skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An ASIC is always going to be at least 10x better than a CPU/GPU for performing the same algorithm.

In theory, this has always been the case. Yet every single neural net ASIC built in the last 25 years has failed in the marketplace, for the same reason - "silicon steamroller". Invariably, when the ASIC was ready to ship, which was almost always much later than was hoped for, general purpose chips have caught up in performance.

I'm not attacking your startup in particular. I'm just pointing out the history behind the field of specialized neural hardware.

p.s. Your competition is Nvidia (or Intel, or Xilinx, etc), because they are well known, big players, who produce reliable products, with huge development infrastructure and expertise. Nvidia specifically has been focusing on deep learning applications, they are already targeting computer vision for cars with their mobile GPUs. If I'm Ford or Toyota, who would I consider for partnership when I need chips potentially making life or death decisions on the road?
If your technology really works (big "if", because you haven't built anything yet), then your best hope is one of those big players acquires you.
Anyone with a key for a root cert in your trusted list could apply this to https as well I betcha. Lenovo comes to mind.
\) didn't work for me (may depend on the context, don't know), and some Google searches and Stackoverflow answers later I settled for LEFTPAREN:=) and $(LEFTPAREN)
I find something deeply terrifying about implementing machine-learning controlled conditioning on humans, rather than treating people like people and communicating with them. It just takes all the problems with zero-tolerance policies, and removes human interaction from the loop even further.

The obvious criticism to my point is that Riot can't scale personal processes for dealing with so many players. And I'd agree, because that just echos my impression game studios treat their user-bases as cattle they're just trying to keep under control and remain better-behaved business assets.

Is it our responsibility to make online society a better place? Of course
it is, for all of us. It is our society. As we collaborate with those
outside of games, we are realizing that the concepts we’re using in games
can apply in any online context. We are at a pivotal point in the timeline
of online platforms and societies, and it is time to make a difference.

"Our" is a striking word to use in an article is about exercising his machinery of control over the masses. It reads like the speech of a politician (complete with only describing the upside of policy, and "I got a letter from..." style soundbites), but one given a position by market forces rather than election.

I already feel like society is a machine for delivering punishment to people more than +/- xσ from a social norm. This can be good in some circumstances (ex: harassment) but also has a hugely damaging failure mode, one that you can't prevent, only regret after your standards change (contemporary example we're in mid-change of: treatment of homosexuals). Automating the process makes my skin crawl.
tl,dr: hope you've got deep pockets, because they've patented a bunch of obvious ideas.
> I really don't understand why I can't be allowed to speculate/gamble/hedge on geopolitical events.

There was an interesting Planet Money episode lately about the history of betting on US presidential elections - http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/08/21/433557935/episo....

It hadn't occurred to me before how much participation in the public sphere gambling could (and previously did) generate.
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Under the social security umbrella there's also supplemental security income, that has nothing to do with what you or your spouse paid in. Medicare has medicaid, same story.
http://sourcegraph.com/ is doing something similar.
According to the fortune web site, the fortunate 500 only covers companies that "are incorporated and operate in the US." I think it was probably cheaper and easier to do this in the past, but now regulatory and tax reasons make it more difficult and more expensive.

> Companies are ranked by total revenues for their respective fiscal years. Included in the survey are companies that are incorporated in the U.S. and operate in the U.S. and file financial statements with a government agency. This includes private companies and cooperatives that file a 10-K or a comparable financial statement with a government agency, and mutual insurance companies that file with state regulators. It also includes companies that file with a government agency but are owned by private companies, domestic or foreign, that do not file such financial statements. Excluded are private companies not filing with a government agency; companies incorporated outside the U.S.; and U.S. companies consolidated by other companies, domestic or foreign, that file with a government agency. Also excluded are companies that failed to report full financial statements for at least three quarters of the current fiscal year. Percent change calculations for revenue, net income, and earnings per share are based on data as originally reported. They are not restated for mergers, acquisitions, or accounting changes. The only changes to the prior years' data are for significant restatement due to reporting errors that require a company to file an amended 10-K.
"Adrian Frutiger - Typographer" (1999) was released in English, French, German and Italian. It was released in DVD format in 2004. It's listed on amazon.de [0] but seems to be out of stock at the moment. It seems to be available in libraries across Germany and Switzerland [1].

"The Man of Black and White: Adrian Frutiger" (2005) was released in Swiss German and German in DVD format. It's also listed on amazon.de [2] but seems to be out of stock at the moment. The San Francisco Public Library [3] seems to have a copy though.

Sebastian Rohner of R.Films shot an interview with Adrian Frutiger at his home in Switzerland in 2007. It's available in German on YouTube [4].

[0] http://www.amazon.de/Adrian-Frutiger-Schriftengestalter/dp/B...

[1] https://www.worldcat.org/title/adrian-frutiger-schriftengest...

[2] http://www.amazon.de/Adrian-Frutiger-Mann-Schwarz-Weiss/dp/3...

[3] https://www.worldcat.org/title/mann-von-schwarz-und-weiss-ad...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipGFasprntg
For me, it was the usenet, and specifically comp.lang.c and comp.arch.embedded. It was quite entertaining and useful, but that was way before it become Google groups and the spammer bots discovering it.
Not true at all. Indeed, it's the little companies that often can be "disruptive" (I hate that word; why is disruption necessarily good?). Indeed, large companies are in practice often invested in ways that prevent them from pursuing profitable business that smaller business can. Their business model can prevent them from pursuing profitable business because it would involve biting the hand that feeds them. Large companies become entrenched in a certain set of ties and a certain status quo. The last thing they want is to disrupt. It's very much a question of trade offs.

Aside from that, your phrase "drives society forward". I always here this phrase thrown around in these discussions, but I have yet to receive a coherent explanation of what that means, or what this great lord of Progress consists of. I think one ought to remember what the aim is. Change is not the same as "better", chaos is also change (the article says we fear change at its core, which I think is stupid; we fear loss of something which change can entail; some are addicted to change for its own sake out of from psychological illness). There is the social dimension to consider, the psychological, the spiritual, the environmental, etc. The empty profit seeking and vacuous worship of tech or whatever is desolate.
Sure. But that doesn't make it "key" in the sense that, say, lists and maps are.
Chrome seems to load the examples really slowly, and some of them not at all.
Apple announced drastic financial incentives for its new iPhone 6s line because the devices aren’t much of a step forward technologically. Most iPhone 6 users won’t sense a dramatic difference, and maybe none at all. It leaves Apple with not much to sell other than “new” but not noticeably “improved.”
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Current model Honda Fit maintains a small screen for displaying radio/bluetooth settings + backup camera while all other controls are traditional knobs/buttons.

I prefer it despite only being available on the 'economy' trim model as a large touch screen is embedded in everything else.
Like how the NSA doesn't know how to use default passwords?

"Foiled again! We found this high value computer network, but using a default password to break in is too crude for our tastes."

I don't care where the facts take us, but that observation does nothing to tell us what is going on here.
Prediction markets often break Republican because there are a lot of rich idiots who want to see Republicans win.

(Maybe that is why there are so many Republican candidates. If you can pass all the litmus tests, you can get millions of dollars to pay your friends to do things for you -- between the Koch brothers and the rest of them you can get a lot of free money if you are a Republican. I think Trump thinks he can make money off the publicity, which is a different business model.)
Appreciate the in-depth description. Look forward to working through this in detail.
Quality is definitely a small factor in success, when we're talking about network effects. When we add in capital, with all its perverse incentives, quality matters even less.

Technologies become popular primarily based on how easy or cost-effective they are to replicate. The fewer concepts you introduce, the lower the bar is for people to reproduce your intellectual inventions; the cheaper the materials and manufacturing process, the easier it is for knock-offs to be manufactured. Popularity means a plurality of knock-offs. Quality often requires subtlety and attention to detail -- two things that add effort to replication, and thus work against popularity.

The web became popular not because it was better than the alternatives but because it was stupider than the alternatives -- it had fewer features, fewer ideas, and fewer nuances. The web is no longer less featureful or nuanced than its competitors, because unplanned organic development grows complexity like a rat with a radium drip grows tumors, so as a result the very simplicity that made the web grow so quickly in the first place would prevent it from growing again, had it not become the focal point of an enormous amount of lock-in and path-dependence.

The web is a huge bureaucratic mess right now, just waiting to be disrupted by a superior hypertext system.
Porsche, Audi unveil vapourware.
The FCC isn't forcing Level3 or Global Exchange or AOL to "play nice" either. You're apparently arguing from a complete ignorance of history, and consequently your prescribed remedy is likely to make the situation worse instead of better.
The buck probably stops at the table-top box. Prohibition-era homes weren't typically raided for small-scale alcohol production. Indeed, products like this "grape juice"[0] included instructions on how not to make wine.

[0]: http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2013/05/wine-and-prohibition-w...
There still aren't enough tech workers, and enterprises are paying the price
https://contacts.google.com/u/0/preview/all the new google contacts can help you in categorising contacts finding duplicates and delteing them aswell
"I do not know of an open source router hardware that is available (at ISP scale)"

You're basically correct but it's worth remembering that it is possible to add a bunch of quad nics to whitebox and run bpf on it, courtesy of one of the BSDs and do real routing at an ISP scale.

That would be completely open source (and quite secure).

Probably pretty performant if you knew what you were doing.
Also check out http://pmneila.github.io/jsexp/grayscott/, which is linked to at the bottom of this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10216124
Looks nice, but so far there's limited platform support:

>Support for your browser is coming soon.
Check out Notion on Google Chrome desktop, Safari, or iPhone.

>Copy and paste this link into a supported browser to continue:

>https://www.notion.so/tutorial

I'll try it again once Android support is in.
I did ^F for it, but it's possible I might have missed it. Unfortunately it's too late to edit my grandparent comment.
It would be interesting to compare this Python approach with a Go goroutine approach. The main question is whether Go's libraries handle massive numbers of connections well. Since Google wrote Go to be used internally, they probably do.
Because investors in Europe are less optimistic.

Why would I invest a lot of money in a company that for it to succeed will have to burn through anywhere between $10-$250 million, before they even think about breaking even?

even as a seed fund, the rate of attrition is genuinely terrible. The only way unicorn can survive is to bend reality long enough so that people are willing to gamble on the pyramid scheme that is behind all non profit making pre-IPO startups.

Think about it. Uber is only in the position it is because it keeps on taking funding. That funding is used to

A) expand at a massive loss

B) Inflate the current valuation

C) pay off previous investors.

If uber were for what ever reason not able to raise any more capital, they would literally collapse over night. They are unable to make a profit without making massive structural changes, changes not scheduled for years. Yes they have cash reserves, but they'll be convertible if some investors need them. More importantly, if an investor decides to sell for a lowerprice, the only thing that makes Uber Uber, its valuation will disappear.

Let me be very clear, There is nothing special about uber. Unlike netflix, amazon, or facebook which either have unique content, or many thousands of hours of personal content, Uber is just a service which can be swapped out at will. It is just a taxi service, one that is cheap because its being subsidised by not paying health care, and the many investors.

It is the very embodyment of the south sea bubble.
While I agree to a point, for most of these students, Harvard isn't an option (and never would have been). These are typical upper-middle-class kids and parents. Smart enough to get a six-figure job, but far from the top tier of thinkers and doers (I don't mean this disparagingly - I'm firmly in that same category).

I wonder how much impact international students have on the prospects of US students applying to US universities? I'm sure at the super-elite schools, there is an effect. But, at the big state schools? I don't know.

I'd also love to see a plot of college "seats" vs overall population. I know all the Virginia state schools have increased enrollment, but probably not enough to keep up with population growth. Is this true across the nation? Probably.
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He also said that his goal is always to keep his employees happy, so they in turn keep the customers happy. Lots of companies out there have that backwards.
Yea, even if you increase the chunk size and omit dynamic recompilation, there still may be unavoidable slowdowns due to shoving all that Javascript through the browser.

I am currently designing a software-only CPU with sliding register window (128 entries) and dirt simple instruction set. The for/switch/loop emulator for it should be quite a bit faster than any emulated silicon CPU.
Here's what it's like to attend a press conference in virtual reality
A CPU you can walk inside :) I was at Bletchley Park this weekend fixing old BBC Micros for the museum. It's a great place for geeks, but also important because it educates people (especially children) about what really goes on in their magic box/tablet of tricks.
IMO the EU is too protective of its economy to allow the kind of innovation Silicon Valley is famous for. The EU has a default assumption of "you have to prove that this will not be harmful before you can do it" where the US has a default assumption of "someone else has to prove that this will be harmful before we will stop you". The important part is that this burden of proof in the US is not placed on a company at a time before they have revenue to prove it. By the time they're big enough to have to defend themselves from an attack on regulatory grounds, they have the means to do so.

Something like Uber could never have come out of Europe. A large company that is breaking the law while competing with regulated taxis and remaining unregulated themselves? That would never fly in the EU, and Uber has met a lot more resistance there than the US. They're only able to address the EU market because they have a large, profitable base in the US.

In any measure, the regulatory culture in the US is much more laissez-faire than the EU. In the US, you can do whatever you want as long as it's not explicitly illegal. In the EU, you can do whatever you want, as long as you prove that it's not illegal first. It's a huge difference, and it's one of the biggest cultural differences between Europe and the US.
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The point is explained in the article. It's a protest of (now failed) legislation restricting photography of copyrighted public works. It uses the number of photographs taken in the immediate area as a proxy for the likelihood that something in the frame is a popular, publicly available copyrighted work.
Thank you for being so thorough and informative though I seemingly won't get hold of these films. After reading the comment thread in the "playing with pigs" article, this is a ray of sunshine.
Why is there no Silicon Valley of Europe?

Because programmers and other IT professionals are paid laughably low wages and shown even less respect than they are in the US. It's a similar situation in Japan and Australia. Yet whenever politicians talk about the need for startups to compete with Silicon Valley, you never hear them say a word about the insultingly low wages that are the norm in Germany, France, UK, Belgium, and others.

Want to create a Silicon Valley of Europe? Then pay Silicon Valley wages, you cheap bastards!

The Irrlicht guy wrote about this:

http://www.irrlicht3d.org/pivot/entry.php?id=1295
A Note on Non Secret Encryption (1973) [pdf]
yupp allows to generate a readable, well-formatted text. Special
attention is paid to providing complete diagnostic information and
navigational capabilities.

so generate proper markdown for the github page...
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Want shorter travel time? No need for faster planes, just get rid of the useless TSA and create efficient check-in systems. Most travel time would decrease by about 15%-25%.
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What's the point of living longer if I have to consume bland, tasteless crap every time I get hungry?
As others have pointed out, there isn't really a "shortage" in the general sense. There's a "shortage of people will to do this for the amount I want to pay". If you want to attract more talented people to IT, pay more.

And on a related note: more businesses should "play the long game" and hire junior level / inexperienced people, and provide serious mentoring, on-the-job training, and help groom them to advance. The refusal of firms to help their staff grow and develop is, IMO, a big part of the reason why we have the move to the "gig economy". It would also help if companies treated employees as people not some fungible commodity, where developers can be swapped in and out like cogs in a machine.
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No, you forgot that the d stands for deci (i.e., 1/10th).

So 240dB is 10^(2.4-1.3) times as much sound power as 130dB.
Only you don't get to enjoy "being remembered".
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So can't you either: Go really high (square of the distance and so on). Or: Create a shape that pushes the energy of the sonic boom out to each side rather than in a circle equal in all directions?

(I'm a computer programmer, not an aero engineer, so probably both these solutions are naive)
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In my opinion, the EU has failed (still) to be an open big market, where companies can grow without restrictions.

One current big example are the new VAT rules in the EU for non-physical products. They just do the opposite, what a free market should be. There are already companies that say on their website, that they will sell to their own countries people and happily even to people outside of the EU, but not to people living in other EU countries. The total opposite what the EU once should be. The new VAT rules also should limit the possibilities of big companies like Amazon to circumvent VAT. In reality it become a big stumble block for smaller companies.

The EU is a big market, with many, many rules. To many rules and to few thoughts on the effects particularly for smaller companies. (instead, the big corporations are effectively writing the rules)

When smaller companies do not get the chance to come up (what is happening) than the chances for Unicorns are also greatly limited. Instead the same big players are winning again and again and are doing the same dinosaur stuff again and again.
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I couldn't really claim to have any great knowledge but I would be surprised if there was any big issue. There has been fairly widespread discussion on racism of late as a (?)perceived inflow of Chinese money has been causing housing cost issues in Auckland. If any group have a rough time here it would be the Asian population. It has to be frustrating for them as some of the earliest settlers here in modern times were Chinese.
Yeah, the problem is that with this line of reasoning a startup is destined to fail. If I don't get clients, I can't keep my business open. That's what irks me. How can I prove myself in the market if I don't get a chance?
"What they really want is the ability to express empathy"