skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. This reminds me of a bug I had to track down when rewriting a bunch of Java image analysis code in C# (yeah I would have preferred neither language for this sort of thing, but that's a different story.)

Java has a flag which allows you to specify how 32-bit floating point arithmetic happens (STRICT_FP or something.) C# does not, and was doing extended precision math on floats (80-bit register) and then truncating the result. This led to small differences in feature extraction output.
I will definitely try it out, thanks!
Fascinating. I find myself trying to bring people to the middle often so they can see the other side of the argument. Having people understand the other side enough to be able to argue it may be the window to understanding why the other side believes what they do.
Totally agreed; intelligence (IMHO) is all about using pattern matching to model and reason about a domain. Social things like us get some of that acquired pattern matching knowledge from other social things.

I guess the difference is that supervised learning systems can't yet make an autonomous effort to acquire new knowledge from other social things.
But I'm the context! Geez.
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In your first paragraph, you're saying that the critique claims, in essence, "We don't know there's a correlation between death by suicide and being gay," and you're saying that claim is false, because there is evidence that suicide rates among gay people are higher than the general population. But that's not what the critique is claiming. What it's claiming is that this JAMA study, in particular, fails to establish the association it claims to establish.

And in your second paragraph, you're saying that the critique is not saying, "Hey, this study is flawed," but is saying, "I hate gay people and I don't want them to think that their sham marriage is in anyway equivalent to my real marriage." Briggs makes no secret of the fact that he rejects same-sex marriage, but the vast majority of his post is devoted to flaws in the study, not to his own personal objections to same-sex marraige, and although his ideological views probably are a motivating factor for his scrutiny of the study, that doesn't necessarily invalidate the points he makes.
there is a difference?
FWIW I work as a fiction editor for a publishing house. I only mention that because I'm really not that a technical person. I'm more on the arts side.

I accept that some bad books succeed, but this really is vanishingly rare. Subjectively even many so-called bad books have really excellent qualities - especially in narrative structure.

So there are Bad Books and then there are BADly written books.

I agree also with your point: build it and they will come doesn't work. Marketing is essential. But ask people to swallow an unreadable book - which is most books people write - and all the marketing in the world won't save you.
>Perhaps, but I honestly don't believe that's true.

I'm a white Jewish-atheist male with... certain political views, and I honestly expect that if I open my mouth in the Deep Red zones it will lead to violence.

>It's not "people have different ways of viewing things, and boy do I think you're wrong," it's "if you think that _____ or voted for _____ you are my enemy."

Well, fascism is not just another way of looking at things. It's a way of killing people. Fascists are the enemy of every sane, decent human being on this planet.

Now, folks at work or in government may or may not be fascists, but if someone brings up the concern that they are, the right thing to do is to contest the factual question. You really shouldn't just dismiss it by saying, "Whether or not so-and-so is a fascist, it's only fair to tolerate fascism!"

No, what's fair is "never again". Totalitarianism in general and fascism in specific are the worst ideas in the world.
Okay cool, thanks. I have a friend who's a librarian and she strongly suggested not using CreateSpace because you won't get your book in as many places (i.e. not Barnes and Noble, not smaller bookstores, not libraries) through CreateSpace, but she didn't really know who else to use instead. I'll have to look into IngramSpark/Lightning Source.
Cool! Get back to us with feedback on how it went, we're looking for as much input as possible at this point.
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It very much is an "end to EU citizens' right to residency" for those many Romanians and Bulgarians who enter after March 15th. So there is nothing misleading in the headline. Given that it affects thousands of people it's not hyperbole either. It's also a blatant violation of the EU treaty, which has not yet been terminated.

Not the best way to start the negotiations and I suspect British nationals will experience reciprocal measures in Bulgaria/Romania.
A marriage certificate?
> In Pakistan, IKEA furniture is an imported luxury good. There are fancy high-end boutiques selling IKEA furniture in the most upscale consumer markets.

Same here. Of course you pay double or triple the price you'd pay in Europe or the US, so it defeats its purpose.

> In the mean time you can go to the crummiest street workshop and buy gorgeous handmade furniture with woodwork that you will never see in the West, sold for a pittance. It really boggles the mind.

There are a lot of street vendors with handmade furniture here, except that those are pretty rough and plain ugly.

Another problem is that Mexicans are usually short. If you are above 6' like I am then most furniture will feel small. Usable, but small.
Fewer than 10 employees and not related to any other corporation.

The relevant section: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/da200599/s... (This is the New South Wales legislation but it's almost perfectly uniform in all states and territories.)
From what I can see the C version is using OpenMP and uses all of the available CPU cores.
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I gave the 15 alpha readers a "finished" book, by which I mean, I thought it was ready to go, so I had already edited it myself a few times.

The consistent feedback I received from those readers weighed heavily on the major edit which followed. I had made some mistakes, no doubt about it. The work is now better for it.

I then gave the "finished" book to a much smaller group of beta readers and repeated the process. Then I went through the book a few times myself to improve the flow. Finally, it went to the copyeditor.
That's not true. If you look at the comparisons, the cpu time taken by C is actually more than rust, and the cpu load looks about even. Note the C version uses:

#pragma omp parallel sections
Soulver is very similar to a project I started working on a few months ago. I guess I didn't do enough market research!
Music has been studied in hundreds of papers since the 1920s; the effect is very ambiguous. (I've tried to compile a bibliography at https://www.gwern.net/Music%20distraction )
Nice guide, although it is more of a 2016 guide. Amazon recently launched the public beta of KDP Print making CreateSpace redundant.

https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=AH8RA6CMVRN8Y&ref_=pe_29...
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The size of the binary isn't in that table. I think you're confusing it with the memory consumption numbers.
I self published a book of my poetry on Kindle Direct publishing 5 years ago see http://a.co/iw4r1jq
I also used lulu to make a physical copy. For lulu I think I used Microsoft word and for kindle you could just make a HTML document to be published . The tooling in this article is great but as other people have pointed out marketing your book is more important. The article should be titled how to typeset a novel in 2017.
Nice :-)

That's much easier on the eyes. org-mode folding doesn't seem to like it, but it should be no problem sticking to Windows Emacs for that.
> He doesn't seem aware that, by far, the main reason for using power-of-two hash table sizes is so you can use a simple bitshift to eliminate modulo entirely.

[...] using a power of two to size the table so that a hash can be mapped to a slot just by looking at the lower bits.

He seems to know this bit :)
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First, saying art is cheap because billions pieces of art on Deviant Art are free is like saying code is cheap because billions of lines of code published every day on GitHub are free. Average you pay for code is zero, by that logic?

Second, the Internet can only host a very specific kind of art (digitalized) that is a very tiny fraction of art that you can experience in a museum or an exhibition. Where is my paint oil on canvas with the beautiful texture and smell I could experience on DeviantArt?

You have to count what you have to pay for an artist/coder to make what you want, not what they want. Then we are talking about the same thing.
An example would be a great way to support that assertion.

When I applied for... it doesn't matter precisely what. I've forgotten, actually, but it was some piece of paper that foreigners need, and only foreigners. Anyway, when I applied for that I chanced upon an official who didn't have much sympathy for foreigners. I got my paper in the end, but it wasn't because of his helpfulness.

Can you describe, as an example to support your assertion, what should have been in the speech to make that official speak a understandably to foreigners? Slur a little less, swallow fewer consonants?
Adding a particle is "just" fixing another equation (the standard model Lagrangian).
Thank you for the recommendation, never would have found this and am loving it!
I fit in everywhere I've worked and my political views are on both sides. I'm what I like to call a "think for myself-er".

I don't think cultural fit has as much to do with political views as you think.

Unless they are people who can't separate work and politics.
Looks like it is coming to Safari soon

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168858
I definitely agree with your initial post, I'm just not able to offer advice on how to write a good book as I may, or may not, know how :)

In the writing groups I've participated in, there seem to be a number of authors that are scared off by the process of getting their work out there. I'm hopeful that this post will help them overcome the technical hurdles in doing so.
It wouldn't be any kind of threat if not for at-will employment.
This should probably be advertised more as renderer than editor as editor without save feature sounds like a joke - why would you create/edit anything if you can't save it?

But it looks really cool anyway! :)
What the article is suggesting is that perhaps the release of a person's private financial information by a government agency is not something the broader community would consider to be acceptable. From reading this comment and others it appears you have a personal political view regarding the extent of Australia's social safety net, which I would suggest is not particularly relevant to the debate. What is relevant, however, is that the release of this information to the media was actively approved by Alan Tudge, the current minister for the Human Services portfolio.
i wish my roomba could do this!
WebRTC will be enabled in Safari production builds shortly
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There is a lot of material in the article on power-of-two vs non-power-of-two sizes and it definitely includes a discussion of how POT is convenient due to modulo becoming a bitmask (not a bitshift, which would be division).
For what it's worth, Briggs has written several critiques of several studies. Sometimes the studies challenge his religious views, but not always. His critiques appear to be motivated more by the facts that (1) nearly all studies determine their value by whether they can show p-values less than an arbitrary threshold, and (2) nearly all studies say they measure something, when in fact they measure a proxy.
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The prototypical board game bookshelf is still from Ikea, the KALLAX. They've got the deep square shelves that can hold six or seven square box board games pretty easily. If you look at almost any board game reviewers, behind them is nothing but Kallax shelves (especially Dice Tower).

I've got 1 2x4 and 2 2x2s and they hold about 90 games total. On the 2x2s I have about 10 of the small box (Kosmos sized) 2 player games and on the other I have 2 baskets for tiny card games that holds about 30 more games). I also keep some games on top of my 2x4 Kallax. So they probably hold about 125 games total.

Too bad I own about 200 games. :/
As a mathematician who successfully made the leap, I think the biggest requirement is ability to swallow your pride and "lower" yourself to seriously study professional coding.

There's too much temptation to hack something in Python or whatever, google as you go, etc. What I did was sit down and practically memorize entire programming manuals. Many academics would refuse to do something so plebeian.
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Talking arty, literary novels are form more than content, so why self-publish a literary novel if form is strong enough?
Nice 404.

Nobody is arguing that 16 bits is enough during the recording and mixing process. If they are claiming that 16 bits is insufficient for consumer distributed music, they need to go back to remedial science class.
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A big part of this is due to mobile-grade hardware and no positional tracking. These things are neat little toys and I have both a Cardboard and a Daydream that I mess with from time to time.

But even my old (in VR-industry terms) Oculus dev unit from a couple years ago works much better. The mobile VR setups only track head orientation but the Rift, Vive, and similar devices also track your position in xyz space. This has a huge impact on how well your movements are mirrored in the virtual environment. Ultimately, getting as close to 1:1 mirroring is how you avoid motion sickness.

The other part of that is overall body position so a lot of the attempts to shoehorn traditional FPS games into VR are iffy because even if your head is tracked, your brain knows you're not running around even if your visual input tells you that you are.

It's a big part of why I don't think games (or at least many styles of games that work on 2D screens) are the end goal for VR. They seem obvious since they're already using complex and realistic environments but the VR applications that really work are the ones where your viewpoint matches your actual physical orientation (including the rest of your body).

I also think the big jump will come when someone sorts out how to get a few cheap depth cameras set up around a room to generate a real-time 3d model with video data used to texture the mesh. Send that data over networks and display in a VR headset and you're on your way to 3d/VR telepresence. The hardware still needs to improve and the software developed, but it reminds me of using early smartphones more than anything else.

When I had a Treo or an old Pocket PC I knew that technically these things could be as fluid and smooth as a desktop or laptop of the time. It just wasn't feasible to cram it into a tiny handset for a price anyone could pay. But now 10-15 years later you can spend a few hundred bucks and get something better than your old Playstation or laptop in your pocket.
Interesting. Even with the title, and some of the points he made around "seriously disagreeing with some of these people" I found this to be fairly well balanced and interesting.
This quote really scares me, and something I've considered true since Obama was first elected. Some people are truly scared to share their political opinions in public. We should be worried about that.
"Almost everyone I asked was willing to talk to me, but almost none of them wanted me to use their names — even people from very red states were worried about getting "targeted by those people in Silicon Valley if they knew I voted for him." One person in Silicon Valley even asked me to sign a confidentiality agreement before she would talk to me, as she worried she'd lose her job if people at her company knew she was a strong Trump supporter."
Afaik there is strong support for dark matter via gravitational lensing effects of galaxies. Unfortunately it is not mentioned in the article whether MOND can cope with these observations. At least I would expect that there might be some integration of MOND into ART which explains that.
Adding in a single extra particle is a lot simpler than rejiggering the entirety of our theories of gravitation. It's also a lot easier to test, just go out and find the particle. This worked for neutrinos, antimatter, the Higgs boson...

The Higgs boson took a long time to be discovered, but people thought it would be there because the alternative was the Standard Model being wrong. And so they looked, and there it was. Perfectly compatible with the Standard Model.
I really appreciate the practical advice you're sharing as someone in the trenches of this specific process. What is the first action that should be taken by someone wanting to self-publish?

Something about getting the product in front of a critical audience ASAP to prevent wasting time creating something that even marketing can't save?
I have used ReportLab; it's easy to use and the results look good. Never used Latex, so can't comment on that.
It doesn't matter if you aren't looking for a career in that field.

If you are choosing between fields or are looking to increase your income, how many people got good-paying, permanent jobs is highly important. It is also important if you are spending money that might be better invested in something else (such as a reliable vehicle or a down payment on a house if you live in the Midwest).

If you simply want the learning, the money isn't an issue ,and/or you don't actually care to land a job with the knowledge, then the job thing isn't an issue. All depends on perspective and desired outcomes.
That's why they call it a game.
In my reading, pyrale was agreeing with you, but instead of sourcing the problem as some vague social effect putting the blame specifically on our ways of funding science.
Not with your proposed marketing mechanism, but there's https://www.fictionpress.com/ -- a spinoff of https://www.fanfiction.net/.
Thanks for sharing your experience about using beta readers. I think this is so important for any type of media creation, from books to music to videogames. I am actually developing a framework that explores this called Lean Media:

What is Lean Media? It’s an approach to creating media content that emphasizes low-cost production, careful observation/measurement of audience feedback, and fast iteration. Properly incubated and carefully scaled, Lean Media projects can attract loyal audiences and grow into successful works and brands.

(more information via http://leanmedia.org)

Would you be interested in being profiled on the blog about your approach to using beta readers? If so please email me at ian -at- leanmedia.org ... I think what you are doing would provide a great example!
If you would need to practice that, the job is not for you.
It depends on the association of the for clause in the text. I read it as reinforcing buildings in Seattle (and preparing Vancouver island) for a tsunami. They didn't say anything about earthquakes.
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Living in the same house is a popular fact, but it might be a little dishonest. It's a big house, with a lot of space around it, and it's obviously been kept up to date with somebody who has money. It's not at all like the 50 year old house my grandparents have.
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>The author seems mistaken about a couple things relating to hash tables. He doesn't seem aware that, by far, the main reason for using power-of-two hash table sizes is so you can use a simple bitshift to eliminate modulo entirely.

From the article:

>This is the main reason why really fast hash tables usually use powers of two for the size of the array. Then all you have to do is mask off the upper bits, which you can do in one cycle.
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How can you the communication of your words is accurate without feedback of others expressing to you what was clear and unclear?

Like, damn, do you also argue that proper grammar and sentence structure is just "an average of what the masses like to read"? Because yes, that's what English is, its an average of what the masses communicate ideas with, within the mass of people who speak English.
I'm not so sure. seems to be human bias on top of data bias. great for context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdCJYsKlX_Y
You're focused on the wrong thing. Do you need investors right now? Do you even need a co-founder?

Focus on building the product and generating revenue. If you can prove your idea works and it can scale, it doesn't matter how many founders there are, or whether you spend 10 or 100 hours a week working on it.

No sane investor will turn down an opportunity, given that it generates revenue and it can scale well.
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If you're looking at the sky and there appears to be a lot more stuff there than just the bits that emit light, wouldn't Occam's Razor suggest that the presence of more stuff is the most natural explanation, rather than rejiggering the fundamental laws of physics?
Many games on Windows even ask for administrator to run (or update), so that's already game over from a security perspective.
I'm very particular about how I want certain parts of the book to work, and with Leanpub there was a lot of random tweaking of Leanpub-flavored Markdown to try to please the parser.

I'd change a thing, press build, wait 9 minutes and check to see if that fixed it. In particular, woe is me if I wanted to use a mathematical formula.

I like that with Softcover I can use a local build system and can fall back to LaTeX (well, PolyTeX) to give me much better control.
Interesting hypothetical ... even more interesting if you're implying it might not be so hypothetical
For clarity, what you say is not true (see section 164(7) in the reference cited above). You only have to produce your license upon request within 7 days at a police station. Nothing bad can happen to you (e.g. you can't be detained) for driving without your license on your person.
Well, the UK really seems to put a tough stance on immigration now:

Woman deported from UK despite being married to Briton for 27 years

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/26/grandmother-...

There is a German saying: "God knew, why he put the island monkeys on on island. But he did not expect them to build ships..."
Track side equipment is really expensive.
> It seems to me that there are a lot of apples-to-oranges comparisons here?

So, the usual. :)

I stopped taking into account the benchmarks game completely after I saw apples-to-potatoes comparisons a few years back.
The issue with the previous comment was entirely due to phrasing, in my opinion. A "Show HN" of an open source project is a gift, the socially acceptable response would be to thank and politely refuse, and maybe suggest an improvement.

"This seems interesting, but I wish it supported other VCSs - you will have to claw Mercurial from my cold dead hands!" would have made the same point, but it'd wouldn't sound like the developers somehow owed something.