skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deep learning is machine learning where the system develops ("learns") its own featureset. Generally by a multilayer neural network. Selecting features is typically the aspect of machine learning that required the most domain experience, and in deep learning that part is done by an algorithm.

The features can be layered. For example, speech recognition could have layers something like phonemes, morphemes, words, concepts, etc. building such featursets by hand is challenging, in deep learning the system learns useful features by detecting patterns.

Interesting that the most challenging technical task is among the first to be replaced by an algorithm ;)
Sure, uber's competition loses...but that's like saying Google Search sucks because what bad things happend to Alta Vista and all their employees and investors.

The ones who win: rider and driver.
Agreed, game development is the art of making illusions.

Proper simulation, or any kind of complex machinery working behind the scene rarely adds a lot of value to the resulting game (sadly). And moreover, I'm certain that relying of cheap tricks is the greatest virtue in game development. And there is nothing derogative or ignoble about that. Knowing where to cut corners is an extremely valuable skill, and it requires a lot of intelligence, experience, and careful planning.

Computer games are a lot like real-life magic. The best results are achieved if you do cheap tricks, but you do them well..
Ionic Lab – Create, build, test, and deploy Ionic apps
> it's not unheard of to value an S&P index fund at 10% over that period!

It's also not unheard of for shares to double in value over a short period, but you don't know in advance which ones.

Quite simply, you are very unlikely to average at least 10% p.a. above inflation on investments over a long period.
> Finally, GPG's usability leaves something to be desired. Docker makes pushing and pulling of images extremely easy, essentially making everyone a publisher of content. GPG works when publishing software is more rare and you can take the time to use a new utility in order to get security guarantees, but we wanted to make it extremely easy so that anyone can do it.

A wrapper would have done an awesome job at that... I use GnuPG daily, enter a passphrase once and boom. Mails are signed, my password manager unlocked. Where is the "unusability" in this?
I have a better question - how did they ban it?

Is all internet traffic in Russia portal-ed like it is in China?

Imagine the US government trying to block an overseas website, without physically taking the server they would have little ability to do so, there are too many alternate routes.
Part of my point was that the 'accusation' you claimed against 1arity was that communities exclude outsiders. That you made rationalizations about why they might be excluding outsiders (because they are bad) serves to illustrate that the community might very well be practicing exclusion, and with good reason. I'm challenging the status quo here, and looking for an opportunity to allow quacks to be quacks while we're still 100% open to finding people with decent ideas. That may be implausible, but I'm still challenging it. :)

For whatever reason, this reminds me of the recent TED talk that got pulled because the speaker was challenging dogma in research. Can't remember the title off the top of my head.
The cost of mining a single transaction is approximately the electricity cost to mine a block divided by the number of transactions in the block.

Say it is $0.15. A miner can make extra revenue at ~0 cost by filling a block with $0.10 offered fee transactions, but if there are many of them, they may choose not to, from the belief that enough of them will turn into $0.16 offered fees in the future (the cost is clearly ~0 in the short term, it's harder to say what it costs them in the long term to propagate the impression that low fee offers will still eventually clear).
Keen.io Retention Charts with Node and Google Sheets
I think they may have, but thought that a recipe for growing mushrooms sounded better as a reason
It's possible that since Linux is a smaller percentage of their user base that they prioritized the Mac OS X and Windows ports and will eventually do Linux. If I were them that's what I would do at least.
Yup. This is pretty much what I do as well, but for Node and Python projects. The best part is that I develop in exactly the same environment that the app has in deployment.
And so, the balkanization of the internet continues.
Sounds just like "Russia bans Internet".
Because Reddit is just a part of Internet where you can find almost anything.
What is the next step to ban Wikipedia ?
Yeah, my first thought was, that the productivity in Russia is going to increase.

Or they will have to find a new site to waste their time on ;)
That what amazed me about this, is it looks like they were basically creating a complete clone of Alice: Madness Returns.

I mean, I know Alice didn't sell well, but surely someone pointed that out to them?
20 Things I've Learned from Larry Page
The 140 character limit is a fun design choice, but it's worth noting that it appeals to a very specific kind of demographic. The kind that loves forming an opinion without spending more than 2-3 seconds on the material.

It's fun to think of the amount of flame wars, the amount of out of context quoting, of (purposefully or accidentally) misinterpreted tweets etc which all stem from "the limit".

Actually, scratch that, it's not fun at all. It's a waste of time on the scale of hundreds of millions of people. I squeal whenever I see someone start talking about various serious or interesting issues and their post ends in "[1/19]" or some such. Bloody hell, this isn't the format, and there's always a tweet in there which is a fantastic flamebait... when taken outside of its context.

shudders
Announcing Ionic Lab
This is actually exactly what I heard on an NPR report about a consultant (yes, cries from the peanut gallery) who helps companies learn to manage projects better.

After doing all the normal project management estimates, etc, the very first thing he does is sit down everyone who will actually be implementing the project (or a representative sample).

He then asks them a simple question: "Come up with one scenario where this project would fail."

The implication being that this is lateral to the train of thought people use to make initial estimates. Iow, in all possible estimation scenarios, the project is assumed to have been a success! It's not unreasonable to expect that implicit optimism to filter down through sub-estimates.

His point was that giving people permission to imagine scenarios for total and abject failure identified important risks that could be back-fed to improve the initial optimistic estimate.
A Deeper Look at Google’s New Structure
WikiLeaks is raising €100,000 reward for the secret TTIP act
Xfers (YC S15) simplifies C2C payments in Singapore
Here's the unofficial mirror of a banned sites list:

https://github.com/zapret-info/z-i

The commit with the reddit url:

https://github.com/zapret-info/z-i/commit/3685d96a7e7bce2e3b...

>198.41.208.137 | 198.41.208.138 | 198.41.208.139 | 198.41.208.140 | 198.41.208.141 | 198.41.208.142 | 198.41.208.143 | 198.41.209.136 | 198.41.209.137 | 198.41.209.138 | 198.41.209.139 | 198.41.209.140 | 198.41.209.141 | 198.41.209.142 | 198.41.209.143;www.reddit.com;http://www.reddit.com/r/rudrugs/comments/1derq9/;
When you're doing physical tasks while not having to co-operate with someone else, you can listen to the audio version while continuing to execute on the physical task.

You can also listen while moving your person about from place to place, which can be quite hard or inefficient to do while reading.

I certainly spend a lot of time moving from one place to another. I also assume there are plenty of people who do the same.
Even a few years ago, the amortized price per kWh of installing, operating, and maintaining a solar installation was lower for an end-user than the price they would be paying the utility for electricity, in most parts of the U.S.

In places where the regulatory regime and utilities are sane with regards to metering and feed-in tariffs putting in a solar installation is already a winning proposition.
Love It or Hate It, Bootstrap Is Winning the Web
10 Essential and Useful Ruby on Rails 4 Gems
> Anyone who thinks PowerShell is at all any good has, axiomatically, never seen any other shell besides cmd.exe before. You may think I'm exaggerating

Really. That feels like quite an uncharitable statement. The only reason someone could think something that you don't like is good because they just don't know any better?
Using the non-aliased verbose form of the cmdlets:

$hosts = 'host1','host2','host3'
$source = '\\host0\c$\source'
$dest = 'c:\dest'
$executable = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe'

Invoke-Command -Computer $hosts -ScriptBlock {
Get-Process | Where-Object Path -eq $using:executable | Stop-Process -Force
Copy-Item -Path $using:source -Destination $using:dest
}

Explanation:

Line 1-4: Set up variables to make the script more explanatory. Line 1 defines an array (the "," operator)

Line 6: Invoke-Command takes an array of (remote) hosts (the -Computer parameter) to execute the script block (the -ScriptBlock parameter).

Lines 7-9: The script to execute at each host simultaneously (the Invoke-Command executes the scripts in parallel at each host)

Line 7: Get the process list (Get-Process), pipe through the filter (Where-Object) which selects only the process(es) executing the desired executable, pipe those processes to the Stop-Process cmdlet which will forcably stop the process.

Line 8: Copy files from the desired source at an UNC path to the local machine at the destination

Now, the above script was the canonical way, using the long form. For casual scription, I could have written just this:

$hosts = 'host1','host2','host3'
$executable = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe'
icm $hosts { ps | ? Path -eq $using:executable | kill -f; cp \\host0\c$\source c:\dest }
That's 4-5 pages that claim to adequately cover the financial and political current events of 71 countries

I think I'm justified in being skeptical.
https://www.paypal-notify.com/eventnotification/event_detail...
It wasn't too difficult to achieve, but past performance is no guarantee of future performance.

Already that's looking far less true if you look at the past decade or two, but it's still the received wisdom because it's what people enjoyed in the past.

The FTSE 100 hasn't peaked much higher than it peaked in 99/00, and in real terms still hasn't closed as high as it did back then.

Since you were careful to talk about nomimal return, this is then further reduced by the effects of inflation. A 5% nominal return might well be easy in an environment with a high inflation rate.

I'm not suggesting that people shouldn't invest, people clearly should invest as part of a mixed portfolio, and because cash returns are typically even slower, but the original article here is unrealistic as a goal.

Edit: Dividends help too of course, they aren't tracked into the index whereas it is possible to reinvest them back in if you don't take them as income.

I'm not denying that some people can get lucky with market timings and it works out well for them, and in fact there's the whole boomer generation it mostly worked out very well for, but it does no good to the next generation to account it all towards their actions and not account for any kind of good fortune in timing.
with volcano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUREX8aFbMs

and meteor: https://youtu.be/VPFSyokDrec?t=251
>even if I wanted to I have no idea if I want to use something in my house.

Everything in your house is toxic. Pick up anything with the ingredients on the label and google a random one that has a funny name. Then read about it on wikipedia and you can go further from there if you want and see the studies. Chances are it is very toxic but it's used in small ammounts so you shouldn't worry about it because the effects only show up after years and years of use.

Then look at the unlabeled stuff and food packaging. What's it made of? What is it coloured with? What's in the glue that holds it together? What does the paper have in it?

Checkout the uses for isothiazolinone and related compounds like methylchloroisothiazolinone if you are curious about something that's in practically everything.
As someone who has a serious medical condition and has altered my lifestyle to get healthier, I think "don't get sick" is more of a choice than most people seem to believe. And "don't get sick" -- or, more accurately, get my sorry ass well -- is, in fact, the big foundation of my financial plans. I am not where I want to be financially, but I am making poropgress towards my goals, including paying down debt.
Why are America’s top technology jobs going to Indian executives?
Recently I switched on a mode in where I have to manually refresh to see changes, maybe you have accidentally done that as well.
These days Squeak uses Monticello, which is a modern DVCS.
Good to know. Didn't realize I believed in a myth :)
Agreed. Amazingly, we released our version of this within the hour: https://reploy.io. And many other frameworks are doing the same thing. http://blog.ionic.io/announcing-ionic-deploy-alpha-update-yo....
Those aren't bad things. Those are great things. If you feel that this kind of functionality needs to be added to email, then you're probably making a completely redundant product. Reinventing a shittier, proprietary wheel.
I read and discussed classics at St. John's College in Santa Fe, NM, for 8 weeks per summer for 4 summers, for a master's degree; and there were no grades. (Yes, the grades are on a transcript which I could request, but haven't.) It is my understanding that the undergraduate program has the same grading policy.

It was refreshing to be able to learn without grade pressure.
> This presumes you use HTTP, have a compromised SSL cert, or have pissed off the NSA.

This is not taking into content mirroring. TUF allows you to treat all mirrors as potentially malicious allowing anyone to reliably deliver trusted content, even in an untrusted network. GPG does not provide a way to detect active attacks other than signature verification.
That's some Michael Bay shit right there. Transformers 8 shooting nearby?
> A large mining pool used their power to double spend and steal thousands of bitcoin from a gambling service[3]. When it was noticed, they blamed a rogue employee. No money was returned, nor any legal action taken.

Wasn't that the point of Bitcoin?
England to test charge-as-you-drive 'electric motorways'
Pharo is an effort to make a "grown-up" Squeak. It's hard to get the kind of interaction that makes Smalltalk work when you're inside a general-purpose text editor. When I'm working in Smalltalk, even though it's always a "toy" program, I feel like I'm sort of reaching into the computer's inner world and fiddling with things in a way you can't do with a plain old text editor.
Great to see the support for Fluentd and GELF logging drivers =)

Logging is such a big part of production deployment, and it's good to see a couple of solid options in Docker's core.
>"We assume that the website is simply understaffed during the summer holidays[...]" officials said publicly.

That definitely smells like they didn't try too hard to get in contact.
Real-time data for cancer therapy
...per week. I highly doubt their goal is to inform you on all current events in the region in a single week. But it's a weekly and over time a reader would develop a cursory understanding of events across the region (they also briefly touch on the highlights in the "The World This Week").

I think they're assuming their readers will know how to dig further on events they find relevant. Personally I find The Economist pairs well with a subscription to Foreign Affairs.
AWS VMware hybrid solutions
I believe the S&P 500 has returned 6% - 8% (depending on which quote you believe) for the past century. Pretty low risk index fund, there.
How Designers Talk Dirty: A Funny Tumblr Series
American. I used to get really nervous around police (my dad doesn't trust them, and that rubbed off on me), and I still get nervous when I'm driving with a cop behind me.

I used to be scared of police, but as I got to know a few cops and ex-cops and as I researched more statistics about police in America, I've grown to sympathize with them.

I think my attitude towards them is most similar to my attitude towards my immediate superiors at work: they could make my life hell if they wanted to, but they're generally good people.

I worry about non-LEOs that carry guns. Cops don't worry or bother me anymore. They're unpopular right now (thank you, sensationalist media), but they're generally doing a good job. I feel safe.
Ah! Excellent.
Trakkies: a mesh network of IoT nodes to stop you losing things
Glad to know there are recordings of this. I registered, but I've been missing the lectures because of timezone differences.
Non pie shapes are definitely possible - look at the taijitu (yin/yang) symbol for example - . But of course, again, the center is on the divide between both halves.
Github of MANIC implementation: https://github.com/mikegashler/manic/blob/master/docs/index....

Docs for implementation: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/mikegashle...

From docs:

Does it work? It passes some tests. More testing is still needed.

What is the license of this code? ...Creative Commons Zero public domain dedication. In other words, you can do pretty much whatever you want with this code.

Why is MANIC so slow? It does a lot of stuff. Your brain has about 100 billion neurons that all run in parallel. This code is doing it all in serial on the Java Virtual Machine.

My thoughts:

Can this be trained for "abstract" knowledge (wikipedia) or does it need specific, detailed knowledge? (the paper examples train with several related real-world states)

Why can't this be run in parallel?

EDIT, additional sources:

SVG diagram of the MANIC architecture:
http://uaf46365.ddns.uark.edu/lab/cogarch.svg

2011 paper which began this work: http://axon.cs.byu.edu/papers/gashler2011ijcnn2.pdf
1. No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_power_stations_i...

2. Nuclear power plants don't go up like this.
If you understand it (that is, study its writer's themes, methodologies, culture, etc..) you generalize the information and integrate it with your decision-making abilities. Your question is a bit like asking "When's the last time eating ham was relevant to a decision I've made." You can't trace the source of relevance through those kinds of generalizations. You can only know your own personal history: that you've previously integrated the information.

It's the same way you can't look at someone and say "your decisions don't directly involve ham. Maybe you shouldn't eat ham anymore."

Shakespeare isn't strictly necessary for this, but there is value to be gained from studying literature, and Shakespeare is just the most accessible and popular academic literature.

Addendum: For what it's worth, I use my experiences studying shakespeare quite frequently, particularly when analyzing things like tragedy, taboo, or social conflict like drugs and politics. If there were some better way to deliver that experience, I would support it as well.
Sounds from the article like they have ISPs do the blocking.

>many Russian Internet providers (perhaps 30 percent, according to the government) will block the website in its entirety
> they may choose not to, from the belief that enough of them will turn into $0.16 offered fees in the future

Another miner will pickup those transactions and mine them.

Blocks are either full and there are fees or blocks are not full and fees are approximately zero.

Unfortunately the block size cannot be limited by individual miners.
Begun, the Currency War has.
I suppose that's true. Trying to fix that would basically put you in the third case - you need everyone to be working on the same transactions, which are the most significant (greatest transaction fees).
They issued the ban notice shortly after this news story became popular: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/3gl0pg/missile_p...
I'm not trying to ring any bells. We all know what agendas are in action here anyway.
They didn't, they used http://theupdateframework.com/

Python is also looking at using this for their package management system, pip.

https://lwn.net/Articles/629426/
Well, to be honest, as a Linux user, I would definitely consider using GitHub's own GUI application instead of some application developed by a third party.
What Online Dating Was Like in the 1960s
The Dummies Guide to Traveling with Your Pet
Now that this is off the front page...

You seem to be incredibly smart and well educated and would do the world a great service if you worked to shift your energy towards compassionately sharing in knowledge exchange rather than venting anger at why others don't have the same knowledge you do.

I want to open this up again and give you free reign here to explain to me why my thoughts are incorrect, but with the condition that it's done without attacking the structure of my words or me personally.

I have two theories about neuroscience, but I have no formal education in science and my knowledge comes from the university of HN, wikipedia and google. I want to know why I'm wrong about these theories and become educated on the reasons why they are wrong. If you can help me, I would be very thankful.

The first theory is that grocery stores and home cooking are our last proxy for primitive food scavenging behavior (I believe this is called dopamine reward seeking). This is why Soylent will never be successful and why online food shopping will always be a niche business.

Second - I've never been sold on the idea that our brain ships without any software preinstalled. It's hard to debate in favor of this since the science is murky and, of course, I'm no scientist. The only thing I can point to is this http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/1048647...

If you can help explain to me why I'm mistaken with these thoughts, you'd make a positive impact on my life and hopefully improve your own outlook as well.

Or you can tell me to fuck off. But know that I did give a shit about what you had to say and it's stuck with me for almost 24hrs now.
Here's a great chart that shows return on investing in the S&P 500 over the last 90 years.
"In Investing, It’s When You Start
And When You Finish"
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business/20110...
ah yes, The Economist, or, as it was originally titled, The Empire-Builder's Colonialist Companion, but that was too obvious
We Still Let Harassers Participate in Our Community
You can extract the differences by looking at my librt0 [0] project. You can also see a minimal amd64 version in C here [1].

[0] https://github.com/lpsantil/rt0/blob/master/src/lib/syscall....

[1] https://gist.github.com/lunixbochs/462ee21c3353c56b910f
Entrepreneurs, Economic Growth, and the Enlightenment
Pure uninformed speculation on my part, but an LNG terminal was opened in November 2013.
http://www.platts.com/latest-news/natural-gas/singapore/chin...

'The Tianjin floating, storage and regasification unit is China's first such facility.'
The problem with that advise is that oil releases MORE toxic fumes at a lower temperature than teflon.

Teflon is safer than the oil you are cooking with. If you heated it hot enough to make fumes from the teflon you would have a cloud of smoke from the oil.

They know this because did a test and found that oil is more toxic to birds than teflon.

So go ahead and cook with teflon on high, it's safer than using a lot of burning oil.
I use OTP and it's not working for me after I login - it just keeps spinning (I'm in the US).

Hopefully they will fix OTP support as I need to use a special link to login...
This is only true while there is a glorious block reward subsidizing everything.

(Which I realize is for a long time in terms of there being a block reward, but if bitcoin falls by 50%, so does the reward...)