skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The service they provided DID include hotlinking from other sites, which was one of their major distinguishing features and which is why I (for one) used them almost exclusively as an image host.

I can be sympathetic to the fact that their previous 'business model' wasn't financially viable while still being annoyed that they've changed it.
It seems good to me. Peter Thiel did a public service. Lawbreakers were punished without tax payer dollars because they did the wrong thing. It's how the system is supposed to work and an impartial judge found in favor.
You think the site hosted at "deadyet.lol" might be cynical?
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There is economic value in risk management.
Programming is far less fun now, and more painful than it used to be: stupid management practices (agile, scrum, ...), broken and poorly documented 3rd party libraries, code reviews, pair programming, politically correct unit tests, it goes on and on. Check my previous HN postings for rants, if you'd like.

It used to be that your computer had a compiler, and editor, and a shell, and you would go to work, writing code. Now, in the age of programming by google, you are left with the much duller task of gluing together other pieces of code. It's boring, and there are so many distractions -- the ones noted above, as well as Facebook, Buzzfeed, etc.

Now there is one other thing that's going on. Most of us are working pretty high up the stack. I suspect that if you are working on low-level algorithms (for AI, database internals, DSP, ...) that programming remains a fun activity.
It's a shame because there was a few months where Imgur was brilliant.
libel and slander are defined as writing or saying _false_ things that damage a person's reputation or property. if the damaging statement is _true_ its not libel or slander.
I care about plants, therefore I do not eat them.
On Linux you can guarantee (with some effort) that your process / thread will be the only thing running on a core.

There's a boot parameter that will let you black list CPUs on which to not schedule anything (by default). Then you use tasksel to schedule your process there as well. Finally, you can configure IRQ affinity so also doesn't handle interrupts on that core. It's not a 100% non pre-emptive but pretty close.

I believe there was work being to enable it to be even more accurately 100 but I haven't followed along.
Is the JVM overhead really significant these days? You're talking about wasting what, maybe 32MB for each instance? (which can have multiple threads, you don't need one per core). Is your RAM really so limited that you'd run out of RAM before maxing out all your CPUs or I/O in a Scala version?

(I am kind of interested in Rust, but not going to touch it until it gets proper HKT support - you have to duplicate so much code otherwise)
Poor performance is generally evaluated by considering the validation error. This paper only cares about the training error: it is about the presence or absence of bad local minima in the optimization problem that one has to solve when training a MLP with ReLU activations. The learning and the optimization problems are related but they are not the same :)

Dropout is a tool to prevent overfitting (large gap between training error and validation error). This paper does not say anything with overfitting or generalization or the impact of regularization.

Also note that unsupervised pre-training via stacked RBMs has proven mostly useless for MLPs with ReLU activations if the network is wide enough and the number of samples in the training set big enough. It is unclear that initialization via unsupervised pre-training can improve the training error or not. I think it mostly has an impact on the validation error (although I am not sure).

Furthermore, practitioners tend to stop training before the full convergence on the training set. Instead one generally stops when validation error stops decreasing significantly (early stopping) and one does not really care about the final value of the training loss one could have reached if we had continued training forever. Traditional SGD has a convergence rate that is too slow and in practice it prevents checking whether we are converging to a bad local minima or not on non-toy problems.

To sum up: better understanding of the optimization problem is very helpful (in particular to tackle underfitting and reduce training times) but that alone will not ensure that we can build model that generalize correctly to unseen data.
"a vibrant East Asian industry "? There were 30 students out of a student population of 30,000 that used this service. That comes to, what, 0.1 percent? How many of the other 49,970 students hedged their bets in other shady ways (sharing papers, duplicating homework, covering one another for labs)? This is not a situation limited to those unscrupulous foreigners. The whole article smacks of nationalism.

I know, its pretty cynical to have a business dedicated to systemized cheating. But how is that different from sororities and frats that make available (and sell) last years notes/exams? That's often a thriving cottage industry.

Caveat: I went to Iowa. I was in the Engineering program, which was 50% foreign students (99% of the graduate students) back then. These were some of the hardest-working, smartest scholars I have ever met.

I don't think there's anything new to learn in this article.
Remember the unfortunate murder of the Google exec by his escort?

Anecdotal counterpoint:

http://heavy.com/tech/2014/07/forrest-timothy-hayes-google-a...

I apologize for referencing this, but your comment reminded me of this horrific situation.
I happen to merely be a hundred-aire, so take this FWIW, but I don't understand what Thiel being a billionaire matters. It seems natural for someone to want to use the power within their means to right a wrong (in their view). Not that I could relate, but I can imagine being outed would make me pretty spiteful as well - unsure what his wealth has to do with that.
The hardware won't be up to it, and it would be a huge amount of work to build a desktop UI which matches their mobile UI. Canonical have been pursuing this for five years, and are only just about getting there.
Agreed. The problem isn't that Thiel supported Hogan in his trial, it's that it was necessary for someone like Thiel to do so in order for a victim of Gawker to get justice.
I think it'd be fair to point out there seems to be a huge shift in attitudes toward this stuff. Compare the reaction to the Pamela Anderson videos to the reaction to the iCloud leaks.
Two related points:

- 'Poverty' is (mostly) relative; as you point out, almost all of the even the poorest in the US are rich in comparison to the poor in other countries; and the poorest in the world today are relatively rich compared to the poor (and even not-poor) in the past.
- It is illegal, inconvenient, and low-status to live or try to live, in the US, as the poor in India, or other poorer countries, do; e.g. authorities will evict tenants living in illegal housing (and prosecute their landlords), almost no one brings their small children to work with them, building/labor/etc. standards are much more stringent legally (and culturally).
>If it's right, great! Saved you time from searching, or nudged you to create a stronger communications channel than you previously had

This is a tiny, tiny good I never wanted that I am receiving in exchange for a massive surveillance apparatus profiling my entire internet life.
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We study the Divina Commedia in High school (for three years, one "cantica" per year) and it is not actually that easy, not only for the language (that it is still a dialect of the time) but also for the interpretation of the text that is full of references to the political and social situation of the time (beginning of 1300 btw). Most of each page are actually notes...

Dante is usually credited for having chosen the Tuscany/Florence dialect to be the future Italian, later adopted by many writers and poets (that also contributed to the evolution of the language), so yes, I wouldn't say it is artificial at all, maybe the only artificial thing is the choice of a dialect over another.

And as I guess many already know many of the regional dialects survived, and in some regions more than others are still spoken. In fact an Italian is often bilingual in a sense. And if you happen to be in a book store in Italy it is not at all that rare to find a book from a contemporary author written in his local dialect.

BTW we study all of the three authors you mentioned at school ... not an easy task I assure you :P
Nice bios. Would rather read about what they're building.
I've bought the phone last years, but I kepts it up to date. Now I'm on 2.0.1. It's way better, but all the previous points still hold. Surfing, espacially, is painful experience with slow loading and misclicks everywhere. Group text won't tell you who is answering to you and you can't select a message to respond to it only. Yesterday the phone went from 4G to 2G for no reason then shut down.
Kotlin, which is 100% java-interoperable has much nicer generics (declaration-site variance and type projections instead of wildcards).

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/generics.html
I imagine you probably live somewhere where the cost of living is significantly higher than the rest of the country. I left the Washington DC Metro area which is exactly as you describe and moved to Greenville, SC. My wife has been able to be a stay at home mom here and we get access to a decent education for our daughter. Any difference in quality of education can be made up by the parents imo.

Leaving an area which required 2 parents to work has been one of the greatest things I've ever done and I won't go back. We are significantly happier without that pressure.
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> but I'd wager that there was no profitable business for them at any point without intrusive ads.

5 years ago: "but it's profitable enough to hopefully hire another guy or two this summer."[0]

The founder has completely bootstrapped the site since day 1, and has done an AMA on Reddit talking about the whole situation[1]. Ads are absolutely necessary to make it profitable, but clearly taking investment now means they are going to squeeze every ounce of dollar out of the site and hence the sentiment of "aggressive monetization".

[0] - https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/eicjf/im_the_imgur_gu...

[1] - https://www.quora.com/How-profitable-is-Imgur-com
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Not sure if this is needed. A Promise is basically an async representation of a transaction where "cancel" can mean a slew of things. Even w/ `fetch`, what's supposed to happen when you cancel? (connection abort? resource modification reverse?) Cancel should just be a `rejection`, because the Promise's purpose (update a remote resource) wasn't fulfilled
It doesn't matter how many media outlets break the law. If the law is bad, it should be changed but if it isn't and the media outlets break the law, they should be held accountable.
These are the same not-real journalists who broke the Facebook stories everyone was talking about for the past two weeks, though. Seems like an odd claim.
> It seems to me the amount of data available through the internet is what powered the recent advances in ML.

Great point. This was part of it. There were other elements, all of which did not come together until a few years ago, yet their result has been expected since at least the 90s if not the 50s by some very visionary and optimistic people. The other elements were (1) having enough labeled data, (2) fast enough hardware, not just to solve the problems, but also to be able to test repeatedly with different initialization weights to identify good values for these parameters (3) good enough libraries for programming the hardware, enabling more developers to easily make use of GPUs for matrix operations, and distributed computing for problems that benefit from parallelization (4) various mathematical advances whose details I couldn't do justice, but things like rewriting the math so problems are more easily parallelizable helped a bunch, (5) sharing of research. ML researchers shared their advances openly via places like arxiv.org and this led to faster advances (6) the use of patents for defense rather than offense - I believe google led the way here

Now, and going forward, yes, it's believed that those with the most data have the biggest advantage. Even so, researchers are making advances and specializing in all kinds of areas of ML, like ones requiring little data, no data or lots of data, varying degrees of labeled data, different classes of algorithms, etc. The field is growing rapidly

That's the gist. I'm definitely missing a few things

Yann LeCun [1] is a good person to follow if you're interested in a top ML researcher's opinion about AI and the media's perception of it. He frequently posts articles with which he agrees or disagrees

[1] https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun
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Ok. Then let's target CU. But this isn't CU. The first amendment doesn't cover lying or making people's lives miserable when it doesn't serve a social good. The founding fathers wrote the alien and sedition acts.

The illegality of revealing government search requests causing chilling effects and propoganda pieces by the US military and other high ranking officials is actually a violation. Taking someone to open court isn't.
> How universities and colleges can raise tuition an average of 8% a year and get away without doing a minimum of due diligence around cheating is beyond me.

Why would they? The students and their parents aren't paying for hard (which includes catching cheaters). They're paying for the degree. If college was harder the perceived ROI* would be less.

As far as I can tell colleges are happy if the students keep showing up paying real live money-dollars, regardless of if they learn or cheat or even have to do work.

* Individuals might feel like they are getting a good deal, but in the aggregate, most college degrees are essentially worthless now, I suspect because college is way too easy so a degree is a signal for almost nothing.
You are right. It does not even guarantee any mutual exclusion in the read critical section i.e., the data you are reading can be changed while you are in the critical section. RCU, as the article claims, does not work in all situations.
Just to be clear, the freedom of speech is not absolute. It _is_ possible to violate someone else's First Amendment rights while exercising your own, to the point where a judge or jury must decide who is at fault (if anyone) and why. The limits to free speech have been shaped over time by laws and by precedent. In this case, a jury found that Gawker went too far.
That thing made on Firebase, Node and hosted on Github. Its already opensource. Check out https://github.com/neelkadia/neelkadia.github.io/blob/master...

What do you understand when I say "open source"?
If Thiel actually felt that he was acting in a just and above board way to address a wrong, it's hard to understand why he has been skulking about secretly funding this take down.

It is implausible at best to believe that anyone with an actual principled commitment privacy to would have backed Palantir and Facebook.
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While in theory that may be true, in practice, if a sufficiently deep-pocketed person can shut down media outlets they dislike it still seems troubling.
That's not true. If you're looking at the interactive chart, you need to check the box that says "Show page views per article". Otherwise you're just seeing raw pageviews, and Trump has more of those because there were so many more articles written on him.
they do. They don't just pop out of nowhere from nothing.
Esperanto has way way more speakers than Klingon.

"Arika Okrent guessed in her book In the Land of Invented Languages that there might be 20–30 fluent [Klingon] speakers."[1]

"In 2009 Lu Wunsch-Rolshoven used 2001 year census data from Hungary and Lithuania as a base for an estimate, resulting in approximately 160,000 to 300,000 to speak [Esperanto] actively or fluently throughout the world, with about 80,000 to 150,000 of these being in the European Union."[2]

"As of 1996, there were 350 or so attested cases of families with native Esperanto speakers. Estimates from associations indicate that there are currently around 1,000 Esperanto-speaking families, involving perhaps 2,000 children. In all known cases, speakers are natively bilingual, or multilingual, raised in both Esperanto and either the local national language or the native language of their parents."[3]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language#Speakers

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto#Number_of_speakers

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Esperanto_speakers
This seems to be transforming into a link spam source awfully quickly. Too bad, because it has a certain kind of appeal.
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> the law defines what is ethical

The law defines what is permitted, not what is ethical.
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Gawker is gossip trash and cultural garbage. it needs to go. Kudos to Their regardless of his reason to take it down.
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Haha. An article on conservative bias in a newspaper that is the epitome of conservative bias. Stand by for the "truth" as Fox News reports on the Washington Times report.
In that situation I hold position that will not be liked by the two main camps:

1. Mr Thiel is right. The US has adversarial system, and taking donations for defense funds has been common. He is doing the same for reasons of his own. On a larger scale.

2. The party that publishes true information that they are under no obligation to keep secret should not be held responsible. Find the original leaker of the info and sue him. Yeah it will empower the scum of the earth. But it will also empower all kinds of activists and people that fight the elite in that new gilded age we live in.
I remember spending an entire holiday at the spanish sea reading a thick Delphi 3 book... and I had a great time, especially after returning home and programming all the software I had designed in my mind.
Maybe this is an error on Stackoverflow's end, (i.e. serving "Please click the link in the confirmation email to activate your subscription." text to googlebot) and then it went into google index.
Are you joking? This piece is childish. Gawker released a private sex tape and has a history of spreading rumors that do nothing to advance the knowledge of the citizenry. Peter Thiel helped pay to ensure their actions were aired in an impartial court.
> Is that how the legal system works in America? Money wins?

Ask any small company dealing with a giant patent troll.
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link to source code? want to see what 2-weeks old rust programmer writes and how feasible it is to train our team
I work for a scientific publisher. For April fool's this year we sent an email to all staff saying that to adjust to the realities of today's publishing industry, we would now start rewriting article titles into the more fashionable style. If they could also rework the contents into listicle form, that would be great.

It was not well received, so it worked as expected?
Also there's a large array of constructed Slavic languages, like Slovio[1], and one can read them immediately without much learning.

I was impressed by sheer length of the list [2].

1 - http://www.slovio.com/
2 - http://steen.free.fr/interslavic/constructed_slavic_language...
I'm sure it is. That phrase is like nails on a chalkboard for me.
Promoting marriage? All I've see is a massive increase in the risk of marrying, especially as a man.
Heavy emphasis on the pseudo part of that I assume? A quick glance at third party sites accessed when loading imgur.com:

- facebook
- twitter
- amazon ads
- google ads
- quantserve
- google analytics
- scorecardresearch

Because this is pretty much the standard list for any major site, each of those providers has a highly detailed profile built for the average web user. While the top three will often have login data associated, there's plenty of capability for data mining without that. This excludes data other providers can glean from the actions taken and data rendered by those top three providers - I haven't kept up on the state of that and I don't know how possible it still is.
It depends if the referrer header is set to reddit. Try clicking a direct link from facebook or twitter.
In the past, only the brightest and best Chinese students could come to US, mostly by scholarship for their master/PhD, most of them stayed after the study.

These days, the majority students from China are those ordinary kids(or even worse) with a rich dad, most of them are the only child in the family which was likely spoiled, these combined produced a quality issue, so we're seeing them on the news, that they cheat, they committed crimes, they do drugs,etc.

In the meantime, many universities are in need of cash, which is another reason in the mix.

So all in all, it's all about money, one needs that, another one has that but not much more than that, thus all kinds of related issues.
Sure, it's bizarre that justice has to happen this way.

But you can't honestly think a big media company like Gawker should be allowed to break the law and humiliate others just because their money protects them from their victim's getting any justice?
that's just false. English is the worst language ever from the point of view of phonetics
School doesn't have to be boring
This looks cool. Are there any demos we could try in our browser?
This being California- when can we expect housing on the ocean floor of the bay?
No way to discuss the starts in question? I'd love a comment board under each name. I tried one or two; their websites were awful. Virtually unusable. Feedback might help them.
Gawker is postmodern culture garbage, it needs to go. they've created several media controversies for just clickbait fun and this type of journalism is dangerous, I don't care about the reason for Theil's motives but he's only doing the world a favor
Peter Thiel is snake because he took these actions in actions in secret.

If he had been open from the start, then I may have a different opinion of him.
Romney could sue, but he would lose.

You can sue any time you want. That's how the US legal system works.
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What irks me is that most of the news articles are highlighting the "sex tape" aspect of this story.

Hulk Hogan had consensual sex with a woman. She was married, but her husband also consented to this. Gawker released the video. This embarrassed Hulk Hogan, but ultimately doesn't damage his credibility as a pro wrestler. People probably already assumed that Hulk Hogan has sex.

So, the video did cost him his job, but that had nothing to do with the sex. Instead, he was fired for his racist tirade in that very same video.

So, by claiming that this whole thing is about a "sex tape" clearly paints a picture of Hulk Hogan as a victim. But, the realization that what really damaged him was his racist rant, then suddenly it does seem like Gawker was reporting something newsworthy.