skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can certainly learn to implement the APIs that are available, but in terms of really understanding I'd say wait a bit.

Take classes in probability, and linear algebra, from there you'll begin to have the level of mathematics to be able to really dive in. You'll also have the computer science maturity to better understand the libraries in use, and in truth the field will have advanced a bit in the time it takes for you to get those foundations.

There was just a good reddit[1] thread about what topics to focus on in linear algebra and probability that you should be paying attention to, because those two subjects are largely the mathematical foundations of machine learning.

[1]:https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/5klywi/d_w...
Yes, exactly. I am not having second thoughts, which is not a good sign. Basically, I am looking to make something that people use - may not be necessarily in the travel domain.
Sorry do you mean it's 24 times slower? 24x performance makes it sound like it's 24x faster, which doesn't seem like it could possibly be true.
Where does Givewell break out fundraising costs, though? The specific breakouts of spending seem more detailed on CN.

If all of that 92% is actually going directly to programs, that's excellent.
I've billed $40k in one month. Typical months are closer to $30k. I have fairly specialized machine learning skills.
Hey there, author of the post here. If anyone else gets this can you let me know? Wondering if it's the image size on the header..

If you know how to debug let me know as well :)
I would not use any Facebook's technology for anything. Enough with CIA and NSA seriously!
True. That is a good idea. Why shouldn't I be able to buy drugs that are approved by Canada for instance?
The sugar industry has a history of lobbying public attention away from sugar and towards cholesterol. It has even enlisted places like Harvard School of Public Health on this task:

http://time.com/4485710/sugar-industry-heart-disease-researc...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-co...
Ha! As a similar investment strategy I've heard of folks investing in Scotts Miracle Grow. But also heard from a guy in the grow op industry that no one uses their products so it's mostly hype.
I think there is a coalition of peculiarly anti-Russian hawks who have been the most vocal in their opposition to Russia's behavior in Crimea, etc.

This likely transcends party lines in the same way that support for wall street or the oil industry transcends party lines.
I agree, plenty games sans the iap bullshit to play, both digital and not.

The whole premise of the article is at best a failure in parenting

> Instead, I am drawing my finger over lines of imaginary fruit on an iPad, trying to rack up points so he can better enjoy a game called Fruit Pop

really?
True. I bet if the hardware was cheap enough, the software would advance a lot quicker.

I mean, imagine the only really useful thing one of these things can do is make a copy of itself. And it might takes it a month running non-stop to do it, but the parts are cheap so it only costs a few hundred bucks for a new one. Would you want one of these things in your basement working away? I sure would. And I'd be pretty interested in tweaking its software and training data and whatnot to make it faster and better.

Sure it'll be a good while before it is folding laundry or picking weeds in the garden or whatever, but I think the pace of improvement would pick up quick once these things are available in mass.
I found a site that listed all the stock tickers and threw that in Google Sheets. But I forgot the exact site. Definitely missing a few stocks (especially Canadian ones) at this point..
He's assuming that retrying forever is a valid retry strategy, which it is not. For example if a page fault was needed to satisfy one of the memory access it would never finish.

See https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/tsx-anti-patterns-... and https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2013/06/23/tsx-fallba...
for more details/

To make his code work he likely would need a global fallback lock (or a real STM) and guarantee that every change of the touched memory uses those too (which would be hard)

So I'm afraid the library is fairly broken.
Hey why wouldn't a CDS on someone's health be a good thing?
/snark
That's a false analogy. I was not proposing self-regulation.

I was proposing something like UL which is independent from the companies being overseen.
I think the very unfortunate narrowness of economics has partly to do with its history. Economics got going before any of the other social sciences and also ecological science, and early on had an enormous practical success with the development of free market theory, and so got the mistaken idea that it could proceed just fine without these other sciences.

Another problem is that economics is very closely connected to political policies, so it is very vulnerable to ideological influences.
C++ macros don't expand to actual semantic "code", in terms of an AST or even lexed terms. It blindly expand spans of textual characters, which I agree no post-C language should ever do again.

Languages as old as Lisp do AST-level macro expansion, with the actual programming language itself computing the expansion. Any code template blocks in the macro body are processed and validated in the native syntax of the language so that nesting and such aren't mungable.
Drugs have to be approved by the FDA for some condition to be sold at all in the US. Once available, they can be prescribed on and off label, as long as the manufacturer doesn't encourage any kind of off-label use.
"Assuming his intelligence organizations hold to those recommendations."

Assuming those orgs even remotely resemble the same things they are now after inauguration. Clinton gutted the CIA after he got into office.
> To be clear, I like Rust. I've been following it for years, and I'm disappointed that it's not an adequate replacement for C++

Just out of curiosity, what is it about Rust that means it's an inadequate replacement for C++?
I'm sorry but you have no idea what you're talking about.

Typical carb intake in avg diet that doesn't remove grains and starches is literally worse for you than pure eating pure fat.

Read about keto diet, read / watch presentations by Gary Taubes (his book "Why We Get Fat" is great).

Your understanding of nutrition is about 20 years out of date.
They have an office in downtown Chicago. Sales and marketing, I think.
If I had to choose between a filesystem with silent and/or visible data corruption up to pretty much eating itself and having to restore an entire server, versus a filesystem for which you can trust but could have a kernel deadlock/panic..I would choose the latter, and in-fact did.

I have seen a few servers with ext4/mdraid over the last five years have serious corruption but have had to reset a ZoL server maybe twice.
How to use comic-dl
Hey, another 6 hour old account.
My understanding was that they had agreed on the likely Russian origin of at least one system from which emails were obtained, but that they had disagreed on the motivation for the leaks.
So, that's what I'm saying: that the "ranking members" support the conclusion doesn't dispose of all bias, but it does dispose of the Trump vs. Clinton bias. It's up to you how to weight [Trump vs. Clinton] vs. [Russia vs. US].

But my impression is that [Trump vs. Clinton] is way more powerful than any other bias right now.
Even then, the loot crate model that is heavily present in most games today, pioneered by Valve in TF2, CSGO, DotA2 and slightly modified in Overwatch is based on those gambling addiction mechanisms. Random items, different rarities, etc. It's even more egregious in games like Overwatch because you already paid a nice sum for the game, and it's still asking you for more money, drip feeding you a few items here and there, making it pretty damn hard to get the cosmetics you want in the game you already paid for and should have already if this terrible model didn't exist.
U.S. Unveils Plan to Punish Russians for Election Hack
Remember that if you urinate on somebody with the gonorrhea urine it will instantly kick them into the vomiting state, which can be useful if you don't treat it--I seem to recall that as an optional sidequest.
Not wanting to blast an entire profession, and I am not even the guy you are talking with...

But to me, PhD in nutrition doesn't mean much, it is like PhD in underwater basket weaving, I am yet to met a single nutrition professional that could help me, and believe me, I looked really, really hard.

In the end the only people that could help me, were endocrionologists, biologists, and other scientists in fields that are not directly relation to nutrition.

And the reason for that, is precisely because of that high-carb recommendation, that is just insane, many cultures on earth lived just fine with low, or even zero carbs (extreme example: north-pole inhabitants, that in some places have diets that are 100% meat, organs included, since "regular" meat lacks some nutrients, like Vitamin C).

In more tribal places (all over the world too, Africa, Asia, Americas...) hunter tribes also tend to be healthier than farmer tribes (but also tend to have much lower population numbers).

And in many places, before FDA push for the vegetable agenda (I am not talking about veganism or vegatarianism, but about FDA constantly defending vegetable based food, including by accepting research that was fraudulent), people would happily eat lots of animal fats and meat, and live just fine. (example: in my country before the 60s, everyone used pork fat to fry stuff, and even make soap, but after vegetable oils became popular, and the government started to give strong subsidies to wheat, obesity, diabetes, etc... exploded, many common people still believe egg and cheese is absolutely evil, and prefer to stuff their faces with artificial sweeteners, soy milk, and salad with enough oily dressing to lubricate a car, than eat some eggs).
That's not at all true, and that level of ignorance is actually quite dangerous.

Scientists in no field are punished for disagreement. Even in really fringe science, disagreement is not only well-funded, but encouraged. A great example is String Theory: It has a lot of supporters and a lot of people saying it's untestable bunk, but research for both sides continues.. Consensuses happen when there is sufficient data to collapse to a consensus, not because 'funding'. Disagreements are extremely common in research and suggesting that the overwhelming consensus on the state of climate change is somehow a conspiracy or due to research pressures (that don't seem to exist anywhere else...) is complete garbage.
This is a pretty good illustration of the challenge of sandboxing: stipulate for a second that you could contain a browser exploit to a specific Unix UID (that's a very ambitious claim!) --- you're still left with a pretty big problem in this security model: the attacker might still be left with control of all your browser sessions.

For a big chunk of users --- perhaps the majority of all users --- this is all attackers actually want.
There are more commonly-traded currencies, such as the Russian ruble and the old Brazilian cruzeiro, that have had hyperinflation in the recent past.

But you certainly could have a fast path for stable currencies that are very unlikely to hyperinflate (USD, EUR, GBP, JPY).
Yes, it's taken a _long time_ to pay down the technical debt from writing a compiler in itself for years. A huge step forward for doing so landed fairly recently, MIR, so progress is being made. It's already resulted in significant improvements, and will lead to more in the future.
It isn't:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Just has to be an author.
eh, the freemium model isn't just based on impulse buy, the deepth and width of constant manipulative psychological tricks they use will eventually break them.
Yep - just did a Google search and landed on this. https://www.facebook.com/careers/search/?q=&location=chicago

So I guess that's how they can get them... I really hope Facebook wins though. Last time I checked Face recognition creates 3 floats from a face. I'm not sure Facebook's specifics but in general that how it works.

So in a way I'm amazed a face can be turned into 3 numbers, and also think it's silly to sue over 3 numbers in the grand scheme of things.
There is pressure to be favorable towards the customer (the company being inspected). Something similar happened in finance, where issuers were shopping around the big 3 ratings agencies for the best rating.
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Why aren't you blaming the SEC (FDA counterpart in this analogy) for 2009 events as well?
Like anything else, you have to look at both costs and benefits of the alternatives.

The current extremely tough FDA approval process has the benefit you mention: Fewer people are injured by unsafe drugs.

But it also has a big (but harder to observe) cost: If disease X kills 1000 people/year, then each year a cure is delayed kills 1000 people.

The main argument against the current system is that it weighs the deaths of people in the first category vastly more than those in the second.

How many people the FDA process kills this way is hard to calculate, and you can find wildly different estimates. But most discussion assumes it doesn't even exist...
Found to be bupkis by who? Elevated LDL increases heart disease risk in women from 44% (for large LDL) to 63% (small LDL).

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19204302
A (software) engineer that would not automate their work, the kind of work routinely automated elsewhere, looks pretty doubtful to me. Making machines work instead of people is basically the engineer's job description.
Consider you make 6k a month, plus 17k a month is a huge jump for a side project. Not that many people can make more than 17K a month...
Solve world challenges
I would say certainly not. In Nova Astronomia in which Kepler lays out his discovery, one finds chapters and chapters (originally in Latin) of verbal analysis of what is going on. He did not just find a formula that worked blindly. Rather he envisioned an influence -- either magnetism or something similar to magnetism -- which he calls specie (a Latin term used in magic and mysticism) extending out from the Sun guiding the motions of the planets. This was a clear precursor to the concept of a gravitational field.
>This is not fair either. 100% of economists would have predicted the outcome if they knew the vast scope of homeowners lying on their applications, that banks were misleading others by packaging crap loans as good ones, that the ratings agencies were not doing their jobs and actually rating the loans properly.

It was very widely reported at the time that banks had drastically lowered their standards for loans, and that this had lead to a boom in housing prices. And all this was publicaly defended by conservative politicians and commentators. And it takes only a little thought to figure out the banks were misleading investors, and the bond rating agencies were helping them out. The reason the economists didn't figure it out is they lack the needed common sense.
It's creepy how much companies know about you.

When I got married my husband pretty much immediately showed up as my spouse on my transunion credit report as my spouse. How did they know that? Our names are different. At the time we didn't have any loans together. We lived together but so do siblngs and roommates. We didn't register for any wedding registries or send out any announcements. Our wedding consisted of signing some paperwork at city Hall. They also marked me as "Active Duty Military or Dependant" (hubby is in the army so I became a "dependant" when we got married). So the only logical explanation is transunion can access DEERS, but I would hope the DoD doesn't allow random private companies access to DEERS... They DO have a website where you can lookup if someone is covered under the SCRA but dependants aren't covered under the SCRA and don't show up when queried (I tried).

Again this is my credit report. I didn't report a change in my martial status to any of my financial institutions. Not banks, not credit cards, and we already had a joint account for two years before we were married.
TSX anti patterns in lock elision code
You are definitely right. I think VR was just one factor.
You can definitely find contradictory studies. The solution is not to abandon research, but to recognize that A study means very little, unless it's a systematic review or meta-analysis (in which case it's a study of many studies).

Don't pick the one study that shows what you want. Pick all the studies and go with whatever the preponderance of evidence suggests. That's science, and it's by far our most effective and reliable way of learning useful and non-obvious truths about the world.
Hi Matheus, please contact me. I am the author of libyojimbo (http://www.libyojimbo.com) and I have an idea that I think you'll find interesting.
khd: Hotkey daemon which also runs on macOS Sierra
> Note that the customer for prescription drugs is a licensed doctor.

Who can be bought and misled like anyone else.
The FDA has stricter rules now about drugs because of previous problems where some approved drugs killed people, and others were ineffective, and some were both.

So we already have experience with some alternatives to the current scheme.
Reminds me of a Reinhold Niebuhr quote:
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference."

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer]
I recommend Peter Attia's (currently unfinished) series, "The straight dope on cholesterol". He's a surgeon interested in health and fitness. http://eatingacademy.com/?s=cholesterol
Don't forget that marketing budgets for pharmaceuticals are also huge. The average person has no chance. The constant bombardment already means people go to their doctor asking for Rx by name even without understanding the medical need or if they're right for it. Now remove regulation... the warnings basically just blur into the background. Already we get so many warnings on prescriptions that they just turn into nothing because people become so habituated to them. It's identical to the paradox that is windows/browser security -- the more you warn, the more people just click through and ignore.
If you don't tidy your code, you won't be getting any contributors this week
I don't know if this is still true given the permissions model on Android (don't know about iOS). I just checked IG and it only has access to storage. Contacts, SMS, microphone, etc are not enabled.
I wish science was as functional as you imagine.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/sep/21/society.politics

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13098773
No, because government officials are paid off much less often because it's harder.

Outright bribery in the US is rare, difficult, and if caught, will land you in federal prison for a long time. Remember Blagojevich?

Government officials are under much more scrutiny than a private sector executive. There are independent investigators general that have broad latitude to look for malfeasance. The FOIA exists to bring government records to light; there is no equivalent in the private sector. Heck, we spent ~$80mm investigating Clinton over the Lewinsky affair.

The government isn't perfect, but it's a damn sight more transparent and directly accountable to the public than private companies are.
> I don't believe those clever things are necessary for safety or performance. I think many of them are incidental and caused by a lack of taste or just a disregard for the value of simplicity.

Well, I just re-read your list of 'clever' features, and can't really see how any of them is incidental, or in fact how some of them are worse than the exact same features in Swift, which you mentioned.

> ... I believe there will be other high performance (non-GC) languages that are more accessible to non Computer Scientists....

Not sure what to make of this comparison, given that Rust beat Swift in the majority of the benchmark tasks. Also, you have to look at the quality of the compilers themselves. Rust is universally acknowledged to be a high-quality compiler, while Swift (especially together with Xcode) are often bemoaned as buggy and crashy.

> They don't really care about memory deallocations ... the operating system will cleanup the mess.

Well, I have to say they are an extremely lucky bunch. Most systems programmers don't have the luxuxy of writing script-sized programs which use the OS as their garbage collector.

> Btw, modern C++ programmers don't worry about memory deallocations either. You should find a better bogeyman.

I was specifically replying to your Fortran example, but for the sake of argument, to C++ programmers I'd ask, 'Would you like to do high-performance concurrency with statically guaranteed no data races?'
I would think that is more problems from the reporting of these studies. There is certainly an argument that making the studies allows the shoddy reporting.

However, my hope would be we could do both. Run as many cheap studies as we can. Just honestly report on the limited applicability. And keep adding to a corpus of data. Patterns may emerge.
Private corporations aren't magic either. And they don't even have to pretend to give a shit about society.
This is pretty commonly believed. I'm not sure where exactly this belief comes from, though, as there's really no credible nutritionist supporting this. Eating foods high in cholesterol is a direct cause of increased cholesterol in your blood.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21076725
One of the problems with the economics profession today is a lack of real societal responsibility. An example is supply-side economics, which is promoted by conservative politicians, including Trump. The economists all know it doesn't work, and so they ought to make that clear to the country. But instead they just sit back and say nothing.
I've tried to do this here: https://github.com/camoy/lark
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13279972
> What's not clear to me in this paper is the practical efficiency of their technique especially for high-order derivatives.

On section "5.3.1 Order reduction for nested applications":

> We gained the ability of writing a differentiable program acting on derivatives of another
program, stressed as crucial (but lacking in most models) by other authors [18].

See http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1370&... for [18].

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> Right now, there exist good AD tools that work just fine with control structures, recursion, and composition.

See their example implementation (https://github.com/ZigaSajovic/dCpp) to understand what "control structures, recursion and composition" mean in this context.
The latest research shows exactly that.

In 15 years or so, what gets taught will reflect that.
> You can do whatever you want

This is very dangerous advice to give a young person. But the author should have done a better job at interpreting the message. If your father tells you that you can do whatever you want, do you conclude that you can get good enough at tennis to win the US Open? No, of course not, that's absurd. But winning the US Open is MUCH EASIER than discovering the Holy Grail of physics. Properly understood in this context, the father's message meant "if you want, you can become a physicist" - and it was probably correct. The author's downfall was that he overinterpreted the promise of the message and was also too ambitious to accept the lesser reward of "merely" becoming an average professional physicist.