skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feel free to work together as a team. Glad that you guys had fun last night :D
It is not a buzzword, as it describes a very specific concept: learning based on a neural network with multiple (say >= 3) hidden layers.

It is not a new idea, but it has been viable only since the last few years thanks to both computational power advances (huge clusters, GPUs, big data), and algorithmic breakthroughs (sampling algorithms, stochastic optimization, contrastive divergence, ...).
Thanks for the clarification. Glad to see it's not so bad afterall.
See you on the golf course, John, Cisco is in trouble
9 months in Antarctica, and the reverse culture shock afterwards
While the UI is a Windows-style mess, nothing beats Beyond Compare. It's far and away the most useful tool I have outside of the IDE (particularly since we use Perforce). I pine for a Mac port, even if they did nothing to clean it up visually.
[to reiterate I can't address the specifics of the USPTO, but can address how patent search and examination work from personal experience]

>which patent examiners use when searching key words/phrases located in the patent application. //

You said examiners only search patent documents in their computer systems. That's just wrong.

There are many commercial databases of technology - IBM's Technical Disclosure Bulletins (TDB) that they used for defensive publication for example or compendiums of papers from various scientific journals. All areas of technology have trade magazines that give details of current tech, enough to provide a suggestion of where to search in more detail. Of course the internet is a vast resource too

>how patent writers carefully choose words in patent application just so key word searching Google and patent databases won't result in prior art //

Can you link that. It sounds like nonsense. Claims use language such as "fixing means" to allow breadth to the legal monopoly defined encompassing all relevant/possible forms of fixation - glue, screws, bolts, magnetics, welding, flexible retention. Searches are made for the idea, not the language used to express it.

Again, it's not about string matching. If it were then it would be a simple computerised process.

Example of sources of non-patent disclosures - http://www.delphion.com/search-prior_art#tdb, http://www.questel.com/index.php/en/product-and-services/pri... [questel orbit], http://www.sciencedirect.com/. It used to be that the UK PO had console based access (eg telnet) to create search queries against these (and other) databases. Now of course the web is [often] used as the interface medium.
Correct. It's a great read. He weaves theory with storytelling better than any other author I've read.
You projected that; I admit they are human. So was Hitler etc. What they lose by violating the rules of a civilized society, is the protections offered by that society. That's got to be the case, else why would anyone follow the rules at all?

So yes, they Were citizens with poor reasoning powers, and that led them to violate the bounds of civilized behavior, which put them in their predicament - no protection/assistance/sympathy from those who continue to abide.

Its a spectacle to be sure - their painful death. Some will enjoy it and some be repulsed. Make your own choice there. But don't confuse that with 'dehumanizing'.
Just below Andromeda. Find Mirach, the brightest star below the plane of Andromeda, then go the same distance further south.
Are the crashes listed in Firefox's about:crashes page? Filing bug reports with those crash IDs (which reference stack traces on crash-stats.mozilla.com) would be a big help.

Firebug might be a problem because it is tightly coupled to Firefox's internal debugging APIs.
Ask HN: What could be done to build a competitor to Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is electing new Arbitration Committee members just now, which prompts this question to the Hacker News community. How could someone set up a competing free, online encyclopedia to show users an alternative to Wikipedia's approach to administration and set up a friendly competition that might improve free, online encyclopedias in general?

I've seen a lot of complaints about Wikipedia here on Hacker News over the years. Yet I also see a lot of comments and even submissions of new stories that come straight from Wikipedia. This love-hate relationship suggests that Wikipedia has plenty of strengths along with its weaknesses.

For a while I've entertained the "thought experiment" of what it would take to build a new free, online encyclopedia and do it right. But how to start? I used to think of how I would run a free, online encyclopedia if I were project funder and founder and desired to be a project leader as an occupation thereafter, just to consider criteria for the hypothetical project. Reading recently about the DARPA self-driving car race reminded me that maybe a DARPA prize or X Prize approach might be even better than designing a whole project from scratch. Why not just announce a prize for a new free, online encyclopedia project, with some criteria, and let a variety of motivated teams think through how to build a new encyclopedia? Just set a few goals, and let the people who enjoy that kind of thing figure out the details. That has worked amazingly well for some projects that previously seemed impossible.

So what goals do you suggest for a Free Online Encyclopedia Challenge Prize? What could a new project do to show it is building a good encyclopedia, and that it deserves a cash prize to keep its growth going as it wins user acceptance? What specific goals would show that the project passed a reasonable "finish line" in a race to build a viable competitor to Wikipedia?
I'm sympathetic to the broad point your making, but your example isn't very good:

> I make shooter video games. Is that a bad thing? According to some people I'm evil.

If you thought that shooter video games were bad and you built them anyway, that would be poor ethics. That other people think shooter video games are evil isn't what matters; it's what you think that matters.
Unfortunately this requires you to be able to log in. I had an account (with the same name I use here) mysteriously stop being able to log in about 6 years ago. I lost all of my email, contacts, and calendars.

I was never able to find out why the account was shut down, I'm guessing it was a ToS violation for something I did several months before I got banned (made 100+ gmail accounts with my invites, didn't use them for nefarious purposes though.) Just one day I couldn't log in and got an ambiguous page about account deactivation. No amount of emails or form filling ever earned a response from Google. That was it. Blam. Gone. Ever since then, I have not trusted Google with any data that I care about.

It would be nice if this tool worked for deactivated accounts.
Flying Robot Jellyfish an Exceedingly Light, Simple Design
Are there any tools that automatically alert you when your traffic gets routed in a way like this where one or more of the hops simply don't make any sense at all?
Don't be afraid Using regex in Ruby--how to use groups
Even then, those "masters" only have limited control of the language.
Bootstrap 3.0.3 released
Any word on when outlook.com will send/receive encrypted emails? Currently any time an email passes to/from the outlook.com domain it's in plaintext.
Google's Going RoboCop
What Microsoft needs to do, is abandon its secrets and OS property, and participate as the perfect corporate partner, in the open-OS ethos. There is no longer any good reason for an OS to be anything other than a public, common, property - available to all for use and/or modification.

The proprietary OS vendors are still holding on to their installed customer base, and must of course continue to support bad technology decisions. But on the other hand, in the "what shocking thing should Microsoft do next to prove that it kicks ass and is still relevant in the 21st century"-Department, wouldn't it be fabulous if The New Guy, given the reigns, decides to send the troops on a prolonged engagement far, far away from the "safety" and "sanctity" of corporate property.
Encryption does not mean anything until you reign-in law enforcement powers.
Gems by themselves don't work right, but how about with bundler as well?
That goes a bit far. I can certainly feel excitement and amazement at their folly and not be barbaric. I'm thinking folks are transferring their horror at the predicament these criminals got themselves into, to the spectators reaction which was a pretty natural one.
You could argue this with probability.

But that assumes that the existence or nonexistence of life is a random event, and that goes at odds with some religious belief systems.
Quite a few of my university friends went off to join the military-industrial-circus and I saw their rationale for doing so change over time. Initially something like having learned the ADA programming language coupled with a poor degree result meant that 'defence' was the only option open to them unless they wanted to stack shelves at a supermarket. Then the family came along, with the mortgage and the responsibilities of being a mature adult. The rationale shifted, working for the military machine was now just a means to an end, for bread on the table, where there are bills to pay. This is what happens.
Thinking About ECMAScript 5 Parts
The angle is the field of view. Because of the eye's uneven resolution you need to have some idea of how they're handling the field of view no matter what.

It's like saying '60 miles per hour from Vermont to West Virginia'. There's some fuzziness about where exactly you put the end points, but you have a good idea.

Basically, using raw angular resolution would also be too vague without context, but if you have context then megapixels are sufficient.
We try to invade them, of course.
The Negro Motorist Green Book, 1949
> dismissing falls/rises of 20% in hours as normal

That is pretty normal for bitcoin though isn't it?
Heyday App Is a Journal of Your Life That Writes Itself
> No wonder the American people think this Republican Congress is from another

> planet -- they're more interested in life in space than Americans' lives

And I guess Democrats are more interested in taking jabs at the opposition than they are in uniting the nation in something other than war or fear. I guess we'll have to wait until Mars attacks, then we'll see everyone come together to fund space exploration.

(I'm not actually taking a jab at Democrats, just pointing out that they're all a bunch of useless bottom-feeders who take any opportunity to speak ill of the other. Let's send them all into space like DNA's telephone sanitizers)
Finn-ished - Finland's fall and Asia's rise in PISA rankings
Here is what Dr. Joel Fuhrman, M.D. has to say about weight loss: http://www.drfuhrman.com/weightloss/
... which is why they wouldn't do that, because it would be catastrophic.
There are a ton of candidates in our cosmic neighborhood (less than 70 light years away).
Thank you for pointing this out. I respect astronauts more than soldiers for this reason. Soldiers fight for their own people but untimately end up killing other HUMANS. Astronauts are risking their lives on the other hand for the better of the entire human society.

Unfortunately countries like to spend more money on war than space exploration, especially the United States.
Microsoft Working On A Smart Bra To Measure Mood
AFAIK, non-radioactive materials are activated by neutron bombardment. Co60 is primarily a gamma emitter.
also didn't say authorized by who I guess...
Looks a lot like Theano [http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/index.html]
I agree that it's inevitable that the Chinese government will ban Bitcoin. However, I think their gradual response is more due to the complex preparation needed to enforce a ban, than scepticism about its viability as a currency.

The great firewall - the infrastructure as well as the body of regulation on ISPs and online services - took time to reach its current level of effectiveness, and it is likely that a ban on bitcoin would also be phased in similarly. This announcement is certainly just the first step.

The most likely next steps would probably be:

- Ordering financial institutions not to provide services to Bitcoin-related companies such as exchanges; this could happen fairly quietly without explicit announcements. This might already have started.

- Withholding trade licenses and other regulatory approvals to prevent Bitcoin-related companies from operating; This can be done without specifying the actual reasons for denial, which would make it hard to be sure that it's happening.

This would drive Bitcoin to a small-scale, grey-market activity, with transactions forced to happen directly between individuals. They might leave it at that, or explicitly ban bitcoin, using the firewall to block the bitcoin and getwork protocols as well as and servers used by known web-based clients.
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Are you comparing cold start times? Don't IE and Chrome launch a "quick start" background process when you boot Windows?
A big extra cost of virtual functions in the underlying CPU not mentioned in the article: they effectively create a branch target dependency on a pointer chase. Put another way:

1) The virtual function address lookup requires a load from an address which is itself loaded. If neither location is cached, this has the unavoidable latency of two uncached memory accesses. Even at best, this incurs two cached L1 accesses, which is about 8-16 cycles on modern architectures.

2) The function call itself is dependent on the final address loaded above. None of that can proceed until the branch address is known. If cached, all is good and the core correctly predicts execution of a large number of instructions. Best case, the core may still block predicted execution shortly after due to running out of non-dependent instructions, until it knows for sure the address it should have branched to. Worst case, the branch can't proceed until the two memory accesses access.

In any case, nearly all of this is dwarfed by the cost to the compiled code itself: in most cases you can't inline, so simple transformations which could eliminate the function call altogether can't happen.
Nothing about crypto payments is inherently illegal. In fact, I expect the illegal activity to quickly become dwarfed by compliant transactions. If governments decide they still want to squash it, I sincerely hope their efforts are just as effective as they have been at eradicating video piracy, illegal drug use, and global insurgent groups.
Handicap Accessibility in Mobile Web Development
It's still speculation, and one of Skype's lead engineers wrote a completely sane explanation of how the centralization had to happen if Skype was going to work well on mobile, since you're not exactly going to be getting tons of supernodes on iPhones. You're welcome to believe that they also did it for government reasons, but there are definitely sane technological reasons, too. I'll update this comment with a link in a few minutes if I find it.
I know they are getting better. My school in WV participated. When inspectors came in they shut down the school store that sold chips, rice crispy treats, pop. Also a lady in the basement sold giant grease soaked pepperoni roles except when the inspectors came. All of the other soft drink machines were turned off on those days too. My wife's High School in Ohio had an ice cream sundae bar...
We've known for a while that there's a correlation between lack of planning and poverty. It's always been assumed that the lack of planning skills causes poverty, but recent studies are starting to show that it's often the other way around: poverty causes a huge amount of stress, which significantly limits the ability of a person to plan well.
I can't find a download button for my YouTube archive for some reason.

Looking forward to moving it to Pinboard, though.
Google now lets you download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data
Good point! It's been a while.
Why it’s so hard to squeeze Microsoft Office into my life
Wait, so you weren't backing up your email account?
discovered through http://thegrio.com/2013/11/13/seeking-help-while-black-renis...
MBOX, cool! I wonder if you could do this to speed up the full download of your Gmail inbox into Mail.app (etc) rather than letting Mail download each message, one at a time.

It will be interesting to see how many people that have been demanding this for years actually make the leap!
I didn't see this info anywhere so...

Try these keys:

a for in,
z for out,

and the 4 arrow keys...

much better that way!
Anyone who has studied the history of the music industry is familiar with the strike and how it disrupted the industry. But David Byrne's interpretation is worth reading.
You mean Dave Eggers' "The Circle" isn't real?
Weight loss is all diet. Exercise just helps the process.
I could write music for commercials, it pays very well. I choose not to on ethical grounds. If it were my only choice to feed my family, I would change my mind. But it is hard to truly terrorize people with music, although I've been accused of it. ;)

Should personal ethics factor in to what we do as work? Absolutely. More than most ethical decisions, what we do as work can profoundly affect the world around us. Are these distinctions easy and clear? No. Is that a reason to stop thinking about it and just do whatever is most fun and pays best? In my opinion, no. This is one of the greatest questions we all face, how our daily actions affect others, and I no longer expect quick and definitive answers.

But it means a lot just to keep looking.
I look forward to the progress of this innovation.
Dear (fake) BrewDog China
Yep, basically.

EDIT: ah fuck it might hack on this dataset anyways--if i get a beer and a date out of it ill help fiddle while rome burns
A geometric probability puzzle
Does it work on Landscape iPad? Some of the new iOS7 animation APIs have odd issues on that orientation.
The USA today is a thoroughly fear-based culture. Land of the free, home of the brave.
Or the police hope to scare them into seeking medical help or turning themselves in for hope of some sort of help.
> My point isn't to start an off-topic debate, it's to
> point out that morality is complex and subjective,
> and it's up to the individual to make their own decisions.

Did the author make the opposite point? (I'm having trouble seeing it if he did. For example, the sentence that follows what you quoted exemplifies the author's efforts to not define morality in strict terms: "However, we [engineers] are part and parcel of industrial modernity with all its might, advantages and flaws, and we therefore contribute to human suffering as well as flourishing.")
They're probably just single celled animals if anything. I just don't believe they can be as advanced or better than us. Some people may disagree (people who would die for star wars/trek).
I don't like limiting appeals. What about raising the costs of new applications based on the number of outstanding applications by a single entity? That should leave things affordable for the little guy, but encourage judicious dropping of applications.

Of course, there's the tremendous problem of the manipulability of what constitutes "an entity" - shell companies and what have you.
Even if there is some sort of god or creator or what have you, it would be... as Sagan put it in Contact... an awful waste of space if we were the only project.
Of course, it's also a buzzword.
Lucky for you just today Grouper has decided to give you that opportunity:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6855114
Very interesting. Looks like a great option for those who understand and need it. For the founders 85% of something is better than 100% of nothing... Or, 85% * some risk of Kima behaving 'badly' (from the founders' perspective).

Having read the term sheet, I'll say that the desire to get for Kima the post-acquisition excess benefit of any acq-huire exit seems a reasonable request in concept ("Equalization of financial terms") but it does make the 15% more expensive if there are others who would invest similarly without it and figure that N % will acq-huire instead of failing, stalling, or growing. And it potentially goes a bit too far if one of the founders grows to be a business unit head at a large company. Would need to see the actual document language that addresses that though. Also, sorry to be OCD - to be consistent, "financial terms" should be capitalized in the section title.

The biggest issue I'd have is the "Important Decisions" clause. Incubators and many (but not all) angels don't typically look for this level of ability to control that can block the company from growing.

There is some evidence that Kima doesn't use their rights maliciously but that's the clause to think carefully about - if there is any disagreement, the IP is in the company and you can't raise money, give distributions, or sell the company (among other things) without consent.

However, they invite you to talk to other Kima family companies, so I'd definitely do that and talk about business operations and decision making in the context of those Kima rights with them.
Posting this anonymously for obvious reasons.

I've worked in the defence sector with embedded systems.

Some engineers do work ethically within unethical companies, particularly defence companies. There are lots of people working out how best to fuck up the delivery and implementation of the latest and greatest killing machines and surveillance technologies. Skilled engineers can also skillfully make total lemons too. Some high profile projects that failed were pretty much sabotaged by the staff on ethical grounds.

This is not discussed outside of the organisations, nor is it discussed inside the organisations in detail but if something is designed to wage war, it might not get there in the end.
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This is a fairly even and well thought out piece but the author does seem to be a fan of 23andme: the author suggests that the FDA should have contacted 23andme semi-formally before because 23andme has a high turnover and their senior management is having a tough personal time. This is a bit funny. The author is basically suggesting that the management of 23andme is incompetent and the FDA needs to make allowances for this incompetence.

Otherwise the article nicely lays out the tensions between consumer advocacy, scientific rigor and sales.
How Does a Pro-lifer Defend the Death Penalty?
Honestly most people I know who say they have this problem aren't eating as much as they believe. We call these people "hard gainers". If you have that much trouble gaining weight then try eating 6000 calories a day and tell me you don't put on any weight.
Could anyone recommend a book on programming shaders for OpenGL? I know the shader language is not OpenGL, but I never knew where a good point to start was.
My ability to fly is one regex screwup away from being taken from me.
I'd assume all the Windows RT + .NET Compact code would be just fine, it's more the physical devices that would be the worry.
Engineering Terror
> Let me know how they are going to, say, get audio from webapps.

HTML <audio>? Web Audio API?