skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
X. Zhang and Y. LeCun had an article [1] about using this technique for regularization very recently. We aren't talking specifically about overfitting in this case, but rather a lack of diversity / size in the training data, however it seems like this kind of thing might help for a variety of tasks.

One more idea would be to have a (non-differentiable / REINFORCE?) penalty based on sentence likelihood using doc2vec or skip-thoughts to avoid the "blah and a blah on a blah" type errors that seem to be common in captioning.

One more would be to use TV / YouTube captions, but that data is extremely noisy - even more the COCO captions, unfortunately!

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.03719
2.

Tell me honestly, how many people killed in Iraq? Syria? Afghanistan? who started the war and how many people killed in Paris? compare the facts.

As a muslim, I don't believe ISIS related to Islam anyhow, except the word in their name. As an average person, I believe 9/11 was made by US government to start war in Afghanistan, in order to get material benefit from this country, As an average person, I believe ISIS created by US government in order to destabilize countries with rich oil and get benefit from it. As an average person, I believe even if ISIS fails somehow, US will create yet another one more dangerous, more harmful than before. Don't you think so?

Kiss your family members, kiss you beloved ones, life is too short, one day you may miss them, one day you may cry like me. and fuck you Mister Obama

(sorry for everything I wrote, badly, mistakenly or ignorantly)

ISIS != ISLAM,

ISIS == U.S.government
Not just TODO lists:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10610840
1.

I am Muslim and believe me, we are not different! We are all human beings, we have similar DNA, we have feelings like you do, who want to live in peaceful world, not harming each other, make family and live in harmony.

Believe me, I do not want any single people to die, I do not want fathers/mothers miss their kids, I do not want any single live taken by any reason.

I do not want to talk about religion here, I am crying like crazy, because I want to tell you that mass media is lying to you, about everything, EVERYTHING, everything!!!
I am crying like crazy, because everyday, at least one family losing their member, their beloved ones, their parents, their lovely kids. Can you imagine kids are dying, not one, not two, dozens of them? For what? FOR WHAT??????

Everyone is talking about Paris attacks, but no one is talking about whats happening in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, how many people are dying there. Everyone says ISIS is Islam, ISIS is people of Syria, but don't you have a brain to think about it? If they are Islam, why the hell they are killing Muslims? If they are people of Syria, why the hell they are killing Syrians?

I am crying like crazy, because every single fact shows that ISIS is not related to Islam, but to U.S., but still everyone is saying Muslims are terrorist, Islam is religion of terror.

I am crying, because people and governments who buy oil from ISIS taking lives of people, helping to ISIS and saying: hey this is Islam, these are muslims, they are terrorists. Why don't you make sanctions to them? Why don't you stop selling them weapons? Why fathers should see how their kids killed by M-16? Why the hell they should see blood on their kids? Why??? Fuck you why????

Tell me honestly, do you believe BBC? CNN? or any other mass media?

Tell me honestly, who owns them?
I think the problem is being framed incorrectly if we assume it's "Amazon's data", and they can do what they want with it.

I think the conversation needs to start with the assertion that "this is my data, and I'm letting Amazon use it".
Interesting, I'd like to try that. The macrolepiotas in the U.S. are a pain because there is a toxic look alike but with green spores, so if you want to eat them then you actually need to spore print each one. I haven't tried them yet for this reason, but maybe this summer.
No. Last time I checked they didnt have 'preferences per domain' functionality :(
Not to mention 100 tabs open in Opera 12.xx takes ~1.4GB of ram, Blink uses up to couple of hundred megabytes per tab. Not to mention the little things, like a proper tab configuration (minimize on click, close disable button), custom mouse gestures?

Dont get me wrong, I still have it installed along with newest Opera, but they are my 'something doesnt work in 12.x' browsers.
“Falling fertility rates and aging workforces will plague the developed world”
An Illustrated History of American Money Design
Anonymizing proxy.
Decoded – Founder of Bootstrap Speaks Out
AdNauseam Browser Extension: Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To
They've updated their post to remove a lot of the misleading content, but not all.

Here's a good summary
http://blog.kelunik.com/2015/11/22/namecheap-ssl.html
It's unfortunate that AdNauseam is incompatible with uBlock
Thanks a lot for your hard work! This is amazing work. I was wondering if you had any sense of which one of the models works best (or when one is better than another) -- Stanford, Toronto (Show, attend, tell), and Google (Show and tell) ?
They've further edited the post to remove a lot of the misleading content, but not all.
The golden gigaflop: Apple’s shrinking performance sweet spot
Same issue here on the latest version of Chrome. Seems our hug of death might have spread to the official data source too as I just get a blank page there as well.
Not if you're running HTTPS you're not. You cannot have code injected into a HTTPS connection like you could with plain text HTTP. And even in the worst case scenario where the entire connection is re-routed to a rogue server: you would get a nice big warning that your connection isn't secure and the download would fail. Thus again preventing the malicious code from running on the users VPS.

You're also still ignoring my first point as well.

I really don't get your careless stance here. Github already comes with an SSL cert and you don't actually need a URL shortened for the type of link you're publishing. So all of these complaints people are making are so very easy to solve. But instead you are intentionally following bad practices. Frankly, if this is your attitude towards security then I really don't think you're the sort of person who should be writing installers for VPN servers to begin with.
I guess what he meant was why not convert to BTC, then BTC/USD exchange, then non-Chinese bank so they can pay you.
Background: http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/jam.html
http://www.nitrogenlogic.com/. The website needs an update and the ordering process could be better. It's a back burner project at the moment, but still available and getting occasional firmware updates as I find time.

https://youtube.com/tl880linux has demo videos.
How Promethease Is Keeping Direct-To-Consumer Genetics Alive
One way to understand economic bubbles is to read about the two big ones that happened in the recent past:

- The dot.com bubble of the late 20th century:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble

- The housing bubble of the previous decade:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_housing_bubble

One major difference between the dot.com bubble and today's tech climate is that in the dot.com bubble, many more tech startups went public, exposing many more people to their equities (e.g., via the stock market, mutual funds, retirement funds, etc.). If there's a bubble in privately owned tech companies, the impact will probably not be nearly as severe - the people who'll be hurt are VCs, investors in VC funds and the founders and employees of startup companies. There will probably be a correction in larger tech stocks like Google, Facebook and Apple as well, but they'll probably recover once (1) the markets see that that the problems with startups don't affect these larger companies' earnings very much and (2) money that previously went into VC funds shifts into established tech companies.

"Specifically, I don't understand why a lot of startups being heavily funded will cause a bubble."

The problem (according to the people who think there's a bubble) is that there's too much investor capital chasing too few high-quality startups, so low-quality startups (e.g., ones that have unrealistic business models that have little chance of ever becoming profitable) are getting a lot of money, and they'll eventually collapse and freak out potential investors. That could cause funding for all startups to suddenly get much harder to get. An analogy with the housing crisis is that once the investors ran out of prime mortgages to collateralize, they started putting money in sub-prime mortgages given to homeowners who had little chance of being able to pay them off in the long term.

"How will the bubble burst impact employees who are in a well funded startup?"

Start-ups looking for additional rounds of funding could be hit by investors pulling out of VC funds, making additional funding hard to get. Companies that are still in a stage where they're not profitable could have difficulty staying afloat once they burn through their current round of funding.
I don't work much with data that would benefit from being very tight about datetimes as a dimension. I'd have to know a bit more about what was challenging before I could confidently recommend for your particularly case. My email is on my profile and I'd be happy to chat there if it's something that would be helpful.

I have largely avoided ts, zoo, etc where possible. Time series stuff seems to have a lot of specialized tooling all of which tends to be much more strict about data structure than I'm comfortable with for my flow.
Thanks. I was too emotionally invested.

I actually work for Pivotal Labs, not Pivotal Cloud Foundry (though as of this week I'm on secondment to a PCF-related team).

As a consulting engineer I get to see a lot of projects in a lot of companies. My eagerness for PaaSes comes from seeing a variety of approaches. Just using a PaaS makes large, expensive, disruptive discussions simply disappear.

Those who go through my history will note that I take pains to mention other PaaSes, usually Heroku and OpenShift. When I talk about hosted Cloud Foundry I usually namecheck ours and IBM's.
Wow, that's amazing. Is it possible to cultivate them at all, albeit at great expense and effort? Or is it entirely unfeasible? The Wikipedia article on "Viable But Not Culturable" is quite brief.
Blabr dev here. We're working on an improved plotting widget, plot2 [0], that you're welcome to try (note how it's imported in the defs section). For example, see [1] for plot2 applied to "Trajectory". It is fairly sound, but there are some issues with escaping. So, e.g., we need yLabels: ["\\$ $\\times 1000$"], which is a bit ugly--but it works.

[0] http://blabr.io/?7b662930a33b1053072a

[1] http://blabr.io/?7d4d0cc9f423800f23e9
"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."

attributed to Miles Kington
I don't understand why anyone would be surprised by this. This is par for the course in intelligence. The intelligence agencies exist to provide whatever fiction those in power wish to hear. In the 80s, the CIA determined that the USSR was a paper tiger destined for collapse. But Reagan wanted an enemy. So the higher-ups at the CIA took the report by the head of their USSR division and threw it away, crafting their own fictional representation of the USSR as a powerhouse. This is why every major world event comes as a huge surprise to the CIA and other intelligence agencies. It doesn't surprise any of the analysts working there, they actually know what is going on most of the time. But because the truth is not politically convenient, the agency as a whole cannot be made to seem like a danger to the political machinations of those who influence their funding. Some of the gymnastics this involves are sometimes funny. Reading the CIAs reports on Iran's 'nuclear weapons program', for instance, are an adventure in absurdism. Pile after pile of pages of extensive descriptions of total knowledge of Iran's operations culminating in not a single shred of evidence of any weapons program gets topped off with "but then again, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. There could be a super-duper-extra-top-secret weapons program buried 50 miles underground" which gives the politicos and media the ability to report it as "CIA says Iran may have secret weapons program in new report!"

Oh, and that head of the CIAs USSR division whose report showing the truth of the USSRs weakness was Aldritch Aimes. It was at that point that he realized the intelligence game was a sham and just being used to lend an air of mystique and 'secret knowledge' to whatever position those in power want to make seem legitimate and decided if everyone else was just playing a game, he might as well play to, and cut a deal with the Russians to act as a double agent.
https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/issues/422
This is the kind of thing where robotics is really exciting. It does an end run around every problem with pesticide use by taking it out of the equation entirely.
Bloomberg 500 Error Page
Another heavy tab group user. I can see that the panorama part with drag & drop support takes quite some work to maintain. The ordering of tabs in groups however should not be that much extra work and is the important bits.
Simplifying the code instead of axing it would be appreciated, but guess that ain't never going to happen. Of course I also use classic theme restorer.

The Pale Moon browser comes up more and more so I suppose it is time to check it out.

edit:
OK, installed and love it (at least so far). Migration was smooth. Ran the profile import app with both browsers shut down and have ALL of my old tab groups using the tab group extension that has to be installed separately (install after the import). Almost all of my important extensions that where about to stop working are just fine. It feels good to be home again.
It wouldn't suprise me to learn the Obama administration downplayed ISIS purposefully. Nothing builds a coalition like a common enemy, and apart from some disagreements over targeting, the key players (Iran, Russia, Europe, Turkey) are coordinating efforts to destroy ISIS. Economic necesssity requires the US defense establishment to downsize, and after decades of costly wars in the middle east, there really is no option but to let others lead this fight.

I suspect the administration is now rebuilding and retooling for high intensity conflict, and that Syria/ISIS is a distraction the US doesn't need but a conflict that requires regional actors to form a coalition. To which: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-22/russia-cal...
HN users have already said it, but if it helps at all, we (I'm a moderator here) sure hope you won't let a nasty comment like that bother you. Plenty of non-native English speakers write excellent articles and comments for HN. What matters is the content.
Bloomberg 404 Page
http://www.bloomberg.com/404
on the topic of chaff, I use an extension that rotates randomly between combinations of {Windows,OS X,Linux}, {Firefox,chrome} and various versions of those things.

though sadly this doesn't work alone, because it only solves the stuff sent to server (but is far more pleasing to screw with them than to just send nothing). you still have to use noscript to stop things like the canvas font rendering trick :(
>The reason YouTube and Pandora have spent the last decade in the courts is precisely because they don't want to have to pay.

Pay for what? YouTube, at least, only hosts user posted content.
The source is here:

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam

This actively poisons the advertiser/publisher relationship, which in my opinion is a much harder stance than simply blocking ads.

edit: I've tried it using the abp/adnauseam combo but it only worked on one out of 5 heavily ad laden pages. It's funny, I have so many layers of this stuff running that it took me quite a while before I managed to see any ads at all and then to re-enable just ABP. So, on FF at least, not really recommended by me, maybe someone else has a different experience. (tried it on two different machines)
Electricity Network Dashboard – Island of Ireland
Well, there's a perfectly fine 6MB djvu file - only one fifth the infinite download time!
Panda Internet Security 2016 Serial Number with Crack
Old pipes did, but this version allows pipes to self-intersect, which might be what's throwing you off.
React Native might become the first multi-platform framework that actually works
That's brilliant.

What about using a laser to destroy the weeds?
Kind of makes you wonder if you kcould OCR image memes to extract the text, then subtract the text and use the image to form a dataset.
> When was copyright invented? Why? What were things like before then? What would prevent that from still working today?

We've had copyright almost as long as we've had technology to easily reproduce artistic works.
My cynical take is that SatNOGS was a publicity stunt designed to win the Hack-a-day prize. Polished websites; not much substance.
The Ethics of Cyberwar
Sorry, my phone's clipboard is very erratic and pasted the wrong link. It's kind of funny in a Dan Brown/Da Vinci Code sort of way, to think that there's a link between modern surveillance and ancient Roman religions.

The link was supposed to point to another comment in the same thread. I have corrected it.
I suspect this would result in rather superficial weed destruction, since the roots underground would be unharmed and would cause the weed to regrow a few days later. Unrooting the weeds definitely sounds more reliable to me.
How will the bubble burst impact employees who are in a well funded startup?

Many of those companies are counting on being able to raise another round soon, perhaps within a year on average. If the bubble bursts and investors get shy, the companies will suddenly have to come up with strategies that avoid them going bankrupt without more investment.

The solutions will involve layoffs, panic mergers and wild pivots, all of which will depress the mood among tech workers. Previously free products will first become paid and then vanish completely, leaving many customers burned on "that cloud thing". This impact could be worse than the dot-com crash which affected relatively few consumers.
Here's a theory for you...

1. Better income for adults means lower crime rates. A minimum wage job qt $7.25 plus $1,000/month grosses $27,080.

2. A Basic Income improves the outcome of children in poor families. Two minimum wage-earning parents plus $1,000/month per adult yields $54,160: Reduces divorce rate, reduces domestic violence, enables residence in a better neighborhood and attendance to better schools.

3. An improved outcome for children also means lower crime rates.

4. Lower crime rates improve real estate values. Anecdotally, from 1998 to 2006, East Palo Alto median home prices increased from $190,000 to $650,000 (342%). Over the same time period, the total crimes reported dropped from 550 to 350 (was over 900 in 1988) [0]. (note that the median home price has not further increased since 2006).

5. There are about 3,600 detached single housing units. [1]. With a little arithmetic, the total increase in the value of the real estate owned by those owners was $1,656,000,000.

6. A basic income of $1,000 per month for East Palo Alto over those 8 years would have cost $1,824,000,000.[1]

7. Property tax receipts increased somewhat. The county gets 1% annually, but due to prop 13, that will take a long while to fully materialize.

8. Sales tax receipts would likely increase as the population would have $228,000,000 more to spend each year.

So, if it is true that a basic income would reduce crime and lower crime rates improve real estate prices, then part of the economic analysis of a basic income needs to factor that in.

[0] https://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/EPA_Main_Report_Final.pdf

[1] http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/EastPaloAlto.htm

Mods, please add 'anecdotally' to the spell check dictionary
It's a query of the git commit history. List all commits which are direct or indirect ancestors of the `HEAD` (currently checked-out) commit, and which themselves don't have any ancestors (parents).

Personally, I would have used `master` instead of `HEAD` because any commit in git can be checked out, but `master` is highly likely to be the main line of development and thus be descended from the true first commit of the repository.
Here's the MS COCO leaderboard: http://mscoco.org/dataset/#captions-leaderboard

Google's Show and Tell seems considerably superior to competing approaches.
The article says intelligence/Centcom lied to the President and to Congress, how exactly is this is par for the course?
On the other hand, with a laser you could process huge areas at extreme speeds. Think 100 zaps a second.
> And precisely what is the sustainability of lab meat? What makes you think lab meat will be more efficient that raised meat?

Yuval Noah Harari, on the second video (ca. 0:40) states the reasons why he thinks cultured meat will have a smaller ecological footprint. He says: "When you don't have to raise an entire cow in order to get a steak, when you don't have to raise an entire chicken to get a schnitzel, you just need this particular piece of meat, these particular cells, it reduces considerably the amount of water, the amount of fuel, the amount of nutrients that you have to invest in it, and also the amount of pollution that you are creating."
OO vs. FP programming
> Unrooting the weeds definitely sounds more reliable to me.

The robot in the article just pushed the weed underground a few inches. I imagine that some weeds would just pop back after a week, and that the robot would just punch them down again.
I like it. It is simple. I don't like photo management in dropbox, apple photos.

I never share family photos with entire facebook audience, and I never use above tools to share with family. Probably only use Whatsapp to share 1 photo at a time.

Question is, what else can I do with this other than upload + share albums? What could be another value add?
I am very suprised to see the association of the word microsoft, 1987 and functional programming. As far as I remember, Simon Peyton Jones research (and this book) has made him famous. I was very sad that such a talent was hired by the "devil" microsoft.

That is old story. He has managed to do great things inside Microsoft and since the departure of Balmer, my opinion about Microsoft is a lot more balanced. The association seems an anachronism.
It's not feasible to culture them all. We don't know what kind of culture medium to use for every species. Some species of bacteria require other species of bacteria to grow. In other words, we don't know what we don't know about culturing a lot of bacteria. We know they're there based on DNA sequencing.
Cool prototype.

...now make one that mounts on a front 3pt hitch and you might actually sell one.

No need for a special robot when a different piece of equipment with its own power source has to go down the field anyway