skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting question. A million input neural network isn't necessarily absurd. Images are very high dimensional. One could easily imagine a one megapixel input to a neural net. But in natural images no single pixel is indicative of any single image characteristic by itself. I think this isn't a coincidence but a common characteristic of "natural" high dimensional data, on which neural nets tend to work well. So yes, I'd say what you've described is not likely for a large category of "natural" high dimensional data which probably includes most of the data we care about in the real world.
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http://www.nature.com/tp/journal/v4/n10/full/tp201498a.html
That's the problem with the so-called "calories in/calories out" crowd: they think all food has a specific energy value that varies by statistically-insignificant amounts from person to person.

That people lose weight when they eat an energy deficiency and gain it when they eat an energy surplus is not in doubt. What some people refuse to do is evaluate whether the same foods have different energy values for different people, rather than one global value. I'm not saying they do, but the most ardent "calories in/calories out" fanatics refuse to even acknowledge the question.
If Zuckerberg wanted people not to comment, perhaps his "letter to his daughter" should have been delivered to his daughter, instead of a "bunch of internet warriors".

I mean, come on. Is everyone supposed to reverently worship their betters? Do we thank our $deities (in respectful silence) that we have such nice overlords who promise to someday pursue a structured financial transaction in a tax-preferred manner, along with a promise that it will promote "human advancement", whatever the hell that is?

Sounds to me like whatever you have in mind as the opposite of "western culture" is a bit insulting to those cultures.
No? From the http://www.project-strus.net/story.htm, you write:
"I had to do something to keep myself spinning and I wanted to do something in a topic that I knew by heart"
"This means that you can not do everything you can do with Lucene."
"I"

This misses community, is fixing a pain not related to the actual project, and is deliberately simpler than the current baseline for comparisons for search engines. Even Elasticsearch that wants to present itself as different as possible from Solr is based on the same Lucene core.

Hence, for me at least, the true value would be in the lessons learnt. But perhaps, that's just me.
I just updated and recompiled everything a few days ago. Bad timing. Kinda sucks that manual patching is a pain a lot of the time, but oh well, dependencies will do that I guess.
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>What else could this guy possibly do to demonstrate that he is genuinely not interested in material wealth?

Let me start with the caveat that I don't really care if Zuck is "interested in material wealth" or not. That said, if he wants to prove it, he needs to give it all away in a way where he doesn't have control over what happens to it anymore.

Putting your money in a "charitable foundation" that you control is not giving it away; you still decide how, where, and in what quantities it gets spent. You can still give people you like a salary as "employees of the charity". None of that counts as giving it away.

Giving it away is actually giving it to others in one fell swoop and letting those people decide what happens to it.

If he really wanted to be egaliatarian and de-elevate himself to the level of a "normal guy", he'd just divide his shares by the number of Facebook employees and evenly disperse. In my book, "I moved all my money into a different entity which I still control" is not giving all your money away, it's just paper pushing.
Yes, but most people give their own congressman good ratings:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/162362/americans-down-congress-ow...

I suppose I meant, in the context of this discussion, that people here tend to complain that "we" should decide how MZ spends his money and that it's a scandal that he's not participating in some collective decision making process. Of course that necessitates politicians and bureaucrats making those decisions, instead of MZ. As though they are better equipped to spend MZ's money than MZ.
Are you short, or a woman, or what? That weight seems kinda low (60 * 2.2 -> 132 lbs.)
> In the US at least, Congressional approval ratings would suggest otherwise.

Congressional approval ratings have nothing to do with individual politicians' power and influence; it measures voters approval of an institution over which each person rating the institution has a vote for at most 3 members, each of which spends a substantial amount of their campaign time using the rest of the institution as an excuse for anything that their constituents might not like.

Really, low Congressional approval ratings are, arguably, evidence of the success of individual politicians' "don't hate the player, hate the game" strategy for maximizing their personal position.
New Jersey is more of a black car style taxi it seems. You generally can't flag one down on the street (I managed to once, but only because it stopped for someone else), but if you call the dispatch company some of them will take a card over the phone. On the other hand, at least in North Jersey, between busses and trains, the public transit system here is really really good for the amount of area it covers. I've only taken cabs a handful of times and uber once, and only because I was in a rush.

The cost of taking transit generally makes any wait worth it for me. If I'm out in the city and trying to get home around 3-4am, the most I have to wait for a bus is 1 hour and it costs $4.25 for the 30 minute trip home. My other options are Uber, which has no wait, but costs $70, or finding a cabbie planning on going home to jersey and convincing them to make the trip for $30.
Same here. If only it were a brighter shade of blue!
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You are describing the Platonic view mathematics[1]. The nature of math is far from a settled question among philosophers of mathematics, but both Plantonists and Non-Platonists agree that good notation is a crucial factor in our ability to actually do math[2].

Anecdotally, it's easier for me to think in terms of operators rather than functions or methods, even though they're all the same thing.

[1] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/platonism-mathematics/

[2] http://introtologic.info/AboutLogicsite/whitehead%20Good%20N...
>Keto, Adkins, etc...They work. But they're not diets. It's a healthy lifestyle choice.

Diets don't work because diets end. I have heard before "If you have an goal that you consider the 'end' of your diet, you've already failed".

A lifestyle change is what is needed to lose weight and keep it off. If you reach your weight and "stop dieting", that just means you're reverting back to the habits that lead to your original weight gain...
Firefox was lacking behind in supporting the HTML5 Media Source Extensions, it's in since Firefox 42. Everything beyond this still needs Flash for HLS or MPEG DASH playback
There is an interesting way to make this work, inspired by "skip-list" data structure. Suppose you sell network radio gear. You want your customers to have a tree network instead of a mesh network to reduce the number of hops. So sell a random distribution of stations: most customers get short-range stations. Some get longer range stations. Some lucky few get very long range high capacity stations.

You will end up with a random geographic distribution of radios with different capabilities. The number of network hops will be reduced because, as with skip lists, you find a path to high capacity station, then skip longs distances, then find the final recipient.

In practice this would be difficult to deploy (Can you legally give high power stations? What about RF safety of higher power stations?), but I think the idea is neat.
Eight years ago I was 87kg, with a waist circumference of 102cm (40in) and a BMI of 26. Today I hover around 69-71kg, and I never once counted calories or went on keto, atkins or any exclusionary diet. I reduced my intake, increased my expenditure (CICO) and lost weight. I feel fan-f*cking-tastic, but that's more to do with my exercise regimen (resistance training for the win!) than anything else. I still eat carbs, just not as many as I used to.

You're right, diets don't work, it has to be lifestyle changes. But I'll second the other response to you that blanket statements are confusing the issue. Weight loss is simple to understand (CICO), but not easy to do. Find things that work for you, simple small changes that will last a lifetime, because otherwise they won't stick.

Also, gut microbes don't make people fat, eating too much does. Gut microbes may have an effect on cravings, hunger signals, etc, but ultimately it's the hand under control of your brain that puts food in your mouth.
Still looking for a good Kurt Vonnegut
The fact still remains, more taxes will be collected from this LLC arrangement than if he had donated his shares to charity, a la Bill Gates. Why is everyone having a collective aneurysm over that?
Consider two situations:
1) Zuckerberg wants to preserve his fortune whilst gaining good PR for donating money to charity.
2) Zuckerberg genuinely wants to change the world.

In (1), it clearly hasn't worked then given all of the comments around here. Is it not highly likely that he would have considered this backlash that he received? If I was in his position and wanted to achieve (1), I would make a high profile donation of ~$1 billion (~2% of his worth) to a respectable charity.

The global distribution of anti-malarial bed nets would never have as great an impact on health and poverty as something like the invention of the electric light bulb. Sometimes what is best for increasing quality of life around the world isn't the redistribution of wealth and cannot be achieved in a charitable structure. In scenario (2), it is completely reasonable to set up an LLC for this purpose. Instead of thinking 'what's the worst he can do?' think 'what's the best he can do?'
You might be amazed at how much FTP is still actively used -- especially by the financial industry!
In fengwick3's comment, "vicarious" modifies "account". Assuming "account" refers to the linked article, then it's first-hand, and not vicarious. fengwick3's (or your or my) experience of the judicial system through the linked article might be vicarious, but the article itself wasn't.

Sorry for the pedantry!
Not that simple.

The whole point of the gut bacteria investigation is understanding why the lifestyle you've described doesn't lead to weight loss for some people.
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But it worked for me, so it must work for everyone right? /s

This is literally what these studies on gut flora are disproving...
More precisely, simple rules can have emergence. Wolfram's most common example is simple cellular automata. Cellular automata do not need to be simple. Other rules like Turing machines can have emergence.
And what file system does iOS use? I believe it is HFS+. So, if there was a compelling reason to switch from HFS+ to ZFS, it would apply equally to an iOS-only future at Apple. (Although I see no indications of such a future.)

I think it is more likely that:

a) Apple is working on their own new filesystem, optimized for their use. A company that invests in their own chip designs can certainly invest in their own filesystem.

OR

b) Apple feels that HFS+ is not actually holding them back, and plans to stick with it for the foreseeable future.
The French Revolution saw so much bloodshed for so little change (for the ordinary people at least).
I thought that was capitalism and I thought we all agreed that that was good.

To be fair, it's his money. It's not that he bought a lottery ticket and won the jackpot. He build a company and made loads of money. It's up to him what to do with it, I guess.
Exactly, but you have to realise being a dad suddenly changes the world for you (I mean if you've had an intention of having a family).

The world suddenly seems a cruel place for your child, your current salary as insufficient, current residence as inhospitable for an infant, etc. You always see room & make excuses for improvement. His post could've been nothing more than an emotionally charged outlet yet not stupid enough that he'd lose his station immediately.

In any event, him doing one thing or another isn't going to affect most of us in our lifetimes (the fruits of research are usually tasted by further generations than by ours)
This is ideology, and not a very useful one either.

Humans are just animals, and despite the illusion of will power and decisions and all that other junk, we eat as we do because 500,000 years ago our ancestors risked famine constantly.

We're optimized against lack of calories, and not optimized for excess calories at all.

What this means is that, for the vast majority of people, if you have it to put it in your face, you will, and while you can occasionally refuse this, you won't do so often enough to matter unless your a "fitness" fetishist (fit for what?).
HFS+ is "modern".
In that sense, would you be comparing Swift to Go, Python/Ruby, JavaScript, PHP? Is Swift "better" than the others?
If you want to make this same kind of app prototype, but in a way that goes much further, check out Neonto:

http://neonto.com

One of the template projects called "Photo Diary" is almost exactly this same concept: camera + note attached to photos + gallery of photos taken by the user...

But instead of just an <iframe> with hotspots, the tool gives you working source code for iOS and Android. You can install the prototype on a phone and everything works! For prototyping a camera app, isn't a working camera view and a working list of saved photos much better than a static stock photo?

(Disclaimer -- I wrote a large chunk of the Neonto Studio app, so I'm biased.)
Westerner bouncing around the dietary memesphere proclaims to the rest of the world that they need to get off their rice, beans and potatoes stat?

There are only 3 macronutrients. Advocating to just banish 1 entirely is "one weird trick" grade advice.
He's not dodging taxes. Why do people keep repeating this completely false claim?
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The overall latency (not audio, but the responsiveness, in general) of my Nexus 7 2013 got much worse in Marshmallow. It now takes a second or two after clicking anything to get a response. I'm not sure what happened, but battery life also dropped immediately after the OTA update to 6.0. I don't have a lot of confidence that audio latency has improved, given the overall increased sluggishness of the device. I have a few music apps (Caustic, several DJ things, a couple of classic style trackers), but haven't tried them lately...partly because latency has always been such an issue that it wasn't worth trying to do stuff on it.

Nonetheless, I avoid Apple products on principle, and also enjoy playing with audio stuff (so much so that I started an audiovisual company a few years ago, which I only recently extricated myself from, leaving it in the hands of one of the co-founders), so I'm pleased to see the issue getting attention. I'd love to be able to make real music on my tablet. I have a Gameboy that I use for "on the train" music tinkering, because it has an immediacy that is lost in most modern devices (not merely latency...just the general composition process on something so simple it's impossible to get bogged down in bullshit like selecting the perfect snare sample or something). It's be cool to be able use the Nexus 7 for that purpose.
In short yes. When there is competition, there are survivors and deceases. If you believe in democratic republic, then you can look at his accomplishment as a co-founder of Facebook as one of the few successful social network products surviving a heated market election.

You have a choice to not use Facebook, and if everyone refuses to use Facebook, he will lose his wealth and his influence. When was the last time you heard about Tom from MySpace on TV? He and his team have done a great job promoting the product, despite issues like privacy.

If you are looking from an ideal socialism, then I am sad to inform you that socialism does not work at all because most human I know have opinions, and when there's opinion people take side, and when people take side people turn into control. When people have professional skill, they become experts, and when they are experts, they are assigned roles. You wouldn't listen to me for medical advice. Between a nobody physicist and a Nobel laureate in Physics, the Nobel laureate's opinions obviously carry more weight in a conference talk.

And btw, he doesn't have $45B in his bank account. Most of his money are still virtual, in bytes (argue about silver vs greenback, in the 1800s).

Of course there is danger in accumulating power. For a nation, being the most powerful doesn't mean you have to stick your head in everyone's else affairs. There is always some gains and some losses when a giant arises. Giants with the right vision can create quality products (i.e. Apple), but giants dictating vision (i.e. Microsoft) can cause life fortune to turn around (although Microsoft is doing much better in the last few years).

You can be the forerunner in your competition, but if you want to maintain your influence, you must allow some competitions. Only way to innovate is to accept challenges. You don't write better code unless someone critique you. That's the difference between a thinker and a narrator.
Ditto on the first thought. If anyone is actually digging through your github, they're going to look at much more than just the activity graph, but the (non-forked) repos you have.
Interesting to see if an Express like framework comes about. Does it even make sense to write a backend http RESTful API in Swift? Wonder what the performance is vs node.js and go?
I don't even know where to begin with all the pseudo-science half truths and ignorance in this post. For starters, basically all the blue zone diets are high carb with low to moderate fat, lots of vegetables and fairly limited animal products. Elite athletes prefer high carb diets by an overwhelming majority. Multiple studies have demonstrated the beneficial effects of carbohydrate intake on the gut microbiota. Just about the only population where low carb, high fat makes sense is sedentary people who are morbidly obese and highly insulin resistant.

By the way, congrats on finding a lifestyle that works __for you__. Don't go around preaching like it's the one true path. Nobody likes a zealot.
A calorie surplus is pretty necessary for a substantial weight gain. Let's include some control for water retention when measuring weight in the meaning of substantial there.

You seem to do this a lot, writing some pedantic elaboration on the wording of a comment while carefully ignoring the thrust of the meaning. Of course precision is useful to communication, but yeesh.
The reason isn't actually so silly. Because BART is a single track-per-direction system, they have to shut the system down in order to do nightly track maintenance. The decision to make the system single-track was made when BART was planned in the 60s.

http://www.bart.gov/guide/latenight
Wireframes we drawn were meant to be a design guide, they never made it to production of course ;—)
This more of a personal attack than a thoughtful review. No content.
> What else could this guy possibly do to demonstrate that he is genuinely not interested in material wealth?

Possibly just do it, instead of talking about doing it? Why make up a phony press release and shell corporation and try to brag about how noble you are in trying to avoid taxes? Is there another angle I'm missing here besides extreme narcissism?
I was on board with that website until I couldn't find a single semicolon. Then my eyeballs started twitching.
Heads up- there's some NSFW pictures of an anthropomorphized pig statue on the page so be forewarned.
Every press of every button on every headphone that I've ever used, wired or Bluetooth, on every Android phone I've ever used. I have literally not once experienced a satisfactory result from pressing a headphone button to (vainly attempt to) control an Android phone in my entire history with Android. (Let's generously define "satisfactory" as "any response at all within one second".) As I said, it also happens for the pause button on the lock screen of the phone itself. I've owned 4 Android phones: Droid Incredible 1 & 2, Galaxy S3 Mini, and Galaxy S3. On the Droids, it happened with both the stock HTC ROM and on CM7 (S3 doesn't allow non-Samsung ROMs). I have a Galaxy Tab S tablet as well running CM11, but I don't use that for listening to music so I haven't tested it.
For almost everyone I have ever met, the only time they would think to use "saint" and "politician" -- or the name of any given politician -- in the same sentence is if they're both walking into a bar accompanied by a rabbi.
×÷ aren't really common mathematical notation. Julia does multiplication the proper way, e.g. 4a for 4 * a.

And the logical way to produce ≥ is to type >=, though of course there is still the hurdle of setting that input mode in your text editor.
"Data science is magic that works."
I can provide you with my contact info if you'd like, and answer any questions you may have. At my last job, I built out the VoD/live streaming infrastructure for the internet presence of a major US broadcaster.

Its pretty straightforward, just a bit of a schlep time wise depending on the scale and capabilities you're targeting.
don't go quietly into the night of downvotes :)

I worked earlier this year for a fintech company and they are doing their best, within their realm of understanding humanity, to improve people's access to life-changing finance, but what actually happened in the financial crisis is that the _businesses_ behind underwriting all of these loans started going belly up, so when your debt ends up in a spreadsheet sold to three different collection agencies and you pay the wrong one and your debt is never settled, fintech can't fix that, and is IMO putting their clients at greater risk of that than larger banks.

In fact, the only reason Wells Fargo received any bailout money is that they saved another bank, but they still underserved that bank's customers because they did not have the resources to manage the fallout, so a lot of people were foreclosed upon illegally and unnecessarily and with little financial benefit to the bank or certainly society.
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Amen. As a doctor I have to deal with a lot of crappy computer interfaces. Data entry in hospitals (at least the sort that gets the hospitals money) ends up being done by non-medical personnel because the medical personnel are too busy trying to do their job to care whether they coded something wrong on the computer system.
The press release seems significantly better, includes the abstract of the papers, links to full texts, and isn't behind a paywall:
https://news.ncsu.edu/2015/11/narayan-q-carbon-2015/
I think human discipline is the most important factor in maintaining a healthy weight, and I find instances of "fatlogic" to be aggravating, but I'm not going to pretend that the human body is so simple that the Law of Conservation of Energy can be perfectly applied to our digestive systems...
I've looked into F# a few times. It's not ready on Mac. I wish people would quit suggesting until it's really baked.
The problem with that idea is that we know that we are exceedingly bad at regulating our food intake. And as long as we struggle with finding ways to reliably regulate our intake by adjusting how much and what we eat, if there are simple ways to regulate the calorie intake by reducing uptake from the stomach that will still potentially help a huge amount of people.