skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a physician, with an undergrad in physics. My research is very applied and very math heavy. When applying to med schools, I asked a couple very senior mathematicians at my college as to whether I should take a stats class. They assured me I would not need a stats class.

The first time I got a biostats lecture in medical school, I genuinely questioned their advice. By the third class, I was convinced I knew nothing about math. Luckily our biochem prof was a physics major and assured me I didn't need to worry about the stats.

Somewhere in residency, I realized I really had been getting all the stats questions right. But not because I did anything like the other residents. They have all these crazy stories and mnemonics to keep track of what kind of problem they're looking at. They seriously try to classify their way out of basic math. They classify. Everything.

I now agree with my profs. I didn't need a stats class. But the stats education in medical school seems designed to convince physicians that they need statisticians. Which is probably a coup for biostatisticians, but it's a damn shame for physicians trying to break into research outside major academic centers.
What if it doesn't respawn, but instead a new deer spawns and the camera moves to follow that new deer? Eventually, the deer could multiply then overrun the world!
I don't disagree with your overall point, but I don't see how cross-marketing is a requirement for a media organization to be "with it" in your book. Honestly, radio is a shitty channel through which to market your podcast. A) you already have a captive listener, and b) they're probably driving, or are at work, in which case they're not really well positioned to subscribe to a podcast. Their hands are probably full.

I don't see what's wrong with tailoring your marketing strategies. Market a podcast in the venue where people are looking for podcasts: on their phones, in social media.
My apologies. I have blocked out the content to prevent any further harm.
Someone please tell these people about Archipelago FPGA:

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2014/EECS-2014-43...

It's already at 45-65nm with configurable logic and memory cells. They're working on multipliers next. Open-source flows for bitstream and synthesis already exist that can be targeted to this if it hasn't already. Lean on those people for something to use and you might get it. Write other students working in FPGA-related fields to contribute their prototype enhancements to Archipelago and all get published. We'll get stuff over time that commercial or grant-based efforts can turn into a real chip.
I love that the deer has figured out teleportation and the humans haven't figured out how to notice a deer.
In case the site isnt working properly for the stream - heres the twitch channel/link - https://www.twitch.tv/bwatanabe
Helicopter chasing it now.
If cost effectiveness is a concern, why are they not using BitTorrent? You can imagine why Hollywood doesn't like it as a matter of politics, but you would think the likes of NPR and the BBC could see past that.

The stream is already free-as-in-beer, what is somebody going to do to it?
You're cynical.
I also grew up picking and eating wild mushrooms. The popular edible wild mushrooms like chanterelle and matsutake are very distinct and easily identifiable. I avoid ambiguous edible varieties. When in doubt, throw it out.

I can only assume she was careless or clueless.
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This certainly makes sense: "To conclude, we see that people within a family are proportionally more likely to eventually also choose the same occupation." Still, I wonder if it has become less common with time: the idea of a parent (usually a father) passing the family trade on to the child isn't culturally common, as it used to be during the guild era that got started in the Middle Ages.

On an anecdotal level, I got started as a grant writing consultant because my parents started the business when I was a kid (I wrote a little more about that here: http://seliger.com/about/). But while I became interested i the business as a teenager, neither of my siblings did, and they both work in unrelated fields.

I also feel like I've met a disproportionate number of doctors whose parents were doctors. It does seem like they'd pick up a fair amount of useful information just listening to their parents talk.
It looks like it can or is maybe learning to. Two guys were standing on the sidewalk and it just murdered one with its antlers or possibly a head-butt. It was about to go for the second but suddenly re-spawned in the airport for some reason.
Blender 2.77 Open-Source 3D Modelling App Released with Multiple Impro…
Pretty clear that he'd been popped already, you realize that's what all of those ptr records that are IP.ISP are, right? Some random person who clicked on something they shouldn't have and is now part of a botnet which is continuously trying to brute force other boxes.
Once there's a system that claims to be better than humans, sure, but it's just a headache for researchers until then.
CFAA is very broad.
"intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains— C) information from any protected computer;"

A court could see "ambiate was authorized to use the work printer for printing -- ambiate hacked the printer to find out the fax machine number and sent a fax" in an absurd world.

This random internet person was never authorized to access this public router. Even if its set to a default username/password. That's the broadness the CFAA.

Just because you set your password to 'password99', doesn't mean you get more protections than the person who leaves their Cisco router set to 'cisco'.
Its currently being shot by a tank.
Cant it die?
Here is a 2013 paper that tried to empirically estimate the rate of improvement of Go playing software: https://intelligence.org/files/AlgorithmicProgress.pdf

>Go programs have improved about one stone per year for the last three decades. Hardware
doublings produce diminishing Elo gains on a scale consistent with accounting for
around half of all progress.

They don't give a clear prediction for when it was expected to exceed the best humans, but AlphaGo was clearly a discontinuous jump in ability.

According to this article, experts were extremely skeptical of this even a year ago: http://www.wired.com/2014/05/the-world-of-computer-go/

>After the match, I ask Coulom when a machine will win without a handicap. “I think maybe ten years,” he says. “But I do not like to make predictions.”...

>Even with Monte Carlo, another ten years may prove too optimistic. And while programmers are virtually unanimous in saying computers will eventually top the humans, many in the Go community are skeptical. “The question of whether they’ll get there is an open one,” says Will Lockhart, director of the Go documentary The Surrounding Game. “Those who are familiar with just how strong professionals really are, they’re not so sure.”
Same thing but add that it was on a scaffold organ?
Jesus, Twitch is still using Flash? What year is it anyway?
I just watched a tank shoot at the deer point blank to knock it down and then run over it. The deer promptly got back up and started running away.

The deer currently has a 4-star rating, and I don't know how it's going to remove those stars since it doesn't look like it's programmed to try and hide from the police. Looks like it's a fugitive for life.

EDIT: Okay the stars went away, not sure how that happened. It's been a while since I've played.

EDIT2: I think I know what happened. The deer was in the airport, and that gets you automatic police attention. As soon as the deer was chased out of the airport by the tanks, the stars went away.
Choosing closed source software is not selling my privacy.

Statements like this make the OSS community seem toxic.
I don't think I understand. If they could rehabilitate unsuitable donor organs and didn't have to worry about rejection, there wouldn't be a shortage. Isn't that the end game?
I agree with finding a mentor.
I looked around for mobile support, but couldn't find a list of client apps for iOS/Android. Seems a reason to skip on sandstorm for now.
The indestructable deer was having an Akira-like engagement with tanks for a while.
Afterwards i saw it too... I wonder of those are se pre-programmed actions or he is actually learning...
Why would the DJ get sued? It's not like they knew it was unsafe, these fakes are designed to look real and are advertised as real and readily available [from third party sellers] on Amazon. Most people expect things they buy from major retailers to be safe.
This is essentially what you get in String Theory. The problem is that String Theory requires you to define the "shape" of the extra dimensions. Once you do this, all of the fundamental constants naturally follow. However, there are so many potential shapes that are mathematically valid that this essentially moves the problem from out universe having arbitrary constants to our universe being an arbitrary shape.

Unfortunately, it is possible that there is literally to elegant solution to this. For example, consider our solar system. At one point, people tried to explain the distance of the planets from the sun without invoking arbitrary constants. We now know that the distance between the planets and the sun are in largly arbitrary, because we are but one of many solar systems and other solar systems have different distances.

Similarly, it is possible (although potentially non-provable and non-falsifiable). That we live in but one of many universes, and that other universes have different constants. If this is true then there is no way to avoid the fact that our universe has some arbitrary constant (even if we obscure it by calling it an arbitrary shape).
> the Rust people put themselves into giving into the
> anti-exception people

It's a shame that you characterize design decisions as "giving into" the crowd instead of trying to understand why the decision might make sense in the context of Rust. Designing the error handling story was a discussion that spanned years, with dozens of discussions, many implementations, and likely hundreds of participants.

> That the documentation suggests not using it as "catch"
> is merely a political statement

It's not just political, note the "RecoverSafe" bound on the type parameter. See https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/panic/trait.RecoverSaf...
Honestly, why not though? Write a sufficient enough AI, get your camera angles right, and slow down the decision tree with some dialogue, and you've essentially got a movie. Not saying it'll be grand, but it certainly won't be the worst thing produced in a given year; probably guaranteed to be the best for a given cost.
Does that equation have a name? A naive google search doesn't return anything.

Edit: Found it. A is known as Mill's constant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills%27_constant
On the contrary, near-zero interest rates recommend more debt and more risky investments, because (a) debt is cheap, and (b) inflation (stagflation perhaps) will nibble away your savings if you try to ignore the equity markets.
If you talk about GDP then you have to talk about inflation, which is tricky to measure. The official inflation number is for debate.

And one mans assets are another man's debt. This can unwind pretty fast. Look at all the people that are "entitled" to retirement benefits. Good luck with that in the long run.
Those kinds of technologies are coming at a faster pace too.
But the fact you discount search engines and cell phones kind of shows how fast new technologies are moving. They're on the same scale as cotton gins but we don't have decades to marvel at how they were gamechangers because they seem like nothing a couple years after they are invented and there is so much more going on.
It's likely the mod that is being used for the stream that just cleared it (periodically maybe, like the teleportation?)

In GTA, you'd have to die or get away from the police long enough to lose the stars, and obviously the deer did neither...
Modification of GTA V that creates and follows a deer wandering through the fictional state of San Andreas. The deer character is autonomous and will wander and respond to it's surroundings, interacting with the existing GTA V artifical intelligence.

More information from its creator here: http://bwatanabe.com/GTA_V_WanderingDeer.html
These constants are invented by humans so that we can make sense of the data collected through measurement.
No, that's precisely backwards.

We changed the law because we thought it had been incorrect. Any convictions from an incorrect law are obvious an error, not a feature.
Yes. While they have very similar semantics, Lua is just simpler. (ES6 though goes way beyond and is probably quite a bit harder to optimize simply because of having much more surface area.)

Of course, most of LuaJIT is applicable to JS as well. Mike Pall simply implemented it better than whole teams at Google and Mozilla. Yeah. Dude's pretty smart.
I don't believe Google or Facebook would care if you have a degree. All that matters is how good of a coder you are.

Case in point, Google has hired high school graduates, and Facebook's founder dropped out of college. I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook also hired high school grads or dropouts even.
With respect to reputation of YC, what happens if the pitch although being amazing in an application could be a conflict or add on to one of your existing already funded groups ?! Wouldn't there be a conflict while you reviewing an application for it to be judged faily ? And also the pitch idea is compromised against the benefit of the founder ! Please advise
So that's why the ELO monitor power supplies kept dying...
>The wage gains were real, and people spent a big part of those gains to get more healthcare.

for old people, who are not earning those wages.

blame socialism
Sandstorm works decently as a web app on mobile devices. Also, certain apps have mobile app support. For instance, Davros actually can use the ownCloud client. Tiny Tiny RSS has an app embedded in Sandstorm (slightly forked) for Android as well. And then Radicale is an CalDAV/CardDAV sync server, which will work with a lot of contacts and calendar apps.

Given the variety of applications one can host on Sandstorm, it's hard to have an all encompassing 'Sandstorm app'. And for what the core of Sandstorm does, the web interface does it well on mobile.
I just watched the deer teleport to a new random location, so it's definitely that.

It was probably teleported into the airport, then shot at by the police and army for a while until it was teleported out.
VirtualAlloc is roughly equivalent in intent to POSIX's mmap. So anywhere that you'd use mmap in a Linux program, you'd probably use VirtualAlloc in Windows.
I changed my SSH login banner text to

> Permission denied, please try again.

To confuse people. No matter failed or successful login, the prompt text will always be like that.
It needs to learn to jump over walls and fences and things like a real deer.
Yeah, right? That said, you can avoid the Flash by streaming the video to a native video player with ttp://docs.livestreamer.io/
I'm seeing the HTML5 player.
I just packaged this up as a Sandstorm app, for anyone who wants to demo the HTTP backend:

https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/cjv3p2a970vrm729x9x0v54k0nff6x...
Oh yeah. The "default password==consent" argument has not worked well.

This is one of the big differences between many professional penetration testers, and enthusiastic amateurs/blue team types. The professional red teamer has typically received long lectures about scope and RoE, and knows exactly how far you can legally go. Check the webpage that corresponds to some suspicious sshd log entries and note that it's a router? Totally fine. Attempt to notify the owner? Equally fine (pro-tip, you might not know who they are, but their ISP sure does). Brute-force their admin credentials (I recognize the hyperbole; the judge won't)? Hand-cuffs.

https://ilt.eff.org/index.php/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act_(...
And then the Batman vs Superman advertisement showed up. I thought that was rather fitting... :-)
Thanks for the info.
Interesting, I can see the merit in having broad legal protection to stop people from malicious activity. But that does seem a little too broad.
Guessing they've just replaced the player skin with that of the deer. Would make sense, since a program could read the players position from memory and pick random targets or directions for it to head towards. Also makes sense why it would be shot at...
Look. Malicious boxes are attacking me. Although I must be politically correct in this situation to probably please everyone, while I probably shouldn't have logged into the router in question, I would prefer to publish such IPs because they have the potential to harm other machines.

Actually that particular IP attacked me more than 170 times.
It may be useful to others to keep this address on their "naughty" list of hosts to ban.
You deny them permission, then grant them permission to try again?
I would guess the company does not have design safety reviews or processes. The mechanical design could push the layout into an unsafe zone, but no safety review to push it back.

The spacing rules are certainly real requirements, look for clearance and creepage:

https://www.ieee.li/pdf/essay/safety_considerations_in_power...
> If you can control 1 unit it's trivial to control 100.

Control them, sure-kiting 100 units at a time would be a breeze-but using them together in a coherent way is drastically more difficult.
Is that you Nick "Tasteless" Plott?
Better yet, deploy OSSEC there. I would recommend it with the latest patches from here:

https://dcid.me/ossec/
Clinton email reveals: Google sought overthrow of Syria's Assad
I learning to use these techniques in my everyday work (cloud software).

I think of it like this: nobody is going to care if I screw up the script to balance my accounts. If I write some software that messes up the balance of everyone's account in some bank then someone is going to care.

I don't think formal methods and rigor are the sole domain of government institutions, avionics control software, and industrial robotics. The public relies on the cloud and the applications that run on it and they have no recourse if their data is exposed or disappears.

Imagine if instead of crossing over a bridge you were stopped at a booth and asked to sign a wager stating that nobody is liable if the bridge collapses underneath you while you cross it. Rich or poor, regardless of how much you pay in taxes, you should be able to rely on that bridge being built to the highest standards we know how and someone should be liable if it falls down. You can rely on this in real life. Why do we not have this for software?

I'm not saying I write all of my software using formal methods and rigorous proofs. It's often good enough to sketch my idea on the back of a napkin when I'm building a tool shed. But nobody built a sky-scraper without doing a little math and being fairly rigorous in their thinking.
Flight recorders badly damaged in Russia plane crash
Or just read any botnet takedown report, this is exactly what botnets do. Why bother looking for 0day when root:toor or cisco:cisco works?
No matter failed or successful login, the prompt text will always be

> Permission denied, please try again
I thought the data visualization was pretty good. How would you improve it?

A profession by profession table with the raw numbers would be more useful. Perhaps a Hinton Diagram would be a better visualization.
That's exactly what I said! More entertaining than any Aussie TV :)
Smartwatch keyboard with 3rd party support that works with Whatsapp and Hangout
Interesting. I tried livestreamer first and got an error about it not recognizing the URL pattern, but then I just upgraded and it seems to be working
BW has more than enough players to challenge the AI, there's still plenty of players like Bisu, Flash, Effort, NaDa, etc. There's going to be multiple BW tournaments broadcast this year too.

I think there's no need to make it use a keyboard/mouse, you should just add in some human like constraints that are assumed in the game (some limit on APM, some delay between moving the screen and being able to take an action/observe the state).

The interesting part would be whether they can build an AI, not a robot. It's unfortunate that both games are pretty figured out at this point though, it'd be interesting to see if an AI could be made that could react to a big metagame change like http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Bisu_Build
My counterfeit Dell charger (with 1Wire) just died after working great for 2 years (although yes, it was probably dangerous). Because of DRM I couldn't attach the plug to a different power supply (as shown to me by an EE I trust). Now I'm in the crappy situation of either rewarding Dell by buying a safe adapter, or taking my business elsewhere with another counterfeit, which might burn my house down.

Related: http://hclxing.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/hacking-the-dell-lap...
This isn't a style of programming, it's a compiler flag for end-users. There's a reason that GCC and Clang have the -fno-exceptions flag.
Except...... I'm not a leftist. Not sure how you got that from the post.

I in no way think all affluent people got their money by illegal means nor did I even slightly imply that.

But some affluent people did get their money by illegal means. Fact. Therefore the idea that rich people don't commit crime is false and the idea that they commit less crime is somewhat suspect.
"The right to privacy does not prohibit any publication of matter which is of public or general interest. "

This is not only nearly impossible to define in the general case more importantly what is of legitimate interest to me is potentially different from what is of legitimate interest to you and only by allowing the general publication of facts is it possible for the information relevant to you and i to each flow freely.

" The design of the law must be to protect those persons with whose affairs the community has no legitimate concern, from being dragged into an undesirable and undesired publicity and to protect all persons, whatsoever; their position or station, from having matters which they may properly prefer to keep private, made public against their will."

If I intend to hire you to watch my kids, work in my store, allow you to hang out with my daughter etc etc I have an interest in information about you being available.

" The right of one who has remained a private individual, to prevent his public portraiture, presents the simplest case for such extension; the right to protect one's self from pen portraiture, from a discussion by the press of one's private affairs"

This is great if the press is a handful of newspapers instead of the reality in which it is all of us communicating to each other.

I could go on and on and on but the problem remains that the "right to privacy" so defined is fundamentally impossible to distinguish from a club to stop people spreading the truth.

It would be more useful to continue punishing liars and try to better protect people from being fired/discriminated against for their private lives and speech rather than providing the rich a better way to silence inconvenient truths.
The deer currently has it's head stuck in some red scaffolding.
They may alter by, oh, .0000000001 or way less than that, say, when a galaxy cluster explodes or something. Which even if true may be essentially impossible to notice given Planck. So how do we know what's going on at that level? We can't explode galaxy clusters. And maybe there are thousands of layers even below that; you'd need gajillions of universes exploding / collapsing to notice the trend of some sub-Planckian thing happening statistically per universe. And maybe even thousands of layers below that.

Or maybe not.