skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the kicker is that most machine learning is incrementing on a single model. Typically one known from statistics before. The weak learner track of combining models almost guess against this, but I think even then it is usually the same shape of model.

So, I actually agree to an extent. Much as computers can be seen as the "next logic". Only, it is such a "builds on" relationship that I think calling it next is dubious.
Depending on the library, picking up the maintenance yourself can be less costly than reinventing the wheel.
If issues such as source maps are figured out, I would feel better about people using it. Also, I would like to work on its user friendliness.

Saying all of that, Elm is pretty nice and I really enjoy using it for some of the same reasons I enjoy Elixir.
> Well, perhaps its because that material was paid for in part using public grants - your tax money and mine?

Do you have any sources that shed light on whether any of this material is the product of federal grant money? You assume it is, when the article and other sources I can find offer no suggestions or evidence that the universities are releasing federally funded information in an inaccessible format. Based on your comments here, you have made a set of assumptions and concluded that because the universities accept federal funding, and because they have released course material to the public, that this course material is the product of federal money. That has not to my knowledge been shown to be the case. If you're including loans/grants that are awarded to students, then all colleges, even the poor, little, barely solvent ones, are to be subject to the same principles. But when you make what sound like snide remarks about an institution's investment funds and revenues, you somewhat betray that you're only outraged because the university has money, and isn't doing what you think it should with that money.
I don't know, I think most of the money is on the left side of the aisle this cycle. Clinton has firmly grasped the title of "establishment" ie status quo, and status quo is good for the wealthy. Many, many wealthy republicans have flipped, IIRC from polls I think Trump's poor white base would dominate the median income.

Agree wrt the rest.
Just google "jupiter ace clone". There are emulators running the original roms and the machine is documented well enough (and simple enough) to build your own.
The IP is the important bit.

Source: I had a bit of netflix subscription when I moved to Norway. Paid with US billing. Not everything was available when I switched countries.
Hash? Key? What do we think this is?
Yes. I too feel like they are over priced and stuck in place where the manufactures don't know what sell or what price to sell them as.
Im going to search for Laptops with an HDD and see what I find. Im looking at Dell and Lenovo right now. But I am leaning towards Dell cause of the problems with Lenovo and SSDs and BOIS with RAID options.
I had a great time doing these challenges, learnt a lot that I had forgotten about working with bytes and a raft of stuff I never knew about cryptography.

The only problem with a new huge set is I have a day job and a wife and kids, so I guess I will be working through these on the train and very late at night
What's wrong with our legal system? The penalties mentioned are really steep. Up to 10 years in prison and/or a $180K fine for bringing a galaxy note 7 onto a plane.
Is that the standard? I always thought it was "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning" by Bishop, but it's not my field.
Yeah, and I think what happened to Brendan Eich was pretty terrible as well.
Latest patent for the 'impossible' EM Drive has just been made public
There's not much point in debating what "simple" means, but it has certainly been done. There are collective pitch multirotors that are mass produced, marketed and sold to recreational customers, and quite stable. Granted, most of these still use electric motors. The point is for 3D flying, not the potential longevity of a combustion engine.

The first commercially available one I know of (no longer produced):

http://www.curtisyoungblood.com/legacy-product-support-curti...

A knock-off of the Stingray:

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__77122__Assault_Re...

A big exception: this thing is massive and works with nitro and 2-stroke engines:

http://www.curtisyoungblood.com/legacy-product-support-curti...
True that, I find it that literally if you are famous or have some sort of following crowd you can easily do things others wouldn't.

I watch a bit of twitch and the famous streamers in there literally could be considered millionaires already.
Interesting, the Japanese and English nuances are similar. The Korean one is almost exclusively (from what I can gather) used as a comment on dating that is more physical than emotional, e.g. the English equivalent would be "they are just physical".
Battlefield 1 already has a cheater problem
What I often find is that the copy-and-paste turns out to be copy-paste-and-modify-slightly -- which helps describe the perimeter for the future refactor and abstraction. In this light it's helpful to duplicate a few times, to better identify what repeats and what is unique.
Ironic World Standards Day
> he spends a small fraction of his time advising YC companies

And you are comfortable with him doing so? What if the YC company is led by a Muslim woman? Do you think she would be comfortable advised by a person who aligns with Trump? Honestly, after the Gizmodo affair you should've cut ties with him which should've been rather easy: not an employee, not an owner, so why don't you say, we do not want to do anything to do with this person? Where does this stop? What can one do that would make you disavow him? Because clearly being a danger to free speech himself and endorsing and financing the biggest danger to the republic right now is not enough for you.
A 3D Printer with Machine Learning
Imagine one blows up in the air and forces the plane to be grounded. Someone has to pay for that emergency landing. $180k does seem excessive though.
While who pays for the decentralized web is a perfectly valid question to raise, I think it's counterproductive right now.

Much like the internet itself, this new architecture will be ushered in by hackers looking to disrupt the status quo of walled gardens and data warehouses, not corporations. So immediate monetization is not a top concern. We can't even imagine what the economics will look like, just like Tim Berners-Lee couldn't have imagined the current web 30 years ago. If we stop to worry about fitting the decentralized web into our current economic models, we will trap ourselves in a box.
It depends. I tend to remember a fair amount of material in math classes from just paying attention. I rarely explicitly study at all for math classes and when I do the results are mixed. Example: In calculus 2 there were all those annoying weird trig integral forms. I couldn't remember them all because it was like a new one arrived daily for a while. I set out to do practice problems with them but still didn't remember much and did poorly on parts of tests that required them. Other things like arc length, double integrals, integration by parts or integrating vertically instead of horizontally, all were just intuitive to me and I remembered them without trying to. I'm not sure how typical or not my results are but in general throughout school if I felt the need to study something and practice it, it was bad news, but if something made sense to me it stuck without much further effort.
A Model Railway Journey
It's an interesting point of view; one often raised in less-serious contexts lamenting the 24-hour news cycle and the sensationalism of news. The psychology behind how we tend to remember bad events over good is also a likely contributor, as they point out.

But perhaps it's even more obvious why the survey-takers in such developed countries as Sweden, UK, and USA are of the belief that the world is not such a good place after all: it's not getting better for them.

The World Economic Forum came to this conclusion in their study asking essentially the same thing [1]. Globalization's main beneficiaries are developing countries' lower working class, who can luck out and be uplifted with higher wages and higher quality of life -- and, of course, the global rich. Meanwhile, the extreme poor and developed countries' working class sees little tangible improvement. This is reflected in the rise of political movements that are isolationist, protectionist, and anti-immigration, as they believe (whether rightfully or falsely, that's an open question) that those policies will improve their local fortunes when the opposite policies did not.

This appears to show that as the economic outlook of certain classes of people improves, the economic outlook of other classes remains stagnant or worsens. Some people insist that the economy isn't a zero-sum game -- and perhaps pedantically, they are correct -- but yet we observe this behavior time and time again. So what gives?

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/07/people-are-angry-abou...
Sorry for the late answer, and sorry for the lack of pictures: I originally noticed different qualities in aging at university, where amidst many examples of terrible aging one lecture hall building and one office/former residential stood out. The lecture hall had a broken rib surface like one of these https://www.reckli.com/en/products/concrete-patterns/ribs-wa... (e.g. "Sicilia") on the larger surfaces which turned the staining of time into a feature, the office/former residential was a framework of concrete (probably modular), filled in with grey sand/lime bricks of similar brightness, but slightly warmer hue than the concrete that gave it a subtle elegance (in my eyes, others hated it) that seemed to be immune to aging.

Not exactly an example of aging well, but nonetheless deserving of a honorable mention: all the old Flagler Hotels that now form Flagler College in St Augustine. They were pretty much making up the modern use of poured concrete for houses as they went and it does show in many places. Most of the concrete surfaces are looking rather rotten by themselves (despite what i suspect to be quite intensive maintenance), but the crazy playfulness of all the decorations that surround them do a surprisingly good job at distracting from that. You notice, but you don't care.
Yes, kind of.
> "The real problem is that developers who actually build the decentralized applications need to be paid somehow. How is that going to be organized? How does the money flow?"

It's possible to have decentralised app store. Apps could be hosted by developers. Metadata that could also be hosted by a developer would then determine which app stores the app should be available on. Users searching for an app using the app store could then pick up on this metadata via crawling the decentralised web, as well as sharing lists of available apps with other users. As for payment, plenty of options there (including but not limited to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin).
> It speaks volume about the depth and toxicity of some self-reinforcing militant feedback loops.

telling a corporation to sanction, discipline, or fire a partner is not militant.

the only militant behavior is coming from Trump, when he talks about dropping HRC's security detail and seeing what happens.

diversity of opinion is important, but advocacy of violence and worse - the commission of sexual violence against women - is not.

I'm not certain that ending Thiele's partnership is warranted - I don't know enough about the facts. But this is more than just an "unpopular opinion".
> I also think that the country needs a loyal opposition

I've been thinking exactly the same thing for a while now. Maybe it's time for bumper stickers!

As I don't have anything meaningful to add right now, I'll sign off. Thank you for the thoughtful, civil discourse. I appreciate it.
I always thought YC founders were allowed to choose which partners they wanted to work with. If not, you're right.

Edit: Sam just posted https://twitter.com/sama/status/787794988855812096.
Do you know what satire is?

From the essay:
> Thankfully, a developer named dionoea was able to come to a compromise with us. She added a compile time option that allowed VLC to be ran under the root account. The USE FLAG "run-as-root" was introduced...

She ran as root! without being "little girl" or "baby" or "sissy"
Why don't you pitch one of them on a plan to do just that, and make yourself rich too?
in Poland "adidasy" is often used for any kind of sport shoes
> "Unless there is evidence she incited people to action in some way, this looks to be a simple first amendment defense, and will be thrown out quickly."

I hope you're right. Thank you for your honesty also.
You're right, Thiel's position isn't based on hatred – it's based on indifference. It's based on being privileged enough that Trump's hatefulness doesn't and won't personally affect him. I don't see how that's any better.
Tget – Wget for torrents
Linux bcc tcptop
Both this and the parent's approach are good options.
The synacor challenge is pretty fun although somewhat directionless after you build the VM.
This is all I want
That's correct. The content seems to be engaging (we've gotten some good user feedback so far and about 40% of our users open the newsletter).
What a quickly way to dismiss his blog post, what if the time scheduling he writes about is practical advice? What if being part of the target audience is practical advice? He talks about lots of things, how much they help in a "practical manner" depends on many things; disregarding it all because he used a prior successful related blog it's just gratuitous negativity and what I dislike most about HN
OS can cache the read but can't help with gzipping that is still a lot of CPU cycles
> There are many people (Trump supporters AND critics) that interpret some of Trump's most defining and consistent policies as racist, sexist, islamaphobic and xenophobic. So Trump to many people is beyond their line of acceptability. And therefore the supporters are too.

Wouldn't that qualify these people at least as racist as Trump could possibly be himself ?

Where is the limit for these people, by the way ? Not buying stuff from people with some "unacceptable" political orientation ? How about religious orientation ? How about people who feel men and women aren't equal because of religious affiliation ? How about muslims who espouse the "kill anyone leaving islam" rule of that religion ?

We should not care if we are to have a well-functioning politcial system. Doesn't seem either party is interested in that, but still.
There were reports from Melbourne (Aus) Airport this morning about queues 4x or 5x times normal length (for a Monday morning). Security were checking every mobile phone going through and not letting anyone carry Galaxy Note 7s on.
How come? What do you use to declare your dev environment?
It definitely seems like the wonder material of wonder materials, the main struggle has been to mass produce/commercialise it. I believe manipulating it is also non-trivial.
They would need a model built on top of the submitted models to weight or select which specific trading signals to act on. A plausible model might be walkforward testing on out of sample data, or as simple as trailing performance in live trading, or both. Still, with a large set of models, you won't be able to get around multiple comparisons problem entirely.

That doesn't matter though because you only a need small amount of good signal to be profitable in the money management biz. The larger issue is whether the aggregate signal quality is high enough to be able to pay for development and trading costs.
> No Thanks" refers not to carrying a child to term, but supporting a child who exists

The existence is chosen by a woman, who is presumably aware of the fact that it's going to be 9 months of difficult physical changes, followed by 18 years of life changes.

> I just as clearly support the notion that a child carried to term has two parents who share the responsibility of raising that child.

Why do you support that notion? So basically a woman gets to choose to bear a child, but a man has to abide by that decision?

> To clarify again, to avoid any "confusion", the logical equivalent of, "No thanks I'm not involved" is the woman leaving that child on the father's doorstep with a similar statement of disinterest.

That is a logical fallacy. You've already carried the child to term, now you're roping another unwilling participant into this? When you've already had the choice (easy and affordable) of choosing a difficult path?

> Beyond that, be aware that your other posts on this topic are visible, so the "I'm confused... not trying to be difficult" lines ring especially hollow.

I don't see how any of my other posts would counter my position of confusion. There is no "hollowness" there. My point has always been that if a woman can terminate a pregnancy, a man should be able to renounce all parental rights and responsibilities.

Remember, your original post referred to reproductive rights. Shouldn't men have those as well? Instead of just being told not to screw?
At first I found objection with this blog post. But as soon as I replaced "proper" with "perfect", I loved it.

> There's no such thing as the "Perfect Solution", there's only the best solution we are able to come up given the current knowledge and circumstances
You're dead, marincounty. I've never seen it before, where someone's comments can be dead sometimes and available others.
HyperNormalisation – A film by Adam Curtis
How are modern mice different than those old 1980s Sun mice with the ground mouse pads? What allowed us to ditch the physical tracking surface?
Its not me but rather its you who has the wrong idea that all papers with 50 citations are good. Or rather the more citation == better research.

Frankly almost 95% of papers are crap and better off not having been written, had it not been for publish or perish culture, or "lets count papers/cites to shame a Nobel award winning researcher culture" that you espouse.

Citations are a self reinforcing metric. Once a community starts counting them, the only way to succeed is to publish more which in turns leads to higher counts.

There is nothing wrong in publishing a good thorough paper over 4 years maybe slowly updating it as a working paper as done in economics.
The product I'm working on helps businesses stay in compliance with financial regulations. Not necessarily as cool as other Show HN projects. Is it still worth posting it on HN?

I also ran across a Reddit post where someone created a Twitter bot which favorited and retwitted posts with certain tags to attract potential customers for a product the OP was marketing. Those who ended up checking out his Twitter page found a note which said that followers would get a deal if signed up. The OP mentioned he got his first 20+ paid customers this way. Not sure how effective this is but thought I'd share.
> There's a difference between being neutral on political questions and being neutral on crimes against humanity

For this to be true, there would have to be some non-political definition of "crimes against humanity".
Headline would be more precise had it claimed to have built an app in 10 months, not a business

Still impressive, but not the same thing

Edit: just to be extra clear, the reason why this is true is because, the customer base he generated was not in the 10 months he used to build his app, that was done over the years of blogging
We are such a foolish species.
>You can care about your countries politics and not support either primary candidate, or the political structures they represent.

Did I say or even imply you couldn't? No, I didnt. I was simply disagreeing that these candidates are the same.

I'll be voting for my interpretation of the "lesser evil" unapologetically.

I'm not 'wasting my life in the trenches', I'm an American citizen with an opinion. I respect your decision to vote third party or not at all, but please stop trying to shame me for "being evil" and voting how I see fit.

TYVM
I take your point that YC has some kind of governance structure, a bunch of partners, and it may not be feasible to publish a statement on company letterhead, figuratively speaking.

What I'm after is some kind of statement from Altman or Graham about Thiel, his involvement in supporting Trump, and their (presumable) discomfort at having such person be a partner in YC.

An acknowledgement of the situation, rather than the tacit silence we've had so far. What we have right now is Altman and Graham saying a Trump presidency would be disastrous, and not commenting at all about continuing to do business with one of Trump's key backers.

That's weird.
This sort of stuff is really interesting to me. I think any app/service can use ML though, it doesn't have to be a chatbot. I'm actually surprised we aren't already seeing more of this. I feel like most all fitness trackers are more concerned with the very specific details of your current workout (speed, heart rate, etc) but don't look at the wider trends across many days, weeks, months, etc.

If anyone has seen a service that does this, I'd love for you to share it here!
> Elm has a low entry barrier

Sorry Vincent, you lost me there. Elm is interesting for sure, but it's far from having a low entry barrier. Something has basic has having a button play a sound takes forever to figure out. You almost have to learn everything all over again.
It's a cool project and I'm glad it's working out well for you, but Elm has a serious learning curve.
No really, by competent I mean just general competency. Like the ability to ship a product at all. Not talking about superstars or whatever.
The one negative thing I've found with Razor is the ambiguous start and end of statements or expressions vs html. Sometimes a @ is required before a statement and sometimes its a syntax error, conversely statements and and expressions may be rendered as text if they follow html with a @. I think jsx's approach is clearer.
Thanks so much! Honestly, I think I'm more excited about the landing page than I am the chatbot at times haha. I built it using http://tachyons.io and I'm not sure I've ever had more fun writing HTML/CSS. Definitely check out that CSS framework.
Show HN: Decentralized Graph Database for Node.js and Browsers
Weak!
> How do the reporters from the larger networks know that this kind of reporting is off-limits

I think part of it is explainable by the economic incentive to not upset corporations that the network depends on for ad revenue.
> The usual way I see this issue framed is:
Condom broke. -or- "Conniving" woman poked a hole in the condom.
Neither implies reckless teenage abandon.

Nowhere in this thread was that brought up, and what is the relevance here? Don't put words in our mouths.

> Life isn't fair, and sometimes what you do as a teenager has long-term consequences,

Yes, like college loans. But people still ask for loan forgiveness. (See what I did there?)
It's always nice to have options, but aria2 is a very mature cli file grabber that supports .torrent files among a host of other protocols.

https://aria2.github.io
IPFS uses a DHT to look up and announce the availability of content. DHTs are notoriously vulnerable to routing attacks, whereby an attacker can insert nodes into the network and take control of individual hash buckets. This is achieved by inserting the nodes such that they become responsible for pointing clients to the target hash bucket. If an attacker takes control over all such nodes (and can do so with a pathological sequence of join requests and data inserts/deletes), then (s)he can go on to censor buckets and/or serve malicious data from them.
Yeah, that's basically it. Once home servers become ubiquitous the platform for the decentralised web will have reached maturity. That's only going to happen if they're cheap and easy to manage. I'll be watching how things develop with the ESPRESSOBin, I think it's a move in the right direction in terms of a affordable home server:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/874883570/marvell-espre...