skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
29 is so young....

Look at the spiritual side of things. What does it mean to be happy. Who defines success, you or your peers. How long does it last?

I can really relate your feelings about women, been there done that. Am now married with two kids and looking back at things I was totally wrong in the assumption that a drop dead gorgeous person would make you happy.

You see, happiness comes from within and is not defined by things like jobs, partners, things you own. If I could choose a religion for you it would be Buddhism, follow the steps and happiness is guaranteed.

All the best
I hope one day one of my pet projects is big enough for a program like this.
Fun hack. If anything, it highlights how compelling deep learning and RNNs are: no messing with NLP, no messing with building other features or adding up classifiers, etc. The manual feature engineering means it might work better on a smaller dataset, but even then probably not.

For comparison with Andrej Karpathy's RNN code (http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/) training on the "HarryPotter(xxlarge).txt" (76K) file using the default hyperparameters and a batch size of 25 gets me:

> But Atfa the loom proset! No contarin — mibll,’s just pucking to live
> note left them hard and fitther, clooked of course little happered to
> trige on the fistpened. Their knew Harry mear from the shind-beas
> eveided, at Uncle Vernon’s thepped to spept were pelled and beadn
> Harry, distine dy use. Harry had in a amalout, into the fish sfary door.

The difference here is tokenizing on words vs letters: the RNN code is trying to learn the structure of English from completely zero whereas the code here gets to work with well-formed words from the beginning. But otherwise, the results in the linked post are about as silly semantically:

> Input: "Harry don't look"
> Output: "Harry don't look , incredibly that a year for been parents in .
> followers , Harry , and Potter was been curse . Harry was up a year ,
> Harry was been curse "

EDIT: Updated the RNN output text. Was sampling from a checkpoint file for a different input corpus. Got confused by the long similar-looking filenames. Doesn't change the overall point though.
If you found this interview interesting, there is a longer interview that goes into most of the same topics as well as several others here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0
Have you considered pandoc? That allows to reduce it to md → pandoc → pdf, and in my experience pandoc generates much better PDFs (working links, etc.)
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Yeah think of all the gold diggers he is missing out on.
> Why? I think their R9 nano cards are quite good.

Comparable performance to the GTX 970 at merely twice the price? Meh.™
The Home Information Terminal (1970) [pdf]
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Not true, at least not for the CLR and the framework itself.

The crux of the Oracle v Google suit is basically, "It's Java, but it's not Java Java."

If you take a look at the MS patent promise, the way it's authored specifically allows for the very same kind of suit.

https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/blob/master/PATENTS.TXT
> You mention the front-end applications, how about the back-end?

We are full stack and flexible to campaign needs. For example, the donate app (native iPad front-end) is backed by a Rails API running on Heroku to aggregate donation data (particularly important since the FEC requires donation logs). Also, another group member built an Angular front-end dashboard for the campaign to authenticate with Google Apps and view/export donation data. We have generally found small, loosely coupled services to be a good model for allowing people to work in their areas of expertise and avoid blocking each other.

> Any more details on this? Sounds like an interesting idea for a spin-off.

The NYT article wasn't super clear but it's a Slack bot. It is open source at https://github.com/SandersForPresident/Butler. We have tried to open source as much as possible as we develop things. However it is not my project so I'm not the most qualified to talk about it.

No worries about the duplicate post! Glad it is getting attention.
Android app just got released but will be continuously updated.

iOS is in process and needs some help.

Building a carpool website to help schedule rides.

Also building a bus reservation system that simplifies the charter bus payment process.

A phone call system that lets volunteers get a list of numbers to call with a script.

Anddd couple others and we love hearing new ideas!
C is a language that has come a long way since the original K&R. And quite frankly, K&R is a good source to get the feel of C, but it doesn't really reflect how C is used in practice today. That said, I've found "Modern C" by Jens Gustedt [1] to be very good at teaching the basics of the language up to the intermediate level.

At some point though, you need to study projects and other various tools in order to get a better understanding of how C is used and how to write more advanced C code. Things like valgrind, gdb, strace, etc become more and more important, and eventually you'll find that most of the techniques you use in other languages are just represented differently in C (such as OOP).

Good luck, and honestly, don't force yourself to learn it if you don't feel you need to. You're young enough that you'll learn it eventually if you really need it.

[1] http://icube-icps.unistra.fr/img_auth.php/d/db/ModernC.pdf
Why don't we block it off for a few months and see if it dries up?
Well you get black bars on top and bottom and video takes ~1/3rd of the screen vertically. On the other hand having dwm setup with keybindings on such a setup and three fullscreen emacs frames is pure goodness.
In addition to the stuff Kyle mentioned, you can see some of the projects we've shipped at https://coders.forsanders.com/projects/
Ugh. On the one hand, I'm inclined to be supportive of pretty much anything that makes startup funding more diverse. Tech's current systemic biases guarantee missed opportunities.

On the other, I think there's an awful lot of unsophisticated money flooding in right now, and I think it's a very dangerous time. There's no way I'd encourage people without significant expertise to jump into tech investment today.
It is not. Limiting your angel investments to "fun money" amounts is the easiest way to make sure you can't possibly lose material amounts of money.
which cities in Italy/Europe you consider to have a very square, ordinary layout?

Off the top of my head I cannot think of a single city with a square structure, or where castrum and decuman still exist[0].

[0] i.e. Manchester https://www.google.hu/maps/place/Manchester,+UK/@53.479099,-... does not look square at all, even though the "-chester" part derives from "castrum" and there is something resembling a cross in part of it.
Have you considered the copyright on the Harry Potter training data?
I learned from "A Book on C", and for a long time found it a good reference, and it's usually what I recommend to others. Finding someone to talk to and projects to work on is probably more important than reading material, though.
Paper written by John Mccarthy that shows the projected future in the 70's of users remotely logging into large computers to use the Internet and applications.

From the abstract:

"This article was published in Man and Computer. Proc. int. Conf., Bordeaux 1970, pp. 48-57 (Karger, Basel 1972). It is interesting to compare its 1970 proposals with the current situation, 30 years later. I have decorated it with footnotes commenting on the 1970 situation and making comparisons. Some of the improvements advocated in the paper are still yet to come. I claim quite a few prophet points for it."

Notable mentions in this paper:

+ Worries about ways that the Internet as we know it might not have happened. (eg. Getting stuck in the compuserve trap.)

+ Paid for publishing model that we still don't have because micropayments are broken.

+ Self publishing for authors in the vein that Amazon now allows

+ The possibility of the system allowing for Orwellian editing because of centralization.

+ 3D printing/computer controlled manufacturing as a service.

+ In-depth discussion of the realities of resource usage and costs of computer hardware at the time of writing. (Eye opening if nothing else as to how indebted we are to Moore's law.)
For the record lava tubes can happen in flood basalts; I've been to some at Hell's Half Acre in Idaho, and I'm sure there are others. But these are not like karst-type cave systems; they're much shorter.

It's really unlikely that the water goes anywhere other than the lake. It just might travel through a fracture network and seep out of the lake bottom miles away, but groundwater tends to flow broadly following the topographic slope (driven by the gravitational loading of groundwater surface called the 'hydraulic head') and there typically aren't isolated tunnels where some water can flow unimpeded by regional groundwater flow.
A ping pong ball or dye isn't going to work if it is surfacing in Lake Superior. That lake is so vast that the kind of a tracker they use in airplane black boxes is a good bet. Short of mapping the lake bottom, which is unrealistic, we may never solve the mystery.
> Most people who invest qualify through net worth.

While this seems true, this program is geared towards encouraging the other group (those who can qualify on high income) to invest.
Controller and Router: Cerebral, ReactJS and MeteorJS ES2015
Quite honestly, I don't have the numbers I'd like on this. But you're talking about topsoil, which covers literally hundreds of millions of acres throughout the US, and probably on the order of billions of acres worldwide. And that for a depth of up to multiple meters. That's a vast, vast resource. And soil depletion is about exhausting that -- both returning the carbon content to the atmosphere and washing away topsoil.

OK, here's a Wikipedia stat:

Soil carbon is the generic name for carbon held within the soil, primarily in association with its organic content. Soil carbon is the largest terrestrial pool of carbon, containing 2,200 gigatonnes (Gt) of it.[1] Humans increasingly influence the size of this pool. Soil carbon plays a key role in the carbon cycle, and thus it is important in global climate models.

Citing: Batjes, N.H. (1996). "Total carbon and nitrogen in the soils of the world". Soil Science 47 (2): 151–163. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2389.1996.tb01386.x.

Continuing:

Although the figure is frequently being revised upwards with new discoveries, over 2,700 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon is stored in soils worldwide, which is well above the combined total of atmosphere (780 Gt) or biomass (575 Gt), most of which is wood. Carbon is taken out of the atmosphere by plant photosynthesis; about 60 Gt annually is incorporated into various types of soil organic matter (SOM), including surface litter; about 60 Gt annually is respired or oxidized from soil.[2]

And I really don'tknow how that is influenced by human activity, climate change, changes in biocover, etc.

There's also loess, a high-carbon sediment covering 10% of the Earth's surface, to depths of tens of meters, over 100 meters in parts of China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loess

More on CO₂ in soils:
http://soilquality.org.au/factsheets/how-much-carbon-can-soi...
Shave your head.

I'm reminded of one of Neil Strauss' stories from The Game. He was balding and he spoke of how Mystery said to him "Shave your head. Bald is a choice, balding isn't".
Why is it like 80$? This isn't college...
That's not my point really. My point is that the number of investments one would need seriously get returns is not equal to number of vacations one takes in a year.

It's like saying it costs as much as a movie ticket to buy a lottery ticket. Yes, it does. But that's a terrible use of $10. You will not likely win (or even win consolations to cover ticket price) with one ticket.
The thing is, Googling the link (the Reocities version, not the original Geocities one) reveals that others have linked to it a few times before - that's how I originally found it - and I've also linked to it from here on HN; yet Google seems to refuse to acknowledge the existence of that page itself, as searching for specific quoted phrases in it shows. In other words this isn't "link rot"; it's more like "Google rot".

I think it's even more unfortunate that such gems of information are being lost not because the sites hosting them are gone, but because search engines are rendering them inaccessible despite the sites still existing. In fact with things like the Internet Archive, coming across a dead link is not so bad; not being able to know (from a simple search) that a page with such information actually exists, but just wasn't present in the results, is far worse.

This isn't the first time I've seen Google "disappear" pages still around and containing useful information, but it makes for a good example.

Edit: I didn't know Jason Scott was behind Reocities - I think he deserves another donation.
What you may need is to shake everything up. If you aren't happy performing in this way(and following a traditional career and marriage script is a performance) start questioning who/what you are instead. There are a lot of different lifestyles out there.

Well said. We have to be very careful to not let other people, ancient rituals, and social stereotypes define who we are - of who we feel like we need to be (or become).

It's your life. When you die, we all cease to exist.
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gulp I guess I should stop using parseInt :/
We could argue that modern town planning is in fact infected with a Sim City spirit (or Sim City captured that existing spirit): artificial separation between "commercial" and "residential areas" with miles and miles of separation between them, and car-centric in the extreme.

The Sim City world is one where you have to ask permission for everything. Development is prohibited by law unless the benevolent town planner opens up an area with little colored rectangles. But you can only build one type of building and can't mix & match because the top-down view of the planner blurs out the complexity at the ground level.

Sim City does have a redeeming feature, favoring urban density. Traditional planning is more aligned with creating loose, low-density, detached abodes, with great separation and height restriction and far away from any semblance of economic activity: shops, factories and commercial space.

Having to support an infrastructure (necessarily a car infrastructure) in these forms is tremendously inefficient and can be considered as a great cost on societies that found out about planning before most cities got established (early 20th century).
Cool. Waiting for more specific details following the previous announcements about progress made in OS X for decreased CPU usage.

If Safari wasn't that annoying for me to use then I'd switch to it on OS X. It's just smoother than butter compared with Chrome...
Some manufacturers are experimenting with added downforce with the addition of winglets. See Ducati's example here: http://www.bikesportnews.com/uploads/news_images/_G104079%28...
I find that amazingly funny

Great anecdote - the first time I rode on a quad bike was after I'd bought a motorcycle. I felt pretty confident and got going at a decent speed. I then had to turn for the first time... imagine my surprise when the bike went the WRONG WAY. WTF. Because of the handlebars and my muscle memory, I tried to counter-steer into the turn and nearly stuffed myself into a huge tree.

Luckily, I somehow managed to get the rational non-automatic part of my brain working quickly enough to avoid it, but it was a bit too close..
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How to exchange in bartering
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Unlike one-on-one top bartercard, members of exchanges are not obligated to Top bartercard or purchase directly from a seller. Instead, when a Top bartercard exchange member sells a product or a service to another member, their barter account is credited for the fair market value of the sale. When a top bartercard exchange member buys, the account is debited for the fair market value of the purchase.
http://www.topbartercard.com
No girl or women , I mean not a single one has ever shown interest in me for last 10 yrs.

Oh yeah, one other thing. Be VERY careful of believing this. This is something a lot of guys get wrong. They think no women are showing interest in then, when actually they (the women) are doing so, and the guys just don't realize it. And that's because women tend, in general, to be much more subtle in how they show interest, and because most women expect men to be the initiators in any kind of romantic or sexual scenario.

It's entirely possible that there are 100 broken hearted women out there, wondering why you weren't interested in them, because you didn't react to their subtle cues. I probably won't get any points for this, but if you're the kind of guy who thinks of yourself in terms like "I"m not good with women" or "I never know what to say to women" then consider spending some time engaging with the PUA community. Read Neil Strauss' book The Game at a minimum. You may find some interesting revelations there.
I haven't looked at the code, but glancing at the results leaves me thinking it might need more work.

The output seems to me around the level a Markov chain might produce. Karpathy's RNN code produces much, much better results[1].

I wonder if manually extracting features and training the RNN on that is a mistake? RNN's tend to work well on text because they encode understanding of the parse tree themselves.

[1] https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn
SAT Scores Fall to Lowest Level in 10 Years
Rather unusable due to the byte:// URLs which apparently need the app, but break the web.
You'd need something super specialized, because water and rocks/earth block radio waves exquisitely well, and the churning water would be difficult to survive regardless. So perhaps some sort of camera + high sensitivity inertial measurement unit in an extremely rugged housing along with an ultrasonic data transmission system or something. All of which would be extremely custom and would likely require several iterations and vast expenditures of money and effort just to collect a little data.
That's why. :}
just about, yes. it's not quite there yet, but as close as anything since Backbone in the early days, I might say.
It's not Safari / mobile Safari compatible! -10 points!

It is supposed to be a PHONE screen after all. ;-)
Yeah, lovin the layout - very clean and refreshing.
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For the US specifically (I'm an Australian), I'm not entirely sure. I must admit I'm a few months out of date information-wise as I stopped reading the news about half a year ago. It was just too damn depressing to watch these trends unfolding and no-one seeming to give a crap.

On the hopeful side, countries like the US, Ireland and Iceland who 'took their medicine' during the GFC (sustained heavy property price declines or significant bank collapses), will be closer to fundamental values already. So they may have less distance to fall, even though there will probably be some overshoot. Also, OPEC flooding the world market with oil (to try and kill the US shale oil industry in the crib) and the likelihood that China will run down its foreign currency reserves to pay for stimulus (depreciating the US dollar) will mean US export industries (excluding oil and natural gas) become very competitive indeed.

Countries like China, Australia, Canada and the UK on the other hand, who staved off significant property market corrections during the GFC (especially Australia), are in for a very bad time (http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/11/global-hou... ). Like worse than 1920s depression bad time (closer to 1890s depression).

On government response, it's hard to predict. Frankly, in both the US and Australia, our legislatures are now controlled by even crazier and stupider politicians than during the GFC, so I don't hold out much hope for sensible fiscal responses. There's also less room to move fiscally, as we used up most of our powder during the GFC and won't be able to fire as strong a shot this time around. The thing that truly worries me is that government underwriting of financial system liabilities will therefore be less credible, so there is an increased probability of bank-runs causing a complete financial system collapse.

Our central banks also have less room for more traditional responses (i.e. reducing the cash rate), as they'll be starting from a much lower initial rate (and so will hit the zero lower bound much quicker). QE will therefore be deployed more rapidly and in greater quantity. Even though the Fed Reserve may have appeared confident re: QE, I'll bet they were privately shitting themselves because QE was (and still is) uncharted and risky territory. This time around they'll have to go much harder and earlier. At this point, I really have no clue what could happen.

On the bright-side, at least we'll be able to settle the question of whether theorised 'liquidity traps' truly exist...

All this is just my best guess. A more positive but still plausible theory is that China will manage their economy into a 'slow-melt', and will experience a long period of economic stagnation similar to what Japan has gone through in the last two decades. In this scenario, the damage might be contained and the US could come out relatively unscathed. I think Australia's screwed either way though...