skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. You ever get your mind blown three different ways at once? I don't know if I'm more impressed with the depth of ideas in this paper, the exquisite clarity of its presentation, or the glimpse this journal gives into the science of the future: open, participatory, technologically empowered, and anchored in the enrichment of human understanding. This is great and important work.

I was looking at the previous paper on feature visualisation (https://distill.pub/2017/feature-visualization/) and I couldn't help but notice the parallels between feature examples in neural networks and test cases in traditional programming.

Examples drawn from real datasets appear in both, as well as generating examples using optimisation processes (search-based software testing[0]), and optimising from real data (test data augmentation[1]). I even found something similar to the diversity-maximisation approach[2]. There are also some related ideas in the functional programming world that combine optimisation with constraints on the input domain (targeted property-based testing[3]) and do a similar kind of human-scale input reduction (counterexample reduction[4]).

More generally, maybe it makes sense to think of testing and interpretation as complementary ideas. Testing says "I think I understand this function's behaviour, but I want to examine its output and compare it against what I expect." Interpretation says "I think I understand this function's output, but I want to examine its behaviour and compare it against what I expect." Test cases are inputs that generate interesting outputs, and feature examples are inputs that generate interesting behaviour. In either case, the goal is to minimise the inputs and maximise interestingness, which it seems is best understood in terms of the relationship between behaviour and output rather than either one alone.

I'm curious if anyone's looked into this. Maybe there are some neat ways to apply techniques from one to the other, or even combine the two?

[0] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/67a9/ca5a33e3ab4c2300cdcfaa...

[1] http://crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk/fileadmin/crest/sebasepaper/YooH08...

[2] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a261/87634f842919ef53d0da4f...

[3] http://proper.softlab.ntua.gr/papers/issta2017.pdf

[4] https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~lepike/pubs/smartcheck.pdf
Yeah, these pieces give a feeling of "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."
Research I did years ago said that when fasting the body starts dumping a lot of toxins. Fasting specialists monitor the urine from a patient and can determine if the fast needs to be slowed or stopped to let the patient recover before fasting again. The source was from a book written by Paul Bragg.
My fav quotes in the article:

Multimedia then was like the Internet of Things is today. It is different things to different people; there is no standard, but someday it will all work together and it will be great.

The fact that you could record live video—maybe not at full frame rate—directly to disk, and you could record continuously, was unheard of

it was Apple’s first software available as a separate package, not built into the operating system

QuickTime was barely a twinkle in the developers’ eyes when it was announced as a product

Apple’s first Windows product.

every device out there now plays MP4 files based on the [MPEG] standardized the file format we created back in 1990 or 1991.

Digital video would have happened [without us]. But the character of it, that it’s not professionals creating it and everybody else consuming it—those ideas, that had an impact
One of the legacies of the successes of Flash and the web is that brands are pushing for an aesthetic that feels like their own.

On the desktop, most Mac apps looked like most other Mac apps. On the web, authors often created their own components, and could completely customize their look. Mobile has largely tacked towards the web, where Airbnb looks more like Airbnb than it does like any other Android or iOS app.
That would eliminate a lot of reviews of long-tail items. For example an old book borrowed from a library; I have one to hand now that I intend to review.
Fedora. I've used Arch, Ubuntu, Debian, and OpenSUSE. Except Arch (curiously), none of them came even close in usability and stability. Since Arch requires too much tinkering around and I wanted something that "just works" out of the box, I tried out Fedora, and haven't looked back.

And with "just works" I also mean the little things. Ubuntu also "just works", but in 17.10 for example they didn't ship the gnome indexer that allows you to search for files in the overview , so I had to manually install it. It's stuff like that which ruins a Distro for me. With Fedora, I never had such an experience.
Dyson announces cordless future, stops developing plug-in vacuums
> The comment I replied to had no sources as well and yet it isn't downvoted.

Read it again. It stated much less confidence in those baseless claims, inviting sourced rebuttal. You claimed to be "obviously" right without any sources, and apparently you were not.

Edit: also, complaining about downvotes, especially without even trying to admit mistake is considered as a bad behavior here.
How so? I can cite a single corruption episode that trumps maybe 99% of the Brazilian corruption scandals.

40 billion USD in cash sent to Afghanistan by plane just "vanished". https://www.cnbc.com/id/45031100

For the sake of comparison, the largest corruption scandal of Brazil to this date revolves around 42 billion BRL, which is about 13 billion USD. http://g1.globo.com/pr/parana/noticia/2015/11/pf-estima-que-...

Of course, one might argue "oh, but 40 bilion dollars in cash going missing is not corruption, it's just unfortunate/bad management/insert excuse here". "Corruption" is just one of those words of which the meaning changes depending on the object it refers to - it's always the other person's, never your own.
the scary thing is that they didn't figure it out themselves
Absolutely correct. In this instance, you have given consent for the staff of the service centre to power on your vehicle and even drive it around to get it inn to the service area. They will also take several measurements of your vehicle such as tyre tread depth, brake pad wear, fluid levels, date of registration, and the mileage to ensure that the correct serviceable parts are replaced for the age and service life of the vehicle. You explicitly consent to them collecting and storing this information as part of the works carried out on your vehicle, in keeping with their policies for how they use this data. This policy states that they may (will) sell this data to insurers. These are the terms of business, and if you don't agree to them you are welcome to take your vehicle elsewhere. The others will also have the same policy, so you'd better be able to source your own diagnostic equipment, or be willing to drive cars made at the latest in the 90's.
> An obvious one was at the time of WWII. If the clever people had refused to work on weapons, things would have finished up potentially a lot worse for mankind generally.

There is still debate about whether the use of nukes was at all justifiable, a lot of the motivation for researchers was to stop the Nazis from getting there first, not beating Japan into submission.

That said, this isn't WW2. The US has the largest military on Earth and the most advanced weapon systems. US drone strikes are killing targets in civilian areas without repercussions. The POTUS has the authorisation to wage war against whomever he chooses as long as he can somehow relate them to someone who was involved in 9/11. Heck, the invasion of Iraq even violated international law with no repercussions.

The US military (CIA included) can pretty much do what it pleases and kill people whenever and wherever it wants. Don't want to kill right now? Off to Guantanamo they go. If they happen to be a US citizen just say they're an enemy combatant and make sure they never see a domestic court of law. Even torture is permissible.

If you're worried the US might not be sufficiently equipped to become a dictatorial global authority, you haven't been paying attention.
Fair point. I thought more on the lines of "we search people who want to fast. We will provide medical supervision and a controlled environment where you can do that, while we take notes. If you want to quit, you can at any time." (I assume with contract you mean something like "you have to fast for x days, if not you are in breach of contract" - is that correct?)
One of the classic applications of Design of Experiments (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_of_experiments ) is to improve a recipe.

For examples, https://www.minitab.com/en-us/News/Sugar,-Spice,-and-Everyth... , https://www.moresteam.com/toolbox/design-of-experiments.cfm , https://williamghunter.net/articles/101-ways-to-design-an-ex... and https://www.inc.com/magazine/20030901/rcringely.html .
Last summer I fasted (intermittent) for 30 days. I had intended to do a pure fast (water only), but circumstances lead me to 1 meal a day.

I gained strength the longer I was in the fast. My running distance increased, and I lost on average .5 lbs a day. I weighed myself 4 times and day, logged all my meals and activity. I felt great. I gained back about 5 lbs on average, but this fluctuates some. (as is expected)

The key thing I learned from this, to maintain my weight loss, is to appreciate being hungry. It makes your next meal taste better, you have signal process to let you know you are burning fat, and it makes your stomach consistently smaller so you fill up easier. All wins...
Let us know if you find one. I still have a couple hundred floppy disks with all these games somewhere, and often consider pulling out the whole system. But then I realize I have nothing to connect it to.
And let's not forget all those car or clothes manufacturers who shamelessly and without any moral qualms offer their products to whomever who can pay for them, be it a terrorist, a government agent, or a common run-of-the-mill criminal, each of who then goes to perform their horrible acts, aided by the purchased product.

These manufacturers are playing both sides and should definitely be kept an eye on, I tell you!
Do you have a link for this ?
Look at the Aleppo mosque bombing to see how US classifies drone images. It's basically a height of a person (proxy for age). I'd say it can't help, if they train it on how they currently classify images with no feedback from the ground. It may be good for PR though, and to help justify the killings. "Look, we use Google's world class AI technology!"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/06/07...
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There is market for sure for this. The question is if you are ready pay the price. I assume, you need huge size 2 layer pcb with components on one side only with wide tracks. Aligning all these buttons would take a day (5 minutes*105). It would take another day to create footprints and prepare components. Another half day to sort things with MCU and at least half day for communication overhead with client. And a day of communication with different pcb manufacturers/assembly houses. A week for a very simple project. If something is not clear with MCU, add second week. Hardware cycles are very different than software. One can write plenty of code in 2 weeks and ship it. In hardware world 2 weeks is a short warm-up phase.
I remember getting a wide band oxygen sensor and tuning the gain in the new ECU (and by tuning I mean eventually realizing turning it all the way up minimizes steady state error). When I worked with the setup, it had no supercharger and was a lab demo for the newly reintroduced engines class. (getting to be almost a decade ago, I should go visit) Did you guys do research with it?

Speaking of engine research, kind of crazy what production engines do these days:
http://www2.mazda.com/en/next-generation/technology/
https://www.infinitiusa.com/now/technology/vc-turbo-engine
http://www.etagen.com/technology/
How do you mean ? From what I've observe all fake reviews tend to fall into a pattern. Usually a mix of broken sentences and hyperbole. I find the positive fake review patterns far simpler to detect than the negative review patterns. Nonetheless, a decent sentiment classifier can be modified and used to classify fake reviews, the fake positive ones at least.
EGA/VGA joke in Space Quest V
Is this really surprising? Many people don't realize how much Italy changed in the recent years because of mass immigration from North Africa and Muslim countries. In many cases the immigrants just wanted to go to Germany or Sweden and treated Italy as necessary evil. The life of several communities, some very small, has been completely changed.

One thing that people resent is that in many places immigrants are treated differently by the police. It's as if they were reluctant to intervene. Because there's very little integration, the immigrants and Italians form two different societies, very often closed to each other. That's a recipe for disaster.

There is some hope, though. The children of immigrants integrate quite well. They want to play with all colleagues, and, at least in the primary school, the problem of racism is not really visible and Italian children enjoy the company of their new colleagues. My guess that Italy in 20-30 years will be a much different country as far as the society is concerned, but not necessarily worse than it is now.
>..the residual chlorine left over wasn't properly broken down by my body

When I fast, regular water tastes terrible, I can only drink distilled water. And for those that feel like arguing about distilled water, there's a series of arguments in my account on this topic already.
I honestly feel this is how startup should be bootstrapped.
Are index funds the new subprime mortgage packages?
ICOM the ICO bot
This is an interesting point, why do you suppose fasting is considered harmful by anyone? I feel there may be some historical propaganda against it at play here.
Would be great to see Purchasing Power Parity [0] more often in web applications which offer services and product for people around the world :)

- [0] https://github.com/rwieruch/purchasing-power-parity
Fair enough, but this subthread had diverged to a discussion of the logistics of reading a large number of feeds, and the mute functionality was suggested in that context.
Sure, point taken.
Great. Maybe we will have less cystic fibrosis in the world. Not sure many people would argue they would be keen for their children to inherit that. There is a big difference between knowing you naturally are a carrier of a disease, and acting on that info, and then manipulating radically and arbitrarily the genetics of humanity. Regulation internationally is fairly clear, sifting out incredibly debilitating disease is going to be ok. Making your children more aryan looking, not so much. Now if only they posted a recent STI panel result too.
What was your starting BMI? What was your finishing BMI? Did you experience any of the symptoms the guy in the case report got (stomach cramps, blackouts when standing up, belching, etc.)?
Using Terraform to Manage Datadog Monitors at Flux
One of the biggest benefit of using 3d-printing initially is adopting an CAD-first workflow, with 3d-model of PCB (incl connectors etc) is put into the assembly model. This allows to ensure that mounting solution and button/connectors placement is thought about from the start and handle the inevitable changes to either enclosure and PCB.
There is a person who bought 800$ worth of cryptocurrency via 66 coins [1].

On Day 40 the total value is 388.58$.

1: https://66shitcoins.com
I agree. An old friend of mine died last year, and I recently discovered a youtube video of her speaking at an academic conference. The subject doesn't interest me, and while she was alive I wouldn't have even bothered to search for videos much less watch it. But now she's dead it is the only record I have of what her voice sounded like, how she expressed herself. So I downloaded a copy to keep and although it's unlikely I'll watch it again, it is some tiny comfort. Context changes the value of these things.
You can get it straight from the original developer: http://www.bigfivesoftware.com/Emulator/emulator.htm
No. An Initiative Constitutional Amendment requires only a simple majority of 50%+1 of votes for passage.

For example, Prop 13 itself passed with "only" 62.6%.
That's the FISA compliant public denial.
> the great-GP's statement is incorrect if he means the European Union as it is now, so he logically must mean something else

E.g. your assumptions being incorrect. You could have avoided a lot of downvotes with showing some humility. Assuming someone does not know about large shifts in EU membership seems like argument in bad faith.
> It is possible this can help save lives.

Please don't fall for this rhetoric. The technology helps killing people, not save lives. Saving lives means preventing people from being killed. You can't prove any of the drone strikes ever helped preventing people from being killed. You can prove a lot of people (including people most normal human beings would consider civilians) did get killed. And even if killing the target helped save lives you can't prove those lives couldn't have been saved any other way.

Drone strikes don't save lives. Drone strikes take lives. The reason we use to justify taking those lives is that they might help save other lives. But mostly drone strikes are trading the guaranteed death of foreigners for the possibility of saving American lives.
And most people who apply are 20-30..
FlixBus company launches FlixTrain to reinvent rail travel
Isn't LG sunrise complete garbage because of the 16bit screen? It can't properly display more than 65k colors and has to use dithering which effectively turns the 320p screen into a 160p screen.
Cause its annoying to wait 4 weeks each time to find out what you did wrong...
I use Linux for long time. And newer stayed at ubuntu for long time. Current LTS release comes with broken VirtualBox, which hangs system and they have no plans to fix it.

Ubuntu is worst linux distro.
Thanks. Looking great
> The agency also estimates that one in six people worldwide works in a job related to fashion

And mostly the poor and uneducated.

Fast Fashion keeps people from dying.

It could be cleaned up environmentally but the fast bit has nothing to do with it.

All the fast bit has done is pulled more people out of poverty at a much greater rate and probably reduced environmental damage.

Garment factory workers don't slash and burn, their extended families don't die of malnutrition or polluted water, and afford electricity over burning wood, they get to move forward as a society and care above just living and care about environments.

Where does this rubbish come from, environmental “emergency” my ass.

So disgusting, selfish and narrow minded all to appear environmentally friendly.
Five Steps to Crystal Clear Thinking
The Indian Health Service exists. The sexy ideological and identitarian battle over whether the federal government should provide health care to Native Americans is already won. But democracy fundamentally lacks an accountability mechanism for pesky little details like the quality of the service provided.
I am pretty healthy to start with (this guy seemed to have quite a few issues implied by his weight history). I didn't measure BMI beyond pinching my belly.

I had no negative symptoms at all. I suspect partly because it wasn't a long term complete fast, and also, I've fasted my entire life at least once a year, so I know what to expect. I stay well hydrated, and get plenty of sleep.

Sorry for the lack of BMI info, but my pants getting loose was my measure for that. :)

Edit: With what I know now, if I had negative symptoms, I'd start with multiple shorter fasts until I could handle longer ones. The minimum would be 24 hours.
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I would hide overflow on the x axis on mobile
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Combined software/MCU and circuit simulation is, as far as I know, not really existing in the FOSS world. I would loove to be proven wrong on this. Several times I've considered building my own...
I have a small prototype I need to get from a schematic stage (needs additional checking & decoupling caps, etc added) to a few PCBs - I was thinking of hiring someone to do the PCB layout. forum.eevblog.com was mentioned above, there are hardware designers on upwork - anywhere else I should look?
Where Bladerunner Began: 50 Years of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Sound familiar?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA
Topcho: bridge between virtual and real worlds
I Wonder if gaming models (like strategic game simulations) can help to visualize what we mean by luck. We can improve our luck or chance by education, taking chances, and etcetera. This is so easy to show in games (you stay passive you will be eaten by opponents, you go too aggressive the same result).
India: Muslims gang-rape Hindu girl after she refuses to convert to Islam
learning by doing.
HTC Vive Pro first impressions review: should you buy it?
I thought that some childhood diseases are also having clear effect?
There are in fact at least two more - librepcb and horizon, though the latter two are not complete yet, they are quite exciting and show much promise
The magical ways to retrieve bright smile again (Veneers)
You think their staff are that naive?
Goodyear's Oxygene Tire at Geneva Motor Show
From a fellow clumsy person (hands like cows t#ts) I invested in a decent case for my iPhone. It looks ridiculous but has kept my iPhone 6+ immaculate after many drops and tumbles. Takes away from the sleek design but means I'm still using mu 6+ today.
Plastic in Paradise
I do this - my email is in my profile, or poke me on IRC and we'll talk.
Moving there from the US, I am so grateful that someone warned me about this ahead of time and told me to go to Lloyds bank.

I think Transferwise now allows you to sign up for a borderless account that has UK-local bank details.
Or actually a better link for this news could be: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/goodyear-unveils-ox...
How about buying into top 10 coins from CoinGecko https://www.coingecko.com/en weighted by multiple metrics and they got https://www.coingecko.com/en/crypto_index/crix
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Hey! I do this kind of thing, and there definitely is a market for it.
Kym and Tonya Illman's website has good pictures of the bottle and message:

https://www.kymillman.com/oldest-message-in-a-bottle/
Seems like an empty landing page to me.
I mean this is already how almost all sequencing labs around the world work...
> I didn't measure BMI beyond pinching my belly.

It sounds like you kept track of your starting weight and ending weight. If you know your starting and ending height or can safely assume your starting and ending height are very close to your current height, you can calculate change in BMI. There's no need for a skin caliper measurement, as you seem to be implying.