skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I'd respond in kind. People have the deeply in-built assumption that we can simply solve all our problems by giving all the power to the thing that fits in the "tribal leader" slot in our instincts.

But we've given our "tribal leader" (government) more power than any single entity has ever had in history, and our problems are getting worse, not better. If you prefer a less binary argument, if giving more power to the government is going to improve the problem of inequality, inequality already ought to be getting better, not worse. If inequality is getting worse, and we've been giving more and more power to our government for decades, it seems irrational to conclude that the only way to "fix" inequality is to keep giving the government more power.
The Chinese had invented printing presses with movable type before (but just didn't have that much use for it, given their writing system). Lorentz and others had worked on precursors to special relativity, relativity was in the air. If Einstein hadn't been there, we might have had to wait a few years more for some lesser minds to come up with a piece of relativity and his contributions to quantum mechanics each, but we would have gotten those achievements in any case.
Perhaps Morse code would make for a neat device, too.
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Why? Because I don't want the inconvenience. If I call up and complain about unrecognised charges then my card is cancelled, then I have to wait 5 business days minimum for a new card and also a new pin to be issued. If you want my business and my money then get a proper credit card processing terminal, there are plenty of other merchants around.
Georgia Tech, one of the top schools in the US, couldn't even teach lisp. They tried scheme with SICP (IIRC, not sure what else would have been used in 2001). It ended with a major cheating scandal [1]. I was convinced at the time the issue was a lack of understanding on the parts of the TAs. Very few of them had a background in scheme, it was the blind leading the blind according to friends who had started that year (2001, I started in 2000). Since so many students took intro to computing and there were only a few lecturers, the TAs had to do the bulk of the real instruction (that is, non-200+ student lectures). This resulted (at least for a time) in a fragmenting of the introductory programming material, and it leaving the hands of the College of Computing. Non-CS/EE/CMPE engineering students ended up in courses using matlab, without ever actually studying algorithm design/analysis (which is what CS 1311/1321/1511/whatever other numbers they'd used previously) used to cover.

[1] http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2002/01/cheating-scanda...
It is an additional 10% tax above whatever other taxes you would owe on that money. I'm not an expert, it isn't obscure, you're better off searching if you still don't believe me. Try "401k early withdrawal penalty".
Small case only was pretty popular in the interwar period, too. You'd also be hard pressed to find a single capital in 1957's 12 Angry Men. Even the names of the actors in the credits are all lower case.
Great explanation. I would like to add to this, that held-out data is often used in Bayesian learning too - for example, in cases when you intentionally over-specify the model (adding more parameters than might be needed) because you don't really know what the best model might be. The inference goes until the likelihood on held-out data keeps increasing. Example, gesture recognition in Kinekt. If someone finds this info useful, I also recommend Coursera course on Probabilistic Graphical Models.
Totally agree, though I'd call that maybe "picking the wrong shape" for your model space. You can pay a whole lot but if you cannot admit a shape that gets close to the truth then you're spending your data in vain.
I agree with you, but religion and populist, libertarian precedent have kind of made that a moot interpretation. 3d printed, single-shot guns aren't relevant when you can get real firepower at Wal-Mart or pawn shops, or cash at a gun show, no questions asked.
That's mostly an issue with English spelling---which is an attrocious system.
I notice some usage of Knockout here - what is the Guardian's frontend dev team's thought about it?
Wow, I always figured that many hospitals would overbill because they could get away with it, though I'd imagine many would go much past 5%.

I don't think it's incompetence that makes pricing variable; rather, its lack of accountability. It's hard to find out where the price tag comes from, so why not charge as much as you think you could get from each patient? If you ask your doctor for an itemized breakdown of your bill, they (may eventually) give it to. The prices are often exorbitant and arbitrary.
ya hopefully will in the near future. We just lunched last week so right now it just iphone but check it out on a friends iphone. Its the first result when you search barter. Spread the word.

Thank you for the feedback
> use a serif font for the main text,really,you can keep the headlines sans.

All the web usability studies and web design books I've read that address typography have stated that most people prefer sans-serif typefaces on screens. And the typefaces used by all the top sites reflect this.
I think you'd be surprised on how much on a knife edge the whole process works. It's perfectly plausible that something that ends up on the front page gets only a handful of upvotes in the first twenty minutes, or half an hour. Moreover, once an article has been submitted, you're not supposed to resubmit it, and many moderators will remove duplicates.

I'm actually involved in moderating a fairly large subreddit, and we have periodic waves of neo-Nazi posters gaming the subreddit, and they are surprisingly effective at altering the general mood. You can also see some genuinely shocking opinions as top posts on r/worldnews. These are subreddits with hundreds of thousands of daily visitors. If reddit is operating a system which can easily be gamed, it matters a lot.

In this case, with enough proxy accounts, and a modicum of programming experience, you could anonymously supress stories you don't like, with some ease. Do you not think that matters?
Funny enough, the wheels within wheels are equivalent to a Fourier transform.
The real flawed reddit algorithm is "controversy". It's basically:

SORT ABS(ups - downs) ASCENDING

...which means something with 1000 upvotes and 999 downvotes will be considered less controversial than something with 2 upvotes and 2 downvotes.

A much better algorithm for controversy would be:

SORT MIN(ups, downs) DESCENDING
You're not using Bitcoin fanboy thinking, where banks are so threatened by Bitcoin that they sent AML/KYC laws back in time specifically to kill it.
They had it in the 80's and a bit later. After twenty years of sanctions they had little left but residual infrastructure.

The inspector conclusions at the end of Gulf II weren't that there was zero evidence of WMD, just that no stockpiles of it were found. It was not found in neighboring countries either.

Turns out Saddam was bluffing, which he admitted to later. He could not appear to be weak before US and Iran, literally surrounded by enemies. Everyone was wrong on WMD, he had fooled them with his elaborate games. Saddam's mistake was that he misjudged American govt resolve to oust him after 9/11. That they fabricated the reasons may have even surprised him.
Is this mostly appropriate for web development? Could it work for embedded or desktop development? Seems like it might be a lot of overhead if you only need to install an IDE and a compiler.

Presumably this is also mostly used with Linux. How do people manage Windows licenses with Vagrant?
Interestingly, you could group your words in two ways:

good (life skills)

(good life) skills

Both apply equally!
Regular internet using people are not amazed by Reddit's ranking algorithm, they just enjoy it's anti-trolling technology and critical mass.
Yeah, they've got far too much power. We should stop trying to regulate the economy. The market knows best. </sarcasm>

I don't think that Central Banks have always made the right decisions. To the contrary: they're made plenty of bad mistakes. But they have to keep trying, because the alternative is much worse. And slowly, very slowly, we'll get better at riding the dragon.
But as the author pointed out, nobody visits /new.
Unfortunately I didn't make it to his talks - was in other workshops where it would have been impolite to leave. Did get to see him as he was walking off stage though! More relevantly, though, many of my collaborators did attend the deep learning workshop, so I'll grill them about the details over dinner and post about it!
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Exactly. This is the kind of stuff I talk about when I am talking with those who use technology every day to accomplish their jobs, but see it as a box that they perform tasks in and do not take part in automating their tasks.

I recently showed an account manager at my job how to use autohotkey. With that they (with very minor help) created a way to automate some irritating web form crap they do all the time to make their life simpler, faster, and with less annoying drudgery.

I think it is a part of the "dont know you dont know", where if they have the basic concepts, not a cs education, they can make the computer work for them instead of the other way around.
When we were in school, at one point our teacher switched our limit calculation questions from the almost standard notation (x,y,z for variables; a,b,c for constants) to the opposite.

Some people would have trouble handling something that had \lim_{a \to x} (some complicated f(a,x,y)) where y is a constant even though they could handle it with standard notation.

For another possible example, take something you've written recently, replace all the variable names with things like Integer, Double, and the function names with For, While (within the syntax of the language) and then try reading it.

Besides this, there's the jesus-in-toast, man-in-the-moon, face-on-mars business. The brain overfits everything, but it never stops training. It's in constant reinforcement learning.
The less hot posts according to reddit are the ones for which people fight each other while the most hot posts are the ones which make unanimity. What's wrong with that?
+1

To use docker on my mac I have replaced Vagrant with boot2docker (http://github.com/steeve/boot2docker). I didn't need all the moving parts anyway - the VM is always the same, the application-specific bits are all defined inside the containers.
If we expand our aversion to people being coerced into sex to an aversion to people being coerced into harmful work of any kind, we quickly find some pretty serious problems with modern society all over the place. The concept of the standard "Small Town, America" coal miner starts to appear pretty damn questionable. Forget vice and potential psychological damage; they are literally trading years off their life to pull themselves out of abject poverty. Maybe mining should be a vice.

Clandestine mining would likely not be a serious concern if we were to ban mining, but on the other hand mining is far more essential that luxury service industries.

Edit: I think I should clarify this. I do think that reviewing the role of economic coercion in all industries is a worthwhile endeavor, I'm not trying to throw that out there like some sort of absurd slippery slope. However I don't think this discussion will ever happen without an extra push, a push like puritanical values provides in limited cases.

Smoking bans in bars might be a good example. I think that most people agree that it is a decide thing to do, to improve the quality of life of bar workers if for no other reason, but these are basically air-quality laws that are more stringent than our normal air-quality laws. I think the reason why bar workers get the benefit of these laws, but factory workers need to rely on less stringent OSHA air quality regulations, is because in the case of bars the air quality issue is the result of something that has gotten a pretty effective moral outrage campaign.
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This is utterly false and has no basis in history.
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There should be only once price at which the property will change hands. Any less, and there would be competing buyers. Any more, and the buyer may have more attractive purchase options. This assumes that it's not a fire-sale, and that the property isn't a unique must-have asset, i.e. that your 'no compulsion to transact' condition is satisfied.
Have a look at literate programming (I think that's what it's called). It's not exactly what you're looking for (in that the project must be done that way from the beginning) but you'll find it interesting I think!
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Thanks for accepting! Doing a startup, I can see how these things are easy to miss/forget. In fact, I ran into just the same issue with Medium today, where posts that were added to my collection are nowhere to be found, except for email. @Medium got back and told me they haven't developed the interface yet. Fair point, I almost expect that from a company that's growing and constantly iterating. But given the size and maturity of LIN, one would hope for a better experience. Glad you found the link after all :)
A reminder from the guidelines: [That link at the bottom of most pages, my emphasis added ]

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."
Says a lot about the types of boyfriends this Jennifer Zilavy has had in her life!
Yes, that also. As a programmer, half the battle in trying to understand an issue exactly what you have just stated. In my job the second part is also very true, tech speak for other developers, business/marketing for everyone else. But I've found this applies to all walks of life.

To me, programming comes down to breaking a problem down into smaller pieces, which is basically like algebra. My first internship (way back) required us to carry out a written test: here are some simple algebra equations, you have a basic calculator with one (or two, can't remember) memory bank, write out the exact exact key presses to solve the equations. To me it was simple, but apparently not to everyone.

It's stuff like this which the education system should already be teaching, work on improving that rather than trying to get _everyone_ to code. Coding is not for everyone, your doctors, lawyers, actors, artists and many others are not going to need it
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Hi HN,
I am trying to validate a side business-- a pen subscription service for companies... So, would any of you be interested in paying $3.50/month for 10 branded pens delivered to your company every month? ($7 for 20, $12.50 for 30)...

The idea is that pens get lost and are spread like currency... This way, you can stock up mindlessly every month, or use them as giveaways, etc... So, would any of you sign up for this? Thanks
I like how they bother to match case and everything.
Haha wordplay.
I didn't get that `sign` was not ever re-evaluated from the writeup, can you elaborate?
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I'm letting the above comment stand, so that the rather cogent reply will make sense in the future.

It just so happens that I have a sample of that same malware. A read through shows that the XOR key actually arrives in the HTTP request made on the original (first level) PHP code. The 2nd level code looks for a 'key' in $_COOKIE, $_POST and $_GET.
Then that's a total mis-understanding of what YC is and how it compares to venture capital. And no one has really come very close to replicating YC despite quite a few attempts.
> A gun with a polymer barrel is at worst a very inaccurate single shot device, more likely it is a hand grenade.

I'm pretty confident you could build a polymer-barreled single-shot or even a revolver around one of the lower-powered .22 caliber rounds. (no idea how you would get rid of the little springs and so on, though)

Keep in mind, there are weak .22s that are just powered by a primer and no actual powder charge. They're not powerful at all.
The "clustering" feature is just now becoming stable. Distributed systems are complex (in no small part because they're generally poorly explained) so some mistakes were guaranteed. Hence the uptick in critics makes perfect sense even sans self-promotion conspiracies.
Thanks for yor work Mitchell. I use Vagrant everyday.
Google is arguably the most web-focused company in the world (the other contender being Mozilla). So how the hell did they manage to screw up something as basic as URLs on Google+? (I've always liked the elegance of twitter.com/username)
it worked with razors (http://www.dollarshaveclub.com/). so it could work with pens ...
First off, saying something is always worth doing.

Secondly, even if it is something others have said, only one person can say it with your experience and your voice. You. That makes it novel in some shape, form or fashion. Something people always seem to forget because they get so distracted by said concept of novel and unique.

You linked to the War of Art in your post, and letting the concept of novel and unique get in the way is a more insidious form of the Resistance talking. I know, because I let it stop me for a long time. Now I try to write more regularly and hone my craft so I can create something to bring my own unique self and experience to the table and try and give that to others to inspire them as well.
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Thank you for taking the time to reply in such detail. I can see that you are a committed Scala dev and what I write below will probably not make a difference to you. However, for anybody else:

I think what I want to say is, Scala is not a mature platform. I believe the language was originally conceived to address the deficiencies of the JAVA language while retaining the versatility of the JVM as a platform.

If you look at the history of JAVA, it was a 'halfway successful attempt to drag C++ programmers towards Lisp'. Clearly this did not work well as it was not a well reasoned effort (syntax, semantics and so on) and went further downhill from the introduction of Generics in 1.5. Scala incorporates all the features of JAVA, adds halfway-to-Haskell-FP, OO-FP, XML-DSLs, some other very funky concepts stretching Generics and then...Macros...and probably stuff from JAVA 8. I humbly submit that this mixture is too much for a reasonable brain to handle. Also in the mix goes the backwards compatibility breakages. How many concepts can you cram into a semantic that in itself is not sound? Is there a standard for the language? Can I implement core Scala in C?

Scala improved a lot from previous proves that point that it is still "improving" i.e. not a mature platform as yet.

Functional programming concepts are not a problem for myself (and I believe any other reasonable programmer) it is the sensory overload of fitting it all into a model: all the language rules that you need to juggle to read a 15 line block of code that can jump between Scala, JAVA, DSL, Generics, operator overloading, etc.

Code written in more powerful languages feels like being harder to read, simply because each line of code does more...hmmm, is this a good thing? Because I have some Perl that you might wanna look at. Succinctness is power, not sensory and mental overload.

If I want the power of OO/FP/DSLs/MACROS all in one bundle, I would prefer a reasonable modern Lisp: coherence and maturity being the deciding factor in that choice.

Maybe Clojure?
Lots of people visit /new. They're called "knights of new". The total number of these people is probably far lower than the front page (where _hot is used), but it's how every submission gets its start.
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Possibly, I presume you mean because it is not phonetic? But that is not going to be so easy to change... My biggest gripe of the modern school leavers is when dey ryt n txt spch & i hv 2 decifa evry wrd. That's ok in an actual text message, but I've heard of stories where it has been carried over to exams, CV's and the workplace.

Anyway, that's what grinds my gears :)
This would be a stupid and utterly inconsequential law based on fear mongering. There are already laws against unlicensed gun smithery, and already laws against completely polymer or ceramic guns, there's no need to add more. Additionally, if someone wants to make an improvised firearm they can just go to home depot, spend less than $100 and build something that is far more capable than what can be produced from a multi-thousand dollar 3D printer.
I know what you mean, Borders did the same thing. But whenever someone mentions "The Red Book", I always wonder whether they're talking about the OpenGL Programming Guide or the PostScript Language Reference.
Even worse, when they assigned "good" URLs they gave this horrendous preference to .coms and didn't allow any changes.

For instance, say there's an empty domain at yourbusiness.com, but you're operating on yourbusiness.co.uk, the domain you get is the horrendous "yourbusinesscouk". whilst "yourbusiness" goes completely unused.

Jerks.
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Ahah, wordplay!
true, it did.
Funny, that this idea is so foreign to ML. As a macromolecular crystallographer, Rfree [0] is something drilled into every student's brain from day one!

TL;DR: Randomly, a certain percent (5-10%) of data is 'hidden' and never used for building/refining your model, but is only used to evaluate how well your model fits (or explains) that unseen data. This is absolutely, fundamentally essential to prevent over-fitting your data!!

EDIT: Think that you are solving a huge jigsaw puzzle, but made of thousands of jello pieces. You randomly hide a 100 or so pieces and try to solve the puzzle. Having used all the pieces (except the hidden 100), you think the puzzle forms a Treasure Map. Now, you take the previously hidden pieces and try to fit those into the puzzle and if after using the hidden pieces your puzzle still looks like a Treasure Map, you may have found a (mostly) correct solution. But, if you are unable to fit those hidden places in a way that still keeps the Treasure Map intact, you must question if you did in fact find the correct solution or if there is another, slightly different, solution that may be (more) correct because it will account for the hidden pieces a little better?

[0] http://reference.iucr.org/dictionary/Free_R_factor
Also, to add, when DGL bring this kind of mental model up they do so to motivate a kind of semi-parametric modeling where the design space changes progressively to move closer to the true model without growing so quickly as to make inference unstable. The problem being, of course, that this causes your algorithm run time to blow out to something cubic, I think, and so you have a beautiful model that loses out on search error.
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I like to comment on all Codecademy posts this fact: I learned to code on Codecademy for 3 months, then 3 months of trial and error projects on my own. 18 months after writing my first line of code, I run my own successful consulting business and have launched web and mobile products with over a million users and over 100,000 downloads.

I've been lucky and surrounded by great people, but y'all if you're non technical, make the pledge to end that today. You can. I did. There's no downside.