skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must be in his same bucket. All I see our either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump posts. It all seems very polarized to me. Back when I first got on the internet, it was through dial-up modems. I would browse around on gopher and everyone chatted on IRC. It felt more like a community. I think there are still pockets of that out there, its just buried in all the noise.
Nice clothes are better than when you can do it right. Which means on the odd occasion.
Humans don't appear to fail in the same ways - camouflage and optical illusions are very different to the specific imperceptible-to-humans changes that trick neural networks. Then again, there's no way to test the method on humans because you need to know the neural network weights and that is tricky for people!

In practice it probably doesn't matter anyway - the chance of the exact required perturbation of the input happening by chance are infinitesimal, due to the high dimensionality of the input. And even if it was a problem there are ways around it.
> How is Riak different, or more suited to use than Kdb + q, J with JDB (free), Jd (a commercial J database like Kdb/q)[2], or the new Kerf lang/db being developed by Kevin Lawler[3]?

I would really be interested to see an informed answer to this question!
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This reminds me of the ArsDigita Community System by Philip Greenspun and his company, all written in TCL, until I think there was some Java rewrite at about the time everything went wrong.
The more that algorithms get used, the harder it is to see when manipulation is occuring. This is especially true if there is confirmation bias.

If I'm an exec that leans libertarian (or left, or right, or whatever) and those are the articles that I see, I assume it's working. Moreso, if I see what's getting posted elsewehre, I just assume the rest of the world is smart like me.

You have to really dig in to see that something is going wrong. This involves setting up unbiased metrics that can't be gamed (hard) and listening to data that disagrees with your preconceptions (even harder).
Probably. I'd venture to say the reason we use SHA is due to its uniform distribution over its speed (or lack thereof.)
A friend's daughter does tattooing, and from the friend I heard that apprentice artists work on pigskin. I had imagined footballs, but no, this is obtained from slaughterhouses or butchers. Anyway, I guess that footballs aren't made of pigskin.
Aside from Stack Exchange, are there any other good cryptography Q&A forums:

http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes

http://security.stackexchange.com/tags
It's for more than just for Excel and Windows.
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> Also the signs in various stations, King's Cross for
> instance

Which happened in 1987.
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Particularly, if you don't want to land on the Moon, just go round it and return, then it's easier - you don't need that much propulsion to get back.

But to get to geostationary orbit and stop there, you need rocket power. To get back, you would also need power.
> allows the conductor to take control in the case of a
> complete (or widespread) signalling failure

Or, having ridden that line as part of a regular commute, whenever the conductor gets bored.
What's wrong with one time pads ?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659629
Why you should pick your investors based on their failures
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Funny that they do not mention the Top 1 course on iTunes U:

"Developing iOS 9 Apps with Swift" by Standford University

https://itunes.apple.com/de/course/developing-ios-9-apps-swi...
Jepsen intends to build a "Diffuse Optical Tomography"[0] system using liquid crystals as a means of achieving both miniaturization as well as a dramatic increase in the emitter count. A beanie hat was used as a visualization of the final consumer-facing product.

Suffice it to say, there will probably be no use of low-field MR, nor anything like MEG—let alone both.[1][2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuse_optical_imaging

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoencephalography

[2] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120726102756.h...
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Have an upvote, I'm not sure why you're being down-voted.

If you take the issues of open-source and licensing out of the equation (both important issues in their own right, but not related to the point at hand) then Oracle and SQL Server are both ridiculously good.

I personally try to avoid them (due to the cost, and the lock-in) but they are astoundingly performant and featureful RDBMSs with a huge amount of support and documentation behind them.
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What I think would be interesting is if he tried another version without the 1000 most common words.
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1. Gaussian blur is just a spatial convolution (recall from signal processing). If a network is susceptible to adversarial examples, it will still be susceptible after a Gaussian blur (assuming the adversary knows you're applying a Gaussian blur. If the adversary doesn't, that's just security by obscurity, and they'll find out eventually).

2. A sequence of frames does not solve the issue because you can have a sequence of adversarial examples (although it would certainly make the actual physical process of projecting onto the camera more difficult, but not really any more difficult than the original problem of projecting an image onto a camera).

3. Using something conventional like LIDAR as a backup is the right approach IMO, and I totally agree with you there. But Tesla and lots of other companies aren't doing that because it's too expensive.
yes but... if you don't deliver, there won't be no future for product. anyway, every single product out there got major overhaul/complete rewrite every few years/versions.

I think this often boils down to key people's personality traits - to have everything possible under control. can work on smaller parts/projects where it delivers well, but once applied at large scale can fail spectacularly.

I wish I could say what that magical silver bullet is, but it's specific per case - a fine balance of effort/real value, with just enough resilience to not fail too fast. or maybe not.
It's clearly stated as the official press agency of the communist party on wikipedia, I don't think they're trying to hide it.

Regarding the news itself, it's been talked about quite a lot recently in the Chinese internet space, specifically regarding the case of Wei Zexi. Most of the outrage is directed towards the hospital and Baidu for a) not clearly stating that the search result of that hospital is an ad b) the fact that a hospital can advertise.
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You can do this by leaving the search field blank and just selecting a country, which returns all entities/officers/intermediaries/addresses for a certain country
Galileo is spinning in his grave - both ways.
Demo of pitch detection?
Uber, Lyft Vow to Stop Driving in Austin After Voters Keep Regulations
I can't find the source, but egg protein digestibility is increased by heat treatment, boiling being the most effective preparation method afair.
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Correct. I only controlled for carbohydrates (total and [carb-fiber] for net carbs )

After 6 days of low carb diet, my hunger went down dramatically, and I started to feel better. I started to notice weight loss around day 10.

Now, the more I study about T2 diabetes, my 'guess' is that it's a metabolic disease. Someone who's T2 gets high blood sugar, the sugar is eventually processed to fat, causing extreme hunger when the glucose is out of the body (back to normal levels), causing the person to eat more carbs.

That would also explain why things like the Atkins diet does work for certain people; it works for those whom are predisposed to T2 diabetes. It doesn't work and can harm greatly those whom aren't susceptible to T2...

But that's my pet theory.
> Why can't we judge things based on the simple question of 'is something willing to pay for it with their own money'.

because that's a lie? people pay for certain financial services because their options are systematically oppressed. what we're complaining about in this thread is how the structure of the system artifically captures "value".

what would happen if we applied the same simple judgement to heroin dealers? there are clearly many people willing to pay them.
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Of course, if you want. But surely it's unwise to actively encourage someone along that path. If it's what they really really want, they'll do it anyway. Advice is directed at people who are undecided.
Very much related:

I noticed that an increasing amount of people apparently automatically "like" left- and rightwing Facebook pages, depending on other pages they follow and news they like.

This could possibly have legal consequences for the users and I'm looking for a way to legally pursue Facebook's auto-liking bullshit. They knowingly misrepresent people to increase their profits.
Actually that's wrong:

EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(calc)), calc FROM price_history GROUP BY calc;
QUERY PLAN
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GroupAggregate (cost=10713.04..11381.06 rows=10 width=5) (actual time=1010.383..1073.263 rows=11 loops=1)
Group Key: calc
-> Sort (cost=10713.04..10935.68 rows=89056 width=5) (actual time=1010.321..1049.189 rows=89041 loops=1)
Sort Key: calc
Sort Method: external merge Disk: 1392kB
-> Seq Scan on price_history (cost=0.00..3391.56 rows=89056 width=5) (actual time=0.007..20.516 rows=89041 loops=1)
Planning time: 0.074 ms
Execution time: 1076.521 ms
(8 rows)

With Index:

EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(calc)), calc FROM price_history GROUP BY calc;
QUERY PLAN
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GroupAggregate (cost=0.29..2804.82 rows=10 width=5) (actual time=0.117..47.381 rows=11 loops=1)
Group Key: calc
-> Index Only Scan using price_history_calc_idx on price_history (cost=0.29..2359.52 rows=89041 width=5) (actual time=0.054..18.579 rows=89041 loops=1)
Heap Fetches: 83
Planning time: 0.208 ms
Execution time: 47.416 ms
(6 rows)

Actually that is called a index only scan, and happens when you have a data type that is inside your index. Which means if you need a aggregate you could try to index everything you need. Mostly a aggregate only contains some values of a row so a index is mostly not a problem.
Elaboration: the number of rules in .gitignore files scale pretty linearly with the number of options you have for tooling. If there are lots of tools that work with your language, your .gitignore template will be big. If there is only one or a few tools, your .gitignore template will be small.

Whether or not "language complexity" correlates with "number of options for tooling" is left as an exercise for the reader. Personally, I think there's an argument to be made for popular languages having more tooling options...
Titanium dioxide does not break down in the presence of UV. Any fading would likely be from migration.
Many startups do this, and the "later on, when you're dealing with competitors" doesn't matter - by then you have money and market share.
This is very much in the style of Aristotle's writings. The parenthesized Greek words appear as if placed there by a translator who had to reach for an approximate word in English and wanted to be precise about the meaning of the original.
Trolling is just subtle abuse by people with sociopathic tendencies
I wasn't familiar with that tool, so I put a few of my last HipChat messages in there to see how I faired. Once I removed specific words or proper nouns, I still didn't do all that well. Even the preceding sentence had four problem words, and I'm pretty sure "preceding" would join them.

I agree, sticking to 1,000 words is hard. But I don't think I agree that it makes the writing better. I look at language as a form of expression, and some words are just more colorful than others, but it takes all of them to paint a picture. I honestly don't know if I could limit myself to the 1,000 most common words, but I wouldn't want to do that if I could. That said, I'm curious why you think it makes your writing better? Is it that you think more about what you're saying? Or that you think it will be more easily digested by others?
I also eat cereal at night for a snack. My idea of cereal is not what most people on here are hating on though. I am not a sweets person so I gravitate towards the cereals with plain flakes, nuts, and dried fruit.

As far as breakfast goes, when I was in my prime weight lifting days skipping breakfast was never an option. Now that I'm older, coffee with milk works on days I do not go to the gym. On days I do go I just have a protein shake after the gym.
I would bet my left ball that the republicans employ astroturfing businesses to spam the social networks with their stories and form a narrative.

They get people to control multiple personas on the same computer and post the same story from the point of view of those personas.

If a person encounters the same story a couple of times, they tend to believe it.
I also eat cereal at night for a snack. My idea of cereal is not what most people on here are hating on though. I am not a sweets person so I gravitate towards the cereals with plain flakes, nuts, and dried fruit.

As far as breakfast goes, when I was in my prime weight lifting days skipping breakfast was never an option. Now that I'm older, coffee with milk works on mornings I do not go to the gym. On mornigins I do go I just have a protein shake after the gym.
I guess it's worth investigating, murmur has been in use by some big names (cassandra, elastic search, hadoop, etc...) for a while in similar contexts.
> But SHA-1 is thoroughly deprecated, and will be broken in the next few years.

Why is this a problem? sha1 is not broken by design, it's only broken by current and future computing power.
Or, John was set upon going to the movies tonight, but his friend refused to join him.

Admittedly, that sounds a bit old-fashioned.
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How far to respect the source's wishes regarding controls on the material is a tricky area. In this case, the source was happy with releasing large amounts of raw data. In the NSA leaks, Snowden wasn't, and he imposed a condition on Greenwald and Poitras not to release everything.

Does the journalist have more responsibility to the source or to the global population? Many people disagree with Wikileaks style raw data dumps irrespective of the source's wishes.

In summary, the ethics of leaking is complicated!
>And indeed trolling is said in many ways; for some call ‘troll’ anyone who is abusive on the internet, but this is only the disagreeable person, or in newspaper comments the angry old man.

Sorry but if this prose is not Aristotle than where are his quotes? Or is the article simply meant to be written in his style?
To be fair, Up-goer Five is the original for the comic, it was hardly intended at the time that it would take off the way it did. That it generated so much interest led to the book.
Yes, but does it work? I cannot tell from reading the introductory materials whether it will actually search efficiently over large space (where it is computationally expensive to evaluate the fitness of any individual point).

I know that folks are having some success with Gaussian process optimisation for hyper parameter tuning (eg https://github.com/Yelp/MOE), but I would be sceptical about the application of genetic programming to this area, particularly as broadly defined a search space as TPOT seems to set up (genetic programming either doesn't make assumptions about the objective function being optimised which can be used to search more efficiently, like Gaussian optimisation does - or uses implicit assumptions that may be unsuitable, depending on how you want to think about it); has anyone seen benchmarks against other search methods? The workflow does look great though - integrating it into scikit looks really clever.
NoScript fixes this and does not break the site in any appreciable manner.
To properly translate ASL, you need to pick up a significant amount of grammar from the face (called non-manual markers) as well as body position, 3d capture of spatial relationships between signs as they are made, and other features which would be inaccessible to these sensors.

And then there's the fact that ASL isn't serialized English (it's actually unrelated to English at all, and has its roots in the French Sign Language). There's no one-to-one mapping between ASL signs and English words, just as there's no one-to-one mapping between Chinese and French, or any two languages. And ASL has grammar features not seen in any spoken language, to complicate things further.

These sensors could perhaps be used to translate other sign languages, but I'm really skeptical.
Whilst this ambiguity is a pain for those learning the language and for clarity, it's also one of the things which makes English a great language for puns/wordplay.

I suspect that having a reduced vocabulary would likely increase the chances of ambiguity, so could be a great source of CNL puns.
Very cool, but it's not quite the revolution described by the inventors in the video - isn't it only one-way, assuming a lot of the deaf person's lip-reading ability?
> make sure you have these advanced settings configured or you're screwed

However, those very settings are on by default.
very true. in fact, the Washington Post has a 'hit piece' out on Trump today. Yet, the WaPo has clearly delineated that they slant 'left', and don't think that it sways their reporting. Whats the psychology there?

While I have no problem with 'hit pieces', I do have a problem when candidates are not treated or investigated with the same vigor. The 'MSM' has failed all of us, and the online companies are going down the same 'memory hole', trying to force people to one side or the other.
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I see your point. Thanks for explaining.
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Here in Brazil their "algorithms" do the opposite: suppress left-wing news. And that is, my friends, why you all are seeing the mess happening in my country.
Oh, good. I liked it quite a lot, and hoped that the misunderstanding wasn't on my part! Thanks :-)
Best job I interviewed was for up to $250+K/year remotely. I didn't get the job though (from stackoverflow).

I will hopefully soon have your problem too on upwork. My idea is to:

1. extreme specialization. Example: I like backend, high performance, low-level, databases (rdbms & nosql). So I'll probably go into lowe-level java/c++/c database coding. And then either contract on this or get a job Example: antirez gets a nice San Francisco wage coding full-time open-source redis.

2. startup
Different ideas. But if I get good at the low-level-high-performance-thing even something with that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11631292 (182 points, 5 days ago, 53 comments)
Hey, I'm sorry you weren't picked for the YC fellowship, but keep it going. I think you may have something there.
Oh very nice.
EDIT: Oops, somehow missed that The Verge article on how Discover Weekly works had already been posted! It works on a variation of PageRank, where instead of links on pages, it uses songs in saved playlists. (If you have a playlist with lots of songs similar to someone else's playlist, you might like the songs in their playlist too. If a song is on lots of playlists, it's probably noteworthy, etc.)
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Correct me if I am wrong but the way I understand it, what has been made public is a very small part of the data (which 2.6TB),Law enforcement would need access to all the data to investigate leads and prosecute offenders. ICIJ is refusing to give them access.
Right, so in this case there was a tiny modicum of competition, and the smart company selling the drug priced their product appropriately.

However, that does not mean that they (or some other organization) couldn't have developed this drug for less.

The question isn't whether it's better that what came before, the question is whether it's efficient. If there were many buyers and sellers, you'd have some faith that is at least approximately efficient.

But with just one seller, they could recoup their costs many, many times over. That's terribly inefficient - those resources could be better used elsewhere.

And it's quite a bit worse than that - by being so inefficient, you're creating all kinds of perverse incentives. Instead of trying to find and create a worthwhile drug, the aim is to find those drugs with captive audiences. The Martin Shkreli saga illustrates that quite blatantly.

The appropriate benchmark is efficiency, not whether the drug at the offered price is better than nothing.
Regarding time-based interfaces, consider the work of Gelertner (et al.).

https://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/fflifestreams_p...

http://www.wired.com/2013/02/the-end-of-the-web-computers-an...
It's obviously a metabolic disease. Insulin is well described as a metabolic hormone. T2 diabetes is the signal not getting processed.

The big open question is what causes it.
In any fair system, when somebody runs away with all the candy, you have to wonder if the system is 'fixed'. Here, it almost certainly is. It doesn't take jealousy to object to systemic cheating.
That sort of describes the Pandora approach. Each song has a set of "genes" that describe its tone, musical instrumentation, key signature, time signature, rhythmic syncopation, etc. these genes are then used to find similar music. I've found it to be quite pleasing to discover new music when it's seeded with a relatively uncommon song that I like.

For instance, I added "Going Through Changes" by "Army of Me", and its recommendations included songs from bands I'd never heard of and actually enjoyed, like Radford, Red (a Christian band, one, as an atheist, I wouldn't ever have browsed on my own, but ended up really enjoying), Maxeen, Black Lab, and Brand New. Each had "genes" that made their algorithm align them with the seed song.

I don't use it much right now - I find myself in a cycle of discovery and then stubborn re-listening of the same four or five albums - but I expect I'll go back to it the next time I'm back in that exploratory mood.
Yes, and it holds true in the adult world as well. For example, extremely few people get to work on the most important problems their minds can imagine. Like these people discuss: http://thebaffler.com/videos/graeber-thiel
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The specific measurement result IS the interpretation.

In other words you cannot not interpret. It's not reality. In reality that measurement result doesn't exist.

You are interpreting the world through your very very very limited senses and only seeing it the way your senses allow you to see it.

This is very different from the world as it is.

You are talking about reality within the confines of what humans can interpret. I am talking about reality as it is in it's entirety without any specific vantage point.
Seems cool, but I wonder how much of this is faked in the demo video. The man signs "T" and it's translated to "Thomas", "N" to "Navid", and "L" to "Lemelson". So unless this is a learning system as well, I'm skeptical. Lot of potential here for sure though, hope they keep it up.