skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From your link: "Check out the formal theory of creativity (1990-2010) which explains science, art, music, humor, and describes the simple algorithmic principles of artificial scientists & artists."

I think most scientist would agree that science involves method, indeed most science involve multiple, nested methods.

But I think most scientists would be very skeptical of any claim to have fully codified a single scientific method, much less a theory of all creative endeavors.

So your link seems like bending the stick way too far the other way.
And while your're at it, I suggest taking the Bayesian approach for the criterion of a scientific method, where falsification is a particular (and simplified) case of Bayesian reasoning.

A great introduction may be found at [0], if one is already well versed in Bayes theorom, then an excerpt [1] should be enough.

[0]: http://www.yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes

[1]: http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/oceanography/researchers/francoi...
Ask HN: Any self-serve deep-learning products?
Any products that let users upload their own training set and create their CNNs? Clarifai etc. seem to provide a comprehensive model using the imagenet dataset. BUt any applications that let you do your own training?
Writing the Documentation First
Also, porn is known to be capable of messing up marriages

citation needed.
It's okay. I think your points are still very beneficial to have. IMO native companies always have advantage as they usually have better understanding about the culture, user preference, and government. Portal is a big thing in the Eastern Asian countries like China and Japan so for a long time Yahoo and MSN search used to be leading the game until, of course, more Internet search engines come online.
disclaimer: i'm the OP and work for GCP

That completely makes sense to me, and yet runs in mild conflict with the feedback below where at least some users want us to do a bit more "selling". I've heard numerous times from customers and prospects that they'd like for GCP folks to just "spell it out and tell me why I should pick you", so this was my take at doing exactly that.

I'm definitely trying to convince you of something, but I don't want my/our tone to have you come away with a negative impression, or for you to read it as anything other than an excited nerd happy about his tools. Thanks for the feedback!
Well, we can only hope for the better...
I would use, but still there is no data center in South America.
This year, browsers are implementing the Service Worker spec [0] which is a major improvement to the previous App Cache spec [1]. Both could be used to load UI (and all other static assets) when offline.

There are also numerous headers for describing TTL for downloaded assets, and APIs for offline storage (localStorage, indexedDB).

I think the main differences are that while the web has these capabilities, you don't get them for free. You do have to go out of your way to use them. Usually, they're developed assuming an Internet connection, then made to work offline. Usually, it's the other way around for native apps.

[0] http://www.w3.org/TR/service-workers/
[1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/browsers.html#a...
There isn't, of course, but if you mentally substitute "runtime" for "VM", the question is perfectly valid.
This part of the post alone, is pretty amusing: http://blog.officehours.io/content/images/2015/09/chat-with-...
I find American porn to be crude and artificial. Russian porn is much better; it just shows attractive people having sex with each other and enjoying it.
Wonder what that says about our respective cultures.
Stylish, sure. But this Earth is so much more than just one species of primate. If life is to define Earth, it should be more inclusive.
To what degree is the Republic of Indonesia actually ruled by the same folks that controlled the VOC?
To your point about the increasing blade size, this is to allow the gas to decompress, however its less about extracting more energy and more about using the energy in the gas to keep it moving out the rear. One of the biggest problems with gas turbines is that theres nothing to stop the flow from reversing if the (intake pressure - forward momentum of the gas stream) is at a lower energy state than the exhaust. When this does happen you get what is known as a compressor stall. This is dangerous and costly in aviation (11 mil of overhaul for a GE90-115) and so a little less effiency is the compromise. You could run 2 stages of the same size of turbine blade but that would be dancing with the devil.

Also, just to add to your comment, another form of energy that you get for free from a turbo application is harnessing the sound pulses from the exhaust. You wouldn't think it's much but all you have to do is compare the F1 V10 vs the V6T https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS4Dh_EAfJI
I would love to hear Hipp's "How To Make Tcl Twice As Fast --- Experiences in using micro-optimizations to improve the performance of SQLite".
disclaimer: I'm the OP and work for GCP

Sandstrom, thanks for the detailed feedback. Spending most of my day talking with customers, I've found that many, many folks don't really know those strengths and weaknesses very well. This post was written really in direct response to questions we get every day about "why should I choose GCP?"

A great example; in your comment you describe AWS as having live migration, which they do not. It's exactly this kind of misinformation that we were aiming to clear up.

I hear you loud and clear on more technical guidance; my team has been building http://cloud.google.com/solutions for the last year, let me know if that helps or if you have any ideas on what we should build next!

Thanks again!
I'll start by acknowledging that "objectification of women" has become a buzzphrase, and it means whatever the speaker/writer wants it to mean, and the following discursion is (mostly) not intended as a prescriptivist scold. As such, the following is (mostly) a tangent from your comment, and entirely a tangent from GP's comment, since clearly GP was not using "objectifies" in this way. But anyway, here goes.

My understanding is that originally, in feminist studies of pornography, "objectification" meant to be made into an object, in the syntactic sense, as contrasted with the syntactic subject. In this sense, to objectify something is to have it be the recipient of verbs. In the context of feminist critique, the verb in particular is "desire", and the complaint is that pornography is (allegedly) interested in women as objects of desire, not as subjects. That is, the wishes and desires of the women are, allegedly, less valued than the wishes and desires of the men.

I personally suspect that this critique is overwrought and largely missing the point, although not without any truth at all. Perhaps irrelevant to the feminist point, speaking as a male, I'm pretty fond of being an object, although I wouldn't like to be only an object.
Speaking of Gilgamesh, what happened to that Kickstarter movie based on Gilgamesh? It has been over 3 years.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1331941187/the-tube-ope...
>That's because those that do get flagged, and the accounts get banned.

I suspect that if they weren't there still wouldn't be enough to be more than a minor nuisance. There doesn't seem to be an incoming tide of terrible questions to stem to begin with, although I could of course be wrong.

And even if there were, it's not as if many of the questions in that section are that high quality anyway. Should I use this or that language? What is the best "X"? And a few that aren't even questions but somehow wound up on the list.
Irony of the day: While Google is planning to put Wi-Fi in 400 stations in India, there is still no Wi-Fi on trains running through Silicon Valley.
Does anybody actually want to do this or have it done to them? There are a lot of weird tropes in porn, but this has to be one of the weirdest wide-spread ones. Really, you might as well just squirt super-glue at somebody.

Seems like it would make a hell of a mess, and it also makes me think of this joke from Good Will Hunting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6il6tocb4ic
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See also The Ultimate Alphabet which I pored over for years as a teenager - e.g. this is "S" which apparently has 1234 words illustrated (the complete book had 7777 total) - http://www.codex99.com/illustration/56.html

It came with a £10,000 prize for the best effort but I can't find any info about the winner.
End-To-End Automation of Docker-Based Python Apps with Redis on AWS
How to Easily Attract Quality Backlinks to Your Website [Infographic]
The Twelve-Factor App
Musk: VW Shows We've 'Reached the Limit of What's Possible with Gasoline'
Maybe they just looked at the stats and thought this was a non-game? Furthermore, even with 'censorship', somehow I doubt many of the regular big names in search have algorithms that do all that well targeting Chinese.
Show HN: A Web Audio live-looper using microphone and MIDI input
How does that tell you if the talk has been given a second time somewhere else or not?
A Better Government, One Tweak at a Time
This application is intended for live performance, so it uses a few keyboard controls to control the application state. These controls aren't intuitive, so you'll want to read/remap them in the gear-menu. If you're unclear on what live-looping is, or how to use this application specifically, check out the help menu (the big question-mark button) for a brief rundown.

Also note that this application depends on the Web MIDI API, which, AFAIK, is only available in recent versions of Google Chrome. Some features should work in other browsers, such as testing the synthesizers and using microphone input, but if you want the intended experience, you'll need to use Chrome.

Anyways, I hope you alls have fun with this. It was built with Wad.js, a Web Audio framework that I wrote. Check it out on github: https://github.com/rserota/wad.
It was a subject of this history video with 400K views on a pretty popular channel https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zPIhMJGWiM8
Interesting in many aspects.

I've set up an SMS alert that reminds me each morning to "pay it forward". Andrei is right, helping people without asking for anything in return is actually the best way to get something in return.

Also I like how Stewart Butterfield is kind of honest when trying kato. What I wonder is why he didn't try to hire the team for helping build Slack.
I really don't want to be 'that' guy, but this article is pretty much unreadable due to the fact that there are six social media buttons hovering over the text. Madness.

http://imgur.com/T4l8UQ4
Does that 'energy' mean electricity alone, or does it also include transport and heating? In the UK (the only place I can get numbers), transport and heating account for three quarters of all energy use.

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http:/www.berr.g...

Meeting just the electricity demand with solar would be great, but I have yet to see a plausible plan for meeting heating and transport demands with solar.
I've only dipped very shallowly into TLA+ and haven't had time to investigate, but I have been wondering if we can leverage Haskell's type system to make sure we're matching the abstractions we've assumed for TLA+ at a low cognitive overhead.
It's ultimately a challenge to the prestige and power currently enjoyed by the scientific establishment.

Indeed, it seems to mainly be that. The funny thing was that back in Berkeley circa 1982, philosophy professors had about the level of prestige as chemistry professors, possibly a significant amount more. Chemistry indeed had a bigger building but philosophers seemed to get more invites to the cool parties.

Which is to say that Feyerabend's critique of science was something that resonates with the people wanting to critique this society's values, wanting to critique a society which values what science can accomplish more than say, the activity of carefully contemplating and observing life. But the problem is this approach is really poor and confused place to begin such a critique. We should be directly saying that things that don't advance technology should be valued rather than engaging in "attacking the prestige of science". But of course this kind of irrationalism-as-radicalism has only continued in today world of "call-out culture" and such.

One might call Feyerabend a very early troll of science but with all the weaknesses of trolling-pretending-to-be-politics.
An alternate way of expressing the same idea is that science is falsehood-finding process and not a truth-finding process. In other words, the results of each new experiment tells you which theories are incorrect. The others are all possibly correct. Occam's razor recommends you should go with the simplest one.

An another comment pointed out, this is extremely obvious from the bayesian point of view.
Is it harder to understand distribution than memorize FOIL? Probably. It's memorizing a process vs. understanding a concept. FOILing won't help you master algebra but if you're in a science class and your teacher needs to get you up to speed on multiplying pairs of binomials then they'll likely just show you FOIL.

I agree with you that FOILing is stupid and might make the student worse off in the long run, but I think depriving them of getting practive with heuristics might be worse. Ideally a student would notice that FOIL isn't a good trick and stop using it, but there are other "tricks" that are extremely useful.
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I don't think that the expansion being sometimes infinite is a minor difficulty. In fact it sounds pretty major, similiar to the halting problem. Unless you can prove if it's infinite or not a priori.

I'm not knowledgeable about this topic but the quote suggests you can't prove that.
Jython is quite outdated and has stagnated for a long time; support for Python 2.7 was only finalised in May this year. Forget about support for v3.5.

Perhaps by compiling from the bytecode of the existing interpreter, instead writing a whole new source code interpreter for the JVM, it will have some benefits in supporting newer versions of the language. Or, maybe it will help to decouple development of the standard library and the interpreter, possibly letting more devs work on it. You can't really be sure what benefits/deficiencies a different approach will bring until you actually try it - see PyPy, a "silly" idea to implement Python in Python, which now yields faster runtime performance than CPython.
Because it's unlikely that C. elegans can't even learn. It doesn't have any brain structures equivalent to ones in humans. It's neurons work totally differently. They are so different from us that anything we learn probably wouldn't apply to human brains. A more intelligent animal, ideally a mammal, would be a much better choice.
The Future of Language
It's a good approximation but it misses the mark. String Theory is not verifiable but it's still a scientific theory. Bohmian Mechanics is, some say, by definition not verifiably different from Quantum Mechanics but it's a scientific theory. You might call them "speculative" scientific theories to save the idea but at the end of the day the Popperian [sic?] view of science is a bit too simplistic to be useful.
Cheap Prizes

- A lunch with anyone official or high title
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- Wireless headphones
- Powerbanks
It's already there. It was found even in Bin Laden's non-internet-connected compound, remember?
Agreement are choices. When people have sex, they choose to agree to do so, hence the importance of consent.

I disagree that it is invalid to suggest that those who abstain from having sex due to reasons such as religious traditions lack certain aspects of personal development. For example, there are studies that show a clear correlation between abstinence education and _higher_ rates of teen pregnancy [1] and STI transmission rates [2].

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3194801/

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20378905
Can you elaborate? There is potential risk of harm resulting for many other areas of personal developments as well.
This is what I get for not being in SRE (I don't get paged, I just poll our incident lists, etc.): there was definitely a blip at that time, people are on it right now looking into the root cause (but it was automatically remediated within just a couple minutes as you saw). Regardless, sorry for the blip and for being wrong about the all clear.
Maybe Automatically Updating Dependencies Isn’t a Great Idea
the actual text: http://mcps.umn.edu/assets/pdf/4.2.1_Feyerabend.pdf
That's right, I should've written "diametrically different".
Plates from an Early-20th-Century German Encyclopedia of Minerals
Since Le Mans is an endurance race, the vehicles that can run longer with less pit stops have a strong advantage. This is what the Audi diesels dominated for a good part of the 2000s.
Can the SRV record be pushed via DNS Notify as well ?

This is the main issue with DNS. That you need to get the port information from somewhere.
Show HN: Caramel – a modern syntax for the lambda calculus
Well, self-driving cars have the advantage that the most powerful lobbying group in the US is excited about them: AARP[1]. Their membership votes far more than other demographics and is afraid to lose their independence once they can no longer drive.

1 http://member.aarp.org/home-family/personal-technology/info-...
Andrei’s great—and kind of an open book. I’ve learned so much from him about building a distributed team and adapting when faced with hurdles.

Plus, he’s willing to up-end any approach, just to see if something else works better. He’s perhaps the most software-agnostic guy I’ve met. Part of this, I think, relates to him trying out so many new products—in part to support other founders.

I look upon the chat between Stewart and Andrei as an interesting historic document. Of course Stewart and his colleagues needed to check out the competition. That said, I know that selling the idea at the time was really difficult, with Kato.

From what Andrei tells me, VCs largely didn’t believe in their vision for chat replacing email. A while after this interaction, those same VCs were all on Slack.

If I were Andrei, I’d still be a little sore about that. He takes it differently, though, and knows it’s part of the deal. I think that’s pretty admirable.

BTW: If you want another way to pay it forward, feel free to sign up on http://www.officehours.io as an advisor.
Definitely agree.

What makes it difficult for many people to look at this phenomenon in a larger context is that it is much easier to be alarmist at anything sexual. Unfortunately, many parts of societies still view sex as something shameful and thus tend to attempt to avoid anything to do with it rather than having meaningful discussion about it.
sadly it's not anything that malicious, they're just using a wms type map setup which involves requesting a bounding box of the viewing extent and the server responding back with it, it's really really bad because it's impossible to cache and really slow. But sadly it's a 'standard' that many gis people think is a good idea.
I dunno, I'm gay, and I goddamn love it when someone does that to me.
That's quite cool, although it would be more practical to run the MS-DOS software in DOSBox or a virtual machine and configure a virtual floppy disk drive.
It's not clear at all that Mouse->Human is simply a scaling problem.

It would appear that there is some emergent phenomenon (consciousness) somewhere on the scale between mouse and human. This phenomenon may be triggered by a surplus of "computational resource" with respect to "body to be controlled", which I personally think is unlikely. It may be triggered by a matching of computational resource to controllable complexity, i.e. the hands and fingers -> tool use, who knows?

There is so much we don't know about cognition. For example, are Whales/Dolphins self aware/conscious? They have the requisite brain mass, if it's simply a scaling problem.
Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
I think the majority of men in my demographic like to do it.
And in my experience, about half of the girls are into it, the other half are indifferent.
Given the limited understanding of neuroscience and the problems of Markram's vision, the whole affair had the earmarks of a doomed project.

One can see similar problems in smaller effort by Palm Founder Jeff Hawkin's efforts to jump-start algorithmically oriented neuroscience research with his book On Intelligence and his company Numenta.

With all the failures pretty visible now, I'd like to say I think there's some validity in seeing if one can extract a broad vision out of all the disparate threads of neuroscience research.

There have been events in the history of science when outsiders walked in and saw a forest instead of a lot of trees - see Craig Venter, Alfred Wegener and others (and there have been many more cranks who claimed to the same of course). Making some effort to see if that kind of approach can gel is worth some effort in the study of the brain, a field whose complexity is so huge that gradual, iterative research could continue in places for a thousand years and not answer basic questions.
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PornHub has a great blog at http://www.pornhub.com/insights where they put out all sorts of interesting statistics on viewership, preference of certain search terms, and demographics data. I'm not much of a porn connoisseur, but I love the data they publish!

A recent post specifically talks about the porn consumption habits of Millennials
http://www.pornhub.com/insights/millennials-demographics-sta...
Can it emulate Amiga floppies?
Why are working class kids less likely to get elite jobs? They study too hard
It's true that he, along with Kuhn, are probably the two most influential philosophers of science. But in many respects his philosophy of science is ahistorical--naive falsificationism isn't really present in any of the major scientific revolutions. (One might make the tongue-in-cheek remark that his descriptive theories have been decisively falsified.)

His defenders, of course, would claim that that naive falsificationism is a misreading of him.
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It is if your pension has been invested in it through superannuation/401k
Yeah, I hate that, too. Maximizing the window worked, though.
Obviously there are numerous problems with this, but I'll just point out a couple. First, what is up with "Midlands"? Do we really see much commonality among Clayton NM, Aberdeen SD, Joliet IL, East Steubenville WV, and Baltimore MD? [For non-USAsians, these cities are nowhere near each other and are in no respect similar.] This looks like gerrymandering: something about these counties would have destroyed the narrative had they been included in adjacent Yankeedom, New Netherland, Tidewater, Greater Appalachia, El Norte, or Far West, so they weren't, because reasons. Unconvincing.

With respect to the other focus of TFA, violence, we see more of the same "ignore-all-nations-except-for-Northern-Europe-Japan-and-New-Zealand" crap that is typical in trendy "comparisons" of USA to "the rest of the world". The difference between USA and the short list of nations this sort of "analysis" deigns to consider is that USA is a nation of colonial origin. [EDIT: whoops... NZ is too.] Look at all other nations that were colonized, in Latin America and Africa. They all struggle with violence to an equal or greater extent than USA. Ahistoric pap like TFA perpetuates political bias more than it promotes understanding.
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Looks cool but does anyone in San Francisco shave anymore? Also, two of the three dudes in the video have beards.
It's right at the top of slide 9.

"For some types of configurations one hardware interface may need to be represented by multiple protocol interfaces"
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:) Please tell me what has then in the last 10 years...