skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may want to leave it in. As another user mentioned, the official stable release is still 1.9. It does warn you that the default will change in 2.0, and prompts you to decide whether or not you want to keep "matching" as the default, but the version that most people will be working on won't have "simple" set as default yet.
Not 25%, "about 27%" lol
can't see d3 for the funnel/cohort charts .. then what are you using for drawing the charts?
> Which part of the description do you feel was inaccurate?

Militaristic -- even Starfleet, the main "military" in the federation, seems to (despite the fact that it fights wars, has military ranks, and military process like "courts-martial"), maintains a myth that it isn't military. The society is so anti-militaristic that it can't even admit that it has a military.

Fascistic -- Aside from militarism (discussed above), a defining element of fascism is nationalism. It'd be hard to think of a society less nationalistic than the Federation.

Communist -- Rather than a planned economy, people seem pretty free to chose their own pursuits and applications of productive resources.

State -- while it clearly has institutions like Startfleet, its not clear that the Federation is a state as we'd understand it, rather than an international institution with sovereign members like the UN.

About the only part of your description that is roughly accurate is the "dressed in onesies" part.
This is completely incorrect. Breivik has been kept in solitary confinement since he was convicted, which is close to two years at this point. They purpose-built a separate isolation facility within the prison to house him.

It's quite firmly established at this point that solitary confinement is torture, but apparently the Norwegian prison system has the discretion of deciding to do this without any input from the judicial system. In my opinion, this is a horrible blemish on an otherwise good Norwegian legal syste, but it's understandably a sore subject. There has been very little debate around this point. Hard to bring this up when most of the kids he murdered were the acquaintances or children of the biggest political party at the time.
I'm surprised NELL learner is not cited as it's closely related: http://rtw.ml.cmu.edu/rtw/
Ha! Yes! Same here!
Why don't US citizens enroll in European universities? It's way cheaper and of similar standard. Plus there's tons of programs offered in English. Including Engineering etc.

Some reasons you should:
- you're more attractive because you are foreign
- you're less fearful of starting your own company because you're not in debt
- alcohol is dirt cheap and you can legally drink
- you can learn another language
- you can explore all of europe on weekends because flights in europe are dirt cheap

The reason people don't: they're scared of doing something different.
Url changed from http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-23/nobody-cares..., which points to this. (Or rather, mistakenly points to something else instead of this.)
Only problem is, most "sex offenders that molest kids" are 18-year-olds busted for bonking their 16-year-old girlfriends. Or, increasingly, taking a piss in the park, streaking a football game, or something equally daft.

http://www.freerangekids.com/why-are-we-putting-kids-as-youn...
So don't go to a school that charges $60k/year? It never ceases to amaze me that people think they need to attend expensive private schools, when there are plenty of top-notch publicly funded schools available.
Gang violence makes up most of the violent crime that happens in the United States - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_United_States#Gang... - 48% in most jurisdictions and 90% in others. Who ends up in gangs? Children who grow up in broken neighborhoods and families http://www.ojjdp.gov/jjbulletin/9808/why.html

I doubt that most people who commit violent crimes were violent people from birth. Most of them were probably forced into a lifestyle in which it is the norm. This is not to say that these people aren't accountable for their actions, but we should definitely understand that most of these people grew up in circumstances where violence was unavoidable and that instead of punishing them indiscriminately, we should try to actually 'correct' them in correctional facilities by healing them and trying to help them become functioning, productive members of society.
From "UNIX Implemenation", _The Bell System Technical Journal_ Vol 57, No 6, Part 2 (July-August 1978):

"The file system structure allows an arbitrary, directed graph of directories with regular files linked in at arbitrary places in this graph. In fact, very early UNIX systems used such a structure. Administration of such a structure became so chaotic that later systems were restricted to a directory tree."
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Interesting question! I don't know the actual reason, but if I had to wager a guess I'd say that it's due to the different types of doping of the silicon.

Some searching did indicate that is what gives some types of gemstones their colour (rubies for instance receive their red colour from chromium impurities distributed throughout the lattice structure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopant#Examples). It seems plausible, but there is probably a more accurate answer out there.
Indeed. They probably have 10 different words for all of the different contexts and shades of it. "Love" is a ridiculously deficient and imprecise word.
I did the exact same thing, I had no idea there even was a "go" button, thanks for sharing this.
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These are called filters. This is from my deep learning framework:
Debugging a net visually:
http://deeplearning4j.org/debug.html

An example of doing facial reconstruction:
http://deeplearning4j.org/facial-reconstruction-tutorial.htm...
Thanks for the information and advice. I figured as much, my hopes weren't too high. I don't think I'm going to be investing in anything like Bitcoin for a long time.
Best of luck.
I totally agree motive should be a factor in sentencing, not sure where you read otherwise ..
This is a great example of a hello world application. Keep in mind there are several kinds of neural nets that allow you to do this. This includes convolutional RBMs (recognizes parts of an image) and normal RBMs (learns everything at once)
Dropout is actually a knob on any neural network. These are used in image recognition as well as text and other areas.

The fuzzing creates a very similar effect to convolutional nets where it can learn different poses of an image.
Isn't this almost exactly the opposite of the problem here?

What appears to have happened here is something completely unrelated to the technology. The same thing could have happened in any financial exchange.

There were two difference that made it possible here: 1) the investors may have been technical experts but were financially naive and dramatically underpriced the risk, and 2) the market was completely unregulated, so the financially naive investors had no protection from those who weren't so naive.
The reason people don't: They wouldn't be allowed into most European countries as students. I'm pretty sure the immigration rules wouldn't allow it. And I'm pretty sure the cost of moving overseas is something that is out of the reach for all but the most affluent people.
A service emailing me anything I did not explicitly ask it to is sending me spam - unsolicited commercial email - by your own definition. Just because you find the spam useful doesn't mean it isn't spam.
The buy-bot has been speculated about since January at least: http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/1uosly/daily...

Is this the first article that links the leaked data to the "buy-bot"?
sorry, but what joke is this moderation? In half an hour, this article fell from #1 to #30, and I bet in half an hour it won't even be on #60.
Perhaps this is abnormal, but I found it was totally possible to go to college in the US debt-free if you 1) Do well in high school, 2) Are willing to go to an in-state school, and 3) Don't mind working part time.

Dozens of my friends in my senior highschool class went on to do just that. Good grades got them at least a partial in-state scholarship. Then some part time work (often just in the summer) made up the difference. The tuition was fairly low because they stayed in-state. This was in Florida and Georgia in the early 2000's. Have things really changed that much? Or maybe those states were just an anomaly.

Frankly, I think in many ways college is overrated. However, getting a degree with minimal debt in a field with good job prospects still seems like a great option. However, spending big money to study at a "top" school in a field with average job prospects seems like a poor financial decision. It is a shame such a major financial decision is made when people are so young.
I think you have hit upon a problem of present day AI.

Neural networks, Support Vector Machines, Hidden Markov Models and other stuff (Markov Networks, etc) do something like linear regression on some huge space - they draw a curve/plane between groups of things on this feature space. The tendency is for this division to make sense and to correspond to our common sense categorization of these things.

The problem is that once that happens, you can't really reason about the division you've drawn. It's just there. You can tweak for various purposes but that's a manual process.

You categorize animals by shape or particular adaptation or by genetic makeup. You can teach one of these algorithm each of these categorizations. But you can't do something like have the thing categorize for one purpose and then tell it to "change it's outlook" and categorize for a different purpose.

In this sense, despite seeming impressive, the products of these processes are dead-ends that we can't reason about, that lack the flexible intelligence of a human being.
By that definition, Stack Overflow's weekly email is "spam". You signed up for it the same way you signed up for Quora.
Thanks shoo. I wish this thread wasn't dead so that maybe someone would respond that has used unison. Will check it out if I don't end up loving P4 or git-annex :)
They don't link to a paper, but I'm curious if they looked at the effect of "dosage" as it were. That is to say, a slightly better seat might be insignificant to many people, whereas other sorts of benefits would be more appreciated. Also, people may have random seat preferences where they don't actually like front-row seats or what have you.

In other words, they may have proven that people don't value seats very much, but I'm not sure that applies to every possible reward. Something where preferences are less abstract (e.g. cash) might turn out differently for all we know and there's no way to tell if the authors already investigated this or not from just this story.
If you're curious, Emacs does all this—and more—with various C-h commands. If you want to see a full list of these, start with

C-h ?

Here are my favorites:

If you want to see a specific keybinding, like checking what C-w is bound to:

C-h k C-w

If you want to see the documentation for a function:

C-h f function-name

If you want to see details about your current mode:

C-h m

This is incredibly useful because it lists all the mode-specific keybindings. That's how I learn how to use new modes!

If you want to see or interact with a variable:

C-h v

If you want to see something where you remember just part of the name:

C-h a *regexp*

(a stands for "apropos")

If you want to see the incredibly detailed manual for Emacs or all of the info manuals on your computer:

C-h r
C-h i

If you want to see info about your input mode (how do I type ℕ in TeX-input-mode?):

C-h I

Actually, for that one, I have another handy trick: copy and paste an ℕ into your buffer, go over it and use

C-u C-x =

which brings up detailed information about the given character... including how to type it in your current input mode (if applicable). This also includes useful info like its Unicode designation and category.

I've found all of these tricks exceptionally helpful when learning more about Emacs. They also help me overcome my fear of memorization: its so easy to look stuff up, I don't have to bother. Then, if I use something enough, I remember it without especially effort. It's like a cache in my mind.
What is "the cost of moving overseas"?
I really have to second this. It's fast, it's smart, it handles almost anything, and it reliably gives good error messages. It's an important part of my data science toolbelt.
I don't 100% support the idea of robbing banks, but I understand the need to obtain money quickly. It's a mere strategy for fast profits, a sort of compromise that the defendant chose to do. My hope is that this will just be their initial strategy for acquiring money, Your Honor.
The problem is that it's hard to support for a database like sqlite. Things have a very specific on-disk representation, so you can't just add data to the middle of a file; rewriting the file also means others can't read it at the same time, so you can't do long operations.

When you look at this operation on a normal database, it isn't too bad. The database can change the on-disk representation while still serving requests, and it can use whatever storage it wants, since it's the only one that operates on the data.
I think the author has made a number of errors in there post and seems to gloss over the numerous social problems that arise from alcohol consumption. Th reason Alcohol is consumed by a significant portion of the population is because its a drug that society doesn't perceive as a drug. It carries all the negative physiological and social effects other drugs have but it doesn't carry the negative association of being what we consider 'a drug'.

Yes It's a form of social lubrication and it might be pleasant to consume but its efficacy as a form of verifying trustworthiness is tenuous as best. Most high functioning alcoholics would be able to maintain an air of trustworthiness which is why alcohol itself can be such a destructive force.

It's interesting that alcohol is explicitly banned in Islam You could use the approximately 1.1 billion muslim(probably closer to 500-800 million practicising) population as a control abstaining group and look at whether communities that consume alcohol have a higher propensity to trust each other or not.

Edit: At the end of the day I think regardless of any philosophical debates the simplest answer might be that people consume alcohol because being drunk feels good.
"I don't trust anyone who doesn't drink" is a politically incorrect but still pretty common sentiment.

Edit: I think I'm getting some "shoot the messenger" downvotes. Whether or not you agree with the statement, I maintain that a lot of people feel this way.
have you checked out Helpjuice.com?

I'm the founder of it, and would be more than happy to answer some questions, if you have any!
Another point on the "2 bits per increment", you can only flip one bit at a time to get through all possible 128-bit states using Gray code.
Not at all. The study doesn't make any changes to the law.
Hey, this looks good. I've also used csvfix [1] to get me out of trouble before.

1: http://neilb.bitbucket.org/csvfix/
I get "things you might be interested" emails from Quora all the time. The thing is, they usually are interesting questions/answers (probably helped by all the things I have clicked on in the past)
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Note that the dollar as reserve currency means the the rest of the world is exporting unemployment to the US via currency operations. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/09/07/an_exorbita... has a good analysis of the situation there. The US would be much better off economically if USD were not the world's reserve currency. In particular, we wouldn't need the QE business at all if we weren't having China's and Germany's unemployment forced on us.

Of course it's simpler to latch on to the phrase "Exorbitant Privilege" and hate the US than it is to try to analyze all the pieces of what's going on.
Sqlite3 is used in so many places, they would be fools to deprecate it. Maybe in five years, they'll revisit the issue, but for now they want to improve the fundamentals of sqlite.

One good thing is I expect most of their testing code can be ported over to sqlite4 http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
> banned in Islam You could use the approximately 1.1 billion muslim

It's not because it's banned Muslims don't drink it. At least in some places. I have a friend who made numerous trips to Saudi Arabia, where the Muslim Law is supposed to be at its strictest form, yet you just need to drive out of town to find alcohol and access to other forbidden forms of pleasure.

It's just like if you said "so they banned prostitution so it does not exist anymore". People always find ways to access things they want to get.
Why CSV is not just for readability? I think RFC is sometimes too pedantic, that it let CSV can handle both plain text and binary files. COMMA is not just a COMMA, but a COMMA not in different environments. Why should we use the phrase CSV or Comma Separated Values just for RFC?

CSV or Comma Separated Values are not only for RFC, but also for EVERYONE who wants to use this word or phrase. Pedantry sucks!
The usual way to deal with that (and recommended by the SQLite docs) is creating a new table, copying the data, and dropping the old table.

Needless to say that this is VERY error prone, and limited resources make it even more so.
1. In this case, we are talking about the pretrain part of neural nets. Automatic trend discovery comes down to doing feature extraction for the user. That being said, if I was inexperienced I wouldn't be teaching this stuff[1]. Am I the best machine learning practitioner out there? No. A lot of us aren't. I am all about making other people's jobs practical though.

Yes, I am talking about learning better representations. See hinton's deep autoencoder work as a prime example of this comparing PCA to RBM based methods for topic detection[2].

2. Google and people way smarter than I am seem to be doing just fine with this[3]. That being said, I didn't say that random forest (with whole companies built on this parallelism[3]) or any of the algorithms WEREN'T friendly.
I would say one of the main appeals for deep learning is the scale of data with which it can benefit from.

Feel free to be skeptical all you want, if the researchers want to take the time to write a full stack distributed framework, I welcome others in to the game. The problem with the packages out there right now, (being matlab, python) are training times, and integrating in to an actual ecosystem. I'm addressing this this year at 2 different talks[5][6].

Replying to your last point, I use blas underneath for all of the matrix calculations, I will be adding GPUs later this year, and yes you're right,this stuff is hard to make. I also wouldn't be publicizing it if I wasn't already using it in production applications. Frankly right now though, I use cpu matrices right now, because I can fire this up on AWS (without the limit of GPU RAM), and it's practical for hadoop deployments. Honestly whether we like it or not, GPUs take a lot to get right. NVIDIA[7] and AMD[8] are going to make my job pretty easy though.

To end, if I was afraid of every little obstacle, why do anything in the first place? While you're hiding behind a throw away account, I'm actually trying to put this in the hands of people who don't have the time to learn every little thing about neural networks. At the end of the day, I follow the papers very closely and enjoy what I do. I also work on all sorts of different techniques for different problems combining different machine learning algorithms for different tasks (just like anyone else would). This framework is my way of getting this out to everyone else. If you have a deep learning framework, I'd love to see it, maybe I could learn a thing or 2.

[1]: http://zipfianacademy.com/

[2]: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fritz/absps/esann-deep-final.pdf

[3]: https://bigml.com/

[4]: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

[5]: http://hadoopsummit.org/san-jose/schedule/

[6]: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33709

[7]:
http://www.jcuda.org/jcuda/jcublas/JCublas.html
[8]:
http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/heterogeneous-comput...
I'm working on an alternative; MVP already, now working on some more features. Would you mind sending me an email to discuss what you need (email in profile)? If what we have already suits you I'd love to give you access to our system :)
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Yes of course. Thank you!
One of the first things I noticed when I checked it out. Both MixPanel and Codecademy are YC so I wonder whether there was any communication around it.
Usually when I start getting a ton of kernel panics, I suspect hardware - bad memory or hard drive. Just had an iMac doing that last month and it was indeed the hard drive.

Anecdotal information is not particularly helpful but I have had almost zero 10.9.x kernel panic problems on any of our 11 machines except for one that had bad RAM and another that the hard drive was dying.
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The CIA spent millions of dollars researching truth serums and didn't find anything that reliably worked. While I think the author is partly correct, this is probably a function of set and setting in addition to pharmacology.
Doesn't seem obvious to me at all. As a result of bankruptcy proceedings we know that Mtgox has lost primarily BTC deposits, not fiat (on mobile now, but IIRC only $27 million USD was lost which is peanuts compared to the value of lost BTC)

In other words, the situation at Mtgox was the opposite of what you describe: it had a lot of FakeBTC, bit its USD reserves were mostly real.
When I started my research, I did eventually land on Starting Strength, however I lacked access to a proper gym. Eventually I started looking into bodyweight fitness.

I found some routines online and and created an interactive version with videos [1] so I could make it easier to get started.

If you're looking to get started at home and don't have barbells accessible, I highly recommend bodyweight fitness. It's working well for me, and it's actually quite fun. As an added benefit, you gain new skills with your body (such as handstands).

[1] https://fitloop.co
alcohol is part of society simply because having low levels of it in stored water killed pathogens.

as well as preventing your entire medieval village of dying of cholera, this technology also permitted long ocean voyages (it's said that the Pilgrims only landed at Plymouth Rock because they ran out of beer).

now it's entrenched and not going anywhere.
Doesn't that just defeat the purpose? At that point you're probably much better off just using postgressql (or similar).
>Th reason Alcohol is consumed by a significant portion of the population is because its a drug that society doesn't perceive as a drug.

Thats a rather modern view for a practice that may be as old as humanity itself. Your comment doesn't explain why Alcohol was popular when cocaine and other opiates didn't carry negative associations.
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