skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears that they have developed a novel neural network architecture such that it is possible to understand what each of the layers encode. (Classically, the result of training might not be intelligible--the learned function is encoded in weights and parameters, and aren't meant for human readability or consumption.)

Another interesting property is the "pipeline" and how they seemed to have developed the math to make back propagation work around it. Each step in the pipeline performs some convolution or transformation function.

I haven't read the paper, but I'd be curious to see if they can reuse components of this pipeline in conjunction with one another. Perhaps it wouldn't be immediately possible (I imagine the parameters would have to be adjusted in some shape or form), but a plug-and-play system of pre-trained functions would be nothing sort of amazing.

(I may be incorrect in my analysis. I'm drawing on the ML and image processing I took in undergrad.)
What you're describing may actually be indicative of very high functioning autism, depending on whether those skills came naturally to you at all times. I have the same problems and abilities but was clinically diagnosed with aspergers as a child (since early adulthood I no longer meet the clinical definition because of how much I've learned of socialization). Emotions come VERY strongly from other people. I'd suspect there are others who are extremely empathetic but have greater control over how strongly they internalize those emotions.
The underlying concern is one that applies to people not represented here in numbers that are significant enough to determine whether or not the problem exists in the first place. If a VC wishes to fund a company by someone they're already associated with that's entirely within their right and their responsibilities are not where the OP wishes them to be. That's why I really don't think this is relevant, regardless of whether or not such conflicts of interest exist. If they exist it is the duty of the providers of capital to insist on proper resolution procedures, for the rest of the world it is much simpler: don't engage in relationships with VCs that you feel are not ethical.

There's this myth that VCs are evil and out to devour young and fragile start-ups. Maybe it's due to the nature of my work (and quite possibly due to who pays me so there's my conflict of interest) but I've seen more start-ups and later stage companies trying to scam VCs than that I've seen VCs trying to scam/rip off (potential) port-folio companies (0).

Maybe this is a local affair and the EU VC scene is different in this respect, there is some confusion in this thread about angel investors being mixed up with VCs but in general VCs tend to be fairly honorable people. To balance that a bit more: there are VCs that have a bad reputation, typically these are smaller funds that are non-transparent wrt the source and destination of their capital, those are probably best avoided but I don't think they're representative of the segment as a whole.

The example given here - as far as I'm concerned - is a fairly typical affair given that capital providers will part with their money more easily when there is a basis of trust between them and the person or entity receiving the capital. Whether that's an optimal allocation strategy or not is debatable but it does not in any way require the measures advocated for in the article.
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This is totally insane. I agree that we have to push our limits of fear. It is very brave of him to do such things and all. But even if there is a slightest mistake, it is guaranteed that he is going to die. I mean, why take such risks ? What do you want to achieve dying. At least, do these things with safety is what my opinion is. Life is much more than showing people you can take such risks!
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If it's possible in your particular language/framework, I would instead use setter-injection, and reserve constructor parameters for things the object truly needs access to before it can exist. In other words, let your design be guided by some of the basic principles you'd follow if you didn't have a dependency-injection system at all.

Assuming constructor-injection is your only choice (or the only choice you can use autowiring for)... then this technique depends on making the correct guess about how people will use the object. In this case, you're predicting that most of the time a cache will not be wanted.

If it were the other way around, I would instead make it a required parameter, and provide a convenient dummy/no-op Cache implementation people could use.
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We play in the sharing economy too though not in the states. But some much needed clarity would be welcome and so will keep a keen eye on this. Would Uber/Lyft relaxing their regulations make the drivers more like contractors?
More like a table saw than a toaster.

Although, that doesn't mean it isn't ready for consumers...the bar lowers by the month to be honest.

Just don't buy Takerbot. Closed source. Best bet is to research RepRap and get help sourcing/building your own.

My personal belief is that what you learn building it is more valuable than the actual end product. Not to mention some of the great people you meet along the way in the forums or in #reprap @freenode

It is a shame Bre lost touch with all of that...and the community that brought him up.
Alex Honnold has been a big influence in how I'm building my business. He discusses risk many times because he gets asked that question too many times. The answers are relevant outside contexts in which life is hanging is a balance.

- Take a measured approach to risk. Building a startup is not a blind leap, more about sound analysis and knowing the limits of what you can do.

- Do what you love doing. Continuously train, excel.

- A very rational approach to life. Many people who attempt such adventure have somewhat irrational beliefs, believe in some force, spirituality etc. He doesn't need them. Explanations are simpler in terms of what we know, and what we don't know yet.

- While this may not appeal to everyone, his living out of a van thing is as inspiring as anything else he does. I guess one would see success and failure differently if they experience life in that format.
Those are the skills you need if you want to rule the world (or a significant portion of it). For the majority of us who don't want to rule the world empathy is one of the more important skills to build relationships and be happy with our lives.
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That video of Ken and Roberta accepting the award - what a sweet, genuine, down to earth couple. They seem like best friends still to this day, and few things make me happier than the thought of them traveling around the ocean in their boat (http://www.kensblog.com/About_San_Souci), together.

With the exception of the takeover, a fairytale story about running a company and making your mark.
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Sorry about that. I can't edit my comment for some reason, oh well.
I haven't read the notion of action perimeter phrased anywhere else. I just came up with it some years ago when I was trying my colleagues to give Lisp a go.

An action perimeter is different from a function because, for instance, you can write (if <test> <then-clause> <else-clause>).

For a function, all its arguments are evaluated first and then it is applied. That's certainly not the case for if since the whole point of a condition is to refrain from evaluating some code unless a condition is met.

Hence, in Lisp, the simple notation encompasses and is fully operative on every action, including the ones that do not behave like functions. While in many language chaining perimeters is only about function calls. And in addition it is rarely idiomatic to chain function calls in such language.

Thank you for pointing out the similarity between parameter and perimeter which borders on confusion. Thanks to everyone who brought it up to!

It's clear that's an issue I overlooked. The reason is I use the term argument in English and in French, never parameter itself. But that's probably because once I realized the notion of a perimeter is important in Lisp, I stopped using the word 'parameter'.

Sorry for that! I'll try to find a better term.
" its candidates are committed to always vote in Congress according to what citizens ask for in DemocracyOS."

Jesus that's scary, I hope you guys fail spectacularly and fast (nothing personal).
> So I guess my thinking is that the big problems came when game developers lost control of their companies

Some willingly sold their companies to bigger ones (Garriott sold Origin to EA, and Origin's legacy was lost forever since).

> But when gradually their companies hired professional management

Yet professional is what's badly needed. Look at the Doublefine mess with Broken Age (massively over budget, massively late, massively under-delivering in every area).
>...significantly affect business success are likely to be considered employees.

If all the drivers were fired, Uber / Lyft would be out of business. If this point holds any weight, I'd say they'd have to be considered employees. Applies to taxi drivers as well.
Actually, in my example, a cache will _always_ be used. It is mandatory to use a cache and therefore, if none is provided, a default cache is used. That's why it put it into the constructor.
If you watch the gold video (or read the article), you'll see they're not using anything remotely similar to the process in that MMC patent. It's essentially a conventional alloy, mechanically hardened.
> Wrt to manifest, it is being specced ... - https://w3c.github.io/manifest/

Today I learned that W3C is using Github for working with specs. Nice!

That's certainly going with the times.
Someone should make an indie game about Sierra's rise and fall. It should be made with the classic Sierra engine (the late-'80s EGA one used in Space Quest 3 and others).

The player would be a game designer who joins Sierra, gets to design her own series of Quest games and faces all sorts of absurd puzzles (often in the form of trying to herd artists and programmers). Sudden death would lurk around every corner. At the end, the protagonist would try to fight the takeover by corporate criminals. You could call it "Quest Quest".
Interesting that he feels the stories went away. I finished up Sleeping Dogs recently, and it's definitely a strong story. The Last of Us, Dragon Age, Bastion, Remember Me, Shadow of the Colossus, even the Saints Row series (as long as you don't mind it veering into Paul Verhoeven-self-satire). That's just off the top of my head.

Seriously, if you were interviewing a filmaker who proundly said, "I haven't owned a TV in 15 years, because I know it's all shit", would you take their opinion seriously?
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it has good reviews and sales enough to fully support the release of act 2..

so ?
Not just a claim from the article. The description in the gold video itself is quite explicit.
I think you should wait, get permission from both and put it. You have put Sachin's company name and position also...
I miss Sierra games because it was clear they were made by auteurs. Whether Al Lowe, Roberta Williams, or Jane Jensen it was clear the game came from a singular voice.

All my favorite games nowadays embody this and are mostly indies from a small team like Fez, Braid, and Gone Home.

With more money spent on the big games and more people Required for AAA projects as technology leads to increased production costs , I think they'll always be a niche for auteurs on low budget games. In fact since it is easier to distribute, we see more nowadays. Maybe one day we'll see AAA titles directed with an auteur voice, but if Hollywood is any indication that isn't likely. That's the big loss.
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Well, it would make sense that if there were widespread cultural biases against women drawing attention to sexist behavior or challenging it; that those would be reflected in media coverage. But it would be rude to suggest that that might be the case.
It's not about showing people that they can take risks, but doing what they love doing and always pushing their limits to achieve more.
I think it's Eric Raymond who is known to have first said that learning Lisp makes you a better programmer.

See here http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
Life as our society values it is rigged in that way. It doesn't mean that we need to hold those same values.
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Rural areas are completely different from large metropolitan areas like San Francisco in this respect and vast chunks of the US have only one provider for the last mile creating de-facto monopolies. The money isn't there to keep multiple sets of infrastructure going which in turn leads to exorbitant pricing for the customers of the one remaining option. And due to the distances involved and lack of 3G/4G coverage in those areas the other obvious option is usually also in short supply.
> Yeah, Apogee was one, but was trying to think of the other. The guy from Vegas who did the captain -- captain something or other.

Captain Comic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33VX9NvLf4s

Back in 1988, the first Nintento-like shareware game for the PC. A few years before Keen.
As a Kiwi it seems bizarro land - you have to have cause to fire someone in permanent employment, but you can (generally) end contracts prematurely with appropriate terms.
On the other hand individual drivers have next to zero affect on business success.

And people contract out critical things all the time, it's not that simple.
Generally we referred to them by their name, like Sengir rather than vampire; same for dragons or angels. Of course back then you only had a Shivan and the Whelp.

Some cards even had nicknames, such as Tim.
BrandX challenged the rules you quote which eventually went to SCOTUS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cable_%26_Telecommuni...

The FCC fought all the way to the Supreme Court to ensure last-mile ISPs don't have to unbundle. Of course that was in 2005 under the Bush Administration when the FCC was run by Michael Powell.
Well there's 20 factors, so I think even if 1 requirement is 100% filled, there's some other factors to take into account.
(IANAL)
I was not aware at all of these notions. Thanks for the various pointers!
I think that GitLab should compete directly with GitHub in open source projects hosting area. Free open tier is powerful tools for letting more people know you.

And for the whole community's benefits, we need another choice other than GitHub.
Doing what you love is totally fine. But if you could die doing such things, then why do it at all ?
> What do you think caused the downfall of adventure games in the '90s?

I think 90's era adventure games are looked at with rose colored glasses. A lot of the time, these games were non-intuitive and won thru repetition ("try everything") rather than logic.

Case in point: http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/79.html [this is the last page of a 3 page article, but you'll get the point]
What exactly is a contract if it doesn't have a length attached to it?

In most US states it is legal to have, and most companies do have, policies that state something to the effect (and yes, it's often in all caps): EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP IS AT WILL, NEITHER PARTY HAS ANY OBLIGATIONS TO THE OTHER PARTY AND EITHER PARTY CAN TERMINATE THE RELATIONSHIP AT ANY TIME FOR ANY REASON.
I'm pretty sure that's what "sharing economy" means. And it's not even true to that extent; I don't see how this would have any effect on things like airbnb.
Is SomeCache a dummy or no-op item, or does it contain an actual implementation, e.g. file or database access?

To what extent is it important to make sure the person wiring things up knows and approves of what SomeCache does?
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Protip: you're probably replying to a professional manager.
It's paragraph 56, page 17.
>> if you were interviewing a filmaker who proundly said, "I haven't owned a TV in 15 years, because I know it's all shit", would you take their opinion seriously?

If they'd been making good films all the while, then sure. Why not? Otherwise it'd just be prejudice.
> Uber and Lyft are in serious danger.

Worker's rights are being at least minimally protected.

FTFY.
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> Github for example only lets you have one source repository per project, and as a result the wikis and issues are useless since they are almost always filed against the wrong sub-project.

You can disable the wiki and issues pages on a repository-by-repository basis. If you're looking to solve the issue of issues being filed in the wrong place, you could try to pick the component that is the most central or most front-facing and only leave that wiki or issue tracker enabled. Then you'd just add a simple note in the README of the other repos about where to go to report issues or read documentation. It's definitely not the same, but it is a somewhat elegant workaround.
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If you can learn those during the summer, then I'd say you're so gifted that you can work where you'd like.
There is: you either have to use atomic operations on all the reference counters, which is costly, and not available on all platforms, or you can have only one thread active at a time. This is the most classic problem: "x == 0"; parallel execution of "x += 1" and "x += 1"; now "x == 1" or "x == 2".

I don't see why tracing collectors need GIL in particular to stop all threads, i.e. why should only one thread be running at a time.
Not sure about this particular case, but these big tickets are often lowered after a court hearing: Since the amount is based on last official yearly taxed income, it can be shown to be unfair if that income was for some reason much larger than what you are making usually.

For example when Nokia board member Anssi Vanjoki got fined 116000€ for speeding (75 km/m in a 50 km/h zone), this was later lowered to 6000€ when he could show that the original amount was counted from exceptional earnings.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1759791.stm
=>
http://www2.hs.fi/english/archive/news.asp?id=20020301IE1
It's such a weird argument. The business is demonstrating a weaker bind to the workers by making everything at will on both sides, so that implies giving the workers benefits?

Most of the other factors make sense.
Reminder: the initial budget secured was supposed to be for Act 1 & 2. Not just Act 1.
Is it really a given that "successful" means upward mobility and financial success? Not everyone can should or wants to own a kingdom. Freedom to pursue your interests is a good goal to have - the skills you practice to get you to that point may not serve you well as you'll find you're only good at gaining money.
That seems slow. I have a 6 x 6TB RAID 5 array (27TB) for non-critical data storage and it takes less something like 22 hours to do its weekly parity check. I'm running firmware RAID via an onboard Intel controller on an ASUS board.
That's sort of the point being made though. If you give more leeway to developers over professional management, there's a greater probability of projects going over-budget or falling behind schedule (Peter Molyneaux's games have been an example of this more than once), but there's also more opportunity for some absolutely crazy amazing stuff -- e.g. Grim Fandango would never have happened if someone had to justify it with a spreadsheet.

I think the answer is that you really need both types to make things work -- an Al Lowe or Roberta Williams or Tim Schafer with a tremendous amount of creative leeway that also serves as the "client" and a project manager tasked with keeping everyone on track and negotiating with the client over what can reasonably be accomplished given current deadlines / budget.

Also, for what it's worth, I absolutely love Broken Age. I mean, yes, it needs a Part 2, but it's very clear that a lot of love went into the design of that game. That's not so apparent in the latest Halo or Call of Duty.
> The reason crowds of people exhaust me is that I am constantly trying to read and understand the feelings and motivations of those around me.

That describes me perfectly.

But there is a general confusion between "empathy" and "compassion".

I have a lot of the former and very little of the latter; I understand what other people experience, but I don't really "feel" it -- I don't suffer when they do.

(I don't know what this says about me -- that's just how I am).

Professionally this has served me well; I'm an independent contractor but the core of what I do is translate what people say to one another. When designing a system it's amazing how users think they have expressed their needs clearly when the tech guys understood a completely different thing; this happens even when everything is written down and formally accepted, etc. The way to fight this problem is to describe the consequences of every choice: if you do this this way, then you won't be able to do that other thing.

Personally, empathy without compassion is more of a flaw. In a conversation I usually know what the other person is going to say, so I answer their questions before they finish asking, and most people don't like it. Or they feel they have found a sympathetic ear and start telling me a lot about themselves, which gets boring quickly.

Small talk with people you know just a little, terrifies me. I have learned to talk about the weather -- that works most of the time, but only for so long (but the conversation can start anew every day).

I wonder if I shared too much.
This article is not about the numbers but the general principle of fines based on daily income vs. flat fee.
Well, take a look at how someone who was there, and whose job it was to be accurately documenting the whole thing, described it:

http://books.google.at/books?id=G1Bcc67kf2QC&pg=PA53&dq=ivan...

Why would he lie? His entire profession was to document things accurately.

I'm just curious what makes you question this aspect of the event so .. is it hubris?
Empathy as a virtual machine, that's interesting.
fun fact:
Commodore Amiga floppies used 32bit XOR checksum = 3% of undetected two bit errors!!

http://www.techtravels.org/amiga/amigablog/?p=280

This is probably because Amiga didnt have real hardware floppy-disk controller, just a general IO (CIA) chips, and read raw serial datastream into ram, all the decoding was done in software. Similar to Apple II 2x 8bit XOR checksum.
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Using email tracking service like Sidekick[1], you can receive notification when someone opens your email. Do you think, it is a great idea to know if someone has read your email (and not replied) or you believe it is unethical?

[1]: http://www.getsidekick.com/
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at least that redistributes some money to the driver i guess, but yes. still better than paying 200 and not caring because you have million, while the other guy pays 200 and is in deep troubles.