skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adding insult to injury, that paper isn't even 100% correct, there is a subsequent comment paper pointing out the errors.

Here [1] is a full-text link to a better paper explaining blackbody radiation properly.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.5696
Have you read the article?

"it is possible that the finalizer and constructor are running concurrently."
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Hah.. so what happens when the "current thinking" changes? It could change later today for all we know?
Couldn't you just buy your own private health insurance that does cover that doctor or hospital? I'm guessing it might be for the same reason your insurance company (or your employer) doesn't want to: it's too expensive for what you get.
I like having options too, I'd really like the option of driving a new mercedes instead of 14 year-old toyota, for the same amount of money, but I don't think it's my employer or anyone else's responsibility to make it happen.
If you are going and writing the whole thing before showing it to the advisor, it doesn't sound like you were being supervised very well - in physics it seems more common to work on a cycle of writing, showing, rewriting, etc.
So it sounds like I should learn Django or Rails.

Anyone know a good tutorial for Django? I figure I'll look at both until one becomes an obvious choice.

Thanks!
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I really wish I could downvote a direct reply. There is one paper. Green, the primary author, retracted it when LaCour, the grad student, failed to do so. But just because the author says "this paper is full of lies" doesn't mean Science will admit it.
There is this paper by Joulin & Mikolov: Inferring Algorithmic Patterns with Stack-Augmented Recurrent Nets (http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.01007).

In this case, the memory of the RNN is an ensemble of differentiable stacks.
Not unheard of...

http://www.freerangekids.com/mom-jailed-for-letting-her-9-y-...

Or how about two kids being kidnapped by police officers, driven around for three hours before being brought to the station, and only then was the parent notified. I'm sure that did a world of good for the kids. [1]

[1] http://nypost.com/2015/04/13/cops-coerced-our-kids-into-squa...
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Investment banks have a cozy relationship with VC, often as the source of significant portions of their funds. VCs have relationships with the startups that are most likely to go public, often with controlling stakes by the time they actually go public. It's a standard case of reciprocal back patting. It takes a well bootstrapped and successful company to buck the trend, and those are rare.
The only situation where I can't find a way to avoid them is handing out managed objects as COM to unmanaged clients.
That sounds like a cool instrument, would be interested in hearing what it sounds like, do you have any clips of you playing it?

I like the idea of a guitar that can easily reach lower registers. Whilst 7-string (and in Charlie Hunter's case, 8-string) guitars are possibly more versatile, I'm quite partial to baritone guitars. This sounds beautiful to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_06O8XnJQo

Talking of unconventional instruments, you may be interested in hearing these microtonal guitars, I think the second one in particular sounds pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRsSjh5TTqI
This is a collection of notes that I took while listening to the wonderful Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lecture series that Stanford puts on.

The book is free but if purchased through Leanpub (https://leanpub.com/we_can_all_change_the_world/) all royalties will go to Oxfam America which is helping out in Nepal right now.
But liquidity is valuable, and may be worth all the costs. The average P/E ratio for the stock market is ~15, while a small private business will only have a ratio of 3 or 4.
This felt like watching Ex Machina. Thanks a lot, this was extremely informative and super fun.
> where our fix reached product in sub 10 minutes

Wow. Nicely done!
Wow, this "vault" is in shambles.
Augur is currently pre-alpha, and built on top of Ethereum, which is pre-beta. However, everything's developed in the open, so you're welcome to get set up and see how things look. Email me if you run into any roadblocks. niran@niran.org.

https://github.com/AugurProject/augur-client
Not really, there are clearly epigenetic changes to neuron DNA w/r to memory formation and I don't think anyone has estimated what kind of computational firepower that represents.

Second, the 3D topology of a neuron is IMO more complex than reducing it to an FP32 activation threshold (all IMO of course).

Finally, I have to admit as a former biologist, I'm intrigued by microtubule activity and it seems like Dileep George and even Geoffrey Hinton are heading towards smarter but fewer neurons as opposed to just increasing the neuron count. Not surprisingly, the deep learning digerati are resisting this notion mightily just like the SVM peeps harped on neural networks until they kicked them in the keester.

TLDR: It's still early, and I'm biased that there are some interesting twists and turns yet to unfold here.
I understand why this view point can be wrong. But instead of just downvoting him. Why not give a link or two, to correct him?
i cannot give this enough up-votes.
> Is this experience common? How do you respond to this?

It's shocking to encounter inept, inexperienced, socially repulsive corporate executives who think they can magically screen-out candidates in :60 seconds. Uncommon, but not unheard of.

Why do some companies seem to attract talent, while others struggle? May I submit that good leadership attracts good talent. You dodged a bullet with these bozos.

Currently, it's a buyers market for your skill set. You have MORE power than you think. Next time, take control of the conversation-- lead with probing questions important to you. If they're serious, you'll enjoy a good two-way dialog.
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HighCharts is great, but it is prohibitively expensive for a startup to use in their product.
> [Akka] doesn't play nice with any other Java (or Clojure) concurrency mechanism

I've been using Akka in combination with Scala's Futures, with Java 8's CompletableFutures, with Rx Observables, with in-house asynchronous queues and I can't see how Akka doesn't play nice. With the introduction of the reactive streams protocol, piping streams of events between multiple libraries becomes really easy as well.

> Java code doesn't work that way, and certainly doesn't integrate with Scala futures.

Akka exposes a Future interface for Java, however I don't see the problem with working with Java's CompletableFuture or whatever is in Guava. I've done that, it's quite OK. Also, along with Scala 2.12 (now in milestone), Futures from Scala will be usable straight from Java 8.

> With Quasar you'll likely write the REST endpoint in standard JAX-RS, and run it on top of Tomcat or Jetty or JBoss.

You can do that with Akka as well, I've done that, I don't see the problem there.

> Akka does require you to write asynchronous code throughout the entire call-stack.

I've worked on an RTB system processing over 30000 transactions per second, I'm working now on a system processing real-time events coming from industrial machines. I've been using Akka where it makes sense and while I only played with Quasar, I do have a lot of experience with Gevent and Eventlet in Python and the bit about "synchronous" and "blocking" code being easier (while cheating by patching connections) is bullshit, for one because sometimes it doesn't work creating more problems than it solves and because it doesn't simplify anything of importance. People should write asynchronous code throughout the entire call-stack, it's doable and fun with the right tools ;-)

I expanded a little for the why in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9585424
I believe the early investors can't completely cash out since they're probably subject to a lock up period on the majority of their holdings.
This is so true. A UK PhD is a gloried three year honours degree. Here in Australia traditionally PhDs averaged over 4 years (I took nearly 5 years, but I was working full time for the last 18 months after my scholarship ran out). I knew only one person who finished in the regulation time of three years - most people got most of their results in the last year.

When I was an academic my university put great pressure on us to get our students out in under 3 years citing the UK system. Of course when we raised the problems the UK system (ie having our students graduate with no papers) would have on them we were told basically to shut up and do what ever it took to get the students out on time. It became pretty common for supervisors to write their students dissertation and for more senior researchers to 'gift' results to students to get them out on time.
Equityzen made a infographic showing some of the previous investments and investors for Shopify. You can see it here: https://equityzen.com/path-to-ipo/shopify/
We're in the RRSG now, we joined last year (better late than never) - that said - speaking as somebody who has been on the CIRA board and involved in early ICANN Whois TF, there isn't a lot that can be done about it. Registrars are pretty much a captive audience with zero power wrt ICANN and governance in general.
What about chicks?
It's across the street from Digital Ocean HQ -- interesting.
This is not really a point release. OCaml versions a little different, a version number has three parts: Super-Major.Major.Patch. Super-Major releases are incredibly rare, the last one was the bump to 4, which was done since the language now supports GADTs (while staying compatible with OCaml 3.x). I don't even know what caused the bump from 2.x to 3.00. Then the Major part is a normal release in which many features may be added. The format is always two digits, of which the first may as well be a 0. The Patch part is just for fixes, stuff that was broken and overlooked when the release was done.

So OCaml 4.03.0 is basically 4.3.0 in a Python-esque versioning scheme (remember how many changes were done between Python 2.2.0 and 2.7.0?).
>But, I do believe the original commenter misunderstood my question. Why is it that we humans, when armed with how a computer works, can identify halting problems? Why do we not get stuck in a loop when studying a potential halting problem?

Well, given my current understanding, I'd say it's because human beings reason inductively. We pick up new axioms by observing our environment, which includes things like equations and programs. Since we reason inductively, we're only bound by incompleteness theorems for phenomena too random/complex for our current understanding. We "catch up" eventually to be able to solve computability problems, at least to some degree.
Any chance of collaboration between the two projects?
It's fine to spend $5 on a cup of coffee, but "information wants to be free" even if it's the product of years and years of grueling work.

This petulant entitled mentality is vile, especially when it's directed at a free labor of love like this. If people don't like it they shouldn't use it, and nobody is making anyone donate anything.

Edit: the thing I'm really responding to here is the holier-than-thou ideology you see around this topic from time to time, and the negativity directed at this and other developers for daring to suggest that their work might be worthy of some form of compensation. It's total nonsense. It's not about some high-minded "community ideal." People are just being greedy and cheap.

How and under what terms someone releases their work is their choice, not yours. The only choice you have is whether or not to partake.
I want my 8x8 cube back...

The current 5x5 feet of open office space I have has led me to mostly work from home.
If you're working with .net code that uses finalizers (especially if those sections were written by people unlikely to read articles like this, though good programmers screw this up too), chances are that there are latent issues in your application that will manifest as sudden application crashes with little to no debugging information.

I found myself in such a situation. Books like Advanced .NET Debugging [1] will help you regain your sanity.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-NET-Debugging-Mario-Hewardt/d...
Are they a profitable company yet?
I get depressed cabin-fevery if I spend many days working from home. Going to a cafe, outdoors, or any change of scenery generally helps. I think part of it is that I've officially married my relaxing escape from the office with all the bad features of the office, and that takes a mental toll after a while.

I know others that do, but salaried or not, I'm a 9-5er and I don't degrade my hourly rate by putting in extra hours unless they're absolutely necessary for an infrequent crunch. For me, seeing colleagues that put in 15 hour days at soulless BigCo detracts significantly from the bigger salaries they may be getting.

Making my home the office is no different from making the office my home, as makes it feel like I never mentally stop working.

Plus they have better chairs and internet than I'd care to buy
Let Unity3d eat them.
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the quants who study this stuff find that first-day performance is not always predictive of future success/failure. For every Zynga burnout, you have stocks like Zen Desk, Linkedin or Google that keep going up after their IPO pop.
Though some, such as Nominet (*.uk) are bringing in not dissimilar procedures: http://www.nominet.org.uk/how-participate/policy-development...

Many ccTLD registries have stricter policies when it comes to WHOIS data, and actively audit their contact databases for dubious data, place restrictions on contact updates, or actively review registrations and contact updates to ensure that the contact data provided is valid.

.me, .co, .io, .ac, .sh, and a few others, are relatively easy-going. .us is straightforward enough too, and though there are technically restrictions on who can register .us domains, they're not really enforced all that actively by Neustar. I really like the .me registry: they're good people.
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Is it necessary to have the screen/VR features of the Occulus Rift to do the facial expression recognition? Or, is data from something more lightweight, e.g. Google Glass, adequate to do facial recognition?

Looking forward to better virtual meetings, less flying.
Yes, this is one of the cases where ML modules are elegant, since you can put the definition of the type into its own module, so it becomes F.t and P.t and you avoid field name clashes.
Google did auction blocks of shares. They ended up getting less for the shares than they were expecting to sell them for, and the price still rose by 18% later in the day.

On paper the Vickrey auction method still makes far more sense, but bankers don't like it because they can't give preferential treatment to their favoured clients.
Disproof by counter example: Singapore (the "history/culture of democracy" is arguable I suppose).
But at the same time, you can't expect places to not have free snacks out just because you can't deal with them. And for the record, I actually hate having snacks around too but that's something that I feel like I need to deal with myself.

It must be really difficult to be an alcoholic in a workplace environment where people drink regularly. But being an alcoholic in general must be really difficult because of the emphasis that our society puts on social drinking.
> Your characterization of Science "standing by what they printed no matter what" is a gross distortion of the facts here, as Science has done no such thing.

I have to disagree; I think jacquesm has the comment closest to the truth.

My comment is a minor distortion of the facts -- later in the article we get this:

> Science tweeted that it was assessing the retraction request and would in the meantime publish “an Editorial Expression of Concern.”

Here's the thing. Science isn't doing any research itself. Once a paper's author has admitted the data was faked, there is no role for Science to play; they can't look into the past and determine that it was actually real. They've acknowledged receipt of the message, and they're willing to print a notice that the paper is a lie -- but they don't want to retract it, because that would damage their record.

> The world isn't going to end because Science hasn't yet made a decision on May 21 about something sent to them on May 19.

They have made a decision. They're going to print an unofficial warning. Without more pressure from the public, they will not print a retraction.

Remember, Green is the primary author. He contacted them; for them to contact him is somewhat superfluous.
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>Many traditional real estate investors are perplexed by WeWork’s $5 billion valuation. With that kind of money, you could build the world’s most expensive skyscraper—One World Trade Center, which at 3 million square feet has roughly the same cumulative amount of office space as WeWork—and still have $1 billion left over.

I'm as dismissive of ridiculous startup valuations as anyone, but this seemed like a weird way to evaluate whether their value was justified.

For reference, here are a couple of other similar statistics:

* There are about 250M Apple devices in use (100M/yr * 2.5 yr lifespan). At 750B market cap, they're worth $3000 per i____ out there, or enough to buy every one of their users an iPhone and still have $500B left over.

* There are about 200,000 active Uber drivers, and they're valued at $50B. That's $300,000 per driver, or enough to buy every one of their drivers a Tesla and still have $40B left over.
Google "jetbrains dbe dmg" and it'll link you their knowledge base article with download links to the latest version. It's seriously a fantastic program!
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If you can think of a way to make an alternative DNS root take off, I'm all ears. If you can some up with a non-hierarchical alternative to DNS that (a) is as fast as DNS, (b) isn't prone to spoofing or squatting, (c) isn't riddled with security and trust issues, and (d) actually works, I'm also all ears.

Personally, I don't think it'll happen any time soon. The only successful DNS fork is North Korea's.
Where do I apply? I spend too much time surrounded by snow and not enough time near a beach.
But notice that pretty much every screen has a false positive rate. So some percentage of the healthy people screened are going to be incorrectly told that their sick, and therefore get treated for an illness they don't have. The more people you screen, the more that's going to happen. And when the treatments are things like surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, etc, that's a pretty big deal.

Also, not everything that shows up in a screen was going to be a problem. It could be that it might have never been a problem. Quoting Wikipedia about mammography:

>> While this ability to detect such very early breast malignancies is at the heart of claims that screening mammography can improve survival from breast cancer, it is also controversial. This is because a very large proportion of such cases will not progress to kill the patient, and thus mammography cannot be genuinely claimed to have saved any lives in such cases; in fact, it would lead to increased sickness and unnecessary surgery for such patients.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_cancer_screening#Critic...
You'll be delighted to hear that OPAM curently features >800 libraries, too.
Purely out of curiosity, do your coworkers know that you don't drink or are you trying to keep it a secret (which is totally understandable)?
If you're simple, clear and first, you're going to get plenty of citations, though.
Fully agree with you - there are problems and problems, and 'use the right tool for the right job' should always be the way to go.

hashtalbe or flat files,huh, hard to believe this is going to be useful for a non-trivial app as 'data storage engine'(so to say).
You will have to implement everything yourself:
- concurrency - several users updating one and the same entry
- data consistency - to return the data as of the start of the 'select' for the user,what about others who updated the entry but still didn't commit.
- security - fine grain access to specific data entries - what can be extracted by whom, what about auditing(who did what at what time and etc.)
- backup/recovery
and etc.

More code most of the time means more bugs.
Not everyone is Google , Amazon or Facebook to have the resources to create good custom solutions and support, improve them.

For most cases, a simple rdbms database will provide you with enough 'standard' functionality to not reinvent the wheel(think security,concurrency,consistency and etc.) = to code these on your own from scratch.

But in the end, it's again the nature of the problem(whether at all you'll need security, concurrency or consistency and etc.). It's nice to know what the database as a tool gives you , and I don't think this is the case nowadays - too many java/.net, and many other developers , have no idea what they can get out of a database. And I really hate when one spent several weeks to write something that could be done in several hours by using a specific database feature.
Nothing stopping you (or them) from from reselling domain registration from another registrar - but being accredited gets you more features and very cheap registrations.
Will be interesting to see how the free coworking space works out.
Awesome article. Yeah, they're screwed. I thought they had stopped repayment so they could keep paying people inside Greece.
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"Low risk" is not "no risk". I mean, heck, look at 2008. People invested in index funds - frequently considered one of the lowest-risk, most stable stock vehicles - lost 50%+ of their invested value in a hurry.

It grows compounding at 7% year-over-year because it's invested in companies and people that are growing their own businesses because of it. Money doesn't just grow on its own; capital accounts don't accumulate by virtue of their own gravitational pull. The degree of risk doesn't really change the fact that that capital is risked as investment hopefully helping other people succeed, rather than just sitting in a Scrooge McDuck swimming vault somewhere. You can still lose it, and it has to be somewhere that someone else is using it to produce wealth in order for your own accounts to grow.
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Great, now I've gotten recommendations for all three of the big backends. :)

Node.js, does make sense: I would like to screw around with D3 eventually, so knowing js sounds useful.

Do you know any tutorials for Node?
I can't comment on EU law but the ability to redistribute the (modified) code is also a defining characteristic of open source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
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Douglas Crockford touches on this aspect in this entertaining and insightful talk [0]. I'm guilty of what you state and I think a large part of "programming" is rudimentary boiler plate coding/configuration and staring into the Abyss. I think our role will be to design algorithms and come up with creative solutions/hacks (which would be difficult for a program) and designing a workflow/flow chart and feeding it into a program which spits out binaries and flag for edge cases. A whole swat industries and economies (read outsourcing) will become redundant and only outsourcing done would be to the generator.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taaEzHI9xyY
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