skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats true, though as my optimization friends put it, sometimes a really close answer that is easy to come to is often better than a precise answer which is difficult to come to. Selecting the right algorithm is a bit of an art though some simple rules can make it pretty easy. Say clustering for groups, linear regression for estimating continuous values, naive Bayes / logistic regression for classification. Without parameter tuning you can go from having a bunch of data to having a model that does something quite easily.

When were talking about applied machine learning it is generally in the context of developing a product, a feature. The most important part is going from data to feature, not necessarily squeezing the last few percentage points of performance. In this context getting a good answer easily is more important than getting the best answer.
bs. in case anyone wondered, GTA4 is the prime example of a shitty console port.
Uh, shouldn't you use the most appropriate type available to describe your data, since that will simplify the process if you ever need to migrate to a different DBMS?
Activists have long required that any electronics go in the freezer in a different room while meetings happen, yes.

Most people just don't even think about it at all.
I use apps like this only rarely. I don't want to have to hunt for a new app every time I decide I need this functionality.
Yes. If the symbols are in MathML there are accessibility tools which will read them out to you - effectively translating them into plain spoken english.

eg http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathplayer/tech/accessibil...

(yes, I know that's for IE. There are other systems though).
It all seems like a vicious cycle of us discovering better ways to fight bacteria and feeding more and more people at the same time at the same price or less. Everything adapts bla bla bla.

This could all be alleviated if we just took a step back as a society and took control of our own lives, food included. Maybe spending 20-30 minutes a day on growing your own supply (where applicable) isn't the worst thing in the world if it came down to it.
Or you work in the UK for a company that runs a share save scheme BT's due next year is going to return well over £60k (tax free) on a 12K investment.
Rayman is close, and I enjoyed that, but there are still some attack mechanics there.
Cool - send a song to @spencenow

I'm not sure how I ended up at the vanity URL. I think I saw your email mac@given.to and typed it in manually. Commented-out the FB Connect feedback
We're talking about airports, where the security procedures already require a non-transferrable boarding pass and photo ID for identity confirmation to enter the secure area at the departure airport.

If you were going to build an "automated warrant officer" system overlaying existing airport security, there's plenty of places where it would already be fairly trivial to do that exit mantraps probably don't affect the risk that much.
Thanks, nl! Now I know that at least one person reads it.
thanks for articulating the rational side of this (I had a long day). As for the claustrophobic, these exits (which might save money) would serve as a good warning to them that they should reconsider flying altogether if they can't handle a brief stint inside these things.
>Positions available in: New York City, San Francisco, London, Los Angeles, Boston, Sydney, and Hong Kong.

22/hour in Sydney? Half of the salary will go to rent and bills.
lol! That must be it because it's #2 in my search results, under 6tag, atm.
It's certainly plausible that touches that are small enough are ignored, although I don't know if that's actually true. But even if it is, that doesn't change what I said.

> Consumption device, not a creative device.

Do you honestly believe that? Are you just burying your head in the sand, or do you actually think that all of the people out there happily creating things on their iPads don't count for some reason?
They're not stealing my data. I gladly give it to them.
To put this in perspective, as a starving entrepreneur with 15 years of experience, $22/hour sounds like a godsend at the moment.

I'm not complaining or ignoring that this is below market rate. But it's good to stay humble.
Ain't that always the way.
The depth sensing in the old Kinect was developed by PrimeSense. The New Kinect was probably developed from technology acquired with the purchases of 3DV and Canesta.
So the post-Shelby voter repression in the U.S. is becaaause?
Right. But in the meantime?
Elio Motors: $6800 car, 84 mpg
The iron maiden turn stile is harder for people with luggage (or crutches, wheelchairs, ...) to navigate. The main problem being you get inside, then some jerk decides you're not moving fast enough and helps you along. Two door capsules move at the pace of the passenger and aren't going to force you along.
Because there are patent trolls, and there are truly innovative companies.
In the Bay Area, it's not unusual for 22-year-olds CS graduates to be making more than $80k/year, even at VC-funded places. Maybe that's "less" than what experienced developers can make, but it's just crazy-high for the country on average.
This is why the author of this post is wrong. The answer is that there is no known efficient algorithm to ensure you get to a maximum of the k-Means objective (and there is unlikely to be one), even if you fix the dimension of the vectors to two. Also, nobody knows how to pick K.
Thank you for the advice and the pointer!
It's really simple. The more gender equality there is in a country, the more women and men revert to stereotypical occupation choices. That is, there are more female engineers in India or Eastern Europe than in Scandinavia.

The countries where the percentage of women pursuing STEM is the highest, are the countries where STEM careers are disproportionately lucrative.

These findings have been confirmed by multiple studies with enormous sample sizes (e.g. Richard Lippa's n=200,000 survey of 53 countries).

Feminists will spend the next couple of years staunchly denying these findings, while the number of women in STEM has flatlined, and the percentage of students that are female only rises because men are systematically discriminated against.
That's good - because taking it seriously is the result of poor thinking.
TLDR is they're being set up

They're being set up the same way that Social Security has been set up to go bankrupt, Medicare has been set up to go bankrupt, Obamacare has been set up to crash and burn, the Community Reinvestment Act was set up to cause a housing bubble, government backed student loans were set up to cause hyper-inflation of education costs...

You see a pattern?

They're being set up because they are part of a system that has failure baked in from the beginning. Not failing is the odd surprise when it comes to government control of large complex business entities -- and even then the question of whether or not some apparent success is actually failure depends upon how closely you look at how much it cost to prevent catastrophic collapse (ie, the military).
That phrase came from a case that was completely unrelated to the content of the quote, and was used to claim that writing anti-draft pamphlets was illegal speech.

That verdict was later effectively overturned, and the judge who first said those words also had this to say shortly afterward in another free speech case:

"The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas -- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out."

It's time to stop trotting out that fear-mongering phrase.
> Every once in a while, a botched and buggy game with tremendous potential will be buffed and polished by an obsessed modding community, revealing a classic that the developers were never given time to realize. Games like Troika's Vampire: Bloodlines or Obsidian Entertainment's KOTOR2 are still evolving online. I've been holding off replaying KOTOR2 for years because I know it just keeps getting closer to the game it was meant to be every year.

A game that is worth mentioning here is Falcon 4. More than 10 years after its initial release people have (and are still ?) modding it. More info at https://sites.google.com/site/falcon4history/
Financial Planning for Immortality and/or the Apocalypse
“Keep Calm While We Steal Your Data”
North Kingdom/Warner Bros release interactive WebGL Middle-earth
>You have 4 -5 years of web development experience.

This is not the same as 5 years of rails experience.

They are not looking for developers, they're looking for people to teach a crash course in web development.
> I write this as a man who has several uncles and cousins who are farmers, including some who raise cattle

All of whom would not be harmed by outlawing the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in agriculture.

Right now we have a situation where people raising cattle can make more profit by using antibiotics, this drives down the cost of meat to where farmers raising cattle naturally can't compete on price (and must charge a premium for antibiotic-free meat).

If the laws were changed, no one would use antibiotics, consumers would pay an extra 50 cents / pound of beef and the farmers would remain equally profitable. In fact, it might make the midwestern family farm viable again, right now they can't compete with the massive cattle lots, but such regulation could make raising 10-100 head of cattle a worthwhile endeavor again.
There is absolutely luck, it's in the timing. The Green Revolution happened to arrive before we hit Malthusian limits, but that wasn't guaranteed.

If an asteroid is going to strike tomorrow the only solutions that matter are the ones that are economically and technically feasible today.
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right, you don't run Java.
Java is everywhere so unless you live in the jungle I'm quite sure you use it everyday.
My Google Wallet Card Mockup 2012 ... is the incognito card next ;)
I see. Okay, I didn't know that happened. I've only ran into one such checkpoint in my life and the policeman just asked me where I was coming from and where I was going, asked if I had anything to drink while pointing his flashlight into my car; I assume looking for an open can/bottle or anything suspicious. That last like 4 seconds, then I was on my way.
>the right tradeoff to prevent malicious action may not be the same across all interfaces

right, but it is the same at the same place, the database, so that's where you should put that constraint. There's not a lot of conceptual load here.

Put limits on the database so your database doesn't get knocked over. No, don't put limits in your client so your database doesn't get knocked over, put the limits for the database in the database.

I don't see where the gap is here. Sounds like premature optimization to me. Yes it does matter that Postgre abstracts the standard SQL datatypes away in the backend, no it doesn't matter what the performance impact of that is. Why? because unless you're committed to this database backend, trying to make it run faster is a waste of effort. Lets Postgre do that for you.

Do your job as a programmer and setup your database/schema right using the standardized standards at the standard level, then let the database do its job and setup the actual bits how it thinks is best.
The realities of living with a giant ungrateful jerk pot-bellied pig.
That's a very modest estimate of the time involved if you start talking about people growing a significant portion of the calories they need.
I have trouble finding any candidates I can believe in. The only benefit (for me) of the two main parties is that their stance on any issue is widely known regardless of who the individual candidate is, so I can avoid them. I like the idea of independent MPs, but it can be hard to tell ahead of time whether the candidate is a wingnut, even with fairly careful research.

I might vote, but tend to spoil the paper when I can't find a palatable candidate. I also live in an area that has had an unbroken chain of conservative MPs for the last 400 years, and will probably continue to have one for a very, very long time.
Most of the comments on here are from people in the field of ML saying "this is a toy example, ML is hard."

Maybe that's the case. And maybe the title of the submission ruffled some feathers but the thrust of it is that ML is approachable. I'm sure there's devil in the detail, but it's nice for people who are unfamiliar in a subject to see it presented in a way that's more familiar to them with their current background.

I have a university background in Maths and Comp Sci so I'm not scared of code or mathematical notation. Maybe if I'd read the comments on here I'd get the sense that ML is too vast and difficult to pick up. I'm doing Andrew Ng's coursera course at the moment and so far it's all been very easy to understand. I'm sure it gets harder (I even hope so) and maybe I'll never get to the point where I'm expert at it, but it would be nicer to see more of a nurturing environment on here instead of the knee jerk reactions this seems to have inspired.
Hey, author here.

> Aside from the fact the techniques he mentioned are some of the simplest in machine learning (and are hardly those that would immediately come to mind when I think "machine learning")

The primary point of this article was the contrast between something as simple as K-Means, and the literature that describes it. It wasn't meant as a full intro to ML, but rather something along the lines of "give it a try, you might be surprised by what you can achieve".

> Even for "simple" algorithms such as K-Means, implementing them is often only the tip of the iceberg.

Yup. But getting more people to explore the tip of the iceberg is, in my opinion, a good thing. We don't discourage people from programming because they don't instantly understand the runtime complexity of hash tables and binary trees. We encourage them to use what's already built knowing that smart people will eventually explore the rest of the iceberg.
>I have to disagree. You should always put limits on everything

like any orthodoxy it should have a limit put on it.

>But if there is multiple interfaces (such as a REST api etc) to your database then you have to remember to put them in place everywhere.

multiple interfaces going directly to database - that's a much bigger problem that the rest pales before it. In particular, multiple updates of limits would constitute only minor share of headache causing updates and the multiple updates itself would be just a minor share of the whole headache.
What you're suggesting is converting a universal, concise, formal language into the potentially ambiguous and/or redundant "plain English". What's the point of that? One has to learn some math before being able to read math.
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It would be odd except it's not true.
MusicBee is awesome!
that is debatable, as is anything economic. I as a Keynesian would agree with you but Austrians would disagree.
The FDA has asked nicely for industry to please stop using antibiotics in feed:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230444460...
Driverdan, the user you're responding to, has been here for nearly five years.

Insinuating that they may be a paid shill is truly obnoxious behavior.
LG investigates Smart TV 'unauthorised spying' claim
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I think he has a tiny point actually: I saw a number of people around me removing Java (or not installing it on new computers) after the numerous vulnerabilities reported recently. Just a data point but well - I wonder if this could affect sales of java-based product etc.
> You're basically throwing darts at logarithmic graph paper! The area covered by squares which "start with 1" is larger than the area covered by square which "start with 9".

Best explanation for Benford's Law I've ever seen. I've always had a rough understanding of the "why" of it, but this really drives the point home.
Hey Toby,

First off thanks for writing the book. It was the first book recommended to me for ML while I was doing my undergrad and it got me using ML as opposed to studying ML. The book opened my eyes to the fact that I really could do these things, and it definitely played a role in influencing me to pursue my MSc in AI. So again, thank you. :)

Secondly I'll agree that the book is most definitely dated at this point though it provides a survey of quite a broad selection of algorithms. It certainly isn't going to put the reader on the cutting edge or anywhere near it but it will get them started which appears to be the hardest part for some of those participating in this comment thread.

Have you considered a second edition?
Having been through SYR recently - the doors are pretty annoying. When I was there, they had a bunch of signs telling people to go through in groups, which was hilarious as 1) the door midpoint area is about the size of one person plus their carry-on, and 2) the door timing would close the door much too quickly to actually have more than one person enter. Also, the cycle time is pretty slow. Really, really bad design.
We're forgetting the obvious situation where people are "detained" on a regular basis: elevators. This is just an elevator that doesn't traverse floors.

Have you ever ridden an elevator from the lobby of a large office building? If the security clerk at the desk thinks you're a threat, he'll let you get in an elevator and then press a button to stop you between floors.

When help arrives, they'll override the controls and force the elevator the ground where the only exit is into the hands of an armed response force.
There is a story:

A man is walking to a village when he falls into a puddle of quicksand. His attempts to escape are futile and he is nearly about to die when a farmer happens by and hauls him out. The farmer tells him that he should watch out for that puddle. The man suggests placing a sign there to warn travellers, to which the farmer remarks, "Oh, we had one. But no one was falling in, so we took it away.".

About the ozone layer:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_for_the_Prot...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol

How quickly we forget the lessons of the past!
> Antibiotics for industrial animal farms are one of the reasons bacteria develop multiple resistances.

I have the impression (but haven't really checked any real sources on this) that the carefree use of antibiotics on farm animals is mostly an American thing. And that the use of antibiotics in animal farming is much more regulated in Europe. Don't know for sure, though. And don't know about the rest of the world.
Things like "Medical Device Manufacturers Association" probably count in that list as they exist solely as a lobbying group. http://www.medicaldevices.org/
Note that bower is extremely lightweight; all it basically does is pull repos from github. So it can hardly be considered a package manager. The rest all offer various features above and beyond bower, AFAIK.

The reason bower is so popular is because it doesn't do very much.
It's definitely getting there. It seems .io is where it's at, though, despite the price.
No kidding. I used to use it all the time, and I just re-downloaded about a week ago as my player of choice, especially since it's capable of playing FLACs (looking at you, WMP).
You do it because talking involves little effort, and you want to share your knowledge. That might be due to a variety of reasons; from trying to prove someone wrong, to a general feeling of wanting to display knowledge.

But none of those motivations require that you be, in fact, correct.

I've lost track of the times people overheard me discussing something with someone and piped in to tell me the virtues of homeopathy or how GMOs are a plot to destroy the food supply or that there's no actual proof of evolution.

I'm most skeptical of people who are least skeptical of their own knowledge and how they acquired it. Yet it seems those are the people most likely to offer an opinion.

If you (rightly) skeptical of my claims go find a newspaper and read the letters to the editor. These are people sufficiently convinced of their rightness that they took the time to send a letter or an E-mail.
While this can be done for the uncore PCI counters, I don't think there is any reasonable way to do this for the MSRs. And you'd still be relying on the kernel to service your request since 'wrmsr' and 'rdmsr' can only be executed from Ring 0 (kernel mode).

But if your goal is to reduce overhead, you can read the performance counters with 'rdpmc', which can be configured to be usable from Ring 3 (user level). This is a route that I'm currently pursuing. More details in some of the messages here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/likwid-developers

This link about mapping PCI configuration space to be accessible to non-root users might be useful too: http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~cruse/cs698f11/uhci.c
Yeah, I know... it's a metaphor. The point is that you don't have the right to literally say whatever words you want, absolutely whenever you want (nor, I think, should you).

The TSA stuff is bonkers, though, and I think totally unconstitutional.
> Do you honestly believe that? Are you just burying your head in the sand, or do you actually think that all of the people out there happily creating things on their iPads don't count for some reason?

People working around the significant restrictions preventing content creation are the exceptions that prove the rule, in my opinion. I'm glad they're able to do it, but the iPad certainly wasn't designed to enable it.
> using the standardized standards at the standard level

Because standards?
You're taking my use of the term decorating too literally.
In the case of DNA I meant that RNA likely began to delegate the heredity function to DNA since it was much polymers were more stable at room temperature and it was less likely to form complex 3D structures.
All of it will go towards rent in SF and NY (if Manhattan) unless they share rooms and split costs a lot
Some IQ advantage tends to help in these situations, but more isn't always better.

In other words, you're likely to do better if you're a little better than average (e.g. 1 SD or 115).

On the other hand, if you're one of those bizarro 180 IQ outliers who can't connect socially and emotionally (to say nothing of intellectually) with average people, you aren't likely to be able to be successful in a way that incorporates and leverages the contributions of other people.
Not to be confused with Ripple (https://ripple.com/) which is a credit-based P2P payments protocol.
It is not clear from that article how one is to distinguish intentional non-voting from apathy. It seems to me that if one wishes to make a statement of their non-vote, they need to go to the poll and submit a blank ballot, not just stay home on election day. That may be the idea here, but the article doesn't actually seem to say so.

EDIT: a bit more looking around turned up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest_vote which seems to be what I'm thinking of.