skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asking here because I don't really know of a better place. Does anybody involved in deep learning have any use cases other than image-based use cases where deep learning has been a measurably better option than other techniqes?

I don't do any image-related tasks, but I use machine learning extensively and have never been able to successfully break away from my big three of Naive-Bayes, SVMs, and Random Forests. I've tried some of the more established deep learning techniques (LeNet,RBM,etc), but can't seem to find anything that works better than one of those three. Is deep learning an exclusively image-related technique?
If I publish a research paper, while people can't print and sell copies, they can use the information in the paper to do further research, both profiting from papers and from any commercial ventures that may be founded on those papers. Is that fair? Should there be a researchright?

(Patents don't cover this, as at least under modern patent law, they only cover inventions, not ideas.)
Try landing on a carrier, the pilots get graded on every single landing, in one of the most stressful environments out there.

They have Landing Signal Officers who make sure the pilot is safely on the glidepath, and in difficult conditions "sweet talk" the pilot with instructions [0]

If the LSO & Air Boss (in charge of the flight deck) and staff don't do their job, and a jet runs out of gas in the pattern they will have some major explaining to do. The officers involved will be called before a mishap board.

If a hospital ED patient flow was actually ran like the Air Boss runs the carrier deck, then things would go a lot smoother. An F/A-18 at landing weight ends up in the water if they have to wait more than about 30-45 minutes, unless refueled in the air.

The other thing to remember is that in major hospitals, the Trauma service and the Emergency Department have a separate patient flow. If someone is having a heart attack or serious injury, they will be handled by the trauma service. The nurses handling the ED are not treating immediately critical patients, except perhaps on initial triage.

Also, a "broken leg" can easily end up critical from puncturing the femoral artery if its not stabilized and/or the patient will go into shock, if not given appropriate pain meds.

I personally think that ED staff should be graded for QA of treatment and "Patient Interaction". Neither of which requires lengthy interaction with the patient, only maintaining standards. I'm not sure I'd apply the typically subjective Yelp standards to ED evaluation either.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD_mUwzpUs4
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Brixon, did you ever have to handle drafts or documents/records that needed approval workflow on update or creation? I'm currently debating whether or not to implement drafts/revisions in the same table for simplicity at the expense of table bloat.

Did you go to the University of Arizona? I know Prof. Snodgrass.
One thing I tried as an experiment was to wear a tight-fitting pocket t-shirt backwards and put a tennis ball in the pocket. Makes it hard to sleep on your back. If you feel more refreshed the next morning, you might investigate more.

Note: I am not a doctor, so please consult one, etc. :)
Sorry, I didn't mean to generalize Americans (as I am one myself). Unfortunately, the few bad people spoil things for the many good people whose songs go unsung.
TV Tonight: Jon Stewart’s final show scheduled after GOP debate
I think you've captured well the spirit of my comment.

The point that I didn't mention - and that may partially answer your question - is that the other thing all of these "highly productive programmers" did is narrowly specialize in a particular niche where there weren't good existing solutions but are a number of potential users. There are still C libraries that remain unbuilt! Actually, with the decline of good C programmers and the rise of scripting languages, the relative demand for quality C libraries has probably gone upwards if anything. Usually these programmers (along with more recent ones like Zed Shaw and Mongrel, Brad Fitzpatrick and memcached, or Salvatore Sanfilippo and Redis) identified a specific need, solved it quickly and efficiently, and then leveraged the fame & reputation from that successful open-source project into a good job at a company that lets them do what they want or a series of consulting engagements supporting that software.
Many of the comments that I see downvoted in this discussion are not just things that people disagree with, they are espousing poorly-informed opinions or making objectively incorrect assumptions (and implicitly discounting responses from people who disagree). These do not contribute to the conversation.
There's a react module for modals :) https://github.com/rackt/react-modal

But yeah, in a similar fashion to angular, modifying the DOM outside the 'blessed' render()ing is a pathway to darkness. You can do a bit of fiddling in the lifecycle though - take a look at https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/component-specs.html#u...
The thing is, it only takes one non-TLS web request to be harmed. There are a number of attacks that can be done that require MITM and/or local snooping that are easily done at a conference like this (the TLS export-level security downgrade recently, BREACH/CRIME, etc). There were a number a few years back before HSTS was around where it would hijack people going to http://google.com and capture their cookies before it redirected to https://google.com. These might seem trivial now, but what will people think 5-10 years ago about the things that are possible now.
Hopefully they can structure the deal in such a way that the team remains incentivized both financially and passionately. This actually seems like the right way to do it: find a progressive bank willing and able to let a team come in and modernize some functions. My recollection is that SVB online capabilities were pretty dismal so there's not a whole lot to lose. SVB would be a much more attractive player with better DDA functionality.
Same for me too!

I felt like superman after the first time I used it.

It's been a few years, and I haven't slept a single night without CPAP.

Looking back, I am amazed at how well I was able to function at all.

I think not only is my quality of life improved, but I think it's also extended my life. I know that chronic sleep deprivation leads to a variety of illnesses (heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes..etc...).
Question to EFF:

Does Privacy Badger itself track me?

I know I could read through the source-code, but it would be quicker for myself (and others) to know if any tracking is done by EFF itself.
I count 24 indo-european languages.

Not indo-european: Arabic, Basque, Chinese, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Hebrew

Your point still stands.
Maybe they were talking about net[1], or maybe they have a large number of short trips? From memory (from talking with drivers), the formula is:

driverDollars = (fareDollars - 1)*0.8

If a driver is mostly taking people one or two blocks, the fares are going to be in the $3-5 range. That means the $1 "safe ride fee" (or whatever it's called) is already 20-30% of the fare, so Uber's total take on short rides is closer to 50%. It's one of the reasons drivers don't like short rides.

[1] edit: By net I mean after driving expenses, not after Uber's take.
Antlos Puts You and and Your Friends on a Boat
"What do you get when you cross a presidential debate featuring Donald Trump with a sendoff for Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show”? A double header of political and satirical spectacle that offers a night of ideal scheduling for the social-media peanut gallery."
The Helium HTTP API and the Arrival of Transforms
Off topic, but I find I do what you described with a lot of things. For instance, I am generally on the anti-copyright (and anti or less patents, at least for software) side but I will still take full advantage of the current system. I also think tax loopholes are rather unfair, but I take full advantage of them. It's an interesting conflict between principles and pragmatism.
Yes, but it hides results where the author has not used the word "golang".
Privacy Badger is older than uBlock, it existed before uBlock, so they couldn't have based it on uBlock.

The bigger question today is whether Privacy Badger has value in light of uBlock… I don't know… anyone?
Is a Safari extension on your roadmap?
You might, during the window while you still can, want to merge all three of these comments into a single comment, deleting the remaining two. Also: it is never productive on HN to discuss voting. In fact, the guidelines specifically ask us not to do that.

I enjoyed the longer of your three comments very much and appreciate the perspective you're trying to add.
We're hiring in San Francisco, London, and Singapore:

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So, commenting late so may not get a response. But I am curious about handling stuff like bank accounts, health insurance etc. like that require you to specify an address. How does that work out?
> Whoever did that to the robot would shit a brick if the robot started screaming.

I would assume so, but the robot looked vaguely humanoid, with a smiley face and all. Someone of a sane mind should feel bad defacing such a thing, but seeing as they didn't, they perhaps wouldn't have batted an eye if it had started screaming.

Now if it had pulled a gun, on the other hand...
Not to mention that a lot of the incumbent freight forwarders have admitted to price fixing and other fraudulent behavior:
https://learn.flexport.com/freight-forwarding-price-fixing/
Because it's just one part of a huge deal involving a lot more than copyright. NZ wants to get into the Canadian dairy market. Australia wants to be able to sell sugar to americans. Every country has things they want, and things they don't care about that they're willing to give up in exchange for the things they want. It seems that agreeing to the American's copyright demands mostly falls into the "things we're willing to give up" category.
"This is a HUGE positive change to Canada, NZ and Australia which haven't had that previously."

Canada has "fair dealing", which has largely the same effect as "fair use" in the U.S..
(Totally off-topic, but that's not a very apt usage of "diamond in the rough": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/diamond_in_the_rough )
Treating ideas the same as physical possessions can give some pretty odd results, when you think about it past your own immediate gain.

Somebody else came up with the idea that you can put letters on paper. Another person came up with the idea that you can put paper together in a collection to form a book. Why are you stealing these ideas, making money and keeping the profits?

The only reason this isn't an issue for you right now is because these ideas were created up a long time ago, and the ideas have become "public goods" that anybody may use. But what if you could inherit intellectual property in the family just like physical property? After all, if a farm can be kept in the family for hundreds of years, why not an intellectual piece of real estate?

What sort of free society would say "okay, after you have created a good, you may keep it for 70 years and then it belongs to the public"? And yet we do this for intellectual property, and I suspect, the truth is, because we don't really truly believe it's real property. And I'm very happy for that.
Find something i'm incredibly passionate about.
Then I hyperfocus and go for hours and LOVE IT.
Medication interfears with my super productivity because it prevents me mega-hyperfocusing.
That's what Chrysler is doing:

https://www.driveuconnect.com/software-update/

(In addition to having the dealers do it or sending USB drives to people that request them)
Twitter Live: The feature that Twitter never had
Are you using government grants to do that research? Because then clearly the result of the research is a benefit to the society that's also been paid by the society. You shouldn't get to reap all the rewards yourself.
While that is true, I think this debate misses the point entirely. I want a shorter copyright length. This debate has changed it from a 'how much' into a 'all or nothing' discussion.
Can someone explain without using "magic happens here" arguments how an author, musician, etc. would build a portfolio of assets from which they could attain any measure of financial security in this world?

No. They can't. But it's important to understand that they can't attain any measure of financial security even with copyright law in place. It just looks like they can. Only the superstars ever get financial security from copyrights.

Writers would have it even worse than musicians, since at least musicians can tour. When was the last time you attended a live reading of a novel?

Crowdfunding is another option. But I think it's useful to give up on the idea that artists will ever make any meaningful amount of money from selling their art after the fact.

I am not arguing that copyright is perfect as is, but so far I see nothing better that allows artists to actually eat.

If we force artists to make art in order to be able to eat, isn't the system already broken?

In a post copyright world, big capital would still own brands, distribution channels, networks, etc. It would actually be great for them: they could now monetize artists work any way they wanted without paying the artist anything. Google, Apple, Amazon, etc. would be big winners.

Maybe. But you'd also see a lot of free distribution through BitTorrent, Popcorn Time etc. In order for Google, Apple, Amazon, etc. to make money, they'd have to be able to add some value on top of content distribution... value that can't easily be replicated for free.

What we call "intellectual property" is really a public good. It's non-rival and non-exclusive in nature.

This stuff is yet another hard right wing labor busting idea masquerading as something liberal and progressive.

Maybe. But that doesn't mean it's wrong.

This kind of thinking about intellectual property is what led me to re-examine the nature of labor in general. Is it reasonable for us to expect the labor market to provide sufficient income to consumers?
This is a great post, and really enhances my otherwise-rudimentary knowledge of the failure physics of NAND flash. Program disturb, in particular, is something that I didn't really have a good understanding of.

It looks like the author submitted this; if you're reading, I wrote an article a while ago [1] with some of my reverse-engineering of a NAND flash part, and I'd be interested to see which parts you think are on point and which parts seem totally wrong. I'm looking forward to your next article about device management!

[1] http://www.joshuawise.com/projects/ndfslave -- HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8133450
This apparently exists on the Federal level in the U.S.:

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/pay-admi...

Though it sounds like on the Federal level, the employee must work a majority of their hours within a particular time period to qualify:

Night shift differential means the differential paid for work performed when the majority of a prevailing rate employee's regularly scheduled nonovertime hours fall between 3 p.m. and 8 a.m. It is computed as a percentage of the employee's rate of basic pay.
How long will that last before people found out that you cheated off an author?

Why would readers want to tipjar a person who stole credits from the original author?
Facebook Joins the Live-Streaming Crowd with a Service for Celebrities – NYT
It's true in the short run, though it will also place a much higher value on those doctors that are good at what they do, and run a good business. And those are the offices that will benefit the best in the long run.

/endrant
App Store's Free App of the Week – Matter
"Facebook is joining a competitive market. Periscope is owned by Twitter and reported one million users in the first 10 days after its opening. Snapchat’s curated streams, known as Live Stories, receive an average of 10 to 20 million viewers, Shannon Kelly, a spokeswoman for Snapchat, wrote in an email."
You can use Privacy Badger on sites that you want to support with ad views (as long as those adds don't track you).

A good example of this is many of the webcomics I read. Many of the adds on those sites are for other webcomics, I've found a couple of good new webcomics that way.
The metaphysics of fictional entities (2011)
How much overhead to does running all of those incur?
it is good at voice recognition too and machine translation and recently applied to robotics.

My experience is that dl method is not as smart as a real human. you can't simply put data in and wait.

the trainer has to understand the data first. and then he needs to choose the best model for the data. sometimes it is black magic. sometimes you need to do many experiments, and in the end, you can't explain why this or that gives the best result. lots of manual work is involved.

but I should say I'm not that experienced with dl.
> The models you describe depend on copyright. It's why I can't go to Kickstarter, copy all the work of a successful artist, and then do my own fund raisers and take their proceeds.

Kickstarter and Patreon fund future work, not past work.

This is actually what makes them so much better than the copyright-publisher model, because they prevent that exact scenario that you describe. If I record some music, sign it to a label, and then leave, the label owns the rights, and payments for copies of that music goes to them. If I record some music, give it away for free, and advertise a Kickstarter for my next album, nobody gains anything from trying to sell my previous album. You're not paying for a copy of a work that was already worked; you're funding the promise of me doing more work, and that promise has to come from the person who is actually doing the work. So the money has to go to the person actually doing the work.

Since there is no copy involved, copyright doesn't help. If I'm not funded and take some boring desk job, zero copies will exist.
Who said anything about violence? Enforcement is a completely separate thing to consider.

What about Voluntary Collective Licensing?

Spotify is basically doing this right now. People pay $10/month and then it is (in a incredibly inefficient and dangerously opaque manner) distributed to the rights holders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Collective_Licensing
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10016052
Russian language is artificial language: it is created by Mikhail Lomonosov. It is based on language used in Russian (at Kiev Rus`) churches (so it have "Russian" in it name), which, in turn, is created by two Greeks: Cyril and Methodius using Greek alphabet and South Slavic language. It is better to use natural Slavic language, such as Polish or Ukrainian.
People certainly complain about closed access academic journals, but they whine about the "MAFIAA" ten or a hundred times as much. When the situation changes and the principal complaint about copyright overlords is about textbooks, then that can become a good place to start the discussion.
But if you want change isn't defiance generally way more effective at creating it than boycotts? Especially when there is a huge power difference between consumers and the multi-national media conglomerates.

I get the feeling when people promote boycotts as the so-called ethical choice they're basically saying "shhhh, I like the system as it is, why don't you just go do your own thing instead". Even though intellectual property might be viewed as a relatively unimportant issue, I think it only helps protect the status quo to push an ineffectual form of protest.
Show HN: Lucy, a smart robot that bends sunlight where you want it
summary: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-tests-new-artificial-i...

paper (worth reading):
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.05869v2.pdf
Not a Yelp apologist but this confirms how easy it is to maintain decent Yelp reviews: don't be rude. Pretty much every complaint can be rectified by politeness. Any polite person should be able to easily get a job.
> And frankly, I think that sometimes, it should be okay for healthcare workers to interact with a patient like they are an asshole because THEY ARE.

Irritability is a part of suffering.
The most simple way IMHO is to use black font on light(-ish) or white font on dark(-ish) background.

More universal font (for best contrast) is white with black outline, though it does not always work either and can look like a meme.
Many countries distinguish between copyright and "moral rights", where the latter includes things like being correctly identified as the author of the work, not having the work exhibited in demeaning circumstances, etc. You could (and in my opinion, definitely should) keep those laws even if you abolished copyright.
Do designers need to stop acting like victims?
Google's Search Algorithm Could Steal the Presidency
"In other words: Google’s ranking algorithm for search results could accidentally steal the presidency. “We estimate, based on win margins in national elections around the world,” says Robert Epstein, a psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology and one of the study’s authors, “that Google could determine the outcome of upwards of 25 percent of all national elections."
refrain from using downvotes as a way of saying "I don't agree"

That is the entire point of down-votes.
Looks like there are some new moves afoot to try once more to restrict or ban non-competes. Sadly there are many older, established tech companies in MA [with deep lobbying pockets] that oppose this.

http://www.betaboston.com/news/2015/06/23/tech-sector-to-rev...
I'm involved extensively in logistics, and although I'm not Flexport's target customer nor involved in their specific space of logistics, I can easily say that they are the most exciting new thing in logistics since the container.

The thing is, they aren't doing anything revolutionary. They are doing the same exact things that a lot of companies have done for decades. What makes them revolutionary is 1) They are doing, in one point of contact, a variety of tasks that normally requires 3-10 points of contact. Tracking, quotes, customs, forwarding arrangements, carrier connections, contracts, and payments, all in one stop. 2) They are doing it faster, better, and cheaper than anybody else around.
Are there benchmarks to support that? JVM greenthreads vs. linux user threads, for example?