skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, flight took very little to evolve - it happened separately for birds, mammals, lizards, insects. In less than billions of years.
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People talk about exponential technology progress as though we fully understood the problems we're trying to solve, so advances toward those problems' solutions will increase at an ever increasing and noticeable rate.

Unfortunately, as we advance toward the solution horizon for many of these hard problems (AI, cancer, aging, etc.) we continue to find that the horizon is at best remaining at a fixed distance. In some cases, like with cancer, the more we learn, the further away it seems a real cure will ever be. It's like trying to find your way through a maze that is actually a constantly evolving fractal.

So while CRISPR/Cas9 is a magnificent discovery, it could be as though the discovery of the wheel 5,500 years ago meant that the Tesla would soon be available.
Most in order architectures approximately double their performance per clock whe they switch to out-of-order.

Examples include cortex-a57 vs a53. Alpha 21264 vs alpha 21164. As well as many of the atoms until very recently vs core2 and similar chips.

With the various arm derivatives from qualcomm, samsung, and apple a under 2 GHz in order CPU doesn't sound particularly impressive. Especially when they talk about "under 30 watts", that's intel territory, not tablets let alone smart phones.

Trying to emulate arm and beat arm on price/perf or perf/watt seems like a long shot with an in-order mips64. Similarly beating intel at price/perf or perf/watt seems exceedingly unlikely with lower IPC and a MUCH slower clock.

The only thing that makes these mips64 look good is the even slower previous generation mips.
AST Research (Wikipedia)
Just avoid the TLD that are marked as spam by most filters and you'll be fine.
Wow! That logo and animation has scaringly close resemblance to the one on https://digital.scotch.io
Playing Dragon Age RPG with Will Wheaton
ha well, as a long-time user i assure you there is addiction, both physical and psychological. if i stop for any length of time i dont sleep as well and i sweat alot more.
Ask HN: Any HFT Algo Ace's / Architects Here?
Is it possible for a layman to enter the ring? With hopes of success, that is.

Most I find on Google re: HFT seems like a scam. Was wondering which if any HFT apps would be good for a casual investor to step up his game.

I don't see any HFT simulation sites, only ones with ~20 minute delays before buying w/ play money.
Daniel Bernard Roumain, a violinist, played at my college a couple of times. He has a small amp on stage and a mic on a tiny tripod jammed right up against it. That mic went to the PA system in the auditorium. I thought it was a cool idea, and it worked great.
> NoSQL data stores in their various incarnations apparently have equalled or slightly surpassed RDBMS as of 2014-2015

Wait, what is this based on? Hacker News postings? There is no way that NoSQL has surpassed RDBMS even among startups.
The ATI (AMD) graphics are already better than Nvidia for 4k graphics, especially from a price/performance ratio with the 290x2 and 390x cards. The issue is that none of the cards from either ATI nor Nvidia can do 60fps on high quality settings with any of the games that are currently benchmarked. The ATI cards do worse at all resolutions up to 4k, which markably benefits by higher memory bandwidth.

The question for consumers is: why spend >$400 on a card optimized for low-setting play at 4k? Especially when it's a marginal visual improvement over 1440p? Instead, with current-generation cards, players will rather use a lower resolution and higher settings.
Fair enough. It may be more accurate to say one of the rider concepts is they allow FTL.
I think questions about representations and symmetry are really interesting.

Have you looked at deep symmetry networks? (I think the right way to frame the idea is in terms of group convolutions, which I outlined here: http://colah.github.io/posts/2014-12-Groups-Convolution/)
This is an unformed thought, but to me the philosophy of emergence, intelligence and deep learning have something to do with each other. In emergent systems, you have a stack of levels of phenomena, and you can describe the phenomena at one level without reference to the details of the lower levels. It's like those details have been blurred out and you're left with a compressed representation with just enough information to be useful at the new level (e.g. pixels->edges, renormalization in physics). The success of architectures with multiple layers, including bottlenecks in layer size, seems very similar, and show that this is a good way to look at the world.

This seems to be quite a natural way that humans see the world, and in fact we might not think of something that doesn't behave this way as being intelligent -- we want there to be some sort of compressed 'trick' that doesn't just brute force the data.
> Built on top of Oracle's ZFS

Didn't OpenZFS[1] diverge from Oracle ZFS? Initially Oracle didn't want to continue their ZFS in the open and there was a split. I didn't really follow what happened to that split afterwards. Nexenta is using OpenZFS.

[1]: http://www.open-zfs.org
Every result in physics hitherto has been some sort of mathematics: an equation or a constant (measured or otherwise established to some digits of precision). What is a particle? A collection of mathematical properties. So is a wave. If we extrapolate from the past to the future, we can expect more of the same: no "non-mathematical bottom" will be found. Nobody is even looking; the researchers expect all new results to take the shape of math. So the notion that "maybe it's just math all the way down" is actually quite rational. One day we may hit bottom, the way a (terminating) recursive function does, and realize; this is it: there is nothing more going forward, and if we look back, it's just a collection of math.
I took that to mean the language and tooling were hostile, not the community.
If this formalism works out then a few interesting directions spring to mind:

- we suddenly have a huge new toolbox from FP / category theory that we can apply to understanding and extending DNNs. E.g. what happens if we apply differentiation in the manner of zippers to these structures? I have no idea but it might lead somewhere.

- The deep learning world gets a precise way to describe network architecture which makes communication much easier and research much more reproducible.

- With a formal model you can automate building and optimising implementations.
And even with all these warts, K&R C is a good start for learning or re-learning C IMO. To grok C you don't need to know the exact syntax. You only need to realize that everything is either a byte sequence or a pointer to a byte sequence... represented by a byte sequence. This includes obvious things like arrays or "strings" or structs or unions, but also functions themselves. Once you internalize this you know C. Of course you'd also have to learn another language: the C preprocessor, but it's relatively small and only a few of its instructions would be needed to make productive use of it. So don't get hung up on the outdates syntax, and instead just read the book. You can probably buy a used copy for a few bucks or borrow it from your local library, then spend an evening reading it.
In my experience, a good bar or coffee shop on campus or juuuuust off campus is where great gelling happens. You are not 'in lab' and if there is beer, it is a very good indicator that you are relaxing (the chance of drowning sorrows is noted). You are essentially 'open' to conversation and talking about life. Being scientists,most of life is science, and the 'other' space allows for a freedom of thought and truth not afforded in a more sterile work environment. Also, the use of stimulants or depressants helps to kick people out of their ruts in addition to the new space.

Not all gelling happens in bars or cafes, but I do think they have a great correlation to great discoveries. In fact, I wonder what the actual data says? What does HN think are good metrics to measure this? Proximity to lab benches, cost of drinks, variety of foodstuffs, size of the shop?

Also, I wonder what the introduction of legal marijuana to those states will do to their use of 'other' spaces and areas that you can run into and talk with other researchers. Perhaps an alternative to stimulants and depressants, here being a mild hallucinogen with pot, will uncover new thoughts and ideas to benefit research.
What exactly is multi-threaded programming in this context?
Softcover [1] covers many of the same bases as well. Actually supporting all of LaTeX's features in HTML is basically impossible, though, so no matter which tool you use it's best to go in with tempered expectations.

[1]: http://www.softcover.io/
he predicted ruby's massive success relative to python over some of that time stretch in another article. he predicted everyone would be writing code in the browser instead of emacs & co and i don't think that has come true.
Programming that explicitly creates and manages threads.
>sounds like a movie plot

If only you knew the rest of the story... It often felt like I'd been thrown into some bizarre screenwriter's fantasy. But this is real.

My experience suggests the problem is systemic, not isolated. I can only imagine that if I were a poor black kid from the inner city, I would be in prison right now, rather than several years removed from that nightmare.
Lambda Architecture: Merging Batch and Real-Time Data
A CPU Bound Performance Comparison Between Clojure, Scala, and Ruby 2.2.2p95
I never noticed because I'm actually using stripe.js to do the payment, and was only using the various validations from jquery.payment in a couple angular directives.

I realized stripe.js had validation functions built in one day looking into the source, and that's where I remember those validations acting differently from.
HHMI, the organization that helped fund both researchers, created their first campus, Janelia (https://www.janelia.org/about-us), with that in mind. The wide open spaces and architecture as well as the pub "Bob's" provides plenty of places to chat. Janelia also holds dozens of conferences a year where researchers can relax together after sessions and chat.

The architecture of Stanford Bio-X's Clark Center (https://biox.stanford.edu/about/clark-center) targeted spontaneous meetings and discussion. There's a coffee shop on the third floor and wide open-air stairs in case you bump into someone.
I think it's more that they're considered and deployed at the same scale as RDBMS--obviously oracle still has a pretty strong hold on the database world: http://db-engines.com/en/ranking
Not every.
Roslyn needs cross-platform MSBuild to build itself for every platform (without Mono). Same with corefx.

So even if you're currently using or thinking about using .NET xplat and don't have any plans to use MSBuild, this move is necessary for us working on .NET to get xplat builds working.
See also: Cognitive trope therapy [1]

[1] http://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/post/103192100330/cognitive-trop...
I'm trying really hard not to make a snarky comment here... the fact is there is, always has been, and always will be a lot of fragmentation with any web technology.

Just like there's fragmentation with desktop apps... QT, wx, GTK and that's just a handful for Linux alone. That doesn't include all the Windows and OSX UI packages over the years... The web is far more flexible and diverse in practice, and also more open, so you simple see more of the options.

MaterialUI, MaterializeCSS and Bootstrap are all decent starting points... depending on what you want to do. If what you want is a nice table widget, nobody is stopping you from making one... become part of the web community you're complaining about...

If you aren't part of the solution, what are you? In this case you're supposed to be a programmer, with an itch to scratch... scratch, and share.
What's the difference between `git diff --patience` and `git diff --histogram`?
I think that the theory is pretty much already clear to people who have a lot of experience with neural networks. I think the contribution is to explicitly write it down in a clear and concise way for people who it wouldn't have otherwise occurred to.
Instead, they say, the standards should take into account the severity of the diseases that the drugs seek to address.

The FDA already does this. Take a look at the Duchenne's muscular dystrophy drugs currently up for review. One of them fail to show a statistically significant difference from the control group and the other one only had a single trial of 10 patients.

The likelihood is that one or both of the drugs will be approved since no treatments currently exist.

Then take a look at diabetic drugs. Any hint of cardiovascular side effects and the FDA slaps a black box warning on the package and asks for a 10,000 patient follow-up trial. This makes sense because drugs already exist to control diabetes.

This article seems to lay out a more mathematically driven method for statistical testing, but it's a bit ingenuous to say this is something new for the FDA.
OTOH, if the subscription price is substantially lower than the pre-subscription purchase price, JetBrains has to keep improving faster than the competition long enough to get you to keep buying the subscription for several cycles instead of switching to a competing option or they are losing money from going from outright purchase to subscription.
> You're assuming that the tax is so onerous as to make rental housing unprofitable. Not just less profitable, but a flat-out cash drain. That's a pretty big assumption

Many, many landlords in this country are single property landlords or landlords that own a small number of "single family homes" [1-4 unit homes].

The gross cash flow of such properties is ~1% of the property value in cash flow. A 1% property tax equivalent increase wipes out all cashflow and guarantees an overall negative return given real estate stays about even with inflation, barring bubbles/speculation.

However, the positive per-unit cashflow is about $100/month/unit in the real world if you picked a good investment. $100. You raise the tax burden by $1200/year/unit, the unit is worthless and must be sold. Pretty much all "land value tax" proposals require that much of an increase as they replace other revenue streams.

> ROI is cut in half

You've basically admitted the problem. If you cut ROI in half, you are better off investing in the market.

Real estate investing is very, very narrow in its advantage over other forms of investment [if you are good at it and can find good deals] to the tune of fractions of a percentage point. Perhaps as much as a whole percentage point.

If this wasn't the case, everyone would plow their money into real estate instead of stocks/bonds/etc.
If you are on the subscription and jetbrains sudenly hikes the price beyond your pain point, then you lose the tool completly, you cant even run the out of date versions. Under the old scheme you could just stop paying the upgrade and not get any new versions, but still carry on using the product.
You are correct, my bad... I was only up for about 25 hours at that point... still up, and really in need of a nap soon.
I'll definitely be. I live in the nix terminal, and that's where the tools work best for web development. But the current day job is C# apps. I dream of hacking code legitimately in a nix.
The same way I do in any other language: I don't.
FWIW, you can install MSBuild without Visual Studio. It's part of the Windows SDK. If your target system is not supported, you have to run it on a supported system and choose the "Download for installation on a separate computer" option. Then copy the resulting msi and cab files to the server and run them. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12944502/build-asp-net-4-...

However, after I did this, I had to find build targets that Visual Studio installed and copy them from my workstation into the same directory on the server (i.e. C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v11.0\WebApplications).
Correct. And society has the responsibility to educate everyone and give them enough of a chance, so that they have no reason to go haywire.
Sure, but the question is whether by celebrating those individuals so much, we exaggerate their uniqueness, and we understate the role that their circumstances played in their performance, whether intellectual or physical.
Dashboards in Python
I guess it depends on your sales metric: number of people now with access to the technology vs. amount of $ padding added to Apple shareholders' bottom line.

Number of people is much more relevant and interesting.
I wish people had continued this sort of thing, I had a Gigabyte i-Ram[0] and it was incredible. The most limiting factor was that it used DDR memory slots (maximum 4GB) and the SATA interface. I don't imagine there would be much of a barrier in doing this with more modern technology like PCI-e for the transfers and a big juicy FPGA for addressing substantially more memory. Alas.
My experience as well. I did build some older stuff back in maybe 2010 using mono and NAnt as a hobby of course and I still use NAnt today in 2015 but all it does is invoke MSBuild. These days I don't build any .net software on non Microsoft platforms.
Beautiful website. Props!
Dan Luu's original post: http://danluu.com/yegge-predictions/
So...wouldn't it would be misleading to make hamburgers without ham? What about a turkey burger? It's not beef, but the name implies The subject matter of what you are purchasing. Burger is a category just like mayo.

Let's all be clear. They weren't after the naming, they were after preventing potential profit and market loss from a competing product. Because of that, they didn't have the intention of using a moral standard to compete against their new found rival, but we're seeking ways to intentionally harm the product/company.
Read this before you refactor your monolith into microservices
Kotlin is basically a nicer Java and will seemlessly integrate. You can even mix Java and Kotlin in the same project.
I'm pretty sure Her Majesty won't simply release you - or your company for that matter - from tax debt just because you declare bankruptcy, personal or otherwise. Tax debts are notoriously difficult to get rid off in any other way than paying them. Maybe, payment by instalments is a possibility but otherwise you might not have too many options.

Besides, this also depends on what kind of company you founded. If I remember correctly, both the director and the secretary of a private limited company for instance are personally liable for the company's tax debts as well (at least to a certain extent).
I also thought about this as well. At first I even thought it was an SVG image. Don't get me wrong, it's pretty damn awesome that he was able to use CSS transforms to create that but...why? I guess it shows how to think critically and maybe he did it in CSS because it's backwards compatible. I don't know. I don't know the backwards compatibility of CSS transforms vs. SVG.
I gave up on activating windows agents programatically, I keep one powerful windows build server running, it spins down at night after regression testing, then back on during the day when employees come into the office. The pocketbook definitely feels it, though.
Well, if I didn't also have a family to consider - I think I'd move to another country. Just pick up and go somewhere interesting where I could challenge myself to learn a new language, culture, get a job in a new environment, and just generally make some really interesting memories.

I think that the big mistake I made when I really was 30 was to retreat too quickly toward comfort.
The thrill of undocumented property sheets!
The rush of accidentally getting a build to work while using a genetic algorithm to try every possible combination of configuration settings!

What's not to love!?
Of interesting historical note: Fr. Lemaître's studies of Einstein's theories were prompted by the encouragement of another churchman, Cardinal Mercier of Belgium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9-Joseph_Mercie...

Here is an English translation of the Cardinal's most important book, published in 1897:

The origins of contemporary psychology

https://archive.org/details/originsofcontemp00merciala

And the abstract for a review of the book, written in 1970:

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/232491640_Review_of_...
Business+strategy+meets+lean+startup:+Lessons+from+agile+development
This sounds like "it's easy to accidentally shoot yourself in the wrong foot", implying that shooting yourself in the other foot is a good thing? Maybe take a step back and ask not whether it's the right or wrong foot, but whether any foot shooting is necessary?
There is no promotional price, they're charging twice the price they charged in the past, ex. PhpStorm was $49 USD/upgrade, but now it is $99 USD/year.
I don't find them to be at all similar aside from the larger concept of having "large pixels convene to form pixelized text", which I'm sure has been done plenty of times before.

The text is different. The color is different. The animation is different. The code is different. It's a unique implementation.
Would love to hear more about this. AFAICT (from using it every day for 4 years), it's all pretty awesome (except startup time, but that doesn't matter much because REPL).
Oh, wow. I hadn't thought about that. Thanks!
> The commodity supercycle is over and that's bad news for many countries

Bluntly, Australia and Canada are screwed.
One thing that ranking does not quite take into account is SQLite on Android and iPhone. That's got to count for something, as that's a pretty massive deployment.
I am reminded of Pratchett and co's ideas on narrativium, which I apparently imbibed and internalized early enough that it has made me one of these life-writers.

"We are not Homo sapiens, Wise Man. We are the third chimpanzee. What distinguishes us from the ordinary chimpanzee Pan troglodytes and the bonobo chimpanzee Pan paniscus, is something far more subtle than our enormous brain, three times as large as theirs in proportion to body weight. It is what that brain makes possible. And the most significant contribution that our large brain made to our approach to the universe was to endow us with the power of story. We are Pan narrans, the storytelling ape. (II: 325)

...if you understand the power of story, and learn to detect abuses of it, you might actually deserve the appellation Homo sapiens."

http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Narrativium
>>half of the time measured is starting the runtime, profiling & compiling code<<

Here are 10 cold-run times reported by their program:

Elapsed time is 3.122233018 seconds.
Elapsed time is 2.970587912 seconds.
Elapsed time is 3.110304658 seconds.
Elapsed time is 2.886701204 seconds.
Elapsed time is 2.966404493 seconds.
Elapsed time is 2.905329605 seconds.
Elapsed time is 2.968715703 seconds.
Elapsed time is 2.922929706 seconds.
Elapsed time is 2.906730019 seconds.
Elapsed time is 2.919119506 seconds.

Here are the stats reported by JMH after 200 samples:

Result : 2.950 ±(99.9%) 0.015 s/op
Statistics: (min, avg, max) = (2.932, 2.950, 2.984), stdev = 0.017
Confidence interval (99.9%): [2.935, 2.965]