skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Okay you did reboot-retry on that file server that wasn't responding and everything was fine five minutes later, but a lot of knowledge went into pressing that reboot button and, as far as manager types are concerned, you saved the day.

You likely understood the consequences of your action too (and if not, you just learned! :P )
When I graduate from college I'm going to glob all of the code I've ever written for side projects and all of the code I've done for homeworks together and print it out via this service.

Should make for a very nice piece of paper that I'll put next to my other piece of paper (my degree). I'm pretty sure I'll be more proud of this then I will of my degree.
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> I never got that. Isn't driving supposed to be the only thing you're doing while driving?

Kind of. There are different studies showing various kinds of impact. For example: http://content.iospress.com/articles/occupational-ergonomics... "Music seems to alleviate driver stress and mild aggression while at times facilitating performance. However, during other conditions of music, driving performance is impaired."

My own experience is that without music or a podcast in the background I get tired much more quickly. (as in, can do 3h drive without getting exhausted -vs- 1-2h) Because if only thing you have is the engine noise and road ahead, that's the only thing you can focus on, and things really don't change that often. (if your mind doesn't start to wonder / phase out in those conditions - great; mine does) It also helps in the evening a lot. If the whole world is just a cone of light 50m ahead, my mind starts to wonder, or just get sleepy really quickly. Having something unrelated that keeps you mildly interested, but not taking attention seems like a good solution.
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The iPod Classic didn't have buttons to skip songs...you used the sides of the click wheel (which, from a tactile standpoint, was better than buttons).

BTW, there are Bluetooth remotes available for the iPhone.
Yes. It's just noise. But I guess it's hard to write a story about how nothing has changed in decades.
fwiw, I was describing in layperson's terms what is going on in the brain, in response to which, you are being too reductive. It's like you're telling a chemist to stop talking about what we know about chemistry because it's all quantum mechanics, or a chemist telling a biologist that it's all chemistry. Well, sure it is, but I only post when I have something to add to the conversation. The average person is unaware of how much in the brain is unconscious thought, and the average person believes that emotions are separate from thoughts. I think my presentation was perfect and succinct to achieve that goal, and I contributed to a greater understanding.

I hope you don't imagine that consciousness in the human brain would be possible without integrating all of the unconscious thoughts and emotion-thoughts taking place under the hood. I'm certain that you are not aware that it was your emotions driving you to reply to me, and not logic.

And building a computational brain neuron by neuron? sure, as long as you throw in 20 years of cyborg childhood too... let us know how you're coming with that.
You might love it, but the rest of us really don't.
Sweden went something like ICQ/IRC -> MSN -> Skype Chat -> WhatsApp.

I think AIM was only ever popular in the US (America On Line after all).

The interesting period was when IRC was still popular even among non-techies. The girls in school would sit on the PCs in mIRC.
A version 2.0 is a feat these days. Reaching 50.0 is amazing.
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FWIW, http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/nov/24/...

Trump's statements are usually non-specific and often contradictory. He's made denials that go far beyond straining credulity.

Basically, I think it's fair to say that people aren't fabricating stories so much as grasping at straws. Much like his supporters.

The only real way to understand Trump is as a textbook case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Or maybe some surreal parody of NPD. Once you understand that his primary and in many cases sole motivation is self-aggrandizement and attention seeking[1], everything he says makes so much sense. Or rather, you stop searching for the earnest, substantive policies and opinions. He's alot like an adolescent in that regard--his opinions are based on an immature and highly self-referential worldview. Sometimes his points and counter-points seem well-grounded until you realize that he's literally parroting an argument he's read or heard elsewhere, without any serious attempt at critical assessment or application. The fact that they're all over the board (as opposed to consistently preferring a particular narrative) is only more evidence of this methodology. Again, it's basically the methodology of an adolescent.

You cannot identify anything concrete about Trump's policies, and you cannot predict what Trump will do, without understanding that. And once you do, you realize that you _still_ cannot identify or predict anything. You can't even predict whether he'll be a devastating president, become more popular than the second-coming of Christ, or fit somewhere in-between. I mean, by most definitions he's successful. That means something... I'm just not sure what.

The only thing you can say for certain is that people acting intelligently and honestly would never vote such a man into the Presidency. That he's President-elect is a devastating testament to a deep pathology in American politics and culture.

[1] I don't even mean to use those terms derisively. They just seem so apt and obvious and beyond dispute. And I'm not using them to imply he's good or bad or right or wrong. The only way to come close to understanding the man and his behavior is with an almost clinical detachment. A Trump presidency is like a natural, cosmic phenomenon. Even the word cataclysmic doesn't work because it implies some subjective value judgment. His eventual policy decisions can and will be judged. But the man himself and his words... there's nothing you can really say. Just like there's nothing you can really say when a small child surprises you with some facially sophisticated argument that he's just echoing. The statement and the thought process behind them are basically immune from meaningful criticism. Put another way, in some sense both the child and Trump lack capacity for the same kind or degree of culpability of a typical adult. Yes, normally selfishness is frowned upon; but if it's the product of an abnormal mind, there's no value judgment to be made.
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Given some nasty comments about this here before, I just want to say I really appreciate these kinds of transparent postmortems. Credit to the cockroach folks for putting themselves out there in a way many would not.
Sorry, you're right.
As a cyclist in SF, Uber/Lyft drivers are the most dangerous thing going. They're driving by staring at their phone's map for directions and pickup/dropoff. Once they stop, they stare at their phone for the next ride. Very little situational awareness.

It'd be nice if there was some sort of way for them to indicate they drive erratically. Perhaps by painting their cars all yellow or something...
Amazing that we can send our soldiers, equipment, and supplies half way around the world to build structures but it takes an act of congress to fix our dilapidated infrastructure at home.
What I did (but I'll admit this is not an option in many cases) is to move my workstation into a rack in the basement, with 20m DisplayPort cables connecting the monitors and a 20m usb3 extender cable hooking up a usb hub on the desk for keyboard, mouse, usb storage etc.

Let the computer be loud there - noise has become a non-issue when selecting parts. It has a gtx1070 GPU which gets quite noisy under load (gpgpu processing). All 'workstations' I had in the past, like from Dell, got quite load under load, and had (baseline) loud power supplies as well.

I do need access to the power button more often than I thought, so I'll have to wire the front panel power button to a button on my desk.
I read the article just fine. It's mentioned in a byline at the bottom of the article.
There is nothing simple in building or testing a system like this. How exactly would DI help you test multi-node system?
I have no clue about the reliability of OVH, but I would definitely not say AWS is short on failures. At a scale of ~2000 instances, it's really not uncommon to encounter a bunch of AWS instance failures every week. Multiple times per year we see a massive failure that affects a large number of servers. The saving grace with AWS is that usually the problems are limited to a single availability zone so as long as you're redundant across multiple availability zones you can survive.
In all fairness, the 65-70 mph posted on most rural interstates is usually an uneventfully featureless speed, on uneventful, featureless roads. Meanwhile the urban grandfathered interstates are like NASCAR with a concrete wall to one side, and ruthless traffic inches to your side. And even sometimes on a suburban parkway signed for 45, with four lanes going the same way, you fear for your life as SUVs heading home from work weave around you to get two cars ahead.

There is a wide variance in driving difficulty throughout the day, even on the same stretch of road, and varying with the amount and nature of traffic, the sun in your eyes, wind, the weather. And as you say, driver assist and safety systems like widespread adaptive cruise control, electronic stability control, blind spot warning, emergency brake assist, and curtain airbags encourage a style of driving that's 'not truly defensive' at best, oblivious at worst. Because why not go the speed limit if cars are so safe and they've got your back?

This isn't misplaced nostalgia for the days when driving was more dangerous, but I do believe as cars get safer, situational awareness worsens and riskier behaviors are less likely to result in serious accidents -- so some drivers continue to take more risks.
my point was not about where emotions or thoughts or logic comes from, nor do I think that's particularly relevant to the "My subconscious is a better developer" idea. My point was that conscious thoughts are (1) the result of many unconscious thoughts and (2) driven/influenced much more by emotion than people realize. To add that underlying it is neurology is like saying underlying that is chemistry and quantum mechanics. In this context, so what?
I used to have those kinds of hundreds of tabs in multiple windows until I found Onetab: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/onetab/

Still using Tree style tabs for their sub tabs feature which helps keeping things organised for me.
I don't know why this is bothering me...

But does anyone know why the title wasn't: "largest spike in..." As opposed to "biggest spike in..."?
I think the lack of network likely comes into play. When you look at service jobs, you will see some are dominated by an ethnic group or more likely nationality. SFO, Philippino; Nanny, Hispanic, Parking attendant? Barista? etc. Trying to break through those barriers is not going to be easy, specially when there is a pipeline established by the dominant group.
From where I sat, they lost long before the mobile revolution - people were already annoyed by the bloated ICQ client full of stupid games and ads, and then Microsoft killed them by bundling MSN with Windows (and then MSN Messenger bloated up and added ads...)

This was so long ago I remember running a ICQ J2ME app on a 2G GSM phone
I use 20m active DisplayPort cables to have my workstation rack-mounted in the basement. I love it.
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How Gramophones Helped Fight Crime in 1940s Britain
Slavs don't smile?
heh - that's awesome :)
it's correct that we have "only" trained it on a couple of hundreds of classes, so it will only guess from that dataset.
Why would you use spanner inspired system for medium size business with low query volume :)?
> The problem with F/OSS in the DoD is supportability. If the software is fielded, there has to be someone (person or company) that's on stand-by that is available to support the product.

So, hire someone? This is basically what RedHat does. F/OSS doesn't mean you can't pay people to support it.
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That is not remotely accurate
This is an excellent read. I highly recommend to other HNers here.
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"They're out to get me" mentality is definitely a thing for some people from ex-USSR, and so is a complaint about "locals hate us" - I've witnessed it in several countries. Not all people, far from it, but males middle-age, not finding the best employment and not culturally integrated - definitely happens.

OTOH, I have a very skewed sample - I've met much more people from ex-USSR than from any other place, so such complaints very well may be a common human thing but because I've met more ex-USSR people I've seen it more among them.

Complaining about the government in general is definitely a thing everywhere I've been so far :) Haven't been to North Korea though.
I did basically the same thing a couple of years ago.

https://cdn.rawgit.com/hansihe/CanvasEvolve/master/index.htm...
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Traditionally with nation state opponents urban warfare is either a siege or blowing up everything in sight.

With this lower intensity warfare, the army needs to reduce complexity by scoping their problems.

This isn't new. That Boer war reference left out a few details... the British couldn't defeat mobile cavalry with pack howitzers, so they built fences, pillboxes and watchtowers across the countryside to restrict movement. Then they evacuated towns and villages to concentration camps and starved the non combatants until the soldiers surrendered.

It's a pretty common theme used in the Indian wars and vietnam by Americans, Germans in Angola and Europe, French in Algeria, etc as well.
It happens with pretty much every technology. Socrates said writing would make people dumb because they wouldn't exercise their memory.

http://wondermark.com/socrates-vs-writing/
It's looks. There is no protected class for looks, and it seems nobody gets a feel-good vibe by hiring those who don't look nice.

It's not going to be any better for him in Serbia. The people there are human too.
The data quality in natural "experiments" like ice ages are as dubious as the GCMs, in the sense that you're simplifying very complex systems into single numbers. You'd never take this data set seriously next to the data you could get if you could mount a scratch planet and actually control the inputs.
That Rainier picture is incredible!
The classifier is returning a set of confidence scores, so if the shape you drew probably had a high confidence of both cookie and moon. (in fact if you draw it, and click on it in the endgame screen you can see some details what it saw in the image).
We are not hinting the classifier what your task is, so we try not to bias the classifier.
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Frankly, if he'd stayed in Serbia he'd probably end up homeless even sooner (I'm from Serbia, so take my word for it). He mentions Croatia so I guess that he's one of 200+K Serbian refugees who were forced out of their homes during the wars in 90s, and these poor people who lost everything are permanently caught in a limbo between Serbian and Croatian administration. Serbia is not helping enough, and Croats don't really want them back. So IMHO he was much better off in US in any case. At least for a while he lived a normal life, put his kids through the school and so on... totally don't see the need for pathos with giving up on the citizenship and what not, it makes zero sense to me?!
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Saw this on Bloomberg earlier: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-14/world-s-biggest-real-estate-binge-is-coming-to-a-city-near-you
I love the project. Technologically, this thing is awesome and I want to try it out.

But I haven't because of the name.

I want to raise a totally sideways concern that has no relevance to the project, just so it gets out there. The only problem I'm having is that I, like about 10% of the US Population, have Entomophobia.

The name of the project gives me the heebie-jeebies and keeps me from wanting to work with it because I loath cockroaches. I know it's not relevant technologically, but I really can't imagine doing training on cockroach for example.

Oh. My. God. No.

Anyways, wanted to provide the feedback. Sorry if it's totally weird.
Military thinkers think far out.

I'm sure they have scenarios where an armed sectarian revolt in 2040 Los Angeles-San Diego needs to be suppressed by force. The region is potentially vulnerable and critical for food security.
We have created our own dataset for this experiment based on internal data collection. Its currently a rather small dataset, some categories only have a handful of samples, but works anyway. Jonas (developer behind quickdraw)
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Yea, I got to that step and closed out. I need to set aside some time this weekend and think about what to write.
I never thought of this as a welcome mat, bur rather an overly aggressive gatekeeper or ticket taker trying to bully me.

I don't even get a chance to see the site before they demand I sign up for eternal spam.
From what I've heard, social smiling is unknown in the Slavic world; you only smile when genuinely happy. I can't say I would object...
Consider how depressed developer salary is in Japan, I'm surprised how well Stackover pays... I'm guessing their Japanese office is tiny.
They suffer no consequences at all.

For example[0]: "The measure that's sure to evoke the most debate — and which has already done so — is his plan to extend the use of background checks to cover more sales at gun shows. In 2013, after a strong push from the president, the Senate blocked an effort to expand background checks at gun shows."

In fact, existing Federal laws for gun shows are exactly the same as for retail stores. What the claim attacks is gun shows themselves, as an event and meeting place ("nurseries of sedition and rebellion," as Charles II referred to coffeehouses).

It goes on to seek exactly one legal opinion -- from a prominent gun ownership opponent: "Here's where we are now: A guy who owns a gun store is a dealer and runs a background check. A guy who wants to sell his one rifle to his neighbor isn't a dealer and doesn't have to conduct one." In fact a dealer wouldn't have to do a background check on a rifle anyway, and it's not the individual owner who does a chack anyway when it is necessary (e.g. handgun transfers) -- it's a licensed dealer, accessing the DOJ system.

Later: "Gun shows are the embodiment of that loophole. He imitated a carnival barker. "'Minors! People with felony records! Step right up!'" Again, a flat lie decorated with a deliberately inflammatory example -- laws are the same inside or outside of gun shows.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/05/is...
Until this thread I didn't even know this whole "issue" existed.
I'm not certain, but to do that optimally I think is an np-complete problem. If you put some restrictions on it: all files are the same format or only N fixed formats or context free grammars then it's manageable. Otherwise it boils down to natural language processing and imperfect, but useful algorithms in that domain will probably help.

Are you sure it's context sensitive grammar rather than a collection of N context free grammars? Many file format standards can be expressed as context free grammars.

If you are trying to figure out something like "what is the unknown XML structure" based on an example file or files then you are firmly inside natural language processing.
They certainly do, just on different occasions than Americans. Much less social "how do you do" smiling or smiling out of politeness. If you smile too much in situations that are not considered appropriate, some (especially people not exposed to American ways before) may consider you a light-weight and unserious person. You need to have a proper reason for smiling. A Russian proverb says "the laughter without a cause is a sign of a fool". Same goes with smiling, maybe less drastic.

Of course, it's a huge generalization, as many cultural broad-stroke descriptions are, but that's roughly how it is.
It could be great exposure therapy :)
This is inconsistent with Hausfather's numbers, which you can see at the link above. Net global and US temps are both adjusted lower.

I can't explain the discrepancy. Someone is being clever, that's for sure.
Me too. In 1999.
What experiment proves the hypothesis that climate change is man made?

Unfortunately, science is extremely hard when it comes to climatology. If you are too close to datasets and hypotheses without experiments, you end up with situations like last week's election.
You can select which type of source file(s) to include down the bottom and regenerate.
I tried some Chinese news sites, and more than one paragraph was translated to English perfectly. Very impressive. But my Chinese wife asked me to put in some text from Weibo, China's Twitter clone, and the translations were nearly incomprehensible. She insisted that the samples we chose were not slang but were everyday colloquial Chinese that is easily understood by anyone. My guess is that Google's training set is mainly Chinese news sites, which are a formal type of Chinese that is quite different from spoken Chinese. I wonder if they can scrape Weibo messages to improve their translations.
This should also be discussed in the context of the first combat usage of an Admiral Kuznetsov-class carrier, which Russia began today. After passing through the English Channel, the Admiral Kuznetsov, accompanied by a Russian carrier group comprising most of the Northern Fleet including a nuclear-powered battlecruiser, established station, and began a renewed aerial bombardment on the Syrian city of Aleppo.

Over the next few months, we can expect the dominance of the United States Navy to be increasingly challenged, as the other great powers try to determine the limits of the President-Elect's isolationism.
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This 8ch.net thread also has some good technical analysis: http://8ch.net/tech/res/679042.html

might have nsfw ads watch out
I'm not sure this is all that soon. The first paper using RNNs in an encoder-decoder framework from Hinton et al which blew the top off of phrase-based systems' BLEU scores was back in... 2013? It's been a long time.

And it's been an especially frustrating wait because whenever you mention how deep systems have made huge process on translation, someone will be sure to note that Google Translate produces total gibberish for Japanese-English and in general is pretty bad, and then you had to explain that as far as anyone knows, Google may be publishing papers on how RNNs translate great but that doesn't mean they've rolled them out to the public Google Translate yet, which looks like making excuses. Now we get to see a productized version of the RNNs out in the wild.
Does it warn you if someone sends you a link designed to log your IP address and browser? e.g. one generated on http://grabify.link
Didn't know the added those recently. I knew that had Titan X's and K80s. This is awesome too.

Nice to have a full cloud provider with a lengthy feature set AND P100s though.
Hey Justin, I enjoy reading your emails. Sometimes they're a bit too AppSumo-y but overall (Y). I wrote out a reply to one of your questions the other day but didn't end up sending it. I have a ton of projects that I never really take through to completion for whatever reason. One of the reasons is marketing. I bought a book or two of yours on sale a while ago but haven't gotten to it yet, I'm sure it will be good though. Keep up the good work!