skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who know more about deep learning than I do tend to argue that there is empirical evidence that non-convexity is a non-issue because the performance of local minima will be close to the performance of the global minimum, given a sufficient number of nodes[1][2]. One such quote:

I once ran a small neural net 100 times on simple three-dimensional data re-
selecting the initial weights to be small and random on each run. I found 32
distinct minima, each of which gave a different picture, and having about equal
test set error.

– Leo Breiman

[1]: https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.ss/100921372...

[2]: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/203288/understandi...

Note also that "optimal" in each case means "relative to other models in the same family." But a large neural net and an SVM do not exist in the same hypothesis space. As an analogy, recall that Ordinary Least Squares is the BLUE (Best Linear Unbiased Estimator.) But that's only relative to other unbiased (which in particular means no regularization: not ridge/lasso/elasticnet) linear models over the same feature set. Just because OLS provably gives the best performance in this family doesn't mean it is going to do well compared to models outside that family. In the same way, just because SVM offers a convergence guarantee doesn't mean its performance will always be the same or better than an NN.

The real problem with SVMs is that when you use a kernel (which is the whole point, linear SVMs are just logistic regression with hinge loss) then you introduce one landmark (feature) for every data point. So if your original data set was a manageable 1e6x1e3 then the SVM will view this data set as 1e6x1e6. It doesn't actually have to store that in memory thanks to the kernel trick[3] but training time still scales as O(N^2) where N is the number of observations (rows) in the original data. In practice, even with a highly optimized library like LIBSVM[4] you're not going to get good performance past N=1e6. (I've personally had the most success with SVMs on small datasets of only a few thousand rows.) While NN can very easily accommodate much later training sets with training time only growing as O(N), more or less. You can always sample a manageable training set from a larger data set but if your only using 1% of your data to train a model that's a problem.

Deep NN is also a far more modular approach: if you know your data has a 2D structure for example, you can add some CNN layers and get translational invariance. Deep NN comes with a large toolbox for specializing the model to the data, while the options for tuning an SVM are much more limited: you can change out the kernel function (not that anything is likely to beat RBF) and play around with the regularization parameter, and that's it. Once you've tuned those hyper-parameters with a small grid search there's not much else left to try with SVMs. If they work, they work, otherwise you have to change approaches.

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_method
[4]: https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/
While carrier app stores were a thing, it was quite common to download apps from other sources before the iPhone. There were Java apps, Windows mobile apps and others.
The problem is that l'appel du vide does not just apply to jumping off a cliff. It tends to pop up in situations where somebody could take a very simple yet extremely dangerous or guaranteed life-ending action. The other common case of l'appel du vide is the thought of just letting the car swerve into a tree or pole.
Or rather certain regions of children's brains affect whether or not they are diagnosed with ADHD.
> I like the $99/yr bar of entry.

I bet Apple likes it even more than you do.
Canadian passport, Q2 tourist visa, no address. Second day after landing. Though like many things in China YMMV.
Except that the author claims it's a statistically significant result immediately before reporting the 1% number. The full phrase (which was truncated in the other comment) is:

"we were able to statistically verify a -1% negative impact on core business metrics including conversions"
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Somehow, this reminds me of google glass hole incidents...
No. They were announcing crackdowns and punishments well before He Jiankui announced anything. This article, for example, is from several weeks before, and records punishments initiated well before that: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07222-2
The headline of the article is "Chinese scientist who allegedly created the first genetically engineered babies is being detained" which avoids the typo in the CRISPR acronym.
Covering a skylight with solar is a net energy win

Just filling the skylight hole with insulation may be a net energy win but most people don't have the skylight to save on energy bills.
Well,two points.

- Salary compression especially early on in your career is real. Most companies don’t do market adjustments after you are hired and only adjust salaries by a predetermined very low amount. The only way to get market salaries is by frequent job changes.

- If you have a job and people are willing to hire a job hopper, why not leave? At some point it will be a negative but when that time comes, just stay at a job until you get a better one. Also, if you do change jobs make sure it’s for the right reasons. For me, it’s technology, environment, and money in that order.
Pardon my ignorance but why is it unethical to use CRISPR on human embryos? Is it a question of the technology being still too immature or the more philosophical question of whether it should be used at all? Something else?
This looks like a really interesting project, thank you for sharing. I'll be sure to play with it some when I have the time.

My only gripe is that the documentation is a little sparse, more like a crash-course than a guide, and I only grokked it due to my existing Forth chops. Perhaps a (community-contributed?) longer-form tutorial could expand on what's already there and aid newcomers with learning the language.
It did not require the university to do anything.
What things are you going to try to automate?
A debugger is most useful when you don't know what the program does, or how it does what it does. It is amazing for learning a new codebase.

But for actually debugging, a log file is better.
Mmm... I'm subscribed to Netflix, to kurzgesagt on Patreon and to duchinese and wordswing on the app store just because I support them. It's 50$/month and I think that's a fine amount to spend if you have the money in order to encourage more of these things.
Debit cards are quite secure, at least here, but we're many years ahead of the US when it comes to credit/debit cards.

The magnetic strip is never used(haven't been used the last 10 years, at least), a PIN is always required at PoS and for many issuers an electronic multistep authentication process is required to order anything online with the card.

And if something still where to go wrong then you'll get your money back.
I have a BSEE (and masters) and I have passed the engineering intern test. I do use my engineering knowledge for my day job and my business card says “engineer”. I would consider getting a PE but I literally know nobody with a PE and I cannot find a good reason to get one other than maybe advertising.
Hmm. Been at the same company over five years because there were drastic changes/new things every six months. Luckily they were able to do a few promotions and stuff... :)
> though it is a lot easier and cheaper to switch mobile platforms

Try telling that to your customers. "Yeah sure just sell your phone and buy an Android device to use our app". And having them use Safari? Yeah right. Apple doesn't even provide push notifications for web apps. Have you ever wondered why that is?

The fact is, if your customer has an iOS device, you must include Apple in the transaction and pay them 30%. And if you're a smaller developer there's no way they will let you get away with what Netflix and Epic have done. Oh you thought the review process was completely fair and impartial? Well, i've got some bad news about that too.
> Is it a question of the technology being still too immature or the more philosophical question of whether it should be used at all?

Yes, of course.
Well, lower maintenance is the easy part, that's fairly obvious. The harder thing is making batteries at high rates and keeping them healthy and charging long term. One of Tesla's strengths is their battery heating and cooling system.
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The user is saying as an authority the state has nothing to fear in terms of ruining its reputation.

There is no implicit argument that additional forms of authority are necessary.

In other words, never assume someone is implying something else when making an entirely different argument.
Well, .tk[0] is a free TLD, but it’s not specifically non-profit.

[0]: http://www.dot.tk
Sure, but it's not a misconception to call someone who doesn't like new technology a luddite. The word has been simplified, even if it used to be more complex.
Isn't it obvious? You study for masters, or, god forbid, work on a PhD - you're missing what's going on in the industry for years while demonstrating that you're not interested in building solutions.

I'm not sure I'm being sarcastic.
Inevitably the fair share in these discussions is as close to zero as the proponent can claim without looking silly.
maybe that is why, even when experienced, the least, certainly no whole population, do act on a cute aggression impulse?
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That assumption was not at all obvious, if you want to talk about imagining facts.

To address the argument, it's not fair to assume that recipients of such threats would be either willing or physically able to respond. People with kids will not go around dueling people in the modern era. In my opinion, it's nothing more than a fantasy world. We have a justice system and law enforcement officers. Maybe they don't do a great job, but it should in no way fall to the individual, no matter how zealous they may be.
And if something still where to go wrong then you'll get your money back.

Well... most of the time, unless the bank claims it was your fault because chip-and-pin is infallible... then you have to fight the bank for your money.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-2215223/V...
This may or may not be what the OP meant but if you trust Google Play and don't trust anything else like an APK from WeChat's website, then you won't be able to get it from the Play Store once you enter China. (Though you won't need to do this if you roam on some carriers like Google Fi or use the WiFi of some nicer hotels)
cloned, built and enjoyed.
Getting an MS is completely unimpressive, isn't it? I've read other people such as Google recruiters mention it as a negative signal, in terms of likelihood to pass the interview process.
It's not like I planned that route. Each step in isolation looked reasonable at the time.
As your parent says: "Context suggests people are justifiably upset, not that these specific actions where justified. "

As in then being upset is justified, not their retaliation.
Not all China Mobile/Unicom service centers are built the same. Doing it inside the Shanghai/Beijing airport arrival areas is way easier than doing it in the city with a foreign passport.
Or be buying in a ridiculously expensive place - NYC or the Bay Area.
Thanks for checking it out. I like the idea of making the hand move between seconds - I was actually thinking about doing something like that when originally making the clock - then I got too lazy and told myself that real clocks don’t do that so I don’t have to worry about implementing it :). Now it’s too late! I haven’t looked at the code for 2 days, and there are no comments! :)

I’m not sure what you mean with that last suggestion - I’m pretty sure you’re joking, but I still have no idea what you’re talking about.
Ok sorry, I misunderstood what you said.
His premise is also wrong; in that the state does not have a monopoly on violence and indeed delegates it to private citizens specifically in several contexts. Consider any state with "stand your ground" or "castle doctrine" embedded in their statutes.

In most of the US this translates into you can use violence if you are white and fearful and plausibly justified.

Not so much if you are not.
Half the time I just read the comments. I think I'm addicted. :)
Genetic engineering is a tricky one. It seems unethical but if you think about it.... there is nothing inherently immoral about creating a genetically superior baby.

It's our own sense of insecurity and disgust thats inhibits this technology from crossing the line.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for restricting this technology. I don't want to live in a world like the one portrayed by Gattaca simply because of the fact that my children and I will never be the ones that are genetically superior.
And I feel like this is still happening - to me the new Files app in iOS 11 is a pretty clear step towards unifying disparate storage solutions in a single interface, and opening up the Files app to third party integrations is another cautious shift towards Android's more permissive model

That’s kind of the point, the way that Apple allowed third party storage providers were done in a method that is still not “permissive”. Apps don’t have access to users files except for the files that the user chooses. If an app wants full access to their Dropbox or Google Drive storage, they still have to have a custom integration like VLC.
Chrisan was presented with that information in the subscription confirmation page. (A free trial is a subscription with a delayed start.) However, the weather app probably misrepresented what the subscription confirmation would say. The FTC in the US has rules surrounding this but they obviously aren’t as well applied as they should be in the App Store.
The amount of money is just staggering to me. I'll never get the "app economy".
How does the word 'unhealthy' apply here? How many people spend several hours a day watching TV shows? Or pinning 'new' butterflies to a board. Or 'obsessively' drawing cartoons?

Many people have limited options in life. I grew up in a small northern town with very limited options. I collected stamps all winter. Was that 'unhealthy'? Because I learned some world history, did that 'redeem' it from 'unhealthiness'?

As soon as I got to college, the stamp-collecting ended. HOWEVER... I also learned -organization of large amounts of random information-. Guess where that led (hint: it wasn't 'unhealthy')
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In the employees defense it was a POS aluminum D44...
What do you think is the split here though?

I’d say 90% better review and 10% the annual fee, personally. Not convinced it’s worth it.
> you should have strong evidence that driverless cars are substantially safer than cars with drivers.

No. Considering the other benefits of self-driving cars, such as increased mobility for the elderly, you can at most require that they are as safe as cars with drivers, not necessarily safer.

If the benefits were great enough (reduced pollution indirectly saving lives? saved life-years due to more efficient traffic?) one could even accept that they could be a little less safe as far as direct fatalities are concerned.
This probably applies more to homes with an East to West facing pitch, but I find it really odd that it isn't standard issue to have a track system that moves the solar panels from one side of the roof to the other. A simple track and something basic like a garage door motor would allow the panels to be in a more optimal position throughout the day.
Which is funny, because getting ITunes off of my machines was like purging a virus. Once that is installed it is not just a "would you like to uninstall" dialogue.
Sciter was used in production 1 year before WPF appearance: https://sciter.com/sciter/sciter-vs-wpf/
Straight-cut gears aren't really stronger, but that's close enough for most people to understand, I'd say. The downside of helical gears is they
transfer some of the load axially, which transfers stress to other components down the line (bearings, for example) that will then fail faster than they would otherwise. Helical gears are easier to shift and, of course, much quieter, so at the loads that a street-driven car produces the additional axial loading isn't too hard to engineer around.
Seeing how websites have abused push notifications I don’t blame them. A happy medium would be only to allow push notifications for websites that the user has saved to their home screen.
Sad that this gets downvoted because of an old HN decree that thou shall not complain about paywalls. It’s becoming a real problem and downvoting it because of an outdated rule does not address the issue.
They are a snob. There’s loads of good quality food in Aldi or Lidl. Plenty of crap too. Don’t buy the crap.
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Camera-wise the Japanese and the Soviets got a bunch of tech from the Germans after WW2. I'm sure the Chinese can (and probably will) eventually get to the point where their manufacturing is highly regarded. To some extent that's already happened as the lowest quality tier manufacturing is being shifted to India and Vietnam.

But precision manufacturing is extremely difficult. There were a couple comments musing about aviation stuff. Let's put it this way. Russia is very good at certain types of manufacturing (e.g. rockets) to the point that NASA uses Russian rockets to launch its satellites. Russia (and Ukraine) have a ton of experience manufacturing airplanes (military and airliners). More recently, Sukhoi even managed to churn out a highly competitive, well received regional jet (the Superjet 100). Yet sales are lagging while Bombardier and Embraer dominate that market. Reliability is almost there, but there's next to no support. Without a support network you're dead in the water. To that end it appears that the Russians are taking this far more seriously than I'd expect the Chinese to. So beyond just manufacturing the part, there are cultural issues to overcome.

The Japanese are another example. Most people in this thread probably hold Japanese manufacturing in high regard (and for good reason). However, take a look at Mitsubishi. They're attempting to get in on the regional jet market as well. However, they're basically dead in the water and may end up scrapping the whole project. While there is a Japanese aviation industry, and Boeing partners heavily with some Japanese companies, the Japanese have never built a jet airliner and airliners are simply that complex.

So, sure, we'll eventually see more Chinese cars and higher quality Chinese consumer electronics. Sooner than later even. Aviation stuff? Maybe, but potentially not in my lifetime.
You would get a significant speed-up just going to 2048 bits RSA. EC would be even faster but slightly more work. You don't need 4096, unless somehow your Raspberry Pi is the target for a powerful adversary and you don't rotate the keys (like a CA). The Let's Encrypt defaults auto-rotate keys on each renewal.

Note however that you can go to EC today. Your device doesn't care about the CA keys, so those still being 4096 bit RSA makes no major difference to you.
I remember reading a "how-to" about blinding public surveillance cameras -- not sure how many folks actually did so.
There are several other big names bypassing Apple Tax such Slack, their bots have their own billing mechanisms mostly via Stripe.

But I don't think it is going to last long, I got a message from Kik telling, their bot developers should be registered as an Apple Developer[1]!

Meanwhile, Facebook mentions in their bot developer guidelines that no digital goods should be sold in their Messenger platform; likely to 'not' avoid Apple Tax.

[1]:https://imgur.com/a/vOVGK2h
I don't think the author is saying not to use JPEG-XR for all time. They're just saying not to use it right now on production web sites.
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For the majority of Americans the simple fix is to spend less than you make and stop acquiring debt to impress people you don’t like.

Cost of living and wages, of course, are factors to consider, but relocation to a more affordable area is an option for many. It’s a matter of going through with it.
That title doesn't fit the 80 char limit so we had to edit it. Typo is fixed now—sorry!
Slightly off topic, but why is there so much discussion about fixed rooftop solar compared to a ground based system with tracking? Seems to me a ground based system would be easier and safer to set up, easier to keep clean, and easier to keep in an optimal position, even if it didn't have tracking. Why have this tight coupling to the roofing system?
Not directly budget-passing related, but Belgium went 589 days without an elected government due to disagreement between the parties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%9311_Belgian_govern...
And Apple has thus done the world a favor. The last thing we need is more cross platform not quite native apps...

But as far as $99, between my $300 a year Linux Academy subscription, $144 a year JetBrains Resharper subscription and the money I spend on Udemy, $99 a year is nothing.
None at all? A citation? That is the reality.

Look at this very story. Erik and Elizabeth O’Polka driving dangerously on purpose, and all police has to offer is a 'warning'? It's even an off-hand joke in this NYT piece.
In May GitHub pages started rolling out LetsEncrypt support for custom domains: https://blog.github.com/2018-05-01-github-pages-custom-domai...
Let's start with Knufen's definition.

Knufen minimized diafygi's position (acting extreme, paranoid alarmist). So now I want to know what Knufen considers worth his/her concern.
Our "genetically superior" crops and livestock are anything but (they're inherently fragile and vulnerable to all sorts of unforeseeable conditions), and these were obtained by methods that were far less inherently fiddly than CRISPR. Even most existing GMO techniques are more robust than CRISPR! And you think it's okay to pursue those same goals and techniques in humans? Sorry but this makes zero sense.
So, how do you do that sort of testing on one-off construction? What is the audit checking against? Where does the process come from?
Both wind and solar are cheaper as of 2018 than continuing to run existing coal plants.
I think I hoisted us both.
It's hard on lithium batteries to charge them up all the way and so Tesla and maybe some of the other car companies spreads the charge over more batteries to make their lives longer.
I was getting paid 150k a year and living paycheck to paycheck...

Depression, debt and "education" can really blind you. Add in a gf/wife who can't budget for anything, sick family members and some bad luck...
You're welcome :)

I hear you, it's very much a crash course so far. I've tried to keep the examples nimble enough to allow decoding any foreign constructs. This is unfortunately the level I'm operating at, because it's exactly where I need to be to write the code. Any contributions along those lines would be most welcome.
There's a lot of comments considering the general case of losing a key person on a project, but I think it'd be interesting to speculate on what happens to Linux when Linus leaves the project! Will it go embrace, extend, exterminate? Will there be a bunch of forks? Will Redhat/IBM/Canonical types keep it up?
Point to note, VPS service like Bluehost have started providing Let's Encrypt SSL certs to all domains by default requiring no further effort. I hope others such as Hostgator, InMotion Hosting etc. follow the suit.
Netflix could easily stream DRM free H.264 video from their website without needing an app....