skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> our conception of the structure of matter has undergone several radical changes in the course of scientific history

Really? The original conception (or at least the commonly accepted one--even some ancient Greeks hit on the idea of atoms) was that matter was continuous, and it is pretty close to being continuous. Then we started to make observations that indicated that matter was made of atoms. Then we began to get data that indicated that atoms were made of smaller parts. Where is the radical change?

> Another example would be the question of whether the universe has a beginning in time. There really isn't any middle ground there.

Sure there is. What if the concept of "a beginning in time" isn't well-defined, because "time" is not a fundamental property? It's quite possible that both viewpoints--the universe had a beginning in time, and the universe didn't--are useful approximations to something deeper.
Also, one particularly notorious retracted study mixed up MDMA and meth...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retracted_article_on_dopaminerg...
He suggests using ionCube and alike.

The biggest problem with ionCube is that it requires support from hosting company providers. Some do not support it and then your customers cannot use your ionCube-encoded software.

Zencoder offers 100%-hosting supported solution. It's ability to be decoded by geeks is not a problem. It's 80/20 solution and it good enough for wordpress-plugin protection type of purposes.
Definitely worth effort from my side.
Don't be sad. I'm happy to update the blog post as needed. By overfitting, do you mean over-optimizing the results on the validation set? Based on what I understand about nested CV, it is only necessary if 1. the hold-out validation set is way too small and not representative of the overall data distribution, or 2. if the model training procedure itself is unstable and produces models with wildly varying results on the same dataset.

To prevent overfitting to the training data, one performs hold-out validation or cv or early stopping in the training process.

To prevent overfitting of hyperparameters to a small validation dataset, or to mitigate the variance of the model training outcome, one can use nested cv.

Is that along the lines of you were looking for?
I just wrote a comment specifically warning people against buying this very model. I have the 20A7/20A8 model. Does your clickpad rattle and require more force than every other laptop? Does your function row take half a second every time you want to switch rows? Do your function row keys only respond when you press forcefully in specific locations that are near but not the same as their icons? Does your HDMI audio work? You obviously don't have the Linux wifi problems I do. What distro do you use?

I agree that the "speed, strength, lightness, battery life and quiet" is excellent by the way.
They shouldn't have introduced the bias in the first place and used generic names.
Linux is so inherently insecure that it's hard to say without processor & toolchain modifications. What you can do is follow lead of the others: combine a microkernel (eg OKL4, OC.L4) with paravirtualized Android with security-critical components running outside of Android. The Nizza Architecture [1] below illustrates this. A better, but commercial, approach [2] shows how to handle drivers and some other things better. It's been deployed in a ridiculous number of phones with success. So, standardize on a phone, audit/test the crap out of the drivers, put an OKL4/Nizza-style architecture on it, and pull out anything security-critical to run on microkernel with careful input validation & state management. Should reduce TCB, increase reliability, and prevent spoofing if you fully implement Nitpicker for mobile. Hope that helps.

Quick note: be sure to clear all internal registers and cache if kernel transitions from trusted software to untrusted software if you're worried about covert channels (esp key leaking). Both of those can leak keys to professionals if they compromised the Android portion.

[1] http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/papers_ps/nizza.pdf

[2] http://www.eit.lth.se/fileadmin/eit/project/142/virtApproach...
I do it, it works great. I don't run it as my primary OS only because of battery life and software support (e.g. Sketch). But those things are true of Linux in general, not the hardware.
Interesting answer Phil. When you say larger consultancy firms do you mean firms similar to the size of Accenture?
How as he clearly sexist? The girl didn't know anything and was speaking out of her ass and wasting everybody's time.
Wow. I'm not even sure where to begin. Clearly, you do not understand what we are talking about when we say "cultural fit".

People do work differently. They have their own communication styles, leadership styles, and working styles. Some of those styles work better together than others. That is is not a judgment call of saying any one style is better or worse, it is just saying that mixing incompatible styles can build a dysfunctional team. So knowing who you have on board, and how they work and communicate, lets you hire compatible styles.

This has nothing to do with diversity of people. Very diverse people can still have compatible working styles.
It's a kid... you try.

Worked a 3 year old a couple weeks ago with an unknown downtime in a pool (up to 15 minutes). He was dead from the outset (initial rhythm was asystole), and he stayed dead (much warmer water in this case), but you still try...

This is especially true for cold-water drownings. Downtimes even longer than 42 minutes with full recoveries are not unheard of. You're not dead until you're warm and dead.
If by "automated" you mean "cheap/free," no.

If by "automated" you mean "I don't have to do any work" irrespective of cost, yes.

When you "scan" a book, you're taking photos of the pages, which you can then run through OCR, but OCR, even of a page scanned with a flatbed scanner, is not going to understand page layout and a variety of typefaces perfectly. You're going to have a lot of errors to correct, and usually some reformatting to do, and adding in the text that OCR missed because it was part of an image or something.

You can do it yourself, comparing the scan to the OCR'd text, a layperson can edit and correct ~18 lines per minute, probably an entire weekend of your time.

You can hire a professional editor, who can edit and correct ~25 lines per minute, probably a few to several hundred dollars (USD) per book.

You could Mechanical Turk it, but I'm not sure the math and time trade-off works out, given that you have to have the edits confirmed and redone, either by other turkers, or by you.

At the end, you could have an hOCR file that you could readily turn into an ePub or something else, but there's no magic solution. (These figures are based on research and testing I did in 2013, using hOCR editing tools and hiring and timing a professional editor versus myself.)
I wish I could remember where it was at, just within the last week I recall reading several unfavorable opinions about System 76. It was either here, on Reddit, or the FreeBSD forums.

I had been considering one of their laptops due to the apparent extensive Linux support and wonderful "unicorns and puppies" praise on some of the Jupiter Broadcasting podcasts (until it hit me that System 76 is a huge sponsor and so they wouldn't be saying anything negative about them) but the comments I just read caused me to strike them from my short list.
Im using Centos 7 on a thinkpad x201. No issues with a standard install.
The main problem of Tesla is that they are interested in creating luxury cars that happen to be electric. I don't have any good feelings towards companies that target the ultra-rich, specially when they use public money for funding. Now, I know they say that they plan to create popular car, but who knows if that will ever be real? Even the CEO has changed his mind about the business several times. I would rather buy a Prius or a Leaf than subsidize this luxury car company.
This was a great read, I arrived in Costa Rica around the middle of last decade and there was no concept of prepaid cellphones and getting a cellphone at all required residency + waiting until ICE had them in stock. It's now much better since these journalists exposed that corruption.
Our customers don't see it so it doesn't matter how we "look". We can re-use existing design assets and UI elements. I can embed SVG charts drawn by D3, or anything else I can otherwise do with "an entire school bus".
What grabbed me was slide 8 which showed the sectors of the economy from most to least impacted by the Internet.

Consumers of course with 100% adoption was in first place. Lagging the field by far there was government which the Internet has barely affected.

Wonder how we could make entrepreneurs creating the next consumer app that the real opportunity for disruption is in the civic space? A place where the 'app store' has yet to be even created.
The first two spots are fairly easy decisions to make. Little John had the hardest choice to make, and Maid Marion the second hardest. Both chose rightly.

Your proposed swap is really weird, placing Little John above Robin Hood but Robin Hood above Maid Marion. It indicates that you accepted that Little John is the real mensch in this situation, yet identify with Robin Hood's caddish behavior anyway.

The real decision here is whether Robin Hood is more honorable than the Sheriff. Ultimately the Sheriff was more honest to his baser desires, whereas Robin became irrationally controlling when confronted with a difficult situation.

If you thought Little John should have gotten the prize, then to be consistent, you have to put Robin in the loser's spot. Robin Hood chose wrongly when confronted with a moral dilemma in a way that traumatized the very person responsible for his freedom.

Giving Robin more credit than he deserves indicates that you identify with the feelings he had. They're the feelings of sexual inadequacy and possessiveness.
In PinguTS's link, I found this document with a description on the RTOS:

https://github.com/ProjectVault/orp/blob/master/software/os/...

I'll review it later on. Anyone else want to chime in about its security at this point?
Question; does the pen work with the linux install?
What does it mean to "solve" a GoL variant?
>No commodification of another body is ethical, nor should be tolerated.

Why?
Nice, thanks for that!

I'm also a happy Thinkpad owner but have been considering a new one, although it's hard to find one that can compete with the two-year-old W530 I have now.
Socialists are self-centered. They demand things that they want from other people. To the extent that they want government to pay to take care of others, it's because they don't want to reach into their own pockets and pay help out themselves and "rich people" are seen as a collective resource to which somehow they are morally entitled to.

Libertarians, by contrast, are permissive to selfishness, which means they tolerate, say objectivists, but when they act in pro-social fashion they mean it because its their time and their money they're putting forward. Perhaps I experience selection bias, but I know many libertarians who volunteer to build homes for the needy, feed the poor, and have set up organizations to support homeless camps. By contrast, a smaller fraction of the liberals I know would ever do such things; that's the provenance of the state.
Great idea. Will run some experiments to see how it performs. It sounds analogous to kmeans++ initialization. Sobol sequences ring a bell. Some of the Bayesian optimization software libraries may in fact use a Sobol sequence of initial evaluations. But it may not be well documented.
Personally, I use a Macbook Pro. I don't want to spend time messing with my configuration files. I want to focus on what gets money flowing into my pocket.

To answer your question, I've heard great things about the Dell M3800. You can get Linux preloaded and get a higher resolution screen. Dell has worked with Canonical to make sure the hardware support is there.

Before this machine, I had a Thinkpad and I really had trouble understanding what all the hype was. I don't think I'd buy one now after Superfish.
Sticking with pointless jobs.
I know a guy who runs OSX and windows at the same time. He just swipes left to slide windows on and swipes right to get back to OSX. Since Linus uses a macbook for development I assume you can do the same thing with Linux.
Bam! Another example of people applying lessons of the past to make the present so much easier. Glad for them. Unsurprising with Cray given they're quite innovative and led the way in SIMD processing.
Interesting read, but as far as I can tell this article mostly makes a strong case that using HTTP/2 at all is an "anti-pattern" for most projects[1] today, for at least three reasons.

Firstly, the presentation seems to start by arguing that round-trip latency has much more of an impact on perceived performance than bandwidth, but then argues for several techniques whose principle advantage is saving small amounts of bandwidth. So how much improvement will these new techniques really offer over current best practices for "an average web site"?

Secondly, the presentation seems to argue that simplifying front-end development processes by avoiding things like resource concatenation is a big advantage of HTTP/2, yet despite repeatedly emphasizing the need for the server to provide just the right responses to make HTTP/2 work well, it almost completely ignores the inevitable challenges of actually configuring and maintaining a server to take advantage of all of these new techniques in a real, production environment, with rapidly evolving site structure and content, numerous contributors, etc.

Essentially, this seems to be advocacy for dumping tried, tested, universal "workarounds" for the limitations of HTTP/1.1 in favour of new techniques that work well with HTTP/2 and only HTTP/2, but as an industry we have relatively little experience in what actually works well or doesn't with HTTP/2 and we have relatively few tools and relatively little infrastructure available that support it right now. And crucially, making the shift is not by any means a neutral activity; it is actively and severely harmful to several of the most important tried-and-tested techniques we've used up to now.

Finally, there is the simple matter of trust or, if you want to be kinder, future-proofing. The presentation notes that Google are deprecating SPDY from early 2016. That is the supposed HTTP replacement that was the New Shiny... yesterday, I think, or maybe it was the day before. When arguing for fundamental and irreversible changes in the basic development process and infrastructure set-up, you lose all credibility when your so-called standards fall out of favour faster than a GUI or DB library from Microsoft, and when your own browser frequently breaks due to questionable caching and related behaviour.

It's certainly true that HTTP/1.1 isn't perfect and there are practical ways it could be improved, but I don't think this presentation makes a strong case for adopting HTTP/2 as the way forward.

[1] YMMV if you actually do work for Google/Facebook/Amazon, and you really do have practically unlimited resources available to maintain both your sites and your servers, and you really are making/losing significant amounts of money with every byte/millisecond difference.
I've seen this kind of story in psych class, the missing facts are not an error; they're the point of the story. What you fill in for these holes is supposed to tell something about you.

Another important missing fact: Was the Sherrif's offer time-limited? It makes a difference regarding whether or not he was coercing Maid Marion, whether she had an opportunity to discuss the proposition with Robin, and thus whether Robin is right in considering her actions a betrayal.
The entreprenurial government takes risks, and once in a while succeeds so wildly that the company can pay off the loans quickly.

"Tesla’s management knew that if they couldn’t get the government’s money at 3 or 4 percent interest, their next cheapest source of capital would cost 10 times more, a whopping 30 to 40 percent annually. [...] And if the government had wanted to bargain like a real venture capitalist, Tesla’s desperate need for cash gave the feds the power to demand options on half the company’s stock, or more." (http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/05/tesl...)

Important to deflate startup myths: corporate moochers love how government welfare "socializes the risks and privatizes the rewards." (http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/government-inves...)
Because it's a pointless argument. The government is so involved in the economy that marking the point of entry for subsidies is arbitrary and losing game for libertarians, because a progovernment argument can get as no true Scotsman on any libertarian position
Nice. Out of curiosity, how's the Retina display when booted into Linux? Does it work just as good as when running OS X?
It's mostly unknown in the popular consciousness. To the extent Americans know or connect to anything about old world history and places, it's basically western Europe, which includes the Romans and Greeks due to the Renaissance. (I think it's kind of a fossilized older English conception of the world, but there's lots of factors.) Plenty of exceptions, of course, where people also belong to another culture, in whole or in part, or have developed an interest elsewhere, but in general anything east of Germany or south of the Mediterranean is basically unknown. (It's not surprising; people know their own culture and maybe something about nearby or widespread ones. And nothing else is particularly nearby in the Americas.)

So if you're going to talk to lay people about ancient structures, you're going to talk Rome, or maybe some cathedrals, because otherwise you're not talking about the mechanics of ancient structures, you're talking about appreciation of otherwise unknown architecture, and that's not the same thing.
You can also use an http/2 reverse proxy in front like nghttp2 or H2O.

https://nghttp2.org/
https://h2o.examp1e.net/
The Lenovo T420 can't be beaten, to this day. You can sink three SSDs in the thing (one mSATA, one primary 2.5", one in place of the ODD), it survives a beating or two, it has the legendary classic ThinkPad keyboard (later models don't) and as late models have switched to U series CPUs, the full wattage Sandy Bridge CPU in there can keep up with many of the current models. Extensibility is not bad with an eSATAp port (or two if you dock). The dock has two DisplayPorts, the laptop has one. USB3 can be added via an ExpressCard.

The only other possibility I would entertain is the new Dell M3800 developer edition. The step up is significant: it has a quad core i7-4712HQ and Thunderbolt and 4K screen as an option. While even a well pimped out T420 is well below $1000 (starting at a few hundred, even), this one will run to $3K and more if you pile on everything. I'd get it if I needed Thunderbolt bandwidth but otherwise just go with the old.
Sounds like a really good idea. I assume you guys are gathering metrics on this, and will compare the demographics of people who got hired and rejected in the anonymous process vs. the previous one?
Yep indeed. What if. What if Marion had an opportunity to rescue Robin Hood ahead of time but allowed him to be captured as an excuse to sleep with the Sheriff? What if the sheriff was just testing the bond between Marion and Robin and knew that they wouldn't be right for each other so he did this to break them up? What if Robin abused Marion because the sheriff brainwashed him while he was in the dungeon? What if little john is actually a lesbian girl?

Honestly, like I said, the problem space is unstable because there are too many details omitted. I could come up with a different backdrop of circumstances that could sway the scale any way I want.
I have the 2014 T440s and it's the best laptop I've ever used, though I guess that's not a particularly large sample size. I definitely think the 2015 T450s should be much better because they brought back the buttons but the clickpad is not really that hard to get used to. I think this year's Thinkpads should be really awesome, and if I could justify it I'd easily get a 2015 X1C now that they fixed the keyboard and trackpad.

It does have a wifi issue, it seems to me that the Intel 7260 wifi chip has serious issues across multiple laptops from what I've read online. But I found that for my home network switching to 5ghz fixed all my issues so it might just be an interference thing.
Remember me this:

"Scottish Ruby Conference 2008-2011..."

http://conferencesburnedbypaypal.tumblr.com/
> Finnish only has a single pronoun, hän.

Actually Finnish has two: hän for she/he, and se for it. But for example Turkish has only one: o for she/he/it.
Yet I see company after company after company filled with people who dress the same, act the same, think the same.

I genuinely believe that you believe everything you say. That you think you're objective, and really very fair indeed, and that deep down, you believe you're probably actually more objective and more fair than average.

But when I look around, I see company after company after company that hires people just like them. It's impossible to tell what someone's working style is from an interview. Impossible to tell even from one of those hip auditons that the kids like these days, asking someone to take a day's holiday and waste their time in a potential employers office. It's impossible. So people tell themselves "cultural fit", just like you do, and they hire someone who looks like them, dresses like them, thinks like them.

That person almost certainly does have a compatible working style, because that person is the same as the other employees, so now you can pat yourself on the back and tell yourself you had some good intuition there about working styles, and that applicant with the accent who has a very different background probably never would have worked out.

You're right, it's nothing to do with diversity. That's just something that doesn't happen when you hire for "cultural fit".

Don't waste your time reasoning with me, I have you on the one hand, and on the other hand company after company after company of homogenised employees. Who am I going to believe? You, or the evidence?
One major tech company I interviewed for explicitly recommended blue jeans, and said I'd be outdressing the interviewer if I went any higher than that.
Miniature Origami Robot Self-Folds, Walks, Swims, and Degrades
If you have several terabytes of data the fastest channel is burning a hard disk and shipping FedEx overnight. Which makes it worth mentioning that $10.000 can buy a lot of parcel post. Come to think of it, it can buy a lot of shipped used books as well.

Depending on your travel plans and reference patterns a low tech approach may work.

Good luck.
I'm autistic and I'd rather people call me what I am than have to deal with pretentious, SJW-inspired nonsense like this.
This is an utter logical fallacy. There is no such thing as ethical treatment of animals used for food production, just as there is no such thing as ethical slaughter, ethical rape, or happy and humane slavery. No commodification of another body is ethical, nor should be tolerated

It's not a fallacy - we just don't agree on ethical boundaries. I'm completely comfortable, from an ethical standpoint, with animals being used for food production. Clearly that's a popular view globally.

You may be interested to learn that Heinrich Himmler, the Gestapo commander responsible for deaths of many people, ordered as a "more humane means" of execution the use of poison gas in specially constructed chambers disguised as shower rooms.

That's a cliché reductio ad Hitlerum. I'm not sure what your point is, aside from "bad people can do bad things*.