skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I won't call the author right or wrong on their categorizations, but metal - and maybe all genres of music - break down in the following ways:

1) Subject matter, which for long-running bands tends to have a fad-like flavor (e.g. AC/DC's Highway to Hell and Back In Black have more satanic subject matter than DDDDC or Fly On The Wall.)

2) Presentation / aesthetics / "Dress code" -- For instance, Van Halen vs. Mötley Crüe. Both wore spandex; MC also wore obvious makeup, dyed / teased hair, and sort of shambling / fishnet clothing, VH did not. Black Sabbath tended a little more towards leather and black, while their equally-loud peers Led Zeppelin looked a little more hippy.

3) Band composition / Musical direction -- For instance, it is nearly impossible to call your band metal if it has a keyboard player (Sorry Styx and Deep Purple.) How about guitars? Some bands - GnR and Aerosmith had dedicated lead and rhythm guitarists, who harmonized a little; Other bands, such as Priest and Iron Maiden, had more-or-less two lead guitarists who would split leads and/or harmonize multiple times per song.

Just a forinstance, KISS would be metal based on 2, but not so much 1 (their subject matter was mostly sex and drugs, very little death and hell.), and their approach to 3 was pretty much Rick Derringer territory.
Including his contacts and reputation? What if someone wants to email him now?
Firefox 51 is slated to have this as well.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1319119
Is this a good introduction to physics for a layman who is comfortable with linear algebra and calculus?
> Never use the application cache (or service workers) unless you actually need offline features.

I disagree. Appcache is deprecated and you should never use it under any circumstances. On the other hand, service workers are cool and there are reasons to use them even if you don't need offline features.
> One of my first thoughts was that it would be easy to become reliant on the technology and have a serious accident when a sensor fails (particularly for blind spot detection).

I fear that we are presently in an unfortunate middle ground where driver-assist functionality is good enough to train most people to pay less attention to the road but not good enough to actually let them pay less attention.
I think the error does exist; infrared radiation is a type of electromagnetic radiation and relies too n charged particles (electrons) absorbing energy, going through various excitation levels, and then emitting photons with particular frequencies.

The error in the source is claiming that charged particles are necessary for a body to have a positive temperature (i.e. what I quoted). The error in the downvoting is a kneejerk correction without explaining + not reading in good faith.
One hopes the typical self-driving car isn't relying on just one model space in one software process. Surely these systems would have some mechanism for a robust, simple, safety-oriented software process that is continuously running and can take over at any moment, with the singular task of ensuring a safe stop.

It should be continuously preparing and revising a stopping strategy. It should even be able to do this with any half its sensors returning spurious or misleading data. Or even if all sensors are suddenly jammed, it should be able to blindly execute the stopping strategy prepared moments prior.
I really wish there was a standard way of handling captive wifi portals, macOS and GNOME try to detect these portals and show them but sometimes it is unreliable.

It'd be really nice if there was a reserved DNS entry (like captive.portal or something) that operating systems could try to resolve and if it points to anything other than an expected value (loopback address, maybe?) it will bring up a window to sign into the network instead of relying on these nasty hacks that leave users confused when they can't visit a site over HTTPS because they aren't authenticated / paid / whatever.
The Daily WTF: The Industry Vet
It's not "worst case" feature, it's the standard, minimal feature of any secure cryptographic PRF.
example.com works as well. it doesnt redirect to https://example.com
Framework for Keyword-Driven Test, 0.0.25 released
They mean Google disabled the ad serving on their site, not ad campaigns. Despite rapid followups by fark, Google's process to resume took that long.
Based on the description of "Six Easy Pieces", it appears to be a book targeted specifically at a lay audience, to popularize physics. The Feynman Lectures on Physics are basically a collection of lecture notes for a series of courses he taught at CalTech to physics majors, a decidedly not-lay audience.
Honestly, to avoid data consumption, I think you are perfectly justified in installing multiple ad-blockers on your phone and even setting up router-level domain blocking.
Hacker news is a racist cesspool, don't expect to not get downvoted for stuff like this :(
> Calculus, by James Stewart

I learned from the Stewart book and it's not terrible, but I don't think that is a very good book for self learning. How to ace calculus or the calculus lifesaver, plus a book with solved examples is probably better for self study.
Dark pattern pet peeve once you complete the test. The options are either:

Yes, send me my report and occasional emails with helpful
tips on how to improve my online presence. Google may send
me recommendations for certain Google products and services
and contact me with further help and tips based on my
TestMySite results.

Or:

No thanks, I don’t want to get my detailed results.

What if I want to get my results, but not subscribe to your marketing drip campaign?

Screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/csm6j5u9hq5wubw/Screenshot%202017-...
I was a physics major. These 3 volumes used to be so dry that I can't even turn a page. But those are real good memory considering I am now just a web developer digging code just for the money. Hey, at least I can show off to my former classmates on how much I am making. Don't you pity me.
Meh, they make you sign up with email to see full results.
I worked with a competitor in the text-message-based scheduling space a little over a year ago. They skipped out on the bill, claiming that they "didn't reap the value" that I invoiced them for. A lengthy legal dispute later, and we recovered a fractional percentage of the amount owed, after determining it to not be worthwhile to go after the entire amount.

I worked with the competitor because I felt that this is a space ripe for innovation, and that it's been a long time coming. I am incredibly happy that someone is bringing the vision of my former client to life.
Nah it has flair. I find it charming, and the comic about sexual trafficking really got me. Keep it up!
As someone who uses Linux at work without any issues whatsoever I have to ask: What are these crazy Linux bugs people are talking about?

And why does it always happen to macbook users?
I use a MacBook Pro 13" Retina. With a 1280×800 resolution there is not much space. I turned off LCD font smoothing and set the resolution to a scaled 1680×1050. It is such a joy!

Text on websites and in text editors can be a bit small at times, but changing the font size is quick.

(You can disable LCD font smoothing in System Preferences > General. It requires a redraw in apps to see the difference. Alternatively, just reboot.)
Meta-DL is totally possible. Check neuroevolution and NNA search through RL
Well, a lot of that cultural heritage was shameful hollywood crap in the first place.
I've been using Elixir for a little over a year now, running in production at modest scale (about 20 servers) for the last eight months. It's been a joy.

I've used a handful of languages and approaches to concurrency: from multi-process Perl-and-Fortran systems shouting at each other through named pipes, to Ruby + Resque, JRuby + threads, JS + callbacks/promises/streams, and Scala + Akka. Elixir has been easier than anything I've worked with before.

I like the quote on this page by rtdsc: "I think more about passing state around and making it explicit." Elixir makes shared state just difficult enough to achieve that you don't do it by accident, and the fact that everything is immutable means that you can trust state once you have it. This kind of by-default hygiene is a godsend when writing highly reliable systems.

I could go on and on about nice things in the language. I guess the best thing I can say is that it quickly becomes one of the least interesting parts of the stack. It just works. Wish I could use it everywhere!
Ask HN: For Slack, do you use the web or macOS app?
Thinking of building a slack bot but it could also be a chrome extension to be used in other chat tools. Wondering if a bot makes more sense.
If it provides the scores I'm assuming it also has detailed information on how those scores were calculated. Why not provide the detailed results right away instead of collecting emails. Every time I see "Get Something Free" or something similar my bullshit meter starts peaking right away.
Predicting Snapchat in 2017: 5 Things to Expect
I assume he means Party Lines as in the phone system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony)

---Alex
you see, you're replying to an ignorant hypocrite who wanted to make your making of your things about you in their eyes, more about your making of your things about them in your eyes.

you're all idiots.
Conversely, what is with the "how to $thing on digital ocean" articles getting upvoted here recently.

These are articles on how to install the software period, it has nothing to do with a specific provider.
EMI Testing: Finding 1000+ Bugs in GCC and LLVM in 3 Years – Zhendong Su
Judging by the certificate issue date, they've been working on this since September. Congrats on shipping!
Right, but the catch is the only real way out of the tragedy of the commons is regulation (or perhaps rewarding cooperative behavior in another way, but then you need to be very careful that you're incentivizing the things you actually mean to).
Literally no one hires data scientists/ML engineers only to make a basic feedforward ConvNet.
It's OK. You still miss out on script ability and the better windowing of vim. The windowing is particularly important on over engineered code bases.
What you're missing is that the touchbar is right next to the screen. Obviously you're not going to be using the touchbar with an external keyboard, but when you're using the built in keyboard and the built in screen it's perfectly within reach and within sight.

As far as looking at the keys while typing, look at the popularity of backlit keyboard keys. People seem to love them (I don't), and that's because it helps them get oriented.
Having a Wikipedia means you’re quite known. Not having one doesn’t mean you’re incompetent.
Atom 1.13
Ironically, it seems that even if Friendly AIs were the default state in our reality, malicious actors (like advertisers) would iterate on them until they get an Unfriendly one...
The quid pro quo bit seems pretty standard and reasonable, annoying but reasonable
My reaction as well! Even the label graphics (eg Florida, Assine) are exactly the same. It's funny because I first learned about DrudgeReport from Fark and that site hasn't had a redesign in 15 years (or ever) either.
They mention it has been a complex undertaking and not complete yet - does anyone know why they can't just sit a traffic manager in front of everything with SSL offloading?

Also does anyone know what the new personalisation features are that they mention being able to offer now HTTPS in place?
Random coffee shop / hotel / etc wifi owners and other users on the network will only know that you're reading nytimes.com, and not which particular section/article.
There is no need for the weather app to identify you as the user. It only needs to fetch the weather data for a given location.
Slides: http://www.srl.inf.ethz.ch/workshop2016/Su.pdf

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4JUUlO9XGY

Homepage: http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~su/emi-project/
I've been using the same Axio backpack for the last ~15 years. When I bought it, they gave lifetime guarantee. It still holds perfectly well after all this time, nothing broken. My MacBook Pro 15" fits well into this backpack by the way.

I wonder if they still create backpacks of the same quality with lifetime guarantee. Could be bad for business :)

My backpack looks quite a bit like this one: http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/2008/06/08/urban-roaming/
Annoying as hell. Might use a throwaway address.
...wow I never understood that this was why that happens
Conversion from analog to digital will necessarily involve the loss of information. Now the question is, is the data lost crucial to the operation of your system or not? If losing some data is not that big a deal, you might as well build it digitally from the ground up? On the other hand if you can't afford to lose any original information from your analog system, you might have quite a few obstacles to overcome and design an entire system which would be analog based (kinda like the human brain on some level). But then again, if you can build a perfect functioning human brain a nobel prize awaits you.
More widespread than I anticipated
You may compare apples to oranges because the CPU and other components may be slightly different(usually they are older and cheaper on the mac). It's a known fact that Apple has the highest(by far) margins on laptops.

Apple used to be priced and marketed as a high-end business quality laptop but now I feel it's marked more as a lifestyle product.
Creating data backed tables with Tabular and Ruby on Rails
How Backpage.com Became a Haven for Sex Trafficking ... and Free Speech
Six Easy Pieces corresponds to these chapters in The Feynman Lectures on Physics:

Chapter 1, Atoms in Motion
Chapter 2, Basic Physics
Chapter 3, Relation of Physics to Other Sciences
Chapter 4, Conservation of Energy
Chapter 7, Theory of Gravitation
Chapter 37, Quantum Behavior

The editing differences are probably slight. Six Easy Pieces first came out in 1994 and the question would be whether a particular edition contains the 2006 definitive edition corrections.
Man, while I admire your story, this is not how you advertise your app.

"I'm building this because I want to fight sex trafficking"?? It just confuses potential users what the hell this app is for. I actually read the whole story, it's a good story, but in the end i was left puzzled (Is this app for reporting sex traffickers to the authorities in audio messages?) AND kind of annoyed that I spent the time reading the whole thing thinking that it would describe what the app is for.
Have you ever tried to seek help when you were depressed? This can be very depressing by itself.
I believe it's just 6 of the lectures, selected for their accessibility to a general audience (i.e., lack of mathyness).
Whaaaaaaat?

Nobody posted Harald Schmidt talking about Metal, yet?

http://www.sat1.de/tv/die-harald-schmidt-show/video/heavy-me...

It's a classic!
While I agree that it's difficult to secure a computing device against all physical attacks, I think one can consider a USB port a sort of physical "API" to the machine, and one that shouldn't just outright betray me. As a user, I would like physical attacks to at least require some level of disassembly.
I've considered the 2015 MBP but decided against it. The old MBP cannot drive the LG 5K screen I ordered alongside the MBP to replace my ageing iMac 27. I also like the improved screen, and for future-proofing the improved graphics and the 4 USB-C ports, so I went for the 2016 MBP. Apart from the price I see few disadvantages to the 2016 MBP for my use case, the battery life might be slightly lower but I don't travel a lot, so it's not a big deal. Besides, so far battery life has been just fine for me, at 8+ hours at light load and normal brightness.
This is epic and nice to see more people thinking this way. We're actually tackling something similar at Asteria right now and we're about to open source our device client software in a much needed RFC. Gitter here for anyone interested: https://gitter.im/getasteria/General
I'm not sure how many 'layman' are comfortable with Linear Algebra and Calculus ;).

Give it a shot; there's a fair number of non-mathy digressions that are worth reading, and you sound like you have the background to handle the mathier parts.
"It's outrageous that MS gets away with this. If only videogames released on MacOS, I would have switched years ago"

MacOS collects this same telemetry data. Do you trust Apple over Microsoft? It's non-identifying data that is used to make their products better and track crashes. Now they are going above and beyond other products and letting you turn even that non-intrusive feature off.
And your session cookie..
No, definitely not. Try to find some book in the topic that you are interested in. If it is electromagnetism, go for the black book with four equations printed. If it is quantum mechanics, I like the Sakurai book.
I think a social network campaign, starting with the poorest people who are in-and-out of the judicial system frequently, would have a massive effect. There is strength in numbers, and if somehow everyone being prosecuted stood up and said "no, I demand a trial" (aside from the oft-debated hypothetical about fighting speeding tickets - I dont want to get into that), they couldn't prosecute everyone. They just dont have the resources. They'd have to let a sizeable amount of the accused walk.
I suspect you'd get more noise than signals trying to plug the quantitative data into a model of changes at a company given the data is likely patchy, outdated and not infrequently mistaken identity. It might offer more useful qualitative insights when the investment being gauged is a 30 person startup, but you'd probably get just as useful information from manually trawling the employees' LinkedIn pages...
> compliant cooperative customer

Tangent, but "Compliant Cooperative Customer" totally sounds like a buzzword companies would use.
Telemetry is important if you've gotten rid of, you know, the QA teams MS had in the past
So far I have had quite a few issues with HSTS, not allowing me to access web sites, or authenticate with WiFi networks, to the point that on Android 4.3 I use the outdated system browser for authentication and only afterwards switch to Chrome.
That site uses my speakers on mobile chrome. Does anyone know why?
Then why do they ask it on the phone to begin with?
It's http://captive.apple.com/. That's always my go-to.
Here is one I recently bought from Amazon Basics ($29.99)

https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Backpack-Laptops-Up-17-I...

- Large multi-compartment backpack with a padded sleeve for laptops

- Holds up to 15.6 inch laptop and some ultra-slim 17 inch laptop

- Mesh water bottle pockets at side

- Organizational compartments for pens, keys, and cell phone
Internal Dimensions: 12" x 4.5" x 17.5" (LxWxH); External dimensions: 15" x 7" x 19" (LxWxH)

- Large multi-compartment backpack with a padded sleeve for laptops

- Mesh water bottle pockets at side

- Organizational compartments for pens, keys, and cell phone
This series has a fourth book: Feynman's tips on physics: a problem-solving supplement to the Feynman lectures on physics

A great book on general problem solving in science and engineering. Something you won't find in standard textbooks. Available online:

https://bayanbox.ir/view/6682075492227836301/Feynman-Tips-on...
What if the FBI bribed your roommate to allow access to your shared apartment? What if, further, the FBI sent out a public notice saying that anyone who allows them to search a roommate's apartment where they find drugs gets $500? How many drugs do you think they would find?
Hidden Message Within NES Mini
Not really news, I'll share exp with giant monopoly Telco:

Both Cust svc and collections: high $$ spenders routed to special agents and treatment.

Any elected official was PMT. Permanent no treatment. Never contact or disconnect for any reason.

Credit scores used to route and treat accts

Repetitive "anything's" were flagged and those flags were attached when call presented to agent.

Goal was to minimize talk time. Reduce refunds (DAKs). Route to proper language.

Make Spanish language assumptions using a) vowel as last letter or npa/nxx if known.

Tons of tests and controls. But removing avoiding "clutter calls" was driver
It's my primary language nowadays; in situations where I'm able to choose the tech stack, Elixir is the default. I believe it's a sufficiently-mature ecosystem for production use at this point (as opposed to, say, a couple years ago when its maturity was still heavily dependent on Erlang; Elixir's starting to really hold its own, which makes for an even stronger mutual relationship between it and other BEAM languages, I think).

I'm starting to branch out into learning more about interfacing with external code (both via NIFs and via ports). I'd dabbled in it before (see also: the "rubix" package on Hex), but at the time I didn't really fully understand the conventional approaches; now, with a couple years to get a feel for the OTP way of doing things, I reckon I could make some significant improvements. I'm also using Elixir as a means to learn Rust - specifically, by toying around with writing NIFs in Rust. Rustler (http://hansihe.com/rustler/rustler/) looks to be a good start, though I haven't tried it yet.

----

EDIT: YMMV, but I ended up learning basic Erlang (via "Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good!") before I even knew what Elixir was. I'd recommend following the same approach if either of the following applies:

* You're not sure what Elixir offers over Erlang beyond having a different syntax

* You're struggling with cases where Elixir's "declarative-in-imperative-clothing" syntax is catching you off guard (i.e. because it's tricking you into writing code imperatively rather than declaratively)

In either case, Erlang will give you a baseline and help establish a more functional mindset. Elixir will then be a clear transition, and a lot of Elixirisms will make a heck of a lot more sense.

Again, though: YMMV.
Upon reflection, I was thinking of a place in Haarlemerstraat that has a bar across the street with the same name. You're correct and I was wrong.
Nice summary!

I would like to augment just a couple of your observations with a few explanations --- I think the reason the architectures that you mention work so well is because they exploit hierarchical structure inherent in the data. Lots of things in the universe have hierarchical structure, e.g. vision has spatial hierarchy, video has spatial and temporal hierarchy, audio has temporal and spatial hierarchy.

(side note, thats how a baby learns vision "unsupervised" -- the spatial patterns on the retina have temporal proximity, so the supervisor is "time")

RELU is good, but you have to remember how you're vectorizing your data - if you're vectorising is normalizing to 0-1 then RELU fits nicely, but if you're scaling to mean 0 std dev. 1, then half your samples are negative and you'll get information loss when RELU does this: http://7pn4yt.com1.z0.glb.clouddn.com/blog-relu-perf.png so remember to keep your vectorizer in mind.

> My gut feeling is that I'm talking from my rear;

Nope not at all, you have good insight - my email address is in my profile, come join the slack group too (email me, let's go from there)
Sure, but dropout actually increases training error (makes you less likely to find the globally optimal training error), with (sometimes) a decrease in generalization error (test error). So any connection is very thin.
It needs to compile (at least the C or C++ parts). Frequently the people who operate the software will want to make small changes.
http://captive.apple.com/ also. That's what Apple devices use when trying to present the login for a captive network.
Thanks for this feedback. I'll switch which of the 2 stories shows up at the front (as opposed to which one you must click on in order to read).

Sorry for the unnecessary frustration!
http://www.google.com/ gets 100 out of 100 for everything.