skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"coaches are [...] often just irrational. Coaches should go for it on 4th-and-short more often than they do, but getting stopped on 4th down is demoralizing"

If it is demoralizing enough, and the game (or the season, if being demoralized has a long enough half-life) still has plenty of time to go, that may mean the coaches are acting rational by not playing the short-term better option.

Extreme example: suppose a missed two-point conversion makes your team become absolutely worthless for the rest of the game. If so, you probably shouldn't go for a 2-point conversion at 6-0 in front with 30 minutes to play, even if its success rate is 95%.
This looks like it could be applied to a real-life "ENHANCE" button. By training similar algorithms with photographs instead of anime prints, would this be a feasible means of approximating detail from enlarged photographs CSI-style (not quite to the extreme one sees on TV, but perhaps enough for a police sketch or something)?
Does anyone have a technical means for Hitler to do this?
Appreciate the tip. The Snowden leaks appear to support that GPG is so robust that even NSA analysts use it. So, a project using IM over it is playing it extra smart (albeit clunky). Turns out it's still active:

http://ayttm.sourceforge.net/features.php
I have one here: https://github.com/dschatzberg/intrusive

It can be used in a freestanding (nostd) environment such as a kernel. It uses unsafe code but provides a safe interface. The primary technique is to embed the type that is iterated over in a larger struct which contains the links. This way I can give out references to the inner type without fear of invalidating the iterator.
I am really sorry to hear that - that is unacceptable. Would you mind sending me an email so I can make sure we improve? bill@wepay.com
Another hotkey we could rebind! How about we change it to Alt+Q?
The answer would probably be the same answer as "Which country does this site operate from?", but IANAL.

Regardless, changing the text of that checkbox to what you mean - "I promise to refrain from being a jerk, harassing people, or spamming" - would make the question moot.
I didn't know her story. Amazing person.
Totally agree, it's pretty useless right now especially since the option of what to verify is pretty loose, though the 2013 raa does specify there can be some new fields introduced. Now on the customer side we did a implementation like yours and almost launched it, BUT we thought better and came up with a less onerous system that still complied with the raa, there has been very little heart burn on our end with regards to customers or implementation, if you want to talk about it message me. For us this has been a big deal and we are a top 50 registrar
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Vim's the worst for this, since it has a mix of the two.
hjkl is positional, but then iasdftweruvnp are all memonics, and I'd want to move those. (Insert, After, Substitute, Delete, Forwards, unTill, Word, End, Replace, Undo, Visual, Next, Paste).

Actually, I guess most of the keystrokes are placed by meaning, not position.
Waifu2x is not actually the first or only image scaler to use neural networks - NNEDI3[1], an Avisynth[2] filter used for deinterlacing can also do really nice image upscaling (and it's a lot faster than waifu2x). Here's an example of what it can do to the images in the blogpost:

Image 1: http://i.imgur.com/4cXr51v.png

Image 2: http://i.imgur.com/PZAXeM8.png

It doesn't come with any noise reduction, but nothing stops you from doing that separately from the upscaling process itself, and that way you should be able to control it better anyway (I find the reduction options provided by waifu2x really aggressive even with the low setting, it just kills tons of detail).

As a sidenote, when talking about something like image scaling, it would be a good idea to avoid saying something like "image scaled 2x (normally)" as there are lots of ways to scale images and what's "normal" can vary a lot depending on what you're using.

[1] http://bengal.missouri.edu/~kes25c/

[2] http://avisynth.org
Maybe it was that at one time, but these days it is passed off as a factual event along with the false story about Archimedes' Eureka, the false story about Albert Einstein failing math, Thomas Edison inventing the light bulb, Henry Ford inventing the assembly line, etc.

The popular lies in the history of science and tech are endemic.
Your writing (and insights) are excellent. But you really <strike>need to</strike> <replace>would improve the content</replace> go<add>ing</add> back and scan<add>ing</add> for both typos and tag glitches.

Still haven't fixed the missing inter-page in your "Internet with a Human Face" article. I really wish you would.

#ads and #conclusion, FWIW.

http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm#ads

http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm#conclusion

Also, put your name and datelines on stuff.

I also have it on good authority from a some-time NPR anchor that the spider image specifically turned them off the page. I know, but a point to consider.
That's certainly a selling point. The problem: newer and hand-rolled stuff always has serious problems. Many continue to have serious problems over time. I'd be interested in seeing software that solved those problems while leveraging proven protocols, clients, etc. Might just be a plugin to several popular IM clients.
I was just idling on their channel when irungentoo got me banned for my post here.
It would be nice if flagging had a generic selection as in stackexchange reasons for flagging, and users could vote to remove flags.

While there are certainly highly up-voted topics that deserve to go to the bottom for other reasons - I don't think this is one of them.
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Yeah, that's quite questionable. They need to be able to handle and defend criticism better if they want to make it in INFOSEC. Especially if they ever get press like Cryptocat or Diaspora did.
Not really, but only because any time I have for writing is better spent writing code—i.e. better for the community, plus I like writing software more than writing about writing software.

To assuage your curiosity, though, the subtleties have to do with trying to make sure the design is consistent with itself and with other parts of HN. There is more than one way to generalize flagging, and some of the ways we tried led either to unwanted behaviors or unwanted complexity. For example: if you vouch (that's the word we're using for anti-flagging, i.e. you vouch for a post if you think it shouldn't have been flagged) for an item and then un-vouch for it, it should go back to its previous state. Posts that were killed by software vs. by user flags have slightly different properties, and the vouch feature needs to preserve those. The way that flagging affects story rank is different from how it affects the life cycle (dead-or-aliveness) of a story, and vouching needs to be consistent with both.

When we release this, we'll have a thread about it and can discuss it more if people want to.
Yes, I have but we would have to be considered for summer in order to postpone our series A which we are commencing. If we raise money, we will not be able to do YC later on. I just know.
Great use case, upscaling print thumbnails.

Norman Tasfi made a Neural Net upscaler for Flipoard
http://engineering.flipboard.com/2015/05/scaling-convnets/

I expect video upscaling next.
Java 8 was the first version to do so natively, but out of curiosity what was stopping you from using a library (like Bouncy Castle) to handle encryption in earlier versions of Java?
Why aren't the name/Tox ID requirements listed on the site? I tried registering a few times and got an "invalid" error each time.
> We have gotten so good at processing foods that for the first time in human evolution, many humans are getting more calories than they burn in a day.

Uhm... That statement seems a little odd/imprecise/unqualified.

I guarantee every single one of our ancestors was able to, on average, obtain more food-calories than they needed... for all of the days and years it took them to grow up and procreate your next ancestor.
The proper solution isn't nuclear, it's distributed storage like the tesla powerwall.

Nuclear reactors can be build in a safe way, it's the storage of spend fuel that makes them uneconomical because of the high cost to do it properly.
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No, according to the article, it was issued by the Ecuadorian consul in London, who issued the document because he felt it was an emergency and he couldn't get in contact with the Ecuadorian president. The Ecuadorian president clarified several days later that the consulate in London did not have the authority to issue that document. The safe passage document wasn't revoked, it was never valid to begin with.
I've updated the post to include additional low-noise-reduction filter examples. Thank you for reminding me to look at them!
Their words, not mine. And Apple doesn't have to kill Spotify: it's important to remember though that Spotify exists basically at the pleasure of the music industry at this point. By all accounts they aren't contributing a lot to the bottom line, and I have always gotten the sense that record execs are just viscerally uneasy with Spotify's freemium model--they want to move towards a world where people become (re-)accustomed to paying more, not less, for music. How this all shakes out with Apple is anyone's guess but if there is one value which Apple certainly does not espouse, it's "free". I think record execs are way happier to be in bed with that sort of company in the long term.
for comparison sake, can someone share the time taken to upscale some of these images?
Related, this really cool project:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/
Multiple return values is now handled in C++ with tuples and std::tie.
The NN was explicitly trained for artifact-free PNG sources of anime fanart. Which it handles quite well according to my own testing[1]

Its benefits are questionable if used on anything else.

I've also tested it on anime screenshots and in that case it's it pretty much is en par there with NNEDI3 (which is computationally much cheaper) because real world encodes actually have compression artifacts and those get scaled too if you disable noise reduction or everything is smoothed out too much if you leave it on.

So if you want to use it on anything else you really do have to retrain the NN first, otherwise you get results you could also achieve by other means (e.g. warpsharp, NNEDI or Photoshop Topaz)

Also, waifu2x only scales luma. Its chroma handling is just regular upscaling (whatever imagemagick uses by default. I think), so even that part could be improved.

[1] http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1722990&postcount=3
Fair enough. Although even then I would consider using a function or a class or lambda first, I suppose as long as you completely control the code being evaled it's not fundamentally different than any other string or code on the server. It would still fill me with a gnawing sense of dread though.
Great point. FWIW, I've updated the post to include some of the cartouches, along with a cartouche at the "low noise reduction" level. The two lines in the fourth character appear to still be relatively distinct in this case.
Not saying your lying or anything. But if you make accusations like that you should probably back them up with a chat log.
“At the moment, mobility is crushing the soul: Don’t speed, don’t drink, don’t text. [...] What inspires me... is giving back people their lifestyles, so they can do what they want to do: texting, vegging out, drinking.”

Texting, vegging out, and drinking: truly the heights to which the soul would soar if not crushed by the villain of driving.
> The personalities that fit there well don't fit elsewhere very well.

Source?

I think NSA employs over 30k people. You're going to make a baseless claim that they all share one common personality trait, making them a poor fit for any other possible place of employ, in the whole world?

Really?
I think you're forgetting about the CA. Why would the certs you created be signed by a CA clients respect?
How does that follow? There are billions of computers on Earth. On Mars there may be fewer than one hundred. The odds are not even remotely comparable.

Secondly, if all of the computers on Earth die we can still go outside and breathe the air, drink water from rivers and lakes, gather plants and hunt wild game for food. None of those options are available on Mars. If the computer controlling life support suddenly fails, what options are there to survive? All of this has to be planned for and taken into account. If there is nobody on Mars capable of repairing the life support system (including its software) then they are utterly dependent on the communication link back to Earth.
Just to play the devil's advocate, one might just as easily argue that the self-selecting of you and your like-minded peers actually made the NSA's recruiting tasks easier. If you have some moral / ethical / rational belief systems that are inherently incompatible with their organizational DNA, a perfectly efficient recruiting machine would have sorted you into the "NO" pile anyway. Likewise, people more well-suited (for the sake of making ourselves feel better, we'll call them morally challenged) - might now be more inclined to sort themselves "in." So, they might have merely saved themselves some additional interview analysis and (assuming a less than perfect screening process) perhaps even prevented another Snowden Affair.
To be clear, I am not asserting that any of this is true, but I suspect that my unfounded speculation using incomplete data is no less reasonable than yours.
Algolia is mind blowing. We are replacing mysql backend with algolia and its bringing down latencies from 300-400 ms down to 10-20 ms. Things like out of the box multi location support and full text search etc makes algolia compelling choice.

All this at $49/ month is actually a good deal!

I wish them well.
>>Actually, the two are very related. While one is bound by law enforcement and the other is a "voluntary expenditure" they both accomplish the same goal, taxing those who have the least to give.

That's literally the only common thing between them. This doesn't make them "very related." It makes them tangentially related at best.

>>For example. Drinking water is voluntary but if you go without water you might get the feeling it's a little more than a choice...

Wow, so now you're comparing purchasing lottery tickets to drinking water. Amazing.
To be fair, driving is a huge pain in the ass. I love commuting by train, because I can read a book or take a nap instead of having to watch the road.
Apparently Docker are aware of this problem, but putting a huge Python init process in there is just evil.

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/11529

And the problem appears in such edge cases that it is doubtfully worthy of so much attention. When a pid-1 process spawns daemons, that in turn leave orphaned zombies - this pid-1 will get assigned with them. (described in 'man 7 pid_namespaces')

Supposedly this non-init pid1 is not reaping orphaned zombies, which might get the namespace to pid_max (33k default) and run out of pids to use.
One of the issues that most other comments have forgotten and you have ignored in your statement is, do you have peer reviewed research? Do you have, or do you have plans to become, FDA approved? You say you have an 80% reduction in tumor formation. Which types? How many human trials have you done? What was the success rate in a double blind? Medicine is a super exciting field and gets a massive amount of funding. However, it also gets a high level of scrutiny due to the human risk involved.
Chat logs of which bit are you after?
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And so I will continue to avoid C++ because I'm not a master and will not avoid the many pitfals, and I want to get things done, not become a master of C++.
yeah go/rust error handling is great. Much better than exceptions which make the code hard to read since you can't easily predict where is the flow going to jump. And the multiple-return is very convenient in this case too.

Also, with Go's approach you have to either explicitly ignore the error or deal with it.
> But it makes you wonder why anti-bitcoiners create discussion boards when they have no stake in bitcoin's failure

It's actually pretty simple to explain. Buttcoin was the invention of the Something Awful community, which exists primarily to mock stuff on the Internet for comedy purposes. The fact of the matter is that the Bitcoin community is stuffed to the gills with all sorts of absurd and ill-informed beliefs which make it a rich source for mockery (and thus comedy). Given that this behavior is so common online, it's curious that the Bitcoin community doesn't seem to get why this is happening.
NNEDI3 is fantastic - thank you for providing a link and some samples!

You're absolutely right that I shouldn't have said "normal". I update the post to clarify that this was using "OSX Preview". I did some hunting but didn't find any obvious pointers as to which algorithm they're using. If anyone knows offhand I'll be happy to include it!
> I expect video upscaling next.

There is a directshow filter (madvr[1]) for windows that already offers a neural network scaler {NNEDI3, simpler network than waifu2x) in realtime.

[1] http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=146228
This animal has failed at evolution on practically every level. Such a waste of effort to keep them alive while continuing to kill off so many other species. 1000 years from now it will just be us, the cockroaches, and pandas.
NNEDI3, which I mentioned in another comment, can be used for video upscaling, and was in fact built for video processing in the first place.
Wow, Skype must have really cemented its place in public conscience as an instant messaging service.

I would think a new service should support video chat before comparing itself to Skype, but no. (I am actually seeking an open-source alternative to Skype that supports video conferencing: I know of audio clients/services, but not about video)
we can't hold people accountable (who wrote it? an intern from 8 years ago? punishing them does no good). We can't hold organizations accountable (recall all the consumer routers!) because public policy doesn't think that way.

Contrast that with the completely different approach taken by the aerospace industry, where people and organisations are held accountable; and it has resulted in great reliability overall --- interesting discussion about that here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9569077

We're in a weird period of history where companies can get away with great computational damage with no repercussions at all

In critical software for a plane it is literally a matter of life or death, and people are willing to pay much more for that level of quality; but if a consumer router gets exploited, what's the worse that could happen?

I think it is important to put the risk into perspective: this is bad, but it's not really a people could get killed sort of thing.
Which FOAs are you funded under?

Pharm is a terrible market to get funded in, if only because it's highly speculative, has very long lead times, and uncertain returns. Have you looked into angel funding instead of VC? For example, something like Dallas' Health Wildcatters (http://healthwildcatters.com/), which is an angel syndicate that currently has an oncology pharma company in their portfolio. Private equity might also be an option -- you'll give up control, but less so than you would in an outright buyout.

Obviously, the key questions are going to be where you are in trials, what universities you've partnered with, pretty much anything that could reduce investor risk. An 80% reduction in tumorigenesis (which kinds?) is a pretty bold claim, but definitely is an attention-getter!
The bug wasn't just corrupting the data in the file after the weird sequence of API calls.

It was corrupting it with data from other files on the disk, which could have been sensitive.

Where this was particularly troubling was that an unprivileged user could then use this as an exploit/attack on the system to get it to leak pages of system files. This is where fun stuff like pass-the-hash begins.
picture is obviously not enough. How about a short video where customer clearly pronounces the authorization and makes his/her unique "signature" dance?
Almost certainly some statistical method - perhaps Bayesian.
I like dvorak and use it all the time, but I think there's another reason for the tendency of dvorak users to become proficient touch typists that doesn't have anything to do with any intrinsic property of dvorak. When you learn dvorak on a qwerty keyboard, there is less temptation to look at your fingers because all the keys are labeled wrong.
It seems really doubtful a startup would have two breakthrough drugs in different categories. I wouldn't answer an email with this information either. Plus the light conspiracy talk about pharma companies wanting a treatment not a cure... It reduces your legitimacy. Look at the hepatitis cure, it's one of the biggest blockbusters of recent history.

How have you funded the R&D necessary to discover these compounds?
Yea, maybe not even rules -- we can do better those days than giving out a set of rules for users and expecting them to follow.

The ideal I think would be a "global optimizer" for commuter traffic (with fairness included in the objective function, i.e. nobody is screwed too much in the name of the commons), and appropriate individual-level tracking and statistics. That way you could be told:

"You should hop-in in the bus X which will take only Y minutes.", updated in real time. If you don't follow the recommendation maybe you pay a more expensive fare and the system adjusts.
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I've only ever seen it as 'pon, which like wav'ring or 'neath, doesn't indicate to me a new word, just a poetical elision of an unwanted syllable. At any rate, word or not-word, it's rare enough that I'd think it an error if I encountered it in a typing improvement program from 2015.
Here is some concept art from Zoox, I'm not sure if they have pivoted from this idea or not though.

http://ideas.4brad.com/world-goes-gaga-cool-concept-prototyp...

I'm glad autonomous and electric vehicles are quickly becoming a thing, this will be great to have.
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Okay, how about reading a book? Writing something? Talking (gasp, how old fashioned) to people?

Or, even better, just not getting on the road right now because the self-driving cars are trying to reduce congestion.
Something to keep in mind:

Of all Tox clients, uTox is written in C, using its own UI framework that directly interfaces with X11 and WinAPI. This makes the code itself a mess. The reasoning behind this is that it's somewhat of a meme on /g/ that anything but pure C code is "bloat". I tried contributing a bit last year, did some work on copy/pasting inline images, and found a remote code execution vuln. Then I got fed up with how terribly confusing the codebase was for something so simple. I'm not a professional programmer or anything, just a student, but it seems like it's the same for everyone else in the project.
Why do I really need to any of that? I've written tens of thousands of words for you, for free, etc.

From my perspective, catching flak for picayune errors is a powerful motivation-sapping force. I realize nobody likes typos, but in revising these things for publication I generally go over them N-1 times, where N is the number that would make me delete everything and replace it with a 410 Gone page.

The fact that some NPR person is afraid of spiders makes me happy that I used that image.

Finally, you should have written "turned them off", not "turned them of". See? Not so easy.
sadly probably too little too late. see the "Speculation About The Eventual Death Of Bitcoin" thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9576777