skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I guess that's a bit cruel. (note: I think of addiction as a mental illness as well).

Mental illness can be brutal to both the person suffering from it, and everybody around them. It affects families in ways that no other illness does, and I think that despite advocacy attempts to align our thinking of it as "just another disease like any other" it's fundamentally a different thing.

I have a pair of cousins, from my Mother's side. Their father was career military, good solid guy and all that. The oldest cousin lives in a bottle, the younger one went to school, got married, has had good jobs, lives otherwise really well.

Another group of 3 cousins, father worked blue collar jobs, has a mild drinking problem but otherwise supported his family well enough:

- one accidentally got pregnant, turns out the father was violently abusive, after sending her to the hospital she got out of the relationship, works decent blue collar jobs and supports herself and her daughter just fine. She looked like a failure case, but I'd call her a success case these days.

- next oldest lives in a bottle or with a needle in his arms. He's "trying" to go to school, but it's pretty inconsistent. Spend most of his waking hours partying or looking for parties. Is it middle child syndrome? I dunno.

- the youngest has a skills based job, does relatively well, parties a little, but not too much, is otherwise a productive member of society.

So I'm not entirely convinced it's nature or nurture. There's definitely some kind of genetic factor at play, and some kind of environmental factor.

The real question is, can you take somebody who could objectively be described as a failure at life and train them/educate them/psychotherapy them into changing their decision tree to seek success instead of immediate gratification?

Can we treat "broken decision making process for life choices" as a mental illness?

I don't think anybody knows.
If your GC is triggered after the allocated memory increases by X% (which is fairly common), then this technique is effective, since it lowers allocation rate.

Also, Go doesn't scan arrays that are marked as containing no pointers, so representing an index as a massive array of values has proven quite effective for me.
Is It Game Over For Zynga? Stock plummets ~13% after weak Q2 Earnings
Out of the box, requests on Python2.7 doesn't support SNI.

It is documented, and all you have to do is install additional packages to enable it, but still, that's not automatic.
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Does your SaaS startup have product/market fit? (survey)
Having ES with MongoDB seems like an interesting evolution. The data tier has been moving to a world where there are multiple data storage technologies available, a cache, search, etc. In the future, you can envision tools that create data models off of all that data, abstracting the complexity for the developer.

Hopefully we are seeing the beginning of the creation of a full data stack on the cloud.

Does anybody have experience with their service? It appears to be a serious contender, but I don't have direct experience with them.

Should we expect a Memcached in the future?
> a shared hosting is sufficient with costs of maybe around 100 USD/year

Galopping gargoyles, where do you host that shared costs you $100? A small VPS costs half.
Is it just me or is the website text in some Serif font? I have AdBlock Plus and EFF's Privacy Badger enabled on Firefox.
Sorry to judge too quickly. I'm sure if you suffer from real migraines you know what I mean about people claiming they have a "migraine" which turns out to be just a headache.

I can say for certain what you describe never worked for me but good for you if you found something.
> How do you tell your kid to work hard so they can be anything they want to be, when you your own circumstances belie that assertion?

I suspect that the scope of possibilities they're aware of, things that they can be if they work hard, is simply different.
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I'm a self-learner. As such, I love learning just to know what is possible. As far as technologies go, I am confident that I will be able to learn whatever is necessary to get the job done. I consider myself as a generalist and believe that I can work anywhere ranging from developing for the web to developing for time-sensitive embedded hardware. My current interests are as diverse as the design of programming languages to artificial intelligence. To make it short, I really like the challenge of solving difficult problems.

I want to point out my latest project, tealang. It is a programming language inspired by different other languages including Python, Lua, and Objective-C. An interpreter for the language can be found at [1].

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Well you don't go around carrying receipts in my experience except as long as it takes to put them in the box, fire is a legitimate concern I guess, organization benefits are minimal if someone else is doing your books for you. All in all it looks like a solution in search of a problem but I guess time will tell.
HTTPS is relevant to the content because it will ensure that Google's search results direct users to the same content providers seen by Google's web crawlers.
In France Prime offers unlimited next day, and in a few select cities (including Paris) same day/evening delivery for a lot of stuff.

It has been convenient enough to make me order from them things that I usually didn't order online.
How about a little OP love for a great question. All the responses saying liability is a large part of insurance cost are correct, but comprehensive is a non-zero part and your cap in terms of reimbursement does in fact go down over time.

There's possibly also a correlation between new cars and accidents (for the same reason sports cars cost more), though this may be somewhat offset by the probability that injuries probably go down as a function of recency of safety technology.

TL;DR - there are a lot of factors in costing insurance, but at least one of them should go down in direct proportion to time.
I think startups are turning out to be more like outsourced, free-market R&D for the bigcorps. They can sit back, wait and see what potentially disruptive startups are gaining traction in their own market, and then just acqui-hire them. Disruption isn't a problem when you have the cash to simply buy the disruptors.
Another quite plausible hypothesis is that it was a not-so-elaborate prank, and many of the more elaborate details of the story are actually folklore that has built up over time.

Joe Nickell wrote a rather nice article proposing that idea for Skeptical Inquirer a while back: http://www.csicop.org/si/show/secrets_of_oak_island/
Thanks very much for that feedback! it needs to be in the format of [country code][phone number] for example +1555555555

We'll push through an update that should make this a little better - drop down for country then free text for phone number (that accepts spaces etc)
I think Schneier is seriously discounting the magic document theory as it pertains to the 2nd and possibly 3rd leakers.
from the CSS

font: 100% "museo-sans" sans-serif;
It seems similar to Curdbee (now Hiveage) that I have been using for my (side) freelance work for some time now.
FTA:

>Is your data scientist producing analytics for machines or humans?

This is a really interesting question that I had not considered before. I think it is an important one not only for those hiring, but also for applicants to ask during an interview in order to determine if the position is a good fit.
Memcached is possible, we get more demand for Redis though. Queues too.
Thanks very much, yes it's optional, but validated - very confusing, we'll drop out the hard validation and make it a little more intuitive to enter a number
University of California, Davis Offering 3-Year Accelerated Medical Degrees
Sowing Confusion About Renewable Energy
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8142897
What wasn't said is that Obama considers all the programs Snowden brought to light to be ethical.
If you call your insurance company and ask for a premium reduction they just might give it to you. They are not going to simply volunteer to reduce your premium though.
or, you know, aim to never GC during market open...
Pinhole: a falling ball demo
A gevent based python client for NSQ
Other LLVM decompilation projects:

Dagger, http://dagger.repzret.org (x86)

Fracture, https://github.com/draperlaboratory/fracture (x86, ARM, PPC)

libbeauty, https://github.com/jcdutton/libbeauty (x86)
Former NSA director Keith Alexander patenting computer security techniques
This is interesting. Thanks for sharing this. I wish more startups would share books.
OS X Notifications with VimTips
Nice post. While I abuse caffeine, I manage to limit alcohol to a drink or so every few months.

My completely unscientific take: I feel noticeably grouchier ever since I've started doing this, but the physical benefits have been pronounced in terms of better performance, recovery, and appearance.
Hero is only as biased as history is and the US has written a lot of history. The US government already considers many military personal heroes today.
Swap out huge images with each state highlighted of course. If we get really fancy we can preload these images on body load.
Every time someone mentions Alexa numbers, I pull out this quote (by me):

"Alexa numbers are as accurate as a monkey throwing darts at a board. Having been privy to various website's actual numbers, Alexa numbers aren't even accurate relative to each other. All they measure is the use of your website amongst people who run Windows and are willing to install an Adware toolbar."
> What I don't get is why someone would play an elaborate prank, knowing that they probably won't be around to watch people's faces who try to find the treasure.

Because it's funny. I think you are right, the stone was probably on the surface or the tree, after someone collected the treasure they dropped the stone down there. thinking, wouldn't it be funny if someone dug up the stone and kept digging? Those idiots will waste their time while we spend all this loot on girls and booze!
You don't have to control thought, only public opinion.
I think you're thinking of a Graphics Card, a GPU is comparable in physical dimensions to a CPU.
Could this be prevented by adding some TLS to the mining control channels?
They should connect this to https://sandstorm.io/
His talk was deliciously rant-y.
That map they have in the article is pretty much worthless since it's not weighted by state population. It pretty much resembles a population map.
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>What subfield of physics have you worked in?

Experimental condensed matter physics (free molecular beams). Never met anyone in my research group, or any other research group that anyone in my group collaborated with, who recently (in the past five years) composed a paper in LaTeX. I'm sure my thesis advisor did so when he was in grad school back in the dark ages, but even he uses Word.

> (e.g., on arXiv/quant-ph)

Yes, well, that is where the crackpots tend to like to hang out, isn't it?
Not always. When Wall Street say "iPhone is a x billion dollar business for Apple" they refer to the revenue, not market share. When they say "SAAS is a X billion dollar business" they mean revenue, not the combined market cap of all SAAS companies.

But yes, I think it can be ambiguous.
I am very pessimistic about the likelihood of this being a non-toxic visualization strategy in mice or men. These "microdiamonds" are unlikely to clear the kidneys, leading to kidney toxicity. This is the problem with all ≥ nanoscale molecules, with the exception of very long ones such as nanotubes which can pass longitudinally through the kidney slit diaphragms.

Many a great drug (and visualization agent) has failed because of kidney toxicity.

It's surprising that there are no MDs on the team.
Why would they embed fonts that are standard on Windows? Chances are good you already have the font. And if you don't use Windows, why would they care?
"Whistle blower" also fairly strongly implies that what the government was doing is negative and should be called out, which the media tends to be hesitant to cal out.
I don't know of anyone who publishes in Word (and universities don't publish papers, except for dissertations), but everyone composes papers in Word.
Non-invasive circulating cancer cell (CTC) screening from blood samples seems to have the most promise.

(disclaimer: I run a project in this area)
Compression works by making assumptions about how the data should be. You can't compress random data for example. In the case of images, it usually takes advantage of the fact that pixels nearby each other are very similar. Obviously that isn't true for NN parameters.
Yahoo to begin offering PGP encryption support in Yahoo Mail service
Ask HN: How to succeed with poor working memory as programmer?
I don't think I can hold on to any kind of a job at all. I am very restless in nature. I graduated recently and this is my first job. I can't seem to remember anything. I understand instructions and details at a very slow pace. I am very slow. I can do really hard stuff if it is very very interesting.

What work accommodations should I consider?
If you're looking for Python events in NYC, NYC Python (the same group that's putting on PyGotham) does several free events every week: http://www.meetup.com/nycpython/. If you're looking for something more specific (e.g. Django, data-focused, etc.), there are also several other groups that would fit your needs. Feel free to reach out (email is in my profile); I'd be happy to point you in the right direction to NYC tech events.
Ask any Enom ETP account owner (a top level account that makes a $3000+ deposit, at least that is how much it was back when domains were $6.95).

Your enom account can be manipulated by your ETP owner, unless you are directly under enom (in which case you might be paying $40 for a domain, hence people use ETP parents).
After downloading the torrent for a while I noticed this on my router firewall logs entries

FIREWALL icmp check (1 of 1): Protocol: ICMP Src ip: 79.245.172.75 Dst ip: 82...* Type: Redirect Code: Redirect Datagram for the Host

The IP address that has the asteriks is MY IP address and the other one belongs to Deutsche Telecom. Are they trying to MITM me or what?
Everyone I know is broken hearted
Too bad every single thing the US government does under his administration is ethical as far as he's concerned.
Hi everyone! I'm Ambika, one of the founders of Bikanta and inventors of this technology. I'd love to answer any questions that you may have. Here is also a link to our website: www.bikanta.com

Thanks for the share from PG's article. We are definite believers that it is possible to detect cancer significantly before symptoms begin to appear!
You can do InfiniBand on the desktop, but it necessarily doesn't give the performance you might be expecting. I think I read about this on HN originally...

http://www.davidhunt.ie/infiniband-at-home-10gb-networking-o...

Edit: From the edit on the follow-up post about getting it working on Ubuntu:

>Note: iperf maxed out at 1.2 gbps, and on the current linux install, I couldnt get netperf client working at all. netserver would work, but only showed a throughput of 25mbps from a Win7 client. HOWEVER, when I set up the raid with 6 old 160G drives, the “hdparm -t /dev/md0p1″ showed 250MB/sec reads, and I got the same from the Win7 machine using samba across the infiniband fabric. This seems to indicate that iperf and netperf are completely unreliable for testing this type of connection. Bear in mind though that I did have netperf running on the previous ubuntu install, but that installation was so messy I don’t know what drivers and user-space software was running. I reckon it’s the kind of think that may be fixed in the stock Ubuntu install in the near future. For the moment, just go with real-world testing, i.e. copying large files from ramdisk to ramdisk, for example.
Interesting. I see Times New Roman even after I disable ABP and Privacy Badger.
Nothing revolutionary, but I use this for pretty much all rails apps now and it saves a ton of time. It's delightful to start a project, be doing something meaningful within thirty seconds, and then not waste time later becuase of the corners you cut just to get things moving.
Right now, there's no PyGotham specific mailing list. Joining the NYC Python meetup group (http://www.meetup.com/nycpython/) will definitely ensure that you get all the announcements, though. We'll work on getting a mailing list together for 2015 updates.
FDA intends to start regulating medical laboratory testing
They are easier for the compiler to optimize because the pipelines are simpler... at least that's what I was taught in my compilers class.
Static page performance appears very high.
Yeah, ironically, the US's approach to state secrets (as in fucking everything is a state secret) makes it harder for them to keep things under control.
A weak piece that, more than anything else, serves to highlight the sorry state of journalism in the paid-for media.
This is a really nice set of C# improvements that fit together to solve a big problem. I love it. I do have some minor questions, though!

The simplest improvement that confused me at first is the ability to declare a new inline local to handle an 'out' variable:

int x;
foo(out x)

becomes

foo(int x)

This by itself is a quality-of-life improvement but it enables the really nice extraction of values for pattern matching. I'm happy to see this as a general language feature instead of a hack specific for records. (Was this already introduced in a proposed future C# version, and I missed it?)

The record classes considerably simplify the creation of simple data structures, trees, etc. This alone would kill thousands and thousands of lines of pointless duplicate code in JSIL, so I'm really happy to see it. Are the properties of record class instances read-only? (It's hard to tell from the draft spec. I'd be okay with mutable-by-default with opt-in readonly, but always-readonly would also be okay with me as a simpler design.)

The introduction of an overloaded 'is' operator that accepts user-defined arguments on the right-hand-side. You define the operator on a given type and give it out-parameters (and presumably it can accept value parameters, as well, so you can do more sophisticated matching), and the compiler converts that into a call to the matching function that, if successful, yields values from the match. Really clever way to introduce this - the syntax is slightly confusing, but it avoids introducing new keywords and almost all of this feature follows nicely from existing C# features.

And switch statements are expanded to be able to pattern-match! Lovely! This is a natural improvement given that switch statements are already compile-time sugar for dictionary lookups when you're switch()ing on non-integer values.

It seems like all of this is compile-time sugar that doesn't require any runtime changes. Is that true? If so, what version of the runtime do you think will be the minimum for Roslyn output that uses these features?
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Yeah that makes sense. He does say that he achieved 10% compression efficiency on the models.

"Obviously that isn't true for NN parameters." I have little experience with NN's but I wonder if that's true for deep NN's? Is there any gradual, image-like change in parameters in deep learning models?
Don't see how this pays off. Hard to imagine nanodiamonds being added to someone's body if there is not an unusual risk. If there is an unusual risk it's worth doing blood and tissue work. What scenario am I missing?
If President Obama really believes that, where is Snowden's pardon?
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Anyone here can test nilved's claim easily enough. Just visit Hacker News using Tor or a VPN, since the site uses Cloudflare.

Side note: Your announcement is really exciting.
I'm really glad that you found it interesting! Thanks for taking a look.
You answered the question I was going to ask.

No firefox plugin for a while, thats a shame but I like what you did anyway :).
'hero' also panders to the black-and-white worldview that's popular in US politics. You're either a hero or a villain; for us or against us; if you're not one of us, you're one of them. It doesn't leave space for complex personalities or events.

At Ruxcon last year, the panelists were asked "Is Snowden a hero or a villain?". One panelist quite rightly responded "Who cares?" - that the story shouldn't be about Snowden, but about what was revealed. The more focus put on Snowden, the less mindspace there is for the revelations.
I'll settle for Manning being pardoned, Snowden is in relative paradise in comparison.
Yann LeCun (neural net pioneer and Facebook AI head) has a somewhat-skeptical post about this chip: https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10152184295832143. His essential points:

1. Building special-purpose hardware for neural nets is a good idea and potentially very useful.

2. The architecture implement by this IBM chip, spike-and-fire, is not the architecture used by the state-of-the-art convolutional networks, engineered by Alex Krizhevsky and others, that have recently been smashing computer vision benchmarks. Those networks allow for neuron outputs to assume continuous values, not just binary on-or-off.

3. It would be possible, though more expensive, to implement a state-of-the-art convnet in hardware similar to what IBM has done here.

Of course, just because no one has shown state-of-the-art results with spike-and-fire neurons doesn't mean that it's impossible! Real biological neurons are spike-and-fire, though this doesn't mean the behavior of a computational spike-and-fire 'neuron' is a reasonable approximation to that of a biological neuron. And even if spike-and-fire networks are definitely worse, maybe there are applications in which the power/budget/required accuracy tradeoffs favor a hardware spike-and-fire network over a continuous convnet. But it would be nice for IBM to provide benchmarks of their system on standard vision tasks, e.g., ImageNet, to clarify what those tradeoffs are.
I dismissed this article quickly and summarily! Adverbs are important and their loss in everyday speech (where I often notice it) is annoying.
They check your passport, and they know if holders of passport from country X need a visa for country Y.

I've traveled quite a lot, and I'm always asked if I have authorization to enter the country I'm flying to.
That says most nothing. The brain uses various forms of neural networks of whose data processing we know relatively little. The IBM chip is at best somehow 'inspired' by the brain. It's far from working like it.
The fewer you memorise, the faster you remember. So the trick is to leverage abstraction and memory by association.

Abstraction helps you to reduce the amount of things to remember, and association creates clusters of related topics.
Do you intend to use your probes for in vivo imaging, or for histological study of tissue biopsies?
You have asked the browser to connect insecurely over plain HTTP
... and it still loads faster than most of the web today.