skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The more types of people - male and female - with varied backgrounds and interests that get into computer science, the more diverse databases would be.
Charles Stross has a series of stories that involves people summoning demons and casting magic with computers and nerdy stuff. (The "Laundry")
My company has an interesting monetization strategy for sure
> That is very hard to believe consider the amount of dishonest rhetoric on display.

If we wish to litigate this, please point out a single instance of dishonest rhetoric from me. Be very specific about how it is dishonest. Bear in mind that there may have been genuine misunderstanding by either of us, and we were probably neither as clear as we thought ourselves to be.
Another question for another day. Off the top of my head I can't think of a reason they wouldn't be able to create some form of objective meaning. My problem with lies more in the problems of evil, ontology, epistemology, and a compelling narrative to history.
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Just to be clear, there is a difference between the commercial, industrialized restaurant breakfast offerings vs. what people traditionally eat in their homes.

I grew up in the rural south, and our traditional breakfast fell into seasonal categories. In the colder months, we'd eat 2 eggs, a small helping of buttered grits, and bacon.

Warmer months or autumn depended on what was available, but often times we'd eat fresh shrimp or "trash fish" (stuff we'd caught like spot, croaker, trout, flounder) fried up with grits.

The grits were always only buttered, never sweetened.
Never pancakes or any starchy, sugary items. Older folks knew these things were energy killers, and ironically the families I knew that ate tons of starches were the ones whose parents had bought into the whole "fat kills you, eggs are bad" mantra pushed by the government. I find it extremely ironic that these families were eating less healthy than the "redneck" families they assumed were killing themselves.

No older American who grew up doing farm work thinks the IHOP breakfast is remotely healthy.
Research/Science is one of THE main political topics for every country and also for the EU (and other European institutions involved in science). 'Science' was never and will never be free of political concerns. It's just the opposite.

> continued participation in Horizon 2020

My impression was that the UK wanted to distance itself from the 'EU superstate'. Research is just one topic. Get rid of centrally planned and funded research projects, which are for the political benefit of the EU. ;-)

> if it wanted to.

'cherry picking'. Probably easier for Britain to concentrate on non-EU research projects. Since they save money from not paying to the EU, the UK can now freely invest that money into their own research projects and attract partners.
As there are already legal challenges to whether the PM can declare Article 50 without a new Act of Parliament [1] and that Parliament goes into Summer recess on July 21st until 5th September [2] then struggling to see how we're going to start much before end of September at the earliest.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/08/legal-attemp...
[2] http://www.parliament.uk/about/faqs/house-of-commons-faqs/bu...
Great points. I love TFA (e.g. Google Authenticator) but I recognize that ~95% of Internet users will never care as long as it is as hard to use as it currently is.
Actually, several laws for notification can be fulfilled by "posting a footnote in a small town newspaper readership 12". Its quite an amazing thing seeing the small things in the local paper of record.
I thought that "atoms and void" was a concept from Greek philosophy; Democritus - and one could argue that Democritus wasn't even an atheist; he thought that the soul was composed of 'soul particles' and while he had unconventional ideas about gods for the time, it is not at all clear that he didn't believe in gods at all.
Yeah, I don't think of it as reflective of what people normally eat for breakfast on the "Old Continent". I meant it is what is described as a "Continental Breakfast" in hotels and certain restaurants. Tends to be high fibre, uncooked food, with some dairy and fruits (hey, more sugar!).
I'm not sure what the boundary is for "life-affecting", if you're talking about loan origination or anything, then like you said, there's already a boatload of regulations there.

For marketing optimization, FWIW, my experience is the opposite. For a big enough application, any 0.5% improvement is hugely welcome, as long as it works reliably and you're not just gaming the metrics (or, to be honest, even if you are, yay corporate).
I think the idea of meaning being contextual is spot-on. For instance, leaderboards and stats in gaming communities approach zero meaning to the world at large, but they're intensely meaningful within specific games themselves, and somewhat meaningful to gamers in general.
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Thank you. I found this: https://github.com/rreusser/the-old-github-font
That is true.

There are two ways that Minsky could have (mathematically) looked past the linear separability issue:

1. If you add another layer to the perceptron, it can solve the XOR problem.

2. If you add a non-monotonic threshold function, it can solve the XOR problem.

So these are two rather simple solutions to the issue he brought up.
That's precisely my point. I believe that technology should serve the human good but capitalism preempts that possibility because of the way it artificially steers advancement. We're serving the dollar, not utility.
This is the same message that was released to the press yesterday.

I'm surprised Google itself has not said anything, as they are also at fault for not showing the permissions workflow in the first place.
That's a really odd statement. I'm not sure what "true gamer culture" is, but there is a good chance I come from a completely different country to you, have a completely different background and life experiences to you. Except I play video games.

Not sure if you're serious or trolling here. As true gamer culture I describe people with a real appreciation for games (should be obvious). People who actually play and enjoy games (or create and mod them). Not people who are faking it for money, not people who are trying to push agendas onto gamers, just plain old gamers. And trust me, these are surprisingly rare in game media. You can call it unhealthy, the truth is often unhealthy. You can choose to remain ignorant about it, and patronize people like me. The fact is: Go out and ask kids, go and ask the people who play the most. They don't give a damn about game media and they are not involved in it at all. They just play their games.
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I'm afraid it is correct:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36682735

The EU's Trade Commissioner, Cecilia Malmstrom, says the UK cannot begin negotiating trade terms with the bloc until after it has left. "First you exit then you negotiate," she told BBC Newsnight.

Now how much power does Ms Malmstrom have over EU trade policy? I would assume quite a lot. It may be that she still ends up being wrong, but my statement was correct and your rebuttal was not.
> I'm not sure if anti-discrimination laws require that the outcome be explainable as long as none of the inputs involve legally protected classes.

Yes, in general anti-discrimination law in the US, a disparate impact along a protected axis usually means that a decision must be justified on some neutral grounds. If there is no disparate impact attached to -- not just no express input related to -- some protected axis of discrimination, then, no, the outcome doesn't need to be explained.
No, stop that removed madness!
absolutely agree, this is one of the first occurrences of socially viral that I've seen at this scale that exists outside of a persons immediate social graph. Theres no share with friends on social networks. Its more about going to locations, seeing people playing it and sharing what pokemon are available, or who's your most rare pokemon.
And symbolic methods beat human players in chess and checkers for decades now, and handled U.S. military logistics since the Desert Storm. Markov chains were writing spamfilter-busting prose for years, and graph clustering powered Google search.

It's great to be enthusiastic about breakthroughs, but the history of AI is littered with partial success stories.
This is awesome. Now we just need a rust based flash player :-)
Good thing it doesn't have a nuclear battery..
This extends the autoscaling of Pods (already available in Kubernetes 1.2). With this, your pods can autoscale AND your cluster can autoscale - both up and down.

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes.
No, but Rust code in Gecko will eventually run on Firefox for Android.
Even if Garfield Minus Garfield is a little weird,
I think it's fascinating how the absence of the cat creats such a obscure melancholia.
Some of the stripes even become philosophical.
Speaking of helicopters and specific power and weight and all that, it seems an article of faith that eventually an electromotive tail fan will be lighter than all equivalent reliability mechanical or pneumatic systems. I mean sooner or later as magnet strengths and VFD voltages approach infinity and VFD and motor mass approach zero, at some point the rube goldberg mechanics that make the tail rotor spin will be replaced by a near weightless power cable and electric motor.

You don't need a battery to spin a tail rotor... once the main disk stops spinning there isn't much point in keeping the tail rotor spinning.

A hybrid helicopter is an interesting concept, rather than zero torque the instant the engine dies and hope for good luck WRT autorotation technique, even merely giving the pilot 15 extra seconds of battery thrust would probably save some lives.
My impression was that Germany does some cool science, too and participates in many European and international research projects.

See for example the Mac Planck Gesellschaft:
https://www.mpg.de/en

Germany would be dumb to quit the European science cooperation.

https://www.mpg.de/europe
Doesn't 23andme "identify" fourth cousins?
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I think this is a very cartoonish and incorrect statement.

I live in Arkansas, and nobody I know eats like that. Nobody I grew up with in rural Virginia eats like that either. Unusually ignorant and poor people in rural America will eat that way, but there are plenty of those in the inner cities as well.

While of course there are higher rates of obesity in "middle America", the portrayal you paint reeks of elitist snobbery.
Involve a lawyer in this decision. You can't be a hacker and use an 80/20 rule.

I should add a decision path for calling a lawyer.
Neat stuff.

Hopefully they can get neat API integrations going to tie into all the machine learning being applied to shop/chat interfaces.
I imagine there is some genetic selection for it as well. Generally women find taller men more attractive.
Gumroad has a feature called PDF stamping [1] that puts the buyer's email address on the PDF. It's not perfect security, anyone who wants to ignore your copy rights probably will, but it might deter unthoughtful sharing.

Also consider a team/company license priced at some multiple (15x?) that will allow a manager or lead to buy your book for their company/team without having to worry about violating copyrights or managing buying the book for every employee.

[1] - http://blog.gumroad.com/post/40614820182/introducing-pdf-sta...
> If you follow your logic the UK needn't worry about not having a trade deal with the EU.

No, that does not follow.
In my experience, EU funding is often used to force research groups across Europe to 'collaborate'. Well at least on paper, since it's so much easier or even required to get funding if you propose 'pooling talent' and other buzz terms.

Just as a sanity check: there is no reason (other than your funding agency stopping you) for researches with their own funding to collaborate across borders where and when they see fit.

Btw, here in Switzerland the sky didn't fall either after the people voted to 'leave' (the free EU labor market). After all the doomsday talk, Swiss labs can still apply to EU grants. The only thing that has changed that the money that formerly took a detour to EU now goes directly from the Swiss government to the Swiss labs.

Calm down people. Nothing gets eaten as hot as it gets cooked. Its of mutual benefit for almost everyone in Europe to continue free trade with Britain.
"Barfield Loses His Lunch" has a special place in my heart, but I can understand why it never appears on these parody lists.

http://www.thereverend.com/barfield/index.html (kinda NSFW)
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If a single DIN radio has a pop-out screen, it isn't constrained any more than a double DIN, and if it doesn't have one, the amount of possible complexity is rather limited.
The buzz for this game is very real. I've been in SF and LA over the last week and you see people walking around everywhere with this game on. The only question is that because of the barrier of having to be in physical locations and having to walk/drive is this game sustainable. I think with additional game mechanics niantic can definitely make this a long term hit.
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"file drawer problem" Search Results:

"The "file drawer problem" (a term coined in 1979 by Robert Rosenthal, a member of our Advisory Board) refers to the bias introduced into the scientific literature by selective publication--chiefly by a tendency to publish positive results but not to publish negative or nonconfirmatory results."
Cereal is garbage. My former job was working with retail sales data for numerous clients, including the household names that run the two largest cereal companies in the nation, and I can assure you of this:

They are having HUGE year over year declines in cereal sales. People increasingly know it's shit, and the sales numbers show it.
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How does it know a file has changed? It constantly reloads it?

For a less magical tool, there's https://www.npmjs.com/package/instant-server, which acts a simple HTTP server, but reloads your CSS whenever it changes without refreshing (it also refreshes on JS or HTML changes, but nevermind).
True, those Samaritans were real jerks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIVB3DdRgqU

On a more serious note: while that is true, there are a lot of conflicting views on how those passages interact with the rest of the gospel. Especially considering that Jesus literally said he didn't want to abolish the old laws but then contradicted them. A lot of it can't be taken logically as absolute commands (otherwise the commands would conflict with each other) yet it isn't clear how contradictions should be resolved.

EDIT: Also Samaritans are generally considered Hebrews, even though their claims of origin were disputed by the "real Jews" at the time.
Thats so 2000's. Fat is fine these days. Carbs are bad. Heard it on the internet.
I briefly read that as Myst, and was very intrigued.
Or using diesel electric hybrids. That's how train engines work. They're still way more efficient that using combustibles directly because you can run at lower RPMs and buffer the energy (trains run at like 1k ~ 2k RPM).
This is already possible through the onMessageToOperator and onMessageToVisitor hooks in the Olark JS API (https://www.olark.com/api). I'm excited to see what people will do. :)
Yep, the one council in the UN that really matters and China can veto any resolution regarding this issue anytime they want. Possession is as they say 9/10 of the law and I doubt any country can wrestle away the islands that China has already developed.

Filipino here - I still applaud our government's efforts in pushing this issue through. This was raised by my country in the ASEAN summits and China through various political and diplomatic channels were able to stop those resolutions.
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The concept goes back even further. It's really transaction processing as used in the IBM Customer Information Control System, first used in 1964. Load small program image on demand, run it, discard it. (Or, optionally, reuse it for another transaction.) This is usually tied to a database, and if the transaction fails, the database changes are rolled back. This is how IBM mainframes do transactions. 48 years later, versions of CICS are still in wide active use and are supported IBM products.
The ad sense revenue implicitly takes into account the degree to which page views translate into sales and revenue.
In a book like this, I'd like to see cost estimation mentioned earlier than Chapter 8. I'd argue that in nearly all software development projects (particularly the ones where this sort of book applies) the cost of implementation is one of the key factors in evaluating requirements. If you put together your requirements without considering their cost, you end up with a project that's too expensive to build, and you want to know that during the Requirements Gathering phase, not later on during construction. Even Agile projects need to start out with a rough idea of what's being built and a rough idea of what it'll cost to build it. Otherwise how does the person funding the project decide whether or not to approve it?

Of course, as we all know providing estimates during the requirements phase is very difficult, especially if they're treated as hard commitments rather than rough ballparks. Chapter 2 mentions that getting requirements wrong is a key factor in causing software projects to fail; I'd say that the reason for that is usually because of the implementation costs of the known requirements that were estimated inaccurately or not at all, and the implementation costs of requirements that aren't discovered until later. It always comes down to cost; I think it's relatively rare for a software project to fail because a requirement turned out to be impossible to implement. (Unless it involves AI. You always have to watch for people trying to sneak in an AI requirement.)
in other words, we pick friends from the same ethnic group
From the 1.01 iOS release notes:
"-Fixed Google account scope"
Mixed Content: The page at 'https://deborah-digges.github.io/shooting-viz/index.html' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure script 'http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.
Exactly, that's what I'm more worried about - Google needs to present clear information about what access is provided BEFORE I accept the account connection. It's not necessarily Niantic's fault for asking for too much, it's Google's for not at least making me aware.
Ethical concerns about a meat-centered diet aside, I can tell you this: A bacon and eggs breakfast (with no carbs) is for many, many people a very energetic breakfast. It's actually very popular in the MMA and Crossfit communities.

My personal experience with it is lots of energy and a long-lasting satiety that allows me to easily skip lunch.
Their pain point was having multiple frameworks which a contributor would have to be familiar with to make changes to the application. Moving from two frameworks, to a single framework, increased the number of contributions to the application.

They traded outright frontend performance, so as to increase the iterations on what is an internal tool, and thus make it more useful to the company.
I think you are the one that is right about this "brainhacking" stuff.
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That was brilliant, thanks for posting!
unless you are thai yourself? are we supposed to presume that everyone is not-thai on this site?
Leaving schools and reputations aside what you're really asking is whether you should pursue an engineering curriculum or a liberal arts curriculum? As you might expect the answer depends on your goals, desires and interests. Regardless of which you choose you should be thinking of double-majoring, so you may let your decision for your second major help guide you.

Having said that, engineering would be a good route to pursue if you were interested in embedded systems, manufacturing and industrial control systems, avionics, etc. Those fields demand a high level of engineering rigor and an engineering background would definitely be helpful. Mechanical or electrical engineering would be good double major candidates.

If you're more interested in AI, graphics, algorithm analysis and the more traditional CS fare then perhaps the liberal arts school would be the better way to go. An obvious second major would be mathematics. A non-obvious second major would be philosophy, perhaps even psychology.

To me the key deciding factor is your second major and which school would be best for that second major.
Why should I have to try so hard to find good food? Why isn't it there in the supermarkets? Presumably because the customers are at least willing to buy the junk that is there.
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Ok, much as I find Charlie Kaufman's films the same, but why bother? Do people not get that you whittle down your audience when you go out of your way to insult things people value.
Not in the same league as the mp4 parser shipping to all Firefox users, but GeckoDriver [1], a Mozilla-authored standalone binary for interacting with Firefox via the WebDriver protocol (e.g. using Selenium) is also written in Rust and shipping, possibly to as many as hundreds of users ;)

Overall the experience of using Rust for that project has been pretty great; the original requirements for a language were "able to produce static executables with no external runtime requirement, not prone to C-style memory safety issues, and accessible to a team with mostly Python backgrounds". That leaves quite a few options — Go for example — but being a Mozilla project taking the opportunity to use Rust seemed like it would align better with initiatives like those discussed in the article.

Apart from the general niceness of Rust-the-langauge, the experience of the Rust ecosystem has been really nice. Not only were there easy-to-install, well documented, packages to do much of the heavy lifting (http server, command line argument handling, etc.), it was also quite straightforward to set up travis builds using cargo to compile releases for linux64+musl osx and cross-compile releases for linux-arm7hf (added because someone asked about running on raspberry pi and it turned out to be trivial) and win64. The only wrinkle so far has been the difficulty of cross compiling to win32, meaning we might actually need to set up Appveyor or similar.

Obviously this is a much smaller project than the original post in terms of the number of users, and rather different as it is much higher level and could comfortably be written in Python or similar, except for the distribution requirements. However I think the use of Rust has been an unmitigated success, and I would be tempted to use it for a lot more projects that I would never consider writing in C/C++.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver
>Especially considering that Jesus literally said he didn't want to abolish the old laws but then contradicted them.

Not to be a pedant, but what literally happened is someone, likely well after after Jesus' lifetime, claimed Jesus said this and that. No one actually knows what Jesus literally said.