skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm don't have a ton of expertise in the area, but I chat sometimes with people who do, so take this as a reasonably informed but lay opinion.

By and large, most uses of machine learning don't get much value from better machine learning in the sense that, given finite time and resources, you'll probably get better results on your problem by spending time on feature engineering instead of on machine learning improvements.

Some of the new deep learning techniques though have achieved good results on a large variety of problems in more of a "just plug it in" sense. My favorite example of this is this paper: http://machinelearning.wustl.edu/mlpapers/paper_files/ICML20... , which handles both sentence parsing and scene decomposition. They get competitive results on wide-ranging problem domains which have traditionally required lots of fine-tuning to do well on.

So the hope is that deep neural networks will provide improvements in the same way that SVMs did 20 years ago; that people will be able to just dump numbers into a more or less black box algorithm and get better results than they currently do. And indeed, I'm guessing people were as excited about SVMs in the 90s they are about deep neural networks today.
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Why would I need consent to study the global link rot rate? Publishing it reveals no information about users, either individually or in the aggregate.

I've made an effort to let anyone who wants to opt out of the research, because I know people can have strong feelings about privacy.

I agree with you that publishing an 'anonymized' dataset would be a violation of privacy guarantees. I wouldn't even do it for public bookmarks.
The way the comment is written makes it sound serious. If it's not serious then who cares?
1. If I wanted a customizable IRC client for developers, I'd use ERC in Emacs. Note: I still haven't figured out how to prefer it over XChat. I think that's what I'll be doing tonight.

2. Part of the justification for the client seems to be "People are charging for this, just get it for free!!!" That's terrible logic. Professionals pay for their tools if the best tool for the job is commercial.
The advantage of deep learning is that you don't have to engineer features. It does the feature extraction for you, which saves engineers months of work.
What i love about Go from a user of some of the open source apps like Gogs, is that its so easy to get the application running.

A single binary with zero dependancies is so awesome. With a ruby on rails app I need to worry about ruby version, ruby implementation, gem versions, compilation of C based gems, etc etc. With Go i simply copy up the binary and run it.
That's what I disagree with. There is no need to feed such stereotypes.
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interesting you say that. there are times that vim/grep works better for me, but I've found jet brains tools phpstorm and intellij) really are more productive for more most of the time. depends on how complex the code is, I think.
>We wrote our own scary Python code, tapping into various functions in the Moman package, to auto-generate unreadable Java code

Hnggg

If I wrote this code, I don't think I could ever convince myself I did it correctly.
Not sure about that. In my experience in NY (in the engineering circles) people are about the second, not about the first. May be I just was lucky to know the right people.
Erc is quite good. I've never bothered installing irssi or weechat for my sporadic visits to OS freenode channels.

Perhaps some IRC users can pop up and illustrate us a bit about their client of choice.
"If this was such a beneficial mutation, why isn’t it more common?"

Based on natural selection it would only necessarily be more common if it affected reproduction. It may begin to affect reproduction now that people are sleeping less and those that don't cope well (like those that don't have the gene) may die before they reproduce; but until recently when sleep deprivation has become a larger issue, I doubt it ever affected reproduction enough for natural selection to do its job.
For flipping channels, but not for searching for content (Netflix). It's maddening to search with a conventional remote.
Needing a special editor is probably an insurmountable problem. There's a reason why textual representation of source code is so convenient.

Also, there must be a better example than quotes and strings for this "visual" representation to make sense. There is nothing hard about either reading or typing them. It's not even a particularly nerdy concept; readers and writers everywhere know how to handle quotes.

Quotes are already visual by the way. They simply aren't color-based. Which probably makes colorblind readers glad.
> If it's not serious then who cares?

I care when a mosquito bites me. I also care when people pollute the blockchain.
"Private" means "private," not "private unless Maciej wants to study them."

I didn't get an email saying "There's a chance I might select your private bookmarks and examine them." A blog post doesn't count when you're messing with people's private data. Certainly it should be opt-in, and not opt-out?

You're doing this for a noble purpose, but for what it's worth, this is the first time my trust in you has ever felt violated.

People have entrusted you with years worth of private data, and you just asked, "Why should I ask permission to study their private links?"

Actually, as far as I can tell, your comment seems to implicitly assume that you already have consent to examine all private links, and that asking consent would only be necessary if you were planning on publishing something that might reveal some of their private links. Isn't that the opposite of privacy?
Sorry for being unclear; this is the comparison I was trying to draw. The new techniques look like "magic" the way SVMs did when they first became popular. It triggers excitement the way it did when people realized that they could get near state of the art performance on the MNIST digits just by dumping raw pixel values into an SVM.
Perfect.

Why?

If effects from causes occurred immediately, versus with a distinct delay, everything would occur at once (or loop forever, that's a bug).

Hence, because we can observe that things happen "in sequence", there is a "propagation delay". That's what time is: "Time: the process whereby effects occur after causes, in a step by step manner".
Physics is a dangerous thing.
If you are seeing past life of eastern countries (India or china ...etc) only through economic point of view, you will never get proper understanding. Infact, outside colonial Europe and America, money/economics was/is not the only pursuit.

1. Almost all colonial powers in the west fought across the world primarily for territory, gold, resources, spices ...etc. This pursuit of selfish economic interests at the expense of rest of the world, environment is still we see in the world. Amount of loot/destruction from East to support Britain is just gigantic even during world wars.

2. Wealth, GDP might be there in the past Eastern world but that was by product/side effect of something else. No one really pushed for efficieny/productivity just like we see now in the west. It was individual interest to earn but not enforced one as if whole world is in a race and we will fall behind if we do not compete ...etc. You won't see such insecurity/paranoid in the past Eastern world. Selfish economic pursuit was never a primary/sole criterion for past India at state level. Yes, there were rules/laws for finances (e.g: Artha Sastra ...etc) but that is part of bigger picture just enough to maintain state but not main one. Kings of India before Mughals/British fought too among themselves but not for resources/money/territory. Dominating world/make a dent on the universe/earth ...etc was never part of eastern thinking even when East was financially strong. Concepts like Yoga/Kama Sutra ...etc emerged which are not at all connected to Finance/economy.

So do not look at just financial parts to understand whole. You will miss many subtle/nuanced/implicit points and your understanding may not be correct/complete.

Note: Please do not downvote if you disagree. There may be several implicit facts which you may not aware because of cultural difference.
BOTH of those are available on the Chromecast Netflix, Youtube, and Plex apps.
I think this is aimed to compete with IRCcloud solution, which cost around $5/month/user. IRCcloud features private IRC server, bouncer, and gist/picture/etc viewer in its (web-based) client. This is why the front page is very confusing, as right now this Komanda (probably) is client-only.
> With a ZNC bounce, a simple ircd server and 5 minutes you can avoid paying for communication and keep your company chat logs secure and on your own infrastructure.

Having watched a coworker spend a solid week getting our company's ircd setup (and this was our VP of Engineering, mind you), I've gotta call BS here. Also, until I started using irccloud[1] a few months ago, I was using ZNC, and that's no walk in the park either.

[1] https://www.irccloud.com/
Not stealth. Far to many flat 90/45* surfaces and corners. Nobody with any understanding of radar was involved in the design of that thing.

Not supercavitating. Supercavitation is based on cavitation, not sucking down air from the surface. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercavitation. And the amount of energy needed to create a supercavitation void around those hulls ... The Shkval is essentially an underwater rocket and it still uses exhaust gases to top up the bubble in which it flies (see the little holes near the nose) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VA-111_Shkval.

Not a hydrofoil. No foils. It looks to be a SWATH hull (Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull) another great Canadian invention. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-waterplane-area_twin_hull

Who did this guy know at Businessweek to get this sales pitched turned into an "article"?
The article doesn't mention the huge number of unbranded/clone/not-well-known Android phones/tablets from China, which basically won't get any version newer than the one it came with (unless unofficial ROMs come out).

I have one myself, it's running a 4.2.x (rooted) and does what I need it to, so I'm not really concerned. It probably doesn't affect the average user all that much either.
Pygal has been ported to Javascript[1] and can be embedded in arbitrary web pages. I don't know quite what to make of that. Though the implementation in trinket.io[2] is pretty cool

[1] https://github.com/trinketapp/pygal.js/

[2] https://trinket.io/charts
Also see ekranoplanes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_vehicle

(And hydrofoils, I was very excited by hydrofoils when I was a kid)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrofoil
I assume any recruiter who add me in LinkedIn just don't know anything about me. They are just trying to get my attention to fill some programming job, probably not related with anything I really know.

If they really want to work with me, It is easy to find my contacts.

Some recruiters send me emails and I answer nicely. If they sent me a good position (matching my skills), I even congratulate them for the effort. This is rare.
Thanks, a very interesting read.

> New York tells you, above all: you should make more money.

That's very true, but ironically not in the sense that the author meant it. New York is just annoyingly expensive city in the real estate sense. So living in New York directly tells you "you need more money to pay your rent / pay off your mortgage, etc".
It took me 1 hour to get ircd-hybrid a few weeks ago, having never done it before, I can only assume your coworker installed a lot more than I did?
Why don't they want it anyway?
If you ever found yourself digging into wikipedia's links infinitely
This one might be for you.

It's far stretch, but I'm trying to make learning faster and more focused than switching from tab to tab, or app to app.

Throw feedbacks at me, good or bad.
Now do it the other way around.
Agree, ZNC is a crappy experience. The targeting seems wrong here -- if you wanted to pick one feature that developers need that casual IRC users don't, it's the ability to stay connected 24/7, because otherwise the chance of actually being online at the same time as someone who wants to talk about their project is low.

So I'd question the point of building a native client, given ZNC's shortcomings. What's so special about this client that you couldn't just run it as a web service using Node, rather than only making it available as a fat node-webkit client?
I admit to being confused by the multitude of Markdown GUI apps. In my experience, the greatest feature of Markdown is that I can write in the text editor of my choosing and not need a special app / live preview / fancy tools because writing and formatting Markdown is smooth and natural.

Am I missing some great feature that having a dedicated app provides?
I assume the the people choosing the methods of communication for startups are capable of learning to use irssi or weechat, but both of those clients take quite a bit time to learn and require significant amounts of customization to make them truly comfortable. It isn't a good business decision to require your teams to learn to use these tools.

Is IRC an acceptable medium for a company? Maybe it can be. Is it wise? Not with tools like irssi.
and are accessed using a special browser called "Tor"

Tor is a browser now?
iOS has AirPlay which is Apple's implementation of a Chromecast style local streaming service. I use it with an Apple TV myself.
For me, forcing 1080i output would have been fantastic. My TV advertises 1080p support but for complicated reasons, does not support it.
Wood or other biomass-fueled fires are CO2-neutral, but do cause particulate pollution. There have been a number of efforts to develop clean-burning wood stoves for developing countries to combat that problem.
Thanks for your words, we really appreciate!
> Having watched a coworker spend a solid week getting our company's ircd setup (and this was our VP of Engineering, mind you), I've gotta call BS here.

I've gotta call BS on your story. Unless he was learning Unix from scratch, it shouldn't take more than a couple hours to setup an ircd.
Golly, there's a gene for everything!
Phones are so much better than e.g. the Roku remote with on-screen keyboard and d-pad.
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I agree, that is one of my most favorite aspects of Go.

go get -u github.com/go/project

If you're writing native Go code, it doesn't matter if there's 0 or 1000+ dependencies, that one command will take care of everything. So there's no need to fear having extra dependencies, and you are welcome to reuse more code.

Go takes the common parts of writing software and abstracts them away. Take any two distinct Go projects, and the only difference will be:

- Import Path

- Actual Code

Everything else works exactly the same no matter what project it is (assuming it follows idiomatic Go package conventions). Docs via godoc.org, standard testing, go vet, http://go-lint.appspot.com/, http://gocover.io/

No need to figure out how to install that particular project/library, how to get docs, how to run tests, etc.
Every so often, I sit down and begin making something like this. Then I get distracted and I forget about it for a while. This is really awesome!
I keep an IRC client (Colloquy for OSX) open everyday when I get home from work. However, it crashes a few times a day and I think it's about time to switch. Is this a suitable replacement for Colloquy? Any recommendations on a better IRC client to use, web-based or OSX, are much appreciated. Thanks!
Funnily, it's also why I sort of like Java web apps. Deploying a JAR or a WAR as a single file is pretty great.
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Holy living God.

Solves my problem, then some. Also provides an alternative to search engines as the goto for internet browsing. Brilliant stuff. I can't tell you how grateful I am for your work on this.

The only thing left is FLOSS version control for sound and video editing, and an effective "publish to BitTorrent" feature, and then we can pretty much put this "Web 2.0" crap to bed.

EDIT: Out of curiosity, is there any reason that analytics couldn't be done with a dedicated PC, or do you think it requires server hardware to run effectively?
I can only assume your coworker had quite an elaborate setup, as most ircds (e.g., ircu, charybdis, ircd-hybrid) take an hour, tops, to configure and get running.
It also reminds me of this Canadian invention: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Bras_d'Or_(FHE_400)
Agreed. Gitlab is awesome but very painful to setup
Can't you say the same about any interpreted / JITted language?
A big part of the appeal for IRC to me is the not so low barrier to entry with tools like irrsi
Indeed. Gitlab is a similar software that I absolutely love, but the setup process is quite lengthy (though straightforward) and updating to new versions can be a considerable effort. I'll definitely be giving this a try, especially since the design is of a similar quality to gitlab.
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Should the review call for demilitarization of police forces, it will be interesting to see how the federal government will actually go about getting the stuff back.

I would imagine it would go about as well as the US army's current attempts to get the 200 Apache helicopters back off the various state national guards.
I use Premier Protein shakes, 30g/shake. I'll say this: when I eat like crap, this much protein is really tough. I was a bad-air machine, bathroom trips all day long, to put it nicely. Once I went to the slow carb diet and basically cut out carbs/sugar, it was very doable to have 3-4 shakes per day.
I disagree somewhat, in my opinion is rather more difficult to use. However, deep learning can solve problems that where previously insolvable. It's a step toward "real" artificial intelligence.
The so-called "North Hollywood Shootout" in 1997 was a big instigator of this. Two heavily armed bank robbers were able to hold off the LAPD by virtue of superior weapons and body armor.

There was a big public outcry and support for giving police the "tools they needed" to be able to take on the better-armed criminals, gangs, and drug dealers.

So now that the police have become essentially local armies in many jurisdictions, people think they have gone too far.

What troubles me most is that neither Obama nor most legislators in congress have the first clue or any experience in law enforcement. So anything that happens is going to be driven by political concerns, not what makes the most sense for effective and appropriate law enforcement.
Ya, but that ship was an actual hydrofoil. The foils act like wings to generate lift from movement. The thing in the OP uses movable pontoons, buoyancy, to haul itself up regardless of speed.

Note also that real hydrofoils angle their foils in parallel to the hull. It's essentially a dihedral effect like that of an airplane. As the ship lists one way, the foil on the downward side pushes more directly upwards, righting the ship. The 'foils' on the OP are mounted in the opposite manner, generating opposite effect. If they generated any actual lift the ship would flip instantly.
Throw in some watertight sealing plastic bags and they could have sous vide as well. ;)
Which is wonderful if you're an old hat who enjoys having new people get frustrated and leave before they have a chance to contribute to the ecosystem.
This is also one of its major drawbacks, though, because the features it "discovers" are often not easily interpretable. Sure, you can get good classification performance, which is sometimes good enough.

I work with a lot of scientists, though, who don't just want performance, but insight. This is where neural networks and related techniques still fall short compared to more "traditional" methods.
Keep in mind that this is in somewhat of a beta stage, so we still have a lot of work to do. We'd definitely love some feedback.
I use Textual, well worth the $5 it costs.
Thanks for your work on Gogs! looks forward to seeing it grow. Would love to help out on the front end - let me know if you are needing any contributors.
Did not know about that - intersting information.
How is it that these drugs make it through international mail? Doesn't the US government have ways to detect drugs that are shipped in this manner?
Hrm ... there has got to be a better format for soliciting edits. Github, Google Doc, ???
macirssi is popular if you want a client with a GUI.
I'd have to agree. The more "solid" tweets we can find, the more feasible something like automated tweeting will be. Refining our filters will be our focus - we've mostly got data collection down, I think.
Politicians often don't have a clue about many subjects, but that's not necessarily too bad a thing.

Politicians should be generalists not specialists. What they should do is surround themselves with experts is specific fields, and consider the advice they give.

Unfortunately, in many nations the politicians more frequently listen to the distorted scare and panic the media has created that week and base their policies on that instead.
It's no coincidence that the leading browser (Chrome) is produced by the world's largest advertising network (Google).

And so you ask, why isn't cross-browser cookies disabled by default? Well... why would a company do something to their free product that reduces the amount of revenue that they earn on their other products.
Agreed, this seems like a case of excessive complexity. I hadn't even heard of "two-way" before, but I don't think an algorithm the paper claims to be "remarkably simple" should require twenty-five pages to describe.

"two-way" isn't all that fast either, so I don't see any good reason for its use; in the benchmarks I could find, the simpler BMH easily beats it (and optimised BMH variants go even faster):
http://volnitsky.com/project/str_search/benchmark-4.5.1.png
http://blog.phusion.nl/2010/12/06/efficient-substring-search...
http://hirzels.com/martin/papers/ecoop14-activesheets.pdf - direct link to the paper
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You mean like `bundle install` or `pip install -r requirements.txt` or `npm install package.json`? I mean, it's great that Go has something similar, but it's not like other languages are missing dependency managment...
Which was based on the real Sea Shadow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Shadow_%28IX-529%29
A fake USB thumbdrive that uploads the victim's Document folder to S3
Very handsome! Looking forward to using this as my default client.
One huge thing plain text representation has going for it is the diversity of text editors, and the fact they can be trivially swapped. In my opinion, "visual" source code representations will also be a dead-end if it means propietary, mutually incompatible IDEs.
Obama nor most legislators in congress have the first clue or any experience in law enforcement

He was a practicing civil rights attorney, taught constitutional law and was president of Harvard Law Review.

You may not like him, but to say that someone who has that level of professional legal experience doesn't have any experience in law enforcement, would seem ridiculous.
If a "developer" can't handle punch cards and paper tape, then I have bad news for him.
This!

I got lot's of these things from portable usb batteries.
That is a really cool project, and seems to be much easier to set up as any of the competitors (I'm looking at you, gitlab).