skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven’t even tried to hunt down the book referenced on Wikipedia, but I think it’s worse than that. The Wikipedia page says ”The VC dimension of a neural network is bounded as follows”. “Is bounded” is an expression in mathematics that is more about what we know about a problem, than about the problem itself (as a classical example, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham's_number#Context. Graham’s number ‘bounds’ a number whose value we know to be at least 13)

Given the huge range between that upper bound and the lower bound of Ω(|E|²), chances are that upper bound is far from tight (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_and_lower_bounds#Tight_b...).

Also, one line below the O(|E|².|V|²) you quoted:

”If the weights come from a finite family (e.g. the weights are real numbers that can be represented by at most 32 bits in a computer), then, for both activation functions, the VC dimension is at most O(|E|)”

Of course, they may use a different activation function, in which case that mathematical statement doesn’t apply, but I would think it’s more unlikely that applies than the claim made on the article we’re discussing.

For example, it would hugely surprise me if using an activation function that isn’t increasing or that has many large discontinuities behaves a lot better than the sigmoid surely used.
Does this view have to be contrasted as being primarily about persistence of the state? Consider social media for a minute as an increasingly appropriate metaphor for religion. Instead of uniting people, social media has mostly driven people into various ideological echo chambers. And these echo chambers tend to engage in typical cult-like in-group out-group behavior behavior, aggression towards perceived ideological enemies, ousting of followers whose faith wains, etc. And as these groups begin to interweave with politics, it's driving a major wedge in society.

The point of this is that since we live in a society that values freedom above all, it makes sense that we allow these sort of organizations and associations. At the same time, I think it's increasingly difficult to argue that things from religion to facebook to twitter are having a net positive impact on society. In times when we were more homogeneous, this was different. When most of everybody holds a common and shared identity, there is no real out-group, and the identity can help create unity and unitedness. But as we become more diverse, the lack of a shared identity means we end up splintering off into a variety of large ideological cliques which view themselves as mutually incompatible (even if that's not necessarily entirely true). And that causes a lot of problems.

And so if we had a governmental system that was based more about utilitarianism, rather than ours which is based more on the fundamental value of freedom, it seems to be logical to work to prohibit these sort of things - even with 0 consideration given to the fate of the state itself.
Caselabs :(

(Sorry to be the bearer of bad news about their recent closure if you didn't already know)
Interesting. I wonder if I still have the hardware around here somewhere. Not sure if it's worth the time at this point though.
For a counter point, I saw a huge group of people happily doing yoga out in a square the other day. Also this was shared in the open across domestic electronic media. This would have been unthinkable around the Fulun Gong period. It looks to me like things are opening up slowly but surely. What was the quote? "Religion is poison". Well, yeah. I'll take yoga over millenial cultists any day. But it'd be nice to see something like Taipei's desperately underappreciated Museum of World Religions[0] here in the mainland, to celebrate the human journey and common perspective rather than denominational religion per se.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_World_Religions
Further we've no idea if other such bugs have been discovered and exploited already without responsible disclosure.
Honestly if you still need something that clearly deprecated, and you're given a two year warning (if not more) then you can just fork Firefox and put the old TLS versions back.

With open source software you have every opportunity to customize it to your needs. The question that remains of cause is: Which is more expensive, upgrading the outdated software or maintaining your own Firefox branch.
People also thought that there's no reason to remove SSLv2 from your server, and then the DROWN attack happened:

https://drownattack.com/

DROWN shows that merely supporting SSLv2 is a threat to modern servers and clients. It allows an attacker to decrypt modern TLS connections between up-to-date clients and servers by sending probes to a server that supports SSLv2 and uses the same private key.
Many years ago I picked up a nice idea on how to write abstracts that efficiently convey the idea of a paper. Unfortunately, I don't remember where I read it, so I can't give proper credit.

The idea is that you should write your (first version of the) abstract using only four sentences:

Sentence 1: State the problem

Sentence 2: State the consequences of the problem

Sentence 3: State your solution

Sentence 4: State the consequences of the solution

This makes a very to-the-point abstract. Sometimes these work right away and sometimes they have to be refined through multiple iterations. If they need further iterations, the four-sentence abstract is a great starting point.

Examples:

Most hamburgers are larger than what can be held with one hand. This makes them hard to eat. We present a new type of hamburger, called the Hand Burger, that is small enough to hold in one hand. Experimental results show that the Hand Burger increases eating speed by up to 150%.

The node_modules directory of Node JS applications often contain multiple copies of the exact same file. This increases the size of the node_modules directory and decreases application startup speed. We have developed a caching scheme for Node JS modules that maintains a single copy of each unique file. This mechanism reduces the size of the node_modules directory by 75% for the most commonly used Node JS applications and increases startup speed by 25% on average.

Horse-drawn carriages have a hard time moving on land because of vegetation. This makes travel slow, or outright impossible. We present a novel concept that we call roads. Our measurements show that roads decrease travel time from years to days to reach the 20 most popular destinations throughout the Roman Empire.
Google Wave! Turned into Apache Wave, which officially retired Jan 2018.
Contact the Times:nytnews@nytimes.com or if you have extra cash, a lawyer. The author of the article may be scrutinized by management but no compensation or apology will likely result.
Just add a bit more CSS then :-)
Aayushman bharat yojna (PMJAY) kya hai?PMJAY ka labh prapt kaise kare
प्रधानमंत्री जन आरोग्य योजना (आयुष्मान भारत ) के तहत 10.74 करोड़ गरीब परिवार के लगभग 50 करोड़ लोगो को इस स्कीम का लाभ मिलेगा | इनमे से 8.3 करोड़ ग्रामीण परिवार है जबकि 2.4 करोड़ शहरी परिवार शामिल है | इस तरह देश के लगभग 40% आबादी को मेडिकल कवर मिल जायेगा | इस योजना में लाभार्थी परिवार सूची में शामिल सरकारी या प्राइवेट हॉस्पिटल में हर साल 5 लाख रुपये तक का cashless इलाज करा सकेंगे |
Opera presto. I only realized how "close" I was to my browser in every aspect it worked when it became unusable due to age. I was quite surprised about that discovery, since other switches I made in the past (windows to Linux for example) seemed much larger. I'm still recovering from this loss. ;)
SSL 3.0 came out in 1996. The entire reason for SSL was to pave the way for online retail and credit card purchases. Everybody understood that no later than 1996. (But earlier considering SSL 2.0 was published 1995.)

Gates famously underestimated the web, but Windows 95[1] came with a TCP/IP stack out-of-the-box. That was a rapid and significant about face.

While much was unknown in 1993 (Netscape wasn't until 1994), nobody should get a pass for shutting down the Sears Catalog with such potential possibly on the horizon. Especially executives making many millions of dollars for their business acumen. Sears decided to jettison their initiatives at the very moment Wal-Mart overtook them, beating them at their own game. I realize they felt burned by Prodigy, but committing to their existing model was the one and only thing that could ensure their ultimate demise, and that's the path they deliberately took. They stupidly decided to try to regain leadership by racing Wal-Mart to the bottom.

[1] Or perhaps an immediate succeeding bug fix release? I can't remember as I had gone from Windows 3.11 to Linux but I feel like the original Windows 95 lacked a stack.
With anything involving virtual hardware and such it is hit and miss across the board. Even if both your machines have 16GB doesn't mean your ram functions perfectly. I have a linux box that has a failing hard drive in it that causes the folder program to crash when it fails to read from it. If I didn't understand it was a failing hard drive issue I would either blame linux disto or the folder program.
Doesn't offer most cable sports though; with Sage I could record anything on cable and playback on any device.
I’m not saying we should completely eliminate farm subsidies. Only that the current model focuses way too much on propping up specific crops and types of farming. Corn and wheat subsidies go far beyond what is necessary to stabilize those markets.
This has a (not so surprising) resemblance with the current state of app development for Google's Play Store.

This is discussed e.g. here: https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/9n88wv/the_futu...
But does Webamp “Really whip the llama’s ass”?
Communism countries always fear relegion 'cause want only 'clean hands' of his citizens for their shitty ideology.
I wished more companies outside the valley knew they need a product, not a project manager. I'm again doing product while hired as project (and that was how I knew it would be).
How would the user notice that? I don't have the feeling something is unreliable.

Similar for HN. It also does not support IPv6. From my experience it is in the 99 percentile of websites when it comes to reliability. Aka it works pretty much all the time. Better then almost every other website.
The old evernote, before all the crap.

And Google reader. Not perfect, but it was all I needed.
A local productivity keylogger
I would counter-counter argue that using a smartphone is much more of a social experience than TV, and can be less interruptive as well.

Much of the time when people are using their phones they are socializing asynchronously or synchronously with their friends and family. They are following what's happening in their lives through twitter, facebook, instagram, etc. They are keeping in touch through instant messaging (on facebook, through google hangouts, texting, what-have-you). They are keeping up with current news and events. They are keeping themselves informed, etc.

And in terms of the presence of media in the physical space sometimes watching TV with others can be a social experience, but it can also be an anti-social experience by draining attention away from conversations and by having something of interest going on that can't easily be interrupted or paused to do something else. Whereas smartphone use can more often be interrupted or paused.

My own anecdotal experience is that television is much worse of an attention hog than smartphones, on average.
I use tooth picks for this purpose :)
People are also taking advantage of affirmative action by claiming to be part of a race if they had one relative from that race 10 generations back i.e. Elizabeth Warren. I feel you should have at least 50% of that DNA in order to be able to claim some racially disadvantaged status.
Uh you can definitely set the mime type in data uris. It's like right there as the first part of a data uri...

Download attribute let's you choose a filename. But giving up on that for safari sounds like a decent tradeoff to me (with the current approach you end up with a nonsense png extension in the save file anyway).

Testing with a quick demo: https://codepen.io/anon/pen/wYpBry?editors=1010, it seems like mobile safari will show it as unknown.txt but have options to save to files/dropbox etc. Kind of complicated but probably still less confusing than a png file.
Think the key factor is, talented engineers write software that's maintainable, and easier to change, extend & adapt.

This could make the difference between having to do a complete rewrite at great expense, vs a small tweak.

For startup with no customers it's probably fine to cowboy up a solution, then throw away and start again, to find market fit.

But if you've got lots of customers, and you're forced to rewrite because the previous engineers left an unmaintainable mess, it's going to be hugely complex, risky, long & expensive undertaking.
I'm assuming you mean nearly everybody would profit in a non-financial sense, or that more wealth would be created in the aggregate but not so much individually, and if that's what you mean, I generally agree.

IMO, it would be better for the group to curtail copyright somewhat in the US. But here I meant "profit" in the depressingly literal, "a specific individual or group, that can afford an IP attorney, who makes money on whatever they consider to be their IP" sense.

For better or worse, the system in the US currently favors those with the desire and resources to hire great IP attorneys, who are themselves motivated to always argue for stricter IP laws, whose firms have the resources to make huge campaign contributions.

There is no one spending equal amounts of money to push things in the opposite direction, therefore as long as there's money in politics there will always be an invisible hand guiding things in favor of "individuals or groups who stand to profit from something" over all other criteria.
Normally, I might agree with you, but an ever increasing number of judges seem predisposed to rule in favor of corporations.
Facial recognition for wildlife is something that I would like to see where a one-way function just gave birds and other animals names.

So imagine that you regularly take pictures of the view where you live and the phone-camera-app just identifies wildlife in the scene and gives names to creatures in the scene. If the algorithm is consistent then you could 'see' who had turned up to the bird table, for instance.

In this way the birds wouldn't just be random birds but over time you could get to know them and spot regular faces. Currently who knows if the squirrels you see are the same ones that you saw yesterday. The fox that you see, is it always the same one? If the facial recognition for foxes identified and 'hashed' to 'Fred' every day then, if another fox turns up, e.g. hashed to 'Betty', then you would know that 'Fred' was not alone.

Now if the sightings went to a database then you could work out where 'Fred' or 'Betty' roamed, how old they were and start to look out for them.

To us all animals within their species look the same but if you study them then you do get to spot and identify individuals. AI is bound to be better at doing this than us and could be used to effortlessly identify our fellow creatures on earth so we can appreciate them and start to care for them.
I must say, the first time in ages I used a modern windows phone was some Nokia in 2014ish, still running wp 8. I was really positively surprised how well designed it was. Pleasing to use, at least what I could judge from in a day of use. This whole tile bullshit from the desktop finally made sense and felt great. Also Scrolling felt smoother than on any Android device I ever held for some reason.
Bitcoin purchases reached a new high in Venezuela
Thirded.

I know about Snips.ai for some time now, I was planning to play around with it soon, and then I learned about the token thing. I mentally put the project into the trashcan at that very moment, it only got out of there due to being repeatedly mentioned on HN as something legit.
I sometimes wonder why do they want to protect the state by cracking down churches instead of using religion, a powerful tool of control, to their advantage. It would take more time to build a Chinese branch of Christianity (and others) but be a lot more efficient.
That might be true, but on the flip side I have had things go horribly wrong with ubuntu where it either took me more then half a day hacking away at it, or worse case I just reinstalled ubuntu all together. Bad upgrades that break dependencies, video card drivers failing in strange ways, a bad boot that just drops me in grub, and etc. I even jump ship on distos when they annoyed me so much I wanted them dead. I mainly run lubuntu for my desktop needs and every now and then I think gentoo wouldn't do this to me gentoo might take 3 days for a upgrade to complete, but it wouldn't fail me like lubuntu is right now. Plus systemd makes me scream at night.
That's exactly what should happen -- you came in with symptoms that seemed more serious than just a stomachache, so you were scheduled for a CT.

It's not like you came in with gas pains and the doctor had to send you for a CT just in case it turned out to be something more serious.
I had the Nokia Lumia 920 with Windows Phone 8. That was really where smartphones peaked. I dislike both iOS and Android, they've just tried to migrate the desktop metaphor to the phone and it's not really working.
It’s IPC system dcop was the most shell-script friendly ipc ive seen
> So you take it. You make an announcement, everyone oos and aahs over your new valuation. Talent flocks to you, fuck yea. Things are going great!

Mistake is here.

Taking money doesn't necessarily mean you have to go on an expansion spree.

Or, if it does, you need to make this decision before you take the money.
Between this and sites where scrolling past the end of an article loads the next one, media companies are really fucking with people's ability to understand what they're reading.
It's the reason Aaron Swartz gave for rewriting reddit in python:

>The others knew Lisp (they wrote their whole site in it) and they knew Python (they rewrote their whole site in it) and yet they decided liked Python better for this project. The Python version had less code that ran faster and was far easier to read and maintain.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit

I suspect the problem is that LISP is too powerful. Language power is inversely related to maintainability/readability, as per the greatly underrated rule of least power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power
What's the relationship between wealth and happiness? Is it linear?
Technically true, but the quote makes it sound as if this were not necessarily the case for some kinds of exponential growth, which is clearly false.
... I thought that was HolyC :-)
What about open-mindedness, not maximalism
The Nature Company
Shame that there are no alternatives in mobile OS market. WP was a really good attempt with a realistic chance of success.
Group of politicians fighting other politicians reported by website aligned with a third batch of politicians.

Being critiqued without much rigour by the otherwise logical community here.

It's like reading a netmums forum debating p2p file sharing architecture based on a story about pornography they heard.
>It takes a great person to throw themselves into the machine of failure for the benefit of humanity.

Great line!
> for cheap trainer aircraft

Even the cheapest USAF jet trainer is more expensive than the building that stores it.

> somebody has to notice it

That's why we invented periodic inspections and mandatory maintenance even for those times nobody notices anything.
It is opt-in, but typically both opt-in and out-out in these sorts of contexts refer to what happens in the absence of user input.

In that context opt-in has a bit of an issue with people even knowing it exists, not to mention caring enough to go find the option to opt-in, and then doing so. This route will, for better or worse, produce a very self-selected group. The proposal above is a way to maintain the benefits of opt-in (namely, consent) while trying to improve the quality of the group.
It's really quite unnerving that Google (and Apple) has the potential to destroy any of the numerous mobile-first companies out there with effectively the flick of a switch. An entire company could be shut down, and many jobs ended, just by having their app suddenly deemed to be unacceptable. I'm looking forward to seeing what the EU will try to do about it.
The high-risk, high-reward world of selling random stuff on Amazon – CNN
Study reveals how climate change could cause global beer shortages
Now $#!+ is getting real...
Couldn’t agree more.

I backed the game in the kickstarter, and I’m fine with logging in now and then to see how it progresses. The results they show are breathtaking.

And yes I understand that this is a game that might actually never make it, but the niche you mentioned is very close to a lot of people’s hearts. So we just keep hoping.
I finally "upgraded" from a Windows 8.1 phone to an Android phone because no one makes apps for Windows phone. I miss the Windows phone UI. Tiles are just a superior to Android's menu/launcher.
> So what if a story or bit of information has to be retracted by law?

Then the news agency issues a retraction. It's already the case that the Internet will not forget, whether via the Internet Archive or http://www.newsdiffs.org/ .
NewsDiffs – Tracking Online News Articles Over Time
Maybe they are just smarter in some way. Religion is one of the greatest evils of mankind. Stop using it as an excuse. Start taking responsibility for your own thoughts and actions.
How did he make such a convincing mockup that you couldn't tell he was lying about it being the project he was showing you?
Olivetti.
Bitcoin's developers have refused for years to do what's necessary to avoid high fees like that. Luckily there are other cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin Cash, which consistently have < 1 cent fees.

The infrastructure for automatic payments isn't there yet that's true. There's no reason why it can't be done though. I also have recurring payments for my email service, VPN, VPS and domains which I pay using cryptocurrencies.

To be fair the point of cryptocurrencies isn't to store them on an exchange (although you can) as some of the benefits are then lost.

That Wikileaks take other options doesn't retract from the point that there are clear benefits for them to accept cryptocurrencies.
Related, a recent episode of 99% invisible about all kind of houses (even schools) sold by Sears by Mail https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-house-that-came-i...
I really like my Dell Precision 5520. They keyboard is a little inferior to Mac or ThinkPad, but in most other aspects there is good attention to detail, and it has good Linux drivers.
I miss the multiple destinations and "backup to another computer on the same lan" feature. Had mutual between the grandparent's computers, an attached USB hdd and then both to the cloud. Easy. :/

Switched them over to Duplicati + b2 and it's much cheaper for the amount of storage they're using. Still safe in a catastrophe but regular "oh I deleted that file" restoring won't be so fast.

edit: oh and the continuous backup thing and monitoring emails if it stops working was nice
Scrolled through a lot of other comments to find this one.

Palm Pre was the first true smart phone I ever owned and I still maintain it was the best - way ahead of its time with the card interface and all you needed to code apps was HTML/CSS/JS.

I am super jealous of the other timeline where someone else (or no one) bought Palm and they continued developing WebOS and releasing it on new hardware for the last 10 years.