skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the comments. It is helpful to have others read the blog and make suggestions and ask for clarifications. The motivations here are to (1) summarize and clarify the key ideas of the physics paper that observed this connection, and (2) set the stage for my next blog, where I try to connect Deep Learning to my idea around Spin Funnels.

I will review the comments and think how to update the blog to make it more clear.
Because Java shell will be part of any compliant JDK, hence allowed by customers IT teams.
My understanding is that the worst of the pollution in Beijing is the many thousands of people heating their houses and cooking with coal.

So in this scenario, there would be a team from the government who would drive around and catch people burning coal (as that is clearly an externality) and ask them to pay them money? Similar to how the BBC drives around and demands fees if a person is caught watching TV without a licence?
Amoeba indeed had cool ideas, like most things A.S. Tanenbaum has worked on, but I always thought Sprite was more novel.

I haven't looked into Amoeba too deeply, I must admit, but other than its support for network transparency and single system imaging from heterogenous machines, I don't think it's very Plan 9-ish at all.
That seems unlikely I'm afraid. Their banking sector is insolvent and without ECB support it will not revive without a return to the drachma and a devaluation. ECB support seems unlikely unless Greece is within an approved bailout programme and that in turns looks unlikely as it took 5 months of negoatiations to come close to the last agreement and that was only to complete an existing programme, not start a new one.

The process of issuing a new currency takes, from what I've read, months, during which the Greek economy will be in limbo, which will do a large amount of damage.

Sure in the long term they would get increased competitiveness from being a cheaper source of goods as the drachma devalues, but that'll be after an extremely painful banking event.
> Apple, the first major computer company to make Open Source development a key part of its software strategy, continues to use and release significant quantities of open source software.

Uh... what?
Careful, though. If I put up a new Tetris clone on GitHub, and you decide to use it to control your power plant...

Liability should first rest with the entities deploying the software, since those are the only ones with a picture of what can go wrong in the context where it's being deployed. Those entities should then be demanding warranty/indemnity as appropriate from their suppliers (or possibly third parties, for F/OSS).
> Moreover, very few people know how to build a complete soup-to-nuts internet-facing system that has "good-enough" security at every level.

And even the people who do know, often don't get the time to do it correctly.
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I find it pleasant every time I get something working in it... but significantly far away from anything I'd like to support in production. At least for now.
I usually use bash or ruby to do scripting, but I think is a good idea to use the power of Swift to this task.
The map on the Guardian page that this HN submission points to suggests otherwise re: it being a representative sample. The districts appear to be relatively large, and most districts are reporting 0% counted while others are at e.g. 50%. The districts with any votes reported at all are also strongly clustered.
The importance of pushing the bar for tooling and infrastructure aside, this is still a laughably bombastic Facebook press release.
The Adult Friend Finder attack in particular is awful - the leaked data is incredibly sensitive and could be used to blackmail or manipulate the victims.
Thank you for attacking that misconception. Haskell is, at this point, a very practical language, and becoming increasingly that way over time as it proves to have the best enforcement model for the functional style among the options out there. For good and bad, we're not in the 1990s anymore.
My solution is to make a new typeclass which implies the order you demand. It'll all be social contract driven, but until we have dependent types one cannot ask for more.
See, I wouldn't have even thought to seek out medical advice, I literally didn't think there was anything wrong except getting old.

The person who told me to cut wheat down wasn't a doctor nor a nutritionist, and the advice kind of came out of nowhere (not related to me complaining about my aching knee or anything).

I likely won't get tested at this point, because it sounds invasive, and I am (as before) happy with my quality of life, but you do raise an interesting point.
>local anesthetic

Local anesthetic is pretty much just a pain killer... it's not supposed to knock you out like GA (general anesthetic). I wonder if the article got the term right.
Yes.

I have zero reason to keep a Skype welcome email. I hate clutter - even digital clutter.
> In fact, as previously noted, 50% of the Google code base changes every month.

Is this because 50% of the code base is new projects? Is Google growing exponentially that fast?
Might be misremembering, but I think there's a variant of it used heavily in industrial automation (eg factories). It was a standard that you had to buy for a significant sum of money. The friend in embedded design that told me didn't like it but many groups used it. Can't remember what it's called...

Past that, it's probably just there to make legacy software work like so many other problem-causing, Windows features. :)
I think we're working from different definitions of "representative" The sense I mean it in is, "the election centers that have reported results are demographically representative, and therefore predictive, of countrywide results".

That might be the case, but you didn't provide any evidence to suggest it is, so the more likely explanation is that you thought I meant something else by the word.
This does not in the slightest sound like time standing still.

Instead it sounds exactly like the symptoms when the motion-detection parts of the eye are not working.

The brain does not detect visual motion, instead the eye does that. It is one of the "layers" of information sent, and this is the symptom when it doesn't work.

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akinetopsia
Something that requires me to install the flash plugin on 2015?

Pass.
If you believe the various European governments, contagion risk is small, so it's not likely to hit Spain, Portugal et al.

As the ECB can provide liquidity to European banks that are not insolvent (as it has been for Greece) they can stop bank runs from causing an issue in the short term at least.

What Greece's future is, from what I can see, far less certain. The Greeks state that they will now get a quick agreement, but that seems unlikely.

Any new bailout agreement would need to be ratified in 18 parliaments (the Eurozone) and in several of those the mood to accept the kind of deal Greece wants seems lacking.

As such it seems there will be an extended negotiation, which wouldn't be a huge issue except for the fact that Greece's banks are currently insolvent and without ECB funding don't appear to have any route back to solvency without leaving the Euro.

There may be some kind of political solution to that quandry but I have a feeling it will not be as certain and easy a path as the Greek government have currently stated.
If one had an infinite monetary and user acceptability/retraining budget... what would a modern, secure 500+ seat IT infrastructure look like? Even in the broadest of terms.
Yeah, I’m actually surprised Apple hasn’t made a play for this from day 1 since developing iOS/OS X often leads to writing/maintaining a bunch of home-made or 3rd-party scripts (usually in Ruby), making app development require not only knowing Objective-C & Cocoa but also some scripting language. After all if Swift is all about making it easier for more people to build apps more easily, this seems like a worthwhile use-case to go after.
Krugman could have done a better job explaining his argument, but I think it's solid at the core: there is nothing to gain for the Greek from more austerity, that will only lead to further contraction of the economy. Greece needs inflation, not deflation.
Yep it is amazing they've been this measured, however that is the European way.

Unfortunately I think that reserve causes them to come off worse in the media war, as the other side are very quick to make bombastic statements and there's not a lot of people on the other side pointing out the, rather obvious, logical issues with them.
Hm. Yet to be proven that any digital storage will last anywhere close to that long. At best it will be a continually active process of refreshing the archive and converting the data to whatever storage media and formats are currently in use.
I came accross bugspots. It works on git repos and proposes bugfix.

https://github.com/igrigorik/bugspots
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It's all about fixing their problems and/or filling a need or desire. In other words, start with the "why": why does a company need your services? What problems do they have and how would you solve them?

When I go to your web page, it looks nice, but put yourself in my shoes, I'm a small company. Why would I care about "sustainable software development"? I'm a small biz, and when I hear "software development", I think of a barrel of cash being thrown out the window.

Consulting is really no different from product development: you have to be finding the pain, talking to people about their pain, and then you can mention how you might be able to solve that pain. As an example: "Has your company's systems been hacked? If you think the answer is no, think again. 83% [made up] of all companies have been hacked and don't even know it. We can do a basic security audit for you for [free/fixed-price] and if we can help you fix it, there's no charge."

Good luck and if you'd like to chat about Docker, let me know -- I'm working on a Docker sideline, but I try to focus on the pains it solves, e.g., the "it works on my machine" problem rather than, "hey, Docker here!" ;).
I found it odd reference git cli commands as comparison when git gui seems to do precisely what this tool claims to do.
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> Also, I would imagine not everyone would want their devices unlocked by family members if they die say in an accident.

Why should the opinion of the dead be relevant in any way?
I think this is similar to the scalar theory of the stock market, which uses scale invariant geometric objects to represent stock market emery levels

http://greyenlightenment.com/sornette-vs-taleb-debate/

Sornette’s 2013 TED video, in which he predicts an imminent stock market crash due to some ‘power law’, is also wrong because two years later the stock market has continued to rally.

You write on your blog:

These kinds of crashes are not caused by external events or bad players–they are endemic to all markets and result from the cooperative actions of all participants.

Easier said than done. I don't think the log periodic theory is a holy grail to making money in the market. There are too many instances here it has failed, but you cherry-picked a single example with bitcoin where it could have worked.
I think your entire set of assumptions about people 'donating' time, that there is an assignable dollar value, making analogies to employees, etc is deeply flawed.

This is a very straightforward exchange - moderators spend time moderating in return for the endorphins and jollies this activity brings them. By 'leave' I mean 'stop moderating'. At any time, any moderator can stop moderating at the loss of nothing more than the endorphins and the gain of extra free time to devote to some other hobby. There is a glut of people who would take up their spot. For nothing. That's where the heavy competition is - lots and lots of people enjoy doing this sort of thing, for whatever reasons. It's not like there is a shortage of internet message boards and in most of them, calls for volunteer mod positions are flooded with applicants.

Reddit is not benefiting from the inexplicable altruism of some sort of rare and highly valuable specialists. And for all their talk, the mods know this too because they did not even threaten with a walk-out, let alone attempt one. Their only leverage was to force their users into this spat with the admins.
It's an interesting idea, but it's hampered by a few things. First, you can only use variables or direct values as conditions, or as arguments to functions, etc. That's a severe restriction, and it feels time consuming to keep creating local variables to put those values into before-hand.

Speaking of which, it would be nice if you could tap on an if-expression condition, and create a new local variable from inside that screen. It would save several clicks to get to the local variables screen.
Kind of odd that this article doesn't even mention the commercial and utility markets for these batteries which garnered about 80% of the initial orders by dollar value. Not clear how HBR could make such a rookie mistake.
> I genuinely have no idea how to link to a Facebook post. :-/

The link to the individual item is the light gray date just below the author link, in this case that leads to
https://www.facebook.com/TassimoUK/videos/945287165523252/
This page doesn't like the film, and lists some mistakes, but also lists some of the accurate bits.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/psychologist-the-movies...
'Technically' this is correct--the RBM CD algo is not minimizing this function; that's not the point.

It is known that when training an RBM, the reconstruction error decreases but not monotonically; in fact it fluctuates. In the words of Hinton, 'trust it but don't use it'.

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/guideTR.pdf
(which is cited in the post as well)

So in a global sense, yes, I would say that the RBM does eventually minimize the reconstruction error even though it fluctuates.

I can even offer a conjecture here on why the error fluctuates ; in a discrete RG flow map, there could be finite size effects that would give log-periodic fluctuations. This is a stretch--but it is something that could be tested.

I explain this idea here
http://charlesmartin14.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/the-bitcoin-...

As to stacking the RBMs to form a DBN--yeah that's the point.
"Hinton showed that RBMs can be stacked and trained in a greedy manner to form so-called Deep Belief Networks (DBN)"
http://deeplearning.net/tutorial/DBN.html
The fact that anesthesiologists apparently deliberately induce amnesia with benzos scares the shit out of me, much more so than full general anesthesia does (which seems backwards, right, because general anesthesia is actually dangerous). Why do they want me not to remember anything? Is it that horrible?
This answer is in the context of web development

First I will say, in addition to the 3 that I will mention, you should have some level of experience with Javascript, ES6 and Node.
This is due to the pervasive nature of javascript in web development, mobile,realtime and client side build systems.

That aside here are my choices:

For highly scalable, fast and realtime web apps
Elixir\Phoenix is my choice for its ruby like syntax, Erlang based language with
a framework that has built in websocket support.
Alternatively you can go with Golang or Scala\AKKA throwing in some Node for realtime capability.

For medium scale web apps, rapid development, building MVPs.
Python\Flask is my choice for an expressive dynamic language and flexible framework with big ecosystem of extensions.
alternatively you can go with django, ruby\rails or php\Laravel

For the enterprise, large project, large team, maintainable web apps
C# and ASP.NET 5\Signalr is my choice for a dynamically compiled, statically typed, decently scalable with async capabilities framework including websocket support that runs on windows and linux

Alternatively you can go with Java\Scala\Play
Not necessarily, Greece in itself is a very interesting situation. Almost half of their entire countries' GDP was generated by a single city before 2011. [1][2]second link is a decent read about individual municipalities going down slowly within Attica

I claim that the steady decline of economics in that city, which might have had something to do with the Fascism rise with the Golden Dawn political party, destroyed their overall economy. [3]

Many foreign workers who made up a decent amount of the manual labor jobs in that city left in fear, meanwhile Greeks couldn't fit these jobs because of the lackluster pay and poisonous political/economic climate at that time.

[1]http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/economics/2...
[2]http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2012/09/21/greek-municipali...

[3]http://blogs.aljazeera.com/blog/europe/high-police-support-g...
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"Anki is great to help learning languages, however I think you have to make some special effort to actually use the words (in full sentences) when you learn them if you want to be able to reuse them in the future. One-to-one flash cards only helps for basic information retention."

Try a different Anki deck, maybe. I've been studying Polish, and a good portion of my cards are phrases or full sentences.
That's not a problem. The problem is in the analog mediums (paper) that will always disintegrate over time. Digital media will not lose fidelity over time at all. In 10,000 years, as long as the backups were maintained, the data will be as good as the day it was made.
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A few years ago, around the US Thanksgiving holiday, there was an "Offer HN:..." thread. Over the next few weeks, there were a number of genuine offers from very capable people. It was really awesome

But eventually, it became what any cynic would expect: a mechanism for "We will build your iOS app for $2500" offers and today it's dead. This isn't a 1.0 release. It's a 0.1 alpha. Nobody has written the 400 lines of good expert code requested. The existing C code that has been offered may or may not blow up under the OP's load or not meet their exact needs. No one is claiming it is bet-your-business ready. The fundamental open-source project problems of maintenance and further development are not solved or even addressed.

More importantly, it hasn't been demonstrated that this mechanism works for getting people to substantially support the project with more than the goodwill of contributing existing code developed for another purpose. Don't misunderstand me, that's a great thing. Which is why a once a month format is a reasonable starting point.
The UK GDP actually performed better during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and that was despite deflation due to the gold standard in the early years - doesn't sound like a success story to me.

http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/7209/economics/comparing-d...

I've always wondered about Ireland - it seems they have a strategy for the last decade or so of positioning their country as a tax haven, so that multi-national corporations tend to incorporate in Ireland and move their profits that are actually made in other countries there by creative accounting (like Intellectual Property licensing deals between subsidiaries). What effect does that have on GDP? Has anybody investigated this?
And here I thought the renormalization group had no application outside high energy physics and condensed matter. May be I should have stuck with HEP after all.
I sort of agree with both of you. Yes, you can do it in a small shop, and my company does. A lot, actually. But I wouldn't say we exactly allocate time to innovation. It's more about taking a long view and integrating the long view mentality into projects with tight deadlines and immediate needs.

It takes a lot of work, and it feels quite different than the luxury of overt R&D and an emphasis on creating tools. We still mostly have to keep the development of tools to an as-needed basis and just take those opportunities to put an eye on the future. It's a delicate balance.

So to me the GP is not wrong when saying that these companies like Facebook have a serious luxury. That's the luxury to repeatedly experiment and fail with little relative consequence to the business. The rest of us can't afford to spend nearly as much time or make nearly as many mistakes.
Thanks. Although it seems I didn't say it well enough :/
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Like others, I use whatever text editor I find most convenient and write it in Markdown-like syntax (on Windows, that's MarkdownPad). When I want to get it into PDF, I'll either use Leanpub to make it into an eBook, or I'll convert it into LaTex and use something like http://overleaf.com (wysiwyg preview of your LaTex) to improve the formatting (or do things that Markdown-like syntax doesn't handle).
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I think it is per file. 50 % of source files (not sure).
> The shortcuts and conveniences the Groovy lang provides make it perfect for this kind of application

Groovy's original purpose, as frequently stated by its creator James Strachan, was exactly this kind of application. There's been a lot of other things going on with Groovy since then which anyone considering using it would have to evaluate. Although other JVM scripting languages existed at the time of its birth in 2003, e.g. Jython since 1997 and Beanshell since 1999, Groovy brought more to the JVM than Beanshell had and did it using Java's syntax style, unlike Jython. Groovy's also used a lot in scripts for manipulating and testing JVM classes. And it's this use of Groovy that made it a good match for Gradle, i.e. short 50-liners defining builds.

Groovy's been extended to other use cases since then. Graeme Rocher had a meta-object protocol added to Groovy so he could bundle it as the scripting language of Grails (used just like Ruby is in Rails). The backers of Grails have an overbearing attitude towards Groovy, as they do all the software Grails bundles. They muscled in on the consulting market for Spring until they got bought out by SpringSource in 2008. Grails 3, released earlier this year, bundled Gradle for the first time, and the Grails backers will no doubt use that as justification to attack Gradleware's placing in the market for Gradle consulting, and so ultimately wrest control of Groovy via its primary applications from its neutral home at the Apache incubator.

Groovy was also extended in version 2 by a static type-checking and compilation facility, which was duplicated from an addon created by Alex Tkachman. Making no headway into the overcrowded market for statically-typed JVM languages, last year the Groovy backers then repurposed that static-typing facility to make Groovy target the Android platform. This year, Groovy's sole full-time developer supporting it all was retrenched when the Groovy/Grails group moved from VMware/Pivotal to OCI Consulting.

I'm picking Groovy will remain popular on the JVM for scripting and REPL work, including Gradle build scripts, for quite a while. It will never be used much for statically typed work on the JVM or Android, and eventually its use for scripting a web framework will slowly decline as Grails follows Rails into eventual obscurity perhaps 5 years down the line. Groovy will continue to suffer from leadership difficulties, perhaps with the Grails group taking control of Gradle via a sustained attacked on their consulting business, and through this eventually taking over the Groovy code base at, or from, the Apache incubator. I wouldn't want to pick the time frame for all this, though!
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9818310
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