skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this surprising? I think it's expected, when most published numbers from Google suggest that this is only 2x over DistBelief, which Adam Coates improved upon 6x (http://www.cs.stanford.edu/~acoates/papers/CoatesHuvalWangWu...) in 2013. Coming from a HPC background, DistBelief (and sometimes MR in general) has always felt like a square being forced into a round hole. Sure it "scales" but it's not how you would build a system from scratch to meet the same computational needs. Moving data around is much slower than doing extra math.

DNNs provide some interesting opportunities for domain specific optimization with lossy math because empirically it seems that the solutions dont require significant precision. Something like a general Tensor library holds you back from using some of the tricks like synchronization-free hogwild, where it wouldn't be appropriate in other scenarios where more exact computation is necessary.

One interesting step towards this is their implementation of lossy compression with a custom 16-bit half float representation. However a lot of people are dialing down the precision even further, including one of the authors of TensorFlow (http://petewarden.com/2015/05/23/why-are-eight-bits-enough-f...).

Scott Gray, one of the principle engineers at Nervana Systems, has a very wise reply in the github thread - they aren't doing much to optimize for memory locality, and wont have amazing speedups until that happens.
F-Secure SENSE
It gives me the creeps that we live in a world where we have surpassed even orwells imagination. I don't know whether it's the human condition that produces these totaly overboard going laws or just plain stupidity on the part of the legislative. if its the latter then the question is what does that say about the people being governed by those power and control hungry politicians.
It's one of the sentences which creates endless confusions and a false image of Lisp. 'Everything is a list'. Oh, Lisp has only one data structure? Lisp is difficult to read, because it has no other syntax? Lisp is a primitive language and not usable for real programmers... etc. etc. It also creates the impression that even proponents of Lisp-like languages don't actually understand the basics...
A market is "free" when the economic agents in the market are free. Capitalism enslaves most men, and therefore capitalism and the free market are in contradiction.
you mean like a business?
No mention of Hip-Hop?
I don't see "Beijing" as an "English name," just a Romanization of the Chinese name. In programming terms, it's a double indirection: Peking/Beijing points to 北京 which points to the actual city.

Note that I'm not saying anything about the rightness or wrongness of either name. In fact, I explicitly said that any Romanized version is going to be imperfect. I'm just saying that I think the BBC's wording here implies the something other than what happened.
Sure. But how do you know which ideas Apple will integrate into their OS and which they won't? That knowledge imbalance is paralyzing, and in effect means that if you take that path of thinking to its conclusion, there are extremely few apps worth making.
Not what you were asking for, but there has been something similar for compressed tracks[0].

Take the uncompressed track compare it to the compressed track, and then generating a track that is composed of the portions removed by the compression algorithm.

[0]: http://theghostinthemp3.com/
"git diff -w"
Parinfer + Atom -- what a dream come true. Awesome work. (Edit: just took it for a spin, and it "just works", even with atom-vim -- doubly awesome. I really feel like having to navigate parens while learning the language was such a barrier to diving in to ClojureScript. Cant wait to get started.)
A mechanism for cognitive influence at a distance?
I certainly agree with you for using platform-specific languages for platform-specific features. But I much prefer to write the main logic of an app in C++ and use Swift as the glue to the UI rather than use Swift for everything. I'm not yet sold on Swift, and being unable to take the code to other platforms is also a strike against it, for now.
wow, cool. it's like a musical equivalent of semantic saturation. they zoom in on a phrase and repeat it with such odd signatures that you lose all frame of reference, but then they move onto the next part and it makes sense in the context of a greater picture / chord progression. thanks for the rec!
so Twitter?
It's interesting how this sort of blurs the line between composition and sound design. At some point I would only really call these "notes" in the strictly technical sense that they are encoded as such in the MIDI stream, while the compositions themselves seem like relatively straight forward songs. In that sense, songs like Circus Galop (written for player piano) are more interesting compositionally.
I am pretty sure psychologists, etc. everywhere are working on this problem! You cannot publish work if you cannot find ways of quantifying these! An example I'm aware of is, Angela Duckworth at U Penn who studies 'grit' https://sites.sas.upenn.edu/duckworth/pages/research
Are Rome and Munich pointers or English names?
Measuring crop yields from space
>haven't found an example of it anywhere (in US)

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2015/08/19/urban-tribe/

Note that I'm not an expert in the field nor do I consider myself part of a community. I'm just giving an example where you've asked. I'm sure there are many more examples out there.
Isn't there a growing murmur that these "private valuations" are in some ways imaginary as when you look at the terms of many rounds of funding you find deals which are less like equity and more like debt?
> Looks like what Jetbrains would implement if they implemented a proper Lispy language support.

Let's hope they do, soon!
It only takes a little bit of steganography before everything looks like a secret communication channel!

Cool experiment. The biggest surprise to me is that the fluctuations of the real whistle appear to be a fairly constant frequency; I would've expected more chaotic behavior.

EDIT: While we're near the topic, does anyone have any recommendations for acoustics texts/resources? In particular, I'd love something from the approach of analyzing real-world sounds & instruments.
This is a huge improvement imo, and something that should be seen as a great advancement in usability. We've gone from needing to use hotkeys (paredit) to not needing to use them and having the machine figure out what you want to do.

Maybe others have different opinions, but I find this way of doing things a lot more natural and usable. It's like an old Oblivion mod for archery that asked the question: "Why do other archery mods have a hotkey for denocking your arrow? We just automatically denock if you look at the ground. It just makes sense."
The modern Austrian will be the first to tell you that Austria was the first victim of Nazi aggression .. and ignore the welcome that was put out by a majority of the Austrian populace for Hitler, but there really is a deeper truth that the reason they are telling you that Austria was a victim is that the de-Nazi'fication of Austria after the war required the then-growing generations to discard the culture of their parents, which did indeed welcome Nazi ideology with open arms. Austrians' have been programmed to think that their country was the first victim in the war - lest they perpetuate the ideologies that allowed such an easy victory for the Nazi's in the first place.

No Austrian wants to admit the long-standing cultural roots of imperialism and fascism that took hold of their country - and still reflect in its darker depths. Authoritarianism is still the mode of the day; group-think and the mob mind very much still grips the Austrian zeitgeist, as it has for centuries.
Given the senior Hoffa's ties to the mob, I hope the apple fell at least a little bit away ;-)
So I wasn't really involved in tech in 1995, but it seems like at that point C/++ was the only mainstream option for writing code.

Hell, PayPal wrote their web app in C and still maintains it.

I would say that besides the niche that C/++ is in now, Java (and GC languages in general) did win.
One technical reason may be that C++ (I only looked at LightLDA) has a higher learning curve than Python, which the Tensorflow docs stress.

Though Tensorflow stayed at #1 for a while, it only garnered around 200 comments, which is very high for a ML topic on HN (in my anecdotal experience, ML topics are highly rated but under-commented.) I imagine the audience for this library to be very small compared to Tensorflow, which likely included more ML/Google FOSS enthusiasts than day-to-day practitioners. Looks like this library is firmly targeted toward the latter.
> Doubling income is not the same as improving quality of life.

LOL. Easy for you to say rich man. Go tell that to someone in Mozambique or Haiti or Nepal who is using their newfound wealth to finally be able to feed their kids a healthy diet.

Stress and mental illness.

Please.
To copy a comment I made elsewhere: I'm seriously impressed. This is amazing.

Paredit always ended up being a requirement for me, but this takes it to the next level. What other editing problems out there could have excessive hotkey usage replaced by something automatic with the same level of power, I wonder? This is a great example of an area where user interaction experts can really have a lot of impact, and I think shows why engineers ought to be more accepting of disciplines like that.
In absolute terms the poor get richer by doing absolutely nothing. Being poor today is objectively superior than being poor 25, 50, 100, or 200 years ago.

So I suppose your conclusion is we're doing it right? Well alrighty then.
The townhouse in DC where Minor Threat played their first show is now a $2 million property.

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/own-the-house-where-minor-threat...

Seems like Dischord house is still owned by MacKaye.
Droid Turbo 2: Verizon-branded flagship with a microSD slot

The Turbo 2 looks and feels like it was derived from the acclaimed Moto X Pure Edition, and it resembles it with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. The Turbo 2 is powered by the faster octa-core Snapdragon 810 processor. A microSD card slots supports up to 200GB of storage.

Turbo Maxx 2: Verizon joins the mid-priced frenzyalso with a microSD slot

The Snapdragon 615 processor, 2GB RAM, and 16GB storage squarely bracket the Maxx 2 in the midrange. The processor won't win benchmarks against flagship phones, but in tests it proved to be responsive, with quick app load times and smooth gestures and scrolling. A microSD slot expands storage up to 128GB, relieving the 16GB storage limit from the bulge of videos and music collections. The 5.5-inch display is clear and easy to read at a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels at 403 ppi. Given its strong drop test performance, including two teeth-rattling drops down concrete stairs, it is hard to believe that the phone is protected by just Gorilla Glass 3

Two sturdy co-branded Verizon-Motorola phones*

No one will complain about either phone's design or capability, and certainly not their shatterproof sturdiness. Verizon has priced them at the top end of each phones' category: the Droid Turbo 2 costs $649, the Maxx 2 $389. Built into the price may be a durability premium. Apple charges a $120 repair/replacement premium for a two-year Apple Care plan, plus $99 per incident to repair a broken screen, putting a real value on the durability of the Turbo 2 and Maxx 2.
That article is nearly 20 years old. Krugman's views have changed considerably since then, and he is against the TPP.
Our media culture seems to have two modes - aspiration and spite. Either we aspire to be like more "successful" people or we spite them for being more "successful" than us.

I suspect this maps well to an ingroup/outgroup divide.
> Elon Musk's wealth isn't a vault full of gold coins.

Elon is one of the very few people who put their money to excellent use.

But for every Elon Musk out there, there are hundreds of Paris Hiltons.
I disagree extensively - raw data should definitely be available, and there are a number of interesting things you can do with it without any special expertise. For one, evaluating whether those adjustments even affect any overall conclusions you are concerned about, like this:

http://forums.sandiegouniontribune.com/showpost.php?p=532360...

If there is incompetence at play here, it's in failing to get ahold of raw data.
Not quite that, but here's someone's approximation of this approach for an extremely fast hash:

So this was a fun hash that I came up with when I was looking
for a 128-bit hash for falkervisor's code coverage database.
This hash passes all of smhasher's tests, faster than any other
hash that does the same.

I made this up by randomly testing things until it passed
all of smhashers tests. It is likely that this hash is heavily
flawed and smhasher just doesn't stress its flaws.

https://github.com/gamozolabs/falkhash
Probably have to do with Adobe Typekit. There is an overlay of 'wf-loading' class.
>But ultimately all these efforts is just putting bandaid on a shitty language.

Well, that's a highly subjective opinion. It sounds like C++ doesn't work for you but I still find it a fascinating and enjoyable language to work in. There are drawbacks with any language, and I guess the drawbacks you find for yourself in C++ are your business.
A lot of pay as you go plans still expire monthly. I can't easily buy 1GB of data and sit on it for a year.
100 years of tax brackets, in one chart
Also interesting: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20887774
I don't think history has proven Das Kapital to be complete bunk - it's kind of like Freud - often said to be bunk but many of his ideas were revolutionary at the time and are considered to be mostly mainstream now. Things like the subconcious, ego, the importance of childhood development on adult psyche - even if not completely scientifically rigorous are useful tools for understanding our reality. But it was his more loony ideas that stick out now and for which he is remembered. So that's why people think that firstly rather than take note of the other stuff.

And so it goes with Marx, the first volume certainly is hugely prescient and correctly predicts much of the economic progress that has come since. Workers as stakeholders in a business is considered fairly mainstream in many modern economies as is the role of the state.

But as with Freud it was the later stuff particularly in Volume 2 that got him his reputation as a looney. Sadly he formulated the manifesto as a precursor to writing the book and this bound him to a particular conclusion even if his research in the meantime didn't match up. Volume 2 was never finished and what was eventually published was the unfinished manuscript as well as some notes, post humous.

It is unfortunate that Marx couldn't have just left it at Volume 1, and put aside the fanatical fervour of his younger years. Had he done so it could have formed the basis of a more humane society and he would not have been associated with some of the more attrocious implementations of communism, and a reputation which he doesn't wholly deserve.
This bill sounds fine based on the summary, but if the senate wants to boost US space competitiveness maybe don't play politics with NASA's funding.[1] Let the scientists draft and decide missions, let the engineers decide feasibility and utility, and let the astronauts and robots carry them out. Do what you can to reign in costs, but don't turn NASA into a bureaucratic pork bonanza.

1: Just one such example http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/12/15/nasas-3...
> No Austrian wants to admit the long-standing cultural roots of imperialism and fascism that took hold of their country - and still reflect in its darker depths. Authoritarianism is still the mode of the day; group-think and the mob mind very much still grips the Austrian zeitgeist, as it has for centuries.

Boy, that's a hard thing to say about an entire country. You sure you don't want to get some sources for that one?
How so? All it does is automate the maintenance of exactly the same formatting that the developer would otherwise produce by hand.
I won't dispute that there is some level of extra assortive mating going on because of more equal opportunities for women. Even if it was just due to more opportunity and exposure, that makes sense. I do question whether in the past if the physician that married the nurse was really providing any sort of opportunity for status change (in either economic or social standing) in most cases, since I imagine the nurse and physician probably came from similar social standings, and thus likely similar economic standings.

If the nurse or secretary of 20 or more years ago was "from a good family", what change was really spurred by the union?
“Fuck it! Let’s come back to the US and try to fuck this country up.”

What a time to be alive.
There are even tons of people that make money just outside of perfectly legal and lots of them well into illegal! That doesn't make any of that ok though and you're definitely inviting scrutiny with such actions.

It is definitely interesting but as someone who helped someone else deal with the fall-out from a bankruptcy where the management made use of these 'technicalities' to defraud creditors I can tell you that in some cases it can end very bad for the people pulling those tricks.

In that case the sale of assets happened months before the bankruptcy but the fact that they could have reasonably known it was coming was all it took to get a judge to nail them to a tree. I'm pretty sure that if there are billions at stake that the 'smartest boys in the room' will have a trick or two up their sleeve that they can defend is entirely legal (even if at least morally bankrupt) but even being that smart doesn't always work out well and people end in jail.
Before that, you have to make sure that a system where what-you-want-to-see is the natural output is a system you're willing to accept. For any given thing, there are lots of truly abhorrent ways to produce it. There are a lot fewer morally acceptable ways.

Sometimes none at all, subject to local moral conditions.
Well, if he starts the custom of not delivering upon his promises to donors, I could image that the next democratic candidate would have a very hard time finding donors. So I guess the pressure from the party would be very big not to go there.
Even when you can't use a Lisp-friendly editor?
Chemical element symbols that are also ISO 3166 country code abbreviations
Very cool idea. It's often a hassle searching through dozens of restaurants on Tripadvisor. I hope that the pictures on Foodshot can help you out in the building process!
> Homo-economicus is a psychopath. He values profit over people, uses people as resources, measures his own worth in money, harms the environment, has no deeper values, and so on.

This is known as a "rational agent" in some circles, lol. Just shows to what extremes people self-justify their actions and ideologies.
What are these limits if not government regulations? Are you aware of any country that doesn't have regulations to prevent pollution of rivers or air in which free-market prevents such pollution all by itself?
How Instagram Solved Its Justin Bieber Problem
1. Rip of frogger
2. Try to make it to an Apple event to advertise game
3. Profit
Ah ok. It was only a one line context switch so that was an easy mistake to make.
Meta: why on earth is this submission being flagged off the frontpage ?
Story of my life.. sadly my parents just had no real concept of professional jobs, let alone connections or the experience to guide me into such a world. Eventually I wised up and took the IT path, but it was after I wasted college getting a worthless BA.

On the bright side, I grew up just before the internet got big and kids today seem much sharper, so I hold out hope for the next generation.
You should have a look at adding Server Sent Events / EventSource support [1]. Its propper streaming events, not closing the connection (not web socket, just http) that fall back to long polling.

Most of the time when people use websockets they should just be using SSE.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-sent_events
> "You have to code, and then you have to get your changes distributed to more than half the world" fits no definition of democratic governance ever.

You don't have to code. You have to have an idea worth being coded and make enough people care that someone does it, this is no different than implementing any other idea in any kind of democracy. It's called lobbying and getting support and under no democracy is getting change into place free of effort.

It doesn't look like democracy to you because you don't want it to, nothing more nothing less, your mind is closed and you're only looking for excuses to dismiss it.

And yes, it is democracy, as a decentralized ledger, it only changes when the network by a majority agrees the change is acceptable. Choosing which split of a network to follow is voting, if your personal definition of democracy claims this isn't democracy, then your definition is wrong. It is democratic to the core, there is by definition no central authority, change happens only by mass approval.
I liked that as well

> And I put that in quotes because "smart" is really just a way of saying "has invested so much time and sweat that you make it look effortless."

When you look up at smart people that have succeeded in their career. It's certainly because they worked so hard to get there.

I've learned a lot about that reading another book of Gladwell, "The Outliers". Which is one of my favorite book. One of the story is about a genius who is still living in his mom's basement because he lacks the social traits of other successful intelligent people. I think I will check your "David and Goliath" book.

Also, from the reddit comment, what I got is that he reached out. He asked for help around. Most things are hard to learn by yourself, and if not a book, people around you are the most likely to help. It helps being humble, when asking for help.
That's a lot of paragraphs. Got a tl;dr on how it improves on Paredit?
Austria did not exist a nation state before 1918, it was a piece of the Habsburg monarchy/empire. After the empire got split up, it was clear for the populace that it could not survive on its own, surrounded by former "colonies" and under threat from Russia, Italy and others.

But then you have the rise of Adolf Hitler - an Austrian from Upper Austria - in Germany, focusing on race and heritage.

Add civil war in 1934, austro-fascism under Dollfuss (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbert_Dollfuss) - quite a time. Dollfuss tried to ban the Nazis, got murdered, fini.

Keep also in mind that even the German nation state was net new, before that it was Prussia plus a lot of smaller "states". Austria had less business of being a nation than Bavaria.

1945 saw Austria being separated out again, 1955 forced movement into a neutral statehood. At all times it was closely coupled to Western-Germany, as exemplified by tieing the national currency (Schilling) to the German D-Mark.

To this day you have a strong element of German-Nationalism within the far-right movement in Austria. Late populist Jörg Haider of the Freedom Party went on record calling Austria a ideological miscarriage in 1988.