skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. I use bogofilter locally just for myself, and I had a set of ~100k ham and spam e-mails for initial training.

For single user mail folder/server and local use, it's very simple to set up, compared to anything server side. You basically use 3 commands after initial training and don't need to worry about anything else.

I don't want to keep an e-mail archive server side (I use pop3), and that would include a spam filter's database, there are not many other filtering options with that requirements.

Anyway, I agree it would not make a good first impression without training data, at all. Though if you train it with what you actually receive, it's quite awesome. I get > 99% accuracy for both false positives/negatives.

It's good to keep spam for training.
The Lie Generator: Inside the Black Mirror World of Polygraph Job Screenings
How hard is it really though?

If someone said to me: "you can either work in an Amazon warehouse (either shift 7.00am-5.30pm or 5.45pm-4.15am) or be the CEO of Amazon but you're going to get paid the same whichever you choose" I know which I'd do.
Training AI agents to solve unfamiliar tasks
High energy physics is a dead end field where people impress each other with how intelligent they are by producing ever more unverifiable results.
Well, $6K is a pretty good deal, considering I paid over $15K so far for an associate level patent lawyer to finally submit a 49-page provisional utility patent. Now, there is still a ton of work we need to do to go back and clean that shit up. Basically, he just photocopied everything plus the kitchen sink to get it filed. I know I have at least that bill amount waiting on us before we finally get it issued.
That's nonsense. The economic parameters on which the US is not doing well are always reported in the media.
FoundationDB on an embedded device? That's certainly an unorthodox approach, but I don't see the use case...

On why Core Data is inconvenient: it's as inconvenient as any ORM framework in general.

http://blogs.tedneward.com/post/the-vietnam-of-computer-scie...
The Art of Subdomain Enumeration (2017)
I wouldn't say that your premise a) is uncontroversial - it's estimated that the global population will become stationary by 2050 or 2040, not limited by simply lots of people being born and even more dieing from starvation but a globally decreasing birth rate. I.e. people adapt to the environment by having fewer children, because they don't need as many for their family to survive.
A Dive into the EOS Decentralized Application (dApp) Ecosystem
I think it's partly censorship, and partly the secrecy around the creation of economic (and other) data. When people are incentivised to report inaccurate data and have the ability to do so, they will. This is an old problem. Emperor Kangxi developed a secret palace memorial system in the seventeenth century to learn from trusted eunuchs if the grain prices his senior officials were reporting were accurate, and if his son was a monster, and things like that.
My understanding is the term "Planet X" came about while we still called Pluto the 9th planet making Planet IX and X the same theory.

Maybe i'm way off here, the government mind control satellites seem to have got to my reviewers.
of not being sexually assaulted

Nitpick, but this isn't actually true (see lawsuit she won), and we don't really have any way to know if it was true even before she became famous. I agree with your general point, though.
It's nothing new in Japan, it's normal.

https://kotaku.com/in-japan-the-nintendo-switch-is-streaming...
Just as anecdotally, I know many people who have put that work and it has made no difference, or they've been made redundant etc. Equally I know drifters who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Hard work buys you more tickets in the game of life, but luck is always there to some degree. How much is luck, who knows :)
> Somehow, I feel like the old, unregulated internet was better. I wonder if that is just nostalgia or there is something to it.

>With an unregulated internet, any internet user has to take care of their own privacy and anonymity. Barriers for entry for new websites and services are very low. Data breaches and abuses of data can lead to users being concerned about giving their data to tech monopolies, which can enable competition.

How is this the 'old internet' and not still the current internet. With exeption maybe to the EU with GDPR now, this is what the internet is: everyone has to take care of their own privacy and anonimity.

Barriers for entry for new website and services are lower than they've ever been. You don't even need your own hardware, just rent it.

>Regulations like GDPR arguably make users complacent and lowers their guard,

So according to this theory, people living outside GDPR territory, like the US, are less complacent regarding their data?

Do you really think the _average_ American is less complacent than the average European? I hardly think so.

>The internet was doing fine for decades with minimal involvement from governments - why change things?

The internet was literally built by government(s).

Why Change things? Because we are now finding out people are building massive databases with personal information, bought from small, medium and bigger websites who happily sold it without telling users they did.

GDPR prevents this.

How can I be 'less complacent' and 'have my guard up' if I don't even know that companies sell my data behind my back?
You don't hope for technology to save you, you make it do it or scrape it and look elsewhere for other technology.
I don't think he advocates mindless consumption, and blind hope that technology will front run this all-burning-rage of human hubris and reckless hedonism.

We have pretty good predictions about world population. So anyone screaming about exponential growth should STFU and bring real counterarguments to those predictive models (and their results). And second, the ceiling doesn't have to reach the heavens (and once technologies have been "unlocked" they don't really require any expenditure to keep them around), it has to cover those predicted 10-12 billion people.

The solar system has enough resources for trillions of humans. Earth can sustain ~12 billion people almost indefinitely.

That said, yes, without cooperation and foresight there will be a crash. And a next one, and a next one, as long as we are here and we are dumb. Once one of that changes, the crashes will be very much complete black swans. (And we can - to a certain degree - try to buffer reserves to meet those future challenges. But we're unable to keep CO2equiv emissions low enough to reverse warming, so it's a bit too early to worry about black swans.)
I'm sorry ,it's just so damn easy for you to volunteer other peoples lives to be collateral damage in an extra judicial killing when you know statistically it won't be you.
Ask HN: What VCs/funds are focussed on hardware innovations?
Nicolas Colin :

everyone knows them in town because they're spending
their time speaking about entrepreneurship to ignorant
people gathered in salons

Well isn't that what TheFamily is ? https://www.thefamily.co/about/nicolas-colin
Mediterranean diet could prevent depression, new study finds
There should be something similar to POSIX for mobile operating systems, basically forcing open systems (if not Open Source), at least for companies that have anything to do with the government.
That's not what the parent was asking.
I think the battling issue may be a hard one for AI to deal with alone, though not so much in terms of the main game. Remember, the main story is meant to be beatable by people who don't want to think very much and who don't really care about training their team beyond 'reach a certain level'. Hence in the main story, 'grind until you significantly outlevel the next opponent' would probably be an optimum strategy for an AI.

But in PvP battles? Yeah, that would be interesting to train an AI on. In that case, everyone is the same level, so grinding doesn't help. Players actually use strategies beyond 'attack with whatever is roughly super effectice against their opponent's current Pokemon', and the number of choices available is in the tens/hundreds of thousands rather than merely what's available at any point in the main game.

Teaching an AI to work in that environment would certainly be a tricky challenge. I mean, at least chess and go had 'symmetrical' teams, meaning that any strategy could be done in any game. Pokemon? You have no idea what your opponent has on their team, and if you're unlucky, that could basically hard counter your own strategy without much you can do about it. Heck, even certain Pokemon are hard to predict on their own, with stuff like Charizard, Mewtwo or Necrozma having at least two possible form change options at any time.

It'd be interesting to see someone try and make an AI to do that, to fight against players in the Nintendo World Championships or on Smogon or what not.
At basically any time during the game, you might want to suddenly abandon everything, go to a shop, buy pokeballs and/or incense, go into the grass and catch a particular pokemon that you will then train for some time before fighting a particular dresser. For example, in the first generation games, if you started with the fire pokemon, the first arena was much more difficult than with other starter pokemon, so you probably wanted to catch and slowly train more beasts before that fight.

Delayed gratification patterns like this one are everywhere in Pokemon, which complicates AI approches.

As an other example, consider Magikarp, a useless pokemon that unless is trained for quite a long time does not give any hint by itself of evolving into the much more powerful Gyarados. An AI would maybe catch it once by chance, but very soon it would learn that that pokemon is useless in fights and would discard it. A beginner human would too at first, although speaking to some NPCs revealed hints about perseverance paying off in training Magikarps.

Without external help and knowledge, I doubt current AI technology is close to being able to speak to NPCs, understand these kinds of subtle cues AND act on them with a gratification delay measured in hours.
So glad people are talking about the deceptive strategies EU companies uses to mimic those in the US. It's as if there's a deep cultural force against acting like US startups here in the EU, which I frankly don't like and would like to see some push against, and I think all parties will be happier once we've gone through the phase shift.
Is trial-and-error outside science? Or do you mean a uniform prior distribution for trial-and-error?
Nope. But these are averages, London is extreme. My mortgage in Cheshire costs 25% of my takehome pay (not the household takehome pay) - and half of that is paying off the capital. That's on a 4 bed semi.

Two earners on median £27k take home about £44k. 25% would be £900 a month, which is more than enough to rent a house.

This house is half an hour out of Manchester, 40 minutes out of Leeds:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-372566...

£625pcm rent.
they pretty clearly state they mine every bit of data they can from users phones and from notifications you send when you integrate with their free forever service
A lot of things were going on right before the market crashed in 2007/2008.

It's important to count the misses, not just the hits.

Otherwise a portent of the next market crash will be the release of the next iPhone-level consumer device.
> These are very real, very concrete negative effects of GDPR

No, these are very real, very concrete negative effects of every company and their grandma spying on your internet usage.
From TFA:

> ... there were zombie startups all over the place. Mine eventually became one.
Probably a naive question: The whole point of this kind of search is to find something. But what is that "something"? What do they expect to find? Anyone even remotely serious of doing something bad is not going to have it on their phone just like that. What do they even expect to find?
I don't think this is a special EU force.

Only the fact that most people can't deliver.

Sometimes it's the dev and you end up with crap instead of a product.

Sometimes it's the CEO and you end up with a consultancy instead of a product business.
This is brutally true in Spain as well. I used to love everything I read about startups, being lean, iterating, etc. But seeing Valencia/Spanish startup ecosystem... yikes

I have only seen up close one startup (out of dozens) with actual profit that could sustain itself if VC money was to withdraw. From my University friend who I always though he could do it.
I got to pt4 with my solo startup/project

`The first step is inevitably to raise money from dumb/ignorant investors who couldn't care less about your startup: that would be the government / unemployment benefits in France / tax-incentivized angel investors in the UK.

It buys you 12-18 months of runway.`

After it I realised it has no market and no interest from anyone.

Now I am in a mixed bag of thinking that I did well in stopping it at an early stage and dealing with the feelings of having failed/wasted a lot by pouring 2 years in it.

Such is life :/
> Assuming that you don't work for them and that you don't have a contract for support with them, then why can't you just walk away?

The ability to do something does not always correlate with morality.
Indeed, that is correct. Though I think that most people enjoy having children but the economic circumstances and expectations make it hard to have them.

I personally believe that fertility rates will go up again, due to two things:

- YIMBYs (/reason) will prevail and at some point and living in constrained areas will get more affordable
- Social expectations will change. Having children in school was a bad idea a few decades ago (when school was from 6-18/20). If the majority of people spend their 20s in some sort of school these social norms have less reason to exist and will likely fade at some point.

And even if I'm wrong in both cases, I would assume that the rising population in southern countries will offset losses in the northern countries.
I'm saying that, I don't see how JavaScript could crush the performance of few native API calls.

It's like saying "I don't see why WebGL exists because JavaScript is slow"
A* over a Bayesian Network.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_network
I’ll preface this by saying I have tons of respect and admiration for what Notch did, however I think it fair to say that Minecraft came about from Notch making a game engine not a game. The game was already made and was called infiniminer. He was definately an engines guy and successes mostly because Minecraft let he users build the game experiance themselves.
If I had no other chance but to live near such criminals, I would try to suicide-bomb them, but that would probably be too hard and counter-productive because of layers of security with which those people surround. What would YOU do if you had to live near such criminals?
I was about to comment something similar. I've myself worked with patent lawyers and can emulate their speech to some extent.
For those wanting to do similar tracking of benchmarks across commits, I've found Airspeed Velocity to be quite nice ( https://readthedocs.org/projects/asv ). It allows (but doesn't require) benchmarks to be kept separate to the project's repo, can track different configurations separately (e.g. using alternative compilers, dependencies, flags, etc.), keeps results from different machines separated, generates JSON data and HTML reports, performs step detection to find regressions, etc.

It was intended for use with Python (virtualenv or anaconda), but I created a plugin ( http://chriswarbo.net/projects/nixos/asv_benchmarking.html ) which allows using Nix instead, so we can provide any commands/tools/build-products we like in the benchmarking environment (so far I've used it successfully with projects written in Racket and Haskell).
The person wrote "an improved technology used by the same humans." The last 3 words ("the same humans") is crucial and it's important to charitably interpret what it may mean, so their position makes sense. (And it does make sense.)

Tech is a tool. In our society, tools have owners, wielders and people who commission their making. Tools are designed to have certain benefits and limitations; purposes they amplify and dampen. (For example, DRM is designed to dampen the ability to copy without permission.)

Later, you define tech as "human capability of solving problems and adapting environments". To that, we can add, "And in particular, the constraints we put on that capability." Tech is a massively collaborative venture (from children who mine raw materials, to societies that fund a certain kind of tech and not others). Therefore it's social. Absent "an exponential improvement" in social organization, "an exponential improvement in technology" may just amplify dystopian impulses.
Tesla stock roars back after Elon Musk's SEC deal
This particular functionality has been quite finicky since its beginning years ago.
This is how unintended consequences happen. Complaining how rational actors work around roadblocks has no practical effect. Who someone blames has no practical effect. The downside of looking at the intent of the law and assigning blame towards the market is that it encourages doubling down on these negative actions. Why not make popups illegal, they'll say. Why not make it illegal for you to optionally trade your data/tracking for services, they'll say. We need to keep fighting the market's misapplication of our original intent with more codified words, they'll say.

Pragmatic realizations of cause and effect are required instead of blame.
Coders Automating Their Own Job
So, we can detect - see, dammit - something perhaps only 300km across at twice the distance to Pluto, and by reflected light alone.

Every now and again, my intuition breaks utterly down.
If China has your data they’re one step closer to having access to taking your money. Are you okay with them taking your money too? What recourse would you have?
The other side of the story (response to WhatsApp/Instagram founders)
What happened in the late 90's/early 2000's? I notice Canada and Germany have steep increases in that period.
PyTorch 1.0rc1 is out: torch.jit, C++ API, c10d distributed
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I'm from a FE background doing fullstack JS but for the past 1.5 years I've been working with the languages PureScript and Haskell full time.

Absolutely love learning and teaching (https://egghead.io/instructors/vincent-orr) and I've worked in both corporate - startup environments. As a fullstack JS developer I was a senior and when dealing with PureScrip & Haskell I'm mid level.

Looking for a challenging opportunity with an exiting product that I can really help improve, as I'm more interested in working somewhere I can become passionate about what I do.

Would really like to keep in FP thinking teams but I'm open to introducing all of the real word FP benefits, if this means learning a new language like F#, closure etc then I'm more than confident that I have a really fast learning curve due to being able to work as a Haskell dev with less than a years learning. :)

I also enjoy OSS where I contribute on many projects (https://github.com/Cmdv)
The paper this article refers to actually refers to 'Planet X' as the theorized large planet in its section on orbital stability models.

I think the planet X moniker originally meant 'x' as unknown (it was coined during the search that found Pluto). Nowadays, it has been used to refer to several distinct theories including Planet IX. I dunno when exactly the X got re-interpreted.

What I do know is WE'RE DOOOOMED! (according to the internet).
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As more and more companies embrace remote work, they will find a competitive advantage in building an international footprint abroad to work with engineering talent. Ranking third in the world in software development, Poland is our bet on where U.S.-based companies will look.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

* Back-end developers (eg. Python/SQL/bash & some cloud DevOps)

* Front-end developers (eg. React/Redux)

* DevOps engineers (unix sysadmin, containers, AWS or other hosted)

* Data engineers (AWS experience, SQL/NoSQL, data streams like Kafka)

You can find us at: https://www.polyteknium.com
Tonk: Reliable UDP (rUDP) Network Library and Infinite Window Erasure Code
And the javascript engine that they provide is 4x slower than the one in Safari. Due to security I think. Maybe it's not like that anymore....anyone know?
What would your admissable heuristic be?
GDPR 3 months on: ironing out the complexities
Donna Strickland becomes the third woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics
Maker here! Let me know if you a few qualms with this app.
[video] ESA Rosetta: the story continues (2018-10)
I inadvertently solved this by keeping my old, out of state number. I can pretty much block all numbers that match my prefix if they aren't in my contacts.

Any actual local number is always legit since spammers have no way of knowing where I actually live.
Microsoft donates 30-year-old obsolete MS-DOS to GitHub
To be fair to the machine, a human wouldn't even be able to tell what game they're playing, let alone be able to finish it, if all he had to go on was the raw memory values in response to controller inputs. The fact that Mario can be beaten at all given such an incredible dearth of information is impressive.

RPGs and action adventure games like Pokemon or Zelda are too laden with human-specific cultural details: heroes, villains, a world, exploration, battle, progress.

Think of Zelda for example. The wooden sword is not even necessary until the final encounter with Gannon. This isn't even immediately obvious to a human player: he knows that the hero needs a sword to defeat the villain. These are all cultural details a human already knows before beginning to play the game. The machine, on the other hand, knows the sword only as a bit in memory that causes a different branch to be taken in response to pressing the A button; a branch that returns to the main loop very quickly without any other obvious indication of progress. Yes, if used at the right time with the right position and direction, thrusting Link's sword causes enemies' health values to decrease. But since there are multiple ways to kill every enemy in the game (except Gannon) the sword is a luxury until the end.
Open for a Month San Francisco's Transit Terminal Shut Down Due to Cracked Beams
Probably the simple fact that it does not clear its orbit disqualifies it from planet status. And it's probably too small to be in hydrostatic equilibrium (not enough self-gravity to force it to a roundish shape).