skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're just repeating that it is awesome and useful without saying why.

Sorry, I thought you were asking why you are able to import other modules imports.

> I think distinguishing public & private variables offers more support for structured programming and is therefore desirable.

You can prefix attributes and functions with a single underscore to mark them as private, or a double underscore to make them more private (the attribute name gets mangled).

Anyway, Python doesn't have a enforced notion of privateness because it's a bad idea. By marking something as private you're saying "I, as a developer sat here writing this know better than all of the users of my library. Their lives may depend on using something I haven't exposed properly in my API, but too bad. I know best".

So you end up jumping through ridiculous hoops to access private properties (because even in languages with private, nothing is truly private), all because some guy thought he knows best a long time ago while writing the library you are using.

So a better approach (IMO) is to mark something as private with convention (a prefixed underscore), which means "this is private, don't depend on it", without restricting your access. You can drive a car, have sex, pay taxes, but not access a private variable? Bleugh.

That's more of a cultural thing though, I'm sure enforced private makes more sense in statically typed, compiled languages with lots of classes (and even then I would argue they are still bad for the reasons above), and matter more in huge codebases.
It's based on intuition and is only a response to the direct parent comment. If the US of .3 billion people ignores the needs of 6.7 billion people, eventually those people will find a way to escape the needs of the US.

I'll note that the HN article title used to be significantly different, so some of the conversation makes less sense without the "accused of lying to the president" in the title.
This comment breaks the HN guidelines. Spewing bile is not ok, but especially not to insult someone who simply happened not to be a native speaker. Fortunately, users flagged it, which I hope communicated to the OP that it doesn't represent the community.

HN has users from many countries. They all do their best to communicate in English and we owe them respect for that. It's helpful to remember that the non-native speakers on HN command more languages than most of the rest of us do.

It's also not ok to rudely accuse someone of having "paid" for an article. If you think an article is spam you are welcome to flag it. If you find substantive criticism more appropriate, you are welcome to contribute some. But you can't use Hacker News as a dumping ground for resentments.
What exactly does containerizing everything give you anyways? I really don't get it.

Before - use chef/puppet to manage dependencies, distribute config files. run processes. maybe use something like upstart to restart on failure.

After - use Dockerfiles to manage dependencies (same thing, bunch of install commands). now you have a container for the web app, one for another service, etc. so everything is isolated.. great. what do you gain over running 2 separate processes? thats pretty damn isolated too.. except for the same disk, they each have own virtual memory, state, config files etc..

I'm not a (modern) ops expert at all, but i know my way around the command line. What do you gain from Docker or say launching a mongo instance on the cloud instead of just renting a server and launching the process? I really want to know. Atleast on a small scale, say if you're managing say 10-20 servers, i don't see the point.
So here's what's funny about the leaderboard. The NeuralTalk submission (near bottom of the list) is in fact a re-implementation of the Show and Tell model (my paper and Oriol's are basically identical models - we plug in the top of the CNN to an RNN on first time step. Except I use vanilla RNN and he used an LSTM (which turns out to work a bit better)). But it's an identical model - in that submission I had in fact used the LSTM implementation in NeuralTalk.

What's different between the two is the engineering portion: NeuralTalk was written in Python and ran on CPU without batches (so probably it did not converge as well), it did not do CNN finetuning (which helps a ton), and it did not do ensembles, and I used VGG while Oriol used GoogLeNet (though I don't expect much difference there). There are a few more tricks that Oriol talks about that give you a few small extra points, but that's basically it. I also don't want to take away from Oriol's top result (these small tricks and engineering are very valuable and hard to come up with), but I would be hesitant to draw conclusions about which models work best by looking at the model diagrams in a Figure, and comparing to numbers in the table.

That's why I've over time grown cynical about results in tables of papers that compare one work to another - there are too many variables to keep track of and it's confusing unless you know the full details. The truth is that results in tables are model + engineering + noise. The papers pretend that it's all model, but in fact the latter 2 have a huge impact. At least results that only compare two models in the same framework can be trusted a bit more to contain information, but even then you find that in practice people can be a lot more generous to their own models than their baselines. Hence the famous saying: "The second best model in the paper is in fact what you want to use".

To answer the original question though: The idea presented in Show Attend and Tell (spatial attention during caption generation) is clearly good and if compared properly I'm confident would turn out to work better. Also, the Berkeley paper seemed to have a nice architecture where there was a 2-layer LSTM but the image was only plugged in on the second layer (1st layer was an image-independent Language Model). In their controlled experiments this seemed to work well, I think it's an interesting idea, and I'd want to try to reproduce it. The models presented in my work and Oriol's are the simplest architecture that has the core nugget of the approach and that gets the job done, but I'd expect many bells and whistles on top of this to work better.
That's not what the comment said. The word "more" wasn't used.
If you had to pay one of the world's most expensive electricity bills, I guess you wouldn't find it so awesome.
Doesn't make it any less of a nightmare. I wonder what percentage of effort is wasted in the industry this way.
sbotools is the magic dep mgr for slackbuilds

http://dawnrazor.net/sbotools/
I think the leadup to the Iraq war taught us everything we need to know about the CIA. They're appointed by the executive. They report to the executive. Yet every other branch of government relies on their assessments.

The CIA is merely a tool by which the President leads Congress around by the nose. It's their job to lie. What's harder to understand is why Congress continually falls for whatever they're selling.
The US itself?
What is this extension?
I don't see it detecting any actual weeds? The detection is just targets and the demonstration of punching the weeds is stationary. Which leaves out the key challenge - distinguishing between weed & crop.
Machine Learning Trick of the Day: Log Derivative Trick
>Forget whether independent replication worked out

Ok, so totally forget how you're citing an editorial that doesn't support your pint and move on to new baseless accusations?

>and how the authors make confident claims in the paper ("this shows that", "therefore this is true") then back down and admit it was preliminary data afterwards.

This would be of interest if you had documentation of your extraordinary complaints.

>Can you find one biomed paper published this month that is reproducible in its current form? I mean no missing/conflicting methodological information.

My experience is that methodological descriptions are sufficient for reproduction in the papers that I read. Given the outlandish claims you've made, and your changing the subject when a bad cite is called out, I'd rather see some documentation from you than go on a fishing expedition.
Simple circuit model for the heart
Also, as the page states it can be text-searched. A version not consisting on scanned pages would be neat, but I guess the author lost the sources long time ago.
I disagree. It's certainly not the only thing I cook, but I do cook it a lot, and the skin and bone are necessary in many of my recipes to make the dish as flavorful as possible.
Changes in the TLS certificate ecosystem, part 1
Choose to Be Grateful. It Will Make You Happier
:o

This algorithm needs badly temporal dimension, some kind of short term memory that lets it interpret using context. At the very least to filter out freaky readings of a train station when looking at the ground, best case scenario it would enable building deeper understating of its surroundings. Maybe not even memory, but Bayes filter to prime next estimation. Then throw movies at it.

Even as it is this could be adapted for the blind. I can imagine app that will simply build a model of what it sees and answer questions or warn about stairs/walls/roads/other dangers. There isnt all that much to make it as clever as a guide dog.
It's amusing to see that the web is haphazardly rediscovering decades of CS research. They finally figured out how to write subroutines into HTML.

Also, don't web components require JS, due to the document.registerElement call? If that's true, they've even failed to write web components into plain HTML. They're just gluing another JavaScript framework onto the web, the same way people expected would happen with prototypeJS.
tl;dr: The article is a stunning account -- though it can hardly be surprising at this point -- of what pigs actually get up to.

It's about a white boy who was apparently hanging out with the major players in the Detroit coke/crack game in the 80s, and moving some weight as a juvie, though he certainly wasn't a central figure. He also was an underage informant (at 14!!!) for the FBI, something that could easily have gotten him killed. They and local cops got him out of a serious weapons charge: shooting at a moving vehicle, in order to allow him to keep informing.

These local cops, btw, were quite clearly actively helping certain dealers: guarding shipments, warning of homicide investigations, etc, including helping the mayor's niece who was dating various serious dealers. Anyway, kid got caught while 17 (I think) and was sentenced under a draconian so-called 650 law guaranteeing life in prison for possession of 650g of cocaine.

Now it gets interesting. The so-called 650 law was repealed and most people sentenced under it have been paroled. So why is this guy -- and remember, he went to prison at 17 -- so why are the adults all free and he's in jail? For example, the guys selling $55m/year of cocaine were out in 11. He maybe sold a million dollars total.

Roughly, it seems that he helped the FBI go after the corrupt local cops, and in revenge, at his parole hearing, the pigs sent a bunch of cops who were, at most, tenuously connected to him and uninvolved in the investigation to testify how dangerous he is. Using illegally leaked grand jury testimony. One of these cops who testified against him was later imprisoned for his own mortgage fraud scam, amongst other things.

Oh, and all the dirty cops sent to prison have naturally already been released while this guy rots in prison.

And don't forget the parole board who decided to uncritically listen to testimony from pigs who were completely uninvolved in the case, testimony informed by leaked grand jury testimony.
This looks interesting. I personally think the anti-tracking brouhaha is overblown and don't mind if "corporations" send me fewer irrelevant ads thanks to tracking. But for those militantly opposed, this seems like a clever way to fight back.
Once you get to the final chapters, where an intermediate representation of lambda calculus is presented (G-code), read this accompanying paper [1] and wonder where we could be now if the market and hardware manufacturers took a π degree turn to fully support functional paradigms.

[1] https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~wl/icprojects/papers/reduceron08.p...
Tiny robots inspired by pine cones
I find cryogenics such a thought provoking field. If you're going to be frozen after death, you would probably want the restoration process to be fully mature before you are restored. But yet, someone has to go first (outside of shorter frozen trials).

But then again, who is to say that the restoration process will take the form of thawing out the brain. An advanced digital scanning technique could imprint the brain image onto an organic robot, thus making it possible to have many copies of the same person.

I also find the concept similar to the teleport. You may be the person who goes in, but are you the same person who comes out the other end? Indistinguishable from you, only you are not the observer of your own reality.

[Edit: A couple of really obvious grammatical errors]
3 things that control your life and prevent finish your project
PhoSho – Do Friendship Differently
This video of punching the weeds looks promising, but just a thought: maybe you could focus sunlight to burn them? :)
PhoSho lets you share themed moments with friends. Have even more fun with AutoTake! Turn it on and your friends will have only 5 seconds before a picture automatically takes from their camera and post for all to see. It’s like surprising, or catching your friends off guard, and you get an awesome photo of it! Think of the possibilities….

A themed moment (we call these Sho's) can be a competition, dare, challenge, or anything you think is worth sharing. Your friends respond with photos related to your theme. Vote the best photo up and the worst photo down. The photo with the most votes scores a point! When the timer ticks down to zero photos disappears.

Pick a preloaded Sho (like the below) or write your own. Control how long Sho's last by setting the timer, when it hits zero all photos and comments disappear. Select only the friends you want to include - share with one or share with many.

A theme can be whatever you’d like! Just a few examples:

Best Beer Chug
The Mustache
Impersonate Trump
Love is…
Cutest Girl/Guy On The Way To Class
Stay Classy America
Too Much Touching…
Awkward Couples…
What Are You Guys Up To?

Fraternities and sororities all around the U.S. are using PhoSho. Be crazy, spontaneous, or downright weird. Get funky and do friendship differently!
"There are lots of words about ‘empowerment’ and ‘changing the world’. Frankly, it annoys the shit out of me. "

Me, too.
Sure, there is nothing of substance revealed in the article, but still the gist is that we should be vaguely concerned. My point is that I am tired of being vaguely concerned.
Ah tender is the word. I am not sure, we have to see. My gut says there will still be some difference in tenderness and in the flavor of the meat.
Flux VS Single State Tree
Agreed, isolating the contribution of the "model" itself can be borderline impossible, and the details of model engineering have a considerable impact on performance.

That's why I like Kaggle competitions: most approaches tried on a given challenge will likely be optimized to their very limits, so that it's the nature of the different approaches that ends up making the difference.
Have there ever been any examples where people have figured out how to culture them? e.g. figuring out an unusual medium and what other species they need. Or has it never been done?
The main use of bitcoin in China is getting into the MMM Ponzi scheme,which is a huge fraud. Getting money out of China is done by other means, like $64bn underground banks.
So you now you have to run your fleet of robot weeders over the field twice? That seems like a waste of time and $ when you could achieve the desired result in a single pass. every extra pass is also more soil compaction.
You need an upload progress bar.
There are legitimate reasons to have / not have some form of node id, and/or a timestamp, in an identifier. One reason to have them is that you don't need as good a PRNG. However, with a good PRNG the collision probabilities are astronomically low either way.

The point of the comparison to HDD error rates is meant to indicate that the collision probability is well within what is typically considered an acceptable risk level. There's a higher probability of much worse things happening, and I accept those risks for similar pragmatic reasons. Why should I behave any differently in this case? I do encourage anyone implementing this sort of system to do the math themselves and take whatever precautions they deem necessary. I've done so and decided that the additional complexity and space trade off of the alternative approaches make them inferior for our use cases. That doesn't mean ours is universally the best choice. That's why we have UUID1 and UUID4, for instance.
No the $1.9 billion fine was in relation to specific charges in Mexico, and does not give immunity against anything else.
If we have a healthy, satisfying alternative - the ethical question of "Is it acceptable to kill or harm individuals unnecessarily?" has a very clear answer no matter who you're talking with.
"How will the bubble burst impact employees who are in a well funded startup?"

I suppose the real question is how "well funded" are they? If they are positive cashflow, then they will be in a stronger position.

If, on the other hand, they have 12-24 months of runway, like most "well funded" startups, then they will be in real trouble.

Also, developer pay on average goes down in a number of ways.

1) Starting salaries are lower - mostly because of supply and demand. When quite a few very talented developers are actually available at the same time..that lowers overall packages.

2) bonuses are lower. Again, replacement cost is cheaper

3) Developers get let go. With every company that goes bust, owners/board members put more pressure on management to "to plan for the end game" or "pair down non-essential activities".

That's just a few.
Fire risk?
While it would be much more energy-efficient, such a process is bound to have a very low rate of weeds destroyed / minute.
By poisoning the advertiser/publisher relationship they are also poisoning the publisher/user relationship. Like it or not publishers have to pay the bills and these types of efforts are either going to result in paywalls (which users of this plugin will no doubt try to circumvent) or by the content going away all together.

I think a much better option for those opposed to advertising is to just not visit those publishers. Anything other than that strikes me as theft of service.
Because there are 14 trackers on wired.com. Because:

>One, AdNauseam, clicks every ad on every page I visit

Wired would like you do install addons that click on every ad on wired.com.
Seems to be down. Abstract:

Ole Rømer, the speed of light, the apparent period of Io, the Doppler effect,
and the dynamics of Earth and Jupiter

James H. Shea
Geology Department, University of Wisconsin—Parkside, Kenosha, Wisconsin 53141
(Received 3 November 1997; accepted 14 January 1998)

Ole Rømer’s (1676) method of using variations in the apparent period of Jupiter’s moon, Io, to
demonstrate that the speed of light is finite made use of what we would today call a ‘‘Doppler’’
method. He did this 166 years before Christian Doppler described what we now call the Doppler
effect and the mechanism in 1842. Although the method Rømer conceived is unquestionably valid,
his original and only paper on the subject left out much of the detail necessary to determine whether
his measurements were adequate to the task of demonstrating the effect he claimed to have
observed. Unfortunately, the timekeeping available to Rømer and his colleagues Picard and Cassini,
each of whom made some of the observations involved, was, at best, not quite up to the task of
measuring the necessary times with sufficient accuracy. Mathematical analysis of the dynamics of
the Earth/Jupiter synodic system allows a more thorough analysis of Rømer’s work than has
previously been made. Rømer’s case was built on four ‘‘observations,’’ one of which clearly failed,
one of which was successful, and two of which were quite questionable.

© 1998 American Association
of Physics Teachers

Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B8mer's_determination_of_...

One newer paper (2014):

http://www.oasi.org.uk/Obsvns/20140518_Romer_revisited.pdf
I was under the impression there is already widespread automated ad clicking [1] - if that's the case perhaps this merely makes public a problem that advertisers have known about in private for ages.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_fraud
Is it? BTW, provision of healthcare in Canada is a provincial matter, so there are 13 separate healthcare systems in Canada. Which one is in collapse? Or are all the provinces facing severe budgetary constraints imposed by the previous Conservative, let's not tax the rich, government.

There are some very powerful, vested interests, namely the insurance and drug companies, that do not want public healthcare.

I am completely suspicious of private, for profit healthcare.

Are you seriously telling me that private healthcare is better? (Okay, private healthcare is better for the maybe the top 1% who can pay for their healthcare out of pocket, but if that is not you, the public system is better.) If I change employer, and therefore insurance policy and/or provider, I will never have to think about previous conditions that may not be covered with my new employer, for instance.
I've been working on that idea on more passive way and smaller scale http://www.doplaces.com

A few things Ive added beyond the general what's nerby on touristy websites are: Group locations and meeting schedules, "points of interest" category for those who like to wander, adjustable date time to see what will be open during the time of their visit, notices to learn about pre-event tickets or signups for competitions and such ahead of time.

The biggest issues I see is a)Advertising the service and b)Buy-in by the businesses/community groups/vendors and performers - unless you have some good traction already, you have to prove that it's worth their effort.

On the advertising, my current plan is to make a programmatic "vendor printable" flyer they can print up and post - a simple sign "you are here [big X] find out what's nearby [QR coe and custom url for the business like "doplaces.com/near/BillsDiner"]. Reduces the effort to get results on the public side, goes right into what they want to see.

Once you do have public buy in, the next problem is making quick updating painless for the participants... My site currently has no-login updating, I've made it about as simple as you can get (edit one text field - I'll deal with the hard input controls.) Not as much input as I expected... but also could be because I'm in the sticks, and mobile savvy audience is not as big as would be in a city.

If I had the time, and doing it on a live scale, like you are thinking, I'd probably have a vendor-side mobile app where they could either turn on/off real time tracking or just be able to push a "ping" button to update their location/status (tied to their record of what they do)

Incentive - might be able to provide them with metrics of popularity, competition density, peak time graphs, etc.

Good Luck!
that still leaves over 100 bits if info on the table, resolution, fonts installed, localstorage, indexed storage, cookies etc.
I think you can achieve that using AWS OpsWork.. So you can configure local machine as well as cloud using same Opswork agent and when on premise one dies.. It should scale it on cloud.

Though it requires decent knowledge of AWS.