jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
He is rather controversial in machine learning circles. I would say he is essentially right about the fact that a lot of ml work is crap. Like most of anything is crap, so that is not a groundbreaking insight and it comes off as somewhat grandstanding to keep saying that.

He has however really turned this into a personal brand which many suspect he is using to advertise his startups. Many people feel he is sort of disingenuous about the actual progress being made in computer vision and NLP, even if there is many ways to go.

To answer your question: You can read a single piece of his and maybe get some value from that, but he keeps rehashing the same points to sh*t over different new work, and there is not much to be learned from that after a while.

Disclaimer: I did not read the above article in full, I am just familiar with Gary Marcus + work in ML industry.

Edit: Keep expanding this but it got me thinking. Earlier in my career, I was also eager for the 'gotchas', for being able to point out why something is crap, exaggerated, cannot do what it promises, and so forth. As I outgrew this impulse to focus more on what is good about some work, I began spotting it on new students a lot. They would come into seminars and smugly crap all over recent papers.

I have since come to the conclusion that it is useful to have realistic internal assessment of progress in your field, but that sharing your harshest criticisms is not necessarily a good way to look smart or make progress.

It often turns out that while feeling clever about realizing limitations of some work, the field just moves forward. The people you just criticized leapfrogged while you were busy thinking about how to one-up them.
What’s the difference between this name and postman2?
Rails is easy to pick up and well documented. Python is not too hard either. Give each an hour of your time, then choose the one which you like best.

Alternatively, if you want to go more bleeding edge, have a look at node.js, it's the hot potato at the moment.
Does anyone actually know of a commercial build system that's had any success? I know commercial support is available for CMake and I expect some of the Java build systems, but they're still all under a free software license.
As the author, I'd be happy to have a discussion about that.

In my mind, comments made on any public platform, whether it'd be on stage at a conference or on a public account of a social networking service, can constitute news if there's a clear angle.
The Facebook mobile app will definitely die in the next year since they already have a website that does everything it has and more!

Oh wait, they're similar products for different devices and customers.

Chrome OS devices are the perfect netbook companion for most people that I know who own one. Many relatives of mine aren't that great with a computer, and they only use it to get to the internet. Anything that gets in the way of that for them is a big deal and can often ruin the whole experience.
There's a similar phrase that doesn't occur in your set of translations but accurately conveys the meaning: "Pay it forward".
Great suggestions. Thanks!
We were tired of the noise on Twitter (noisy apps, lame content, erratic but otherwise valuable tweeters), so we decided to fix it. Proxlet is a Twitter API Proxy that runs scripts to modify the Twitter experience. Works with Twitter for iPhone, TweetDeck, and any other client that supports custom API URLs, including a 1-click install Chrome Extension for Twitter.com

What do you think? Right approach? (@aaronwhite & @ChrisRicca)
There is nothing in the article that indicates anything about these phrases being "overused" - they are simply commonplace. If there was actual data connecting the use of these words with not being hired, we could say that these words should be avoided, but as it is, the whole page is pushing the unsupported assertion that popular words = overused.

That's like saying that the word 'the' is an overused buzzword in the English language and should be avoided in order to make yourself stand out from the crowd.

It looks like research design skills haven't quite caught up to the size of our data sets.
unfortunately TC is both wrong and late as usual..let me explain..

Lets start with what android OS and Chrome OS share..lets see that would be that Chrome Browser..ever wonder why the browser in android is behind in build numbers compared to the iOS safari trunk as far as HTML5 etc?

There is a reason..its use new functionalities are added to me it a chrome browser..the same feature set that persuaded Google to start Chrome OS in the first place..

Thus, in-fact android OS and Chrome OS have already 'merged'..
And no doubt the phishers are already cooking up emails to this effect too...
Fortunately, this technology allows us to prove code correct and be sure about it.
What misinformation has he spread?

All I see is an expert in a field, who I can't tell if they are right or not, disagreeing with other experts in the same field, who I also can't tell if they are right or not.
Always use their new name. Consider if you were talking about someone who recently got married - would you refer to them as "Miss XYZ" when talking about a month ago but when talking in the present use their current name "Mrs. ABC"? Same thing.
You need to recognize that your current understanding of Alcoholism is remarkably uninformed.
1) Good example for a one-off object implementation; however, creating a one-off class and then an instance is just one more line.

2) Actually, I don't mind if adding methods to other developers' objects is hard; it always seemed to me like a dirty hack.
Ad hominem is a fallacy when the motives or nature of the arguer are brought up inappropriately. If it is relevant, it is not ad hominem, usually because it expands into something else if you really think about it. As long as we've suspended Godwin's Law for the day...

"The sky is blue." "He's a Nazi!" is ad hominem.

"Has anyone noticed the Jews have an awful lot of banking jobs?" "He's a Nazi!" is, if true, very relevant. The first statement is likely not just a mere observation that may be true or may be false but is historically associated with antisemitism and is probably being used as the thin end of the wedge and not a neutral observation. It's relevant here because it expands into an argument where the origins and motivations of the arguer are in fact very relevant.

Similarly, when you see a new physics theory coming from a known crackpot, while the fact they are a crackpot may technically have no effect on the truth value of the theory, when it comes time for you to evaluate the theory you are justified in noticing it's coming from a crackpot.

Bayesian logic lets you express it even more cleanly; in Aristotelian logic the motivations of the speaker are irrelevant to the abstract truth of the statement; in more practical Bayesian logic, as you personally examine the likely truth value of somebody else's statement (with no presumption of access to the abstract truth) their motivations can be very relevant. "ad hominem" is over-weighting their motivations or falsely weighting their motivations, and under this formulation you also get reverse ad hominem, in which you under-weight their motivations, which is every much a fallacy as the original ad hominem, and which Zed talks about in his post.

All things considered, people being hyper about ad hominem is probably better than letting it slide too often, because it is certainly true that on average it is not a valid attack. But he's absolutely correct that it is sometimes valid, and while I'm not sure Zed's necessarily correct about Tor, I do think he's a lot more justified in his opinions than the pileon here consensus is indicating.
I agree. I read through the article expecting to find new ideas on how to stop spam, something along the lines of http://www.paulgraham.com/ffb.html

I was very disappointed...
If enough people were using it, I'd think that a) some of them would be government operatives and b) the traffic could be analyzed to identify and remove internet access from a large number of the participants. I don't know that much about darknets so maybe the traffic analysis is not so straightforward.
People build apps because it's easy. If you're a half decent developer building an app, you _can't fail_ and that is huge. Getting people to actually pay you for something is hard and fraught with uncertainty and danger. No wonder most people choose to build apps.
Looks like I was given some bad info, updating now
I liked his earlier Play by Play preview videos better, where you actually got a small snippet of the conversation as a sample, so you could get a feel for each of the featured coder's style and tone:

http://peepcode.com/products/play-by-play-fhwang

This one was all content overview and too much of a glowing summary of Zed's accomplishments (a third of the preview) at the start for my taste.
I used to drink occasionally, of course. But I have been consciously cutting my artificially created dependencies wherever I can.

There is a big difference between dependency on food and dependency on beer for example. Need vs. Want. I don't need beer to survive, I do need water. Beer I will use to lighten up, enjoy - water to satisfy thirst and keep the body working. Drugs fall in mind made wants. Taking drugs to set yourself free of bonds and compulsions that kill your being, joy, clarity - that's illogical - you are trading one dependency for other.
We have not determined the spend with the founder yet - but are excited to have another physical product company. From our experience - the small amount of money can have a noticeable impact when you are not dealing with the abstractions of web startups. He has a product, fixed costs, and a process - so I am hoping we can connect him with people familiar with scaling single food products (getting into stores, higher production levels, etc). Also the marketing/branding since there are lot of creative campaign ideas surrounding a cartoon pickle.
A bit of a sensational title. With all the discussion on Hacker News lately about ownership of the company, this is interesting. Gave a majority of non-voting stock to MIT to get company dividends. That is all.

Interesting way of donating your fortune to a school.
I thought someone was trying to use pickle batteries as an alternative energy source, "They'll fund anything these days."
Sadly no.

https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/1892 - "iOS version"

"So, the estimation for a MVP could be as little as 2 months for UI and 2 months for the core, so in total 4 months."
PSA: Don’t listen to music in only one ear. It registers in your brain as quieter than it is, and it’s an easy way to cause hearing loss.
100% agreed. I use Java for work, used to use Python for little side projects, but started using Kotlin for side projects recently. It feels like the best of both worlds to me: the strict structure of Java, with the ease of writing new code of Python.
> If nothing stable, decades old, and well documented can solve the problem then reach for hot new-ness

I think it's a little more nuanced than that. Usually the older technology is more stable and better documented. But not always. Sometimes the new hotness is the new hotness precisely because it's better in these kind of categories.
Aluminum is actually quite profitable to recycle. The aluminum smelting process uses a ton of electricity, re-melting is much cheaper.
Cognitive ability is an abstract thing, IQ is a form of measuring it. It's like using 10k running time, amount of weight lifted in a deadlift, bench press, and squat as a measurement of athleticism.

Regardless,

> This does seem to be murray's contention. I don't think SSC agrees though. And this is actively harmful if you subscribe to the view that it is malleable: claiming that it can't be changed and that someone is "inferior", as Murray does, probably isn't going to set them up for success.

This statement seriously makes me doubt whether you've read Murray . The central thesis of his book The Bell Curve is that society needs to do a better job helping people on the lower end of cognitive ability lead fulfilling and productive lives. The notion that less intelligent people are inferior is the complete opposite of what he actually wrote.
I can't recommend them anymore. Hikvision cameras with a Synology NAS is far better in every way.

Ubiquiti cameras are way overpriced. The NVR has no real advanced functions. And their small indoor cameras are wifi only but require POE to power up. Everytime a power interrupt happens the wifi cams don't reconnect and start broadcasting their setup ssid and have to be manually reconnected. Their awesome tech support has turned into absolute garbage and can have hours long queues to only have an inexperienced person tell you they will follow up with an email. I was once a fan, but now will not install anymore of their equipment.
There’s a lot of trends and over interpreted small studies within popular nutrition science, but the basics are quite solid and quite simple: eat less, eat much more vegetables and fruit. There’s also solid evidence that too much red meat causes cancer.
Damn ascorbic acid is killing everybody.
I don't know a single feminist who doesn't consider prison rape, regardless of the gender of the assailant and victim, to be horrific.

Indeed, many discussions of rape culture do expressly talk about prison rape, and the notion of sexualized violence as a means of punishment.
The same can be said for basically any country and it's native cuisine. E.g. sushi in Japan.

That said, in my experience the US does other countries' cuisines better than most. By that I mean Italian food in the US is much better than Italian food in Japan.
> And really, the thing that got him most in trouble were the hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables that exposed no wrongdoing

You've clearly not read the cables. they were responsible for at least two revolutions [1][2], and we're still learning from them.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/13/amnesty-interna...

[2] http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/wikihistory-did-l...
Cute, in much the same way wobbly windows are cute.

Somewhat odd when scrolling via keyboard, though, since the "force" applied is always fixed.
I've often thought about how to build a flood-proof house. Most people do live in houses, after all. What if houses rose with flood waters instead of trying to keep water away from houses?

Turns out there is an effort to do exactly that, create an "amphibious house".

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jan/14/rain-square-flooding
Just about everything said here about "Solaris engineering" is false. For example:

Perhaps this means that Sun was brave where other companies feared to tread --- but given that (a) various ex-Sun employees have stated that there was a lot of Solaris engineering work was done before consulting the marketing or sales "tribes", and (b) ultimately, Sun wasn't able to succeed in the marketplace --- leads me to propose that maybe pouring all of that engineering effort into ZFS and dtrace (while both are amazing technologies, I will be the first to acknowledge) --- perhaps wasn't a good product/market fit, and that a VC who looked at things from a very cold-hearted profit and loss perspective would have never allowed a lot of the Solaris engineering work to go on as long as it had unless there was a demonstrated way it could be somehow monetized.

Ignoring the terrible reasoning (correlation does not imply causation) and the child-like view of venture capital, this is wrong on the facts: the ZFS and (especially) DTrace teams were tiny; the work that we did was with management's blessing; the work that we did was a direct result of our experiences with customers; and (most importantly, from my perspective), the work paid for itself many, many times over. In fact, this work had paid for itself many times over even before 2006 when the core members of the DTrace and ZFS teams started a new effort inside of Sun to build a new line of products based on the two technologies.[1] The resulting product -- which we had initially projected to be a $1 billion business within five years -- paid for its entire effort in the first fifteen days of shipping product in late 2008, and went on to exceed those initial projections (acquisition by Oracle notwithstanding). It should also be mentioned that Keith was a key engineer on this effort -- and its outsized commercial success was actually a triumph of systems thinking, not an example of its defeat. So yes, Sun failed -- but it was because it ultimately heeded systems thinking too little, not too much.[2]

[1] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2008/11/10/fishworks-now-it-can-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287033
Textbelt uses email-to-SMS to send texts for free. The downside is that for some carriers the texts may appear to come from an email address. Delivery is theoretically unreliable, especially outside the US, because most but not all providers have these email gateways.

As a result I would recommend Twilio for actual businesses, but Textbelt is great for personal stuff and other limited use cases. There are many businesses and monitoring solutions that use Textbelt though. It just depends on your needs.
I bet the payout was out of this world. And that the data is light years ahead of the competition.
Fun! I immediately thought of brains in vats: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/brain-vat/

Also, once the test has run, the stack of simulations and the real (top) world have diverged. Diane and Timmy at the top have belief states that simulated D and T do no: they know they are at the top of the stack.
> Aural, visual, tactile and chemical channels each have advantages and disadvantages for different applications

I wasn't talking about the method of delivery.

A wagging tail may not be intuitive, but moving a physical object from A to B by picking it up and dropping it is very much intuitive, not just by hardwired convention (both cats and dogs do it in the same way).

And the only rationale for the futuristic graphical interfaces we see demoed (including stuff like multitouch in iPhone/iPad) is based on the implicit intuitiveness of handling physical objects with your hands.

But that's just a niche ... beyond that you need a language for building stories out of composable phrases, and the demos of futuristic graphical interfaces I've seen just don't cut it.
I don't know, maybe they are, it just seems that every time I hear of these cases, only the jail time and fine are mentioned, but never the confiscation of the ill-gotten gains. I hope you're right.
Crappy design + too much irrelevant advertising + incredibly slow load times.

The next version definitely needs to take the best elements of all of those services but initially it needs simplicity and I think the Sixty One guys are almost there.
Agreed. The scope is there in the code to change that, I'm just trying to sort out some cross-browser compatability problems first. For example, on some browsers the thumbnails aren't clickable, and on others the cells in the Gallery aren't all the same size!

The other point is that once the full sized images have downloaded, the individual page image then comes up much faster, becuase the image is already cached. I'm watching the load to decide when to make the change.

And thank you.

EDIT: Thumbnails now created, loaded and in use. And thanks again.
And all that somehow implies they won't forage until they forget where they've found food before? Even if they've since struck out at those same locations?
> but you wouldn’t want to “paint” a digital picture by typing in some JavaScript to direct it

A painting you cannot, but the architecture of a building is better if it's built by using a CLI interface ... because you need control over every detail of your construction. Just look at AutoCAD sometimes.

Also, for playing on a piano you first need to read a sheet of music that describes your melody.
They'd probably know when they didn't see the hole in space behind them.

They probably wouldn't have any qualms with turning the simulation off either. My guess is that all those infinite simulations were on borrowed time until the top layer got bored.
Came to post this, actually. It's an incredible technique. She recommends doing it all at once, though we've had to split up the work over several weekends. I've tried in the past to reduce clutter, but her method is the first I've tried that works.

We donated a ton of clothes, and the best part was that afterwards I had a new appreciation for the clothes I kept -- like, "oh, I've got some really nice stuff and I hadn't realized it for a while, because there was so much clutter."

It might be largely due to the fact that her technique involves actually holding every item you own before you decide whether or not to keep it. And you end up keeping the stuff that matters to you _now_.
Another portuguese speaker here.

I think the reason why he used commas well (And that many other portuguese speakers use commas better than native english speakers) is that in portuguese you NEED to.

If you don't use commas properly in portuguese, you text can easily get excessively ambiguous, because of that schools here stress the comma a lot, I for example had in my fourth grade entire weeks dedicated to commas, and forgetting commas, even in non-langauge tests (example, in math tests) frequently resulted in some punishment (in math tests forgetting commas resulted into a loss of 0.1 points in the grade for each comma, out of the maximum of 10, thus if your math was correct enough to score 5, but you forgot 5 commas, you would instead score 4.5)
Your English is not "bad". There are some technical grammar issues you'll continue to work out, but the meaning in your writing is perfectly clear. That makes it pretty easy to overlook anything that's not quite correct in your writing.
I suspect they're interested in tracking aircraft (and drones) to enforce the flight restrictions around the White House and other areas. As it can track ground vehicles, it could also be useful for tracking vehicles of interest for undetectable surveillance.

If I were a Secret Service agent, my biggest fear would be swarm of off-the-shelf drones carrying grenades into something like inauguration. Something like this could give the early warning they need.
What disease is that, (very) specifically? I'm having a hard time nailing down what you mean, and how you arrived at that conclusion, but think it would be worthwhile to understand more.
Related: https://twitter.com/csoghoian/status/549328365422145537

And: http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/12/that-spiegel-nsa-story-is-...

Which isn't to say the NSA isn't legitimately participating in IETF and taking such notes ... but that codenames can be taken out of context. ;-)
Let us assume a company where everyone works from home and meetings are held in Starbucks or airport lounges. Such a company would save many thousands of dollars per employee per year, maybe tens of thousands. No real estate, no receptionist, no cleaners, no equipment to buy or IT dept to support it...

Such a company would probably pay less than market rates, due to the "perk" of allowing remote work? But where's that money going? If you are an engineer considering remote working, make sure YOU get a slice of the pie.
The fee will be different even for a credit card depending on whether or not the card is present.