skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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"But there is an ever-increasing appetite from developers and designers for finely structured data to power our digital products and at some point, we will need to develop algorithmic solutions to help with these tasks."

One really cool area in which this sort of algorithm could be applied is identifying location data.

Imagine an algorithm that could scan through a Times story like this one ...

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902EFDE1230F...

... and extract from the text all location identifiers, then geocode them:

"Seventh Avenue and 36th Street" --> 40.7522877,-73.9897059

"Bleecker Street between Sullivan and Thompson" --> 40.728887,-73.999566

"Chrystie and Rivington" --> "40.7212581,-73.99224"

I used to work for a metro daily, and I developed a script that allowed us to geocode an address by highlighting it in our CMS and clicking a button, but that still required an editor to highlight the correct portion of the text.

Using an algorithm to perform the task instead of an editor would open up some incredible possibilities.

For instance, imagine a local news alerts service in which you could enter your location and a radius, and receive alerts whenever a news item mentioned a location within that radius. (I once developed a prototype of such a service, but the lack of a fully automated process for identifying locations led me to shelve it.)
It sounds apologetic to him because he's more interested in tribalism than business or technology. It's not unlike much religious fundamentalism- the pursuit of truth takes a back seat to the pursuit of feeling like you're right about things, especially if it means you get to hate a caricature of some other group of people and blame some of your personal disappointments on them.

A similar force seems to drive politics, or at least motivates disturbingly huge blocs of voters. :(
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Big fish in small ponds frequently (to stretch an analogy painfully thin) start to take over nearby larger ponds once they've dominated their niche.

A few examples that come to mind include:

Amazon (books -> retail in general -> streaming media, hardware, IAAS...)
Google (search -> ads -> mail, calendars, etc. -> hardware and operating systems...)
Facebook (social networking at Harvard -> social networking in the Ivies -> social networking at colleges -> social networking everywhere -> messaging, ads...)
Zappos (shoes -> handbags -> clothing, jewelry, sunglasses...)

And those first three grew not just by taking over existing markets, but by becoming popular enough that they enlarged their own markets. Before Facebook became big, social media just wasn't something the vast vast majority of people over fifty had any involvement in. Now everyone I know (including two over-90-year-old great-grandmothers) has an account.
"He and his team analyzed a database of 381 men and women and found that those who used artificial sweeteners (...) were also more likely to have impaired glucose tolerance."

So those who are intolerant to glucose tend to avoid glucose? That hardly seems surprising.
They're likely referring to a ketogenic diet. They were quite common in the past before anticonvulsant meds were created, and are still used in intractable cases today, particularly in pediatric care. There's lots of information out there about their use in epilepsy.

Some to get you started:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898565/

http://www.epilepsy.com/learn/treating-seizures-and-epilepsy...

http://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/clinical-upd...
I've used these tools, they simply don't filter enough blue coming from the display, dispite such tools that try to limit the light genereated, compared to tinted glasses
Not to mention how delusional it is to talk about how amazing a new crytpocurrency will be under wide adoption, but then think that they'll make a ton of money.

It is impossible for something to be simultaneously a good currency, AND a good investment. A good currency won't fluctuate in value, and a good investment will do precisely that. If you purchase and hoard bitcoin, you're basically ensuring that it doesn't become widely adopted.
I used flux for a few years and it helps. For me, the glasses were more effective. Maybe because I live with my partner and a light would be flipped on at some point.
Fake sugar tastes bad and is unnecessary. Let's get rid of it already. Eat whole foods!
If the goal is to illustrate how the model works and implications to application design then maybe supply a pre-built application that they will continue to evolve over the course. In that case - you pick the framework as the prof.

If the class is business focused - then they shouldn't be doing much of any coding, right? And a pre-supplied app would work well for them to tinker with to understand the business model.
Agreed. From http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/ar01s05.html

> Finally, note that, for NFS version 3 protocol requests, a subsequent commit request from the NFS client at file close time, or at fsync() time, will force the server to write any previously unwritten data/metadata to the disk, and the server will not reply to the client until this has been completed, as long as sync behavior is followed. If async is used, the commit is essentially a no-op, since the server once again lies to the client, telling the client that the data has been sent to stable storage. This again exposes the client and server to data corruption, since cached data may be discarded on the client due to its belief that the server now has the data maintained in stable storage.

I am not certain how this works in NFSv4 which is what EFS will be. The safe solution is to use the sync option for mounting the NFS volume, at the cost of performance.
No, you will still need to plan your dynamic loading intelligently.
Ah, cool. I'll check that out. Thank you for open-sourcing this (and for documenting it)!
It very much depends on your workload, particularly with NFSv3 and earlier. We were able to reliably handle multiple gigabit streams no later than 2005 but that was writing to huge files (backing up a ~2-3Gbps data acquisition system being processed by 4 Mac or Linux clients).

Small files were much worse because they require a server round-trip every time something calls stat() unless you know that all of the software in use reliably uses Maildir-style practices to avoid contention. That meant that e.g. /var/mail could be mounted with the various attribute-cache values (see acregmin / acdirmin in http://linux.die.net/man/5/nfs) but general purpose volumes had to be safe and slow.

If you read through the somewhat ponderous NFSv4 docs, there are a number of design decisions which are clearly aimed at making that use-case less painful. I haven't done benchmarks in years but I'd assume it's improved significantly.
Do you plan to release any of this code? I'd love to see how the internals look for that.
I recently finished Galápagos and was blown away. A story about how a few people unknowingly manage to escape humanity's demise by getting stranded on the Galápagos Islands, and their descendents' subsequent evolution over the next million years, all told from the perspective of a ghost... CLASSIC Vonnegut.
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Add to that sorbitol. I like gum and and many brands like Orbit use it. Biggest side effect is it is actually a laxative in larger doses and some people have abdominal pain probably due to that (http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/568700).

Erythritol seems like the best sweetner though with minimal side effects under 50mg per day.
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Hey ben,
Would like to ask you a couple of questions from PR.
Any email I can contact you at?
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No -- see https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/faqs/ --

"Q: What algorithm does Amazon Machine Learning use to generate models?

Amazon Machine Learning currently uses an industry-standard logistic regression algorithm to generate models."

But disappointingly:

"Q: Can I export my models out of Amazon Machine Learning?

No.

Q: Can I import existing models into Amazon Machine Learning?

No."

Note that they are doing classification and regression on iid feature vectors. Of course, ML is much larger than this setting, but this setting is generic enough that it has some applicability to lots of problems.
Can you give a source for aspartame/artificial sweeteners being often included with low carb diet for treating childhood epilepsy? It doesn't seem intuitive to me that a diet to treat such a disease would often include something like aspartame.
Charlotte Rifle + Pistol club has a solution for that. When the real estate developers discovered that the land around them was cheap (because of the noise, mainly), the club put up a huge sign by their entrance: "Your friendly neighbors since 1913". The house-shoppers couldn't help but notice it.
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I really enjoyed The Last Policeman series by Ben H. Winters. It's a noir detective novel while a massive asteroid is about to destroy the world. Made me think about society and why people do things. The ending is perfect.
In any case, there seems to be little consideration about what the consequences would be for a currency without a central bank. If you could eliminate inflation, that may well be great for some individuals, but that doesn't mean the economy will function. People who are arguing for a cryptocurrency without inflation are relying on the same economic arguments as those who want to return to the gold standard. I'm glad decisions like that are made through democratic processes for the good of the whole society and economy, not just one-dollar-one-vote by capital holders.
Sugar alcohols can have some unpleasant side effects, which make them unpopular for general use. They can cause bloating, flatulence, and diarrhea if you consume too much of them. The pop-culture example of this is the review section on http://www.amazon.com/Haribo-Sugar-Free-Gummy-Bears/dp/B008J..., or in a less ridiculous form at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylitol#Safety and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythritol#Side_effects.

That's not at all to say they're bad or poison; I love sugar-free gum a lot, but the amount of sugar alcohol in each piece is very low. The problem is just that the side effects mean that if they're widely used, eventually someone is going to crap themselves and blame your product, and almost nobody wants that.
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What I particularly love about it is that it makes quite reasonable claims, and explains the data behind them. Often it comes from him doing an experiment and finding something odd, then trying to eliminate the effect by reducing more and more parts before being left with incredible results.

It is not a self help book, it's not a "10 crazy things your doctor won't tell you!" book, it's a story about the more interesting findings of a Nobel Prize winner (Nobel Memorial Prize apparently, after checking wikipedia) extremely well explained.

I think the only book that's left me stopping every few pages and going "huh... so that's why..." or prodding someone near to explain a cool new thing is a Brief History of Time when I was younger (also a thoroughly good read if you've not done so, having being reminded now).
I would say it's an interesting post, but lacks quality.

I do believe investors often ask the wrong questions. A lot of them have just been lucky. That's not to say all investors are lucky/asking the wrong questions.

It's a mentality thing. Often times West Coast investors are interested in how you compare to other non-competing but similar businesses. IMO they also focus too much on the sumo and how they might release a competing product, "what would happen to x if bigco launched a similar service"...there's not right answer to that other than...who cares? I think investors should focus much more on how much revenue you make and your potential for growth. Not how you compare to some flashy startup.
They don't. They might reduce eyestrain (I have it installed on all my computers, fwiw), but they aren't effective enough on their own to help with sleep.

In psychology grad school, I learned that a single blue photon hitting the back of the is sufficient to cause a measurable shift in melatonin output. Note: measurable is not the same as deleterious, but flux doesn't even eliminate all the blue light your computer is putting out, let alone the other sources in your house.

The only solution, baring blacking out all your windows, or removing all modern light sources from your house, or replacing them all with red lights, is 0.3-0.5 mg of melatonin a few hours before bed. Note: it's sold in the stores in 5 mg tablets - an order of magnitude too much.

http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin
yes it is completely their prerogative to ask whatever questions they want. luckily a lot of investors do ask the right questions. my observation is just that a lot don't and i wish they did because it would mean a lot more interest in series A companies.
John Boyd is probably rolling in his grave.
> I've done a lot of research on the subject at hand

It would be quite informative for the subject at hand for you to show your research results, if those results contradict OP findings
I agree about selection bias, although the magnitude of the screwups have been pretty enormous, so it's kinda hard not to.
Doesn't make it any more or less legal though.
Having never heard of Ze Frank, I had to check Wikipedia: "Ze Frank (born Hosea Jan Frank on March 31, 1972) is an American online performance artist, composer, humorist and public speaker based in Los Angeles, California. He was a pioneer of the vlogging format and is considered one of the most influential people in the field, inspiring such shows as the vlogbrothers, Philip DeFranco and Wheezy Waiter. He is currently executive vice president of video at BuzzFeed."

Now I'll have to google "vlogging format"...
Try ben roadrunner io.

Add the @ and . in the above.

Domain for one of my future micro services frameworks projects.
The doubts about its safety are mine. I am skeptic about the safety of all artificial sweeteners - especially ones new to the market - given my personal experiences with Aspartame. From most American's points of view, Stevia is new and it is being promoted by big industry. It may have been around for a thousand years, but I seriously doubt any of my ancestors in the last 1000 years consumed much of it. I am fine with it being on the market... but until more people consume it routinely for a sufficient period of time, I am not going to rush out and incorporate it into my diet.
-1 his post furthered the discussion, yours does not
Weird since I just read this yesterday about the LA times doing the same thing:

http://datadesk.latimes.com/posts/2013/12/natural-language-p...

The LA Times article has some generic python NLTK code. They used a MaxEnt classifier instead of CRF.
> Why is that family's property rights inferior to those of folks building sprawl homes?

They aren't. They also aren't inherently superior and deserving of special privilege by virtue of being older. Otherwise we'd kick off the farmers, the natives who were there before, and every single form of life until the area degenerated to nothing but blue-green algae.

Also, the idea that a position is wrong because it offends or fails to respect someone else's beliefs in arbitrarily selected (but unspecified) ways is one that is offensive and disrespectful.
>That was one of the problems we actually described in our blog post about the Thailand experience. It took as us while to actually find out rhythm (simple things like finding food, doing laundry, etc.) and that was taking a lot of our energy and time in the beginning.

Would it not be wise then to send someone ahead to scope these things out? As in, you're planning to have a team move to X, send someone to X two weeks in advance to sort out logistics, get internet dongles, map out places to eat, do laundry, etc?

Rather than having whole teams trying to sort it out on arrival.

I think what you've offered is great btw. The criticism being leveled on you here is pretty unfair and I'm not sure what is behind it. It's of great benefit to the locals to have westerners on western salaries come in for a month or two, spend maniacally on local resources and then leave.

The argument against it is well you should be incorporating there and providing the locals with jobs and that's nice in theory but unfeasible in reality, and all those tourist bucks create and supply the locals with plenty of jobs in themselves.
I would never argue that there aren't bad 401k plans. But you are not forced to use them and the market offers alternatives.

Those alternatives may be influenced by a lot of other factors such as regulatory environments (the 401k/IRA contribution difference is baffling) or your employers decisions.

But you can price that into your benefit evaluation. "You have a bad 401k plan, normally I'd take X in salary compensation, but you need to provide me X+Y". You do this when comparing health benefits right? Why wouldn't you do this for retirement benefits?

The op was claiming that he had no choice but to use high fee options, and he later qualified that with regulation based in Sweden which made that largely true. In the US, it is not true, for better or worse it can be inconvenient to use low cost providers, but you aren't forced into it.
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Wow, no kidding! For the huge discount over their current guys at a mere $1,000,000 a year, I'd happily put the pensions into some Vanguard index funds... :D
I've been using Simple since January of last year, and I am incredibly thrilled with them overall. I could ramble for days about their outstanding customer service, how their "Goals" system has significantly improved my own ability to save money, yadda yadda. Chase was the bank I had to suffer with prior to switching to Simple, so I have to admit that it makes me ridiculously happy to see Dimon legitimately concerned about companies that actually give a fuck about people.
Yes, but NFS over the Internet may not be fast enough to be usable.
clasificadosonline.com is the place locally to seek/post jobs.
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I'd love to see an easy to manage version for containerized cloud stacks like Kubernetes and Mesos. I think the AWS move here validates that NFS is still an ok pattern to use for some applications.

I've had mixed experiences with Gluster a year ago, including lost files, so something that was rock solid and easy to manage would be a great product.
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> It's the same reason why people catch fish using a rod and reel rather than a giant net or a fish wheel. It's just more fun.

Well, you also have the consider the affect of every person that goes fishing on a small waterway using a giant net and catching many times the number of fish... That seems like a good way to destroy the local fish populations in addition to destroying the underwater environment by dragging nets through it constantly.
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I thought this article was going to be about the blocking recv() with a closed socket "issue" in linux, but it wasn't.

For those that don't know, linux behaves differently than other unix in that a thread blocked in recv() will remain blocked in recv if another thread closes the underlying socket.

AKA, the article works because GDB is interrupting the recv() call (or the socket was marked nonblocking), not because simply closing a socket wakes up a blocked recv() in linux.
Not all hunters are trophy hunters, that is just a subset of hunters. Numbers from my state show close to a 50/50 split between antlered/anterless (Note: Anterless may contain some bucks, but the hunter thought they were shooting a doe)

http://wvmetronews.com/2015/01/16/final-numbers-on-2014-deer...
The breakdown on each season: Firearm Buck season 37,766 bucks, antlerless firearms hunting, 39,514 antlerless deer, archery season, 21,653 deer and 5,290 deer during muzzleloader season.
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The key thing to search for is "keto" or "ketogenic," the name for the high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet that puts you in a fat-burning state called ketosis.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketogenic_diet

- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898565/

- http://www.drperlmutter.com/study/dietary-treatment-adults-r...
My initial reaction would be that is just stupid, but is there a good reason for that refusual? It is usually as a way to make money, but in this case?
With the rise of vertical farming, both cities and farms can expand upwards.
If Intel is sourcing a billion dollar factory, shouldn't their revenue be multiple times that? If you're telling me the factory they need costs $1 billion, my response is that the cost is only that high in a market full of banks that make billion dollar loans...
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What is the result of the typical over-the-counter dose, often 3-5 mg?
AWS is lean so they build what's easy for them to build, not what should exist. You can gauge how hard a feature is by how long it took them to implement it.
Interestingly if you really want to look into that song and the culture that created it, it is extremely anti cocaine use. It's all about selling and profiting from cocaine.
This is a key argument here. In a hypothetical, perfectly moral ecosystem, could we find some way of "birth control" to limit the population AND the pain? Perhaps, the population of deer is staggeringly immense, and the financial compensation and minimal fiscal benefit behind such a plan seems like a potential path of waste and failure behind whomever enacts the program.

So we enter a cost/benefit analysis of the situation, and the cost of "humane" solutions are immense. On the other hand, ethical hunting is a "lesser of two evils" that you've mentioned, but more importantly, it brings money back into the organizations protecting the environment. Many people don't realize the cost of a single hunting tag is very well calculated, regulated, and almost 100% of the profits go into ecosystem preservation and conservation. Closest thing to a win-win scenario we can get at the present, not to mention the act of hunting can be an industry in and of itself generating revenue and business.
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I got to the site with my tablet and I couldn't see anything. I suggest to embed a video somewhere in the page. Maybe I'll remember to look at it on the computer later on but this is a way of losing potential users.

Btw, here's a video for other mobile users http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=plr7CZuWPJQ
You can get, for example, Lux Auto Brightness for Android though. Helps me since I read in bed on my phone before going to sleep.

Edit: the name notwithstanding, it does more than adjust brightness, including filtering color temperature, much like f.lux
You hit the nail on the head. Completely agrees with all my experience at Kaggle and applying machine learning across a broad number of industries
I probably should have defined that more narrowly to foreign policy. The military is generally fairly effective with battlefield intelligence in times of war. Congress and the president seem to be a different story.
Agree. Reporter did a poor job. I would think the expectation should be the relevant benchmark, meaning, passive portfolio like Vanguard invested in similar proportions of stocks and bonds.