skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case you have server issues, here are other sources http://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/26h1w2/genera_concepts...
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Data set sizes have changed. That can make this issue (the tendency of OLS regression to overfit) less or more of a problem.

If you have 100 observations and 10 dimensions (N = 100, p = 10) then OLS can overfit, especially if the predictors are highly correlated or there's a lot of noise on the response. If you have N = 10^6, p = 10, then probably not. If you have N = 10^6 and p = 10^5, then overfitting is again a danger. If you have N = 10^5 and p = 10^6, then you can't even do an OLS regression because, when p > N, it involves inverting a singular matrix (and, to boot, a gigantic one). The rough guideline is:

N/p > 100: very low danger of overfitting.
N/p < 100, > 10: low danger of overfitting.
N/p < 10, > 1: high danger of overfitting. Use regularization (ridge, Lasso, etc.)
N/p < 1: OLS not even well-defined. Regularization mandatory.

Equal weights is a primitive way of regularizing. You lose accuracy in the zero-noise case but get a model that is more likely to be "wrong" in a way that is harmless in prediction (because of correlations in predictors). These days, people are more likely to use ridge regression or, if they want a parsimonious model (few nonzero coefficients) they'll use Lasso or the elastic net.

Though you almost never see equal weights in a regression setting, you do see equal-weight constraints in neural network architectures (e.g. convolutional neural nets) to prevent overfitting. In neural nets, this usually can be done with absolutely no loss of accuracy because ANNs are already so highly parameterized that some form of regularization (weight decay, equal-weight constraints, early stopping) is mandatory.
"Drury explains that a crisis, even a minor one such as a train breaking down in a tunnel, creates a ‘psychological crowd’ out of what was previously an aggregate of strangers. You suddenly share a common fate and your sphere of interest ramps up from the personal to the group."

___

I wonder how this fits into a scene [1] that happened last week in Sao Paulo when bus drivers started striking and the metro became overcrowded. It wasn't due to a crisis, per se, and the metro didn't break down but sensibility surely went out the window.

My own assessment of the video below is that no one saw themselves as part of a crowd/group, but as individuals.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXycKeyDKXk
(btw, I shared this as an 'aside' on HN a few days ago)
>I don't need to have someone caption the image for me to understand the broad range of situations to which the caption "jump" applies.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that we can jump too. That we can translate the frog's position into something we do as well.

of course one can argue that we can do the same for non-anthro-moprhic things as well. What i think is that we dont directly relate pictures, as the software is taught. What we do is translate that 2D picture into something we'd see in the 3d world. And that 3d "vision" isn't just another image. It represents an object in our world. something that has shape, existence etc. something which we can observe from other senses as well. For us a picture doesn't always represent an abstract thing, an arbitary pattern of colours. It usually represents something concrete. Something about which we have tons of other pieces of knowledge as well.

So we relate pictures by checking if they map to the same real-world object. And here that "object" is a sort of nexus of many pieces of information we have on it which is a product of many direct and indirect human experiences.

So i don't really think that we are in a position to teach a computer to do anything like that.
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I call Poe's law.
i note postfix usurped sendmail much faster.
> It would be quite a special machine

It is "special" only because it's the result of millions of years of evolution, not because some reassuring omnipotent being from another plane selected it to be so. Dozens of species are using tools, building things, solving problems, and feeling things (however small and nascent!). Our species is just early to the party by a fraction of a million years, which is, geologically and cosmologically, peanuts (Not even talking about the time we've been actually toying with electricity and transistors).

Carl Sagan sums up how deceitful an anthropocentric point of view is quite nicely in Pale Blue Dot. Although applied to science and cosmologies, it definitely applies to anything we deem sacred just because it's us.

“Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.”

“Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.“

“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.”

“Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe which dwarfs -- in time, in space, and in potential -- the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.”
I've been using guake which has the same functionality as Tilda but a few extra features (hot-key for tabs) that I can't live without.
It is, if you read it as a request for a summary. What, is there none? Is it all description?

If there is a 37-minute film about cryptography that is linked, would you expect everyone to watch it? Or would a request for a summary from someone who has, be fair?

The sentence I quoted ("From a distance, Jim Myers looks like an ordinary farmer. Most autumn mornings, he stands thigh-deep in a field of wet broccoli, beheading each plant with a single, sure swipe of his harvest knife. But under his waders are office clothes, and on his wrist is an oversized digital watch with a push-button calculator on its face") can be summarized as "Jim Myers studies broccolis" (or whatever the summary is.)

It is like commenting "is there an abstract somewhere?" when linked to a 300 page PDF that for some reason has none.
Isn't a monopoly in seeds also quite dangerous, as the whole population might be eradicated by one single disease?

Edit: Also the fact that you cannot actually fight the system without participating in said system is totally perverse. So in order to open source a seed you have to first patent it and then waive the patent you just created? Sounds like a huge overhead just to justify the legal system.
I think what he is trying to say is that if you read about it, it would influence you. And you may end up building something similar (possibly remotely) to it. And then you can be sued for it.

I am not saying that i agree with him, i am just trying to clarify his point
It is interesting that an obviously "wrong" approach can have more success than expected. However, most people these days would use more modern forms of regularization (e.g. ridge, Lasso, elastic net, stagewise with early stopping). Modern optimization software can handle it.

As I noted in my other comment, equal-weight constraints are still used in one domain: neural network architectures (e.g. convolutional neural nets). This is not quite the same thing because neural nets are so highly parameterized, and the weights interact in so many nonlinear ways, that individual weights don't have any meaning independent of others. It does show us that the idea of equal-weight regression has still lived on in one specific place.
"difficult to do both at the same time"

With right combination you can do it. Targeted Keto/IF combination seems to be quite effective. Sheds fat while maintaining (or gaining) muscle mass and minimizing the impact of the diet to your strength levels. I've dropped +25kg BW while gaining +5kg of muscle mass and gaining/maintaining my big-lifts. I noticed that going from Stronglift 5x5 to Madcow really helped my recovery. Mostly as my body couldn't keep up with the heavy squatting and deadlifting too many times during the week.
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Still running Windows XP? That's the way Bill Gates planned it
Personally, I hope he fails. Which sounds selfish but is driven by an anti-selfishness. The housing crisis in the UK is made worse by buy-to-rent schemes taking advantage of the incredibly low interest rates and government supported incentives to reduce the cost of housing.

Buy-to-let housing, as an investment vehicle, is fairly sickening in the UK. It traps the less wealthy into an almost indentured existence, with them spending the majority of their earnings to pay your mortgage and give you your profit. Their lack of future buys yours.

I'm all for people earning wealth, but do it by enriching their lives in some way. As a software dev able to create things that could help provide value for others, isn't that a better way?
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So we tunnel everything through 80/443, and then proxies are going to deep packet inspect that, and selectively block some over-http protocols, so we're going to tunnel stuff through a more innocuous looking protocol over HTTP, and tunnel through the tunnel through the tunnel through the tunnel.

I propose OpenVPN/SOCKS/WebSocket/HTTP/TCP/IP as the new de-facto standard connection protocol. Maybe we can FTP through that VPN connection some time, please wait while I cook up a JavaScript FTP/OpenVPN/SOCKS/WebSocket/HTTP/TCP/IP client.
iPhones aren't glued shut (though the battery is glued down in the newest one): http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+5s+Teardown/17383

You may be thinking about the HTC One, which is almost impossible to disassemble without destroying it (though this has improved a bit in the M8).
I don't see your point. Those people will rent a flat no matter you offer yours to let or not.
Best of luck. Saving money is always a good idea. Just make sure to have some fun along the way.
Was I the only one who read Frankenstein instead of Feinstein Institute?
>60 years ago, your grandfather's generation had no problems with this at all. They didn't go to the gym.

My grandfathers generation got a lot of daily exercise. My grandfather was a farmer and was on his feet for 10+ hours every day.

>Huh? The only way it increases his mental well being is that he believes that if he doesn't meet some abstract ideal he'll have failed

?? Regular exercise has dramatic effects on stress levels and general cognitive ability.

> My life's quality is already pretty high. What is it that I'm missing? Being able to hike up a mountain?

You can have an amazing quality of life without ever reading a book after high school...

You can have an amazing quality of life even if you are born paralyzed from the waist down...

You can have an amazing quality of life if you are deaf or blind...

You can have an amazing quality of life despite being in massive debt...
Would it be accurate to suggest that the rushing of Google's SPDY, as HTTP/2.0, through IETF standardisation is roughly equivalent to the situation a few years ago when Microsoft pushed Office Open XML through as an ECMA standard? Or is that just a huge mischaracterisation?
Came here for the same exact thing, I was wondering if it's actually legal to take a mortgage on a house and then rent it out to third parties.
Put enough cooks in the kitchen and soon you'll have each of them list a long list of complaints about the broth.

Committees only work to codify existing de-facto standards as official standards.

Look at any of the big standards we're using and you'll discover their origins are often a small team or even a single person.

It's funny that SPDY was considered a good thing for the most part, until it tried to become a standard, and everyone had their chance to complain about it.
Properties bought at above-market values financed with cheap credit (low interest) tend to inflate rental prices.
Almost all property that is rented out is somehow financed. Even big housing developments. The 4:1 leveraging the article details is actually quite mild compared to some schemes out there.
I find it a great site to read specifically because of the design. No clutter, just the text I want to read. The text is clear and the site works nicely on any screen size.

As for the 'reading time' - that's one of my favourite things on the site. I can quickly look at a post and decide whether I have time to read it now I whether I should bookmark it for later.
Machines ARE safer strictly with respect to sitting in the machine.

Outside the machine, I have personal experience that your shoulder, leg, and arm muscles might be able to trivially lift a mere concrete block but your back muscles (luckily in my case not a ligament) were not strengthened by the machine to a similar level leading to quite a bit of pain and damage. Which is the short version of life experiences explaining why I'll probably never go back to machines in the future.

Given an infinite number of machines, presumably one for every muscle or so, and an infinite amount of knowledge such that you strengthen your back to always be 5% stronger than your arms or whatever, then machines would be safer than free weights. Of course given spherical cows I'd have the same level of knowledge and safety of free weights.

You certainly could hurt your back without any relationship to strength training at all. Or even hurt yourself after freeweights. But it is more likely after machine work.

There is also a practical matter of scale. Lets be realistic. A really bad day of lifting won't be much worse than naturally happens to fat couch potatoes every day, so its no really big deal. On the other hand a "really bad day" of bicycling means getting turned into grease under the wheels of a truck, or a "really bad day" of hiking means hunters find your body after a couple months. Its not in practice a serious concern, compared to other human activities.

Not that opposition to machines is some kind of amish / historical re-enactor philosophical opposition. Not using a squat rack when squatting is probably an excellent way to hurt yourself. Someone should invent a machine or technique to do bench presses safely while alone.
I stopped reading after counting how much you would save if you'd cut your daily coffee. In 2034, £1 million will be worth way less than today anyway.
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Consumer products are designed to be sold where Discovery and commercial aircraft where designed to be used. Occasionally consumer products will evoke that style such pre-linovo IBM laptops. Corporate jet's are the other side of the coin where company's focus on style not just function so dispite low production runs there far sleeker than 140 Boeing 787 Dreamliner out there.
>> "I dislike the way comments are handled on Medium. Why can't they just appear at the bottom like every other site out there?"

I prefer it. If it don't want to look at them they are hidden. If I read a paragraph and am interested in what other people think I can see the comments directly referencing it. I think it also reduces stupid comments. If it looks like you a referencing something I feel like you'll make a more relevant comment.
Nginx is used as a reverse proxy for less strong application servers. IMHO (and experience) doing it for Apache would be pretty useless.
Most people who open restaurants don't have all the required capital in cash, they get a loan from a bank. Then you can pay the loan back slowly over X years from the profit of the restaurant (or, more likely, since something like 90% of restaurants fail in 5 years, the profits from his next job).
There is a coarse description on the "features" page of how blocking operations in general are handled. The same principle applies to all kinds of blocking operations (waiting for a mutex lock, sleeping, waiting for data on a pipe etc.).

http://vibed.org/features#fibers

It still doesn't go into full detail, though, and a dedicated article would probably be worthwhile to write.
"I was wondering if it's actually legal to take a mortgage on a house and then rent it out to third parties"

Of course it is legal - why shouldn't it be?

Mind you - you have to tell whoever gives you the mortgage that it's a "Buy to Let" mortgage - but a lot of mortgage providers offer them e.g.

http://www.halifax.co.uk/mortgages/buy-to-let/
Isn't it considered best practice to serve your static files through Nginx itself and only reverse proxy requests for dynamic endpoints? And if that's the case, Shouldn't Nginx be counted as a full web server?
Why does every website use broken unicode box character font import style now?
This is the equivalent of UK or say Turkey shutting down Youtube.com worldwide, because they don't want it being used there in Turkey.
>I'm continually surprised how much time, effort, and money people will waste on these activities that seem devised to attract mates

You are surprised that people will spend 3-4 hours per week to look good, stay healthy, stress less, feel better, and increase the number of fun activities they can safely enjoy?

The average American spends 35+ hours/wk watching TV!
Of course it is. A lot of people I know in the UK do it exactly this way. Either get a mortgage to buy and let, or get a mortgage to live in a house, while at the same time letting out a room or two, which ends up paying the cost of mortgage.
Five Year Old Security Vulnerability Patched in Linux Kernel
Problem is, most of those are no longer "cheap"/inexpensive, and to get the lower rates you're limited to ones in your state. Just looking at the not so top notch University of Missouri in my home state, it'll cost a resident around $20K/year plus transportation expenses, around $35K for a non-resident, and in general STEM majors cost more due to laboratory fees.

Also note that public schools make no guarantee that there will be space available in required classes for you to finish in 4 years, and often have quotas for majors, e.g. per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7795041 the University of Washington has 80 CS slots per year, with over 1,500 applicants and a 3.9 GPA required to even be considered.

While I'm not saying they're necessarily worth it, private schools with rare exceptions guarantee you'll be able to finish in 4 years in the major of your choice.
can someone link up a good "nginx for newbies" type resource for someone who is familiar with programming?
Nginx has replaced Apache as the most used web server
Does anyone know if googles V8 could benefit from being re-written (even partly) in D? I'm mostly a web programmer and only just started learning D, so I'm not real familiar with how these lower level languages work. It seems like C++ programmers openly admit that D is better than C++ in many ways, but because of the lack of documentation (which seems to be a little better as of late) it just isn't a viable solution for most projects.

I'd like to hear an unbiased opinion of whether D, assuming the proper docs were available, could replace the C++ code in V8, and if not, what exactly is holding it back?
This article is full of crap. More precisely, it's full of extremely naive ideas.

> invested it in a fund with a 6% return - which is nothing special

There's no (close to) zero-risk investment at the moment that yields 6%.

> If you invest in a pension

That's nice, but it's usually only tax-free when you spend it as a pensioner, not as a lump sum when you're 50 years old.

>property prices double every 10 years or so

Yeah, they do. Except when not. And you also spend money on maintaining the property.

> This is a return of 100% on the initial investment. That sounds a bit better than 6%, right?

OMG, did he just compare a yearly return with a return 'over a few years'?

... and it goes on and on. If you want to have 1M, then first learn the _very fundamentals_ of investing and finance.

By the way, I have an advice: if your dream is to open a restaurant, do it now.
Performance matters more than you think
I stopped reading when the ridiculous statement that property will always rise in value and doubles in value every 10 years came up.

Simple (and I mean really simple) mathematics would make it obvious to anyone (who didn't really badly want to believe otherwise) that nothing can continue to rise in price over inflation indefinitely. There will always be a correction at some point.

Especially, nothing can double in price every 10 years consistently and indefinitely.

Sooner or later, the bottom falls out of the market for one reason or another and people get burnt.
Javascript has fibers and generators.

They definetly help writing async code.

One day one will never have to write callbacks or promises ever again.

ES6 comes with a lot of new features which will make JS a very different language (classes,guards,annotations...).Things are starting to get very interesting in js land.
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Add a drone for the cave mapping tech used in Prometheus.
I have no problem with what you wrote. But again -- this was around WWII, the world is very different now.

Everyone but the Palestinians have let go of that period -- the Arab world refuse to give them citizenships, to keep them suffering and hating. (And the Japanese over some islands.)

My point was that juntas must have external enemies, that is hardly controversial. The West is the popular enemy. The juntas which steal countries probably must demonize the working democracies, to motivate oppressing the slaves' demands for human rights.

(But you can join meric and the juntas in demonizing USA instead? :-) Certainly, realpolitik is dirty even for democracies, no country is perfect.)
http://nginx.org/en/docs/beginners_guide.html
Good point, or perhaps more used as the LB? We prefer Varnish as the reverse proxy, but we are using nginx as load balancer, which still shows up as the server in the response header, even though we exclusively run apache on the back-ends to serve the PHP application. I am not sure how typical this setup is though.
> what exactly is holding it back?

the size and the complexity of V8 codebase.
I'm not familiar with the S5 in particular but in principle I think all you need to do is get direct write access to the filesystem and you can write whatever firmware you want, so being able to read/write the eMMC directly should be enough --- provided it's not been encrypted/password protected/etc. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Here's a good starting point for getting your config right:

https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-nginx
This looks actually pretty amazing and might be worth a shot.
Not answering your question, but there is a research project implementing a Javascript JIT compiler in D: http://pointersgonewild.wordpress.com/higgs/
Just occasionally the XDA community really impresses me. I don't know how people deal with the SnR though.
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So what you're saying is that since incompetent firewall admins have blocked all applications except the web and no amount of reason can convince them to do otherwise, all applications of the future should be tunnelled through HTTP.

And thus naturally HTTP must be made to accommodate for all those applications.

You may think that makes sense, but you don't create something as long-lasting as internet-scale architecture based on hacks around incompetence.

Besides, if that's the path we're walking, DPI-based firewall with HTTP-level application firewalling will become the new norm, and we've gotten nowhere further. Except we now have a even bigger mess to work with.

While the OSI-model may be going a bit over board for some aspects, making all future application-protocols be a squashed through HTTP is madness. This thinking is of the same quality and mindset as of PHP developers.
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