skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One algorithm a day -- the short answer is if you were going to really learn them and not just forget them then you would have to cheat and constantly review previously 'learned' algorithms as you go. Otherwise you will learn X algorithms and likely forget nearly X algorithms.

I have to question the value of only focusing on learning algorithms and on the idea of optimizing the quantity.

In terms of learning lots of them, it might be more useful to focus on learning more fundamental algorithms _better_ rather than tons of them. Or you might want to carefully select the most generally useful algorithms or ones in a specific field relevant to current projects.

Also, now that we have such powerful general purpose languages and efficient module versioning and distribution, learning to take advantage of those probably has more practical use.

For example, you could spend several weeks or years learning various statistical methods and algorithms for machine learning in a particular area. But then you realize that all of the algorithms are already implemented in python code libraries so you start learning how to apply the libraries in real code for applications rather than reimplementing the libraries.

But then you find out that deep learning techniques far outperform all of those algorithms you learned to implement and then apply via those libraries.

So then you train yourself on sophisticated deep learning techniques and start to implement LSTM in python. Then you realize you never quite got the fundamental understanding of neural networks so go back to work on learning that better.

Then you implement some core neural network algorithms in python and start to build back up to your LSTM implementation. Now you find out that TensorFlow exists but lacks good support for AMD which your university has (perhaps erroneously) made a large investment in.

So then you decide the best thing to do would actually be to try to fix some basic bugs that occur on your platform with the latest TensorFlow/OpenCl/AMD code (or whatever).

You manage to fix one of the minor issues and now several geniuses have their day improved by a bit or two.

The point is, trying to learn a ton of random algorithms in a short period probably isn't the best use of your time.
Thank you for the demo. This helped me understand the recent quantum computing (quantum annealing) process a little more concretely.

What I saw here was a scrambled image being sorted to find a local minima of entropy in pixel color value between respective stripes. A quantum annealing computer is doing is, where the image is the problem space (scrambled because we dont have the solution), and the quantum computer rearranges this to find global minima/maxima.

Where a QC is not useful would be when the problem space is too big (image too big), or it can only find a local minima that isn't the solution to the classical problem (picture is still objectively after annealing)

please comment someone if my understanding is wrong
To be fair, he's done some lisp work. But that's true enough.

Steele was on the commitee for many years, although not this one.

I'd give you a list of CLers on the commitee, but I honestly can't dig through 12 people's online profiles just to prove a point right now.
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It is all about rich or poor.

If the author do some research on the relative rich people in China, the result should be different.
I wonder if this is a service Akamai/Amazon/Google/whoever-wlse-runs-lots-of-cdn-endpoints could sell to CAs? A kind of "reverse CDN request", where they can return (over TLS connections) a web page fetched from tens or hundreds of different edge servers all at once?

That'd at least mean an attacker would need to be MITMing the connection close to your server/loadbalancer instead of near to the CA?

Wouldn't help if someone was doing a Quantum Insert style attack from within your hosting infrastructure. (I wonder if there's pre-build AMIs to let you quickly spin up open source implementations of Qantum Insert on AWS already?)
As an interesting side note, it turns out books on programming that include chapters on encryption are not allowed in prisons.
Sometimes people have to do what they believe is right.
> limited canadian experience

Actually, limited Quebec experience. Everybody I know in other provinces, like Ontario, is happy with "single payer."
You could absolutely do it. Here's a few things you could do to get started (feel free to email me if you need more specific help, or have any additional questions- my email's in my profile):

1. Get as much data about each site as possible. Try to find data that you think will separate the non-ecommerce sites from the ecommerce sites. This data should be in a table form- think of an Excel spreadsheet, where each row represents a different site.

2. Label the data as belonging to each type of site. This is going to be tedious and take some time. You can also try hiring people via Mechanical Turk to do this.

3. Use [Weka](http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/) or [Vowpal Wabbit](https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki) to run some preliminary estimations on the model. Weka and VW are great tools as they come with a lot of the configuration done out of the box, so you won't have to write any code to get started.

Check your results and see how happy you are with them. Weka has a lot of visualization capacities, so you can see how the data that you've collected aligns with the different types of sites.

Now, you can start iterating, which is the key part of any ML project. Consider which aspects of the model you think you can improve on- adding more data, adding more kinds of sites, using a different machine learner.
No, actually.
> That's for armies, though. ... Is some culture unique in its lack of fear of death outside of battle?

At least staying with my example, there's an explicit "duty" for the "jihad" (which can also be translated as the "battle" http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/struggle and which is exactly so understood by the majority of scholars) to be performed by every believer:

https://www.al-islam.org/a-muslim-in-society-al-balagh/jihad...

"a holy duty made obligatory upon all Muslims by Allah"

"Allah made jihad obligatory, in all its forms"
Considering that lady is not generally accepted as an asexual term, I'm having a difficult time parsing your statement.

Certain words mean certain things in certain contexts. If you want to start using "lady" as an asexual term, go for it. Be prepared for stares and weird looks when people don't know what you're talking about because it's not generally used that way, unlike 'dude and guy'.

What's your point exactly?
None of this is relevant. Summaries are not substitutes for the content. They're to indicate if the content is relevant or not.

Frankly, if you aren't capable of summarizing the content, any other comment you'd make is probably rubbish.
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I'm very familiar with appeal to authority, which is not what I've done. Appeal to authority is when you argue "Statement X is true because authority Y said it is". This is not what I said - I listed examples of successful, well regarded people in the "real world" who have attended Burning Man, as a refutation of your (poorly stated) premise that people who attend Burning Man do not also accomplish things in the real world.
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Last time I saw it was probably 2005-ish. It was along 445 near Spanish Springs.
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> In the end I even created a clone of snake. It worked, but moving one block ahead would take 2 seconds.

Nice! I ended up creating a Minesweeper clone. I remember the program being really long, and really annoying to write without having access to actual recursion.
One key thing the author started to allude to: the value of functions - pure functions, vs a cyclic graph of mutable objects with temporal coupling of state changes and spaghetti inheritance out the wazoo.

OK, he didn't say that exactly, but he really did start heading that way.

The "static types will save us crowd" is drowning out a lot of the rest of the discussions that need to happen.

* Somebody mentioned Eiffel in other comments. Eiffel's design-by-contract assertions about invariants are vastly preferable to Java's magic beans that eventually (maybe) reach a valid useful state. I guess unit tests sort of compensate for this, but not really.

* Mutable state needs to be pushed to the peripheries of our apps, not plastered everywhere.

* Inheritance might not be such a good idea, due to reasoning about which code runs when you call a method / send a message. Do like Go-lang, and have interfaces for polymorphism, but skip inheritance - the use of an interface is a flag for later binding. Likewise, higher order functions and closures help you reuse code without resorting to spaghetti inheritance.

* We need languages that make programming with types easy, using type inference where it is clear to do so (e.g. - local identifier initialization, but perhaps not for multi-line function headers?). BUT, we still need to allow for dynamic runtime types, perhaps with a few minimal flags on identifiers/modules, rather than forcing people into monstrous reflection frameworks and XML situps.

FWIW, I agree (with the paper) that feature/integration tests are very good, but unit tests are often a waste.
That's nonsense. You are tasked with breaking down the solutions to complicated problems, and getting them to work within the constraints of a limited toolset. Sure, the constraints are a bit whimsical, but if breaking down complex problems (complexity is relative to the capabilities you have) and getting them to to fit your abstraction isn't programming, I don't know what is.
Interesting. Thx.

By the way, I've yet to find a vive game where I can simply fly around some world. It's the first thing I've wanted to do since I heard about virtual reality and yet no one has made it.
Hopefully the final nail in the coffin of that vile site.
> Reports suggest the man hacked into the system after seeing log-in details displayed on the billboard.

Man, the things that qualify as "hacking" these days...
This probably comes from Taoism, not from Buddhism. There's a lot of Tao in Japanese Buddhism, because it came there by way of China.

Suffering (and ritual suicide, too) is very much a part of Taoism.
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Because you can’t make any money this way.

Any service where the costs are dominated by labor and the enforcements of labor regulations is weak (i.e house cleaning services) is doomed from the start. The only question is why the "smartest guys in the room” missed this with homejoy.
Because that's where it gets the money to invest in the first place...?
It's an act that has been performed by Buddhist monks for many reasons, political or otherwise. I don't think you can make the distinction you're trying to make here.
I used to get migraines when I was a teenager. Full aura and the absolutely unbelievable throbbing headache. I have a vivid memory of once getting one from eating chocolates¹ and having to sit in a dark room with no sound because practically anything would add to the throbbing.

For what it's worth, they just went away when I got older. Haven't had one in over a decade.

¹ Tasted great, though, and I remember eating the variety (which I remember being called 'Praline Leaves' or something of the sort). Never found it again.
Those two things are basically the same thing: More women gamers, women are a bigger market segment.
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4chan ran its course, and it's long overdue for disruption. Even moot had to run away because of how much trouble it had become.
"CloudFlare made a deal with Comodo to issue (non-backdated) SHA-1 certificates from a "legacy" root that is mostly no longer trusted by modern clients."

That's quite a nice solution.

The upside seems to be there's very little additional risk if certs are issued that "modern clients" won't accept - while still allowing "legacy clients" to commuicate with the level of security/encryption they always have.

I guess the downside is - allowing it to contniue means nobody will _ever_ upgrade or turn off "legacy client" equipment - which is probably all riddled with huge numbers of other "known exploits"... If you make it possible to put off upgrading your WindowsXP (or equivalent early 2000's linux based) POS system or industrial/SCADA gear - it'll stay around randomly switching which botnet it's DDoSing for forever...
The Christian tradition knows the concept of ecclesia militans. Whatever the battle metaphor means depends on the believer and their tradition. It's not helpful to single out Islam as particularly militant, indeed Mohammed originally considered himself a reformer instead of the founder of a new religion. Muslim concepts tend to have a Christian counterpart.
There has been quite a lot invested in Prolog and its successors. Eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer

It's just fundamentally much harder to get anywhere than with procedural languages.
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Can anyone suggest good naming for the three modes?
The only way any of these business types work is via the greater fool approach. Uber is a great investment if you believe you can find a bigger fool to offload the company onto [1].

1. I am talking about Uber's current business. If they can solve the automatous driving problem before they run out of cash (or fools) then they will be a good investment.
I agree that it is too broad. I am painting with too wide a brush with that statement, for that I apologize.

I think like anything, broad strokes overlook individual differences and Western culture (and other culture) is so diverse now that it's difficult (and sometimes controversial) to try to define it.

That being said, there is some research (although admittedly lacking strong empirical footing, although might be able to find it) to back up the assertion that Western cultures are often believed to be more driven by death anxiety than others.

"Although not many studies have empirically made comparisons between cultural groups on variables other than religion, we can extrapolate from these findings that death anxiety will be relatively lower among death affirming societies than among death-denying or death-defying cultures. The United States, and probably most of the societies in the West, is a death-denying/defying society where even the idiom of expression is that of resistance. People vow not to go gently into the good night (Blake, 1988) or conjure images of fighting illness, or fighting the enemy, death (Kalish & Reynolds, 1981). On the other hand, other societies appear to be more accepting of death."
Source: https://www.wwu.edu/culture/gire.htm

That whole site is an interesting read on this topic.
> Nothing is too abstract for a grown adult.

SICP, dearth of practical experience... MIT? Any case, you live in a daycare. Remember we're talking about someone incarcerated.
I also believe that a something better than the status quo is possible. Perhaps render the URL correctly then display the obfuscated URL beside it in between parentheses.

International domain names will never be used if browser and website support remains as horrible as it currently is.
Armitage-Doll was a nice advance over previous models, but it's also incomplete (and probably flat wrong in some cases, although working on pediatric malignancies has convinced me that a second cooperating event usually is mandatory).

In normal stem cells, it appears that attrition and immune clearance gets rid of damaged cells when they cycle and senescent cells all the time (subject to some variation, not entirely age related, at least in our volunteers). We may expect higher rates in filter organs, but liver cancer isn't too common, and the paper I referenced earlier shows that this can't be just an issue of fewer divisions (I despise the oversimplified Tomasetti & Vogelstein paper because the facts simply don't support it). Colorectal is probably more common because the crypts are "facing out" ala melanocytes, thus prone to accumulating lots of environmental damage.

Anyways, the latter of your possibilities (proliferative mutants divide faster and error more often than normal counterparts) makes the most sense -- the eventual "winner" in a tumor is the cell that produces the most progeny and resists apoptosis due to stress the best. It's probably not a coincidence that these are traits which adapt a mutated cell to survive chemotherapy as well. However, spawning nonself mutations willy-nilly is a great way to attract immune attention -- particularly if you haven't blown the immune system away by nuking it with chemotherapy. :-/
> Yeah, but have you considered that there's a developmental benefit to having somewhere you can go and just say "vile" things?

Well yes, but the question is, do you value that developmental benefit enough to pay for it? The real problem here isn't "freedom", it's business: how can 4chan pay for itself?
If you did know that you would give us an answer with some more content.
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I had a Pass for a year, mostly because I needed one to post via VPN on my phone. What really killed that for me was anytime my phone decided to shuffle IPs I had to go and re-enter it, often after a cooldown of like 15 minutes.

Also their system is buggy, and half the time it would tell me I was banned for one reason or another even though using the Pass is supposed to bypass that and it was some other person being banned on that IP and nothing I had done.

Basically, the benefits I had paid for were spotty in their effectiveness, so I didn't bother renewing.

Also I stopped posting as much because /pol/ started ruining every board.
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Ok, you asked for negative: I don't think the world or any organization needs more impersonal words being automatically shouted to people who never asked for them. This is basically spam for Slack.
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TL;DR - Put some real effort and time into optimizing your dating profile.

I think it is how it is written. I met my wife on Match.com 16 years ago, back in the dinosaur age of internet dating. If you look around on these sites, they often have a 2000 character (or similar) limit on the text you can put in the profile, and most ads do not even use 10% of that. "I'm not good at these forms, just ask me anything!" or some useless drivel that does not tell me about the person.

My profiles had the most success when I used all the character count, and I spent a fair amount of time editing in Word. Since you get one shot to make a first impression, why not make the best possible? I try to get someone who knows me well to read it, and to check to make sure the tone is correct. Who wants to date someone who comes across as angry or bitter?

If I put that much effort into the wording, I would always get a ton of top level choices. The women wrote me, I didn't have to chase them. I think the differentiator was that they could clearly get a sense of my personality (what I thought was funny, etc) from reading the max length profile, and it stood apart from the 100 character competition. At the end of the day, it is a sales job like any other - put on your best presentation, clearly explain your deal breakers in a positive way, and be better prepared than the next guy.

Because all you have to do is be more appealing than the competition. If the other guy is more attractive, but seems boring, then you will probably beat him if your profile is amusing. Intelligent women get tired of pretty but stupid guys, they usually want someone with more substance. If you can communicate that in your ad before the first date, then you are several steps ahead.

I have an outside sales background; once I put dating in the context of selling it became something I was quite good at. I was just selling myself after all.
Same thing happened to me, also right when I encountered "cut". However, rather than considering Prolog a leaky abstraction, I started thinking of it as a concrete implementation of a particular kind of useful search algorithm. If you learn how the core algorithm works, you can use it in the same way you'd use a regular expression library to solve particular types of problems.
Am I also a sexist because I am not gay?
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I used to suffer from CFS, and my wife used to get almost weekly migraines. (We're now both symptom free). In both our cases, chronic stress seemed to be the cause.

From what I can see (having talked to many other patients and researched it for the last 16 years), the depression/migraine/CFS/fibromyalgia cluster of symptoms appears to be the brain's way of telling you to stop doing what you're doing, i.e. you should remove the stressors. That's not to say that all migraines are caused by stress, but it does seem that it is likely a significant factor for many people.

I dislike the notion perpetuated in this article that if your headaches or fatigue is psychosomatic (due to stress) then you're either "weak", or it's "all in your head" (i.e. imaginary). I'll admit I probably wouldn't be able to work in a stressful job in NY with only a few hours sleep a night -- like the author of this article was trying to do -- without suffering from some kind of stress-related illness. I don't think that makes me weak...it's simply that my brain won't let me work in an excessively stressful situation like that if it doesn't appear to be in my best interests (even if I really want to do it). The advantage is that my CFS prompted me to quit a boring job and create my own internet startup, doing something that nobody else in the world is doing (now I have about 20+ competitors).
Being an Asian does not imply unattractiveness. It's one's other properties that determine attractiveness (muscular body, etc).

Considering Asian as a property of unattractiveness is racist. Even if you are an Asian yourself.
> Some of it is benign, like cat memes and the site LOLCats. But much of it is offensive.

:) It's clever sleight of mouth to counterpose "benign" with "offensive," implying that offensive isn't benign. Sticks and stones.

As a visitor for over a decade, I can say almost all of 4chan is benign as it's recipes, endless blather about anime and video games, fashion and music. Typical teenage stuff.

The big difference between 4chan and most other places is the threshold for banning. In most forums, e.g. HN, if you speak against the forum, you get banned. On 4chan, you just get ignored and people get exposed and steeled against your ignorant behavior.

It's really the logical conclusion of "not in my backyard" style management. If you keep pushing people out of your neighborhood, they'll end up somewhere and that place is 4chan. And typically people grow up and out of it.

This article is testing peoples' reactions to a possible "victory for cleanliness" in the HRC victory. I imagine the center-right (which call themselves Democrats) will enjoy a good bit of muscle-flexing and creative interpretation of "freedom of speech" in the next 4-8 years.

Finally, getting condemned by the Anti-Defamation League is not difficult.
http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League
I'm reminded of one of Neil Fraser's blog entries "CS by Mail" https://neil.fraser.name/news/2015/04/13/, in which he received mail from someone inquiring how he could learn programming in prison and Neil recommended CS Unplugged. I wonder if that worked out.
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