skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this 100%. I'd say at least 50% of questions on StackExchange sites are closed as non-constructive or the like. That number might be way off, but that's what it feels like to me. Much of the important questions are closed because the mods consider them useless, even when the users might not. I've been blocked from 2 StackExchange sites, and I hadn't asked more than 1 question on both of them, and they weren't noob questions either. I've noticed this that when communities, forums, heck, even IRC channels get too crowded, know-it-alls and self-proclaimed gods become a major part of the community, and they don't think twice about calling the newcomer stupid or worthless. They think this makes them look smart or wise, but really, it only makes them look like an asshole.
Totally agree on the content stealing, but the fact that an article most people can't read got so far up the front page is also worrying.
It hit the front page on reddit and now it's naturally flowing down into the HN karma grab. I personally didn't know it was planned for this early until now.
I doubt the CPU costs will be measurably different.

I suggest watching: https://class.coursera.org/ml-003/lecture/36 and you can jump to 7 minutes if you don't want to watch the whole thing.

The only difference is instead of merely doing the matrix multiplication of your observation times your coefficients (the scalar product of θ and x) you have to take the output and use it as the input to the logistic function. The matrix multiplication will grow in complexity with the number of non-zero features (either non-zero coefficients in your model or non-zero features in your observation, presumably the latter) and the evaluation of the sigmoid function will be constant time, and on many architectures will be a very small number of instructions.

If you're operating in very small numbers of dimensions what you're doing may still be interesting but I'm not sure it qualifies as "Big Data," regardless of the number of available observations. After all, if you're producing something with actual utility, you'll probably converge sooner rather than later...
Deploy.sh, a minimal general purpose deployment script
There is an explanation. I urge you to watch the entire video. The problem with fructose is that the liver has only a limited ability to properly process it. This if you get too much the liver processes a lot of it through the wrong pathways, and that causes all types of chaos.

There are a couple of differences with natural fructose. First natural fructose almost always comes with fiber. The fiber if processed at the same time as the fructose allows the liver to properly process more fructose. This is because the fiber provides certain nutrients which allow the liver to process more fructose along the proper pathways.

Second, natural fructose is usually in plant cells. In order for us to process these, we much first break down the plant cells in our stomach. This takes some time, so the effect is that the natural fructose does not hit the liver in the same speed and concentration as refined fructose.

This all has scientific support by the way. Lustig mentioned a study in old Caribbean sugar plantations. There they tracked the health of the masters and workers. It turned out that while both the masters and workers ate mostly sugar, the masters had a lot of health problems associated with obesity and diabetes, while the workers did not. The difference was that the masters ate refined sugar, while the workers mostly just ate raw sugar cane.

There was another study in japan, where scientists tried to give people massive amounts of sugar in the form of apples. These people did not have any of the problems associated with high sugar intake.
They made a (EDIT: seemingly) nonsensical request and used his confusion as an excuse to abuse their discretionary powers.

Sounds like a strategy they use to bag naive bystanders. Power tripping / stats-boosting, plain and simple.
Hugh Herr (MIT Media Lab) on Advanced Bionics
I have to ask.. why does it matter?

I find the sequence of events the author was subjected to is impossible to justify with any conceivable amount of being "smug and obnoxious". This is behavior that should be reserved for dangerous, combative criminals (and probably not even then), certainly not bystanders who are merely annoying.
Perhaps at high-functioning end of the spectrum you can get plenty of misdiagnosis, but certainly for the bulk of autistic people you can tell that by the age of 3 when a child simply ignores everyone around them as if people around them don't exist, can't answer simple questions, can't express needs, that something is really wrong.
I came here to make a similar point, the author states:

"TypeScript is not the answer. Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say it is the answer to a different problem."

And I think that's a valid point. TypeScript is an answer to the problem of developing and maintaining a large body of JavaScript code. JavaScript alone is pretty good for small scripting tasks and TypeScript is similarly too much overhead for small tasks.

But TypeScript does nothing to fix the "JavaScript minefield" which is what the author thinks needs to be solved.
Only two downsides:

1) The existing algorithms for finding prime chains or clusters are rather involved, and people may keep superior algorithms private.

2) They're not very botnet-resistant.
I think so. The 30s is the upper end of cars typical middle class families buy, in my experience.
Especially if this is the base price. I'm prepared to be massively disappointed when 40k is the cost of the smallest battery model and the largest is 50-60k. I don't care about most optional car upgrades but vehicle range is so important that I hope they don't choose to bundle a larger battery with cosmetic options.
you americans are so silly :D
As Amazon Mimics Google’s Price Drop, Cloud Computing Grows Up
While it's not necessarily true that our exchanges need to account for value in this nonlinear way, I think it's an interesting thought experiment to discuss ways in which our currency can express different aspects of the value of our transactions. I'm not claiming that Strangecoin represents the "true value" of our transactions; I'm simply saying that it's another way to model our economic relations, and looking at the network in this way might reveal salient aspects of the network that are hidden from view with other currencies. So I think Strangecoin really is describing some aspect of our economic relations, and it's a perspective that money often doesn't give you. If you trade me money, I don't know where it came from or what ties it has to the rest of the economy. But if you trade me Strangecoin, the trade itself gives me a picture of your importance and influence on the rest of the economy, and I can use that information to judge the value of the trade we're engaged in.

The low transaction cost of money is partly a result of how deeply embedded it is in our social and institutional practices. I don't think it is an essential feature of money itself; other practices might come to fill similar roles. I would also suggest that the opacity of traditional currencies to certain forms of value also has a crippling effect on our economy. Economics talks about these as "externalities", but they are best understood as values that aren't represented in our trades. I'm not claiming that Strangecoin can capture all externalities, or even that it catches the important ones, but only that it captures some dimension of value that is hidden in traditional currencies.
Regardless of what editor you use, be careful that it isn't leaving copies of your passwords other places on your filesystem. For example vim will save your recent yank registers in ~/.viminfo by default. You can avoid this with vim -i NONE or you can chmod your .viminfo to 000.
> they don't have a good story around versioning different libraries. Last I checked, they had a typescript wrapper for jQuery, based on the latest version. Sticking with an older version? No accurate type definitions for you!

Nobody forces you to stay up-to-date with the DefinitelyTyped repository. If you want definitions for version X, look at the definitions that were recent shortly after version X was released. Not completely effortless, but also not a structural, deal-breaking problem like you said.
>"I then walked home." should have been the next line

Unless it's against some kind of law for someone to observe police, you should know better than that. And seeing the way these animals acted, I'd say being concerned for the welfare of the downed biker is a perfectly legitimate reaction.

>Being nosy is the part that didn't end well.

Not illegal, and certainly not worth violent treatment and solitary confinement.

>What are they supposed to do when you ignore them?

If they're breaking this minute of a law? I don't know, issue a fucking citation? If they're not breaking a law, leave them alone? You know.. sane, professional, calm behavior that police SHOULD aspire to?

By the way - I find it interesting that people are referring to the police report as if it were the gospel where the author's article is just some random nut's view. Do you really think a police force that has no problem with brutality and unjust imprisonment really has any moral issue with filing an untrue/misleading report that makes them look better?
I got a extremely blur rendering and I tried what bd suggested in another thread -

"Open JavaScript console, write:
renderer.setDOF(false);"

It looked fine after that.
Intellectual Property in a World Without Scarcity
I'm happy to see these are the priorities. To emphasize comments > submissions, my HN app for android opens all articles directly to the comments. it takes 2 clicks to see the submitted link.
That legitimately gave me a headache to read. Just... ugh.
All of these are owned by bigger brands (Fiat, Volkswagen and BMW) that probably provide the necessary logistics and financial cushion when needed.
I'm not sure this is a criticism of the proposal, but nothing I've said implicates an objective arbiter of value.
What Your Life Narrative Says, and How to Re-Write it and Change Your Life
The title made me think it was going to somehow be a vi-based editor (and that sounds like a good idea).
Answer to what? What's wrong with Javascript in the first place?
This wasn't news in 2013... Thus has been known for years (and why I have a focus electric until the end of 2015 - I'm waiting for the model e.
Well, commercial organizations that own office space are already forming and expanding around BitCoin - so the cost of keeping those businesses physically open would be in addition to the cost of keeping the BitCoin network up and running. It's not like we're getting rid of the need for buildings.
Shouldnt the conclusion then be that apparently enough people can read it to make it worth a HN frontpage listing?
If you just want to satisfy your curiosity without wading through the article:

In the end, we need a pool that is two parts water to one part chlorine and would probably burn the
eyeballs out of your sockets and make your skin peel away from your bones (this calls for a pool boy who
can only be criminally sadistic). If you and three million other people could get at this pool and unload
your pee into it before your bodies melted, before the crowd crushed you to death, and before you drowned
from the massive tidal wave of pee... yes, you could feasibly die of cyanogen chloride poisoning
originating from chlorinated water and pee.
Leaders in the autism community are lobbying for a change in the terminology or diagnosis. You have charities trying to provide support for the most negatively impacted, and then you have the highest functioning members of the community saying "stop trying to change us". It's like using the term paraplegic to apply to true paraplegics and people with a sprained ankle. Both may struggle to walk, but the underlying issue is entirely different.

Using the example above, my kid is closer to paraplegic. But being in the community, I know kids with the sprained ankle too. Based on the comments in this thread, it seems many here think that most in the community have a sprained ankle. From this one study 54% are below or average IQ, with 31% definitely below. These 31% are the ones that will require lifelong care.

We need to change terminology to differentiate, so the debates about whether an increase is actually an increase don't happen. The CDC provides stats on several diseases in real time - autism numbers came out this week for kids born in 2002 and diagnosed before 2010. Doesn't anyone question why this is?
Ferrari is owned by Fiat (and it has an exceptional history).
Lamborghini is owned by VW.
RR is owned by BMW.

All of these cars use technologies funded by or borrowed from their parent. Lamborghini was seriously behind the cutting-edge when VW bought it, now they are catching up (last independently made Lambos had tubular frames).

One of the smallest independent automaker is Mazda, it produces around 1.2M cars per year, they can afford this because they're really innovative.

Tesla has some leeway for now as electric engines are significantly simpler than modern combustion engines, as the latter are extremely difficult to design because of environmental regulations (especially European ones). Designing a nice interior or rigid chassis is simpler than operating a naturally aspirated V10 in the E90 M5 that has an Euro5 cert..
There's police corruption, etc. But there's also the fact that American cities are war zones. The homicide rate in San Francisco, a relatively safe city, is 8 times higher than the homicide rate in London. It's 31 times higher in Oakland. Police in the U.S. are surrounded by violence.
Not a replacement for final cut pro, but definitely handy for making quick music driven videos. Definitely will give it a try.
I enjoyed your post, nemesisj.
Within your field of longitudinal patient data, if I am correct in what you have written, your large datasets simply have a new name, paranthetically Big Data, and that you could get what you need to save money without the newfangled algorithms. Within academic bioscience, I think there is great consensus on what Big Data is - I have not seen much argument at all; however, it is still very hard to define within that field. The best I can do, over this cup of coffee, is to state that there is a clear distinction between the study of a gene, up to a few pathways vs. computational analysis of multiple OMICS (genomics, metabolomics and proteomics) datasets. I know that definition is terribly lacking and I am fighting the urge to delete it for the sake of getting the post completed. Anyway, Big Data is clearly changing the academic biosciences through the funding trend. That is, grants with a computational focus, or sub focus, certainly seem to be doing comparably well. I mention this because todays academic funding trends influence the direction of tomorrows startups as those being trained are disproportionally within the better funded labs, and draw upon their previous experience when forming companies. So, I personally believe this Big Data thing, however it is best defined over all, or within a given field, is in some way something new, and will continue to shape the startup sphere for years to come, especially in the areas of genomics, metabolomics and proteomics. This is my first post: ) Thanks!
Light on evidence, still true enough to be worth discussing.

I think that sleep deprivation and the high failure rates are connected but not that the causal arrow isn't so simply drawn. People can be well-rested and still have terrible ideas. It might go the other way. It could be that, because these ideas are so terrible, people throw insane amounts of effort behind them to avoid being blamed when they fail. When you have a death march (and most VC darlings are whole-company death marches) you're going to see a split between those who disengage and drop out, and the "A for Effort" strategists who believe that 110-hour work weeks will be noticed above and have them "rescued" (promotion in a big company, EIR gig in VC) when their current project fails. Generally, founders are going to take the "A for Effort" strategy so that, if they fail, they can launch their careers in VC. Employees generally don't have those exit options, but they can't exactly leave before their bosses do in most of these companies.

What we have is an economy of asymmetric risk. Just as hedge fund managers share profits but not losses, and therefore have a higher-risk tolerance than the principals, the decision makers in the VC-funded world benefit disproportionately from obscene risk. Being able to say that one was in Facebook early is career-making for a VC, while 0x and 5x are essentially identical in the personal career calculus.

Founders share some of the risk (they suffer if the thing fails) but at least take part in the upside. Employees get mainly the downside: mediocre equity and no control, nonexistent career support, high risk of job loss and painful hours.

This leads to a risk fetishism (young people! fail fast! sleep is for the weak!) that doesn't make for a good place to work, nor does it produce broad-based success (VC is an underperforming asset class). It produces terrible ideas, reckless business expansion, and the extreme long hours of the startup ecosystem.

TL;DR: the sleep deprivation is a symptom of a deeper problem (risk fetishism arising out of the principal-agent problem in VC).
The way I've written the proposal, the raw quantity of coin doesn't change; all that changes is the rate of exchange across parties. The added value is generated by the network of transactions as an emergent property.

But there's probably other ways to do such a proposal. Again, my main goal is to put an idea like this on the table to see what people do with it.
Great new insightful quasi-travel blog about those tracks that keep us going..
Protect your true fashion: Your skin.
I have a rule of thumb that coffeescript is never appropriate for code that has to be require()'d by any code written by somebody else than me.

I'll happily use coffeescript, and enjoy doing so, when that condition is met. It doesn't happen very often though.
Hah! I wish my autistic kid was merely spoiled and undisciplined. On the contrary like many autistic kids my kid is very quiet, too quiet, in fact doesn't even respond to pretty much anything going on in the area. I envy parents with spoiled kids, at least those kids can express a personality.
| ASICs can work with more memory, no problem

Up to a point. When you need more memory than fits on a single chip, you have to incur off-chip delays in accessing memory. Basically your ASIC is now just an application specific manycore CPU that needs to interface to commodity DRAM. At which point it may not have much advantage over commodity CPUs...
Ferrari belongs to Fiat.

Lamborghini belongs to Volkswagen (as do Bentley, Bugatti and Porsche).

Rolls Royce belongs to BMW.

None of these except for Porsche were viable on their own. At the very least, they need R&D for engines and other components from their parent, but usually much more.

In many cases, they are viewed more as a branding exercise by their parent companies, somewhat like luxury brands like the Phaeton (VW) or Maybach (Mercedes), which are also usually not profitable.
> "Photoshop"

You mean imagemagick ?

[0] http://www.imagemagick.org/
Yeah, I'm surprised and almost impressed by how much he manages to come across as a total wanker in his own account where he's presumably trying to cast himself in the best possible light.
According to Wikipedia [1] in 2011 Bentley made €1.1 billion in revenue and €8 million in profit on sales of 7500 vehicles (but lost €245 million the year before).

The FT says McLaren[2] expected to break even in 2013 on sales of 1,500 vehicles (but lost £10.9 million the year before).

Of course, making profit one year having made a loss the last doesn't exactly prove long term profitability.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentley
[2] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e6074856-2776-11e3-ae16-00144feab7...
Lamborghini is owned by the Volkswagen, Rolls Royce by BMW and Ferrari (for 90%) by Fiat.
I don't understand the point of Drophsip; why not just share the file with the person and let them sync it the normal way?
The difference with those brands is that most of them are owned by bigger profitable automobile companies. They kind of serve as R
I'm in agreement with you on that - we pay all of our interns at The Muse. The posting referred to above is a way of recruiting people who are interested in contributing 1-4 mentoring posts per month, so very low commitment nights-and-weekends type thing.
This is super cool. With C programs, you can already attach gdb to a running program and start debugging, without starting the program under the debugger. Before pyringe, you couldn't do the same with Python. This will be very helpful for me at work.
Why Dart Isn't the Answer
> if you don't trust your host not to report you

Don't do illegal shit on Dropbox; problem solved.
Oculus CTO John Carmack Chats Facebook Acquisition (Finally)
I think this is true from an economic engineering perspective. If a patent doesn't require investment, it doesn't need a patent to ensure that investment can be recovered.

From an enforcement perspective it could get pretty ugly. Also, the law is at its best when it deals in definable concepts. Large is relative. For Google, an investment to large to be pursued on a whim has 4 or 5 more zeros than it does for me.
The author has articles on why TypeScript, CoffeeScript and Dart are "not the answer" (and the first article in the 4-part series is what is wrong with JavaScript itself). Regardless of the merit of the arguments in each, this feels very incomplete without a 5th installment about what is the answer in his or her mind. It's easy to point out flaws, harder to be constructive.
And both the Phaeton and the Maybach brands were failures, latter is already gone.
I agree with your first answer. But not the second. Altcoins are an amazing testing ground that help cryptocurrency adoption, innovation, and expansion. This is especially true when "strange attractors" are added into "the mix".

I mean: how many people recently came to crypto through the 'ridiculous' Dogecoin idea? What of the recent national cryptocoin (Auracoin, Spaicoin...) wave? And what about Vertcoin, Namecoin, Devcoin? These were once all thought experiments with "strange attractors". They now exist, and are bringing a LOT of interest and experience to cryptocurrency.
I think the problem is that it is up to the consumer to be discerning and reward sources who strive towards accuracy, while punishing bad sources with less attention.

Since the other consumers of whatever news source you are using aren't sufficiently sensitive or discriminating, your news source will thus suffer.
Didn't stop youtube from preventing me from downloading a video I uploaded where the video content was entirely my own.
Sorry I should have probably continued on, there was a bit of an implication here:

In reality it depends on how much was spent on the initial innovation [and how long it takes to reap the return on that investment].
How do you measure a company's public image in numbers? If you can't, then discussing it based on anecdotes is the best we can do. (My non-techie friends have left WhatsApp for Threema, but I live inside the German-language bubblesphere, so YMMV.)

Or the other way around: Before the acquisition, I was already on the fence about the Oculus Rift, but now I won't touch one with a ten-foot pole. In which statistic would my change of mind even show up?
Does hacker news not flag/block duplicate posts urls. Especially when first one was clearly recognized?
Definitely not intended to replace Final Cut Pro. Let me know how it goes!
By being able to read examples of bad comments, you can learn to recognize those discouraged behaviours in yourself, resulting in you writing better comments in the future.
He covers that here: http://www.walkercoderanger.com/blog/2014/02/javascript-mine...