skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but both birds and planes relying on the laws of aerodynamics

Complexity of biological systems is so mind-blowing that we likely don't even have computational capacity to simulate one of those processes in veracious detail. In addition, we can't even comprehend primitive, 1000-layer deep neural networks, not mentioning significantly more complex neurons (that are performing some local, protein-based computations alongside electric spikes we measure). We should be happy that Deep Learning surprisingly somewhat works, obliterating "classical" ML and make use of it to the full extent of its capabilities. Romantic idea that we can construct AGI with it should be retired.
Hey, thanks for the comment. I am aware that "correlation is not causation" and did not stated otherwise. The correlations would not answer the original question about the causation and it seems like this analysis cannot cope with it. Swift example suggests that causes of popularity of a given technology could be found outside Stack Overflow. It is, however, not impossible for Stack Overflow itself to be one of the causes of popularity of posts on Hacker News.
TOCTOU = time-of-check time-of-use
I have tried hard to use systemd. It is just a bad piece of software. Simple tasks are over engineered and complex tasks are not modularized.

I think systemd has a philosophical appeal to some but I just want an OS that works without making my life harder. This isn't a comparison against othet init's, I am saying, I have to fight tooth and nail against systemd to a point where I seriously consider Windows server 2012 as a possible better alternative.
> Taken together our results suggest that the performance of CNNs in object recognition falls far short of the generalization capabilities of humans.

No shit! An earth shattering result. :P
I don't see them as mutually exclusive - it doesn't have to be American football loses / futbol wins. I guess part of what I'm saying here is - look at where American football was in the 1960s. Some player still worked other jobs in the offseason. Formations were very simple. Max McGee famously partied the night before the first Super Bowl. Today, the NFL is big effing business to the point that it plays a role in our politics. The game itself is being played with sophistication way beyond just even a few decades ago. So, it is not hard to imagine a future for [soccer | futbol | football] where over time that same sophistication will grow for the game here in the US.
could you place a 'backdoor' in these neural networks? Releasing a publicly beneficial AI while allowing it to be activated like a Manchurian candidate.
Have you done this?
This usually refers to the supply of available workers is low and get picked up right away when they appear on the market.
Yeah, there are multiple products there (e.g. ME and 2000 were released at the same time).

Windows Server is what I was thinking of.

Windows

1, 2, 3, 95, 98, ME

Windows NT

3, 4, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10

Windows NT Server

3, 4, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016
> Some consumer outlets may let you do this as a courtesy, but it's not ubiquitous

That depends on the country. E.g. in the EU you can return goods bought online within 14 days (for any reason).
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, I think it will be good to have some new ideas in the language learning app space.

I'll get that iphone display issue fixed, thanks for letting me know.
Wealthy people have often funded very valuable research that the government had no interest in:

1. rockets

2. radar

3. jet engines

Government research is directed by politics, which usually means safe, non-controversial topics, and money directed at politically connected scientists. There's nothing "efficient" about that.
> As soon as they're out of prison they're once more a full civilian. Which is not what's happening. Why do those punishments on top of serving jail time or community service exist?

I'll be honest, I don't know enough about the topic to really answer this. Some quick Googling suggest that this is what happens, though. According to this page, [0] many states restore your voting rights automatically after your sentence is completed, and some very liberal ones even allow for voting in prison (which in my opinion is really stupid).

> Don't you think rehabilitation means that a person fully integrates within society, including the benefits that provides?

I don't think that rehabilitation happens instantly, so it makes sense that voting rights be restored after a period of years. Felons need to prove that they can live in the real world again before they can vote to change it.

0: https://www.nonprofitvote.org/voting-in-your-state/special-c...
> The reason the US women are competetive is really pretty simple: title IX. Funding equality means that collegiate women have a lot of scholarship slots and team funding available for women's teams so they have a good pre-professional program.

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here; wouldn't the funding being equal imply that both teams should perform well? Or is the argument that other countries don't spend money on women's teams?
"You" implies your organization. You and your corporate attorneys are on the same team.

No logical fallacy, simply a strict reading of the words chosen.

Correction made, what's the third option, if those aren't exhaustive?
AdNauseum[1] is that "service", but Google blocked it from the Chorome Add On Store for obvious reasons.

[1]: https://adnauseam.io/
Even if you don't need security, stream ciphers are basically the gold standard when it comes to randomness.

Besides, they started it, talking about AES.
Since you have experience with remote employees, perhaps you can answer a couple of questions.

Do people usually mention on their resume when a position was remote? What about part time remote? I have a job where on an official basis its not a remote position at all, but we end up working from home a few days a month. When I work from home, its a full 11 hour shift just like any of my days in the office. I'm looking for a job with 50%+ remote work due to my long commute and some personal issues making my presence at home vital.

What would someone like me do to give employers the impression that, while I don't have a permanent full-time remote gig on my resume, I'm fully capable and experienced at being productive for full-length remote work days?
These are already supported by corporations. They pay millions vs your handful of dollars.
I was thinking rather otherwise, that is that people who use certain technology (technologies) would check posts about them on HN. Your point of view did not come to my mind so thanks for pointing this out.
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You're welcome, i may have some more feedback.

One thing I want to mention is that tool tips or other onscreen help would be useful.
As an open wheel formula car racer, I have to say that my best guess is most people who would purchase a "self-driving" car do not like to drive (if I could disable the anti-lock on my cars I would, and I ALWAYS drive with the skid control turned off. Although I have track tested some of the VW models circa 2010 on short autocross tracks with the stability program on and did not find it a hindrance to driving the cars sideways through the corners. I did not time test it to see which way was quicker, but again I felt in control and not that the car was fighting me; having said that I still drove my GTI with the stability program switched off even in the snow and especially in the rain) and I believe this is a major factor in these crashes.

One of the most difficult things to do in a race, is to go fast/drive at your best the moment the flag goes green; and here it appears to me that we have people who don't like to drive, so therefore they likely aren't very good at it, and suddenly they are faced with a life and death crisis in which they NOW have to save their life by starting to drive the car when they are not even warmed up and they have very little room for error... I mean do the math.
It was already illegal, but poorly scoped. We now know how effective of a medium the internet can be for harassment, and our legislation should reflect that.

Mechanically, this sort of legislation is no different from proposed modernizations of things like the CFAA.
Attention is somewhat zero sum though. Arguably the rise of the NFL has come at least somewhat at the expense of baseball. (And, for that matter, I wouldn't be surprised if soccer has cut into the number of kids playing baseball.)
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65c816 doesn't have multiplication or division. The SNES had multiplication/division support, as did at least one oddball 816 variant but stock 816s don't.
Having a patent doesn't mean the patent is valid. I think something like 50% of patents are declared invalid during litigation. (This obviously doesn't mean 50% of patents are invalid, since you probably don't go to trial unless you think you have a reasonable chance of winning).

Plus, a lot of those software patents are not valid[0]. The validity of software patents in general and what qualifies as patentable with regards to software is still an open question.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilski_v._Kappos
SpaceX could not have been started by your or I, because we are not mega wealthy. It never would have happened without the ability for Musk to accumulate great wealth.

If you want only government funded research, take a look at the old USSR. They produced a few notable advances, but nothing like the quantity produced in the US.
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Starting FORTH was aimed at beginners. I wasn't one when I read it, so I couldn't really say. Certainly you wouldn't find a lot of games in Forth in the magazines.
> Yeah, I'm sure the causal arrow goes both ways.

Even not fully realizing this (see my replay to
@tofflos) I did not exclude such a possibility and that's why I performed the Granger causality test for both hypotheses (SO influencing HN and HN influencing SO).

> But I'm puzzled by the framing. If I were looking at the relationship, I'd be asking questions like: Is HN a good place to post if I want to make something popular? If I learn about something on HN, is it likely to become popular? If I want to know what the next big thing is, is HN an indicator of that?

I guess these are different questions which are not covered by my analysis.

> If I'm thinking of SO as the cause of something, it'd be mainly in the category of docs: a supporting factor. So I'd be inclined to measure documentation and developer resources more generally.

To be honest, I do not understand this one. Could you please elaborate?
I recently switched from Mersenne to PCG, was considering xoroshiro. Use case is a card game. Mersenne was weighing down the AI because the AI does a lot of cloning so my need was a minimal amount of intermediate state
No worries. A lot of this boils down to understanding internet forum dynamics and avoiding the things that usually don't work.
You don't have to have a physically working thing to patent it. You can patent something that's just an "idea" as long as the idea is physically realizable. Ideally the patent examiner knows enough about the field that patent is in to decide whether something is likely to work in practice or whether it is just some bogus invention that has no chance of working.
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For those involved in data science, data analytics, predictive analytics, what are the most frequently used / most frequently useful techniques you use on a day-to-day basis?

We hear a lot about the exotic or complex algorithms that are used but my guess is most answers come from the basics.

For me, it is either hierarchical regression, ANOVA or Logistic Regression.
Banks do not lend more money than they actually have at all.

Banking is a simple business - you raise money by taking deposits, issuing bonds, borrowing from other banks, etc. then you keep a reserve (say 10%) and lend out the rest. That's why it's called "fractional reserve banking" because they must reserve a fraction of the money they have raised.

The idea that banks "create money out of nothing" is an analogy not reality - two people swapping IOUs for a million dollars haven't created 2 million dollars.
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Yes, an almost universal trait of human languages is that they include redundancies for error correction. Reread the post the OP is replying to and then read the OP’s comment.
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Expect 500 euros per day for a cheap developer in Eastern Europe. Maybe similar for Indian outsourcing or Latin American.

Expect over a 1000 dollars per day for a qualified developer in a first world location.

Point being. No individual can pay that much and the develop should rather get a day job unless the software has high earning potential.
Isn’t this exactly just the job of licensing? With favourable licensing, it seems to me (IANAL) the patenting is just defence for us all, keeping a less-sharing third party from patenting and locking-down a process or implementation.
Quibble: the article refers several times to the theory of general relativity. I always thought it was the general theory of relativity: i.e., it was the theory itself that was general, handling everything the special theory (limited to inertial reference frames) couldn't.

Am I making a distinction without a difference? Are there two forms of the name in free variation?
Maybe take a look at https://github.com/jordansissel/pleaserun
Just plugged in Flappy Bird (open source version called Floppy Bird by nebez) on the leaderboard system I’m developing for HTML games.

Any feedback you have for Ping3 would be great. Thanks.
I actually had the strategy on fb to just like very random stuff like movies, groups etc. I’m not sure whether it has helped but it makes me feel better
You can just publish your invention and how to make it if you want it to be part of the prior art. Then, in theory, the patent examiners should find it when examining patents. Of course, making sure they actually find the relevant prior art is part of the problem.
Could you just give fake info? Or else use multiple fake profiles?

I don't know how you an deceive Facebook without also deceiving your friends and contacts though.
If there is one area of neuroscience where there has been a multi-level approach to understanding brain function it has been the study of the hippocampus. You will find detailed computational and simulation models built around detailed knowledge of its circuitry and a wealth of knowledge bridging behavior to hippocampal subregions, subcircuits, in both human and animal models. To me it is one of the most exciting areas of neuroscience because you can build up disting ideas about the functions of circuits based on te computational properties its structure could allow. Furthermore the hippocampus sits atop major networks where high level concepts and percepts are bound to create arbitrary relations for generalization and for one-shot learning.

1.http://science.sciencemag.org/content/315/5814/961?casa_toke...
2. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/syn.21972
3. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000689931...
4. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hipo.22365/full
5. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092523121...
6. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662731...
7. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7124441/
8. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S107474271...
9 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6304/1117?casa_tok...
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Corporate taxes suck because they are a bad method of levying taxes, and also because its hard to know who is actually paying them. The taxes can fall on investores, on the workers or consumers, and that changes based on the market the company operates in.

I dont think I understood your proposed schemes: all those individuals you mention pay income taxes. Income taxes always have the shortcomings you mention, particularly because there are different rates to different types of income. If you made income tax a flat rate it would be infinitely smaller.
That's basically what adversarial inputs are; except that those are unintentional. A true backdoor would probably look more like a ML system trained to give a nefarious output for the "backdoor" input (but this is like poisoning), and then whatever program relies on the output of the ML system would handle that accordingly; not unlike backdoors in conventional software. The output of a neural network is only as useful or effective as the software (or person) that makes decisions based on it.
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No problem whatsoever! I only wish I could have done it better.

I do like the way the Idris REPL does that, from your description. Didn't know that. How do you run it for effects?
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Oh, ha. Thanks for the explanation. Yesterday, I understood the piston diagram, and I was scratching my head looking for the difference between the two. Good to know I wasn't actually missing something.

According to the plunger pump page, there is another practical difference - the pressure seal on the plunger pump is "stationary" allowing for higher pressure. Not sure why being stationary relative to the housing (but not relative to the plunger) makes the difference there.
I thought Dr. Who's missing episodes wasn't because they didn't think of proper archiving and it degraded, but because they literally overwrote the tapes with other stuff.
They are just somewhat different names of the same thing. General relativity includes the special relativity one where special means without accelerated reference frames, i.e. nothing accelerates or is exposed for gravity.
I agree with the author.

"So now contrast that to Swift. First of all: Which question did it desire to answer? Think about it. There is no one clean answer."

I feel that Swift is more just like a language designed to be a syntax swap of objective-c, making few things better, yet some other ones worse.

Sure, it might be more welcoming to people used to java/javascript type of language syntax, but overall I think it is two step backwards on language design and functionality.

To folks that are proficient with Objective-C,

1) How do you like working in Swift?

2) Are you more productive (for medium or large projects)?

3) Do you enjoy it more?

In my part (if you are already very proficient with Objective-C), those answers are Nos. If you are new to iOS though, Swift is easier to get started.

https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/27/why-many-develo...
Hey, I was thinking about writing something like that in the analysis. I finally decided not to do this because languages develop over time. I'm not a user of Java/HTML/Pascal/PHP but I use SQL quite frequently and in my opinion it is possible to ask a well defined question that did not appear before, at least for some "dialects" (if I name it correctly) like TSQL or Oracle SQL. Maybe if those "dialects" were investigated, their trends would not be downward.
> The richest entities in society are businesses

I can never get this narrative. A business is an organization of people, of investors workers and consumers. You cant offload taxes to an abstract business, you are putting it on one of the groups of people above.
I just watched a presentation about using deep learning to detect cheaters in CounterStrike: Go (https://youtu.be/ObhK8lUfIlc) and the question he didn't seem to have an answer for was data poisoning -- what if the cheaters all volunteer to be on the anti-cheater jury? Of course they are cross checking juror reliability ratings and stuff, but it's definitely a treadmill.
I get what you’re saying. I wish it were like that for me.
I can’t get anything done. Maybe it’s the type of work. Upper management is always uhappy, users are hostile (for a reason), enormous technological debt paralizing all development. I am simply incompetent to deal with people, juggle the requests and politics. It’s been like this for more then ten years. I am sick to my stomack when thinking about our software product. I’m taking anxiety medication, have stress related heart condition.
I don’t know why am writing this. I’m venting I guess. Not a place for that. I will stop now.
Thanks! I wasn't aware that such a function exists.
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What did you try to do with it that was so hard to do?
> There are some humans who only need 5 hours of sleep

Define "need". Also, citation needed.

Just because you can get away with it and live, doesn't mean it's the best move.
In the free society those people would have been paid as much as society thinks they deserve. In socialist society specialists must be paid much more than they deserve to offset progressive taxation and that is at the cost for less skilled workers. This increases inequality as people are not capable of getting wealthy.
But all the workers at amazon pay income tax that go into that infrastructure.
You know what I think would be really interesting? Some kind of urban vs. rural study on this. I live in the middle of nowhere, USA. The number of kids that turn out for sports is truly amazing. You drive past a soccer pitch on the weekend and there are hundreds of kids out there playing. Same is true for the baseball field. But, I talk to my urban friends and it isn't the same; their kids are either playing even more exotic sports like lacrosse, or they simply aren't playing. Baseball is a funny one, because even though the Mariners are top of their division at the moment, you can walk right up and get any ticket you want any day of the week - serious lack of fan support. So yes, baseball has declined overall, but I'm also left to wonder what role urban vs. rural interests play in this, as here in the heartland, baseball is still very much a big deal.
Does the api support creating old posts and back dating them?

FB is really good at hiding old activity and being utterly worthless at searching your feed, so if you can just put all the fake stuff in the past you'd be fine with your real friends.
“What if the whole world is just inside your mind?” is logically possible but essentially useless to consider. It can explain literally anything, which means it explains nothing.
Even if it’s 100 timed better than Mersenne Twister, a lot of people just throw MT at the problem and it’s solved. Why research new algorithms when old ones are good enough in your use case?

Usage is not proof of quality.
> No individual can pay that much and the develop should rather get a day job

You could create a cooperative of users that hires one or two developers to work for all of them.
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> In the traditional medicine system of India (Ayurveda)

“Ayurveda medicine is considered pseudoscientific.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda
That's diverging from what was being discussed and creating a strawman that you are now debunking. The context is the use of method-less science that uses assumptions based upon indicators as working hypothesis - not that there are always base assumptions but that the refutation of testing while holding assumptions up as tested is something that is bad science.
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I think the problem it solves is developer PR with Objective C, which looks like absolute hell the first time you see it. Swift looks like a sleek scripting language.
This would not be realistic. XNU is a tiny fraction of iOS. Also, Apple does not publish the version of XNU that makes up iOS.
> We have titles on some systems that are simply mind-blowing these days, in comparison.

Sounds interesting, could you name any of these?