skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A system like that is very easy to counter. If residents are truly not the ones buying property, they can simply vote for stringent renters protection, and liberal squatting laws. That will quickly dry up the market for foreigners buying property and letting it sit there.
If you take an information theory point of view, then a single question could provide more than a single bit of information, but it never will on average (for some suitable meaning of "average"). If I'm speaking to 1 of 1024 possible people and I ask "Are this particular woman?" then 1 time out of 1024 I will learn 10 bits of information, but 1023 out of 1024 times I will learn approximately zero bits of information.
The trouble is for metabolic disease BMI as a test has a false positive rate of 20% and a false negative rate of 40%.
Oh, you can only give concrete examples where it would work out. To show that it doesn't work out, you'd have to show that there are no ways to make it work.
The article starts out claiming that Amazon, Twitter, and Google run deficits, which is wrong. Amazon and Google recently reported profits.

The U.S. government runs a deficit because it has nowhere to store capital other than itself, and doing so creates additional paper debt (see: Social Security trust fund).

Amazon, however, has plenty of places it can invest its capital, including the U.S. government. That process also creates federal debt, BTW.

In short: the U.S. federal government is not a tech company and should not be run like one (and vice versa).
"And I'm curious how exactly brains are measured for operations per unit <blank>"

Estimations via a variety of methodologies that all yield different answers. Since brains and computers run such fundamentally different "programs", the details matter less than you might think, because the whole question starts as pretty hopeless in the first place. One approach is "what would it take a modern computer to fully simulate a brain", which is in some sense throwing a huge advantage to the biological brain because the same measure in the opposite direction makes biological brains look really bad, far worse than this measure makes computers look!

Still, while the computations may not be generic, there is certainly a lot of stuff going on in a biological brain, no matter how you look at it. Note the graph is on a log-log scale; differences of opinions will tend to move the biological systems a little bit one way or the other on the graph, it won't tend to suddenly fling it halfway across.
> Marriage was adopted by the Church and redefined along the lines you describe - it existed long before that as a legal process to control inheritance.

For property purpose more generally: controlling inheritance was part of that, but a related part (and perhaps a more significant part in early societies where inheritances were small) was economic support the other direction, up the family tree rather than down. Where children (and grandchildren, and lateral relatives) care for their parents (and grandparents, etc.) in their old age instead of their existing nonfamily social support networks, establishing broader family bonds through formal unions is important to that.
I can find some stories on the Internet about a wealthy person doing this:

http://lego.gizmodo.com/high-profile-silicon-valley-exec-gui...

http://gizmodo.com/5912141/multimillionaire-software-exec-ar...

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/incredibly-wealt...

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_20675946/silicon-valley-tech-e...

But there's this earlier story too:

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=29272
This is entirely true, but its effects are exaggerated due to draconian zoning and regulatory issues (like parking). When you slap on height limits, use limits, and parking quotas, the marginal price increase for a given level of demand is drastically higher. The ratio of mobility to affordability is affected mostly by our (in)ability to extract value out of land.
Yup, JIRA is a power-manager's wet dream. Whatever way one can think of for adding "things" to a task (and how to classify them, and how to keep track of them...), Atlassian has probably thought of it. For a developer who just wants to keep the tool at a distance and only log into it to move their shit across the scrum board and promptly log back out, they better hope their scrum overlords have looked upon them kindly.
Thanks! When I tried this before, I thought compilation was stuck in an infinite loop and gave up after about a minute. But you're right, it works. Though on my machine, this took two and a half minutes to compile (ten times as long as compiling a small convnet). For 10 recurrence steps, that's weird, right? And the TensorFlow thing above runs instantly.
That's still pretty good news for my kids, and moderately good news for the handful of remaining teeth I expect to have at that point.
I don't know the answer to your question. But if you can get access to a machine with a POWER CPU you could test it, since those CPUs contain hardware fixed-point arithmetic units.
Its pretty awesome.
Or they don't ask, and buy semi-permanent sea access for the bargain price of one angle grinder, some unassuming hinges, a latch, and a can of matching green paint. I'm assuming that most of the home-buyers would be Scots, after all.

The folks on the other side of the fence are certainly Scots with an interest in public access to Archerfield Woods from the coastal walking trail.

I very much doubt that such a fence would be patrolled or otherwise monitored well enough to prevent rogue gate installation from happening.

If this was in the U.S., the same people cutting holes in the fence would simultaneously be posting signs saying "no public beach access" and blaming the holes on outsiders bent on ruining both beach and neighborhood. The zoning and development board would quietly be enjoying their kickbacks from the developer, and winking every time the fence got mentioned.

They know that fence isn't going to last. It's only there so that no one starts a protest until after it's too late to be effective.
LOL WUT.

Seriously - what is the purpose of this?
Conversely, by working remotely you can live where you want to. You can own forty acres adjacent to prime public lands. You can keep horses. You can take a lunch break and hike up the mountain in your back yard and look out over the vast empty prairie.

I'd go back to working at Wal-Mart before I move back into a city.
Nah, if that was C he‘d be writing in green ink[1]. Personally I blame the Chinese.

[1]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/5918467...
The possibility of collisions renders this approach invalid. If the hashes match, there is a possibility that it is a false positive.
One of the requirements is to avoid a man-in-the-middle attack. If such an attacker sees the two hashes, then he'll know if the numbers match.
He's a senior official who handles e.g. all matters regarding Finnish relations to EU when they go to the parliamentary committee. This is about as senior as it gets in our modest House of Parliament. So this is a bit like a Brit saying "it's not worth discussing where Kim Philby is working" because even the SIS has janitors.

I'm not saying he's Kim Philby, I'm just saying his position is not irrelevant.
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> except with the negotiators being members of the legislative branch instead of the executive branch.

That's already better in a case when agreement involves laws. As long as those negotiations are transparent, and legislative branch can weigh in during the process - things can be fixed in timely manner. When they are completely opaque and results are shown post factum - that's where potential for corruption grows.

To put it shortly - evil things like to lurk in the dark.
For those who haven’t clicked. You can zoom into an image and it will do image recognition on the item you are trying to view and pull up similar pins.
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Two similar companies that I can think of that went public recently is Splunk (SPLK) and Hortonworks (HDP) - their stock is trading mostly sideways, nothing exciting.

Not sure what to attribute this to - having reliable business clients pay for your software seems like very solid business to me, after all isn't that how IBM's and Oracle's of this world came about.

I suspect it comes down to how competitive this space is. Campfire used to be the thing not long ago, and then everyone went to Slack - who's to say that another competitor will not emerge and everyone will ditch their Jira's for something better?
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Do you have the source to the program you wrote the regex with? (Or did you write it by hand?)
Not a lawyer either, what I've read about street art in Germany is basically: if it leaves residue (physical changes your object) = property damage, if it's easy to remove without a trace = no case.

Which is why a lot of street artists swapped the can for painted paper and water-soluble glue.

Or, related to cars: hard to remove stickers = property damage, some chalk on the tires or shaving foam on the hood = no case, deal with it.
Ask HN: What project are you most proud of?
Been working on some awesome stuff and wanted to see what everyone else has been a part of...
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> I hate to sound like a Pro-Russia troll, but the leaders weren't replaced in the West;

Right. That was my point. When we get bad leaders that make bad decisions that lose them support, they get cycled out and the legitimacy of the institutions is restored.

> America's government systematically destroyed the careers of every person...

This is a great example of how our western institutions often lead to big mistakes but then eject the responsible people. Institutions left more or less intact. It would be foolhardy to claim that the US has a track record of consistently smart domestic policies and foreign interventions (don't get me started...). I'm just making the point that it is much easier to achieve stability with a system where information flows freely.

> This just sounds like so much Russia is bad and inherently weak...

"Weak" is the wrong word. In many ways, the Russian government is demonstrating extraordinary strength in maintaining the "unstable equilibrium" that results from relying on controlling a society's interpretation of events.
What it means is that you have an awfully named column.

>NULL means I couldn't store a value in that column. Why? Well that depends on the system, just like the contents of every other column.

No, it means you stored a NULL value in that column. Why you did that rather than throwing an error or generating a more informative value is a mystery. And it is not made clearer by changing the name of your column. And someone writing code to handle that data can't know how to handle it, because they have no clue what went wrong, or even if it is wrong.
Yeah ... I'm a big fan of data-flow programming (Been working on my own approach for a little while too ...)
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Yes, but in this case, they have a winning lotto ticket that is hard to cash.
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Are the millionaires able to trust each other's self-reporting?

This sounds a bit like mental poker.
Saying that quality improves asymptotically implies that it has a max ceiling. This property is consistent with the diminishing returns you talk about.
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I am the first employee of a company that has raised a few rounds of funding and my options have fully vested.

Obviously every situation is different, but if my company gets acquired, will I have to stay for an earn out or will I receive payment for all of my vested options?

Thank you for looking
Well, it says "anything else" which covers exactly that. You don't need to be more explicit, because the entire goal is "learn if x = y"
And that's your standard for "easy to handle?"
> In an era where credit cards have to be whipped out and customer service argued with to change the channel-app, its likely I'll subscribe to an anime streaming service and never even have the ability to see ESPN.

crunchyroll.com

I use it on my PS4 (I think they have a Wii-U app as well).

I think the idea of television as a big dumb screen driven by something else has a lot of merit, but I doubt it'll be run by a smartphone.
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I would be very interested in finding an approach that works well in practice.
The hover text for the links gives it away unfortunately.
- Socialize more.
- Pick a technology stack and stick with it for an extended period of time.
- Ask her out.
If you live long enough, you have a really good chance of getting some type of cancer.
It should be corrected to south asia as east asia=japan,china, korean
civil partnerships were also misleading, since myself and my opposite sex partner are not allowed to get one, even though we are both civilians.
NB: I'm finding this article impossible to read, even in Reader Mode, due to the animated images within its main body.

1. Do. Not. Fucking. Do. This.

2. Firefox: include element blocking / image removal, or at the very fucking least, animation blocking/suppression, in Reader Mode.
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Any time you're buying something in order to sell it at a later time, you're trading; even if your ownership is for a few seconds.

> I'm sure it's largely regulation that prevents these hedge funds from going straight to the market themselves and bypassing these "traders".

No, it's the fact that hedge funds are not in the business of making markets. Sales teams create value because they maintain relationships with lots and lots of portfolio managers; if someone calls them up and says, "I want to buy A shares of M stock at or below X price" or "I want to sell B shares of N stock at or above Y price", they know who to call; if they're good at their job, they'll have good instincts as to who may be interested.

Additionally, if a hedge fund just went out and announced that it wanted to buy or sell a bunch of shares in a given stock at a given price, it would move the market in a direction that would be bad for a hedge fund. For this reason, most big funds not only go through third-party prime brokers, but spread their orders across multiple broker-dealers in order to minimize visibility on their trades before the fact.
Modern CPUs are already so complex and so fast that I can't imagine the potential speedup would be significant as compared to modern optimized fixed point libraries.

Language support is a much bigger issue. Programmers are fundamentally lazy, and will always do the thing that takes the least work (for them, right now). So for fixed point numbers to really be used, that means that they need to be fully first class in the language. Literals need to exist, and with syntax no more complex than it is for other numerical literals. And of course, all operators must use the same syntax for both.

This is hard to retrofit into a language. Java and C can't retrofit either in. C++, Python, and Ruby can do operators, but not literals. You have to get into pretty uncommon languages before support for additional numerical types becomes good. Haskell and Scala, for instance, can meet both of the requirements.

Given that, I'd say any kind of widespread use of fixed point numbers in the cases where they're more appropriate than floats is at least 30 years away. Maybe 50.
AWS has GPU clusters already available FYI:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using_clu...

Not sure how much effort is required to use them with this library.
Never assume that those around you, even close friends or family members, care about your best interests or future. Chances are their actions are based on their own best interests, even when it involves you. There is a fair chance they are not even considering your future in any of their actions. This is not to say that you should not care about others, but that for many people, the only one looking out for you is yourself.
I was going to write long reply, but will keep it short.

I stopped contributing to HN because of posts similar to yours. We do not need foreign army of trolls, to bring down discussion sites such as HN.
There's a number of local companies doing their own regional form of SV companies though that's an increasing trend that could reverse the gold rush to big cities. For example, a local company here is more popular than GrubHub (http://valetgourmet.com). A lot of smaller municipalities (Asheville is a good example) have a cultural distaste for using services and products from outside the area due to the lack of a strong local economy and becoming potentially corporate colonies, so a lot of these companies are intentionally low market cap because they have more humble concerns than getting big, raising a bunch of funding, and retiring at 30. It's part of why I like it here, but the lack of ambition has a double edged sword resulting in a cap on quality that is typical for most places. What's becoming something a little alarming is that even those of us that want to stay away from big cities are being lured back with pretty insane comp packages / opportunities back in big cities, so brain drain is still an issue while (investment) capital is centered around big cities.
Article is from June of 2014. Any updates on this technology?
Requires further study ;)
I think you're being a bit harsh about the C of E - as a Scot they seemed to be a rather friendly organisation untroubled with strong beliefs, particularly about the "God" thing.

However, the Church of Scotland - at least how I remember it from my youth, now there was an organisation dedicated to the eradication of passion and joy from the world.
Yes, that is a bit unfortunate.
Thanks, the Wiki article is complete gibberish to me.
Otherwise I feel the tech community in general rejects the field of critical theory.

What else would you expect when someone's entire experience with critical theory is some wanker using it to poorly advocate a pet cause?

Now that wanker's position may be well founded in critical theory and have good arguments supporting it, but that doesn't matter. When someone uses critical theory as a magic "I'm right" box, rather than helping their detractors acquire the tool-set with which to criticize (or come to agree with) their position, that behavior just makes them an even bigger wanker.
LOL NO WELCOME TO THE INTERNET.
> Nobody would even remotely consider blaming anyone if something happened to anyone while using it.

I think it's all fun and games until emergency bills start coming in. If you ever encounter that situation, the law takes the victim's side, unless you can prove in court of law that reasonable safeguards have been insured

http://www.attorneys.com/personal-injury/slip-and-fall/can-y...

"To win a slip and fall personal injury lawsuit, you need to show that the property owner or tenant was negligent, meaning some action they took or failed to take caused the fall. With such trips, time is usually an important component in proving negligence. For example, how long was the hazard there and was it reasonable to believe that the property owner should have discovered the situation and remedied it before an accident occurred?"

Liability insurance is not exactly a new product, and an agent underwriting it will usually ask questions about swings, trampolines and other items their actuaries deemed relevant.

Of course, once you buy it (for a 12-month period), you'd have to amortize the cost of it in your rental listings, which somewhat removes the price allure.
Usually in such a way that when the parents get older their children would care of them, isn't it?
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That's not why corps eat up Confluence. My day job is Atlassian crap and I move people off of other OSS wikis into Confluence all the time.

Corps just run into roadblocks with OSS wikis.
I guess it's all a matter of perspective. I don't think that comparing anywhere to San Francisco yields many meaningful results, though. It's pretty much an outlier no matter how you look at it.

I would hazard to say that the legalization of pot has more to do with these troubles than anyone wants to admit to. It draws in people who subscribe to that lifestyle from a huge surrounding area (increasing demand for housing and supply of labor).

I'm not sure that equilibrium is really something that is in the cards here, anyway. The job market is just one piece of the puzzle, and the horrific city planning isn't doing anyone any favors.

Needless to say I'm aggressively looking for other places to be.
You didn't answer the question.
>[Supp Methods:]

"To test the effect of vitamin C, two million HCT116 or VACO432 cells were injected subcutaneously into the flank of 6 to 8-week-old female athymic nude mice (Harlan, Indianapolis, IN). After 7-10 days, mice with tumors of 40-60 mm3 were randomly divided into two groups. One group was treated with freshly prepared vitamin C (sodium ascorbate in 400 ul PBS, 4 g per kilogram of body weight) by intraperitoneal (IP) injection twice a day (HCT116: n=6, VACO432: n=6). Control group mice were treated with PBS instead of vitamin C with the same dosing schedule (HCT116: n=4, VACO432: n=7)."

[...]

[Caption Fig 2:]

"Tumor sizes were measured 2-3 times per week in an unblinded manner."

http://www.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.aaa5004

Not only are they mice, but they have no immune system[1]. Also, the dose of vitamin C is like consuming an entire bottle twice a day (~240 g)[2]. They are honest about the lack of blinding, which is good, but obviously that should make us wary of these findings. Also, they do not report tumor size before splitting into treatment vs control groups (only saying mice with 40-60 mm^3 tumors were used). Put the larger ones in the control group and you can easily appear to be slowing tumor growth for totally artefactual reasons.

For example, start with low initial (40) and high initial (60) cells in two different mice. If the cells all divide every day how many do you expect after 1:3 days. Low: 40,80,160; High: 60,120,240; Difference: 20,40,80. The difference seems to grow just due to the starting conditions, growth rates were the same. So these results are uninterpretable without knowing the starting tumor sizes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nude_mouse

[2] http://www.allergyresearchgroup.com/buffered-vitamin-c-240-g...
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I agree that tensors are often used simply as a convenient representation for multiple lower-dimensional objects. I suspect that is because there is still plenty of value in many fields, including mine, in exploring scalar, vector, and matrix representations of problems, and tensors are often unexploited. They're used as convenient data structures, not as algorithmic necessities. Still, as more and more people have access to data and explore it, increasing competition, reducing the "alpha" of simpler analyses, moving deeper into dimensionality on algorithms will be the only choice for those who want to innovate, is my view. So it is probably necessary to have the tools at our disposal already.
> I think that it shows that their bosses don't really understand real Internet discussion and don't know that people can identify trolls, regardless if they are state-sponsored or not.

There is a Finnish-language web publication called "MV-lehti" (short for "Mitä vittua?! -lehti" meaning "What the Fuck Magazine"). It is an anti-West, anti-immigrant, anti-establishment disinformation site whose content is rumors at best and knowingly fabricated at worst. And a sizeable portion of the Finnish anti-immigration population take it as gospel.
You're allowed to have a prior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_probability

A study lacking the power to prove its hypothesis doesn't disprove the hypothesis.