skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might find a few example of military officers counseling against war in history, mainly in liberal democracies, but you'll probably find a lot more the other way round. Even then the council is usually more about when, where and how rather than whether to do it at all.

Not all militaries are meaningfully accountable to political leadership, and not all political leadership cares about morality anyway (cough Russia cough). In free democracies yes, the military is at least to some extent held accountable to the government and the people, but we still end up with atrocities only a few of which are ever held to account, such as the Balkans war. Or in places like Chechnya or eastern Ukraine (so far) nobody is ever held to account. A few is a heck of a lot better than none, because it can act as a deterrent and an encouragement to the organisation to do better next time though, of course.

Realistically, the decisions about what weapons the military should have, how they should be designed and what safeguards should be in place are all political decisions. Only how they are employed in war is really in the hands of the military, and in liberal democracies even that is sometimes a political decision (e.g. using a submarine to sink the Belgrano in the Falklands War.)
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Then you add kodi to steam and it's a complete media platform you also play games from
Are desktop PCs the primary use case here? I picked up a Steam Link during the sale, but never ended up using it past some initial messing around. It's easy enough to simply plug my laptop into the HDMI cable we leave running from the TV. Maybe if we had multiple TVs—but then, I could just carry my laptop over to whichever one, anyway...
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So use Chromium?
You have noticed a small bug in your data processing script and now you have to redo all your plots for your thesis? latex+gnuplot scripts+makefile, and a few seconds later you have a new pdf.
> Refactoring your code to be as simple as possible

> Following style conventions for names, whitespace, etc.

> Replacing private information with environment variables

> Commenting your code to contextualize snippets within your broader codebase.

While I do wish more software was released under a FOSS license, I also wish that these points were a given for any codebase regardless of license or source disclosure policy. I really don't think you can be agile no matter how many agile-trademarked tools and processes you pile on top of your project if you don't do this first.
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Square is also like this on the Android side of things. The Square Cash team is the penthouse of cool evangelist programmers and the rest of the company is locked in the basement.
> And even if they were, I didn't sign anything or agree to anything. It is ridiculous if those terms are legally binding.

Contracts don't need to be signed to be valid (when was the last time you signed a contract with an online shop). And if you don't agree to the terms, then you're using the site without permission and can be sued for damages. But the exact amount to pay can't just be any made-up number.

Similarly, if you walk into a shop, take an apple and eat it; then when the shopkeeper demands a million dollars, you can refuse to agree. Then the shopkeeper is free to sue you for destroying his property and you will be ordered to compensate him, although probably not for the full amount.
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Here is a repository of companies that don't force you into solving fizz buzz problems: https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
Well, it likely increases housing prices by reducing the effective cost of leverage.
Although it's possible, occams razor does not suggest it is the most likely reason
This doesn't prevent hotels you've stayed at, car dealers, utility companies, banks, ISPs and others from selling your data.

Also, in Russia (and many other countries as well) you cannot legally buy a SIM card without an ID. And Digital Ocean doesn't accept some virtual debit cards and suggests that I use a real credit card (so that they can charge me even if I don't have money).
I had read about these stories separately, the consensual, interspecies sex and the dolphin suicide, but for some reason I failed to realized or had forgotten it was the same dolphin.

I admit I sort of fail to understand the outrage about the sex thing and about the attempt to teach it English. I'm probably naïve but I still think some basic form of communication should be possible, like with great apes.
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> Just because your code is not open source does not mean you're not allowed to use it.

Depends on the license of the OSS and wether you're distributing or hosting the code that relies on it.
A lot of this comes down to people's TVs adding 100ms of latency, rather than device itself. For me with hardline coax up to the server the latency was 30ms for frame rendering which is totally usable, 130ms on the TV without 'game mode' enabled is not.
I don't get the article, more and more vendors support steam link as an application for TV itself so its not like streaming is being phased out, it is being built in instead.
Serverless of course ;-)
On the contrary, I’ve found that companies who are actually doing hardcore software engineering, where the code is the main value driver for the business, rarely open source their best stuff, but they’re great places for engineers. Google doesn’t open source its self driving car code. Facebook’s value driver is the network, not the code, so it can open source anything. Dropbox’s client is amazing and is not only closed source but heavily obfuscated.

When a small company open sources everything, their main value driver is in sales or marketing or partnerships or something. Not a bad thing, but not a really engineering centric place.
This never came to India and I had it on my wishlist all this while. I'm upset Valve is discontinuing it.

Fortunately, I used Moonlight on my Raspberry Pi using this Kodi addon - https://github.com/dead/script.moonlight
It's open source now right?
I didn't said that. I have just pointed that even close source developers are using open source when working daily on their closed source projects.

When I said "entirely closed source projects" I meant that literally - some projects have no open source elements. They're written in closed source languages that you have to pay for, with closed source libraries and frameworks that you also have to pay for. They tend to be things like control systems in small industries, unusual embedded systems, and so on.

The software industry is big and hard to make general statements about. "All developers will use open source code" is not true.
I would definitely put it under my own name, if I were you. Like another commentor mentioned: if you leave the company, you still control your own repo.

Also, whenever I interview programmers, I always browse their Github (or BitBucket or whatever). Not having a Github isn't such a bad thing, but if you have a cool (or popular) project of your own there, it can help you get noticed.

(Of course, you need to be careful that your employer isn't going to freak out about you posting code openly. I have a habit of starting side-projects in-between jobs, then only do updates on the weekends after I've started a new job.)

Another option, perhaps: put it on your own repo, but track it from the company's repo on the company's webpage. (If they'll let you do it, that is.) That gives you some free visibility.
While I like the idea of weworkremotely.com, as someone who currently lives in Australia it would be so beneficial to be able to filter by jobs that require a specific timezone or country (which on that site they are almost all required to be in the USA or on a similar timezone). Without that the site is pretty much unusable for me, with most jobs not telling me until I click in that I'm ineligible.
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I press a key combination - BS makes my screen black. I press the keys again and return back to the normal screen. It allows me to reset attention the same way as eye blinking does it for the brain.

Also, I set it up to make my screen black for 7 minutes after 30 minutes of work. It allows me not to sit too much in front of the computer and take a break after every 30 minutes of work.

Also, BS allows me to refresh attention. In one mode, after I make screen black, I can press a button to see a beautiful random photo. It allows me to divert attention for a few seconds and return to work without being sucked down into web-browsing or going into Facebook.

That product proved it's usefulness to me, that is why I'm happy to share it with you.

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Not every company is Artsy. Artsy is an Internet company, not a place where new frontiers are being conquered. It makes sense to build Artsy in the public square, not so much Waymo.
Looking at the Linux gaming landscape now compared to what it was like before Steam machines the difference is night and day. Of course there is still more work to do in this area but I'd say they achieved what they set out to do - reduce Microsoft's dominance in PC gaming and create some real competition.
Also not mentioned in the Baydin et al paper (which has been knocking about for a while: it was submitted in 2017, so not surprising):

* F. Wang, X. Wu, G. Essertel, J. Decker, T. Rompf, Demystifying Differentiable Programming: Shift/Reset the Penultimate Backpropagator, see [1], and [4] for a presentation based on this paper.

* S. Laue, M. Mitterreiter, J. Giesen, Computing Higher Order Derivatives of Matrix and Tensor Expressions, see [2], discussed in [3].

Quite a bit of exciting work in better understanding backpropagation going on right now.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10228

[2] http://www.matrixcalculus.org/matrixcalculus.pdf

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18464003

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igRLKYgpHy0
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"but reading this makes me think to stop taking it directly. Thank you."

If you suspect the competence of your primary caretaker to administer an effective therapeutic regimen, (a valid worry) I would find a second opionion from another doctor. But not from an internet forum...
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> No crony capitalism is not a feature of capitalism.

Yes, it's a feature of the real world system for which the term capitalism was coined by it's 19th Century critics, and it's been a prominent feature of every real example (including, to a varying extent, the modern mixed economies that have completely replaced the original system named “capitalism”, but retain significant elements of its structure, and are often referred to as “capitalism”.)

It may not be a feature of the incoherent and unworkable “ideal” capitalism dreamed up as a defense after the criticism in which “capitalism” was named, but that fantasy has little relevance to anything.

> Crony capitalism is a feature of corporatism.

No, it's not. Capitalism, crony or otherwise, isn't an essential feature or corporatism, though some versions of corporatism have encompassed elements of capitalism though sometimes at a fairly superficial level.

It's true that corporatism provides strong opportunities for cronyism, though.
A side effect of open sourcing is that programmers might be a bit reserved to do stupid things in the code. This might be both advantage or impediment I guess.
Because carrying around dog-vomit as a dog treat isn't really socially acceptable?
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I wish there was a sane way to run your own Sync server (without email registration and authentification).
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Housing in China has nothing to do with the real estate market.

The real estate market is tied to GDP growth so there is such an excess of housing that there are ghost cities. It's also when you hear stupid stories about power plant shutdowns and going green.

I've been in China for over 5 years and can assure you that almost all news that is presented in the west is either misleading or just wildly out of context, to give a vastly different perception.

But there is far more DIY opportunity in China, but you have to do it yourself. Nobody is going to show you how or help.
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Yes, it seems that other people are more susceptible to placebo than others.

It is likely there are portions of the population, who have a better response to a placebo than to the actual drug - but! - the reverse is also a likely scenario. I.e. there are people who don't respond to a placebo and show a strong therapeutic response to an actual drug.

Hence, if one is capable, one should always have an active attitude to ones treatment - what works for someone else, may not work for you, and vice versa.

I hope someone can dig out the reference to this... I read this from a reputable source, but damn if I can remember from where anymore.
I've always wondered whether my famous "number defence" would work in copyright cases. It argues that no digital file can be copyrighted. It goes like this:

Is the number 1 copyrightable? No, because it exists and was "discovered".

Is the number 2 copyrightable? No, because it exists and was "discovered".

Is it reasonable to assume therefore that this very large number X, that represents this disputed file, cannot in fact be copyrighted because it already existed was in fact just "discovered"?

If it's argued that there was some effort to "discover" this number, then I'll write a generator that produces each number between -1 million and +1 million and claim "copyright" over each of them. After all, regardless of the process for arriving at a particular mp4 of a movie (people just dancing round on a set, running the output through various software, etc.), the final output is simply a number. Just because someone went to a lot of effort shouldn't prevent me from going through some effort to write files containing each number between -1 million and +1 million and charging royalties for anyone to use them.

In fact, this raises the interesting point that anything that can be represented as a number already fundamentally exists in the range 0 to +infinity. It's just down to us to discover them. Think about that for a moment: Somewhere out there in the range 0-infinity is a good Star Wars Episode 7 just waiting to be discovered.

We could therefore write algorithms that search all the numbers in some search space (e.g. whatever 0-3mb is in decimal), scan them to see if they're valid files, e.g. mp3s and then run them through AI to see how they compare to known music, etc.

Thus, a new tech "Big Random" is born... I thank you :-)
Agreed, I have refused a few places. Skyscanner keeps on contacting me. Their choice was a "full stack test" entirely in JavaScript, or a Systems engineer test in HackerRank. I wasn't wasting my time with either of those.

Its amazing how many people phone me "for a chat" after seeing my Linkedin profile then expect me to jump in to do their coding test. You have to convince me that I actually want to work for you first. If I haven't spoken with anyone technical about the job then its a definite no.
Makes sense from a technical standpoint, but it's the legal people you'll need to convince.
Using open source in many enterprises is just a way to save costs, many times at expense of productivity as there are closed source options that are actually better, but not all companies are willing to shell out the cash.

Contributing back, or even announcing to the world that such packages are used is not even a thing.
If you don't intend to stay friends afterwards, yes ;)
Yes. E.g. http://epistasislab.github.io/tpot/
I loved Dan Lyons fake Steve Job columns, but Disrupted didn't work for me at all. He presented himself as the lone adult in a sea of misfit children, but came across as a clueless and bitter crank. The same (admittedly keen) observations about the corporate culture would have gone down so much better (for me) if he hadn't tried to crammed every page with so much smug superiority.
payment to musician = total spotify views for that artist / total spotify listens for all users * total payment to artists / total spotify listens for all users.

therefor even though you may exclusively listen to one artist on spotify you are in fact mostly giving money to the most listened to artist - which in turn tend to have the highest percentages going to distributers and labels.

Spoifty have shockingly bad invasions of privacy in their software and t&cs plus they give my long tail money to the lowest common denominator. i mean i could be wrong but they just seem like a terrible option.

I used to have a spotify account but these days i use the same money to buy from bandcamp or something the artist does as directly as possible and i often pay over the asking price. if the artist doesnt sell direct i will look for a second hand CD or similar and rip it.. in the mean time there is always youtube (where at least the ad revenue may be going to the artist).

I feel like all spotify would have had to have done would be to respect your privacy and have your money go to the artist you support and they would have been bullet proof - but maybe they major labels would never sign up to these terms?
> I challenge the notion that product is so precious that there's a benefit to it remaining closed source. If there is a line, I'd draw it at business process, not product.

The overwhelming commercial success of FOSS desktop software.
Yes, in ML (and I believe for regular statistics as well) regression is when you are trying to predict a number rather than a label. Predicting house prices is a classical example.

An exception for this is "logistic regression" which is accepted by both the stats and ML communities.

Supervised learning is whenever you have a target variable for the observations you use to train/fit your model.

If you only have targets for some of your observations, it is called "semi-supervised learning". Although in deep learning you often talk about "pre-training" your model, which often is adjusting weights in an unsupervised way.

So you can have supervised regression as well as supervised label predictors. These can also be semi-supervised.
I don't know about the rest of the world but in France you cannot sell (or give, or transfer in any way) attribution rights, only copyright.
Merriam Webster puts duty arising from morality third after https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/duty 1 filial duty and 2 obligatory tasks, I believe the usage here was obligatory tasks.

I also think obligatory tasks is unfortunately the way that duty is commonly used in our degraded age.
Yes I’d say they are. Most PC gaming is happening on a desktop form factor and this helped bring it into other rooms.
What kind of TV has built-in Steam Link? :o
What exactly does it do ? From the article its unclear :/
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I just went to create a google account to see for myself because this sounds egregiously bad. I think you are exaggerating quite a bit:

* Phone number is clearly marked as optional and it says they use it for security. (Of course, Facebook said the same thing, and look how that turned out...)
* The only information requests that I think are unnecessary are date of birth (they say because some services are age restricted), and gender (which "rather not say" is an option for).
* The page you are referring to is not really boring legal text, it's pretty plain English that is easy to understand, and there's not a lot of it. I think average people can read it easily in 1-2 minutes.
* The "location history" option is off by default.
* It is true that the options are in a "more options" folded thing at the bottom of ~2 pages of text. This sucks, but looking at the whole page in context, it's not nearly as bad as you made it sound.

> And enabled sync for everything - including contacts.

I think this only applies to new contacts created within your google account, and not local phone contacts. I learned this the hard way when my contacts did not sync from my old phone when I wanted them to.

> To disable location tracking you need to notice a tiny button at terms of service page or find it at the settings. I am sure that most of users don't even realise that they've agreed to be under constant surveillance by Google.

This was off by default for me.
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This is an absurd argument. Software (and written work) is not generated by random number generators...even though it theoretically could be.

If you can randomly generate works that have market value (copyright is intended to encourage creation of works with value, not merely a sequence of random words or bits), then we can talk about whether they're individually copyrightable (maybe the generator itself is the only copyrightable work in the picture, I dunno).

But, no one is going to take an argument seriously that because the number 1 (or the letter "a") cannot be copyrighted then no sequence of numbers or letters can be copyrighted.
I would love to see politicians or generals fight directly, but this does not happen at all , we see proxy wars where powers A and B fight indirectly by getting involved in some country C conflict.

I do not believe that if we get AI robots involved we will not see bombs land on bridges,as recently as the war in Yugoslavia bombs were droped on economic targets:

"NATO bombed strategic economic and societal targets, such as bridges, military facilities, official government facilities, and factories, using long-range cruise missiles to hit heavily defended targets, such as strategic installations in Belgrade and Pristina."

Are you imagining 2 robot teams fighting each other and the winner gets the loser resources and impose it's politics, the population will accept that their robots lost ?
I must admit that I wonder if part of the success of these types of tests is that they are bullshit and what is actually being tested is how compliant you are as an individual and not really anything to do with technical competence.
Literally what it says in the article: Plug it into your tv and play your steam library from your main PC via in-house streaming. Hence the comparison to “wireless hdmi”
If you find out let me know! Issues surrounding how these models are used in production (deployment, retraining, monitoring, versioning, etc, etc) are, I believe, underexplored.

It's tempting to think that everyone else has this figured out but I don't think so.