skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This post doesn't even mention the easiest way to use deep learning without a lot of data: download a pretrained model and fine-tune the last few layers on your small dataset. In many domains (like image classification, the task in this blog post) fine-tuning works extremely well, because the pretrained model has learned generic features in the early layers that are useful for many datasets, not just the one trained on.

Even the best skin cancer classifier [1] was pretrained on ImageNet.

[1]: http://www.nature.com/articles/nature21056
As with almost all Vice articles, this is heavy on the ick factor, light on useful information. This "journalist"'s only source was someone who literally just sold infected fish.

Most parasites in fish can't adapt to humans, most can be safely digested, and commercially frozen fish will only have dead ones. So sushi or cooked dishes made from commercially frozen fish is basically fine. Worst case: a dead animal is in your food, which is already a dead animal. Less than 40 cases of humans infected with fish parasites are found in the USA each year. Wild freshwater and semi-freshwater (like Salmon) are the most likely infected fish.

If you find wriggly worms in your take-out, you can actually remove the worms (yes, even if they are alive) and then cook the fish to an internal temperature of 145F for 15 seconds, and everything (larva + remaining worms) will be either dead or safe enough to eat. However, if this is takeout, and the worms are alive, you probably already ate live worms/parasites.

It's funny that Vice didn't even include the really gross parts. Some people report feeling a tingling sensation when they eat raw or undercooked fish. This is the worms moving around. Often you can remove the worms from your mouth or esophagus, or vomit, to prevent infection.
The slight edge

This is a very interesting book that emphasises how small persistent things matter in life. Changed my worldview for good.
> I guess in many areas public transport doesn't make much sense to begin with (low density).

I really hate this argument. America use to have tons of rail. People today say "America is too spread out," but that didn't just happen. It grew that way.

Cities like Jena, Germany have ~100,000 people, yet it has 4 tram lines and three intercity stations. Chattanooga, home of the famous Choo-Choo song, has no Amtrak lines at all (where once it had street cars and was a major intercity rail stop).

In America if we started building rail, we'd watch suburbs collapse. Parking lots are huge blocks of lost real estate. Once you have rail and 1/3 of the lots are continually empty, you'll see stores selling that space to developers. Suburbs can being to collapse, simply because of the insane amount of parking lots we have.

I think Seattle will be good example of if this theory holds true as the ST3 expansion will push deep into a lot of suburbs.
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I'm only tangentially familiar with it so someone else please correct me if I'm wrong.

Etherium requires a significant memory footprint to compute, whereas BTC and LTC do not. As such, an ASIC was able to have a heap of compute power but very little memory and it'd crunch through as much hashing as a GPU with far less upfront cost.

Etherium on the other hand requires lots of memory, so to add on the memory to the ASIC you essentially kill its competitiveness against a mass-produced GPU from a capital investment point of view.
the car market is definetly oversaturated
they seem to be sustaining this post-equilibrium state with government subsidies and 'strategic acquisition' i.e. monopolization. wich hopefully gets the profit margins in order, but at leasts aids in more governments-gibs (via stronger coordination in their efforts of leveraging power/lobbying, having more leverage)
also chinese are making investments (like buying daimler/mercedes-benz) that would be -ev in a vacuum. they are doing it trying to find a way into the market after beeing cockblocked EU & consorts. and for the tech I assume.

wouldnt buy a tesla though. that level of computry and no FOSS, or at least OSS, forms too high a risk as is. plus there is sending a signal that we want/require these things, so we can actually have them instead of getting cucked all the time.
also am I uninformed or do they loose like 90+% value when the battery dies (8y warranty)
btw data collection is fine within certain limits. the reality is many people do need privacy with all the persecution going on and rising (subverted alphabet soup agencies, militant semi-organized communists or good old moderate islamists beating up right-wing politicians)
so it is necessary to have that option. would you buy a car that requires you to censor yourself on certain topics lest you may be facing zelot vigilantes or worse? its not like the 'as long as you have nothing hide..' slogan is anything other than propaganda/dysinfo
I understand the realities of the market, competition etc. so I dont blame tesla for everything. still not a product I want.
You can't generalize from specifics when the characteristics of the specifics are what makes the specifics work.
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For an article that seems to be in such favor of net neutrality, the author is not making any attempt to be neutral in presenting the material.

I read the Recode article this article is citing and watched the conference discussion. Here is what Hastings actually said:

“It’s not narrowly important to us because we’re big enough to get the deals we want,” Hastings said.

This article presents that subtly differently, by omitting the first sentence and shifting around the context (and thereby altering the tone). It also conveniently fails to include the broader discussion in which Hastings made this statement. If you look at the actual conference dialogue, Hastings didn't outright dismiss net neutrality categorically. Rather, he was forthright in admitting that it's not a priority within the context of Netflix's current goals due to a resignation that it's not a fight worth the resources, which is far less cavalier and hypocritical than portrayed. The Recode article continues with more nuanced coverage:

Perhaps another reason Netflix is being a little quieter about fighting to keep current net neutrality rules is that Hastings knows it’s already a lost cause. His best guess at what will happen is exactly what FCC chair Ajit Pai has been hinting at: “It might be that ISPs just accept the principles [of net neutrality] and it’s not enshrined formally,” he said. “I think the FCC is going to unwind Title II,” he added later. And he believes that it’s in the ISPs’ “long term interest” to respect net neutrality principles, so maybe they’ll just do it on their own.

While we're at it, Hastings was also quoted saying, “The Trump FCC is going to unwind the rules no matter what anybody says."

I'm not taking a side on Netflix's course of action here, but I personally feel this article presented the facts in a particularly disingenuous way. There are legitimate arguments that blindly throwing resources at fighting the FCC is an unproductive use of time and money, even if you are pro-net neutrality. You can disagree with those arguments, but it's really unfair to mischaracterize them as sympathy and hypocrisy. For those of you readying hashtags and boycotts, consider that there can be valid opposition to the FCC that looks more nuanced than, for example, Tim Cook's letter to the US government.
the current state-of-the-art is combining a bunch of layers together in a pseudo random fashion

Please don't say things like this. Neural network is nothing like a random process - people understand very well when to use what kind of layer, and when to add more layers.

It's generally pretty well accepted that more layers = better because it gives you better ability to deal with multi-dimensional relationships between features.

There are two reasons not to add layers:

1) If you are overfitting. In visual tasks this is fairly rare, and there are other better ways to combat this.

2) It's harder to train. Until ResNet came out, the idea of training 100+ layers was considered unapproachable. Even now, more layers make a much harder training task.
Maybe it's more along the lines of having become a "Google-idiot". Expert at using internal Google systems, or maybe even just a small subset of them, worse as a general engineer than when they started.
So you work on a tablet now?
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Reading the bible and seeking answers to the difficult questions that presented (rather than tossing it out at the first seeming inconsistencies) is what began my journey from atheism to being a follower of Jesus.

Further reading that helped along that journey:
1) Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
2) The Reason For God by Tim Keller
3) Anything by John Lennox
4) Many discussions by Ravi Zacharias

Regardless, this is not me attempting to invalidate all the points already made to the contrary, but an attempt to point out that belief in the bible isnt the most rediculous thing concievable and there are thoughtful, scientific people who identify as Christian, are not republican, trump-supporting or homophobic. Example: Francis Collins, leader of the Human Genome Project
I learn more of Flexbox by reading https://hackernoon.com/11-things-i-learned-reading-the-flexb...

Great complement to mentioned articles.
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Hey Aidan,

As noted, it's not a criticism of a reading list tailored for you, I simply feel it's a really confusing reading list given the likely audience that will arrive there from Hacker News and the title. I also don't think it can be pieced together to form a good introductory reading list or that the contents as stated are "foundational" yet given the progression and holes.

Your (1) confuses me still - I admittedly don't know how you got started in mathematics or how that's relevant here?

Regarding (2), there certainly is a place for neuroscience to influencing thinking or introduce new ideas, and I'm certainly not disregarding the entirety of that potential intersection, but it's a very specific field that is still largely disconnected from the practical application of neural networks. This may change, slightly or substantially, in the future, but thinking again with the lens of the audience of Hacker News (where the incorrect adages of the style "deep learning learns just like a human brain" gets thrown around frequently), I rarely want to exaggerate the influence that neuroscience has on the field at this stage. I'd also lightly note that appealing to authority isn't an argument, though do note the author's pedigree.
Hi HN,

We've been working hard on OneBar.io and finally, we're ready to show the very early version to the world. Think of it as an Apple Spotlight, searching your Jira, Github, Google docs (trello, slack, email, dropbox and many more later).

In this first beta you can:

- add a private github repo (go to Gihub in integrations)

- add a public github repo (go to Git)

- add a google drive account (not a big one, please :) )

- connect Jira and Confluence

- search in web and using our desktop app (recommended). The app is electron based and tested mostly on mac, though linux build should also work.

Some things to check out in desktop app:

- vim-style controlls (ctrl+j/k/u/d, G, gg, /, : )

- continuous search (try selecting a word and hitting a search
icon again)

- search modifiers (in: type: last: project:)

- shortcut to activate the search is cmd+shift+O

Currently we're trying to learn if something like this is needed. So, please, let us know what do you think. Just comment here or use the chat icon in web version or Support menu in tray dropdown.
Thank you!

P.S.
In the current state it can easily choke on big projects, so it may not be a good idea to add linux kernel repo...

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Saudi here;

It's too early to tell. This is not the first schism in the GCC involving Qatar, but it's the one that's amped up the fastest. There's a lot of dynamics involved here both overt and those left unsaid.

1: The possibility of a Qatar-Iran rapprochement. I don't think it was ever likely but rather was a political manouver by Qatar that got out of hand, particularly after Trump's very recent visit and his attitudes towards the Iran deal. The reason why this would be a big deal is not regional power flexing or the usual cross-gulf shitslinging, but rather that Qatar worries about being overshadowed in political affairs by Saudi, and Saudi worrying about the possibility of increasing influence of Iran within the GCC and OPEC. The irony, of course, is that the fear of GCC disintegration by Iran sowing disunity might cause disintegration...

2: The Muslim Brotherhood. Despite generally aligned political and theological views, UAE+Saudi are really at odds here. They views the MB as a populist force that aims to undermine the government and to covertly back more extreme Islamist factions in pursuit of that("enemy of my enemy...), and to create parallel structures in governments to advance their cause. Qatar views them as a useful tool, giving them somewhat safe harbor and the inclination of AlJazeera, one of the region's strongest media conglomerates. This came in useful in Libya and for relations with the Palestinian Authority and Turkey, but it can backfire quickly.

3: The possibility of normalization of relations with Israel. Probably more of a PR jab than a real issue, but it's one that's somewhat salient for the general public.

What would all this amount to? Probably not much, you'll notice that Kuwait is absent from that list and the likely reason is that they're being used as a backchannel. This altercation has been remarkably public in the popular media here (despite not being popular per se) so odds are all sides want this to be over ASAP.
I'm talking about bank transfers, not debit cards. Try and transfer $50k to another account and see how many steps you have to go through, presuming it's a individual account and not a business. And then see how long it takes to actually go through, and how many times they call you to make sure you are really trying to do that before it goes through.
thanks. I listened to the relevant part.
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The rational response is

...falling on deaf ears. I have been saying for years that hacker culture needs to develop greater emotional intelligence and meet people where they are instead of lecturing them with arguments that make their eyes glaze over. Politics is not a function of logic.

Your best option, if you live in the UK, is to roll your eyes eyes and vote for the beardy communist despite his obvious faults. Logical arguments are not compelling to people in the grip of an emotional rush. The inability to assess and adjust to peoples' emotional states is a kind of social stupidity.
Yeah, I think seniority in field means knowing the interchangeable parts of the stack. Even if the particular technology might be unknown to you, you still know the challenges each part might be representing and how to overcome them/what you should be aware of.

It might be that I read the question wrong. OP says that the tech stack is unfamiliar, and I guess it comes down on whether they've been familiar with a similar tech stack or something is architecturely different.
Mining algorithms that have aspects that are thought to be harder/more expensive to implement as ASIC chips.

For example, Ethereum implements a number of tactics to achieve that:

- relatively large memory size and bandwidth requirements.

- linearly growing memory requirements over time.

- announced plans to deprecate mining altogether and switch to proof-of-stake, turning all specialized hardware into pumpkins when it happens.

I don't know that it's necessarily enough to make ASIC miners impossible, but it seems to have had some success at keeping the bulk of the mining on GPUs, longer than some of its peers.
Some hash functions (eg. scrypt) are designed to make ASIC implementations cost-prohibitive, such as by requiring enough memory that off-chip DRAM working memory is needed. When the memory interface is the bottleneck, an ASIC is not going to offer substantial advantages over GPUs.
We have a historical record of this - a company invented the three point seat belt and felt it was too important to keep to themselves for the safety of car users around the world and freely licensed it so that every car company could incorporate it. That company was Volvo.
https://priceonomics.com/volvo-gave-away-the-most-important-...
Buffalo wild wings and Applebee's are bit the same type of place. Wild wings may but be for you, but they do have redeeming qualities. For me they are one of the better sports bars in the area with lots of large screens.
Issues are a form of QA -- something that companies can (and should) pay for. Maintainers want more high-quality issues, not fewer.

Paying for a maintainer to prioritize a certain issue (probably just features) is a better idea, and I've seen a few companies offering ways for FOSS maintainers to do it.
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Which, is something you'd expect a college graduate to realize...
tldr: "...develop efficient and effective forensics tools enabling the reasonable use of different types of data from different sources including virtual currency ledgers, online forums, peer-to-peer networks of underground markets, and seized devices."
I have always assumed that going to college is not necessarily the ideal financial path for any particular individual, but rather that an educated populace is better for everyone. In other words, it is a collective good that "we" have a "liberal" education.

And I stand by by that assumption.
Yes, but usually audits are of a single snapshot in the repo's history. Understanding why a change was made is quite important, especially if someone touched security-sensitive code.
Using fear to push for restrictive laws is not news, pretty much every government did it or will do it one day. It's just too tempting, people will accept the restrictions as a mean to fight terrorism/pedophiles/serial killers/$CURRENTENEMY etc. until the new laws will be slowly and silently used to quench dissent.
Will they require some kind of license to purchase and/or sell crypto currency?

This de facto criminalization ad then licensing the privilege (nay right) to utilize these tools is a step in the wrong direction.
I doubt people will be able to own self driving cars. They are going to need the maintenance schedules of small aircraft to be safe. It's more likely they'll only be available as a service or taxi.

I also think this is a big reason for the apprehension of self driving cars. While some advocate safety, people are more than familiar with software bugs in our phones, computers and web apps.

Sure there is a difference. The software in mission critical applications like pacemakers, aircraft navigation, etc. has to be thoroughly tested and designed to be either failure proof or failing in a safe way or having a redundant system. But will the products Uber and Google develop have the same level of testing Boeing puts into aircraft or SpaceX puts into rockets?
"How Not To Die" by Dr Michael Greger, Gene Stone. It really changed my mind about how to achieve long term mental and physical health.
How is that worse than producing an overabundance of literature majors that have very little ROI?
Are there really no applications for using low-level async I/O APIs/syscalls? Embedded systems? Game servers? Proxies? Software routers? Hidden command & control servers?
I had a minor collision with an original Ford Ka after I switched lanes without looking. My car had no damage at all, but the Ka hat a bit of red paint on the black plastic bumper. It had to be replaced, since the owner didn't care how "forgiving of damage" it was, they wanted a car without scratches.
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What on earth makes you think that Google is the best possible place to work? People leave Google all the time pursuing something better.
It might be that people want to learn to use deep learning, but they find the NIST AND other sets boring and want to learn on a problem they find interesting, but still produce something that seems to work.

Plus, learning to learn how to learn on less can only help the field of learning. That's the goal of one shot learning right?
Why is it that only very simple programs can we written effectively with spreadsheets and that setups where complex arrangements of linked spreadsheets and databases are described as horrible to work with by the people that have to work with them.

Is it possible that nearly every professional is right and you are wrong and text is an effective means to represent computation.
The problem was that back then the platform (chipset, etc) consumed a significant amount of power as well, so even dropping the processor to Atom level TDP couldn't really achieve that much given the rest of the system.
Many issues I've submitted are simply bug reports based on my observations during usage.

Simply by saying "hey you may not have noticed X but when you do Y then this happens..." it can help the author(s) know:

* that a problem might exist in the code.

* that there's no problem but the docs made something unclear which led to the problem I reported.

* how others are actually using their software.

These are worth paying for on their own.
Then I would get the call no? VM isn't the problem. The problem is the ringing.
The Human Zoo - Desmond Morris ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/333063.The_Human_Zoo )

Morris uses his background as a zoologist to examine human beings as a regular animal; many books have come out of this approach. In this one he draws parallels between the city-dwelling human and the caged animal. This sort of perspective gives you self-awareness about your own tribalism and how we as a species deal with the opposing forces of individuality and longing to belong to a group. Also some ideas on the urban-rural divide that has consequences that leave people on either side puzzled (Brexit, Trump etc.)
Bitcoin isn't really anonymous. Transactions are in a ledger. Isn't think why people use rollers to redistribute coins?
A little late to the game but this book changed my perception of reality.

Saving the Appearances: A study in Idoltary by Owen Barfields

You won't regret it.
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Don Quixote. Specifically the translation by Edith Grossman.

In high school I was assigned this book but I didn't read it all, it seemed like a waste of time to read 1000+ pages about a silly knight.

A few years ago I got into reading a lot of fiction translated from Spanish and Don Quixote got back on my radar so I decided to give it another try. I was blown away. It's astounding that a book from 500 years ago is still so funny and engaging today. Grossman's translation makes the book accessible and very enjoyable. If you didn't know the history you'd believe it had been published in the last few decades.

I recommend this because it's the best example of how literature can be time travel. When I smile at one of the adventures in the book I know that I'm sharing an experience with readers across centuries. There's almost no other way to get that feeling.
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Overvaluation.