skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What are "traditional nets" ?

I'm assuming the old feed-forward error back-propagation neural networks, before they got "deep". They had three layers (input, hidden and output) and were trained using straightforward error back-propagation (derivative of the training weights wrt the error).

This was a relatively popular technique in--I think?--the 90s (this is a guess, I started my masters ML in 2003 and at that moment neural networks were seen as a thing of the past). So at some point these traditional neural networks hit a wall. We wanted to use more layers but the error-backprop wasn't quite up to it. And as it later turned out, computing power and size of datasets were also lacking, but IIRC we didn't quite realize those aspects back then and mostly saw it as a limitation of the Neural Network training algorithm.
Dang - that thing is intense. May have to take an evening to get through it.

Could you put this in an eBook format?
You can do almost anything else at a W-2 job and make more money with less responsibility and risk. Your credit card rate comparison is absurd. You don't ever have to carry a balance with a credit card. You have no choice with a car.
My 9 year old daughter regularly watches "TheDiamondMinecart" on YouTube, who has 10.9 million subscribers. From the little I've seen, it looks like about 80% of his videos are Mincraft, 20% other games.
(Not taking sides or condemning/supporting Thiel)

Publications destroy people all the time - at least tabloids here in Germany. Most of those people have no money and can't sue. Journalism is fine when the 800pound Gorilla is on their side. Now once a person aims to destroy the magazine, journalists with pitchforks claim the end is near (aka censorship).

At least this is how it looks from the sideline.
@brudgers actually I am doing just that. Built a prototype with the name of www.comtify.com. Now was moving in the direction of injecting features of an email client, and so, thought of testing the hypothesis first by writing here.

It proved to be a much more expensive affair though.
> I do, however, feel concerned that a rich person like Thiel can buy litigation.

What about when rich people fund the ACLU or EFF in order to support a lawsuit by those organizations?
No. You have to stick to your guns that uncertainty is a valid disposition (maybe).
How many employees did WhatsApp have when it was bought for $19 billion? Signficantly less than 4,100.
The funny thing here is that a couple cab companies have done seemingly irreparable damage to the worldwide taxi industry, merely by virtue of being based in San Francisco and allowing drivers to regularly flake or refuse service to slightly less profitable areas.
How do you own a bug? Was the bug something in iOS? Wouldn't that be Apple's bug?

A sibling post said they took his code. That's a fair complaint, was it clear when they saw it that it was not code that they could reuse?
That's just the way log probabilities work. Log(0) is negative infinity, but log(1) is just 0.

You can have infinitely high scores if you use log odds though: http://lesswrong.com/lw/mp/0_and_1_are_not_probabilities/

But that can only happen if you get every question 100% right. Whereas getting a single question 100% wrong is easy to do.
There's a pretty solid case to be made that introspection is missing from a lot of pedagogy anyway, so this isn't necessarily bad. I can see this being useful in many places - when testing on bits of interrelated knowledge, having a confidence score on the test may help people learn to puzzle out information and synthesize conclusions. Both of those skills are more valuable to the student than the ability to dump random facts - we have google for that these days.
It is actually the other way around. Internal producers simply cannot compete with external ones who can produce in multiple countries, in giant quantities at very low overhead cost and then sell reject goods for a very low price.

Africa has a big problem with this. Due to trade agreements, many European meat producers sell their "leftovers" into the African market at extremely low costs, which has lead to the demise of domestic producers of live stock. Which then resulted in a loss of jobs.

Yes, some people might be able to purchase things at a lower cost now, but some other people will loose their jobs and won't be able to purchase anything at all, which also negatively affects the domestic market.

For the outside producer is not a problem, they simply can move on. But kick starting a domestic market and bringing wages back up again will be huge issue for any government in the long run.
Both spellings are equivalent modulo permutation.
Shouldn't it be up to individual French people to decide what they watch on TV or the internet? Why should the coercive authority of the state have any say?
Pebble has now put Alexa on your wrist
Sell a $300 charger bundled built in Indian with a free iPhone?
Bin Laden killed many fewer innocent people than were killed and continue to be killed in the American middle eastern wars. Do you feel that Google should deny the doodle to anyone who says anything good about Gerorge W Bush or Barack Obama?
I'd certainly agree with the second half of the problem; jurisdiction is a growing concern. No matter what service you use, you need to be concerned about what legal systems have (or claim) jurisdiction over them.

Regarding the first half, though: if you want to stop people from using a particular service, build a better service that everyone wants to use instead. If no such service exists, people will use what exists.
> When you use a Promise and don't attach an error handler, in many environments you might never find out about the error.

I specced and Node added the `unhandledRejection` hook over a year ago:

process.on("unhandledRejection", (err) => {
// handle
});

And in browsers Domenic worked on something similar which was added later (because browsers) but will hopefully be standard in all browsers soon (Chrome, since 49):

window.addEventListener("unhandledrejection", (err) => {

});

If you use bluebird - you get that up to IE7.

You mention that - but it's worth pointing out upfront it's a solved problem.

Also:

> The problem is that once again, Promises will swallow subsequent resolutions and more concerningly, rejections. There might be errors that are never logged!

This is arguably a much better design than the alternative - which is to violate the "callback" contract.
I actually wish that Owncloud would focus on file syncing and not on apps. Their app API feels like the wrong level of abstraction, more like you're building wordpress plugins than actual apps. I appreciate that it makes it easy for devs to get started, but can result in some terrible security holes and messy APIs. Something like Sandstorm is a much better way to separate apps and content and prevent security issues.

Owncloud's syncing clients for mac/win/linux are descended from mirall and are pretty good. I used Owncloud server for a while then built myself a lightweight replacement in node that uses the same sync API. (webdav)
> What I'm trying to say is that I don't want memory safety because it would improve my daily programming experience (in fact possibly the reverse would be true)

I think you underestimate how much time is saved by not having to deal with these issues. Programming in C or C++ is frequently an exercise in writing the code, seeing a crash due to a memory safety problem, debugging it, and then repeating until you see anything resembling a working program. Writing in a memory-safe language lets you skip all that startup friction and go straight to "something resembling a working program".
Former Nest Employee Takes Aim at Google’s Media Policy
Source for Thiel's involvement? Cannot find any reference to Thiel in the associated articles.

A better question might be, if you are against Thiel in the matter of Hogan v Gawker; what thinking has led you to a defence of the Gawker behaviour?
>>> Everything went smoothly for about 6 months until I was updating Owncloud with a minor version upgrade, and then BAM; nobody (myself included) could decrypt any data on the server.

> Do you back up the unencrypted data though? Regardless of the viability of the raid 5 system, the raid 5 wasn't what failed. It was the encryption.

> It wouldn't have even been possible to backup the encrypted data without getting all my family members passwords too.

You could have backed up the encrypted data (+owncloud metadata) in its encrypted form. Then, when you ran into the bug that corrupted the main copy of the encrypted data, you could have restored the old backup of the encrypted data and reverted to the last working version of Owncloud to access your data.
Yes. I agree. Three words!

Twitter is an amazing idea that is not a business. I don't think there is any way to make money with it (at public company scale) without destroying it. I wish him luck...
Let me rephrase: the fact that the top comment on this thread fails to see irony in analogizing Thiel to EFF is proof of the relevance of the article.

Just because EFF and Thiel share one superficial similarity it does not make what they do categorically similar. The comparison is absurd.
This is what I feel is missing from web components. Some sort of generic api for components to reason about their immediate environment. Similar to the Unix OS pipes and filter api that means every program understands how to get some information about the context that it is being run in.

It's not difficult to imagine a calendar component that needs to visually display vastly differently depending on how much space it's parent gives it. Currently there is no generic way to solve this.
middleman, powerful static site-gen
Why is log probability the correct way to evaluate this?
Lefties have parasitic degrees(sociology, gender studies, philosophy etc.) and they can't get money by doing something useful for other people. So what is their next step? It's to find a rich target and extract resources from them by blackmailing them.

Since it's mostly white men who have the most money, they are vilified. Lefties will implicitly tell white men: "Gives us money for our non-profit, diversity program or we will call you a racist/misogynist".

It's a fucking racket. Gives us money or we will bomb you will emotionally charged terms like racism, misogyny, privilege, sexism, bigotry, anti-poor and many other terms like that.
Nothing in there about Forbes learning a lesson with regards to sensationalizing someone's "net worth" when their assets are composed solely of sheets of paper with limited liquidity?

Heck, can they even support this new $0 number? They're saying Theranos has raised $724,000,000. Elizabeth Holmes didn't take any money off the table?
Rail haters never seem to understand that point isn't to replace cars completely. The point is to serve the most heavily used routes in a highly efficient manner.
Also called (by me) as "Baldrick's Bullet": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKRxX3s3JlM

Captain Blackadder: Baldrick, what are you doing out there?

Private Baldrick: I'm carving something on a bullet, sir.

Captain Blackadder: What are you craving?

Private Baldrick: I'm carving "Baldrick", sir.

Captain Blackadder: Why?
Private Baldrick: It's part of a cunning plan, sir.

Captain Blackadder: Of course it is.

Private Baldrick: You know how they say that somewhere there's a bullet with your name on it?

Captain Blackadder: Yes?

Private Baldrick: Well I thought that if I owned the bullet with my name on it, I'll never get hit by it. Cause I'll never shoot myself...

Captain Blackadder: Oh, shame!

Private Baldrick: And the chances of there being two bullets with my name on it are very small indeed.

Captain Blackadder: Yes, it's not the only thing that is "very small indeed". Your brain for example- is brain's so minute, Baldrick, that if a hungry cannibal cracked your head open, there wouldn't be enough to cover a small water biscuit.
There are examples of more difficult media which don't get mass-media popular, not because of their quality, but because of their difficulty. These types of works make up part of the 'secret handshake' of the upper class -- it is how they identify each other.

France has the noble, but mistaken, idea that they can force lower and middle class people to take in high culture, and in so doing, will be able to make their country more egalitarian.

Sorry guys, cultural class isn't something you can just legislate away.

The upper classes (culturally, not economically) have spent generations training themselves to be very critical connoisseurs -- you're not going to undo that with some government-funded arthouse flicks and a Netflix tax.
Golang tips and tricks
I was just saying that's the way the math works out. It's not an arbitrary decision, it just happens that the natural way to score probabilities allows negative infinity from a single question.

You could make an arbitrary scoring metric that does whatever you want. But it wouldn't be principled, or have nice mathematical properties like this.
I think they are being sued for hundreds of millions.
Hugo on Github Pages.

Blog: http://prakhar.me
Repo: https://github.com/prakhar1989/hugo-blog
And how it was an non-issue in his opinion, or he would have been attacking Sweden.
Why should being conservative in your confidence be rewarded above having an accurate assessment of your confidence?
Welcome to the Desert of the Real – A Conversation with Peter Thiel
> Simultaneously, Observable continues to make progress within TC39 to become a first-class construct of the language.

Worth pointing out that the TC discussed observables with the cancellation you describe here and rejected them less than a week ago. Observables did not progress to stage 2. Currently we are bikeshedding design at the es-observable and es-cancel-token repos (under zenparsing) - contributions are welcome.

Hopefully, a compromise everyone is happy about will be reached soon.

You also might want to mention async-iterators which are a stage 2 proposal.
I use Ghost. It's quite simple and clean.
Mixing up engineering and sales/marketing/management. The consequences of making mistakes and the result of them are different in both fields.
If the current crop of tech companies can supersede MS, AOL, Yahoo, MySpace, etc. Why can't companies from other parts of the globe do it as well? It just takes one company to do something different and build inertia. That's all.

What is keeping European companies from toppling Google or FB or Twitter?

Edit: Keyboard fail.
Precisely the issue is that equality under law is farcical these days. When you have to have tons of money or know lawyers/judges to get any kind of legal projection or justice, the Constitutional principles of the fourteenth amendment are being undermined. Lawyers and judges benefit and perpetuate it, an increasingly militarized police force profits and pushes it, along with their municipalities.

I just wish people would remember the Constitution every god-damn once in a while, especially seing as almost all of them swore oaths that they are then breaking.

Can anyone tell me what the legal punishment/repercussion for breaking the oath of office is?

"The powers of the States in dealing with crime within their borders are not limited, but no State can deprive particular persons or classes of persons of equal and impartial justice under the law."... as long as you have money to feed the fucked up system.

What this is really about is class warfare, and the rich are winning. Also, the bankers have always been the real robber barons, so I don't like this halfassed attempt at claiming a few tech billionares are even close to comparable in power level.
0xBuLL of 0xa bytes, dev's feelings come through loud and clear here.
Decoding the character of a hacker
Only privileged white people think Jezebel represents feminism. Let me know when they give full-time coverage of the challenges of poverty that routinely face WoC instead of hyperventilating about how sexist a handful of pixels are.

Or are feminists only those who have minable consumer behavior?

Looks like the Overton window shifting worked on you.
Who doesn't want a MacBook!?
It's hard to not be, unless your name is Russia :)
I don't think that answers mikeash's question. He is not talking about always being wrong. He is pointing out that the incentives are not symmetric. If you say that you are 100% certain, and you are wrong, then you fail the class. If the incentives were symmetric, if you said you were 100% certain and you were correct, then you would automatically pass the class.

A potential answer is: this asymmetry is similar to incentives outside the classroom. Claiming 100% certainty and being wrong can be disastrous to your reputation, and likely much more negative than the positive benefits of claiming 100% certainty and being correct.
The dark art of astroturfing
Haha. Well its not uncommon to avoid putting an entire team on one plane. Pretty risky for a company to do that!
I don't see Gawker's "wrongness" as entirely relevant...

It is 100% about the wrongness. If they weren't wrong, they would not have been sentenced to pay $140M.
Is that included or in addition to the leadership commandments training cult? [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
What Jenkins plugins do you need that are not available as features in GitLab?
Getting 50% right/wrong while expressing 100% confidence in your answers scores you negative infinity points. Indeed, getting 99.9% right/wrong while expressing 100% confidence scores you negative infinity points. But getting 100% right with 100% confidence only scores you a finite positive number of points.
For offline writing (e.g. emacs/vim), I've found textlint[1] to work really nicely, and fits well into a LaTeX+Makefile workflow.

[1] https://github.com/textlint/textlint
Average city driving speed for LA is 26.8 MPH [0], which means she's driving around 750 miles per week.

She leased a 2015 Honda Civic, which has a rated fuel economy of 31 MPG.

Assuming she gets the rated gas mileage from her civic, she's buying 24 gallons of gasoline per week for 2.39 [1] per, costing her $57.

AAA gives an estimated 5.51 cents per mile for maintenance and tires [2], costing her $41.

So, take home pay after expenses is $604 - $160 - $57 - $41 = $346, or $12.3/hr.

IANAA, so I don't know which of these expenses qualify for deductions when she files. But an annual pay (after expenses) of $17,992 doesn't leave much wiggle room for paying for an accountant, assuming Uber indentured servitude is her only income generating activity.

0. http://infinitemonkeycorps.net/projects/cityspeed/

1. http://www.losangelesgasprices.com/

2. http://exchange.aaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016-YDC-...
I'm an (unhappy) Apple Watch owner, but this is one thing which has gotten me to back the new Pebble on kickstarter -- Alexa is the most useful audio platform I've encountered so far.
If you're interested in this kind of thing you might want to take a look at Autodesk Dreamcatcher.

I'm not sure which software APWorks used. They're worked with Autodesk in the past, but I wasn't able to find any information about this case. In any case, it is almost certainly topology optimization.

Disclaimer: I work at Autodesk
It's a great idea with a lot of utility, but my question is: How does dispute resolution work? I.e. How do you prevent bad actors from beating the original artist to the punch, and registering someone else's artwork as theirs on the blockchain?
Do you have link to good emotion recognition if you have used one?

Perhaps, could use wrapper library to combine functionality. It's a very interesting area.
But are you prevented from visiting a wide range of websites?

That is them deciding for you what you can and can't do.
If you're not Chinese citizen then it's your choice being there. But if you're a Chinese citizen then all choices are made for you, what qualifies you as a slave.
Hey, I work for Docker too. Our quick 3 hour fix on this issue was quite impressive, I hope the community feels the same. We do the cloud native devops fixes faster than anyone, hands down! I personally haven't slept in days in anticipation of being able to resolve such a high-profile issue, and reap the glory and fame that come with such as fix. Hopefully more people purchase our commercial product as a result of this outage!
Why not both! :)

I know quite a few people who use it for making jokes about live events. The other day my wife's mocking of the new BBC drama got quoted by the Mail's TV reviewer.
5 Reasons Why Apps Fail: Expert Strategies to Make Your Product Stand Out
the "off what we need" comment has to be understood in the context of wealth moving towards the ultra rich.

What then is left in a ancap/libertarian society to defend those who aren't wealthy?

The whole base of a democratic government, for all it's flaws, is to provide rights to the individual regardless of heir wealth and to defend those on your behalf.
No, the simulation would not be able to fully simulate physics! It would need to cheat, a lot. A lot of sections would be unsimulated. When you observe the result of a physics experiment, the result would be made up on demand by some caretaker AI. Not by actually simulating physics.
Stimulants don't put you to sleep.
According to "The Straight Dope" markups are "Stupenduous", at each level of the chain, and manufacturing competition is actually limited.

"Consumer Reports puts gross profit margins on mattresses at 30 to 40 percent, both for wholesalers and for retailers, and up to 50 percent for makers of super-luxe products."

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3265/why-are-there-...
> It's currently single-threaded, but folks are working on it.

Yeah, I first heard that 15 years ago. It's not happening.
This looks great.

I'm particularly excited about the CloudFormation support.

If you're managing stuff on AWS without CloudFormation you're missin out on one of the most powerful features of the platform.

CF can be pretty hard to use, which is why I love seeing OSS projects that solved the tedious parts of it for all of us to use.
What role does data science play in your org?
I implemented Owncloud in my workplace, but we had one problem that made us uninstall it and create our own solution in Dart, the problem was that when you share a file it doesn't preserve the file path extructure and that was very important for us.
Mohamed Dekkak
The decision of one of her predecessors to invest in BABA is the only thing that matters to YHOO.
Zinnia on Django:
https://github.com/Fantomas42/django-blog-zinnia

or Jekyll on S3
King Tut's Blade Made of Meteorite
If ARM is providing the expensive R&D-based IP, then any licensee can be a competitor.
I wonder how many people are actually in the situation that they commute some unpleasant distance to work, wishing they could live nearer, while meanwhile someone occupying a pleasant apartment near there work is doing the reverse every morning?
According to tips John Gruber got Blizzard had a bug in one of their updaters that would crash due to the sandbox. Apple put in a check to allow the call the updater was making to succeed, but didn't actually grant any access that the updater didn't have before.

Apple shipped an update to the sandbox and included a small, harmless fix to avoid issues in popular 3rd party software. Microsoft does this all the time.

Also according to those same birdies, the Blizzard fixed the bug a while ago so the 'exemption' may be removed soon as it's no longer necessary.
What makes you assume that a simulated universe has to match the base universe in every respect? It's entirely possible that the simulations, including us if we're in one, are running an extremely constrained version of the real universe, however many levels removed it is.