skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some non-paywalled resources for more information are cited directly from within the paper:

"Although agencies are slow to reform internally, they may more rapidly respond to local stakeholder pressure... This has begun to change as communities increasingly threatened by large fires are urging land-management agencies to accelerate fuel reduction efforts, including the use of managed fire [1][2]."

[1] http://yosemitestanislaussolutions.com

[2] http://4fri.org
The NSA are doing this now?

I was friends with someone in TCD (Ireland) who did this work >3 years ago.
Money flows to opportunities, not the other way around. If I can put X + Y together for $z, and I can sell it for $z*3, then it will be easy to find someone to give me $z.
Chatbot Rose wins 2015's Loebner artificial intelligence prize
Omnisharp[1] is build on top of Roslyn so as for now it supports only C# / VB. As far as I know they are working on adding plugin support for it for non-Roslyn language so maybe in the future we will have F# plugin there ( actually, as far as I know, that's MSFT plan for adding F# support in VS Code)

F# has had opensourced compiler[2] (written in F#) before it was cool in .Net stack and for most tooling things we are using FSharp.Compiler.Services[3] project - which basically provides all features of F# compiler (and much more) as normal .Net library. Projects like Visual F# Power Tools[4] and Xamarin Studio F# support[5] are using it to provide very interesting F# IDE features.

Since Vim, Emacs, Sublime and Atom (even though Ionide is written in F# and compiled to JS we can't use all .Net libraries) don't have direct access to .Net assemblies, community have created FsAutoComplete[6] project which is just command line wrapper around FSharp.Compiler.Services and works as "standard I/O server" where we send requests (for example if user wants completion list) and get appropriate responses.

[1] http://www.omnisharp.net/

[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp

[3] https://github.com/fsharp/FSharp.Compiler.Service

[4] https://github.com/fsprojects/VisualFSharpPowerTools

[5] https://github.com/fsharp/xamarin-monodevelop-fsharp-addin

[6] https://github.com/fsharp/FsAutoComplete
> But in this author's case, he had someone drill a hole in his brother's head.

A lumbar puncture is a spinal tap in the lower back. Definitely highly invasive, but somewhat less severe than drilling a hole in the head.
A Canadian's Perspectives on 9/11
If your parallel reductions are consistent, you're cool in my book. That said, I've solved a lot of dynamic load-balancing behavior with 64-bit fixed point reductions and decisions. Maybe that will work for you?

Unless the timings themselves are non-deterministic, sigh. But then I'm far more sympathetic. I have not found this sort of thing to be the case for the most part and when I have, I've used a deterministic measure rather than timing (i.e. number of calculations as opposed to how long they take).

For even compiler revisions are sufficient to break FP32 associativity let along different transcendental approximations (we ought to fix that, no?).

Where I get angry is when people sloppily use FP32 for everything or FP64 because it's double(tm) and then insist determinism isn't possible. That isn't even science IMO.
We'd need a new API for it.
Yes, source code for every dependency is needed too!

This is a classic source-to-source transformation problem. You have an abstract matrix multiplication algebra which needs to be converted into a deterministic algorithm with a known order of operations. You need a second algorithm, essentially a macro, which converts the abstract operation into the concrete operations, which are then compiled to deterministic code.

This macro should itself be deterministic, even if its inputs contain information about local hardware configuration that's needed to make the optimized code run as fast as possible. If this information is in your data set, it's in your data set. Optimization is typically much less important to the reproduction pass, so a reproduction will probably just use your configuration details rather than those matched to the reproducer's machine.

Either way, both algorithms are deterministic and the result is reproducible. What's wrong with this picture? I ask because I genuinely want to know :-)

[Edit: it's disappointing to see "disagree == downvote" applied to the parent.]
Although Microsoft was sued for browsers and APIs, their true anti-competitive behavior lied elsewhere - pricing strategies. They will probably do it again too. I can't wait for all the surprised faces "but, but, but... windows had 3% market share".
This is an excellent reply to this article; it says what I wanted much better than I did below.

I just wanted to point out that I don't recall any procedure from the article discussion any sort of "hole drilled" into the patient's head; I believe it was just the MRI and the lumbar puncture that were discussed. The latter is a procedure where a physician puts a needle into the area of your spinal cord down near your lower back. (This area is continuous with the brain, and hence draining CSF from this area will also decrease intracerebral pressure.)
Why didn't Google, Microsoft, or IBM buy fingerworks? Why did only Apple see that this tech was key, and was humble enough to know they didn't have it, and could buy it?
(Disclaimer: I am a physicist, but this is not my area of expertise at all. Happy to be corrected here).

Relativity is, like quantum mechanics, a fairly simple concept with incredibly complex implications and edge cases.

The easiest intuitive explanation of relative time I have found is the following:

- Assume our space time/universe is a 4D vector space. Three spatial dimensions, one time.

- Everything has a 4D vector which describes movement through this 4D space-time {x, y, z, t}

- The length/magnitude of this vector is fixed at the speed of light, c

- Normalize the dimensions of our 4D space as following: if we are not moving at all (x = y = z = 0) the vector points entirely in time our vector is {0, 0, 0, c} and, in our frame of reference, time moves as normal - "one second per second".

- Now, as we go faster and faster this vector no longer points purely in time. In the extreme case where the vector sum of the x, y, z (3D spatial component) is c, the time component t will be zero. This is why our photon does not experience time passing - it moves through space at c, so cannot move through time at all.

For the 3D velocities we normally experience we do not move in space fast enough to affect motion through time appreciably. Even the GPS corrections for relativity mostly arise due to Earth's gravity well distorting local space-time geometry, although their high velocity does contribute.

Objects with mass cannot be accelerated to c under our current understanding of relativity because kinetic energy diverges (approximately 1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)) - reaching speed of light would require infinite energy.
Not positive, but I think not disclosing a commission for arranging financing is illegal.
Francis Fukuyama recently wrote an excellent article about the US Forest Service in Foreign Affairs. Title: America in Decay

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2014-0...
It was not designed in China, as a unified part. In fact, even the important components were not designed or manufactured in China. Even the CPU was manufactured in Taiwan or Korea depending on the phone version.

http://www.smics.com/eng/index.php The state semiconductor corp is still on 40nm, which the Taiwanese TSMC hit seven years ago.
Point of interest, if you do the fundamental physics on neuronal membranes, the number of levels that are actually distinguishable give the noise in the system is only about 1000. So even in a biological system there are only 4x the the number of discrete levels. I realize this isn't a good match to what is mentioned in the article but it does put some constraints on the maximum dynamic range that biological sensors have to work within.
Ah, I am coming off a surgery myself, I'll blame the anesthesia for my reading comprehension.
You can do a lot with single-threaded actors.

You're right - it's not that hard, for certain values of "hard." Working on it... :-)
> There is no clear mechanism for getting cut in on the deal in this model.

So, volunteer work?
VS Code is using Omnisharp[1] which is build on top of Roslyn so as for now it supports only C# / VB. As far as I know they are working on adding plugin support for it for non-Roslyn language so maybe in the future we will have F# plugin there ( actually, as far as I know, that's MSFT plan for adding F# support in VS Code)

Since VS Code is built not on top of Atom but on top of Electron[2] both projects share just "lower level" possibilities and will both build different abstractions layers on top of it. Unless VS Code team chooses to build very similar API to Atom one direct porting won't be easy.

[1] http://www.omnisharp.net/

[2] https://github.com/atom/electron
Then it's even worse than "not hacking" - it's not useful.

Any idiot can run a simulation, or compute "something". "Something" is only useful in context.

"If you can write a for loop, you can do statistics!" Ugh. Can nobody read anymore? It has to be a "slide deck"?

Jesus, pick up a book and ask some goddamn questions if you're interested.
It does quite well, actually. It's the single biggest reason I opt for Firefox on my Android devices instead of Chrome.
Another aspect is parents. My wife and I had strong arguments about our child. She refused to accept our child had a problem because she has similar traits. If a parent can't look past their own faults, therapy will not make a difference.
It wasn't until a few brave souls approached me that I had a basis to engage my wife that it wasn't me making it up. She misdiagnosed many things on the journey.

I feel the need to clarify something. In most ways, my wife is amazing. Very strong willed, clever, independent. She is the only partner I could work with as an equal. As we've worked things through for our child, she's benefitted in many ways too. Not surprisingly, my child's behaviour is like my father in law.
I can kinda see the need for "x ?? default", but the "Null-Aware Member Access Operator" and "Null-Aware Index Access Operator" should have examples of how it would improve code.

The text gives an example of current code:

data = [] if data is None else data

then argues:

> This particular formulation has the undesirable effect of putting the operands in an unintuitive order: the brain thinks, "use data if possible and use [] as a fallback," but the code puts the fallback _before_ the preferred value.

I tried, but I don't see this as unintuitive. I would like more than the proposer's intuition as justification. Eg, is there any evidence that developers or reviewers have a tendency to confuse these by accident?
I Hate iTunes 12 and went back to 11 and still unhappy
I don’t remember how long it was after I downloaded iTunes 12.2, that I tried to make a simple playlist on my Mac. I got totally pissed off that this simple task was no longer “intuitive.” I tried to open a new empty playlist, title it, and load music. There was no way to get either artists, songs, or albums, up so I could selected songs from them to move to my new playlist. How could some programmer screw this up? Where is the quality control in continuity? I googled, “I hate itunes 12,” and got a 2014 MacWorld article how to uninstall 12 and go back to version 11 by downloading and using Pacifist and App Zapper programs. After I did this, my iPod gave me a message saying it no longer could connect unless I upgraded (back to) iTunes 12.2 (you can imagine my rage). So I plugged in my new iPad mini that I just paid $700 for. My iPad would not show up in “Devices” in iTunes 11. I lost my playlists on my Mac. Now what the hell am I going to do with the three music libraries that no longer synchronize with each other? Saying that I am “Pissed,” is a little understated. Where can I go to get my music (in non-lossy format) in one place again and share it with my other devices? Do I have to get rid of my three Apple products and go back to shitty PC MP-3 files?
You can trick people, and possibly even search engines. I've wondered if blackhat SEOs could abuse such URLs to discredit content on competitors' sites.

I believe it can be a negative signal when sites stuff too many keywords in their URLs, especially if those keywords aren't relevant to the page's content. A server accepting arbitrary URLs is in a way blindly sanctioning loaded URLs.

Granted, Google's algorithms are surely very sophisticated in this regard, but fighting web spam is hard.
Google Releases Open Source Plans for Cardboard V2 Virtual Reality Viewer
OpenRTS: A 3D Real-Time Strategy Game Engine
I think there's a big market for a small vehicle like this -- but this isn't quite it. I can't fit one of my teenaged sons into the back seat, or rather, it's a tight squeeze now but will be impossible before he's a high school senior.

When there's a self-driving version, though - that's a winner. An awful lot of trips - probably the majority by mileage - are either one person or one driver playing chauffeur for one person.
I wonder how much will it weight; do the designers have in their mind to fit it into the category A (motorcycle) restrictions? It has to be under 400kg by Russian version of the law, and I believe, more or less same everywhere?

And what engine will it have? 84 MPG is very well acihevable in the smaller maxi-scooter category, e.g. Honda's PCX150 сlaims 100 MPG [1] for it, and it goes about 70 mph tops. Improving fairing is known to have a noticeable effect on mileage, on scooters, so I believe a car could do better.

[1] http://powersports.honda.com/2016/pcx/specifications.aspx
That's the history of automated parking - too many one-off systems. There are lots of different systems, but nobody has hundreds of installations with standard parts.
hi, funny this came up on HN; I'm just trying to get a handle on fitting a dynamical systems model of neural activity propagation with Stan.

What in general are the disadvantages of variational inference vs full MCMC? Are there in general significant advantages besides the speed up?
VS Code does not currently support extensions/plugins. The team has confirmed they're coming at some point[1] but we'll need to see how they set it up to determine the best approach to building an F# plugin for it.

Ionide definitely won't be compatible out the gate, but if the API isn't too different we might be able to reuse some of what we've already done.

The best case scenario would be the if plugin system supports dlls so that we could use the FSharp.Compiler.Service directly[2]

[1] http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/293070-visual-studi...

[2] http://fsharp.github.io/FSharp.Compiler.Service/
Isn't disclosing a normal thing to do?

If I say, I can try and help you get financing through my network, and if we put together a deal, I'd like a small commission (2-3-4% success fee), that seems entirely fair. Obviously laws differ based on the country, but I don't see anything being wrong with that if you're being transparant with both parties.

This is very, very common in the traditional business world.
The basic problem seems to be the broadness of the label "autism". This broadness makes it nearly impossible to talk about it, as someone who has the mildest of social interaction problems is lumped in with someone that goes into a rage over bright lights.
I think it's based on the geo 3 cylinder. I'd have to check again, but I know it's in the public domain.
Use the command line to get the URLs for each chapter?

Go to conqueringthecommandline.com/book
Save the page source
Insert the filename into the script below
Alternatively, omit filename and pipe the source of the page to the script

Works with BSD sed as well as GNU sed; first lesson: portability

a=$(printf '\004')
sed 's/s3_url/'"$a"'&/' \
|tr '\004' '\012' \
|exec sed '
s/\\u0026/\&/g;
s/.*s3_url.:.//g;
s/\".*//g;
/https:.*Amz/!d;
' filename

I do not recommend this "book". Look at the hoops they make readers jump through. Try grymoire.com; much better and no Javascript required
Awesome and very patriotic posters.
In post-USSR countries every child knows who are Y. Gagarin, S. Korolev and V. Tereshkova.
I think not only in post-USSR.
There are many other things worth to be mentioned. E.g. nature preserving approach of early Soviet days http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/ecology/ussr_ecology.ht..., or no plastic post-consumer waste.
Ah, yes, it's on Wikipedia and source is here http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elio-motors-unveils-...

Well, it's quite a reasonable engine for a target weight of 570 kg (1,250 lb), but with that weight I doubt it will go by as a motorcycle in any jusrsdiction, or will it, in the US?

Also, stated fuel efficiency happens to be 84 mpg-US highway, but only 60 mpg-US EPA blended, which is good, but not that surprising.

What is surprising though, is how did they managed to achieve great safety rating?
People who believe in anthropocentric climate change are misanthropes?
Nice post. However, I was kind of surprised to see the author list interpretability as one of the drawbacks of random forests:

> Another point that some might find a concern is that random forest models are black boxes that are very hard to interpret.

I generally agree that random forests are more difficult to interpret than linear models such as logistic regression, but I think they're still far more interpretable than more comparable non-linear models such as neural networks or SVMs with non-linear kernels. At the end of the day, a random forest is just a bunch of decision trees, each of which are very straightforward for humans to understand. Additionally, there are a number of straightforward methods available for assessing the importance of each individual feature in a random forest in aggregate ([1], section 15.4). Neural networks, on the other hand, result in models that are too cryptic to be meaningfully inspected by a human, and have more complex variable importance measures [2].

The relative interpretability of these non-linear models played a large factor in our decision to add random forests to our modeling stack at Sift Science, which you can read more about here: http://blog.siftscience.com/blog/2015/large-scale-decision-f...

[1]: http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/

[2]: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~mkjoy/pdf/Olden,Joy&DeathEM.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutery

or in this case "howaboutery"

Claims of hypocracy or some kind of inconsistent total position say absoutely nothing meaningful or interesting about the claims somebody makes, and are frankly, a really stupid reason to dismiss them.

Especially when the claimed inconsistency is so massively general that they can apply to anybody that somehow dosent like something about "the system".

Don't like the amount of corporate money in politics? Well you surely buy things from corporations! How can you justify such an obviously inconsistent position!
This graphics style is quite distinctive. I wish books, ads and even magazines would adopt it instead of crafting special effects in Photoshop. Disappearance of artist-made drawings is really unfortunate, especially in such categories as children books.
> How exactly do you bootstrap popularity?

Who cares? I don't want sites that "bootstrap popularity", I want sites with quality content.

To quote XKCD[1]: "I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at." If you're more worried about getting your content onto the front page of Google than about having content that's good enough to end up on the front page of Google, you're never going to produce anything I care about.

[1] http://xkcd.com/874/

EDIT: The question "How exactly do you bootstrap popularity?" is the most repugnant, repulsive thing on this thread. I can at least empathize with people who are trying to create content and now have to find a different way to fund it. But you're literally just trying to achieve popularity without doing anything that deserves to be popular. It's people like you that I'm trying to avoid when I use an ad blocker. Your goals are diametrically opposed to mine. I don't want anything to do with whatever crap you want to shove in my face. I want the internet to be a place for people to share art and information that helps push humanity forward, and you want to add noise to the signal. Your small-minded profiteering is literally holding humanity back, and I can't wait for you to go out of business.
ActiveRecord's “default_scope” is an anti-pattern
> Source code for every dependency would be needed too.

Yes, reproducibility requires source code for the entire dependency graph, down to a set of bootstrap binaries. This is what tools such as GNU Guix and Nix allow you to do. They enable reproducible science.
Wouldn't that mean that using 8 bit cores would be enough to simulate neuron networks ? That might significantly reduce the amount of transistors, thus increasing the amount of cores and parallelism.
Most all probabilistic programming languages in fact treat every model as equivalent to an HMM. So certainly inference on them can be done.
RocketSkates R8 giveaway campaign on SproutUp
Charade means pretense or deception.
"Normal" lab values are typically the 95% range of normal people tested. This is why over-testing is dangerous; about one out of twenty tests will be abnormal in normal folks.
He did explain in detail. The only part he left out was the not true part about it being a real or fake bomb.
What disturbs me the most is: are we really not taking MRIs of most autistic patients? How come we don't have enough data to draw clear correlations?

I'm not a physician either, but it seems a perfectly valid, testable hypothesis that a cerebellar cyst is the cause of the author's brother condition, and this kind of malformation bears an impact on those conditions at large.
tl;dr means too long didn't read
Hi, stan dev here. I think viewing Stan as a better BUGS is helpful but limiting.

The syntax is similar, but the class of models Stan fits is far more general. The class of algorithms we have available also goes beyond MCMC, e.g., variational inference, optimization, and interfaces to Stan exist on all primary programming languages. It's more helpful to think of Stan as its own probabilistic programming language, and arguably the biggest entity with the largest user base.
It doesn't sound like there are example maps, as this is just a paper studying what has happened, and one possible future mitigation. From what it sounds like, if we use Los Padres National Forest as an example, [1] they'll let areas near Alamo Mountain burn, but Pinon Pines Estates and Lake of the Woods would get forces concentrated there, with preventative forestry work to thin trees, etc to make things more manageable.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Los+Padres+National+Forest...
If the UI makes it clear that they aren't charged for two weeks, they likely won't bother waiting and move on to target a different service.
That's what Peace was, but both the developer and Ghostery decided that they didn't want it in the app store (which the blog post talks about).