skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I plaid a lot to SimCity when I was a kid but, having been raised in a European city, I always thought that my cities in the game could never look like a "real" city.

About 15 years after, I found myself in a plane about to land in LA for the first time, with my face pressed to the window and thinking to myself: "LA is like the f* SimCity!!"
Yes, that is the primary reason they were flipped. Typing

x=-42;

when you meant

x= -42;

was just too easy. I know. I did it.

Similarly, as I recall, variable initialization of the form

int i 17;

created some sort of parsing problem and was changed to the current form

int i = 17;

I learned Unix on a PDP-11 running v6 and I had to learn all of the changes when we got 32V for the new VAX.
The crazy thing with the current regulations is the company would have been better off financially not ever doing the study. Since doctors can proscribe off-label, if they had not done the larger study they could have kept selling Avastin to breast cancer patients on the sly.

Avastin probably does work for some breast cancer patients if they have a cancer with the right mutations, but if the percentage is a small enough then the large study would not be able to detect this effect in the broad population.
Yes, true! Using this project for seeding a software generator is a great use, and that eliminates the point I made above about bandwidth. (As would pre-computing high-quality random number tables.)
It's also close to WashU.
Regardless of whether this post is right or wrong, it is a showcase for the kind of out-of-the-box thinking that can force people within and from outside the field to see deep neural nets from a different angle. For that alone, I think this is a fantastic essay.

Some comments:

The author writes: "using multiple copies of a neuron in different places is the neural network equivalent of using functions. Because there is less to learn, the model learns more quickly and learns a better model. This technique – the technical name for it is 'weight tying' – is essential to the phenomenal results we’ve recently seen from deep learning. Of course, one can't just arbitrarily put copies of neurons all over the place. For the model to work, you need to do it in a principled way, exploiting some structure in your data. In practice, there are a handful of patterns that are widely used, such as recurrent layers and convolutional layers."

Recurrent and convolutional layers are not just two examples of widely used "weight tying" patterns; they are THE TWO MAJOR WAYS in which virtually everyone "ties" weights -- across time or pixel space, usually. With the exception of tiny fully-connected models used to solve relatively small problems, every successful deep neural net model of meaningful scale I know of is either a convnet or an RNN!

If anyone knows of a counter example, I'd love to hear about it!

I would also have pointed out that "weight tying" not only allows the deep neural net to learn more quickly; it also massively reduces the "true" number of parameters required to specify the model, thereby reducing by a similar proportion the number of samples necessary to have reasonable PAC learning guarantees.
This is probably the best part about having kids: seeing things through their eyes.

I'm hoping if I spend enough time with them some of it will rub off (or back onto) me.

It's the adults who are mad!
So you don't think a package of soyburger labeled "Just Burger" would be deceptive?

Really?

"The egg board is just a smiley face for people having a vested interest in selling eggs."

Okay, now I'm really confused. What else are they supposed to be?
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Yes, true! So my pet theory is you're always counter-steering even on a bicycle, its just really hard to tell.
Counter-steering applies a torque to the bottom of the bike.

For example: when you steer to the left while having lots of forward momentum, the contact patch of the front wheel wants to go left, so the bike starts rolling to the right, around its centre of gravity. Gravity itself, along with suspension, keeps the bike in contact with the ground even as it rolls over.

Once the bike is rolled over into a lean, it will start falling over, but if you leave it at that, it won't simply fall on its side. The steering geometry (specifically, front-loaded steering geometry, you can look it up separately) wants to steer the bike back upright again, by steering into the turn slightly.

Depending on how much it's steering into the turn, the bike will either turn quickly and come upright through the same mechanism as counter-steering, or it will turn smoothly in a circle if the steering exactly counteracts the centrifugal ("fake") force. And if it's not steering enough into the turn, then the bike will eventually fall over.

Counter-steering while leaned over in the steady state will increase the angle of lean, meaning later, more steering into the turn will be required to maintain lean angle, which will cause the described circle to tighten. Steering more into the turn while leaned over will cause the bike to straighten up.

Additional bonus: the width of the front tyre has a large effect on how much the bike straightens up when using the front brake. When leaned over, braking with the front has a torque effect on the steering axis: the contact patch is off to the side of the tyre, and if you've got a wide front tyre, it'll have leverage over the steering. Braking will cause the road to push back on the side you're leaned over on, which will cause steering into the turn, which will straighten the bike up. Steering geometry probably also affects straightening up on front brakes, but I've always noticed it far more on big bikes than ones with narrower, higher aspect ratio front tyres.
No, because Hamburgers were named after the city of Hamburg in Germany. They have nothing to do with "ham".

"They weren't after the naming, they were after preventing potential profit and market loss from a competing product."

I noted before that Kraft (certainly a more serious competitor than these people are likely to be) sells both "Mayo" (with eggs) and "Miracle Whip" (without eggs).

These rules have been in effect a long time. Miracle Whip was developed in 1933.
It's now switched to Kyle McDonald's implementation. It's a lot slower though.
In a world without nuclear weapons, the USSR would have invaded Europe (and the Middle East) and the entire continent would have been laid waste. They came ridiculously close to doing it anyway despite nuclear weapons. If you think that such a European war would have meant that conflicts in other parts of the world would not have happened, I think you're being a bit naive.
Airports. There's a small airport in Champaign. Presumably the airport in Bloomington (an hour away?) is larger, and of course the Chicago airports to the north (2.5 hours).
EDX F Sharp programming course by Microsoft starts Sept 28 2015
> seeing the things done wrong in React in comparison

Like...?
You have just pointed out the problem with all effectiveness trials. If you used the current threshold you can still do the same thing, you just need to test more non-toxic drugs.

A better approach would be to not have any effectiveness trials at all and just collect good data on all patients using the drug. If a drug really worked it would become obvious the more patients used the drug, while if it was worthless this would also become obvious. A new drug would start out unknown with only the most desperate trying it and overtime we would learn more and more about its effects and side-effects.

This bayesian approach was not possible in the past, but with modern technology it is now. We would get better drugs with better known side-effects at far lower costs.
There's still a chance to save Wifi
How specific do you need to be? Do you need to provide implementation details? I give full marks for the XML Database prediction because he began with this statement: "Nobody likes to do O/R mapping; everyone just wants a solution." And then: "XML is the most popular vehicle for representing loosely-structured, heirarchical data."

I could quite happily interpret that as "schemaless databases (using the most popular vehicle for representing loosely-structured data) will surpass relational databases in popularity by 2011". I'll take marks off for 2011 being too early, but not for the datatype choice.

It's unfortunate that he went into more detail by describing XPath and current support for XML operations, but I feel that's just justification for the specificity of the datatype choice in the title.

I totally agree with you regarding laptops and apple though. "New and shiny" is hardly a prediction, and the specificity is relevant to the prediction.
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I prefer 21:9. The form factor is much more friendly (I almost always want two different things on screen while working, but I rarely need more than that), seems less obnoxious on the desk, and I found the display performance much faster on my somewhat underpowered tablet. Cheaper too, which is nice.
I still think it's crazy to call a 7GB cap unlimited. Call it what it is.
FT investigation: Cyber insecurity
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Paranoia? Wouldn't things get rather ugly if you accidentally fed a voltage divider the 18V in that circuit?
Qualcomm Exploring Sale of Vuforia Augmented Reality Unit
The US government is not spending enough on cybersecurity
C99 is old enough to drive

I'm using that from now on.
Redux IS Flux.
One Japanese Company Makes Half of the World’s Zippers
thank you so much coreOS. this might give me the identity solution. will give it a spin this weekend
Here is the meta bug for Gecko on iOS: https://bugzil.la/1163827
We're discussing this a bit more on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/3jjit5/what_does_s...
Check out this clip from "A Twist of the Wrist II": https://youtu.be/8_5Z3jyO2pA?t=3m17
Pss Mark II Password Generator/Recall Key Fob
related: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-final-look-at-dcs-tunn...
https://web.archive.org/web/20141205223016/http://c.learncod...

Looks as valid to me today as when I first read K&R C 25 years ago. In short K&R is terrible. If you hew to it, first you'll end up with code that is unsafe and sketchy. Second you won't learn about modern features in c, which make writing safe non-sketchy code a lot easier.
Suspension has seen less advancement than tires imo. And the greater the lean angle the less the suspension is actually working. If the bike could lean to 90 degrees the suspension would not work at all. This is why motorcycle handling is still something of a black art rather than pure science, because at full lean much of the "suspension" comes from frame, fork, and swingarm flex, rather than actual damping.
Have him try it on a bicycle. Make sure he wears a helmet though, it works a little too will on bicycles it just dives into a turn if you aren't careful. https://youtu.be/C848R9xWrjc?t=155
New cybersecurity mantra: “If you can’t protect it, don’t collect it”
Summer-Fall Style Transition Tips
Good try, but in fact it is useless to use something other than Latex to write academic articles. Most journals in mathematics and engineering accept Latex, but I have never seen one accepting markdown. Which means that you will have to convert to Latex source anyway -- and in many cases make sure that the Latex code uses the style package of the publisher. This seems to me just to be asking for more trouble.
This is not a correct picture. You shouldn't have to watch a GP race for long to realize that, at speed, the bikes don't pivot around their centres of gravity, they pivot around the contact patch. This is because applying torque to the front wheel through the handlebars (essentially around the yaw axis) results in a gyroscopic rotation around the orthogonal, roll, axis.
That is one of the first things my now-wife said to me when we picked her up from the airport the first time she came to the US. "It's just like SimCity!"
Not necessarily. I don't think the v8 team really consider the Node project so breaking changes in v8 take some time to get merged into Node/io.js. This is the reason that arrow functions are only shipping now when v8 marked them complete a while back. AFAIK Node is somewhere around 3+ months behind Chrome.
It's also a lot safer on the track: the pavement conditions are known and lowsiding doesn't put you into a guardrail that will cut you off at the knees.
Well, minus that whole wire thing.
I think by then we'll have all sorts of excess available to us (not unlike today), and we will say the same things we do today:

All good things, in moderation.
When you're 500 over, you need to recognize that biking isn't going to fix your problem. People pretend exercise just magically fixes obesity when it's rarely that close of an imbalance for obese (not overweight) people.
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Yes but we're talking about the century in which the technology had an impact, not the century in which it was invented. The telephone is a 19th century invention which is only reaching the majority of the world's population in the 21st. Likewise the bicycle was a 19th century invention that really hit home in the 20th.
Cash for Scrap Cars in Melbourne – Car Scrapper MElbourne
The calculation applies to the angle between the contact patch and the center of mass. However, since the tire has some radius to it, and the rider typically is not centered over the bike, that angle is not the same as the bike's lean angle. So that may account for some of the discrepancy between the "60 degree" mu and that coming from the radius of curvature calculation.
It depends.

Software support is a bit spotty (unless you have a Mac). If your eyesight is up to the task and the 4K screen is large enough, you can just treat it as a huge normal monitor and have lots of reasonably sized pixels to play with. I would go with something in the 40" range, which is the same pixel density as a 20" one.
The 'announcement' for this feature is great for the ridiculous fake quotes. e.g.

"We've scaled enough. It's time to monetize."
-Richard Stallman, Founder. FSF.

https://diafygi.github.io/gnu-pricing/website/
I have a Haswell MBP. I don't remember a time when I had to plug a USB device into it. The only device I can think of is a flash drive, but the last time I used one was more than 2 years ago.

Which USB devices do you use with your laptop?

Regarding 5k displays, currently I'm still not ready to buy even a 4k version, mostly because I'm waiting for higher frequencies (via G-Sync or FreeSync, both of which require a discrete card, and it's not at all clear if those will be supported in the next MBP). 5k monitors currently cost 4 times as much as 4k. Really hard to justify buying one anytime soon.

If Apple does not release Skylake MBP in October, I would recommend buying the current one, rather than suffering the horrible resolution of MBA for another 6 months.
I know they do use the "draft" technique you see in Nascar to pass on straights, but it's used to a lesser extent. Most passes happen in the turns due to differences in how the riders brake.
Actually on many bikes, like in supermoto, you can lean all the way over until you're scraping the pegs
It's not pointless but we can tell for certain that some things had a certain direct impact. It's very hard to claim that the psychological impact of nuclear weapons was X as a matter of fact, and it's nothing at all like the theory of evolution which is confirmed by ridiculous amounts of direct and indirect evidence.
I would refer to Barkley's latest book on "Executive functions what they are and how they evolved" to take a very high level approach of the problem. He puts forward a thesis at the end of the book that it's possible to diagnose someone on the evolutionary level of their exec function deficits. It's unbelievable. It's well worth a read, for more immediate and hands on I would check his other books.

If you figure out what part of the extended phenotype your daughter has the deficits you can probably move forward, however I've never seen this explained anywhere else other than his book. I wish more people had read it.

http://www.amazon.com/Executive-Functions-What-They-Evolved/...
Is poor software development the biggest cyber threat?
If you want something cool without building yourself,

NeuG is an implementation of a true random number generator, a tiny USB 32-bit computer based on a free (as in freedom) hardware design.

http://shop.fsf.org/product/usb/
If life's a narrative, I'm inclined to think it a Terry Gilliam movie.
How's this better/different then Formspree (https://formspree.io/) or Sent API (http://sentapi.com)?
Cloud Foundry. The major contributors are Pivotal and IBM.

Pivotal is on track for $100 million in revenue this year, the fastest growing revenue for any open source product in history. Ever. In any category.

Disclaimer: I work in Pivotal Labs, another division in Pivotal.
I absolutely love Perl, and I think that the newest versions of Perl 5 have taken much of the good things that Perl 6 promised and added them. I really think that Perl 6 misses the point and removes all of the charm of Perl. Why change sigils and all of these operators? The people who don't like them aren't using Perl anyway, and they won't be using Perl 6 just because it implements them in a more obvious but less meaningful way.

I also don't think the addition of a more mainstream object system is a positive thing, but that's a debate for another time.

Edit: And it's not just about sigils, but about changing things for no meaningful reason, especially things that set Perl apart and make it what it is.
I used to develop on Visual BASIC 6.0 and it got left behind for Visual BASIC.Net that had some mods from Java to make it better. On Error Goto was replaced with try/catch etc and instead of numbering things at 1 it started at 0. Most people left Visual BASIC for C# instead because of industry standards changing.

Now that the Compiler is open sourced and being ported to different platforms you might see more C# developers adopt it.
Implementing a Neural Network from Scratch – An Introduction
The .onion Special-Use Domain Name Approved
More or less IMO. React+Redux is a solid default choice for any UI. That said, I can't speak about Angular 2, but Ember has been integrating a lot of the good ideas from React with a focus on longer-term support and everything-just-works cohesion. Ember could be a great choice if you are, say, an enterprise which values such things. But a neat thing about React is it's becoming increasingly transparent---just a powerful structure for plain javascript and an optional HTML-like component rendering syntax. Also, Ember is strictly a web framework, where React is increasingly cross-platform.
aurelian15 answered my question in another thread. Thanks aurelian15!
I have fond memories of the Simcity 2000 manual as well... I ended up reading the whole thing obsessively while waiting for a new computer that had the minimum specs. (VESA BIOS extensions.)
You should make a demo version that people can explore before signing up. That would make your features more tangible.
Cause nobody knows how intelligence arises
this seems like a lot of work compared to an LCG, which is blindingly fast and more than good enough for game purposes.
Headspace and the Nuance of Social Behavior Design
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Newbies don't search for things like "array literal", for whatever it's worth.
Just upgraded the implementation used. I'll see if I can increase the size without running into memory issues.

EDIT: Increased to 768px max size.
If you ride a bicycle with wet tires on dry concrete, your tracks will prove that you're constantly steering small amounts back and forth to remain balanced. So a counter-steer is kind of inevitable: if you're turning left now, you were probably turning right a moment ago. Even so, that's somehow different than counter-steering a motorcycle.

I haven't ridden motorcycles nearly as much as bicycles, but my sense is that motorcycle tires/wheels are so much more massive that at normal highway speeds they really do have the gyroscopic effects that everyone mistakenly believes are present in bicycle tires/wheels. When these effects cannot be counteracted by increased steering force, steering requires precession/counter-steer. So there is sort of a progression from low-mass systems that must be steered to stay upright to high-mass systems that must be tilted to steer. It's not clear whether these are really different phenomena, or just two values that have an inverse relation.
Having grown up in Vermont and lived only in big coastal cities thereafter, I always felt the cities didn't look right. Then I moved to China and realized the same!
That's an important note, indeed. Flux is a pattern as well as a library that represents an implementation of the pattern. Redux is another implementation (and a better one at that, in my opinion.) Specifically regarding Greyrest's concerns about many changes across many files - this can be reduced substantially using Redux.

With all that said, I still wouldn't consider FluxJS a bad place to start, as it provides a very clear example of what Flux really is, but once you understand how the pattern works you'll understand where the implementation is lacking and how Redux can help with that.
uBlock too. Or maybe it would be possible to use the upcoming iOS 9 content-blocking extensions [1], or is it a feature/api usable to Safari only?

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/releaseno...
WhatsApp now has 900 million monthly active users.
And there's Cake for C# peeps - http://cakebuild.net
ododafa
> AWS didn't come out until 2006, and it was considered pretty revolutionary at the time.

He did work at Amazon until 2005, so he likely saw the internal development that resulted in what would become the publicly-available AWS. And some of his other predictions strike me as being heavily influenced by what he saw working at Amazon. Companies like Amazon and Google tend to encounter problems a few years before the rest of the world realizes that those are even concerns. So making predictions about the industry at large based on the cutting edge technologies used inside those companies is actually a pretty reasonable assumption.

For example, according to Wikipedia, Dynamo and BigTable were developed in 2004. So while NoSQL would have seemed revolutionary to almost everyone outside of Amazon and Google in 2004, to people working inside those companies, that prediction was basically predicting that their ideas would work and become very successful. I'd also bet there were a ton of Google engineers that saw Map Reduce before it was made public that could have predicted in 2003 that computationally-heavy tasks would be primarily distributed in a few years. And there's probably a bunch of Intel employees who could have predicted in 2004 that the chips Intel would be selling a decade later would run at the same GHz as their current offering since 2005 was about the time that they switched to adding more cores.

When you're ahead of the curve, you can see what's coming around the corner before the rest of us.
How is it different from Evernote ?
Can it be my evernote replacement ?
The release has been delayed until Monday (7 September).
Grave Robbers from Outer Space: Using 9P2000 Under Linux (2005) [pdf]
>They should have killed the primitive/object distinction, turning the primitives into stack-allocated objects and rewritten the collections libraries.

That would have been a mistake, because it would have made Java unreasonably inefficient for manipulating large data sets. You really need both, which is why they included both originally.

Autoboxing is a problem in that it allows you to pretend you don't have to check for nulls when you really should be checking for nulls. If I had my druthers I'd forbid autoboxing on my projects.