skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. I like the idea but I haven't got time every day. I might be able to do an hour or two a week. I'm also probably not in a timezone where it makes sense like bbcbasic also points out.
Was Matt Damon inside?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12427073
Of course, “the optimal resource reclamation strategy” depends on what you want to optimize in the first place. I didn't intend to suggest it's always “free every resource as soon as you don't need it anymore”.
Unfortunately, between today and 3 years ago, Google search is returning the assuming of a meat based diet. I could easily find correlations between food and nutrients evaluating how my body would function. Today, it's harder to find good information on the topic. Now it's just noise or my googling ability has failed me.

Grains and fermented food for breakfast. Snack throughout the day on high fat veggies/lean meats/nuts.
Dark leafy greens and protein for dinner.
Eat at least two servings of fruit a day.
Above all, if you have a craving, eat it, but reduce the quantity.

http://www.pbs.org/video/2365635287/
“20 Years of KDE” book released
Not everybody likes wooden panels, leather seats and all the bling bling. I really feel good in the model S.
I don't know about differential geometry (isn't it relevant to machine learning?) but calculus and stats are used in finance with stochastic calculus.
Philae had a harpoon to anchor itself to the surface, but ended up malfunctioning. I assume had it actually fired, the engineers balanced the need for extra landing gear and scientific instruments quite well.
From your long statement I read that you agree with my criticism that one should not use the plain quantum theory, mix it with the plain general relativity, and wonder why this leads to contradictions. Of course it does! If one wants a coherent model, one should use the Standard Model instead (or one if its variants).

Not sure at which point you disagree with my statement, though.
There's no shortage of Webpack tutorials, and this one looks fine so props to the author. However, the best Webpack tutorial I've seen for beginners (and experts!) is this video that explains it from a conceptual point of view[1], explaining what exactly Webpack does and not just how to use it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQue1AN93YU

[1] This thread's post does this too, which is awesome!
People don't go to university to learn, they go to university to get degrees...or to be more blunt...to buy degrees.
Thanks for the feedback, and I'm glad to see other people worry about these details, too!

ASCII control characters are forbidden in the entire WSL file. Then apart from [] everything is allowed.

For practical applications, by far the most important requirement of strings is being able to include space characters to make a short sequence of words, like [Trinidad and Tobago].

I don't know a better word for "sequence of words" than "String". Maybe "Words", but technically it really is a string (containing an arbitrary sequence of the allowed characters). Even approaching the enforcement of more structure would be a lot of work with little returns. And you can't include a literal newline in a C string literal, and you can't even have a NUL character in the interpretation (memory layout) of it, right?

I actually started out with a C-like string as default type (so named it "String") but noticed

- A big problem with string culture is that "" strings use identical start and end markers. A problem which Joe Armstrong mentioned as well.

- Escaping means significantly higher complexity of parsing out the interpretation from the literal, while it's not really needed for most applications.

Both these problems make data unnecessarily hard to process with dirty one-off scripts. So after considering some other options I'm now with [this style] because [] are not too often needed or when needed can often be substituted with (), and are very pleasing on the eye in most fonts.

In conclusion I guess it will stay "String", and other less frequently needed types will be called "CString", "Base64", and "BinaryString". Or optional parameterization will be created for "String" to declare the escaping style without needing a separate metatype.
Well, they do that because their circumstances might be different from yours. It only makes sense that different people have different needs, or fulfill the same need by different means.
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Evolutionary Psychology is like Leibnitizian Optimisim [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_all_possible_worlds] where God is replaced by evolution. It does nothing to aid in our understanding except to reassure us that everything that is is as it should be. It's essentially an ideology of apathy.

Leibnitz's Argument goes like so:

>1. God [Evolution] has the idea of infinitely many universes.

>2. Only one of these universes can actually exist.

>3. God[Evolution]'s choices are subject to the principle of sufficient reason, that is, God[Evolution] has reason to choose one thing or another.

>4. God[Evolution] is good.

>5. Therefore, the universe that God[Evolution] chose to exist is the best of all possible worlds.[1]

FYI, Voltaire made a nice parody of this ideology in his book Candide.
You picked like the most old-fashioned style you could.

http://automiddleeast.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/AMG-spo...
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I've read a few of his works, and I pretty much enjoyed them; but I really have no idea what 'The Man in the High Castle' was all about. I got friendly with a few characters, reasonably adapted to the alternate reality and so on, but I have no idea what it was trying to say...

Not that every book has to say anything to be enjoyable, but I hear many people rave about it and I feel like I must have missed something. Well read people don't rave about empty books when they got not much out of it but a read through that provoked little thought.

I left it just confused. What was he trying to make us understand? The nazi's won, and in that reality things were pretty grim, so was the point about how people feel when they're forced to live subservient to a totalitarian regime? I doubt that's new to anyone, and you don't need the alternate reality to express that -- it happens today -- and he wasn't even particularly striking in his visualizations of it so I don't do think that was it... I was pretty deflated by it really, but I suppose it left a bigger mark on me because I spent so long afterwards trying to figure out the point :P

If anyone feels differently, I'd really love to hear your views -- I just didn't 'get' it..
Heinlein moved substantially politically over the years, from being a firm Democrat in his younger years (campaigning for the Democrats and attempting to win a seat to the California State Assembly as a Democrat in 1938, to becoming conservative in the early 50's, and right-libertarian and eventually describing himself as anarchist or autarchist (economically right wing anarchism, basically) by the 60's, and a lot of his works reflects pretty directly his political position at the time of writing.

Starship Troopers is sometimes viewed as his "parting shot" to the left wing, though it was written several years after he ceased to consider himself a Democrat.

While it probably wasn't as militaristic as it appears at a casual glance (he's elaborated on the ideas elsewhere in ways that further "softens" it), it did come at a time where his political views were evolving towards a more conservative and more authoritarian ideal (though that soon changed again).
Considering the React community has settled on Webpack and from what I hear so has Angular 2, I think it's here to stay for a while.
I just went with what I was taught in school, where the "whole numbers" were just the natural numbers.

My feeling now is I don't suppose it really matters how you define them. :)
Well... it depends.

If you only rely on this method for a few days each month immediately after the end of menses, the chances of it failing are MUCH lower than if you rely on it for a week prior and a week after menses.

That said, wiki claims[1] that the latter approach is >95% effective in perfect use, and 88% effective in typical use.

Compare this to withdrawal[2], which wiki claims is 96%/78% effective respectively.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar-based_contraceptive_m...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coitus_interruptus
Luxury camp at burning-man festival targeted by hooligans
Whole numbers: The numbers {0, 1, 2, 3, …}.
I don't know the exact details, but yes, your income is covered up to some percentage, I'm not sure exactly what (80% springs to mind but I'm not certain - though Wikipedia suggests it's about right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accident_Compensation_Corporat... )
Considering that crew is, in general, afraid of rocket-propelled grenades, and not heavily armed, I think that pirates will have less one point of attack.

The design can also be different, making it harder to gain access to some or almost all sensitive areas.

Perhaps other active- protection measures can be used or developed.
He did take drugs. In fact, he basically wrote novels to support his hobby. When he got low on cash, he would lock himself in his shed for a week with a bunch of amphetamines and bang out a novel. He hated LSD though.

Toward the end of his career, he quit drugs when he saw what had happened to all his friends. The preface to A Scanner Darkly, the first book he wrote off drugs, lists all the friends he lost.

It seems that he didn't really need the drugs anymore when the pink beam event occurred. After that incident, he started to have all sorts of hallucinations that he lead a duel life as a Christian being persecuted by Nero.
Is there a map that shows its original landing site and the final resting place?
NSA/GCHQ are really good at pulling signals out of random noise, as someone here reminded me a couple of years ago.
To me, through no fault of your own, this is sounds like a low quality internship. Not because there's little productive work being accomplished, but because there is little professional interaction between the student and experienced professionals and about zero chance for constructive personal interactions.

Hopefully, you're at least getting paid.

Anyway, the big lessons here are that most people ignore remote workers because managing them is significantly more work than when co-located and perhaps more importantly, the most important aspect of developing a career is meeting people and getting to know them.

Good luck.
If you like this, you'll also appreciate the tech of "Dreams"

http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/article/siggraph_2015
As far as I understand this, these guys claim they can train convolutional and many other types of deep neural nets faster by pretraining each layer with a new unsupervised technique via which the layer sort of learns to compress its inputs (a local optimization problem), and then they fine tune the whole network end-to-end with supervised SGD and backpropagation as usual. They have not released code, so no one else has replicated this yet -- as far as I know.

If the claim holds, the implication is that layers can quickly learn much of what they need to learn locally, that is, without requiring backpropagation of gradients from potentially very distant layers. I can't help but wonder if this opens the door for more efficient asynchronous/parallel/distributed training of layers, potentially leading to models that update themselves continuously (i.e., "online" instead of in a batch process).

I wouldn't be surprised if the claim holds. There is mounting evidence that standard end-to-end backpropagation is a rather inefficient learning mechanism. For example, we now know that deep neural nets can be trained with approximate gradients obtained by shifting bits to get the sign and order of magnitude of the gradient roughly right.[1] In some cases it's even possible to restrict learning to use binary weights.[2] More recently, we have learned that it's possible to use "helper" linear models during training to predict what the gradients will be for each layer, in-between true-gradient updates, allowing layers to update their parameters locally during backpropagation.[3] Finally, don't forget that in the late 2000's, AI researchers were doing a lot of interesting work with unsupervised layer-wise training (e.g., DBNs composed of RBMs, stacked autoencoders).[4]

This is a fascinating area of research with potentially huge payoffs. For example, it would be really neat if we find there's a "general" algorithm via which layers can learn locally from inputs continuously ("online"), allowing us to combine layers into deep neural nets for specific tasks as needed.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.03009

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02830

[3] https://deepmind.com/blog#decoupled-neural-interfaces-using-...

[4] https://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/pointeurs/TR1312.pdf

EDITS: Expanded the original comment so it conveys better what I actually meant to write, while keeping language as casual and informal as possible. Also, I softened the tone of my more speculative observations.
I've driven the model S on two different occasions. It was incredible. However, I went with my second BMW because of how incredibly awful the tesla interior was in terms of fit and finish. The car had 30k miles and there was constant rattling and noises coming from various areas of the interior made worst by the fact that the car was completely silent. I'll revisit Tesla in another 5 years when they've had time to work out their quality issues.
Coincidentally, PKD thought that Lem was a construct of the KGB and refused to accept a reward he was offered by him.
Now that anyone can be a painter, is that art form dead? Art is a form of expression, not a popularity contest. Geez Louise, if there's nothing to write about, just don't write.
Because regular police needs to follow rules that criminals by definition do not.

As such they need a group able to work without scruples outside what the public think as acceptable, so that certain criminals that would never by caught playing by the book, do get caught.

Also no government is going to publically tell the others what is their official agenda.

Again, you need the sort of people able to do the right set of questions.

Yes I am harsh, but real life is harsh. Not all of us get to live in movie sets were the good guys always win at the end.
There is a profound difference between magical thinking and science. Once you build scientific frameworks (such as EP is part of), you can move much faster in interesting and useful directions that may seem unrelated and yet all connect together.

For example I've used a lot of psychology (based on EP, not Freud) in constructing communities that build open source software.

And we are using this thing called the "Internet" that lets total strangers converse, at no cost. And largely built on free and open source. Amazing, huh?

If you believe that science does "nothing to aid in our understanding," and yet you are quick to profit from the fruits of the rational world that science built, that would make you rather a hypocrite.
Jacking drones for ransom from a company that works directly with the US government? That might work a few times but how long until the coast guard intervenes?

Not to mention that you need a ship, probably multiple people and quite a bit of time to find such a drone, which I imagine you don't want to do too close to the coast. I doubt this can be done in an economical fashion especially considering opportunity costs. Anyone who's able to do this can probably get a more stable and higher income trafficking drugs.
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It is incredibly infuriating and yet ye
This reminds me of a few things with respect to Apple and accessibility (listed in chronological order here).

* In a speech Tim Cook made in December 2013 on receiving the "International Quality of Life Awards" at Auburn University [1] (link goes to the exact time in the video when this was said):

> "These values guide us to make our products accessible for everyone. People with disabilities often find themselves in a struggle to have their human dignity acknowledged, they frequently are left in the shadows of technological advancements that are a source of empowerment and attainment for others, but Apple’s engineers push back against this unacceptable reality, they go to extraordinary lengths to make our products accessible to people with various disabilities from blindness and deafness to various muscular disorders."

* In early 2014, in the context of an NCPPR representative asking Apple CEO Tim Cook to "commit right then and there to doing only those things that were profitable", this is how Tim Cook responded [2]:

> When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind," he said, "I don't consider the bloody ROI."

* In July 2015, marking 25 years of the "Americans with Disability Act", Tim Cook tweeted: [3]

> "Accessibility rights are human rights. Celebrating 25yrs of the ADA, we’re humbled to improve lives with our products. #ADA25"

Regardless of profit motives and the higher prices of iDevices (in comparison to others), Apple is leading on a few different fronts, one of them being accessibility and its commitment to improving it continuously. This kind of inclusivity, which should be a default, is what progress of humankind is about.

[1]: https://youtu.be/dNEafGCf-kw?t=272

[2]: https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/tim-cook-soundly-rej...

[3]: https://twitter.com/tim_cook/status/624584736862679040
They could have added a small notice at the top that somehow explained that all of this was a about a newly published book and that there was a link to buy it at the bottom.

In my mind this would have given them (The Guardian) more credibility in the long run. But I guess they're a bit desperate for cash.
True words. I think many of us, me at least, have a special appreciation of the original and part of the fun is to think of something yourself. That does not mean, as you say, that we couldn't do the same thing, if not better/more for you.

Maybe I will give it a go ;)
Not everyone can be caught playing by the book.

Life is not a movie set.
> If you were to somehow make LuaJIT into a C/C++ compiler

Clang -> Sulong -> Java bytecode -> Luje [1]? May need more turtles :)

Technically, one reason -of several- this probably wouldn't work without significant effort is that Sulong relies on Graal's FFI intrinsics. But those should be convertible to LuaJIT FFI calls (in theory).

[1] https://cowlark.com/luje/
So now that anyone can be a writer, is writing dead?
There is and was an art form called turntablism. It's always been more common in hip hop than club and rave, though it showed up in all those places. You can search YouTube for examples of "scratch competitions" and that kind of thing.

There are also a good number of techno and hip hop DJS who take mixing with vinyl to amazing levels of agility.

That stuff's really hard, and those folks actually became "virtuosos" on turntables.

Just hitting beat match on an mp3 player or a dual CD deck... not so much. About the only thing you can call those is showmen and great self promoters.
I think a big part of it is that single antibiotics have been quite effective. So there isn't a developed practice of using cocktails and the interactions and so on aren't necessarily well tested/understood.

The most recent course of antibiotics I took was a combination of antibiotics though, so it's changing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoxicillin/clavulanic_acid
If you sacrifice synchronization you can also hit some pretty good performance with an interpreter. Until fairly recently CEMU was interpreter-only and they managed to hit 100% speed in a few games. The trick: they were running 50K instructions at a time without checking external interrupts or scheduling other components. At least, that's from what I can tell from reverse engineering...
Rhino horn is an essential ingredient in many Chinese medicines, while panda is not. Even though Chinese medicine is mostly bunk pseudoscience, enough people in China believe in it to create a crisis.

The Chinese government is loath to reverse these beliefs, as it would mean investing a lot more money in real western medicine. In fact, Mao originally put forth TCM as a distraction from a serious lack of real medical resources in the 50s, from wiki:

In 1950, Chairman Mao Zedong made a speech in support of traditional Chinese medicine which was influenced by political necessity.[11] Zedong believed he and the Chinese Communist Party should promote traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) but he did not personally believe in TCM and he didn't use it.[11] In 1952, the president of the Chinese Medical Association said that, "This One Medicine, will possess a basis in modern natural sciences, will have absorbed the ancient and the new, the Chinese and the foreign, all medical achievements—and will be China’s New Medicine!"[11]

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_medicine
There is no atmosphere and thus no wind (let alone flowing water), so no natural forces to smooth it out. On a related note, moon dust is apparently incredibly sharp for the same reason.
> Before digitisation, mixing records in a nightclub was a technical discipline as difficult to master as learning chord progressions on a guitar.

This is not true. Learning to beatmatch vinyl or with CDJs is mainly a matter of rewiring your brain to hear sound from each ear separately, and a little bit of muscle memory. You can learn it with about a month of daily practice.

DJing has always been about selection, and crowd reading.

EDIT: if you're interested, everything you need to know about DJing is in this book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-DJ-Properly-Science-Playing/dp/...
Awesome! Be sure to send me a link :)
I suspect the issue is one of two scenarios:
1) CEO has low bandwidth, hands off a nice-to-have-but-not-critical feature. They don't have to invest much time; if it works, awesome, if not, no problem. If you don't complete the feature, it may or may not get done.
2) Company is overwhelmed, feature is perceived to be easy(-ish). It will get done, you're just a first pass.

If (1), you're probably best served not asking for much help. If (2), you need to educate & manage expectations about the complexity and necessary steps for the feature. Either case, you would probably be best served by prioritizing the input/output functionality (input a picture, output a prediction) over optimizing precision/recall on the algo. This allows you to 1) show progress to others and 2) you can start having conversations about false positives/negatives by showing different images and the prediction output.
He was a really fantastic and unique writer with a very unique brand of science fiction. His visions of the future are often haunting in their own right before his paranoia and gnosticism gets layered on top.
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