skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, the uncertainties in the middle are less interesting than the uncertainties at the extremes. I'm sure you can't say anything useful about melon, but it would be interesting to know if (e.g.) "sleep" was consistently that big. He did regularize somewhat (`--l2 1.85201e-08`) but unclear whether that's enough regularization.

Basically I'd love to see some actual diagnostics I guess :)

PS I believe the "relevance" is just the coefficient divided by the biggest coefficient (the `RelScore` column in the printout in the README file).
Re: rant.

Yes, that page is insane. Started the fans spinning on my laptop.
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The idea of the cartel is that nobody would want to sell their diamonds cheaper when they can sell them for more through deBeers. They don't want to get into a price war with each other since then every player will lose.
> the previous state which was no creative expression at all.

The previous state of what? When was this?
Having taken the myself, I couldn't agree more.

The class is meant to introduce one to machine learning. As such, the problems are usually fairly simple and one wouldn't need to cheat unless all one is attempting to do it to solve those without looking at either the leture videos or slides.

(Translating from Python to Octave might, on the other hand, require more effort in comparison to implementing the solutions in Octave.)
Well, he also disables the holdout set (`--holdout_off ariel.train`), so between that and not reporting the uncertainties and his absolutely tiny dataset with high measurement error and the low prior probability that any of these effects could be that big... Nah. It's just overfitting noise.

I tried to run the makefile, but apparently the version of Vowpal Rabbit that ships on my Ubuntu (7.3) is so outdated that it doesn't support the bootstrap option.
Reading the recaps for these is always so fun. I hope this continues to get more ridiculous every year. Congrats to co9. Very well done, and a nice recap to boot.
It's pretty bizarre how 4chan of all places turned out to be the cultural epicenter of this generation. All these meme pages are just reposting content from there.
It might make sense from an organizational point of view, but not from a business point of view. I'm pretty sure that the main reason Android exists is to ensure the dominance of Google Search, and the ads that it serves, along with all of the other Google services and their ads. Or more precisely, to make it impossible for Google services to ever be cut out of the majority of the mobile market based on the whim of another company. Even the theoretical possibility of that happening would make Google highly subservient to whatever company or companies had the power to do that.

Same with Youtube, Maps, etc. They exist to preserve the dominance of and prevent other companies from avoiding Google's key moneymaker, which is ads on searches. Thus allowing them any real independence would destroy their reason for existence.
The redraw is only problematic because of the stupid animation, right? If you had done the same chart by hand in d3, you'd still be incurring redraws.
It's hilarious, I tried and failed to build an Android project that I'm pretty sure still built just fine 6 months ago. So much useless churn.

Then they announced the new CMake support and it's basically a CMake toolchain file they copied from an older OpenCV initiative and didn't notice it no longer worked with the new NDK, or anything other than GCC, which they have deprecated. It's insanity.
This is a great idea and hopefully offers another opportunity for some of the farmers there and helps grow their economy one step at a time.
During the time of the original class, I don't think scikit-learn and spark were quite as mature. But perhaps Octave still enjoys a certain prominance in academic machine learning research. Matlab was also used for the recent EdX SynthBio class. And it just feels a bit archaic now, doing science in a gui on the desktop, instead of on a cloud server via cli ;)
"And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away." Matthew 21:19

"And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it." Mark 11:12-14

God hates Figs.

In all seriousness, figs are very interesting plants. They're easy to grow in a variety of climates. One of my neighbors growing up in southern California had hedgerows made entirely of fig plants. It was the most delicious fencing in the region.
> Would this be sane:

> - Let's allow kernel to expire CLOSE-WAIT if the application didn't send anything for more than 60 seconds.

No, that's not sane either. If the application wants to expire the CLOSE_WAIT socket, it can close it; at which point, a FIN will be sent, the state will go to LAST_ACK, while waiting for the peer to ACK the FIN, at which point the socket is totally done. It violates the RFC, but is perfectly reasonable for LAST_ACK to have a timeout if the other peer is non-responsive, as the alternative is sockets living forever when the peer goes away (same with FIN_WAIT's).
There are many candidate theories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth#Claims_of_historici...

I like the Persian gulf one, after all the Sumerians who lived there later had a myth of which the Noah story seems like a retelling.
Interesting, how they were able to realize what's going on.

Wiki tells that one loses conscience after couple of inhales of CO2.

I assume that those folks went on high ground just after they've heard sound.
I don't think they're inspired by Japanese culture as much as have random Japanese characters for no reason and sometimes random anime characters as some form of irony.
So, while we're on the subject of major tech players who had a negative interaction with the police and posted about it publically, and now that it's been a little over half a year, did we ever find out what the full story was with Ian Murdock's death?
It's surely not in many houses in the west but it's at every supermarket.
Hence the dramatic ellipsis before "inspired."

Full disclosure, I'm a pretty big fan of vaporwave "music".
You may find the "dark forest hypothesis" that's put forward in the Three Body Problem/Dark Forest series bu Liu Cixin an interesting possible solution for the Fermi Paradise.

Interestingly, a planet on Proxima Centauri is a major plot point in the novels.
What do you mean about insulin?
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Not sure why you were downvoted. Something Awful, while incredibly influential early on, didn't really grow because of the paid nature of the forums. 4chan exploded because of the anonymous nature of the memes. They were funny, and they weren't tied to the creator to boost his or her internet points. They are pure ideas coming from the level playing field that is Anonymous. Awful and great stuff arose out of it when its biggest competitor was flash-based stuff from ebaumsworld, funnyjunk, black sheep, and newgrounds.

Now I'd say Reddit is a huge influencer but it is fragmented (as opposed to a single /b/) and still tied to internet points. And missing the pink babies from Something Awful.
And of course, by the time it's on Facebook and "regular teens" use it, it's as far removed from 4chan as HN is. Post one of these memes there and you'll get flamed for being a "normalfag".
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Ah, my eyes somehow missed them! I've always wondered why Japanese characters of all things, but they do have good typography.
They did say "Look for the source for the code soon ..." so I'm guessing it's coming.

You can see some example code in the paper though: http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03355
Nope! If you run the same input enough times, you can get enough data to be able to subtract the random noise out; the larger random number range, the more times you have to run it. The way to properly combat timing attacks is to write constant time code. Daniel Bernstein has made his career talking about and implementing this class of crypto.
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My assumption would be something close to the smelter shown on Primitive Technologies YouTube channel. Find the smelter video here:

https://youtu.be/VVV4xeWBIxE

This channel is fascinating. The history nerd within me finds satisfaction in every video he has recorded.
IBM also caused $100,000,000 waste on New Zealand's failed INCIS police computer system.
The most popular protocol, or method of retrieving information from another computer, was FTP (file transfer protocol), the primitive, labor-intensive equivalent of knocking on someone’s door and asking if you could carry away his piano. lol, I wonder what the computing equivalent of ftp today is.
That would actually be amazing, imagine the PR power Apple could put behind "perfectly manufactured, conflict-free diamond screens", "better and more flawless than any natural diamond, only the absolute best for our customers".

They could even create the equivalent of a "perfect pixel" guarantee - "perfect lattice" guarantee, the diamond screen is flawless down to the atom or your money back.

That could flip the script on DeBeers in a big way.
The previous state was using text to get a thought across. That's not creative?
The Karowe mine is unusual in its high proportion of large diamonds. The only similar mine is Letseng in Lesotho. Both Karowe and Letseng have very low grade ore (in terms of carats per tonne) but high proportion of large stones. DeBeers discovered Karowe but never developed it because it was judged uneconomical; Lucara took a big bet that the quality of the diamonds would offset low yield.

I wouldn't extend the ratio of large diamonds found at Karowe (or Letseng) across the whole industry. They are fairly unique mines.
I like the Kaba Mas locks a lot, I wish they weren't so pricey.
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Yup, I've read the first two of this series, and it's an interesting proposition, but also pretty depressing.

Nation states and / or races are a hopeful and cheery counter example... or in for a hard time.
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Please pardon my question if it's inappropriate, but isn't saffron prized for psychoactive potential in the black market? I'm ignorant about the scale to make it worthwhile considering this memory is based on some illegal logging elsewhere in the world. I'm simply curious because rebuilding in Afghanistan - or really any place that the world tends to ignore - is an absolutely human, noble cause and I hope for positive outcomes!
A note -- if you're linking to arXiv, it's better to link to the abstract (https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03282) rather than directly to the PDF. From the abstract, one can easily click through to the PDF; not so the reverse. And the abstract allows one to do things like see different versions of the paper, search for other things by the same authors, etc. Thank you!
No fixed spot. We generally travel up and down the eastern coast of the US. Anything from Disney World up to New England. With young kids it's mostly driving within a 10-12 hour radius split up into an evening and a morning drive. Common example would be to leave Friday evening, stay at a motel that night if it was a longer drive, and finish up the next morning. Do the same on the way back the following weekend.
There is something beautiful about how pure the content on 4chan is because there's no e peen.
> The 'stayhome' lifestlye, which fell mostly on weekends, is a red-herring, I simply slept longer when I didn't have to commute to work.

Is it?

First, whatever method you use should already take into account that sleep happens together with stayathome. Even basic regressions take into account that.

Second, staying at home means your eating binges are constrained by what's around you. If it is healthy stuff it might mean weight loss, if it is bread and chips the opposite
What kind of distractions are you facing? The frequent visits to HN/Reddit? Or hearing your coworkers' chatter in the background? What are your expectations for what a distraction-free day should feel like?

FWIW, I've been using the Qbserve [0] time-tracking app. Even on a day like this, where I got in at around 6:30 AM and felt like I'd been writing code and documentation non-stop, it shows that I've only spent 5.5 hours (out of about 9 hours at work) on "productive" tasks (Sublime Text + Terminal + spreadsheets). I feel pretty drained, but I've apparently had about 3.5 hours of downtime.

If you don't already have headphones, get a pair, though that seems like obvious advice. I have some pretty good traditional headphones but I've found it useful to occasionally switch to wireless bluetooth ones that don't have the weight of a full set of headphones [1]

[0] Show HN: Qbserve https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11778077

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GDIUA8Y/
I was told about Keto diets about three years back by a friend of mine. There's a lot of misinformation about food and health in the US and elsewhere, and for the longest time I thought low-carb diets were stupid.

But after trying it and reading a lot of the research, I was pretty amazing. I went from close to 70kg down to 58kg over the course of the next year (although I've come up to around 62 ~ 63kg stable).

I like how this person mentions in the Github readme that it's not for everyone and "listen to your body." Some people have bodies that do well with high carb intakes. Every body type is different. With all that being said though, a huge issue with being overweight is education. The food industry wants you to buy fast food, pizzas and things that are cheap to create with easy base ingredients (sugar, starch, corn, wheat, etc.)

Sadly, the only way for me to realize this was to experiment on myself, as did this person (although with totally insane amounts of metrics). Kudos!
>> "Some points of caution: depression is a broad, fairly fuzzy term."

I've only had a quick scan through this but it seems like they were simply asking people if they were depressed. Is that correct? If so it seems very broad and unreliable. Why wouldn't they just use the standard PHQ-9 questionnaire to diagnose?
I tend to read more in a stack than just linearly - looking up terms, taking notes, following links, then back to where I left off. That is what hyperlinks should be for.
And people who try to build an identity are almost always disliked (though the ones that persevere make the site more fun).
WHAT. That is one implausible SF premise that just allegedly came true there.
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This seems pretty intuitive to me. I don't need this paper to know that depressed people post darker pictures. But it is kind of interesting to see this 'formalized'

Also, I think detecting depression premtively via social media is a terrifying idea.
Pre-memes.
I think the idea is to "learn" with human assistance and then use the "intelligence" to classify other individuals without having to ask them.
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I seriously hope that page is broken, for my own sanity.
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You want to keep your corporate structure as standard as possible. Anything out of the ordinary will scare off future investors, since it results in more risk. This one investor is probably not worth losing a seed or A round in the future. And the VC's lawyers definitely will find anything non-standard.

The standard (as I know it based on my experience in YC) is to incorporate in Delaware as a C-Corp, with a 4 year vesting period and 1 year cliff for the founders. Here's why:

- Delaware has a TON of registered corporations, and thus a lot of existing case law which means there are less unknowns when it comes to tricky situations. I think their laws also make it easier for the company to operate in other states, and there may be tax benefits (not 100% sure about that).

- C-Corps have shares and are structured to allow for outside non-involved investors, and protect these investors from corporate taxes. LLC's and partnerships make it harder to invest, and tax each person for the companies profit's instead of the company itself.

- The 4 year vesting w/ a 1 year cliff incentivises founders to put in enough time to see the company through and protect the company / investors if it doesn't work out with a founder. The same applies to employee stock / option grants down the road. This is probably the most flexible one, and there is a lot of innovative companies that are trying out alternatives. Example 1: 6 year vesting w/ a 2 year cliff but larger overall equity grants to employees. Example 2: triggering the start of vesting for founders only after a milestone has been reached, such as ramen profitability or raising a seed round. This protects very early stage companies that will often need 1-2 years to figure out how to get on that breakout trajectory.
Pearls went with "cultured" as their marketing term.
There was no creative expression before memes were invented?

(To be clear, my position is that you are selling memes short. "They are stupid" misses the entire point of what's valuable about them, and more importantly, which ones are valuable.)
And DeBeers is suing IIa Technologies, which is arguably the current largest (by revenue) maker of synthetic gem diamonds. I think the dinosaur's brain has finally perceived the mammals chewing on its tail.

DeBeers won't prevail. The diamond market is about to change completely. The biggest challenges companies like Diamond Foundry and IIa Technologies face is building up their own sales channels. DeBeers is still fairly successful in excluding newcomers from the bourses, or diamond exchanges. But channel building is simply a matter of time and $.

Chemical vapor deposition is cheap, and there are many participants. There's Diamond Foundry, IIa Technologies, Scio Diamond Technology, Pure Grown Diamonds, and a ton of small startups in the PRC. If you want a diamond doorknob, you'll probably be able to buy one for $1K in ten years. Five years if you're good friends with somebody in Shenzhen.
Totally anecdotal, but I want to second the recommendation of a longer fasting period.

I switched to a strict-but-not-religious "no food between 7 pm and 11 am" system (with exceptions for weekends and social occasions).

Within a few months I was down 15 pounds (~182 to around ~167) and had shed 4 inches off my waist (~34 to ~30). I'm about 5'10" and 41 years old.

It's definitely helped with physical activity (mostly parkour/free running) and I look better. It's also more convenient than what I was doing before, since I don't have to cook breakfast.

The only negative side effect (possibly unrelated) has been that I need a much cooler sleeping environment to be comfortable.

The only thing I would add is that I'm starting to (upside-down) plateau at around 165 and (what my scale says is) 20% body fat. I would love to lose another 5-10 pounds but it'll probably be a slow process.
> When the ancient Greeks came to Europe from Egypt

What do you mean by this? My understanding is that the Greeks (along with all Indoeuropeans) originated north of the Black Sea?
I think you might be confusing saffron with poppies. Saffron is sufficiently expensive and widely used in cuisine it's hard to see it being popular for any psychoactive properties it might have compared to, say, nutmeg.
You're proud of murderers? Because that's what they are.

It's like bombing a country even though it posed no direct threat to your country, and then sending aid. Even if they personally didn't kill anybody, they occupied a foreign country under orders of US government and would kill easily if ordered.

But good job for the business otherwise.
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MMM makes a lot more sense if you view it as an environmentalist masquerading as a early retirement blogger. Take a recent post that starts "If you’re going to become rich, you need to either earn way more money than you spend, or spend way less money than you earn." The rest of the post focuses entirely on spending less.

Arguments like point 4 are sort of silly to me. Most of what he preaches he was doing well before he had a blog that could be monetized. Also, he seems to be pretty up front about commissions on the "MMM recommends" (though he could be more explicit about referral v non-referral links).
Proportionally, the price may be comparable. For example, in Massachusetts, the current minimal wage is $10 per hour which translates into about $1700 monthly. 50-100 Mbps in Comcast can be had for about $40-60. Now, a monthly subscription of $2 out of $58 is 1/29, and $1700/29 = $58.

Of course, not all components of the prices translate proportionally. Salaries probably do, equipment probably does not.
How does this compare to react-vis (https://uber.github.io/react-vis/)?
I was really surprised by the down votes tbh.
Cool.

Somewhat tangential (though similar WYSIWYG to markup), you might be interested in the VisualEditor extension for MediaWiki. They need a lot of help improving the performance.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor
i don't think you read the comment you're replying to...
Almost every free soloist dies? Literally? That would make it the most dangerous hobby in the world? Are there any references or discussions on that handy?
They've refused to deny it, so they've confirmed it.

When I saw the headline, I literally went 'Oh come on!' out loud. Apparently there's a bloody Earth-like planet everywhere if even our neighboring star has one.
When a new feature is being developed, whether it can be GPU-accelerated on day 1 should be a factor in the decision. If it can't, or it's tricky, perhaps we should think twice before even developing the feature. Rather than it being an afterthought, as it seems today.

Of course, all this is in the context of features that make sense to GPU-accelerate, like CSS filters.
This is even popular in the Southeastern US, which is pretty incredible.
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I think, in this scenario, Heaven and Hell are psychological tools invented by an alien race to condition society for colonization. So, hypothetically speaking, no.
Reading these just totally boggles my mind.

Example:

This page contained various hand signals instructing a painting of a dog. Someone on our team quickly recognized these as Curwen Hand Signs and it is referencing Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

In what possible world is someone encoding a message in an obscure (even if taught in 5th grade) musical notation hand signal format and then a team just happens to have someone that knows that? Rare breed indeed.
On average, they are somewhat stupid.
Not intended as finger-pointing, just forward-looking. HTML was great historically. What do we do now? How could we improve things?
I just started my keto diet about 2 weeks ago and I feel great. Did have one rough night of "keto flu" but then I started supplementing with minerals and more water. I'm super low carb right now. Funny thing is to get (about 4 weeks ago) I would get a double big mac or a double quarter pounder but no drink and no fries and that was it till breakfast. That was fun.
the shocking truth is that the government red tape proved to be less detrimental to knowledge sharing than DRM.
Although, kind of similar to [DraftJS][] in terms of demonstrated functionality...

[DraftJS]: https://facebook.github.io/draft-js/