skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite example of this is Japanese sushi. In Japan, where totally fresh fish is abundant and easy to purchase, the focus is entirely on the fish and rice. Most every dish is just raw fish and rice.

There are simple rolls which wrap, fish and rice in seaweed. Sometimes wa few, sparse other ingredients like shallots or cucumbers make there way into the roll.

Then, Sushi gets taken to America, and what I can only assume was a creative solution to the problem of limited access to fresh fish, sushi was transformed into the decadent "maki" rolls that dominate sushi menus in the US. Cheese, fruits, vegetables, fish, meats. US maki rolls that have nearly a dozen ingredients are not uncommon.

Both styles of sushi are amazing, though very different. More like cousins than the same type of cuisine.

Reminds me of how cocktails were invented during prohibition to mask the bad taste of moonshine. Japanese shushi is to American maki what wine is to martinis.

I think when cuisines get transported to foreign counties, they get changed to adapt to their new environment.
I’m a woman in tech, and this is what I want in a company
In Hoc Signo Vinces!
This is explored in Tim Wu's book, which I strongly recommend reading. "The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires": http://amzn.to/2cjtFDH
It's "emoji", not "emojie".
As luck would have it, the very same site under discussion also happens to host a neat online "IDE" for learning all about the 6502-based Atari 2600¹.

It is a companion to the book, "Making Games for the Atari 2600". A wonderfully clear and concise primer that I thoroughly enjoyed, even though I had no interest in the Atari 2600 per se. The NES was my first console -- and naturally the one I'd always wanted to program. Since it shares the same 6502 processor, I used this book as an introductory text before diving into the murkier waters of NES development wikis and forums.

¹ http://8bitworkshop.com
I have recurring dreams of being in elevators that move sideways. Probably watching too much Star Trek as a kid.

Rode in a mineshaft elevator recently. Not for the claustrophobic. Pitch black and two levels; you load one group, then it moves down the shaft enough to load another group on top.
Thank you, most of the sales were generated through affiliates, our profits after the launch were about 95k. If you check out jvnotifypro or jvzoo.com, you will get an idea.

To drive $200k was not simple, we partnered up with a person who had a record of 6 figure launches and had a good relationship with JVs.

To be honest, most of the tech savvy people would be hating jvzoo type audience but the reality is if you have good following you can generate good revenue from your side projects and feed that revenue into your main Saas startups for bootstrapping. This is something that we are doing without involving any VC for our core product.

One another example is a shopping cart product is Samcart.com, the co-founder Brian also captured the top Jvs for his launch including Jeff Walker, Todd Gross etc. These Jvs I have mentioned actually have the similar type of audience like Jvzoo.

Also, on the Saas side, one of my buddy Thomas from pagemodo (previous co-founder) did a similar thing while running the startup. And later he sold his venture for $114 million.

And the Voluum founder Robert gryn used the same approach to scale his product.
One option to save on tuition is doing two years at community college and then transfer to a cal state or UC for two more years. Doesn't help with cost of living though.

Look at the community colleges near you, and find out which one has better transfer statistics and planning. For example, De Anza College in Cupertino has a prominent page with transfer information[1]; Orange Coast College in Southern California has a nice list of community college ranked by number of students who transferred to UC/CSU[2]. It looks like in the many years since I went to OCC, there are now a number of programs to guarantee admission if you meet the program requirements (course requirements, gpa requirements, procedural requirements), which is nice because it reduces the stress of application processes when you're ready to transfer. Reach out to the transfer center to make sure you start on track, and stay on track to transfer.

[1] https://www.deanza.edu/transfer/
[2] http://www.orangecoastcollege.edu/student_services/counselin...
Since Venmo is a subsidiary of PayPal, it's not surprising that the two have similarly anti-consumer policies.
> It turns out that the logistics of throwing giant festivals in remote locations are difficult! Who would have guessed?

2017 is the "back to school" year. Things people have learned so far are "harder than they thought":

- health care reform

- large scale events

I look forward to seeing what knowledge gets (re)discovered next
Reminds me of political system bugs where a candidate might win only by transitivity.
I don't know why this isn't plugged more, but on a Windows laptop, I found https://github.com/rpwoodbu/mosh-chrome the best client to connect to remote Linux machines. mosh-chrome+tmux is so good that I got a tonne of my friends who previously used VNCs to switch. You can get as good a screen resolution as you want with all your favorite fonts - I use Fira Code that I couldn't get working in putty.
To be clear, and I do agree with you, that net neutrality is only half the problem. You hint on this very directly several times, but don't actually acknowledge this out right.

There are two warring trusts here, and both are equally evil in that they will abuse you as much as they can. On one hand there is the distribution problem, which is the ISP monopoly. With the recently media fallout around rolling back ISP data collection some of the big ISPs have openly promised to not resell this collected data... but if they own their own advertising networks they have less incentive to.

On the other side there is the content provider mega-states, which actually bigger and scarier than the ISPs. As your facts indicate the top 8 apps in the Apple app store come from Google and Facebook. Using their ad networks they can track your browsing habits as a third party service on second party sites, which means they know who you are even when you have no account with them or are logged out.

Remember the fallout of SOPA. SOPA scared the shit out of social media. If that law passed then social media would actually have to police the content of user submissions without motivation from multi-billion dollar law suits.

On one hand the ISP army is kind of evil in that they force their authority upon the public and the public is often powerless to do anything about it. The benefit of that is that they don't have to be dishonest about it, which is some level of transparency... even if still an aura of corruption.

The content provider side is scarier to me, because they can only gain wealth and influence if users lend it to them... and for convenience most users absolutely give up their privacy. They often don't need the same super-power lobby force the ISPs need if they can convenience their users to scream loudly enough together.

Fortunately, they are each the solution to the other's problems. If you believe the content providers are the greater evil then prioritize distribution and diversify your content sources. If you believe distribution (the ISPs) to be the greater problem then consolidate your content consumption and receive it through alternate providers.
This is an interesting problem. I'm trying to visualize this and I must be thinking about the problem incorrectly; perhaps you can help me wrap my head around it.

Since the pieces fall onto the faster conveyor belt with random spacing, isn't it possible that two consecutive pieces will have the spacing of the puffers they are destined for (within margins), regardless of the puffer placements?
technically it still persists, just in the form of hawking radiation instead of bits & bytes. Some people think this is what makes amazon glacier so cheap.
> 1. Safari is not the new IE by a long shot: https://webkit.org/status/

Yes, they've made great strides with JavaScript future support... But they still have some major issues! [0]

Let me just draw out a few from that list that are supported by Chrome, not Safari on iOS 10.3, that really should have support:

* No public key pinning

* No paged media queries

* No ChaCha20 for TLS

* No FLAC, no Ogg Vorbis support

* No png favicons, because Apple is special and needs their own format that doesn't comply with anybody else

* No download attribute.

* No resize attribute for CSS.

[0] http://caniuse.com/#compare=ios_saf+10.3,and_chr+57
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14102751
Largely depending on your product.

I find free tier offering on IaaS generally far less useful than what a production system needs.
> a network is useless without X critical mass of users and Y minimum activity level.

indeed.
No, I read about how they come to the conclusion. Sure, I didn't verify it with my own observations but you could do that.

But atleast the answer isn't - "It's written in a 2000 year old book that a lot of people believe is true. If you question it we will physically beat you and socially humiliate you".
Other than a dig at '"plug-and-play" trips to Burning Man' which is a tired point that point of fact have always been part of Burning Man more so than the people now who are going to be cool and not liking it, not sure of the point?

As you say it's schadenfreude, nothing at all to be proud of?

True it's an emotion that we all have, don't deny it, but to revel in the failure of things is pretty negative.

'deeper investigative reporting' is just people fucked up big time. There is nothing to learn at this level, you/we are just loving schadenfreude is what's really going on.
The Climate Change Deniers in Congress
This would make sense if we were making an exhaustive list

Why would that make sense? It makes sense to point out common ones. Especially if you are, presumably like the people at Recurse are, informed by the experience of running that type of learning environment. They aren't trying to be exhaustive or all-encompassing or even a downer. They're trying to deal with problems they've encountered, not writing a formal system of acceptable behaviour.
Dreher's problem is he's trying to find a good defense for bigotry, and there are no good arguments for bigotry, so he ties himself up in knots.
<Spoiler>I would, as part of the second foundation.</Spoiler>
As offensive as saying the Spanish don't understand the concept of burritos.
The article got me thinking what might happen in a dystopian future where all networks are under tight control and surveillance. Well, there's already the dark web... But what about the physical "backbone" to support a world wide web? Could you do it without laying thousands of miles of fiber optic cable? And without flooding the radio spectrum?
It started out requiring an @harvard.edu address, then expanded to other elite .edu addresses, before opening membership to the public.
For a wonderful story of Chop Suey (North American "Chinese" food) in Canada:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/chop-suey-...
Quick access safes are common - usually with either a keypad or biometric access. If you want warning invest in other measures like alarm systems and dogs.

Good call on the training if you're not familiar with firearms.
I suppose, if you're willing to believe your neighbor to the south will always be willing to come to your aid when you call. Even assuming your interests don't conflict, that doesn't mean they'll always coincide.

I wonder if, for example, the US would be willing to threaten Chinese fishing boats to protect Canadian fisheries, should it come to that. I'm thinking probably not.

Also, the amount of influence you have in influencing policy in these international military coalitions depends in large part on how much you bring to the table. It's rarely, IMO, a good idea to get involved in coalition warfare, but you'd like to have the option if your country's interests would be served in doing so.
You might be interested in SqueezeNet - https://github.com/DeepScale/SqueezeNet, I imagine this would run quite fast even on the Raspberry Pi.
I've heard OFX is pretty good for personal transfers between parties of different currencies. Not sure whether you can use it for sending money with the same currency though - I'm just looking at signing up now.

Definitely for accepting credit card payments for merchants, Stripe is a great way to go.
Minimaxir thanks for comment.
Regarding "accuracy" I agree that this word usage is unfortunate in case of R2. A "goodness" would be better description of R2.
Regarding the "one-hot" encoiding of inputs, I would say - it depends. I know it is a common practice to do "one hot" encoding in Machine Learning. There are cases when it really helps the model to converge (for example, sometimes Neural Networks would require such curation of input).
However, model that I have used in my post is Decision Tree based. And when you think for a moment about it, Decision Tree based model should handle numerical input just fine. Usually, Decision Tree based models do not even require standardization/normlization of input and work correctly without it.
I looked through it and it appears not to be. My first impression was similar to yours, but all was normal on the account until the Fyre Festival and she began complaining about the conditions and how she was having problems getting her father's jet in to pick her up. Friends of hers also had private jets come get them. The things you posted were in response to criticism of her wealth and I think at that point she became angry and started going into full snob-mode.

I didn't say that I dislike rich people, I was just saying that a mutual hatred between classes seems to be common in today's America. Her recent Twitter feed puts that on full display.
Wow, this is a great idea! Wish I had known about this last week. I have yet to use Uber, but needed to get my dad to the airport in a hurry. Unfortunately, he did have to hail a cab. Wish I had known about this... thanks for sharing! It'll come in handy in the future.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Panarin

Map of theory outcome:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Pa...

That theory seems plausible for when the theory was written (In the summer of 1998, based on classified data about the state of the U.S. economy and society[18] supplied to him by fellow analysts at FAPSI,[2] Panarin forecast the probable disintegration of the US into six parts in 2010) but I think he underestimates the ability for those in power to control the masses and the economic system on a truly massive scale.

Personally, I just think the west coast of North America is a particularly beautiful part of the world, add in all the advantages that come with being part of North America and it is a natural place for the elites from China to want to own a piece, which is precisely what they are doing. Couple that with the current fashion of "anti-racism" and anyone who happens to notice what's happening and comment on whether there may be some inherent risks (long term sovereignty, etc) is vigorously attacked as being a "racist".

I've always believed a well run ~dictatorship is the superior (well, most powerful) form of government, and it seems to me that is more or less what China has, so barring any missteps I think they will naturally take over the world relatively soon, perhaps with not a single shot being fired, it will be purely by immigration coupled with natural allegiance to the motherland, the notion of which in today's intellectual fashion in the west is laughed off as a racist conspiracy theory, but I suspect in most any Asian culture would be considered simple common sense.

You can see this to a degree in Vancouver Canada today, go to any family event and not only will it be majority Chinese, but more telling is baby strollers and children - non-Chinese will typically have zero or one child, while Chinese will typically have multiple. 75% of strollers are pushed by Chinese parents. Another interesting thing is, usually it will only be the mother in attendance, as the father is probably back home working in China (not paying Canadian taxes in the process, weakening the economy further). I doubt all of this is some grand conspiracy, but it is incredibly effective.

That said, I would never underestimate the capabilities of the various intelligence agencies in the west to take China down by some unseen nefarious means, however: a) I would think if this was ever going to happen, it would have started by now b) who do these people answer to, and do they particularly care whether China colonizes the west coast of North America?
I believe The Economist to be top notch. A subscription is a bit expensive though.
Chop Suey is not a dish. It is basically "Cantonese people that were not very experienced cooks, trying to cook to North Americans". It means very different things in each state of US and province in Canada.

See more here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/chop-suey-...
Each year there is guaranteed to be a 'winter wonderland' event with Santa, the Elves and everything else Christmas, only for it to go the way of the Fyre Festival and become newsworthy. Typical headlines will involve the elves sat around smoking with no snow anywhere on site and the general appearance of the 'wonderland' being more like a refugee camp.

Some recent years, found with zero Google-fu:

2013:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10518992/Winter-Wonde...

'Poundland Santa' - funny!!!

2014:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11248745/Laure...

'a visit to Father Christmas will never be the same again...'

2008:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1090931/Furious-pare...

'Challenging: The 'Nativity scene' could only be reached across a muddy field'

2016:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bad-santa-gets-sack-smo...

'One mum who visited the Christmas gala event in Cumbria, which cost £25 for a family of four, said her kids had more fun walking home'

Clearly this is a list that gets added to every year and I am wondering whether this would make an interesting day out, to go to a real life version of Banksy's take on a theme park.

The failed festival is in the same league however I think there is added reason for failure. Back in the day of illegal raves there was no option of failure because people would bring their own entertainment (yes, probably drugs) and be prepared for no facilities except for a sound system or two. Events were participatory, people got on with it and didn't wait around expecting to be entertained.
This looks great! So I will ask the obvious question - how common is the failure scenario this protects against compared to others?
I joined pretty early when it was still invite only and mostly university population. Perhaps it was described that way because of being invite only but the membership has always been normal, non-elite people (like me).
I think "troll account" is a better term for it.
well inflation generally robs the poor (and everyone else[0]) of the value of their money. By rob, I mean 'nonconsensually alter in the negative direction relative to the natural state'. Technology is supposed to be the 'tide that lifts all boats'. What few people understand is that the primary mechanism by which it does this is by lower prices, because that doesn't fit the narrative of "deflation is bad for poor people" (it's not).

I suppose it's a bit loose to say that the poor are entitled to ameliorative effects of technology - but they are entitled to not be cheated by the government, and if they weren't cheated by the government then they would be enjoying a higher quality of life from lower prices.

Yes, obviously Greenspan acted as a Keynesian, but he was trained and continues to believe himself a monetarist. That's the point. Monetarism still believes in the seductive idea that stability can be achieved by fiddling with the money supply - they just would prefer to relegate it to some computer program or something algorithmic, but that STILL encodes the normative biases of the individuals who choose the criteria for the algorithms. So even if you could have a 'top man' in place that is so virtuous or autistic as to keep his hands off the dials during crises, it would STILL screw the poor. Point being: There's no categorical difference between a Keynesian and a Monetarist, just a matter of degree of recklessness.

[0] but other people have means to protect themselves from inflation, mostly investments which yield higher than inflation. Really rich people benefit greatly from leveraged financial instruments, which are tougher in a deflationary regime. In other words, via inflation we are stealing from the poor to make it easier for the wealthy to get really wealthy, and it seems the recurring pattern when society gets overleveraged, the solution is to bail out the really wealthy - socializing the pain of risk.
Tyler Cowen Discusses “An Economist Gets Lunch”
Polls indicated Sanders would have beaten Trump. The DNC damaged itself at least as much as it was damaged by hacking.
There's plenty of good, authentic Chinese food in Cupertino.
Cocktails weren't invented during prohibition.
http://www.snopes.com/cocktails-came-out-of-prohibition/
The spacing of the conveyor 'traps' is equal, the conveyor belt speeds are a constant. If the puffers are equidistant the chances of overlap are substantially higher than if they don't. Most conveyor traps take only one or two parts along. If there are many more parts they tend to fall in a clump and won't be classified so then there also is no problem.

In the end the error rate went down a lot because of a less predictable spacing. But you are right that if the pieces would fall with random spacings that it would not matter what the distance between the puffer stations would be.

The funny thing is that I spent a lot of time measuring out the vertical spacing on the conveyor in the hopper. If I had done that more sloppily it would have worked better :)
A webcomic called Toothpaste For Dinner has my favorite take on this idea: http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/index.php?date=051810
The annoying part is that I can't always figure out by looking at the image what makes it make the right decision. That's a feeling I don't normally have with software, I can usually trace back the reason why.
There will be a part 2 about the software. But for that things need to get a lot better still.
I mean them asking the car company would have Eliminated that. It is the first rational choice anyone would make.
Saw somebody in Japan use Deeplearning to sort trash. Kinda similar approach
I'd be happy to give them away, but I don't think any university students will learn much that is useful from my tinkering.
The comment was sarcasm obviously directed towards people who are hailing this move.
Ask HN: Can you use AI/ML to match software engineering resumes with jobs?
There are quite a few startups that purport to match candidates with jobs based on their resumes?(Linkedin, Hired, etc). None of them seem to work very well.

The current state of the hiring process is to have recruiters curate the set of resumes that have applied for a job and then have the candidates go through an interview process (typically 1-2 phone screens + 4-5 onsite interviews). Most companies in the bay area have about a 5% conversion rate (Phone screen to offer).

Do you believe there is some latent information at the top of the funnel that can be added to make hiring more efficient? Can we increase the conversion rate beyond 5%?

Can the resume screening process by a recruiter be automated? If not, why not? It can be argued that we can build algorithms that remove bias and have a better conversion rate than 5%.
"They'll cost a fraction of the price of virtual reality, starting around $300, and won't require the beefy gaming computers that virtual reality does."

Surely this means the resolution per eye is going to be absolute trash.