skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow! Good. Thanks for this also. Last time I searched was a while ago, and I didn't find much. Glad to see progress. I will look into it "deeper" again.
I like how HealthCare.gov doesn't have a description
Will this have AVX512...?
Jive means to deceive. I think you want "Jibe" instead..
That would be a nice combination.
Actually, there's more "kinds" of units: radians (versus degrees) and steradians come to mind.
Positive knowledge is: there is an instance of x (where not existing is not a predicate of x, as existence is not a predicate)

Negative knowledge is: there is not an instance of x (where not existing is not a predicate of x)
A ton of designers or developers are doing work with graphics or compiling on the go - both very CPU bottlenecked operations, and the Xeon is targeting this audience.

Me personally I do a lot of Android development, and waiting 20 seconds to compile each time I make a change is a huge bottleneck.
> [...] but you can have those millions of processes on the JVM, too [...]

In theory, yes. In practice, it's very difficult. JVM thread corresponds to
a thread of host OS. Spawning and keeping those is very slow and expensive
compared to Erlang's processes. You could have a pool of pre-spawned workers,
but suddenly you can't spawn a worker for each connection and hope it will all
work; you need to manage the pool. You also could try to implement green
threads in JVM, as they are in Erlang, but you would need an entirely new
compiler to insert yield points at appropriate places, or else you would get
exactly the same problems with green threads as everywhere else.

Under JVM you just don't spawn a thread for each and every activity, because
you would choke your system. The whole point of developing Erlang was to allow
exactly this programming style in a manner safe against processing
congestion.
I'm glad to see that this import project continues to get updates.
> the bank has outperformed bigger rivals, not just by lending to fledgling firms but by taking small ownership stakes in them to help offset their higher risks

Doesn't taking equity in a company that you've already loaned money to _increase_ your risk, not offset it? Am I not understanding what's going on?
Very impressive. It could as well generate names for each song with some effort. That sample outputs are the exact same length highlights the fact that songs are "generated".
I am not an expert, but from what I know, Xeon based chips have a lot more PCI and other IO lanes. So you can for instance have a dedicated lane for each thunderbolt and USB 3 port on the laptop. With i7, you may have 2 thunderbolt ports, for instance, but those 2 ports will share the same 20Gbps lane to the chip. With Xeon you can, at least theoretically, connect each thunderbolt on its own lane.

Edit: According to the Wikipedia the Skylake i7 and i5 suppose to have 20 PCIe lanes. [1] The Xeon E5 v3 Family has 40 PCIe lanes, so I am assuming same is going to be true for the Skylake version of the Xeon.

You also have the possibility of 6 cores! I'll take that :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_(microarchitecture)
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The big one is ECC memory.
You can actually download tools and run the contracts, and during the public stress test people posted contracts to the test network.

Not every contract needs external data. A simple crowdfunding app, for example, doesn't need one. Hit the funding target by the deadline, forward to the fundraiser, otherwise return to donors. You can try out several sample contracts by going through the tutorials at ethereum.org.

The only reason oracles are complicated at all is that people don't want to trust them. If you're willing to trust a particular account for some purpose, it's trivial. Trusting a majority vote among several named accounts is also simple. It's the fully decentralized and low-trust solutions that may take some effort, but that's not an issue with Ethereum's core technology.
I work for a company just like this. We use Unity (and lots of other game tech) to make games for health, mostly for physical therapy and rehab. There are interesting problems to solve in this space and we're putting good energy into the world with our work. And, we're hiring! If you (or anyone else reading this) is looking for a great job and know a good amount of Unity/C#, drop us a line at jobs@respondwell.com. Remote work is fine, too.
As a point of disclosure, and also to improve your credibility, you are the author of Quasar (actors and erlang-style processes on the JVM), are you not?

I'm just learning Elixir (and therefore erlang/BEAM somewhat) and one thing that's cool to me is that a piece of code that's taking too long to execute can be paused by the VM while it switches to another thing, which keeps the latency down. I think, like, each process has some number of "ticks" or something before it switches away.

Can erlang on the JVM do that?

Edit: Also, the other thing that majorly attracts me to Elixir/Erlang is OTP (applications, genservers, supervision trees with restart strategies, etc). Are there any plans to port those libraries/philosophy into Quasar?
For my own sanity, I would much rather continue writing JavaScript and Golang apps than do full-fledged game development. It's incredible that some people are able to deal with it, and not have their spouse leave them.

By the way, if a mod is here: I think I accidentally downvoted the above comment. (More precisely, my cat and Vimium did.) I tried to reverse it but I doubt it worked. Please remove the downvote if it's still there.
I read Sapiens after seeing the same edge.org conversation, and while it was mostly good, I think it started off strong and then became less so as it went on. Especially towards the end it became almost a hot list of current events the author had read about in the newspaper, like browsing through a lot of TED talks, without a lot of coherence to a larger picture. My other complaint would be that some portions seemed less scholarly and heavily influenced by the author's opinions and personal worldview. Not a bad book by any means but somewhat less than the "history of humankind" I had hoped for. The first quarter focusing on prehistory through agriculture was very informative, though leaves me questioning if I'm just suffering from Gell-Mann amnesia. Rated it 4/5 on Goodreads when I was finished.

I found Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond to be perhaps a better book of similar nature overall, and would add in The 10,000 Year Explosion by Cochran and Harpending as another good one for those who liked Sapiens.
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Unfortunately, at my current job, we don't seem to believe much in unit testing. There's some indication this may change in the near future.

Additionally, I have two screens, and since I mainly use a tiling window manager, 80 columns works... okay. But 80 columns isn't usually where my splits end.

Interesting point with the same file in columns. It's rather that I do that. More often I'll be looking at the same file across two branches. I am kind of surprised that we don't see more plugins doing 80 column lines, in sequence, to fill the screen however. More lines on the screen seems to be the craving that vertical monitors + high-res monitors aim to satiate.
What if you couldn't tell apart a Model S from a Corolla from a Pinto before you put your money down?
You can do that with low-content videos, but not Raymond Hettinger videos.
It's like a "quesadilla sin queso"
I still think it would be a hugely easier to automatically produce a plausible pop song than a piece of music from the Classical era (c. 1770-1820). The output of this neural net is really neat but (at this point) there is no way that it would ever be mistaken for an actual classical piece by an educated listener, and it still seems pretty far from that. (David Cope has produced some really impressive output, but I still think it would have taken a lot less effort to produce pop music.)
This is really, really sloppy reporting. It appears that KQED just rebroadcast a press release without even looking at the paper.

1) this is not a peer-reviewed study; it is only a working paper.

2) the paper counts ONLY HOMICIDES (ignores collisions that do not result in homicide) and counts a collision as DUI-induced EVEN IF THE DRIVER IN THE WRONG IS STONE COLD SOBER. It also seems to not distinguish between drivers and passengers (they count number of involved parties, not number of involved drivers.

3} I can find no information that they used any controls, e.g. contrasted regions with similar demographics and tracking history of DUI that DO have Uber/Sidecar/etc. versus those who do NOT; . That would be the most meaningful data. DUI rates can drop for a given population by other factors, e.g. increased penalties, enforcement; concomitant decrease in homicides to due improved vehicle safety (collision strength, air bags, percentage of involved vehicles with air bags and such, etc.); significantly fewer bad-weather days in CA in the recent drought years, etc.
Sure, but how does the Xeon improve over the i7 in that respect?
I've always called those words 'soft categories'; they don't refer to the state of reality, but to the models we use to explore it. (And there are as many models as there are brains to hold them.)

They are prone to making people agree with each other without requiring that they understand each other or how reality actually behaves. They're sort of like low order approximations: if we all say "π is about 3," nobody disagrees. (Or if someone does, they may risk rejection for it.) Either way, it doesn't help you solve complex problems.

The solution I usually propose is to not use the term at all: to avoid it in its entirety.
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I'm guessing you're the Quasar guy or am I off? Either way, I think you have benchmarked the lightweight thread approaches on JVM's. How much simultaneous concurrency can the JVM methods manage right now for say serving web requests? And how much does Erlang's best do on same machine?

I think that's an interesting and useful comparison point to start with to test your claim. This is also something I figured Java side would greatly improve on.
A very good question. Impossible to answer until it shows up on Ark, but Ark currently does not list any kind of "v5" Xeon CPU, nor any notebook CPU bearing the Xeon branding, so all we have is this blog.
Relevant: Foursquare's post-mortem with mongodb. https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/mongodb-user/UoqU8...
I wrote this article way back in 2013. Initial commit of Phoenix was Jan 18, 2014.

But! you're quite right. Elixir is focusing on the web application type things that Erlang and the community around it has never much addressed. There's enough interoperability from Elixir to Erlang that you could probably say the ecosystem as a whole is addressing the problem if you squint hard enough.

Side comment, it's been interesting to see Elixir grow since 2013. A lot of folks learn Elixir and then Erlang but I think it's less common to learn Erlang and then learn Elixir. It's led to an interesting situation where Elixir has had to bootstrap knowledge about OTP on its own terms without a large pool of domain experts sitting around. The asymmetry in knowledge--knowing Erlang does not imply knowing Elixir but knowing Elixir implies knowing Erlang--also makes me wonder how the squinting assumption above will shake out long-term. ¯\_(シ)_/¯
You can put your legs in a wider stance on a moving walkway. Furthermore, if the walkway happens to stutter, the rest of the walkway's speed isn't significantly different from the speed of the patch you're standing on.
So you're not actually talking about knowledge, just the presence of the word 'not' in a sentence?
Vitalik Buterin and others have been very clear that Ethereum may fail completely and that it's an experiment. Others (https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4/status/495300992049479680) widely acknowledge that Ethereum is the most technically ambitious cryptocurrency since Bitcoin; it's not in the same category of coins which changed a parameter and created a new coin.

I'm the organizer of the Silicon Valley Ethereum meetup; I've offered a chance to Greg Maxwell, and Austin Hill the chance to talk to us and give a coherent critique of Ethereum; they did not take me up on the offer (We had Matthieu Riou give a brief critique of Ethereum at our meetup; see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwPulJKP1_Y). I'd be very happy for a coherent and respectful critique of Ethereum from one of you at one of our meetups; you're welcome to contact me; see http://www.meetup.com/EthereumSiliconValley/
As an existing solution, newsbeuter [1] is an excellent and fast terminal reader with many features. I have settled with it for a while after trying many alternatives. If you are too much into e-mails and using a terminal reader like mutt, sending new feeds as e-mails with rss2email [2] is also an option.

[1]: http://newsbeuter.org/

[2]: https://github.com/wking/rss2email/
There really is no good reason intel keep removing this from the consumer cpus.
Except this is a Xeon E3, which is the same chip as an i7 including the same limitations.
Lightning? Aurora borealis? Eclipses? Earth being center of universe?
That's not true for any language. It depends heavily on how that language is interpreted or compiled to machine code. A number of languages support threads but have eg GIL's. We have to judge each on a case-by-case basis. Both the Erlang language and BEAM designed specifically to support this. Here's some details for you in a JVM comparison:

http://ds.cs.ut.ee/courses/course-files/To303nis%20Pool%20.p...
I think this is related to a Lenovo leak:

http://i.imgur.com/7ZorPrq.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/AnP4eVU.jpg
Yea... It lost the link. Weird.
AMD switches from proprietary ACML to open source BLIS/libFLAME
Market segmentation.
I agree, if we are speaking about composition alone for example comparing two pieces played on the same piano. But what I think is interesting about the contrast is how pop music has evolved into a science of performance, and while I think a computer synthesizer and algorithm can render a convincing performance of Bach, the same can't be said of pop music. I know that we don't have the real Back here to perform, but that's kind of the point of what I am getting at, which is the idea of what these musics actually are in cultural math, if that makes any sense. I say it's easier to replicate the idoms of classical piece than of pop, because pop has complexity in performance, which actually means recordance, if that word exists.
If Legacy of Ashes, a history of the CIA, is any sort of indicator (and it is as a factual history of the CIA), the CIA has been (and probably still is) an absolutely inept institution with a tremendous amount of incompetance. I'm not quite this far but I'm getting there. I'm sure it will talk about this guy.
E3s are basically i7s with different binning, e.g. there are E3s without the IGP ; so if an i7 part has yield issues with the IGP, it can be disabled, binned as a Xeon E3 and sold more cheaply than the equivalent i7.

2P/4P multi-cpu is the other major feature of Xeon which only appears in E5/E7.
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Anyone know of a good python or java implementation of Kademila DHT that this is based on?

Edit:

Found a list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kademlia#Implementations

Would still like to hear your impressions if you have used any of them.
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Facebook Partners with Shadowy ‘Data Brokers’ to Farm Your Information
Oh :( That sucks. I was looking foreword to having multiple full speed Thunderbolts.
Lately I've been reading about the functional artist and writer because ultimately they do similar work to what we do. Our work is more concrete and has definite correctness but at least for me some of the admonishments towards Craftsmanship are good. I'm Reading Art and Fear at the moment. On Writing Well is also good.
Tesla considers its own autonomous ride-sharing business [auto playing video]
I will plead ignorance here. In Latino cultures, the individual is not allowed to refuse a hug from a stranger? Or it's considered to be extremely rude and insulting to do so?

Please lay it out for me, in as much detail as you're comfortable providing.
I, for example, love walking - on average 15k steps a day. But some days I simply don't have the time. Or I have so many errands to do that I can spend over 4 hours to get everywhere unless I use a cab or public transport.

That's why I just got myself onewheel (still on the way to me). I expect it to be faster than any other mean of a transportation.
Judging by the line at the carousel, I'd wager there's at least a bag for each person on the plane on average.
I'm curious too. They talked about it appearing in "Skylake server", and this is branded as Skylake server, so maybe not impossible.
I definitely agree; as someone who uses Python daily, and previously not knowing what Cython is, my first thought was of a new, very immature project.
That's a good point. I'd wonder if it had any production quality seeing that number. Yet, most reviews I read talk like it's beta quality or better for their uses. Hmm.
Bancorp is who'd OP would partner with. They have a platform built for integrations.
Type systems anyone?
I totally agree with the point, "We need to accept that social problems are outside our realm of expertise and defer to the people who are experts."

I'm just writing a new job description, and I want to do my part to help rectify the tech industry's accidental exclusion of all sort of people. I did my best, but now I'm working hard to circulate it both to people in underrepresented groups and to experts in the hiring process.

It has been really helpful. I'm pretty well read on the topic, but I still got a lot of great substantive advice on how innocent-seeming things might put off people.
I recall Greenspan keeping it, and always talking about increases, around 4-6%? He was always warning us of "irrational exuberance". People were investing like it would never go down. The biggest idiot at the party was making a killing in the stock market, and bragging about it. The professionals(stock, financial advisors) were basically telling everyone, "If you are not in the stock market; there's something wrong with you(you're an idiot?).

Well the bubble collapsed! I remember a Game Developer came into some money(his company was bought by EA.), I believe put his $500,000 into the stock market--one year before the crash. I believe he lost everything? I never asked, but I know that was a lot of money for this guy. He came from a family that was always struggling financially.

I am tired of the low interest rates on a personal level. On a completely selfish level, this recovery has not helped me in the slightest. I don't invest. Any profit I make on money is my hard work(hustling--buying and selling stuff), and I have always relied on the interest of CD's. The return on CD's has been close to 0 for years now. The only reason I keep money in the bank is because I don't want to bury it, and forget where I buried it! I know relying on the income from CD's is not savvy, but it's save, and that's literally how most poor people invest.

I got off base, but this free money I can't get for various reasons. Where I live homes/rent have skyrocketed. Too many people are paying their whole pay check for rent. It's not how much you make anymore; It's how much does it cost to put a roof over your head? People ask why do Developers make so much in the Bay Area? If not because they are Rock Star Programmers. It's because the employer knows how expensive it is to live here, and they don't want to live in Findlay, Ohio. (I happen to love the Midwest, and see the charm.)

I won't speculate if we're in a bubble, but this economy has not helped my particular economic situation. I do feel the rich have all the access to the very low interest rates, maybe they always did? My wish is the government didn't allow anyone entity buy more two realestate investments. Foreigners should be banned immediately from buying realestate if they are not citizens first. Maybe it would not work in the end, but I just don't like to see the extreme speculation in realestate we're seeing now. It's not so easy to move because your rent went up $750 a month. There's kids in school. There's a lot of factors. I guess when your young it's easy to pick up and move?

I don't know what to do, but I would like to see Janet Yellen raise interest rates, or do away with Dodd Frank Act? That's the reason why banks only lend to the people who don't really need the money? I know a lot of rich dudes, and they don't start business with the free money; they basically buy realestate and gamble in the stock market. The money is not trickling down.
The greatest achievement from Ferris was actually selling the book to us, suckers. It creates vague hope, but that's about it.
To each her own.
I'm sorry to hear that you believe this. It shows a lack of appreciation for people who get out in the world and really live their lives... People who do things that have risk, but would rather follow their passions than live without it.

For people like that, dying doing what they loved really does make it better. They lived their lives, following their own choices. And those lives do end early sometimes. But all lives end. Sitting behind a desk for 40 years then cheering at how long you lived... that sounds like the tragedy to me.
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Not quite classical - "jazzical" perhaps? There is a freeform nature to the music that is more Free Jazz than classical, but the underlying classical style of the input is still readily apparent.

It might be interesting to feed it Jazz instead. Jazz in Jazz out.
There really isn't a big price difference between an i7 and an E3. Most consumers don't need ECC memory. So, leave it out and charge less. If you need it, get the Xeon.
You can segment on anything, if you want, the question is whether ECC should be a standard in all computers. It probably should be.
If you are ok with someone else setting up a service like this, could you please share the model data? I have some free computing power, and I wanted to play with deep learning for quite some time. (Also, If I set up a service like this, I'll link back to your blog post)
> How many Chinese people do you come across on the internet right now? How many Japanese? How many Russian?

> Nations on the internet are segregated by language.

This is true as far as it goes, but I don't really run into British, Australian, or even Canadian people either. Language may not be the primary factor.
Do you know some real case where ECC memory brought tangible benefits? It seems conventional memory chips are quite reliable.
The 7th hacker (Hackers, 1995)
Jira.
How many of those cell phone subscriptions share the same person?
That story is corroborated by KGB officers though, here (https://youtu.be/djs7UEJaueI?t=1314, in Russian).

Btw same documentary contains archive video of Tolkachev arrest https://youtu.be/djs7UEJaueI?t=1662 and detaining of CIA operative who handled him https://youtu.be/djs7UEJaueI?t=1860
Subject as in unit, not subject as in degree. When I taught population genetics I taught population genetics as one half of a unit on human genetics. I would have loved to devote an entire unit to population genetics, but the timetable did not allow it.

As a unit it often is called something else to appeal more to students and is more often mixed in with other biology fields. This is a general trend across biology where areas that were once separate fields have come back together with the rise of molecular biology.
On other hand, it would be worthwhile if a reader had a paper for an alternative with better attributes. I wonder what the state-of-the-art is in these things.
The Clouds and Bushes in Super Mario Bros Are the Same