skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stereotype reinforcement at it's finest. The mechanical engineer designs a part in CAD, 3d prints a prototype and repeats until success is achieved. It's the physical equivalent of the programmer automating a one time task. What a shame no computer simulations were involved.

It would have been easier to go to the dump and spend five minutes looking at the row or two of fridges to find the part or, failing that, find a suitable chunk of plastic, cuts it down and makes the part and spend the rest of the time fixing something else around the house instead of writing an article.

After working with everything from paper to plastic to wood to spring steel at college I'm just gonna kill a few hundred birds with one stone and get a mill. When you consider all the tools it replaces and how many different specialized machines it can stand in for (including a 3d printer) in a pinch if its got a big enough Z it seems like a no-brainer
It would also break software updates from Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc.

And like one bazillion apps that unlike browsers will not have any UI to ask the user to confirm if falling back to unencrypted channels is okay.

I really don't see this working without Thai people revolting...
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I've never seen an oil filter a screwdriver and a hammer couldn't get off...
Short answer: NO

Sounds a lot like The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy

Do enough studies and statistically speaking one of them will show a link. This is most likely a statistical outlier and without multiple iterations of this test a false conclusion can easily be created.

Also as other commentators have already pointed out there are other points of correlation such as longevity which have been conveniently ignored - again helping to reinforce the TSF :)
Actually, there is only one evolutionary fitness function, and that is reproductive fitness. The environment is the only variable. If your environment contains an intelligent agent that values the production of (say) alcohol, and the power to influence the selection of alcohol-producting organisms then an organism that produces alcohol can thrive. But this is true of anything, not just alcohol. Substitute "kitten photos" (or anything else) for "alcohol" and you will still have a true statement.
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You are wrong. You can very much catch "key errors" at compile time.
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Not depressing at all. If we can continue to generate energy to meet our current level of demand without introducing more CO2 into the atmosphere than was there before then our climate crisis is solved.

Human energy use will have a zero net effect on CO2 levels, meanwhile, the oceans and rocks and the world's flora will gradually bring the concentration back down to a more desirable level.
Tongue in cheek.

Seems like a lot of DN head there eventually when they turn to Europe. Cheap COL, good food, cheap beer, good internet.
Haha, that is crazy! It is a strike against a stationary target, however. I have yet to see an owl pick off another bird in flight. After all, why would any other bird be flying around in the dark?
In fact, "Brainstorm" is one of the least used packages among all deep learning libraries. For reference, here is the number of new Github issue tickets created over the past 15 days (2016-05-15 to 2016-05-30):

#1: 131 tensorflow/tensorflow

#2: 107 fchollet/keras

#3: 91 dmlc/mxnet

#4: 64 BVLC/caffe

#5: 61 Microsoft/CNTK

#6: 42 deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j

#7: 26 tflearn/tflearn

#8: 23 Theano/Theano

#9: 16 NVIDIA/DIGITS

#10: 10 pfnet/chainer

#11: 9 Lasagne/Lasagne

#12: 8 torch/torch7

#13: 8 NervanaSystems/neon

#14: 6 mila-udem/blocks

#15: 1 autumnai/leaf

#16: 0 karpathy/convnetjs

#17: 0 tensorflow/skflow

#18: 0 IDSIA/brainstorm
Not the GP, but I believe jeffdavis is referring to the naturalistic fallacy: wherein an appeal to nature is made as a way of arguing a point (e.g. vanilla extract is better than synthetic vanillin, even though it's the same molecule). Logically there's nothing intrinsically more correct about things from nature that makes your point valid.

However, I think GP should read the entire article, because the aims of the modern education system are well documented in their intent to create compliant workers. The authors analogy of humans to Zoo animals makes a lot of sense, given that we are only Mammals, after all.
Compounding this injustice is the fact that the executors of this surveillance are private contractors, not a wing of the government. What's worse, these cyber mercenaries, such as Hacking Team, are contracted out by the individual ruling families of the Emirates. The abundance of technology is making the blending of sovereign and personal power extraordinarily dangerous. The voice of the demos is totally absent from all of this. Which is why modern autocracies are more dangerous than they ever have been.

Bereft of popular sovereignty, nations stand poised to allow powerful individuals to agglomerate a huge arsenal for the holding and maintaining of power. We in America need to do a better job of exercising whatever power we have in order to forestall the creeping technologically based grip on our freedoms.
I suspect a Houyhnhnm would reply that the very concept of the requirements changing for a set thing like an "operating system" is a category error- the idea of an operating system is defined (by a perfectly rational Houyhnhnm) as a given set of requirements. Change those, and you're now talking about a different kind of thing.

We can talk about plenty of things that are (in human-speak) part of the requirements for OSes now that, X years ago, weren't. But (a Houyhnhnm might say) there's an exhaustive set of all things that an OS (qua an OS) should do, and once you have that, you have an OS that will stand the test of time (essentially) unchanged. We hadn't (and probably still haven't) enumerated and implemented all of these capabilities simply because our primitive computing technology base is still coming of age.

Really, to a computer scientist in 1960, an OS was probably just something that made his mainframe go so that he could do more interesting things. It would take a optimally-rational equine being to sit down at that stage and work out exactly, in an ideal sense applicable to all feasible computing devices, what an OS should be. And its still the case, since I doubt the architects of modern OSes give much thought to quantum computing interfaces or nanite-cloud networking or whatever. But adopting the Houyhnhnm-ist manner of thinking about OSes (or more humble applications) as implementations abstract ideal entities rather than bits of machinery might make it easier when, however long down the road, someone is trying to use our work for something that we hadn't foreseen.
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> If a soldier deployed in Iraq has the time to code...

LOL. True. I was running night raids in 2004 and coding during the day on an app for a commercial real estate company. If anything it was a way to cope, but hey I found the time.
A URL to a git repo showing the non-linear, self-adaptive piece of software would be more effective.
If you're a state level target, expect physical things like bugging, hardware keystroke loggers, RATs installed in windows bootloaders on your laptop, and other physically intrusive "sneak and peek" measures taken on any electronics when you're not present.
I started watching this video expecting for him to be like all of my politicians are. I am happy that I was wrong.

He seems to actually understand the underlying technology that he is pushing, and it seems like it is working.

Is anyone here from Estonia who could comment on these new systems?
Why would that matter?
I've always thought it's more a matter of ignorance. Most infosec risks are fairly abstract and difficult to grasp for non-technical folks. Many don't understand why what they are doing is bad.

I really think that the infosec needs to do a much better job educating the public.
Who says automating away jobs has to look like AI? I'm pretty sure libraries like Rails, React, etc have "automated" quite a few jobs away.
Nice job! I like how lightweight it is.

I've recently built this wrapper for chrome apis for ClojureScript developers:
https://github.com/binaryage/chromex

It converts callbacks to core.async channels (which is a popular clojurescript async primitive) also
it uses chromium sources to generate whole api-index as clojure data structures and then uses macros to generate wrapping / marshalling of API calls. That way I can also retain API versioning and warn API clients when using wrong version / signatures.
>The only thing that a well written unit test should accomplish is to make sure that a requirement is implemented correctly.

A common side effect of writing these tests is discovering missing or conflicting cases. A recent example for me in eCommerce is our algorithm for determining if a particular product can be added to your cart. Things start simple (is it in stock?), but they get complicated really quickly. Is there a dropship vendor with stock? Do we expect to receive more stock in the next 24 hours? Is it discontinued? Clearance? Does it look like we'll run out in the next day and accidentally oversell the stock we have? (realtime inventory is a little fuzzy still).

When we unit test the module that handles all of this we don't care about internal state or exhaustive input testing, we care about whether the user sees "In Stock" or "Out of Stock" for the situations we encounter
> Apparently CS authors no longer bother with expanding acronyms the first time they are used.

What does CS stand for? :p

But yeah, I might expect BLEU to be unexpanded in an NLP paper maybe, but not here
You want to build something that people find and continuously use. So even if you only get 5 new users a day, after a few years you have many thousands of users. What do people continuously use over years? Think tools, things that improve their productivity, things that help them. Monetization is pretty easy, as mobile ads pay well, and you can charge an SaaS subscription to remove ads, or consumables to get extra features. A free install is critical or no one will use it, charge on upsells within a free app.

This is an inexact science. This is inherently a risky endeavor, with a high probability of failure. You need to be mentally prepared to fail. Good luck
The komatsu machine that plucks the tree up and shreds the branches looks like something a transformers villain would be made of.
Because not everything needs to be on amazon. Also, the blog at least is wordpress, not "static".
> Totally, this is put better than I could have, but is exactly how I feel watching and experiencing the systemd thing play out. I'm old enough now that I (I'm such a nerd) don't really want my init system messed around with, but I do get there may be better ways in general.

Thanks. I'm kind of in the same boat, age wise. I have the impression (and this comes from a number of comments online and a podcast with Poettering I listened to lately) that any criticism from the experienced crowd is seen as a sort of elitism of people entrenched in their abilities they honed over many years. This might be the case for many critics, and Poettering may be right to dismiss them. But I'm afraid that the very valid criticism regarding overall design goals is lost in all of this. The systemd team steams on, believing that all naysayers are just stuck in their ways.
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Well, that's not a very good point.
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Most importantly, whatever the language or codebase you are working in/on mandates.

I write a lot of C, and given the choice, I tend to prefer tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment. I use a tab-width of 8, so the code will look fine for anyone using a lower tab-width.

Converting from tabs to spaces is a simple search-and-replace, whereas the other way is more work (there was an article here recently about algorithms to guess indentation width).
The funny thing is people have started to make a big deal out this and smartphones are required to emit less than 1.6 watts. This is in stark contrast to the many, many years, people were using 3 watt phones and nobody ever made a link between cancer and using phones that emitted much more than today's cellphones.
I see the value of apprenticeship, learning skills on demand. However, I don't think everything should necessary be learned only on the base of apprenticeship. Correct me if I am wrong but I am guessing you probably did not imply this. Lessons that shape your worldview, those that shape you as a person, are extremely valuable and should always be taught. Also learning things out of curiosity and not necessarily on demand is also extremely valuable. Sometimes you can only connect the dots looking backwards.
Ya, you're totally right that one study does not prove reliability.

I guess my point is more theoretical. Let's say it was reliable, and let's say that other non-fasting diets didn't produce the effect. Further, let's say that telling them it had no effect didn't prevent it either.

Now, given all that, it's still possible that there is, in some sense, a psychological component (i.e. how you 'feel' when fasting) that causes you to get better in some way. I have always thought this about Airborne and such, for instance. They are total bullshit products that absolutely, categorically do not work. But I drink them when i'm sick anyway, because the effervescence and the flavor feel to me like something that works, so I feel like their placebo effect is better than other things.

I suppose what i'm getting at is that there are some activities/experiences that can engineer better placebo effects than others due to the subjective experience they produce. And I wonder then in what sense is that separable from the thing itself.
I experimented with a few regularization factors and ultimately settled on a lambda of 0.1. Rather than using a stopping criteria, I ran a fixed number of training iterations (~100) and just eyeballed the cost function results. Since my total training time was fairly brief (~2 minutes, tops), I had the luxury of designing the ANN somewhat heuristically.
You are vastly underestimating the power of a large multirotor.

A typical domestic lawnmower has about the same motor power and the same sized blade as a heavy lift quadcopter. Do you think an eagle could survive being run over by a lawnmower?
You are right, but that does not make it right to compare a new electric plane's cost, flying performance and energy efficiency/consumption with a 1975 Cessna except if you have a time machine to send the electric plane back in 1975.
Where do digital nomads sleep? I can't imagine that they're signing year-long leases, or that apartments are happy about transient foreign sub-letters dropping in and out. So you have to be rich enough to sleep in hotels every night? I guess there's AieBnb now, but what did they do before that?
Thanks for pointing this out! I sent an email.
Prague is no longer cheap, and the food isn't so good there. Budapest is cheaper, fewer tourists and better food. The only thing Prague still has going for it is super cheap high quality beer.
Exactly. So—assuming all results are statistically significant—where's the causal relationship? Radiation-> Cancer? Radiation->Lives longer? Lives longer->Cancer? and if there are two results that are related independently of this study (lives longer/gets more cancer), then how can we presume one of the other results is more "valid" than another (as broadcast in the headlines)
neo-liberal (or just liberal) meaning right-winged views here in french speak. Not really sure how and why US left wingers are called liberals though.
> relatively good supply of extremely expensive housing

FTFY

By US major city standards it isn't completely off-the-wall expensive (I mean, there are at least a dozen more expensive major cities in the US). But, the nomads I know tend to want to save money so they can work less. While I don't set out to find the cheapest place to park my RV, I also don't end up staying in places like Miami for long (when there are similarly nice cities for less than half the price).
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Is it not true that you did not intend to answer a rhetorical question with a rhetorical question as a negative confirmation, is it?
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That's the same thing that came to my mind.
http://www.rafekettler.com/magicmethods.html#appendix1

and you can call them directly:

>>> (3).__neg__()
-3
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> Maybe the folks behind Hacker News want to evolve the site by encouraging more job hiring posts, or maybe they’d like to devote special site features to housing or more security features. That’s the kind of analysis we need to effectively steer our companies: more insight, less black box.

I guess that was written in gest, but I do hope some kind of reddit or SO-style siloing isn't on the cards to 'make HN grow'!

I rather hope that HN grows in the collaborative filtering direction instead. Instead of most interesting topics never making it high enough up the first page to actually gain any traction, it would be nice if collaborative filtering was used to make it so people can easily get more of what they like and easily find something completely different. Of course I've blogged and petitioned for this kind of approach in the past ;) http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/15581427232/self-...

Then HN can stay the HN we all like, as many of us like slightly different things, and collaborative filtering can evolve with each of us letting us find like-minded others to share our filter-bubble with :)
I feel for you, bro.

(I mean neither sarcasm, nor condescension)
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A nicely designed sound builder.
Congrats on the cool SaaS business! Quick suggestion. The logo at the top of the blog should link back to your homepage, instead of the blog index.
This is precisely the myth of our culture that the article is trying to debunk.

Instead of considering "wildness" as the observable actions of an individual (in our culture generally equated with "out of line"), consider "wildness" as the state-of-mind -- or the embodied, subjective experience of an individual -- in which that individual experiences themselves as a completely sovereign individual enmeshed in a web of relationships with other completely sovereign individuals.

There are many such wild humans living in our society even now. If you're looking for the guy running through the city in loincloth beating his chest and grunting gutturally, you won't find them.

You will find them if you look for people walking through the world almost like everyone else, except their eyes sparkle like the stars.

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And regarding your second point about having a role meaning that something is not wild: In the actual "wild", out there in the natural ecosystems of the world, roles and wildness existing very much hand in hand. Through a certain lens, biological diversity is exactly the separation of life into distinct and complementary roles.

Wildness is not a rejection of role. Wildness is the the complete and unreserved embodiment of who-you-are (your unique and undeniable role/roles) and the expression of that in relationship to everyone else.
Yeah I thought it was ham burger as burger with ham
After reading your comment I watched the video -thanks. The presenter has some really good points, in this and his other videos, about how Apple makes it hard for people like him to fix people's products. Furthermore, Apple Service doesn't replace $2 parts that fail, they just toss the whole motherboard.
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Thanks for asking. I confess my comment was a vent rather than a reasoned argument. I've been annoyed with Snowden's leaks ever since they came out.

I believe leaks about domestic spying on the American people are thoroughly justified (and utterly necessary), and I believe leaks about spying on foreign goverments and foreign nationals are thoroughly unjustified (and frankly, verging on traitorous). pascalmemories seems to be saying that the issue of spying on foreign nationals ("terroists") has completely overshadowed the issue of domestic spying in the popular consciousness to the extent that his associates don't even realise that domestic spying is happening. This is yet another nail in my personal coffin for Snowden.
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I don't know anything else about it, except I can add that it would have been about 1952, in Alabama.
I understand making a snarky comment in addition to some meaningful commentary but really two useless comments? Why even take the time to do so?
There were 6 times as many test groups as control groups (3 intensities * 2 modulations). It would have been good to have more control groups to reduce statistical effects.
> lmax disruptor is great for all sorts of things

No, abstractblockingqueue and other general purpose queue implementations are great for all sorts of things. Disruptor has a pretty specific use case - high rate of constant data flow through a system, where it's okay to spin loop threads to consume data. It also requires pinning threads to CPUs to get the benefit gain of cache locality on the ring buffers. It's pretty darned specialised for general use.
The market itself doesn't know what it actually wants.

Generally its a case of throwing ideas out there and watching what people nibble on, or stumbling across something that everyone has trouble with that you can easily solve.
What really makes Brazil a no go for me is how dangerous it seems to be. I wouldn't even dare going there for vacation let alone live there for an extended period.
When the Snowden leaks initially came up, my mom thought that he was spy selling secrets to the Chinese (because he was in Hong Kong at the time). When I tried to explain what it was actually about she rolled her eyes on me.
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Wow! We built an open source app for holiday management [1] (with a very close UI to this one) and I always thought it would make sense to sell it as a SaaS. I'm glad to see someone actually did it!

[1] https://github.com/diacode/holidays
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You're not alone. Everyone thinks I'm crazy and tells me this, "I have nothing to hide, why should I care?" It makes my blood boil.
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That JTRIG was an interesting read.

But it formed an interesting question in my mind:

As much as I feel these disclosures are great and necessary, are they not inspiring and informing other (unsavory) nation states on great strategies and tactics to use?

I just wish they would publish this type of info and include how to defeat them.

Because the only thing they seem to say in response to these awful things is we're better than this, and it shouldn't be allowed whereas certain dictatorships would just laugh it off and say "Thanks, GREAT ideas!"
Ah, the classic!

There's tons of other lovely noises too. Interested in more? Check out some SIGGRAPH stuffs from Mr. Perlin.
possible explanation: subgroups / differentiation. The average across a wide populace might be much lower than the average in a merchant or intellectual class.
Computers are incredibly complicated to use and full of stupid bullshit rules.

The average person is barely staying above water trying to use computers and not get fucked (I.e. Losing their work due to a keyboard mispress), that it's very overwhelming to consider security and privacy on top.