skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is something to be said for the "deep learning gold rush" I'm one of the ones trying to cash in myself by being an independent player in the space with my own distributed deep learning framework[1].

The goal of data accessibility can be solved by an abstraction layer that auto vectorizes (transforms in to matrices) the needed data at runtime, trains the nets on that particular mini batch of data, and continues on.

That's what I'm trying to do with a concept of a DataSetIterator[2]. This understands how to pull in the data, and handles all the logistics while the runtime only knows about DataSetIterators.

I'm also partnering with a former cloudera engineer in the hadoop space to take on in process YARN deep learning[3]. Data should not be moved. It should be processed and left where it is. I'll be interested to see the innovations in this space in the coming years.

I don't believe deep learning as a service is the way to go, I think behind the firewall deep learning apps will be the way to go here.

[1]: http://deeplearning4j.org/

[2]: http://deeplearning4j.org/customdatasets.html

[3]: https://github.com/jpatanooga/Metronome
I'm really curious about html apps being deployed in native shells and this was actually my first introduction to atom-shell. Does anybody have any experience developing with it? It appears to have everything I would need but so far I've been disappointed with just about every other solution. https://github.com/atom/atom-shell
I'll just put a few points here to understand when you should use which architecture.

NoSQL:

- reading is fast, writing is expensive (if all data are pre-processed/denormalized for reading during the writing phase)

- often schema-less

- low latency (for key-value storage)

- offline batch processing (classical Map Reduce)

- no ACID, choose 2 of 3 in CAP

- demanding on SW engineers to get client-side conflict
resolution, tricky in general

- Petabytes of data can be suddenly processed

- huge variation of different paradigms, key-value, document, graph, batch etc.

- haywire indexing

SQL:

- writes are fast (normalization), reads are expensive (JOINs)

- ACID (well, only to some extent, clustering messes up many ACID properties unfortunately and conflicts arise in corner cases)

- set operations and a neat math theory behind them

- stable indexing, easily constructable real-time JOINs

- OLTP

- easier for developers

- non-flexible schema

- tradition, well-known recipes on how to do things

Basically, if you want to have low-latency access, your concurrency model allows eventual consistency, or you have a need to store your data in non-standard structure such as graphs/trees, use NoSQL and pre-process all data to be exactly in the format you require for reading.

If you need 99.999% guarantee of consistent data, amount of data you need to handle is under 50TB, you can put your data into a fixed schema and latency doesn't matter that much, use SQL.

I would recommend you to ask yourself a question - is your app/business read-heavy or write-heavy and decide accordingly.
It works out in practice that you have vi-like modes in emacs. When you hold control down you are in one mode and when you hold Meta down you are in another mode. The difference is state. In vi you have to remember which mode you are in. In emacs you know by which modifier you are holding down. The issue of compossabity is orthogonal.

For example in emacs you can move around, cut, paste, do minor manipulations like swapping words or case all while holding control down. When you want to enter text you let up.
By the way, if you want to disable the popup for special characters in Mac OS X, here's how: http://www.developingandstuff.com/2014/06/disable-long-press...
That's the exact market I'm cashing in on. But rather than just be someone in the space who talks about it, I made it[1].

I think at the end of the day, the stuff talked about in the media may or may not have some merit (otherwise why would google or these other companies put resources in to it?)

Rather than read the blogspam, read the papers instead though. Try to understand the merits of what's going on and apply it to your use case.

[1]: http://deeplearning4j.org/
What more do you want from a language homepage?
Guile(and most Lisps such as Common Lisp) support rationals specifically to avoid this problem, why not just use them ?

scheme@(guile-user)> (= (+ 1/10 2/10) 3/10)
$1 = #t
This could also have been a disposal pit for cursed sick people - perhaps they believed that by putting them in this particular spot they could not transfer the curse to anyone? That would explain why some bones more placed there after death.

There could be a ton of reason to do this, I too don't buy that this is sacrifice.
What exactly is the point of ruining their contest?
Worth noting the date at which these filings commence --- early August 2013, more than month after the initial court order was generated for Snowden's account on Lavabit.

I'd really like to see the court orders that preceded this one. According to the timeline in the Appeals Court ruling on Levison's contempt charge, the demand for SSL/TLS encryption keys followed a month of Levison more or less baiting the FBI.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7774158#up_7774823
whoishiring gets a one-time pass to promote his refugee site here because (a) he has provided an important service to this site for years, and (b) it's obviously a good cause.
I'm increasingly of the opinion that there should be no corporate taxes. Instead there would have to be restrictions and incentives to encourage corporations to spend and not horde their cash.

The reason I've come to think this is seeing how multi-nationals are able to move their profits around the world to reach a corporate tax rate of 0, giving an unfair advantage when competing against local companies that must pay tax.

We already have profitable companies paying 0% tax - this would just give this advantage to non-multinationals.
Dropbox - San Francisco, CA & New York, NY

We're working on a lot of interesting stuff.

Here is the Glassdoor page for Dropbox: http://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Dropbox-EI_IE41...

https://www.dropbox.com/jobs

If you would like to apply, send me an email at ronald@dropbox.com. Please include your resume and what position you are applying for.
I think he means they are trying not to restrict access based on money, but on skill, which at least in fringe subjects such as mathematics and physics is true.
I believe you sent me an email last week regarding an engineering project. I responded to your inquiry but never heard back.
This is interesting. Can you point me to documentation about this program?
Ersatz Labs is in the space, and we're in the process of launching as well [wait till tomorrow ;) ] At the end of the day, companies that focus on apps will be the ones that get bought or cash in. I don't think "machine learning" appeals to businesses. 30% more revenue because of a more accurate model sounds pretty good to me though.

[1]: http://www.ersatzlabs.com/
SEEKING FREELANCER: Marketer (remote).

PROJECT: Help build an iOS classifieds app.

MOTIVATION: Making it easier to sell your stuff. (and to a lesser extent, discover new stuff to buy)

SKILLS: Digital marketing e.g. email marketing, social media, pr etc plus analytical skills e.g. google analytics. The project is called 'Octopus' and our temporary website is at octopus.org. My e-mail address and more about me is in my profile. Get in touch with any questions, or ask them here and I'll try to get back to you.
Who cares about a company with no clear path to revenue?
Anybody know "graph theory for the practical man" or "information theory for the practical man" analogues?
Casper (https://caspersleep.com), NYC.
Email: jointheteam@caspersleep.com

Casper is a direct-to-consumer mattress brand, dedicated to re-imagining the way we sleep. We sell one meticulously-designed model of mattress, which compresses and ships direct to your door via UPS ground.

We are one of the fastest growing startups in NYC, and one of the fastest-growing retail startups of the past decade. We're still a small team, and you would personally have a huge role in the direction of the company and execution of our goals.

We're looking for:

Developers: Front End or Full Stack Rails

Designers: Web and Print

Happy to provide all the perks/benefits upon request, but I'll keep this short and sweet.
If I already have a valid NZ working holiday visa, does that speed things up any?
So a quick run of "cloc" in my Emacs bzr directory shows:

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Language files blank comment code
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Lisp 1608 148211 196355 1073066
C 255 52208 62868 246635
...

Mostly lisp, with a good chunk of C at the core.
Wow, such great advice. I'll take it another tiny step further - learn how to teach from great teachers and learn how to learn from less great teachers. It turns out that regardless of what you do in life, teaching and learning are often more important than doing.
After watching 'Recent Developments in Deep Learning' by Geoff Hinton [1] a while ago I did come away believing that there does seem to be quite a bit of untapped potential in deep neural nets.

Do you feel that talk is overly optimistic/misleading? Or just that you don't think there's that much money to be made with it?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vShMxxqtDDs
That's a common misinterpretation of "correlation does not imply causation". It'd be more accurate to say "correlation implies causation but the direction of causation must be derived separately." If there's a real correlation between A and B (i.e. the correlation isn't a coincidence), that must mean that either A causes B, B causes A, or a third factor causes both A and B.

In context, since we know that femaleness is (barring certain rare disorders) caused by the sex chromosome of the sperm that reaches the egg, which is essentially random, we can be fairly sure that it's not caused by school grades or anything that would affect school grades, which does allow us to conclude with a reasonable degree of confidence that femaleness (indirectly, of course) causes higher grades.
Prediction: Eventually it will be too expensive or difficult to get IPv4 addresses. At that time, something backwards compatible will come out, and everyone will adopt it, because it will actually be better and necessary.
Considering the Flyweight is a GoF Design Pattern, and that it talks about doing this specifically for managing integer objects... this shouldn't be a WTF for most people. It's a trick as old as the hills too. Smalltalk has had it going back decades.
USA had documented lynchings six decades ago and those would be considered "sacrifices." No historian should really believe we are better and more rational, just lucked into different circumstances.

Judicial executions and ritual sacrifices were often mixed together as they both served social functions. In Rome's arenas, newly captured foreign tribesmen would be "sacrificed" in games along with local criminals.
Agree, I personally immediately ignore all the offers that at least don't show the salary range.

I had enough of places when the interview ends like "Well, you are our perfect candidate! But we cannot pay you atm. So if you want to work for us for free just for the next few months we'll surely give you all the salary arrears when we start to be on the wave"

No thanks, I do not live only of air and hopes.
A more appropriate title for the article would be "How to improve your writing" but I suppose that's not very dramatic. Perhaps the title of the article was actually the first lesson in a wax-on, wax-off kinda way and we all missed it?!
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Due to personal circumstances, I had to quit my previous job recently. I am not the typical candidate looking for work here since I'm not a programmer or a designer.

I'm looking in to freelancing as a spanish translator. If you need your app/website/whatever translated I'm the guy! I'm a native spanish speaker.
I've translated many scripts and websites before, so I can translate your website/app straight from the source if you want.

I can also do a lot of "grunt" work (image editing, data input, etc).

I've been making simple websites for myself, family members and friends for many years so I know my way around HTML, know my way around Linux servers pretty well, setup many scripts/Wordpress blogs and I can basically google my way out of most problems.

I'm looking at my present situation and newly found free time as an opportunity to study. Right now I'm learning programming and networking.

If you are interested shoot me an email: [redacted]
Graphistry - San Francisco - FULL-TIME || INTERN - http://www.graphistry.com

* Infrastructure for visually interacting with millions of datapoints in stock browsers

* Award-winning team from UC Berkeley

* Our stack combines: GPU cloud streaming, synthesis DSLs & compilers, NodeJS, OpenCL/OpenGL/CUDA, time series & graph databases.

* We're focusing on time series and graph data, starting with visibility into datacenter analytics. Our first customers are excited (cannot name publicly.)

* Meaningful equity and competitive pay

====

This is your shot at being one of the first employees! We're looking for two roles:

1. Info viz / frontend engineering:

Think data exploration needs a boost? This will involve making your favorite infoviz papers real. Aesthetics, JS, D3, CSS/Less, and the desire to work with us on the crazy GPU stuff.

2. GPU / cloud / devops:

Think Mesos/Spark or Yarn/Tez are cool? Not afraid to turn dials on HDFS/Cassandra or are excited by the idea of writing CUDA and deploying on GPU racks? We need help getting something incredible into people's datacenters and making it do even more.

Beyond needing you to be able to look forward, we also need you to look around: we are solving real problems for real people, and that requires empathy and care.

====

Please email Leo@graphistry.com about yourself and why you're curious. We love building the future of the web & infoviz, and are excited to be bringing in someone who wants take it even further!
HealthExpense Inc. - Sunnyvale, CA - 5 Full Time engineers -
http://healthexpense.com/careers/

Hiring:

- Frontend/Full Stack (Scala and JS)

- Backend (C++)

- Data (Scala)

- iOS and Android

HealthExpense is a healthcare enterprise data platform for benefit management and payment.
We're well funded and in production, with paying customers for over 2 years.
Currently rolling out our product to the largest benefit management companies in the country, potentially accessing over 70% of US population's data in a couple of years.

Our architecture is very similar to Netflix/Amazon API oriented design; each component can be fully understood and easily changed by a person.
The product is HIPAA compliant and Enterprise centric, yet we're light on process and focused on great engineering solutions.

Competitive salary (110-180k), full health, vision, and dental benefits.
Isn't the obvious interpretation of what happened here that Google wanted to create tech manufacturing jobs in the US, spent an enormous amount of money trying to create tech manufacturing jobs in the US, and simply failed?

And, that being the case, it's very relevant to ask "what would have happened had Google not tried to do this?". From what I can tell, the answer is "those people who are losing their jobs due to this plant closure would have lost those jobs earlier."
Self-Driving Cars Are Still Cars–Which Means They Won't Improve Your Commute
The Beauty of Short-Term Relationships
I think there's something fundamentally strange about the UK and the startup scene in particular where it's considered poor form to discuss salaries. Startups are unwilling to be up front about it and engineers are reluctant to discuss it with each other. I think each of those things feeds the other and we end up with a lack of transparency that is as much cultural as anything else.
If you compile "test.c" you will see that that isn't relevant issue.
Any implementation that prefers IPv4 over IPv6 is broken by design, see RFC3484. While I do understand people will do whatever it takes to get things working in the face of incomplete and barely functional IPv6 roll out, that road can only lead to chaos; the only solution is to stick to the standards and fix the actual problems.

As for my "laughable reasoning", you aren't really comparing apples with apples. There clearly needs to be multiple types of devices with different capabilities and it's only natural to support your users. On the other hand there is no need for IPv4 on the internet, quite the contrary, almost all of the backbone infrastructure is dual stack for years and we have the solutions to support and isolate legacy IPv4 systems where that really makes sense. So it's not a technical problem, it's an economic and political problem: the people hurt most by IPv4 can't really do anything to force the rest of the internet to move forward.

But coming back to your argument: sure, standard compliant clients are preferable and I will absolutely drop support for clients that cost me more than they are worth. I can't afford to do that with IPv4 but I feel I need to send a message, for what it's worth. Sure, my site is small and I can afford it, maybe next year more people will do it and so on. Some day you will thank us :)
People need to stop using the word "fair" as if it's not an extremely subjective term.
6 months at $25? Personally I feel I've gotten far more value out of it than that.
It (unfortunately or not) has a lot to do with whether someone spends more than 20 seconds investigating it.
Hi, not an expert in the visa area, but unless it is valid until the end of the year, multiple entry, and for any employer it probably won't help.

I wouldn't worry too much about it though, a qualified candidate will get a visa without much trouble.
For the uninitiated: "Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping"

This page has lots more: http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/gnuemacs.acro.exp.html
Calorie Intake Calculator
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I know nothing about Serbia, but what are personal bribes like? I know that in Central America and Africa, bribing telecom employees to do things is relatively straightforward.

It probably is "easy" in the US, too, but I'd imagine it'd cost a lot more as people seem to be rather concerned about being caught.
https://robinsoncenter.uw.edu/programs/early-entrance-progra...

If you're at a higher level than that, you might as well just go to college.
Canopy Apps - New York, NY (http://canopyapps.com)

We're funded by the NIH to create tools to help clinicians provide better healthcare to underserved minorities. Right now we're looking for:

★ An Android developer to bring our Canopy Medical Translator iOS application to Android
★ A part-time designer
★ A salesperson with experience selling to schools and hospitals

Email justin@canopyapps.com if you're interested!
Android Studio's Killer Feature
I'm a developer who was hired from a HN post roughly half a year ago. Feel free to email me at andrew.harrison+hn@moveline.com if you have questions.
I'm not aware of campaign finance laws regulating positive or negative ad campaigns. It's not mentioned in the linked article, do you have another link?
Great timing. I'm heading to the UK, south of Greater London, in August and want to start working in September (I'll be travelling in August).

At this point I'm unsure if I should start freelancing, attempt to create a business, work remotely, or find a job in or near London.
What stops multinationals from moving their corporation "residency" to a tax haven country if all the loopholes they get from the US get closed?
>sometimes proposed changes that increase the engine's strength are rejected because they're too much code

that seems insane.
Betgenius is not a start-up. They don't even offer any equity AFAIK (salaries are average).
Cribspot - Ann Arbor, MI - https://www.cribspot.com

Full-time - Lead UX/UI Designer

Cribspot is a platform for college students to search, sign, and pay for off-campus housing. Over 50,000 college renters have used our platform since September. We're based in Ann Arbor and recently won the Techweek Detroit Launch Competition (http://www.xconomy.com/detroit/2014/05/23/cribspot-wins-tech...). We're gearing up for massive expansion this fall, along with a brand new rent payment product. We're a team of five people in our low 20s.

We're looking for a Lead UX/UI designer to take charge of all aspects of our front-end user experience. The ideal candidate also the HTML/CSS knowledge to make their designs come to life.

Compensation is very competitive and includes generous equity. Email me at tim@cribspot.com for more information.
#lang racket
(define (add-bizzare x y)
(round (+ (+ x 0.4) (+ y 0.4))))
> If you're trying to equate the psychological impact of things like 9/11 to the equivalent number of coal deaths or traffic accidents then I'm not sure the lack of logical thinking is limited to them.

The executive branch of US gov, also didn't do one bit to relax the minds of "us". Instead they waved the red (and the US-) flag quite a lot and they put oil on the flame of fear. That by itself is criminal enough. But they went further and further... We know the history.
Broadly speaking, the people who have significant, nontrivial expertise in the field is limited (to a first approximation) to

- students of Hinton/LeCun/Bengio/Ng, and/or

- members of Google/Facebook/Baidu's deep learning group.

An actual deep learning expert can have unrivalled access to infrastructure, excellent colleagues, data, and compensation, at any of Google/Facebook/Baidu etc.

Given this backdrop, it's less surprising that a significant number of the current crop of deep learning companies are unimpressive technologically - those with actual expertise have much better opportunities.
I had earlier disabled ipv6 entirely on my computer as I was noticing with my ISP that ipv6 routes were subject to problems that the ipv4 routes weren't -- sites timing out more often when on ipv6 (which I knew via the handy IPvFox extension), and general slowness issues. All problems went away when disabling ipv6, and came back when re-enabling it.

Is there a reasonable technical explanation for this phenomenon? I'll turn ipv6 back on this Friday.
> And I also used vi/emacs, but only briefly. I use a German layout with my keyboard, but everything is designed with the US layout in mind. Therefore, many things don't work, and I wasn't able to learn the US layout yet.

I don't have any issues with using emacs and a german keyboard (and haven't come across anything that didn't work..)
Site5 - 100% remote from anywhere in the world :)

http://www.site5.com/about/careers/

6 Openings:
Customer Service Specialist (Live Chat)
Customer Service Specialist (Phone Support)
Migrations Specialist
Migrations Specialist
Software Developer (PHP)
Technical Support Specialist (Turkish Language)
I am in exact same situation. Would love it.
It's 464XLAT http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6877

As far as I can tell it works extremely well, using android 4.2.2 / nexus 5. You get a real ipv6 address and, 192.0.0.4 for your ipv4 address. Applications think both ipv4 and ipv6 are available.

Edit: above information is based on using T-Mobile USA for internet connectivity
I would be _very_ surprised if it is any more than 60k for a senior developer. This isn't Silicon Valley, unfortunately (well, at least property prices are on par!).

PS: except for start-up Hedge Funds I guess :).