skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect this reasoning, or something like it, is the same faulty rationale that Baidu used to justify their cheating at the competition. As others have already said better than I could, if the goal is indeed to

>"promote the most accurate and powerful image recognition algorithms that will transform the world as we know it"

as you say, then running hundreds of attempts at this one data set to do better at this specific competition won't foster that goal.
Well, I lost about 100 pounds. I'm pretty sure I looked at this website at some point while I was doing this. What I can say anecdotally is that there are two main issues at play for those who are obese:

1. Food is too damn good. We've developed food to be tastier and tastier, setting off more and more pleasure sensations, almost to the point where it loops back around and becomes disgusting.

2. Some people under stress do not eat. Other people under stress eat more. People who eat more when stressed will gain weight, and become more stressed about their weight gain.

I'm talking about the morbidly obese here, not just people about twenty pounds overweight.

What I did for myself was to make a few adjustments:

1. Eat healthier versions of food that I actually like. I mean, sure, a fried chicken sandwich or a hamburger can be delicious. But so is a turkey sandwich, or grilled chicken. When I lost weight, I chose the lower calorie options that I still enjoyed.

2. Avoid pointless food. French fries are great, but they're just filler. Soda is tasty (though I actually dislike it now that I've had distance from it), but it's not substantively adding to my enjoyment of a meal. Stop focusing on sides and enjoy the main course on its own.

3. Exercise reasonably and consistently. It's not sustainable to go from sedentary obesity to daily hill sprints. Start with walking more, move on to exercise twice a week. Progressively build up from there. Find something you can enjoy doing (for me, I enjoy lifting weights).

There's a lot more I could talk about (e.g. better sleep, realistic expectations, tolerating hunger) as well. I can't say I'm perfectly healthy now, but I've hopefully saved myself from the long-term health effects of obesity.
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That will never happen. "Dealing with these" means accepting that your entire educational system needs an overhaul. Far easier and more crowd-pleasing to dig in your heels and say that foreigners are cheating scumbags because they don't want to play by your outdated rules.
Why is the SpaceX missions harder? Only a couple of aeroplanes have ever gone more than mach 3, and with significant difficulty. In comparison there are numerous rocket launch vehicles with thousands of successful launches. The atmosphere is a very hostile place and aerodynamic control is not trivial.
I just figured that Virgin Galactic doesn't have nearly the resources that SpaceX had or has. Getting stuff into orbit with hundreds of millions of dollars to spend would be easier than getting stuff into sub-orbit with peanuts to spend.

But then I checked Wikipedia and:

"After a claimed investment by Virgin Group of US$100 million, in 2010 the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi, Aabar Investments group, acquired a 31.8% stake in Virgin Galactic for US$280 million, receiving exclusive regional rights to launch tourism and scientific research space flights from the United Arab Emirates capital. In July 2011, Aabar invested a further US$100 million...."

On the SpaceX side, according to this page, SpaceX spent $390 million developing Falcon 1 and Falcon 9, total:

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2011/05/31/nasa-analysis-falcon-...

I don't know what the difference is. Maybe this is another example of how people should stop trying to use airplanes to get to space.
Seems like the value investors might not be there to take the other side because they don't see value. If the price moves enough, they'll appear.
The culture doesn't provide an association between cheating and punishment but only academic success and reward.

Anecdotally speaking, a lot of international Chinese students cheat blatantly - i.e. comparing answers with the person beside them at the end of the exam when people are turning in (and often get caught doing so).
Thanks for the link..

Interesting reads about the steps take to get those games working again.

I wish they made the descriptions more prominent. You have to click the "TEXT" link to get them. Great link.

The lengths they went through to get you not to copy disks...

https://ia801500.us.archive.org/29/items/Muppetville4amCrack...
A related article that helps quantify things more: http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/05/america...

>Demand for an overseas education has spawned a cottage industry of businesses in China that help students prepare their applications. The industry is poorly regulated and fraud is rampant. According to Zinch China, an education consulting company, 90 percent of Chinese applicants submit fake recommendations, 70 percent have other people write their essays, 50 percent have forged high school transcripts, and 10 percent list academic awards and other achievements they did not receive. As a result, many students arrive in the U.S. and find that their English isn’t good enough to follow lectures or write papers.

EDIT: The white paper linked in the WSJ article leads to a 404, but here is the link: http://www.wholeren.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/2015-Whit...

Google Translate provides the following:

>In the survey, we found that the main reason was expelled classified into the following nine kinds: poor academic performance (57.56%), academic dishonesty
(22.98%), attendance problems (9.67%), misconduct (3.87%), international student identity (2.96%), in violation of the law
(1.93%), psychological problems (0.57%), financial problems (0.23%) and Shen learn material legacy issues (0.23%). Some were expelled from reason
There is a causal relationship between the links. But the statistics, we tend to count the cause and expelled most direct contact.
Also, can someone do my homework for me? Thanks.
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"But if you reopen that exact same file, Excel will still misinterpret the number."

No, you can set the import to treat it as a text field. It is really easy and this should not be a problem. The import can define field by field what it should be treated as (most often used with dates).
Makes a better story like that though. Or even "It cost us 10% of our company to even start shipping out our product, what were we thinking?" (Random guess at equity stake)
Ha! That's nothing.
In Sweden we've been building a tunnel since 1992 and managed to create a poison scandal in the process.

Current estimates is that it will be completed this year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallands%C3%A5s_Tunnel
> it couldn't be for example poor English skills?

How did they even get admitted into university in the first place in that case? TOEFL cheating.
demo dont even work - i dont trust these guys... i looked at their code and its written by amateurs.
That would be OK if the rules were the same for all teams. In any situation, classroom or not, if you're breaking the rules you are cheating. This doesn't mean that "network learning" is wrong, just that doing this without common approval of all participants is not socially acceptable.
This is very true, not just in Twitter but in real life as well. Most people just want to talk, they don't really want to listen to what you have to say.
Actually, while frequent eating is beneficial in terms of maximizing the gene expression response to protein feeding, it is actually detrimental in terms of insulin sensitivity. At least one study has shown that people practicing an intermittent fasting pattern of food intake improved insulin sensitivity relative to people consuming a calorie matched diet consumed using traditional meal timing.

Monounsaturated fat is a much better choice as it is nearly as effective as saturated fat at promoting hormone biosynthesis. The problem with saturated fat is that it triggers expression of genes for fat storage, and the effect is particularly pronounced in visceral tissue (which is the least healthy place to store it!).

"If it fits your macros" is bullshit, because there is a definite difference between sugar and other carbs, and a definite difference between saturated fat and other fats. Try going on a diet where all your carbs come from sugar, and almost all your fat comes from saturated fat and see how you look and feel.
Sounds like a pretty successful bidirectional filter to me. (As in: you apparently don't want engineers who don't know this detail, and I wouldn't want to work at a company where that kind of trivia is a litmus test.)
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Space X and Virgin Galactic are building completely different products. The only commonality is that they both go into Space (and Virgin Galactic barely even that).

SpaceX is not actually doing much in the way of 'new', to date. Their main product is an improved rocket engine design, but it's just an improvement on an existing product. (The self-landing rockets are amazingly impressive, but they haven't managed to achieve success with it yet).

Virgin Galactic is a completely new design (launching a passenger rocket plane in mid flight), at least in the non-military sector. That's a whole world of new unknowns they are having to overcome and, when you consider that, it's incredibly ambitious what they are hoping to achieve. They are less likely to achieve success as a result unfortunately. But well done for being the first to try.

The other big difference of course is money. SpaceX has way more funding behind it, and a much greater commercial potential.
You set the field to text on import. Very simple. Its a shipping number so text is fine.
Ask HN: Are you more productive on your work desk? or laying in bed?
Do you find coding or studying more productive on your work desk? or laying in bed/on a sofa?

Just curious, feel free to share your productive zones.
Getting stuff into a suborbital trajectory is basically a subset of getting stuff into orbit. It's basically like, if you can drive from NYC to LA, you can drive from NYC to Chicago.

It could very well be that Virgin's chosen approach is more difficult because they are using airplanes instead of rockets. But nothing forced them to choose that approach, and it's not the mission. If you find it harder to get to Chicago than I do to get to LA because I'm driving a car and you're using a kayak, that doesn't mean your mission is harder.
What new one may I ask?

Tegel - "New" West Berlin one - not big enough

Tempelhof - "Old" West Berlin (Airlift airport) - closed

Schonefeld - Soviet built crap. BER is being built next to it
If possible you should definitely get an SSD; mac or otherwise, the speed bump is more than worth the price. However, if developing for osx/ios is a priority, you don't (easily) have a whole lot of choice.

I was in the same boat as you roughly two months ago (needing to develop on ios/osx) and vmware/vbox ios wasn't cutting it. I was able to snag a 2014 mbp on ebay for a measly $1,000 (ha).

Best of luck either way!
Heh it really says something about the current macro tech environment when that URL is misread and then everyone is actually disappointed when the site loads and it's not about startup idea pranks.
I don't think the liquor store pays the guitar bum loitering in front. :)
I hope hell is gentle for him.
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Besides this not being true. Can we please try to be a little political correct? Imagine someone writing "Crime is pretty entrenched in Black American culture" or "The feeling of superiority is entrenched in Jewish culture" - that would not be so nice, right?
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If those two motivations are not aligned then the competition is poorly designed.
It's no different than companies make 3rd party parts for existing systems, e.g. making competing kurig pods, etc
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>> It is lying to make a blanket statement like "in stock" when you know there is a fair chance that it isn't.

Well, hold on. They're not intentionally lying. They are allowing a condition where an inaccuracy could present itself, but is that lying? That is the last information that the system has. I suppose we could always use UX labeling that doesn't imply any commitment, i.e. "Reported in stock" or "In stock at last check" and that would be more strictly accurate. I wonder how users would react?
Definitely, but Lua is specifically designed to be easily embeddable, it is used all over: https://sites.google.com/site/marbux/home/where-lua-is-used
git's OSX build is on sourceforge.
Another thing with regard to your age, and I mean no disrespect, is that I believe ones tolerance for certain kinds of discomfort tend to decrease with age.

I'm not that old (31). I just happen to remember a time when air travel wasn't horrible.

Older people are actually far more tolerant of discomfort. They just suffer more bodily pain when conditions aren't right.

5% being $40-50 means an airfare of $800 to $1000. If domestic flights cost that much, then we should consider airlines forgone for domestic travel and elect officials who'll make competent train service (not necessarily government run, but with infrastructural improvements and revisions of right-of-way laws that enable passenger rail competition) a #1 priority. As for international flights, the reason you see four-digit fares is the very high taxes on those, and the monopolies that airports have, and various other weird factors involving pilot unions and seniority tiers. NYC-HKG really should only cost about $850.
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You offer:

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Bonus points:

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We offer:

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* Office in a vibrant and historical part of Amsterdam

Say hello at info@agriplace.com and let's have a talk.
NoScript also has surrogate scripts that replace what was blocked with a minimal script to un-break sites. It's usually used to fool a site with first-party scripts enabled into thinking that the third-party scripts loaded, too, but there are also scripts that allow a site to work without any of its scripts being enabled. The changelog currently show that they recently added a surrogate to allow some troublesome wordpress themes to work without scripting, and to allow the Microsoft support site to show article content without scripting.
We might've got you beat there... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Avenue_Subway

"The Second Avenue Subway has been a plan, and occasional construction project, since 1929. The reasons for the line's many false starts and delays are numerous and complex. The line is sometimes referred to as 'The Line That Time Forgot'."
It turns out: No. You're thinking about it from only one side of the table.

For example: Gov'ts issue bonds on a regular basis to finance their debts. They depend on that market being there in order to continue normal operations. If liquidity evaporates, then many participants will not partake in the auctions, which is A Big Problem. Likely a central bank (a "lender of last resort") will step in for that case, but that only emphasizes that there are big market problems to the participants.
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Ugh, what a PITA this is going to be (my project JOE is on sourceforge and people are starting to complain). All links point to sourceforge, so how long will they take to update? When I search for "TMUX source download" I get sourceforge. If sourceforge takes over your abandoned project, I imagine that they will remove forwarding links to the replacement.
Netflix now works on Chrome for Linux, Amazon AFAIK has always worked.
That's what I was wondering. If so, submitting many test runs makes it trivial to provide a submission that works perfectly against the test data specifically.
I have a black screen, a blue tooltip saying "Right-click" and nothing whatsoever happening when I right click.

Firefox 31.5.0

edit: is it really necessary to downvote for reporting a valid bug !?
The two operating airports are tiny, Cold-War-era relics that aren't sized appropriately for a large city. FRA is probably 20 times the size of TXL in terms of footprint.

They also lack many modern conveniences that travelers expect. TXL has a Burger King, a convenience store, and maybe one working power outlet.
Nope, this is a legitimate Excel issue when opening CSVs in Excel. If you know a fix without editing the cell data type and saving back into Excel format, I'm all ears!

Edit: I'm referring to the way that most people open CSVs in Excel, by clicking on the file and having Excel be the default CSV program, not by importing it. Is there a way to turn off the scientific notation for good?
Thanks for the hint, the description was cut out. I've updated the chart right now. (Ingo from ArangoDB)
It's a hundred people lifting a bus in a coordinated action to help. That's something remarkable and we should have examples of it documented. As you can see, it ended on a news article about one hundred people lifting a bus in a coordinated action to help.
"Resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So cheating is okay as long as I think what you're doing is "outdated"? Interesting ethics you have there.
I think it's more that free agents don't want to deal with being under the microscope of the Toronto media.
This is not correct. What you're referring to is holding a bond to maturity versus holding a bond fund. If rates were to rise, both would be (relatively) equally affected. The difference would be that the price of the bond would revert to the face value of the bond as it got closer to maturity.

Obviously the downside of this is that you are basically keeping your principal value at the end of the day, but you're forced to hold a bond that's giving you a below market return until it matures. For most people, this makes absolutely no sense.

On top of that, you can buy and sell a mutual fund based on the asset value of the fund at any time, while the bond market is opaque and you often get pricing that is very far off the average unless you are a large institutional buyer/seller. There are massive economies of scale in bonds that you don't see in the stock market.

If you are trying to invest millions of dollars, buying individual bonds might make more sense, but at that point you're going to want someone to help you determine the difference between individual bonds and the covenants that one bond has over another, but even then you still run the risk of getting bad pricing on buying those bonds.
> This brings quite reasonable questions about their past performance.

I don't think this second claim is necessarily derivable from your first. Yes, they were caught cheating... By making multiple submissions of their own systems in order to faster derive which is the most promising. IMO, the performance they have achieved is still theirs to claim, because in the end they did create a system that reaches that performance.
yes, currently it is 1096 days too late. and counting.
hmmm and the GOP PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS GATHERING AT DISNEY WORLD http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/02/gop-presi...

paul and cruiz did not go
In 2008 SpaceX had a terrible year (3 launch failures in a row) and almost went bankrupt http://www.space.com/5693-spacex-falcon-1-falters-time.html

edit: along with Tesla. interesting story: http://inspiremore.com/in-3-days-elon-musks-tesla-motors-spa...
This seems really well made, guys. Way to go!
> looking at a risk free 10% -20% annualized return

I understand everything except this part. Where did you get the 10-20% risk free annualized return?
Was it an engineering problem? Why would you teach this in engineering school? Looks like the project was hopelessly mismanagement, so likely above the heads of the engineers.
I'd say it has a lot to do with the collectivism of the culture - there, sharing and "standing on the shoulders of giants" is emphasised more than independent thinking.
For me, it was a book on stoicism ("A Guide to the Good Life — The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy" by William B Irvine) that showed me that, while it's not possible to avoid the inevitable pains and losses — just semi-regular thoughts about it, imagining the world where the losses have already happened, allows immense enjoyment and appreciation of the current moments.

Also, as an unexpected bonus, the book showed that philosophy shouldn't neccesarily be only theoretical high-brow word games, it can be a pleasant and highly practical experience as well.
Google Font Effects in use: http://codepen.io/mindconcepts/pen/EjWORQ
You edit the data type because it isn't a number your importing, its a shipping tag. On import you set the column to text, its right there in the import dialog.
meh. I saved $10 million with a perl script and an army of zebra printers.
It's better to be true than politically correct.
Probably fatties that are always late downvoting you :)
You can see here: http://luajit.org/extensions.html that it uses different bytecode. There is a chance that it has a similar vulnerability.
Outline could be legitimately useful, such as for subtitles.
The comic is actually drawn by the artist of zenpencils, Gavin Aung Than (in a clever imitation of Bill's style, and with Bill's words, so it's an easy mix-up!)
Yeah, I think that may be it. It's not really seen as cheating, but as cooperation and community.
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It's worth noting that the US Air Force knows exactly where all of the command posts are for ISIS but due to situations beyond their control (political, civilian populations etc.), they cannot engage.

These media stories are cute, but are a mere snapshot into a very complicated world of engagement.
I'd very much enjoy that product. Not because work is the purpose of life, but because there's so much things I'd like to do and so little time to do it.
Thanks, I will do that. It certainly looks like you're doing interesting stuff.