skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completed this course over the last year. It's fantastic and from one of the founders of the field.

I'd stick to the first half to get a good sense of back propagation and working with standard neural nets. I'd hold off on the second half, which delve more into Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) or autoencoders; these aren't used as much anymore.

To augment your education for things that have happened since 2012, I'd learn about ReLUs rather than sigmoids for activation values, as well as studying up on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and the recent work in sequence-to-sequence NLP translation via neural networks.
The NSA released their Nifi project to the Apache foundation not long ago....we live in strange times.
They still do it. For some Bluetooth device classes, you must get your device signed by Apple and use certain chips. One product I worked on had a dual Bluetooth and BLE stack - Bluetooth for Android, and BLE to circumvent the Apple limitations (BLE devices don't need to be signed).
You may or may not have had experience with anti depressants. But in the cases referenced in the article (mild to moderate depression), especially during pregnancy, the choice is always with the patient (at least with any good physician). I believe the point being made here is consult with a doctor, since she may have some insight to your specific situation that will help you make an informed decision.

If a physician is forcing or heavily influencing your decision, then its likely that the depression is severe, that you don't have the best physician, or some other unusual circumstance.
Still. Results.
I originally wanted to reply to a reply to your comment, but it was deleted.

The reply said that he disagrees with your logic, as we as society decided that capital accumulation is productivity.

My comment to that was:

> > We have defined productivity with capital accumulation in society.

> We have not.

> People get capital for being lucky, and from privileged backgrounds. Zuckerberg is not an exception, nor are most of us here on HN.

> You don’t get rich because you are doing the best work. In fact, the most productive researchers usually end up on minimal grants having to save money, and never actually make much money themselves.

> The money ends up with the people who have luck, connections, are at the right place at the right time.

> This is why society has decided to publicly fund research based on productivity with tax money, as obviously the free market is unable to do so.

> The free market isn’t funding Wendelstein 7-X, nor the LHC. The free market isn’t funding the E-ELT. The free market isn’t giving any of the involved researchers billions.

> The people who invented the computer died poor, but a person who just happened to do what MySpace did before, at the right place, right time, happened to become billionaire.

> No, capital accumulation is not even correlated to productivity.
> hospitals started storing data in Firebase

Is health data actually worth that much to hackers? Genuine question.
The way the system gets bootstrapped is humans create the first human level AI. The definition of a human level AI is it is able to do all the activities a human can do and so it can also make human level AIs too.

Once you have one human level AI you can make more replacing each human in the production of the human level AI - you basically start at the end point and working backwards replacing each job performed by a human with an AI. Once you get to the final job you will have a production system that can build AIs without any human labor. The system can make as many extra AI’s as wanted without any human labor - it is detached from the human labor market.

Unfortunately I don’t have any links discussing this. I think not too many people dwell on human level AI’s because the expectation is with AI’s if they can get to human level they will not stay at human level. Once you have AI’s that can make AI’s then they can make better AI’s until they far surpass human level. Understanding what these AI’s will be like is impossible for us.
I had similar experiences. Going off the antidepressants didn't have an effect initially, if anything I felt more alert and energetic for the first few weeks. After about 6 months I felt like my terrible old self and had to start taking them again. I've been through this 3 times over the past 20 years.

Some people will no doubt chime in that they are sure that my brain developed a dependency on the drugs and the return of my symptoms was simply that dependency asserting itself. Maybe, but probably not? That's the most anyone can really say about situations like this one, based on how well these things are currently understood. All I know is that antidepressants saved my freaking life when I first started taking them 20 years ago.
Control surfaces don't lose power just because you don't have enough power left to drive the main motor. Also, non-toy class helicopter models can control rotor pitch, so they can autorotate if they lose power just like the real deal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_eliminator_circuit#Rad...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorotation#Descent_and_landi...

Quadrocopters are, of course, another story. No control surfaces means you're coming down hard.
It's not just ReLUs that have helped, its also better random initialization before starting training, such as using Xavier initialization (http://andyljones.tumblr.com/post/110998971763/an-explanatio...)

Also, batch normalization helps with convergence as well. In addition, LSTMs work when dealing with recurrent neural nets.
The 'charitable work' feels to me like it's primarily an exercise of power. An amount that an individual shouldn't have in the first place. And this particular individual doesn't have a particularly good track record.

1) For example, 'investing' in education may boost the private education system at the further detriment of the public one - long term this could be worse for accessibility of the poor to good education. Zuckerberg does not have a track record of wanting to help public education in a way that includes stake holders like ... parents. Controlling an education system also allows indoctrinating people in convenient ways. I'd rather the public decides which propaganda our young generation's minds get poisoned with rather than a billionaire with uncertain motivations.

2) For example, bringing the 1 billion poorest on the internet may involve giving them some sort of crippled Facebook+wikipedia-only access for free. This would create a great funnel to Facebook, in the name of charity, of course as a tax-deductible charitable donation, and would effectively make it harder for these people to access the real internet that can actually help solve problems for them. Because it's tough to compete with free. Zuckerberg may end up destroying local companies trying to provide access to the internet. Just like direct food donations can undermine the local food production industry.

A young mother dedicating 99% of their life to charity is unlikely to have the potential for far-reaching negative consequences. And as you described that scenario, she is less likely to have motives about accumulating power, less likely to have a negative track record of mis-using power or misrepresenting intentions.
Owning the company that is extending you the job offer you need for the visa is grounds for cancelling your visa—it's not guaranteed but if DHS find out in the future (like if you petition/apply for greencard) they'll bounce you.

Basically, do it if you're comfortable (maybe) being asked to leave the country on short notice.
What happens if you don't provide sensible, easy-to-use built-in implementations of things is that a diverse, bewildering ecosystem of different options tends to arise, confusing programmers who just want to get their job done and leading to a high probability of them picking the wrong thing.

See, for example, crypto before NaCl came around.

(NB: I'm not defending either this C++ standard or random(3).)
> I would always be very cautious about saying that anything is 'safe' during pregnancy. We have to remember that thalidomide was labeled as 'safe' for use during pregnancy.

Holy shit if it isn't manipulative. The most charitable reading, after skimming[0], still says the risk increased from "most likely not going to happen to you" to "still most likely not going to happen to you".

I'd like to see some absolute values please.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_autism
Please only add links to other recent submissions (and flag) if the submission violates the rules. HN allows reposts if a link hasn't been discussed yet. From the FAQ:

Are reposts ok?

If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.

Linking empty threads just adds noise.

EDIT: the article is older and was discussed back then here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8069893
Show them.
Some airports employ hawk trainers to keep the air around the airport clear of birds. Can't do that against drones.
I would like to hear more about how discharging patient early and moderating pain medication is a sign of quality care?

The author of original article mentioned staying in Indian hospital for 4 nights. Do you think a US hospital will keep you 4 nights for same surgery? I seriously doubt it. You most probably will be released few hours after the surgery or at most after overnight stay. Is the quality of care becomes lower because an Indian hospital kept a patient for 4 days instead of 1 day by US hospital? What does it say about relationship between quality of surgery and all these metrics such as duration of hospital stay, pain medication dosage and duration?

I found a lot of studies which used hospital stay duration and pain medication dosage and duration while in hospital as a proxy to quality of surgery but none that showed these metrics have anything to do with quality of surgery. Also, while quality of surgery takes into consideration the pain medication dosage and duration in the hospital, it ignores the pain medication dosage and duration patient was prescribed after being released from hospital. Similarly the overall healing and recovery time required by patient after the surgery is ignored in favor of the portion of recovery time patient spent in hospital. Hopefully, you see the incentive misalignment and mis-measurements.

You will get what you measure, nothing more nothing less. It is up to you to decide whether a measurement is relevant or not to what you trying to measure. You should not only worry about what a statistical study show but also what the study doesn't show.
>>Is that reason enough to award him so much more control over the future of society as opposed to the guy who invented Orkut, for example?

Capitalism says yes, and it's the best mechanism we've come up with so far.
Notable this year was the two drones that crashed into the White House, and a whole string of incidents involving drones and airliners landing at JFK:

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/08/03/drone-sighting-jfk-ai...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/14/politics/white-house-drone-arr...

etc.. these are not hard to find. Now actual compendiums are being done, but I couldn't find the raw data. The FAA says it has gathered "more than 650" reports:
https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/?newsId=83445

As a pilot, I do not see this as being surprising. People are doing dumb things with drones, just like pilots did dumb things with airplanes in the '20s and '30s, leading to the precursor of the FAA and the creation of the airspace system.

But the real reason for registration is so that when there is an accident involving a drone and someone on the ground, such as a person shooting down a drone, the owner of the drone can be identified.

Finally, if a drone gets involved in my airplane's propeller, it will probably be diced into chunks so small you'll never find all the pieces. However the propeller and engine will need to be rebuilt, at a cost of $20,000+, so you can bet that I'll be on the ground looking for those bits so I can stick that insurance claim.
I deleted 205 today. Felt good.
> But by a reasonable standard this is not an anticipated event.

It might not apply in this case, but there is a legal doctrine called the "Eggshell Skull Rule"[1] which roughly means you're responsible for any outcomes of your negligent or intentional misbehaviour, even if those outcomes were comepletely unforeseeable. I'd be interested to know whether something similar applies here.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull
I had a job interview once where the HR rep asked me how many lines of code I wrote a week. I responded, "On a really good week -1000, I don't remember the exact figure." She was extremely confused by this answer and wanted me to give her a number. So she said, "I'll just put down 10,000."

This is also the interview where they refused to continue unless I told them how much money I made (which I don't do anymore). The justification they told me was that they weren't going to give me a 20K raise if I wasn't making that much right now. I didn't point out that they aren't giving me a raise, they are paying me market value based on what the position is worth (to oversimplify it).

I was offered the job but decided not to take it because that plus the technical interview made me wary.
I think you're absolutely right. They've been hiding in the shadows of peer-to-peer referrals for a while but now they've got a real marketing campaign. Not to mention that several companies are at similar stages -- the market is getting interesting. The biggest selling point in my opinion is the ease of purchase. Since the foam can be vacuum packed and shipped via FedEx there's no more dealing with mattress delivery scheduling and finagling through hallways and staircases. My own mattress is in good condition but I look forward to what things will be like come time to replace it.
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Actually, earlier today I wrote some MCU code to control my HUE lights, and I figured "hey, why not build a controller to make my christmas lights controlled by the HUE hub". Guess this news answers that.

Seen together with the Phillips Hue bulbs I have being noisy as hell, hue just became a lot less interesting.

I hope there will be an open source system and manufacturers whose bulbs can easily be integrated. Hopefully some that don't make a lot of noise.
https://projectbullrun.org/surveillance/2015/video-2015.html...

I recommend Balkan's more recent version of that talk, "You Are The Product". In particular, he has a much more in-depth analysis of the business model and startup culture ("digital imperialism").

(the talks by DJB and Appelbaum on that page are also very good)

edit:

look at all the downvotes. Does it make the cognitive dissonance go away?
What, you don't think MH was doing better file handling than mbox, including most of maildir's techniques, a decade before maildir?
From a casual look it seems that Wink just controls your existing Hue bridge, which exposes a REST API to do all the control actions.

I don't use the Hue app myself, I call the API from my automation system. Works well.
Interesting article, already read it from your RSS feed, but didn't you post this here several times in the past few days? I could swear I've seen it twice or so...
The page has the same title as this story currently, so at least the clickbaity title is coming from the source and not OP.
+ 1

> It's like it's designed to screw up people's credit, even when they're trying to pay what they owe.

I had a bill that was 100% covered by insurance, only they never sent it to me. it's 3 years later and despite my insurance now paying the bill twice, countless conversations, some collections agency is still giving me calls, and it's still on my credit report.

I have insurance, I make a great income, I paid every bill that I received. Somehow it's still biting me.

(It's not a huge debt, and I disputed it as soon as the collection notice arrived, and my credit is not direly affected)
How wants to bet how many of the calls were local :P
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Technical debt: probably the main roadblack for machine learning to medicine
And this blog post explains a bit about why the project exists: http://engineering.fluencia.com/blog/2015/12/11/building-ela...
I think we probably do need a basic principle enshrined in law that prohibits exploiting the vulnerability of someone who, for whatever reason, is not capable of making reasonable decisions or of acting to protect themselves in a normal way.

What follows from that principle, and where any lines or grey areas are drawn, obviously depends on the specifics of the situation. I'm not generally in favour of having lots of overly specific laws. I think in most cases, responsible adults will agree on whether any particular action has clearly crossed the intended ethical and legal line anyway. Where there is more room for reasonable disagreement, that's what courts are for.
>> "By some estimates, the core business of Yahoo has a negative market value..."

I dislike those estimates. Yahoo is the Nth highest-traffic site in the English speaking world, where N is probably < 100. It strains credulity to imagine that a site with that much traction truly has negative value.

Edit: [0] claims that Yahoo is the 6th most popular site on the web.

[0] http://www.alexa.com/topsites
It's different in different countries. I'm in Australia and we have laws that limit the influence drug companies have over our doctors here, and we don't have pharma ads on television.

SSRIs were recommended to me by a proper doctor and it was a good decision to start them. I was fortunate that the first type I took worked well and I didn't have to change types.

> perhaps the bigger mistake was not going off SSRIs but agreeing to go on them in the first place.

This kind of 'common sense' stigma is what kept me away from professional help for years. It's not helpful, it's FUD.
I've been wanting to build something like this. It would be really cool to see all tabs' histories side by side rather than just the current tab. Even though a tree gets wide pretty quickly, you're seldom using multiple tabs simultaneously, so if you make line-height a function of time, you shouldn't have too many items on a row.
Those who are making decisions should spend more effort listening to those who know how to make them. Otherwise, what is the justification for having executive power? It's not your fault you don't know how to make the decision, and it's also not your fault that you don't know how to listen? Then what is your fault? Why should you have any power at all, under those circumstances?

There's not much value in picking advisors who you prefer to ignore.
Hmm, I posted it once this morning, but I deleted it because I figured it was too early for people to see it. Definitely didn't post it several times, though.
I see you have been downvoted by people who have no idea what fiat money is. Grats
Really poorly written article.
Bought that, thanks!
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The complaints are largely that he is talking about doing benevolent dictatorial stuff in the future, not that he is *doing saint like stuff now".
I'm glad you're making an effort to understand the criticism, but unfortunately you need to spend more time doing so.

His company, Facebook, is infamous for not paying taxes. (On profits of three billion last year, it paid six thousand dollars in corporate taxes.)

Now, instead of paying taxes on his personal capital gains, he's placing them in an LLC, which he controls, ostensibly to do philanthropic work.

He could avoid all criticism by simply paying his taxes.
Guess what? It shouldn't be so hard period and none of the things that the OP had to do that were mentioned should even need to be done at all. Google should offer a way to make a changes like this similar to the way that you can change an account name or a username at other businesses. If they have to charge a fee for this, fine. If they want to put in conditions so it can't be abused or gamed, fine. But all of this dancing on eggshells in order to please a company that has (for these types of things) no accountability is over the top. I am surprised that nobody has done any kind of class action lawsuit against google for some of their arbitrary and difficult practices or tried to get lawmakers involved (as much as I hate both options sometimes you have to pull the trigger...)

Edit: And you shouldn't need hours and days of test prep, anxiety or needing to hire SEO experts to pull it off either. Ridiculous.
Now not only will my friends not iMessage me to come out, I won't be able to split the tab.
The way I use Spotify is I just use the "saved albums" feature, plus offline caching. This is how I like music: as objects called albums, which I "have" so I can browse and play them easily.

I feel like most music systems, Spotify too, does a kind of violence to the album structure, with all their playlists and shuffling and whatnot. The very idea of "streaming" is vaguely antithetical to the album structure and to the idea of possessing discrete artifacts... If I designed the perfect music player for me, it would almost be a kind of simulator of a record collection with a record player.

Anyway, I am also completely uninterested in Spotify's "social" features. I think their metadata interface is pretty poor and their "Related Artists" is totally haphazard compared to the actual musical knowledge embedded in databases like AllMusicGuide (which I adore).

I also get irrationally upset about Spotify's prominent display of what I call lifestyle propaganda, like their playlists of the day like "Saturday Beach Party Bonanza" or "Yoga Morning Zen Relaxathon" or whatever. (For some reason I never see "Technical Death Metal Tuesday" or "Zappaesque Hell Jazz Extravaganza" or "Lonely Bong Haze Headphone Friday".)

So I dream of a music player with another type of appeal, more album orientation, more facts and knowledge based relational metadata, and better catalogue curation (Spotify's artist pages are overloaded and unorganized and the metadata for classical and jazz especially are messy).
According to my (admittedly limited) understamding of Unicode, they did almost everything correctly. The only issue I see is with the 'uppercase'/'lowercase' functions, which use algorithms that depend on locale; I wonder which locale Swift assumes (hopefully not some global one...).
This is a risk of using proprietary languages. Even if the implementation is open source if a single company actually controls the language you are running risks. In addition with Java there is the precedent of Sun and Visual J++ so it was known that Sun would go after people who provided incompatible implementations. This whole saga is simply a very bad move on Google's part with foreseeable consequences.
Assume someone makes 50K and they want to give their entire 50K to charity. Do you think that person should be able to give 50K to charity and not pay tax or only 32.5K (50k x 35% tax rate) and have to pay 17.5K in tax?
Nothing wrong with calling the git command directly since this isn't an app that needs to scale past 1 human user. It could be some busy work in the future to translate it all into git2go, I have a project like this. It's a personal tool I use to write my journal and it wraps git to manage the entry data by placing it in a git repository.
It has been discussed to death here why what they do is evil.

If you want a security expert's opinion, read Bruce Schneier's blog, and if you are inclined to learn more about the ethics, this page is great: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/projects/ethics...
Which aren't much good for finding most POIs.
Um... I guess nobody at Rappler can read a calendar. Winter doesn't even begin for another week.
CSS3 proven to be Turing complete?
The android apps are kind of terrible. I use ampache-provider and just-player and it gets the job done. It's not a great solution though