skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Classical computers can factor large integers.

Before this thread, I knew that Shor's algorithm and Grover's algorithm were two very important QC results. I knew that Shor's algorithm means that a QC would be able to decrypt anything that was ever encrypted with RSA. (ECC schemes are likely just as vulnerable, so cryptographers are looking at purely hash-based schemes: http://pqcrypto.org/hash.html)

What I learned this morning based on hints in this thread:

1) Grover's algorithm is a far more modest speedup compared to Shor's algorithm

2) Shor's algorithm only factors integers, but Grover's algorithm can more generally invert a function (which still threatens many currently used cryptographic functions)

So I'd guess that Grover's algorithm is the sort of thing people are talking about as useful in machine learning. There are probably other QC results that are worth getting excited about for people working with neural networks. The Google/Microsoft workshop this weekend has a number of sessions on quantum annealing, as well.

A big reason "unsolvable by classical computers" is such a silly way to phrase things is (paraphrasing Dr. Aaronson here) that simulated annealing techniques on classical computers are already producing such good results without QC. In the previous Shtetl-Optimized post to this one, he posts a Powerpoint deck for a talk he gave at the same conference, and it is quite instructive (but still enough over my head that I'm sitting on HN asking dumb questions).
Ha, I haven't had the time to listen to it yet, but I was hoping my opinion would change as well. Glad to hear it's changed at least one person's opinion.
They are boasting exclusive access to the man that no one else has had, and SK said over the summer that she really didn't want to start another witch hunt that would shine a spotlight on the show's subjects like season one.
Sorry you feel this way. It would be nice to update the article with actual figures indeed.

And if I had to squeeze down the article, that'd be : "if you app doesn't imply repeated use, doesn't leverage context, takes room in your phone, if you don't have the necessary resources to develop it and update it on all platforms, and if it has to be integrated to a professional workflow for many users at once, don't go for it"
I've only used omnisharp vim once, but the main problem was the configuration files. They're always seemed to be problems.
Thanks. Do you know if the binary packaging is obfuscated to discourage decompilation?
Yeah, I should have been more clear.

Regular JS in the renderer processes showed errors in the console as usual. However, if I tried using one of the NW.js APIs incorrectly in the renderer, or there was any error at all in the main process (which doesn't have devtools) it would just crash.
How Much of the Developing World Will Lose Access to Encryption in 2016
The middle class dropping below 50% could mark a 'tipping point' for the U.S
It's like a newspaper for techies. The community is also polite and intellectual, and I feel more comfortable here than on other sites.
Consider these are bureaucratic metrics used to show the effectiveness of policy changes. It is difficult and after a certain time perhaps even inaccurate to measure outcomes, it is really easy to measure college admissions by race and ethnicity.

I think for the government the goal is get students from low socio-economic background to college because it shows their policies at lower levels of education are working. You are thinking in the wrong slice of time. You are thinking birth to job, when really the focus for these metrics is on birth to college because for that group of people they will be the first in their family to ever go past high school, some might be the first in their family to even finish high school and as dragonwriter said that metric is a huge indicator of positive future outcomes.

You said you aren't from the US and I am not sure how familiar you are with our geography or culture but Education in the US is tough, the population is diverse and spread out over a huge area, I mean freaking huge. If you took the population(1) of students in the US K-12th grades it would be the 27th largest country in the world(2), ahead of Canada, Spain, and Switzerland. Think about that for a moment in terms of just the number of human beings being managed on a daily basis the US education system is more complicated than those three countries. This is part of why finding metrics that effectively measure quality is so hard and number and composition of students going to college is an easy one.

Another thing to consider which you pointed out in 3 and 4 is degree choice and jobs. First, degree choice, US universities offer degrees that don't directly connect to careers, if a student chooses a bad degree their outcome (job prospects, pay, lifetime earnings potential) will stink. So measuring the outcome gets very complicated at that level. Second, post graduate success, how do we measure success? If someone is happy making 25k a year living in a tiny beach community for the rest of their life are they less successful than someone who goes into finance and is making a 7 figure salary before they are 30?

In a perfect would everyone would get the best outcome for them, that makes them truly happy and makes their life and the world a better place. Measuring it wouldn't even matter because it would be happening for everyone. But, until we make it to a post scarcity society measuring the incremental change in a metric that is a good indicator we are moving in the right direction is the best option.

(1)http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372
(2)http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-...
Yes, fair enough.
How New York City's Bike Share Saved Itself
> Composer doesn't require you to have any dependencies

Oh yes, it does - SSH or other shell access, as well as the hoster allowing the server to connect to the outside Internet!

Both are not common, in fact many hosters firewall their hosts for outgoing connections to prevent spam, botnets etc.
In rare emergencies, the limit is gone, but then the employee needs at least 2 days of free time after that shift.
And this will probably be another thing that the creators of Telegram will mock, showing yet again that they are perpetually oblivious to any definition of sound cryptography.
1 in 5 American Kids Has Abnormal Levels of Cholesterol
Completely anecdotally: if I haven't used an app in a week then I delete it. I can't really justify it, I have 64gb of space on my phone - it's more of an OCD thing than anything else.
And how many of those are the travelling wave reactors that you think could be rolled out today if tree-huggers weren't preventing it? The answer is zero I believe which means it's likely not the environmentalists that are holding things up but more likely fundamental issues with the technology not being ready yet.

It seems China is at the very, very early stages of thinking about maybe investigating building one of these.
If you think "build it and they will come" applies in the mobile space, you're completely wrong and about to light a bunch money on fire. I'd be very interested to know if this team talked to 25+ people smack in the middle of their target audience about their expense-tracking pains before starting to think about building the app. It really seems like they thought of a problem (or what they perceived as a problem) and then built the app. If they dove deep on the problem and talked directly to people who they thought would most benefit from the app, they certainly would have uncovered more information about why Birdly would or would not work for them and could make important product choices based on that feedback.
Do we know what the deal is with uploading music? Can I upload music for just me or does my family have to share the 20k song limit? I'm not even sure which version of this I would prefer. I know between us we have more than 20k songs we'd upload, but we also could probably get by with being more selective about uploads because I've certainly uploaded some dupes.
The topic is about violence. Feminists aren't violent; in fact they're a reaction against gender-based violence.

> Yet, I strongly oppose feminism. I believe in equality, but not equality for one gender or skin colour or sexual orientation.

That means you're a feminist. I'm sorry you're not able to get your definitions straight.

> Bullying is not required.

Calling people out on their bullshit isn't bullying.
> I wonder how western mentality can bend morality rules to always favor the underdog.

Why shouldn't morality favor the underdog? The winner already has a natural advantage. Do we really want to make that permanent?
Oh, GPM is US-Only? That’s seriously annoying.

I agree with you about the tone, though.
They didn't mention this in the article, which makes me wonder if they really understood it. Companies have specific tools they require you to use to file expense reports. You would have to get the entire company to embrace this solution. Although they talk about the CTO trying to get it installed, I wonder if they ever really got the whole company on board. You've got to get the CTO and the CFO in this case.
Shimizu Corporation wants to Build an 11,000 KM solar farm on the Moon
Python client for the MonkeyLearn API (machine learning for text analysis)
It's literally a bunch of TV channels: sport, soaps, educational, news and music videos.
There are lots of interesting features and changes in this (alpha 1) release. Release notes and full changelog: https://openssl.org/news/openssl-1.1.0-notes.html
Yes they do, and I think it's also because of the "emotional" factors. People talk to a bot and have this feeling they have a personal assistant guiding them through the process.
What is the best blog app to use with Django-CMS? I've been using Zinnia with an older release, but I see that your demo uses the new Aldryn Newsblog app.

I'm looking to do a small redesign along with re-deploying a website with 3.2 but I don't feel like going back and re-theming Zinnia to fit with my new design. Is Aldryn's app a simpler solution?
How Retail Apps Are Attracting the Millennial Shopper
You touch another important issue here.

>>> Do I want to tag individual expenditures? How do I want to categorize them?

Friction.

There are a lot of apps that might be useful but the friction is so high (a lot of manual entry, etc) that it might overwhelm the value provided. Ideally, you want the app to 'just work' and that's the hard part.
Thanks to the customer unfriendly terms and conditions, a family plan is not always an option, even if a family subscription is available in your country. In my case, I have cell phone plan with a Spotify Premium subscription included, and because of that, I can't get or upgrade to a family plan.

So it may be true that Spotify has a family plan, it's not available to all their subscribers. The situation is a bit similar to Google Hosted Domains customers who can't get a Google Play Music Family Plan: unnecessary complicated terms and conditions and exclusions.
They probably should have changed "released" to "will be included".
Yes but they aren't hiring.
> Is an atheist sinful by definition?

In typical Christian theology, everyone is sinful -- "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God", "If we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves", etc.

As to whether not being Christian is itself a variety of sin, or makes you especially bad, or guarantees damnation rather than salvation, the tradition (even the particularly important subset of it called the Bible) is not perfectly consistent. A few examples:

For": the "Letter to the Hebrews" says something like "Without believing in God it is impossible to please him".

Against: one of St Paul's letters speculates that pagans' consciences will "accuse or perhaps excuse" them when they are judged.

For: There's a rather nasty idea embedded in the Christian tradition, that deep down everyone knows* that God is real and is the way Christians say he is, and therefore people who aren't Christians are being dishonest with themselves. The main source for this in the Bible is early in the "Letter to the Romans" where St Paul says something along these lines: "God's anger is being revealed against people who wickedly suppress the truth. For since the creation of the world God's existence and nature have been apparent just from looking at what he made, but some people deny it." He goes on to link this with gay sex, weirdly enough. Anyway, I think most Christians have the decency not to assume that everyone who doesn't share their religion is a liar, and most of the rest have at least enough decency not to say it out loud, but the point is that if you think that everyone really knows that Christianity (or at least something like it) is right then it becomes more reasonable to think that those who reject it are doing so out of wickedness.

(But unless my memory is deceiving me, which it might be, the Pauline letter speculating about pagans' consciences excusing them is in fact the same one as the one that says pagans are suppressing the truth in unrighteousness. Make of that what you will.)

Disclaimer 1: I'm not a Christian, but I'm pretty familiar with this stuff. Disclaimer 2: Christians do not all agree about any of this, and in particular some will disagree with any given bit of the above. (Probably quite a lot will disagree either with my characterization of the thinking in Romans 1 as a "rather nasty idea" or with the idea that it's "embedded in the Christian tradition".)
Yeah. There were always a lot of commercials, but they were always enjoyable commercials. If you're going to eat up air time with commercials, at least make them entertaining. Middle school me loved most their selection - especially a specific soda's advertising campaign.
This is from yesterday:
"Isn't SPACE the final frontier? US Navy reveals the man in charge of America's new $4.3bn super destroyer is Captain James Kirk"

December 4th:
"Meet the man Arsenal fans will be hoping can fix Alexis"

December 1st:
"Meet the Man in Charge of Building the Linchpin for NASA’s Much-hyped (and Mostly Unfunded) Journey to Mars"

November 30th:
"History not favorable to the man in charge of hiring UGA’s next football coach"

"Google hires the man in charge of Tesla's Autopilot feature"

And so on...

[0] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3353284/Isn-t...
[1] https://www.dawgnation.com/football/team-news/hiring-history...
[2] http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/30/9819646/google-tesla-poac...
[3] http://spacenews.com/meet-the-man-in-charge-of-building-the-...
[4] http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2015/12/0...
Without numbers, however, it reads like you're just making educated guesses.
Yes, one example is superfluid helium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfluid_helium-4

Viscosity is weird.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Newtonian_fluido
This is probably my misunderstanding of how it works. Pardon what's probably a silly question, but do all certs work the same way (i.e., certs are never "renewed" but just reissued with new dates)?
Google Music has 3 features that make music playing / discovery light years better than my experience with Apple Music and better than Spotify (I'm a paying Apple Music customer now):
1. Songza playlists - the playlists for mood and activity are far more detailed for categories outside of pop and hip-hop.
2. Easily start a radio station from any song or artist.
3. Catalog. With Youtube Red included nearly every background beat, live show, demo, etc. recorded is now available to listen to with excellent search capabilities. Hopefully eventually mixing and matching GPM and Youtube playlists will happen - but its not a huge problem.

Apple Music has better artist descriptions and artwork - and I like that they and Spotify display the full album cover when playing on mobile. Apple's focus on hip-hop and pop though really hurts discovery and UX for those without those focuses.
Use php reflection to build vim completion plugin
XUL sits on top of a toolkit like Qt or GTK. There's Qt ports of Firefox FWIW (which are still XUL based), or at least there were when Nokia was still a thing.
Ask HN: What general problem would benefit from ASIC speedup?
What would be in your opinion a computing problem for what it would make an economical sense (that is, would be there a market for it) to produce a specific solution in silicon (ASIC) i.e. an accelerator?

By that I mean a specific computing problem and not a general one like floating point operations or physics simulations etc.

For example there are ASIC solutions for bitcoin mining that can be about 10^6 faster than single CPU core calculations.

There are also special accelerators for cryptographic operations in today CPUs etc.

Would it make sense for example if we had SAT solvers in silicon?

(Related question: What could be the most popular applications for an integrated FPGA? I know that Microsoft is flirting with this idea in data centers and Intel bought a FPGA producer, so it is not an ungrounded question in my opinion).
I'm so addicted to the sound of her voice that she could read the damn Yellow Pages and I'd listen.
Genetic mutation renders many Finns susceptible to reckless behaviour when drunk
The app was only distributed on the French app stores, which is why you may not have heard about it. We're not trying to prevent anyone from creating mobile apps, but after spending a year doing so (and sure, making many mistakes on the way), we're just sharing our humble piece of advice
I really don't like it when people say things like "You should test on a low spec device because they're so cheap!" Yes, you definitely should test, but the cost of the hardware is irrelevant. It's the cost of a QA person and a developer's time that's the majority of what you'll pay. You can buy a low-end Android phone for $50, but that'll only buy you about a couple of hours of time with QA, or an hour of a developer to fix any issues that are found (because testing is only half the story, you also need to fix problems).

If you have a complex website you're looking at many thousands of dollars in time to test, regardless of the devices you're targeting. The fact you can buy a cheap phone for $50 means nothing.
ACM has one for software engineers specifically for at least six years.

http://www.acm.org/about/se-code#full
Yesterday I put together a guide for making profitable mobile apps that might interest people - https://medium.com/@PuzzleBoss/actionable-steps-to-make-mone...
Completely agree with the point that the managers are the target audience. People use all kinds of poorly-designed an inconvenient software at work because they're forced to by their boss are the company IT department. Well-designed software is already a leg up, but only if you can properly sell it to the correct decision makers and make it easy for them to switch over.
This app wasn't inherently flawed — if it had started to get traction from a couple companies using it, then word-of-mouth spread because of how easy the app was to use, it could have gone a lot better. I can imagine my friends who are management consultants using this to keep track of all the expenses they're playing on the company card or billing the client.
This is a sincere question. Is number of times app is used per week/month/year a good metric to build an app? Wouldn't that be a typical utility for a Uber/Lyft?
3) The vast amount of content available for offline/background play on Youtube. Almost anything ever recorded is available - including live shows, unofficial remixes and background beats.
I suffer from auditory dyslexia (not officially diagnosed, but it runs in my family and I have all the symptoms, etc). I have a slightly lower than average word recognition rate, especially if I can't see the speakers lips. Yet I get by, because usually the context and what words are expected are enough.

This makes me ask two questions:
#1- Do systems like this need the court-reported word recognition rate in order to be useful? Or can they compensate for mistakes by using the context?
#2- Could we improve these systems by also feeding them video of the speakers lips?

Maybe I should go do a masters to figure out the answers.
The problem is with "outsourcing" in the first place; the incentives are totally different. I'd like to hear from Western companies who've hired remote workers in India... I used to work in for a non-profit that is based in the U.S. but has its dev team in Poland. I think it is an open-ended outsourcing contract that's still going on years after it was started, i.e. they are pretty much employees. When we've had problems with code quality we'd call them out on it and they'd clean up their act. That's something you can't get with touch and go outsourcing.
I agree with your feelings about the article. It read like an exercise in denial. We also use Concur and it works quite well, and therein probably lies part of the author's problem: many people who care regularly about capturing expenses are doing so for business reasons and are told what app to use by their employer. Market research for the win.
72 people are killed by firearms each day in USA. So, if you have 500 Facebook friends from America, you can expect just over 4 of them to be killed by firearms during your lifetime.
In that case you didn't go after the right users. Expensify just did a $17m Series C so must obviously be a lot of people like me.
The Cult of Bayes' Theorem
Wasn`t aware about that. I'm surprised my team didnt go with that...
Coursmos launched open education platform with 100 free tools for educators
Actually, Autodesk has a version that is free for hobbyists. I don't think the interface is quite as intuitive as Solidworks. But for a free CAD software, it's far beyond any other options. They even include simple stress analysis tools (FEA). I've been using it on my personal computer for a little while for personal projects.

http://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/overview
A native app is already lost at the start because it requires the user to install it. Also at least on Android I don't buy the efficiency argument at all, Java and JavaScript are both JITed. You think Java JITs better than asm.js?

The integration argument is decent, but it's only really relevant for apps that get a lot of use, not the long tail of stuff that you use once or twice.
> Is it really impossible to have some system of axioms where most statements you care about (ie. can make a physical experiment out of) can be decided?

Of course it's possible. Most statements we care about are decidable. Otherwise, mathematics would be pretty hopeless. :-) It's just that any system has undecidable statements, as long as it's strong enough to do arithmetic. That's Gödel's theorem.
I cant believe i'm reading this..
How is saving 4 hours per month useful, and how in the world is it worth learning a new app for that.

Maybe this isn't really the right place to say this, but the moment the world will realize how crazy this whole startups thing is getting..
Productivity apps are never in top 10 on app store. The efforts you spent building your app did not pay, but I don't think you should blame app store for that.
I would suggest not to take it as a failure of the mobile app concept. Learn form your experience and think about what you can improve.
A Dead PC Game That Can't Come Back
A productivity app that involves the camera? The slowest workflow on the phone? No thanks.

The right answer is to get those receipts into a digital format some other way, not with the camera.

I would have deleted this app after I tried wasting 30 seconds taking a nice little picture of a $20 receipt the first time.
> If you're going to eat up air time with commercials

You mean education time, right? You're using up classroom time to watch commercials.

I don't understand how enjoyable they were is relevant. Of course a bunch of eight year olds getting sold sugary drinks to enjoyed them more than learning, that doesn't remotely address why it is wrong.