skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of those rare times where a rhetorical question from a link-bait title is definitely "Yes"!

The author has a great anecdote about the work that is being done to combat rheumatoid-arthritis, however the story preys on our own hubris to believe that our bodies are not made up of very simple parts that have little knowledge of ourselves, rather a fairly strict set of inputs/outputs. So of course if you can manipulate the inputs, then you can achieve your desired outputs.

The true beauty of medical hacks is that the basal inputs and outputs of each individual component is relatively unknown!
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This is extremely interesting. In the forecast domains I work, (I use neural networks on standardized inputs) I typically use 50-100 epochs at most for a few thousand rows (with some approx 10 input neurons) and I don't see networks improving very much after that.

However, our industry peers often use a few thousand up to several ten thousands of epochs, yet our software is regularly best or second best when compared by clients.

I think this may be the same effect: Network weights should be "ok" after a few dozen epochs and any training beyond that maybe wins a percent of variance explained but already risks overfitting.

We use the spare time to train more networks (on slightly different input data) whose results we aggregate after that.

Something else: can someone explain the "I don't make no nevermind", I suppose it's funny but I don't get it.
Poor Man in the Middle
It is certainly true that Medium isn't for all use cases; and I don't think they have claimed otherwise. For more serious bloggers or writers, it is more of a marketing tool. And they place no value in comments, which looks more like a deliberate design decision.

However, I like Medium because they have broken new ground in UI design (for writing especially). It was the app that convinced me that you don't really need boxed HTML form inputs anywhere; it is more natural to edit in place with "contenteditable". This holds true not just for "blog writing" on Medium, but for profile edits and everywhere else. (I am aware of other advantages of using forms, but still.)

Now it might seem like just getting rid of textareas. But that's not it; this is a bigger shift in how we design editing.
I recently faced a mutiny/mobbing/uprising. One of the key differences between me and 'them' was the amount of drinking going on.

I've come to realize that drunk programmers are just doing their jobs.
Are solar panels actually cost effective at this point? Any legislation forcing people to do non sensible things is bound to be met with resentment/unpalatable.

The incandescent ban I just found odd personally. If you're going to legislate bulb choice then why aren't we all being forced to buy LED bulbs? Based on the manufacturer claims they're both the more energy and cost efficient choice. (however much stock you place in those claims..)
Ask HN: what events and parties 1 should attend to increase the user base?
i believe that to get the critical mass, we must meet influential people to see the app, install it & speak about it. Am looking for suggestions on parties/events/etc where i can meet these people.
I love the concept of CTFs but as a web developer (JS/PHP) this is like Greek to me. I presume you need to be a hardcore low-level security hacker to even consider doing CTFs.
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Contacts Game
Hi all,

We have published new game Contacts Game.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.edumen.contactsgame

I realized that I didn't know my children as much as I wanted. So I started with android app and the result is a funny game.

It was hard to put it in a category as it's not a classic game. Contacts Game could be in:
game - fun and competition
family - know your the closest persons better
educational and social - knowledge about other persons improves your social abilities
business - you can keep important data about your partners

If you have a minute, try Contacts Game, please.

With Best Regards,
Edumen Team
I think D doesn't get the attention it deserves. As far as I can recall, Facebook was using it for some projects.
Is there a preferred shorthand?
Yeah, gee, I wonder why? Maybe it's because one has a tendency to induce heart attacks, and the other group is treacherously addictive.

But, consider that cocaine is a "new world" drug, specific to the South American continent, as an indigenous herbal extract, mostly until the 19th century, when highly purified extacts became a popular part of western society.

Meanwhile use of opiates dates back to ancient times, given that Opium is dead simple to produce. But again, it was really in the 19th century when good equipment, and precise measuing tools permitted chemists and drugists to purify highly addictive perparations of the wider variety of drugs. Prior to that, the poppy's medicinal qualities were known and used, but expertise and well-crafted instruments which could readily facilitate powerful extracts weren't as widespread. Otherwise, people were limited to whatever was grown locally, and would be required to cultivate and harvest their own supply, instead of relying on trade.
I think warrenmar is referring to the fact a paper's impact can be measured by counting the number of times other authors cite the original paper.

IIRC, Larry and Sergey used that idea as the conceptual framework behind PageRank. Indeed, they were right: the relevance of a search result can be increased tremendously by indexing as many pages as possible and then calculating how many people are linking to said page.

They don't do it like that anymore but that's the basic idea.
Suggest HN: stop limiting comment rate of Ask HN OP
AskHN is a one-to-many conversation. It's difficult enough to keep a conversation going across the pond due to timezones. The thread is only going to be visible for a day, and I'd like to be able to reply to the people who offered their opinions.
"Organisers of Black Hat and Def Con see ban as bad idea..."
Just to complete your comment, the animation layer is done with torque.js:

https://github.com/cartodb/torque
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Interesting idea, but the neurobabble bits don't really add much. Everyone knows alcohol makes people less inhibited, so do we really need to cite the fMRI data first?
Python NOOP to keep syntax OK on commenting?
Just keep in mind that Cannabis isn't without lasting side effects. Over time, people get burnt, ain't quite as sharp as they used to be, some flip their lid in ways that aren't precisely comedic.
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There's also Sequelize (http://sequelizejs.com/) which is increasing its focus on Postgres specific features.
If they did, there probably wouldn't be a $17k bounty for unlocking the phone.
There have been discussions in a few bigger companies about including heuristics in decision making processes, sadly the human board members were unable to properly aggregate the pros and cons of such a move and the idea was dismissed.
I can't comment on likelihood, but if the exploit involves the radio, it wouldn't necessarily be portable.
The original funding Larry got was from the Digital Library Initiative. Then the web blew up. Maybe I shouldn't say PageRank was designed for citations, but that is where it draws its influence from. Things don't magically pop out of no where. But if you look at the PageRank algorithm, it looks like it is designed for paper citations. As a graduate student, you start a some place and you end up at a different place from where you intended to end up.

My point is that one shouldn't be surprised to see that PageRank would work well for paper citations.

http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100660

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_rank
Well I wrote this partly for a friend who wants to give Vim a try. I noticed if I told him to read the help on a topic, he would just google the question himself (maybe he doesn't like the terminal interface to read the help doc).

I've also noticed some people will manually go search a plugin on Github just to read the plugin's doc folder, when the same help doc is available right inside vim!

So I thought I would help explain why Vim's help is so awesome that people should use it more and using it more means that you learn more things about vim.

But I appreciate that you like my website, thanks! :)
Wouldn't a database generally be offline when you ALTER it? At least one that is used in scenarios where SQLITE is appropriate.

In that case it should not hurt too much if the operation takes some time.
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which obviously does produce not source files from which the poor vi users tried to escape, but binary files where the codes should be there.
That's why there's a menu bar since ages.
And also a startup screen giving some help.
Or remove it...
To protect business servicing machines, GE turns to the industrial Internet
Flipkart raises $210 million from Russian investment firm DST Global.
Googlebot evolves and is going to execute JavaScript
> What on earth makes these enterprise companies
> believe That they can take Cisco hardware &
> believe that they Can be more cost efficient
> than AWS/Azure.

Effective sales people and existing relationships
and here I thought they're going to rank them according to the length and bushiness of their beards...
Margarine linked to divorce?
I think the problem here is basically misconduct in an unregulated industry. The US and other governments have taken some positive steps towards recognizing BTC and finding ways to bring it into the regulated landscape. I would share your outrage if governments simply outlawed BTC and went after users and entrepreneurs as criminals. However, we're basically all in agreement that BTC is risky and unregulated but legal, and in cases where laws are being enforced against individuals/companies in BTC it's actually to legitimize it as a whole.
It's not the watching of sports that's manly; it's expressing the sentiment that you think the professionals can do better and if you're actually mature enough not to do that, being able to provide some kind of sophisticated analysis of the action.

Note that in every case, it's actually a subtle matter of one-upsmanship. Eating redder or more meat. Sleeping with more or better-looking women. Drinking harder or larger quantities of liquor.

Writing more lines of code in a more obscure language.
This is similar to how SCCP (sparse conditional constant propagation) works in that it only considers that edges that are known possible to execute. In that case the edges are marked executable explicitly by the algorithm once you know you could take a certain path, as opposed to marking edges to see what would happen if only certain edges were considered executable.

To be blunt though, I don't think the idea is very interesting for a few reasons:

- It doesn't address how you decide which edges to speculatively consider executable.

- Optimizers intentionally do not play the "what if" game and try optimizing things multiple different ways to see what wins or what gains might be had. It simply gets too expensive (in compile time) too quickly.

- There are already other ways to achieve similar effect, e.g. superblock formation or simple tail duplication (which can be done for specific effect, e.g. see branch threading in LLVM).
Tangentially, I've seen "Nomu-nication" (Nomu "to drink" and Communication) be a central part of almost all business in Japan -- both internal and external.

One experience I had with my Osakan clients always stood out to me -- I've met multiple businessmen who say they won't make a deal with a vendor they haven't gone drinking with, because the alcohol shows what kind of person they really are.
there are so many machine learning algorithm out there, it is hard to decide where to start, I know it isn't realistic to learn one by one, no one have that much energy, any suggestions for who love this field, and don't know much about it? very appreciate.
There is another more fundamental limit, credited to Margolus and Levitin [1], which puts the maximum speed of a (quantum) gate at 2E / h operations per second for a system of energy E and Planck constant h. Given the energy of the sun quoted in the article, this puts the upper limit of bit flips per second at 2^193. Seth Lloyd's 'Ultimate physical limits to computation' [2] goes into further detail on this subject.

However, the notion of zero energy dissipation (scalable quantum computers will likely need error correction, which implies bit erasure) on any real system is ludicrous, and I think the Landauer bound models reality better than Margolus-Levitin.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9710043

[2] http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9908043
The poster clearly hasn't really watched the show, without a doubt spouting off something that sounded 'edgy' for the sake of it.

Nice rebuttal by the way!
I wish this idea could work. I really really do. And not living in an area with snow means I don't understand how important this factor is.

But, the grid seems to be having a pretty hard time just dealing with the influx of solar power as it is. Initially, most power grids weren't designed to be receiving power. And all it takes it a cloud moving over a suburb to mean electrical companies are shutting down and then powering up generators. Which causes more wear and tear on the generators too.

I would LOVE to hear from an electrical engineer about that aspect of this proposal.
If you think about it, there's not a lot you can say in German in 140 characters.
The level of complexity of these systems is high even for today. But complexity has nothing to do with why we struggle today with vim, emacs, eclipse with gdb or what-have-you for developing and debugging.

Those who understand the system are few, and the time they have at their hands is scarce to begin even contemplating the amount of work required to develop a free alternative to genera.
I have no other explanation of why so many hobby projects started and failed at replicating what is still state of the art in programming environments.
"why not just marry them to save their lives and then not consummate the relationship?"

That's what I meant - perhaps it often works out that way, and only the rape cases are being reported to the western world for emotional effect.

"I just responded to the oft-repeated claim that we should try to be more understanding of pedophiles if and only if they are from a different culture."

I've never heard that kind of story, but I admit that I don't read a lot about pedophiles.

But it seems normal that 12 year olds have sex. Perhaps criticizing the age difference has a lot of culture dependent aspects? For example the limit of 18 years to call somebody an adult seems somewhat arbitrary. In any case I don't think pedophilia can be attached to an age limit, only to body development?
This is my case, and it's actually frustrating for me. I'm not interested enough to force myself to acclimate, the way most people would have done in college due to peer pressure. So I'm stuck with either being the entertaining freak when coworkers go out for a beer, or being anti-social.

The irony of being a freakish social outcast amidst a group of nerds is not lost on me.
It might be a neat solution if you already have a server process for other tasks anyway and the data access needs are quite simple.
I agree that current prison sentences are too high, many drug offenders don't belong in prison, current plea bargaining practices make a mockery of the very idea of justice by essentially turning a criminal prosecution into a game of high-stakes poker, and it is currently far too difficult for convicts who have served their sentences to reintegrate into society in a positive way.

But your analysis leaves out the idea of deterrence.

Heavy consequences for serious violent crimes like rape, murder, assault, etc. keep those violent crimes from being seen as viable options for resolving disputes by people who have self-interest but little-to-no empathy or ethics.

A free democracy with a prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, can't really do much to criminals other than attempt to rehabilitate them, lock them up, or punish them financially [1]. Enduring sentences of rehabilitation and financial punishments are probably things that a rational, self-interested sociopath would be willing to endure as the price of being allowed to maim or murder someone who gets in the way of what they want. OTOH the prospect losing a few decades to prison, would probably convince our hypothetical sociopath to try to find a lawful way to deal with their situation.

[1] The death penalty is an interesting and complex topic, and I think the consensus is slowly moving toward ending the death penalty. My view is that it obviously does nothing for rehabilitation, it's not cost-effective at keeping criminals off the streets (it's less expensive to imprison a defendant for life than to do all the legal maneuvering courts and legislatures have found necessary to properly protect the rights of the accused), and its deterrence value is not that great (because it's so expensive, relatively few cases go through the process, and it takes a long time, so the additional deterrence provided versus a life prison sentence is questionable at best). Since life imprisonment does a better job of satisfying those three main objectives of criminal penalties, it should be preferred.

In other words, the death penalty either has to get a lot faster, cheaper, and much more widely applied, or we need to give it up entirely. I think the first path is a political non-starter and fraught with constitutional issues, making the second path the only real way forward.
The issue is much deeper than just Mt Gox. It's the entire cloud ecosystem. There would have to be a whole paradigm shift back to P2P and local computing before people stop trusting a Mt Gox. Just because BTC was a radical new P2P currency doesn't mean that all users suddenly realized that they should stop trusting cloud providers. And until there's a distributed BTC exchange, I don't think you can fault the users here.
Here in Estonia (very close to Nordics) we put water pipes underground at least 80 cm to PREVENT them from freezing during the winter.
Its strange that you didn't include what your application does or who is marketed too. Once you've defined that, then you should go where those people are. I'm reminded of the fact that the Pinterest founder used to visit homes and have Pinterest parties with what was IIRC, middle aged women, (I think this was Startup School 2012?), in order to get the word out on his app.
> And if a good solid library exists, why bother writing your own?

Because, you know, learning, having fun and stuff.
Did anyone try the makefile and get "make: Nothing to be done for `all'."?
I wonder why people can accidentally type ":wq" in insert mode and save it. What are example use cases that make people accidentally save ":wq" document?

I often use vim and so far almost never accidentaly save ":wq" file.
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Actually Pokémon Crystal itself, the rom we were discussing, has an extensive higher-level scripting language built-in for events, messages and movement. It still looks very much like assembly, but it is built up of Pokémon commands instead of machine code.

For example, this is the script to choose your starter pokemon: https://github.com/kanzure/pokecrystal/blob/master/maps/Elms...
So you are suggesting businesses should go bankrupt instead of telling you are SoL?
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Interesting! Powerful! But why? It's a novel thesis, but not too novel as to seem unfamiliar. It provides a simple solution to an age old problem. How can I know if I can trust someone? Just get them drunk! Secretly, of course, I'll remain sober enough to judge their sincerity. It also ties together two enjoyable drives. Domination in business and drink. The presentation as revelatory give us the feeling of being in on something important and the allusions to an ancient culture gives it weight. Finally we are drawn by the notion of technology. This is a tool that we should be using to our advantage. Moral considerations are dispelled by the (popular) allusion to our brains mechanistic nature. I applaud the author but this is pure HN linkbait.
For me "Full Stack" means: there is no stack.

Its difficult to argue about this with academic reasoning, but my 'feelings' after 30+ years in the software business is that the more you treat the artificial borders between technologies as insignificant, the less significant the effort required to grasp the technology. In other words, there are no real 'borders'; these are self-imposed on the individual programmer, socially, in sometimes very sexy packages. "Framework Developer" is another nasty phrase arising, in my opinion, because what does it mean? You use the framework, or you build one?

Either way, this artificial division allows for the ordering of 'developer skills' in such a way that one higher skilled programmer can sell the other lesser but nevertheless competent, programmer .. something.

There is no Stack, means, if you need to know something about your computer, you can. Dig into its depths faster and with more passion, not slower, because 'there is no way to understand it all' is a fallacy. You can, indeed, understand every single thing that the computer is doing; it was made that way.
> Cocaine and other opiates

Cocaine is not an opiate.
> If you want to see the incredibly detailed manual for Emacs or all of the info manuals on your computer:

And you really should want seeing your info manuals - they are incredibly high quality resources for the most part. Emacs, Emacs Lisp, Org Mode, Magit infos, for example, are all full fledged books, properly split into chapters, filled with all the details you'd ever need. They are indexed and searchable and they are easy to navigate.

Just install info+ and some related scripts before starting with infos - this will give you syntax highlighting and colors in the info viewer. I don't remember if bookmarks are part of the vanilla Emacs, but if not you probably would want to install some bookmarking plugin too. After that is done it becomes the most pleasant technical reading experience ever.
Over a 100 professors just from the IITs. Incredible.
Author here. I just had a look at those links and they're super. I know what I'll be reading when I get back from this morning's cycle!

Regarding the fact that I threw out so many segment efforts for the Col du Tourmalet and Alpe d’Huez (especially compared to Stocking Lane): a large part of this is explained by the fact that I only keep efforts for people who do not stop before the end. I just reran the data cleaning code to get the stats for Col Du Tourmalet. The first round of cleaning (which is the most severe) throws out 1,643 segment efforts and the breakdown is:
isInconsistentDistances (difference of first and last 'distance' numbers in effort more than 2% away from official segment distance) : 442
isInadmissableAvgSpeed (journeys that are too slow) : 36
isInconsistentTimes (difference of first and last 'time' numbers in effort not equal to reported time for that effort) 1
isNotAlwaysMoving ('elapsed_time' != 'moving_time' in Strava's effort summary) 1164

Regarding the altitude data, thanks for the tip. If I return to do more, I may see if it's possible to use only data from Garmin devices. I would guess that for the curves for faster riders (the upper decile curves) a lot of the riders are using Garmins so I might even be able to see the effect if I tried to look for it.

Regarding the power equation, I did not know that! I'll have to have a look at what Strava are doing. They continue to impress me with the number of features they have.
Samsung has already done it themselves (for a price, of course): http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/ET-G900VMKAVZW