skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Alex planned to improve his accuracy, of course, but he was hired before he got the chance.

Reading these posts I get the impression people prefer portfolio projects over studying the mathematical fundamentals; "dazzle hiring managers with these three easy tricks!" Seems like a great strategy to getting hired, but one wonders how long people using these lifehacks persist in the role.
A nice 25-year retrospective from one of the original FPS title DOOM's team.

> The inclusion of multiplayer co-op and deathmatch modes changed everything about games. We knew that playing a game as fast and over-the-top as DOOM would signal a new era. I visualized what E1M7 would look like with two players shooting rockets at each other over a large room and it got me more excited than I had been since Wolfenstein 3D’s chaingun audio.

It wasn't as if multi player games did not exist before; however, they fairly exclusively were single screen affairs.

Being first person and having your own screen on your own machine was truly revolutionary.

I fondly remember fragging my family members and learning about IPX (it wasn't always TCP everywhere).
When a work is popular and heavily critiqued the authority of the author is no longer necessary. Surely the volume of critical analysis provides you sufficient information that you no longer need such a noisy signal as the author's identity.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12962776
It was enough to get him thrown out for the day! Apparently taking it over the line is really serious...
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There's also another Google text to the right of the rear wheel.
So their marketing had its intended effects on you
See also the Hesco bastion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesco_bastion
You can now download Chromium browser as a SNAP app
Agreed, a deterministic test harness is critical, especially when working on the inner components, like state machines.
Look for a bundle like this [1], the only 'buiilding' it requires is putting the Pi into the case, and plugging in the controllers and PSU. It doesn't come with RetroPie, but that's easy to put onto an SD card.

As a bonus, there are also cases like this [2] available.

[1] https://thepihut.com/collections/raspberry-pi-kits-and-bundl...

[2] https://thepihut.com/collections/raspberry-pi-store/products...
Best to get off of a sinking ship early, since that's when the biggest lifeboats are available.

The people who are left have to do more work and are less likely to get nice severance packages during the next round.
This feels like what happens to professional sports players. Very often they go from $0 to millions with no training or professional support on how to deal with 7+ zeros of wealth. They quickly attract bottom-feeders promising "crazy returns" on anything and everything. Witness the endless stream of sports star "owned" restaurants and bars that wink in and out of existence, and the recent sanctions by the SEC on ICO promotion.
That comment is likely a nod to his later experience pre-hyping his game Daikatana, which he got lots of backlash for.
GitHub staff censors the “e” project
I wasn't trying to paint you as an hypocrite, I have my own "ideals" and I am painfully aware that I have also constantly to make pragmatic choices about these (specifically: I am an ethical vegetarian) - it was just that the original message sounded too much like a rant: especially invoking a pogrom against fuel manufacturers didn't seem to offer any real improvement to the situation of, well, anybody.
I see. You were pointing out the hyphenation or lack thereof? I think you might have missed that the earlier discussion was regarding "seated" versus "seeded". Thus your brevity made it looked like you were claiming that the "seeded" form was correct. I don't think anyone else was concerned about the hyphenation.
Then everyone will act like management and the company will go broke? :P
There was one network monitoring company that used Smalltalk, and Smalltalk's ability to very rapidly save the entire memory image. Basically, for exceptions, a snapshot of the server's state could be saved off in addition to the log, then brought up later, completely live, with a debugger on that very method. (Definitely a distributed system, running on other people's hardware in other people's data centers.)

I worked at another company where we used a different kind of Smalltalk serialization to save the GUI's state in an auto-generated error email or log entry, so we could open the application in the exact same UI state when dealing with a bug.
Yes, but this is a terrible hack. Double quotes originally meant "The phrase exactly as I typed it". When Google+ came along, they stole the plus operator and gave the double quotes a second purpose.
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee did nothing wrong

Here's an archive of the repo from before github very rudely censored it http://archive.fo/NT3PC
The only time I've found debuggers useful (vs. logs/prints) is when I inherit a pile of spaghetti code and want to see poke around at things. Other than that debuggers are much slower than running the code with a flag that enables the debug logging.

IMO the ability to easily diagnose and debug issues is a feature of the code/application and should be taken into account when writing it. Having to fall back on a debugger means your dealing with something not written with maintenance in mind.
The KodakCoin ICO failed, and now everyone wants their money
Operation Gunwalker/Fast and Furious is a pretty good head smacker: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
Why Trump’s trade war is pushing China to become smarter and stronger, faster
The thing I find most hard about WP development is that there isn't much else you can do. It's like one bootstrap file bootstrapping another, with hooks peppered throughout. The majority of your problems will lie in the integration of a handful of plugins. Otherwise, you're better off doing something else. It plays like a out of tune orchestra. Sure I could hook up xdebug. In fact I have in the past. I profiled the beast. The call graph made mu forehead feel like a lead weight.

But if I'm working on a project with components of my choosing, I'm free to make liberal use of PHPUnit, both for unit testing and heavier tests that involve the whole stack. Debugging isn't as smooth as debugging JS or typescript so I lean more on logs and object dumps. Might be different if I used PHPStorm but that feels sluggish to use - says something when I use Emacs with tonnes of packages.

It is possible to do higher quality programming in PHP but WP isn't a friendly environment for that. And environment goes a long way.
Uncited rumour is iPhones for the last ~3 years have had special flashlight LED's (made by NXP?) which also embed an RGB colour sensor for exactly this reason. The LED's when reverse biased send out the results of the RGB sensor. It has been suggested the reason they didn't use an extra pin was to hide this anti-flicker feature from competitors who were sure to do a detailed teardown of the phone.

There are x-rays of the LED here: https://www.chipworks.com/about-chipworks/overview/blog/true...
I love Chicken Scheme, so this is great to see. Note that this article is from 2015.

Chicken Scheme recently received a version 5 release, so please be aware that this article focuses on Chicken 4, as I do not believe Hypergiant has been ported to Chicken 5 yet.

As an aside, it's a shame the footnotes render over the text for me in Firefox.
I used to work there and could step into windows source when a win32 function wasn't acting how I expected. The bug was almost always in my own code of course, but seeing exactly what was causing the error was extremely helpful in fixing the problem.

Open sourcing (or at least public sourcing) the windows userland would make development on the platform a lot easier.
>They didn't get rich by throwing money around uselessly.

I've also had the privilege of knowing some people that fall into the categories from $1MM to $1B+. You couldn't tell which bucket they belong to just by meeting them. The down to earth guy who's just a dad to the kid on your soccer team, yeah he's worth $3 billion, but bikes everywhere. You son's best friends parents? They're normal, but have a 6k square foot home in the downtown area of a major city, but shop at Costco and only own one (nice, but used) car.

Agree that the flashy folks are the ones at the lower end of the spectrum. They've gotten some cash and are a) showing off and/or b) trying to enjoy it.

One of the biggest changes I've noticed (and have noticed this of myself as my career and income have progressed) is that you're aware that you are paying more for things, and therefore expect more. This definitely can create the appearance (and occurrence) of entitlement.
(not an ML person, take with grain of salt)

I think someone without experience training a model to high-accuracy might struggle at a startup where they're the first hire in the department, but at a larger company, presumably there are senior folks to help newcomers along. I think having motivation is a much better signal, and you need to be motivated to develop a side-project of significant magnitude.
Argument from fallacy is a fallacy
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I think there is kind of a big difference though in that you don't have to compile php to execute scripts vs the languages you named. It's often just a lot faster to add a single loc to dump output to the page and immediately rerun the script and get immediate output. Debuggers are great, but not needed for the more simple bugs, which tend to be most common. If php devs had to wait a few minutes (or longer) to compile first, just dumping the output wouldn't be an efficient option. Not all bugs need tracing and stepping, but when they do it's great to be able to use the actual debugger.
The price increases are 100% fine by me and do not impact me as a customer.

The value of the ecosystem working reliably together is worth the premium to me (in addition to things like reliable updates, good privacy models, and a focus on customer service, among other things).

Apple have an incredibly opinionated view of computing, for sure - but it's one that I prefer even at increased cost.

With that being said, I would like to keep the focus of this conversation on camera technology across the industry. Apple or no Apple, the cool stuff going on in computational photography excite me as a photographer.
It might make it count for less, considering the liability it now has to make investors whole
I'm not sure what you're missing about using debuggers, but it's something. Breakpoints and stepping are massive time savers.

You can easily replace dozens of runs of a buggy program with a single debugging session. It's genuinely shocking that anyone would argue that debug mode is better.
Do you feel gRPC a good way to expose external APIs?
Read https://medium.com/@sankar.p/how-grpc-convinced-me-to-chose-it-over-rest-30408bf42794

I got the point that gRPC is a great choice building internal facing APIs (inter microservices); but I feel gRPC is overrated in the context of external facing APIs -- see the "Pain Points of gRPC" above, moreover, the perf benefits are much less a concern in the context of external APIs.

Can someone chime in and share their first hands experience?
Ask HN: Voice First? Why are all skills so static?
I bought my alexa echo more than one year ago. I got bored because all skills are very static. It is just not a special/human-like user experience.
> pytorch, numpy

If your problems aren't audio / image based, then consider using traditional ML instead.

If you are just starting out. Check out SKLearn, Scipy and graphical models like CRFs. They are tried in tested methods that also require less specialized skills.

As someone else said, a lot of AI, ML tools are simply repackaged old school OR methods. The older methods get 95% there, with <50% of the effort.

Cutting edge ML isn't required for most problems. Especially non visual or time series problems.
Yes, I was indeed concerned by my wrongly perceived concern of whiddershins over the parent’s usage of the hyphen.
Most people aren't working on distributed systems though, so debuggers work fine for them
Every language has a purpose, even if it doesn't fit your preferences.

For people new to development especially who may have started with some simple static HTML, just being able to rename a .html file to .php on a dirt cheap web host and have it "just work" is such a low barrier to entry that it is a tremendous learning tool.

People also like to forget that PHP scales down better than any language out there, making it a no-brainer decision for cheap hosting of small and simple sites.

When you start increasing traffic and throughput or building software to run an serious business, of course there are other great options.

Just remember that every language has a purpose even if it's not yours, otherwise it wouldn't exist.
Sure, you can say that the Solar system ends where it stops being gravitationally dominant.

But think about this, we say we left Earth for space when we actually leave Earth's atmosphere. When you cross heliopause you are actually leaving "atmosphere" of solar system. Within it it is dominated by the particles from solar wind. And the change is very abrupt and well defined (but only in the direction of the motion of the Solar system, ie. where Voyagers are) in contrast to how Earth's atmosphere just gradually thins out and we have to get into some sort of agreement when it actually ends.
More capital allows you to balance risk better (in this case, buying a bunch of IOUs, vs an individual holding one)
Ask HN: [from a16z article] Why are Chinese business models more sophisticated?
Discussion of https://a16z.com/2018/12/07/when-advertising-isnt-enough-multimodal-business-models-product-strategy/

Let's assume that Chinese digital products have more sophisticated/desirable user experiences, as well as greater diversity of revenue streams.

How might this be explained on a macro level?

Example conjectures:

1. Maybe Chinese possess greater capacity for product complexity. Eg. because of STEM education or introducing computers at an earlier age.

2. Maybe Chinese Keynesian "animal spirit" exceeds that of the West-- greater raw, supply-side entrepreneurial drive, leading to faster experiments and better products.

3. Maybe China has more competition, and hyper-competition (competition within similar strategies) than the West, yielding greater competitive pressures driving product innovation.

4. The a16z article describes Chinese product innovations that are often network-based. Maybe Chinese society is more communal, yielding greater opportunity for network-based products.

5. Maybe Chinese consumers exhibit greater product switching behavior; they are more willing to try a new product vs. settling with a current choice. They are less satisfied with "good enough", leading to greater product innovation due to retention pressure. In the West, young people exhibit greater product switching behavior, and this trait declines with age. Maybe China has more young people than the West, as opposed to greater intrinsic switching behavior.

6. Maybe the greater sophistication/diversity of Chinese products is baseline macroeconomics: paraphrasing Adam Smith, "specialization is limited by the extent of the trade network". Larger trade networks have better stuff of the same type, cheaper stuff of the same type, and new types of stuff. Maybe China's domestic market is so large that their products are naturally of greater variance, including the variance of sophistication and revenue diversity.
Is there an alternative on Mac?

Any tool that has a purely web based design UI is not limited to an OS, so the alternatives would have to supply a native Mac design tool as Tableau does.
Thanks for posting. Never heard of DAT before but it looks to be exactly the BitTorrent alternative I've been looking for
Yes and no.

If the "semantic web" is dead it is that people are sick of updating standards. For instance, we know now that we should have SHACL before we had OWL (forgot the old "garbage in garbage out" thing) but it is too late. Probably the only semantic web "standard" that realizes that RDF can do everything JSON can do is the XMP metadata standard that Adobe has pushed. (Somehow the librarians who made Dublin Core didn't seem to think it mattered what order you listed the authors of a book in -- but the one guy Adobe had thinking about it did.)

One strange thing that turned up with the semweb for instance is that maybe 80% of the time people use an ordered list in JSON they don't really care about the order -- representing facts with set semantics actually works most of the time but unfortunately when you do 80% of the work to get to an MVP it is still not viable.

People at this point might be vaugely aware that SPARQL would be a lot more useful if they added "object-relational" features similar to N1QL but the standards fatigue is too set in. (Eg. you should be able to write queries that know about ordered lists)

The Object Management Group has long been following a path which is parallel to the semantic web. For instance, if you have machine readable API schemas (eg. represent the semantics of the API) you could have API clients that "code themselves". Thus there really is no contradiction between APIs and the "semantic web".
So.. who just bought a bunch of Fish-Mox?
We’re on the internet, anecdotes should always be treated as facts :)
I've already put this to my to-do list so I probably will if somebody won't do this faster.
That's a very good question. Perhaps GitHub just doesn't like the letter? Or perhaps this has something to do with the acquisition by Microsoft?

Either way, it's clear that they hate fun.
Currently, the most effective weapon is false news, and other tools of information war. Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube will spread them almost for free.
I consulted with ~12 teams of PHP (not WordPress) developers between 2004 and 2016. Some were in the US, some in Europe.

Zero of them used xdebug until I forced them to.
I think that's the point. It's hard to see, on purpose.

Behind the land rover, there is a door with a balcony above it. Just below the balcony, but almost touching the balcony, is "Google".

It took me a while to find.
Given that there would never be an infinitely large network, how likely is it that this sort of de-duplication would offer benefits? We use hashes to ensure data integrity because if a single bit is changed in the data the hash will reliably change. GIF compression already reduces "256 white pixels in a row" to a few bytes (other compression algorithms aren't so straightforward). Even with all the white gifs people are sharing online, you'd need vanishingly small block sizes for this strategy to achieve anything measurable, approaching the point where the hash doesn't just represent the block, but is the block.
Indeed, SQL is a declarative language. It'd be quite shocking if short circuiting were happening.
Fallacies in argumentation may nevertheless be useful rules in managing limited time. That are fallacies because they do not price the conclusion, but that doesn't mean that they are without value as mechanisms for making decisions based on lose associations that do not need to be 100% correct to be valuable.
When the light/dark slider is all the way to the dark side, the controls themselves become very difficult to see. Also, it's interesting that the point on the slider where the text and background color match is not in the middle — it's significantly to the left. Anyone have an idea of why this is the case?
>The last human being will eat the last cockroach

The evidence is not on your side.

>Because the only "solution" I can see to this thing that horrifies you is what the Nazis called a Final Solution.

Uh, the solution to do what the article suggests. Grow more food on less land so that population growth doesn't come at the expense of the last shreds of wilderness on the planet. How does one get to the point where you think "growing more food is hitler!!1" is a reasonable response?
What makes you think it's not just pure luck? I spotted at least 5 Google logos in this picture, they seem to be more or less randomly placed and the one you pointed out may have just accidentally landed in a good place. Occam's razor.

Edit: especially considering that there's probably legal requirements concerning these logos, like there must be one logo every x pixels or something, I'd be very surprised if their placement was left to a fancy machine learning algorithm.
I'm not sure you can call what is in Central America actual functioning capitalism. A random individual in that area can't easily raise capital and start a business. They are subject to extreme levels of crime and cronyism. A lot of Central America is more like a set of fiefdoms with a king rather than what would reasonably be called some kind of western capitalism.

Consider your favourite successful startup and move it to Central America. Now consider what additional factors it needs to take in to simply operate. Take security as an example: Private guards acting with high aggression (machine guns) are a basic requirement in some areas. Compare that to New York (Hand gun).

It's not a reasonable comparison.
this is what i was looking for when i saw this headline.
I didn't even have any idea it was disabled! What is it supposed to mean with regards to google plus content?
Yes that means that do things that trump agrees with and some things that he doesn't. As you'd expect someone making their best judgments. Unlike the courts in China which never ever ever do anything to contradict Xi and CCP.
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> ML is a solution looking for a problem

I don't think it is true.

ML is legit. The dark secret is that a lot of it isn't new.

It is only now, that the data, compute and hype have caught up to how useful good-old applied statistics is.

Now a days, a lot of older areas have been repacked into a fancier term of ML and AI. This goes hand-in-hand with some legitimately awesome cutting edge research with wide spread uses (Smart phone cameras, Self driving, Language translators, Massive social media knowledge graphs).

Places such as MIT and CMU would not have started undergrad programs in AI, unless they though it was here to stay.
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then it should be more than 52,000,000 people.
You're correct, it does not work as I describe. My description of the problem was just wrong, so thanks for pointing that out.

However, it doesn't work the way it used to either.

I get frustrated once or twice a year about this, and every time I fight with the many (old) tutorial examples, but eventually end here:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/6gH...

Where we see that "foo bar" only says that "foo" will appear in the text before "bar" (but anything can be between them), and that's assuming the bug is actually fixed.

That status of "we think it's fixed and users don't agree" is the last I've ever seen.
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> It was definitely democratic. Every office except senator was decided by majority vote with universal male suffrage.

That's very, very wrong. First of all, the Roman Republic was an oligarchy. Political power was monopolized in the hands of very few families who formed the nobility. When somebody outside this incredibly tiny elite, a homo novus, completed the cursus honorum, it was a seen as sensation.

Furthermore, the most important offices of the cursus honorum were not selected by something we would recognize as a democratic election. If you did not belong to the equites or the first class, your vote in the comitia centuriata which elected the consuls, the praetors and the censors had basically no effect.
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