skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAIK those birth deformities have been greatly exaggerated, and are mostly (so-called urban) legends. For reference, see http://www.rerf.jp/radefx/genetics_e/birthdef.html
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Indeed I do. My contact information is on my webpage, which is in my profile.
http://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/

If I read it correctly there are about 250 million active sites (roughly). It seems unlikely that they are all massive corporate sites.

As an aside, the idea that systemd is a good thing is hilarious to me at the least because it is so brash about making an important change to a huge chunk of the system. Yes the bugs will eventually get ironed out, but in the meantime? Count me out! I have work to do and am not interested in being a free tester for Redhat on my live systems.
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Because we're still here to write about it !

Sorry for this silly recursive joke. However it has a point : For some philosophers (e.g : Gerard Dupuy) theorizing the self realizing prophecies, in order to prevent a catastrophy, you need to think about it as if it already happened in the future. It is the only way to act on it to counteract the curse of determinism... Enjoy the paradox !
I don't know the answer, but I wonder if 'talent' is really 'love'?

If you love programming then you are more likely to practice and learn for the pure fun and thrill of it. And lots of practice leads to becoming an expert and appearing to others as talented.

On the other hand you can conjecture that talent comes first, and this is what causes the love of the subject.
*edit: I'm wrong, this was not the link posted yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9496850
> For example, Smalltalk, Forth, and Common Lisp are radically "integrated" systems, in which the languages themselves can be redefined at runtime. There, it's in a way academic to talk about the formal grammar and semantics of the language in a "Platonic" sense.

Not as academic as you might think. We could analyse how easily a language makes such an integration possible. I'm not sure you could have a lispy environment in C, for instance.

Once you know what kind of ecosystem a language enables, you can compare those ecosystems. (As opposed to existing ecosystems, which are highly influenced by sheer popularity and historical accidents.)
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Humanity might get wiped but the world will stay where it is. What amount of energy is necessary to actually destroy the world?
If you are going to take unpaid paternity leave and this is your first child I would go down the ignorance route. Treat the whole thing as an "unexpected" medical emergency where you have to take time off because your wife/partner needs you. You can do this with little notice and if you plan ahead you can turn the whole thing to your advantage by making the effort to make sure everything continues in your absence. Check in, send lots of baby photos, and don't let the team down and you will look like a hero.
What's the best way to make a city greener?
Ductile – adapts your website to your users
Why ? Bash and Fish are far better that powershell
You're no longer winning in a free market if it isn't free.
He's referring to the universal format being text itself.
I think there is a distinction to be made here in questioning patient outcomes and questioning the relevance of genomic sequencing in treatment decisions.

Don't you think it is fair to say that high throughput data (whole genome sequencing with variant calling) is still in a state of being evaluated to measure its effectiveness in aiding the treatment decision process but that early results seems to lean towards it becoming part of the standard diagnostic approach?

Genomic sequencing and patient outcomes is a thornier question. My non-practitioner take is that it is too early to tell scientifically, but that there will probably be some benefit to early identification of specific cancer types and choosing treatment. But I think many people would have made a similar statement about mammography and early detection, and absolute mortality appears to not be reduced by adding mammography to the diagnostic procedures, right?

The research value of genomic sequencing seems high enough to make it worthwhile. At least, when I sit in on molecular tumor board reviews (the oncologists at a table looking at called variant results for a specific patient), I hear them commenting about possibly new and unknown variants being of research value.

I am really looking forward to your reply - Internet message boards in general have to be almost the worst way to discuss medicine, but having participation from researchers and practioners like you is tremendously illuminating!
Something related - the title is:

The state of Computer Vision and AI:
we are really, really far. (2012)

To me, that means we are really close to achieving it, because we are really, really far along the path. But reading the article immediately creates a cognitive dissonance - that can't be right, can it?

No, the author means "we are really, really far away from our objective," which is not the same thing at all.

Was this deliberate, or did the author, in his focus on the question of interpreting images, simply not notice that his text was ambiguous as well?

Or is it just me?
Sounds like somebody in the systemd camp. I really dislike added complexity when it is totally unnecessary. If people want to transform their logs into a different storage format, that is up to them. Text files, however, are a fantastically simple way of storing... (drumroll please) text. Surprising /s
Note that he did the music, not the video itself, which is taken from the demo "Spin"[1] by Andromeda Software Development.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFqMnVDIuvc
Unless the Libs and NDP are willing to join a coalition, I dont see how that would happen (or one party gains a majority). That's the problem with two opposition parties, both of whom are centre left/left (ish).
It could be that, for some as yet unknown reason, nuclear war is impossible so in all the countless other worlds nuclear war has never happened.
Not just you; I also went through exactly the same thought process.
The latest version of Clocker does support Calico as well, now! But I agree there isn't much in the way of documentation on how to change this. I updated the README and the main page at http://clocker.io/ to reflect the changes in Clocker 0.8.1 but it's not immediately obvious. Try this:

./bin/clocker.sh jclouds:provider:region calico
I was asking about computers, not phones (the app in question is on the Mac appstore), but I guess the same question does apply. And I agree, the best apps usually are paid, and worth it.
I beg you to look for the definition of "rational", and I take issue in you calling me an "apologist" without knowing anything about my ideas or positions.

I find it atrocious, and possibly should have been avoided, but it's easy and convenient for us to sit in front of our laptops and pass judgement 70 years after the fact, without having first-hand experience of the situation at the time.

Personally, I think that any nation involved in the war, if they had been in the same position of the US, would have taken the same decision, but again it's easy to judge and theorize now.
Maybe that's the article, yeah.
>Objectively "BS"? What does that even mean?

It means that as far as things to commit suicide for go, a failing grade in some assignment or a rejection in high school, are not very important in the grand scheme of life. If someone attempts suicide over the loss of his family, it's more understandable than attempting suicide because you were rejected for The Voice.

>You need to get a grip and stop your anger towards people who are feeling terrible.

I'm not sure what you are projecting here. Qualifying something is not anger, and I'm not talking to people "who are feeling terrible", I'm talking to people on a HN thread. This is a discussion. It's not very polite to assume things and feelings for the other end.

>You cannot say "I empathize with you. By the way your reasons for feeling this way are total BS" in the same breath and have any semblance of actual empathy.

Yeah, because lots of people never took their friends aside (or vice versa) to try and help them overcome a dark patch, including suicidal thoughts and depression, by putting things in perspectove for them. So their version of empathy is "Don't bother me, go see a doctor and take your meds".

This conversation is like it's taking place in a bizarro alternative universe, when all suicide is caused by tangible chemically induced depression (which is the only form of depression in that universe too), and people never overdramatize their circumstances.

This might be an 21st century American thing, were individuals must absolutely remove any societal and personal causes for their situation. In these parts of Europe we find it OK for friends to help us see clearly what's trivial and what's not, and we had similar philosophies down to the time of Epicurus.
Oddly enough, even for large (>=1e5 physical machines) systems, grep works fine. Better yet, if the logs are important, you're shunting them off for some sort of longer-term storage for post-processing and indexing _anyway_, irrespective of the underlying disk format. Some folks continue to use plain text even then, just with some distributed systems magic wrapped around the traditional Unix tools.

(If you're shunting _all_ of your log data off at that scale, you're crazy, and you'll melt your switches if you aren't careful.)

The name of the game is to think of the problems that you're solving and how they relate to the business bottom line. No sooner, no later. Additionally, what's most troubling is that we've turned this exercise into an emotional one, not one with any sort of scientific-oriented perspective.

I can personally say with conviction that I'd like to sit down and actually collect data on, e.g., how many instructions it takes to store logs to disk in plain text versus a binary format, how many it takes to retrieve logs from disk in both situations, and how much search latency I incur when trying to retrieve said logs from disk in the same. At scale, which is where most of my attention lies these days, that's the kind of thing that matters because those effects get amplified automatically—often to operators' and capacity planners' horrors—by the number of machines you have.

If you're dealing with smaller systems, it won't matter as much, but at that point, you're probably dealing with the other side of this, which is having information on how many requests you get for historical log data and what sort of criteria were used in that search. If you're getting requests less frequently than, say, once per quarter, it likely wouldn't be worth your time to invest in what Mr. Nagy is evangelizing.

tl;dr: Continue using your ad hoc grep-fu, but be mindful of how much time it takes you to get the data you're looking for. That alone will be your decision criterion for adopting something like this.
Both current gen consoles are based on AMD hardware (APU aka CPU+GPU http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Accelerated_Processing_Unit ).

"PlayStation 4 features an AMD x86-64 Accelerated Processing Unit, in hopes of attracting a broader range of developers and support for the system. The PlayStation 4's GPU can perform 1.843 teraflops. Sony calls the PlayStation 4 'the world's most powerful console'." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_4

"The console [XBoxOne] features an AMD processor built around the x86-64 instruction set." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_One
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I have no hesitation in arguing that our textual understanding is currently far worse.

E.g. modern deep-learning classifiers can get high 90s F1-score on identifying entities in images, but what's our capability for recognizing e.g. product entities being mentioned in Amazon reviews? Good luck getting even 70% F1-score. It's still incredibly awful.

And this is just talking about very basic entity recognition in realistic settings. Lets not even consider relation extraction, and more meaningful tasks.
True, but apparently it does not deter people.
"In contrast, a 12.6 megawatt supercomputer, in 2013, took 40 minutes to simulate one second of biological brain activity."

Just as a note: we are not sure whether that large computer really simulated brain activity or not. The tricky thing in brain research is that we have practically zero* idea about what matters and what can be omitted from the simulation. (For example, the glia cells seem to be important -- until recently, we have disregarded their role.)

So at this point even we had an infinitely big computer we could not simulate the brain properly because we don't know what exactly to simulate.

*zero means that there's much more we don't know than what we know.
Agreed. It makes one wonder just how much administration this person has actually done in their life.
Just the video, embedded from youtube.

Here's the official site of the movie: http://www.takepart.com/internets-own-boy

Definitively a movie anyone using the internet should watch. I cried.
In retrospect, it wasn't even necessary, given the sad state of the Japanese wartime economy -- the US wasn't very far from overwhelming them with conventional warfare. But such things are more obvious to leaders in retrospect, especially when they haven't been in a war mindset for years, fighting a string of incredibly nasty battles one island at a time before coming to the islands named 'Japan'....

But either way -- you can say it was the right decision or the wrong decision -- it was hardly "for no reason".
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There's a selection effect at work. It seems as if everything leaks because you don't hear about the stuff that doesn't leak. Plenty of things have been kept secret for decades: differential cryptanalysis, Ultra, FOGBANK. Those are just some of the ones we know about. It's quite likely there are more we don't.
Actually, for more than half of century.
This says it clearly for TV prices in the interviewed customer segment and house prices in the interviewed customer segment. It doesn't mean that other situations don't do better with other prices.

Working in IT I have some friends who would pay $503.71 more for the same TV (compared to the price tag on the TV itself) if you present them a complex mathematical formula for why that TV should be valued higher, but who wouldn't pay $503.70 more because that's not what the formula says.

What I want to say by that example: Different people have different thinking and test your customers, don't assume you are right because a book says so.
So, if I understand this, there is still a human in the truck, they're just not driving most of the time?
You can't accommodate a single point of failure when that failure is a guarantee that you business fails. The problem with making a business without a second source for your key dependencies is similar to the problem in the martingale[1] betting strategy; the failure mode means you're out of the game and you can't finish any strategy you may use to compensate for a failures.

> be acquired

Oh, that explains it. What you're describing isn't trying to be a successful business. Peasants creating an ornate trinket they hope will impress the local feudal lord is not a business plan.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_%28betting_system%29
that's really cool, i can filter data differently and see it in one view... & compare it!
Windows has had binary logging forever. Is windows administration some wonderland of awesome capability for getting intelligence out of logs? Hell no.

For administering Unix like systems, the ability to use a variety of tools to process streams of text is an advantage and valuable capability.

That said, your needs do change when you're talking about managing 10 vs 10,000 vs 100,000 hosts. I think what you're really seeing here is a movement to "industrialize" the operations of these systems and push capabilities from paid management tools into the OS.
This is a pretty dramatic straw man.

I've never heard anyone state that there's no such thing as programming talent. There are many more nuanced ways of looking at programming talent (or really talent in many things):

1) "Programming Talent" is far too general a term to attach to any mechanistic views of brain ability. That is, being "good at programming" has such a broad reach that nearly everyone who is "good" at programming is really good at some very small niche at programming and frequently the skills that make them good at that aspect can be actually detrimental in other niches. This same argument holds about other talents as well. For instance, height is a phenomenal advantage in basketball. But being tall doesn't correlate with eye-hand coordination, agility, or foot speed. Each one of those is also a phenomenal advantage and having all of them at once is exceedingly rare.

2) Another argument is that unlike in basketball where height is a phenomenal physical advantage, the differences between a "talented" programmer and an untalented one are dramatically muted in comparison to other factors such as proper education, proper workplace environment, proper management, etc. So focusing on the talent is not as interesting in programming as it is in basketball.

3) Yet another argument is that we can't identify what programming talent is, so it is a difference without distinction. Is a programmer more productive than their peers because they are talented or because they have better work habits generally? It is very hard to suss out so what difference does it make?

4) Finally, an argument that resonates with me, is that programmer productivity is not bi-modal. That is, for most of the population of programmers they experience dramatic swings in productivity. This swings are more correlated with external factors than any innate ability and you can move along the productivity scale back and forth throughout your life time and talent is largely swamped by these external factors.
I came to the same conclusion - I wonder what an AI assessment would have made of the title.
I think people miss point of Dead Hand.

It's not to prevent US from launching a pre-emptive strike, it exists to prevent USSR from launching a pre-emptive strike.
Oh jeez. Yes there are better and more performant tools for parsing optimised binary databases; nobody disputes that. And yes, tools like Splunk are more user friendly than grep; nobody disputes that either. But to advocate a binary only system for logs is short sighted because logs are the goto when everything else fails and thus need to be readable when every other tool dies. There's quite a few scenarios that could cause this too:

* log file corruption - text parsing would still work,

* tooling gets deleted - there's a million ways you
can still render plain text even when you've lost
half your POSIX/GNU userland,

* network connection problems, breaking push to a
centralised database - local text copies would still
be readable.

In his previous blog post he commented that there's no point running both a local text version and a binary version, but since the entirety of his rant is really about tooling rather than log file format, I'm yet to see a convincing argument against running the two paradigms in parallel.
Partly because they want to do fundamental research, not R&D. This means they don't necessarily have a well specified set of problems where they'd need neural networks, but they want to understand biological neural nets. One approach in doing so is trying to stay as close to real neural features as possible.
Can anyone explain why a dependency of this app is a "working Go environment"? I thought one of golang's selling points was the fact that it created a simple binary.

As far as I can tell, the Go environment is simply being used as a cheap installer, is that correct?
In the recent discussion about the article "Almost everything in Dr. Strangelove was true" [0], mikeash posted a link to a captivating alternate-history story about the Cuban Missile Crisis going horribly bad:

http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=...

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7109345
Bear in mind that this technique can only produce light, not absorb it --- which means no hidden line removal, so it'll be good for wireframe images only, where you can see all sides of the shape at once. That doesn't mean it's not awesomely cool, but it's going to have limited applications.

IIRC, the piston-head technique has been tried before, and has always had the drawback that it's hellishly loud due to air displacement. I wonder how they're getting round this?
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The Anthropic Principle as applied to nuclear Armageddon (or lack thereof).
A novel based in the aftermath of a "Cuban War":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_Day
Power-law distribution and economies of scale?

There are a lot of hobbyists, a vast number of people with a Linux box in the corner of the office or a few cloud instances, a smaller number of people running IT for multinationals and one or two people who have whole datacenters to themselves. The larger the system, the lower the computer/human ratio.
That's the point in which I walk out. So disrespectful and shortsighted.
It’s pretty clear that the melting ice is bringing significant changes to Russia’s far north – the questions are: Why is the perennial ice melting? How far will that melting go? And with what ecological consequences?
Relevant (dead) reply from vegedor:

From the perspective of a monopolized, unregulated etc. market, it is free of
competition, free from regulation, etc.
off-topic: what's the preposition to use with free?

Actually not off-topic at all! Here's a quote from The Handmaid's Tale: "There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from."

These two kinds of freedom are the very two you're asking about. The free market is the ultimate "freedom to" - freedom to compete, freedom to sell at the prices you want, freedom to buy anything you can afford.

Proponents of regulated markets point out that there are important "freedom from"s not covered by a free market: freedom from inequality and injustice, freedom from rent-seeking and predatory pricing, freedom from unsafe products and environmental damage.

Of course, for many things the distinction is arbitrary. What is the "freedom to" compete but the "freedom from" monopolies? How is the "freedom from" unsafe products different from the "freedom to" buy products without being harmed?

As you point out, perhaps it's just a matter of perspective.
Fonkraft, an Indiegogo shooting start got shot down after 3 days, but why?
Foucault too, and the whole idea of mental illness as a societal construction (besides the verifiably clinical cases).

I don't see modern western medicine as a hard science like Math or Physics. It's the same "science" that touted lobotomy, electro-shock therapy (including for "gayness"), considered blacks inferior, overprescribed ADHD drugs, etc.

The problem with medicine, compared to physics, chemistry, etc, it's that its a huge business, the biggest on the planet so there's a huge monetary motivation for selling snake oil, and its procedures and practice were never formalized in a definite way nor are it's results as definite and verifiable as in physics, EE, etc, so it's also prone to fashion and fads.

Peer review by itself doesn't mean much if anything. Liberal arts journals (the kind Sokal published in) are also peer reviewed.
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