skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case you see that it is the swiss roll so you could say pick "proper initialization".

But that technique would not work when you cannot see that it is a "swiss roll" or in multiple dimensions.
OK, that's some pretty egregious clickbait.

Synopsis of story: there's some random marketing company who doesn't post their articles on the Web, and they still managed to get 9,100 followers on Instagram. Also, it's still in "incubation mode" and has no revenue.

This, as far as I can tell, is it. Not exactly the death of the Internet yet.
> Add some noise

This actually makes the dataset harder to fit to. It is not the same thing here as the "training with noise" method where random noise would be added to each batch, as an alternative means of Tikhonov regularization.
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Lol.

Actually I'm pretty interested to see what we can do with jack, since it has an API to hook into various stages of the code generation pipeline. We haven't invested much time in it yet though, since it's still in a somewhat experimental phase. Looking forward to investigating it more, though.
So here's the question. How much time would it take the Gigafactory to produce enough storage capacity to store all that excess sunshine so we can start turning off the natural gas plants?
Way too much EPA! Calories don't matter much.
I've emailed, but no response yet (I figure the support folks are very overwhelmed with a new release) so I thought I'd ask here as well.
I think the argument he makes consists of several claims:

1) black people are an ethnic group or race // exact terminology and semantics is debatable

2) being black means you have a lower IQ (on average) // true in the US

3) IQ is in part genetically determined // true

4) the lower IQ of blacks is due to genetics // pure speculation, not possible to verify due to poor environment

5) having a lower IQ makes you a better slave // speculation

6) being black makes you a genetically better slave // follows from 4 and 5

It's possible that Moldbug reconsidered claim 4 due to all the attention it got. He reads HN.
Please give me an example for one of those safe underground facilities which do not cost millions to maintain them safely. Are you talking about salt domes?
No real substance to add to this discussion, but I love it when these kind of studies come out. By the reaction of the relevant parties you can see who accepts humility and science.
This is one of those things where I am not sure if I just don't understand the core concepts, or if the person talking to me is a complete nutter.

Isn't a 'brane' a mathematical object? Is there any basis in science for turning a physical 3d object into a M2-Brane?

At first read I thought he was just talking about a space probe in the form of a thin sheet that could propel itself in a novel way. Now I think he's talking about dropping the ship out of the third dimension.

Can anyone here ELI5?
Can't agree more...

A bushfire in an open cut coal mine is an environmental and human health disaster and it's not a one off.

Here's the partial list of burning coal seams/mines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_seam_fire#List_of_mine_fi...

A good summary of the health problems:

http://dea.org.au/news/article/coal-mine-fires-remind-us-of-...
> (Update: I just found a bit a data that states that Pandora accounts for ~10% of new music discovery which is a lot better than I would have guessed.)

This sounds like a version of Russell and Norvig's Mengitis question. The probability you have a stiff neck if you have meningitis is 70%. But what is the probability that you have meningitis if you have a stiff neck? Keep in mind that Meningitis is 1/50,000 cases but stiff necks are 1/100 cases. Answer: 0.14%, quite small.

Similarly, the probability that you are on Pandora if you are discovered is 1/10. But what is the probability that you are discovered if you're on Pandora? Likely very, very, very small.
Really?

1 500mw reactor or 500 3mw wind turbines @ 30% utilization in the middle of farm land. Sure, they can fall down on some corn but that's hardly a major disaster.

Wind farm even has a smaller net footprint.
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It's not clear to me if you're a joking or not but the book of mormon was published in March 1830 AD.
o.O I misread that, that's incredible!
tldr: the url is "businessoffashion . com / articles / fashion-tech / snapchat-clique-obsessee-hearst-sweet" which pretty much tells you everything you need to know.

Must be a slow news day.
> Interesting correlation to the Book of Mormon, which originates ~600 BC in Jerusalem.

The Book of Mormon was written in 1830. Am I missing something here?
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People were also skeptical of all the people before the Wright brothers who jumped off cliffs and killed themselves. Skepticism is the natural worldview of an engineer, because the universe is incredibly hostile to our ideas.
When arguing in favor of a racist speaker on the grounds of free speech, it's probably not the best idea to go off on a tangent quoting a "race realist" publication whose founder said:

"Blacks and whites are different. When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization — any kind of civilization — disappears"

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/grou...
Recourse for travel agency error?
If I paid a travel agency in full for a week's hotel stay, and then travel agency comes back stating they messed up on original price, should I have to pay "new" price? Or should they honor the original price?

Here's the situation: my brother is getting married in August in Mexico (destination wedding thing), and he used a travel agent for setting up the room block package, etc. But I didn't reserve hotel before the group rate expired. Fine, no problem: I paid the higher amount without question; paid in full with credit card. Nearly a week after i paid, i get a call from said travel agency stating they messed up, and the person who booked my trip gave the wrong info, etc. (And this is after my card got charged, and i received electronic receipt.) I've been hassling with this travel agency because they don't want to honor the price that I paid, citing that they know its their error, but "they can't do anything about this", and i have to pay an even higher hotel room amount. It sounds fishy to me at worst, and negligent at best. Besides the obvious full refund, do i have any recourse here? (And, yes, i know travel agencies suck in general, but was going along with what my bro had set up.) Any suggestions, or should I just give up and get refund???
You can send electricity 1,000 miles with minimal losses. So there are some areas outside of reasonable pumped hydro but far fewer than you might think.

PS: One way One way ~2,385km is viable. http://www.power-technology.com/features/featurethe-worlds-l... And the world is not really all that big once you subtract oceans.
We don't understand privacy
>Are the characters in our dreams sentient? They surely seem so and many of our dreams are elaborate and seem to obey natural laws.

The illusion of our own sentience and the sentience of those "characters" are generated by the same brain, so yes.
It's very interesting to see that they used image processing algorithms (machine learning!) in their study!
> we don't yet have the law ...

False.

http://www.ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/pdfs/bureaus/invest...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-06-03/goldman-sa...

The link below is a general discussion of securities fraud and related legal theory. Goldman is used as an example while discussing the case settled with the SEC in 2010.

"The law allows a case like the one against Goldman to be alleged and argued as securities fraud even if the seller merely failed to
exercise due care as to whether the buyer was misled about the nature of the securities being sold or how those securities were selected. The
law further permits a claim of fraud—even when brought by a private litigant—to be founded on an allegation of recklessness and allows
the litigant to assert, in essence, gross negligence as to whether the buyer was misled. If one takes the federal appellate decisions on the issue at face value, the law would appear to support a criminal conviction in a case like Goldman’s even if the seller were merely reckless."

http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...
I'm not joking. You know there are academics who study this for a living, right? http://mi.byu.edu/ - see especially the works of Terryl Givens, John Sorenson, Hugh Nibley, Richard Bushman, Grant Hardy...

I never said it was published 600 BC. It was indeed published in 1830, but story within it originates ~600 BC. Very different things.
Well, the same smartest people unknowingly put the bug there. It's not as easy to find a security flaw (without someone telling about it) as you think. They'll eventually figure it out, but may be not immediately.
This was posted elsewhere in this thread and breaks down deaths per TWH by energy source:

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-so...

According to this data, nuclear is far safer than other sources.
In fact, YAML is a superset of JSON, and any valid JSON is also valid YAML. This becomes more obvious when you realize you can put any JSON objects inside of your YAML document and any YAML parser will correctly deserialize it.
It certainly was published in 1830. The account within it originates ~600 BC.
It's easy to imagine a large proportion of the population wanting to use natural language to achieve complex technical tasks. It is, after all, the same API that people use with each other. Someone could then describe what they want out of a spreadsheet instead of manually editing it.

What interface would you prefer?
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Sorry, I misunderstood your comment. I think the original poster was referring to the Plan 9 team's strong preference for C over C++. Plan 9 was written with a modified version of C, and the developers seemed to be very interested in evolving the C language. As far as I can tell, they never used C++.

> In the presentation before the awarding of the Japan Prize today, you were quoted on the distinction between research and development. [The former, Thompson stated, was directionless, whereas development had a specific goal in mind.] So in that context, is Go experimental?
> Yes. When the three of us [Thompson, Rob Pike, and Robert Griesemer] got started, it was pure research. The three of us got together and decided that we hated C++. [laughter] [1]

It looks like you were half-right about the early Go compiler being partly written in C++: There were two compilers, and "gccgo" had a C++ front-end, while their homemade compiler "gc" was written entirely in C. [2]

[1] http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/interview-with-ken-thomps...

[2] https://golang.org/doc/faq#What_compiler_technology_is_used_...
I totally agree and this is not a great idea for new comers. I do find it easier to debug things with all the bells and whistles turned on, but yea the CAP adds are NOT production ready. I will remove them to prevent confusion for those looking to get started with docker.
https://twitter.com/mholt6/status/720086233754370048
https://twitter.com/mholt6/status/720104906724663296

Stay classy, Matt.
This is a nice puff piece for Clique Media Group about their brilliant strategy not to invest in the open web. I heard about it on the open web, read an article about on the open web (via a link on the open web), and wouldn't have heard about in the first place if not for the open web.

> "While analytics on many of these platforms aren't as easy to come by as with a traditional website, it's often the promise of engagement that currently makes it worthwhile for a brand."

So we're back to days of, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half"? How is this better?
Brutal is pretty relative. I grew up about an hour north of Pittsburgh and moved into the city about eight years ago. I find Pittsburgh's weather to be abnormally sane for the area. Pittsburgh doesn't get the extremes that much of a Rust Belt gets. Even 35-50 minutes outside the city gets four or five times the snow. Sure, the temperature gets into the single digits for a couple of weeks (negatives with wind chill, but I've found there's not much wind in a Pittsburgh winter), but most of our summers don't exceed 90˚F. I can heat and cool a 1400 sq ft house for under $200/mo with gas heating and electric A/C, plus a house full of geeky electronics, a house inhabited by people who chronically forget to turn things off.

What's brutal to me? North Dakota. Montana. Maine. Vermont and New Hampshire. Northern New York and its Buffalo area.
I dream of a company that installs Linux on some of the most popular desktops PROPERLY, and charges users 100$ to install it, and helps you maintain your Linux desktop over the years.

Many have tried, no one has succeeded.

Canonical had an opportunity to do this... Instead, they had to do "Enterprise" stuff. Bah.
So the large takeaway is that people in further back ancient Israel were more literate than originally thought, opening up the prospect that the Bible could easily have been written earlier than what some scholars speculated. Correct?
Thanks for the response. This is the confusing part for me: I've been talking in terms of Feature toggles as described by Martin Fowler: http://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html, but it looks like LD is focusing on the AB testing piece primarily, with some parts of the base toggle functionality included by default.

Can there be a feature switch that is configured not based on users, but on owner/admin's choice alone?

More importantly, how do the LD SDKs help with the issues mentioned in the "Implementation Techniques" section of Fowler's essay - things like avoiding conditionals, DI, etc?
“If you don’t make a mess, I don’t have a job.”
Nobody was commenting with reasons for the down votes. What's classy about that?
Side effects of these projects, even if they fail, may be massively valuable. Sometimes solving problem X that isn't a big concern for society will solve problem Y down the track. History of maths is littered with things that were useless when they where first invented, such as imaginary numbers.
"I'm originally from the area and when I mention this everyone thinks I come from either a Deliverance-like backwoods or a bombed-out Detroit-style factory town."

This has been my perception of the city until recently. I grew up in Florida, and my perception of the city had been formed mostly/entirely by the Pittsburgh Steelers. The team (and city by association) has a very hard-nosed, blue collar kind of vibe... similar to how I would think of the Baltimore Ravens.

I've recently moved to Chicago and heard mostly good things about Pittsburgh. As I've gotten more into baseball, the Pittsburgh Pirates (and their ballpark) have also changed my perception of the city. The Pirates are a great team and you never hear of any off-the-field issues from that team. PNC Park is also top 5 on my list of parks I'd like to go to.

It's naive that my perception of the city was/is based mainly on sports, but I've definitely read and heard lots of great things about the city, especially since moving up north to Chicago.
It was translated then. The text began in 600 BC.
It seems as though, in some online communities, the discussion about faith and purpose has begun to evolve beyond some variation of "OMG you believe XYZ? That is proven completely false by ABC - Lolz".

I won't hold my breath but increased meaningful discussion can only be a good thing.
I don't think what you write makes sense really. Sure, XMPP has been behind on innovation. Companies using it had four choices: wait for X, implement solution in XMPP and publish it, implement solution in XMPP silently, reimplement everything including X.

Well, we ended up with tens of platforms with X, so obviously companies went with one of the latter two solutions. We know a few of the companies did continue with XMPP and modified ejabberd, so they definitely did XMPP implementation of video for example. Yet, they decided not to publish anything, so globally we're stuck in the same place again.

Similar thing happened to HTML with ages of stagnation. Now we finally standardise what's implemented instead of implementing what's standardised. I don't see how XMPP itself is an issue. Don't like that they're slow? Use your own extension and publish it. Either everyone will use the same solution, or you'll learn why it sucks.
My reading of New Deal legal history (though I'm admittedly an amateur reader of it) is that it came closer to endorsing that view than rejecting it. There was a turn towards courts being open to social-democratic style regulation of businesses and contracts, whereas previously some had held that a strong "freedom of contract" prohibited interference with most contracts between private parties. But courts didn't challenge the default existence of property and contracts as the substrate over which regulation happened. They simply held that the state had the authority to regulate them in a number of cases. And it was described in those terms, as regulation, which tends to imply that it's restricting something that preexists the regulation.

An alternate, more radical view would be that, since the state had created contract law, property law, etc. in the first place, many New Deal laws weren't even regulations or restrictions on anything, merely the state choosing to withdraw some kinds of legal arrangements that it had previously created. But I don't think any New Deal courts were nearly that radical. They instead agreed that they were regulations or restrictions, but held that those regulations/restrictions were within the government's powers to enact, most often justifying them as within the power the Constitution gives Congress to regulate interstate commerce.
I'm saying the only way you get to canards like "communists murdered 100 million people" (100 million is a lot of people) is including people who died as the result of poor central planning in situations where there is no evidence for genocidal or repressive intent.

If you lock someone in a room, prevent him from leaving, and don't give him food, he will die, and you will be (correctly) charged with murder.

Can you name the capitalist countries that have murdered millions of their own citizens for us? Or even one such country? Nazi Germany was an authoritarian socialist regime, so don't even try going there.

Thanks.
I hate to say it but Adele is a good example of an independent artist making her way.

PS Don't let my oldest daughter know this I HATE Adele Happy Music and Sad Lyrics crap!!!!
> By the reaction of the relevant parties you can see who accepts humility and science.

Guilty as charged...so take my bias with a grain of salt...but this article really doesn't present any science to support the title or claim.

It basically makes a bunch of assumptions about literacy levels and some how makes a massive leap to when the bible was actually written down in it's present form.

The lack of evidence has never been proof of something not existing.

The author writes...
One of the longstanding arguments for why the main body of biblical literature was not written down in anything like its present form until after the destruction and exile of 586 B.C. is that before then there was not enough literacy or enough scribes to support such a huge undertaking.

It's hardly science, and I wonder if your bias is also prevalent in your post.
Compared to what climate change could to the world, absolutely.
Okay, that is straight up awesome. I've been toying with neural networks just enough to get a basic understanding of what they are and how they work, and it occurred to me that something like this might be possible.

Of course, I wasn't up-to-speed enough to know the right terms to look for, so thanks for sharing. :)

I am curious though... it seems like it would take orders of magnitude more computing power to not only train but evolve and re-train the networks. Is this practical with today's hardware?
Ultimate outcome is that I want to buy a good pair of shoes for myself :) I'm not particularly interested in the conversation unless the bot happened to be a domain expert (I find it unlikely that there is enough training data available to make it a credible domain expert..). The point was that I'm especially wary of its internal state incorrectly transitioning but now no one knows why due to the deep learning implementation.
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> Running before systemd helps ensure that all services established by Ignition are known to and can be managed by systemd when it subsequently starts. This allows systemd to do what it does best: concurrently start services as quickly as possible.

I think this looks like a slight jab at systemd ;-)

Systemd thinks it does a lot more other things best
Any scholars who aren't directly affiliated with the Mormon church who would corroborate these claims?
We've seen a lot of traction with messaging for smaller teams, which typically don't have Slack setup. Larger teams often request the Slack integration, which we're already working on so you'll soon be able to use Wiplo + Slack together.
Please provide some credible evidence accepted by mainstream archaeologists and scholars backing that up.
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> Low cost of living: Sure, it's low compared to SF, but it is increasing at an alarming rate. Just look at how quickly housing prices have been rising the past few years. Maybe this isn't something to worry about - maybe it's just a sign that Pittsburgh is a place people already want to move to.

I find it to be largely opportunistic at this point. A correction of sorts, as the real estate was underpriced significantly in areas that 10 years ago were very rough. Middle class and upper middle class business owners saw opportunity to open storefronts in an area that may have been a little risky, but the caution turned out to be unnecessary. Those areas are booming now.

> I visit Pittsburgh at least once every other month, and most people I meet there, unfortunately, are pretty racist.

I'd be very interested to hear where in the city you are encountering this. I'm not saying it doesn't happen. I'm not saying it happens rarely. I know it's not really in the touristy areas, at least AFAIK.
So I take it you are also against hydroelectric dams?

The worst catastrophic failure of a dam killed 170k people and displaced 11 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure#List_of_major_dam_...

The problem with nuclear power is not the danger, but the fear of the uneducated and the misinformation that is ironically spread by environmental advocacy groups.
It has its niche applications. The only non machine vision application that comes to mind is one[1] that takes a pile of data, and evolves a model that fits it.

Generally were its actually being used they are a bit quiet on how they go about getting the results they do. While the genetic bit is easy, the secret sauce is in guiding learning/evolution that work for the particular problem domain.

[1]: http://www.nutonian.com/products/eureqa/
Agreed. It is not a good idea to store the db user/password in a docker-compose.yml file, but it is nice for demonstrating with a container that's more than a "hello world" + non-production use cases.
You should integrate Authy instead.
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Just curious then, how are people optimizing network topology?