skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And America doesn't protect an individual's right to privacy, unlike the EU and Japan which have strong legislation to protect individuals. And when it comes to protections from police, America is the absolute worst within what could be considered the first world.

You can pick and choose rights that are important to you and say America is number one. Others can say America is positively lacking in other important aspects. It can easily be argued that America isn't even the best when it comes to protecting freedom of speech, and it's evident with how American-run tech corps police what's permitted on their sites to fit with American laws.

Personally, I found America to be too constricting and the police state overwhelming, and I left for somewhere with more freedom. :)
Remarkably prescient
Every development project timeline ever
Nah just Indian outsourcing
Hayabusa-2: Japan's rovers send pictures from asteroid
People win the lottery. You don't ask "Am I doing something wrong. I bought a ticket too and didn't win anything".

These huge bonuses, etc are handed out to people who either have really scarce skills or get lucky.

Wikipedia[1] says there are nearly 4 million software developers in the US. If each were to receive a million dollars, then it would total up to 4 trillion USD (using US ways of naming large numbers). The GDP of the US in 2016 (same time the software developers demographics was reported) was about 18.6 trillion USD.

The idea that a million USD is reasonable for a developer is absolutely laughable.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demograph...
Functional Analysis and Allocate Requirements
More to the point, the LHC has not answered the following questions: were we correct in thinking dark matter and dark energy exist (ie, physics did not accidentally mistake the map for the territory), that we were correct in thinking black holes actually do exist (and it isn't an entirely different phenomenon involving extremely high energy plasmoids or something even weirder), and that the big bang actually happened (and that the universe is indeed expanding).
That is a very American comment. I, as a European, really have to disagree completely. I have yet to see any cases in which anywhere in Europe free speech is limited. Or association, in fact there is party litterally called The Party that got elected last time around into the European Parliament. That party is an off-shoot of a German satirical magazine. And the last time a political party was prohibited in Germany was the communist party in the 50s.
Economic Cold War May Be Coming JP Morgan
>I guess the best way is to force an analytical approach on your treatment. Ask your doctor a list of all possible causes of your symptoms. Ask them to assign probabilities to each of them, and a score of 1-10 that indicates difficulty of treatment, risk and cost. Then sort the list with your doctor, and work down the list (this last part will take time of course).

This is like the ultimate way to get mocked by the kinds of doctors I described.
Just last night I bought a copy of Gut by Giulia Enders, partly as a present for someone. She goes into a lot brain/gut stuff. There's some on youtube here https://youtu.be/BJ-C99FwRHQ
I may have misunderstood or be misremembering, but isn't that what's called “the Socratic method”? Which seems to imply that this ought to be known pretty generally, even among Linux kernel developers. It's not as if it were some new-fangled weird idea out of left field...
Is this sarcasm? The point of the second take is that humans often know they're confused and will go back to think about the image and remedy the confusion, whereas having a neural network just look at the image again isn't going to do anything (plus, existing architectures don't seem to have any capacity to say "I'm confused" anyway).
Can't say the same, my parents were ones of few people making 6 digits in early Russia. Mom working in one of first foreign banks in Russia as a de-facto CTO, and father having a trade company. Opportunities were there, no way to deny that. People who report stories of near starvation genuinely "had to work hard" to get to that near starvation point. Even dockers and labourers in my father's company in Vladivostok had few hundred buck net per month salaries in 1996.

Ones who got to that point probably were commies themselves, or were the type of people "sitting around and waiting money to suddenly fall upon then from nowhere just for that, and a nice diploma they had" as they did back in "good ol soviet times"...
>Behind a very thin veil of social liberalism, we are in fact living in a profoundly conservative and conventional era. It's like this weird bohemian puritanism, or the 50s with Tinder. The big difference is the religion. Back then it was nationalism and Christian puritanism.

OK you know what, you big bigot, "safe", behind your keyboard, I wish I could have a copy of every word you've said or typed, even "anonymously" or to a romantic partner who was "okay with it" - so that I could take it to your HR department and get you fired. Matter of fact I'm going to look through your post history now to see if I can put two and two together and figure out how to dox you. Views like yours have NO PLACE in society.. Expect to hear from HR by Monday afternoon.

Just kidding. But I gave you a scare didn't I? The reason I gave you a scare is that the sentiment I've just expressed is PERFECTLY REASONABLE IN 2018. Perfectly reasonable people can behave this way with full support from the media.

I'm not conservative, because to me conservative means keeping slaves and a lack of progress. But this isn't progress.
I’ve been using both a Texas Instruments Nspire and an HP Prime, and I definitely find the latter to be preferable as it’s leaps and bounds beyond the former in terms of symbolic algebra.
And a crazy good social safety net. If you're having any sort of difficulty(ranging from depression to bankruptcy), you'll get adequate state support(income, subsidised housing and healthcare) for a long time. I wonder why more people don't start businesses there, given that it's seldom fatal to risk and fail..
Not really. In addition to object classes, object detection networks learn to ID teh context of an object's presence. In almost every scenario, this context is a desirable learning trait.
T9? Yes, that's exactly how Android dialer works.
Companies use spreadsheets to fix gaps in their IT processes.

Find these big, ugly, shared spreadsheets and turn them into webapps.
Apparently no quality control or even rules on common standards among the file tree. A first look at the directory names is a good indicator for the mess. :/
The the information found on the Web is of mixed quality, and most of it is garbage.

That being said, outright scolding a patient who did some research without inquiring on what they read is not acceptable.

Their expertise is not exhaustive. The patient may have something to teach them, especially for cases that don't fit the mold.
Really? That sounds super stress free for me. Maybe it's just that I'm super confident about my own code and know it inside out? A white board test on the other hand would literally cause me to run away...

Of course I've never coded in a professional capacity, so don't mind me if I said something stupid.
Deep dive into the MIDL 3.0 compiler for declaring Windows Runtime types
Nawh. The change started in the 1980's but came into its own in the 1990's: people whom call themselves liberal behaving illiberally with a tiny vocal fringe telling the greater constituency what to do and what's acceptable: political correctness, crybully outrage tantrums and shouting-down opponents rather than making better arguments. It's not a left/right thing (partisanship is dumb) but an identity crisis meets identity politics/victimhood celebration thing. Let the Milo's and the other nutters speak. It's like any book that a group wants to burn or ban is probably a book worth reading. It shows integrity to be consistent and have thicker skin.

Also, faculty, staff and parents have to set better examples and boundaries by not put up with crazy, unreasonableness or ridiculousness... extending adolescence longer and wrapping kids in a bubblewrap, reality-unmoored, spoiled artificial life is a fundamental disservice that's going to hit them harder when they get out in the real world.
> What were the child care options like at the time that the current school hours were developed (I'm guessing this is close to a century ago).

Unless you also consider how likely it is that Mom is working I'm not sure that's the way I'd do it, especially because school officials explicitly say they do what they are doing because of this issue, and also, why do you think the article mentioned childcare?

> My gut feel is it's entirely unrelated to older siblings looking after younger ones -- partly because if both are at school at the same time, that problem is already solved.

Think about this for a second. Mom and Dad work from 9:00-5:00 and then have an hour+ of commuting to do. All the schools get at or before 5:00. Is it more desirable for high schooler Joseph to get home before his 8-year-old sister, or the other way around?
Sure, have fun exploring all the options https://www.google.com/search?q=C64+emulator+online
The article describes pretty much exactly how Concorde worked - it was faster, more convenient, but exclusive and expensive. You even sacrificed a lot of comfort for your trouble - I never got the chance to fly Concorde, but have toured one, and can't deny you get about as much space per seat as you do flying cattle-class in a modern airliner. So there's definitely a historical model here.

The joke, of course, is that Musk's early remarks about the Hyperloop involved drilling one between his home and Tesla's office to avoid Californian traffic. This is very likely to bear out in principle - it's a rich person's toy that benefits nobody else. But such are the perils when influential people have far more money than sense to do something useful with it.

Que sera.
> I don't mean this pejoratively, but is your goal pure education? Or more training for employment?

The goal is to strike a good balance between them. Our priority is to train good software developers and data scientists but at the same time let them show some relevant skills on their resume.

> For more pure education value, I would suggest that you teach C alongside a computer architecture course. In that way, a student comes to an understanding of what the hardware is doing at a fairly low level of abstraction, and how to control it using a language that's not far removed.

They already have a Computer Architecture course which teaches assembly and a bit of C (not sufficiently detailed). Sorry forgot to mention that.

> Similarly, I'd suggest either Scala or Haskell (or Scheme) to give them experience with something other than a procedural / object-oriented paradigm.
> None of this will directly help them get a job, although it will be of ongoing benefit to their eventual employers for the duration of their careers.

Yes this certainly makes sense. Which is why I mentioned Scala as well. Also even though the course has the title "advanced programming" the classroom lectures will be theoretical and they will have programming assignments / projects which apply those concepts and we need to pick a language for that.

> If your institution's focus is more on training for employment, then Java, JavaScript and/or Swift are probably better options to add to their skillset, alongside Python and Go.

I didn't mention it but we also have a web programming course which covers php and javascript. We probably don't want them to focus on any languages which are exclusive to specific platforms like Swift.
He’s probably trying the “we should have spent this money on starving people/curing cancer” line of argument. It’s some variant of virtue signaling.
I would love it if you could elaborate on how the book saved you from decades of game playing. (If not here, email in profile.)
I've started this book now, but also an avid gamer and hobbyist game maker.
how does this compare in terms of capabilities, prices etc with existing alternatives such as TI, etc?
The title is a bit misleading / clickbait. It should be "Neural networks Confronts...". Machine Learning isn't all about neutral networks and deep learning.

As another comment said, "second take" is not what neural networks are made for. Neural networks are a building block of more complex decision systems, where the weakness of the neural networks are taken into account before automatically commiting to decisions.

Otherwise, I guess the article is good at pointing the current limitation of neural networks alone.
How about a scenario where an image of an elephant ( or any other out of context example ) is projected on purpose with intent to cause damage?
I'm curious: could the side effect of this be a legitimate FaceID bypass if they are using appropriate stereoscopic imaging?
startup1: $0 (company went bankrupt, wiped out stock holders, reformed, went bankrupt again.)
startup2: $0 (acquired, but all common holders were wiped out since it all went to preferred stockholders.)
startup3: $0 (did not exercise my options. company is still going, has not been acquired.)
startup4: $10K (did not make up for my salary decrease when I joined.)
startup5: still working on it... not optimistic.

The good news: none of this has mattered. After 20 years of work, I've done well through traditional savings and investment.
Show HN: Radium – A tool to search for cheat sheets, snippets etc.
Radium is a platform (client and optional server) for viewing reference articles, cheat sheets, snippets etc. written in Golang. Supports cheat.sh, tldr, learn-x-in-y-minutes, wikipedia, duckduckgo and other radium servers (a distributed setup) as sources.

https://github.com/shivylp/radium
I have an old 6101 and a new HMD 130. The new one works fine, I don't feel that there is anything wrong with the software.
I make reasonable use of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Fox_Pharmacy

When I want a medicine that requires a Dr's prescription, I can go and fill out a survey on their site. A real Dr (presumably) makes the actual prescription and my drugs show up. I am much happier for not seeing a doctor or talking to someone about my issues.

The survey I take isn't traditional ML/AI, but it's definitely AI, as it boots me out of the process if I answer some of the questions incorrectly.

Anyway, my point is: there's already disruption here, and it's awesome.
Agree with you there. You may have habituated to TI-89s back at school (still have two) but by today's standards, graphics are super low-res and UI reminds you of trying to manipulate a rubik's cube. And yet it's still a goto on Amazon for about US$140.
what is dark matter (the stuff which makes up 97% of the universe!)

That's a ballpark figure for dark energy + dark matter combined.
That statement is about batch processing, like ETL work, that can and should be close to the data. SQL is still just code and can be saved in git along with a CI/CD deployment process as well.

OLTP transactions for running a basic webapp don't need to move there, and the data still needs to be retrieve anyway, but things like a queue, the actual push and pop functions can easily be wrapped in SQL functions that make it easy and safe to call from multiple apps.
There is significant scepticism[0][1] surrounding this, and many, many submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18049016

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18046533

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18044050

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042687

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042513

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042116

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18041616

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18039613

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18038790

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18036367

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18032207

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18029551

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18029459

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[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/9hl35w/sir_michael_at...

[1] https://mathoverflow.net/questions/311062/sir-michael-atiyah...
Show HN: Plash – Build and run containers
I'm not sure this is true. Yes, adolescence is when childbearing ability and the associated hormonal incentives start, but where is this "sex must happen at night" component coming from? If anything, I would guess that's a modern phenomenon being retrofitted onto the past.
I don’t get it. Even if you think a file can always exist (bit of an amateur assumption, btw), then why would you wrap it with try/catch at all?
Announcing Kong 1.0
Pretty much everyone I know who has some first-hand experience with the situation with Senior House agrees that 1.) MIT handled the situation quite badly but 2.) There were issues and no outcome was going to leave everyone involved satisfied.

As someone who has stayed peripherally involved with a couple of colleges over the years, I'd also make a general observation. Do at least US colleges have more rules and regulations than they used to? Absolutely. At the same time, there also seems to be less self-regulation than often happened in the past related to alcohol and other things. I'm certainly not suggesting that people were saints in the past but there seemed to have been fewer of the sort of incidents that involved hospitals and other serious consequences.
Why can't you just train the network on artificially altered photos, with "elephants" randomly scattered around, until it is robust to them?
Parent is not sarcastic. Automated recognition systems are systems, which means they are made of several components (sensors, databases, hardwares, softwares) working together. Neural networks are one of those sub-components and no one ever claimed that neural networks are 100% accurate and sufficient to build automated decision systems.

The problem described in the article is taken into account when building systems (like autonomous cars) using neural networks.
As an aside & question - I hate this slim, light goal. What I want is a thick phone with a battery that can stand heavy use for at least 24 hours (preferably changeable), and doesn't really need a case. To me it doesn't make sense to see this obsession with tiny phones that most people put cases on.

To be fair, the Razr 3 had good battery life and couldn't have a case, but in this world: Anyone have suggestions?
There is perhaps a correlation between worshiping the GOP and worshiping the GDP, but they are two very different things.
Hmm. I'm going to try that on myself. I wonder if without context I can answer it every time.
> students are free to pick courses corresponding to their preferred times, and to leave and enter campus on will.

I was doing this as a senior in HS in the 90s. Because I had been ahead since elementary school, by the time I was a senior in HS there were only a couple classes left I needed to take. I showed up late, left early and most days went to work.
No I'm not. I'm just saying: we spent so much money on this and we expected results (even though we know there was the possibility we could get none). We got no results, so it's wasted money.

It is a problem that we wasted billions on basically nothing.
I owned 2 of those and still miss them. I tried buying one off eBay a while ago (wow, that's about 7 years ago now) but the battery just didn't last and very soon the screen got dead pixel lines and the antenna malfunctioned - I suspect maybe some components had been replaced with knock-offs or something, it was very un-Nokialike.
Thanks for your warning! I'd love something like this with good implementations (and documentation as to why the implementation is good), does anyone know similar projects?
I can't replicate this example on my mac. Regardless of `diff` or 16 (which is the diff for me), I get the same output for clang and gcc: 7 5 7
But we got results. It's a shame they didn't rewrite physics as we know it but we asked questions and got answers.
> How can you ever be sure a file exists?

Well I can't ever be sure, but the example I'm thinking of is looking up a config file on the file system that was copied there by a deployment script. If it didn't exist, a RuntimeException failing the application would be entirely appropriate.

If I was checking for a file on a USB drive or some other source, I'd very much have a try-catch. Do I need checked exceptions in this case? Still debatable in my opinion.

WRT checked exceptions targeted for production grade software, curious what you think about the (lack of) checked exception handling in Java 8 lambdas.
i wouldn't be so critical. It's journalism and I would intrepret the title more as "Machine Learning-community confronts...".

And while ML isn't all about NNs and deep learning, we're quite enticed by them right now and try to push them to see where their limitations are. So I think with a bit more generous interpretation the title is acceptable. I think it's certainly not clickbait, since NNs are right now a very significant part of the ML-research landscape.
Doing more things isn't necessarily a good thing, doing the right things is.

AMD has a ruthless focus on a couple of markets, a competitive product and clear leadship.

That makes them a threat whatever the headcount.

If EPYC starts gaining ground in the high margin/high volume server market then Intel has to double down and they might, the Core architecture was a response to the AMD64 and a good one.

They aren't out the fight but they are taking a few hits at the moment .
Thanks :)

I'm using Polly for the moment, and it provides word and viseme boundaries. Enough to animate face poses. I'm not taking full advantage of the visemes here: it's only affecting the saturation of the waveform color. Too subtle to notice, with the way things kind of flicker with this one.

I have other ideas I want to play with, but don't really have time, and I may just have to drop that line of thinking, because I plan to move to one of the wavenet implementations, which don't provide speech marks data.
Their offerings aren't pricey for what they provide.
DataGrip alone is about $9/mo for a personal license (down to $4.5/mo on 3rd year if you pay annually) but you'd want to use the bundled one in other IDE if you code.
I'd say visibility, permission avoidance, the excitement, and I'm sure there's more. Just like now, why would it have changed? For what specific reasons? Obviously spring and summer would be easier. I don't think that's retrofitting; I think we're continuing it still and the lack of recognition of that is confusing me.

I'm positive they figured out how to have sex in the day as well when possible. But nomadic daytime marching would reduce opportunity, and in a hunting culture it would be harder to separate a woman because of daily gender-disparate activities. In a predominantly gatherer culture, perhaps it was easier.
"I didn't fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps." - Thomas Edison
I apologise, because while I hold it accurate, hence I use it, the labeling is superficial. "He's this, he's that" is not something you enjoy throwing around.

You either think there's nothing to apologise for, in which case you're just criticizing my manner of conversation, or you think the labeling is inaccurate or demeaning, in which case you fail to demonstrate how. In either case, brevity and directness of your criticism don't mix well.
I don't really condone this but the world simply doesn't reward original work. This is particularly true in corporate world. The whole concept of Modern China is built on technology transfer so I don't know why we are so surprised to find that plagiarism is commonplace there. That said, it is not easy to come up with original thoughts and ideas especially in a world where it's become increasingly difficult to "think" in isolation.