skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a developer I challenge you to understand what it does - and how- even though it's messy.
In the Air Force you get a yearly Enlisted Performance Report or Officer Performance Report. Your OPR/EPR counts towards your promotion, and one of the sections of the OPR/EPR is how well you meet PT standards. Fail a PT test and you get a referral OPR/EPR, then you can pretty much kiss your military career goodbye.
If you are using Java, I suggest taking a look at JOOQ. JOOQ implements SQL statements as an AST:

http://blog.jooq.org/2014/07/28/jooq-tip-of-the-day-reuse-bi...

I've been using JOOQ lately and liking it a lot.
Personally, I see value in learning the actual "protocol" that the ORM's are abstracting. For instance, it is convenient to use an ORM if you understand that it is just a large abstraction of the actual syntax sent to the database server. People learning ORM's before SQL have a disadvantage though, in my opinion. Because without learning the SQL required, they are tied down to their particular ORM implementation. It is kind of like learning jQuery before JavaScript.
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how about writing a reusable database wrapper class?

you can generalize queries : query(sql, args[]):

and for specific purposes

addName("name"): query('insert into table ..., "name")
..
other functions(..) : query('..','')
An epic read, but wonderfully well worth it (whether you're familiar with Bob Noyce, Fairchild, and Intel, or not).

Interesting that we're still arguing over some of those business, management, and culture principles today.
> I can't tolerate the hit in the quality of life that moving to Mountain View would require.

Exactly.

I live in Huntsville, Alabama, and I live very, very well here. A 50+% pay raise to move to SF or SV looks nice until you really start to work the numbers and realize that you would actually come out worse off in many ways.

* A mortgage on a 3,500 square foot house, on a 1/3 acre lot in a very nice neighborhood runs me a hair over $1,200 a month. Including taxes and insurance. Everything except the HOA, and that's an extra $30 or so a month.

* I live in a nice family-oriented area with great schools. Don't have to worry about gang violence or anything. My biggest annoyance is the teen with the loud scooter.

* Utilities are dirt cheap thanks to TVA.

* Property taxes are dirt cheap. Income taxes are on the low side. Sales tax is a tad on the high side, but it's not bad.

* I have a 15 minute commute to and from the office every day, maybe 20 on a bad day. I'm home every night for dinner with my family.

And while Huntsville won't win any awards for high culture (although there is actually a surprisingly vibrant arts scene here considering its size, not really what I was expecting to find), Nashville and Birmingham are only 90 minutes away in either direction - great for a day trip. Atlanta or Memphis are weekend trips of a few hours away. And I can be on great beaches in a few hours as well.

With my extra income, I can afford to save and do fun things. After our daughter was born, we needed a larger car, so we bought one and paid cash for it. We go skiing in West Virginia during the holidays. We did two weeks in Hawaii for our honeymoon, a week in London a few years and a week in Jamaica a couple years ago. Just because we wanted to. We're currently planning to go all out and go to Tahiti in a few years to celebrate our 10th. Also saving for the inevitable trip to Disney World once our daughter is old enough. A lot of this is possible because my cost of living here is so low that it allows me a large amount of discretionary income.

Of course, it's not without its problems. We have a real problem with severe weather here in the Spring, and it can be kind of rough sometimes (fun fact, Alabama has had more F-5/EF-5 tornadoes than any other state). Our politicians are really idiotic and can be counted on to say very, very stupid things. We have some pretty backwards laws. And, unfortunately, there is some level of truth to the stereotypes people have of Alabama (although they are pretty uncommon here in Huntsville - it's more of a rural thing), but it's also nowhere near the level people think it is either.

But, on the whole, every time I go to look at the tradeoffs, the math always works for me to stay put here. No one has yet shown me that I can live the equivalent lifestyle in SF or SV that I live here on an average developer's salary.
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The problem with speed limits is that people think they are a license to go that speed, or a little faster, regardless of the conditions. Americans are nearly universally useless at slowing down for things like ice, heavy rain and fog. They ignore things like stopping distance and diminished reaction time in poor visibility.

I agree that there is room for debate on speed limits under ideal conditions on well-maintained roads with bridges that have not been left to rot for decades.

Anyone who has driven internationally will recognize that Americans turn into homicidal/suicidal maniacs when conditions deteriorate--all because they don't understand that the speed limit only applies in ideal conditions.

Driving on U.S. roads in bad weather is a horror show.
I wouldn't say its "misleading", it is a correct usage of the word online (especially contrasted with offline learning) and is the name of the sub-area. You won't find many (most?) papers in the area with those search terms unfortunately.
I've combined Postgres views and set returning functions in rails and had a lot of success with good performance and good maintainability, too. No custom SQL required in the application itself.
I checked your product, nice idea! I believe, this is exactly type of product, when frontendus can help. Thanks for pointing to typo.
Could you send me email at frontenduscom gmail , so we can chat?
That sounds interesting, do you have a good reference for reading on SRM?
The tried find one but had no luck. The closest I found was this github repo, whose Readme file is only a single line description of the app.

https://github.com/thedillonb/RepoStumble
> Without exception, a vehicle that moved (much) faster than other traffic around it,

Emphasis mine. Your slower moving vehicle could relate to vehicles moving slower than other cars. Which is what gp claimed.
The DOD cyber effort will be passed off department wide to a more function specific agency just as many other efforts before it. ie CDC NRC DARPA NASA

The specific culture or technical requirements of network technology efficacy will/has end/ed up in a more mixed agency such as the NSA or DIA(redux).

There are a lot of "hackers" in the DOD, as others have said they usually do not stay, but some do. The reason they seem like unicorns is because they usually end up working in the non cat video sector.
We would not be talking about Xiaomi had it just been a copycat company.

The article has a set of fairly manipulative images (that I bet you could do similarly with every other mobile phone brand) and even takes Lei Jun quoting Steve Jobs' "One more thing ..." as a sign of copycatting where it is clearly a homage/tribute.

The article also does not mention Xiaomi fairly innovative software service business model. Described ie. here:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2156320/why-are-xiaomi-phones...
The problem with speed limits is that people think they are a license to go that speed, or a little faster, regardless of the conditions

I never thought about it that way, and I agree. Speed limit should DEFINITELY be dynamic depending on weather conditions, location, time, traffic etc...
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Check out http://diffbot.com/products/automatic/product/ to do this fully automated.
That sounds like "joint and several liability", a standard legal model.
That would be the case if it were not for the fact that it is really good at surviving in the human body.... until the person is dead or until they have developed antibodies to fight it. Some people do survive Ebola (aka the plague or the black plague). But not many. Ebola spreads, and fast at that, in areas where there are high population densities, areas where people are in close contact (areas like NYC). Because of the symptoms, it is possible that someone may be infected, spreading the disease, but think they have the flu or some other common ailment. That is the reason why the hospital in the original article didn't take chances and put the person in involuntary quarantine (the article didn't say it but I can guarantee that is the case (and the patient may not know it because if you had Ebola you would have to be insane to decline care)). The only effective way to fight Ebola is quarantine. You section off an area, don't let anyone in or out, and wait out the sickness until it runs it course. After that you safely and securely destroy everything.
On a related note, anyone else remembers http://try2hack.nl/? It was one of the first sites that got me into programming/hacking.
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It does look interesting. The short edit/compile/run cycle definitely helps.
I was shocked to hear this so I did some research. As it turns out, it has a lot to do with foreign subsidies, similar to solar power.

Apparently up until 1981, the US had the Construction differential subsidy program [1][2] that subsided shipbuilding construction. During the Regan administration, the US eliminated subsidies whereas countries in Asia did not. Now the top 10 shipbuilding countries are in China, Korea, or Japan [3][4].

Outside of a few exceptions, such as a 1920 law forcing US-based natural gas to only be transported on American made/manned ships [5], the US shipbuilding industry has one customer: the military. Without additional subsidies it's unlikely the US can effectively compete with places like China, which continue to increase subsidies for shipbuilders [6].

In this political climate (especially post-Solyndra, post ethanol-subsidy) I think it's unlikely the federal government would increase subsidies for a private industry. On one hand, this might not be a bad thing: Chinese-subsidized industries don't always work out the way they planned (e.g., the construction of ghost towns). However if the military doesn't keep the industry up-to-date technologically, a shipbuilding tech gap could form, which might impact national security.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Shipbuilding_Program

[2] http://www.marinelink.com/article/shipbuilding/the-future-am...

[3] http://www.marineinsight.com/marine/marine-news/headline/top...

[4] http://thediplomat.com/2012/11/u-s-navy-take-notice-china-is...

[5] http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/20/boom-in-natural-gas-pro...

[6] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/09/us-china-shipping-...
This is the reason I do not speed. I figured I barely ever drive more than 10-15 miles one way, hence going from 60 to 80 miles per hour is only going to save me a very few minutes and increase my chance at 1) getting a ticket, and 2) wasting 30 minutes when a cop pulls me over.
But how many times have you had a flu where you bleed out of your orifices? Me.... none.
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You still haven't shown that the increased risk of danger outweighs the aggregate time savings. It's a big consideration when looking at things like, the value of screening for unlikely outcomes.

3.5 minutes/trip saved * 2 trips/day * 200 working days per year (probably more) = 1400 minutes saved per year per person.

working-age population of US (2012) = 243 million.
Employment-to-population_ratio = 67%, so 162 million.

Let's say that half drive, or 80 million.
So, 80m * 1400 minutes = 112 billion minutes a year saved by speeding or 1.9 billion hours. At a wage of $10 per hour, that's $19 billion, which is a bit ahead of the $15b loss of value per your number, but I'm sure our confidence intervals overlap.

112 billion minutes = 213000 person-years of being stuck inside a car saved by speeding. With a US average lifespan of 79, that's 2700 total additional lifespans spent in a car by losing those 3.5 minutes.
We are moving from puppet to salt and I'm half way through and so far my git commits looks like this over the past month

puppet repo -14000 lines
salt repo +1600 lines

What it really comes down to is salt has a ton of built in modules while puppet the old way to do it was add it as a module in your main module search path which for us was in our repo
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San Francisco became my home in my heart almost immediately. I have fallen in love with this city. When I leave, I miss it and where-ever I go I can't stop talking about it. Yes it's not perfect, far from it, but it's perfect for me.

Anyway, my point is, where-ever you move to, make sure you find that place that is home. That place you can truly say you love too. Don't just live somewhere to save some bucks for the sake of saving some bucks. Life is too short and you can't take your cash with you anyway.
This is exactly why, on a Windows computer, you should:

1. Never run under an administrator account unless you are performing administrative duties (i.e. temporarily admin to intentionally install an app, and not opening Word docs).

2. Use Software Restriction Policy to only allow executables to run out of C:\Windows, "C:\Program Files", and "C:\Program Files (x86)".

If I had to pick one or the other for my grandmother - antivirus software or the non-admin/SRP config - I would choose non-admin/SRP hands down and sleep easy. It's that effective. Unfortunately almost no one operates in this state because it's not default when you buy a new Windows PC. Companies selling antivirus software might go out of business if this were the default configuration.
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For conversation, at least, it helps to stick with the agreed upon definitions, for example, "parametric" means finite parametrization. Otherwise the discussion is moot, if you use too broad definitions thens "everything is parametric" becomes a tautology, a vacuous statement.

PAC and MDL arent as much as at odds that you make it up to be. If you are familiar with PAC-Bayes and PAC-MDL theorems you will know what I mean. My main issue was with the ridiculous (or with your definition of whats 'parametric' then a vapid) claim that all of ML is parametric.

Secondly, wanted to highlight that its a bad way to go about ML, by estimating data distribution first and then find the decision function. This is the precise reason why SVMs broke out of the then state of the art. The two stage 'plug-in' approach used to be the preferred way then. A decision function might be Bayes with respect to some density, but thats besides the point, it is ill advised to match the density and then derive the decision function, except for very special and narrow cases.

Even if you throw PAC out, parametric stats (am using the standard definition here) is a tool with very narrow scope. If it happens to be in the current scope then by all means use it.

BTW you make good point about transductive learning, it got compared to semisupervised, but they are not the same thing. Both use unlabeled data, but for transductive, the points were you seek labels have to be given ahead of time. This enables very strong guarantees. I think its potential has not come to fruition yet.

EDIT:
@murbard2 > Re: See what I did there.

Color me violently unimpressed. That is a not a parametric distribution.

I continue to stress that plugin estimates are in general not a good idea. Even die-hard Bayesians would not use it, they would rather estimate the MAP or the mean aposteriori decision function directly, rather than fit data distribution and then derive the optimal decision function from it.

I find Bayesian inference to be a good idea, except that it is costly unless you use conjugate priors (these are motivated more by convenience than by data) and its "turtles all the way down" problem.

Its not that you have advocated plug in estimators, but given your claim about everything about ML is about fitting parametric densities, it is likely to mislead readers into believing that the two step way is a good idea.
The technologies involved are quite different and this new approach radically simplifies the logistics.
Agreed with everyone else here: don't submit that press release anywhere!

Short emails, 2-4 sentences, to the right journalists will be much more effective.

Check out our primer on how to write emails to journalists: http://muckrack.com/daily/2013/11/21/how-to-write-email-subj...

And if you still don't believe us on press releases, read the article I wrote for the PRSA that questions the press release's value, and debunks that it will help with SEO or social: http://comprehension.prsa.org/?p=6202
How much vibration does sound actually cause an object. I tried humming near various objects and noticed nothing. I used to be really interested in early mechanical microphones and sound recording, but I couldn't find much information on how they work either.
What Uber has going for it is convenience, transparency, and quality. By the time the industry itself settles, who's to say Uber could keep up the high standard of quality? Or if they move toward a monopoly, they might hike the price, allowing smaller, local-focused services to differentiate themselves and flourish.

We have no idea what the future hold, and remember Uber is the new kid on the block here.
For most people it might be, but I'm a solo bootstrapper, so time == $^$ for me :-/

I'd really like to see a trial until release subscription option, I think that would afford a lot more people time to test and play with what Xamarin has to offer, 30 days just seems too limited to really dive into it unless you can guarantee you won't get pulled off onto other tasks/projects.
Surprised Musk did this after Texas kind of fucked him over by banning direct sales of Tesla motors.

Good to know he doesn't hold grudges at least.
Yay! I sure hope this brings back a space themed license plate in the years to come.
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Texas will probably lose the big battery plant to another state closer to California.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8133808 was created hours ago and points to

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329803.900-robotic-s...

while yours points to
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329803.900-robotic-s...

same link with different named anchors. regardless they resolve to same story on same website
@srean -- I agree with you. To make the GP statement true, you have to adopt sweepingly wide definitions of the terms "parametric" and "density estimation", and a very narrow concept of ML to boot. You have given some good background and I feel a need to add more examples.

The idea of boosting comes to mind. A quintessential ML concept, widely applicable, but really nothing to do with density estimation.

All the PAC learning results are another example. They show very strong results over very wide problem classes, but don't have to do with density estimation. They apply, for example, to problems where no density exists (just a probability measure), much less a smooth-enough density to estimate.

Another example of ML research that comes to mind is time and space efficient learning. There is a whole body of work on probabilistic analysis of data structures used for ML (I'm thinking partly about Alex Gray's work, http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~agray/). The work fits solidly into ML, but it's not about density estimation, it's about making provably fast algorithms for large problems.
This bothers me as well- I'm trying to figure out a consistent way to determine which direction is "Inbound" and which is Outbound - turns out this is quite difficult!

In the case of the N, the 4th and King terminus is closer to some abstract "downtown" point than the other end at Ocean Beach, however this heuristic doesn't generalize to genuinely "crosstown" routes like the 22.

So this depends on when/if I find a method I'm satisfied with.
Opportunity cost. If you expend resources on developing something what are you giving up? This is why renewables are not being developed more than they are. In fact they are probably being developed at an artificially exaggerated rate right now, given incentives such as tax credits.
That is a total overstatement/generalization.
Totally anecdotal - I've seen a lot of foreigners react in the same (but opposite) way when they come to the US.

i.e. driving on major roads around NYC, visiting schools, looking at houses, etc.

"Wow, it looks like it's half finished"

"Everything is so dirty"

"It's all covered in graffiti and falling down"

etc., etc.
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actually it looks like in either case the named anchors start as something else then change. regardless it's same page, same story
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But that doesn't mean we humans are "safe". Knowledge is power but its not a vaccine.
It would be an easy sell if drivers (such as myself) didn't feel convinced that highway speed limits are arbitrary. 100km/h is a very unlikely number for an engineer to calculate as an upper boundary for a road.

It wouldn't be a tough sell to lower speed limits on some portions, and raise it on others, even on a time-neutral but safety-positive basis, but yet, the powers that be stick to their arbitrary number.
That first para is of the only comments here that gives me any hope for U.S. cyber capability and it really makes sense. Thanks.
Doesn't that just mean that you win? Why is it important that it's not legal?