skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to diminish Dean Karnazes' feat, but you might be interested to find out someone recently did 50 Ironman races in 50 days (http://www.runnersworld.com/general-interest/50-ironmans-in-...). An Ironman includes a 2.4 mile swim and a 100 mile bike ride in addition to a full-length marathon.
Weren't they prosperous for a while after World War I?
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Hate everywhere, for a change...

I don't get why people think PH owes them in any way. Yes, it's all about curation. But yes, anyone could post there, provided they have a good product and they socialize a bit.

And this is what this is about. To me, PH is a social network for founders. They show off their project, discuss it and get feedback.

To all the people blaming how it's not egalitarian: would you create a twitter account, avoid engaging with anyone, then complain nobody is following you?

The same applies than in any social network: if you want people to get interested in what you're doing, start with being interested in what they're doing, and chat, a lot.
From what I've read in docs posted above, identity key is copied from S-Android to S-Desktop. If you lose S-Android, there are two possibilities.

1) Your keys are safe (device was encrypted and/or you've wiped it remotely, whatever). In such situation you could be able to transfer keys from S-Desktop to new mobile. AFAIK there is no such functionality yet (remember, its Beta).

2) Your keys are not safe. In such case no recovery is possible. Notify all contacts about the fact that they should "reset secure session", forgetting your Signal identity and establish new Signal identity.

Anyway, this is the only solution on market with secure chats and multi-device sync.
I've tried to adopt powershell, and here are the obstacles I encountered:

1) You can't write or run scripts "out of the box", you need to do a security incantation first. A oneoff hurdle, but right at the start of the learning curve.

2) Perhaps because of (1), it's not very dogfooded: on a UNIX system, there are lots of already-existing shell scripts sitting around as parts of the OS. PS is not so rich in examples.

3) If you do actually want to parse data, it's not very good at this.

4) I've not worked out how to save intermediate stages in a pipeline to persistent storage.

5) Hasn't yet developed much of a "user culture", although I think that will come eventually.
Indeed. Sometimes things are complicated/messy because we're stupid or lazy or ignorant.

But sometimes things are complicated/messy because we're trying to solve complex problems.

That's not to say that there isn't a simple solution to a particular problem nor that we should strive to find it.

But to assume that there are always simple solutions to complex problems is itself a form of ignorance.
No worries, in a few years, corporations will be able to sue governments into oblivion for lost revenue on cases like this...
> For each image, the algorithm produces a heat map showing which parts of the image are most memorable. By emphasizing different regions, they can potentially increase the image’s memorability.

Most memorable, according to human subjects subjective thought on the matter?

> The team then pitted its algorithm against human subjects by having the model predicting how memorable a group of people would find a new never-before-seen image. It performed 30 percent better than existing algorithms and was within a few percentage points of the average human performance.

Who's to say human subjects are any good at objectively judging how memorable a photo is? I feel like I'm missing something.

Edit: Riight, I guess it could be based on observing neural activity in human subjects while they look at photos. That makes a lot more sense.
The syntax is TOML-looking but is simplified to fit the purpose. Supports inheritance and basic control structures for concise syntax.
It's rather difficult to keep a Google account without it growing Gmail, Google+ and so on over the years. My own Google account was forced to gain a Gmail address by Youtube one day (and doing so really screwed it up, as now all my Google-using friends see my Gmail address as my primary email address).
That's the problem in a nutshell, and quite elegantly stated.
I just read the associated article [1] and somehow, despite the fact that I've understood that neural networks and deep learning have been coming for years, it has caused some kind of explosion in my brain - like this is all coming true quicker than I thought. What struck me in particular was the notion that physical work has been revolutionised and now thought-based work will be revolutionised - removing from large chunks of humanity that must fundamental of needs - something to frantically do all day.

Can anyone recommend online courses in deep learning, neural networks and machine vision? I have kids that I need to prepare for a world that I just realised I hardly understand.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driv...
I sold my house to save my startup
The appeal to ego is an important part of clickbait. Sociological approaches are the most effective measure in societies where the incidence of cancer is low. Ironically, people who find out that cancer is their personal problem are those who are most able to receive treatment. Many if not all modern problems must be solved through massive collaboration; that which we can be conditioned to eschew or enjoy. The negative conditioning is thusly a Bayesian impedance to human advancement.
Do you believe that the enterprise software will be forced to move into SaaS?
Yeah, I think you should just call it a model or scientific theory (although both of these may be confusing terms for laymen) and not be too picky about people calling it "fact" (I think there is no point arguing with people you share beliefs with). We also often informally call gravity a "fact", although technically it's just a theory too.
Non-pay-walled reporting on this[1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/12/16/...
If all you learn in a start-up has to do with politics you're doing something very wrong.
>or going through a ludicrous ritual of photographing a QR code

You know you have to do that only once yes?
Yeah this is exactly what I mean by a certain kind of logical thinking. It's made worse by these tasks seeming a lot more simple than they actually are, before you even think about accidental complexity.

What's frustrating is when programmers mistake inherent complexity for the accidental kind and therefore label the whole enterprise a terrible mess.

In fact overall I think this distracts from ACTUAL accidental complexity since if you think programming is generally terrible you'll probably not be too interested in some small details of that :)
I guess an MBA is more for networking and opening doors, and not necessarily for important job skills.
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If the proof cannot be understood, it might very well be the case that another researcher more concerned with advancing knowledge for us all, will be credited. There are many roads to Rome.

Proofs that cannot be grasped are like unproven truths. Worth very little... They only stand through the credibility of the inventor. It downgrades the mathematician to a politician.
I think its pretty clear, the time invested in a mba degree is quite enough to really improve or learn new technical skills.
While I'm not terribly familiar with UML, I was under the impression that it's primarily a modeling language, not necessarily a visual programming implement.

As far as I'm aware, most visual programming today is actually implemented in the form of node-based editors, which gained popularity in the film and visual effects industries well over a decade ago.

The best modern examples I can think of are probably Nuke[0] and UE4's Blueprint[1] system.

[0] https://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/nuke/

[1] https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Blueprints/E...
To see the overall architecture, the following block diagram I created for Wikipedia some time ago might be helpful:

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Windows_2000_archi...

Incidentally, it annoys the living snott out of me that I took the time to put a PNG version of this together, someone redoes the diagram as an SVG then someone loads it to commons and I don't get any credit!

Update: I speak too soon. The image viewer doesn't show it, but the main page does.
Chromium? No more closed source blobs [0]

[0]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/26/googles_not_listenin...
Yeah - definitely put a lot of work into this. Will update the screen shots and reduce fluffiness. Thanks!
In this specific case: "bad luck" was being used to talk about normal random mutation, as opposed to a genetic predisposition or a mutation triggered by something you ate or drank or smoked or otherwse exposed yourself.

It's unfortunate that the original researchers used that phrase; and the the reporters did a terrible job of explaining it; and that the reporting of this newer study uses similar language.
Is blocking an app because they ignored perfectly reasonable legal requests "anti-technology"?

I'd then call the developers "psychopaths" because they don't understand the harm done by drug smugglers.
I used to work for a security vendor and MIME/email used to be another great target for exploiting mail filters. We had our own sec team checking the security of our own software - amazing what stuff they found in our own code base and third party libraries. Security is hard.
Using your phone number and address book to find contacts is what made it really easy for me. Also, iPhone users don't use Hangouts, but were somehow "forced" to use Whatsapp to talk to people on Android phones.
They were prosperous when they had surges of incoming white immigrants from Europe, yes.
But beware of the pitfalls: https://www.simple-talk.com/sysadmin/powershell/a-plethora-o...
Can I ask what you mean by "me-too product"?
To me the superiority of the windows GUI isn't really beauty or consistency (which with Windows 10 is basically gone, you have three styles in the same OS - Win 8, Win 7 and Win XP). And Windows has many other rough GUI edges.

To me the real superiority of the windows GUI is that almost all of the settings are accessible with a GUI. In Linux or MacOX you very quickly end up having to write some command lines or editing a text file. That's great for already experienced users or administrators running batches. But to the common user, discoverability and intuitiveness is crucial and you are not helping them with an OS they can't understand or control. One should be able to visually see the state of the system.

If CLI had auto-complete/intellisense features, the gap would be smaller.
What do they say about karma?
Perhaps send the robots first to prepare for humans later.
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
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I do not fully agree with your point, because it is not black or white, it is a spectrum.
So, short of living next to a leaking power station or contaminated waters, the food you eat is the most intimate way you make contact with your environment.
Do not forget that your body fights free radicals and oxidative stress. If you give it the proper nutrition it needs to repair itself and eliminate waste then you are statistically in a very good position.

Also, about Genes: you may have genes that are more sensitive to certain chronic diseases, but it is your environment that activates those genes.
Example, if you are at risk of diabetes, but eat very well, you may never get diabetes.
The proof is a human interaction: it is a series of papers written by one person to transmit their ideas to other people.

If it were a giant Coq term then sure, you can ignore those pesky details like "understandability".
Gonna knock you right on the head.
I just learned about Math 55 and would trade plenty to teach that course.

The problem here is that Mochizuki uses too many German Nazi references.

Those people had no academic integrity whatsoever; and their works are exclusively stolen, through war crimes and the Holocaust.

After you do the right thing, and translate Mochizuki's nomenclature into French and Slavic; the proof is no longer valid, and the problem is negligible.

For the record, Oswald Teichmüller is a fraudulent Nazi war criminal who robbed Felix Hausdorff during the Holocaust.

The undeniable fact that Oswald Teichmüller is solely published in a journal of racial propaganda makes Mochizuki's choice of terminology questionable at the very least.

The fact that I am being suppressed for this demonstrates unambiguously that Mochizuki's proof is nothing more than media hype and puffery.
I'm a judge in Brazil. Even tough I'd pray to not be the one that had to give such an impopular order (affecting more then 100 million Brazilians - WhatsApp is really a hit here), we have laws in this country and we must prosecute criminals.

Mark's talk about privacy is, in my opinion, totally misplaced. No right is absolute, and that includes the right to privacy. Criminals, for example, simply don't have it. This is not me saying; this is our Constitution saying it (and the Constitution of every Western country that I know).

We are biased to see all measures against privacy with bad eyes, specially after Snowden. But that's because you are good people and see the matter with those eyes, not with the eyes of a criminal. Do you guys think that pedophiles, terrorists and drug dealers have the right to privacy ? I don't.

Also, what the NSA was (is?) doing is a complete absurd, with no judicial oversight, mass collecting everything they can get in secrecy. This has nothing to do with what we have here. In Brazil, only a judge can authorize someone to be wiretapped, it can only be done in criminal cases with jail time (no civil cases). Also, the judge must specify a single phone number or single e-mail account and the decision must be reviewed every 15 days, otherwise it expires. Also, there's a national database of wiretaps that every judge must feed by the end of the month, specifying how many wiretaps there are currently running.

WhatsApp and Facebook are not, by any means, above the law. If they want to provide a communication service here, the law is clear that they must abide by judicial orders that allow wiretapping in very specific cases.
> Agree. Let the author put his money where his mouth is first, then we can discuss where he's right.

I am.
I've tried this, some two decades ago:

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

"The development of Rose 2.0 combined a Windows-based Booch notation editor called Object System Designer (acquired from Wisconsin-based Palladio) with a new intermediate representation, and with new semantic analysis, code generation, and reverse engineering capabilities. The latter, which allowed prospective customers to analyze existing C++ code to produce "as-built" navigable class diagrams, helped overcome Rational's late re-entry into the market for object-oriented modeling tools. Rose 2.0 ran on Windows PCs and on several Unix-based workstations."

It wasn't usable, except to be used in the projects doomed to fail. Or spend a lot of money. Which is something a goal of the managers. But it still can't be named a success.
Quite nice. Have you though about adding the new WinRT changes?
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I'd love to know what your background in law is to say such an absurd thing. What case would they have ? "We failed to comply with a judicial order and decided to protect criminal's privacy instead, and we got blocked. We want damages". Seriously ?
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You can also use it with chromium, which is open source.
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Sorry for the confusion, I clarified something above.
Regarding 1), at least it avoids the curl | sh => send $HOME to the world of current UNIX users.
Just to be clear, you're referring to coding theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coding_theory) in the sense of geometric codes from information theory, right? I fail to see an obvious way search engines fit in.
The last successful launch of a "new" operating system was maybe iOS? Whereas there are plenty of expensively developed commercial failures littering the path.

A serious problem: who would pay for the development of a new OS, or sink a very large chunk of free time into it? What properties would it have that could not be achieved starting from one of the POSIX OSs? Who would port all the apps? Why would people - end users - adopt it?
BRB, installing vmware on my Win8 tablet.
Reminded me of this couple on their 60s that ran everyday for 366 days covering 10,000 miles, and they live on raw fruits and vegetables: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/couple-run-marathons-r...
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I think any age you are comfortable with. My son's school just started using Khan Academy as a supplement. He is in second grade, but third grade math. He really enjoys it, as do I.
Yes, Signal's advantage is the cryptographical security of the messages. It's NOT server independent.
> I am.

Jesus! (1)

What are you going to make or you're making already to change the "suckiness" of programming? Or was your article (and the question to others) your contribution? You've got at least a lot of comments here (and a lot of disagreement too) now you have something to proceed.

1) John 8: 58 and http://hightechministries.org/Eight%20I%20Am%20of%20Jesus.pd...
Sounds like maybe this could be used for deep-learning networks to learn what to pay attention to. The memorable regions should be the salient or important regions in the image. Basically the more you are paying attention, the more memorable something is.
What would be usefull for both sides?

Facebook should save the real name BUT NOT DISPLAY it. You can display whatever you want. Fake name or what you like. Your friend can find you (if they know your real name) with search but nobody else can see your real name.
The result of the work is not boring (hopefully, for the sake of its users). But the process of getting there is rarely creative (in the sense of inventing something new).

Most software engineers rarely need to come up with new data structures or fancy algorithms. Most of these things are already there, we just need to know which ones to pick in a particular situation and how to glue them together.
>However, I would say that my aversion isn't based on a fundamental problem just on my experience that "graphical" tools are often awful from a usability and practicality perspective ...

Yeah. For any truly novel visual programming approach to succeed it'd probably require some next-level UI/UX work for sure.
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>Stop smoking, and control how much alcohol you drink, continue to be important public health messages to reduce the incidence of cancer.

That obviously depends on the type of cancer. Smokers are way more likely to get lung cancer but for other types of cancer with high mortality rates (prostate, breast, myeloma, lymphoma etc) there is no single attributable 'exposure' that is known to be the cause.
> Do you guys think that pedophiles, terrorists and drug dealers have the right to privacy ?

Do you mean _alleged_ criminals? Yes, they do.

Convicted criminals, on the other hand, don't have that right already.
If you didn't know this already you're dumber than dirt.
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I like how the Signal app (at least on Android) also works for insecure SMS to give me one place for messaging... well apart from everyone who uses WhatsApp at least.

What I'd love is if they could also make it an email client too. Letting me send/receive insecure emails or (if the recipient has Signal) encrypted email using the same key management. I'd much prefur to give out an email address (totally in my control) than a phone number (could be taken away from me at any moment).

One digital communication app please.
I mean, yes, we don't think that criminals should have the right to privacy, but to me large companies and governments have abused the shit out of a lack of complete privacy for everyone to the point where I don't trust them to make this reasonable compromise.

I would rather the rest of us have this right protected in spite of the fact that some criminals will get it as well.
The order wasn't super broad, it was actually specific to a single individual, like you said.

Also, even if it was broad, you don't get to ignore judicial orders. You answer to them giving your reasons and appealing if you don't agree. Ignoring them will get you either punished or arrested.

WhatsApp notoriously doesn't even have an office in Brazil. No way to even get a judicial order to them.

Facebook, the parent company, simply says they are Facebook and not WhatsApp, so they can't help.

By the way, the judge in case actually demonstrated quite a deep understanding of the web. Unable to get WhatsApp to comply, he ordered all telecoms to block WhatsApp IP addresses, which was quite a smart move.
I am from Brazil and I can say that we are nowhere near becoming the new Argentina.
Honestly the MBA has always mostly been an advanced degree for people who didn't get an advanced degree in a real subject. Lets people tick the 'grad school' box. The real world value has always been quite questionable and yes I'd agree here that in tech it's mostly useless, if not actually even a disadvantage.

For what's it's worth nearly all the excellent executives I've met over the years didn't have an MBA and nearly all the worst ones did...
What kind of person would think that they could get away with such blatant extortion and embezzlement? In this day and age?
It would require an international treaty with appropriate language to do so (not that it is likely IMHO), but then it can be analogous to the "your environmental laws caused us to shut down our polluting factory, so you owe us damages" cases.
No they don't. Your argument doesn't make any logical sense.

Wiretapping is needed during the investigation phase, which you need to gather evidence BEFORE trialling and convicting anyone. And is only authorized if you have strong evidence that a crime or criminal organization is in place.

If only convicted criminals didn't have right to privacy, how would you get them convicted in the first place ?

Also, you really got it 100% backwards. Convicted criminals have right to privacy after they are convicted, because we don't assume they will commit new crimes.

Everybody is presumed innocent until proven otherwise. We must have new evidence that convicted criminals are commiting crimes to start a new wiretap.
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Absolutely agree with HeidiSQL. I'm in a situation where I'm still running MySQL 4.0.26 and essentially nothing properly supports that with the exception of the old MySQL query client (not workbench) and HeidiSQL which blows mysqls software out of the water. It's a really solid software.
so there is a god...
> At least it has no negative effects

It has opportunity costs though. Assuming that MBA is indeed useless, she would have achieved greater things in lesser time had she spent the time on something more meaningful than pursuing the MBA.
Okay. What if there's a lot of proofs, but the shortest of those is still not within reach of human intellect?