skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FPGAs are not measuring up to GPUs yet for these tasks. There's too much floating-point math (and yes, Altera is addressing this) for forward prediction, and way too much intermediate state to save for training (GPU memory controllers are 'da bomb for this). Finally, OpenCL compilation time on FPGAs is measured in hours as compared to seconds for GPUs.

That said, address all of the above and maybe NVIDIA's stock won't hit 50 next year.
Enjoyment is different from understanding. Sachs career was all about studying (psychiatric) mysteries that were incomprehensible. It possibly gave him or fed his magical thinking, which can fly under the radar in psychiatry, but can't survive educated scrutiny in mathematics. He probably did love prime numbers, and discussed it with nonmathematicians who didn't see his mistskes.
This says more about the state of experimental methods in psychology than it does about the employability of cancer survivors.
Literally all your comments are about how China's bad and how it's in deep trouble. These comments span back more than 100 days. I'm not sure you should be the one calling other people trolls.
I think if more people realized that p/e was the equivalent to years to payback they might reassess their portfolio. 107 years of current earnings is a long time to get your money back.
Earnings growth is the only thing that lowers this number when consumer stock preference is based on brand recognition.
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Google is a big place, with diverse opinions. Even better, it encourages updating one's opinion in face of new evidence. GPUs have proven themselves cost-effective in tackling a number of vision problems [and others], Google has those problems, so the opinion was updated and the problems were solved in a cost-effective manner.
Thanks. But what's "crowdsourced" with it? That article looks like a real investigation. Maybe the term was actually a loss in translation? That's why I hoped to get all the info from somebody who understands Finnish (and maybe even followed these news).

Edit: kaitai linked to an article that has a lot of opinions of other people. It is a better example of what she would maybe call the "crowdsourced" article (it has a bunch of quotes presented in a way to appear to support the message she wants to convey).
I would guess that at least a few of the home buyers fully intended to "alter the deal (pray I do not alter it further)" after the developer sold off the last parcel and exited.
Jeffrey Sachs commented yesterday about the U.S. fast-track requirement for a bundled all-or-nothing vote, http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/11/08/jeffrey-sachs-..., "TPP is too flawed for a simple ‘yes’ vote" … the 12 signatories should slow down, take the pieces of this complex trade agreement in turn, and work harder for a set of international standards that will truly support global sustainable development … The agreement, with its 30 chapters, is really four complex deals in one.

The first is a free-trade deal among the signatories. That part could be signed today. Tariff rates would come down to zero; quotas would drop; trade would expand; and protectionism would be held at bay. The second is a set of regulatory standards for trade. Most of these are useful, requiring that regulations that limit trade should be based on evidence, not on political whims or hidden protectionism.

The third is a set of regulations governing investor rights, intellectual property, and regulations in key service sectors, including financial services, telecommunications, e-commerce, and pharmaceuticals. These chapters are a mix of the good, the bad, and the ugly. Their common denominator is that they enshrine the power of corporate capital above all other parts of society, including labor and even governments.

The fourth is a set of standards on labor and environment that purport to advance the cause of social fairness and environmental sustainability. But the agreements are thin, unenforceable, and generally unimaginative. For example, climate change is not even mentioned, much less addressed boldly and creatively.

… The up-or-down vote therefore raises two questions. First, are the bad parts indeed bad enough to vote down the package, thereby jeopardizing the undoubted good of other chapters? Second, do we truly face an all-or-nothing proposition, or rather could we agree with our negotiating counterparts on certain chapters while reconsidering others? … Congress should vote “no’’ on the current TPP, while simultaneously endorsing its trade provisions as well as continuing the work with our counterparts on the other chapters. Globalization is indeed so important for our common good that it’s of overriding significance to get it right."
Note that there are plenty of shops doing this kind of thing already: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/datablog/2014/jan/10/h...

It seems this is the point people pick up on it and start pushing back a bit. The real point is halfway down: "The planning document stresses that the security measures are aimed primarily at crime and antisocial behaviour, and notes that staff would be expected to make full use of their CSAS powers to respond to protests or demonstrations, which are banned on the bridge."

A protest-free 'public' space. All part of the Singapore-isation of London. The garden bridge is a massive waste of partly-public money anyway; a conspicuous consumption vanity project like the (private) dangleway.
Methinks embrace the magical library written by engineers and researchers at Google instead of by a random goulash of machine learning grad students with no investment in the outcome other than graduating.
Or from my experience lately, talk to javascript programmers.

They call javascript the "assembly" of the web, yeah certain subsets of programmers are interesting in their beliefs.
Cool demo but if you tune it up you really can get separations of the digits as good as the ones in Hinton's papers.

Ever since Hinton did that with those digits, everybody has been replicating and building on that experiment, but what if you tried a selected set of letters from the latin alphabet, korean, japanese, whatever.
After reading the headline but before reading the article the question in my mind as I clicked it was: "how would these potential employers know about someone's health status?"

Fortunately they explain it fairly quickly: They wear baseball caps saying "cancer survivor" and/or include that they had cancer on their resumes for no reason, other than for the study.

The way I see it, had I read on a resume that someone is a cancer survivor (or any other unwarranted personal detail that's clearly being shoehorned in) I'd find it very off-putting. That alone (along with the "wear a baseball cap" thing accounts for the discrepancy in hiring, as far as I'm concerned.

This isn't even fake science, this is just a piece designed to generate outrage.
I read The Martian, Snow Crash, and Ready Player One over the course of a month or two. All three of those books have their flaws but I enjoy the style and page turning nature of them a lot.
Ask HN: Are “no negotiation” offers hurting candidates?
One of my good friends recently received an offer from a "no negotiation" startup. They claimed not to do negotiations because it statistically puts marginalized candidates at a disadvantage.

Here's the rub: The offer was horrible. Seriously, my friend has 2x as much as experience as me and now I make 3.5x more than them. There's not even a equity upside: It was less than 0.1%. I couldn't believe the offer when they told me. I had higher offers from startups straight out of college.

It seems that this might be common with startups that refuse to negotiate. Reddit, Stripe, etc: All of them report pretty low salaries. I couldn't find any salary stats on Jet.com or Magoosh, but they both hard sell their "awesome cultures" so I wouldn't be surprised if they pay beans too.

Is this just a clever way to take even more advantage of engineers, or do these particular companies just pay poorly across the board due to their "amazing culture?" Do they really think they're putting candidates at an advantage? It looks like they draw more underrepresented candidates in, but the result seems to be that the supposed wage gap is made even larger.
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What is Nile?

I can't find it on Google.
don't we just call that "breaking promises" now?
Children help with this :)
> Yeah, because the idea is that the person is already weak and may have a relapse which will negatively impact their job performance

If I'm hiring, I want the best possible candidate for the job at the best possible price. Someone who has a higher likelihood of being absent is less likely to be the best possible candidate for the job. Those emotional biases have real foundations.

I happen to belong to a protected group and also have a higher chance of being absent; I disclose that status, do my best to indicate that I am the best possible candidate, and let the chips fall where they may. It's worked alright for me so far, although I'm sure that it's cost me a little.
It's in the article, he posted:
"media prostitutes, who have sold our independence for money and put out anti-Russian scum on a daily basis aiming at increase NATO war mongering".

So he's alleging she's a paid NATO propagandist.
Didn't read the paper, but when I saw that a main focus is on distribution I started thinking about how awesome it would be if people could start crowdsourcing compute resources to solve some big problems.
Brilliant quote:

The bridge trust said the proposed planning conditions would not amount to the structure becoming an overly controlled and regulated place, insisting the visitor hosts are “not police officers”. It said that while the visitor hosts would theoretically have the power to seize any banned items, in practice this would only happen with things such as alcohol.

Since when have any powers been granted on a theoretical basis?
It gives you directions to Hollywood, Worcestershire (UK).
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We haven’t had a Stasi in Britain, so are intellectually lazy about surveillance
I haven't died yet, hoping to disprove that hypothesis (I avoid all trees)
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Why I'm excited about Elixir and Phoenix
That was too easy.
There is a fair argument that momentum investing doesn't beat "buy and hold". I like watching the 200, 100, and 50 day moving averages but that's as technical as I get. I get off the boat at channel breakouts and resistance levels. I think it becomes a pseudo science at that point. The best argument on this I've seen is in "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" by Burton Malkiel.

The Efficient Market Hypothesis is on shaky ground a lot of years. I guess it works in the sense that markets will correct given enough time, but I'm mostly sitting this market out since the end of QE4. Sure I'm missing out on some gains, but gains are only real when you can sell on time.
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Well, the idea is that you're supposed to stay in search mode as long as possible, thereby avoiding the need to go into normal mode and select files mc-style. If you do that, then Lightning should be more efficient than tabtabbing because (1) you don't have to press tab to filter files and (2) after you have enough characters to uniquely identify your file/directory, instead of having to press <tab><enter>, you're actually already there.

That said, this is not for everyone; I anticipate it being useful for about 20% of *nix programmers in 90% of their file-opening cases. I just submitted it because (1) I thought that the style of the tool might be interesting to some and (2) that 20% might really enjoy and benefit from having this.
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Update 10:47 AM EST:
I put up chapters 0-30. I still have the annexes from chapter 2, 12, and 15 to do (I am doing them next). I made a few mistakes with chapter 20 (Environment), and I cannot delete them. I used the "Contact Us" link to ask to have those pages deleted. Here are the links to be deleted in case someone with links to genius.com is reading:

http://genius.com/Transpacific-partnership-tpp-negotiating-p...

http://genius.com/Transpacific-partnership-tpp-negotiating-p...

http://genius.com/Transpacific-partnership-tpp-negotiating-p...

Edit: Initially, I had the chapters categorized as X (other), but I started changing them to Law. genius.com doesn't seem to let me change it after the fact.

Update 11:37 AM EST: It seems like I have hit a limit as to how many "songs" (chapters) an album ("document") can have. Any new ones I make do not appear in the album. I am going to have to stop for now since it will be hard to keep track. These are the two I made before I noticed:

http://genius.com/Transpacific-partnership-tpp-negotiating-p...

http://genius.com/Transpacific-partnership-tpp-negotiating-p...

Update 12:38 PM EST: No word yet on the issue with genius.com . I did find the contact information for Minister Freeland [1], and search page for Canadian Members of Parliament (you can search by postal code) [2].

[1] http://www.parl.gc.ca/Parliamentarians/en/members/Chrystia-F...

[2] http://www.parl.gc.ca/Parliamentarians/en/Constituencies/Fin...
No, it's a posting by some other Peter, not Peter Saramo, on the picture is a posting by some "Peter Ilskola" (in Egypt! Al-Whateverghrhqh! Speaking Finnish, about the Finnish journalists!? Appears legit, right?) if I read it correctly.
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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gaijin42/CSD_log
Light-gas guns may be a good contender while railguns are sorted out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-gas_gun
sounds like very different views of engineers and engineering. I thought engineers was people with a specific education. Engineering could be almost anything technical. You could limit it to things engineers do if you want to.
It sound strange to say that software engineering is not engineering on the base that it finishes with a complete product. That sounds like it would be engineering if we just stopped before releasing the product and called all code a blueprint.
The reason that I heard was something about OpenGL. I was very disappointed about this, mostly from what implications it has on the future of their other games.
37 is still a bit expensive for my taste. Look at their PEG (P/E divided by growth). It would be nice if it was below 1.

The comparison the GE is because it is one of the bluest of blue chip stocks. They have mountains of assets and employees. Facebook has a lot less of both.
Kind of depressing that the study to investigate vitamin c injections won't get funded because drug companies can't sell it.
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Americans will be shocked to learn that people in other countries don't walk around thinking about America or wondering what "the Americans" are going to do about stuff.

I don't know any Americans who do that.
You don't really need to go overseas as a US citizen as a trip to a different region will do exactly the same thing. Its pretty amazing what a person from NYC can learn about themselves when they end up on a reservation in ND for a couple of months. Very enlightening for those students.

I had my eureka moment when I took a job in urban MN after working on the reservation for 5 years (and growing up there before that). They announced a noon meeting and I went and they didn't serve lunch. Everyone brought a bag lunch (expect me). I was pretty ticked off and insulted[1]. I was mad the rest of the day. It took a call home and the "your not on the rez anymore" speech to open my eyes to what we hold as truths spawned from culture.

1) have a lunch meeting on a reservation on the upper great plains and not serve lunch at your peril - never mind not accepting a gift as you leave - federal rules and local traditions can conflict a bit
Why Was Pinball Removed from Windows Vista?
Unfortunately they have cut the FS pension its going to salary average so its not as good as it once was.

And it looks like any decent FS pension is going to get taxed after the fact.
I haven't even seen Helm mode before. I am a hybrid Vim/Emacs user, though, so I am definitely going to try this out and perhaps "borrow" a feature or two.
Date (2012).
There are good benefits from being a government employee aside from the salary especially for the police which I think MI6 would be part of. For example, great pensions and possibly very easy loans.
one trouble with game stories is that 99.999% of the time you know exactly where they're going because you're the protagonist and you will win or die.

In Halo: Reach, you win, and then you die. Halo 4 didn't have what I'd consider a happy ending either.
> This is not a paradox, it's one of the best known axioms of economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent

I wish more people understood this principle, because so many superficial economic "analyses" I see in the news completely ignore it.

By the way, you're giving the example of physical land, but the general form actually applies to property ownership of any form. (That is, the rent on any property will rise to be equal to the surplus that the renter receives from it, after accounting for transaction costs. In the long run, the property owner is always able to claim all of the surplus from the renter.)
Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing that you've ever learned?
Not just in terms of the latest framework. But interested whether it's a life lesson, concept, language, theory, tool or trait.
It's a sticker that gets put on your window. They're very hard to remove.

http://www.myparkingpermit.com/Parking-Violation-Stickers/No...
I believe the big facebook and google Go networks were trained on data from professional games. Probably you'd get better performance if you did that as well.
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And blurred lines like you illustrate above are a good argument why we can't say video games should be primarily considered performance art pieces in the realm of interaction design, as well as why we can't say video games should be primarily considered story delivery mechanisms.

The video game is both interactive and passively consumed.

Machinima exists because of how enjoyable experiencing a story through a video game environment can be. Spectating video games is a Billion Dollar Industry (TM), with Twitch and international professional gaming leagues getting ESPN coverage.

There's value in the mechanics and human interaction as story, on one level, and the fiction in the game itself as a story.

As well there's value in how the interactions make us a part of the game and a part of the story. Sure I know I'm not the lovable Italian plumber, but after a while my brain stops making that distinction, at least a little bit. I know I'm not a Guardian defending the remnants of earth from big brutish aliens, but after a while I stop consciously identifying that barrier, letting it become translucent.

The closer and closer we get to immersive 3D gaming, the blurrier that line becomes. So there too ^^, the story is incredibly important as a driving motivation to play and enjoy video games.

And really... the closer we get to putting the human inside the game, the more important that story is going to become. The interaction mechanics are important because when they're done right, when they're executed beautifully, we stop thinking about the game and form a more consciously transparent symbiosis with the technology. The COD games were fantastic because the FPS controls Just Worked.

What happens when we continue progress and get to neural interfaces, where the designer builds a realistic-enough-feeling environment that you can engage with the characters and elements in it? Story, I guess.

So... to summarize too many words for a simple counter-point: it's all a part of the whole, and inappropriate to say games are just a subset of interaction design.
I'd expect there to be conditions in the sale that would enforce this - also the landowner in this case would be appear to be the business that runs the surrounding golf courses and hotel, so they're probably not going anywhere:

http://www.archerfieldhouse.com/

I would also expect the relevant government agency (possibly Scottish National Heritage) to take a rather dim view of anyone breaking the conditions of planning permission.

Edit: I'd expect the people who buy houses directly from the developer to be told about this. However, I can imagine years from now someone buying one of the houses overlooking the beach (NB they are lovely houses) and getting a nasty surprise when they ask about where the gate is in the fence.
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If people had waited to leave Europe until the 1970s the culture had been "refactored" enough for the masses, I doubt the world would have advanced as far as it had and the pressure of the population growth from industrialization would have caused some real issues. Actually I think it might be refactored even worse for the masses. Letting the average person go out and build new things helped a lot.

Also, do you really think we can only fix one problem at a time? Did the birth of the transistor stop the civil rights movement?
Additionally, there are many reasons you might want to commit work in progress code that doesn't/won't parse correctly to a "proper" syntax tree. While there are certainly workarounds (pseudo-trees for "malformed"/"unfinished" sections), there's entire neighborhoods of bikesheds to paint there. (Amongst the major compilers thus far the only ones I've seen invest useful time in mostly unified intermediate syntax trees is the Roslyn compilers for C#/VB, often compilers don't care but Roslyn had the opportunity/drive/interest to try to merge a lot of editor support directly into the compiler infrastructure.)

(Aside: I built a cool proof of concept for what I think is the most useful "smart middle ground" here, which is to use syntax highlighting lexers (tokenizers) for a useful effect in creating smart character-based diffs. Syntax highlighting lexers are designed for intermediate code and with output as ordinary character diffs you don't have to bikeshed a universal token stream format. The tokenized diffs were cleaner and faster than the equivalent non-tokenized character diff. https://github.com/WorldMaker/tokdiff if anyone wants to play with it.)
Does it really matter, when Blizzard ruined both sides of that equation? The story of the Koprulu Sector is a complete joke, and competitive Starcraft II is one of the biggest gaming letdowns in recent memory.
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Does it mean that if I think you're trolling it also means I can label you as an idiot?

I think what was meant is that people saying idiotic things are not always trolls (who are just trying to stir up an argument), they may actually be idiots.

And yes, of course one may label others as idiots; it might be uncouth when said or written publicly, but that's each person's call.
Anyone know the story behind Hover!

Including something like that on the Windows 95 CD was an odd decision. Sure, on one hand it shows Windows 95 can do 3D graphics/games, but it was such a terrible game and the performance was so terrible, it just added fuel to 'Windows sucks for games' fire.
There are really many types of chancer, and Vitamin C (if confirmed) seems to help only from some types of it.

So that he died of cancer say absolutely nothing about Vitamin C.
Pushing boundaries technologically has a tendency to pull others along with it, accessing space cheaply would have the potential to create entire new markets and access to new resources all of which would help in the long term everyone else.
>You should not discuss your application, other than with your partner or close family member, providing that they are British.

The latter half of that strikes me as almost laughable.