skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or maybe both are wasteful spending--did you consider that? The proposal will cost much more than $60 billion. Why believe otherwise? How much was the Iraq war supposed to cost? This is just a feel-good initiative, and it worries me that no one can be bothered to bring up the cons. Do we really believe there's no ulterior motives at play here?
you'd be better off if you mapped those 10 numbers to a number in [0:(10!-1)] interval since there are only 10! different potential answers. So you make the job of the algorithm easier (figuring out the "structure" of the function it's trying to solve for is easier when the result space is compressed without any 'signal' loss)

another improvement could be "enhancing" of the inputs: when you figure out how you will permute the numbers to sort them, create specific and randomized variations of that specific list of numbers and feed the learning algorithm with the correct results of those permutations too. for instance if you have 5 70 2 13 as a training input, the trainer algorithm could generate the following extra inputs based on this so that the algorithm will get a better chance of figuring out the sorting for a test input like 2 15 5 65:

2 5 23 70
2 5 33 70
...
2 5 63 70
2 5 73 70
also:
2 5 14 70
2 5 13 69 etc. also modify more than 1 number at the same time(both systematically and also randomly) to generate even more "gray"-input
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Important to note that Robbins changed his mind and stopped chopping bolts 2 pitches into the 2nd ascent as (according to Lauria) "the quality of the aid climbing was much higher than he had ever expected of Harding or Caldwell and, of course, it was also taking us an awful long time to chop all those goddam bolts." [1]

The seminal article on "clean climbing" was authored by Yvon Chouinard and Tom Frost and appeared in the 1972 Chouinard catalog [2]

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Robbins#Wall_of_Early_M...

[2] http://climbaz.com/chouinard72/ch_page2.html
Yeah, I thought about that too, but I'm pretty sure that there are lots of cases where you don't care.

In our case, I know we would both EASILY take that trade off. Sending her imaging exams via, well, whatever really, on the same day, and get SOME answer. Instead of waiting anxiously for days and then hours at a hospital waiting room, stressed out and missing work.

Yeah, I'd take that any day for most things.
That's a very misleading statement, the body is able to significantly reduce the amount of iron absorption through the intestines.

Non-genetic related iron overload is rarely heard of outside of dietary supplement overuse, predominantly children eating iron fortified supplements.

For an ordinary person to eat too much iron, you would have to have an exceptionally bizarre diet, especially if you're overdosing on iron via elemental iron.

The upper tolerable limit for a daily intake of iron is 45mg. To get this via sirloin steak, you would have to eat three and a half pounds a day! Or 3700 calories of steak per day.

Given that heme-iron is the most readily absorbed by the body, and that guidelines suggest vegetarians consume 1.8 times the RDI, which would suggest an 80mg upper tolerable limit for non-heme iron.

So lets take Broccoli, everyone knows that's iron rich. 2.1mg per medium stalk (1/3lb), which would amount to 7 lbs of Broccoli a day.

Please, don't state bullshit like it's a fact.
> A browser that doesn't support cookies

We are working on a browser (https://gngr.info) that supports cookies but doesn't enable them by default for all websites. We also don't enable JavaScript by default. User needs to enable these on a per-site basis. Enabling for all sites at once is also possible if the user so wishes.

In the near future, we also want to support https only sessions (opt-in to begin with and opt-out once https becomes more commonly deployed).

About micropayments, there are many. Flattr comes to mind. But I am sure there are more.
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Technically they do because the paper and metal cost money. Other than that, they are actually backed by something.
At $1.50/ea I feel like humanity can afford to replace them like once every 800 years.
I agree, this sounds like a great future!
This is one of the real issues with the FCC's collection of this data. Broadband providers don't report where they have customers they are providing service, they report areas that they "cover", where "cover" may just mean an intention to provide service. It may also mean that broadband (>3Mbps) is available, for the low low price of your first born.

There's also a potentially anti-competitive slant to this: There are government subsidies available to provide coverage to unserved areas, which might help a small ISP or competitor move into the area. But if we say we cover it...
For sorting big lists of numbers mergesort could be used, only resorting to twittersort when the list of numbers is small enough [1]. In fact, that's the way mergesort is generally implemented (except the "cutoff" algorithm is usually insertionsort, not tweetsort :p).

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge_sort#Optimizing_merge_sor...
That wouldn't surprise me. CenturyLink here did a door to door campaign advertising their Gigabit service.

Wouldn't be anything unusual, except for the fact that the nearest address to these doorsteps that could get this service were 55 miles away in Seattle.
So you're saying that when I correct someone publicly, I'm not being an insufferable pedant, I'm contemporaneously documenting usage for future linguists!

Ooh, I'm gonna get so much mileage out of that one.
Yeah, that was main reason why I wanted to share his original post – the EFF (or ProPublica) stories aren't bad but he's done a great job writing about many things of interest to the HN community.
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Wow, so much wrong with your statement.

Obama isn't trying to rally all the states to create broadband that competes with the big telecoms, he's proposing we strike down laws that telecoms lobbied for that forces people not to form their own local broadband. So what we have currently is citizens being forced NOT to exercise the democratic process thanks to the efforts of large companies. That is laissez-faire capitalism at work, my friend, in it's most common form.

Secondly, I can't imagine anybody in the world (US citizen or not) thinking the US needs to move more towards laissez-faire capitalism. It's about as brutally capitalist/monopolistic/imperialist as anyone could ever want, and the citizens' collective voice has never been so drowned out as it has right now. Any time anyone even talks about some kind of social service or public good (including local broadband), everyone comes out of the woodwork screaming "COMMUNISM!!!"

What we need is to strangle our corporate culture back into complete submission of the American people. No more spending our tax dollars invading countries or setting up puppet dictators so the corporate good ol' boys can steal from the locals. No more politicians entirely in the pocket of a bunch of greedy fucks, fighting for legislation they don't even understand. No more US banks destroying the world economy and having zero repercussions whatsoever.

In what world is it reasonable to want more of these things?
Wasn't the Toyota braking failure recall considered to be a software bug? http://www.safetyresearch.net/blog/articles/toyota-unintende...
In C# there are "value types" which allow more direct control of memory so you should be able to use those to help somewhat. I don't think Java really supports anything like that directly.

This is really the main reason why your average C++ program written naively will tend to beat the same Java/C# program written naively.

In managed languages you spend much of your time chasing pointers around memory.
The /proc/sys/ and sysctl(2) methods are really just down to which syscall is used to talk to the kernel - either way it's just reading or writing a kernel-side data structure, there's no fundamental difference there.

The /proc/sys/ pseudo-filesystem interface has the advantage that it's discoverable. The sysctl(2) interface requires userspace to have knowledge of a swag of hardcoded ID numbers identifying each node in the sysctl tree.
But I only need two boards. My next project needs one board. And the one after that one board. I could get some etchant and start cooking, or I can use a mill for my one-off projects.
Couldn't this be argued of people in all professions, including software engineering? There are some who just don't care; people who just follow the process and procedure and aren't interested in the bigger picture.

While I agree that technology and automation can help, in addition we should find ways to help professionals move beyond their routines.
>This would be from one of the few governments on earth that are less trustworthy than the average american one.

Really? If you were to make a list of all governments on the planet, you would place the federal government lower than most governments on the planet? Maybe if you limit your list to western Europe.
If the tables were turned, the tracking would be a CFAA violation.
I'm probably late to this party where everyone seems to be hating on the President's plan, but I'll chime in since this plan would have had a huge affect on me.

I'm one of those people who didn't apply themselves in highschool and didn't have anyone push me to do well. I couldn't afford to go to uni because my parents made just enough so that I couldn't get any aid. They also didn't have money to spare and were smart enough not to cosign loans for me to go to a university. Who can blame them? Its crazy to spend 10s of thousands of dollars to take intro classes that are basically just substitutes for how terrible our k-12 system is. My parents did encourage me to go to college though, so I went to one nearby right after highschool.

I would like to point out that even though its cheap, if you aren't in district its quite a bit more expensive. I think it ended up being around $100 a credit hour where I went since I wasn't in district. I know that is peanuts compared to universities, but if you have to pay out of packet, it adds up really quick, especially with books etc.

I was lucky that my parents let me use their car and live at home for free. Because of this, I could pay for the classes outright by working 30 or so hours a week at minimum wage. Its really depressing to work for months and all summer, saving virtually all of the money you make, and then blow at the start of each semester.

Ultimately this worked out well for me though, because by getting high grades and most of an associates degree, I was able to get significant transfer scholarships and not have to take a bunch of pointless intro classes. I'm not saying that all liberal arts classes are pointless, but some of them are, and it feels like hell to have to pay for those classes out of pocket, especially when you make minimum wage (which was $7.40 at the time). I would rather just read a book on a subject than take a class in something that I only have passing interest in.

I still have some debt from university due to double majoring and adding another year (which is when my scholarships ran out), but I still got out with < 15k in debt. And hey, that's peanuts when you get a software engineering job right out of school. I would have had so much more debt if I didn't go to CC first.

I will say that I meant quite a few people abusing the Pell grants though. People who lived at home for free and had no ambition would get Pell grants which covered their classes and gave them an overage for living expenses. They would just take the easiest classes and pocket the overage check. It was like a job for them. So I'm sure there will be people trying to do the same here, and there will be sleazy schools trying to get a chunk of the money too, but those are just problems that need to be solved.
The local government has plenty of other advantages. For one, they have a vested interest in not imposing costly requirements on themselves, while they continue to do so to private ISPs. In other words, they set the rules that everyone has to play by (ie you must cover this entire area, event the parts where no one can afford your service) while preferentially setting better rules for themselves. In the same way, I wouldn't be surprised if they can get permits and other government imposed roadblocks out of the way faster.
Different country similar issue. Yes people do the math, once the baby is there.
Regarding regulation, if, as the EFF suggests may be the case, Turn is causing the companies they do business with to violate their stated privacy policies, it would seem that the FTC could take enforcement action without new regulation being needed. An indirect way of kicking in Turn's teeth, but perhaps one that would work.
I really hope this service gains traction and 'vendor buy in' or whatever. It's nice to see someone using their programming skills to try and defeat a huge social problem.
Some of us just think that we, as a society, can do better than enforcing our beliefs and demands at the end of a gun barrel. And we prioritize principle over outcome, acknowledging that every system has it's pathological edge cases - including the current system.
Surely water and roads, of all things listed, are managed by the municipality? Who maintains the local streets otherwise?
Their opt out program relies on using 3rd party cookies and only blocks the display of ads (not the collection or other use of the data). Anyone who is doing this should just install an ad blocker.
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A rather sizable part of the article talk about why large deep network can solve problems that shallow networks can't.

I won't say that the ML field got turned on its head by deep networks. I think people from the very start have wanted to try and make networks deeper, if only they'd known how.
The live video translation was a startup that they acquired ("Word Lens"). It already worked offline so it would be strange if they had removed that feature.

I doubt this implies that the Google translation engine has been ported to work offline.
>One of my wife's principals was convinced the prayer jar she provided for the staff was effective because over half of the prayers the prior year had been answered.

Depending on the prior probability of the prayers that were answered (and those that weren't), 51% could be plenty to support the efficacy of the prayer jar.
i work 4 10's in a machine shop currently. maybe being a machinist is different from programming, but you can't do anything for those 4 days. you just won't be productive after work, you'll be spent. then you spend your first day of the weekend recovering from the lack of sleep during the 4 days, because a longer workday usually means you get up earlier, rather than staying later.
One definition of sovereignty is a monopoly on violence by the government.

Otherwise, who decides when it's ok to physically assault someone, and how are they accountable to citizens?
or 3) Contact some of Turn's biggest clients and shame them publicly.
There is definitely a communication failure here. Are you asking why filling in the FAFSA might solve someone's problems around lack of money, or are you disagreeing that lack of money is a contributing factor to the lack of time and attention they prospective students have?

In case it's the first: the FAFSA, once filled out, makes these students eligible to receive money in the form of student loans and grants, which can cover living expenses as well as tuition. And to address the second: having money means you don't have to work, or can work fewer hours, and in general reduces the cognitive load of 'how do I afford to live', freeing up time and attention that the student can now put towards their studies.
It was the King who decided who was a Baron, an Earl or a Lord, and it was on the King's grace that they kept that position. Piss him off, act disloyal and you'll be stripped of your rank.

This dramatically understates the dependency a King had upon his Lords. Yes, a King could strip someone of his rank, but if he did it too often or too capriciously and he'd soon been replaced.

You see this in democracies too: interest groups (whether they be companies or other groups) are quite happy to remove their support for a member if their interests no longer align and if another credible candidate appears that is more aligned with their interests.
Do other countries also have problems with their roads and bridges being in disrepair? How about their water mains, do they break and wash out streets on a regular basis?

US local governments do not seem to have a good record of maintaining public infrastructure, so why would public internet be any different?
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> Biweekly means every two weeks.

Since when, exactly? http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/18553?rskey=7qC25f&result=2#ei...
POW's waste has always disturbed me. If BTC was inherited as the global store of value it would just help destroy with planet with the emissions required for security.
There's already been a lot of research done on acoustic attacks. For example: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/publications/thesis/online/IM100855....
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There are a myriad reasons why they're popular again.

1. Hardware has caught up, and is cheap. When Backprop was invented back in the 80s, you couldn't train networks with more than a couple of 1000 nodes tops. Today, with GPUs, you can train networks with billions of parameters.

2. More data is available. Back in those days, you had a few dozens (maybe a few 100s) of examples in your training set. Today, people play with sets larges than 1TB.

3. Dramatic successes. For a while, the ImageNet competition was seeing slow and stead progress. Then DL comes along, and there's a 20% jump in performance (I'm too lazy to look up the exact numbers...). If you've ever competed in such competitions, progress is painfully slow (see, for example, the Netflix competition). So a jump of that magnitude in performance in 1 step is mind-blowing. On top of that, every year since then, the performance has increased significantly.

These are just 3 that come to mind.
> "Imagine it's 1994".

Is that why it feels like there's some homework I should be doing instead?
From the Judge Posner article you linked to:

Analysis of the PISA results has revealed some other
interesting facts. One is that higher teacher
salaries dominate small class size as a factor in
high PISA scores. This is a reassuring finding
because it suggests that secondary school education
can be improved at no net increase in cost, since
higher teacher salaries are offset by larger
classes—if class size is raised in proportion to
increases in teacher salaries, there is no net
increase in the school’s cost, and there should
actually be a reduction in cost in the long term
because a reduction in the number of classrooms
reduces the size and therefore cost of a school even
if each classroom is larger

That seems to indicate that paying teachers more does help.
Tor is free and much easier than a VPN.

Tor Browser bundle on Win/Mac/Linux: https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en

Orweb on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianp...

OnionBrowser on iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onion-browser/id519296448?mt...
Where do the Mexican cartel armies fit in among this? True private mercenary units with no humanitarian consideration whatsoever.
DO modifies a lot of stuff on vanillas installs. They're one of the only providers I know of that removes the swap partition.
+ Dtrace

+ Jails

+ Capsicum [1]

+ Netmap [2]

+ Most performing network stack

+ Resource Management (pretty low memory usage)

+ The userspace tools come with the source (no GNU/Linux duality)

+ Clang/LLVM as default compiler stack

[1] - https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=capsicum&sektion=4

[2] - https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=netmap&sektion=4
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> if the only thing you're fighting for is a paycheck, then you won't hang in there when it counts the most and hence are worth jackshit as a mercenary.

Completely wrong. From what I heard from spec ops, professional soldiers are way better in fight. The main point, he said, is that outside people think that war needs courage, while really it's experience that matters. And proper supplies.
Hi, I see you'd like to start a quest into the dark heart of our corporate bureaucracy to join the other .0001% of customers who aren't having their privacy violated. We respect you. We love you (feel free to share that via social media). Welcome, and good luck.
Most modern wars are fought using little more than ground vehicle mounted weaponry[1]. There's even a war named after the trucks that both sides used[2].

The weapons acquisition program strategy of the US is defined as much by the defence industry as by the needs in the wars the US is actually involved in. You see US soldiers buying their own weapons, and even on a larger scale you have things like the US buying Toyotas off show-room floors to take to to Iraq[3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_(vehicle)

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_(vehicle)#Iraq_War
Fascinating. This line made my eyebrows rise.

> Der-Yeghiayan didn't know who Dread Pirate Roberts was, and even after his extensive testimony, it still isn't clear how he found out. On the stand today, he said that an IRS investigator told him Ulbricht was the suspect.

That seems like it would be a pretty big gap in the prosecutions case.
But don't kid yourself, if you have ever been to CVPR, or one of the machine learning conferences you see all of the papers trying to squeeze a few more % accuracy on a test set out of existing algorithms. Maybe one or two papers actually do something novel. Rarely will their be a new approach altogether.

The point I am trying to make is that one shouldn't get star eyed by leading researchers in the field and assume they can't contribute. Simple novel ideas have led to massive changes in the industry.
I wonder if General Equilibrium Theory were presented in a completely novel way, whether it could be popular on HN. Something like "Russian mathematicians come up with a decentralized way to solve resource allocation problems" or "How to solve all the world's problems with calculus".
but software engineers 'pretty much' make at most in the early 6 figures and doctors 'pretty much' start there. i'd love to give customers max 15 minutes to tell me how they want their website only to tell them this is what they are going to get because its the standard of care.

why should a doctor care? they get paid weather you live or die. what happens to you basically has no bearing on their career. a doctor i know worked on a guy who was having chest pains but was 'diagnosed' with COPD. he was to be sent home, but that doctor refused to because of patient history: all 5 of his brothers died of a heart attack before 60. what would have happened to anyone there had he been sent home? nothing, just another heart attack death.

at least they got things right on brother #6 though.

in short, doctors have little incentive to pick up their game. the supply of doctors is kept short purposefully to ensure they make money++. Only way out of this mess is technology when people can finally take their health back into their own hands.
Drone trucks would also provide a metric fuckton of training data for autonomous vehicle research. I dunno how much effect the lag would have on safety.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8831739