skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is both simplistic and disingenuous for two primary reasons:

1. Equates all advertising with invasive data collection.
2. Suggests that improving individual's control over their data is worse than not improving it, or worse, is hypocritical.

For point one Mr. Cook did not vilify ads nor ad supported services. He spoke against invasive data collection. Now what qualifies as invasive is certainly open for reasonable people to debate but his point is that he feels the industry has gone way too far. I read a physical newspaper this mornin with ads in it. A good portion of that paper's income is from ads and the rest through subscription. They did zero data collection on me. I say this only to demonstrate that you can have ad supported business without bein evil. The nytimes author seems to ignore this.

For point two isn't it better that Apple is improving privacy protections rather than just throwing up its hands and instead joining google in attempting to learn everything about us and the sell access to put data to advertisers who have their own best interests in mind rather than ours? Why is building a more private maps application but still enabling google searches better than not providing a map application?

In short I think it is very possible to run an ethical ad based business. Unfortunately in Silicon Valley we've adopted a default business model of grabbing as much personal information and selling it to the highest bidder rather than offering a great service with non-invasive ads or subscriptions. If Slack can do it why can't others?
I've got on my to do list something similar, feed the raw wave data from some pop songs into an RNN and then see what the resulting music sounds like.

Am I a fool for trying? It would be a lot of data compared to a midi track.
No, you don't 1+3+5+5+3+1 = 2+4+6+4+2

(1/36 probability of a sum of 2, 3/36 of a sum of 4, etc)
Launched My New Home InfoSec Startup – Digifense
Please check it out at www.digifense.com! We're a professional security service aimed at network security monitoring and vulnerability scanning for the home user. We're trying to address the growing Internet of Things security issue and believe IDS capabilities are an important addition to have at home, not just at the office.

Security is made simple for the customer for even the non-technical savvy by having their own personal security analyst. This analyst will monitor events from the cloud to sort out false positive from legitimate events, and reach out if there is a threat with options to block and resolve the threat.

We're VERY small at this point, just trying to get the word out! :)
FYI, I added the ability to pass a parameter in, and share your button. So, like, http://placebobutton.com/?b=Cure%20my%20headache

Thanks everybody!
Is the system broken or is it serving exactly who it's designed to?
The title is accurate; they did use an imac box, and provide a cutting template for others to do the same. I did get a chuckle out of describing the various parts of the box as sirloin, rib, etc.

But yeah, I didn't see any good reason other card couldn't be substituted. They're just going for a known-constant - the imac box constitutes of the same card no matter what continent you find it on. Not all card is created equal, but all of this particular source is.
http://placebobutton.com/?b=Cure%20my%20headache works now.
I also code Scala for a living and the Scala experience in IntelliJ is pretty far ahead of anything else. It feels very close to being just as polished as using Java in IntelliJ.
DateTime might also handle leap seconds, time zones, and daylight savings better in general, including future dates. I don't know Time's capabilities, but DateTime will also handle dates past 2036 on any architecture, which is useful when processing expiration dates for SSL certificates, for example. Handling of past dates and times is also important when doing log processing, data archiving, etc.

If you need date/time precision, use DateTime.
http://placebobutton.com/?b=Cure%20my%20headache will work now. :)
I think the best thing you can do is actively look for another job. That will keep you going through the days.
FWIW you can absolutely pass normal bullets through most airport metal detectors. The typical threshold meant to not flag basic jewelry/etc... will let 1-2 9mm rounds pass through.

SOURCE: flying after being at the range with two 9mm rounds forgotten in my pocket.
Similarly learning carpentry or welding, but those two are more constructive.
as someone who has worked on machine learning systems, this made me laugh out loud. not the fake thing you do when you mildly chuckle but don't actually make a sound. the thing where your coworkers look up and are annoyed. thanks!
No doubt. But once it gets to a certain point the costs of doing that are much larger than having started in a compositional style.

If you have Martin Fowler's Refactoring book, check out the intro example. It's a 20 line function and the amount of refactoring work he does on it to make it sensible is quite large.
Still I think that would become obvious pretty quickly. I've actually had people start writing out a textbook algorithm that just solved the wrong problem. And then completely stumbled when trying to explain how the program would arrive at the intended result.

I usually ask questions until the person is out of his comfort zone, and if he is completely clueless on how to proceed at that point it's a red flag.
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Thanks for your comments! Indeed I started this project to provide friends with a good solution to share and discover their favourite spots. So it's kind of a social website. Before I started this application, we used to share our individualised Google Maps among each other. I think it's more dedicated and accessible this way.
I'm sure there was some genuine fear, e.g. I'm thinking about NY Republican gun grabber Peter King, who after fellow Representative Gabby Giffords was shot (with a Glock...) proposed a law that would create a floating, 1,000 foot bubble around important people like him in which it would be illegal for normal people like us to possess a gun (!).

But like what this discussion is about, there's a strong pattern by the serious gun grabbers to try to ban anything new, be it the first wildly successful polymer frame handgun (the Glock of course has a steel slide and barrel, but the original proposal was to ban it despite it being easy to detect), or these newfangled printed guns.
Very well done. I've been in the email industry for a number of years and wished we had something like this back then.
Ah, that's really significant, thanks
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It's θ(n²) time with Needleman-Wunsch / Wagner-Fischer. The paper now says that the problem requires Ω(n²) time as long as P ≠ NP. Nothing NP-hard about sequence alignment, and it also isn't an optimization problem.

You are also mixing up two kinds of heuristics. SAT solvers use heuristics to guide the search, making it faster in the expected case (but possibly also slower), but they do not sacrifice correctness. Sequence alignment heuristics sacrifice correctness for speedups. Those are two very different concepts.
Yeah, I was a bit out of line there, sorry. It is pretty common knowledge that H and O combine easily.
MicroPython and the European Space Agency
OpenBazaar Raises $1M from a16z, USV
The quote at top is from some HPL fanfic? http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/cienciareal/necronomicon/a...
Digg raised 39 MILLION dollars in VC funding and exited with a 500 THOUSAND dollar sale to Betaworks. I get that SV operates in it's own odd ball reality of what defines success and that's what makes it annoying to outsiders knowing that you are probably correct.
I would not call it a "new" move. It is an old idea that works. I would rather come up with a coin or two than use a toilet stall sprayed with diarrhea on the floor and walls (and sometimes ceiling :-) ).
Fascinating! Could you provide a link, either to your thesis or that paper you cited? I'd love to read more.
Thanks! I hope it will help reduce the pain of coding emails.
Two obligatory links on what a strange thing "time" is:

[1]: http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programm...

[2]: http://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-pro...
8u45 was released in mid-April of this year.
Religion Is Disappearing. That’s Great for Politics
Exactly, I don't understand why you have to lock yourself into one editor/IDE. Use the best tool for the job.
The pressure-containing and mechanical operating components of a gun need to withstand a considerable amount of physical stress. Removing too much material will result in a gun that is not very durable and potentially dangerous to its user. Furthermore, in most semi-automatic pistols, the mass of the slide is part of the system that keeps the cartridge in the chamber until the pressure has dropped to a safe level. Reducing mass there requires a stiffer spring, longer slide travel or both.

The smallest commercially made gun I could find currently available weighs 4 ounces: http://northamericanarms.com/firearms/s/s.html Being very low-powered, I doubt it has unbearable recoil, but it doesn't appear to have much in the way of practical use. Maybe concealment in undergarments?
And the one that I actually meant: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SolarSystemAbundance...
Have you considered CFS/fibromyalgia? Your symptoms (including insomnia) are all very typical of CFS/fibro, but not celiac. Typically the cause is stress/burnout.

Regarding people not "believing" that your insomnia is physical rather than psychological: I think it's just that your symptoms are typical of a stress-related cause rather than an organic cause.
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With time and mass production, the module creation time won't matter as much.
Sure, you might need some lead time for the parts to arrive or stock up, but your construction crew can still construct new buildings already in the pipeline.

This is sounding awfully like the lifetime of electronics device production now.
I remember a story from college graduation. A friend contacted an alumni from the university. The alumni worked in the semiconductor business. One of the questions he asked the alumni was: "How does he select a great employee?"

Alumni's response that it is exceptionally tough. He shared an anecdote about one of his best hires.

The alumni wanted to test the interviewee's knowledge in different areas. He asked a question on diodes - it might not have been diodes, but for the sake of the story let's stick to diodes. The interviewee replied: "Hold on, I am not one to know about it."

I have not worked at Google and I do not think I'd pass its interview process. It is unlikely that I be diligent enough to make Homebrew. Nevertheless, I am inclined to the idea, that being knowledgeable in all tested areas would not reveal the personal fit necessary to make a great team.
The curly fry conundrum: Why social media “likes” say more than you might think
I don't even think you need #2. Since voters are emotionally predisposed to certain parties or candidates anyway, regardless of past history, it's easy to continue this pattern with extremely intelligent and involved voters.

When the politician is posturing yet has no chance of getting anything passed, they are "Making a bold statement" or "starting a discussion that needs to be had". i.e., the symbolism is more important than the results.

When the politician is taking direct action, yet action that's at odds with the voters, it's "politics is all about compromise", "a flawed deal is better than no deal at all", "a move in the right direction", or "a politician that's brave enough to make choices other politicians won't"

The trick is just to keep slowly alternating between these two perceptions over the segments of the electorate that you can turn out come election time. At the end of the day you can pretty much do whatever you want. So your end result remains the same regardless of any qualities inherent in the electorate, sadly. It's just a numbers game.
There are. The simplest is to have a database of file hashes and compare. Further methods wouldn't likely apply to the 3d printing files because they tend to be specialized around images (making it so that resizing the image, changing the format, or even changing pixels does not defeat the detector), but it would be possible to create new systems that could detect the 3d printing files even after some effort has been made to obscure them.

That said, it is and always has been whack a mole, with each side overcoming the advancements of the other only to have their own advancements outdone.
A lot of the interest in traditional professional sports comes from 1) having played the sport in some capacity so that you understand the intricacies of the game or at least have studied the game enough to have internalized those intricacies, and/or 2) knowing the players and their various strengths and weaknesses. If you are trying to get into a sport and just watch a random game, it will be harder to get into the sport without those things.

Then again, some people just like to watch other people slam into each other.
From my point of view (lots of low-level, embedded, real-time,DSP,C,C++, etc). I personally get appalled at the performance that is left on the table when using idiomatic Clojure (and even Java)

Okay, but that's a very different statement than your initial post where you wrote "the reality seems to be of a really under performing language." The value proposition for Clojure includes well thought-out high level abstractions, great built-in immutable data structures, interoperability with Java and JavaScript, all the stuff that comes with being homoiconic, and more. The value proposition for Clojure does not include programming for embedded systems, building low-level systems software, or wringing out every last bit of performance from your hardware. "Inherent bad performance," as you put it previously, is relative to the problem space you are working in.
And yet we can go outside and safely breathe. Some things are priceless.
I don't understand this line of reasoning at all. Does anyone else not see the huge non-sequitur here? The fact that Apple said it cares about privacy doesn't mean it cares enough to build a search engine just for that reason. How can you even argue this with a straight face?
Was going to say, read that, did it in my head.

D1 = {E,O}
D2 = {E,O}
*Where E and O are balanced in terms of possible outcomes that satisfy

Outcomes: {EE, EO, OE, OO}
Odd outcomes: {EO, OE}

Half.
FAKER
I think this is probably overall true. I'm a bit cynical, maybe, but the set of tech used by developers here at Google does not necessarily intersect with what is used in the rest of the industry. So much is proprietary, and best practices are heavily codified and well understood. So in reality I suspect that new grads are as valuable or more valuable to Google as experienced engineers since it's unlikely the specific technologies an experienced engineer has under their belt will be specifically applicable here.

For the top elite of experienced engineers that may not be the case, as they will come with some overall good analytical skills that Google wants. But for most in our industry, what we have learned over the years is how to be good in various sets of tech around our platforms of choice... and that is mostly irrelevant to Google, as they have their own platforms.
tl;dr [You know the story] Twitter is losing money and has difficulty making new users feel heard.

In reality, Twitter has what IBM wishes they had. A relational connection of group-thought for use in analytics. The #hashtag allows for similar interpretations of one general idea allowing for a more diverse understanding of concepts. AI-"Deeplearning" hasnt matured enough for Twitter to be fiscally viable.... yet.
Actually this "attentive meatbag driving module" would rather focus on actually important stuff like other cars and potentially whatever else (debris, people, animals etc) rather than checking the speedo and remembering what the last arbitrary speed limit sign said at all times.

I'm not saying speed limits aren't important. I basically never speed. However, there are things one could better use one's attention on whilst driving.
This reminds me the fact that makes human brain unique against other systems is the capability of jumping out of the logic system. When composing a piece of song, the best a current AI system can do is to compose by keep adding the most logical (or intuitive, depends on how you look at it) notes. A human composer, on the other hand, can from time to time jump out of that logic, and inspect the notes from complete different perspectives (different than if these notes sequence is logical), such as the emotion it conveys, is it innovative, what style it feels like, etc, etc.
Which is what it comes down to: what you are familiar with. I don't thing the hype around either types of sports is strange. They are entertainment that people can relate to.
Hey everyone, Sam Patterson from OpenBazaar and OB1 here. We're excited about this funding, and I'm happy to take any questions you might have.

We're always looking for developers on the project as well. It's open source, and primarily python. Here's the repo:

https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar

We have a particular interest in folks with p2p networking knowledge, but welcome devs with any background.
This may have something to do with deliberate decisions made around how much those who have plenty contribute to the society around them so that others may have enough.
Thingsquare out of private beta
Answer. Totally insecure. If GCHQ wanted to they could grab vast amounts of extra video feed.
Always had mixed feelings about kevin; i liked digg, back in the day, before they mucked it up. And thebroken was pretty cool too, i definitely enjoyed that. Otherwise... not much worthwhile. He always came off more as a personality than as a actual entrepreneur.

But it's easy for me to judge up here on my mighty throne. He's doing what he wants to do, making money doing it, and overall seems to be doing well. I could learn a thing or two.
How the Darpa challenge teaches us to love, not fear, robots
There is a nice book by my profs (Y. Bengio, A. Courville) and a former student of the lab (I. Goodfellow) here: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/DLbook/ The chapter on RNNs is pretty enlightening. You probably want to start with something the goes through feedforward networks, convolutional, etc. first though.

Andrew Ng's Coursera course does a super basic NN in MATLAB which might be good to shake the rust off [1]. Hugo Larochelle's youtube course [2], Geoff Hinton's Coursera course [3], and Nando's youtube Deep Learning course [4] are all very good. There are also some great lectures from Aaron Courville from the Representation Learning class that just finished here at UdeM [5]

If you want to do this for real (not self teaching RNN backprop on toy examples) tool-wise you generally go with either Theano (my preference) or Torch - implementing the backwards path for these (and verifying gradients are correct) is not pretty.

Theano does it almost for free, and Torch can do it at the module level. Either way you definitely want one of the higher order tools!

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGZ6BttHMPw&list=PL6Xpj9I5qX...

[3] https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlhFWT7vAEw

[5] https://ift6266h15.wordpress.com/
Yes, the concept of resource control wasn't new. Getting it from a research project to the form where it was production-ready and supported for inclusion in the mainline tree of Google's kernel of choice took a bit longer.
Windows Server 2003 Becomes Extinct on July 14th
My guess is that the potential leaking of some nodes is one of the points of the question. A lot of people would not notice it.

Note that in the original tree each node needs storage for two pointers. After inversion only one is needed. You can use that now unused storage to link together the multiple roots to solve the leak problem.

But note that only consumes the second pointer storage in the roots. Interior nodes end up with some free storage after inversion.

Since inversion is reversible, the binary tree and its inverse contain the same information. Does this mean we should only need one pointer's worth of storage in the binary tree nodes?

Is there something for binary trees similar to Knuth's xor trick for doubly linked lists?
The residual strings are all subwords where exactly d letters were deleted. For d=1 and the word "Levenshtein", that would be {"evenshtein", "Lvenshtein", "Leenshtein", "Levnshtein", "Leveshtein", "Levenhtein", "Levenstein", "Levenshein", "Levenshtin", "Levenshten", "Levenshtei"}.

The paper does not specify how to generate those efficiently, and I haven't given it any thought yet. I don't know of any implementations of the paper, but this aspect of it should be common enough.

EDIT: sorry, didn't read your comment fully. I'm not sure what you mean with "all permutations of possible deletions". The d-deletion-Neighbourhood of w contains all sub-words of w that you obtain by deleting any d letters from w. For d=2, take any two letters and remove them. N₂(jamra) = {jam,jar,amr,jaa,ama,jmr,jra,ara,mra} (hope I didn't forget any...)

Does that make it clearer?
If you use chrome, you might enjoy this flag

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I have uploaded the thesis to https://highwayflocking.github.io/
The one I just generated seems to be randomly banging out minor chords.
Great feature list! Auto-deployment to litmus, that's just a bliss!
I wish we'd have Nunjucks to organise our multi-retailer white-labelled templates at work! It just doesn't make any sense to manage it white string replace and a hundred duplicated templates!
Nope, Time handles all those things better since Ruby 1.8.7/1.9.3 when it gained support date/times into the far future. Until then it was liable to the Year 2038 problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
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The media loves the Gates Foundation. These experts are more skeptical
Agreed. I believe there are two major threats to air safety, neither of which has been sufficiently addressed.

1. crazy pilot scenario - as illustrated recently by Germanwings Flight 9525. All we can do is make sure one pilot can't lock out the other pilot, and screen more carefully for mental illness. There's no room for political correctness and fairness in this picture; someone with depression and suicidal tendencies, as this 9525 pilot was known to have, should never be in the cockpit, period full stop.

2. Stinger scenario - one man with a shoulder launched anti-aircraft weapon could take down a jet liner. The world is flooded with these weapons and it's just a matter of time. Someone tried to take down an Israeli passenger jet in Sinai a few years ago, but fortunately missed. It seems unlikely in the U.S. but think of the thousands of airports all over the Middle East, Africa, central Asia, etc. It's bound to happen sooner or later, unfortunately. The only solution is to install defensive systems on jets, an expensive necessity in today's world.
>the tabloid Daily Mail doing a lot of good reporting

Pardon?
I like the idea of "texting" which isn't that common for a service to adopt, especially for this kind of service.