skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stan is absolutely a world class general Bayesian sampling tool. It replaces things like BUGS and uses fantastic algorithms for fast convergence. One of the major people behind it, Andrew Gelman, is a leader in applied hierarchical modeling and uses it to great effect in social sciences.

If you have even vague interest in applied statistics in fields with lesser ability to design experimental controls then you should investigate this tool.
You probably won't be getting too good prices for gold in such countries either.
Companies that use [azure](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/case-studies/).

Companies that use [amazon](https://aws.amazon.com/?nc2=h_lg).

Companies that use [google](https://cloud.google.com/customers/).
May as well. Blogs/media continually throw every small skill that they can into the bucket-of-things-you-need-to-know-as-a-developer. Eventually it'll catch on and it'll be on job postings.
+1 on all of this (except I'm a fan of full MCMC, have you used ADVI?)
Someone biked around and created Street View for Burning Man
An interactive map of Stack Exchange tags for all sites
I also consider a healthy environment to be a valuable resource, and our disagreement is entirely about the best way to ensure it remains that way.
No, you are wrong. You are clearly posting out of ignorance.

The earth climate system is not impossibly complex. The global temperature is at it's core determined by an energy balance. Visible light from the sun enters, infrared radiation leaves. Some of that infrared radiation is blocked, then temperature has to rise before the balance is restored. Simple as that, and completely uncontroversial, because proven by spectrum analysis of our neighboring planets (and the moon).

Now I know that doesn't give you hard answers to questions policymakers want, like 'will New Orleans flood from increased tropical storms? Will the Middle East and India dry out?' We don't know that, and yes, that sucks.

But we do know the effect of increased amounts of greenhouse gases. (And, for what it's worth, we do also know that carbon dioxide taxes work much better than an emission trading system does, as proven by e.g. Norway vs. European Union, and as proven by the fact that industry and fossil fuel companies actually prefer it).

And the fact that the top comment on HN is about climate change denial rather than the actual article is excellent proof of the study's truth.
In general, yes. But are Google & Facebook the right vehicle for that? I prefer the SpaceX approach and so should any rational investor.
Agreed. And more importantly, this is nothing new. It's been going on since recorded music was invented. And even before that, in the era of sheet music and live music performance of all sorts. Music is not unique, either, among entertainment formats.
I've tried switching from Google to reasonable alternatives, and I usually have to go back to Google to search twice because the results are not what I was expecting, nowhere near. I'm not sure if this is only my own experience, no offence to other engines (and their engineers), but if you can't find what I'm looking for I'm going somewhere else to find it.
You make an assumption that the author didn't confirm that the cause of the bad scroll was the ad at the top of the page. It's not extremely difficult to discover what piece of script is scrolljacking; frequently all you have to do is Ctrl+F for scroll events.
I am happy for any moonshots, regardless of who funds them. The more the merrier :)
Translated again: People who value it the most highly can get it when they need it, while people who don't need it as much can wait or find alternatives. When demand is highest, they do the simplest and most effective thing to draw in more drivers who are free agents - offer them more money.

In effect, the earlier riders who accept the surge and book anyways pay more to draw more drivers in, and in return get their rides first. Riders who can't afford or don't want to pay for the surge prices can just wait for more drivers to come and the earlier demand to be satisfied. It's effectively the same as a crowded cab stand, but instead of the arbitrary order of who got there first, it's ordered by who's willing/able to pay the most, and thus who getting that ride fast is the most important to. A lower-income person who needs to get somewhere on time can sacrifice a little more and get it, instead of having no options.

FWIW, the actual 1% most likely have actual private drivers and entourages. And are important enough that almost anything they're going to will wait for them.
> the moonshots are privatized and the liberals are unhappy about it

I've never heard this take before, can you elaborate?
I do not think this is the case. I tested this out by clicking on several articles without hitting "Show Full Article" on any of them. On the first article, I was told I was reading 2 of 10 free articles. After 8 clicks I hit my quota.
There is no fundamental reason why you shouldnt use the same tools. There is a bit of work required to get it going, around standards and so on that I am looking at.
I don't think the criticism is against the concept of MOOCs but rather the over-exaggerated claims being made regarding proficiency achieved from the cursory information provided in a given program and career opportunities available after completing said program.
Hey thanks for the tip! Would come real handy
Microsoft Showcases the Azure Cloud Switch (ACS)
Funny, but completely irrelevant if you are serious. Do you know the adage: the less you know, the better you sleep? Sure you do. Do you use it? I don't.
do we have $ to donate to congress?
Ambition (YC W14) Hiring Python, React Engineers
Just tried this out and the answer is yes. All subsequent elements will have layout recomputed. There is some room for optimization here (evaluate if the flow content requires new text-wrapping across lineboxes), but luckily these layouts are quite fast.

Establishing containers as layout roots (generally fixed height/width and overflow:hidden) will constrain these sorts of costs.
Meet the bald Norwegians who actually create the songs that top the charts
What has changed since then?
Random forests are great. I use them in real-time silhouette identification of people against backgrounds by porting the random forest to the GPU. This allows blazing fast forest evaluation for every pixel of my input image concurrently. I used this paper to implement the design of it http://www.msr-waypoint.com/pubs/71445/ForestFire.pdf

The main trick is in storing the tree as a binary heap in the rows of a texture, with the left and right subtrees at 2i and 2i+1, respectively, and where the attribute index and split value are encoded in the color channels. Your texture width is your tree depth^2-1, and your texture height the number of trees in your forest. The texture ends up looking something like this (scaled up x10) http://i.imgur.com/afH5iFl.png

With a GPU shader, you can navigate these trees very quickly to classify an entire input image at once.
yes, and they are canibals, a tuna larvae is all mouth. But either will be domesticated or extinct. I prefer the first.
What a joke. Big Tech too powerful? How about the military industrial complex? Pharmaceutical companies? THE BANKS? THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ITSELF?

No, those are all OK because they fit the agenda of total control. Technology is the only industry putting up a fight, the only industry that is solving problems for people instead of creating them.

Can't have that.
It's a shame the ads have to either be totally horrible or totally gone. There is nothing wrong with a bit of advertising, but those who do it these days make it so in-your-face and disruptive, that they have dug their own graves. They should have gone a more subtle route, and maybe no one would think ads were such a big problem, and they could still be there. Since moving to Holland, I've actually enjoyed the ads I see on TV and Youtube; compared to American or Asian standards, where I've previously lived, here they are little short films of creative art that always make me laugh with their wit. If all ads had something positive to offer other than "buy me right now", and they could tactfully get out of your face, everybody could be happy. But that's not what happened.
Ah ok, so the purpose is to cause you to invest or spend it.
Apple hasn't included ad blocking - they have merely provided APIs for ad blocking software to run on iOS devices. You still have to go to the app store and download one. But these APIs didn't exist before so ad blocking was impossible on iOS.
From the article, Reich is saying that Google used its dominant market position to unfairly promote its own products. Antitrust isn't only about lack of alternatives.
'Universal urination duration' wins Ig Nobel prize
Depends on your browser and/or transpiler :-)

That's definitely much nicer than the old way.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10243101 (270 points, 14 hours ago, 127 comments)
Redshift is free (libre) software and fl.ux is "patent pending".
Love Affair with Mozambique’s Once-Ravaged Gorongosa National Park
Metal gear solid part 3 ps4
Time Wasted
I think we hit the max depth, so i'm replying here.

Yes, i enjoy civil rational discussions (well, i try to be rational) on HN. there's a bunch of smart people and it's fun.

Anyway, i think i get your point, allow me to phrase it this way "they may be getting the right answers, but they aren't getting the answers for the right reasons"

My handwavy counter argument is, Aristotle said "continuous motion requires continuous application of force" and he was wrong. But in day to day life, if you need to move the cart, you gotta keep pushing on it. He wasn't dead wrong, he did capture some essence the truth. Newton came along and got more of it. Einstein got even more.

Allow me to put a few more words in your mouth. I think you weakly agree with the climate scientists, not the crazy militants, but the grad students sitting in a tiny office doing math. You don't think they're dead wrong, they just don't have enough of the truth to be useful, newton hasn't come along yet and shown us how it all fits together.

Ok, i gotta go get some stuff done, but it was indeed thoughtful and fun.
It is a massive undertaking, but probably less of an undertaking than bringing carbon emissions down to acceptable levels. Estimates of the latter run from around $300B [1][2] to $2T [3] to around $2.5T [4] per year. By comparison, estimates on the total cost of Hurricane Katrina rebuilding usually run around $125B. [5][6]

As for earmarking funds - one possible mechanism might be a carbon tax + insurance subsidy. The idea is to tax carbon emissions at a rate that is lower than what mandatory carbon reductions would cost, but higher than the expected value of new natural disaster rebuilding. Some of the proceeds would be distributed to existing insurance companies, which already have expertise in both investing and in paying out claims. Normal market discipline keeps this industry competitive, which eliminates the waste that would accrue if a government bureaucracy were created to do the work.

Regardless, we should have comprehensive evacuation plans for each major city worked out. That sort of work costs barely anything and has big payoffs in a lot of situations.

[1] https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/what-would-it-really-c...

[2] http://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/IEDIndex3.cfm?tid=2&pi...

[3] http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcolleg...

[4] http://www.mckinsey.com/client_service/sustainability/latest...

[5] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/04/hurricane-sandy-vs-...

[6] http://www.livescience.com/32181-how-much-did-hurricane-katr...
Getting a bit tangential: I've been trying Bing again recently out of curiosity, and at least for my usage I find it now pretty reasonable. A few years ago it was barely usable, but now I'm fairly happy with it. It also feels slightly snappier to me than Google on loading results. The main problem is that a small but significant number of sites have a robots.txt that excludes all non-Google crawlers, making it impossible for other search engines to display equally good results in cases where that site has something relevant (unless they blatantly ignore robots.txt).
Why do you regard this as "evidence that the alarmists have very little material left"?

Are you suggesting that this was a "last resort" after "running out" of research in favor of the anthropogenic climate change hypothesis? Do you think that the Duke Fuqua School of Business is so tightly knit with the climate science community?

I think you may be biased by your hope that no further evidence surfaces; otherwise, how could you continue believing what you believe?

Take this not as criticism of your beliefs, but as criticism of how you cling to your beliefs. I try to be happy to be proven wrong, no matter the consequences. Can you say the same?
> John Carmack implemented his own version of memory management for both Doom 3 [2] and Doom 3 BFG [3] presumably so he could get debugging information that isn't available with the C++11 smart pointers.

Is this the same "Doom 3" that came out in 2004, a full seven-ish years before c++11.
Why I say Linux instead of GNU/Linux
But that has nothing to do with the part of the article that my comment is about.
It's to expose you to the links underneath the article.

After reading the headline and first paragraph, many people would bounce (especially on mobile). By giving them alternative exit strategies, the button marginally increases traffic.

(Yes, this has been rigorously tested.)
While that is a fair opinion, mine is on the contrary. Some things are simply more important than money. I'd gladly pay a little bit for quality ad-free experiences rather than endure the frustration of this OP in the linked article, every day, which is my and many's default. Life is short, and it's not always about money but rather quality of life.
They are referring to Europe as a political entity not as the geographical feature. GB has generally considered itself separate from 'Europe' as a polity.

It would be like referring to someone from Cuba as 'American' because they are from North America. Technically true but people assume American means someone from the states.
That's exactly what I'm wondering and thinking about. Are people fine with ad supported content as long as the ads are high quality?

I ask because I run an ad-supported site and try to use good practices and sell all of my own ads to brands that are highly relevant to my content (office furniture brand ads on an office design website).

Anyway, I have tried to keep up with what people are thinking on this topic because I want to make sure I'm staying ahead of the curve so I can stay in business :)
I've forgotten much of the early part of the 2000s, were people getting all upset about pop-up blocking back then?
Basically that software can be patented.

Back during the 70s-80s, a specific set of code was covered by copyright. But the behavior encoded could be reverse engineered.

A famous example is how Compaq clean room reverse engineered the BIOS of the IBM PC, thus opening up the market for the clones.

In constrast there are all kinds of issues with using FAT (FAT32/ExFAT) variants on Android phones because MS have/had patents. And i think Android early on didn't offer things like pinch to zoom because Apple held a patent (not sure what happened there).
> unfairly

I am as skeptical as anyone about giant corporations, but this is a stretch. How and why does our society expect players to refrain from using their current position to advance to a better position?
I believe that Big Media is too powerful - unfairly promotes the interests of the establishment at the expense of the middle class.
> Just because music is a product doesn't mean it's not enjoyable (or worthy of enjoyment).

This is true, but it's a straw man, at least for me. I don't care that I'm consuming a product. I do care if I'm manipulated, or if other people are being manipulated in a way that affects me. In this case, I don't like any of the music these people create, but I'm forced to listen to it quite frequently because the formula they've created manipulates so many of my peers into liking it.
I've noticed that a common tendency on HN to avoid downvoted is to start your comment by saying something like 'time to spend some karma'. It seems surprisingly effective, I think because many on HN want to think they're contrarian so expressing that your opinion is contrarian is a way to garner support.
It's only a problem when you need to switch IPs urgently. Some browsers also maintain their own cache but it's not as aggressive as resolvers.

Caching (e.g. overriding TTLs) cuts down RU on space, power, hardware, and latency (having to travel all the way down to the root NS for answers). There's definitely incentive in caching stuff.
This kind of problem is what led me to create
http://justread.mpgarate.com/

Paste a link to an article, get a minimal version to read.

Source code: https://github.com/mpgarate/justread/
Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8319903
Filed a PR to fix the HTTPS issue: https://github.com/stared/tagoverflow/pull/2
He's asking you, "what causes you to see your belief as more valid, other than nihilism?" I wouldn't call that an irrelevant tangent.
I've only started to see Scottish salmon in the US in the last couple of years, and that only in smoked form. Very good stuff.
Microsoft’s latest operating system is based on Linux
Honestly, I think there's something wrong with "a bit of advertising".
Because it hurts our society if they do. It's not about expecting, it's about limiting the damage they do.
Because the thing Norway brought to Japan already had a name (it's a fish!).
The Solar System to Scale [Video]
So wait, who actually blocks Bing but not Google? That is just completely odd sounding to me... But Bing is definitely one engine I'm trying to switch to, it just isn't reliable when I'm looking up programming related queries sometimes. Then again I always know all the key words to throw at Google to find whatever I'm looking for. Googling is a (query) programming language by itself.
Don't forget big ag, "major" media, and the private prisons / police unions. They're big players too, and the entirety of their influence isn't evident by their market caps.

> only industry putting up a fight

Firearms? Gun companies are starting to refuse to sell to police in states where ownership by other citizens is prohibited. And, predictably, we're suddenly in the middle of a "gun control" debate, despite firearms deaths and especially murders on a steady decline over decades.
If you don't think people will change their lifestyles given the right conditions, then how did we end up with car-dependent lifestyles in the first place? It's exactly because governments subsidized the right conditions for that to happen by building highways and mandating free parking and tearing down streetcar lines.
Thanks man. I use it all the time. It's been a lifesaver.

I use it for sites with so tiny fonts, it's impossible to read without zooming the page.

And content sites / articles that take forever to load on my slow bandwidth.

It even helps for sites that start playing videos automatically - wasting my precious bandwidth.
The study (and the article) took pains to point out that what they observed is a universal phenomenon, as evidenced by liberals dismissing concerns about rising crime if the solution meant more guns and conservatives dismissing climate science if it meant more taxes.
Seriously. This is possibly the most important comment in the thread. End software patents, restrict the use of other patents, and then watch the rate of portfolio expansion plummet.
I have such a hate of adverts that I don't have a television. I grew up watching and listening to the BBC, it was a culture shock moving to Holland.

The last time I was on holiday in the US it seemed like the TV shows were just interludes between adverts for expensive brands of anti-depressants and weird painkillers (which turn out to be Paracetamol but for $10 per pack instead of E1).
Problem with Amazon SES Undetermined Bounce Status
We are using AWS SES for sending emails. We send 10M+ emails per month using SES. For some users we received SQS bounce response status = 'undetermined', sub_status = 'undetermined'.
We mark users with bounce status 'undetermined' as hard bounce and don't send them email in future. However we found these emails are valid. Emails should be delivered successfully. We observed this for multiple emails.
Question:
1) Why 'undetermined' bounce response is received even for valid emails?
2) Should bounce response with 'undetermined' status be marked as hard bounce? Is the logic correct?
SES bounce status & sub status details are in this link: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/notification-contents.html
Only eat raw salmon that has been flash frozen. This will kill the pesky parasites, according to the chef at a sushi restaurant I used to frequent.
Of the many factors you are not considering, albedo affects how much solar radiation (not all of it visible) is reflected back into space.
If you care about being manipulated, then you're probably not being manipulated overly much, and it's worth it to just not worry about it, because no one is going to stop them from trying. It's just music or clothes that people wear or hair that they style, and it will all change, but always be there. It means nothing.
> However, someone other than you is still able to push code to your users without your acknowledgement (assuming you have trusted a third party key).

Yes, I want that. I just want to control which third parties I trust. That's why it's called a "trusted third party", not just a "third party."

> If you are already using a CDN, put your updated manifest (index.html) there as well.

I'm not sure how this helps. Wouldn't this leave the index.html in the hands of the CDN, such that they are free to modify it?
public transport?
What kind of peasant are you?

This technology is designed for our self driving Tesla future
Are you really making the argument that content creators are uncorrelated with your enjoyment of the content they create? Really?
some useful books available as a PDF:

David Barber "Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning"
http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=...
-- Thorough and systematic, accompanied by a Matlab library

Marc Steyvers "Computational Statistics with Matlab"
http://psiexp.ss.uci.edu/research/teachingP205C/205C.pdf
-- Somewhat unfinished but very good hands-on guide for a total novice

David Draper "Bayesian Modeling, Inference and Prediction"
https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~draper/draper-BMIP-dec2005.pdf
-- Quite good if you're already familiar with a field, might be slightly daunting for a beginner

and the classic, David MacKay's
"Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms"
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.html
Well, on second reading, you're right. He does slip in there next to Microsoft Windows that you somehow have to use Google Search because everyone else does, and doesn't explain how that supports the rest of his article. I don't think that's the main thrust of it, though.
Enlighten me please.
The monopoly concern is legitimate, especially if the accusations against Apple, Google and Amazon have validaty in them. I think the real issue at hand is the bullying that is taking place for new entrants. Google arm restling a new entrant is like a child trying to wrestle with a boxer. There should be better policies in place to prevent frivilous litigations from tech giants.
Totally agree with you on this one, as long as the company doesn't stop better products from entering the market.
On ad-blocking
Nexus 5 launch: Google promises “tasty new treats” at September 29 event
I hadn't thought about things in this way, that's very interesting. I guess this applies to software too.