skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because Aptoide is a European company and it launched the complaint which started this whole thing.

This absurdity happened because Google isn't outright blocking 3rd party apps and app stores outright.

It does has some restrictions which resulted in Google Play not being available on Kindle devices, and market apps can't be hosted on the Play Store but it leaves them enough room to actually be some what viable which means that companies exist that can cry foul.

This is basically a case of give them a finger and they take the whole hand.
Not really, you can go far playing around with off the shelf components. IMO, the math is less helpful in NN than other areas because your trying to create a useful aproximation not get a specific correct answer. Thus knowing why something works is only so helpful.
They engage in anticompetitive practices, the antitrust commissions will be the ones to levy sanctions whether they are in line with case law or set their own precedent.
FBI admits that no useful information found on San Bernadino iPhone
I would love to talk to you. Contact info on my profile.
"But for now, the companies are largely powered by people, clicking behind the curtain and making it look like magic."

Does this remind anyone else of the anonymous voice actors behind the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer?
The right way to do large-scale testing isn't to add everybody to the developer account, it's to use TestFlight or Crashlytics/Fabric. TestFlight is a nicer experience for the end users, but it does require going through beta app review for every new version number bump (though beta app review is faster than normal app review and once a version goes through review you can upload new builds of that version without review).
The few times I've been asked for cash because the credit card machine is 'broken', I've offered (a) they can use the swipe machine and run the card later, or (b) they'll need to come back when it's fixed and I'll gladly pay them at that time.

They aren't always happy about it, but somehow they typically fix their machine. Within seconds.
I respectfully disagree. If they are separated into thoughtful modules, then it would be much easier to parse by simply looking at the file and folder names and going from there. This will especially be true when this expands past it's current state, and it becomes impossible (Or more impossible) to see what uses what.

IMO, 20,000 is already way to much, but when that reaches 100,000 even just editing it will be a chore, let alone using it. It will simply be unmaintainable and unusable. I say this having worked on code bases which have reached that point and attempted to deal with the issues it creates. There's a reason every decently sized code base out there uses multiple files and a hierarchy. It's a natural way to create modular code, and modular code is simply better code.
Point #1 would be very very hard to do for Ruby, since its such a highly dynamic language. The University of Maryland team thats behind this paper already tried doing that with Diamondback Ruby but it didn't really work out in the end.

janvitek.github.io/events/PBD13/slides/JeffFoster.pdf

They apparently changed their focus to gathering type information at runtime and using it to do interesting stuff, like this recent Hummingbird research.

By the way, I think it might be possible to implement autocompletion based on that runtime information they collect.
Yes, I'm well aware that my post doesn't reflect the headline, because basically the FBI are spinning like crazy here!

Here is their evidence:

"The phone didn't contain evidence of contacts with other ISIS supporters or the use of encrypted communications during the period the FBI was concerned about."
Expensive!? Only $2.8k with a 64gb SSD, and a processor slower than the regular Macbook :) Could get an extra .2 ghz for $300, too!
I want to ask, what is it that you consider the "investing perspective?" Unless you _never_ plan on closing out your position, then at _some_ point, you will have to sell (or cover, as the case may be). My point is, even if buy-and-hold investing suits your personality more than any other style, technically, you are still a trader. Or more specifically, if you want to learn to reliably make money more often than not, you are going to need to learn to think like a trader, even if you prefer to fancy yourself an investor.

Things to note:
This is going to be hard work. It will take time (years for most). Take notes on everything you think and do (keep a trading journal).

You will loose money at first (consider it your "tuition").

Don't put too much weight on the publication date of a resource. Certainly, some specifics of market implementation have changed over the years, but as a whole, human nature (fear and greed) is the same now as it was when the first humans decided to build financial markets.

I know you didn't mention books as a preferred learning source, but, IMO they contain the most condensed stores of knowledge by the most reputable people (read: retired and/or independent) on this subject. Here's my list of recommendations:

High Probability Trading by Marcel Link

How Technical Analysis Works by Bruce Kamich

How to Buy by Justin and Robert Mamis (out of print; worth every penny)

When to Sell by Justin and Robert Mamis

Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas (don't underestimate the importance of getting your psyche under control!)

Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques by Steve Nison
Market Wizards by Jack Schwager (these are well worth reading)

And of course, the timeless classic, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre

Good luck!
I'm nor sure I would use the word "readability" there. I'd prefer saying that types aid in documentation.
I have a Verizon XXL plan with some bonus GB: 26 GB/mo with 3 phones, 2 tablets, 2 mifi, for ~$200/mo. This isn't that uncommon.
You're right, very good point.
My first couple months having a son are a blur, and it's difficult to overstate just how disruptive having a young infant is to every aspect of your life. Imagine a fire alarm going off every 1-3 hours, 24/7, for a period of several months. It wakes you up every time, but since you share duty with your significant other, you only have to get up every second time to turn it off (which will require you to be semi-awake for at least half an hour, because mumble mumble fire alarm analogy breaking down).

Waking up 15 minutes early to meditate (let alone do the exercise, etc) is perhaps possible, but since you're so far below a baseline of sleep quality and duration, you're far better off with the extra 15 minutes.
This is literally an impossibility. Java apps are typically obfuscated with randomization of symbol names. Each build is unique and not reproducible.

You are better off verifying the actual compiled and distributed apk files than verifying the source.
It's entirely possible they assumed otherwise. Are you trying to say you must assume the worst possible intentions from your customers and that anything less should be illegal?

Surely Tor developers could have guessed it would be used for child pornography - should that have stopped them?
No way, 8 isn't enough if you need to run a VM and everything else.
> Without rapid increases in usable computing power, the reasons for upgrading have largely disappeared.

1. Force Windows 10 upgrade.

2. Windows 10 sucks on this computer!

3. Buy Windows 10 compatible computer.
It combines the power of Visual Basic with the readability of PostScript.
Many posts which land on Hacker News are for self-promotion purposes. That doesn't mean they lack good content.
It wasn't really over valuing the price widgets.

Valuation only includes all available information.

You can't expect random acts of God to be priced in.

Overvalution is when psychology everyone is bullish, but the facts are not backing that up.
I know this sounds crazy, but there are still some people who have cable subscriptions and watch TV on a TV. Oh the horror!
Banging out GUIs in Tk is a delight when contrasted with developing in whatever javascript framework is popular this hour. Tcl itself is pragmatic to an extreme; a great framework for both organizing large projects and heaping up fast primitives written in C.

Anyway, great job! I hope Little's syntactic sugar gets more people exploring Tcl/Tk. Can't wait to give it a whirl.
Little is L, we used to call it L and got beat up because you
can't google it. Supposedly googling little-lang is better.

If you build it with our makefile then it will live next to tcltk 8.6. If you don't then it will want to dynamically link in some libs and it will get the wrong ones and barf.
I've said it before[1] and I'll say it again...the surge of interest in chatbots is premature. We're not even close to solving this problem, because yeah, it has to "learn" and "understand" language, which is equivalent to full intelligence according to some theories.

My guess is, for the foreseeable future, these services will fall into one of two categories:

1. Backed by legions of humans, and thus not that
interesting.

2. Trivial at best (ordering pizza with marginally less effort than before, a glorified collection of Slack plugins), disastrous at worst (Microsoft's Tay, the subject of my other post).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11366351
Blame Google for a lack of granularity in their permissions.
That's because Chrome's permission model isn't very granular. If you're doing something that needs to be able to interact with any website (like that tab suspender thing), you get that scary warning, regardless of whether or not it's actually reading or changing data on all websites, because the permission indicates that it can, and there's not a less granular option available to declare.

The other option for extensions is to specify certain sites that they work with (this is the "read and change all data on 'x.com'" permission prompt). That only works for site-specific extensions (like Reddit Enhancement Suite, or Camel Camel Camel).
Nope. Most of it's just fine, and NoScript makes it easy to temporarily enable for sites you do want to interact with.
post-money valuations usually overestimate the 'true' value of a company because the investors have liquidation prefs (this dilutes value for further rounds)
What would it mean for Nvidia to focus on 4k? Do the new screen resolutions require architectural innovations in the GPU? (Honest question. I'm not a graphics engineer)
Earthlike Planet May Exist in Nearby Star System
it's 428 days to ship 50TB of stuff on a 10Mb/s pipe.
5 days if you have 1Gb/s

This assumes you get perfect utilisation of the connection (which never happens) so i would probably round up to 450 to 500 days on a 10Mb/s pipe
Yes. Here come the ractors.

Just one of a great many points of correspondence between the present day and cyberpunk dystopian fiction. (Technically, I think Diamond Age is post-cyberpunk.)

Over at Naked Capitalism, the daily news rundown has a section titled The Jackpot.
It was his work phone they found, he destroyed his personal phone. Any intel would have been on his personal phone. If he used his work phone for terrorist communication he'd destroy it as well.
all goes back to the divine right of kings for me...
I've always thought that was part of the joke.
You hit the nail on the head. Tcl/Tk doesn't get enough love, it's a really useful system even after all these years, it's gotten much better in terms of looks and it was always great in terms of what it could do. All Little does is make it more approachable for the 9x% of the world that prefers C, types, etc.

When people say Tk looks bad point them here: http://www.little-lang.org/gui.html

Tk can look just fine.
This is exactly what I was getting at.
Rust has GTK and qtquick bindings, and there is also https://github.com/pistondevelopers/conrod which also uses immediate mode. Nuklear looks like it's more capable right now than conrod, though, so Rust bindings could still be good to have.
That's what I've got as well. I'll probably build a new machine (actually, I'll just buy a NUC) this Spring. Another big factor in not upgrading is the effort involved in setting up a new Windows machine. I'm sure I'm in for at least 30 hours on that front.
True story:
Then we throw before and afters of Prophylactic Bilateral Mastectomies with various types of nipple reconstructions among previvors who found each other and were part of a semi-private group on facebook, and hell breaks loose.

A classifier isn't human judgement by itself, and you need to be aware of how people view something in context. Good training images are also critical (one of the reasons why hell broke loose above were some people mastectomies were more likely to be censored than others)

Though I will admit I am very curious what happens if you throw a Robert Mapplethorpe at it.

Then everyone got censored, then the group got banned, then facebook got slammed by cancer groups and cut a deal with them to rehost cancer support groups as long as everyone stopped sharing mastectomies directly to facebook because Facebook could not specially moderate and alter feeds for those thinking about or dealing with prophylactic mastectomies. However, this issue still pops up ALL THE TIME for them on Instagram
To clarify: I agree with you and count myself among those who consider it a butchering[1] of scripture.

[1] http://babylonbee.com/news/joel-osteen-ordered-acquire-butch...
A newborn eats every 2-3 hours -- doesn't have a stomach large enough to eat less frequently than this and is used to getting its nutrition continuously.

That's measured from start-to-start of sequential feedings, not end-to-start. Baby might be slow to eat, especially if breastfeeding -- baby is learning how and gaining strength to suck, mother's milk is coming it but may not be quite there yet -- so feeding could easily be 45 mins. If mother is really having trouble with milk she may use a pump afterward to try to get her milk to come in better, and baby may be supplemented via bottle, another 15 mins if you can overlap these things. We're down to an hour left to hit that two hour window, in which to get baby back asleep, maybe have to burp baby, maybe change diaper, maybe wash bottles.

It's very possible to have 0 minutes of downtime between feedings for multiple feedings in a row and it is relentless. I fell asleep standing up multiple times, not only did I not have time to meditate, I can't imagine I could have done it without falling asleep.

I hear some newborns are easier, so maybe you actually get 1-2 hours at a time, but that still must be brutal. Having a low total amount of sleep is one thing but never getting longer stints adds a whole other dimension to the problem.

That's all newborn stuff of course, it should get easier by two months. But that's what the parent of a two month old may be emerging from and is a starting point you might wish to consider if you seek to understand what some parents go through.
They're likely a very juicy target for economic espionage.
>If they have German customers, they are bound to German laws because they are doing business in Germany.

that is simply not true... Now for DO it might be because they have EU possibly even German Data centers but simply because a Citizen of Germany visits a web site and signs up for a online service does not automatically make german laws apply to that business.

Now it possible you could sue in Germany, the American business would ignore you, and any judgment you got from a German Court would likely be unenforceable in the US
Heh, this SFW picture of a room (or is it a cardboard box? hard to tell!) is 75% likely to be NSFW, according to the API.

http://bit.ly/20VySR5
Yeah that wasn't perhaps very clear, I meant historically they ramped the clock up (back in the P4 days).
Good to hear, I used it extensively for a few internal tools 5 years ago, and after the few major kinks of the first releases were fixed, it was a pleasure and incredibly productive.
Sure, but I see guys riding to work in "pro style clothing" with Rabobank and RadioShack logos all over them. My cynicism makes it hard for me to come up with justifications for that which are not super easy to make fun of...

I get the "owning nice toys" thing - I even get the guys who are 20kg overweight spending $5k+ to get a bike that's 2kg lighter than a bike that costs 20% of that. To me though, it starts seeming weird when they do that while dressed up in sponsor logos for companies that sometimes don't even exist in this country...

(And it's not just lycra wearing mamils either, I don't get the motorcycle riders who paint Repsol livery on their Honda or Aruba or Xerox logos on their Ducati...)
Very interesting and promising.

A related approach is to implant the islets in a "pocket" under the skin, which supposedly is easier to monitor and requires less immuno-suppressing drugs [1,2].

[1] http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v33/n5/full/nbt.3216.html "mirrored" here http://www.cnd.mcgill.ca/~ivan/Papers/islets_nbt.3216.pdf
[2] http://www.pnas.org/content/110/47/19054.full.pdf
I was under the impression this wasn't exactly hidden knowledge.

South Korean cinema has made movies on it. The South Korean intelligence agency involved even renamed itself and has had some powers stripped because of it (and other reasons).

I guess it's just not that well known in the west.
Hong Kong property bubble is imploding
NASA estimates that Cometary Resources could support a population if 10 quadrillion people and a single 2km Near Earth Object would be the equivalent of 30,000 total Earth GDPs to launch*

It is a new frontier, vast on a scale that dwarfs everything we are now.

What is the population density required for a cometary level civilisation to develop interstellar technology ?

* http://nix.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20050092385&qs=N%3D42949668...
That's precisely the "issue", and it's only a problem if you make it a problem. The early-adopter and rapid-early-development churn is slowing down because processor technology is maturing and has reached full market penetration, so the market for new devices is shrinking. It's like a hotdog stand calling it a "market crash" when they've sold everyone a hotdog and nobody's hungry after lunchtime.

The automotive industry faced the same issue a long time ago, and their solution was to turn cars into a fashion statement. You no longer upgrade your car because your old one is worn out, you upgrade to signal your wealth through conspicuous consumption. The mobile phone market is somewhat the same way. The desktop PC market? Not so much.
How did you come up with 64x64 sliding windows?
I sometimes read an article at work or home, and then later read the comments and upvote later at home or work. Don't assume that everyone operates the machine the same way you do, nor with the same goals.
Arduino compatible IoT board offers LoRa wireless
"[A former principal] said severe violence and military-style discipline were the only ways to run a place filled with thousands of unruly people who didn't want to be there."

And the lessons of Nuremberg go unheeded again. Dear God, I hope there's standing for an ACTA claim, since it's damned certain ROK isn't going to try and make this inhumanity right again.
Another Social App?
What are your thoughts on the ever increasing number of social apps out there? Wish they would stop? Keep them coming? Do you think there is something that most are missing?
Well darn. I was hoping someone had reviewed them. Good to see positive feedback on the concept, though. Btw, there's also Phalanger for .NET:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanger_%28compiler%29

Already runs WordPress, phpBB, etc. Anyone doing this sort of thing on .NET might consider starting with contributions to it. I'm trying to avoid CLR and JVM due to runtime complexity where possible. Aside from Rust, Go is another possible target for a simple runtime.
(IAAL.) While the author is very likely coming from the right place, I find this kind of "legal" advice totally useless——hence the fact that half of this "article" is a disclaimer that you shouldn't bother relying on it. If I were one of the lawyers whose name is attached to this advertorial, I would hasten to get my name removed from it.
Go to https://www.shadertoy.com/ and show those smug GPUs who's boss!
While I share your hope that there will be some service of justice, nothing could make that right.
The reductio ad absurdum argument here is scary: "We need access to your safe deposit box, to confirm it doesn't contain evidence of tax evasion…"
The market movement can be explained somewhat by the fed's rate hike expectations changing (worsening economic conditions means that the fed is more cautious about raising rates, so discount rates are lower and valuation models are higher). It's also about what the market expected earnings to be. Yes, the tech earnings are beating up the NASDAQ, but people actually expected worse from the financial sector given the very low rates.
GDP as a trick for masking neo-colonialism
http://i.imgur.com/tedzYSO.jpg?1
Speaking of which, a spreadsheet widget is the worst possible delivery format for the long-form text in this article.
Ask HN: Clean code to learn ML feature-extraction techniques
The ML community has done an amazing job disseminating information about the field, making it accessible to large numbers of people like myself who aren't professionally involved in the field.

That said, the one area that has stumped me and I haven't been able to find good clean code to learn from is Feature Extraction. I was wondering if anyone here can point me in the direction of some clean code that a non-expert in the field could learn from.

I'm definitely aware that there are books / tutorials on the subject, but none of that has "made it click" for me yet. To be honest I feel like most of my real "advances" have been while looking at code (after familiarizing myself at a high level with the theory and math).

For example, the tensorflow playground source code appears to be a gold mine filled with good clean code that a novice can grok.

EDIT: If beggars can be choosers I'm most interested in seeing a practical implementation that uses a clustering algorithm (such as kmeans) to build up a set of features from image data. Such a technique is discussed in the following video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZfVBwOO0-k
interesting read!
Don't you need admin access for that to work? I'm doing work for another organization, and their sysadmin has me under a restricted role (very reasonable) so Xcode can't automate any of that.
Why are you doing it?
Android and Google's developer console seemingly gets a new UI every time I venture in to get a push or maps API key, so I wouldn't say it's much better. The play services api also seem to change its mind every couple of months on how and where you even insert the api keys.
To be fair, GP said "try and make this inhumanity right again" which sounds very reasonable.
Everything announced by a company on their website, every feature list, every display video, every write up by the press, every review, is promotional activity. Anyone that is pissed at this particular instance because it's disguised as "normal" when it's actually dirty "marketing" should have a good hard think about how they believe the incentives behind information sharing work.
Are you sure about that management fee number? Your company's website differs.
> Without even looking, if they're against you the chances are they're in the right

This is a very dangerous attitude to have regardless of who it concerns.
Shape Note Music Notation
GoodBYE!
To be fair, at first glance my brain thought that too.
As an aside, this might be the first time I've seen Lena used in a completely uncontroversial manner.
Curious question to all you investment experts. The SPY/VOO guys did not improve since 2015 and even now. Proponents of the SPY/VOO are based on the 2008... which has been rising until 2015. So how is investing into index fund ETFs still relevant today? Just earn on dividends?
Very risky, at least. Apple seems dead set on apps not changing behavior without going through the review process again.