skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the antidote to this is to be willing to go down with the ship of Truth. If you are saying something that you believe is true, that you believe is as kind as possible, then when you are pilloried, you will be forced to retreat back into the arms of other people who recognize truth and kindness when they see it.

If you neglect the truth, and instead traffic in half truths and innuendos... in the off chance you are pilloried anyway, where will you retreat to?

The world is full of second chances. You may lose your chance at becoming a senator, or a university professor, or somesuch. But there's mostly always another opportunity somewhere. In the internet age, you can eke out a living off of a motley crew of diffuse patrons more easily than ever. You don't need to please everyone the way Walter Kronkite did. You just need to please your core following.

If you accept that you have no entitlement to any particular space or industry or position then it becomes much easier to accept that things might go sideways. It's not the end of the world. Just the end of your story in one slice of it.

... says someone who just wrote a post this morning on HN about the notion that whiteness and masculinity could be associated with brain damage. I may come to regret it. But I think it's worth it, to put up my sail and allow it to be pushed closer to truth.
yeah, once z = z2 + c was explained, most of Mandelbrot was easy for me too.

I tried it in BASIC on an Apple IIe. it was the first time I was confronted with the question of whether it was safe to run the computer over night, or if it would overheat.

The next morning, the computer was fine, but it still hadn't reached an interesting part of the set.

So once I got a PC I ended up using Fractint. In those days, Intels had slow floating point, so they ported the algorithm to use integer. That was much more effective than jjust speeding up the machine clock (my first learning about performance).

Palette cycling was "cool" but by the time I got to college, while I thought I'd spend all my time generating fractals, I found the real world more interesting...
Hi! I co-wrote the first one, and it is definitely not intended to be a CS canon. Those books are our suggested resources for folk teaching themselves computer science, and were evaluated on that basis alone. We included not-great books where they're still the best we've found for a particular topic. Equally we excluded dozens of amazing books that are outside the scope of the resource.
Zinal – a projectional editor that can self-host
Facebook is still free to ban him. (It's against their ToS.) But the government can't order it.
One simple way is to start with a largish square, say 8x8 pixels, and evaluate the Mandelbrot set at the corners. If you get the same color, paint the square in a single color. Otherwise split it in 4 smaller blocks, evaluating the set at a 3x3 grid (which is not really correct, the four squares don't actually have any corner in common, but it's twice as fast). Again if any small square has the same color at the corners, fill the block with one color.

One improvement for accuracy is, if you find all four corners have the same color (no matter if it's an 8x8 or 4x4 block), pick another pixel and iterate that one; if the color doesn't match, skip the optimization. That is more expensive, up to 25%, but it can avoid mistakes in the chaotic areas of the set.

And of course, the large cardioid in the center has an analytic expression, and you can skip pixels inside that area, or a conservative approximation of the area.
Call it anyway you want, lizard brain, flyers (Castaneda), Yaldabaoth (agnostics), this force that pushes evolution on earth at great speed through predatorial behavior like competition and flight or fight.

We humans are the most intelligent species and still can't overcome it, as a civilization whatever political system or religion we tried no matter how hard we try we can't seem to overcome it, we still have wars and violence.

When few succeed to inspire people to overcome it and fight without violence like Mahatma Gandhi did they inspire humanity and are called saints by their nation.

When an individual can control his own feelings to such an extent that violence or anger feelings can no longer touch him we call him enlightened.

Maybe this force is not only trying to help us evolve but wants to teach us something marvelous if we overcome it.
Millenials, millennials, MILLENIALS!!!
Vaguely off-topic: the day that app was released, I stumbled into 111 Minna (a bar in downtown SF) and saw a bunch of signs for Reddit. Assuming it was a reddit meetup, I talked up this one dude about the new app, how ugly it was, how I was never going to stop using Baconreader if this was the shit the reddit team was gonna put out, etc. Later a girl said "man, Steve thought it was hilarious how you just shit all over our new app. You know this is our launch party, right?"

Found out it was Steve Huffman.
Some bought mopeds/scooters, most did not.
There was a couple of teenagers living another 5km further away and still riding a bycicle.

Now when those turned 18.. that's a different story, it did not take them very long before the driver license was there.

When I look at my nieces/nephews now, then it is mostly still the same story. Except that indeed the number of mopeds is higher, but still under 50%.
It's not easy, but if you put the time end effort, it is quite possible...
The difference is you can dissolve your stealth startup if the feedback is negative enough and form another startup around a different idea.

You can't easily "dissolve" your personal identity if things go south. You'll forever be "that stupid person who say X online" to search engines forever. Unless someone's working on a stealth startup to fix this…
Perhaps something like including a sha of the dom of the page in the link, then some js that won't display it if it doesn't match up? I can think of all sorts of problems with the idea, but as a seed it might be worth something.
"// Meme header file. Every project should have one of these. Kappa Kappa Kappa"
So you can get passwords over plain text and immediately toss them in the bin, I don't see the usefulness at all
One example: You get a class cast exception at run-time, rather than corrupted memory.
Tip for people trying to stay cool without AC in the UK
Get in the shower and remove the shower head. Run cold water over your femoral arteries (upper inside of your thighs) for 10-15 minutes until you are on the verge of shivering.

This is highly effective as the femoral artery is a major blood vessel and running icy cold water over an extremity is a lot less unpleasant than running it over your core.

edit: I refer specifically to the UK as it is particularly hot here at the moment, but obviously this applies anywhere where most people don't have AC
> cough hello rust evangelism strike force cough

we also never sleep ;-)

thanks for the explanation...it will be interesting how netflix will handle it. The "reasonable thing" to do would be to either
a) plonk all of those "superfluous" engineers into creative fun mode ala xerox park
or
b) set them onto formally verifying the stack and then sack them slowly/stop hiring,
at least as far as can guess from the outside of the entertainment industry? Though handling 3D/VR+developing teldedildonics (does netflix do adult content?) might give the techies continued legitimacy
Right - higher-level interfaces are usually nicer to work with, be that at a language level or abstraction level.

Metal is a nice balance.
Except its:

1. Centrally regulated and collected
2. Mandatory
3. Explicitly includes matters of ideology and opinion

So, it's hardly comparable to what is extant under the surface in other countries.
Send them a invoice of USD 5000, for the service you hoped to get, but didn't receive. Include a dead line. Send via registered mail. Probably nothing will happen.

Go a small claims court and pay probably not more than USD 200.

Most other suggest to ask nicely. You already did, nothing happend and from history i doesn't seem like it ever will.
Tech Veteran Adam Bosworth Directing Mysterious Amazon Project
Sorry, I meant "the smart gates are used as the only identification method". Poor wording.
I landed in Beijing Sunday and arranged a car from my hotel since Uber doesn't work here. I arranged via email for the Intercontinental to send an Audi for me and my colleague for CNY 780 (USD 114). Included in the price was an expediter service of a very nice woman who met us at the gate and accompanied us through immigration until she put us in the car.

In Europe, your service doesn't make sense either, because Uber to a hotel is so convenient and reliable.

I'm your target audience, but I don't think you've hit product market fit yet.
a systemic problem that could be better handled through education, training and awareness

How's that been working out for you? This isn't a new problem. Where are those educational, training, and social awareness resources? What budgets have been allocated to them? What mechanisms put in place to monitor the effectiveness of the deployment? How many more years of theoretical discussions about ideal solutions should we have before acting, notwithstanding the possibility of error? If your cautious incrementalist approach is so great (and heaven knows I've spent many years thinking and advocating within that framework) why does the problem keep getting worse? How long and to what extent are you willing to wait for this informed public to manifest and (somehow) overcome all the countervailing forces that have economic and political interests in quite different outcomes?

And why, I ask myself, did you respond to my positive proposal about "strong user-centric privacy protections with strict liability and significant personal and organization penalties for negligence" by ignoring it and instead knocking down a straw man of 'criminalization' that I took care to avoid?

You don't want to be the person responsible for taking or advocating for a decision that might work out poorly, fine. But reiterating the reasons for your hesitancy achieves nothing.
The end of what autonomy HK currently enjoyes expires in 2047. Will be interesting to see what happens then. China has always been very long-term thinking oriented, much different than our western system(s) of government, that it has an expiry I think says a lot about China's long-term view.
Evidence, please. Vague speculation doesn't belong here IMO.
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Yeah, we tried them for some projects at our school, and had to daisy chain a real Arduino to do the io. Waste of time. This was Intel's attempt at bootstrapping a community by giving heaps of free kit to schools; ended up making us wary and distrustful of Intel.
Exposed GOP database demonstrates the risks of data-hungry political campaigns
You already have that. Just limit your internet access to Google Books.
It keeps the idea of channels from Slack.

These channel designations are shared by everyone who uses Twist.

Email organization is different for each person.
Cing! Thank you for very flattering comment. Obviously, this is database only paper. Please bare in mind, the vast majority, or perhaps even >95% of protein structure prediction methods deal with canonical secondary structure classes. We want to provide a coherent data set as a benchmark + source of information.

We have in "stock" a network (obviously another paper) that will aim at propensity prediction, still in trivial alpha/coil/beta phase space.
Otto Warmier, US College Student Detained in North Korea, Dies
Totally agree that all WF's white label products greatly increases the products available via Amazon Pantry.

I would also say that Amazon is well positioned to send mixed-product pallets. Stores today get entire pallets of the same product. This is incredibly inefficient. Amazon is well positioned to use fulfillment centers and robots to create entire mixed product pallets of only the products sold on any given day at a store.

This can greatly reduce the amount of unsold product in the supermarket supply chain to only the products sold on any given day. This also lets use less shelf space for a product and store a greater variety of products in the same space.

Customers may also have the option of having specialty products sent to their nearest Whole Foods for when they do their next grocery trip. For example, my favorite honey, Tasmanian Leatherwood honey is only available on Amazon. I could choose to have that available at my local Whole Foods the following day. In fact, Amazon could detect that I have it in my cart, send it to the store proactively and notify me that I can have it at my local whole foods, prompting me to go in and buy more than planned.
https://github.com/arnauddri/algorithms
https://github.com/0xAX/go-algorithms
Found it

https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-coders-worst-nightmare/answe...
I'd like to argue (not for the first time either) that the Constitution is seriously deficient in its failure to enshrine privacy as a personal right. Great as it has been for the last couple of centuries, I think it's obsolete and should be replaced rather than merely amended.
Actually BB is why I added the "(or pager)" to my comment.

BB was a two way pager (and later email) that they literally crammed audio in to (the first phone version REQUIRED a headset as it didn't have a speaker/mic).

They made the mistake everyone did. They made an X and so they tried to cram new things Y and Z into it because they were an X company. And it limited their vision of what they could do.
Exactly what are you asking for evidence of?
The formatter from IntelliJ would cause the file to not compile at times. Maybe I should have tried Atom. Too late now.
Per Deep Thought, the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42.

It's a very deep thought, if you go past the literal interpretation.

EDIT:

Before you down vote, read what I meant, since it is obvious that if you are considering a down vote then you're not getting what I'm referring to, and probably think I'm talking about numerology.

What I'm referring to is his choice of a number to represent the answer to life, universe and everything. Not a magical number, but just A NUMBER. It shows how futile it is to try and answer some questions in a mechanical/mathematical way. Some questions are not computable, and there is more meaning to life beyond the rational.
Considering this ruling, CAN Facebook continue to ban sex offenders?
It is a research paper on arxiv. Of course, it hasn't yet stood the test of time.
Kind of surprised that bike manufacturers don't offer new bikes painted to look old and crappy, as an option, or as an after market service
bad work ethic is just a long series of individual choices to do something besides working.

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-wrong-me...
BTW, greetings from GROMACS group in Groningen :) I happend to do my PhD in NMR and Molecular Dynamics.

Coming back to your comments about the canonical secondary structures; I couldn't agree more with you. The problem is quite simple, how are we going to convince the >90% of structural biochemistry society to simply accept the fact proteins are bloody dynamic and X-ray / eye candy structures may have quite little to do with the "real" picture at room temperature?
There's a pretty compelling argument though, that people aren't good at making long-term assessments of diffuse, but potent, risks, and/or are willing to, or can be coerced into, arbitraging long-term interests with short-term exigency.

Gresham's law, availability hueristics, optimism bias, distribution of cognitive skills, various aspects of game theory, and more, strongly suggest this.

Examples: global warming, pollution risks, resource depletion, moral and morale hazard, just off the top of my head.
Can anyone explain why police don't do a huge crackdown on bike theft in Amsterdam? I heard repeatedly when I was there about how bad the theft is. Is there something stopping cops from putting out a dozen fancy bikes without locks every day and arresting everyone who grabs one and rides off? Is the legality of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrapment different in the Netherlands?

Because it seems like a relatively small policing effort could enable a massive improvement in quality of life.
Google advances AI with ‘one model to learn them all’
Database of nearly every voter was left exposed on the Internet for 12 days
Great link. Interesting how Stephenson believed in 1996 (probably correctly) that a directly wired connection from Manhattan to London was faster than a non direct connection from Manhattan to the Bronx.

Nowadays the speed of light is a good reason why the Bronx is a possible location for High Frequency Trading in Wall Street while London is not. (My calculations say it takes 40ms for light to travel London to NY).
One Model To Learn Them All

Deep learning yields great results across many fields, from speech recognition, image classification, to translation. But for each problem, getting a deep model to work well involves research into the architecture and a long period of tuning. We present a single model that yields good results on a number of problems spanning multiple domains. In particular, this single model is trained concurrently on ImageNet, multiple translation tasks, image captioning (COCO dataset), a speech recognition corpus, and an English parsing task. Our model architecture incorporates building blocks from multiple domains. It contains convolutional layers, an attention mechanism, and sparsely-gated layers. Each of these computational blocks is crucial for a subset of the tasks we train on. Interestingly, even if a block is not crucial for a task, we observe that adding it never hurts performance and in most cases improves it on all tasks. We also show that tasks with less data benefit largely from joint training with other tasks, while performance on large tasks degrades only slightly if at all.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.05137

EDIT:

And code:

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensor2tensor
I read the article and read the comments. The article had numbers, the comments have mostly invectives.

If he is wrong, could someone who is knowledgeable take his numbers and state why they are wrong?

This is a honest question. I would like to have energy, ideally clean energy, uber ideally lots of clean energy. He is telling that wind and photovoltaic are not enough, by large, to replace our energy use of today. Why is he wrong? If we wanted to completely switch to green energy, would this be technically possible? (let's put the political agendas aside, I want to take this opportunity to actually make up my mind)
21 Secrets
>whereas women seem to understand men perfectly.

Ummmmm, this has not been my experience at all. Women seem as perplexed by men as the other way around. Believing you understand how someone works and thinks is not the same thing as actually understanding how someone works and thinks.

Besides being wrong (just do a google search for "how can I understand men") I find this part of feminist theory to be incredibly sexist.

EDIT: Also, if women did understand men perfectly you would think they would have absolutely no problem getting exactly what they want from men. If I understood someone perfectly, I would absolutely know the best ways to manipulate them. If your statement is true, the fact that women are still unequal in some respects (seats in the boardroom/more opportunity to improve career/etc) would probably mean that women don't want the opportunities they claim they do. After all, if they understood men as well as you claim they would have no problem extracting those opportunities.

If you can't get someone to do what you want, you definitely do not understand them perfectly by any stretch of the terms.
Well, if you look at the human brain, it's just a larger cortex on top of the primitive brain stem. So I think, simply looking at our brain architecture, we are will always be impacted by the emotional low level impulses that were the main drivers of behaviors of our ancestors.
I'm getting sick of the huge volume of garbage in the whole Internet. Idiots on Facebook (which I cannot unfriend for reasons) keep flooding my timeline with right-wing "alternative news" XXXXX (but thankfully, Facebook got rid of Farmville spam!), Youtube has been overtaken by Let's Play XXXXX, clickbait and the videos of "omg i was shopping here are my clothes" Instagram fame XXXXX.

And many newspapers these days, even formerly respected Spiegel and Sueddeutsche Zeitung, seem to think it's worth their time to publish clickbait stuff... argh. Is there any idiocy-free space left on the net?
The thing with an O lock is that is locks the rear wheel. A chain lock then can lock both the frame and front wheel to a pole. Although not 100% safe, most thieves will look for easier targets.
Your point is wrong. Even kids who were born after floppy disks fell into disuse recognize the symbology as representing "save" or "persist". Apparently the letter "A" used to represent a bull. Doesn't mean it is useless to us today, far from it.
Yeah, free speech doesn't apply to private companies. Facebook banning you doesn't count as a violation of your free speech rights. They ban people all the time.
I think the main difference is due to a number of reasons, an important one of them being cultural. Every kid can ride a bicycle and has a bicycle.

Another reason is our infrastructure, it is pretty safe with all those bicycle lanes, so parents do not worry too much.

Also if you live in the city then for shorter distances (under ~3km) it is just the fastest way to get anywhere and no parking problems.

Add things like that the Netherlands does not have a hot and moist climate, so normally not sweaty.
Pretty low crime rates especially in regards to violence.
Car drivers being used to have lots of bicycles around.

There's just a lot of factors down here that make riding a bicycle more attractive as in most other countries that I have seen.
Intel makes x86 (Exxon makes oil). Most things are moving to ARM (batteries). Intel (Exxon) now loses the market it built its entire business on as the world moves on to different products.

Exxon can make batteries and Intel can make things like ARM chips. But they aren't really because they aren't good at it.
That is a correlation, not causal. Maybe (just throwing something out there) poor parent's children continue to be poor because the poor parents can't teach their children the appropriate life skills to save and earn enough money?
Preventing stack guard-page hopping
This is true even at a personal level. If you think you know why you act the way you do but you have never done an experiment to validate it you have a pretty good chance of being wrong. Even for simple things, like how fast you drive, is it the speedometer and you are looking at it, or is it how your engine sounds, and if turn up your music do you drive faster and is that because you are more aroused/excited, or is it because you can't actually hear how loud your engine is? Or maybe it is something else entirely.
> This page is marked as incomplete. You can help Codex by expanding it.

I've been using WordPress on Nginx for almost a decade now, I just found that bit funny given the context.
How Wile E. Coyote's Dynamite Blaster Works
Huh. It's actually kind of popular in Computer Science papers in the security field to alternate (Alice, Bob, Carol, ...), and also (in general) for some male authors to always use a feminine pronoun when referring to anonymous or hypothetical actors. Surprised you haven't noticed either.
There's still the MinnowBoard Max / Turbot, though I feel their days are numbered as well...