skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true, there are certainly many optimization objectives computationally intractable, or perhaps too abstract to be useful for learning.

However, I would argue the prior of Bayesian modeling can be just as nebulous and computationally intractable as an optimization objective. Like supervised learning, Bayesian modeling is just a tool.

I'm skeptical that we will reach AI through a deep understanding or modeling of the brain. Technology and computer science advances more quickly than the biological sciences, at least in recent times. You might argue a success in robotics like [0] is a motor control system. But they built this extending mathematical frameworks not being biologically inspired, and the big wins there didn't come from fixating on a learning framework or biological mimicry; just like humans learning to fly didn't come about from flapping wings like a bird. At some point we hacked an engine (invented for other purposes) onto a wing and came up with powered flight.

As an aside, only seeing input a limited number of times would likely improve your ability to find models that generalize as your model must be able to take these one off learnings and unify them in some way to achieve high training performance. With respect to human learning, a specific individual only has one chance, but nature has had many. We are only a selection of those chances that seemed to work well enough. There are many commonalities to existence that allow for this to work well in practice.

[0] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/rrg/papers/icra12_aggressive_fli...
I use Safari's reading list on iOS and OS X.
We've hit 70's in January often enough over the years.
It seemed like everybody's journalistic integrity was dropping like a rock.
Here's the github link :-)

https://github.com/hyperledger/hyperledger

TLDR: there's no code in that repo.
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By being very good at conning people? The guy was brazen, but he was able to keep his game up for several years.
Going to guess that pissing off too many powerful people can also move you to the front of the list.
November, autumn and year-to-date were all hottest on record for Earth: NOAA
Except this is actually working pretty well as opposed to ATM :)
Of course, and I bet that's the GP's point. In fact, the commonly held definition of a state is the organization that holds the monopoly of violence. Whether that organization is a United Nations member state or haunted down by Interpol has historically depended more on old friendships and stalemates and Who Has The Oil than anything else.
Hi DHJSH, I just wanted to let you know that you have been "shadowbanned", which means all of your comments are dead on HN by default. I vouched for this comment to make it visible, but mainly in order to reply to you and let you know that you have been banned.
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It's actually been shown time and time again that the most obvious benefit in the "lifestyles to discourage cancer" department is to simply not smoke cigarettes.

But certainly exercise is a close second; add to it all of the other benefits you mention.
Unclear if this qualifies, but here's a bank robbery claimed to be art: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2015/01/12/former-mit-prof...
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Okay, has someone made an extension that lets me pretend to have the most common set of plugins on the most common version of firefox?
I don't know any of the specifics of the case and IANAL so I couldn't say. My lay understanding is that this is a pretty straight-forward case and he will see the inside of a jail cell.

Personally, I think that impression (which is popular) is largely because A) white-collar criminals can typically afford better representation than someone e.g. accused of armed robbery; B) we're much more likely to hear about someone who embezzled $30 million getting off with a slap on the wrist than we are to hear about someone who broke into an empty apartment building getting a similarly light sentence.
Does this mean anyone can write Python to wasm converter then run it on browser, looks like LLVM backend?
He softened up a bit after a year. Some people you just have to win their respect.
You are saying freedom of speech is a bad thing. You are endorsing state censorship.

Do you realize that at one point you yourself could be in a position where you disagree with your government and you want to speak up only to find your message being silenced constantly?

Either all people are equal or they are not, some people can not be more equal than others.
Smoking also increases the risk of cancer of the pancreas, liver, kidneys, esophagus, stomach, colon, cervix, breast, and bone marrow.

The link to lung cancer is the most high profile (and rightly so -- 80% to 90% of all incidences of long cancer are primarily attributed to smoking), but its carcinogenic effect can be seen all over the body.
Congratulations, Uber, you just reinvented the bus.
autotools isn't mainly a build system; it's a system for preparing a program which will self-configure and build in various systems. Those systems themselves do not have any special tools installed. No Autotools, no GNU-anything.

Autotools was intended to solve the problem of how to give the same tarball of code to a user of SunOS 4, Ultrix, HP-UX 8, and so on, such that each of those users could just unpack the tarball, run ./configure and then make. (Using the make that came with their OS, not CMake, not GNU Make, not gyp and so on).

Some of the requirements don't hold as much any more; you can rely on newer POSIX shell features in a configure script, and GNU make is more widely available and so on, but the basic idea is solid: no requirement for any exotic build system just to get the program running.

It's the implementation that sucks in Autotools. The high level ideas are solid.
A wind/water/solar grid is stable without batteries
Yes, looking at the sample minimum/maximum does change the probabilities. You're looking for Extreme Value Theory.

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

I kept it simple (above or below average should be equal probability if your average is really average) to try and avoid that. I have no idea what kind of distributions weather follows, and as the other guy noted weather is not fully independent either. But it works for a simple explanation. :)

It's been a long time since my stat courses and I don't remember this stuff all that well. Maybe there is something that expresses it better. Either way the fact that we're suddenly having a big run of Nth Warmest Year events is pretty suggestive that something is going on. But you do have to look at it as a trend, particular years aren't all that meaningful.
Agreed.

I think it's arguable that, when the question you're asking is 'how well do X and Y two things correlate with each other', the statistic you should be giving is r (which here is 0.49), not r^2. r^2 is the proportion of the variance of Y that's explained by X -- not that that isn't an interesting thing, but ITSM the correlation coefficient is more to what people expect a measure of relationship to be. (IANAStatistician)
have you worked such jobs yourself? i'd guess not from the tone and content...

... there is a lot of value in learning to be common. you might also come out of such experiences with 4) an understanding of day-to-day terms that prevent you from giving away your origins in conversation, 5) good friends who will bring joy to your life long after you leave the job, 6) understanding the benefits of speaking up at the right time in an oppressive environment, 7) understanding how privileged people with desk jobs are etc. etc...
I've been shocked at the number of enterprises with workflows involving shared Excel docs (particularly in the eCommerce space). One of my (Magento) community members has a business which seems to tackle some of the issues around this: https://www.cobby.io/

Might be worth having a chat with him.
For values of "westernization" that equate to "living longer" and "better, more accurate health care".

Your anecdote is likely true because of those reasons, similar to the "rise" in autism.
I don't fully understand the argument against FRP here. It seems like the author has passed on FRP in favor of coroutine-like asynchronous programming. I don't view one as replacement for the other, but as different layers of an asynchronous programming system. Coroutines are great for async and imperative tasks, while FRP is great for async and functional tasks with persistent data. My own FRP implementation [0] in Guile Scheme is built on top of a coroutine implementation [1], which in turn is built on top of Guile's first-class delimited continuations. [2]

That said, the author specifically talks about RxJs and Bacon.js, both of which have two major problems for me:

1) They don't satisfy the closure property. They both have two fundamental data types: event streams and properties. Certain combinators expect streams, and others expect properties. Compare this with API's like Elm's which just have a single type: the signal. The closure property is satisfied here and programming is much more pleasant.

2) They both deal with stream/property life cycles. Objects need to explicitly unsubscribe from other objects, and streams may have a beginning and an end (i.e. they may be marked as having no value or marked as being done producing values). I think this is a mistake that complicates the API. FRP objects should always have a value, have no notion of being done, and not require the equivalent of manual memory management to clean up. My Scheme implementation uses weak references to automatically unsubscribe signals when they are no longer referenced, which is basically only during development when changing things at the REPL. Bacon and RxJS can't do something like this because (and correct me if I'm wrong), no JS standard prior to ES6 has weak data structures. Anyway, after all the hacking, the final program has a static signal graph, just like Elm, which I think is the right way to do things.

[0] https://git.dthompson.us/sly.git/blob/HEAD:/sly/signal.scm

[1] https://git.dthompson.us/sly.git/blob/HEAD:/sly/coroutine.sc...

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Prompts....
When you know the participants PoW is just a waste. You can use something like round robin to determine who gets to add the next block. That means that no it's not.
$420 minimum? That's great. Count me in!
Web assembly always makes me a little sad. It feels like we are going back to flash only it won't be bad this time, I promise, no really.

I always feel like the most obvious use for it is to start writing truly hateful and abusive code.

I'm sure this is because I'm getting old.
Legalize victimless crime, and hold property owners responsible for securing their own property. When police can concentrate solely on reducing violence, they will do a better job of it.
I hope for Wu-Tang's sake that they cashed the check already.
Former National Hurricane Center director Max Mayfield and I used to sneak up to the rooftop looking for the Green Flash while building our new business. It was his dream to see it in his lifetime. We never did see the flash, but the peaceful anticipation of going up there each day is perhaps my favorite memory from that startup experience.
Does the gleeful reaction to this bother anyone else? It's understandable in a way, but it grosses me out.
"Alienware" isn't misleading, because nobody sane would think it was genuine alien technology. When I saw "Zero Latency" I was briefly very excited because I thought it actually meant "zero latency". Maybe they had tapped directly into the brain to get access to eye/muscle movement signals before normal sensors could, early enough to compensate for the unavoidable latency of rendering and simulation. This would be a real breakthrough in man-machine interfaces, and it could be fairly described as "zero latency" because it really could be zero as measured with respect to conventional sensors.

But no, it's just typical marketing lies.
It's presumably 1 in 4 people who have tried Panopticlick, which isn't a representative sample of general browsers (for example, a lot of people might try it with Tor Browser or with private browsing mode).
I'm curious about that book (The Master Algorithm): I began reading it, but stopped early because I got the impression it would be too "entry-level" for me, thus a waste of my time. Should I consider keeping on with it, and why?

It's hard to say. It's not a deeply technical book, I will say that. The main value I found in it, is that he covers a broad base of different techniques and then lays out some ideas on how they could all be combined to make a "general purpose learner". I found it worth reading, but YMMV.
It could just be to relieve the pressure on Cue.

Apple's reliance on the iCloud infrastructure is increasing with every new product they roll out. And there is the recent purchase of FoundationDB to manage and integrate as well as dealing with the increasing scalability and stability issues. It does make sense to have some focus there.
Subpoena is a subpoena, most wire taps and telecom subpoenas are confidential you can't really have your target knowing that you are tapping them can you?

No where did i mentioned spilling of oil it's just an example if an energy company doesn't want to cooperate with the government it's perfectly legitimate to order your energy sector to stop importing oil from them this happens quite often. Same goes for websites that violate laws like copyright which are blocked by ISP's.

The Brazilian government has no power over WhatsApp and WhatsApp knows this very well this is why they've utterly ignored them, this isn't some civil rights issue WhatsApp cooperates with US and EU countries all the time this is they CBA because it's Brazil.

And lastly Brazil was part of the 3rd world during the Cold War and is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement so it's really not a western country.
Aka "unlimited downside".
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HeidiSQL is pretty good feature-wise, though I think it still can't connect to a server via a SSH tunnel if also using an encrypted MySQL connection (the SSL checkboxes are greyed out).

Another issue is that while it's open source, it's written in a language that requires an obscure, proprietary and expensive compiler, which makes contributing to it basically impossible.
Tor Browser does that:

https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/
Confirmed as Adelson family (son-in-law, and so forth), by the paper itself, on December 16, 2015 - 1:51pm:
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/adelson-son-law-...
that would explain a lot
I reckon I'm a prime candidate for an MBA because of the aforementioned factors. I don't have an advanced degree in a 'hard' field. Even though I run a business - and a growing one at that - there is some insecurity that comes from not having an advanced degree checkbox against my name, especially since I come from a culture that values education highly.
What is the basis for this comment? I'm sure that a lot of people who are "happy at this guy being indicted" are not economic libertarians.

Also, who defends economic libertarianism "for the sole reason that it allows them to pay less taxes, regardless of what's in the public interest"? I know that's a favorite caricature of libertarians that's dear to those who don't agree with libertarianism, but that doesn't mean it's true.

Not that your comment is particularly worth of discussion, but you'd think there would better reasoning behind calling out a broad category of commenters out as being "disgustingly selfish".
Totally chiefin'
Wait, so you're a dev, not a reporter?

Where in the world are you? This is an important question.
Also, armed robbery is often much easier to prove than more complex securities fraud.
PDF: http://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/Combi...
Don't forget buckets! Those have resulted in more than a few drowning deaths over the years.

You've reminded me: The CPSC introduced stop-sale regulation on magnets (remember Buckyballs?) for even fewer deaths than that, and where most of the non-fatal injuries were the result of poor decisions by adolescents. Worse, in my opinion, the relatively small number of deaths that occurred were almost all traceable to irresponsible adults leaving magnets in places where toddlers could pick them up and swallow them.

That's still a sore point for me.
Parent's comment falls more or less in line with my (anecdotal) understanding of organized crime operations and their relation to the justice system in most mid-to-large Canadian cities. I can't imagine American cities are much different.
Yup, I feel that.
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Well, I guess everyone loves ideas that re-enforce their own personal beliefs, instead of looking [1] up [2] the various [3] studies that prove this, all you had to do was click through five links and you'd have enough information to dismantle these very common, but unscientific, perspectives. No worries. I'll do the work for you guys since many are just lazy. Here are a handful [4, 5] of sources.

It's pretty clear that Gingko DOES work. Low doses (120mg), don't. But that's why I linked to the plethora of research to look into the matter.

Finally, source four just makes me laugh because it's clear as day from UMM, that Gingko does work. Also, there are many many more sources that speak to the benefits of Gingko for cognitive repair and slowing down decay. Please don't limit this discussion to the five I listed, hence why I originally linked to search results.

Sources (with brief snippets of importance):

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26268332
"Ginkgo biloba is potentially beneficial for the improvement of cognitive function, activities of daily living, and global clinical assessment in patients with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease."

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12244890
"Metaanalysis in the indication--demential disorders--comparing Ginkgo biloba versus acetylcholinesterase inhibitors have shown a similar clinical efficacy of both therapy regimens with an additional drug safety benefit for Ginkgo. Due to the clinical efficacy the WHO accepted Ginkgo biloba as an antidementiv drug and add it in January 2000 into the recent ATC-Classification Index."

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0072541/
"The studies showed that people who took the higher dose of the ginkgo extract (240 mg per day) were better able to perform daily activities again, like doing household chores or washing themselves."

[4] http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/herb/ginkgo-biloba
"Ginkgo is widely used in Europe for treating dementia. At first, doctors thought it helped because it improves blood flow to the brain. Now research suggests it may protect nerve cells that are damaged in Alzheimer disease. Several studies show that ginkgo has a positive effect on memory and thinking in people with Alzheimer disease or vascular dementia."

[5] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12519586
"Overall there is promising evidence of improvement in cognition and function associated with Ginkgo. "
It might - depending on what I intend to do with the file (I still have the offsets of the individual files because I know the original file sizes).

API-wise, in my humble experience, it's hell to deal with operations that are supposed to work on bit-streams but try to be smart and ask me for encodings of those - this is information I might not even have when building on those basic operations. The "oddities", how you call them, are the result of not over-abstracting the code to handle yet-unknown problems.

You want to concatenate text files with different encodings? Convert them. Expecting a basic tool to do this for you (or carp on "problems") quintessentially leads to cat converting image formats for you and demanding to know how to combine those images: (addition, subtraction, append to left/top/right/bottom of first image etc).
Agree. Luckily attitudes have shifted over the years and companies realize there's too much risk in alienating a good candidate.
With certain rare configurations (if you have a domain-based blacklist blocker and javascript disabled) this may occur. I suggest turning your js back on just for the test.
It's more like CPython to wasm or http://pypyjs.org/ -> wasm
>>The Wolf of Wall Street was a glorification of this type of behavior and a lot of people saw Jordan in that movie as a "Hero"

Interesting analogy, and I'm glad you pointed this out. I was disgusted by Wolf of Wall Street, and even more disgusted by how exalted Belfort became after. So many friends and acquaintances admired and aspired towards what they saw in the film - that was the worst part of it for me. I just can't relate.
But they're all getting their money back: investment == $0 assuming opportunity costs are essentially zero. So everyone basically gets something for nothing.
> As a stock holder I can say this about other stock holders. Fuck'em. They get 10-50% return for literally parking their money. As they have more capital related income, they should be taxed as income (outside of reasonably tax-protected vehicles like retirement plans).

Word. As a TSLA stockholder with >10K shares, I couldn't care less if it went to 0. It was a gamble, and only because I believed in what Elon was trying to do.
>blockchain aims to solve the "Two Generals' Problem"[0] short explanation in video[1]

PoW aims to solve that. Blockchains are just a way to store data in an agreed format with immutability and known ordering.

>On what the article says, transactions not relying on the first bitcoin blockchain are more vulnerable to 51% attacks

51% attacks are an issue for PoW systems. Private chains don't need PoW so aren't vulnerable to them.
I don't know anything about neural networks but the video in the article alludes to some advantage in terms of learning on the fly, which I'd appreciate if some expert could clarify.

What I'm trying to say is that perhaps the flexibility of spiking neurons is that the training can be done "online", in the sense of an online algorithm, i.e. the data is processed as it arrives instead of existing entirely in memory beforehand. Perhaps traditional methods used by the deep learning community don't have good properties in this instance?

Still, I believe there's a lot of future in "analog-esque" computation as we probe the frontiers of what's possible to fab and the cost of straight-jacketing the digital illusion onto tinier and tinier transistors.
"I always found the harder I worked, the luckier I got" - Henry Ford.

I imagine that applies ten fold to becoming an astronaut
"I do believe Martin is a good guy on the wrong path."

What makes you think he's a good guy? All the evidence points to the contrary, both morally and apparently ethically and legally based on this indictment.
Docker to release containerd, a standalone container runtime
Would love to see more examples.
Are there more references available?
Any similar projects?
This scenario might be called a "short squeeze". If you can't actually borrow the stock which you've located before shorting - then you get "bought in" - and your broker will just buy shares at whatever price is necessary to cover.
WordPress 4.4 comes with a new REST API that might change some things:

http://v2.wp-api.org/
Does anybody know if there are plans for an API for garbage collection? The WASM spec as it currently exists seems to be only useful for non-GC languages, and it would be a shame if we ended up shipping a new GC implementation for every page that we load. Perhaps something that would allow compilers to tap into the native JS GC?
> Just because the use case is uncommon doesn't make it invalid.

Yes! Designers of systems, APIs, and user interfaces should adopt this as a sort of mantra.
I suppose I shouldn't really be recommending git GUI's as I mostly use the command line. I use SourceTree on occasion to get a better perspective when browsing the history.
I hope they get the album back and re-sell it to an honest buyer, instead of keeping stolen money.