skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a great real-life example, consider the the Flip camcorder, which kinda came out of nowhere and "stole" 13% of the camcorder market (although I'd bet good money that it actually created new market share). Does it dissolve dog poop? Well, no, but it's still pretty cool:

1) it costs $150 or less. (A lot less, actually.)

2) it has no cables or wires. Just one flip-up USB connector.

3) it has one big red button: RECORD, plus a teeny one for playback.

4) it doesn't take cartridges or cassettes or discs or cards or anything

5) it doesn't have any controls or settings or anything

6) it stores one hour of video and has roughly one hour of battery life

7) it's about the size of a cell phone

8) it records videos that work well with YouTube

9) it comes in pretty colors

I mean, DAMN, those guys knew what they were doing.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2008/08/business-requireme...
> As a great real-life example, consider the the Flip camcorder, which kinda came out of nowhere and "stole" 13% of the camcorder market (although I'd bet good money that it actually created new market share). Does it dissolve dog poop? Well, no, but it's still pretty cool:

> 1) it costs $150 or less. (A lot less, actually.)
> 2) it has no cables or wires. Just one flip-up USB connector.
> 3) it has one big red button: RECORD, plus a teeny one for playback.
> 4) it doesn't take cartridges or cassettes or discs or cards or anything
> 5) it doesn't have any controls or settings or anything
> 6) it stores one hour of video and has roughly one hour of battery life
> 7) it's about the size of a cell phone
> 8) it records videos that work well with YouTube
> 9) it comes in pretty colors

> I mean, DAMN, those guys knew what they were doing.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2008/08/business-requireme...
I found my myself sort of agreeing but sort of not. The last TV I bought was a nice, thin Samsung. I just hung it on my wall and was done. Sure, the "platform" is terrible but it works.

The thing that aggravates me are how "dumb" TVs are at handling HDMI inputs. Like, only cycle through the inputs that are receiving signal, for starters (or hit them first, at least).
I think it really depends on the individual user's use case. For example, I have a large Sony smart TV with all these extra bells and whistles, and in reality I barely ever use any of the standard inputs other than playing games. Quite a bit of the time I'm using the in-built Netflix or YouTube apps or some other media app which works fantastically. My only complaint is that when I do want to use a normal input (HDMI etc.) I have to wait 30 seconds for the thing to boot to change inputs.
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(In my opinion)
Unless you are hosting your own server and don't store your mail on a third party in the cloud (but that is probably true for all your data that is hosted by a third party, not just email)
The problem with appending a list to this article is that this issue is presumed to be wide spread[1]. Creating a long list might give the illusion of exhaustiveness when the aim of the project isn't exhaustive identification of offenders, but to demonstrate the problem clearly with strong evidence.

This at least empowers the Chrome developers to attack a defined problem, and it gives chrome users a tangible, clearly defined set of in-the-wild attacks to point to when complaining about Chrome's extension permission shortcomings. It also is an amount of work that is achievable by a small team, where an exhaustive outing would probably require the resources of a large organization.

[1] Particularly since they seem to have found evidence that these tracking companies are actively reaching out to Chrome extension developers on the dl and offering them commissions.
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I think Neopythagoreanism is better described as coming from Hellenistic philosophy than from Greek science.

Or rather, how does mysticism and numerology fit into science?

And http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoreanism/#4 says:

> Neopythagoreanism emerged again and developed further starting in the first century BCE and extending throughout the rest of antiquity and into the middle ages and Renaissance. During this entire period, it is the Neopythagorean construct of Pythagoras that dominates, a construct that has only limited contact with early Pythagoreanism; there is little interest in an historically accurate presentation of Pythagoras and his philosophy.

which makes it sound more like a mythical interpretation of what they believed Hellenistic philosophy to be, than a religion based in Greek sciences.

As in the early Christian context, wouldn't 'pagan' most likely refer to the religion of the dominant social group, the Romans, which worshiped neither the earth nor science?
MT is "on average" maybe "as fast" but the key is "on average:" depending on the usage pattern it can cost much more.

This specific RNG follows a traditional approach (that is, like in C or Java standard libraries) to have one algorithm in the standard library that is "as fast as possible, as bad as possible." Which meant even "just multiply with constant, add another constant, return. Bad? Yes we know." So it's still on the level "it's two multiplies and two-three adds."

Traditionally, those who expect some specific properties, like the author of the article, should have actually used the implementation they added to their code (for example MT if it fits) if they ultimately cared about the speed and wanted exactly the properties they know they needed, or if they just didn't care about the speed used some much "slower" but "much better" library.

Maybe the tradition can be broken in this specific case, I really don't know which benchmarks define what's acceptable here. Note also that the implementation must be verified, just the fact that there is somewhere some implementation available doesn't even mean that it does what is expected to do. The devil is in the details here.
True, I missed that. But then I wouldn't expect a monitor targeted at being used as an in-store display to be heavy on apps or slow to switch input. There might be an issue in the boot-up though.
> but holy book is exclusively about sex and relationship as well as 99% fatwa's.

With all due respect, this sentence alone proves that you don't know what you're talking about. Sorry.

Fatwas are something completely different from the Quran.

> I would claim it is 100% true.

You can claim anything you want, but without proof, it is worthless.

> You can study holy book , it almost exclusively about sex and relationship between men and women with stories -unrelated to relation- between them.

The Quran does have passages about marriage, divorce, inheritance, and the like. But in no way do those constitute the majority of the Quran like you are saying.

It is sad how Iran is using religion to control the people. They picked parts of what they liked, fabricated some parts, and left out other parts. I had several Iranian colleagues when I was in school, and I could see how some of them were very displeased with the government. Please don't take it out on the religion.

Can I ask you if you were taught by the Iranian government to hate (or at least look down on) Arabs?
Not as far as I know. Let me know if you do find it -- I'm kicking myself for not thinking of scraping it then.
These two bring up an interesting philosophical point. Are they successes of failures? To me, it sounds like engineering done right. "Something bad" happened, and yet the vehicle survived and even completed its mission.
I am not sure how others have set theirs up but the number of HDMI ports on the projector/TV were never really a concern to me. I need them on my receiver which is the control point for all my attached devices.

Now remotes are one area where more work needs to be done, far too many are just too complicated for their own good let alone large.
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Yep I'm bad at copy/paste. Fixed, thanks.
I would have expected it to be a new scripting language (Oriented towards AppleLand -> IOS / Darwin)

In this respect I wouldlike to see more GNustep integration (but this a GPLers dream).

I would trade it for better documentation though which really kills IO.

Despite this, one should mention the inclusion of BaseKit. His implementation of data structures.
To be more precise, GPUs are optimized for embarrassingly parallel workloads. AMD's GCN, for example, has scalar and vector instructions, where the vector instructions are 64 items wide. For graphics, this is used for running a shader on up to 64 items (vertices or pixels) simultaneously. Furthermore, the individual compute units are ridiculously hyper-threaded.

The advantage is that most of the silicon can go towards the actual computation rather than stuff like branch-prediction and out-of-order execution. The disadvantage is that branching and looping is problematic: when only one item wants to go down the other branch of an if-else-statement, the GPU has to run through both branches for all items (and execution is masked off on a per-item basis).

This works extremely well for graphics and high-dimensional numerics workloads (linear algebra, finite elements). It doesn't work at all for, say, spell-checking.
This could go horribly wrong when the filename contains newlines, right? Like `foobar\n/etc/passwd`.
Too small? At what distance is this?

Sorry, those are the only sane monitors I've seen at an interesting size with UHD or true 4k resolution.
I agree to most of the points of the post but this

> It does not need a traditional TV tuner, cable or antenna connector or any other remnants of a previous era in TV technology. They drive up the cost, increase the complexity and bulk up the form factor, while serving no modern purpose. It’s time to throw them out.

Even the USA still has free to air TV channels. They are the norm everywhere else. I'm watching news right now on a TV through the antenna connector and the built in DVTB decoder. That's what marks the difference between a TV and a monitor to me.

Edit: spelling.
There are many decent Tuners on the market that you can connect via HDMI.
How can you put magnesium in as MgO and ever expect it to be available?

MgO: good for making furniture for a 1400°C furnace, not so good as a source of magnesium.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2407766
It's nice that he is setting a good example but what's really impressive about this is that he has managed to get fb into a state where him taking two months off is actually possible. How many other large company CEOs could do that without a lot of things going wrong?
And I thought this was about tensor analysis :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covariance_and_contravariance_...
If this existed I would buy it, people in comments are saying this is basically what a monitor is, and to some extent they are right, but I havent seen 60" 4K monitors on the market has anyone else?
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Isn't the USA like most other western countries that have access to the free to air channels over the Internet?

Granted, I think a better title/conclusion would be to do away with TVs completely and just have pure monitors with a separate STB, or PC with a TV card.
Then they updated the software for the next years SKU and didnt update the previous years software. Operating systems on TVs is a really one sided deal.
Horror flashbacks reading your comment... But for real, do you think 10k or 20k links from legitimate blogs/social profiles would provide any SEO benefit? Or would the only benefit be the referral traffic?
>We all know their business model. Either you pay with money or with information.

That isn't actually their business model. They make money from people paying for ads not information. I've got friends in marketing and they'd love Google to sell them say a list of email address of high net worth investors which Google probably knows but they won't do that. They will let you pay to run ads aimed at certain groups but that's a different thing.
Then they should just sell their monitor with a HDMI/USB stick. That way they might also be able to increase sales by selling "upgrade sticks"/"special edition sticks".
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Interesting. Do you have some examples?
> Hezbollah and the Revolutionary Guard are roaming around Syria like they own it.

So you would rather have ISIS expanding in Syria? That's what the Iranians are fighting there.

Furthermore they were invited by the legitimate and UN recognized Syrian government to help fighting the Sunni extremists.
Nice article, though I think you're mixing up subtypes and supertypes. Or I am. After reading that I no longer know if "Cat extends Animal" means that Cat is a subtype of Animal, or that it's a supertype of Animal.

E.g.

let f1: A -> B = ...
let f2: C -> D = f1

(...)
Applied here, the above code works if A is a subtype of C, and if B is a supertype of D.
Put concretely:

let f1: Animal -> Animal = ...
let f2: Cat -> Thing = f1

So now Animal is a subtype of a Cat, and a supertype of Thing?

But I finally understand what covariance and contravariance means, so thanks!

--

Also, related, could somebody more proficient in English than I am help me understand which direction does the substitution go here?

"It says, in short, that an instance of a subclass can always be substituted for an instance of its superclass."

Is it "an instance of subclass can replace an instance of superclass", or "it can be replaced by"? Or is it context-dependent?

I ask because I'm not sure about the grammar aspect, and in my native language (Polish) we have a few ambiguities like that, which I sometimes jokingly write down with an arrow, e.g. "A can be ---substitutes for--> B" or "A can be <--substituted for-- B", to make it damn explicit which direction the word works.
Indeed, it's a nice read.

I would like to add it also features a nice introduction to greek astronomy.
Wow. Reporting blackhat seo websites (of competitors) used to be one of the worst parts of my job. Having to defend myself against blackhat seo attacks on a daily basis would have sucked my soul...
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In Instagram there is pretty substantial amount of traffic about soft core porn. The women get thousands of followers with nicks like "ehg bloblo". If you look who he is and what he follows, it's just other girls who show some cleavage. No sane guy these days would put real name on such account.

If Instagram would double down on those followers, the "models" would also have very little incentive to continue posting. But this does nothing to the market of soft core porn. So Instagram would very likely face competition after that. It might be that Instagram could then cater better for a subset of the current users. But they would risk not being the 800 pound gorilla of social photo sharing.

So the old adage seems to hold so far: the internet platform that is good for porn, wins over internet platform that is not.
> Do you actually think these two astronomers and other scientists just came up with their results? That's not how science works.

Sometimes it does, see Calculus.

Moreover, coming from western Europe, I seldom met history teachers or erudites that would casually dismiss another culture's teaching and discoveries.
As soon as you have a power fluctuation, air conditioning malfunction, or a few dirty caused short cuts, you'll get enough errors to converge on the published average.

Just wait, and relax. You'll get there eventually.
The pensions system for US public workers does seem quite broken to me. Letting politicians with a relatively short term view control investments that have to realise a return in thirty or forty years is a recipe for disaster.
The thing that worries me is extensions being able to grab my passwords. If my Lastpass extension can do it then presumably malicious extensions can too.
Gmail likely has most of your emails due to the fact that many people use it. See for example this analysis[0], where the author says that over 50% of his emails have transited on a Gmail-owned server.

[0] https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-be...
You cannot control what happens beyond your own hosted infrastructure. Even the most trusted networks are still at the mercy of external DNS servers, web servers and routing equipment. Hence the entire point of trusted signed certificates.

Just because a persons hosted VPS might be trusted it doesn't mean that:

1. The git.io redirects to the expected location. Anyone could clone your git repo then put a malicious script in a different shortened URL

2. Nor that someone couldn't MITM between the the user and the git.io

3. Nor similar MITM attacks between git.io and github

Security is only as good as the strength of your weakest link.
There is a difference between doing AI Engineering and AI Research.

By the way, I still don't know what IQ really means in the sens of what's the difference knowing and IQ? I think success in research in general is a mix of knowing, dedication and luck.
Of course it can. A system that was secure in 2005 doesnt necessarily have to be secure in 2015. With that in mind, it might be a good idea to slowly move away from TrueCrypt to a system that is equally secure but actually maintained.
there's a wiki page on "Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world"
they'd love Google to sell them say a list of email address of high net worth investors which Google probably knows but they won't do that

There are at least two possible reasons why Google won't do that:

a) they're doing the right thing
or
b) they're not stupid enough to dis-intermediate themselves that way

I think it's mostly "b". Selling the addresses is one-time revenue, selling ads targeted at high net worth investors is an ongoing annuity stream.
It's a question of the character of the people running the thing. The ublock guy seems a bit sketchier than the ublock origin guy.
Dude if you think medicine is TOO affordable in the US then you are seriously out of touch with everything. eg. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/us/the-soaring-cost-of-a-s... the comparative cost of have asthma in the US even if you're insured, compared with having it in Australia or most of Europe or New Zealand is sky high. Antidepressants similarly - in Australia you can afford that shit if you're completely poor. Americans need crazy insurance that they get through work to cover it, and then they have to pay through the nose as well.
I think the example is right. Cat is a subtype of Animal, and Animal is a subtype of Thing

Cat < Animal < Thing

So if the function takes any animal, of course it can take a cat (so its covariant in argument). And because all animals are things, we can say the output type of f is Thing.. its just less accurate than Animal but still correct - that is the contravariance in the result.

Cat extends Animal means "Cat can do everything Animal can, plus maybe more stuff". So all cats are animals, but not all animals are cats. So Cat is a subtype of Animal.

For the second question,

"an instance of subclass can replace an instance of superclass" is the right one.

Really it makes a lot of sense intuitively. e.g say Int is a subclass of Number (a simpler way to read is just "Int is a Number") . then anything you can do with numbers, you can do with ints too so we can put an int in place of a number.
> A system that was secure in 2005 doesnt necessarily have to be secure in 2015.

Can you clarify what you mean by this? What sort of vulnerability could magically appear in Truecrypt to make it less secure now than a decade ago?
There are many HDMI hubs that you can connect to a TV with just one single HDMI port. That doesn't mean "the perfect TV" should have just a single HDMI port.
Newton built upon the work of mathematicians such as John Wallis.
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> American philosopher Jerry Fodor proposes an alternative idea, called the “Language of Thought” hypothesis. He argues that in addition to our consciously perceived internal monologues, we have a second internal language that is codified into the brain—a kind of “mentalese,” that we don’t consciously perceive.

That's roughly in line with the anecdotal reports from the "tulpa" community seem to report when trying to train a portion of their brain to operate as a quasi-independent entity: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tulpas/
Out of the four TVs I am likely to watch, all of them have Freeview built in.
Huh? Running certainly increases the strength of your leg muscles. The only possible exception to this would be if you were jogging very very slowly. But if you go from not running at all to running faster than, say, 6mph, your legs will certainly get stronger.
OK who here believes he is actually going to be away from work, not doing anything? He's just going to be working from home for 2 months that's all.
It also works well as a laxative.
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If I had worked at Yahoo I would have responded by bringing my kids to work. every bloody day.

Really, that's rich.
I totally agree with you. Just pointing out that AmigaOS was way more advanced than MS-DOS or Windows 3.1 at the time they both existed on PC.
Does every country have the same tuner specification?
Jim Al Khalili has a gripping and informative BBC documentary on just this, he shows that books by Copernicus had the same errors as certain earlier Arab texts going back to Alhazen.

He delves further and explores the book of doubt the first post greek published work to question the Ptolomaic cosmology. This was written at the hilltop fortress of the order of Assassins which ensured a golden age of peace by a network of espionage. Marco Polo famously described the Garden's there. Ibn al-Ḥaytham, Alhazen continued his work under the patronage of the Mongols.
It is all very well presented by Al Khalili.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL41gX0fJng
begin with "You don't need a lot of math" so their recipients are not supposed to be very smart

I would be weary about correlating high IQ with a high maths aptitude (and also of the reverse) -- since other things effect maths development more than IQ (The type of teacher you have, etc.); I had the pleasure of knowing quite a few people in MENSA over the duration of my childhood, and I can assure you that many of them had exactly the same problems with mathematics as the rest of the population.

I disagree that a high IQ is a necessary component of developing an AI (And I assume you're talking about Strong AI here); I would say that an expert in the field has a much better chance than the average developer, but since nobody (To my knowledge) has created a general AI we can't really know for sure.

It would be interesting to see if AI researchers (or mathematicians, for that matter) tend to have a high IQ compared to other fields/jobs...