skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So how, for instance, do I even decide, that Random Forest is not enough for this task and I want to build some specific kind of neural net?

The problem here is that it's really hard to give generic advice. As an analogy this is like asking "how do I know if Rails is enough for this task".

The answer is usually "yes", but the specifics matter a lot.

So in this specific case (and I realize you aren't looking for specific advice here, but I think the principles are useful):

Random Forests are very powerful, and work really well for hundreds, maybe thousands of features, on large but not huge amounts of data and are fairly easy to train.

There are a large number of types of neural networks. One of the big advantages of deep neural networks is that that can reduce the need for manual feature engineering. For examples conventional neural networks extract features from images that work better than any human engineered features, and LSTMs (and variations) work well at extracting features from text. The problem with deep neural networks is that they (generally) need a lot of data to train.

So, as usual the answer is "it depends".

In industry though, 90% of the time the question isn't "what classifier should I use". It's "how do I get the data"/"how do I extract features" and then "lets try all the classifiers and see what works best".
Clustering them might be pretty fun. Get all your friends old phones together and benchmark it
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Basically, non-linear variables are those with infinite duplication and sinks (they're "comonoids").
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It wouldn't be too hard for them to throw in a cleaning mechanism in there somehow.

If you find the car filthy, I'm sure a customer would too, so it's in their interest to fix it and I'm sure it's even easy to automate the cleaning process :-)
See the release notes: https://github.com/fchollet/keras/wiki/Keras-2.0-release-not...

- You can use a Keras model to compute some tensor(s), turn that into a loss, and manually add that loss to the model via `add_loss` (it just needs to only depend on the model's inputs).

- Not all of your model outputs have to have a loss associated with them. So you can do both {input, output}->loss and input->output in your workflow, as you wish. Effectively, losses and outputs are decoupled.

The VAE example hasn't yet been updated to use the `add_loss` feature, but it should be.
That's a shame, because there is a hell of a lot of legacy content out there that's never going to get converted.
> as far as how consumers interact with it

Right. Because of deep penetration of market standards, a mix of government regulation and industry standards, consumers interact with power in this very limited fashion.

I don't believe users of bandwidth would want to behave in a similar fashion. Is it so crazy to imagine a dynamic bandwidth market, largely automated for pay per use? I worry about the impacts of such a thing, but it like any other has its benefits and plagues.

/To be honest, I have no idea what you mean by your extended metaphor...
I'm calling this: after attending Google Cloud Next last week, and seeing the huge improvements to GCP in the last 18 months, I am supremely confident that AWS should be worried about Google as a legitimate competitor.

$GOOG is betting big on GCP, and they are executing at a very high level releasing iterative products and new features.

I'm recommending GCP for all my clients (shameless plug https://elasticbyte.net) if they don't have any infrastructure setup or provisioned already. While AWS offers a wider array of integrated services (they do have a large lead time), GCP has learned from all the mistakes of other providers. They started off with a superior project based structure, then per-minute billing, then sustained-use discounts, then Container Engine (GKE), then the Firebase acquisition (genius), now Functions and SQL Postgres support.
Can't be for certain but one possible large factor is it reduces diffs from the upstream if you commit as much as you can back upstream. It's a major engineering drag to deal with that.
Does it really cost ~500€ per month to run a single traffic light?
Maybe it's going the way of Morse Code, where it's use is relegated to labels on things and old books instead of being the only way to roll.
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thats nonsense, and not a pun
During last year's absence of any WebVR or SteamVR support for linux and Vive, I cobbled together an alternate stack[0], using Valve's low-level OpenVR device driver, node.js electron as runtime and compositor, and a WebVR 1.0-ish api. I've used it with React and three.js.

No ReactVR. No A-Frame. No lens correction. Insecure. The device driver api has moved on, and current device firmware may or may not work. But fyi, fwiw.

[0] https://github.com/mncharity/node-webvr-alt-stack
Thanks! I don't want to hit the web app at all...I want to load all my static files once and then it's all client side...getting data from the rest service when it needs it...
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Wow, I wouldn't have thought it could even get that close. But as long as we're spitballing....

If you're running on solar and you are only carrying enough batteries to last through the night, then your ship isn't carrying all that fuel, and the enormous engines to burn it (and, heck, alternators). So the boat will have a lot less mass, and a lot less draft - so you can significantly lower the power requirements. Add a SkySail, and relax your shipping deadlines, and maybe you could make it work?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkySails
If a guy can't even get laid, he's going to have a lot of trouble finding a partner for life.

Women, on the other hand, usually have little trouble in at least meeting and dating prospective partners. That critical first step is a lot harder for many men.
It seems to be covered adequately by formats supported by current browsers. Try pasting a link to a gif in Facebook. Facebook will convert it to an mp4 and put a big 'GIF' button on top of it. This doesn't seem to bother or be noticed by (statistically) anybody.
I am fuckin' Oprah
An autoplaying, looping, silent video with no controls is possible in a web browser with a <video> tag and a few attributes, though.
An error bar at the top of Safari which says:

"A problem occurred with this webpage so it was reloaded."

The page can be seen below, but no interaction is possible, because the page is in the middle of a redirect/refresh/reload.

The reload finishes, and the same error appears again, a few times. And then Safari gives up, with a blank background and a message in the center that says:

A problem repeatedly occurred on "https://research.google.com/audioset/index.html".

iPhone 7+, fully updated with latest iOS release 10.2.1, non-jailbroken, many GB of disk space free. Other sites are working fine including https://research.google.com/
We shard our data by customer and individual queries touch only data for one customer. We do split a customer's data into multiple shards, but the number of shards we would need to split each customer into is not worth the overhead of maintaining that many shards.
This is a light in Ft. Walton Beach Florida. I took a picture of it years ago because I thought it was funny. It's on 35mm film in a box somewhere.... (the linked image is not mine).

http://www.funnysigns.net/files/never-turns-green.jpg
Automated subtitles without human review of every spoken phrase likely doesn't comply with regulation. It would be very poor quality to have anything transcribed incorrectly.
It sounds like you're implying there's no manager of your blockchain, so maybe a better term is unmanaged investment fund or securities pool. Tax implications would be a major subset of legal implications. Investment funds usually begin as limited liability partnerships, so that they can dividend to their members in accordance with various tax requirements. But there are other legal implications affecting digital assets. How do you deal with the inheritance of a member who's died or entered receivership? You might also find that being a member of the securities pool is more valuable than the assets required to do so (your sway on voting might be more valuable than what you'd get by cashing out); selling your membership would be a legal matter.
My story: your securities pool may unmanaged by a particular human, but the legal status of a firm with no human oversight isn't well-tested. For example, I've setup a limited partnership with a charter oriented toward being managed entirely in software. In my state, an LLC is formed by one or more humans plus an agreed charter. A charter is usually quite boring, but mine explicitly states that the human partners' stakes may be bought out by the software when certain goals for continuity are achieved. In my state, an LLC is dissolved if more than 50% of its share leaves the company, typically when a partner dies. It is not clear whether an LLC with no more human partners is legally dissolved -- you may be able to fulfill your state's requirements for a limited liability partnership without a human partner. For example, your accounting services would be arranged by software, and the bills and bureaucracy could be handled without human intervention. When I took this charter to a bank, they had no problems setting me up, so long as a majority of my business didn't come from marijuana.
Looks like some traffic lights from my town.
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I also have had many female friends who I didn't want to have sex with. Sometimes it's been because I didn't want to ruin our friendship, other times because I simply wasn't attracted to them, and yet still other times because I thought it just wouldn't work out between us and didn't want just a one-night-stand.
However inefficient put enough people in a room and it clearly heats up. It worked for me in the movie. I'm of the opinion that this shouldn't be a reboot but rather the matrix 4 with Keanu and the Wachowskis. Oh well. Even though the second and third movies weren't as good as the first one I love the trilogy and still rewatch it to this day.
> Sanjeev Arora and his coauthors consider it “a basic tool [that should be] taught to all algorithms students together with divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, and random sampling.”

As someone who took Sanjeev's Advanced Algorithms course this past semester, I can confirm that he himself does indeed teach this.
Do they use steady red lights for all "right turn onlys" which on the other end have opposing traffic (do not enter)? Or is this an exception to the right turn only + do not enter at the other end? Harrison and 10th[1] in SF for example.

[1]https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7714317,-122.4115453,3a,75y,...
Nah, you want two Manhattans for that.
I'm a woman and felt similar reading that response. I'd never pay much attention to a guy if he has nothing on his profile because, as you said, the interests and such are too far off the beaten track. It definitely works for a wide range of people, but really doesn't for a certain subset.

I wonder how a dating service focused on detailed profiles, later meeting, and customizable search range would do...
Lisping on the GPU
exactly. As an Australian living in an area with many recent measles outbreaks in schools that doctors blame anti-vacination campaigners for (admittedly there is not enough research at this point to conclusively blame this solely) I'm all for this.

Our area also has a very large elderly population that are being put at risk because of this.
Probably because including two unused bulbs is cheaper than custom-making a single-bulb traffic light.

(Also, people who are used to seeing a set of three bulbs might not recognize a single red light as being a traffic light at all.)
The normal way water flows out of the dam is entirely different from the major way in which water was flowing out of the dam during the specific event.

The normal way water flows out of that dam has nothing whatsoever to do with either the spillway, or the emergency spillway, and was not shown in the series of photos.

Semantic means "relating to meaning" and indeed different words have different meanings. Meanings actually matter, it turns out. In this case, the meanings are different enough that you would have to take a two minute or so walk to get from one water outlet (the normal one) to another (either of the two spillways).
Unnecessary namedropping
>Zero-rating in emerging markets (e.g. FB in India) is really the only way for many lower income users to afford services at all -- particularly for video services.

This is too insidious and must be killed

Firstly - google offers free, complete internet via wifi at train stations in India. This solves multiple problems at once and actually makes an impact. (No last mile issues, at a major node where millions of people interact every day)

Secondly - Zero rating as proposed in India, would allow for a small curated list, which of course would be done by Facebook.

As zero rating stood, it was used by college kids who wanted free Facebook. Not by Kanta Bhen, in the middle of no where trying to find medical advice.

Thirdly-importantly: Wikipedia is not the internet. Facebook is not the internet. Google is not the internet.

These are fundamentally sites on the internet, and while hugely important to the English speaking world, the real value is the place where these things were made possible. And that is the internet.

That is what India risks losing, at a time in its development when it's more prepared to make pong than it is to make candy crush.

Sure, theres huge English speaking populations in the cities.

But rural India speaks a whole menagerie of local languages, many of which don't share a common root language.

So removing the chance for people to actually see that open, flat network, connecting everyone around the world is a massive short sighted loss.
It's a library of services, but we provide deployment, authorization, rate limiting, billing, and documentation layers for developers. Think of it like GitHub for Services instead of source control. (+ Making the usage-based billing model highly accessible to every developer.)
Richard Stallman wrote the GPL and never ever had any goal to "discourage freeloading". His goal was to create an entirely free software ecosystem where the community users, the end-users were not limited and controlled by proprietary software publishers.

Whether or not that goal was or wasn't well-served by the GPL, that was and remains the motivation.
What you're describing is an engineering mindset, or engineering talent. That translates into value in many different domains of knowledge.
But the "hive mind" aspect of the original concept works on so many layers. Not only does it bind together many aspects of the film (especially the out-of-body experiences Neo and Agent Smith), but connects it to the conceptual genesis in the Simulacra and Simulation treatise, as well as to concepts like Richard Dawkins' Memetics.

The Matrix is infinitely more interesting conceptually and thematically from the network-of-minds angle.
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Hnwatch: Watch Hacker News, filter and save stories, get e-mail alerts (golang)
Probably because it's a traffic light. If it's a traffic light, it'll have to conform to specifications for a fully operational traffic light.

Woe unto the traffic-light maintainer if, should the powers that be change the light timing, the light doesn't function correctly.
> come with pulseaudio by default

Which means they almost certainly include libasound.so, because PA still depends on ALSA in the kernel. Even in the case of distros that only use the ALSA emulation interface for PA, the traditional ALSA interface is still provided. Lots of software would break without that support.

It's more accurate to say most distros support both PA and ALSA by default.

> use pulseaudio successfully

Note that "successfully" doesn't imply "enjoyably" or "preferentially". I still hear complaints regularly from people that hate newer (PA-focused) distros that introduced a lot of latency problems. Movie audio sync became inconsistent (hundreds of ms latency, very high variability), and UI audio cues playing up to 3s (3000ms) after the visual changes.
it's actually here: https://pi.delivery/demo/

but we didn't have time to make it look nice :(
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How is this different from all the work being done to recreate open source versions of proprietary libraries?
Yes, Vischeck: http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/.

There's a Python library that's usable at the command line, too: https://github.com/joergdietrich/daltonize.
isn't it amazing how every piece of equipment is turned into a tracking device? Always reminds me of Stanislav Lem's 'The Washing Machine Tragedy' http://nemaloknig.info/read-192176/?page=10 where this appliance turned smarter and smarter until it took over...
We’ve lost control of our personal data, including 33M NetProspex records
Unless you’ve lived without health insurance, you have no idea how scary it is
I was a financial analyst, and I had the chance to cover the telecom sector.

I know how the market works, NN is not new, it is how the world worked.

Anti NN is new. It's hugely anti competitive and anti consumer.

If it gets close to getting passed, I'll be really happy for the segment. Wouldn't be happy being a consumer.

Edit: IMO, the American telecom industry is shafting its consumers regularly and has been underinvesting for years. (Investing in regulatory capture is a lot more), there's many other nations with significantly better networks and speeds, and it's a joke stock for the rest of the world to see the country which created the internet writing the book on how to not enjoy it.
Legitimate competitor? With all of the data centers they have sprouting up this year and their superior networking technology and infrastructure I'll go on the record and say they'll be #1 in 5 years.
Maybe it's that famous german sense of humor...
There's much more to morality than "don't steal". Firstly, it elevates property rights to a position they don't deserve – making life or dignity second-class rights. "Don't steal" isn't even universal: there's nothing wrong with a starving child stealing bread.

If you want something memorable, the golden rule ("Do unto others as you would have them [...] do unto you") is much better, even if it requires more thinking.
Sanders did fwiw [1]
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sande...
This sounds like it could be straight out of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
As of this announcement, file backed content _does_ use GFM (try a table!), but not the `hardbreaks` option.
If you think women generally have a higher sense of self-worth than men, you should really take a look at the prevalence of anorexia, bulimia and depression in women vs men.
Great question. Here's what I think...

It's a lot easier on the personal level than at the societal level.

The big hurdle for society to leap over is the profit to made off of promoting division by reinforcing people's fears. The leaches that sell fear based hate and political division have a constitutional right to spew and there's not a lot we can do to change that, nor should we try.

We can, however, influence people's desire to seek it out by using targeted media campaigns to counter the divisive messages they produce with those that invite cooperation.

The hurdle to do that effectively is the cost of the effort. "We" don't own a big media outlet, or have the budget to produce quality content and distribute it. To be fair, this is being done to the extent it can be with current resources available to those who are working on it, but not in a focused way. There are media sources that do work on producing unbiased content but not really unity by looking for and exposing common ground.

Since before the elections last year, on a personal level, when I have interacted with either "Liberals" or "Conservatives" I have purposely tried to find and expose common ground and there's actually a lot there.

As an example, when I talked to Trump voters about "the wall" it was easy to find common ground by pointing out the expense and ineffectiveness of a wall in comparison to enforcing existing regulations and reducing incentives for illegal immigration, and for making legal immigration easier for seasonal and temporary workers, which all my "liberal" friends would support.

When I pointed out that "Big Corporations" have an obligation to help maintain and improve the communities they sell their products in they agree with that. We all agreed that government waste is out of control and needs to be reeled in.

So, there is common ground and a lot of it, but no money and little effort is being spent on cultivating it.
Tim Berners-Lee? Wow, I am happily corrected.
"It's not a bug, it's a feature"
Mostly debian and ubuntu. Mostly Thinkpads, a couple of dells that I don't remember the model of, and a couple of compaqs. All of them standard builds. I've never added a soundcard that I can recall.

This is what bothers me so much about discussions about PA. There are legitimate problems with it, and whenever someone mentions them, everyone else chimes in to say that they are the minority, that they are doing it wrong, etc etc. This is how polarization happens.

I've had a much higher success rate with alsa ootb.
A color-blind person wouldn't know if a single light is red or green.

If the other lamps have bulbs in them, then I'll ask why. But the shape of the signal has to be consistent even when redundant.
"impose"… if I write some code and put it under the GPL, I'm not imposing anything.

"better"… That's sorta like saying that when some community gets together and builds a public park that when a wealthy company comes around and builds a fancy exclusive country club that the terms of the country club are better, and if only the folks had just let the country club folks build their exclusive clubhouse in the middle of the original park, that would be better because it doesn't cause them to have to go buy and prepare a different plot of land.
Enabling Jack also prevented the ability for devs to use Instant Run. It's not a dealbreaker, but combined with all the other broken libraries it definitely added to the frustration with needing/wanting to upgrade to Java 8. I never found it worth upgrading and almost always ignored sample code that showed Jack/Java8 in the gradle files because they didn't seem to be based on real-world usage.
>"You're effectively fucking middle America into relocating both their people and businesses."

I haven't taken anyone's job, I'm sensitive to wage disparities, I support companies letting people work remotely and I'm not doing anything at all to middle America.
Codename One predated RoboVM, was always larger and is still open source and well supported: https://www.codenameone.com/
The Great Typing Controversy on Late Night,
My favorite bit of trivia was about 'residual self image'. Originally the character "Switch" was to be a man in one reality and a woman in the other - it is the digital projection of your mental self, after all.

This idea was discarded (I don't remember why), and it's interesting that the Wachowski brothers became the Wachowski sisters.

It would have been so much more philosophically interesting if that part had been left in.
Dopamine is the culprit
Please share profiles on the list. Without known problematic production workloads, it's very hard for us to optimize appropriately. You mention predicate evaluation - it's possible this won't be affected by these changes (the index internals use lower level accesses than generic expression evaluation).

Re prefetching: PG does that for bitmap index scans, if you enable effective_io_concurrency > 1.
this is what happens when you take the term "bandwidth-delay product" a little too literally.