skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can only comment on the Linux side of GPU accelerated video decoding as that's where my experience is: Pretty much _the_ standard for GPU accelerated video decoding is VDPAU, originally an nvidia project, now open source. Support for intel integrated GPUs came a little later in Linux under the guise of VAAPI (technically a subset of VDPAU). ATI/AMD also have a proprietary API called XVBA via their catalyst drivers but I haven't had much interaction with ATI hardware on Linux for a long time.

VDPAU allows my 7 year old weedy 1.6ghz atom to play 1080p without breaking a sweat (around 2% CPU usage).

VLC lagged behind a lot of other players (e.g mplayer, my personal favourite player; which added support in ~2009 or so), but has had decent VDPAU/VAAPI support since 2.1 (2013?).

In the case of VDPAU on nvidia, support for 4K is a hardware limitation (the purevideo chip that actually does the decoding). It's supported on purevideo 5 and later (present on some later fermi and most Kepler architecture cards).

It's the same story with Intel. Generally speaking, only Haswell and later architecture CPUs have support for 4K.
couple of questions

1. is the entirety of kernel-networking now available to applications e.g. applications using tcp/udp/sctp/ipsec etc. etc. stacks completely in userland, just need to link with liblkl, and they are all set ?

2. also with dpdk etc. quite a large number of vendors are offering implementation of core networking protocols from l2 all the way up to l7. would this make all of those obsolete ?
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"...or even use the data to try to disprove what the original investigators had posited."

How is this a bad thing?

The original investigators - as scientists and seekers of the valid, the factual, the accurate - should welcome competing attempts, especially given that such attempts may reveal a faulty original analysis.
That's a very good summary of the issue. Thanks !
Some of these issues are orthogonal.

You're correct that the ring of integers mod n with n composite will have small multiplicative subgroups. But so will the integers mod p with p prime. At the very least, 1 and p-1 will always have orders 1 and 2, respectively. I could be wrong, but I don't think the primality or compositeness of the modulus alone tells you much about the smoothness of the group order.

Small subgroups may not always lead to key recovery, but they can lead to key dictation in certain protocols. So subgroup-confinement attacks are always a consideration in this setting.

If you want to learn more about subgroup-confinement attacks on DH and ECDH, check out set 8 of cryptopals. Mail set8.cryptopals@gmail.com with subject "Crazy Flamboyant for the Rap Enjoyment".
... there is just so much wrong with that editorial
Check Ramses [1][2] + Elastalert [3]. I'll be happy to help.

[1] disclosure: I'm one of the core dev
[2] http://ramses.readthedocs.org
[3] https://elastalert.readthedocs.org
Thanks! But lots of other people have worked really hard on Huginn as well.
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To be fair, Google is in the business of making money on ads. If the customer wants to throw money on a stupid ad buy, then that's not particularly their concern.
Microsoft makes Windows 10 a 'recommended update' for Windows 7 and 8.1 users
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Children playing on the track ahead. Fallen tree across the tracks.

I think we're talking about very different vehicles here. These are avoidable hazards on the road. There is nothing a train driver can do except fill out the necessary paperwork afterwards, and likely spend some time on a therapist's couch.
The backlash is from physician scientists (among others), though. It's not really "medical" vs "non-medical" so much as it is "closed" vs "open", with physician scientists on both sides.
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Sharing the data doesn't get you promoted in academia. Writing papers where you repeatedly mine the hand-crafted-over-20-years dataset does. If you give your dataset away for free, you're destroying your only way to advance in academic medicine.

What we need are alternative funding models for academic medicine. With all the negative press and ethical issues from pharma funding the studies, and the NIH cutting their funding, publish or perish is even more important if you want a sliver of a chance to get some of the remaining grant money.
Sure, as long as you are not utilizing any of the code from the open source project.

Crossing the line is using other people's work and calling it your own, regardless of open/closed source.
This article perfectly describes how it is to watch many sports. I find it even more evident with highly technical sports like badminton, where top players like Lin Dan appear to casually walk around the court when in fact the training required to achieve that level of efficiency, speed, decisiveness and reflex is probably quite unfathomable.
My dad is severely vision impaired and I've come to realize how many challenges he faces using a tablet. Pop-ups and overlays destroy his ability to use the device, and he struggles to get through it all. His heyday has come and gone... the new flat design styles with buttons made of nothing but a subtle grey title are a nightmare for him. I prefer the subtle approach, but my views are changing now that I know how hard it is for him.
iPad Pro outsold Microsoft's entire Surface lineup last quarter
This is an annoying meme. Are concession stands the flagship product of movie theaters?

People use Google for search, email, maps, etc. And that's what the company was built for. If they had a better way to monetize than ads, they would certainly drop ads.
All 10 of the 10 most valuable publicly traded companies are American (multinational) companies. #11 is Chinese and #20 is Swiss [1].

(Not that the largest 4 companies are tech companies, so that explains part of it...)

[1] http://www.dogsofthedow.com/largest-companies-by-market-cap....
> 5. Provide Previous and Next links

Wait! Give them better names. "Older" and "Newer" can be helpful on blogs and such, when it's not clear whether "next" means "more recent" or "deeper into the archive."
>Rocks aren't biodegradable.

I'm sorry, but what?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichen

>When growing on mineral surfaces, some lichens slowly decompose their substrate by chemically degrading and physically disrupting the minerals, contributing to the process of weathering by which rocks are gradually turned into soil. While this contribution to weathering is usually benign, it can cause problems for artificial stone structures. For example, there is an ongoing lichen growth problem on Mount Rushmore National Memorial that requires the employment of mountain-climbing conservators to clean the monument.

and

>The lichen exudates, which have powerful chelating capacity, the widespread occurrence of mineral neoformation, particularly metal oxalates, together with the characteristics of weathered substrates, all confirm the significance of lichens as chemical weathering agents.[96]

It's believed lichen may be as old as 2.7 billion years, so they may have beat out every other form of biodegradation by a good margin.
(documentary narrator voice:)

"Expelled to the desolate periphery yet in the irrevocable embrace of the dura mater, the cortex directs its entire energy into the fractal dimension."
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I think it's determined by resolution and number of iterations.

I wrote a quick JS vesrion using the provided formulas: http://bl.ocks.org/gunn/87401cb547cc2ee5b5ec
Google to Take Top-To-Bottom “Apple-Like” Control Over Nexus Line
No, theres a huge difference.

Security through obscurity means that if the details of the algorithm are known then your secrets are no longer secret. It relys on keeping the encyption method itself secret.

Compare with most good encryption methods, if you know which algorithm was used to encrypt my hard drive you cant use that information to decrypt it. The algorithm is published and the enemy knows the system but the system is still secure.
That's quite plausible, but they have a $319B market cap today, so current shareholders would see their stock flatline over those 5-10 years.
"Also, the silly space-at-the-end for line breaks."

I thought it was two spaces at end of line for a line break. Or did the one-space-at-end-of-line argument win?[1]

[1] http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/40976/what-is-the-re...
Assuming you're correct, that means the whole market for google's primary revenue source took a century to bring in what Apple makes in 2 years.

Really goes to show how much the market works on the 2nd derivative, and how that can result in immensely disproportionate market caps relative to a company's profitability.

If I were Apple I would think about seriously ramping up the stock buyback at this point. If they keep it up long enough they could even take themselves private one day.
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Yes, medical data is expensive and hard to obtain. But that's not (at least in the direct sense) the reason why so many medical researchers want to keep the data to themselves.

The actual reason is that there is a whole cottage industry based on trading access to data for paper co-authorship. If the researchers were to share their data openly, the person who comes after them would be able to just cite the data without having to beg the researcher for access while promising him/her a sweet co-authorship spot in return.
This was written 5 years ago FYI. Things look better today with bootstrap and devs copying each other thus a unified UX among websites get crafted
A lot of that sounds good but you lost me at XML.
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SV companies serve carrots and yogurt alongside the chips and candy.
Not sure of the exact figures, but a large portion of computer users never change the options for their programs (nor are they particularly able to).

For these users, sub-optimal settings are permanent, so you want to turn everything on.

This is one of the problems with a single program being shared by several demographics.
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If that was how they made most of their money, yes.
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>>when your entire OS is built from the ground up to be declarative and atomic

entire OS??
I guess, the kernel is still imperative and not declarative.
Thanks for asking. Right now we have no plans to merge it into GitLab CE. Can I ask what your use case is? How many people are using your GitLab installation and how many static sites are you planning?
I spent some time rendering these sorts of attractors back between 1995 and 2004, influenced by Pickover and Sprott...

http://technocosm.org/chaos/gallery.html

Pardon me for not updating the site to modern standards, the html is very late 90s.
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Nearly all of that 'computer knowledge' I learned in the 1980s - DIP switches, IRQ lines, BIOS calls, how to undelete from a FAT16 directory, etc. - is transient knowledge that is about as useful now as learning to start a Model T by hand crank.

So here's a real example of utility. The son of a friend of mine, about 12 years old, uses his iPad to make stop motion animation. He once made a movie on the plane, and totally amazed a seatmate.

Could you or I have made such a thing in the 1980s? No. Well, not without a lot of expensive equipment.

Sure, there's no utility if you define "utility" as being able to understand hardware (or how to rebuild a Model T engine or a carburetor). But it's excellent utility for someone who wants to go into animation. He could be a co-founder of the next Aardman, for all we know.

The vast majority of kids with computers in the 1980s, btw, mostly used it to play games and do school reports.

Compare your experience to the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S in the 1960s and 1970s, who started with their own vacuum tube computer, had a teletype to dial into a PDP-8 until DEC donated one to them, and more. Do you think the kids of 1990 really learned something of utility compared to that?
I got it running with FreeBasic with a few changes: several arrays were not declared (does QB just guess the correct size? Resize them as they are indexed??), and I had to comment out the PLAY commands, which FB doesn't support.

http://pastebin.com/QrnvyVAH

Turns out it runs insanely fast, there's no speed control. It's also really hard to see in a tiny window.
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* > You know what I want as a perk? The company turns off at 5pm.*

That's not in the interest of most companies, so you'll have to start your own if that is what you want.

Nor is it in the interest of anyone with delayed sleep phase. Maybe a more universal form of that perk is "the employee turns off when they leave the office, but can choose their own hours".
I loved Clifford pick over's books as a teenager. Implemented a lot of his ideas as graphics effects on a 486. They're still fresh.

Computers, Pattern, Chaos and Beauty in particular was good, and cover attractors quite a bit.

His website is a monster of 1990's kitsch - Over 50 books.
http://www.pickover.com
One related idea (to do with pagination itself, not just the pagination controls) I’ve had that I’ve never seen actually implemented:

Where showing n elements per page, if the last page would have no more than ε elements in it, merge it with the previous page.

e.g. n = 10, ε = 2, so a data set of 21 elements might go over two pages of 10 and 11 elements rather than three of 10, 10 and 1.

Sure, SQL LIMIT queries and all that, but it’d tend to be nicer for the user.
I was so intrigued with the idea of this, and didn't quite find anything I liked, that I whipped up a javascript version of this for use later. It's minimal at the moment, but it works: https://github.com/jziggas/node-icloud
It all sounds well and good, but Vietnam is really corrupt. I lived there for a few months a few years ago and people pay off the police for pretty much anything.

It's also one of the only communist countries left in the world. There are soviet hammer/sickle posters up all over ho chi min city.

The government can pretty much take over your business whenever they want (and they do). The media (TV/radio/newspapers) are completely state-controlled.

All of these factors spells trouble for anyone with money. Why would I take such a risk?
I generally agree. I happen to know famous conspiracy theorists, people who work in the White House, the Pentagon, the IC and several billionaires.

I forgot who said it recently but the further you get to the top there is less people actually. There is no coordination of interests. I should say David Rockefeller has succeeded in making Balassa's theory of economic integration synonymous with globalization, which to me is a threat to natural rights and classical liberalism. But they are all seem to have good intentions just flawed philosophies.

I also know a variety of super strange things, that as an engineer I could analyze but to me it seems pointless.

I think Elon Musk is right when he says reality seems like a simulation. Conspiracy theories are the least interesting thing in context with certain experiences I have had. Which are largely centered around quantum synchronicity, spontaneity and randomness. But also DMT and a Kabbalistic text known as Sefer Yetzirah.

I am atheist and skeptic but there's something to the fine-structure constant and 1371233. And surely I am not the only one to have discovered this but I have asked people who should know, and they don't seem to.

---

Also, Carol Quigley agreed with you according to Terrence J. Boyle-

>Unfortunately, many people interested in Carroll Quigley take entirely out of context the references he made in his book Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time about a high-level Anglophile conspiracy that, he said, flourished before World War II. It seems that many people believe Quigley thought this vast conspiracy somehow continues to operate right up to our own day.

>But as Dr. Quigley once told me, the reality is much scarier. Instead of a secret cabal now being in charge, there's no one in charge.

http://www.tboyle.net/Catholicism/Carroll_Quigley.html
I studied Software Engineering, and it was an ongoing debate in the school of IT as to whether a University should even teach programming languages.

In Australia we have a clear distinction between Universities, which typically teach the underlying theories and ideas of things like engineering, biochem, etc (the why) and TAFE (Technical and Further Education), which typically teach how to do stuff like welding and being a lab technician (the doing).

It's vary rare that a graduating mechanical engineer can weld, for example, because the University doesn't teach them that.

I personally think programming falls into the category of doing (like welding), but in this case it's difficult to teach the why of computer theory without having done some programming, but it's perfectly easy to teach the physics and math of building a bridge without ever having used a welder.
Not many people open random remote video streaming links in VLC...
>For example, how exactly would you wire the WTC to collapse with nobody noticing?

Now, I don't believe 9/11 was an inside job or anything, but there is actually some strange historical context for this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup_Center#Engineering_c...

>It is reported that LeMessurier agonized over how to deal with the problem. If he made it known publicly, he risked ruining his professional reputation. He approached the architect (Hugh Stubbins) first, and then Citicorp. He advised them to take swift remedial action. Ultimately he persuaded Citicorp to repair the building without informing the public, a task made easier by the press strike at that time.[3]

and

>Because nothing happened as a result of the engineering gaffe, the danger was kept hidden from the public for almost 20 years. It was publicized in a lengthy article in The New Yorker in 1995.[4]
He was being a little hyperbolic there. Which is one of Steve Jobs' tendencies. They had "90 days of working capital" left, but it was still $1.2B and they had annual revenues of $7B in 1997 and pretty much no debt. They had to replace the CEO to restore investor confidence, and Jobs was clearly the best choice, but they could have found a different CEO and muddled through.

It was the worst state the company had been in, but the losses had stopped even before Jobs took over. Not to understate Jobs accomplishments. Just saying a competent CEO could turn Apple from a doghouse company to a profitable company. It took a genius CEO takes a company from the the doghouse to the most valuable in the world.
Precisely why the restructure Google into Alphabet. Market looks for potential earning. And the various moonshot projects is the marketing way of telling the market we're the future. R&D in the open is paying off in this sense for Alphabet/Google. And the market do not see those great potential products brewing in the labs of Apple, Microsoft, IBM etc.
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The actual history of the Illuminati is more interesting than all conspiracy theories. In fact, the Jesuits in the 18th century in Bavaria existed like people think the Illuminati does today. The oppression is what incited Adam Weishaupt to create a rationalist secret society; based on the Jesuit structure and thanks to Baron Knigge, an improvement of the Unknown Superiors of the Strict Observance. A system that was "impeccable" according to some scholars in terms of its metholodgy and logic; nothing to do with mysticism.

The Illuminati was against the occult, mysticism and the Rosicrucians. And the only two musicians ever actually associated with the Illuminati were Beethoven and Mozart (or at least those around them were Illuminatus).
I think both forms of categorization are useful and insightful in their own way. If we restrict ourselves to either one form, we are simply closing our minds and restricting our understanding of the matter. Why can't models be valid and valuable at the same time?
OP here: it's almost exact.

The old network was TokenRing based, and therefore, the more people connected, the bigger the lag for LAN games was. So they wanted an Ethernet one :)
As long as the device is with unlockable bootloader and can sileload apps - let them show how it's done.
Here's a hypothesis: People that use positive reenforcement tend to need positive reenforcement to right themselves and are obviously more susceptible toward tipping over toward depression than individuals who are simply too balanced and happy to even consider it as part of their daily routine. The study is not obvious but rather obviously incorrect with a tainted initial state of subjects leaning toward long term depression. Therapy is a symptom of discontent. This is a case of intellectuals being outsmarted by their own process.

I can't even joke on this forum. Marvin Minsky and Ray Kurzweil thought of humor as a higher form of intelligence so what gives?