skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's be fair here, K-UX is running Linux, and it's certified by the Open Group.

It's based on Red Hat. It has been officially certified as UNIX by The Open Group.
First of all, let me say that what you all have put together is truly excellent. It covers the sort of things toy treatments and papers leave out or gloss over if you actually want to get something working in the real world.

That said, I strongly disagree with your disagreement. There was a recent paper whose abstract I read that made me think of homotopies between convolutional networks. Unfortunately I lost the paper behind some stream and never got to read it proper. In the context of that, I realized that the search for convnet design will likely soon be highly automatable, obsoleting much of the work that many DLers are doing now.

What will be future proof is understanding information theory so that loss functions become less magical. Information theory is needed to understand what aspects of the current approaches to Reinforcement learning are likely dead ends (typically to do with getting a good exploration strategy, also related to creativity). Concentration of measure is vital to understanding so many properties we find in optimization, dimensionality reduction and learning. Understanding learning stability and ideal properties of a learner/convergence means being comfortable with concepts like Jacobians and semi-positive definiteness for a start.

Probability theory is needed for the newer variational methods, whether in the context of autoencoders or a library like Edward (whose like I think is the future). Functionals and the variational calculus is becoming more important, in both deep learning and for understanding the brain. There's lots of work in game theory of dynamical systems (think evolutionary game theory) that can help contextualize GANs as a special case of a broader category of strategies.

Much to the contrary, the topics I mentioned are both the future of deep learning and future proof in general. This blog post by Ferenc captures my sentiment on the matter: http://www.inference.vc/deep-learning-is-easy/
I don't know anything about it being a slogan, but it's in the Code of Conduct still.

I just started at Google and had to sign it.
Not just the PR hit, it also looks terrible in court.
Card counting is negated by using more decks and not going past 60% or whatever of the shoe. Casinos know about card counting. This is different. They spotted marks on the back of the cards that gave away the value of the cards. If the casino knew about this they would not have used those cards. The judge ruled that both the casino and the player are obligated to play the game by the rules.
Thanks for posting this...I think up until this article was posted, everyone on earth assumed it was perfectly fine for Doctors to work 30 hours straight.

Thank god you posted this.
K-UX is Linux. It is certified. It's based on Red Hat.
I wonder if any of the AWS stuff would help with this. An EC2 instance or something. Sure there would be latency but if the data processing is mostly kept local to the AMI, it might work. But then I don't know your workflow.
Twitter's book burning of conservative accounts was horrific. One of the grossest displays from a tech company that I can remember. I have no idea how employees at Twitter aren't up in arms over it.
> lose money

Yes, that is one of the intended goals.

> not the trackers, but the guy buying advertisement

Targeting the source of funding is often an effective strategy.

> {,malware} ad-network

> trackers

> guy buying advertisement

All of these are responsible, so they are all intended targets.

> I consider it close to harassment

If following a website's href suggestion to load a URL is "harassment", then advertising is also harassment.
I didn't actually realize Peter Cushing was dead until after I saw the film.

For me, it was the movement that felt unnatural. I think I would have been covinced by any single frame, they did a superb job on the modeling, texturing, and lighting. But the way his jaw and lips moved when he talked felt like a video game, not a person.
Good point. Transforming or manipulating a filmed image is a different process from creating one from whole cloth.
Interesting.
I have a theory that most historic shifts are mainly due to some technological advancement or invention, and not mainly due to politics.
For example, Nazi Germany may have been the result of the invention or mass distribution of the radio as a method of influencing a nation. It is known that the Romans conquered Europe due to military strategy and superior iron weapons. The list goes on and on, however, history books tend to focus only on the sociological or political story.
It would be really interesting to learn how you did that.

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/docs/blob/master/das_tutori...

"Despite being designed over 20 years ago, the current Tesseract classifier is incredibly difficult to beat with so-called modern methods. (Without changing features or upping the number of training fonts) Why?"
> I don't know what part of the law it supposedly broke, but it seems like the judge believes that the player in the casino has a legal obligation to be a sucker.

I went and had a go at the New Jersey Casino Control Act and I believe that the judge is saying that Ivey violated 5:12-114(2), which states: "It shall be unlawful for any person playing any licensed gambling game knowingly to use bogus or counterfeit chips or gaming billets, or knowingly to substitute and use in any such game cards or dice that have been marked, loaded or tampered with." (Internal punctuation omitted.)

He's not saying that Ivey had to just blithely take whatever happened; instead, I think the judge is making the argument that Ivey "rigged" the cards to function just like marked cards so they should be treated as such. He's not saying that Ivey committed a crime, just that the game was unlawful under the NJ CCA because the NJ CCA prohibits the use, by either party, of cards that seem to be marked. The law doesn't make a distinction as to who is using the cards or who did the marking, even if the marking is done by the manufacturer.

Link to law (it's a long one but I do not like link shorteners): http://lis.njleg.state.nj.us/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?clientID=5...
Discreete Linux is an isolated offline working environment
I'm thoroughly confused by what you're saying, Ozy. I agree as well that Jesus of Nazareth existed, but the evidence I have examined and gone over and over many times points to a different Jesus than the one you're describing.

Here's a summary of the evidence I'm talking about. Tell me what you think: http://www.josh.org/wp-content/uploads/Evidence-For-The-Resu...
This was an error on their behalf.

http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2016-December/08962...
Why are my fears irrational? Are you saying he can't destroy most of human life on earth with the push of a button? We may disagree on his temperament, but the material fact remains.
Getting ready to build a couple of blogs yet this year to try out a couple of static site generator/CMS platforms: Hugo (Go) and Lektor (Python/Node). Both look quite capable. Likely will host on Netlify, although could be deployed on GitHub, S3, etc...
Because you want to consume what they've produced.

So I'm agreeing to the contract before even seeing the content? I guess you're fine with me having 30 days to return the content under the Consumer Rights Act (UK) if it's not as described and they'll refund me the advertising money they made from me, right?

Particularly, if you say it's a trade of content for attention, then:

For goods and services bought online, your rights are the same as if you'd bought them from a shop.

You can make a claim for a refund, repair or replacement when the digital content you've bought doesn't meet these three standards: [..]

Fit for purpose: You should be able to use it for what the seller says it will do (its purpose), whether that's their statement when you buy it, or an answer to your question. For instance, an audio track should play, and a game shouldn't infect your computer with a virus.

As described: It should match its description when you bought it. For example, a film should be in the format you chose when you bought it.

So an advert from CNN shouldn't infect my computer with malware, and a link which claims I "won't believe" something [2] should leave me in disbelief.

[1] http://www.rica.org.uk/content/consumer-rights

[2] http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/02/world/gallery/astonishing-...

Yeah?
Career in Big data field
This is awesome.

Are there other gems and resources available for accelerating the migration from 4 to 5? Been thinking about doing it for a project for a little while.
> if the internet is out for more than a minute and get Comcast on the phone

I love those people who choose to purchase the bottom-tier internet, and then bitterly complain about how terrible the customer service is. "So open your wallet and get an ISP with good customer service" -> cue look of hate from them.
Actually you can use a cryptographic hash function such as SHA-256 (or MD5, but lets not go there) as the core of a stream cipher. Basically stick a seed (key) combined with a counter as input to the hash functiom. Use the output as the keystream. Stream ciphers such as ChaCha are basically block based PRFs that operates like this.

Of course the performance would be silly compared to dedicated functions. ChaCha20 has less than a third the number of iterations compared to SHA-256. And each iteration is much faster.

Good thread:
http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/48/is-it-feasible-...
I would love to have a percent growth (e.g.: 10% more customers each month is very different than 100 more customers each month)
Purely 'coding' should be learned at vocational school (e.g. technician level), not university (e.g. scientist or engineer level).
Postgres monitoring using interaction analytics
"Apple just makes it annoying to do so" case in point
what do you mean by "browsing amazon"?
> Triggering a non-blocking read and continuing execution requires either writing different code

Well you are asking about doing something non-blocking. That means you must be in some kind of event-loop scenario, otherwise you would be happy with synchronous operations. And yes, you would need to add a read event on the file, and then trigger the socket.send() once the data is in memory.

I never said it was free. But at least it is viable.
I wouldn't say browers are slow, it's just that sites are bloated to no end.

Then again, as is Chrome.
There's a photo of one made of glass blocks in the comments that made it click for me.
"Do you realise the astronauts
will run out of nitrogen on day
59 and die?"

So Mars One isn't really funny, it
has probably set back the credibility
of the movement by a decade.

I realize it's not meant to be a truly quantifiable statement, but I'm always curious why people regard incidents like this as producing serious damage to progress.

There are definitely crucial moments in political science, when an absurd gaff completely botches a carefully crafted image, completely imploding the efforts of hundreds of people, and sinking an entire team permanently. Cringey things that seem to matter to the echo chamber of a 24 hour news cycle.

But I don't feel like hard science works that way. When it comes to real engineering feats, if one company tries to trade on faulty calculations, and their charade is laid bare, the smoke and mirrors disappear only to reveal the same bald truth that had always been there from the start: hard problems defy shenanigans.

A political failure doesn't deflate an engineering problem. Not in the same way it deflates a PR campaign. If the hard science was not respected, then there was no investment in a decade of progress to begin with.

So, these swindlers then maybe blew a decade of real funding, only to burn their investors with bogus project plans and proposals, ripping off charity and fomenting skepticism and suspicion? I think skepticism in this sphere is actually healthy, and separates the children from the adults.

Waste is a bad thing, and maybe real money disappears, but maybe that kind money came from the kinds of people who might have just as soon blown their cash on personal assistants, vacations and clothes. Clearly such investors were not "buying science," or they'd have known better.

So, then the only thing left is that maybe there's the premise that admirers of the charade would not have loitered on the sidelines, simply yearning to lend their support to the parlour trick they were true believers in. That they would have stepped up to the task, had they known progress was stalled. I don't buy that.

No matter what, I don't think there has even been a decade of effort spent on crewing a mission to Mars. It's all been so much conjecture. It's never seemed to be an easier idea than an underground moon base, and no one seems to be giving lunar round-trips or installations much more consideration than mars.

Space shuttle accidents and launchpad explosions cast the true hazards in a much more severe relief, but knowing that people are even trying and failing feels like much more significant progress than a lot of talk and faulty plans.

So was there really any "damage" done by some of these PR goof ups?
Twitter's bylaws (and those of the other companies) are ambiguous. They do not clearly say a VP = officer. They only use them in the sense that they mention them in the same sense.
The update prompt really annoys me. "Would you like to update now, tomorrow, or never ever again?"
;-)

I hope and don't think so. Demanding them to use ClearCase, that would however been pure evil.
> I get that you can do this in response to a system call (the one issued in step 1). You could avoid blocking in Linux as well using madvice() and mincore()

Yes, but the one thing they don't give you is notification the data is in memory. Do you really want to spin a hot loop calling mincore?

> However, once you get an actual page fault, the only option is to block the process.

See steps 1-3 again.
This is surprising. How does it compare to siri and the android equivalent? For me Siri doesn't get me more than half the time, while google gets me most of the time.
"about:performance may currently be slowing down Firefox"
Ivey did not substitute. The casino did not knowingly. I'm not convinced this was violated.
The same for me, even when all this stuff works it rarely provides the value it promises.
As a game designer, I find casino "games" frustrating, because they are designed to not only mitigate skill, but also luck, in favor of the house. The fact that the casinos have roped in John Law to steal back their winnings after they were taken fair and square is especially galling. If they were grown-ups, they would take their beating, ban Ivey and Sun for life, and change their processes to avoid being beaten again in the same way.
>Nowadays we have monopolies forcing onto us mediocre things developed by mediocre teams, like Chromium/Blink. And they are big and so deep in the government, that no one seem to be able to do anything about it.

No one is forced into anything. It's just that the browser went from simply rendering HTML and some associated eye-candy JS to being an OS.

So JS, which used to be a relatively safe, interpreted language, turned into Java, a complicated JIT VM where every millisecond counts. In the process, security holes are introduced, and competing with the "Big Guys" is just too hard.

It's like why no one can compete against Intel for power and speed. It's just too expensive.
The story mentioned 5M since 2014
Start by learning what the system actually is, interview its future users and address their requirements. Then look for systemic requirements like persistance, safety, security, realtime work, reliance, etc. Once you got all these questions, you start thinking about how your program is going to handle the system. There is a book called System analysis and design, google it, it look promising.
It's funny, you just see anonymous rancor, but I see people finally breaking free from their shackles and stepping out into the light. It's truly beautiful.
What is it with all the pretend lawyers in this thread bringing up their misunderstanding of contract laws? Do you not realise how silly you all sound? Why do you think this comment is relevant to the thread at all? I didn't say you were legally bound to watch the ads at any point. I said you were paid for your attention. So in that case the transaction would actually be the other way around. Should the site be able to ask for a refund on their content since you didn't provide what they expected(ad views)?
Browsers are slow, but I can cope with it. But what I hate is that browsers are nondeterministic.

Try Ctrl+C,Ctrl+T,Ctrl+v,Enter combo. In opera it worked flawlessly everytime. In Firefox, it sometimes works, sometime it opens new tab without URL, sometime it pastes half of URL (?!) and navigatest there.

In chrome you never know what sugesstion will the address bar give to you. In opera, you were 100% sure that your bookmarks will be there, so you could do Ctrl+T, type first few letters and press Enter without looking.
I hope all your software is free.
You'll have to wait for the Singularity when they go on sale.
Any recommendations for the cheapest (but not "penny wise, pound foolish") HW setup that meets these requirements for course completion?
Actually it would be more accurate to say "You profess to care about your lung health and gave up smoking but you go and hang out in every airport smoking room you can find?"
Try Pale Moon.

Forked from Firefox 27 and super fast.

http://palemoon.org
Sounds like there's a need for pair-doctoring.

- Always have 2 doctors for everything

- Stagger/overlap the shifts
"Sun trained herself to identify aberrations along the left or right margins of the card backs, no wider than 1/32 of an inch"

That is insanely impressive. Anyone have an example of what these look like?
It's exactly the same story with the original BASIC, VB6 and modern Visual Basic. There is a lot of hostility (including on HN) to VB, but usually meant against the early BASIC or VB6. Modern VB.net is very similar to C#, just case insensitive and with words instead of special characters. Microsoft broke backward compatibility when moving to .net, precisely to avoid the sort of legacy annoyances you are describing with Fortran.
I've long said that if Apple would allow MacOS to be installed on desktop computers made by anyone, but being certified - then it would boost their market share exponentially and in turn boost iPhone and iPad sales even more.

It would attract more developers and in turn better quality software and more software means more customers.
The article links to the Judge's opinion [0].

The referenced section is 5:12-115(a)(2) and (b):

"a. It shall be unlawful: ... (2) Knowingly to deal, conduct, carry on, operate or expose for play
any game or games played with cards, dice or any mechanical device, or any
combination of games or devices, which have in any manner been marked or
tampered with, or placed in a condition, or operated in a manner, the result of
which tends to deceive the public or tends to alter the normal random selection
of characteristics or the normal chance of the game which could determine or
alter the result of the game.

b. It shall be unlawful knowingly to use or possess any marked cards,
loaded dice, plugged or tampered with machines or devices." [1]

EDIT:

The Judges opinion [0] also makes it clear that he is following the precedent set in Golden
Nugget v. Gemaco, Inc. [2], where it was ruled that a game was voided because the casino accidentally used unshuffled decks. More specifically, without assigning fault to any party, the court argued that the game was not authorized into the Casino Control Act, thereby voiding the contract.

In this case, the judge argues that, although the specific statute of the CCA that was violated is different, the difference is not relevent to the arguement set forth in Golden Nugget, so the same result applies.

[0] http://courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ivey.pd...

[1] http://www.state.nj.us/casinos/actreg/act/docs/cca-article09...

[2] http://www.law360.com/articles/621651/casino-doesn-t-owe-1-5...
Nice, thanks. Pretty impressive documentation.

Seeing the praise it gets here, I will definitely give RoR a chance for my next side-project. Thanks again.
I think you're confusing Linux with GNU.

(I'd just like to interject, etc.)
>Besides, there are plenty of other ways for you to publicly discuss our work and the personal worth of our staff. We'll still be reading your thoughts on Twitter and Facebook,

This may be the real reason. Or at least a big reason.

I have seen some other sites push comments to social media in order to bolster themselves on those platforms.
I have started to use HTML version of GMail. Really refreshing to have a snappy interface again. Manual Ctrl+R to refresh though. That tab is using 1.4MB of RAM.
Risk vs. Reward – How to Choose a Startup
I didn't see the correct answer yet, so I'll just tell you, tabs have a delay to create because in almost all modern browsers you have to wait for a process to be created and for everything to be paged in, _then_ wait for a bunch of IPC calls to complete.

Old browsers didn't do this, so creating tabs was so fast! But they were also much easier to compromise. Tradeoffs.

Source: Electron maintainer
Apple is a hardware company. iPhone and iPad work with non-macOS machines. For them to increase the market share they're interested in, it would be to sell more Macs, not have macOS on non-Apple hardware. I don't think there's a paucity of iOS apps by any stretch of the imagination. Any increase in quality iOS apps created on non-Apple hardware running macOS would be marginal, in my opinion.
I had the XPS L502X and it was hands down the best laptop I have ever owned:

JBL Speakers that were genuinely excellent - I work at home and listen to music quite loudly so these were a huge selling point for me

Plenty of Ports

Easy to upgrade / repair - I think by the end of its life I had replaced or upgraded everything except the motherboard

All of the XPS systems since this one have paled in comparison, shitty speakers and an ultra book type.

The L502X was a chunky workhorse but it survived a years backpacking around Asia with me and then 4 years in Australia as my main work computer until it finally died enough that I couldn't be bothered to fix it (Would power on for half a second and die).

It also ran Linux like a dream - no incompatibilities!

On an Alienware 17 R3 now and it is a beast.... but it's speakers are no match for the L502X's :( Also absolutely cant get Linux to run on it so I am using Virtualbox with a dual head setup which has its share of issues
Oh, so that's even more clear than what I thought. I didn't see that citation, my apologies. In that case, I agree even more with the judge's decision: a member of the public would not expect the meaning of the cards to be able to be "divined" by another player at the table in such a manner and the casino, had it known of the flaw, would not have used the cards, and Ivey undoubtedly used the mechanism to alter the result of the game and affect his actions based on the "random" selection.

I disagree with the people in this thread who say that the judge expects Ivey to be a patsy.
I am theoretically a big fan of the (not yet existing) Markua math format from leanpub: https://leanpub.com/markua/read#math

The inline math syntax is `x^2 + 4x +4`$ so the dollar sign is outside the backticks, but the formula is encapsulated in the code.

For a display block, they use the code fences with either latex or $ as a math toggle:

```latex

\psi = \frac{5 \phi}{\omega}

```

or

```$

\psi = \frac{5 \phi}{\omega}

```

At some point soon, I intend to implement this for my own use. It should be pretty easy using a markdown parser assuming one can do a lookahead/gobbler to the next character after the inline backticks.