skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, with the data no one knows what each row represents, or even what the features are or what they're predicting is. Each submission has 30,000 predictions, so you would need to have an unreasonably good random guess to get anywhere near the top of the leaderboard.
> I think most non-Americans who are cheering for Trump are doing so because the Bush/Clinton dynasties have fucked things up so much that anything different would be an improvement.

Those people would be complete, total dipshits then, if they think Trump will be an improvement -- for the US or anyone else.

Luckily, they aren't voting here.
I learned German in 1 year and landed a job at Siemens where I served German customers in German (and not in English!) How did I do it?

There are multiple ways which can be used together to get the best way. Totally depends on the learner. Here are some of them:

1. Find a good mentor and you're half way through.

2. Join a good institute e.g Goethe Institute for German, Alliance Francaise for French. They have great sources of knowledge and know exactly how those languages are taught.

3.If you have basic knowledge of the language, start listening to simple Radio clips. It helps you improve your pronunciation. Or simply go to youtube and see/listen to the videos. There are many well-known resources and also some reading material on the net. Jump according to the needs and levels.

4.Try to find the meaning of every single word you come across. Use the dictionary for German, French, Spanish, and more. Keep google translator as your last option.

5.Finally, it is a language. It does take time to learn. Have some patience.
Enjoy every bit of it and go ahead.

Best of luck. :)
Is this a bot? This summary is nearly the length of the article, just lacking the actual images of Birkana symbols.
They are - your rank on the leaderboard is the importance of your model in their 'meta-model' so submitting the same model as someone else would just net you 0.
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I was talking complexity vs size. Gabriel's Worse is Better already tells you that growth has more to do with network effects and marketing than technical correctness. QNX lacked them for desktop or server use but did well in embedded. Almost had a mobile shot but Blackberry blew it totally with marketing plan.

EDIT: Read Godot. That was hilarious but I kept seeing too much reality in it.
Where are you quoting this from? It's ill-defined / ambiguous as you're stating it. I'm a professional number theorist and I don't understand what your question is actually asking. Thanks!
Bases in 2^n can be easily converted between, as you can consider each group/symbol independently when converting.
A few thoughts, somewhat orthogonal to each other:

1) Disability rights are often portrayed as a special privilege for a subgroup of society. But in reality, all of us start our lives mobility impaired and illiterate, and many of us who are lucky enough to grow old become sight, hearing, and mobility impaired to some extent. Accessibility helps all of us.

2) Accessibility helps not just humans. High quality captions add a lot of value to videos, because they make the videos searchable, which provides immense benefits to all users, hearing impaired or not.

3) Disability rights are the one aspect of social policies where the USA might be ahead of much of the rest of the world. Compared to my native Switzerland, the USA is far ahead in empowering disabled individuals to participate in public life. This is something the US should be proud of.
No. They don't. The industry is holding off tiny bits of content laden with ads, features disabled, and the worst tech imaginable and as many roadblocks as possible.

At this point I don't care. I don't watch much of their stuff and I really hope they go bankrupt. Not watch IS an option. Let them die.
I'm suggesting Thiel face consequences for supporting a sexually predatory bigot.

I'm literally just a guy with a Twitter account, so the idea that I'm strong-arming billionaires with my ruthless tweets is a little hard to credit.
Two things:

* It's vs. not v.s.

* If you want to copy a site 100 times, go for it. But I know very few that ever thought that was a great idea, and each time it was a very specific case. Yes there are client-specific features and multi-tenant sites, but that's not what he said. He said "copy vs. abstraction" which is the opposite of refactoring.

As an aside, I'm really having trouble understanding how people in the HN community could be thinking I'm wrong on this.

I think I need to go to a forum that's more grown-up if this is how things are here now.
It is still production code, with people being paid to write code in Haskell.
I sleep on that $25! I got it in singles so it would look like a lot.
Unfortunately, I wouldn't know :-( I lived in Ontario where people mostly spoke English. A couple buddies of mine were from Quebec. When they spoke French they would never use an anglicism.
I suspect they were making a conscious effort to not to. I did say this in my reply above that expats do tend to get very protective of the use of their native language (present company included). Similarly, when they spoke English, you wouldn't know that they were from Quebec since they spoke in an Ontarian accent and used the exact same vocab you expect a native Torontotian to use. For example, they could say to me, could you close the lights please. "Close the lights" is a very common expression in Ontario and yet I've never heard anybody using it beyond that province.

Lol, I always felt jealous of them. They would just blend in with the crowd. In contrast, I have a very pronounced accent in English and don't even get me started on my French.
Winners are chosen based on a part of the test dataset which the user never gets feedback on/never is able to see the true values of during the competition round - so it's very difficult to overfit to that private set.
Depending on the material it is doable over the course of a few weekends. Consider many college courses meet twice a week for one hour each time, so two hours a week. ~14 weeks leaves only 28 hours of in class instruction time. Devote three of your weekends this month to complete study and you'll easily match the hourly total lecture-wise (you could even do it in one weekend if you're hardcore), what can kill you is the exercises, and the time it takes for actually learning the material.

Despite meeting more frequently I don't think college students learn the material any better than an upfront binge learner, because most of them have no clue how to actually learn something. They read and cram exercises enough to match the patterns and pass by (a sort of compressed periodic binge learning), and then they're done. Course interdependence forces some amount of actual learning that lasts but not that much.

Anyway to pull off the weekend study you wouldn't spend 6 hours on each day of your weekends just "reading". You would be reading (not necessarily in order or even every page), doing exercises, creating mnemonics, finding other resources to clear something up, and possibly making some flash cards to take advantage of spaced repetition later, which has an important characteristic that you don't need to review every day for an hour, only at the moment before you'd naturally forget which could be days, months, or years away. Depending on the subject you may also just be "practicing", for whatever that means for the subject. (Writing programs is a common programmer method to supplement in the learning of something.)

Another benefit to the intense approach is that you create many associations up front, instead of living in confusion until (if you don't give up beforehand) your slow and steady schedule advances to the point where learning something new makes enough older things click together. If you're just casually reading for 6 hours a day on Saturday and Sunday, and do no review, and have no intensity of making it an active exercise instead of a passive reading-only one, then yeah, you're not going to learn anything, but I doubt you'd learn much more by converting the same behavior to an hour a day.
No, just like the language lawyering it's neither necessary nor sufficient, but the term is of course a bit fuzzy anyway.

I guess "xenophobic asshole" is a more accurate term but I thought "nazi" conveys enough meaning without resorting on language Americans might find offensive.
This is why my unlock is not tied to biometrics. Once I realized the government can compel you to unlock your phone without a warrant using your fingerprint it became a much less compelling feature. The same for facial recognition.
You still really only object to form. I have no interest in that.and be happy where the US is all you want. That makes you part of the problem the way I see it.

Something have to change IMO.
The dogs of Amazon
Right, and it doesn't hurt to say he worked for Google either.
You're absolutely right - this place is not OK and it's shepherding its community down the same toilet as the rest of them.
Lush Environment Leads to Egalitarian Society for Asian Elephants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number please improve the article :-)
> Kuhn's advice to people in this situation would be to re-examine the philosophical basis of the field, NOT to continue on doing business as usual.

I am not familiar with Kuhn but the statements you echo resonate deeply with me. I hope in some places academics do shift their paradigm (when necessary) but from what I've seen at uni the outlook is bleak. Researchers do x for years, built up their reputation by doing so and at some point their ego is so big that they don't dare asking themselves whether they've wasted years doing something very stupid. Even worse, these people favor PhD candidates that are willing to follow their footsteps.
Some would claim that his foreign politics are punishing innocent people just for being muslim. The accepted collateral damage and killing of people without trial is a big part of that.
I would say that the definition of what is big largely depends on the problem you try to solve. If that problem is finding keywords in text files, then your definition sounds about right. For other problems even a couple of KB might be big. To me, big is when your dataset is too big to solve your problem in reasonable time on one machine.
> Bathroom laws require forcing companies to pay for additional bathrooms

Not usually.

> Environmental regulations force companies to pay for expensive pollution-limiting equipment. Pollution is already handled by libertarianism as pollution means either damage to people's health, or damage to people's property. Both of which are violations of the non-aggression principle. No environmental "regulations" necessary as the repercussions far outweigh the benefits of pollution.

I'm having some trouble parsing what you mean. Are you saying the government should stop pollution because it causes damage to people/property, but they shouldn't call it 'regulation'?
Yes.

They're not.
The swashplate mechanism is more complex than a tilting mechanism, be it 4x tilting mechanisms.
Fortunately, my threat model does not include people cutting off my fingers. Take out the pliers and you can have my phone. My notes are private, but not that private.
“How old is the shepherd?” – The problem that shook school mathematics
Let's Encrypt is pretty easy to set up using lego on just about any HTTP server. I think Caddy uses it as well, at least go get pulls it from github when you attempt to build Caddy from source. Plus it's super easy to cross compile and deploy anywhere since, like Caddy, it's a single statically linked binary.
Sure, and it's great when a balance is struck. Too often, at least in my experience, the smaller chunks get shuffled out of the same file and into a nightmarish Rube Goldberg concoction in "utils" modules, packages and whatnot. I use primarily compiled C-like languages (C, C++ and Rust, specifically). I tend to put chunks of code that might be candidates for factoring out in their own scope block with a comment. Then, if the function really does become "too big" (for the very subjective measure that is), bits can be factored out on an as-needed basis.
Ah, right --- I have heard of native modules, but only in the context of things I shouldn't using. I'll look more closely. Ta!
I also don't get why they're coupled a lot... they're very different once you get past that they're both "functional" (and Elixir really just has HOFs and immutability by default, it's very practical). If it makes you feel better, I only see this coupling online. Most people just use server-rendered pages or regular JavaScript.
That "shoulders of giants" problem sounds awfully like the thinking behind the Unibomber, no?

On why we don't have more Shakespeares alive today- what if we do? Would we revere Shakespeare as much as we do now if there were 9 others who wrote at the same time? In any case, I'm not so sure that Shakespeare would have the job title "English literature professor" either. Maybe they're TV and film script writers that we don't hear about?
EPA was created by Nixon administration, isn't?
If you can't tell he wins
But: it doesn't yet. If we waited to hit "publish" until
everything was here, we might be writing this in 2015.

Ho ho.
It seems like what you're saying in your first paragraph supports the idea that what they're doing is wrong because it's illegal.

But then you do a 180 and say it's wrong because it's immoral.

Obviously, it could be both, but even if the first argument is kind of a "duh" it seems more cogent than going back and forth between those two positions (as many people seem to do in the thread).
> Oh, this trick, I see - for one, I would say it's insulting to other successful ethnicities, say the Chinese, to suggest that the only people that are, and have for a very long time been successful are the Jews and for the Anti-Semitism comment, I see that you constructed your own narrative to reach your own conclusions, but be aware that such comments only undermine actual cases of anti-semitism.

How do you expect me to have a discussion with you when all you are doing is trying to twist my words? We were discussing if there's a connection between Anti-Semitism and Socialism so I commented on that. (in fact, you were the one who argued that the Nazis were no Socialists because they hated Jews)

Now you turn around and tell me that I do not give due credit to other ethnicities that are successful too.

Sorry, but I don't feel that you are actually trying to reason here. You just put out statements like "they must have stolen the money and you know it" and Socialism actually celebrates and encourages success. Yeah, with enormous tax rates up to 90% or nationalising private propert (= stealing private property)
But Republican politicians around the US have been introducing bills limiting who can use what bathroom, so the larger problem is the GOP as a whole doesn't know what it even believes. Thiel's and Trump's social ideals vary vastly from the rest of the party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathroom_bill
I just helped a relatively junior developer—sharp but with no real functional programming experience—get started with Elm for a small internal tool. He got something up and running almost entirely. I think I spent around ~1.5 hours helping him get things set up and understand the basics.

Personally, I'm actually not the biggest fan of the design philosophy behind Elm, but I do have to admit it's easy to learn with some great introductory learning materials. Getting somebody motivated up to speed on maintaining Elm is not an issue.

For what it's worth, I think the same is true of Haskell-style languages in general: with a bit of guidance, it's not hard to make new programmers productive. That's the experience IMVU[1] had when switching several internal projects to Haskell from PHP, if you want a case study. I met the lead engineer who wrote that post once and he explained that it actually took about as long to train an incoming developer (with no FP experience) in Haskell as it did to train incoming PHP developers on IMVU's in-house PHP "flavor" (frameworks, code organization... etc).

Picking up Haskell or Elm is a bit difficult by yourself for a few reasons: there's no clear path on what to learn, the learning materials are a bit hit-or-miss and there's a lot of incidental complexity. However, if you provide a bit of guidance (ie curate libraries) and help overcome some of the incidental complexity (ie install the compiler and tools) it's surprisingly accessible.

[1]: https://engineering.imvu.com/2014/03/24/what-its-like-to-use... (see "Training" section especially)
If they want to translate some input to sensible output they would be better off using a translation model that has two LSTMs and a ton of data. See: https://github.com/harvardnlp/seq2seq-attn

They are also not giving credit for the graphic they are using: http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Understanding-LSTMs/
I quoted it from Wikipedia. The problem is the last line. There is no known simple formula to identify prime numbers.

Could you provide more clarification on what's wrong?
https://github.com/namhyung/uftrace
Hold fire, it just happened on an unrelated site. I had updated Debian Testing this morning and it turns out a couple other things are hinky, so it's likely not to be your fault.
Dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12712713
Hey Jason, congrats on the success.

I know that blogs are looking for the submissions but aren't they also trying to charge for featuring artists?

I mean, if I have a music blog I would charge artists to publish their work and so on.

If it is not a thing among music bloggers, I can understand that.
The foundations of this argument are so rickety that my heart is racing just seeing you perched up on it. Come down, before you hurt yourself!

Graham isn't Thiel's employer. Neither is Altman. Thiel is a business partner of Altman's, and to a lesser extent (Graham's involvement with YC being at present attenuated) to Graham.

Meanwhile, Paul Graham is literally the dean of the movement to recognize tech-style startups as singular among modes of human endeavor. To my chagrin, he's managed to redefine a mainstream business term ("startup") through sheer force of will. And among the things that make his "startups" unique, so important that it got a callout in Graham's most famous essay about them, is that affiliation with partners and founders isn't subject to discrimination law.

I refuse to accept that Paul Graham simultaneously believes that it's right to refuse to start a company with a mother of small children, but wrong to refuse to maintain a partnership with someone who campaigns stridently for intolerance --- worse, someone who donates sum so large it makes the front page of CNN to the campaign for intolerance even as that campaign rallies to attack the vote itself.

A core understanding of justice and equal citizenship exists, even between libertarians and supports of teachers unions. We should be able to agree on these principles even if we agree on nothing else. By campaigning for intolerance, giving speeches in favor of intolerance, and funding intolerance, Thiel places himself outside that understanding. Our disagreements aren't merely political, but about the urgency of preserving equal citizenship.

Paul Graham knows this. He has obligated himself, in his own words, to oppose Trump. Were Trump to win, Graham says, he'd "join the resistance". We cross no lines of civility or fairness by pointing out what it takes for Graham to live up to his own words.

Justice does not require that Paul Graham stand idly by while Thiel works to destroy the society that makes Graham's life's work possible.
There are two definitions, the verb and the noun.
What School Lunch Looked Like Each Decade for the Past Century
So what you meant to say was with your current situation it is useless to you.
I'm intrigued, are you able to say what kind of product did you work on?

Who's doing these kind of products? I've done some things with the PX4 and I love it, the guys doing it are super smart. I've worked on some indoors navigation stuff but I wasn't very experienced at the time and the project turned into a mess.
I think I rememeber that napster and various other file sharing services held quite a lot of the long tail but I might be wrong (never a heavy user).

IIRC the problem was more that there was an awful lot of malware + the RIAA and MAFIAA.
It's almost like creating a successful business is something that takes a few years of focused effort as opposed to something you can do on the side.
I like it! Comes with a built-in eternal holy war over whether 0x16 goes top left or bottom left.
As another immigrant to this country, I agree with idlewords. Trump is not a regular candidate but someone who has openly argued for bigotry, war crimes, violence against journalists and other groups as well as jailing opponents.

He's not out to make some policy changes; he's openly arguing for throwing out the regime of this country. Now, I don't think he'd be able to do that but at best, he's so callous and lacking of judgement that he'd be utterly manipulated by people, inside and outside US, to do so.

Trump and Hillary are not on any sort of comparable level; Trump is utterly out of what's acceptable political behavior.

And I haven't even come to his personality; which I would argue in a civilized society would be enough to distance yourself with.

So Thiel's actions must be considered in this regard. He's not some poor, misinformed person. He's not someone who is so ravaged by the economy that he's judgement compromised. He should not be prone to demagogues putting the blame on immigrants.

The only explanation I can come up with is that he's arguing for Trump because he's arguing the current political system must be fully debased and must be replaced with something else. That could be an argument but if you are supporting Trump, the only thing that can replace it with is a form of authoritarianism tinged with racism, bigotry and outright hatred.

It's just disingenuous for me to see PG, who while I rarely agree with his views on most things outside of tech, ignore this. He's said that Thiel's actions are a blind spot and it would be a slippery slope to "punish" Thiel for his political stance.

Firstly; calling this a "blind spot" is being naive at best; misleading at worst. Thiel has contributed millions, spoke at a keynote. And he's obviously smart and thoughtful. This is not just some guy being tricked.

And no one is calling for a punishment. YC, by way of taking Thiel's money, is now supporting financially (I assume Thiel invested in YC to make money), this person. This isn't firing someone, which is a different kind of relationship where you involve someone's livelihood.

What idlewords (and others like me) are asking for is just a statement of disapproval of Thiel's actions. Just like Zuckerberg did when Marc A. spoke about the wonders of colonization for Indians (and even then he had the decency of apologizing for his callousness) or when Musk withdrew from FWD.US when he realized there were fossil fuel companies on board as well.

This isn't hard.
Sure can.

What IPFS does, is looks at network topology to determine 'closeness' of nearby IPFS nodes. It then prefers 'closer' nodes, to speed up transactions and requests.

For example, if we take Gangnam Style video, it spread to something like 100M views rapidly. With Youtube, that's 100M individual downloads. With IPFS, it would be 1 or 2 downloads per local network. And then those machines would provide the local network with the content, rather than hitting the 'net at large.

The only good way to do this, is to include all the adapters in the DHT to where all machines are. It also allows IPFS to seamlessly work across NATs and other junky applications of IPv4 (and egads, already seeing ipv6 nat).
In a sense - yes, that is why they weren't reporting.