skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because someone's taste differs from yours doesn't make them "not able to fully appreciate aesthetics".
And yet we're still smug about the fact we're so 'enlightened'.

Meanwhile, this was happening not even 100 years ago.

Maybe a little historical perspective is needed next time we demonize others for what we consider overly-conservative values, in light of the fact that western society hasn't exactly been particularly progressive throughout the ages...
"they need to respect it at first place then join the democratic process"

Except clearly they don't. The democratic process is broken. Politicians have no incentive to change laws. Uber's modus operandi is to ignore those laws and build strong public support to force change. It works very well. Uber is happy. Joe public is happy. And politicians can pass new regulations shockingly quick when their job is on the line.
If you believe HN is cynical you should spend some time on Reddit.
Anybody knows if any needed equipment is actually installed in his cars? From what I've understood with Google cars, the cars would need quite a lot things like high tech radars.
I've often seen "An introduction to statistical learning" [1] and "Elements of statistical learning" [2] cited as good resources for statistical inference and machine learning. The former is more of an undergrad text, while the latter seems to be aimed at graduate students. Both books are available free online.

[1]: http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/
[2]: http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/
This raises the issue that's plaguing government and big corporation (non-tech) organizations alike - inability to attract nor retain talent. DoD has been going through a bit of a contraction and the best developers I knew in DoD space have all turned their backs on their clearances and run very far away. At my current place, they're having an issue where we have some fairly interesting technical work but nobody with the skills to go do it because they're based in flyover country and people that can do it regularly get $160k+ base offers in the Bay Area or New York. The brain drain problem is exacerbating the problems in most of these places because the existing employees just don't feel like making a change or are benefiting from the current standard performance of abysmal and dysfunctional across most large organizations when it comes to anything innovative (as opposed to execution, which is what established businesses tend to think about mostly through extensive processes and risk avoidance).
indeed, would be interesting to see more gcc coverage for ARM e.g. as in these examples https://github.com/muccc/arm-workshop
> Our tech folk hero Jobs is a perfect example. Their power and salaries inspire at best fear and at worst resentment and contempt

Jobs' annual salary was $1 from 1997 until his death.

Just saying ...
Developed areas in Calif. could support enough solar to power the state
I'd thought I'd just point to:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/10/us/map-of-73-y...

but along the way I also found:

"Researchers said they determined that 3,959 black people were killed in “racial terror lynchings” in a dozen Southern states between 1877 and 1950." (My emphasis)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/02/10...
You guys should be ashamed of yourselves.
There are people that spend their days & nights writing products, only for hacks like you to undermine their work with cheap parlor tricks.
How much of the game will be about "learning new skills"? Patrick mentioned at some point that it will be good for that, but I'm not sure how much of a focus that will have vs. testing out skills.

More specifically, are you planning to use this to eventually teach very specific skills (i.e. you'd use Starfighter to learn a specific new programming language?)

P.s. Incredibly excited about this. The last time two heroes of the programming community built something together, we got StackOverflow!
What's important in this article from Nature (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/NCLIMATE2556) - which is readable online, is that it makes it clear there is more than enough power available through Solar in "Developed Areas" to not only power the state, but also provide the water it needs through desalination (Desalination needs approx 2-3 kWh/m^3 (1000 liters).

I see the authors of this article are from Stanford - if you ever want to know everything the beginner could ever possibly need to know about Solar, check out the iTunes Stanford Energy Seminars, in particular the "Solar Energy 101" by Nate Lewis. Absolutely brilliant.
not just in the US - from the stuff I've read (and I can't cite anything), here in Australia the roads were originally sealed to improve cycling conditions!
I'm sure the shape is only weird to those who haven't pondered the economics of designing something to withstand the near-vacuum of low earth orbit.
More of a Mutually Assured Destruction scenario.
The emergence of modern zoological gardens is intimately tied to colonialism; given the prevailing mentality at the time (the world is a God given property to the white man), these horrors are sadly unsurprising. I really recommend the book "New Worlds, New Animals: From Menagerie to Zoological Park in the Nineteenth Century" for an in depth history of zoos amd treatment of that colonialism connection, it's fascinating.
Isn't the relationship in the graph simply the result of how income inequality and social mobility are defined? The lower the income inequality the less you need to earn (relative to the baseline income) to move up the social ladder (defined in terms of income).
Too late. The latest S-Class Mercedes already has something like this.
Reproduction is not just a biological act where a male gamete meets a female gamete.

The hardest part of the process is finding the person with whom you want to have a child and who will be your partner in life for this incredibly complex challenge that is raising children.

I question the ethics behind relieving thousands of dollars to affluent women while making them believe it will somehow solve their existential need.

There is no way around balancing work and life if you want to have children.
From a source close to some organizations that tune/develop the chinese firewall (spoiler alert: public universities), they are adopting methods to trigger reversed censorships. And in my eyes, these methods, despite less technical challenging, are working as intended. Also, see this: http://furbo.org/2015/01/28/grass-mud-horse/
Playing House: More artists are moving their shows into living rooms
PhD students take classes, and some of them do have written exam (in CS theory more than other parts of CS). In the US, where the PhD is 5 years, you spent a good portion of the first 2 years taking classes.

Before coming up with new knowledge you need to know what's already out there.
I have a pet-peeve about articles that tries to paint a bad thing even worse.

This is bad enough as is. You do not need to exaggerate and call fences cages.

The Paris world fair is also a bit of a (dark) gray area. If you read the wikipedia article, it seems less clear that these are people who are kidnapped into a zoo and more like people hired to enact a stereotypic view of their culture.

Moreover, the 1931 exhibit was setup to show cultural diversity and compassion towards the colonies. It was obviously a marketing stunt, attempting to legitimize an illicit sovereignty, but it is not unfair to expect those participants to be treated better and not die within the year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Colonial_Exposition

The article also focuses heavily on white peoples explotation, but again wikipedia points to the oldest known human zoo from the 1500's in Mexico. Interesting stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_zoo
Australia, 1967. Aborigines are finally recognized as persons and granted rights under the Constitution. Up until then, they were to be treated as 'native fauna' - i.e. animals.

http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/history/ab...
I'm from Germany and when I went south for holiday the neon/led lights for drug stores also threw me off. They give off a feel of untrustworthiness to me.
You forgot that their success is also built on the oppression of the Chinese, and low salaries etc that gives the rest of the world affordable hardware (and rare-earth minerals, metals, etc).

Not commenting on what CloudFare should or should not do, just indicating that your high horse actually has longer legs than you gave it credit for.
Free stock photos from Dublin Ireland
Surely people know the civil rights movement, 50 years ago?
Do we need open/closed signs at all? Isn't it often obvious if the store is open or closed?
Yes but see, it's more and more common for people of our generation to live far away from their parents or any family.
Wouldn't it be great if NASA got a budget so big they could actually start worrying about aesthetics, though?
Turning sustained DDoS attacks into revenue sounds like an intriguing business schemes.
Woman abandoned as baby in 1915 dies at age 100
I don't know, I like the shape. It's actually kinda symmetrical, so it's great!
Ruby devs could look at Dylan and Lisp for inspiration how to improve the language performance, but I doubt it will ever happen.

Me personally, I tinkered with Ruby when Rails initially came out and it was about it, as it didn't brought anything new to my toolset.
Take Google to Court, Staff report urged F.T.C
Upgrading to Windows 10 on pirated versions won't get you a valid license
It doesn't matter how easily the information is found.

By "doxing" I meant posting someone's personal details as a way of attacking them. None of us would want that done to ourselves, and we owe the same consideration to others.

Nor is it needed for substantive discussion, which is the purpose of HN threads.
Designing for least astonishment
Overworked America: 12 Charts That Will Make Your Blood Boil
I do not dare to sign up via your https: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=kryptnostic.c... "This server accepts the RC4 cipher, which is weak. Grade capped to B." cf. http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/RC4mustdie.html
>The way I reconcile it is usually, "Monopolies are okay when the the good in question only exists because of the monopolist."

Can you give an example of such a thing?
In school it's summarised as "Rosa Parks sat in a white person's bus spot, MLK was shot, and the Civil Rights Act was signed". Really no talk of the lynching beforehand (or anything else in the systematic oppression of blacks).
How to Transfer Files Securely Online?
Could you define buckets of cash? On the low end, one gets 30TB/month (1gbps uplink, 200mbs guaranteed) included for ~60 Euro a month, or 100TB for ~160 Euro (for a single server, outbound) at Hetzner:

https://www.hetzner.de/gb/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex60

Such a single server, isn't the same as a CDN of course, just curious what you consider "buckets of cash". I see cachefly asks for 400 USD for 2/TB a month, for comparison.
In the context of Facebook it's not that inaccurate though (it doesn't say only the source code of websites).
Like others have commented, I've been running a small email service for several years. The key point here is "small" meaning serving a few users for mainly personal mail. It's a very low volume affair, no "mass mailings", newletters or anything of that kind.

I'm using Exim only because it was the MTA I knew how to configure. It's a simple setup, allows no relays, uses TLS when possible, a few bad actors are RCPT blacklisted, that's about it. I use a webmail program I wrote to retrieve and send mail. It's all quite basic.

Have had very little trouble with spam or or being blocked, which may be a benefit of keeping such a low profile. All in all, I've enjoyed the freedom and privacy of running my own email server. I suspect the secret of success is keeping it small, personal and inconspicuous.
I wonder if the Down probability is connected to the age of eggs or the womb? I mean, does using frozen eggs make the effective risk comparable to the age when the eggs were harvested?
> is this library meant for general, run-of-the-mill visualizations, e.g. bar charts and scatter plots, or is it intended for visualizations for a specific domain

I'd say it's for a specific use-case: exploring problem domains and data where you need multiple related visualizations. I don't think it's trying to be a layout engine, so much as produce very good looking analysis charts. I could see myself using it for image analysis and exploring time-series data, and would have killed for a tool like this when I was in the lab.
You ask why dropouts help avoid overfitting. I'm immediately thinking of Bowling's poker algorithm. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6218/145 (sorry, paywall, and today I'm outside it-- anyone want to Arron Swartz it for the rest of us). Bowling's secret sauce is that he lets his algorithm re-visit earlier optimizations. You can make a choice early in the game, which is optimal then, but the same pattern is not optimal later.

Back to deep learning. You are right about the non-convexity of the space, especially the weird interactions between the choice of which W_k to include and the shape of the manifold.

The guess I am exploring here is that continual re-optimizing against a different manifold allows you to erase decisions which are only optimal on certain manifolds, and that this is somehow more robust than simulated annealing.

But I'm only guessing
I may disagree about which programs should be cut or not, but I agree with your sentiment: we could have paid NASA 10x and not advanced significantly. It would have just all flowed into various Congressional districts. We're advancing in spaceflight because we have no other choice: the money's ran out -- years ago, really.

Political systems of organization (organizations of people set up based on the desires of the electorate and controlled by politicians) exist and act for political reasons. Getting to the moon was a political goal, not a scientific one. The shuttle and ISS were political goals. Even privatizing like we've done is a political act.

We really need to build a mass driver on Earth for cargo launches. It would not be crazy expensive, and it would make a huge difference in the cost of LEO construction. Our order of priority should be 1) reduce cost to LEO to 1/100th of what it currently is, and 2) make orbital construction costs as close as possible to other oddball ground-based construction costs, like building underwater or in Antarctica. If we can focus on dropping costs, there are thousands of industries and other actors that will do some really cool stuff with the tools we provide. But that's a really tough thing to sell politically. The real reason we have SpaceX is because nobody wanted to explain to the folks how we lost a huge amount of our launch capacity when we retired the shuttle.
Neon signs are confusing during day. They are not bright enough in bright sunlight. You have to look closely to see if they are on or off.
Flip boards seem very practical and do their job well in day or night. I see purpose in having name of the shop done in neon as it's the brand name. Don't see why Open signs should also be in neon. Initially, I thought thats what the article was about.
CACert New Software Part 3: The Heart of Gold
"Unlimited" bandwidth? What kind of uplink is it, and will they really let you max it 24/7? Honest question, not trying to troll.

(1gbps ~ 300 TB, 100mbit ~30TB/month)
It is usually a strong welfare states that helps children of lower classes achieve the same as those of upper classes.
The idea that neon is classy but nearly-indistinguishable LED is not seems completely arbitrary and idiosyncratic.
Whops, I think you got a downvote. Tiny buttons...
Thanks for the reply, I guess what I am asking would you create a web app using gwt or react with something like node.js.
Snowplow (I'm a co-founder) can happily scale to billions of events per day: https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow
Did you recently start looking at hosting? Have a look at:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2 (and most of the rest of the site).
A Friend of the Devil: Inside a Famous Cold War Deception
AWS will usually give out around 100k in credits to funded startups.
Are these people Democrats who would not vote as instructed by the party leader or something? Pardon my ignorance, I'm from the UK where MPs who do not vote as instructed by the whips (enforcers) have the whip withdrawn (are expelled from the party).
There's a new "Cool Japan" venture capital fund.[1] It's run by the government and some big banks. Since their startup late last year, they've bought the world's largest translation/subbing service, a TV channel, and an anime streaming operation, and opened a food court in Singapore. The government of Korea has been spending heavily to promote K-Pop, and Japan is responding.

They take proposals. See their investment criteria.[2]

Someone should propose a robot-run restaurant in San Francisco.

[1] http://www.cj-fund.co.jp/en/
[2] http://www.cj-fund.co.jp/en/investment/flow.html
Thanks for making those points. A lot of the articles on the linked site seem questionable (to put it very very mildly).
I always kinda wonder how much wiggle it has. I mean, like, if you bounce off a wall, how much does the thing vibrate?
"You can resize your images to a few key sizes, but it can quickly get out of hand " - This shouldn't be a problem. Just resize dynamically as needed and cache. Resizing on the server is a pretty fast operation, and you only need to do it once for any given form factor.
Did it come as and over the air upgrade for all exisisting vehicles, with a promise of more upgrades along the way, and an even better upgrade of free long distance fueling?
I nice anti-China spin might be part of the mission...?
It's the engineers' job to resist with good reasoning.

It's the visionary's job to convince them that we people only think the impossible things are impossible.

That's basically how I do my internal dialogue. I shoot down an idea of mine because it's too brittle, vague, and difficult. But I still want to build that something. So, I keep thinking and end up saying to myself, "Well, maybe I could do something that's like an ugly partial implementation, just leaving out the hardest things: it won't be what I want but I can write something that resembles it." And then I write the first prototype and end up having something here to play with. However, I still keep wanting more and maybe I get an insight that allows me, having first played with the first build, to make a better approach with a new set of tradeoffs but such that will get me closer to what I want. Gradually I approach what I want, possibly never quite reaching that point, but still getting closer and closer.
> They fear anything with such vast scope and influence / power, that they don't have a certain level of direct control over.

Their cozy relationships with the big banks could've fooled me.
I'm wondering about rotation and trajectory. Do they have engines on the craft to maintain its trajectory? But then if they thrust from one module, given all modules aren't aligned with each other, that implies thurst creates a rotation of the craft, so do they have two engines for each dimension?

Same question for solar panels: Do they let them rotate so at odd times they're exactly flat in the plane of the sun and receiving 0% energy, or do they rotate other modules of the spacecraft so that the solar panels are always at the sun?
Here is the TED talk of Aubrey de Grey about mortality: http://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_ag...

Worth watching
I'm sure whatever country you do live and pay taxes in has at some point in the recent past violated someone's human rights, or at least they have in someone's opinion.

Given that the country you live in has violated human rights to some extent, and that you could reduce your contribution to that by not earning taxable income or purchasing taxable goods, is it not also your defacto position that you value revenue over human rights?

(My apologies in advance if you've ceased paying taxes, or buying anything taxable, or if somehow no one in the world believes your country has violated human rights, or might do so in the future, or your position is that revenue > human rights)

My point is that the world is a lot more grey than you make it out to be, and that you are also in some way likely valuing revenue over some human rights abuses.
You only have to look at the present to see that we aren't properly enlightened yet. Look at the range of sexualities that are still criminalized: pedophilia, bestiality, incest. We make a show of being accepting of homosexuality, but it's a farce when we realize that we only accept it because it's been repeatedly promoted by bold members of that group willing to risk it all in an attempt to change society. People (in the UK at least) are still being imprisoned for having consensual sex with their adult relatives. It's still a common fear that pedophiles shouldn't be left alone with children in case they rape them. Much like the fear of homosexual men was 50-odd years ago (turns out not all gays are rapists after all). Farmers regularly rape animals for profit, but if they do it for pleasure, it's a crime.
Show HN: A BitTorrent search engines that utilizes an AI to give results
Neon has a long history and have a retro nostalgia feel that harkens back to the 30's,40's and 50's. LEDs are just cold modern technology.
Ola launches food delivery service in India
If the 2nd stage at least had a small solar panel and magnetic tether, it could (slowly) change orbits into something useful. Not sure what the weight penalty for a minimally viable system would be. For the 2nd stage, every gram counts, much more so than for the 1st stage.
I'm not at all arguing there's a free lunch here. It's a tough cookie to crack and requires a reimagining of half of computing. I also think it's the only possible way to go.

1) As for the query costs; yes they are there. For public data you could still create pre-computed indexes but for privately shared data the recipients/accessors of that data would need to create appropriate indexes.

In general this scheme indeed requires each producer (person/identity) to also maintain their own indexes.

2) I don't get what you mean by doing a complete lookup.

3) Since this would be a fully federated/decentralized system there would not really be such a thing as server side pruning since the 'server' would just be a peer that indexes public data.

Given that data is immutable clients would simply hold on to the data they need for their calculations and could choose to depend on the server to keep a copy for them.

If nobody (wants to pay to) hold onto a copy of some data anymore then it has been garbage collected.

P.S. Have you looked at the Datomic model? It works quite similar to this proposal with regards to things like storage, peering, computing indexes etc.
No, that would mean they were allocated too much money. Too much money in a government agency is immediately consumed by bureaucracy and waste. NASA isn't paid to make pretty crap, they get paid to do really awesome research and push the boundaries of engineering and our knowledge of science.
My gripes with land tax and property tax is that they are linear.

They should be highly progressive. It should be so high that it would be more economical for you, if you own 10 apartments to sell one or few than to pay tax on all 10.

To avoid loopholes ... if you own entity that owns some land or property, you need to pay the tax as if that property was your own (minus the tax already paid by this entity).

Also arable land should have slower progression to not discourage efficient farming.