skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not strange, its lying with statistics.

I understand why someone would want to use a balanced distribution scale (even though you get weird boundaries sometimes), its so you get the most dynamic visualization and take full advantage of your color library.

What doesn't make sense is redefining the color scales boundaries every time the year changes. As illustrated in this visualization, it intends to lead the viewers to believe violence is getting worse, when in fact the last years maximum number is 5 times lower than the first year.
Seems like this is time to research how antibiotic resistance is jumping species. I feel like we could take advantage of unauthenticated exchange of information and inject weaknesses instead.
> only a little bit of excess weight

> obese

I just knew you were weasel wording. Fats are always in denial.

You wouldn't be hungry after eating a kilo of carrot & cabbage salad. So all you're telling me are the lies you tell yourself.
I can't believe Lyft is sitting on this bug for more than a year now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9354963
Perfect response! :)
Just to be clear, Minsky didn't need backprop, just the multiple layers. (In order for a perceptron to act like an XOR gate, or to "solve the XOR problem" in some parlance.)

Minsky assumed a trained percepton with the weights already set to act like an AND or an OR gate. He wasn't dealing with the learning problem.
In the old days, kids TV commercials would tell the kids to hold up the phone to the TV, and then play DTMF tones to dial a 1-900 number. For example: http://articles.latimes.com/1991-04-21/news/mn-860_1_horror-...

Today, they can probably do the same via "Siri" or "OK Google" ... ?
This is how the business of online promotion works. I had a first-in-its-niche company that was copied by spammers and seriously outcompeted with this kind of under-the-table promotion, which I had, to that point, refused to perform myself. And my company hurt substantially because of it (though it was ultimately destroyed by a legal threat from a Fortune 100); went from the only provider to third or fourth place, despite indisputable superiority to the spammy, pump-and-dump competitors.

The reality of online promotion is that if you want to win, you have to play the game. That means paying for placement in link rings and astroturfing hard. It means ignoring official advice from all platform providers as disinformation. Critical to the survival of any company is amassing a large multi-million dollar war chest before a lawsuit comes knocking, because the lawyers will be taking their pound of flesh, especially if you're going against a corporate bully that is more than happy to spend tens of millions of dollars just to teach you that they're not to be defied by the peons. Doesn't matter what the law actually says, only big companies can afford to fight.

This all being the case, I seriously doubt the FTC will make a real dent in undisclosed promotion, no matter how aggressive they get. Undisclosed promotion probably makes up 30% of the content on the web.

This case is likely as simple as FTC going after WB mostly because they knew they could get some good revenue out of them.
Maybe the author has ham and eggs for dessert, but that doesn't seem like it would generalize well.
They succeeded, the singularity happened in secret, and we've been controlled by skynet ever since. How else do you think the world survived the cold war?
What ever happened to the guy who made those? These were so well done. Got me into the GI Joe parodies too. I honestly haven't run into anything on YouTube this good in over 5 years.
A must read!
Don't despair if it takes you a while to read it, my guess is at least one month for someone with undergrad math understanding. It will be gratifying in the end.
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thank you :)

you got almost the answer here "It's not quite the same as AS3"

Haxe focus on transpilation/cross-compilation with its own language 'Haxe' and its own compiler, libraries, VM, etc.

The closest to Redtamarin would be the NekoVM http://nekovm.org

I would say it is a different approach, Redtamarin focus on AS3 the language but also on the AVM2 and by extension the reuse of the Flex SDK (for the compiler) and other tooling that already exists (like Flash Builder IDE).

And so when you compare Haxe/NekoVM to AS3/AVM2 the difference mainly shine in how you write programs and libraries.

Redtamarin approach is to provide a "C API" for low-level function and other syscall, so dev can write "as fast as if they were writing AS3 as usual", they only need to learn a new API and the subtleties of system programming.

You could find the same kind of differences with CrossBdrige https://github.com/adobe-flash/crossbridge

Both NekoVM and CrossBridge focus (in their own way) on the reuse of C/C++ libraries, e.g. if you need zlib you can reuse it, but then it forces you to compile native stuff.

Redtamarin almost opposite approach is to provide a kind of C standard library (POSIX like even) in the context of AS3/AVM2, which allow you to port or write the AS3 code to do native stuff in a cross-platform way, but you can not reuse external native libs like zlib.

See for example this getaddrinfo sample code ported from C to AS3 https://twitter.com/zwetan/status/752202410521726976

The logic for that is let's say you need popen2.popen2() from Python,
you can implement it in AS3 reusing C functions like popen(), pipe(), fork(), dup2(), close(), etc.

Except for fork(), the AS3 code will work under Linux / Mac OS X.

You could say that Redtamarin is a lot of hard work to add small native C functions call, so dev can easily write AS3 programs for command-line and server-side.

Another example, you can take JS (ECMAScript, ECMA-262) code, compile it and run it with the redshell, I did it with the TypeScript compiler, I just needed to implement ChakraHost, the detail is here https://discuss.as3lang.org/t/the-case-when-you-dont-want-no...

So to come back to Haxe/NekoVM, I'm not so sure you could either implement popen2.popen2() with just the system libraries available or if you could just compile/run TSC sources with Haxe/NekoVM unless making a big rewrite of the whole thing.

Many people probably think that AS3 is dead because "flash is dead", but AS3 is also ES4 and so fully compatible with ECMA-262, being able to reuse IDE with just a little swap of playerglobal.swc with redtamarin.swc and instantly have syntax completion to write server-side program, publishing documentation with tools like asdoc, etc.

All those things are the reason why Redtamarin focus on AS3 the language, and why it is very different than Haxe and/or NekoVM.
Microorganisms have been able to cope with each other for damn near a billion years using toxin-antitoxin systems. People are exploring these as negative selection systems. Traditionally, antibiotics are used. http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/03/23/nar.g...

There is probably a huge array of such things out there. They are unlikely to be as broad-spectrum as traditional antibiotics, but with research we should be able to find ones to apply to the right situations.

At the same time as this crisis unfolds, our ability to know exactly what someone is infected with improves. Soon sequencing of bacterial infections will be the first step in patient triage. This will help us apply precisely the right toxin to rid the body of the problematic type(s) of bacteria.
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Russia could very well be that group:

https://www.rt.com/news/329963-russia-hyperloop-investor-tal...
Software written in JavaScript may be free or non-free, like software in any other programming language.

In this particular case the code is not freely licensed and so (by rms' definition) is not free.
I agree, though I think the "file drawer problem" is still jargon and not quite a catch phrase (yet).
The C++ code is in servo/mozjs and servo/skia (though that dependency doesn't get used on a default run now IIRC), as well as some other scattered deps and native linkages (fontconfig, harfbuzz, openssl, etc)

We've split the code up in crates so servo/servo is only a fraction of the story. Things in servo/servo are usually components which don't make much sense as something you'd independently use, and are very servo-specific and/or tightly coupled. But a lot of our Rust code is outside the tree, and any C++ modules we use are too.

Also, he vast majority of code in servo/servo is actually HTML/JS test code, vendored in tree from w3c/web-platform-tests.
> and cloc throws an error

tokei is a similar program that's parallel, and written in Rust. It takes 11 seconds to run on my machine, and shows

https://gist.github.com/steveklabnik/b4ede6f13c9d609edc61d74...

(using a gist since the output is huge, and see Manish's comment as well)
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allows you to run AFL on arbitrary VMs. so far we've used it to find some Linux vulnerabilities, and are starting to find stuff in other operating systems too. and we're just getting started :)
Something like this but for react native would be awesome
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I recommend https://www.usenix.org/search/site/fuzzing.

ACM library is fine as well, although I find more security-related journals in USENIX database.
Actually, fund menu selection does not come up as much as you think... That being said, we are building the page right now and will post it soon!
Bacteriophage therapy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy
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I don't feel like I'm going too far out of my way to suggest that a lot of newspaper syndicated strips are objectively bad, because the artists complain about the same issues themselves. They've been boxed in to such a small literal physical area that it becomes hard to do anything "artistic".

A few of them still manage to do some good work, but great work is almost physically impossible now.

And if what you want is merely good work, there's probably a dozen "good" webcomics now for every "good" syndicated comic out there. In fact I think I stumble on a "good" webcomic every three months or so, only to notice that it has 5+ years of archives available. (I do this on purpose; in many cases, the webcomic that is "good" when I find it really wasn't particularly good in the first couple of years.)
It's definitely possible from a technical perspective. It's very similar to the way echo cancellation works on phones already.

Since the output is known, similar input can then be stripped. This only works when both the output of the speaker and input of the microphone are known.

This can't be done to determine whether another speaker, such as a TV, generated the output.

Visual aid on echo cancellation: http://i.imgur.com/m2LSIz9.png
That promise is from the "official" leave campaign, and was promoted heavily by that campaign.
I think you painted a very rosy picture of the EU/Switzerland situation when it comes to research, which has nothing to do with the reality.

Here in Germany we have locally funded research, research on the state level, research on the Bundesrepublik level, international research cooperations and EU research. All at the same time. No one forces scientists to 'collaborate'.

> 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.

Countries in Europe want to see it coordinated and research pooled. Every government does that on a local level for its research budgets. The EU does that on a larger scale. Switzerland is a tiny country. CERN would not exist without outside money and collaborative research.
We own this fund in spite of the fact that its main goal is tax efficiency (given that the efficiency is not needed in retirement accounts). Though the fund is outstanding for tax purposes, it also boasts low turnover, broad diversification, and an extremely low expense ratio of .11% (category median is 1.24%) considering it is not a “true” index fund. The S&P index it follows promotes low turnover, which lowers trading costs. The fund does not own as many mid-cap companies as rival funds and stays true to the small-cap arena, with at least 80% of its holdings in small-cap. This prevents unnecessary redundancy in an overall portfolio.
"core project" is a nebulous term. Stuff is in that repo when it doesn't make sense to break it off as a crate; and a lot of our code is broken off as a crate. But yes, the servo team rarely hacks directly on the C++ components. (we hack very often on Rust out of tree things though)
This is to be expected. The big issue is that it is not worth it for a pharmaceutical company to develop new antibiotics. The initial cost is high. Then, if it is successful, the antibiotic will only be given as a last resort, thus reducing the number of doses. In addition, unlike chronic conditions such as diabetes or high blood pressure, severe bacterial infection is usually time limited - the patient will either get better or they will die. In either case, they do not continue to need the antibiotic. Thus, to recoup costs, the pharmaceutical company will have to sell it at low volume/high prices. Of course, if they do that, the press starts blaming them for the high cost of the medication and it is a PR disaster (see Sovaldi) even though everyone is strictly better off due to their selling the antibiotic even at a higher price. In the end, it is better for their reputation and their bottom line not to develop these antibiotics. Thus, mainly because we do not have aggressive new development of antibiotics for these severe infections, we have these articles claiming the end of the antibiotic age.
I'm an atheist, yes, but I'm hardly living in an echo chamber where I'm only exposed to parodies. I was raised as a Christian (although I was never a believer), live in a majority Christian country and my family as well as many people I interact with in my life are still Christian -- whether they actually believe in it or merely identify as Christian socially.

Most Christians I know are either religious because of personal anecdotes ("I felt like something protected me") or wishful thinking ("There has to be more to it than this") or fear of death ("Death is not the end"). Incidentally, few of them literally believe in the Bible although most of them have apparently accepted it as the window dressing for their own personal convictions.

I have merely skimmed most of the criticisms because as you say, this isn't exactly the place to have in-depth discussions. But it is also not the place to make blanket claims based on your pet religion.

> I'd like to point out that if God has revealed himself to us in history[..]. There's actual evidence[..].

This isn't evidence. This doesn't even qualify as an eye-witness account. This is what I mean by circular logic: you can't use biblical anecdotes to qualify the validity of biblical anecdotes. You can contrast them with independent data to see whether they are consistent, or you can look at them within the context of the scripture to determine whether they are internally consistent. But you can't validate them.

The Lord of the Rings is internally consistent. Many alternative history novels are internally consistent as well as consistent with a large subset of actual history (at least if the author cared to fact-check). But that doesn't mean they are "true".

The trivial truth about religion is that believers don't believe because of logical arguments. Logical arguments are only used to justify belief after the fact. If there was a consistent argument that "worked", there wouldn't be any atheists left -- and no, the cosmological argument doesn't work either.
We should try to extend the First Sale Doctrine to digital publications. If it hasnt been tried already.
Or we should get rid of flash already.
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They were made by FatalFarm which has done a lot of really great stuff in the last few years, including some absolutely brilliant work for Key & Peele.

Most of their work is online:
http://fatalfarm.com/

They have a series of "alternate TV intros" you need to watch right now:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL92CAF6B8AE655C2C

The "Ducktales" one is the best. Probably NSFW.
Its incredible that so far there's no evidence of resistance development with Teixobactin. It prevents cells from building cell walls. There may not be an evolutionary path for bacteria to stop this kind of thing or if there is, its a very slow path that might mean decades before resistance begins to show instead of the standard few years. Still, its limited scope. Works well with staph, but does nothing for other infections like e.coli, salmonella, and h.pylori.

The funding purse is open for antibiotic research and I find it hard to believe its a dry well. I think we'll see more discoveries like these in our lifetime.
All software has bugs, not everyone pays independent and respected members of the community to root them out.

Kudos.
Huh...that's actually a great idea. I never thought about it for commercial liners.

I'm sure Boeing or Airbus could create prototype liners and only have a few airports with catapults built into the airstrips. You could save a considerable amount of energy if it's designed correctly. Plus airplane tires have to be replaced very frequently. It could reduce takeoff wear as well.
> Anyone who performs any trivial or repetitive task on a computer benefits from being able to set up a small (think 3-5 lines thrown in a for loop) script to automate the task for them and there is an increasing amount of people who perform trivial and/or repetitive tasks on computers.

I agree, this is the main reason (nearly) everyone should be taught to program. I often draw parallels between levels of programming and levels of mathematics. Not in a sense of understanding, but of complexity, and often when describing languages.

But I think that's a useful comparison here. Few people would say that teaching everyone arithmetic is a bad idea. Because being able to count is essential to surviving in our society (just from handling your own basic finances). More, but still few, people would argue against teaching everyone algebra (the high school sort, not the abstract sort). Because it enables people to take their understanding of arithmetic and extend it with variables, create more complex expressions and solve them for common problems. Same with geometry. Trig and calculus are where the "everyone should learn" part stops, those topics are for everyone who's going into STEM fields, and other (non-STEM focused) students that are sufficiently advanced and interested.

The parallel to programming:

Everyone should learn basic algorithmic thinking. Writing out a series of steps and understanding looping and conditional expressions and subroutines. These are the things that BASIC, shell scripts, and other (relatively) simple languages provide. These are the skills needed for automating many office jobs.

Fewer people need to know low-level bit twiddling, network code (to the point of implementation of protocols rather than application of libraries that implement protocols).

Fewer still need to understand more complex data structures, more complex algorithms, and full-blown application development (whether it's server-side, mobile, web-app, desktop, doesn't matter).
This is including the cargo cache dir?
Any references detailing the shelving method? I'm genuinely interested, especially about the necessary timescale etc.

I absolutely agree that it won't be as gloomy as outlined in the article. The search for novel antibiotics has been pretty much neglected (Teixobactin is more of an exception to the rule) because the currently employed drugs work quite well. As this is changing, the possible market for novel antibiotics will increase and thus funding will shift into this direction.
A basic problem is null results don't mean X is not related to Y. It means the connection between X and Y is less than the sensitivity of this test. So, if you study the same thing 20 times and only 5 of them show a relationship that does not mean there is no relationship.
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>The current free market approach is completely failing this. It's not particularly profitable to invest many years in a drug people only need to take once to cure a disease when compared to developing a drug people need to take for 5-10+ years to manage a disease.

Why couldn't their payment scheme be identical even if it's a one time dose? Instead of $1000 per year for a drug you need to buy every year for ten years, make it so it has an up front cost of $12,000 or whatever with a ten year payment plan available for people who don't have that kind of cash on hand. This suggestion obviously inspired by the real world good that is a one time purchase that people make all the time: houses.
> and thus also a source of income for everyone who pumps their gas, buses their diner tables et cetera.

I'm not sure, and I have other things to think about right now, but this smells of a broken-window fallacy.
The "wrong" is where that software prevents you from exercising precisely the kind of choice that you are arguing for.
Our company recently ran most of us through interview/hiring training. One of the core messages of this training was "hire for soft skills; technical skills can be trained"

This included a slide with a hypothetical "candidate A" who had no technical experience, but great communication skills, and "candidate B" who had extensive technical experience but no "soft skills". Who do you hire for a hypothetical technical role? "Candidate A" was presented to us as the correct answer.

Nevermind the fact that our company has never historically demonstrated the ability to technically train an employee...

So, yes. Devaluing technical skill appears to be all the rage in HR these days.
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Yeah, I saw that and wondered if my comment was the inspiration for that post :-)
This is fantastic!

I've been working for a bit on a project for converting mind maps into slides. One feature I really liked was changing the level of depth of items.

Let me try to explain what I mean. Say you're brainstorming and create a tree/toc of your slides. Then you start filling in the items for each slide. While you're doing so, you realize that slideA requires more details, so you turn the slide into a section and it's items into slides. Similarly, another section with multiple slides becomes less important, so you turn that section into a slide slideB and its slides into items of slideB.

The reason I like mind maps/trees is that these operations can be easily done by changing the level of depth of the items, e.g. via drag & drop.

I really like this idea of a simple markup for creating slides (plus the fact that it's text, so easy to version), and if this feature of making easy to change the level of depth of items could be integrated I think this would be a super plus!
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