skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for linking this. I read Jordan's comments in IEEE Spectrum and was puzzled because it seemed like he was, in a veiled way, taking aim at deep learning. Then I re-read and saw that it could perhaps better be seen as an expression of annoyance about the media hype surrounding deep learning, but not an attack on deep learning per se.

This post and commentary make it clear that it's the latter, that Jordan is bothered by the hype and imprecision in the word "neural".

And, going back to the IEEE interview, that he's concerned about the possible repercussions on funding and legitimacy when the bill for the hype comes due, as it will.
The first few workouts are tough. As a beginner I could squat heavy 3x a week for the first 6ish months, increasing weight per workout. Now it's 2 days heavy and 1 day light.
James Altucher had a great spin on it. He says that maybe it takes 10,000 hours to master something, but with only 1000 hours, you can get pretty good. And that only takes a year of fitting it in for 20 hours a week. Even 100 hours of practice at any particular skill will make you better at it than most people, and you can do that in like 2 hours a week for 6 months. If you feel like mastering it after that, go for it, but if you frame it as "I can have a new skill after about 6 months of practice" instead of "I can be a master in 10 years of super hard work", you're a lot more likely to try it.
This doesn't seem strange at all. Uber doesn't need confidential information being transferred to their competitors...
Google executive sets records with supersonic leap
How else do you interpret 'Andy you're not the head of Android anymore, we're giving your job to Sundar.'?
Note that this "workout" isn't going to put on much (if any) muscle mass nor will it help you lose significant weight. Resistance training and diet is required for the former and diet is absolutely everything for the latter.
If you are mindful of the things that you have, you tend to acquire less of them.
Here is a good analogy to use, one which the politicians will understand: it's like the postal service opening letters not only to read their contents, but to change them before forwarding them onto their intended recipients.
New PCIe SSD cracks 1900 MB/s read speeds
I would say that in person. Your post was purely bragging. It added nothing relevant to the discussion. Although based on the fact that you have a link to a wikipedia article about yourself in your profile, I am clearly barking up the wrong tree.
If you're being generous, it's a case of the perfect being the enemy of the good: "We wouldn't need nuclear if we went all-in with renewables!" is the cry, even if it's not necessarily the case in every environment. But if that's your cry, and you ignore all the waste renewables create (what, are solar panel factories 100% efficient now?), then doing anything other than 100% renewable all the time is unjustifiable.

If you're being less generous, it's all about fear-mongering and the people who bought into the fear. Nuclear Is Evil is pretty axiomatic to them, and it takes little to convince them that power plants will explode like bombs and waste is just being dumped at random and everything else you can imagine if you don't let facts get in the way of a good Righteous Indignation.

So, yes, to some people nuclear is "dirty" in the sense of "ritually unclean", and they will not be convinced otherwise.
Honestly, it's not very good. It's not Alpha Centauri at all, and I could forgive them for that if the game was particularly striking--but it's the same unambitious, uninspiring gameplay that made Civ 5 a slog.

I wouldn't call it bad, but I wouldn't spend $50 on it if I knew what I know now.

Organic Superlube? Oh, it’s great stuff, great stuff.
You really have to keep an eye on it, though—it’ll try and slide away from you the first chance it gets. -- T. M. Morgan-Reilly, Morgan Metagenics
I wished any website had a summary and highlights section at the top. Very effective.
I've been redirecting my purchases to Newegg whenever possible, partly for this reason. Newegg's Marketplace (the term just refers to items sold by third parties using newegg's site) is seamlessly integrated with their core retail business; marketplace items appear alongside items sold directly by newegg, and the pricing remains transparent.

Some stuff is quite a bit more eggspensive than on amazon, but I love newegg's troll-fighting work so much that I consider the extra expense a charitable donation.
Because not all vulnerabilities are the same, and not all are total compromises. For example, BEAST was temporarily worked around by switching to use a stream cipher (RC4) instead of a block cipher. Everyone scrambled to update their OpenSSL version, then switched back, or they switched to an AEAD mode TLS 1.2.

Not that people shouldn't be using GPG, but only using it means you only protect the paranoid.
The biggest thing that pisses me off at the moment is their shipping. I refuse to pay for prime due to the way it seems to be enforced on the user and their near dark pattern techniques to get you to sign up at every checkout.

Whenever I order something now and pick the cheapest or free shipping method, it seems to always sit in their warehouse for nearly a week before they even consider shipping it. It seems like another shady attempt to force me over to prime.

Most of the time I can buy the same product for similar or cheaper (after shipping) from another retailer and not have to wonder how many days it will take them to ship it, or be upsold into a delivery club at every turn.
Keep up with current events!

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I should be able to do better than this. Presenting The Broscientific 7-Minute Workout:

A: 5x Back Squat 5x Weighted Chin-up or Barbell Row
B: 5x Deadlift 5x Olympic Press

Repeat alternating. Do as many warm up singles as you can fit (max 5) ascending in weight before each heavy set. Increase weight on every exercise as often and as much as possible. Get or make some micro plates to extend linear progress when you can no longer sustain 5lb jumps. If you have a few minutes extra, throw in an extra set of as many reps as you can comfortably do with 70% of the working weight on each exercise. If you can't do these movements spend 7 minutes a day learning form and improving mobility until you can.
Haha I don't mind. Was more worried about having to scale up my little blog server if it took off :)

Do I know you in real life by the way?
The first C++ compiler was written in C++:

http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#bootstrapping

However, the first C compiler was not written in C, but in NB, an intermediate step from B to C:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18125490/how-was-the-firs...
So many people are comfortable with Amazon as the store front that if they just turned the knob up a bit where transactions were marginally more expensive, but not inordinately so, they bring in more money and likely don't lose much traffic. I expect this knob to be turned a bit in the coming months.
Cities exploit their captive audiences of shoppers. Many cereals costs as much as $8/box in NYC for the normal-size (smaller?) boxes. You can get oversized boxes from Amazon or Walmart delivered to your door for way less.
I think it's their "A-to-z Guarantee Protection", and I now note no lifetime limit ... and claims can be denied for other than clear cut legit reasons (a catch-all "Amazon regarded the claim as inappropriate." see https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...). Also a $2,500 limit.

Note this is the last ditch, the seller isn't playing ball resort.
On the other hand, if it's my closet or the landfill (as opposed to reselling, and the associated depreciation and opportunity costs) I'm not in a rush to toss things.

Unless there are circumstances like an impending move, or I am running out of space in the closet.

It's kind of a difficult line to walk. I used to keep way too much stuff. But just yesterday I pulled equipment (tools, a VGA cable, a prototyping board) out of the back of my closet that I hadn't used in four or five years, and was able to save myself a couple hundred bucks (computer repair). That VGA cable occupies very little space.
Yeah, I was just looking at Newegg for those reasons. I buy my computer stuff from them because I think they're worth supporting.*

But dammit if they also aren't starting to pull the old "see price in cart" scam. No! I will not see the price in the cart. You've lost a sale.

* Last time I built a computer I was so informed by NewEgg's interviews with the reps from the various parts companies that I really didn't have to do much other reading. I knew based on the interview with each company's rep basically what I wanted to buy, which tier of product and what I'd get for it. It was such a better experience for me than reading a bunch of hardware sites.

The computer I built based on that is the best computer I've ever had.
I'd sure love to hear Bill G explain how things reached that state with him at the head of the company.

I want to hear about what he thinks of his decision to focus on business vs product as his company grew. It just seems insane from my perspective, far outside the realm of business leadership.
you should probably try "practically O(1) for the average web app", if you want to keep that phrasing.

Better to skip the "practically O(1)" etc bits and just say O(log n).
> That all depends whether you're comfortable saying a contradiction is "consistent" with an unrelated proposition; I don't see much of a problem with it. Contradictions, being impossible, are logically consistent with everything else. I guess unprovable propositions would switch over to being provable, though.

Oh, I see. I read "A is consistent with B" as "A+B is consistent", but I can see the validity of the reading "A+B is 'as consistent as' A".
Umm … I feel like I'm being scolded for something, but I'm not sure what—or maybe I am just mis-reading. :-)
Dealing with the people at the counter. They keep asking questions and waste your time trying to up-sell you. It's a pop-quiz math test to determine which random options to go with after a 5+ hour flight and you just want to get to your hotel. All that could have been determined when you made the reservation online.
I would advise you to not completely rule out the tax that every item you own has. Even just looking at a drawer that is full of odds and ends can be stressful. With that said I am all in favor of re-selling things, then someone can get use out of them and overall waste in the system is reduced. Now I just need to sell my $300 jambox that I only used 10 times...
"I've been in charge of Android for 9.5 years and now I want to go work on robots"?
I managed to develop a 5 minute workout that performs remarkable well for the time involved (it is not a pleasant 5 minutes though). The basis routine is 30 seconds absolutely flat out on an exercise bike cranked right up, then 30 seconds slow recovery. I do this first thing in the morning (before having a shower) and after fasting for at least 12 hours. I then don’t eat for 3 hours afterwards.

It works remarkable well to keep me fitish (basically fit enough to do all the other physical activities I want to do) and at keeping my weight down. I find that this intense exercise makes me feel sick afterwards. This takes away my hunger until a few hours later so it is not too difficult to avoid eating for the 3 hours.
Just about every powerlifting or strength/mass program, from novice to expert, has multiple squat days a week.

The theory is that because the large areas (ex: leg, back) are actually composed of many muscles, you can hit them more frequently with slight variations (working different parts/ranges/etc.) and still recover.
Apiary is quite slick and easy to pick up, but I really wish they included some kind of version control with their editor. We have a team working on our API but it makes it harder to collaborate when we can't go back to a previous version or see the revision history. Github integration is a no-go because we have to give access to all repos.
This isn't really feasible, as Mediawiki's markup is far too hard to parse[0]. You can't just write an IDE for wikitext in a nice language, you'd need to instrument Mediawiki itself somehow to give fine grained information.

[0] http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/adcs2010/proceedings/pdf/paper%204...
It would be a great feature, but obviously adds complexity. You can get half way there with single disk ZFS, which lets you store multiple copies. But the key feature is that files and directory info are checksummed, and regularly checked, so corruption cannot silently occur. But I think that usually the whole disk is lost, rather than getting bad blocks (so 90's).

For any archival DVDs I burn, I compress, then run through PAR2 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
> I checked some reviews and indeed it blows the competition away!

This comment is only relevant with the high end models.The cheaper ones dont have exceptional cameras,let's not mislead the consumer here.
Tanks are so noisy, you can hear one from miles!
They're not quite on a level with the Catholic Church, but give them a few centuries...
Aside from the quote by MarkMc below, it's in his biography, Snowball, which is a very good, if very long, read.
No, you're not getting it.

"Better than the US government" is a threshold of goodness that even the worst people I've ever met pass. The fact that you put it forth as evidence that DPR is a hero shows that you're a massively broken fucktard.

Anyway... thanks for the further confirmation that you're a delusional idiot, and that you have no attachment to reality.

You crack me up, you fucking loser.
I've always thought of Amazon as a company whose primary product was their own stock. They had a great model-- their terms with vendors were such that they often had the customers cash for weeks before they had to pay the vendor.

When I worked there the emphasis was always on new press releases. So they created many silly things that never stuck-- like Amazon catalog shopping: They took paper catalogs from other retailers, sent them to the phillipenes to be scanned and then hosted them. Amazon movie times. Amazon local restaurant menus. All of these are now gone.

I worked on the product search engine, and for laughs I like to go back and check the regressions that we worked on during my time there. About 9 months after I left, a key one came back... and it's still there many years later.

I think this is because they simply disbanded the search team. I'm sure it's been since reformulated and disbanded several times. But the regressions in question, by the way, we had automated tests for. We tested for them before we pushed code.... I think those tests have been lost in the chaos.

Amazon was constantly reorganizing.. and products (software products) would get abandoned because the team would be dissipated.

They were also very poorly managed for a "Tech" company. My boss had trained to be a prison guard-- I kid you not-- his degree was in criminal justice. By the time I left, %80 of the team had left for other positions. His boss was one of those old school middle managers who you would expect to be running the DMV. Neither of them were technical- their skills extended to managing email and spreadsheets.

And yet the stock has continued to rise, even on little or no profits.

They're great at selling stock-- look at the P/E ratio.
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My experience is the opposite. Amazon has been getting better and better about having twenty different listings for the same item. It's usually easy to pick out the "correct" one too. Just filter for Prime Eligible, or most reviews.

If you feel like you're picking through a garbage heap, and the "correct" one is not quickly obvious, you either need to adjust your search or they don't carry it.
This is barely on-topic, but hoping that someone has a workaround, I'll share my biggest gripe with Amazon:

When you find a product with multiple options (say, color[1]), often the variations will have different prices. It tells you the minimum and maximum price, but forces you to click through every single variant to see their prices. To make matters worse, it takes multiple seconds to load each price.

Is there any way to view product variants in a table format?

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Nalgene-Tritan-BPA-Free-Bottle-1-Quart...
Your workout costs money. The other workout is free.
it certainly is in their san jose "research and development center"
tl;dr:

"I guess I usually just assume that it's probably not that important if you didn't text me, and you didn't send me a message on Facebook"

"So for them if a voice mail isn't practical — which most of the time it isn't — and there's a more practical way of delivering the same information, they're gonna go for that."

This is pretty much the whole ballgame. And a textbook-sounding example of Darwinism. A person can only do a maximum of N things in time t. There are an ever-growing (probably exponentially growing) number of way to communicate. Spending an outsize amount of time on a low-information-dense medium makes increasingly little sense. There are almost certainly other ways to accomplish whatever the allure is.
Use a laser diode pulsed with pulse width modulation, at perhaps 1KHz, duty cycle < 80%. During the off period, view the hot area with two photodiodes behind different-wavelength IR filters. The ratio between the outputs gives you the temperature. Go closed loop on temperature.
The true scientific one is called Body by Science [1]. If you have 100 minutes, invest watching this [2] from God himself (Doug McGuff M.D.).

P.S. The next The 21 Convention will be in January 2015 [3].

[1] http://www.bodybyscience.net/
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PdJFbjWHEU
[3] http://www.the21convention.com/
Also of interest is Michael Jordan's response to the original article with him:

https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/2014/10/22/big-data-hype-the-...
The problem with Tor is that anonymizes your endpoint but not the traffic itself. What it needs to do is scrub YOU from the stream. No logging into services, or providing bugmenot temporary alternatives. Once you are on a Tor session and you leak a single piece of info, that session is tagged to your user profile. Tor by itself is fairly low security. Great for getting out of shitty places, but it does not anonymize you in any way.
That's the deal, though. 7-14 day shipping (or whatever it is exactly). If it sits around in the warehouse for a week, that's their prerogative. Maybe the warehouse is operating at capacity, so they put off your order. Maybe they are trying to goad you. I don't see why it matters, you are getting what's promised.
Sure, I agree. Its a mathematical sort of intuition - one on abstract objects (in particular Hilbert spaces). This abstraction provides something sort of fundamental and poetic. Of course, this is better motivated by something concrete or physical I think before stepping in this direction.
Is this a finite set? If so, what's the simplest way to show this?
This is fantastic. Very concise and sounds very effective. Thank you
I would assume that the NSA no longer has difficulty deanonymizing tor users, mostly from their own sloppiness. For a sufficiently paranoid net user, they will already have other mitigating factors in place. No phone, no cctv, laptop booted from solid state media, all EEPROMs on motherboard in read only mode, etc.
Yeah. It's about as thin as it would sound if we substituted "computers" for "voicemails".
I would love to see details on your 40' sailing vessel project. How much of it is your own design and how much of it involves relying on designs from others.
Maybe, but it sounds more messy. Verizon would have to maintain a semi-public (to their "other" customers, that is, advertisers etc.), low-latency queryable database of {source, destination, customerID} tuples, and ads and/or pages might not finish loading until that query returns. If the ID is more static, the trackers can cache the identity information for awhile after the first time, and Verizon probably has less work to track and resolve IDs.
Noam Chomsky, Closet Capitalist (2006)
Much more interesting: https://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt.htm...
The thermal camo is likely from BAE who corroborated on this project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pftna34TbJU&t=0m46s

I do find the missile protection feature to be interesting; active protection been proven to be useful several times, but doesn't seem to be widely used by any country, except for Israel who do use use them on patrols.
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Not the same guy, but figured I might as well put this here. I've been living on what can fit in a suitcase for the past... year or so? Especially now that most of our valuable possessions — photos, writing, music, video — can be digitized, it's awfully liberating to pare your physical inventory down to the bare minimum.

I'm doing this for travel purposes, but the end result is mostly the same, I think.

http://www.archagon.net/a-few-pointless-thoughts/2013/8/28/g...

http://www.archagon.net/a-few-pointless-thoughts/2014/6/15/g...
Seems insane... But it was highly effective...
It's clear you aren't a mathematician. They work with "typical integers" like 10^9000 all the time, and certainly not as a trivial scaling of doubles.

There are 9763 significant digits in that calculation. They wrote it in shorter form because the actual digits were irrelevant. The numbers they got from Mathematica had the wrong sign and were off six orders of magnitude. There's no reason to list more digits to show that's the case.

Mathematica promises arbitrary precision. Here's the documentation. http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Det.html . It says "Use exact arithmetic to compute the determinant", for the construction given in the paper. The also submitted a bug report, and got the statement "It does appear there is a serious mistake on the determinant operation you mentioned."

Yes, of course random algorithms can end up with different answers. The determinate definition is not random, the documentation for Det doesn't say it uses a random implementation, non-random methods to compute it are well known. Again, the vendor says it's wrong - why are you disagreeing with practicing mathematicians and the vendor? Why do you think you know enough about the topic to be able to judge what "odd" means, in the context of this sort of field?
pegtl is not actually a packrat parser. Not all PEGs and absolutely not all recursive descent parsers are packrats.

And actually, my experience with packrat parsers (mostly in ruby) in other languages has been that they actually slow things down on moderately or more complex grammars by massively exploding memory use and thus allocation pressures. Turning it off can make it faster, especially on complex grammars. It's a pretty good case study in how optimizing an O(n^2) worst case to O(n) does not always improve things.

That said, I'm not against the principle, but the shotgun approach to it can be brutally bad. You really only want to memoize the paths that are actually likely to backtrack. Or simple grammars where O(n^2) memory use is not going to balloon your memory use too much it's a clear win.
Yep! People have even lost weight on McDonald's, because you can at least get a ballpark for calories.

That said, those same people are probably dying inside from the quality perspective!!
At least for this research, Sage may have been better. This code follows the random matrix example to show that Sage gives at least consistent results in one of the cases they pointed out.

Here's the public SageMathCloud worksheet: https://cloud.sagemath.com/projects/49a2531d-9d02-42c9-9db6-...

I wish they would have supplied those matrices they printed out in machine-readable format so we could easily put those in Sage too.
The logic is actually the best part of my post.

The worst part is the fact that if I were to actually hire like that, it'd be illegal. That's what sucks.

Land of the free though, right?
It's not your ignorance, they're obviously enormously more complicated, in many cases