skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm on LinkedIN and I don't mean to brag but I never listed long-list tech stuff on my LinkedIN. I'm still being recruited albeit I... kinda suck though. I'm definitely not Google material (just between you and me ;)).
Usually you need multiple layers when you train NN directly from raw features (like pixels or words) for perception-like problems. In that case you want to learn complicated multi-stage transformations to get useful high-level features.

If you work with already extracted features (like a classical ML pipeline where you can use SVMs or logistic regression as well), you may go with one-layer network. But deep learning really shines with perception-like problem.

Don't be fooled by the approximation theorem (you can approximate any function with only one hidden layer). It is beautiful in theory, but in practice it is like saying that you can write any program in brainfuck because it is turing-complete.
Personally, I rather enjoy writing clean Rust wrappers for gross C APIs. Doing so does require a solid knowledge of C, and familiarity with a small bag of Rust tricks.

In my experience, the Rust standard library is extremely convenient and it handles corner cases very well. There are definitely still holes, but that's what "cargo add $CRATE_NAME" is for.

My biggest annoyance with Rust (and it's not a huge one) is that if I'm doing something off the beaten path, I'm probably going to need to wrap a C library or two that nobody has wrapped yet. There's a lot of great stuff on crates.io, but it's only a minuscule fraction of the total C ecosystem.
Yeah. HKTs are one particular instance, though even Scala doesn't necessarily do particularly well on those compared to e.g. Haskell (well, GHC, really).

(It seems subtyping and higher-order reasoning just don't mix well. Undecidability abounds, unfortunately. I tend to prefer higher-order reasoning over subtyping.)
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As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the issue is that the scale of these phenomena on the internet produces emergent qualities that don't exist in real life, which makes attempts at analogy particularly fruitless.

For example, in your analogy, they're not being manhandled out of the venue. Someone at the venue is taking their picture and following them home, distributing that information, then random people are showing up at their house for the next eighteen months or more. Then people are showing up at their family's house with threats, and their boss's house demanding that they be fired.

Is this the type of "shit [flying]" that you think people should be prepared to expect when they post things online?
Me too, it really resonated in a very unpleasant way. I have a fear, a phobia maybe, of high tension electric cables and transmission towers. A healthy fear perhaps but I have nightmares periodically, I can't lean out the bathroom window of my house because the cable to the house is at eye level (well out of reach of course), the sound of them buzzing in humid air brings me out in a sweat. I never knew where it came from, but seeing this today I suddenly remembered being shown in school at around age 6 one of those horrid films, this one about a little boy who climbs a tower to get his kite and ends up roasted.
Can somebody explain what does Wittgenstein have to do with the whole thing?
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I think you may have misread stared's comment. They felt this list was similar to saying "be creative", and implied that is not very helpful.
It's worth noting that Caesar's ciphertext presumably worked better in Latin than it does in English, largely due to the fact that classical Latin, in emulation of Greek, did not include spaces between words.
In November Paris attacks, two of the nine actually were "recent migrants" as explained in another comment.

So perhaps that "bald-faced lie" needs to be toned down a bit.
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Is the U.S. a poor country?
This is a little unfair, a lot of these really aren't too unreasonable if you are unfamiliar with China. $730 for 3 Chinese Visas with rushed service actually isn't really overpriced, in fact it's about the price I would expect.

It's hard for them to know exactly how good the Hong Kong public transit system is without being explicitly told, taking cabs is a natural choice for most foreigners in a new city. They also stated they knew there was probably a better way for the boarder crossing, but chose not to look since it was convenient and they didn't mind spending the money.

I'm pretty sure they knew the menus in China would be in Chinese, they were just stating the fact so the reader could understand that doing a simple task such as eating was actually a challenge to a foreigner.

It's not crazy to want to eat something familiar and safe. It's good to try new things which they did, but some times you just want to order something to fill you up that you know will taste decent. It takes awhile to figure out which local cuisines are delicious and which are a bit too foreign for westerners.

I do think that they should have been a bit more prepared, but they certainly did a lot better than most people who travel to China. The entire experience is quite a culture shock no matter how much you prepare.
You're right, I'm overthinking it
He explicitly states the site name in the article. No real reason to remove it imo.

>ASERT keeps tabs on DDoS botnets and their attack activity with our BladeRunner botnet monitoring system and kypitest[.]ru is no exception.
I've lived with parrots on and off since I was a child.
Each of them has been influential in my life, especially the last one, who was living on my shoulder and having sex with my Microsoft Keyboard :).

During the heat period, she began communicating with a parrot from a nearby building block (with high pitched screams which penetrate concrete).... One day we accidentally left the window open and she flew right out to find her love.

We never saw her again, but at least I know that she followed her heart ... But she took the love away from our home.
Six months later me and my wife of 8 years were divorced.
I'm not saying we did it because of the parrot, but somehow I feel like it had something to do with it.
There was also a puppy involved, which I found a month after the bird flew away, but I won't go into that now.

Pets are more than just cute animals living in our house. The whole dynamic of the relationship, the definition of "home" changes when we get a new pet or when a pet leaves or dies.

Have you noticed that dogs resemble their owners ? Well, I think it goes both ways - the owners pick up some traits from their pets too.

I don't think psychology or sociology even considers pets, yet a large part of the population lives with various companions which strongly affect their lives (hence society in general).
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Blaming encryption is probably easier for them than to explain why all of the unprecedented surveillance that has been in place for years failed to stop yet another attack.
I agree with this. You only need to see what happens when public order breaks down during riots and natural disasters. There are a hell of a lot of people out there who go wild when they don't anticipate punishment.
Depending on the system you use to view the text, many of the characters are actually printed using non-Roman lookalike characters that still render as the "usual" ones.

In OSX / Firefox I see the usual text in the web view, but in source view there's a variation in shading between characters, in what should be an unadorned monospaced font. Viewing the same source in Chrome shows the trick for what it is...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/oj9cqlh3kh90zep/Screenshot%202016-...

Subtle and not always visible due to differences in display normalization in various libraries? Way out of my depth for system fonts / encoding issues. But hopefully the above shows what I'm talking about. Could there be some data hidden in the lookalike string values?

http://www.lookout.net/2012/04/generating-confusable-lookali...
In the US, I think the closest is the Green Party - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Party_of_the_United_Stat...
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I found an analogy with electronic circuits useful. You can implement any bitwise function using a single layer, a lookup table. The problem with that is it requires as many logic gates as there are inputs, exponentially many. As a result, it's more efficient to design deeper circuits that compose multiple logic gates. The tradeoff is that it is slower to evaluate, since the signal has to pass through more logic gates.
Of course, most people are socialised not to even consider breaking most laws, but that only happens because they live in a lawful society. When you see people around you breaking the rules, you feel much less obliged to keep them.
Probably the most charismatic of the whales, of Free Willy and Seaworld fame, the Orca, is kind of an asshole and kills sharks and seals for fun, stunning and tossing them back and forth like a hacky-sack[2].

[1] http://www.tvthrong.co.uk/2009/10/nature-shock-series-premie...

[2] https://youtu.be/TuUFjvBnu9g?t=70
> believes in Islam (and thus its exhortations to violence).

Religious flamewars are not welcome on Hacker News. Please don't comment like this again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11335414 and marked it off-topic.
It's a bit interesting, but I don't think it's actually relevant to the OP.

Reason #1: The vast majority of people haven't been victim to something that's put someone in prison anyway.

Reason #2: At most, it would seem the 'solution' to the thought experiment is changes to legislation; not "scrap it all!"
They may very well be at a competitive disadvantage, but unless something magical happens to communicate to someone that fact as "having contributed to failure" or "at the margin, caused the failure", that disadvantage doesn't translate into anything that helps either discriminated against individuals, nor does it help improve cultures that allow or encourage discrimination.

The individual or even group decision-making (with regards to not just company goals, but to lifestyles and associations) means that things like that end up as a wash. Make it more concrete:

28 year old founder decides to pass on excellent 47 year old programmer. What does that do the founder's life or company? Let's speculate on some possibilities:

- It does nothing, because even though the older developer would have been better, their level of experience wasn't even necessary to do the job well.

- The business winds up marginally less profitable, but still succeeds.

- The business fails, somehow, because at the margin, missing out on hiring that older developer somehow started a chain of events that could have been prevented if said older developer were hired.

In all cases, the founder goes on to find another job, makes plenty of money, is able to surround themselves with the type of people they'd rather be around (people their own age) and never is even aware of any impact on anything. To that person, it was just "didn't hire someone, something happened or didn't, life went on well, and founder was still happy, ultimately."

What I'm saying is that the "disadvantage" and other related theories start sounding like a secular version of Karma; people use them as a way to tell themselves there will be justice (not that you're necessarily doing that, I have no idea), when in truth it's likely there will be none.

You can try to "prevent" the discrimination through your own actions, which is by no means easy (https://medium.com/@spencer_th0mas/dealing-with-ageism-in-te...), but as the article makes clear, even in egregious cases, it's hard to prove or do anything about. Look how long we've had these various kinds of incredibly well-intentioned anti-discrimination laws, and look at the success rates on the suits / how often they're brought. The results are terrible. It's just too hard to prove.
The sad (?) reality is that "serious" people are always, always outnumbered by 4chan types. Which is why exclusivity "is a thing" in pretty much all fields of endeavours.
Kids lives can be changed by so little. Like bumping an asteroid out of orbit with a tiny bit of thrust, and 20 years later you have water on Mars.

Example: taking kids home from a Scout camping trip. Long hours on the road, listening to the 13-year-olds talking and laughing and kidding each other. During a silence I spoke: "One day you'll all be older and have jobs and things: Miles will be a Judge; Mark a Senator; Andrew a concert musician; Nick a Scientist. And you'll still get to call one another PukeFace and FartBreath, because you will be old friends. Now is the only time in your lives you get to make your oldest friends; its too late when you've grown up"

They listened and laughed and thought about it, but I never guessed how much. Because, years later and at different times, they each came to me and mentioned it. Mark for instance said in High School "Joe, I'm not sure I can do this. I am taking history and in Debate, and studying everything I need to get into Law School. But its just not for me!" He went on to describe how he loved theatre and the arts, and how Politics was important to him but not as a career.

I told him to follow this dream! He is smart and very capable and energetic, and will thrive no matter what he puts his effort into.

Years later, he was struggling to live up to what I'd said in passing, in a car, on the way home from camping. Such a tiny bit of thrust...
You don't think someone like Madoff deserves the worst punishment we have available for current non-violent offenders? He destroyed thousands of lives, ruined their savings and their ability to retire. Many people will probably have a far worse quality end of life experience because of him. The opportunities for the children of his victims is much diminished. It was an incredibly damaging crime and he's in prison right now bragging about it still.

He's not ashamed of all the hurt he's caused.

You think someone like that shouldn't be in prison? Ok, well if you do I still disagree. That guy belongs where he is for the time he has to be there for.
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I was at a climate science workshop in Stockholm a few weeks ago and a well known researcher from Bremen University, who has a well known simulation for expected increases in global temperatures, showed that recent changes in their assumptions due to new measurements increased their expected temperature increase from 4.5 degrees by 2100 to 7 degrees. And nobody was that shocked. Shocking!
If you read the OP comment carefully, you'll notice he actually is saying the opposite: he'd rather live with the trolls, than have to give up anonymity.
> There isn't the same payoff for working nights as there is for the entrepreneur

My point is mostly in the studies that show that working more hours a week is less productive. The brain gets tired, it makes more errors, it gets stuck in a zone and does not choose the best way of doing things.

Yes, founders get more payoff if they are more successful, but most psychology studies show that extra hours in most activities cause a massive drop in final productivity.

More hours = poorly architected + more bugs + more frustration = less product.

Founder or Employee.
At the moment I just need something much smaller to be honest.
If one weren't invited, one wouldn't know...
Do you know of a way to measure "intrinsic dimensionality" ?
Perhaps... the left has its anti-science bugaboos as well though.
As an uber driver, I've never had any problems messaging passengers or receiving messages. I prefer that they go through my SMS.

The pick up point issue I have had on multiple occasions. Mostly it's that the customer enters a bad pick up point or the pick up point they enter for some reason on my end is a house or two down. When it's an apartment building the pick up point directs me towards the back of the building. But a lot of common sense and knowing my city well goes a long way.
I totally echo this. In my opinion, if Python was the Linux Kernel, Anaconda would be Ubuntu: i.e., it ensures that you are actually up and running within minutes and not struggling in the missing-header-files or dependencies-management hell.

Of course, there's time and place for eschewing Anaconda, especially if you are trying to ensure your installation and dependencies are minimal. That said, for most data scientists who are workaday *NIX users at best, Anaconda is such a productivity boost.

EDIT: Actually, my analogy needs further qualifications. You _can_ get into dependencies/missing-header-files hell in Ubuntu, but it usually doesn't happen in the first few hour/days. Both Ubuntu and Anaconda have great "first 5 minutes to 5 days" experience, and that goes a long way in ensuring the adoption of underlying technology.
Right, and I think you are anecdote after anecdote of what is wrong with our profession. I wish I could put that more gently but this is something I'm pretty passionate about.

I'm definitely not advocating for the end of all learning and I hope you'd give my message a more charitable interpretation.

The idea that OO was new 20 years ago or functional programming is new today is completely backwards and is the attitude that ensures that it looks like our profession is running around with its head cut off for the next 20 years and ultimately contributes to the ageism that does exist in our industry. I'm extremely happy for you that you've found a niche as a contractor but I think you'd experience it more and understand the stress people feel if you were to apply for full time employment.

I appreciate your reservations on proclaiming functional programming the final paradigm, but why can't we just proclaim that a solid foundation in the pillars of computation is all one needs and as long as the tools and frameworks we use from one project to the next are built on those pillars then we can accomplish things at greater speeds and at larger scale?
As long as it isn't nuclear science.

Edit: I do mean nuclear science, not just nuclear power.
White collar crime can be so much worse than violent crimes. If some desperate person punches you in the face that should be punished, but someone who destroys the lives of so many by engaging in fraud in the financial sector leading to billions in public money spent to bail out companies, lives destroyed has done far worse than punch a single person in the face.
$1 per 250 calories seems fairly expensive, I'm sure it's possible to reduce that costs by choosing cheaper meals, or even eating less for those of us who have fuel reserves.

Maintenance and replacing worn-out parts have been the biggest expense for my bike. If you count time spent on repairs/general care, then things can get pricey very quickly.
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What makes you think there is an over-abundance of (skilled) IT workers in the UK?
lol it's just a happy baby in a stroller and nothing else.
Ah, looks like the part of bug 1242904 that was backported is just the security fix, not the entire library version update and the version update is in 46. So what you could be seeing is something like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1254411

Of course the version update wasn't supposed to change the on-the-wire behavior... or so the library authors claimed. :(
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Similarly: 2014 Springer volume (http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783642451348) and conference series that spawned it (https://sites.google.com/site/rsseresearch).
>Flatly, re-writing a several decade's old, matured codebase in today's flavor-of-the-week language is not a good idea. It's a waste of time and effort.

That's the sort of thinking we'd benefit from having less. Legacy is a terrible burden.
I'm working on the book with Reid; if people have questions, I'm happy to answer them.
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Frankly, I think that makes it an even better name.
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True, and in that they have value... I played around with both a real Turtle and in Logo on an RM Nimbus back in the day.

Computing is so much of an everyday thing now that there is no Wow! factor anymore.
If nothing else, maybe we're enabling the next generation of embedded-softies which would be no bad thing.

BTW: http://www.calormen.com/jslogo
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No, a "derived work" is a legal concept, it means "you copied the original". Being inspired by, or even deliberately designing for API compatibility with an original work is not "derivation" nor is it "copying", as far as copyright law is concerned. Remember only certain portions of the original are eligible for copyright in the first place, e.g. APIs are not, module or class structure is not, ideas are not.

It's important to remember that copyright law protects works from being copied, not from being read. Clean room is a legal tactic used against an aggressive adversary, it's not something that's at all necessary or appropriate in the general case.
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We live in an age of forced autodidactism (I personally like it, but we should not expect everyone to) and growing hypercompetition. The Average is Over/Superstar effects, and shrinking number of well-remunerated, non-cognitive, non-high skilled jobs means that anyone that wants to stay ahead (or even in) the game now has to be prepared to train nonstop (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/business/to-stay-relevant-...)

Fair, desirable, optimal? All debatable depending on one's perspective, but unstoppable. I think the only way we'll be able to get a handle on it is to manage its effects through policy (which has to happen eventually, given how many people will be affected, and how few will actually be able to be one of the "superstars"), rather than turning this train around.
> That's a strawman. Nobody intelligent is claiming that.

Plenty of Hacker News users claim it all the time, unfortunately.
Yes. The time to put energy in is when there's truly a new paradigm at work. Not when it's just another version of something you've already seen a half-dozen times before.

Bootstrap? Cool. Maybe follow that up with 1 or 2 other grid systems. But if you start chasing every layout framework coming down the pike, you're wasting your time.

Same goes for imperative vs. functional programming. There's a big difference. You should know that.

I think where the problem arises is when there's some new cool version of the same thing. You probably already know how it plays out, so your rational response is to not bother. But if you don't have it on your resume, you're going to be doing some fast talking.

There's a difference between learning in order to execute and learning in order to impress. If you want to stay in coding, sadly, you gotta keep learning. And the things you learned all have to do with marketing yourself, not being a better programmer.

I think that's the part that sucks most about getting older as a coder -- watching the community walk away from solution delivery in order to intellectually amuse itself with 4 or 5 year fads, which usually involve a cool video and a ton of hidden complexity.
I can't imagine that DDOS are an effective competitive technique? Are people really buying these against their competitors? I would have assumed that they were mostly part of ransom campaigns.
Doesn't this kind of circumvention around encryption violate the DMCA?

(Yes, I know, gov't agencies are probably exempt from DMCA enforcement and/or the FBI doesn't really care if they're violating it anyway).
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Please don't post like this here.
I've started using the Affero GPL in order to avoid the "networked software" work around
Yeah, it was also what led to the death of Kuro5hin.
"Your money or your source code, which do you want to give up?"