skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Universities have always been in the incubator business. The bubble actually forces universities to be more transparent about their IP licensing policies. Do read how Netscape was rewritten due to licensing issues. There is a reason why UIUC gets a bad rep. If anything this is good side effect of bubble, since it forces universities to re-examine their licensing practises and invent new IP models that distinguish between software and medical drug/device inventions.

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University of Illinois v. Andreessen (1994) - The web revolution began at the University of Illinois with the first graphics based browser, Mosaic, but few are aware of its history. The open source code which spawned both Netscape and Internet Explorer was created by graduate students using open source code. The university sued the students for trademark infringement in an attempt to capture royalties even though the source code was available for free on the web. The developers offered the university shares in the newly launched Netscape which would have netted UL over $8 million. Instead, the university chose a prolonged legal battle which was settled for $2.7 million, bankrupted Netscape, allowed Microsoft Explorer to capture the browser market and left University of Illinois out of the legacy of the innovation.
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http://www.ipadvocate.org/forum/dispute.cfm?Type=Disputes

http://markvillacampa.com/2014/01/13/the-day-i-learned-about...
> What happens if you have a string associated with an object that you don't want to cache miss on?

Then you embed the array of chars in the object, just like in C++. I don't see what having a GC has to do with it. As to embedding arrays in objects in Java, I think it's planned as part of the value-type project, but no prototype yet. I know John Rose (JVM architect) said that the two features they intend to address are arrays of structs and structs of arrays (but not buffers of structs of arrays).

> you'll pay the int->float cast costs for one

HotSpot should optimize it away (not sure about byte buffer usage, though). It sees an integer read and a cast to float, and reads directly into a floating-point register.

> Java doesn't have a nice way to wrap an immutable string

You mean mutable string? Well, there's the CharSequence interface that String and the mutable StringBuilder implement, but it's true that not many standard APIs accept a CharSequence.

> I think it's important to understand they we're talking about a specific set of areas that C++ excels in.

I agree. C/C++ is unparalleled for single-threaded traversals over encoded binary data (e.g. video encoding/decoding and other signal processing) and for performance-sensitive applications running in memory constrained environments . Managed runtimes even try to compete in those domains.

In other cases, the extra performance you can squeeze out is too insignificant (and growing less significant with time) to justify the extra effort. And in some cases of growing importance (interesting multi-threading), C++ has to work really hard to even match GC-runtime environments. The real cost that is always paid is the significant RAM overhead.

And BTW: Android isn't Java. It's compatibility with Java has always been very partial, and, of course, its development is not directed by the JCP.
Don't you get it, America? Your masters want this. Why can't you have the good grace to let yourselves be observed and controlled without raising such a ruckus?

/s
Well, to be fair, Greenspoint (also affectionately called "Gunspoint") is not exactly a thriving area. I don't think it's surprising that a mall in a run-down area might be run-down.
I think the main use case is developer workstations which run on Windows because of corporate guidlines
>We need the Federal government to stimulate aggregate demand at the consumer level. How? Investing tax dollars in a smarter manner

Everyone - and I do mean everyone - would be better off if the fed government (and state and local) invested those tax dollars smarter by leaving the majority of them in the hands of those that earnt them.

"There are four ways in which you can spend money. You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, why then you really watch out what you’re doing, and you try to get the most for your money. Then you can spend your own money on somebody else. For example, I buy a birthday present for someone. Well, then I’m not so careful about the content of the present, but I’m very careful about the cost. Then, I can spend somebody else’s money on myself. And if I spend somebody else’s money on myself, then I’m sure going to have a good lunch! Finally, I can spend somebody else’s money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else’s money on somebody else, I’m not concerned about how much it is, and I’m not concerned about what I get. And that’s government. And that’s close to 40% of our national income.” - Milton Friedman
What if someone would install their own traffic light right now?
As sad as it may be, it seems from the README that the author was testing it on his wife, who suffers from those seizures.

Google returns several papers about detecting seizures with wearable accelerometers, but I haven't been able to find an openly available dataset. It would be great if there was one.
It should work now. There was some browser compatibility problems that I just fixed.
The 10th man in World War Z was based on an actual Israeli military office called the "devil's advocate office".
Phoenix is for the Elixir language which runs on the ErlangVM, and not for the Erlang language.
Do you have an account?
Mini PC invasion: 13 radically tiny computers that fit in the palm of your hand
I'm afraid that you're the one who doesn't understand what the second amendment does - scotus ruled (in DC v. Heller) that militias really have nothing to do with it, well-regulated or otherwise.
I honestly haven't heard the term constant time used in a context other than asymptotic in computer science, even in relation to side-channels. I think this is the way the majority of people use the term. I worry that trying to use it another way will probably just confuse people, not to say I don't think it isn't a valid concept.

In relation to side-channel attacks, wouldn't it be sufficient to just pad the difference between upper and lower bounds using no-ops?
I recommend networkforgood.org. They give you the choice of how much of your personal information to share with the receiving charity. Since my dad died I sometimes donate in his name to his favorite charity, and I don't have to give them so much as an email address. Network for Good has never spammed me, either.
Not the OP. But personally, I have had much better experience with Perl and Python on Windows compared to NodeJS or Ruby.
Most of those cash buyers are wealthy Chinese people living in China. I doubt this will change that.
Let me put it another way. Many of the software systems that make the biggest economic contributions have a very high essential complexity, and so their cost grows super-linearly with their size.
Auto-whatever interfaces in general need to hit an incredibly high "success" rate in terms of doing what the user wants to avoid feeling frustrating. I don't remember the study, but the number was in the high 90s, percent wise.
Pretty much no one moves around during deep enough sleep, it is just when your sleep cycle lightens up that you move around in your sleep. The same tech still works, it just might not be able to detect all the stages of your sleep as effectively.
NET GC was originally converted to C from Lisp
or just legitimately an expert on the field.
Because we can't re-engineer humans into rule-based automata. (And we probably shouldn't even if we could.)

Machines, on the other hand, are a different story.
Who Will Choose AI’s Ethical Code?
So, 'simply' invest in billions of dollars of infrastructure improvements that will serve less then one percent of vehicles on the road?
Should future digital computers move away from binary?
"Yes, they are exact analogues from my point of view, for the reason that neither noble titles nor sex are subjective: they are objective reality."

You'll need to back that up with some citations. My understanding of the relevant science, from many angles (biology and psychology, in particular) says otherwise. The science says that sex and gender are much more complex than merely "either/or" and that trying to put a binary onto something that complex isn't useful and potentially even dangerous for those most at risk.

And, my personal interactions with people who suffer from gender dysphoria, among other issues, tells me that it causes harm when I refuse to respect their desire to be called by their preferred name and gender. I don't want to cause harm, particularly when it costs me literally nothing to respect my friends' wishes.
It's something of a tangent, but Amazon was not legally required to literally go out and delete books off of users' devices - or at least if they were, due to some contract they signed with publishers, that was their own fault. Indeed, after that event Amazon said they would no longer do so.
"Luckily Houbolt got to make his case, and when Wernher Von Braun changed his mind and endorsed this truly insane idea, the rest of NASA followed.

We landed on the moon on July 20th 1969."

'Chapeau' (hats off).

Been paying attention to space and SF for way too many moons, had never read this story.
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Yev from Backblaze here -> Interesting. Any specific errors its throwing? You can ping our B2 team directly at -> https://help.backblaze.com/anonymous_requests/new (select B2 product) -> they'll help you debug!
Spring Boot, Dropwizard, and Apollo all seem to try to do the same thing. They all seem easy to use, more or less opinionated with Spring Boot being the most opinionated. The one thing in Apollo I find quite interesting is the native integration of async-ness. Very nodeJs like but could also be achieved in Spring Boot or Dropwizard with Reactor. I do think Dropwizard would have been THE framework to extend here with some async sugar. But hey, developers love to build their own things.
I wonder if they paid tax?
Or as Socrates put it, "the only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing"

(probably one of the more Buddhist-ish gems from Western philosophy)
They refer to the method used as "actigraphy", which apparently is commonly done with wrist-watch packages. Sounds like an idea for a Pebble watchapp!

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actigraphy
I wonder how big an impact this will have though. As much as there are apps without business models, there are many solid products solving real problems that already have real revenue and customers behind them contrary to the dotcom bubble.

Sure some tightening of the belt might happen, but is there really any way to say how much?
Deterministic garbage collection is a completely different beast than what most people call GC. It is not a nearly magical fairy that lets you have infinite memory.

Also IIRC aviation has incredibly strict rules on freeing during flight, so this likely switches to a fixed memory model for at least part of the time.
Agreed. While the method may be new (a university fund specifically dedicated to startups), the fact is that academic research has led to the creation of companies, patents, etc., in other fields for decades now. TFA: "The University of California has been granted more patents than any other university in the world and has over 30 accelerators and incubators. More than 800 startups with UC patents have been founded since 1980."

And it probably won't be 19yo students, it will be graduate, PhD, and post-docs, many of whom are actively trying to find the next big thing in their field.

Doesn't seem like much news here other than good press for the UC system, and good on them for making dollars easier to get besides trying for an NSF grant.
>>One thing that often turns me off is seeing others which do that activity for quite some time and are already good at it (I'm 35 years old), while I'm just starting and seem incapable in comparison.

Be the best person you can be and try (it's very hard) to stop comparing yourself. How can you be anything more than your best? Do it because its good for you or you enjoy it, not because you are awesome or not awesome at it.
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The boss was pretty smart in the sense of knowing how to work with big corporations to build large decision support systems. But his technical knowledge was fairly shallow.

I sold my first company and the investors did very well, but I made tons of stupid mistakes in the process. Not least of which was holding on to dotcom stock that I thought would go to the moon but which mostly went down the drain.
I generally find Twitter to have a better level of discourse than FB. That might be because of who I follow & block though.
If you invite the economists, you will end up concluding that, in order to stop cancer, you'll need to stop the Demand for cancer.
The anatomy of a good date and time widget
Then let's they first vote whether they want to mix X and Y, and then use ranked voting for deciding between 4 variants (X alone, Y alone, X and Y together, nothing).
Ha! I've asked the question about existence of something like Kerf quite a while ago[1]. Good to finally have an answer other than "it is not really needed".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7890931
> It was my vague understanding that there is some very low bar for attaching riders, so that members can kill a bill they don't like by attaching a poison pill.

Floor amendments are voted on just like bills, and require a majority vote to pass. The way that it can be relatively "easy" for certain members to get amendments attached to a bill is in committee, since the committee to which a bill is assigned can either let the original bill languish (though if the rest of the House wants the bill out of committee, it can be pulled out) and adopt and report out an entirely new bill, on the same subject, with amendments, or report out the original bill with committee amendments as a package which are voted on together (this would be part of the rule for the bill, and this rule is, itself, subject to vote.)
I remember when I created my first company. Being young I was so idealistic and did bet everything on it.

My parents believed I was nuts: "With no real world experience you should not create a company", they said, "first work for someone else, get experience, and then make a company if you want".

My girlfriend thought I was also nuts, she blackmailed me: My (stupid) idea or she. I chose my stupid idea. She wanted to get back a week later but it was too late.

My friends could not understand either why take "pies on the sky" when I had good options on a "real work".

After creating my company everything took way longer than expected, I started believing it was not a good idea after all, you only have the energy you have after it is depleted.

But one day I read a document I wrote when I started my company and was incredibly shocked that everything I wrote down in the past was becoming real in the present!!

Things started to roll, I got more confident...in the end it was a huge success precisely because it was such a crazy idea.

Had I followed my parents' advice, I would never have never done what I did, "experience in the past" would have blocked the possibilities of the future and the beginners mind.
Canada Is Stepping Up Its Maple Syrup Research
So maybe the industry might have to take some risks on younger businesses, rather than piling on yet another zillion dollars for the Series Q round of Unicorn Inc along with the timid institutional investors?
New Deep Learning Tool Shows the Most Memorable Parts of Your Photos
That seems like something that reasonable people could disagree about.
If the paper is correct then there ARE problems that this algorithm can solve in less time than others. But it may be that every problem on which it is faster requires more bits of memory than there are atoms in the universe. Or that every problem on which it is faster would have a runtime that is 10^100 times the lifetime of the universe.
> I just find the Erlang style bizarre.

It's odd at first, but has a few things going for it:

* Its rules are consistent.

* There are few keywords and symbols.

* Once you understand it, you see that pattern matching on function heads or case statements is exactly the same as if/else statements.

* Its standard library contains code that does a lot of the low-to-mid-level stuff you find yourself doing.

* OTP provides nice templates for server-ish things and FSMs, as well as some nice conventions that get followed by a lot of Erlang software.
You know COBRA? That law that says you can buy insurance through your former employer after you leave the company. You know what COBRA stands for?

Combined Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act

Stuffing projects into the budget happens all the time. Basically, no one will negotiate in good faith on the merits of individual proposals so they play these tricks to get things passed into law.
It is hard to have a discussion about GC's in the super abstract because object pools are better than GC's and even malloc. Without additional details about what the implementation will look like it is impossible to know the best memory allocation mechanism is.

I was just pointing out that most GC's that are general purpose have 2-3 ms pauses for collection which is a no-go for soft-realtime systems. I did not say that GC's are incompatible with soft-realtime systems.
How do you categorise a set of 'wealthy oligarchs' as having 'worse' spending than a monolithic government, which we all know has terrible spending patterns and priorities.

Politicians spend money on vain projects to get themselves popular and re-elected- how is that not worse than a wealthy oligarch spending money on a gold plated fountain? At least the gold plated fountain would not be built on promises that the future (unborn) taxpayers will make up the tab.

The point here is that people tend to see the government as a relatively benign spender who sometimes gives money to others, while they automatically see a rich person spending money as terribly misdirected. When you impugn a government with perfect morals and individuals with terrible morals the thinking that results simply has to be wrong.
HN is not just for news. It's for whatever you deem worthy of sharing.

It comes down to how many people agree it's interesting by upvoting :)
Not sure if the connotation was intentional, but "an Alphabet company" conjures up ties with alphabet agencies for me more than it does big colorful Sesame Street letters. Not sure that's a good parallel for PR, after the Snowden leaks.
I agree this is 80/20 complete at the moment, but the gripes you have are not insurmountable if his model can truly learn with proper inputs.

What if you could simulate these conditions in a safe/controlled environment, and remove the driver from harm via remote control? Maybe build a virtual world that simulates the inputs as best as possible. That would be the cheap way, although you may lose fidelity.

If you had enough money you could build a simulated town/city, similar to a movie set, that throws all possible dangerous scenarios at you and operate the car remotely through these scenarios.
Integrated information theory
Nice. Can you link me? I was involved in the project :)
Project setup time with microservices really shouldn't be the issue. Build one template then use for all your services. Don't pick your framework because of setup time (plus I want to argue the differences are minor).
...until you learn that the reason he had to stop in a no-parking zone for 30 seconds is because it was the shortest, safest route for a severely disabled person to get into the car.
TBH, It /could/ be sponsored content for all I know, but if it's the case, I'd be quite happy reading shortish pieces like that now and then (which actually MIGHT makes me want to buy some maple syrup ;-)) instead of flash banner ads.

Bring it on, either way!
Good point, but if you consider the Tesla dataset... it's formidable. Every day they could collect data enough for ~55 years of driving a lot every day. Even if you never encountered this case, if it happens at all it's likely to be seen many times (probably 100+ in a few months) in that dataset. After driving cars have gone mainstream, this may start to be seen as a design problem by traffic agencies: they might standardize ways to deal with traffic a little more.

Ultimately as long as the cars driving autonomously is small enough and procedures change slowly enough you should be able to continously update the driving system.

But let me reinforce that a pure learning approach even with very large datasets may not be efficient as one would like -- the curation of signs is a good idea, and manually reviewing accidents and near misses (a highly human-intensive task) and perhaps flagging bad driving behavior (probably after some outlier screening, which can be good or bad) will be important to get it really good with the training-intensive approach (and not the top down optimal path planning and control approach).

EDIT: Mobileye CEO discusses some interesting design issues and manual validation (and shows they have lots of data, good sign) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp3ik5f3-2c&feature=youtu.be...
Supply and demand are entwined in a perpetual dance, and "if you build it they will come" only goes so far. A product has to find a market capable of making the purchase. Opening a Whole Foods supermarket in rural Tanzania isn't going to boost sales of Tom's of Maine Wicked Cool Toothpaste -- a product apparently worthy of exchange among sufficiently wealthy consumers in a different context.
What are backlinks?
Did you see that they anticipate to end 2016 at about 1.4% and 2018 somewhere over 3%?
I think this problem is usually solved by having a person press some button every once in a while[0].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch#Vigilance_...
I think the big question though is that in super hot markets like SF and the Peninsula, will the demand actually go down enough to slow things? There's a LOT of all cash offers still coming in from overseas. Sure they might have less competition, but I feel like the aggregate demand is so massive and available supply is so restricted (in large part due to Prop 13) that even higher interest rates wouldn't put a big damper on things.
I admittedly did not know that they published a specification . It's still a proprietary file format though. Proprietary does not mean "binary and undocumented", it means that it's not an open standard.
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/16/why-the-fed-move-doesnt-matte...

Trying to time the market is tricky business.
Statists love their euphemisms

My irony detector has just exploded. Can you direct me to a completely-unregulated minarchist free-for-all market where I can buy one that merely poisons me and everyone in a hundred-mile radius? Because at least it would actually work.