skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Granted there are now lots of other things to kill the child, malaria etc, but I guarantee every single person on HN will rather take the chance of malaria than the certainty of not being born in the first place.

Actually no. More people isn't automatically good. Taken to it's extreme this would mean just making as many people as is physically possible with the lowest standard of living possible. There has to be some trade off between number of people vs happiness per person.

Then there is the many worlds thing argument http://lesswrong.com/lw/ws/for_the_people_who_are_still_aliv...
Emulation as a Service
Accelerometers are bound to detect such adverse effects. Correcting roll and pitch automatically shouldn't be hard. Also, I would guess that the higher the main rotor (compared to the centre of mass), the more susceptible the device. So, if you build the main rotor as close to possible as the centre of mass, you should have a more neutral design.

While we're at it, I've flown a little toy with two main rotors, rotating in opposite directions, controlling power and yaw, while the tail rotor controlled pitch (the whole thing was auto-stable, so there was no need for roll control). It worked like a charm. So, if we're willing to suffer the complexity of an actual swashplate[1], we could try a design with 2 main rotors, one above, and one below, hereby getting a neutral, manoeuvrable, and (hopefully) efficient design.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swashplate_%28helicopter%29
I've followed the developments in Neural Networks somewhat, but have never applied deep learning so far. This is seems like a good place to ask a couple of question I've been having for a while.

1. When does it make sense to apply deep learning? Could it potentially be applied successful applied to any difficult problem given enough data? Could it also be good at the type of problems that Random Forest, Gradient Boosting Machines are traditionally good at versus the problems that SVMs are traditionally good at (Computer Vision, NLP)? [1]

2. How much data is enough?

3. What degree of tuning is required to make it work? Are we at the point yet where deep learning works more or less out the box?

4. Is it fair to say that dropout and maxout always work better in practice? [2]

5. What is the computational effort? How long e.g. does it take to classify an ImageNet image (on a CPU / GPU)? How long does it take train a model like that?

6. How on earth does this fit into memory? Say in ImageNet your have (256 pixels * 256 pixels) * (10,000 classes) * 4 bytes = 2.4 GB, for a NN without any hidden layers.

[1] I am overgeneralizing somewhat, I know. It's my way to avoid overfitting.

[2] My lunch today was free.
Tweedehands auto inruilen of partuculier verkopen?
Not until there is a support across browsers and a must have framework that can only be used from Dart.

I still don't see any enterprise requests for CoffeScript, TypeScript or any other language that targets JavaScript.

When you work in teams, everyone across the company that needs to touch the source code needs to know the respective technologies.
I love Ruby, and use it a lot, but I have to agree with him about distribution. It's one of the reasons I am slowly plodding along on my ruby compiler (though at my current rate it's still a couple of years away from being useful) - I want static executables.

If I wanted to distribute a Ruby app to non-Rubyists today, I'd likely end up packaging up the Ruby interpreter of my choice and all dependencies in a single archive rather than trust a sane environment on the users machine.

And that obviously limits the type of situations you'd want to use it substantially. For my part it's not really an issue, because of what I'm using it for, though.
While there was some hype about Node, it didn't turn out to be a fad. The ecosystem is thriving and not slowing down anytime soon, especially with 0.12 and then 1.0 coming quite soon.

While I tried getting into Go, and initially didn't like it but wanted to like it. Seems like the more I read about it, the more I get into it, the less I like it. Which kinda sucks, Go seems like a powerful platform.
The two reasons to be an engineer at CloudFlare
The website navigability sucks. Just open this page:

http://www.coursebuffet.com/sub/computer-science

Then enjoy clicking "Load More", "Load More" forever. The UI seems to be mobile-optimized, but very bad usability on desktop. Is there are "Show All" button instead of clicking Load More all the time?
Am I the only one who thinks that mixing work and private data is a bad idea even if it encrypted and safe?
This is completely idiotic and obviously not in the best interest of the citizens of that country.

Why do we even have this crap? Trade agreements are obviously just a way for big corporations make into law all their stupid ideas.

Corporations shouldn't have a say in law to begin with that will inevitably lead to abuse of power.

This looks just like a price setting agreement between large corporation (clearly illegal) but instead of setting prices the set laws in their favor. Considerably worse and should be just as illegal.
Ubunchu
If you're interested in playing with EEG, you might want to also check out the new Emotiv Insight headset:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tanttle/emotiv-insight-o...
They do exist. The definition of valuation is the price someone is willing to pay it.

Facebook is willing to pay it, investors are willing to pay it. That's the definition of valuation.
German companies can and do use services like Office 365, AWS, and others. Obviously some choose not to due to concerns about who might access their data, but there are no legal issues preventing them from doing so.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6083231
The gem stat/open overhead really needs to be fixed. I have an application where rubygems causes about 35000 attempts at identifying the require'd files due to its horrific meddling with $LOAD_PATH. Whoever thought that was a good idea really did not think things true.

EDIT: Strike that - I just realised one of my apps gets 117,000 ENOENTs from trying to handle require's during startup....

EDIT: I keep wanting to write something to cache the paths, but haven't had time. I'd be perfectly happy to be forced to regenerate cache on first run after any gem update. The 117,000 ENOENT's above comes from ending up with a $LOAD_PATH of about 100 entries, where the worst case causes almost every one of those directories to be checked for both foo.rb and foo.so. Something like 99%+ of startup time of most of my Ruby code is overhead added by rubygems way of handling require.

EDIT: Actually, a lot of this might be down to bundler rather than rubygems in some cases.

EDIT: This is not a robust solution, but this little ugly helper combined with wrapping only the two require statements shown, reduced the number of failed stat() calls for my app from 117,000 to 104,700 on startup...

$orig_loadpath = $LOAD_PATH.dup
require 'bundler/setup'
$full_loadpath = $LOAD_PATH.dup

def with_gems(*gems)
filtered = []
gems.each do |gem|
filtered.concat($full_loadpath.grep(/#{gem}/))
end
$LOAD_PATH.clear
$LOAD_PATH.concat($orig_loadpath)
$LOAD_PATH.concat(filtered)
yield
$LOAD_PATH.clear
$LOAD_PATH.concat($full_loadpath)
end

with_gems('require_relative') { require 'require_relative' if RUBY_VERSION =~ /1\.8/ }
with_gems('amalgalite','arrayfields','fastercsv') { require 'amalgalite' }

EDIT:
Wrapped a handful more require statements with "with_gems". Down to 76,000 failed stat()'s... I should have done this before.

EDIT: Yikes. 32,000...
A good share of companies don't have to. If you look at the recent acquisitions, lots of them hadn't even made one penny of revenue.
I propose these companies should adopt/donate/fund ObamaCare
Agree with most of what you said.

> It's also a lot safer as there are a lot less head injuries...

There's a bit of debate about that point, there isn't enough data on concussions in rugby as the professional era of massive rugby players isn't as established as the NFL. Great article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/24765650

Tongue in cheek article on why rugby is better than American football: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/589351-seven-reasons-why-...

---- Where to begin as a rugby newbie? ----

For newcomers interested in rugby union, there's a fantastic subreddit of dedicated fans, really friendly to newcomers too: http://www.reddit.com/r/rugbyunion

Check out the sidebar in that subreddit, it's excellent.

Rugby to Watch

Highlights of the Rugby Championship between South africa v All Blacks (one of the best games in recent memory - it's got power, speed, skill and massive hits in abundance) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2B0EviQDB0

At the moment there's friendlies between top Northern and Southern Hemisphere teams. Fixtures - http://www.ultimaterugby.com/november-internationals-2013

6 Nations (Top european nations duke it out). Fixtures - http://www.ultimaterugby.com/6-nation-2014

The above competitions are national teams, that doesn't even cover club sides, but that's enough to start with!

Watch rugby online - http://www.viponlinesports.eu/sports/rugby.html
Oh god. You think I haven't seen this? I swear, the Internet is doomed. All what kids can do now is copy/paste stupid phrases and feel good about it because they are in Wikipedia, and also get approval from other kids who don't know better.

"Many journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of government. I do assure you that they would produce more accurate work if they adhered to the cock-up theory."

How's that holding nowadays? What a useful phrase!

Besides, there's also this variation:

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice."

But it doesn't sound as smart to little kids, and it doesn't simplify your life by letting you skip all the thinking, right?
Twelescreen
how do I use it on my plane ride to Seattle?

or honestly, even in just the hotel?
You guys are talking about different things.

The licences of the projects (EntityFramework, ASP.NET) are opensource, but the licence only applies to the sources.

Nuget packages, however, are binary. And they might have a different licence. So to avoid the latter, you just need to compile the sources yourself instead of using the Nuget packages.

EDIT: actually, the last paragraph is not true anymore, thanks to this: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2013/11/13/pcl-and-ne...
HTML Table to JSON scraper/parser (written in PHP)
It's not just "destroyed buildings", like in a few military bases here and there. Read again.
>> <h1>If you see this, something is broken.</h1>

The funny thing being that I only saw that because I browsed the source, because the page was so broken for me that I only saw a black screen.

In any case, I see

Message(null, " This demo is only available for iPhone 5 and iOS 7. Sorry! " )

So I'm out of here.
Japan didn't have "every substantial building destroyed". But we can pretend you are funny if that's what you are into.
PyPy 2.2 - Incrementalism
Stormssh gets a web ui (sshconfig tool)
http://storm.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
PyPy 2.2 - Incrementalism Released
Still in development, but hopefully it can be useful to someone!
Stats from ~85K runtimes analyzing different Java Garbage Collector usage
Why not just use TogetherJS securely?
> People that write Java don't like JavaScipt, would be another way to look at it.

Not true, at least not in my case :)

There are webapps that use Java (or any JVM language) on the back-end and JavaScript on the front-end.

Check out Addy Osmani's "Making Maven Grunt": http://addyosmani.com/blog/making-maven-grunt/
What's your point? We should just not try out new things? It's not like HN is representative of the industry as a whole anyway. Platforms, languages, frameworks etc etc learn and copy from each other, imo people switching technologies are helping these processes.
The physics makes sense. larger rotors are more efficient because they have lower disk loading. At really low loadings you can lift a human with their own power.

The sikorski prize was claimed a few months ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syJq10EQkog

you can get a 600 or 700 class that can do "3D" flying as in the video for much less than 5k. The entry point is below $1k.

their configuration makes sense to get the best features of both. it's not solving all problems but it's an improvement over quads for some tasks.
Actually I did and still am.
And I have a 9 years old kid studying & playing 4 times a week.
I also met a few professional chess players in my life and talked to them about chess.
I don't think this is fair. Is there a better alternative available?
there are :) human powered at least:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syJq10EQkog
It still takes seconds to start up though.
How can JS make some page your default? Strange
History shows that a people roused is a force without equal. But it also teaches us that rousing a people is far from an easy task, and it becomes harder the more often you try it, or the more often it's necessary.

This creates an incentive to try again and again and again. The costs are minimal (lobbying is cheap when you're a multi-billion dollar industry), the risk of blowback practically non-existant (no one boycots Disney), and the potential rewards are huge.

Therefore, I think you're incorrect when you say these people have not learned anything. Defeating one treaty or proposed law does nothing to prevent them from trying to pass the same reforms at a later point.
The essence of branch based workflows
This has sadly the potential of making Chrome second coming of IE6, with enterprises locked in a system that is too successful to have the incentive to evolve.

As long as the Dart specification is not governed gy a body encompassing all major browser vendors, this is a very dangerous development (And yes, I know that being governed by a standards body seriously hampers the evolution of a standard, but everything is a tradeoff...)
Thanks. Not blocked (Malta).
Yes, obviously you need to be smart to play chess. But on the professional level they are all very smart and capable people. So it's not only about being smart but also understanding who you're facing and how you can crash his mind.
List of important articles for web people
I'm looking forward to all the "Why I switched from Go to XXX" posts in three years.

I really hope that "XXX" mean "a different language" and not "porn". That'd be horrible. :)
people said/saying the same thing about ruby/RoR too.

"While there was some hype about Rails, it didn't turn out to be a fad. The ecosystem is thriving and not slowing down anytime soon, especially with Ruby 2.0 and then Rails 4.0 coming quite soon."

is a thing someone could have easily said on this site in January 2013.
The $523 billion in fossil fuel subsidies is money not spent on renewables
Every day almost 1 mln people help astronomers identify galaxies on Galaxy Zoo
MobilEcho and activEcho create synergetic effect
Exactly, one reports bugs in the bug tracker (with code that demonstrates the issue), not in HN.

By the way, did you test with the new garbage collector? (Enabled by default in Mono 3.2.x)
D+: An aggregator that collects only positive news
My curiosity is, what leads people to spend time and effort to analyze millions of universe pictures to identify stars without any specific reward (they can't even name new discoveries)?
Actually I'm just about to start fundraising - similar to short selling only I don't lose money if the market keeps going up ;)

Trying to catch a bubble is very risky business. The biggest upward moves happen just before it bursts so you can easily get totally wiped out if you don't get the timing right with your shorts even if you are right. That's not something I'm willing to figure out right now.

Also, I'm long term bullish on tech stocks. Doesn't mean I think there're no sucker plays going on right now though.
But only Opera and Chrome use v8 as of now.
Thought of a way to do a materialization effect with good performance. Fake it. If you set a low opacity on the blurred element (ie, put "opacity: 0.5" on the ".glass::before", essentially mixing the blurred image with the sharp one beneath it), this actually looks like it's half as blurred as before.

Opacity can be animated very cheaply, entirely on the GPU (source: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/speed/high-performanc...), so if you animate this property from 1 to 0, you should a good materialization effect, without ever asking the CPU to recalculate the blur.

I'm going to fork the codepen and try this, will report back...

EDIT: see http://codepen.io/callumlocke/pen/EKuvs
We use keepass, our .kdb is stored in a shared dropbox folder. I know this is not 100% safe, but it's infinitely more secure than the way we handled things before. Keepass is open source, free, and with KeepassX and MiniKeePass you can use it on Mac, IOS and Android, too.
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That's one heck of a cute cat!
> I can't see Apple or Microsoft implementing a DartVM ...

That's the whole point of Dart. Apple and Microsoft are protecting their closed platforms. They are not interested in open platforms like Web.

Microsoft improved IE JS engine after they lost significant market share. And please compare features of C# and ECMAScript.

Google pushed the whole web platform forward. I don't want them to wait for Microsoft acceptance!
I'm thinking of doing something similar. College and I are just not getting along right now. May I ask what your reasons for taking a break were?
Be positive: on buildings, and how to build them
HTML5 Interactive Apps You Haven't Seen Yet
HTML5 has evolved a lot in the last year and now we can say that true apps have come to surface. I am glad to present complete image editors, web development tools and video editors created using HTML5.
Five arrests after Bessbrook shop burglary
Given the overwhelming amount of cynicism and ennui in most people's minds about any meaningful change to US policies for the Internet or NSA spying, I must applaud organizations like the EFF for continuing to fight the good fight. Even though at times it appears they may only be tilting at windmills.
I thought dartlang.org had a helloworld, instead it had a fibonacci. I updated to show an example people could see. Not sure why that's an issue.
Sorry to be meta, but was this article translated from a different language or something? It's quite odd. From the very beginning:

> Dropbox has 4 million business customers. For them it now has a new Dropbox for business

That sounded unnatural. Then two weird commas:

> The company, so far was focused on getting attention of individual users and small work groups.

> Houston, claimed that a billion files are saved online.

I see that the author founded Gigaom. Maybe he just doesn't have anyone check his articles before publishing them?
Shuttleworth is still wrong
Meanwhile, I've was happily using python / postgres 5 years ago and I'm still happily using python / postgres today...

(I was also unhappily maintaining legacy php / mysql code 5 years ago and I'm still unhappily maintaining legacy php / mysql code today :( )
Maybe it's a matter of bad docs giving the wrong impression then? Examples should be terse, the ability to create unnecessary wrappers don't seem like much of a feature to show off.
How "oldish" is your Macbook? I'm using a core2duo and didn't have any problems.

In fact, retrieving an image from Placekitten took the longest on the network, followed by the overhead of loading a Google font. The only real CPU time spent on this page is the overhead of codepen.

Are you mistaking network latency for performance issues with the example?
Polycom, Avaya, hey guys welcome to the end!
There is cross support in the form of Dart2JS although that's IE9+

That is true, but then I'm not sure they offer as much as Dart does. (Plus I bet some MS shops use TypeScript).

You would think, but how many people developing Objective C know C well, it's more true in the beginning but as you go on the need to know about the target runtime diminishes. Do you know much about the JavaScript VM in the browser and how that compiles to C?
I have two quadcopters -- that both have auto stabilization: Parrot AR Drone and DJI Phantom, and it did take around 10 minutes to learn to fly them.

Is it even possible to fly quadcopters without stabilization? Would they not start spinning out of control as soon as they take off?
Erlang is comparatively slow. Think of it as a waterline -- as a language implementation gets faster, other performance problems (like M:N) appear above the surface.
XamarinStudio is available for Linux, just under a different name: "MonoDevelop".

It has that name because in Linux the Xamarin offerings don't work, therefore they're not included in MonoDevelop.
Such uninformed comparisons are getting extremely tiresome and I consider to be the enemy of progress. There is nothing more that the Dart Team can do to make it anymore open - they're doing as much as is possible.

This is nothing like IE, which is actually proprietary and closed-source. In contrast, there is absolutely nothing about Dart that's proprietary. Dart is 100% open source, including patents grants, it's completely developed in the open and for the last 2 years has seen steadily progress with feedback from the public mailing list. It's actually a goal for the project that everyone is able to freely use Dart in any capacity. Lars Bak already said that after 1.0 is shipped they're going to work on getting the language standardized. There is nothing legal or technical stopping other browser vendors using Dart, any hesitations are 100% political.

Dart is finally the first real alternative where we may be able to progress beyond JavaScript, that as a core objective also compiles to first-class JavaScript, i.e. many features dismissed because it couldn't be efficiently transpiled to JS. I care about progress, the current state of web development is fragmented and broken, we need to be encouraging more initiatives like Dart that challenges the status-quo and is able to progress past the fragmented inconsistent mess we have to deal with now in trying to develop complex, rich, high-performance web apps.
Meet the Smarta 100 - Innovative UK startups
> main() { print("Hello World!"); }

Yes, that's my point. Why not just print("Hello World!"), like everything else?
World's Smallest Guitar
I think your answers match my intuition, they make a lot of sense.

Would you agree that, by virtue of the answers you have given, market theory is almost useless? It seems to suffer from two fatal flaws:

1) You might require a very complete understanding of a particular economic system for market theory to make any useful predictions about it.

2) You can never be sure that you have characterised enough of a given system to make a useful prediction about it (unless you characterise the whole thing, which in practical terms is impossible).

Of course we can make (very) educated analyses of any particular situation, and end up with good confidence, but the theory itself doesn't tell us that we are right. So we can never be sure that we aren't just being misled; we can't use the theory to cheaply verify someone's suggestions, we have to go through all of their work to make sure they aren't trying to pull a fast one.

Thanks for your time, even if you don't reply to this one, and good luck with your classes!
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