skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you saying the New York Times is trash

WAT? He's referring to the trash they <write>[1,2]. Its more akin saying the east coast media has a napoleon complex wrt the west coast (because the growing wealth threaten's old money/media's sense of self/hegemony). Lots of people use "trashtalk" professionally, eg sportsmen. Hell, it even has its own wikipedia page.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trash-talk

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smack_talk
Lisp's syntax is the easiest thing about it to understand. In fact, Lisp's syntax is so easy to understand, that even Lisp can understand its own syntax.
I think he'd be more likely to agree that people just don't know, as in there is an information problem.
From what I remember, I think HTM learning is isomorphic to that of a recurrent conv net. You'll get roughly the same change given the same training data, but with a parallel-agent approach to learning, instead of the kind of monolithic computation you can throw a GPU at. (In other words, you flip the "data" and "instruction" streams from SIMD to get Multiple-Instruction-Same-Data processes.)

You could, in other words, see a recurrent conv net as an opmitization of an HTM given a von Neumann architecture, or the reverse -- an HTM as an optimization of a recurrent conv net given a biological substrate (where it's much less costly to build tons of crummy processors and link them into an arbitrary graph, than it is to build a single fast processor.)

Again, though, I'm not an ML person, so I might be way off.
He does: http://www.mikeroweworks.com/job-site/
We implemented search on our help site (http://help.simpletax.ca) using the excellent lunr.js (http://lunrjs.com) + this Jekyll plug-in (https://github.com/slashdotdash/jekyll-lunr-js-search). The search index is updated when you build your Jekyll site, so it's a piece of cake to maintain and gives you full text search. I don't know how well it would scale, but if you are in the hundreds of posts, you should be ok.
A fair number (unsure of the proportion) of Stradivarius instruments actually are played. John Bell famously played his in a DC Metro station[0].

Many more are played by the likes of Yo-Yo Ma, and principle instrumentalists of various symphonies.

Browsing this list[1] it would seem that many more instruments are in the hands of musicians than are in museums.

[0] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04...

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stradivarius_instrume...
Almost every thing we do is passed on to and alters the next generation we give birth to, even if only in a very subtle way.

My question would be, why wouldn't cancer continue to evolve with our immune systems? We're not abolishing the process that leads to cancer, or making cancer impossible. This therapy kills it after it comes into existence. What would prevent a modified immune system from being passed on, and what would prevent an evolution on the kind of cancer that said immune system is susceptible to? That is, why wouldn't the next generation of cancer become that much more challenging to fight, requiring constantly evolving the therapy?

Not asking to be pro or con, but genuinely curious about this.
Or oncogene transfection, which likely occurs in nature, not just the lab.
Indeed, we should not roll over and declare privacy an illusion.

A lot of people are experimenting with designs that will never work. It's just wasting programming resources, while projects like Tor starve for volunteers. My research team is currently merging Tor and Bittorrent (http://forum.tribler.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5128&p=8585#p85...).

Clear designs (and lots of them) are more important then experimental code I believe.
With respect to the social issues - on GitHub, nobody knows you're not a white straight male, but it turns out that open source is mostly written by white straight males anyway. Most of the criticism from the east coast seems to be that Silicon Valley doesn't care enough about correcting this outcome, and I'd say they are right - most engineers care more about how code works than who wrote it, and that's very much an old-fashioned enlightenment value that I agree with.

While initiatives to lower the barrier to entry in writing software are great, I'm not sure I want to see an industry that cares more about achieving social equality than writing good code. Crowds of engineers will never be fertile soil for social justice warriors for this reason.
Not sure why it should bother us that a basic cable celebrity is getting frustrated with questions. It's not like people are asking Andrew Wiles to answer long division problems here. Low-to-middlebrow amateur political economy, by contrast, seems pretty solidly within the pay grade of a spokes-actor like Rowe.
These types of images really make me question the general attitude of people that are part of the industrial-security complex. Do they see themselves as part of that complex first and Americans second? Or do they identify with being an American first and a member of the industrial-security complex second?
Unprivileged Nvidia GPU access vulnerability
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=genetically...

Old news ?
I blog about Neo4j and the things you can do with it => http://maxdemarzi.com/

Also, all the code you see on the blog and then some is open sourced and available on github => https://github.com/maxdemarzi?tab=repositories
Tekknobox was excellent and I spent countless hours with it, major props for providing the only trigger sequencer available at the time and enabling me to sidestep Cakewalk and their ilk forever to this day. I see both Ableton Live and Fruityloops as owing enormous debts of gratitude for your work.

http://imgur.com/rsdbIfR
Anonymise.net - Anonymous web hosting company 
Anonymous hosting is one of the best ways to keep your website and identity stable and protected online. So what are you waiting for?
Ask HN: Are there any apps that positively change human behavior?
I've heard of a few like Lift.do and others like it but...

How effective are these apps at changing people's lives?

Is it even possible for technology to really do this?

Are there any scientific papers on this subject?
Bras for Kim Dotcom and Richard Stallman.
Wall Street Mothers, Stay-Home Fathers
A working website.. .and then you read that it "doesn't try to do the more complex operations that the government site will offer - such as actually applying for insurance coverage".

Nice PR for the guys, Im sure it'll help with their day to day. but really, its just a few click thoughs aint it.
FYI the external resources don't load over https. Switch to http if your browser doesn't render the styles.
Google was not the first search engine and Facebook was not first social networking site either , its more about who did it right .
I like this version because it's not a retrofit and easy to take with you (remember: these are theft targets):

http://www.rubbee.co.uk/

I can't comment on the efficient of the different techniques though.
Yup, especially when your space is lesser known. Back in 2009 when I had my startup, nobody understood what the hell we did until we started saying "EC2 but with 3D printers instead of servers." All of a sudden people went from glassy-eyed to intrigued. When we talked about the rise of mass customization, or the democratization of manufacturing, nobody grokked it.
FBI has been using malware for ages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_%28software%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Lantern_%28software%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_and_Internet_Protocol...

Other governments as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FinFisher

Entire (legitimate) businesses are dedicated to selling malware for use by governments and law enforcement agencies.
I agree with the general thrust of this. In the specific context of startups, its also not so much mimicry as it is appropriation of the brand identity of (X,Y). Its basically leveraging others expenditures as a form of budget "hack", because its both quicker and less resource intensive. As a result, as a guerilla (marketing) tactic its effective. It also PR/link bait for lazy journalists. Their audiences are usually already conditioned on the uber awesomeness of X and/or Y. Last but not least, is a sort of pavlovian effect on investors's greed instinct.

edits: brevity
Being in tech is a great way to stay home and take care of kids while your spouse is out of the house at a "traditional" job. A technologist may have an "office" at a place of business, but they don't always have to be there.

Any of you out there get to use your remoting capabilities to raise children while your spouse maintains a normal job?
Great idea! Some request

* add an API (apps, mobile browsing)

* integrate tipping (upvote = tip)

* add signup fee to limit spam
I kind of choked on his message of tolerance. We says we should stop talking about how we disagree, then he goes on a tirade against all the lazy, spoiled, stupid people. "We shouldn't disagree on party, but, if you don't agree with me and the GOP, you're a stupid, lazy slob!"

He writes very well, but he's still spouting right-wing, pseudo-libertarian nonsense.
So, I just read over the paper, and the biggest thing that stands out to me is: it's completely backwards, methodology-wise. They start from tumors, then work backwards to collect data about their mobile phone usage, and compare them to a control that is selected from a comparable population. I'm sorry, but that's not good science. Read over the "Materials and methods" section.

It also has a remarkably low sample size (n=593). This is in contrast to the Interphone study (n=~14000), which found no statistically significant correlation between brain cancer and cell phone usage.
In other - apparently less exciting - news, some apparently foolish people even found new car makers, newspapers, furniture stores despite the obvious lack of originality and crowded markets. What are they thinking!?
Eww! I find this copy far more readable:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130728075247/http://mywiki.woo...
Companies, like Safeway, that self insure pay $3,000 to $5,000 per procedure. For example:

Colonoscopy: $897
Breast excision of lesion procedure: $2,569
Gall bladder procedure: $4,212
Cardiac Catheterization (no angioplasty or stints): $4,900
Knee Arthroscopy: $3,039

I wrote about it here:

http://www.quora.com/Medicine-and-Healthcare/What-are-some-o...

The CEO of SafeWay, started a company that sells this data. Unfortunately its typically only sold to companies that self insure and have ~10,000 employees. You can watch him talk about the data and the company here:

http://coe.berkeley.edu/static/streaming/gtl-conference/2009...
What do you think of Bote mail in I2P, which uses DHT for relaying mail? It is set to hold mail in the DHT for 100 days or until fetched by the recipient. It also uses public keys as addresses (ECDSA and NTRU are the options), and all mail is encrypted. I2P provides traffic anonymization, and Bote mail supports letting mails be relayed with random delays to further anonymize the sender by removing time correlation.

https://www.i2p2.de and http://i2pbote.i2p.us (remove .us if you have I2P installed).
how is the data stored, is it just aggregated with mongodb's "aggregate" command?
Mike Rowe is the bomb. He also has an a classic TED talk http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs.htm...
December 7, 1928 / Mathematical Linguist Chomsky is Born
American culture leads kids to believe that trades jobs have low social standing, so they borrow obscene amounts of money to go to college because they think it will get them a good job where they do paperwork for lots of money.

Instead they wind up in debt working in an unskilled retail sales or service job, or just unemployed. If they had gone to a legitimate trade school[1] or even just an entry-level manual labor job that trains you they'd be much better off.

[1] most of the trade schools in America are outright scams, signing up people for government tuition loans then giving them garbage education. Some of them are not, and anyone who graduates from them will have valuable skills that can support a family. Have fun finding out which ones, 17 year olds!
> one day science may find that previously undetected thing that cellphones emit and the human body absorbs.

This makes no sense. While it's easy to argue that cell phones are safe because of non-ionizing radiation, that's now how science works. The reason we feel that cell phones are safe is that we have 25 years of evidence showing no statistically significant link between cell phone use and cancer.

Even if there's a magical field that a cell phone produces that causes cancer (something we can't detect in any way), we'd still detect that cancer with a higher rate than in a population that doesn't use cell phones, or uses them with a lower frequency.
Have a messaging system that implements per-MB fees in order to support the network. The transaction has to be signed by the sender, receiver, and burdened nodes. BOOM no spam.
To be fair, a lot of effort has been put into duplicating the Stradivarius sound, and (so far) it has more to do with botany and meteorology than craftsmanship and design. To be even fairer, according to Wikipedia, Strads have not fared so well in double-blind tests, but that doesn't account for changing ears throughout history.
Why is this better than the Bitcoin Reddit Page?
Wake Up Mavericks Using Android Phone
Understanding Impact with Earned Actions in AdWords for video
The problem is network disruption. Your system would work if you could guarantee all nodes in the network could communicate with each other every 10 minutes. What happens if this is not possible?

This scenario is called a netsplit in Bitcoin parlance. It has happened before, and it will happen again. In bitcoin, healing a netsplit is relatively easy, you pick the longest chain and you allow all the transactions from the smaller chains to be re-added to blocks in the new official chain.

In your system, if you had a double-spend where both sides ended up being accepted due to a netsplit, which one would win during the healing process? In bitcoin, the winner is the one that happens to be in the longest chain.

Secondly, how would you store the infocoin ledger in your system? The advantage of the bitcoin blockchain is that it provides an official source for all transactions that is easy to verify. A new node can come in, download the block chain and be certain they have all the information available about bitcoin ownership, with no holes. In your system, without a blockchain, how do you guarantee you have a record of all transactions, with no gaps?
We also know that cancer can be spread / caused by virus, from one person to another (eg HPV, and there are probably others waiting to be discovered).

And we know that you can intentionally force the formation of tumors / cancer through introduction. We do this in mice as a regular course of study now.

I suspect that over the coming decades, we're going to find cancer is a far more communicable disease than previously thought.
Nelson Mandela: Steve Jobs Wanted Him For Apple’s Think Different Campaig
School in the Cloud opens - Where will the next one be?
This tool looks interesting, but from reading the site it's not clear which parts of the system are licensed under the MPL 2.0 (via the License link) and which parts are commercial software and need to be purchased. You should also clarify what the commercial support covers and that it's optional.
>> The FBI’s elite hacker team designed a piece of malicious software that was to be delivered secretly when Mo signed on to his Yahoo e-mail account, from any computer anywhere in the world, according to the documents.

i have to ask; could this secret delivery actually be anything else than an executable file attached to an email?

edit:
ok, they seem to use phishing attacks for this sort of thing. but both methods definitely do not deliver anything just because you log in to your yahoo account, as the article states.
Just launched Wishgram - A Christmas wishlist app for parents and kids
So, I've been working on a little project with a colleague while attending the Flatiron School in NYC, and I'm proud to finally have gone live with Wishgram (http://wishgr.am). It is a web-app that lets parents create a set of wishlists that theirs kids can fill with items they desire for Christmas, and after the wishlists are "sent to Santa", the parents can then add all items to an Amazon shopping cart in one easy step. The goal was to make it entertaining for the kids, while saving the parents time in finding this one popular Christmas gift that their kids want. The app itself was created in 2 weeks, but we are continuing to work on it. Please take a look and leave comments about Wishgram. It is much appreciated.
Doesn't I2P fit better, considering the design requirements? Tor would require very significant changes to scale better for high volume traffic, but I2P already handles it reasonably well.
I know you jest, but the reason why shell programming uses 0 for success is understandable: that way you can have distinct non-zero returns for different kinds of errors (and several Unix utilities do have them). Arguably, testing for non-zero is a more satisfying idiom than testing for "non-one".
Syncmail Alpha - Mail for WebRTC Networks
Not to be that guy, but this doesn't line up with a release or any actual changes with the fork. What are we looking at here?
>> If you really want to DIY a trade without a college degree, I'd recommend learning PHP or web design before I'd recommend trying to break into welding.

Isn't that have the exact same 'problem', where only high-skill developers are paid $40/hour and a beginner is going to have trouble finding work and when he does it will only pay $12/hour?
I like to think of the vectorized representation as just a nonlinear transformation to a higher dimensional space with a classifier afterwords. If you're familiar with linear algebra, then z = Wx, where W is a matrix of weights and x is a feature vector maps x (which could be something like 5 dimensional) to a new space (which could be like 50 dimensional). z is the representation of x in that new space. After this linear mapping, we apply a nonlinear transform (sigmoid, rectifier, etc). If we didn't have the nonlinear transform, then the entire model would just be linear! This follows from the fact that the composition of linear functions is itself linear.

The final layer is just a standard logistic regression classifier in the new (usually higher dimensional) space.
Actually that's the traditional analogy, and if I recall correctly in the process of thinking it as a circuit was how Marvin Minsky realized that the original perceptron is unable to mimic a XOR gate.
> It's still just a platitude. Poetry is just a pointless distraction.

> You can put lipstick on a pig...

Was this comment the spoken word in disguise? It sounded a little poetic to me.
The stochastic raytracing algorithms are "exact" if they're run long enough, right? (I know I've spoken to you and Edward about this stuff at length)

Semirelatedly, do you think the Haskell Diagrams lib with its normals tricks would be a good pedagogical substrate for raytracing for general shapes? Seems like it would allow punting on how surfaces are represented Mebe.
>rest assured that the embedded system and controller board will be equipped with software that defaults to an always-upload mode, dumping all data to microsoft.com ... Is Microsoft trying to convince women to submit to continuous lie detector monitoring, under the auspices of weight control?

What? I get it, its in fashion to hate on MS but come on these are just ridiculous assumptions. Let's look at it from a technical point of view. If you want an always-upload device, at the current state it would require a substantially battery which needs to be recharged atleast every 12hours. Now who will buy a heavy bra that fails in half a day?

Lie detector.. really? because its in the evil interest of a corporation to know when only women are lying.
On education, Mike Rowe is correct, it's not in the government's hands what the price of education is. Now the government could choose to subsidize higher education fees more, but that would cost a lot of money so its a difficult choice to make.

The problem with all discussion on jobs is that they are treated as a special kind of market where free market principles don't apply. Rowe doesn't even go as far as suggesting letting the market determine who works where.

Cracking down on illegal immigration would help deal with the lack of jobs at the low end of the market, unfortunately hypocritical politicians find enforcing the law to be an untenable platform.

In general though, jobs should come from having skills that are useful, not protectionism. We do need to be training people to fill the new class of technical positions and this includes programmers, even though it will lower the salaries of existing programmers.
Perhaps because most people reproduce before their body evolves a superior cancer?
Most of the world has socialized medical systems.
Urban Walmarts Are Great - Too bad cities have waited far too long
The pseudo-libertarian nonsense is unpleasant for me, too, but I see great value in cheer leading for blue collar work.

I don't know of anyone else saying "Blue collar work is an honorable thing to do, and you're a fool to judge someone for doing it." At least no one with as high a profile as MR.
This doesn't fit with his rhetoric.

"Doesn’t it make sense to fill those positions before we start demanding that companies create more opportunities that people don’t aspire to?"

"And no matter where I went, the biggest challenge was always the same – finding people who were willing to learn a new skill and work hard."

"Because virtually every single trainee decided it was just too damn hot. I’m not even kidding. They just didn’t want to work in the heat. And so … they didn’t."

To be fair, he goes well out of his way to not directly criticize everyone. Only, it reads in the same way that I am going out of my way not to imply he is being an ass. :)
You serious? Getting stabbed IRL is less bad than /r/bitcoin. I'm not sure if the memes or continual circlejerking are worse.
5 programs (in 5 languages) that reproduce eachother as output
I don't get the reason for the post, but since it's here, I've always had questions about HAMMER:

Can one use the HAMMER FS on Linux? Is there any guide for this? Is it reliable?
Physics and Testosterone: the Missing Nobelists
Lessons from Startups You Should Learn
I read a while back that BitMessage's security is easily breakable. See http://secupost.net/3240982275/bitmessage-security.
Thanks, clicking around I eventually found this website too http://search.jobsinwelding.com/jobseeker/search/results/

But on both of these there are very few entry level jobs and the one I did find that actually listed the salary was only $22k a year!
> What would prevent a modified immune system from being passed on

The fact that modifying your immune system doesn't automatically modify the part of your DNA that encodes how to create an immune system. Children don't inherit your experiences, they just inherit your DNA. (For the same reason, cutting your leg off doesn't cause your offspring to have a missing leg.)
MuscleToMax: Fitness & Wellness Guides
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Some data points on how startups rock Berlin
I wonder why I2P is getting so small amount of love. I've read somewhere that for some reason it's popular only in Russia. It has two working email systems, working Bittorrent and much more. Maybe it lacks a native (C or C++) implementation?