skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the motivation behind fast.ai's lessons, but I question whether it's the right approach. Their goal is to make deep learning accessible to programmers by reducing the mathematical background required. An analogous situation is the engineer who uses Autodesk to design car parts: He/she may not need to know the detailed implementation of the 3D graphics to use the software effectively.

The difference is that Autodesk relies on a mature, deterministic technology (3D graphics rendering). Deep learning is a stochastic process that depends on the data and the model. The training code, and especially the framework hooks, is the least important part. The example they give is three lines of code to train a cat vs. dog classifier. I've tried this classifier on a different binary image classification task: livers with and without tumors. It didn't work very well. There's lots of reasons: little variability between images, grey-scale images, different resolutions, etc. You can tweak the network, throw in more middle layers, try different kinds of layers, whatever, to get better results. All of that is guesswork if you don't understand what the CNN is doing at each stage. At this point in time you do need a formal education in linear algebra, calculus and statistics to investigate why a model does/does not work. It's not enough to know how to use the libraries.

On the flipside, you also need to know how to manipulate data and parse it into the correct format. This generally requires a year or two of programming practice in a good scripting language like Python. I will echo their thoughts that Ian Goodfellow's Deep Learning Book is remarkably lacking in this area. As a simple example, you cannot even use AlexNet without pre-processing your images to be 227x227 or 224x224 for GoogleNet. That's 10,000 images resized, labeled and loaded into the model before training can take place.

tl;dr IMHO in terms of being a competent user of deep learning: mathematics >= programming >>> knowing how to use a framework
You can set the volume to off.
True enough, but there's a tail.
> The modern version doesn't even have a pretence of due process.

Seems largely due to this needing to be handled in a criminal matter where there are laws, and not vague/varying campus rules and bureaucratic processes
Indeed, as it seems NASA's best capability is to 'get free money from the government' (not volcano nor space exploration as many would expect).
I kinda like the idea of a well-funded government. Maybe it's just me?

Note: This doesn't mean I agree with how they spend it.
NYT team seems to have misinterpreted Amazon's "Stable business climate for growth" requirement.

I interpret that more as a political requirement, where city and state governments are strongly pro-business (anti-union?).
To paraphrase our mortgage broker, "having a 4 year degree makes you much more creditworthy." And I just confirmed it with a family member who works in Fannie Mae, says it's true.

This is absolutely untrue, and I'd have to assume that your family member's role does not require an understanding of this.

Edit: It's also not on form 3001, so I'm not sure what your last sentence is trying to say.
The reason I don't care about the wall is simple: Yes, our immigration laws are complicated and need reform, but people shouldn't be crossing the border illegally, full-stop. That's why we have laws. A country that selectively enforces its laws is a country where the government can imprison you on a whim (because you've broken a rarely enforced law that they can use against you at will), and historically such countries haven't been nice places to live. So as a basis, you want and need a government that consistently enforces laws, and if the laws are bad, you change them -- which is less likely to happen if lax enforcement eases the pain of the bad laws. So how do I move from "we need to enforce our laws, and change them if they're bad" to "I don't care about the wall"? Simple: whether or not we have the wall, immigration laws need to be enforced as they are written (love 'em or hate 'em), which means that until the law is changed anyone caught crossing will be deported anyway. At the point that the law is changed, people who want to cross will be allowed through as specified in the law. With this philosophy as a background, the wall is relatively meaningless in a practical sense, although I do admit that it does have some symbolic weight. I have always had far more concern for pragmatic thought than symbolism and idealism (which probably led me to engineering), and I'm assuming that building a wall would reduced long-term border patrolling costs to compensate for the cost to build it, and so this leaves me in a place where it's a wash and I don't really care whether or not they build it. And yes, I have been called an emotionless robot before ... I took it as a complement :).

One more note: I'm not saying that I expect the government to achieve perfect monitoring -- just like it would be impossible to catch all speeders, it would be impossible to catch all illegal border crossings -- but I am saying that when the government does know that a law has been broken, it should apply a consistent response that is compliant with the laws that have been passed by a congress and signed by a president.
It's only for authentication.
the only terrorist here is the government that is terrorizing a minority group for defending themselves against a larger group that is protected by the government itself.

it is well known that Buddhists there are burning and raping muslims and once muslims defend themselves the government intervene to support the buddhists to commit more of their crimes.

the way this is going is shameful and i am really annoyed how people justify such crimes.
Germany must pay Poland up to $1 trillion in reparations
Woah, those are some pretty nice io games :D

Thanks for the feedback on the mouse stuff - I will definitely play around with controls more since it's been brought up to me several times before as a point that could be improved.
Yes, except that the program would continue rather than halt if you left out the OTHERWISE clause. This seemed to me to be more in keeping with the philosophy of the rest of the language.
Sadly Java was only half way to Lisp, as Guy Steele puts it.

Thanks for sharing the experience.

Ada was also another example of having Ada Machines, that is how Rational was created.
I'm not convinced that their office location is a core business decision. Wherever they go, people will also go. They could HQ in Mozambique and still attract top talent.
An early computer-based Nomic game (which I've forgotten the name of) had its proposals in the form of patches to the PHP for the game website. The way they handled buggy submitted code was to excise offending blocks of code until it ran again.
Interesting how mobile-friendly sites from 25 years ago are.
Thanks for doing this!

I'm a PureScript fan myself, but I like what reason is doing. There are a _lot_ of JS projects out there that would benefit from being converted to a language with a real type system, and it's good there are people approaching this problem from all sides.

EDIT: If anyone reading this hasn't tried a language with an OCaml or Haskell-based type system, consider giving it a shot. If you're just familiar with static type systems from languages like Java I promise you this will be a totally different experience.
I'm reminded of Japanese tsunami stones: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/world/asia/21stones.html

They are markers hundreds of years old warning future villagers not to build below certain points (high-water marks for past tsunamis). In some locations they are still respected today.
The reason for the three-way IF would be to avoid conflating null and false. Without that you'd have to write:

IF (x<y)==null {
[otherwise]
} ELSE IF (x<y) {
[then]
} ELSE {
[else]
}

That seems awkward to me.
They're taking about potential killers not ones in the act.
One is a requirement, the other is a promise. The promise "result >= 0" is necessary because the compiler may not be able to prove that on its own.
Screenshot, in case the page goes down (as of 0609 UTC): https://i.imgur.com/5pv7QFz.png
I think his proposal was to do nothing, since if the signs were ever needed we'd have bigger problems. Whether that's better is arguable.
Didn't they try that with the pyramids and people in fact found massive treasure there?
this was a fairly balanced assessment of the situation - https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2017/09/273914.htm
Systematic investment to education provides new enrollees for MIT and Stanford and, subsequently, workforce for Apple and Google. Brain drain is a real problem for developing countries.
I don't want to be rude about this, but that's exactly the same thing all other `producer` country had to carry with. The problem of legalization, is not just about the use, is about the whole chain.

I've seen this exactly things in my country, Colombia, and plus the social issue of mafias and drug dealing are my only reasons, personally (i don't encourage to not do it or judge people who just don't care about it), against it's use.
Back in my day we didn't have bandwidth for your fancy js libraries and we were better off! /s
You realize, of course, that Reddit has a native option [0] for RSS right?

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathogendavid/comments/tv8m9/pathog...
It's so fast, feels like it's hosted locally
“They burned houses and tried to shoot us. They killed my husband by bullet.” - I don't think this is in any way similar to the Afghanistan war.
Another related link:
http://mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com/2012/04/scheme-wi...
fun article with implementation included
Yes, Brave browser is open-source: https://github.com/brave
I'd just draw something in similar vein to this and call it a day:

https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/2/2d/Gho...
I'm not arguing the merits of a policy or defending the CRAs, I'm shedding light on some of the reasons why it exists.
Remember, the operators complying with those laws are still operating illegally. Why would you comply with a law that makes punishment more likely and damaging? The ones registering are likely a combination of those looking to head a court case and entrepreneurs setting up future publicity.
There are more concise ways to use JSON. For example:

["div", ["span", "Hello world"]]

You can also add attributes:

["div", {"id": 123}, ["span", "Hello world"]]

Parsing is a bit trickier and the format is less obviously extensible, but in general, JSON arrays are more concise than JSON objects since you can leave out the field names.
And yet without Jill, Sam would have nothing to play with and all of Jack's wealth would be wasted as far as society is concerned.

Yes, some of it would have been used to fuel Jill's lifestyle and that is useful for everyone who profits from that. But the more of Jack's wealth that Jill uses, the more society benefits from Jack's wealth.

My point is, money hiding under the mattress benefits no-one. As much as you and I both resent Jill for having access to the kind of wealth that we do not, her most biggest possible contribution to society is in fact to decide to spread that wealth.

Heaven forbid she decide to get a real job and keep the wealth stashed away. Then she's contributing no more than the rest of us even though she could.
Jokes aside, semantically "implore" and "swear" are actually really good primitives for static analysis. "swear" is only dangerous because there's a chance it gets out of sync with the code it's swearing for.
New jobs always come into existence. Everybody needs something to do with their day, and a job is just the work you do during the day.

The question is

(i) who is going to pay you to do your work during the day, and
(ii) will the rest of society accept that it is work of a type that fulfils the reciprocity requirement.

Without both of those the machines won't be ordered to produce anything by those who run and operate them.

We expect to receive something of value in return for the machine's output.
Really though, sex dolls? Anything that's been engrained into our reptilian brains over 3.5 billion years of evolution will be the last thing an artificial process can mimic.
Someone breaking into your house and stealing all your possessions will be prosecuted. So you have an implied warranty from the government for the security of your possessions.

I bet you don't leave home without locking the door though.
It was actually eliminated on "job growth is strong" not on metro area size. The first map is all >1M metro areas, which lists Pgh.
It's also worth trying out http://www.brave.com if you want a lot of this bundled into a browser.
I think they appeal to the majority sentiment which sways dem or rep depending on who's in office. They were much more center-right while Obama was at the helm.
Those acts aren't nearly equal.. if they were there'd be no humans to speak of.
There's nothing you can be or need to be "protected" from, especially abroad, so don't waste any time on it. Don't freeze your credit over this.
Dispatch Blue Helmets?
> the journey will first pass through China, Vietnam and Laos, where they must be on the alert for police who might arrest them and send them back the way they came — to certain and brutal punishment in North Korea.

uh...the chinese gov. says it's 'helping' to get NK to the right mind, but... guess there's some big inconsistency between what it does & what it says...

edit: lol sorry for the wrong idea
Not true at all. Canada, for example, taxes your worldwide income.

USA and Eritrea are unique in that they will tax your worldwide income even if you no longer live in those countries (are non-resident.) No other countries in the world have the brass balls to do that.
One possible scenario where it's forgotten about does not mean there aren't others. Maybe the files for the site die a beurocratic death and 9000 years later there aren't any records available regarding the site.

Now, one possible alternative would be to incorporate some of the waste into a monolith. People may not be able to decipher or heed warnings but they will probably avoid the thing that kills them. (Probably wouldn't make it past the ERB though)
Totally agree. And much of the violence being attributed to Burmese forces is just hearsay attributed to Islamists.

Western media/NGOs seems to buy it at face value and support these said Islamist, but hey they also supported ISIS affiliates in Syria against secular Asad regime so that's not surprising to me at all.

This apart from the fact that anyone from subcontinent will tell you that these are not Rohingyas, but Bengalis speaking Bangladeshis who have flooded rakhine and made ethnic rakhines a minority in a few decades.
"conveniently typed and namespaced semi-structured data in the end" - I don't think that thing will be much more simple than XML - it needs to cover Unicode, data types, namespaces, modularity and you end up with XML-level of complexity. I know wheel gets reinvented a lot in software, but with data formats you also need tools, adoption, compatibility - XML wins here
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Wolf Blitzer at CNN tells us that it's actually a moral problem to stop funding war because defense contractors will lose jobs.

Source:
https://theintercept.com/2016/09/09/wolf-blitzer-is-worried-...
I think the premise is that Geiger counters would be ubiquitous in pretty much every scenario except the catastrophic destruction of civilization. Radiation itself is its own warning sign if you are sufficiently advanced technologically.
Have you considered making -- or outsourcing :) -- an Android version?
Taking out the SIM card sounds like a good idea if it's physically possible (i.e. the "sim card" isn't soldered down or integrated into some other non-removable device).

Maybe the sensible thing for most IoT-enabled car owners is to get all the software updates for the first few years as the manufacturer works out all the major bugs, then disable the network when the manufacturer's attention has shifted to the next new thing and drive it until the wheels fall off.
What we lack, in my opinion, is a form of access control for static websites, such that they are disallowed from making any outgoing requests. The browser is in control of the site code; it should be possible to guarantee that no outgoing requests can take place. As far as I can see, it shouldn’t be difficult, but it’s possible I’m missing something — I assume the difficult part is just reaching agreement.

Perhaps it would be possible to permit outgoing requests where the URL is statically embedded in the HTML (such that the URL cannot depend on form data), thus allowing fetching e.g. remote CSS/JS resources.
Since this is about the US, the country literally was founded by people disregarding the laws because they were unjust. The law is the law but that's it. Break in a law isnt inherently immoral
Anyone who understand Bengali should listen to the "Rohingya" language. The similarities are unmistakable, even if you can't understand either.

If they really have been in that area since the 8th century - an assertion made by Soros' HRW, and mindlessly repeated by the media - you'd expect the language to diverge a lot more.

They are clearly not native to Myanmar.

Also, it's conveniently forgotten that they triggered the latest spurt of violence by attacking Buddhist and Hindu citizens.

It's odd how suddenly this is the latest humanitarian crisis.

Nothing to do with oil and gas pipelines, I'm sure. Unlike Syria, Iraq, Libya and so on.

Call me cynical but I don't see the international community - code for US interests - caring about people in resource poor regions.

Wonder what would happen if NK suddenly was found to have oil fields ...
no - you didnt understand what I meant. if you are going to get acquired by a company that has a potential patent dispute (of any kind), then this license is dangerous.

Now, people will still use React - because its javascript and at the end of the day, you can rewrite your web stack faster.

Imagine if you have a React Native app already distributed, a Caffe2 ai pipeline in production... or if your logic is in Bucklescript. Much harder to move away if your acquiring company is in a dispute.
The subthread started by the statement "those that inherited the wealth from their daddy, who have their investor spread that wealth around, what do they do? They don't even clean for themselves."

It is being argued that she is doing something. She is spreading here wealth around.

My counter argument is that she is not infact spreading it around, her investment firm is. She adds no value. Her money does.

Nowhere in the thread does it appear the idea that money should not be circulated.
Using Chase Ultimate Rewards points at Amazon is only worth 0.8 cents per point, not 1 cent per point like the others.
A series of vacuous tautologies that would be equally valid as a contemporary defense of slavery is hardly compelling.
Let me localize that statement for you:

You spelled "confiscate their property, put them in chain gangs, and allow them to work their way back into freedom" wrong. Deporting the niggers only inflicts them on another country.

Yeah, I think hate is upsetting no matter what outgroup you pick.
I don't think the legalize movement as a whole was working from a position that any input from the state into someone's life is immoral. That's a perfectly fine position to have but it's not like they were being hypocritical as a movement.
I'm totally going to hit this with my Amiga. This is great!
"it is largely a self-correcting process if anyone intrudes without appropriate precautions, and it seems unlikely that intrusion on such buried waste would lead to large-scale disasters"
You'd think it's because it's illegal that it attracts 'seedy' people.

But if it weren't so taboo?
They are Bangladeshi Muslims, much like the "Assamese" flooding the labor market in South India right now.

Get ready for your comment to be down voted into oblivion, the usual reaction by ignorant SJWs. This place is getting to be as toxic as Reddit.
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Me and my husband had been developing our own Android apps published to Google Play for a while and never made much money. But when Android Wear first came out, we started developing watch faces (mostly ones we wanted for ourselves) and persistence finally paid off. Income varies, but we've been steadily making between $500 and $1500/month. These are the top two: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sparkistic... and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sparkistic...
The alternative is we build up a stockpile of food in a similar way to the US strategic oil stockpile. If oil is worth having in storage in case something bad happens it would seem obvious that food should be in the same category.
Big spender. Using my Vic-20
If only this kind of view was available for all sites, but via a simpler, more syndicated format.
Atlanta has Georgia Tech but would need to build public transport, picking Baltimore would let them be near the Acela corridor. Baltimore might be a safe bet methinks.

Austin, Denver, Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis, would almost be shoe-ins if they weren't in the middle or on the west coast. All have some public transport, and good universities. It would be quite a coup if a smaller more "standalone" city got it like Charlotte, Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Nashville, Pittsburgh, Orlando, San Antonio, Minneapolis, or Detroit. Not sure which of these could build public transport fast enough.

I would agree they probably don't want to be near extreme weather, but I don't think they would necessarily discount a city because of snow. Not having good universities could be a deal breaker. Dallas is the definition of sprawl, sorry Dallas.
"..., minister says". Polish minister.
This is heartwarming and exciting. Can't wait to hear what comes next.
Leave it to the Buddhists to show us how you deal with Islam.
That's a very weak argument. Eg., the Catalan language is more closely related to French than Spanish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallo-Romance_languages). But the Catalans are certainly "native" to Spain, in that they've lived within the current Spanish borders since before Spain existed. And obviously, someone not being "native" to an area doesn't justify killing or terrorizing them.
I think it's worth adding a max width, it makes the columns easier to read if they're not too long. Other than that, it's pretty great.
Yeah I agree, the atrocities committed in Afghanistan were much worse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0
Salt should come from mines.

The sea salt craze has always seemed odd to me. Have most people in the USA never been to a beach? Do people really think that the sea is a good source of salt?

What I associate with the sea: seagull droppings, rotten seaweed, spilled oil, dumped WWII chemical weapons, raw sewage...

Then I go to the store and see a box of Triscuit crackers featuring sea salt. Yum??????
It has been a long time since I have read the word authentic and not thought it was marketing speak. Thanks. It was a good word, now corrupted. I hope people realize the word is a signal that the thing being describe is inauthentic and stops being used in menus at least.
>uh...the chinese gov. says it's 'helping' to contain NK

Well they're certainly helping to contain NK citizens to NK.
I would bet on a technology that appeals to that reptilian brain while limiting negative consequences. Artificial sweeteners are certainly popular.
Unless it's real web app like gdocs, this is how sites should be - no need for js, works perfectly on my 64kbps.