skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is looking at a foreign society through Western glasses. I recommend you to travel there sometime for an extended period to understand these people better. The way I see it, being a member of Japanese society is an honour in the conservative sense - an honour for which members feel they have to keep earning it throughout their lives by doing what's best for the society. In extreme cases some feel that they're not worthy of that anymore or that they've become a burden to society, so they take their lives. This is not to say that this is the most common cause of suicide in Japan - many Western societies have suicide rates that are not that far off. However in this case here I can very well imagine that this is what happened. Suicide doesn't mean they're 'cowards' necessarily, they're imposing the highest possible punishment on to themselves. Just like American society still thinks that the death sentence is the highest possible punishment.
Downvote me all you want, but I just realized is even more true than I through at first, because the main revenue model of Google: Adsense/Adwords, is just a middle men between webmasters and advertisers; the only reason those two groups don't talk directly to each other is because they don't trust each other:

- They don't know each other (lack of contact method)

- They don't know how much they charge.

- They don't know if they are trustworthy.

- They don't know if they will maliciously overcharge or if they won't honor the contract.

The completely exact middleman work that Uber does between drivers and passengers.
I don't disapprove of drinking poison. Its the people drinking poison who are disapproving of the decision to make poison poisonous. The phenomenon to explain is why the blame is quickly shifted from people drinking poison and getting hurt, to intelligent people who allowed it to continue.

Its part of the "shift blame onto the non idiots" agenda in america. Someone get hurt by being stupid? Then find the nearest responsible person and make him pay up to remedy everything.

I've got a better idea. How about we laugh at the idiots being idiots and try to encourage the poisoners to at least ratchet up their poisoning poison more slowly. As to make the dying idiots once again the responsible party by choosing to get hurt by drinking poison.
Now if this worked for my commute, that would be amazing. Would take it in an instant when the trains were far apart.
Open floorplan works if the entire "open area" is engaged in a common goal. In that case, headphones can be more of a hindrance than a help.

However, in the case where the open floorplan is simply an office cost savings measure that puts mixed goals in a small collocated area, then yes, headphones..
Why is that so absurd? The only reason these things are called "phones" anymore is tradition and inertia. The "phone" app on my "phone" is one of the least frequently used.
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If you are all starting and ending at the same location it is cheaper to do a single fare.
Yes! One magic pill will cure everything!
Or, someone stole their server rack.
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The full article is freely available [1],and reading the abstract will be more informative and more accurate than the Guardian article for most HN readers, I believe. Science journalism has a long ways to go before it can reliably communicate science results.

[1] http://annonc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/07/30/an...
Jury nullification affects only a single case. It does not affect or determine the law. A side effect is that it may cause prosecutors to stop enforcing certain laws and/or cause the legislative branch to reconsider a law and rewrite it or get rid of it.
Have you ever held a real job? Because your understanding of EU employment law and practices sounds very naive, to put it mildly.
Well, you do the latter anyway. In order to spend USD issued by the issuer Foo, you actually don't really have to trust Foo at all yourself (though obviously you have to trust them enough to hold their credit), instead either the other party in the transaction has to trust Foo, or there has to be a third party that trusts Foo and is willing to exchange Foo!USD for some other currency that the other party accepts. You only really have to trust Foo to be good for the credit yourself if you want to cash out. And even then, if someone else trusts Foo and is willing to exchange Foo!USD for some other currency that you trust better, you can do that too.

It's a lot easier if you really do trust the issuer, because then you don't have to worry about finding someone else who does who will exchange Foo!USD for another currency.

Also, it's worth pointing out that even with Bitcoin you end up having to trust specific entities to be good actors. Notably, any time you use an exchange you have to actually trust the exchange to give you the value you paid for. For example, if I use Coinbase to exchange BTC and USD, Coinbase ends up holding a balance on my behalf. I have to trust that if I request to withdraw my balance from Coinbase, that they'll actually deposit the USD in my bank account, and will actually send the BTC to another wallet of my choosing.

In fact, the whole MtGox debacle is a great example of how this completely and utterly failed. Didn't a lot of people lose a lot of money, in the balances that MtGox held for them? People trusted MtGox and their trust was violated.

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Basically, the need to trust individual entities is not new with Stellar. Bitcoin has the exact same issue. Stellar has the benefit of being more likely to be adopted by existing centralized financial institutions, which are far less likely to abscond with your money, than the various gateways/exchanges that deal in Bitcoin.
I loved the writeup! thanks for the detailed writeup and notes. Very impressive.
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I haven't tried it, so I can't say for sure, but my intuition is that learning to predict the latent factors is a much less 'complex' task than learning good features to reconstruct the input (i.e. the spectrograms), in terms of the required capacity of the model.

With a purely unsupervised approach, you are basically wasting capacity on modeling aspects of the data that are relevant for reconstructing the input, but not for solving the task at hand. For example, the model doesn't have to care about precise pitches and timing, because those are not relevant for recommendation (and latent factor prediction) anyway. That means no model capacity is wasted on these things. With a fairly complex task such as this one, I think that probably makes a big difference.
While I get what you are saying.... this was done knowing what the results were going to be - done specifically to get the results (dangerously poisoning people who's behaviour was determined to not be moral)

So yeah - I do believe the guilty party are those that knowly made something that was going to poison and kill people.

On the "alcohol" is poison argument (WTF?) Fine - it turned from a known poison with known, acceptable results to something that that wasn't known and killed people.
You mean the Ken Burns' documentary? Panning over still photos is sort of his thing. iPhoto even has a slideshow mode called, appropriately enough, "Ken Burns".

Prohibition is excellent, by the way, I recommend you give it another chance.
Except that in the vast majority of people alcohol is a health benefit. Drinkers live longer than non drinkers.
Next I'll be hearing I should chew willow bark instead of paying for Aspirin :)

Even if this worked, the amount of misinformation about this has inoculated me against taking medical decisions myself (other than avoiding the free Twix littered in the office kitchen).

John Oliver covered this style of journalism, rather sarcastically a while back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA0wKeokWUU#t=13m09s
The fact that they said this, without pointing out that it was unknowable, makes me wonder if they know of another request that they can't talk about.
You didn't read all of it.

The "last place" referred to in the title is the Don Juan Pond not the Atacama Desert mentioned in the first paragraph.
You know an argument is good when the opposing party resorts to ad hominem. First you must explain where I have made a mistake, you pea brain.
Also, lock-in tactic [1] is so much last century, but MS is still quite slow on dropping it. With general decline of Windows domination they'll drop lock-in approach even more, but that's still in the future.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft#Vendor_...
How A-consciousness can in principle be understood in mechanistic terms?
A-consciousness is the phenomenon whereby information in our minds is accessible for verbal report, reasoning, and the control of behavior.
I can't help but feel that it would be fair for copyright to stay with an author until they die.
Based on our current needs, no.

What we are/were looking for is a service that could provide LDAP "frontend" to Google Apps identities so we can have a single set of credentials across services (and email etc).

Seeing as how nothing of that sort exists, an LDAP(aaS) would also suffice, but not be ideal because:
(a) we would end up using only a small subset of the LDAP functionality (namely auth).
(b) seeing as how none of the early engineers have administered a (full blown) LDAP service, someone would have to climb this curve.

I'm curious why cloud based identity management solutions don't offer this (eg. okta). However I wont claim to know/understand the full breadth of their offering and whether this aligns well with their business.
re: beta signup.

How will they know if I'm in their area? I wonder if they cross-referencing my phone # with my existing Uber account.
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So was this 802.1X? Do you know if they upgraded to 802.1X-2010? TFA says that logins are hard-coded; does that agree with your recollection?
I haven't really optimized that part of the pipeline, for now I'm just using what I always use because getting the data and massaging it into the right format is quite time consuming.

There is a lot of knowledge about good time-frequency representations for music analysis among the people who were formerly at The Echno Nest (which was acquired by Spotify a few months ago), so it would definitely be a good idea to apply their knowledge to this and come up with a better input representation. I only have a few weeks left though, so it doesn't have a high priority at the moment :)
This got me thinking: why are short-term rental services so expensive? Surely the driver makes up a large chunk of the cost of a service like Uber, so renting the car alone should be much cheaper.

My guess is that rental services need a considerable oversupply of vehicles to make up for the uneven nature of demand. If I'm going to use such a service, I need to be reasonably certain that I can get a car within walking distance, and that means they need enough cars within a fairly small area to handle the 95th percentile of demand (or whatever percentile is appropriate).

With something like Uber, the supply is effectively shared within the metro area, so sudden demand in one small area doesn't hurt. If the nearest Uber car is a five-minute drive away, that's fine. If the nearest ZipCar vehicle is a five-minute drive away, you are probably not using ZipCar today.

I think this brings us back to the continuing discussion of self-driving cars....
Lets suppose some company hired scientists at great expense to make 10w30 motor oil incredibly addictive.

The logical approach in this case would be the make the firm halt their motor-oil enhancing activity, not to let them keep doing it and adding your own poison. This is a silly analogy.
It should be legalized and then if you take it, it goes on your record, so next time you try to get a job the hiring company can decide based upon the reputation of potheads, whether or not to hire you.
If you read the article: "One vulnerability that Santamarta said he found in equipment from all five manufacturers was the use of 'hardcoded' log-in credentials, which are designed to let service technicians access any piece of equipment with the same login and password."

Sounds like he could access the plane's systems from an administrator's perspective. I would watch the Black Hat presentation to be sure.
Yes you can detect contamination in MilliQ by taste. I don’t know the threshold, but I do know that if it has a taste then the water is contaminated enough to ruin your experiments.
Very nice, thanks for posting =).

Can people suggest any additional resources/reading on scraping/crawling as well?

I was hoping to experiment with it in GoLang, but there doesn't seem to be much on crawling/scraping with GoLang, except for GoQuery (https://github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery)
Inviting people to your organization
Yep, it's linear. This is essentially a regression task and the distribution of the factors across the dataset is pretty close to Gaussian in most cases, so it made sense not to have any nonlinearities there.

As a sidenote, if it weren't for the L2-pooling in the global temporal pooling layer, the network would be completely piecewise linear from input to output :)
Devil's Advocate: there is no world wide cabal of wifi hackers trying to steal the Facebook login cookies of starbucks customers. The lack of security is real, but the dangers are overblown.
This article has depressingly little about how Microsoft went about changing the culture from a waterfall to agile mindset. The article is also pretty rosy; I'd expect a little more bumps on the way.
I'm completely with you on that one. Death stares at people having "meetings" without meeting rooms doesn't seem to help either.
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Per the article, the people drinking it were more often than not poor (as the rich could afford "the good stuff").

But they weren't purchasing denatured alcohol knowingly, they were buying booze from people who were selling them "alcohol".

Your compassion is awe inspiring.

Edit: your username is very appropriate.
My immediate thought was that they'd show up with a pool table on a truck. I think that would fit in perfectly with their other promotions.
Suppose you're driving a car and have a crash, and the car detects that you weren't wearing a seat belt. Instead of deploying the air bag, swords and knives shoot out of the dashboard and seat. You were breaking the law, so the car manufacturer and the government can't be blamed. Never mind that the entire point of the law was to protect you, you were breaking the damn law.
Sorry - I was probably messing with the site while you visited.
That's simple, they just won't, browsers will only support HTTP/2 over TLS, so proxies are effectively dead.
And with an "actually open CPU," how does one verify that the silicon in the final package is actually what's in the design and that no "closed and secret designs" have been added by the fabricator?
Loving the url for Shubert v. Obama:
https://www.eff.org/cases/shubert-v-bush
The latter is so important, I'll risk a vapid comment just to second this. To echo the sentiment of a commenter below, you don't realize how miserable a mixed open office is until you are trying to do work with a standup happening 2 feet away from your head.

(Disclaimer; Microsoft employee without a personal office, quite jealous of those with.)
I'm too. I'm upset that my phone behaves as a phone when I'm driving, and late at night. It doesn't need to (and it can ask me the important numbers that can call me at night).
This is now called opportunistic encryption: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-http2-encryption...
Well, we do a lot of work outside of what our commits show, but that sort of thing would be useful to at least form an estimate. But if you are in the position of the employee claiming that you worked say 50 hours a week for two years, it is the company's responsibility to have your hours accounted for over that whole period. Practically they cannot produce that kind of information and your assertion will probably stand.
People have talked about Uber as a way to reduce pollution and wasteful driving, and the limits of Uber's ability to do so since it still needs to address peak usage.

If they make this work, the Uber could turn out to be a huge environmental boon, reducing both the number of cards manufactured as well as fuel and road usage.

Hope it works...
I completely agree, but what of the trouble of getting certificates? I have a hard time figuring out who to trust - the cheaper providers seem scammy and the expensive ones seem to be charging a lot. Self signed certs issue a big fat warning that deters users.
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Wait, what!? One of my favorite online health info sources just yesterday headlined "FDA Reverses Its Position on Daily Aspirin" http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/08/0... which says only certain ppl may benefit from regular aspirin. The data do not support the use of aspirin as a preventive medication ...
I really don't think the "pre-filter collection" question can be as non-ambiguously answered as you claim.

If the gov't had a guy at the post office collecting specific people's mail, would the fact that he's looking at the address on all the mail be considered a search?

Even if on a technical level at one point all traffic is on RAM on some machine of the NSA, if they're not actually keeping it or looking at it in any real sense (beyond specific meta-data stuff that isn't stored), then I find it hard to consider that equivalent to actually storing the trafic.

The argument that they could easily switch it to do wholesale collection is pretty irrelevant in the courts.
+1, I wonder if all reasonable immutable architectures share the same design foundations. Another example is datomic which if you squint only a little bit, is basically the same thing as CQRS/ES in shrink wrap
I disagree with the common goal idea -- even if there is a common goal, there are often very different tasks. And there are still countless distractions from noise, etc...
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That book is fantastic. I came here to recommend it.
Health benefit? I'll be sure to tell the kids who's mothers drank during pregnancy that their obvious and life crippling birth defects that nugget of truthiness.

Tell me again how much alcohol stimulates GDP and promotes health in our emergency rooms? To the tune of negative 120 billion annually and overloaded emergency rooms treating throngs of out of work alcoholics needing treatment for alcohol related problems?

Health benefits. Yeah right. Sure you get a dollar, but you lose 1000. Look at the big picture.
The person adding poison with the intent of killing people is responsible for the people he kills.
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That's how I feel about it too. When the author dies, so should the copyright. There is no valid reason for copyrights to last as long as they do; corporate greed aside.
I appreciate the work you do!
It is not just science journalism it is all journalism. In my experience the most accurate reporting is in science.

Outside of science any reporting that I have had any personal knowledge of has been so distorted that I wonder if journalists and I inhabit different universes.
That's a really cool idea. I'm always commenting my code with reference strings because format strings are so unreadable.
Ride-sharing that can actually work!
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Does anyone else find it unethical the way that Stellar has forked the Ripple code with nothing but rebranding / cosmetic changes, and gives no credit or acknowledgement to the devs that have done all the work?

https://github.com/stellar/stellard/graphs/contributors
Why the fuck is it any of their business what I do in my free time?
When I presented TorCoin at HOTPETS 2014 (the workshop portion of "privacy enhancing technology conference) last month, I was lucky enough to listen to William Binney speak to us for an hour about the NSA bulk data gathering. Although I have my doubts as to his legitimacy as a whistleblower (wouldn't surprise me if he was an NSA shill, just like it wouldn't surprise me if Snowden was too), he gave an incredible talk, and accused the NSA of some pretty egregious civil rights violations.

I can't find his talk online, so I'll just attempt to summarize one of his points. Basically, he said that in 2000-2001, he had developed SIGINT algorithms for selectively monitoring communications of the "bad guys", within some low n-degrees of separation. He also put in protections to make sure that the identities of all targets were encrypted, until proper legal process allowed the NSA to decrypt them (I was unclear who held the keys). He said that his superiors happily implemented his solution, but stripped it of all selective monitoring logic and identity encryption. That was the event that caused him to decide to become a whistleblower.

(He also ridiculed the NSA's defense that it's too hard to separate domestic communications from foreign ones, since, after all, the IP addresses and phone numbers can be disambiguated by simply looking at the first couple digits.)

So, in short, according to William Binney, the NSA is absolutely engaging in non-targeted, bulk data collection.
Or Apple/Aldus/Adobe for that matter.

"Nerds" got them because at the time computers could only do the things nerds wanted them to.
There's some weird styling going on in the "Mobile Number" input box: http://i.imgur.com/bSG9eKx.png
I've been following this case for a while and I love this, especially the part where they have to pay the plaintiff's legal fees. The Doyle Estate fabricated a line of reasoning that is clearly not part of copyright law.
The amount of time it takes to complete work for a commit is highly variable. I've had commits take a few minutes up to a day's worth of work when debugging something complex. A simple mean time per commit seems like a poor metric.
You sir, hit the nail on the head.

So many people focus on open vs private offices and miss the whole point of which one is better for when.

Realistically, getting the choice seems to be more encouraging.

I'm, unfortunately, at an open office as a cost savings measure type place and without headphones I would get absolutely _nothing_ done.
My compassion is earned by the victim at hand, not given away by individuals who like to appropriate other men's resources such as yourself.
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For this to work we need free certificates. Many still keep referring to StartSSL, but there you just pay double later on in revocation fees. https://www.startssl.com/?app=43
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Well this is no big deal, I'll just vote for a guy in the next election who will dismantle this system... oh wait.
The per mile rate on UberX is lower, but yes that is a tough time for anything that's not booked ahead of time. The way home could work though, it's easy to get picked up at the airport.

I bet Uber gets there though, I could see advanced booking being added before long.
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