skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Cut your food intake in half. Your body responds by cutting your body temperature by 3 degrees, cutting your immune system budget by 75%, and increasing your appetite by 300%.

You actually believe this, huh?
Why the Google car will be the Apple Newton of autos – if it even happens
Working remote, 8 months in (seeing humans is important)
Dr. O'Connor teaches my NLP class. His work is revolutionary.
In most parts of the US a sweet potato with soft orange insides is correctly called a "Yam" to differentiate it from the sweet potatoes with firm yellow insides.

Either name isn't great; it's neither closely related to the african yam, nor the common potato.
It's not like they're coming up with their own encryption algorithms. The original parts are things that haven't been done before. Roll-your-own is the only option.

It's worth noting maybe that Ralph Merkle is on the team. http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/25269r/dr_ralph_mer...

The only thing you need oracles for is getting information from the outside world. I can think of plenty of applications that don't require that. But even then you don't really need oracles if you use the Schelling mechanism they've been talking about.
Having used DuoMobile, very quickly looked at Authy and heard about Google Authenticator from colleagues, I'm pretty happy to have found http://cooperrs.de/otpauth.html.

It does one thing, and does it well. It doesn't keep trying to get me to use a service where I hand over all my 2FA secrets to some company, and whats more the developer responds pretty quickly when there are support issues (e.g. some QR codes are weird sizes and there was a trick pre-iOS8 to make them scan) or even bugs.
Are you kidding me. If this story was true, this startup was way beyond just unprofessional.
This is exactly why I went for couchbase and decided to avoid firebase.
Media Markt and Saturn are two businesses that I'd expect would take credit cards but they don't. Many restaurants (where you can spend more than €10 if you are more than one person, even here in Berlin) only accept cash. Most of the cheap Supermarkets don't take credit cards but will take EC (debit) cards, which I don't think Number26 offers - judging by going through their website. Nevertheless less, I applied for an invitation.

I don't know anything about the banking system in the US, but having moved to Germany from Britain four years ago, I thought the German system is archaic. When I moved, many online retailers wouldn't take credit cards or PayPal but you would have to transfer money to them from your account. Most everyone I know carry around large amounts of cash because if you are stuck without it, you will have to look for a cash machine that won't charge you. You can get cards that allow you to withdraw money without fees, I have one, but those are still rare.
When I landed on staply.co, I did not know what the site about so was not immediately able to understand the description on first page. "A better way to share
files and links ....", I personally liked the sentence on the second page, "Instead of email and shared folders use Staply when you want to share files and find them later. ".
> I find the title to be linkbaity and misleading (quite disappointing for decorated computer scientists like Hopcroft and Kannan).
>
> Based on the table of contents, a more accurate title would be "Modern Foundations of Theoretical Computer Science with an Eye Towards Machine Learning", and even that is given a disproportionately large weight on machine learning.

What? That's the title of the book. And it's not linkbaity at all. Linkbaity would be something like, "Two decorated computer scientists just wrote a book about data science, and you'll never guess what's in it!". Or, "419 things you didn't know about data science."

Changing the title of the post doesn't change the title of the book.
This is one of the ancestors of CLOS. Some CLOS implemenations are descendants of PCL ("Portable CommonLoops") source code.

E.g. see the 1980's Xerox copyright notices in this SBCL source file:

https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/blob/master/src/pcl/wrapper.lis...
Thanks a bunch, great stuff.
Get him an Emotiv Headset http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs2GDSYYCoA
The Benevolence of Microsoft (how to annoy a scammer)
No I actually follow spaceX and understand the political reasons. I meant, how did spaceX receive the largest contract ever, then 2 lines later, it says Boeing received a larger contract.
Consciousness is bandwidth constrained. Subconscious is very lite computationally. In the context of scarce resources, it's better to have a calculation from the subconscious rather than to wait in line for a week to use the mainframe.
You should give some information before asking us to sign up
Immediately followed by:

"All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to ... disability ..."

I have concluded that much of the 500 million is going to employment lawyers.
Right. Sorry I meant how could spaceX have the largest contract, then 2 lines later, it says Boeing gets nearly twice as much. The author did some linguistic gymnastics to make Boeing sound like it was in fact, undercutting SpaceX. I felt the need to clarify it in my above post because of how obtuse that language was.
Aw. Chumby brings back memories. I still have my original Chumby in a box somewhere and it always makes me feel nostalgic.
Bitwage’s Comments on BitLicense: A Payroll Perspective
The Raspberry Pi is a developer board which brings out the pins of an ARM chip designed for use in low-end tablets. If you want a tablet using the same chip, you can easily buy one. The price point on Alibaba is about $30-$50. Even on
Amazon you can get one for $50.
Well I guess I'm sitting pretty then, at the ripe old age of 41. Funny, I don't feel very perfect, but whatever.

All joking aside, I will say this: There's no question in my mind that I'm far more capable now, than I was at 20, in a great many ways. Maybe our brains do slow down as we age, but that's counterbalanced by sheer accumulation of wisdom and experience. I might have been "smarter" at 20, but I'm far more knowledgeable and effective now.

That said, I wouldn't mind having my 20 year old body back. :-)
The video on farmpd.com is very interesting and different then every article is showing.
>build a browser plugin that automatically clicks on all ads in all pages that I visit.

>I really don't want to use an ad blocker, because I want to support content producers who rely on ads (like youtubers ....).

You would be hurting the publishers with these. I work in ad ops, and if there's enough fraudulent clicks I simply place a publisher on a blacklist.
I agree, just doesn't fit the projects I wish to use it for.
To clarify the pronoun:

> NASA said it would pay SpaceX SpaceX's largest single contract ever, $2.6 billion
NASA said it would pay SpaceX >>its<< largest single contract ever

the "its" here refers SpaceX, so largest contract of SpaceX, not largest contract of NASA.

could be considered a vague pronoun reference: http://www.towson.edu/ows/modulepro.htm
I believe the first sentence is talking about SpaceX's "largest single contract" not NASA's largest contract.
Scientific Reasons Behind Hindu Traditions
> That's a pretty big risk to take as a startup that fully depends on Firebase for their data storage.

Er, versus fully depending on a startup that could run out of money or be acquired at any time?
That does not answer the question. Postgresql is faster than mysql, easier to scale than mysql, and is already durable without having to do anything to it. Saying "it is almost as good as postgresql" does not mean it has a use case.
For someone talking about "Vanishingly unimportant concerns" to then go on about SARS, which has caused zero transmissions in years and never reached the point the current Ebola outbreak has reached is...curious.
As a side project, I've been reimplementing a large chunk of Ethereum PoC-5 in Haskell. Given all the stuff that's going on in that ecosystem, though, I've basically stopped development.

Bitcoin is held together by a delicate balance of cryptography, software design, and community involvement. Most altcoins are very conservative about the changes they introduce, keeping them as close as possible to successful designs and carefully monitoring the blockchain for stability. Ethereum, meanwhile, no longer bears much resemblance to the projects that inspired it. Even if Ethereum's core algorithms are sound -- and it's becoming difficult for anyone outside the project to evaluate that at this point -- there's no concrete evidence that it will be stable in practice, and they're already building many layers of code on an uncertain foundation.

I'd love for Ethereum to succeed; I've always been more interested in Bitcoin as a distributed system than as a currency, so it's great to see people pushing it in that direction. But it's gone past the point where I can evaluate all the new stuff that's happening, and I feel weird devoting time to a project when I can't see where it's headed. We'll see what happens once the dust settles...
It is correct because mysql is missing tons of important functionality, like I said. You even responded to my other comment listing a small portion of it. No, postgresql does not have an equivilent to galera. Postgresql's synchronous multi-master replication doesn't break constantly and require manual intervention like galera's buggy patch does.
Its happened to me to as well. Even the legitimate locksmiths charge a lot. For example for just re-keying a lock (if your moving into a new place).
Steve Wozniak to teach at University of Technology, Sydney
Michigan Governor Signs GM-Supported “Anti-Tesla” Bill into Law
Actually, Don't Quit Your Day Job Before Starting Your Business
Galera is not a durability solution. Yes, postgresql has multi-master synchronous replication. It is also not a durability solution.
> I meant, how did spaceX receive the largest contract ever, then 2 lines later, it says Boeing received a larger contract.

The contract SpaceX received was bigger than any contract SpaceX had previously received. The contract Boeing received was larger than SpaceX's, but not Boeing's largest in its history by far.
I believe that GP meant that the title of the book is linkbaity not that of the post.
Onsite backup via time machine to a NAS
Offsite backup to Backblaze
Yes; if you're coding C carefully and avoiding overflows, then you've already paid the price for that. Then you're wastefully paying again if the compiler caters to the nonportable approach you're not following.
Anybody who doesn't read that first chapter to the end is going to be very confused.

> To make it easier to read we use E^2(1-x) for (E(1-x))^2 and E(1-x)^2 for E((1-x)^2).

Why change that notation? That seems to purposefully be introducing confusion.

On page 14 they don't use that notation (om^2(x+y) = om^2(x) + om^2(y) -- according to their notation note that should really be om^2(x+y) = (om (x+y))^2).

Not trying to knock what seems like a really neat introduction, I just don't understand the need for defining ridiculously unconventional notation and then not using it consistently introducing a lot of confusion.
The reason the West system works is because law is retrospective. Cases cite older cases. Amendments to laws cite older laws. Much of the "annotation" involves inverting those backlinks, so you can look up legislation and find all the cases which reference it. That process is now, of course, automated.
The best names have two syllables.
With neither party giving a damn, I shudder to think where we are heading.
This is great news! I have one of my RPis attached to a MDF plate together with a breadboard. I have bought several temperature sensors, relais and 434 MHz transmitters/receivers to play with. For now I'm doing all "development" with an old eee laptop but it would be nice to do it directly on the Pi with a BT keyboard. At some point I want this up on the wall where the thermostat is and have it control music, the heating and check buienradar.nl for example. So a stylish case would be nice :)
> The jobs you mention don't exist

But doesn't it sound like it would be a supremely profitable relationship if such a job did exist?
:), clearly. Hilarious episode! Must watch.
This is AMAZING :)

Just tweeted this yesterday : "Docker = future of IT infrastructure, Firebase = future of product focused companies running circles around competition" and today Firebase announced Google acquisition

Love it, big congrats!

Preferred stack now for app development would be Angular JS + Firebase + Go on Google Apps Engine for triggers/additional logic I guess
Degree boasting and name dropping is very popular among Indians. Even their distant relatives boast about their Harvard degrees and Goldman jobs.
Ahhh. I thought they were speaking about NASA. Cheers.
Since the Pi is meant to be for education, what I think would further this goal is to turn the Pi into a graphing calculator as a replacement for the TI series that is currently required in many high schools / colleges. So you would take the basic design, add the case, battery, button pad, cheap screen. Think of a calculator that has the Pi's SD slot, HDMI, USB, GPIO, etc ports.

When used in class or on tests, it can run a built-in program from its ROM. For use in full computer mode, you boot it off an SD card. Anti-cheating can be done via DRM features that are already available on the chip (although open-source purists wouldn't like this part, but it shouldn't get in the way in "full computer" mode).

The way the anti-cheat code could work is simply a calculator function which gives a digital signature hash based on user input. Student enters a serial number from the test, and writes down the function's output (which is derived using a private key burned into the chip, and only accessible by the built-in calculator-mode code).

The reason I think a calculator form factor would work better for the education market, is that every high school already requires a $100 graphing calculator, so might as well make it the calculator be of more use.
I'm going to be stupid in public on the hope that someone will correct me.

1. I'm not clear on the point of this paper.

There are a lot of buzzwords and an extremely diverse set of references. The heart of the paper seems to be a comparison between Long-Short-Term-Memory (LSTM) recurrent nets and their NTM nets. But they don't expose the network to very long sequences, or sequences broken by arbitrarily long delays which are what LSTM nets are particularly good at. They seem to make the jump from "LSTM nets are theoretically turing complete" to "LSTM nets are a good benchmark for any computational task."

2. The number of training examples seems huge

For many of the tasks they trained over hundreds of thousands of sequences. This seems like very very slow learning. If I'm meant to interpret these results as a network learning a computational rule (copying, sorting etc) is it really that impressive if it takes 200k examples before it gets it right? (Not sarcasm, I really don't know.)
Ok, but only since you asked. Keep in mind experiences will vary.

Honestly, they're great for making connections and serve as an easy mode for college social life. You never have to worry about having social options. There will always be something to do every single night (to your detriment if you're not responsible). You have access to tons of events with good looking sorority members every week which increases the likelihood that you'll get somewhere with someone. You meet so many different women your head spins, the odds are just in your favor.

Those are basically the main benefits. Greek culture actually varies quite a bit from campus to campus. For example, we consistently received the opposite of special treatment from the University. There are quite a few negative aspects too (like hazing) that I don't feel like delving into here. But overall, I don't regret it. I got what I wanted out of it (my wife).

I just find it strange that an extra curricular activity someone did in college could yield such a strong emotional response from some people. It's just a social club.
It has a lot more than parallax. The animation effects are great but scroll is very throttled. You can't use the main scrollbar to move to different part quickly.
I tend to agree with you, do you know of any software projects to programmatically determine syllables?
> So a poster, that later admits he didn't read the article, not only discounts the research that a half dozen PhDs in public health performed, but then provides his own summary of their research that is completely at odds with their results and experience.

Welcome to the internet!
For those looking for an ML language outside the Apple ecosystem there is OCaml, Haskell, F#, ATS, Rust, Idris, Pure Script, Elm, ...

Swift without Cocoa, UIkit, GCD, Playground, IDE support..., doesn't offer anything better than those MLs.
> Now if a crime has been committed, and a cop is asking questions door to door if anyone knew where you were and who you were with, do you think that the officer should have a signed warrant for me to disclose to them that you said you were out by Mill Road with Bob and Jim?

It's important to distinguish between you being allowed to tell them and them being able to compel you to tell them. I see no problem with requiring a warrant for the second one.
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If I could add to the article, I would describe an ideal standing desk (or several), perhaps discuss contemporary standing desks versus old, and provide the specific instructions on DYI rather than the general description of necessary supplies. Thoughts, hackers?

For some hackers like me, arrangements like Hemingway's (a typewriter on top of a bookshelf) are too cramped for a laptop/desktop and anything else. In my case, in addition to an iMac, I need a traditional paper notebook for a math class, a graphing calculator, and a space to charge/test my iPad and phones. I experimented by propping up an end table on speakers and making adjustments with stacks of books. The surface area of an end table was far too small. So, I reverted back to my L-shaped sitting desk, which is a little too tricky at this time to prop up (it has a thin metal frame and has glass for all the surfaces).
http://www.nltk.org/
As an aside, I grew up in rural New Jersey (yes, such a place exists), and as long as I can remember we've always called these "black legged" ticks "deer" ticks.

Edit: as opposed to "wood" ticks (quite visibly distinctive http://www.tickencounter.org/tick_identification/rocky_mount... - in spite of their name, quite common in the woody regions of NJ), which don't carry Lyme disease. In my experience, this type of tick was much more common than the "deer" or "black legged" tick in NJ.
This is a really interesting concept. Trying to start kids on rougher edges, it really is amazing what some kids this will get them to do. I might buy them for my kids.

But if it's not the approved device, then kids can't follow along in class, right? Do you need full emulation of the competitor interface? It would be neat to see such a device succeed, seems like a tricky path.

I think it's more likely that we converge on something like a tablet form factor and get cross-platform apps. $100 will definitely buy a solid educational tablet.
I bet Deepak Chopra knows, and it has something to do with quantum energy.
better than cuil.com
Re: point of the paper, I think it's addressing a current need within representation learning research where there's this question of "Ok, we can teach really large neural networks stuff, but how do we compress that knowledge efficiently?" How can we learn more compact/efficient/reliable/discrete representations? I've only just finished reading it through and this seems to me to be a promising direction and one I'd like to see more research on.

Re: number of training examples, I'm taking the chart on pg 11 to mean the number of training examples shown. Based on that, it looks like the NTM is learning a lot faster than the LSTM. As far as I can tell, it's getting near 0 loss about 20,000 examples in? It depends on the domain for whether learning w/ 20k examples is impressive or not, personally I think it's comparatively impressive.

Re: cherry picking of tasks to highlight perceived strengths of NTM, fair enough. Although this is one I'll be playing around with a bit to find out where that starts and stops...

Any thoughts on how this compares to the approach of HTMs?
Drunk doesn't necessarily mean you accidentally hit it but maybe that you stupidly decide it's a good idea to hit it?
In chinese there is a proverb consist of four characters: 相由心生。Its derived meaning is basically that: you will look how you are.

For years I've been daunting over the implications of it. I was never a firm believer nor a firm disbeliever. Advances in modern science such as this article only brings new light to how I think about this.

Whilst it may seem to be a form of discrimination to judge a person by their appearance just like racism or sexism, maybe there is certain evolutionary notion behind this. Maybe we as human have evolved certain abilities to recognize a person's inner traits/personality based on their look. I certainly do not believe that beauty or handsomeness maybe a fact in determining the personality of a person. But through observation a person's confidence or innocence can be somewhat picked out by how they appear. Which I do not believe is correlated with how they portray themselves in terms of exterior such as haircuts or the amount of make up they put on. But rather, their gaze betray them of the real self.

Perhaps that old Chinese proverb has some truth in it, and our science is about to uncover it.
Caffeine pills.
Ask HN: Are any companies actively working on a Hyperloop prototype?
I don't mean to be presumptive (if "vonklaus" is just an alias or something), but in English the pronoun always refers to the IMMEDIATELY previous noun. Plenty of native English speakers get this wrong when writing, though, so your mileage may vary.
On Amazon I always read only the two, three and four star reviews. I find them to be an order of magnitude more reliable. Especially the ones that clearly list the pros and cons of the product.
Looking at my peers, who mostly have science and engineering backgrounds, there is a perception that we need to work in "our field". Not using our degrees makes the entire expense and time of college seem like a waste[1], even though the degree can still help get unrelated work.

On top of that, we treat searching for jobs in a very focused way: I'm looking for a job in "x". I'm sure there are lots of other jobs, but if I never think to search for them it's like they do not exist.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs#Loss_aversion_and_th...
Dirac once introduced his wife by saying, "Allow me to present Wigner's sister, who is now my wife."
If you're using C++, consider looking at the Ceres Solver tutorial [1]

http://ceres-solver.org/tutorial.html
A Clone of Chips Challenge in Haskell
Off-topic, but door-desks aren't really cheap at all.

Great recount by an old time employee: http://glog.glennf.com/blog/2011/10/16/the_true_story_of_the...
Ask HN: Review my startup, destressbox.com
I have concerns about the UVPS. Please Tell me what you think destressbox.com is,and if you think it would be valuable to you.
They think they're hiring people who have a history of getting the job done, and they are. The article talks about their "three strikes" policy for the contractors. Yellow Pages doesn't have that.
Anything Like HN's “Who's Hiring” for Aus?
Preferably willing to consider visas?
Security / Networking ... type jobs.
Regards.