skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a lot of "special" or "famous" matrices listed here

https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/v4.0.1/Famous-Matric...

it is not so easy to find whether a numpy equivalent exists, and in which module. Usually the first page of google results is not very helpful.
That is an option. I'll have to see what features I'm taking advantage of and if they will be compatible with an older version of .NET
"It doesn't make any sense to let a few people control the machinery."

But that's where it's going, it's a positive feedback process. The L shaped wealth curve. Are you advocating a different system of laws, not based on private property and business?
I have to note that this American election opened my eyes to actually witness how liars all these media companies, google search results, twitter stories, facebook posts actually are. Very hard to believe anymore on these companies. I would like to use services from real people to people and see real freedom of speech!
> I think I'm missing something pretty basic here

I'm referring to something like Powersploit https://github.com/PowerShellMafia/PowerSploit/

Which is a post exploitation tool. Assuming you have a payload in Windows ready to execute, one typically wants to leverage tools already in Windows itself, like Powershell, which can make rootkits and other payloads have a lot less footprint, and make them difficult to spot using heuristics. Most crap payloads are actually easy to spot because their payload is massive.

Essentially my point is that you don't want to make it easy for attackers. For context, one would not want Powershell installed on 1000 Windows 10 installations.

I happen to get paid good money for deploying Win10 kiosks in different offices in my area and Powershell is one of many tools I routinely remove from Windows to decrease the attack surface in Win
Like "The Wizard of Oz" and "The Dark Side of the Moon"?
There's not a huge gap between understanding types and monads and stuff like that and being able to write useful code. You just have to try things so you can learn the ecosystem and the idioms people use. I found multiple times learning Haskell that I'd re-invented a concept someone else had already turned into a popular library.

Building a website is a good place to start. Haskell has several very good web frameworks. "Very good" means fast, correct, and well-designed. I don't recommend Snap for beginners; it uses too many strange idioms that aren't used elsewhere in Haskell.

I personally use Happstack because it's very straightforward; it just gives you a monad in which you can do "web stuff" like inspect the URL, read cookies, send back HTTP responses, etc. You can start doing everything the "manual" way, like passing around state in arguments or doing janky text formatting yourself. As you get fed up with that, you can gradually integrate things like monad transformers, custom monads with typeclass derivation, various high-performance formatting libs like blaze, aeson, heist, etc. If you do database stuff you can learn about weird template Haskell and typeclass stuff with Persistent and Esqueleto.
Or there could be a standardized notation for expressing functions and the concept of mapping can be derived from taking a function and applying it to a set of elements.

Function and Map are different concepts that should not be described together.

In CS I'd just say

B = map(some_function, A)

B is the Mapping of `some_function` over the elements in A.
This. Some of my clients are on one of the spectrum with lots of PaaS offering in use especially features such as queues. Others prefer to be agnostic and won't use any specific features. I guess it depends on what you want and how comfortable you are administering Rabbit etc.
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Well, if you wanted to find examples of misinformation that needs to be corrected, you've certainly succeeded, since several of these press releases make the mistaken syllogism "Margaret Hamilton led the software team" & "the software team developed the software" -> "Margaret Hamilton led the development of the software". But this is false because of the timing - Hamilton did not lead the team while the team was developing the software.

And the statement from the last link:

"At the start of the Apollo program, the onboard flight software needed to land on the moon didn’t exist. Computer science wasn’t in any college curriculum. NASA turned to mathematician Margaret Hamilton, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to pioneer and direct the effort."

... is just jaw-dropping in how false it is. That simply didn't happen. NASA couldn't have possibly been aware of Margaret Hamilton at the time they decided to rely on MIT for Apollo guidance; she didn't join the project until several years later, and in a small role.
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Iteration in one language, then all the others
Miyazaki movies are overwhelming: beauty, imagination, and very inspiring. Love it.
Even when the comparison is with a web-hosting provider such as GoDaddy or Digital Ocean? I want to host a few custom developed web apps on a VPS and I'm confused between AWS and DO/GoDaddy. Which one would you suggest?
Tractors -> Tanks (see Christie selling M1931s to the Soviets after the US military passed on them, shipped as the less suspicious "agricultural farm tractors")

So not inconceivable to turn them back into tractors. In fact, if you shed a lot of the armor, you'd probably have a pretty decently performing vehicle, especially for the price.
Then it's a failure of the website in their inability to deliver the message in a format acceptable to the audience. "people are stupid" is a ridiculous cop-out for their inability to understand basic human psychology. People are not stupid, this site is competing with literally thousands of websites doing the same thing. I have no words for sheer arrogance of calling people stupid when they don't read this shitty website, we get our daily moral chiding from nytimes, we don't need more of that.
Of course you are correct. However, we don't need to make those incidents more frequent than then already are.
The problem is that we have no real journalism anymore. Most journalists now are keyboard warriors that just take hearsay and rumors they heard on Twitter and create a story out of it. If they don't do it, someone else will and it takes too much time to actually investigate it properly.

With the viral nature of social media, false stories become fact really quickly.

I feel like Stephen Glass (the journalist that faked all of those news stories in the 90s while working for the New Republic) wouldn't even get fired if it happened now.

I'm all for the freedom of the press, but there needs to be consequences for completely false stories that could actually hurt someone's livelihood.
IIRC I think I have seen some people here argue it is because they have close to no customer support.

From Amazon however I have even heard about them forgive bills where the customer was really to blame.

All this is hearsay though and I don't think Amazon does this out of the goodness of Jeffs heart but as long as enough people think this is how it works it might be part of why people will use AWS even if it is more expensive.
If anyone's lazy, I highly suggest at least reading parts 9 and 10. One of the interesting takeaways here is that Q * -thrust is 2 orders of magnitude stronger than Photon-thrusters, and about 1-2 orders of magnitude lower than Ion-thrusters.

* A Q-thruster is a thruster which pushes off of the zero point fluctuations in vacuum, which is still not understood.
Amazon has a very broad offering of great fully managed services, but Google's no slouch. In fact, many of Google's offerings can be very compelling - BigQuery, Bigtable, CloudML, PubSub, GKE to name a few.

Just in the "only instances" space you mention Google has a different strategy. A couple things to mention:

- Google doesn't have a broad spectrum of instance types. No storage-optimized or networking optimized. Instead, any instance can just get great storage attached to it, and any instance gets best-in-class networking.

- Google's Preemptible VMs are like Spot instances but fixed 75-80% off. Again, with less fragmentation against instance types + fixed cost, much easier to rely on Preemptible VMs imo.

- Google's Load Balancer is global, scalable, anycast IP driven, and backed by Google Network. If your packets originate in, say, New Zealand, they'll be talking to a "GCLB instance in our pop in Sydney", which will carry packets on Google's backbone to the VMs.

- Custom VM sizes - you can set your own VM/RAM combination for instances.

- Live Migration. Google manages instance health and maintenance for you, without forcing restarts.

(Work at Google but not on GCE.. and I don't get paid to post here)
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Your latter point is not really a point at all. There is vendor lock in at every corner with AWS. The big 3 all do this.

In my view, there's really only two things that can reduce cost enough to make a difference: 1. Reducing energy consumption, 2. Reducing drive / component failure.

I believe Google may be better at both of those than Amazon.
Coming soon to an America near you.

* 'Extreme surveillance' becomes UK law with barely a whimper || https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/19/extreme-survei...
Do you assume that the car, after recognizing that human intervention is required, continues to move forward into the path of danger while it waits for the human to take over?
While most will still use AWS, it is great that there are alternatives and competition. A lot of good points raised here about Amazon as ecosystem.
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No. The biggest hit is not the JIT.
Octave has less support for SIMD operations whereas Matlab uses Intel's propriority Math Kernel Library.
You will realize that Octave gets significantly slower in matrix and vectorized operations, where JIT doesn't help much
I've come to look forward to these articles a great deal each week.

For those of you who haven't been to Jimmy's site before, definitely check out the Hall of Fame and Table of Contents sections -- he's written nearly 5 years worth of nearly weekly long-form articles on computer and video game history, often with links to actual emulators to try out old software, and flush with references to source material.

Really an amazing resource.

(and edit: I have no connection to him or to the site)
That sucks!

Was aware they could do this but totally BS!
> Does my question look like I was asking for a counter-example, no matter how horrible or remote? If that's the goal then I have an even better answer "Sadism would keep a farm owner from using technology to do farming"

The point was to show the lengths of insanity humanity can endure just to protect itself from automation, thus, answering your questions. Cuban food importing is due to it's economic distribution to allowing populations to grow well beyond what that island can naturally sustain. If anything, that's actually a sign of it's economic effectiveness to bypass resource shortages.

> Was the industrial revolution so unique and clever that something similar will never ever be repeated?

Yes. The mathematical formulations that powered that revolution are now known by the whole of humanity. Barring an apocalyptic calamity, the discovery of statistics that allowed for mastery of nature through chemistry and atomic theory and mastery of mankind through economics will never be repeated because our entire system has been designed to maximize the gains from that mathematical discovery. The next mathematical revolution, which I suspect will be Bayesian inference, will reveal new things about nature and human behavior, and our economic engines will tilt to maximize those discoveries.

> "response time are too slow" and even if not, back to "social protectionism".

Again, all of your questions were trying to draw absurd conclusions that somehow, only through technological prowess can every single problem of AI be resolved. I'm here to remind you that William Lee, and Cuba, and China, and Venezuela, and political protectionism are real reoccurring things that can completely crush any "technology always wins because Silicon Valley" hope you have.

That protectionism is what "refusing to address the labor shortage problem with our established institutions" actually looks like.
Antibodies are secreted extracellularly so they won't be any use unless the HIV antigens are expressing on the outside of the cell. There are defense mechanisms for dealing with intracellular viruses but these do not involve antibodies.
I use bookmark keywords to get access to a cluster or folder of bookmarks instead of mousing. Also not interested in making 9000 bookmarks to reproduce bang functionality: https://duckduckgo.com/bang

Plus you still have to type "bookmark" <wait> "search"
No kidding; I remember the first time I found a C compiler for under $100; I felt like I hit the jackpot.
> Not my area of expertise but even if we can address 99% of strains, wouldn't that last 1% just take over and become the new 100% leaving us back where we started?

Not my area of expertise either, but as I understand it, it really depends on how many strains you are infected with. If it's just one, it'd reduce the infections in the next generation of patients by 99%. If the average patient had 10 strains, randomly distributed, it'd still reduce the infection rate by 90% (because there's a 10% chance of having that one resistant strain).

Only if all HIV patience had all strains (and I'm pretty sure that's not the case) would it bring us back to where we started.
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It's simpler, much simpler, in this context. It's not simpler when you scale up the implementation being used. After you scale it up it stops being simpler and starts being `clever`.

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." − Brian W. Kernighan
On top of that, mice are nocturnal creatures, so they do not ordinarily experience the same constant barrage of visual stimuli that humans do.
I don't like the idea of being mandated to wear a specific uniform. But I do love wearing a uniform of my choice: medium black T-shirt with 569 Levi's jeans. The only time I have to think about what to wear is when I'm going somewhere fancy.
Our support folks can comment here, but I would disagree with that point. Our support org is massive, there are varying tiers levels of Support SCE/CRE/SRE/SWE-level of support, all the way up to [0].

I'll also comment that Google's Eng/PM org is very engaged. It's not unusual for an engineer in charge of a service to help resolve a customer an issue.

[0] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/10/introducing-a-n...

(work on Google Cloud but do not get paid to post here)
> There is no Constitutional right for gays to marry.

There is no Constitutional right for anyone to marry. Full stop.

There is a Constitutional right for equal protection under the law.
What resources or books you would like to recommend for data analysis?
MATLAB was kind of my "first love" as an undergrad in biotech engineering, for simulating biochemical network in a course.

I have since drifted away towards python, and lately Go, but MATLAB/Octave always has a directness that I think few languages since have managed to achieve, and I realize now that it helped lure me out of web-lab, into into coding and bioinformatics-land.
we do have math typesetting you know... With a standard programming language for typesetting handled by all major browsers. Just head over to Mathoverflow and see it in action
Being able to easily install packages from your offline cache is a really great feature because work doesn't always happen where / when you have a reliable internet connection.

I think Yarn is more fragmentation we don't need in the JS community, but this post actually makes a very strong case for using it.
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Well, not sure where you read I drive close to anyone. What I'm trying to say is that erratic drivers are dangerous because you learn to predict what a normal driver would do in a typical situation (e.g. jogger too close to the lane => slow down to a safe speed and navigate towards the center).

If a self driving car doesn't reproduce the most common driving style the other drivers should be extra careful around it, some kind of mark on the outside could help.
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> But computer scientists, at least ones with a certain kind of systems background, have put a lot of work into designing abstract logical structures for human beings to use. They've learned a lot of rules about how to do this well.

You say this like mathematicians haven't been doing this for thousands of years.
I'm guessing that you were downvoted because your post doesn't make very much sense.
"The numbers given in this article do not account for any AWS reservation."

While I agree that Google's pricing model is superior, the author's position on reserved instances accounts for ~40% of the cost difference.

In a drag race between instances AWS tends to lose. If you value the enormous feature and service surface-area that AWS provides it's a different story. Either way we win; both companies will engage in a brutal price and feature war for many years to come.
Snopes has always been a fact-checking website. They apply the same basic methods to every claim they assess.

Two guys in their bedroom can be completely impartial; a major news organisation can be completely biased. The owner of Snopes is a registered independent.

http://www.factcheck.org/2009/04/snopescom/

The article you linked to is, at best, utterly misleading. The specific claim being assessed by Snopes was "American flags were banned from display at the 2016 Democratic National Convention", which was rightly determined to be false. In response to an article by The Daily Caller, Snopes pointed out that both the RNC and DNC used digital backdrops; these backdrops were used to display American flags, amongst other graphics. Fox News complained of a lack of American flags on display, but later issued a correction.

http://www.snopes.com/flags-banned-at-dnc/

The original article we are discussing levels equal criticism at liberal and conservative news sources.
> Roe vs Wade was also a Judicial ruling, and yet that appears under threat.

Roe v. Wade was decided by a conservative Supreme Court with three Nixon appointees (two of which voted for it). The right was reaffirmed during another conservative Supreme Court in Casey.

I don't think the votes are there to overturn Roe. Even if Trump manages to nominate Justices to replace both Scalia and RBG, I don't see Roberts voting to overturn it. He said during his confirmation hearing it's settled precedent. Alito kinda reluctantly said the same thing: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11....
Possibly dumb question, how is this different/related to the Apple-provided BNNS library ("Basic neural networks subroutines")? https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016-715/?time=1...
#11 "The Alt Right understands that diversity + proximity = war."

It means if you put enough people of different identities in close proximity, the inevitable result is "war". Maybe not Yugoslavia type war, but warfare of one type or another, including "simple" economic warfare, which was one of the causes of The War Between the States, and had been a frequent problem for the young Republic prior to that, but it also happens on very small scales, see for example the various non-native merchant classes in so many countries, and that doesn't require large numbers on both sides.

There's a social scientist who's research said much the same thing, who published his data early but otherwise sat on his results for more than a decade, Robert Putnam. As Wikipedia puts it, "His conclusion based on over 40 cases and 30,000 people within the United States is that, other things being equal, more diversity in a community is associated with less trust both between and within ethnic groups." (emphasis in original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Putnam#Diversity_and...).
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Check out this short tutorial on mechanics with calculus that I've written. It would make a good first introduction to physics[1]. There is another one for linear algebra[2].

In general I think programmers shouldn't fear the math and physics: yes it's hard to understand at first, but you can pick up things pretty fast. The ratio of "knowledge buzz" to effort is very good when you're learning physics. A symbolic computer algebra system like SymPy can be very helpful for "playing" with math expressions—here is a third tutorial on that[3].

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[1] https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/mech_in_7_pages.p...

[2] https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/linear_algebra_in...

[3] https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/sympy_tutorial.pd...
Ghost in the Shell. It was the original inspiration for The Matrix.
And this comment adds nothing to the conversation except as an example over-zealous wannabe moderation. No one's injecting anything, it was a literary tool called a metaphor. Personally, I thought it a clever parallel.
I'd suspect that AWS has a pretty healthy margin on their instances, and Google might be willing to accept a much lower margin to gain marketshare.
And before that Spirited Away, and before that Princess Mononoke, and before that...
Miyazaki retiring has become kind of a meme in anime communities over the past decade or so.
I completely agree, but the question remains what experience do we provide when JavaScript is not available? (Progressive enhancement isn't just for "people who turn off JavaScript", it's an defensive approach to providing inclusive, universal solutions on the web. Something I feel is lacking in the modern, front-end developer's worldview.)
Sometimes I’m not even sure how I developed Haskell pre-GHC-7.8.1 (when typed holes were introduced).
But if you will try to discuss pilot-wave and walking droplets here (they are mentioned in part 10), you will receive lot of downvotes here.

Quote:

Although the idea of a pilot wave or realist interpretation of quantum mechanics is not the dominant view of physics today (which favors the Copenhagen interpretation), it has seen a strong resurgence of interest over the last decade based on some experimental work pioneered by Couder and Fort [13]. Couder and Fort discovered that bouncing a millimeter-sized droplet on a vibrating shallow fluid bath at just the right resonance frequency created a scenario where the bouncing droplet created a wave pattern on the shallow bath that also seemed to guide the droplet along its way. To Couder and Fort, this seemed very similar to the pilot-wave concept just discussed and, in subsequent testing by Couder and others, this macroscopic classical system was able to exhibit characteristics thought to be restricted to the quantum realm. To date, this hydrodynamic pilot-wave analog system has been able to duplicate the double slit experiment findings, tunneling, quantized orbits, and numerous other quantum phenomena. Bush put together two thorough review papers chronicling the experimental work being done in this domain by numerous universities [14,15].