skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NN is (was) also used in neapolitan comedy, derived from earlier use throughout the Roman Empire and Middle Age.
The "figlio di NN", or "son of NN" means someone who was found and adopted (typically by nuns) and whose parents were unknown.

NN can be used in general for people whose origin is uncertain. I think in this specific case it's a bit misleading - although the wikipedia article seems to suggest that NN can also be used as a synonym for "unknown", although from a historical perspective it is a bit incorrect.

The literal translation from Latin creates some confusion if you didn't know the context.

I hope this helps.
"This is going to make me sound like a ranting old curmudgeon, but I am having a hard time thinking of much that's an improvement in modern games except for art style/graphical limitations."

Matchmaking made it a lot easier for people to play pickup games over joining servers. Even though I too hate the lack of dedicated servers.

The blending of cinematics with gameplay like in mass effect 2 and Tranformers Fall of cybertron. You need to play those games to understand. In ye old days we'd play a level and get rewarded with a cutscene, in Mass effect 2/Transformers the 'cinematic' is merged with the set-piece level design so that you are "in" the movie. God of war series for PS2 is another one. Also Ace combat 5. Street fighter 4. Shadow complex.

There are definitely a few standouts in modern gaming. You should pick up Magicka, Wizard wars and awesomenauts on steam.
why plan9 hasn't come up yet?
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No. That is not what happened. They were genuinely bad moves.
Sarcasm detection level: final boss.
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Exactly - the watts comparison is a bad one. Stockfish running on an iPhone (~5 watts?) can play world class chess.
The idea for cluster support has so far been to implement connectors for resource managers like SLURM, and basically keeping scipipe as an orchestrator.

That is, for multi-node jobs. As long as you can stay within the 16-32 or so cores on a typical HPC node (in our cluster at least), scipipe should be great for that. I think some means of simple resource management (to not overstress these 16-32 cores) is needed, but that can be done in a simple way by e.g. using a central go-routine that lends out "the right to use a cpu core" on demand.

Thanks for interesting feedback. I will think about this!
Yes, it was Jackie! I guess you saw something on Nextdoor or Craiglist or Facebook.

Sometimes in SF there are boston terrier meetup. They are great.
Aside from the ability to pinpoint a location, this just returns us to where we were in the 80s.

Any fool with a scanner could listen in on police, fire, the neigbour's cellphone before GSM, their wireless landline phone, and any number of other things. Almost no one cared. Anyone who did was a tinfoil wearing nutcase.

So whilst I can hope, I doubt much will change. Not enough for things like Signal to become mainstream, or for there to be general pushback against privacy invasion. Now if a few politicians get outed in the inconsistency of their public/private beliefs or an affair or three, perhaps. Though they will probably demand a new phone network for public figures only, with secure encryption and vast cost. :)
Kefka is the worst, but he's also a great villain from a time where it felt like most villains were sort of generic and one-dimensional.
Not for much longer... they've discontinued support for certain platforms.

http://mashable.com/2016/02/28/whatsapp-blackberry-discontin...

Still widely available, but ...
Yep, but this adds complexity and fear of maintenance problems, depending on how "close to the core" the library is.
There is also a registry fix that I came across recently.. even simpler.
H + M or Zara. Cheap as hell and good quality.
Right now a Jolla phone (with Sailfish OS and Android compatibility) is a readily available handheld native Linux computer. It even comes with a terminal application! Since it runs a variant of openSUSE, there's a whole lot of other software that'll run without problems - emacs, midnight commander, wget, etc.

Add a bluetooth keyboard - one day, perhaps even a TextBlade (https://waytools.com/) - and this comprises a serious computing and communications tool.
Exactly.

Moreover there are models for how to handle stabilizing a person who has demonstrate gross negligence with managing their personal finances if they live on public money.

For instance, in the U.S., if you are on disability and mismanage your money, you can be required to have a payee who makes sure that your money is spent first on basic needs (rent, food, and such) and then issues what remains as an allowance.

I think a system like this would need to be in place to handle people who live solely on UBI and mismanage it, but it's clear that doing something like that would be far from unprecedented.
Unlikely. Some of AlphaGo's moves were lousy moves, even for an amateur.
Anonymous money is good for something - for anonymous micro payments for electronic goods - content.

No personal information is involved, so no personal information is leaked.

Payments are minuscule, so the risk of single transaction is very low.
Thanks for the list hint!
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Ooh, more to add to my collection (and hopefully read!).
Thank you very much!
"and 8 hours of work with breaks is optimal."

8 hour of work is 24/3. That is a turn in a factory. It have nothing to do with 'optimal', at least that we are talking optimal for the factory.
and http://matt.might.net/articles/parsing-with-derivatives/
I don't think this comment should be so shouted down. Besides the politeness that typically comes with these events, it does feel strange to congratulate, on top of normal politeness, Se-dol's victory.

And for a game that was thought to be many decades away in terms of computer capabilities, this probably should be a time to think of the possible consequences of AI improvement and take a close look at it.
I guess many people like myself disagree with the use of this seemingly arbitrary category. Maybe it is based on an estimate of total long-term and predicted impact on the immediate environment compared to some threshold? And what probability does it use for future containment leakage?

As far as I can tell, so far the "Level 7" category is useful mainly to cite in this very argument. Surely we can do better, are there at least some individual score factors?
In this case: the width. aka the "mesial-distal" length.
Perhaps my explanation didn't adequately convey the subtlety of this phenomenon.

I am not saying that successful people are all social climbers. I am just saying that successful people naturally attract the support of people who want to learn from and take part in their success, and this greater popularity in turn increases their chances for future success. It's what you might call a virtuous cycle, or a snowball effect.

If you are successful at something, it is perfectly rational to want others to know it.
I'm glad the FSF is finally getting concerned about proprietary AI, but it's going to take a lot more than a single neural network package to get caught up in this arms race.

I wish they had taken the initiative much sooner.
This doesn't surprise me. My youngest is a July baby and was constantly in trouble up to around the age of 11, for being a bit silly and immature. We, as parents, got to realise this and would often say, "If he was in the year below, his behaviour wouldn't be unusual."
And don't forget, the human grows organically from a complex system of DNA that also codes for way more than playing Go! And is able to perform a lot of tasks very efficiently, including cooperating together on open ended activities.
It's another "magic short cut" article. They're like crack to HN. Fun to read; probably not wise to take seriously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2_snSkpULQ
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Both points and time are a factor.
Probably not. Nine games of data is not really that strong of evidence. The algorithm probably gives each player a prior such has assigning one fake loss in order to limit the maximum ranking of players with few games and no losses. This prior is discussed in the paper on the ranking algorithm used here: http://www.remi-coulom.fr/WHR/WHR.pdf
Hi, author here. You're perfectly right, microbenchmarks have flaws. Procedures should be run for different data sizes (as I did years ago) and code should be compiled with different compilers. And of course the method described in the text is designed to deal with large data. Using it for counting bits in 64-bit value would be... not wise. :)

AVX2's speedup over POPCNT is not not big, but seems it's such due to my indolence/stupidity. I've just merged pull request by Simon Lindholm (https://github.com/WojciechMula/sse-popcount/pull/2) with manually unrolled loops and it made the AVX2 code faster 40% than POPCNT.
I read an essay several years ago that suggested working three focused hours a day. But, it suggested slowly increasing the hours worked while keeping the same level of focus, and doing restorative activities in the remaining time. The idea was that this would "triple" productivity.
While everyone's busy blaming Netflix, the reality is they're just covering their own asses, complying with the content laws of the jurisdictions in which they're operating.
'Exponential' may be a bit of a stretch, but world population does appear to be growing rapidly. We've grown from 3 billion people in 1960 to 7 billion people in 2012, I'd consider that to be fairly rapid:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=human+population+growth&prm...
I dislike Kim Kardashian (who is mentioned in the article along with Bieber), but contrast her to previous sex symbols: rather than have someone else make money from her sexuality, she's created and distributed her own porn, made a bunch of money doing it, and used it to become a pop culture figure without any obvious talents asides from self promotion.

I dislike Bieber too, but he was a Canadian kid with a giant guitar on YouTube who could really sing. The ability to become well known without agents / labels at the beginning of his career means now he has them he's probably taking more home than he would have if they'd been there as a distribution gateway like they were in the 90s.
Considered an icon...of what?
It's both. Fear is a legitimate tool of the democratic process.
Also, not in terms of speed; ad blockers tend to slow down web page rendering especially on pages where there are a lot of ads.
I think the complexity of the problem actually speaks in favour of Varnish. The Unix philosophy of writing software is based on the principle of doing one, possibly small thing very well. And that's exactly what Varnish does: it is a reverse-proxy cache that can optionally do a bit of preprocessing on the incoming HTTP requests.

Besides, it's not trivial to write a high performance HTTP cache.
went dark years ago, never looked back.

"one year something changed - I don't know exactly what" - you matured:)
Gaming site gog.com [1] [2] built a successful business around acquiring rights to game companies' back catalogs and selling them online. (Originally they were Good Old Games, but they've now rebranded to simply "gog.com" and sell new games as well.) HN readers may be interested in the technology (Dosbox) and gog.com's strong anti-DRM stance [3].

From a user's perspective, the work they've done getting games to work on modern systems is alone worth the price of admission -- I must have spent hours [4] tweaking Dosbox configs to try to get my copy of Master of Magic to play music (the game directory that began with a 7-floppy installation in the mid-90s has been copied to every system I've had since then). Buying (another) copy of the game from GOG and getting a Dosbox config that Just Works, was well worth the modest price.

From the publisher's perspective I'm sure it's a win as well -- I could easily believe they gave up on ever realizing any more income from that IP a decade before they were approached by GOG.

[1] https://www.gog.com

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOG.com

[3] https://www.gog.com/support/website_help/what_is_gog_com

[4] The finickiness isn't unique to Dosbox, I remember having to fiddle with the in-game settings for a while running bare-metal on at least one '90s era PC as well.
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Definitely agree that the iron law needs to be relaxed. You can give special voting rights to founders stock to make sure they maintain control of the company, but currently the risk/reward ratio between founders and early employees is way out of whack. Glad to hear investors are keen on this since I think it should make startups stronger.

Equity is a key component of modern compensation with better tax implications and more upside.[1] The “built in the garage” myth needs to die and doesn’t justify 100-1000x payouts when early employees are taking a significant risk too in opportunity cost. The main issue currently is information asymmetry as most early employees don’t see the cap table, don’t realize how much others own, don't understand how little risk most founders take, and don't know how much they are truly giving up in total comp from more established companies.

[1] https://medium.com/the-wtf-economy/what-paul-graham-is-missi...
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yeah, not to belabor it, but if you can do something like be a champion in go or chess, chances are you have the mental skillset to do something exponentially more lucrative.
I would love to check it out, if only your page didn't hang my Firefox. It's really impossible to scroll. Lags are ~10-15s. Hardly even closed the tab. What's going on there? Was it really written with performance in mind? :)
If you do the following:

html {
font-size: 62.5%;
}

You can convert from pixels to rems (or ems) quite easily:

p {
font-size: 1.4rem; // 14px
}

I use rems for stuff that needs to scale with text, ems for line-height and pixels for everything else.
I've wondered this as well.

One of the greatest inequities of today's startup experience is the fact that the vast majority of startup founders are already affluent and are basically immune to risk. UBI would allow people to do entrepreneurship with no risk.

They still wouldn't have all the same business opportunities (because obviously plenty of businesses require actual startup capital just go get going, not just people's time), but I think this would help a lot with smoothing over the inequality of opportunity that results from this.
For example I'd be happy if I could generate structs dynamically, based on string input.

This would mean that we could automatically create true struct-based components with channel fields from the shell like syntax used in the examples in the README (like "echo > {o:foo}" to write to an out-port named "foo"), so that connecting an out-port to an in-port would go like:

Process2.InFoo = Process1.OutFoo

This is not possible with Go's reflection though, so right now, based on these shell like patterns, we can only populate maps (InPorts and OutPorts) of the process, such that the above code example becomes:

Process2.InPorts["foo"] = Process1.OutPorts["foo"]
I agree with the general motivation that having too much AI research in the hands of software companies who keep it proprietary harms transparency and progress. But there is already a lot of neural-network free software, so why another package? For example, these widely used packages are free software, and seemingly more featureful: http://torch.ch/, http://www.deeplearning.net/software/theano/, http://pybrain.org/, https://www.tensorflow.org/, http://leenissen.dk/fann/wp/, http://chainer.org/
Completely anecdotal: Back in 2001 I was in Silicon Valley on a J-1 visa. The company I was working at had three rounds of layoffs within 6 months. Seeing the decaying situation, I went back to Europe to find work there. One of the other interns (French-Moroccan guy) stayed. I had a mediocre career in Germany (though now back in the valley), whereas he went to pre-IPO LinkedIn and then pre-IPO Twitter. I'm pretty sure he did well for himself.

I regret being scared of the bubble popping and going back. The situation now is much healthier than in 2001.
Interesting, didn't know about green threads in haskell (I'm not too familiar with it over all).
2 years in and you haven't launched? You need to launch. Without real feedback how do you know if you are building something people actually want?
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It's more that someone interested in neural networks also wanted to work under the Gnu umbrella. The FSF don't have any resources per se.
I started contract work last fall. I set me rate assuming a 25 hour work week. At first I tried working ~4 hrs / day everyday day. I quickly realized this did not work for me. Working everyday, even just a little is not sustainable for me. I have a family and they are still on the 9 to 5 schedule, so working even a few hours on weekends cut into my family time which is important to me. So now I force myself to take at least one weekend day off with no prgramming. This is hard because I love to program. Also I have a hard cutoff time during the week days at about 5:30pm when my wife and kid get home. I usually feel like I want to keep working but that forces me to stop (at least until my daughter goes to bed). So now I work 5 or 6 days a week but seldom exceed 6 hours/ day. Most days are closer to 4hrs. It's great at this pace because I usually always feel like i want to keep programming so I don't get burnt out. And if I do have an off day I just don't work.

The problem I am running into now is what do I do with my spare time? All my hobbies are computer based (video games and Raspberry Pi projects) but I am trying to minimize my screen time in my off hours. This will get better in the spring and summer as the weather gets better but during winter on the Oregon Coast going outside is hit or miss.

And I hear you about not being able to go to bed until I solve a problem I am stuck on, that drives me crazy.
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> I can't run the software I need in win

How is this Win10 "dicking" with you? ISVs gotta ISV. It's not like your software providers haven't heard the news.
There was a lot of deservedly forgotten popular music from back then too, though. There is every chance that Kardashian will fall into that category.
It isn't fighting a hydra.

The Netflix team is known for using reproducible automation in all their efforts. They have a significant "big data" team that can use and setup automatic classification using hundreds of available data points to classify users who are violating their ToS versus those who aren't. Netflix doesn't do anything that is labor or cost intensive: they have all of this automated.

Even approaching this from a naive set of data points is cheap: It isn't particularly hard to classify IP addresses between cable modem blocks and those for VPS/VPN providers. Geolocation on a country level is relatively reliable. Also it's pretty easy to detect OpenVPN users on layers 2 and 3.:

https://medium.com/@ValdikSS/detecting-vpn-and-its-configura...
You're right, I didn't read your post fairly. Sorry about that.
It's not super hard..

Customer has an address in country X, they're accessing from country X and Y in the same day. Probably block.
> Besides, it's not trivial to write a high performance HTTP cache.

Certainly true.

I guess that for me "beautiful code" invents some abstractions that transform a problem that initially seems dauntingly difficult into something that is easy to reason about. A proxy cache does not, for me, satisfy the first part of this premise, although I can imagine that the details of such a project take a lot of effort (hence "not trivial", but in a different way).
This is some Malcolm Gladwell-level stuff... Damn.
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Why hasn't there been a beautiful XMPP apps created? A company could come in and provide effortless XMPP server setup for a monthly price, and provide great apps for all to use, no?
I still think that FGPA should be thought in the perspective of building an ASIC. And that most ASIC should be thought like Keep It Simple Stupid device that have to handle state machine autonomously.

Encapsulation of the abstraction begins at the HW level.

I really don't like FSM handled by an external system.
I use the original AdBlock for Chrome (not ABP). One of its features that I find indispensable is the ability to sync custom filters, filter lists and settings via Dropbox as I use Chrome on at least 3 different machines. I'd be willing to switch to uBlock Origin if it had a sync feature.
Right, but while parsing is important, it's the least interesting aspect of implementing a compiler. It would be better if more time was spend on starting with an AST and generating code. Then at the end of the course, implement a parser to generate the AST.
Wouldn't this take a warrant?

Sounds like IMSI catchers are being used without warrants.
Be that as it may, eShares has essentially made choosing a home with a short commute impossible.
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or it is a reaction to too much syntax highlighting, overloaded toolbars, endless contextual menus and general sophistication that penetrated every pore of software development.

as one of the comments here quoted:
"syntax highlighting, while aesthetically seductive, moves focus from content to form". Sums up the state of art in IT.
absolutely. He says the musical spectrum runs from Johnny Rotten to Sid Vicious. Two members of the same band. That's an incrediably blinkered view point
I think the idea is to use awareness of GNU and also to focus the attention of people with the skill to contribute on neural-networks.

What I mean is, you're right of course, there's much better neural-network free software already available, but GNU endorsing an official package 1) could get people whose concerns are more strongly geared toward free software ethics to start paying attention to neural networks, and 2) get people, regardless of their ideological commitment to anything, to be more aware both of the ethical issues and of neural-network software--just in virtue of GNU's mild fame.

and of course, unless the maintainer of this package makes weird choices and alienates other projects, there's the other benefit of projects learning from each other and poaching code and strategies for the greater good.
Master of Magic has been on every PC I've owned as well. And gog.com's version was the first thing I installed on my newest Win10 laptop a few months ago: Runs with no problems :)
If you're into that kind of thing you might be pleased to know that Haswell CPUs have "bit manipulation instructions" designed to accelerate the kinds of C expressions you find in Hacker's Delight.
Almost all of the open source software in the area is permissive-licensed, and relies on non-free components (CUDA).

To be honest, I'm not sure how Gneural plans to compete with those packages without support from CUDA or cuDNN, all of which are distinctly not open source.
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In such an environment, malloc() will do that.
Most, not all.

This story is about political money in Silicon Valley. I think it's relevant to a lot of people here on Hacker News, because many of us work for one of these guys.

One effect of cap tables is that when things go well, someone else is typically making a specific multiple of whatever you're making. Say you're an early employee at Company X and you really work hard and ship something great, and that makes Company X more valuable. Your stake in the company has appreciated---but someone else, typically a founder or VC, has made exactly 20x or 50x or 100x as much!

Those people are in a position of power. They have a lot of leverage. If they're using that clout to advance a specific political agenda, maybe you want to know what the agenda is?

What I'm trying to do is show people that political contributions are public records and show people how to search them and make sense of them.