skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, you need to know your audience.

If I get a phone call that starts with "Hi Mr. Adams, how are you?" My instinctive response is "busy, get to the point."
The equivalent for the UK: http://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
I've actually dreamed about really lightweight possibly robotic cultivator. There really isn't a reason to pull a multi-ton tractor over the soil when you are burning or just scraping an inch or two down. For a heavy disc or plow yes... you need the horsepower and thus the weight (and fuel) but it seems a cultivator could be a lot lighter. I also dreamed about building a pedal powered seeder/cultivator on a bicycle frame because I wanted a small farm and couldn't afford a tractor.

I particularly used to dream while driving a tractor when I was young. Talk about boring.... and you have to pay attention so as not to swerve into the crop row:)
Summary: US Central Command is accused of lying to the President and Congress about airstrikes and the ground fight against ISIS, obscuring the fact that America’s strategy to combat ISIS simply was not effective, as "senior officials" at Centcom were determined to "overstate the progress of American airstrikes against ISIS."

In September, The Guardian reported that the tendency for Centcom to provide upbeat assessments of the fight against ISIS may have been influenced by James Clapper (Director of national intelligence), who was "said to talk nearly every day with Grove – 'which is highly, highly unusual', according to a former intelligence official." (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/10/james-clapper...)
Lab grown meat is meat. It's chemically identical to what you get from an animal, but it's grown in a Petri dish instead of a cow. The nutritional value is exactly the same.
In image captioning specifically we are in a dire need of data. To give you an idea, MS COCO is ~100K images. ImageNet Challenge is 1.2 million. The dataset is quite miniscule, which restricts the richness of models we can explore, and forces strong regularization concerns. The place I normally like to be is when my several hundred million parameter nets are underfitting - that's where neural nets really shine - and MS COCO is not that.

Also it's not only the size of the dataset, it's also the size/variety in the label space. ImageNet is quite comprehensive, with many varied labels. MS COCO is quite biased towards a narrow ~hundred classes.

I'd love to see a properly large dataset of images "from the wild", with no restrictions on content (unlike what is done in MS COCO), annotated with sentences. From my experience with adding data to models in these situations I'm quite certain this would work _significantly_ better.
Well basically the same things most frameworks do. Encode relations between containers, and allow use to spin containers up on machines, and automatically establishing the links between them. In addition to that, to encode persistent storage resources and link them to tasks. For example machine-1 has 1 HDD of 2TB and 3 SSD's of 250GB. On SSD1 the task postgres-1 has a data resource allocated called abc123. Now when we restart the machine, we can restart postgres-1 task and point it at its data resource and everything will work again.

Note that the orchestrators do sort of give solutions to this issue. They might for example recommend doing the storage inside the docker container, and have the data disappear whenever the container disappears. This might be a little less reliable or transparent, but since you have a redundant cluster you can always restore the data from some other container. Our data is a little bit too big for restoration processes to happen during normal operations. And we're a bit too dependent on the speed to have no control over on which disk a resource is stored.
Need Baby Food for Johnathon / Nutri Cal, Nutri Stat
No because the lightpads themselves are clustered, full-featured Linux machines in the form factor of a switch, they serve that purpose [of a server] within the home so you won't need a server internally at all.

But if you needed any access to the lights from outside the home, you would. In which case you can either colocate one or prop one up on AWS to serve as the remote command bus. Plum provides that right now but I want to, at some point, enable folks to do it themselves.

Or if you really want to, run the server in-house and port forward. That could work too.
Can you point me to any government in the world that cares more about non-citizens than it does about its own citizens?
Why would you'd want to obfuscate instead of block the ads?
Sorry got confused, Mesos is C++ and Java project I think. Probably got it swapped with that one.
> on you

Many Americans did not choose their burden and instead were born into it. Shame should be placed somewhere, but I think this person's got nothing to do with it.
A big fan of work by Helen Nissenbaum's & co.! Check out her Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest from MIT press.Adnauseam requires AdBlock. Wish it worked with the more lightweight uBlock!
Sure, I agree the seatbelt example comes from not having enough labeled classes. Feels a little bit more like the realm of semi-supervised learning, but I'd love to learn about interesting approaches in that case too :)
> Hell, I can't even get a normal Digital Ocean server instance to programmatically drop and recreate doing minimal things like creating a user and setting SSH keys. I suppose if I wanted to learn something heavyweight like Chef or Puppet I could, but for now, I just maintain a list of commands to run, and understand that Digital Ocean servers can't quite be treated like livestock just yet, though I can fake it pretty well. Eventually Digital Ocean will get around to making the platform changes, which are all already in feature request.

It sounds like you might benefit from Cloud-config for droplets: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduc...

Or have you tried that already? It's also available through their API, BTW.
ITYM it does a brisket business in NYC.
I think the current trend now is that it is much better to be a nice person as a startup founder/employee [1]

1.
http://paulgraham.com/safe.html
Substitute for meat, in texture and experience, or as an actual nutritionally-comparable food source?
I have found a lot of what you describe. Part of the job is managing that. Or, you can quit, start your own company, and try not to become it.
I doubt it'd be exactly the same, since the metabolic pathways that feed the cells are different.
Not being crazy into vegetables is not the same as eating only meat... One can ear vegetables with a passing appreciation, but desire other foods too
"It’s increasingly hard to “opt out” of online tracking. “Unless you want to go live in a cave away from society,” Nissenbaum notes, you need to be online—often for work or to access government services. Online services claim they’re voluntary, but the cost of being a refusenik grows every day."
Mac addresses should be unique; at least for network cards. The address space of 48bits is not that small.

Also, see the warning about entropy in your linked article. There is a difference between mathematical random() and CS random().
>"You aren't using that to excuse stealing land from your Mexican neighbor, today,"

I am satisfied with the land I have. But let's not kid ourselves, the only reason wars of conquest are uncommon today is because the cost typically exceeds the potential reward.

> "ethical disaster that is eating meat?"

I cannot derive sympathy for food from my value system. Unless you are prepared to impose your value system on me by force (in your value system, is that so different from wars of conquest?), that isn't going to change.

> "If you want to keep eating meat because you just don't care, say so."

Didn't I just?

> "Unless you are also supporting slavery/segregation, returning to no legal interracial or LGBTQ marriage, a world without child labor laws, a world with no vote for women, etc. you really shouldn't use that excuse."

Do you find that meat eaters usually back down when you compare them to racists and homophobes?

I don't. I've never seen somebody become a vegan in response to this line of rhetoric, which could just as well be applied to any tradition. I am sure you must have some traditions of your own; will you abandon them if I tell you that racism is also a tradition?

It's not effective persuasive rhetoric, so what is it? It's combative rhetoric which is meant to shame people into silence.
Yep: http://i.imgur.com/mWXqZh0.png

"Elbow" is just an L-shaped joint. "Ball" is the spheres. "Mixed" is a random choice per-joint. "Cycle" means successive screens will use different choices.
For Auto Enthusiasts, the Right to Tinker with Cars’ Software
Patreon Hack: Users Now Receiving Threatening Emails
A Command Line Replacement for Zapier and Ifttt
In Europe it's common to prepare Macrolepiota procera like schnitzel.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Br...
The texture is a bit different, but the difference is quite small.

I suppose the nutritional value of mushrooms is quite diminished in comparison to meat though.
I don't select one, not even sure what my current one is. Phone is on vibrate only and my smartwatch provides enough alert (through vibrating) for incoming phone calls.
*five, in fact.
I have a WASD mechanical, but lately I have just been using my Apple Magic Keyboard. For awhile I hated it because it's so small and compact, but have really fallen in love with it recently.
Your comment on mushrooms working in either butter or oil is really interesting. Is there some way to know other than throwing some in each and seeing what happens?
Flex - winning here.

Default styling can be spotted a million miles away
What grade is your daughter in?
One thing.

Sometimes linear constructs can appear nested in the handling of the syntax.

You want to avoid right recursion in an LR parser for list-like constructs, especially if they can be reasonably expected to grow large. These constructs appear "flat" to the programmer, but the parser will push tokens onto the stack and not reduce anything until the end of the construct is reached.
Though they do consume rather a lot of conventional memory, which might cause problems :)
The sustainability of meat is not a serious long term concern.

Worst case scenario is we enjoy it while we've got it, then miss it when we don't.

And precisely what is the sustainability of lab meat? What makes you think lab meat will be more efficient that raised meat?
Slaughter has never been the negative side of raising animals. It is in fact, the slaughtering of an animal that teaches us to respect it, to honor its life given, and ensure that we provide as humane a life and death as possible.

Distancing ourselves from the hard work of growing, raising, and killing our own food creates an enormous gap in cultural awareness about where our life energy comes from. This is clearly seen with the impact of industrial farming.

Widening the gap IMO is the wrong direction to go. Of course, we will go there because we are human and we can. But I fear for the consequences as we distance ourselves further and further from the natural world.

Garbage in, garbage out.
Can anyone explain why Docker image handling is so terrible? For one, building an image creates lots of unnecessary overlays (resulting in the absurd need for "garbage collection"), rather than just compacting everything into one file? But also the whole registry thing. Why can't I just point Docker at an S3 bucket? Sure, you can run a private registry, but that involves (last I checked) running a daemon, Redis, and using "docker login" to get credentials set up... instead of, you know, a file path (like an NFS volume), an HTTP URL, or an S3 bucket. The registry seems like a nice thing for publishing public images, but it has nothing to do with private images.
Spending over $100,000 per month on advertising online, we do analyze traffic under the microscope. Blocking ads only means Publisher has to display more of it to even out the good traffic.

Continuesly bringing people that are totally off te chart in re to our vertical (due to someone fooling system of their true interests) would bring down ROI to near-zero and have us stop using said Publisher althogether.

Genius move!
135/mon
I can't imagine having to deal with this situation, loss of a child. However, this all seems a bit silly.
Then there is something wrong with your machine.
A bit like Jam Elechon Day.
The "meat" you buy at the store is a hunk of muscle, fat, blood vessels, blood, nerves and connective tissue, and it's saturated in the myriad of vitamins, nutrients and other substances consumed or created by a living being.

The "meat" created by this reactor is just a pile of muscle fiber. They extract a single kind of stem cell from an animal, coax it into becoming a muscle fiber, and grow lots of those fibers. Just muscle, fed by only what's in the gel it's grown on, no fat, no vasculature, no connective tissue, and without any of the substances an animal produces in other types of cells.

It's not just missing a lot, either. It also has at least one thing added that "meat" doesn't necessarily: antibiotics. There's no immune system in a hunk of replicated muscle fiber, nor is this lab currently growing the tissue in a sterile environment, so it has to be treated with antibiotics.

If you were to print a nutrition label for a pound of meat from the grocery store, and a pound of what this lab grows, not much on those labels would match up. Even the protein content: muscle fiber forms protein through exercise, but this slab of cells in a dish has never walked to a trough. How are they working around that? Watch for their patent filings.
Why I like C#: feature-wise comparison with “modern” Java
Texture and experience.
Forget whether independent replication worked out 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.

Can you find one biomed paper published this month that is reproducible in its current form? I mean no missing/conflicting methodological information.
"A technical explanation appears in the demo as a 10-minute scroller, but the same text is provided below, for your convenience."

Hehe :) That's a really neat one: if you've fixed your machine you can read it, otherwise you can't...

Awesome sleuthing, and the take home is if you get down deep enough digital is analog again.
You can switch editions, add and remove sections (not interested in world or sports, interested in a particular sports team) and there is also "suggested for you". Not sure how it suggests, though it seems to work well.
I get that lab meat is largely considered a transcendent technological solution to the ethical dilemma of slaughtering livestock, but at the same time I can't help but think that this dooms chickens and cows to obsoletion and eventual extinction.
"It also makes rural areas with a lower cost of living somewhat more desirable, if you can find a job."

Or if you've saved almost enough, otherwise.
Well, the examples could probably be better here.

The first example comparing references to copies ignores the fact that you can certainly say "const auto &x = Function();". And really, there's no harm in doing that all the time; if the result is actually returned by value, you'll end up with a stable reference to a temporary object that is only destroyed at scope exit time.

Similarly, I see nothing wrong with consistently saying things like "for (const auto &someObject : someContainer) ..." because it really doesn't help the user to keep typing out all that template garbage each time, and actually introduces unnecessary dependencies on those specifics when the class changes. In fact, ever since lambdas and std::function<> came along, I don't even want APIs that expose things like map types and iterators directly; I much prefer having simple forEach() methods that call whatever function I want, hiding the specifics of the container(s) inside the object.

A case where I really like "auto" is for stuff like "auto x = new ObnoxiouslyLongClassName::ObnoxiouslyLongSubclass();" because it's completely clear and doesn't require repetition of unfortunately-named objects.
So there are 2 things we want to protect against:

1. Attacker tampering with the data

2. Attacker learning what the user is watching

For 1. as I said the easy way is to distribute the torrent file through an authenticated, verified connection and then use that torrent file to get the raw data. Anything that doesn't hash to a piece in this torrent file is considered garbage.

For 2. that's an issue I didn't have in mind, and as long as the attacker can sign-in they can match an exchange with a database of hashes, so it's not protected in this regard.
Yes, why did s/he not isolate and compile on another machine in step 1?
Copyright stemmed from the invention of printing--although as is often the case, the law trailed the technology. In the prior world where books had to be copied by hand and performances couldn't be fixed in a medium, there was no real need for copyright. What would prevent that prior world from existing today is that technology has advanced to a level that many things can be replicated with essentially zero cost or effort.

I agree with your point with respect to open source code however. Open source software licensing, especially permissive licenses, is largely divorced from attribution--especially in the context of those actually using the software.
Some of the most desirable traits of beef could actually be easier to reproduce in a controlled environment. I could imagine that once perfected, steaks produced in this way might be exceptionally tender.
This isn't cryonics by any stretch, but doctors are seriously looking to put gunshot victims into suspended animation by drastically cooling them down so they can be worked on [0]:

When a shooting or stabbing victim goes into cardiac arrest due to massive bleeding, even the most heroic attempts at resuscitation fail 90 percent of the time. But a study to begin this month under the direction of Sam Tisherman and Patrick Kochanek at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian Hospital will see if there's a better way: cooling the body after the heart has stopped beating, to the point where all other functioning virtually ceases as well.

By putting patients literally into a state of suspended animation—or "emergency preservation," as Tisherman calls it—the surgeons intend to preserve brain functioning long enough to close wounds that would otherwise be fatal.

[0] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/04/140402-suspe...
Any tips on fighting browser fingerprinting?
It was always a metric easy to inflate.

Just like Ashley Madison's male to female and bot to human ratio, we'll never get honest stats on this - but it's really easy to bot twitter. There is no mobile phone verification. The amount of computerized accounts on twitter is huge.

From Twitter's SEC filing [1]:

In a new filing, the company said that “up to approximately 8.5%” of the accounts it considers active are automatically updated “without any discernible additional user-initiated action.”

Even that is quite a qualifier. You could have a discernible user-initiated action, then leave it to a bot.

I won't deny that twitter is a great way to get inbound traffic, and lots of it. But your followers, shares, etc. are still hugely inflated. It's really easy to game Twitter. The signal:noise ratio on there is critical.

[1]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000156459014...
Ask people or look up recipes. But as a rule of thumb, most species traditionally eaten in the U.S. are going to be better with dairy, and most traditionally eaten in Asia will be better with oil.
> "Didn't I just?"

You made an appeal to tradition. I don't believe tradition is sufficient cause to not acknowledge something is damaging the environment on a massive scale. Fossil fuels are also a tradition (though a short lived one), but it doesn't make it "right".

> "I cannot drive sympathy for food from my value system."

Then how do you feel about climate change? Because that is part of this ethical equation, as well. Billions of people eating meat is comparable to billions of people driving cars and burning coal for electricity.

> "Do you find that meat eaters usually back down when you compare them to racists and homophobes?"

Actually, I usually find that I am shouted down or voted down whenever suggesting that eating meat is unethical. I don't expect meat eaters to back down, as they are in the huge majority and will never have trouble finding support among almost any group.
Even if it was price-competitive, what's the point?

Do people really need to eat that much? And they'd have to get their calories elsewhere anyway.
> I'd say there is arguably no environmental disaster in meat production

As you may know, human population is growing exponentially and has been doing so for a century. To meet the demand for meat, we have grown the poultry and cattle's population accordingly, increasing the energy, water and food spendings uphill (after all, they too need to be nourished). Especially in the US, to maintain low prices, those who set the customer price (such as McDonalds) have been forced to rationalise the whole chain of production, putting a lot of stress and liability on farmers.

However, the human population is still accelerating tremendously, and meat is still among the most costly food per kilogram we eat, not in terms of money spent by the customer, but in terms of energy wasted along the whole chain.

Fishing has a similar crisis; regulation became necessary to maintain fish population to a sustainable level, and avoid having fish locations simply disappear.

At a fundamental level, the reason life can thrive on earth is energy from the sun and the Earth converted to plants which are consumed by animals and fungi. Every step of consumption between plants and humans is wasted energy, given that the planet's energy is not limitless, and that we humans must tap that supply carefully if we ever hope to colonize another planet.
Personally I quite like the polar coordinates, though it's a pity that by convention, a watch face only holds half a day, as we would otherwise have a nice mapping of generation time to a watch-face equivalent.

My nitpick is that this is ultimately a stacked bar chart, so as with cartesian stacked charts, it obfuscates some of proportions, in particular the very interesting cyclicity of renewables. The author has wisely put the higher-variance variables first, mitigating the problem somewhat, but not completely, as can be seen by comparing to the gridwatch UK equivalent.
I'm pretty sure most people would disagree with you. People who choose vegetarianism for conscientious reasons don't do it because we've distanced ourselves from our sources of meat, they do it because we slaughter and torture an unthinkably large number of living beings in order to get a chicken bacon sandwich.

Some people lament what you're talking about, and they do it equally for raising livestock as well as growing and harvesting our own fruits and vegetables. That growing distance between us and our food production is certainly an issue, but it's the infinitely lesser one compared to the violence of meat consumption.

Given that humans crave the types of food they crave, I don't see lab-grown meat as anything but a pure win for science, humanity, and all living beings. In my mind, it's an achievement on par with fire, the wheel, electricity, antibiotics/sterilization, and the internet.
Today, I am crying because of injustice in the world.