skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you know why it puts a lot of things on surfboards?

It seems from the comments that that is one of the most represented misclassifications.
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I agree now that it is not likely to have been a mere coincidence of RNGs or timings.
Ok, you're free not to read it...

Edit:

I don't agree with your characterization of the main post, you may also consider that for someone interested in this matter, there is additional information in the comment sections of the linked posts.

I'm also perplexed as to the driving factor behind your somewhat dickish, snide comment.
The t-shirt dude didn't take no for an answer. He did that after he tried to corner her in a dark room.
tl;dr - Mozilla engineers are doing a series of experiments questioning if how we interact with the browser today can be improved vs. the habits and workflows we've developed since the early days.
Electromigration

That would be my bet. They probably assumed based on typical workloads, a certain percentage of the time, the part would be asleep. Which is generally a reasonable assumption for non-server parts.

More sleep means less activity, and less heat (which accelerates EM)
It's sad that the importance of free speech was understood by Socrates and Plato 2,400 years ago, but is still not grasped by so-called "free societies" like Germany.
> Uber isn't a taxi company

In what sense?
Any sufficiently large system quickly reaches a point where a human has difficulty tracking what the system should look like.

Google has at least tens of data center locations, each of which will have multiple physical failure domains.

There are also many discontiguous routes being announced at all of their network PoPs. They have substantially more PoPs than data centers.

It very quickly gets too much to reasonably expect people to be able to keep track of what the system should look like, let alone grasping what it does look like.
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Why do you say asking for the offer puts you in a weaker position?
What cultural norms? We're talking about two men who made exactly the same bad lifestyle choices. And I know a number of living candidates to be both these guys!
If I remember correctly, my favorite part of his program was how it couldn't figure out how to remove rows in Tetris, so it simply paused the game right before GAME OVER to maximize its score over time. :D
I have a friend from Czech who looks just like that guy. I was wondering the same.
Thanks Sujan! I've been poking around with quaternions, appreciate the pointer :).
This really worked in my experience.

In my family we often used to eat chicken and while eating them the only thing on mind was how it tasted and how it was cooked etc. Then my parents started rearing some chickens in their backyard. That changed everything. There were about 7 or 8 of them. As the chicks grew up, they could identify each of them and know about individual treats. They would call some of them by names and slowly their nature was becoming more evident. They still eat eggs but they eat chicken meat rarely at some social event. They cannot even think about killing one of the chickens that they have. Its just emotionally too painful for just food!

This really works i think. But you have to rear them in small numbers to get connected to animals and then observe the changes in your thinking. You may still have them for food but it would be a conscious decision which you would not take lightly, like considering it as some food lying around.
This x1000. Always get the Precision 15" over the 13"...the hardware is just better suited for Linux. The Sputnik team has to take chassis from other Dell products and support them as manufactured...this is why the XPS 13 DE has Broadcom. I have a XPS 13 DE from last year and I wish every day I would have just ponied up and gotten the 15.

But keep in mind that Dell is releasing their drivers into upstream kernels, so if you are on 14.04, you should be using the LTS Enablement stack in order to avail yourself of the latest firmware with stability improvements (this is how I fixed the Broadcom Null pointer bug).

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack

You don't have to use the LTS Enablement Stack if you installed with newer service pack .isos.

The 15" also has Thunderbolt which is a must if you want to have a reasonable docking solution for a Linux laptop.
> I believe governments shouldn't discriminate based on income for the same reason they shouldn't discriminate based on gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, etc.

HN: the place to go to hear rich people described with a straight face as an oppressed class.
Its too late for you now, but one thing that gets specified up front sometimes is a "roulette clause". More or less, either party can make an offer to buy the second party out at any price they like. The second party must either accept the offer, or buy the first party out at the same price.

Its one way to avoid the deadlock situation where one founder mentally checks out, offers no value, but refuses to be bought out at any reasonable price.
> I've never had my hand luggage weighed.

It might be if one's travelling on a low-cost carrier.
I think most people are missing the main failure point: Why does one change propagate automatically to all regions?

All this could have been contained if they deployed changes on different regions at different times. That would also help with screwing less your overseas users by running a maintenance at 10am their local time :-)
Interesting quotations you included - where did they come from? I didn't find them in the report you cited. The following is from the conclusion of the Brookings report you cited,

"The evidence suggests that the program did indeed incentivize the sale of more fuel efficient vehicles by pulling sales forward from the near-term future. This resulted in a small and short-lived increase in production, GDP, and job creation. However, the implied cost per job created was much higher than alternative fiscal stimulus policies.
...
The CARS program led to a slight improvement in fuel economy and some reduction in carbon emissions. The cost per ton of carbon dioxide reduced from the program suggests that the program was not a cost-effective way to reduce emissions, although was more cost effective than some other environmental policies, such as the tax subsidy for electric vehicles or the tax credit for ethanol."

They aren't saying it was great, but they are not saying it was a failure or that it harmed the industry.
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Am I the only one having real trouble with navigation? I can't figure out how to go back, and closing a tab is cmd-w which requires me to be in that tab?
Odd setup.
...let other countries specialize in other things (like agriculture or mining).

What if USA has more comparative advantage in agriculture and mineral resource extraction than in the industries you favor? Everywhere I go in Asia, restaurants brag about beef from USA, and many commodities are exported. Saudi is more concerned about frackers on the Great Plains than about the state oil ministries of Russia or Venezuela, which is why they crashed the petro market last year rather than e.g. five years ago.
Considering my very negative asset picture, my attorney was very surprised that I was sued, let alone for the full deficiency. He wasn't expecting that.

I think a paralegal from the lender's firm just Googled me, concluded I was a "business guy" (so, moneybags), and put me in the "probably can pay us" bucket. Oh, if only they knew how wrong that assumption is. This is one unintended consequence of having to present a successful image to the world for marketing purposes; it makes your creditors think you got Gs.
Doubt the weight makes a difference for luggage - but definitely if handheld for a prolonged time.
Just don't have an engineering mindset when talking to them. Certain responses validate this reaction when you probably mean otherwise. Aka, lie because there are legal obligations.

Feynman was deemed mentally unfit for military service when he was quite fine.
Hmmm...skips from page 3 to page 42?
You can (depending on Karma, I think?) vouch for dead comments.

I just did for two of the author's comments, I don't think they should be dead at all.

1) The author states that their opinion changed somewhat

2) The author explicitly names a compromised deployment (Freenode). Haven't fact checked that, but that _seems_ like a good argument

3) The architecture of the network (random organizations sponsor servers) seems like a plausible excuse for headaches/complications as far as I'm concerned.
Safe-space Satanism - hipsters ruin everything they touch
According to you second link, the UC system has a budget of $27 billion. You could fire all those administrators making over $500k and you wouldn't even save 1% of the annual budget. Is administrative bloat a problem? Sure. But blaming it for the tuition increases we have seen is like blaming the national debt on inefficiencies in the EPA.
Fitter. Happier. More productive.
Of course there is no certainty. For example the Moore's "law" (~ economic trend) has officially died. We can't rely on free bi-annual compute doubling anymore.

Still, deep learning has become a very powerful tool and we haven't discovered all possible applications just yet. DL models can learn a huge array of tasks, most of these tasks haven't been tried yet. Maybe there is a way to achieve some limited form of general intelligence even with current state of art (deepmind's A3C agent) if one trained it in some special way nobody haven't thought of yet.
To continue the theme, this doesn't only apply to "crushing" debt. As you mentioned, most borrowers are current on their payments. There's nothing to suggest that this forgiveness applies to more liberal art schools or more expensive schools (except ones that were cheap enough to not needed a loan in the first place).

Your second point is a good one, but since these people were deemed "fully disabled" by a doctor, it seems likely to me that these people would find it difficult to service the loans at some point.
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You seem like a tab power user. Just curious if you have any sort of "tab junk drawer" like what OneTab provides for Chrome.
Medicare fraud is something like $60 billion or 10% of total spending. It's conceivable that the rest of the government would approach some multiple of $100 billion, even having lower rates of fraud than Medicare.
Regarding your edit, there's still the Sony device (for AFAIK PDF only):

http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Paper-DPT-S1-Japan-Import/dp/B...

I'm still hoping more manufactures will release bigger devices, but I assume there are still cost issues with larg(er) e-ink displays. I'd love to have something big enough to work for graphic novels and books with illustrations/diagrams. Even if only black and white.

I suppose if none are released, I'll just have to bite the bullet and consolidate on something like the Microsoft Surface Pro 4, or a Lenovo Yoga. Still not convinced that even the new high-dpi screens will work for ~12-14 hour reading sessions, though.
In a word: empathy.

Nothing beats the visceral explanation of a demo, though.
>"We are going faster and faster so we will get there" is not the way you calculate the likelihood of reaching a destination within a certain time.

Why not? With incomplete information, you can not say the inverse is true either.

At the end of the day, most of us have no direct control over the AI situation.
While they are free to join the channels, I'd imagine a great deal of the users authenticate to the nickserver to avoid impersonation and to protect their nick. Without SSL, anybody on their network could potentially sniff their credentials with a lot less trouble than MITM'ing a SSL connection.

So I'd say that it's just not for the 2% that are using the secure channels, but probably for the majority of the userbase that is active for more than a couple of sessions.
Come back after 50 interviews.
I am not a pacifist. In fact, I am an American and I am a misanthrope, so I have many positions that make it difficult to be anti-people-death. Plus, of course, I have too many friends and family members who have been in the military, so 'better them than us' is a good argument.

On the one hand, a drone with a Hellfire is arguably better than carpet bombing a village. On the other, though, if our options were limited to carpet bombing, there's probably quite a few people who wouldn't be dead over the last decade. But on the third, if we can avoid friendly deaths and convincingly call anyone who is killed a 'baddie', I'm not sure there is a downside either way.
Thanks for pointing that out. I wouldn't have read it without your comment, and I'm better off for having done so. :)
How to mine Ethereum?
I'm looking to start mining Ethereum at scale. (200+ cards) Any advice on how to go about it.
I have a Kindle DX. It's... big. Too big for typical usage like novel reading. Works better for things like PDFs or other things that need a bigger space, but not if I'm just sitting around reading some fiction.
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The comment isn't dead (or at least, not anymore; can comments get resurrected from dead status)?
I never asked you to look at it. You choose to look at it or you don't. What social contract do you think I am violating here?
Demand is a function of price. Prices for a good or service only go down reliably as a result of decreases in demand if supply is constant. If supply isn't constant, then the change in price is a function of the fixed versus variable costs of production, and the price elasticity of demand for the product. If fixed costs dominate the equation, prices will go down so producers can recoup their capital investment; on the other hand, if variable costs dominate the equation and the price elasticity of demand for the product is low, the price may not change, or may even increase.
A bankruptcy can only remain on a consumer's credit report for 10 years. And even within that period, if the consumer pays other debts on time then after a few years a bankruptcy will have only a minor impact on credit score. So for someone who graduates from college at age 22 with $150K in student debt it would be economically rational to immediately file bankruptcy and discharge the debt. At worst he would have to wait until age 32 to qualify for a mortgage, and probably not even that long. The government shouldn't encourage this. We need to find ways to prevent students from needing to borrow so much in first place.
The easter egg isn't the fact that there's a moment when you can knock out your opponent with one hit, that was already known. The easter egg is the small visual cue in the background that indicates when to punch. I assume that this program would learn when to punch, but if it's running the simulation forward to figure it out then it would just be doing it because it works, not because of a visual cue.
Linux is great for training, however I would like to deploy my models to run locally on user machines which are running Windows. Theano supports Windows but TensorFlow doesn't.
Thanks for putting that together! I'd discovered it a while ago and have been checking out all the utility libraries, trying to find ones that work the way I want. The funny thing is that so far none do, so I'm now working on one of my own...
Nassim Taleb debunks claim that people overestimate small risks
I think they just picked the two most striking examples for that article. Look at the rest here: https://birdinflight.com/ru/vdohnovenie/fotoproect/06042016-...

Most of them are clearly the same person.
Market forces will intervene eventually, but in the subsidized-student-loan regime, that has been some time coming. ISTM the impasse won't be broken by cheaper colleges, but rather by private firms providing rigorous standardized testing. If a MOOC student feels her 18 months of online study is equivalent to a four-year degree, and has the test results that prove it, smart employers will embrace the future.
>It's sad to see people trying to rationalize denial or obstruction of this issue, for example by throwing up endless questions

(I'm commenting on these issues in general, not necessarily this specific report)

It's not sad. It's understandable.

It's problematic that we're at a point where we predicate what should be objective discourse on emotion, rather than facts and observations.

There are those, such as yourself who we can charitably assume, mean well.

But on the other hand you have things like Ferguson, Mo. hijacking countless cognitive cycles, where from all the evidence it is clear that any sort of grave injustice was essentially invented out of whole cloth.

Then you have a seemingly constant drum beat of news reports of so-called 'hate crimes' that turn out to be hoaxes.[0]

All this is occurring in an environment of constant policing of the "facts that must not be named," which is that there are groups in the US that commit violent crimes at a rate that is widely disproportionate to the country as a whole. Those groups aren't poor whites, or rich whites.

People's skepticism and questions are quite understandable.

[0] http://fakehatecrimes.org/
What's interesting about these so-called hoaxes, is that they themselves are hate crimes. For example if a hoaxer invents a scenario where a white commits a 'hate-crime,' the hoaxer them self is committing a hate crime against whites by portraying whites as a whole in a despicable false light.
Yes.

> The aquarium’s manager, Rob Yarrall, told Radio New Zealand that employees had searched the aquarium’s pipes after discovering Inky’s trail, to no avail.
Article does not contain the word "sugar." Article invalid.
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NASA image shows incredible image of sun during eclipse
Out of curiosity, in this hypothetical "never ever" license, are you also agreeing never to enforce copyright or patents in eternity?

Because otherwise, agreeing to it would not be in any way a step towards abolishment of copyright. It would, in fact, be something more akin to creating a free labour pool you are not willing to opt into yourself. You create a situation where you can profit from their work and they cannot. There's a word for this arrangement.
This. I love that I can stick my paperwhite in the back pocket of my jeans, or in the pocket of many of my jackets.
Can't find it with a quick google now, but there was a study on this. Giving people fake controls, even when they knew they were fake, reduced anxiety.

Give ambulatory meat some onboard decision-making ability, and it will want to use it.
If exporting jobs is inefficient, let people try to do it and fail - of course they will get outcompeted by the people who aren't exporting jobs, right?

Your comment gives an extremely weak argument in favor of regulation - paraphrased, it seems like you're saying "companies are stupid and don't know how to make money, so we should regulate them to force them to be more profitable". It's hard to say that sentence with a straight face :-)
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And yet, despite more and more people getting an education, class stratification getting worse in one of the common talking points. How do you explain that?
I'll give you that point.

But at the same time, the IRS has no real competitive alternative to something like TurboTax. Sponsoring the creation of yet another tax-preparation software feels like XKCD Comic number 927

http://xkcd.com/927/
That's an interesting point, thank you.

I find myself agreeing with sama on this (if the facts are at all how he presented them, that is). But ...

I agree for moral reasons, not legal reasons. And despite the relative moral high ground that the startup world seems to occupy in business, morality != legality.

Morally, if things are as they seem from here, and someone completely left and checked out, having contributed essentially some whiteboarding and finding an office, then I'd feel that morally speaking they're owed some compensation but not necessarily equity.

However, legally, the principle you mention seems sound. And morals vary from person to person, which is one of the basic reasons societies need legal systems.

It seems kinda shocking that they never signed anything explicit about Jeremy's equity. But if they didn't, then yeah, maybe he has a case.
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The subject of the article says as much about the politics of science as it is a comment on the science itself. To the extent the findings have been ignored, or perhaps even shunned, is not at all unique. Many important advances in medicine had a notoriously difficult time being accepted, as an example, the idea that bacterial infection was the cause of stomach ulcers had been around for decades before gaining traction.

I think the substance of the science discussed revolves around the composition of dietary fat. As the article notes, the recommendation for increasing the proportion of "polyunsaturated" oils is likely a major factor. Indeed, common vegetable oils contain a high proportion of linoleic acid, the "base" omega-6 dietary source. It has been shown in numerous studies that the omega-6 (N-6) to omega-3 (N-3) ratio is important since these essential fats are linked to immune system functioning.

N-6 fatty acids are associated with pro-inflammatory factors, N-3 primarily leads to anti-inflammatory products. In the archaic/traditional diet, N-6 and N-3 were present in roughly equal proportion, but with marked increase in vegetable oil consumption, N-6 to N-3 becomes "imbalanced", e.g., 10:1.

Inflammatory processes are well-known to play a role in cardiovascular disease, so it's not hard to see how increased N-6 fatty acid intake is a contributor. However this info has not been a secret in the fields of obesity and metabolic disease treatment and research, where the impact of dietary fat intake has been discussed and published for more than 20 years.

Since the mid-90's I've recommended sharply reducing polyunsaturated vegetable oil intake as part of "lifestyle" changes supporting optimum health, particularly for patients with predisposition to metabolic disease. FWIW I've followed my own advice for at least as long, the results have impressed my internist who jokes that I've become quite an uninteresting case.

(Don't have references at hand. If anyone wants I'll post them.)

Edit: grammar!
An experiment? Hardly. At least certainly not any more.

They use data to deliver their cancerous content, just in the same way coke uses AB flavor testing to determine what the most addictive coke formula is.

Calling them "scientists" performing "experiments" seems far too dignified.
That's not the reason at all. Businesses pay taxes on their profits and not their revenues because doing otherwise would be nearly nonsensical and make low margin businesses unworkable.
SSL certs from existing CAs can be used for anything, not just HTTPS.
just no clients check it, or check it properly
The Open Container Initiative is an important step towards some form of standardization for the future of containers, and I think the Linux Foundation will steward the project well.
You literally say 'items sold' in your post above

> Nearly everything sold on Amazon these days is 3rd parties. I'd wager somewhere in the 95%+ range