the EU fares a lot better on individual freedoms than the US does.
One of the problems in Berlin is that dense residential areas cluster at the edges of the town and office space tends to cluster at the center. So now, if you want to have an office in Berlin and are a company that has more than a handful of employees, people will come from all sides of town, so you'd preferably want office space in the center - which gradually eats up all space that could have been used for housing in the center. Old buildings that could have been refurbished into flats are turned into offices since that's currently more profitable. There's little really high-density living space in central Berlin.
Why Big Companies Squander Good Ideas
That example.com and www.example.com can go to different places? Why would you want to force anyone to run web traffic on their bare domain?

mail goes to mail.example.com

voip goes to voip.example.com

vpn goes to vpn.example.com

Why should www be any different?
Hi, WireMock creator here.

Lots of folks use WireMock for Android testing. Definitely worth checking out Sam Edwards' blog and conference presentations on this, e.g. https://handstandsam.com/2016/01/30/running-wiremock-on-andr...
The poor Maple developer who tried to fix the "bug" is active on MathOverflow and commented briefly on his experience of this in a comment below this answer: https://mathoverflow.net/a/11607
Agreed, they can live inside a sociopath bubble. I doubt Sheryl Sandberg does though.
Sure, raise the rent -> raise the pay. What happens to the people who don't work in the dynamic IT sector? Everybody gets a raise? Doesn't this just bring everybody to the starting block only with a little more inflation? Otherwise you create an imbalance where you have affluent neighborhoods and slums, something that you definitely want to avoid.

The solution is to build more housing to alleviate the pressure. This way you can keep the rents low without pumping up just a few salaries.

And in a city like Berlin the situation is vastly different from SF. Public transport and biking work like a charm so housing doesn't have to be smack next to the headquarters.

Companies want to reap the benefits of coming to a city with a qualified workforce but the disbenefits get to be "enjoyed" by everyone else around there. Tragedy of the commons. They should be supporting the housing market if they want a good reception.

Full disclosure: I'm saying this as one of the people who enjoys such benefits while some people around me bite the bullet.
What's wrong with providing low wage entry level jobs for young people? It gives them experience. Rising wages would incentivize employees to stay in low-skill jobs for longer instead of moving to higher-skill-higher-pay jobs and letting other young people get those low skill jobs.
Haven't seen the video yet but by the gifs I saw on twitter it looks like he didn't even inhale.
Yes, aesthesia makes a very important point. Uber/Lyft & Co. standardized the UX just like you can expect what a Big Mac tastes like at any McDonalds in the world.
I once had a co-worker (in IT) from Uganda. I was having lunch with her and another co-worker, sort of a generic American conservative. He said something ignorant about working harder or something with regards to Africa, she just went off on him. She asked him if he'd ever had to step over the bodies of his neighbors as a child.

Of course, she went on to get a western education and move to the US, but she never forgot how lucky she was.
A narwhal?
The better question is, how many Americans are there who cannot afford to save for retirement due to student debt?
I saw this in one of the most famous answers on Mathoverflow [1]. The CAS expert (Jacques Carette) who wasted three days trying to locate the "problem" in the software chimes in in the comments.

[1] https://mathoverflow.net/questions/11517/computer-algebra-er...
Brutalist architecture: a concept made concrete
Sorry, but this argument is terrible. Look at the bay area and see how all the wages have risen. Nobody has to be homeless there because they can't afford housing anymore right?
The amount of free "non developer" labor being exploited by early stage startups is immense
> Part of the German economic success story has been keeping housing cheap, so they can keep pay down, so they can export. As soon as housing prices rise, pay rises, and the story falls apart.

The only reason they're able to do this is because of years of fairly extreme mercantilistic policies combined with struggling economies in other parts of the EU (Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal, and to an extent Ireland).

It works out for Germany in the short- and medium-run, but it's bad for the EU as a whole.

It's also bad for Germany in the long run, because even if extreme mercantilism were sustainable in a free market in the long run (spoiler: it's not), excess surplus means, by definition, that the government is underinvesting in public infrastructure. It takes a while for the effects of that to become evident, but Germany is starting to see hints of it already, and if these policies continue, it'll become much more pronounced.
alan@hal:~$ get-iplayer --help | grep category
--category <string> Narrow search to matched categories (comma-separated regex list). Defaults to substring match. Only works with --history.
--exclude-category <string> Narrow search to exclude matched categories (comma-separated regex list). Defaults to substring match. Only works with --history.
I noticed recently that unless I manually went in and set a master password, anyone can easily go into the FireFox settings and view all saved passwords..

I've been using FireFox Quantum as my primary browser for 3 or 4 months now and am really trying to love it, but chrome is just so much snappier..
"What does that even mean? can you use your words to describe what you mean by unhealthy"

His skin looks grayish, he looks tired. Don't you ever see people and think "he/she doesn't look good"?

It's very possible that I am wrong but he looks like somebody who should take a vacation to heal and get some clarity back. The fact that he is picking fights with cave divers while his company is in serious trouble shows to me that he is not thinking clearly and doesn't have his priorities straight. If I worked overtime to meet deadlines at Tesla I would be very concerned if my CEO didn't focus 100% on the company.
Even if if there was a surge in demand, that doesn't mean that increasing available housing does not contribute to deflate housing prices. It makes no sense to pretend that supply has no impact on housing availability, and that the only factor worth vilifying is a secondary factor affecting demand.
IIRC it was tested on a small scale and didn't work. Fish ate the algae before it could settle on the sea floor.