skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very nice idea.

What is the objective function (loss function) that `back_propagate` is optimizing exactly? I'm new to the world of NN, so really excited to see NN code that works from first principles. Reminds me of https://github.com/mnielsen/neural-networks-and-deep-learnin...

Perhaps a little more detail about the math behind the code would be in order? I'd be happy to help out.

Another cool direction would be to convert the python code to cython and see how much faster it will run...
If buses have dedicated panes where they don't have to interact with normal traffic they can easily hit 70mph. Australian highways in certain places have this system.

My favorite is Vancouver skytrain. While building highways they built a train track on pillars. It's fast and usually got me in and out of the city quicker than a car.

I imagine train tracks on pillars cost effective than underground tunnels. For a dense city it makes sense. Not for outskirts.
I've seen people add '/s' to their comment when what they wrote wasn't actually what I'd call sarcastic. Probably quite a few people have seen others use '/s' but they've inferred the wrong meaning of the label and then they use it incorrectly.

Seems from what was said above that this is something that has not been taken into account.
Good! I haven't heard of it but I'll take a look, I think we're likely to use Western Union for our global transfers now, but will shop around first.
That's literally the second thing in the README after the fancy GIF.
None of the comp. sci. courses I have been to at least. Norwegian lecturers will usually ask if anyone does not speak Norwegian. This is at masters level at UiO; I am not sure about bachelor courses.
I work as a researcher in a German university and also have 4h per week teaching obligation. Our program is international and in English, all students are treated equally. A significant part of the teaching staff is also not from Germany. I have never encountered the practices that you mention. If one of my students would describe the problems you mentioned (especially exploitation by university staff) I would encourage them to file a complaint with the university.

It is probably highly dependent on the university and program. If you are unsure, contact the study association ('Fachschaft') of the program and ask some foreign students about their experiences before applying.
I don't understand why Altay's comment is dead. I found it interestingly and informative. Unpopular opinions reasonably expressed should not be killed.
I find it strange people are so averse to the idea there's a "normal", particularly if we confine ourselves to talking about, eg, social behavior traits.

Statistically, there is, and most people cluster around being sort of that, even though no one is exactly the "norm".

I think people just get used to making hyperfine distinctions within their cluster and forget how homogeneous the cluster actually is from the outside.

Sort of like you can generally tell apart faces from peoples you grew up around better than ones you didn't. The truth is we do all look alike, just like outsiders see, even if the differences seem prominent to us.
I study math for fun. It's very mind-expanding. Inevitably, it feeds back into my work eventually, allowing me to conceive algorithms I would have struggled with or been unable to imagine.
Can you explain how Slavery represents a political slant? Are facts political now?
Oh, it gets better: "Temin advocates doing away with the belief that private agencies can act in the interest of all citizens in the way that public entities can, and should"
Venmo is Paypal as well
stack uses cabal underneath, but your point stills stands that cabal has been historically hard to use.
They are rarer now than back in the 60s and 70s but PARC, Bell Labs, CERN etc might be good examples.
Vast amounts of NASA data is publicly available. For instance, the data from planetary science missions is available through the Planetary Data System (http://pds.nasa.gov). There are a number of other similar services available for other types of data. They are listed at NASA's Data Portal (https://data.nasa.gov/).
I'll completely admit, I didn't use the phone service this time, purely because I've called it before. After a ton of verification, they just want you to use the resolution center. You can arrange for someone senior to call you back, but as they think 180 days for access to your money is acceptable, I'm not sure how long I'd be waiting for a call from someone who likely couldn't help me anyway.
While I understand this kind of guide (showing how things are done in one language/ecosystem vs another), is there such a thing as a Clojurist that would have benefited from it?

I'm not asking whether there are Clojurists. Of course there are.

I'm asking whether there are people that primarily and only know Clojure, and thus would benefit from a translation guide between Clojure and Rust, instead of say between C or Java or Python or Ruby etc and Rust.

I'd think that anybody who uses Clojure was already familiar and/or proficient in some other language before, much more major than Clojure.
I'm pretty sure PayPal have updated their ToS since and I've had to re-agree upon login? Would that not cover me?
Apparently this has been in the works since 2014 (and would actually only add ~$140 to the cost of a vehicle) [0]. We'll see if our current administration wants to eliminate this as well...

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/03/31/nhtsa-r...
How exactly is this a political slant? Slavery is directly responsible for the mass genocide and economic subjugation of African Americans for the past two centuries. Beyond that, it set the stage for the civil war, which crystallized the economic disparity between north and south forever.
I understand that, but we already have a word for that -- figuratively.

I'm a long-term fan of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (and accept that it's not without dispute).
thanks - that's interesting. so I suppose when you saw the 14-character anagram on the page, you were like, "nice."
It's not just you, it started happening to me on Tumblr a lot several months ago. Something has gone badly wrong with their mobile layout. I wouldn't be surprised though; I can't imagine Veri-hoo considers Tumblr a priority.
Time to close it.
Mini.css has a new, sleek look
I think that the primary symptom of what is being called autism in this case is the belief that others are better at handling social interaction. The autistic's commitment to this belief is the cultural milieu they develop for themselves.

I hear you, it is more of a glimmer of a thought than something that I have worked out well, and I gladly welcome your explanation as to why I am off-base!

It feels though that the elaborateness of this self-identity is a sign that the person is actually quite typical, but somehow their ability to perform critical analysis has been turned viciously against their own behavior because of a few early formative experiences becoming the archetype of all socialization.

In short then it is the scrutiny they are subjecting themselves to that is the problem.

Their commitment to furthering the development of this self-identity is of course all good, free to choose their lives as they see them. If they are in fact in social pain about the state they discover themselves in I would suggest to them that what they consider to be discovery is instead creation. And creation carries no inherent obligations, and they are much freer than the story they have learned to tell would permit them to admit.
People with autism are constantly told they're not normal, so the neuro-typical / ASD split isn't something they created.

NT is not meant to derogatory or dismissive, and is a neutral non-judgemental term.
Whenever I tried to use cabal, I always came up realizing how lucky we are on the JVM with Maven and Gradle.

It's mystifying the Haskell community still hasn't been able to come up with a decent dependency management + build tool.
This is amazing.

It's particularly neat to watch how it handles things like "x * 16 + 500000" by splitting integers and using bit rotation.
I wonder why it's so expensive. I agree with musk. It makes sense for humans to have a 3d transport system rather than 2d. The payoff is huge. Moving 200mph through tunnels is the future we should be aiming for.

I also get a feeling he's read "foundation" from Isaac Asimov which talks about this.
Here is another python library for a NASA dataset. Elevation data for 100' squares of most of the Earth.

https://github.com/tkrajina/srtm.py

Info from NASA about the mission and data used by the library.

https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/
Find and remove the FlexiSPY stalkerware
"work out"?
I was able to determine the year I opened my account in the Account Settings page:

http://imgur.com/y6Rpc4G
> "Should child-sized sex robots be legal?"

I'm not an expert in this field, but it seems like bringing up the subject of pedophilia (even in the abstract) in your first conversation with someone is ill-advised.
I appreciate the point you're making.

Re-read the quote I have in my comment and remove the word 'literal'. Does that sentence have more, less, or the same meaning / power to you?
Facts that are so old that they have no resemblance of any reasonable basis of someone's current situation should be called out for being political.
I think that dropping the material design and going for a new style was the right decision. What do you think?
Is there a list of good PayPal alternatives besides Stripe? Bonus points for companies that work outside of the USA.
I have made it a point to walk behind the car every so often and wipe the lens with a finger or cloth. I realize the long-term implications of the build up of micro-scratches, but so far, so good.
Pretty sure anyone who uses the word "Abrahamic" has never read the Bible.
I really think these articles are important to read. I still think about and reference Ta-nehisi Coats' article "the case for reparations" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-cas...

He makes a strong point.

Now, I'm a white guy, my father owned a small business after selling his scanning electron microscope company to a bigger player. He paid for my University education outright including rent. I had to work for any spending money I wanted, but I basically had a free ride into my current programming job.

A poor black kid living in a high-violent-crime area who is the child of a minimum-wage-working single mother, is not going to have the same chances.

If he gets caught underage by cops with a six pack of beers or a jar of mixed hard-alchohol stolen from a liquor cabinet, or good forbid enough marijuana for a joint, he's not going to be able to rely on his parents' to hire the lawyer to get those charges removed.

This is (according to this article and others) traceable in a large part back to slavery. But it also comes from gererational poverty. Lack of parental resources leading to malnutrition, which leads to inattention in school, parental long hours at work leads to a lack of attention and corrective feedback. Or the parents are addicted to something and modelling bad behavior to begin with.

The child in these cases starts innocent and realistically has an infantessemal chance of success.

The solution is for government programs to tax me and people like me to provide simple things that can help break the cycle of poverty.

Free breakfast and lunch for kids, raise minimum wage, etc...

The Palmer Luckey's of the world have to catch on to just how fucking privileged they are as middle class white kids.

These articles don't deserve to be rejected outright under "bias" they're based on real solid research.
I like "where have you traveled?"

It usually invites them to talk about being from somewhere else without getting "Kansas, asshole" responses from, eg, Asian Americans.

It also gives them a chance to talk about an interesting experience, even if they're from somewhere boring. Almost everyone has been on one cool trip.
This is here because it applies on some level to us all.

I have a couple autist friends and they are awesome, and I understand that their emotions calibrate differently, but are still there and meaningful. After a while, you learn to calibrate to them, and can connect on another level. But this takes both sides letting down their guard and assuming good intentions. Something rare enough in love, let alone friendship. The time spent is worth it in either case.
Thinking about Hatsune Miku[1] here... are human vocalists headed out? Think about how much cheaper it'd be to have robot entertainers, who don't get drunk, fight their contracts, storm out of concerts, get sick...

Hatsune Miku has, "performed at her concerts onstage as an animated projection".

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku
Social Media Is the New Refined Sugar
>Volt has been out since 2011 with as-far-as-I-know no battery degradation issues. Some people have driven well over 300,000 miles with no problems

This is nice but anectdotal evidence is useless when looking at failure rates. Does GM put out any actual data on the Volt/Bolt? Im really curious how they stack up against Toyota for reliability.
I believe the general problem with bacterial viruses, is that our body mounts a immune response against them.[1] It works okay for a little bit, but because our immune system "learns" (e.g. clonal selection) the second time they are used they aren't usually effective.

I've read that they kept being used in Russia because Russia didn't have the industrial capacity for antibiotic production & refinement. It would be interesting to know if the Russian/Polish medical communities learned anything novel about bacterial viruses though.

[1] Our immune system doesn't know that they're harmless, and the tricks that some viruses use to avoid are immune system are typically harmful to us, so you wouldn't want to use those ones.
And what do you recommend as "must-read in my media diet to get coherent, well-reasoned essays from" from the left?
there is still an upper limit to the number of TCP connections an IP can open.

sadly this does remind me of that photo of a Darth Vader with a Brita water filter in a large body of water.

you're not really going to have an impact, but you are doing something
Study: Tech employees quit their jobs mostly because of unfair work environments
Cabal was the always the reason why I left.

It is not only Cabal, but also the constant churn in a lot of packages. For example, conduit was a great package when I used Haskell. But usually I had to update quite a bit of code when I would bump conduit up to the latest version after not touching a program for a year.

Maybe I have been unlucky enough to use Haskell during some transitions (pre-arrows -> arrows rule, let's use them everywhere -> arrows suck, basic IO monad -> iteratees, old fashioned field access -> various lens proposals -> lens). But I never used a language ecosystem before or after where things would change or break so often.
Only sane implementation of TLS without aditional indirection in presence of dynamic linking would involve having per-thread pagetables, which on at least x86 mostly negates any performance benefits of threads vs. processes. Kernel code does not have this problem as kernel modules are not demand paged and there is nothing they can be shared with, so kernel can do whatever fixups it wishes to do.

x86-style segmentation has essentially nothing to do with TLS apart from the fact that it can be abused to implement it without having to reserve additional useful global registers (as it is implemented on typical RISC platforms).

TLS areas are in general very small because very often only thing that is stored there is pointer to some internally managed per-thread heap allocated struct that is then accessed directly (reasons for this are twofold: it is faster in tight loops and there are platforms that do not support linker-visible TLS).
It's great having friends in the right places. Why in these stories is the patient always a researcher or married to a researcher in the field? People die of infections like this every day in every hospital. If i demand of my dieing grandmother's doctor "phone the CDC and let's try some phages" i'd be laughed out of the room. One is left with the distinct impression that, end of life or not, those in the club are provided extreem options the rest of us are not. (See many of the ebola stories.) They may be totally experimental but facing the end most would take experimental over nothing.
It doesn't mean the same thing as "figuratively". "I figuratively died laughing" doesn't mean anything to most people; most English-speakers won't understand what you mean by it. I mean, that usage of "figuratively" was invented purely as a reaction to non-literal "literally" so only people who have heard of this usage debate will understand what you're doing.

"I literally died laughing" doesn't mean the same thing as "I died laughing", either. "Literally" functions as an intensifier here, and therefore the former sentence is stronger.
I agree. The "you look like you are ..." requires the other person to either affirm that they look conspicuously different than their peers or to refute the asker's claim that they look different, which could be embarrassing for both.

Generally, I try to avoid comments on a person's appearance unless I'm pretty good friends with that person, even if it's something relatively benign like "you like my friend, Pat" or "you like $celebrity".

Edit: of course, "where are you from?" could be perceived as a patronizing way to point out that the other person looks different. Socializing is hard.
Which University?
Are you asking what that term means? It means exercise in a gym. If not, I don't understand your comment.
You're just repeating yourself without addressing the points I made. The value in a news site is in summarizing new developments, putting them in context, explaining their impact, performing fact checking.

Phoronix does all of this fairly well. Perhaps the style of writing or length of articles is not to your liking, and that's unfortunate, but that doesn't make the site blogspam.

This article doesn't prove anything at all. The Debian announcement was quite short, and there isn't much more that can be said about it, since most users have Secure Boot disabled anyway.

A significant point of difference with LWN.net is that Phoronix doesn't require a subscription in order to read the content, which makes it appropriate for sharing.
After some research: according to Wikipedia [1] there only place in EU that is researching the phage therapy is a Polish institute of experimental medicine [2]. They offer paid therapies for patients at least 6 years old. Both pages in Polish, use Google Translate to read.

[1] https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terapia_fagowa
[2] http://www.iitd.pan.wroc.pl/pl/OTF/
Pixel and Pixel XL to have access to Android updates until October 2018
We're Now a Step Closer to Using MDMA to Treat Post-Traumatic Stress
You still need rich parents, because you're not allowed to work much to support yourself.
you need a car unless your life plan is just to limit yourself to only urban areas. If you ever want to leave the urban area you will need a car. If I have my own car, even if there is public transportation I will likely take my own car for the convenience of it being my own space.

I am not arguing against the need for mass transport but I see no reason we cant have both.
I just use TransferWise, but that doesn't help for transfers of the same currency :\
I haven't seen a poll, but I suspect a large majority of folks here would say they think the congratulatory call was absurd, inappropriate, and worrisome. The entire rest of the national security establishment within the administration itself would agree. This is the kind of thing that even the President's supporters largely wish he wouldn't do. My point being, we (the people) don't support Erdogan, even if the person who is supposed to speak for us seems to.

Also, until very recently, strong censure of the Erdogan administration's creeping authoritarianism was our policy. It does not seem to have accomplished much.
This article doesn't address the long term effects of Caffeine. Personally, I find that Caffeine makes it harder to slow down and relax. Caffeine makes it harder to sleep.

The last time I quit coffee for a long period time was around the end of college. It was really rough at first, but I started sleeping really well every night. I slept for 12 hours the first day, but I started to feel incredibly rested. I was able to just relax and read books. I felt more introspective and began to realize things inside of me that I had been distracted from. I felt more like me. I didn't have the highs that coffee brought, but I didn't have the lows brought by over-consumption, anxiety and sleep deprivation, headaches from withdrawal when I didn't have enough.

Of course, something got me back on it, I'm still drinking coffee, and it's even harder to quit now.

Here's a list of the long term effects:

http://www.livestrong.com/article/97493-caffeine-longterm-ef...
Web App implementation using PHP best practices and web components
PSA: Do not use PayPal for any reason, they are unethical and unreasonable.

How many more times must this happen to people?
Orange Is the New Black: hacker holds Netflix to ransom over new season of show
Mazda has had those (as well as audio alerts) standard for years as well. Fairly certain several other manufacturers have also integrated the tech.
That's an excellent idea. I will add a static SVG as fallback right away.
you have to transfer to another currency. you cannot do transfers within the same currency (USD to USD or EUR to EUR) with TransferWise.

they are excellent for foreign exchange, however.
The mixed version sounds really good. Acapella it sounds robotic but the acapella is the exact same voice track that is used in the mix, right? Amazing.
You probably will need to learn german and to find an employer that likes you enough to jump the beurocracy hoops for you (signing that they couldn't find any germans to do the job with some proof of rejected german candidates).
He says he attributes it to his autism, but maybe that isn't the cause at all. I'm not autistic, but I recognized what he was writing about. I have difficulty showing genuine emotions. My wife joking calls me Captain Holt (a reference to the stoic leader of the Brooklyn 99). Encounters with strangers are a draining experience involving a constant inner dialogue that sounds like am-dram director: "Emote more! Bigger smile! Deliver with eye contact! Now bring it down a notch. Act concerned by this revelation."
Without 'literal': don't be shy

With 'literal': don't stand by the wall