skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One (albeit small) thing you can do is to do much as possible offline.
For instance you could download Wikipedia
and use it offline only.

The same goes for maps. For example, Open Street Map data can be used offline.
Its supposed to be true in every base. But of course in Binary its not true. Every prime in Binary ends in a 1; its followed by another prime that ends in a 1.
For sure, a really unbiased site
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Well.. smoothscroll.js

This removes it if you wanted to A/B test it

window.removeEventListener("mousewheel", ssc_wheel)

I don't find it that bad but it's a bit more janky than default. But you lose the overscrolling that OS X has.
Something like this should be in standard C.
My friend just did a similar thing, but for the Space Invaders: http://maciejjaskowski.github.io/2016/03/09/space-invaders.h..., at the Recurse Center.

EDIT: It got here as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11282797
One could argue that's precisely because they stuff a dynamic language interpreter inside a static language compiler. :)
You can also watch Surrogates, the same themes are explored in that film.
Here's the blog post about it: http://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2016/03/14/announcing-the-sca...
Not every prime, 10 is of course prime and ends in 0.
>Cold fusion is dismissed out of hand.

Exactly.
For FLOSS you could let users put donations on an issue, whenever the pot gets large enough for a developer to take interest they'll work on it. That way you don't need to determine a price and you let users decide what features they want by putting their money where their mouth is.
Authors sign over their copyrights to the journals. Are you suggesting copyright should not be transferable (people should not be permitted to transact freely)?

Authors do benefit by being able to publish for much less than it would cost were they to bear all the costs. To be precise, they benefit by the cost of open access that offers comparable service.
We chose found.io I figure since they write the code it better run smoothly for us.
The most disillusioning thing for me as an undergrad was to try to replicate results from a paper on a relatively complicated problem, and not achieving anywhere near the papers level of results.

I got access to the source code, and the super complicated algorithm added almost nothing to the results, the glossed over / hand waved past data normalization worked so well that there wasn't a need for any further classification. This paper was pretty well received and cited, despite it basically not work.
"If Alice tosses a coin until she sees a head followed by a tail, and Bob tosses a coin until he sees two heads in a row, then on average, Alice will require four tosses while Bob will require six tosses (try this at home!), even though head-tail and head-head have an equal chance of appearing after two coin tosses."

How does this work?
That can't be right. Amateurs do not beat pro players 25% of the time, yet single machine AlphaGo beats distributed AlphaGo 25% of the time.
Unrelated gut flora personal story:

Few years ago I was in bad health. Got sick 4 times a year had a lot of pain going to the bathroom and was in a general state of depression. Started taking probiotics in 2 weeks I felt happier and my over all health improved. Did some research and found that it is estimated that 90 percent of the body's serotonin is made in the digestive tract. Who knew, get your body right added some probiotics in your diet.
Yes, I realized your meaning a while after I commented.
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Good point. I'm not an expert on global warming, but I guess crop failures are much more likely in southern areas? Recently, I read the science fiction book The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi. This book takes place in a future US, on a planet where there has been lots of global warming. In this future US, there are border controls between the states, to stop people fleeing from the drought. Not sure how likely this is to happen, but it's great book anyway.
I'm in the comments looking for an answer too.
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I hoped he would have touched on one more important and oft overlooked point:

Encryption is not a secret. It's accessible to criminals, and criminals don't give a shit about "backdoor" laws.

In fact, I'd venture to guess that there is great encryption software already available on jail broken iPhones.
BountySource (https://www.bountysource.com/) is a similar thing which is well established and doesn't mess up my browser's scrolling.
It varies a lot per person.

The effects are 6 hours for me, less than 1 hour for my father (who smokes), and can last over 18 hours for my wife and mother-in-law.

I haven't seen the studies on caffiene half-life, but I suspect the variation is very high.

I personally take it early morning and after a siesta.
this is off-topic, but:

> What's in a name?

> "Lua" (pronounced LOO-ah) means "Moon" in Portuguese. As such, it is neither an acronym nor an abbreviation, but a noun. More specifically, "Lua" is a name, the name of the Earth's moon and the name of the language. Like most names, it should be written in lower case with an initial capital, that is, "Lua". Please do not write it as "LUA", which is both ugly and confusing, because then it becomes an acronym with different meanings for different people. So, please, write "Lua" right!

http://www.lua.org/about.html
Your problem with sample size in this particular case is that you fail to account for its duration. Convert sample size to temporal units and you might draw different conclusions since p-values might not look as bad now. An average FDA trial is 3 years, so assuming the prisoners lived for 40 years on their prescribed caffeine diet, you get sample size of 2*40/3 = 26.7. Not bad for 17th century. Last but not least, turn off --verbose mode.
It is believed now that Lee Sedol has a really good ability in reading AlphaGo's moves now (see: Micheal Redmond and AGA Game 4 commentary). Game 5 is going to be very interesting. I'm pretty sure the DeepMind team is just as excited. After game 4, they were noticeably far more ecstatic in the after-game press review.

Hassabis and Silver kind of reminded me of developers given the details of a bug that was notoriously difficult to find.

edit; I can't wait for the reviews of the entire 5 game series. If a book came out I'd very likely buy it. A book discussing both Go and AlphaGo AI at the same time consisting of people among the top of their respective fields would be amazing.
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That would be great.

Here's a "graphics turtle": http://www.stuffaboutcode.com/2014/07/minecraft-fractal-tree...

Here's Rust and LLVM in Minecraft command blocks: https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/37dkg4/sbbm_scri...

Here's someone hacking gnuplots into Minecraft worlds: https://metaphysicaldeveloper.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/hacki...
I don't know. How much can you impede the ability for minorities to vote before it becomes unconstitutional? How much torture can you get away with before it becomes unconstitutionally cruel and unusual? How much can you restrict the abortion rights of women before it runs afoul of the constitution and pre-existing precedent?

It's people asking questions like that, and failing to respect the spirit of the constitution that explains exactly how we've become a nation in which federal power is effectively unrestrained by the constitution.

Endorsing gun control means being an enemy to the bill of rights. Wiggling past scrutiny by playing legislative "I'm not touching you" games as you're doing weakens the whole of protections to the citizenry. Whatever semantic games you like playing against the second amendment sets precedent for those same games to be played by the other side for speech, privacy, abortion and marriage rights. It is the failure of the left to respect some rights, paired with the failure of the right to respect the others that has gotten us where we are.

Just because the government doesn't like a right doesn't mean they get to ignore it. Because people like you let them selectively ignore the rights you don't like is what gives them the power to ignore the rights you do. If you want to be constitutional (and you should), you can ban bullets by repealing the second amendment, or amending the constitution to state that bullets aren't protected by it.
Yep, it's interesting to see a few edge cases out there. There are a tiny number of people that came close to 50 in baseball:basketball:football.

Julio Franco played baseball till 49.
George Blanda played football till 48
Nat Hickey played baseball till 45.
We're getting some practical multi billion dollar products this time like self driving cars. That didn't happen the first time around - you couldn't build that sort of stuff with the 1970s computers.
Calling this medieval is doing it a disservice. The study took place in the late 18th century, during the height of the enlightenment.
The current average size of documents in the index is 2kB, so we'll need ~3.5TB of storage. For 1 replica this could mean 5 i2.xlarge instances if we go for SSDs on AWS.
It's responsive too!
I expect the Atari games, if we're thinking of the same articles, had much less strategic depth than playing a Go champion.
I guess there's a difference in perspective if you take your machine learning classes with the Mathematics/Stats department rather than the Computer Science department.
1. Recruitment - You may hire someone you meet.
2. Networking - Someone may work in a related industry that can be advantageous to you.
3. Relaxation
4. Keeping aware of industry trends. Yes some of this can be done online but in-person gives a different perspective and can be...
5. Fun.
It's progress, very neat progress, but it's not even progress in the sense that there are new kind of problems being solved. AI for Go and similar games has existed for a zillion times, but, given the huge space of the game of Go, it had never been that good at playing it as to beat a human.

Not to diminish that this isn't an achievement, but let's put it into context. To talk about being closer to AGI, a different kind of progress would need to be shown: AI solving different -new- kinds of problems.
Likewise in base ten, 2 and 5 are prime. But this is a statistical argument. So that's cute but not significant?
Well no wonder - it's a conspiracy!
Where is this shown ?

In the Oxford data you link in the sibling comment, in the "Student numbers" PDF, the 2015 ratio for male/female Postgraduate research is 1.37, Postgraduate Taught is 1.18 and for Undergraduate 1.12, in agreement with the 'especially' in the article.
Excellent points. What I would add is that he talks about finite cognitive energy, but nowhere in the article mentions how highlighting helps to save the very same cognitive energy.

For example, if there's a comment in the code, without highlight you would need to follow the comment and look for closing quotes. If the comment contains escaped quotes it becomes even more difficult. With highlight you immediately see where it ends.

Another example are keywords - when they are highlighted, you don't even need to read it. You glance at them and know the meaning by their shape. While without highlighting you would have to read every single one of them to understand that they are in fact keywords and not something else.
What city were you in where the cabs came reliably when you called? That has not been my experience in Boston or Ft Lauderdale. Have you never had a cab driver claim their credit card reader was broken, only to have it magically start working again when you reminded him of the law stating he shouldn't be in service without a working reader?
It does give me hope.

It's happening, and yeah, it's not perfect. But almost nothing in tech is. If we can build the right abstractions to paper over the mess that is the web as a platform, it might be possible for us to easily build reliable / useful / safe applications again.
If Alice fails, and gets a second head, she only has to get one toss right, and hasn't completely reset her sequence.

For Bob, as soon as he sees a tail, his sequence is completely reset and he now has to get two tosses right.

I'm not sure how to calculate averages, though.
> Intuitively, first, both have to get a head. After that, if Alice "fails" by getting a head, then she still needs only one tail. Her first head doesn't get "reset" by failing her second try. But after getting a head, if Bob fails by getting a tail then he does get reset -- he has to start all over.

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/4abm4k/expected_numbe...
Try a few different ones. I had a swing of $200 on my state refund from student loan interest between 3 different tax calculators. For me, that was worth the extra half an hour.
If Alice fails after two tosses, she has a high probability of ending with a head, so that the next toss is more likely to be successful.
The host is British, but Last Week Tonight is an American television show.
That is true, but those products have little to do with OP is talking about. Self driving cars are using nothing more than a calcullator. A very sophisticated one, for sure, but it a calculator nonetheless. It is dubbed "AI" because it sounds sexier.
I wouldn't say nothing. Obviously if she wouldn't have had a gun due to a gun control law she wouldn't have been shot. Would this specific instance of been stopped by most gun control laws proposed probably not. But, still not zero.
Genuine question: how do you benefit from this classes if you just want to use third-party libraries? I mean, you can now do amazing things just using others' APIs without knowing what's behind.
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Because if Alice fails to get H->T, then she has to be back at the first step, H, ready to flip again for H->T

If Bob starts on H and gets T, he needs to continue flipping until he gets back to H.
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Alice: first toss: head. Second toss: head. She can take that second toss as the begining of the new sequence and if she gets tail on the third toss she is done.
In Bob's case, if he gets tail on the second toss, that toss no longer counts and he must get head for the new streak to begin.
Out of curiosity, which ones do you take? I've been taking them for a few years now and have had similar results as you, although it took a while to find a combination that worked for me personally.
there are a slack channel too in gophers.slack.com
I appreciate explaining exactly why you need permissions, but being asked for each and every permission individually gets tedious.
It is still useful to say "prime numbers don't end in 0, 2, 4, 5, or 8" just as it is useful to say "consecutive prime numbers in any base are less likely to be followed by a number with the same least-significant digit". There are special cases at the bottom for both statements.
I'm currently enrolled in a Stanford ML class on Coursera. I'm not very far into it so I don't have a lot to say about the class in particular but I know WHY I signed up for it.

I graduated from uni with a Computer Engineering degree in 2005- ML wasn't really a thing being offered at that point. I loved algebra and calculus but hated statistics. All I hear about these days is machine learning, so I wanted to see what the fuss was all about, as I've really never been exposed to it. I also wanted a university style exposure to it as I wanted to ease into some of the statistical concepts necessary as I wasn't good at them way back when and I haven't practiced them in 10 years.

Finally, after some initial exposure, I may find that ML or some of its concepts will be another tool in my problem solving tool bag.

I feel like a lot of people have my same motivation. We are hearing all the hype, we weren't really exposed in our formative years, and we're curious. Also, my particular course was free. So what's the harm?
I'd have to disagree with the UHI paper because of personal experiences in my own life - I live outside a major metropolitan city. Over the past twenty years, I have noticed that the heat-island has expanded as the city has expanded. There is a noticeable difference. Any measurements made within the heat-island are affected.
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Somebody has to be the 'others'. Somebody has to know what's behind.
As far as Netflix is concerned, I'm a US customer with a US address and I'm still blocked from using the US site.

That also doesn't hold water when US-residing customers are blocked from using a US VPN simply to prevent their scummy ISP from throttling Netflix.
Having highlight off forces him to focus on the code really hard, which may make it seem like it is helping him to understand the code. And looking at his code examples, he really needs it, so good for him.
Article reads like paid advertisement for Uber tbh...
Why would anyone go outside and meet people, have a drink or two and talk about common interests? That's also beyond me.
EF is a relatively new Accelerator (< 4 years I think) which essentially means that their early incubated startups will only now be showing their real potential. IMO their future seems both solid and exciting : 3 out of top 5 up-and-coming AI startups in London have been created through EF cohorts - #1 being Google's DeepMind.

via http://uk.businessinsider.com/10-british-ai-companies-to-loo...
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Don't you think that if they see Apple handing over iPhone contents to USG, they will now feel entitled to do the same in China?
Link: https://stacktical.com
Uh. I totally forgot everything about statistics and probabilities (and I'm too lazy to remember those, so I won't check numbers 4 and 6), but I think the core idea how it works is that Bob's option just has lower chances. Say, we toss a coin up to 3 times.

Possible outcomes are: TTT, TTH, THT, THH, HTT, HTH, HHT, HHH

Alice successes are: HT, THT, and HHT, but Bob has less options: HH and THH. That's why he needs more tosses on average.
But they provide a lousy and expensive filtering.

So-called "high impact" journals suffer more retractions. http://peterdedmonds.blogspot.dk/2015/06/retractions-and-hig...

Society is most definitely well-served by completely decimating [legacy publishers] economic model. Legacy journals stand in the way of progress and they are laughably inefficient in what they do (filtering / online storage / layout (really!) )
You will get more accurate results that are better motivated if you understand the underlying algorithm. Just like you get better results if you understand your data.

Don't rely on a magic box.
> In twenty years we'll look back on global warming like we do on D&D suicides, satanic ritual abuse and militias: just another instance of mass hysteria.

Then, are you saying that there is no climate change and temperatures are not raising?
I don't print 200 pages a year. I might not even print 200 pages in 2 years. At my usage level I would have to buy a new freaking inkjet cartridge EVERY TIME I wanted to print because they'd be dry.
I don't see any issues at all on Firefox on Linux.
I'm shocked at how simple a pattern was previously unknown.

https://play.golang.org/p/ajn-wMo_3V
That "non-technical" person from "outside the US" has done a better job of explaining Edward Snowden to the masses than most news networks.
His target demographic is Millennials, and he's very popular.

Yeah - This carries some weight.
Soundararajan showed his findings to postdoctoral researcher Lemke Oliver, who was shocked. He immediately wrote a program that searched much farther out along the number line — through the first 400 billion primes.

This is how modern computers revolutionized even the most theoretical fields like number theory. Remarkable, I love it!
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The Wright brothers studied bird flight extensively, and drew important ideas from birds. An aeronautical engineer today has the luxury of a more mature field, and can probably afford to put less thought into bird flight.

Despite the history and significant progress in AI we still don't know that much about what approach will result in the first strong AI, or even if it's possible to make one. In an important sense AI is more like aeronautical engineering in 1902 than aeronautical engineering today, so it's possible that better understanding of biology will result in an important innovation.
I understand. Let me rephrase that. What you provide is nice, has the easy feeling of providing some value, but is IMO typical of many startups. You just used whatever API was available to you, and used them to build a product on top that some people may want, but does not solve a hard problem. There exist competitors (gittip, code bounties), albeit not as integrated with Github.

Solving a hard problem in this case would be doing the things that don't scale (http://paulgraham.com/ds.html ). That is, providing the tools to oil the development process by incentivizing the boring yet essential tasks that I talked about (QA, triaging, etc.).

And I don't mean that you provide no value. It's indeed quite an interesting proposition. I just don't see it going further than a side project you'll have to maintain forever for a small revenue on top of your current job. Which is perfectly fine, I have a few of those myself.
What do you mean by inability to represent existential types? Kotlin has in/out/star projections, which are be used for corresponding Java variance. A note about Scala interop: forget the existential types, in Scala I cannot simply use interfaces with bounded type parameters without some dirty hacks, just because compiler will generate weird errors and/or incorrect bytecode. I am sorry, but this makes it just impossible to work with Java in Scala.

The whole point of Kotlin is that it does not need its own ecosystem - it is intended to be used seamlessly (unlike Scala or Ceylon) and, like, today with all existing Java libraries and frameworks. Sure, more idiomatic solutions would always be nicer to work with (and they would probably appear at some time), but you do not need to wait for them - just go with your existing codebase.
As for the tooling, Kotlin IDE support way better than Scala's. It is not surprising, however, due to the fact that main language kontributors are JetBrains.
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Is that right? From the Google stream you couldn't actually see him leave, that's just what the commentators said.
It would be insane to start an EV company in London. Rent and rates are cripplingly high and you could get considerable tax incentives for setting up elsewhere in the UK.

Nissan have recently opened a massive battery factory in Sunderland to complement their existing car factory. Jaguar Land Rover have announced electric models for 2017 which would be manufactured in their Birmingham, Halewood or Solihull factories. Magtec in Sheffield and Zytek in Staffordshire design and manufacture electric drivetrain systems for a number of companies.

London =/= Britain.
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They probably are. I wonder if you'd be better off printing the photos at Walgreens or something like that. Also, it would seem HIGHLY wasteful to use a high quality photo inkjet printer to print your Amazon return label...
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Just 57 lines of code. Someone was asking about beautiful code in other thread, I believe this is a fine example of it. Plumbing together reusable modules to build useful (and never before imagined) stuff. Kudos to the author and the node.js ecosystem..
http://web.mit.edu/~emin/www.old/writings/coinGame.html
Incidentally, one of those gut bacteria, helicobacter pylori is the leading cause of gastric cancer in the world (and maybe even a deterrent of some forms).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2952980/
> Change is not that an issue, the rate of change though...

Rate is change is actually pretty slow in this case.