skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no expert in the Watt prosecution and know nothing about him, but from the reading I did: he wasn't accused of writing an innocuous tool and sharing it with a friend, or even writing a particularly useful network security testing tool. He's accused of writing a sniffer specifically designed to capture and record credit card transactions. Then he shared that tool with the ringleader of the largest credit card theft ring in the history of credit cards, who was a personal friend of his, with whom he partied during the ongoing criminal activities. At least one other longtime associate of Watt's was an active, remunerated contributor to the theft ring.
He addressed this point in the interview posted a month or two ago. He compared it to going to the movies. You can love movies without wanting to go see one three times a day. He still eats real meals occasionally.
I was shocked when I got to that part. Even aside from the specific jobs he mentioned, he seems to truly believe no one in the united states does physical labor that requires physical strength. Even being charitable one would have to at best assume he meant 'almost' no one which is still is profoundly disconnected from reality.

The experiment as a whole seems somewhat uninformed, there are many liquid diets intended for long term use which have been developed scientifically and the results of which have been studied for decades. I guess this is good for his own personal discovery, but I think his goal is also around making money... in which case if I were in the market for a liquid diet I would rather something that was designed by nutritionists, taken by thousands of patients,and scientifically reviewed... rather than a learn as you go tested on one individual
"This automobile business is all good and interesting, but - no. I really like riding in a horse buggy. Not for the speed, but for the experience. Similarly to how I really like candle light and wearing a top hat even though, technically, I could do as well with a baseball cap.

To each his own, but some things are just too unorthodox."
What if sleeping on the floor and not showering made you think better and your body healthier?

There is almost certainly someone, somewhere, claiming that sleeping on the floor and/or not showering makes you think better and your body healthier ("The Cave Man Sleep Technique....we didn't evolve in cushy beds now did we?")

99% of these sorts of stories are outrageous pseudo-science looking for an easy fix. Mood/energy changes from diet are interesting reading, but hold astonishingly little value because of the Hawthorne effect, and the simple reality that again people want easy fixes: His description of the perilous decline of his mental capacities when he regressed to normal food sounds like the standard nonsense you hear from people pushing energy bracelets.

Like the GP, food is one of the glorious luxuries of life. Next he'll be chemically castrating himself to save the annoying time waste of sexual congress.
I'd like to see a study in other regions than North America. Does it apply elsewhere?
Thoughts on Load Testing
The out of code data processing is something that was sorely needed, and I was wishing for this for a long time. One of the big drawbacks of Mathematica for data processing was that it's only convenient to use if all the data can be read into memory.

What you're saying about distributing a computation on a cluster sounds very interesting. I used Mathematica for a hybrid Mathematica/C++ calculation (LibraryLink) where the complexity was handled by Mathematica and the (simple) heavy lifting by C++. I used the standard parallel tools to run it on a cluster, which means that communication was done through MathLink.

I never went above ~70 CPUs, but people say that problems start to appear above that (too many MathLink connection): http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/20356/mathema...

Another possible problem with my solution (LibraryLink, then Mma parallelization) was that it required a Mma license for as many kernels as I was running, even though most of them were only running the C++ code. But that's easy to fix on WRI's side.
so...you think the EU is a bad thing (I assume that's the dead man you are talking about), and Switzerland made the right decision to not tie themselves to it, but those countries that did decide to join it should give Switzerland all the benefits that would accrue from being a member while allowing them to avoid any possible negative outcomes, because Switzerland is just so awesome.

That's an interesting perspective.
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Hey everyone,

I'm an international student, going to college at Georgia Tech. I've currently got an internship in NY for this summer, but due to the ridiculous bureaucracy of the US government, I may not be able to take it. If I can't, I'll probably be in San Francisco this summer, working on a startup with a friend. We also really want to go around and check out different startups in the area. Can anyone give me tips on finding cool startups to work for and hang out with?

Cheers!
You think I'm arguing something I'm not arguing. I'm not saying there aren't crimes that are chargeable under CFAA that could be better charged under a pre-existing law. I'm just saying there are crimes that can't be charged that way, thus the need for computer-specific crime laws.

CFAA is not a good computer-specific crime law. Two gigantic problems with it: sentences that scale linearly with damages despite the fact that criminal intent and diligence does not scale the same way, and the CFAA's "sentencing accelerant" property, where it bonds covalently with other criminal charges to increase penalties.
I think the highest goal should be "learn a framework for how to learn".
Yes.

I haven't seen one that large though. It usually looks like this: http://www.minusmanhattan.com/
I wonder if this was being graded on a curve. If so, an interesting strategy would have been to sabotage the group effort while secretly preparing a "lone wolf" answer. The saboteur could continually steer the conversation in the wrong direction and possibly even alter the group answer to something absurd before it was turned in.

Or if he wanted to concentrate on his own work, he could bring some headphones to tune out the horrendous noise coming from outside the classroom where his friends happen to be practicing for their upcoming rock gig.
But Kirk is a cad. Why would anything he does be classy?
The most important implication of this discovery is that while the price of lithium could plunge, decreasing the costs of lithium vehicle batteries, unless we put a system in place that uses regulatory and market forces to guarantee that this lithium is recovered and recycled, we will have a huge environmental problem on our hands. Disposal and sequestering of lithium metal is a significant part of the overall cost of an EV-focused transport system. Global demand by 2020 is projected by USGS to be about 300,000 tons a year, so the effect of this single discovery might not be that large; the major advantage is preventing China from exercising monopoly power on Li production. But I am confident that many more discoveries are out there (I used to be a geologist and worked around Silver Peak in the past), so I think the time is now to start figuring out how to avoid taking all that Li in brine and spreading it throughout our waste stream.
>lithium can be recycled

Question, for anyone out there who might know: How much lithium (and of what quality) can be recovered from a typical modern li-on battery? How difficult is the process?
You can do this with Tengine [1], a version of Nginx that supports loadable modules: https://github.com/pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed/wiki/Using-ngx_pa...

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One of the most damaging impressions the public has relating to cancer is that "cancer" is a single disease. This article touches on this idea ("... at least four genetically distinct breast cancers....") but even this is a gross underestimation of the complexity of cancers.

Essentially, the only thing that unites cancers together is that they represent a class of diseases in which your own cells multiply in an uncontrolled manner. Beyond this idea of "out of control growth", there are a number of common ways which these distinct phenotypes occurs (such as too much of pro-growth molecules, not enough "slow down" molecules etc) but genetically/molecularly there are many, many different routes which these phenotypes can be achieved.

This, again, is still only touching on the surface. After you have the molecular underpinnings of the "out of controlness", you have genetic and non-genetic factors relating to things like where the tumour is, how do the cells change once the cancer begins to progress, how your body reacts to the cancer, how your body reacts to drugs etc.

In 100 years time, I'm confident we'll look back on our present day way of thinking about cancer in the same way people now look back at our previous ideas relating to mental illness 200 years ago, or general diseases 500 years ago.
What-if I'd exercise and drink less coffee? It would help me both feel and sleep better. Am I doing either? You bet I don't. Point being that people derive pleasure from things that aren't rational, so rationalizing a soylent diet ain't going do a thing to facilitate its adoption (which was iirc one of his stated goals). It's a truly interesting experiment, but it's from the same category as a polyphasic sleep.
Yes, this is certainly a reality for a lot of programmers.
You think game developers have time for friends who aren't colleagues?
What do you mean "at the same time"? Those derivative works were profitable because of copyright--that's how ContentID works! How would Psy profit from derivative works if he wasn't allowed to actually claim ownership of his original work? Why else would YouTube ever pay him for videos he didn't upload?

You don't seem to have grasped the point: You brought up Psy, but then proceeded to leave out all the evidence contrary to your agenda. The polite word for that is bullshit.
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"surely we can make food that is tastier, cheaper, and more nutritious than anything that exists naturally."

This premise assumes we understand, with no uncertainty, how the human body functions and utilizes nutrients. Since this is still a huge mystery to science (and much of what we "know" currently is just guesswork) any 100% simulated food diet will only prove to be "better" by a stroke of luck.

We've seen his posts before and discussed it to great lengths, but the bottom line is if he's created something that is truly capable of sustaining health for the lifetime of a person he should be rewarded, but without scientific proof of longterm health this will never, and should never, be taken unquestionably.
> Basically he said that breast cancer, in the large scale scheme of diseases, is actually not that dangerous. The mortality rate is incredibly low. Cancers like pancreatic, however, are incredibly high

You may have taken away the wrong message from the surgeon, or maybe I'm reading it wrong. One of the major reasons breast cancer prognosis is so good is because it's often caught early. Pancreatic cancer has no early symptoms, so by the time it's caught it's often too late.

Indeed one school of thought is that improved detection methods system-wide are going to be the #1 factor in winning against cancer long-term.
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So you repeat the same insult. You're a troll and should be banned. Flagged.
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Making it about personality or intelligence is a trap that does not serve rationality.

"She/he is a smart, honest, kind, well-meaning, salt of the earth person. This is just not the kind of person would would lie about ______"

Ghosts. UFOs. Truthers. Vaccinations. I have heard a thousand times.

Smart people can be wrong. Honest people can be wrong. Smart and honest people can be wrong.

"She has to be either brain-damaged or lying" sets up a False Choice that will lead many people to believe the opposite to what you are (presumably) trying to argue.

The spirit of what I was trying get at (perhaps, too "cleverly") with "many of the best con artists are sincere" is that one should not take off your Mr. Skeptical Sleuth hat, just because the person in front of you seems both intelligent and honest. Focus on the quality of the argument. Focus on the quality of the evidence supporting the argument.
Some more detail would be needed to determine what portion of that is feasible to extract. The USGS document you link, for example, estimates (before this discovery) 38,000 tons of domestic reserves, but that is with a conservative definition of reserves that includes only those considered feasible to extract with current technology and market conditions. The total domestic reserves of lithium deposits known to exist were closer to 400,000 tons, from what I can find, i.e. only about 10% of domestic reserves are considered feasible to extract. How much of an impact this discovery has will depend on what proportion of that 228,000 tons ends up in each category.
It's not that any of us are surprised, it's that that is the core problem with the construct of the educational system. The system encourages this 'number juicing' through whatever means.

During the course of a class, if as much education is given to each individual possible, then at the end of the class what does the actual grade matter? These grades turn out to be a poor proxy for things like earning, ingenuity, creativity, changing-the-world, or for that matter even grokking the materials. The only thing for which they're (maybe) a valuable proxy is 'how well can this student juice the grade of the next course in the line' -- a question whose answer ultimately adds no value to society.
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Does anyone know if Docker runs on a 32-bit ubuntu host?
And how about the students in different sections not taught by this teacher who have a closed-book no-collaboration final exam?
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Does anyone know if this works when using Nginx as a proxy? That would be pretty killer if so.
As a science geek I love this. As a marketer, this name is unfortunate.

Interested in the outcomes though. keep it up.
Worked perfectly for me. Sucks for you.
They were the best ones I could get my hands on. I believe their advertised CRI is 90. If you look at the spectrum though, they are still quite peaky/notchy. Halogens are very close to sunlight. Halogens with clear bulbs have CRI 100 by definition.

Yes, the latest LEDs are far superior to CFL. And oatmeal tastes better than dog shit.
> 50% of the time you eat you might find it tedious and boring

- I hate cats. All that fur, the smell...
- Oh, you just don't know a good recipe

Learn to cook, damn it :)
So Bill Gates was wrong about a computer on every home ;-)
I've noticed it too. I think many of us believe that the size of the financial sector is extremely disproportionate to the value it adds. It drains talent by offering smart people salaries that other industries can't afford. It gambles with the economy recklessly, but the public pays the debt when their gambles turn sour. And on, and on.

But let's face facts. I'd love to think everybody's really here to "change the world" and "create value." But the biggest stories in tech entrepreneurship focus on silly, time-wasting apps that are sold for millions. Does that really make any more sense than giving a guy a million dollar bonus for designing a high frequency trading algorithm?

If we don't expect more from our community, we can't really criticize theirs.
Yah, I wondered about this as well.

The only thing I can think of is that perhaps the radiation will cause cancer.
how many people go to WWDC as a hobby? how many are really price insensitive?

A lot of indie developers go to WWDC. I would go so far as to say they are the mainstay audience for the conference. Raising the prices significantly would mean the conference would lose most of their main audience.
Because a job where you sit in front of a computer all day doesn't require you to not have acne or be taller than 5'2 (if you're a guy) or whatever.

I'm sure there's some model with epicycles and epicycles of logic explaining how having prettier programmers (or whatever) make all the programmers they see over the water cooler more productive. But there'd have to be actual evidence of that.
"Under real world tests, the human eye can't distinguish additional colors in LED vs incandescent bulbs."

No.
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Rohin from Priceonomics here. Tumblr added this new button to our site this week I believe. We'll figure out some way to change / remove it; it's annoying.
On a somewhat unrelated topic, I've been trying to remember the name of the 'Kobayashi Maru' for months and I ket remembering it as 'Komagata Maru' which is something completely different. Thank you for jogging my memory.
Writing unit tests is a nice way to work when you're not working in an environment that requires young goat sacrifices or some such thing to perform unit tests. I'd also say that some kinds of unit tests are also a limited form of documentation. They don't tell you why something works the way it does, but they do tell you how it works.
Taxpayer will pay for it, as always.
What if you're short?

Maybe devote your political activities to pushing for a height tax...

http://www.nber.org/papers/w14976

But yeah, from an economically utilitarian perspective, you could solve this by differentially taxing the attractive.
It does; that's definitely one of the intended uses.
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Until Chinese demand for Chilean a/o Bolivian lithium drives its price over $3x, at which point, having a local supply this big is a huge deal.
That's pretty interesting stuff. In our case, I picked our original color scheme mostly by accident (I just thought it looked nice), and went with a blue/orange/white scheme. Now, reading this, given out space (enterprise software) it looks like blue/orange were pretty good choices.

Of course, given IBM's history and nickname of "big blue" I guess a lot of people would default to associating "blue" with "enterprise software".
Hi Chris,
Survata co-founder here. We completely agree! Our surveys are limited to 6 questions for the reasons you cite.
Thanks, that makes sense.

So the parameter would be the number of slots (== number of input units of the deep NN).

And the transformation of the text into bag-of-words / n-grams would not be considered feature-engineering - or at least only 'low level feature engineering' - the higher level features will be learned by the deep network.

I guess one could go lower level still and even do away with bag-of-words / n-grams : limit the text size to e.g. 20000 characters, represent each character value with a numerical value (e.g. its ASCII code point when dealing with mainly English texts) and then simply feed this vector of codepoints to the input layer of the deep network. Given enough input data, it should learn location-invariant representations like bag-of-words / n-grams (or even better ones) itself, right?
I'd be concerned about the long-term side effects of having little diversity in one's diet. It's been alleged that diabetes is caused by overconsumption of processed sugar and heart disease is caused by overconsumption of red meat. Either of those things in moderation is fine.

Most people don't eat a consistent dose of for instance oat powder every day. It's likely that he's chosen at least one ingredient that is harmless in moderation, but is detrimental to your health over time.

It's also quite possible that there are other things he's underdosing on and hasn't discovered yet (like sulphur before batch #7).
Most of my high school education was like this. It's fairly common in "alternative" schools like Montessori, Waldorf, Essential, or Sudbury schools.
So the way I look at this critique is that most people in the US are running a parallel experiment with their bodies, only instead of the input being Soylent, it's garbage like fast food. It's true, we don't understand how the human body operates - whether you're eating McDonald's, or organic, or Soylent. So given that the baseline seems to be an equally untested and probably more detrimental food choice, this completely voluntary experiment doesn't seem so bad, it's not like the govt is teaching us to eat a certain way (which they have been known to do incorrectly). In other words, Soylent vs theoretically ideal diet (which we don't even know) - sure, bad choice. But the reality is for the target audience (such as myself) its Soylent vs pizza and burgers, which doesn't seem that bad.
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Partly in some people, but imho, ask a handful of people with obesity about their eating and exercise habits (and their psychological state etc) and do the maths.
Yup, in fact, that's exactly how ZippyKid integration is setup: https://www.zippykid.com/2013/04/23/partnership-with-google-...

It doesn't matter if the files are local or remote, ngx_pagespeed can fetch from both. Some docs on related functionality: https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/mod_pagespeed/domai...
Like the GP, food is one of the glorious luxuries of life.

The great thing about having values is that each person can value what she/he wants. You and GP value food, soylent green dude seems to value experimenting and optimizing his body/brain with food (lack/substitution of food?). I'm not hating on either one of your values, but pretty much everyone thinks "food is good" (to put it simply) so that isn't really gonna pique everyones interest like soylent green guy over there.
What's unfortunate about such comments is that such departures from the norm actually are considered bad ("cheating") according to the ideology of mainstream education. The article's author wasn't the only teacher with the bright idea to have collaborative tests, where he was willing to answer whatever the students asked. I know of at least one teacher who was forced to stop.

Education could look very different, and more diverse.

Universities have certain functions in society. If they don't fulfill those functions, they won't get government and corporate funding. Even Salman Khan explains that one important function of schools is to subjugate, fashioning people into obedient cogs. (In his "The One World School House", in the chapter "The Prussian Model".)
Will this be any different from Ensure or other meal replacement shakes but marketed differently? Is what he's doing any different from what's been done before?
I fixed that ;)
This is great! Are you planning on exposing an API? Would love to add this to https://starthq.com
I've been actively avoiding EA games since they ruined Ultima Online. A few have slipped through due to sheer curiosity, but I quickly bored of them (mass effect, dragon age).
End WWDC
The Future of Parse
Enough of this. We should fight the acceptance of obesity and externalizing blame.

You alone are responsible for your weight, health, and life.
Not yet... We're sticking to x86_64 for now to maintain focus. Once we've nailed the experience on 1 arch we will extend to more.
I'm with o2 broadband and they do, http://thepiratebay.se/ gives "The page you're looking for has been blocked."
dwm is great, but I like twm slightly better due to its more conventional window management.

It's also extremely satisfying in a mischievous sort of way whenever I walk into some public place and pull out my T410 with that setup. I can't count the number of stares I get. One guy even asked me why I used a laptop from the 1990s.
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