skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We had a period of time where strict monogamy throughout adulthood dominated

I strongly disbelieve this, and I think most historians would agree with me.

We had a period of time in which what was written and widely disseminated in the polite (read: legal, and likely to be preserved) media did not include references to anything other than strict monogamy. When such references were included, they were usually scandalous and offered as implied evidence for a person or fictional character later getting his or her comeuppance.

It's very easy, especially if you're raised in a religious or just plain awkward household, to latch onto that attitude with apparent reinforcement from historical sources. That doesn't mean that's how people actually lived. It does mean that's how most people wanted others to believe they lived. And there are plenty of private letters and other less public texts from history that show our ancestors to have been every bit as kinky, homosexual, and promiscuous as we collectively are today. There were prudes then, too, and plenty of them, and there were people who were happy in a genuinely monogamous marriage, just as there are today.

But what's changed is not what people are doing, nor with whom, but whether they're willing to have others know about it. And even that's still nowhere near as free as many would imagine it: this article used pseudonyms throughout.

Temporal exceptionalism is just way too lazy.
Did he get laid eventually?
I agree that the initial human classifier is the "general feel". My distinguishing point is in the retraining. We can form conceptual constructions of what we see to resolve training correction, and once that is bootstrapped, carry the formed concepts and the meta-cognitive capability of concept creation over into new contexts.

If we've only seen automobiles, then all of a sudden are introduced to trains, 18-wheelers, motorcycles, etc, we are challenged to conceptually organize and discover the differences between these classifications. There's still a fair amount of "feel" in weird overlap cases, but the conceptual distinction is created after the fact. There is no mechanism for that in NNs.
Joint chiefs' network outage linked to 'sophisticated cyberattack'
You don't care, but Microsoft does. Their Windows Phone/Mobile state is much more dire than the desktop/tablet Windows 10.
I guess he still needs to develop the advanced bullshitting (sorry, I meant "rationalisation") skills required to say, "Well, I think it's a duck, because it looks like my internal picture of what ducks are supposed to look like, dear sir!"
Can you provide an NSEC white-lie response to an arbitrary query without an online key?

(I'm not sure if this is what was being asked, but I'm curious about the answer to that, either way.)
A Programming Language for Robot Swarms
Poorly and unconvincingly addresses. Same argument we've seen over and over -- now in a nice clean FAQ!

Doesn't change the design problems. Just tries to hide them behind half-truths and "but there's nothing better..."
OT: Anyone interested in learning about this type of racing should make a Web search for the term "Bonneville Salt Flats". It's pretty interesting and challenging.
The mind it may be trying to change is that of the people who not only optimize their own lives to avoid "farting around" but furthermore cast aspersions on others who enjoy and indulge in it.
Also understand: this is NYC. There are 8 million people within 20 minutes transit.

I used to have a roommate who refused to sleep alone. He'd sleep with 10-20 people per month on a rotating basis. I know other people who haven't had a date in two years. To each their own.
Absolutely. Monogamy advantages non-alpha males, to the disadvantage of most women. Women want to mate with the leader of the pack; if all females mate and carry the children of the one leader, all other males don't mate _at all, ever_.

Many (not all, but many) animal mammal societies work like this, and there are strong indications humans were wired to work like this too. Some human cultures still use that form of reproductive organization.

And then MALES (non-alpha ones) invented monogamy to get a piece of the action.

It's extemely ironic that women would complain about the disappearance of something that was designed to their direct detriment.
http://xkcd.com/1190/ ?
I don't think it's either "way around". Both the men and women on Tinder are shallow people who are mostly just interested in sex.
There are many specialized areas of the human brain.

It's not a single, unidirectional, backpropagated, simple-coefficient, neural net. It is not a recurrent neural network, nor is it a single instance of any particular NN-derived or NN-ish network.
This reminds me of RFJason's Craigslist experiment.[0]

Back in the day, rude invitations with dick pics were odd enough to mock. Now, according to this article, they've become almost accepted. Funny.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Fortuny
I really want to use Python in a distributed computation project of mine, but I've been running into serious performance bottlenecks with regards to object serialization. Like many concurrent Python frameworks, Pulsar uses `pickle` to serialize data across processes, and for all but the smallest data structures, workers end up spending 95+% of their time (de)serializing data.

I work with video data, so I just ran these rough benchmarks on my MacBook Pro:

import cPickle as pickle # yes, I'm on Python 2.7. Sue me.
import numpy as np

a = np.random.rand(800, 600, 3) # 800x600 px, RGB channel

%timeit pickle.dumps(a) // %timeit magic from IPython
1 loops, best of 3: 855 ms per loop

It takes nearly a second to serialize a not-so-huge `numpy` array, which makes it very difficult to do any sort of soft real-time analysis.

This is a huge pain, and (very sadly for this Python aficionado) suggests that Python might be the wrong language for this kind of work.

Any suggestions?
Some open, some not.

http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2015/08/06/windows-bri...

"(we’re not open sourcing the compiler)"
On a similar note, see also Doggerland (the large, submerged peninsula off the north-west coast of Europe, of which the British Isles are the only surviving above-surface relics today):

http://education.nationalgeographic.com/maps/doggerland/

A lot of previously-inhabited territory -- presumably fertile lowlands! -- was inundated as sea levels rose after the last ice age ended, around 9500-8500 years ago.
Does anyone know if an API exists that returns whether a company is in good standing with a secretary of state?

Checked out the Clearbit API and I didn't see that type of data in there.
Building an Analytics Pipeline in 2015
I definitely read the front page more often, but when I'm procrastinating, I can easily make it to page 5.
Make it so that the magnet is recessed inside a rim of soft plastic or rubber. Then it will still be able to slot onto the charge port but will not be able to hit the car body.
Well, the analogy obviously doesn't cover all cases. Certain concessions could have been made to negotiate a surrender other than demanding unconditional surrender and for the emperor to resign. Again I'm not a historian, so my point of view is limited.

Culturally at the time there was a sort of head down stubborn attitude in Japan. Finding a solution to ending the conflict that fit within the scale of the violence would still be difficult, but it's hard to consider atomic weapons as the only way to end it.

Hindsight is always 20/20. In this case not really. There's no way to know 100% what would have happened, all we know is what did happen.
OP here. There were five of us and we all knew it was happening because it was a prototype for a client we were pitching. But we collected data from several hundred unique MAC addresses from the surrounding office spaces, including their wireless NAS and Philips HUE lightbulbs.

We never knew the MAC addresses of anybody but ourselves, though with physical surveillance we could have correlated MAC addresses to comings and goings.

Basically I don't feel that this is particularly creepy unless you are applying it to identifying and tracking specific people. For bulk population metrics I have no problem whatsoever, and I have no problem being tracked in this way, but as a data analyst I know that the line between 'fine' and 'invasive' is a single SQL query.

It's kind of like how tracking phone calls metadata for billing is OK, while tracking it for surveillance is not, and the difference is the collector's intention.
Chrome currently requires that all extended-validation certs with an issuance date of 1/1/2015 or later be submitted to the CT logs. (Otherwise it will not show up in the UI as an EV cert.)

As with all browsers, only a subset of CAs are trusted to provide EV certs in the first place, regardless of whether they include the EV bits in the certificate. And this policy only applies to EV certs, not to all certs by an EV-capable CA.
Using the word "feels" (or "thinks") is a too much of a personification of a neural network. You cannot forget that under the hood, it is cranking through a bunch of math functions. You always get the same output from the same input. That function is not going to change on its own, and it is not going to suddenly gain new abilities to express itself in words. It is not a human, so there is no point in assuming it will behave or grow like a human.
You need to re-imagine.

I'm used to paying $0 for the OS X stuff needed to do development. This includes the Enterprise Professional Plus Home edition of both OS X and Xcode. In the lifetime of my Mac I have upgraded the OS 2 times and soon 3 for $0. So $307 is a bit significant for Windows 10 Pro (need BitLocker = Home is no go).

If you could have done the same on your Windows platform then please give me your Windows stuff contact person as he is clearly much cheaper than the ones I usually deal with.

But just for being in the Apple is ripping you off mode I did pay a bit more for the initial purchase of the hardware (around $205 more in todays prices than a comparable Dell XPS 13).

My day job is doing software management on the Windows platform so I'm fully aware of the licensing cost here. Including the price of operating a Windows developer above Visual Studio community level with their VS Pro/Enterprise editions, MSDN subscriptions, Team Foundation servers, and $2,500 HP workstation laptops (initial consumer price for lowest configuration). Seeing these prices almost causes a heart attack each time...
"supporting sites through ads" is like supporting your local grocery store through buying bottled water there.

Blocking ads and using reusable water bottles are socially responsible, positive behaviors. Anyone encouraging ads or encouraging bottled water (or worst: encouraging bottled water ads) should be ashamed of the harm they're doing to the world.
That's OK for overnight charging, if you don't mind paying a little extra for the electricity due to losses. But for fast charging, those losses translate into massive waste heat. A Tesla supercharger, for example, tops out at 120kW of power. If the inductive charger is 90% efficient (which I think is a realistic number) then that's 12kW of heat to dissipate. That's a lot. The car itself has similar losses when charging, and has a hefty cooling system to keep up with it, and it's going into a massive battery. Cooling a small inductive charging pad could get interesting.
We'd love to do that but unfortunately most states (Delaware) require a filing fee of at least $10 to retrieve that.
Should have seen this coming.

Oct 10, 2014 - https://youtu.be/FZ6lZJWL_Xk?t=9m23s
The web is so much better without it. It's downright annoying to use someone else's JS enabled browser.

Rough config for surf: https://gist.github.com/jakeogh/b23aac080c5c74310c88
>I've read a lot of the comments on here and you're the only one who's (seemingly) raised the question of whether what's written in this article is actually accurate in any general sense.

It's possible to feel alienation to the people in the article while believing it is true. There most definitely are serial sluts like this in the world (both male and female), so it doesn't really surprise me.

Anyway, I imagine most people on HN have similar thoughts about these people, but thought it was too obvious to mention.
What if you showed the algorithm/network/whatever itself? You could 'take a picture of it' and then train it to know that's itself, which would then change what it looks like. Keep doing that until it doesn't change or you fail trying.
Giving an employee an option on a $30 unit of stock with a $30 dollar strike price has no tax implications. Giving the same option with a $1 strike price means $29 of immediate taxable income. Multiply by an early employee grant size and you're looking at bankruptcy from taxes on completely illiquid assets.

This is also why options are strongly preferred to actual stock.
Business are not exempt from prop 13; there are periodically moves to exempt commercial property from some parts of the prop 13 limits (usually not the rate limit, but the limit on tax value increases.)
There are several. Smith noted Hobbes's truism: wealth is power. You might be thinking of the logic of collective action, Mancur Olsen.
Yeah, I keep hearing the same from buddies out there. You can do an AB test :) Set up a Tinder profile, spoof your GPS to New York, swipe on everyone, compare your percentages to SF. NYC is dramatically higher.

Worth considering whether one values career opportunities (assuming you want to do tech) more or values other aspects of life more (assuming you want a more active dating life).

I have guy friends who want to settle down in SF, but refuse to move here from New York until they've found someone they want to marry and who is willing to move with them.
It was to save American combat troops, no it was to stop the Soviets. Which is it?
The whole point of snake robotics is that one motor being a defect shouldn't render the entire robot useless. Of course that depends on intelligent control systems (algorithmic or mechanical) that can deal with limitations on any of the joints, without explicit damage sensors.

As for vandalism or getting driven over, well, that's not really a vulnerability exclusive to this approach.
If I run out of stuff on the front page, then I go to /newest
Isn't the fundamental piece of capitalism privately owned capital? What would we call a system of lasses-fair and protection of individual rights where those rights only included the right to rent capital from the state (not own it).
Fed case study: Fantastic profit at the expense of the public
Possible, yeah. The highest-throughput Go usage I'm aware of within Google is https://github.com/youtube/vitess, Youtube's MySQL load balancer: "a fundamental component of YouTube's MySQL infrastructure, serving thousands of QPS per server".

Not sure how that compares to Cloudflare's global traffic though, and what other high-throughput Go usages exist at Google.
I think a lot of people were waiting for it, Elon basically described this last December!

> Btw, we are actually working on a charger that automatically moves out from the wall & connects like a solid metal snake. For realz.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/550297212769402881
hadoop hands-on tutorials http://hortonworks.com/tutorials
Bitcodin (YC S15) encodes video 100x faster, in Netflix-grade quality
Yep. From the actual paper referenced above:

"Although considerable controversy has existed over the extent to which this fear of snakes is “innate” as opposed to based on learning, current evidence suggests that learning is necessary for the fear to manifest itself, at least for some primate species in which wild-reared but not laboratory-reared monkeys show a fear of snakes (see Mineka & Cook, 1988, for a review). For example, Mineka and Cook demonstrated that laboratory-reared rhesus monkeys who were initially unafraid of snakes rapidly acquired a fear of snakes after watching wild-reared model monkeys exhibit a strong fear of snakes (Cook, Mineka, Wolkenstein, & Laitsch, 1985; Mineka, Davidson, Cook, & Keir, 1984). The naive laboratory reared observers initially reached rapidly for food placed adjacent to a series of stimuli, including a real snake, toy snakes, and neutral objects."
I know that the history of shipping containers might not sound like the most exciting thing in the world, but The Box is a great book http://www.amazon.com/The-Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller/dp/...

Shipping rules used to be crazy
I wonder if this encourages startups to give less options, since they can be exercised so far in the future? If they know that a certain percentage of their options won't be exercised or will be relinquished, it makes ownership issues much simpler so wouldn't that incentivize giving smaller equity grants?
I do have my doubts that plain neural networks will ever be able to achieve conceptual understanding.

I have an affinity for classical, rational AI in that you can correct it and it will take that correction and instantly apply it to is knowledge base.

I don't claim this to be any amazing insight, but I strongly suspect that the human brain works on some combination of both probabilistic methods and something like the symbolic logic of GOFAI. How many "systems" there are, and how they interact, is an open question, but I really do think there's "some there, there".

Which reminds me, I need to get back to reading "Thinking, Fast and Slow", which I started a while back and got distracted away from.
Show HN: LAMB – Local Area Message Board
Right yes, but you dont need to contact Apple support, you can just change countries, after being logged in on Apple.com. I changed my account frequently because sometimes I had to pay things with my Dutch visa and other times with the German one. Been doing this for years. Also, it makes no sense for Apple to ban an account that a) does nothing illegal b) they allow these country changes c) are legit Visa card transactions that they make their profit on.

So all you're issues, are basically void, because it is possible, without contacting support. And after switching countries, a few minutes later it's activated. Give it a go.
It seems completely, extravagantly unnecessary, but that's much like many other qualities of Tesla cars I guess.

Is it really too much work to plug in a charging lead by hand?
How could you possibly defend against a malicious merchant? They can just have a video camera pointing at the terminal, no amount of encryption would defend against that.
> I've been impressed with the performance work you've been doing across the board

Thanks!

For all the tests I used MRI Ruby 2.2.2. Unless otherwise noted, I almost exclusively use the most recently released MRI Ruby version for testing. There shouldn't be a huge difference in most recent Ruby versions. The only thing that comes to mind is that `String#freeze` existed in older versions but was a method call, and not implemented as a parsing optimization (i.e. it would still allocate a string) however I believe that's been in there for a few years. Maybe the generational GC might have an impact.

> It'd be helpful to know what your GC tuning looks like, too.

I used stock GC settings for all the benchmarks

```
$ env | grep GC
# nothing here
```

> A little expansion on the methodology would just make it all the more valuable.

The patch does have some more specifics than the post, especially the commits. I used benchmark/ips in some of them to demonstrate specifics problems. I can do a larger write up on specific methodology, if you think that would be interesting.

> If you press 'y'

Thanks, i've been trying to get in the habit of doing so, that's a good tip.
Same reason keyless entry exists.
Hi, I'm Stefan, one of the co-founders. I'm happy to answer questions and get feedback!
Robot cars don't have hands.
Nice to have this comparison in one place, but I think also serves as a good illustration of the limits of regex usefulness. It feels like this would just be better off implemented in the language of your choice instead of an impenetrable string of characters.
First Node.js Application Is Accepted to Apple’s App Store
> Most companies allow only 90 days for employees to purchase stock after they leave the company.

This is somewhat disingenuous because it neglects to mention that the 90 day exercise window is typically the result of a company offering employees incentive stock options (ISOs). A 90 day exercise window is required by the rules associated with ISOs. Startups can't change the law.

When a company allows exercise after 90 days, the options become non-qualified stock options (NQSOs), and those are subject to different tax treatment.

In reality, the favorable tax treatment of ISOs often doesn't benefit startup employees, so there's an argument to be made that startups should just offer NQSOs anyway, but that's neither here nor there.

The big lie is that extending the exercise window has a high probability of being meaningful. Yes, it's true that companies are taking longer to deliver liquidity, but a lot of companies simply aren't going to deliver liquidity, ever. For those that do, in today's market, where valuations skyrocket early and late-stage investors trade valuation for significant downside protections, many employees will find that their equity isn't as valuable as they expected.

If a startup really wanted to stand out and reward employees differently, it would look at alternative approaches, such as bonuses and profit sharing plans, including profit sharing plans that contribute to a 401k. I think a lot of people who are not new to the game would be attracted by alternative structures and incidentally, these would probably do a lot more for retention.
They are cheap knockoffs of CyberDildonics, don't buy into the second rate experience of teledildonics.
Half the doors go | |, the other half - -

It makes the "small parking space enter-exit point moot", I don't get it.
I'm using a modified version of this for IRI/URI validation:

https://github.com/nisavid/spruce-iri/blob/master/spruce/iri...
Imagine you pull up to a Supercharger on Friday night of a holiday weekend. All the stalls are taken and there is a line of a handful of cars in front of you.

Today, you wait in your car until the people in front of you finish charging.

Tomorrow, you leave your car in line and go get dinner.
Reversing the sides of the table does not make the 'game' fair.
Looks much like to robotics made by Festo. I recall seeing a "elephant trunk" type of arm. Wonder if this is based on anything from these guys.

http://news.discovery.com/tech/robotics/robotic-arm-inspired...
Sigh. The phrase "neural network" is getting tossed around these days with some type of sensationalist flair, an almost romanticized notion of this impending explosion of super-human phenomena.

It's all cyclical. This is at least the second, if not the third, wave of hype for Neural Networks. I remember a period back in the mid to late 90's when this stuff was quite the rage.
How is this even remotely ethical?
> For all the tests I used MRI Ruby 2.2.2. Unless otherwise noted, I almost exclusively use the most recently released MRI Ruby version for testing.

Good to know. I guess I'm suggesting that specifically calling that out in the text will help it stand the test of time. Otherwise the reader needs to cross-reference the date with the MRI release list.

And really, this is all I was looking for in the methodology. The post covers what you did in pretty good detail. The GC thing was something I was curious about just because that's ping-ponged quite a bit throughout the 2.x releases.

Thanks again!