skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a slightly different take on AMD these days, in that I don't think they were undervalued, at least not too much, but rather I think they saw the direction the future held and jumped at it, thinking they would be ahead of intel, mostly in their understanding of the merging of cpu and gpu. I simply think they did it a bit too fast and left their other offerings with too little resources, but now that they are using the 14nm and 16nm manufacturing process, Zen is poised to be a much heavier hitter than I think most people understand yet.

So they werent undervalued too much, but they are now, and so I think you are probably correct about more radical upwards corrections.

I am especially excited to see their server cpus with zen. My favorite machine I have ever built is actually an AMD machine, and I built it fairly recently because there are some models in which they excel. (Its a quad opteron 6380 system for a total of 64 cores at 2.5ghz, and I did it for less than 5k$ Something I theorycrafted while in bioinformatics, though I didnt get to buld it until I was no longer in that industry.)

Also, I'll say that I have been looking at building a new system for my gamedev purposes, and I have concluded that I am going to wait for Zen. If they miss the q4 2016 release though they may lose the mindshare momentum they are bulding up.
So perhaps any visual representation of meaning would require shared context to interpret, and would then inevitably become symbolic rather than directly representational.
Payday Lending: Will Anything Better Replace It?
I used to commute an hour for a job on the other side of London. Once you get used to it it's not that bad. My advice is to try and land a job in Melbourne and work that for 3-4 months to save up the money to move there.
It is called a data warehouse. (and/or Business Intelligence) You can have disparate systems that each create their own data... and each datum comes from the system that "owns" that data. But it gets aggregated to a central location, which owns none of it, but pulls it together for reporting and analysis.

There are comments here giving some examples of products intended to help with this, but this is one of those area where the concepts are easy, but execution is challenging. I'd recommend looking less at products, and more at theory to decide how you want to approach it... and then go back and see if any of the products match your decisions.
YESDelft Incubation Program
Looks cool and fun, but what is it used for?
Ah thanks, I missed this one when reading the article. Some other commenter talks about having a coworker with aphantasia but still being able to dream so they may well be a whole spectrum of what people can / cannot visualize.
I don't understand the need to censor parts from the American version. SEGA USA and many other western publishers are still stuck in the 90's. Adults purchase games for themselves now and Videogames are no longer exclusively for teens and kids.

Rockstar identified this and have reaped massive profits. They could've considered shipping a neutered GTA yet they didn't and the latest installment was rated one of the best games in recent times.

The stigma around adult themes in Videogames needs to die out for the industry to evolve beyond what it currently is, I suspect similar reasons affected the cancelled Silent Hills (apart from Konami's stupidity)
I would be curious to see how the HN community scores on this aphantasia survey embedded in the BBC article: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34039054. Perhaps there's a connection between programmers and this condition. Will you take it and report your score?

The survey is oversimplified, obviously, but it was devised by the Exeter neurologists who are studying this. I got the lowest score (8/40) since none of the questions make sense to me (no image on any of them).
I'm sorry to hear that. My SO has MS too and we've never though how it could affect her imagination.
Hitler uses Docker has been my most favorite recent one.

http://youtu.be/PivpCKEiQOQ
> I'm sure that a lot of these conferences had speakers by invitation and that the only people that applied to speak were 'white males'.

How are 'speakers by invitation' and '[people] applied to speak' compatible?
Announcing Apex Software Inc
Network effect.
That he is not literally Hitler is a pretty damning complement.

(CDC? Really?)
Pjuu gets public posts
Yeah, it was a conversation I had on Twitter that I realise was left out of this post, but I was unable to attend due to both my company not being willing to send me and myself not being able to afford it.

It was definitely heartbreaking as I had fully intended on going and had been looking forward to it for a long time.
That's fascinating, was everyone involved in on the deal, or how did they manage to keep that under wraps?
There is a view that good actions only count if there is sacrifice. As he still has 30+ billion the net impact of his giving at a personal level was Zero. Hell, he said several times he did not like being the worlds richest person. So, arguably he may have been acting in a completly selfish fasion.

Consider a Pimp finds out he can londer money and find new girls by setting up a homeless shelter. Is setting up the shelter a good action?
Wikimedia Research list writeup: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2016/Feb...

Discussion on Wikipedia signpost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signp...

tl;dr it's not an intrinsically terrible idea, but you'll be unsurprised to know there is not in fact one weird trick.
You haven't listed all the possible options for obtaining a monopoly, though, including the one Microsoft was convicted of. In addition to creating a better product and by controlling the government, you can also engage in tying, whereby you have a monopoly (perhaps rightfully gained through innovation) and use it to gain a monopoly in another area by forcing customers to buy both together, you can sell at a loss until your competitors go out of business and then raise the price, you can collude with other companies to fix prices, or to only service certain areas or sectors.

Having a monopoly is not illegal, exploiting your position as a monopoly to maintain it is. That is what Microsoft did.
EnterPass – Corporate password management without the cloud
They would be about the criminal activities these gangs would migrate to, like kidnapping, extortion, bank robbery, human trafficking, cargo theft, animal contraband...
I'd watch a crime show (as long as it wasn't CSI based..) about financial crimes... but then I'm a bit weird, I watch bloomberg news for background noise.
First, understand that he did not make a movie. Someone else did.

Second, if someone makes a movie about you, that does not expand your knowledge into wide areas or into depths of world knowledge.

Third, no one individual can become an expert on all things based on knowing other like-minded individuals.

My point was, it seems too many of his worshipers now come to his altar asking for his opinion on all things ... and forgiveness.
I was just pondering Gate's legacy the other day. While I was blowing away another copy of Windows that I paid for but never booted.
> it makes clear exactly what I said

It does make clear what you tried to say. Leaving out keywords makes it hard to have a productive conversation.

> This is not effective advocacy in and way, shape, or form.

Thanks to the EFF, among others, we have access to secret rulings by secret courts, something that shouldn't even exist in this country.

When the court upholds legal precedent and current statutes to allow warrantless querying of indiscriminately collected data by the FBI for ordinary crimes, many concerned citizens and casual observers would like to know about it. Again, more thanks to the EFF.

While it seems to be your focus here and elsewhere on this thread, I'm not interested in debating whether these rulings amount to "news" or "PR" opportunities for the EFF. If you do have alternative sources for info on FISC, its rulings and other legal apparatus involved in trampling Fourth Amendment rights, I'd be glad to check them out.
Then what is the employer paying them for, if not exactly that?
Of course most people will be civil. Its not 'most people' that would be at issue in an apocalypse. In the examples given, the 20,000 soldiers had 'little to do'. In part because the presence of 20,000 soldiers is a calming influence?

Initial looting isn't the only public order issue. Its desperate people when supplies run low, taking what they need to survive from other desperate people.
The logical thing to do is replicate the dataset to the 3 major cloud providers (Amazon, Google and Microsoft) so that anybody can attach their VMs to it with local data access speeds.
Do you think you'll ever learn how to imagine things now that you are aware of the possibility?

I often wonder whether the imagination can be improved like a muscle since I have trouble holding mental image outside brief flashes. I'm not sure if you can relate, but trying to picture something in my mind often feels as though I'm trying to recall the fleeting details of a dream; the harder I try the more foggy it becomes.
Living in the Yukon we sometimes talk about what would happen to most "city folk" if their world fell apart with no supermarket and electricity.

Most of us hunt our own meat, grow our own vegetables, build our own cabins and get our own firewood. Tons of people up here are already living entirely off-grid.

We all agree, our biggest problem would be lack of gasoline to run chainsaws, and none of us really has a solution to that. Cutting firewood by hand would be doable, though it would be a full time job to get enough for the winter. A decent size house will burn through roughly 10 cords in a single winter.
Ah, but detailed analysis like this conflicts with the need for catchy headlines.
As someone without a mind's eye it's hard to imagine how much this "visualization" resembles normal vision. I remember from reading up on this earlier that some people can even superimpose things on an empty sheet of paper, or in the air. That would almost seem like a hallucination to me.

Key quote from the article IMO: "I thought “counting sheep” was a metaphor." I've always thought the same way about daydreaming, only a few years ago did I realize it's actually something more precise than just 'not paying attention'.
Newslines is the guy's startup, aspiring to compete with Wikipedia.
Make+Money+Online+From+A+New+Social+Network
I'd like to. I just don't know how I'd even begin. It's like telling me to start working out my third arm.
> [Fingerprints] are just hard to reproduce.

I think this is the key point. If fingerprints were like public-key authentication mechanisms, they'd be fantastic. If it was mathematically impossible or even just very difficult to fake them just by intercepting previous authentications, that would be incredibly useful.

That's not the case though.

They're easily reproduced in moments using putty[0] or play-doh[1]. Or duplicated using household materials, even from a fingerprint collected from the targeted iOS device itself.[2] Some teams have found difficulty using some of these methods against a MS fingerprint scanner, but still found success using a toy wax kit from Crayola.[3]

But the general point about revocation is this: you should imagine, whenever designing a security system, "what's my fallback when this fails?" Biometrics can fail for lots of reasons, not only due to adversaries.[4] You need to have some idea of how to recover from those failures beyond just insisting that those failures don't happen or are unlikely.

Revocation is a handy fallback in those situations for a lot of systems. It's so common that people probably wrongfully assume it's the only way to recover. Fingerprints can't offer revocation, but they may have other fallbacks. Maybe you have a guard checking photo IDs if a scanner doesn't work for entry to a facility.

Scanners for devices might need to simply fail to require usernames and passwords for some users after they've been compromised. That could still offer convenience for other users, but over time, fewer and fewer users would get that benefit.

Or maybe fingerprints are just not designed to be that secure, and maybe that's ok. Anyone can get through the standard household locks in seconds with about 30 minutes max of research on youtube. They're not perfect security and not intended to be, they just put a small barrier (mostly social) to prevent the most nuisance level entries.[5]

[0] http://www.puttyworld.com/thinputdeffi.html

[1] https://secure.marketwatch.com/story/this-company-hacked-an-...

[2] http://dasalte.ccc.de/biometrie/fingerabdruck_kopieren.en

[3] http://www2.washjeff.edu/users/ahollandminkley/Biometric/ind...

[4] See Yager and Dunstone on the Biometric Menagerie for an interesting classification system for the wide variety of failure cases you have to tune any biometric system against.

[5] If you want more about this philosophy / interpretation of locks and security, or even if you don't, there are fewer better ways to spend an hour than by listening to the brilliant Schuyler Towne at RVAsec on the history and social function of locks and lock-making. No seriously, it's amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nROJz_UNQY

EDIT: moderated my views in the last two paras, sorry for any whiplash.
Nice visualizations. Disturbing information.
In my experience there is usually one or two collection which consume most memory. It is easy to solve 90% cases with a few simple optimalizations.
Do you think that in a situation like that, people would live together in communal buildings to minimize the amount of wood needed during the winter?
Would it be important to make the house more fuel-efficient? Super-insulating might return 10X the sweat investment. Also living in tight quarters - heat half the houses. But I don't see independent Yukonites doing that. (Yukonians? Yukonoids?)
Laws are like locks: they only keep honest people honest.
> Even the 0.09ms in the article is way too much and means a skipped frame.

He wrote 0.09 seconds. In any case, if you're generating megabytes to gigabytes of garbage in a single frame you probably deserve a GC pause.
Here is a pretty comprehensive article on the java garbage collector: https://plumbr.eu/handbook/garbage-collection-in-java that has helped me a lot.

It touches the basic aspects of garbage collecting, and dives into the different kinds of GC available for java at this time.
FWIW, I've got several similar point-to-point microwave links in my network, including the following setup:

h1 - sw1 - ptp1a -/- ptp1z - sw2 - ptp2a -/- ptp2z - sw3 - r1 - h2

h1 : Sun Fire server
sw1 : Cisco 3560G switch
ptp1a : 6 GHz point-to-point microwave transceiver ("A" end)
ptp1z : 6 GHz point-to-point microwave transceiver ("Z" end)
sw2 : Cisco 3560G switch
ptp2a : 6 GHz point-to-point microwave transceiver ("A" end)
ptp2z : 6 GHz point-to-point microwave transceiver ("Z" end)
sw3 : Cisco 3560G switch
r1 : Cisco 3945
h2 : Sun Fire server

All connections are 1 GbE.

ptp1a to ptp1z : 12.80 miles (20.60 km)
ptp2a to ptp2z : 05.01 miles (08.06 km)

From h1 to h2:

--- x.x.x.x ping statistics ---
20 packets transmitted, 20 received, 0% packet loss, time 19305ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.955/0.995/1.157/0.049 ms

Each of the two microwave links are advertised as being capable of 761 Mbps full-duplex.
There were a whole selection of reasons for delay, including repeatedly giving the wrong address to the courier and continuing to use Yodel years after it stopped being funny. You are basically heavily dependent on your location relative to the dispatch warehouse, the courier's depot, whether your driver is overloaded, and whether your driver is a ring-and-run type.
genX here as well. I used to have to drive 1hr 45 / 2.5hrs each way depending on traffic. Always had to plan the journey would take 2.5hrs just incase.

Definitely doable. Kids today huh?
So. What if you disable a drone and it hits someone as it falls?
Its very hard to control garbage. So many operations have unavoidable garbage side effects, especially involving immutable arguments.
On a specific, memory-leaking, use case.
Intel loses thousands of jobs and AMD stock up 52% , it one meaning AMD does the best!
There was a study done a while back that looked at whether people could improve at video games by imagining themselves playing. IIRC the participants who imagined practicing showed a comparable amount of improvement in contrast to those who actually played. Can't find the link unfortunately.
Then it's all out war in the making. Suppose one takes a ride and the driver strikes a conversation about tips and how they're essential and so on. And the passenger doesn't tip. Then the passenger can assume the driver will give him low rating. So in return the passenger will give the driver really low rating.
Yep I was coming here to post something similar. I imagine they are further along than I am assuming. Or maybe they are OK with only being able to protect against a certain percentage of drones out there.
More abstractions! Higher level languages!
Maybe for visuals at a party/rave/festival?
I would have thought remaining in the EU would result in (eventual) greater regulation, and Brexit would make the situation worse (for non-corporations).
Brain Drone Racing – World's First BCI Competition
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Ask HN: What would you do if you could live for a 1000 years?
I am wondering how we would spend our lives if it became significantly longer, like 1000 years long.

Shoot!
For reference, sambeau linked to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_water_on_Earth - and specifically asked about more info on that. I know it was meant as a snarky comment, but yes, we're talking different article here.
Why the Internet of Things Needs Fog Computing?
This "naive reductionism" looks to me like the difference between the way that analysts and algebraists work on problems [1]:

"If I have to wave my hands and explain it, I would explain it like this. In algebra there are sequences of operations which have proven to be important and effective in one circumstance. Algebraists try to reuse these operations in different contexts in the hopes that what proved effective in one situation will be effective again. By contrast an analyst is likely to form an idiosyncratic mental model of specific problems. Based on that mental model you have intuitions that let you carry out long chains of calculations that are, in principle, obviously going to lead to the right thing. Typically your intuition is correct to within a constant factor, and you're only interested in some sort of limiting behavior so that is fine."

How else is a person supposed to intelligently explore the solution space of a problem other than through some kind of "naive reductionism"?

[1] http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2010/08/analysis-vs-algebra-pre...
Для многонационалов.

If you understand what I'm getting at.
>Because my aunt stopped beating his child

It's beyond ridiculous to compare anything that Gates did to physical violence. He had a few vicious, harmful business tactics. His overall benefit to society, especially if you include his philanthropic work, is likely beyond what most people here will ever achieve.
V8 Release 5.1
I don't know what these guys are using, but I searched and found an article I remembered from DIY Drones last year.

http://madhacker.org/how-to-hijack-a-drone-by-telemetry-and-...
Tu quoque?
Plan9's Venti file storage system is content addressable.

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/venti/venti.html

Also available on *nix
The resemblance is no coincidence. The difference between the mind's eye and hallucination is awareness and control. Pathology is the experience of having a normally functional system backfire against you in some way.
- Intel plateaued, no significant user-appreciated progress in the past 5+ years

- problems with scalable 10nm, 14nm might be the next 28nm for a while and all manufacturers will catch up, obliterating Intel's major advantage

- Zen might be sufficiently competitive with older Core chips on performance, power and price, better on GPU side (hopefully not another Barcelona)

- all major consoles run on AMD

- Polaris vs Pascal

- they might survive until 2017 and have cash to produce new chips
When I think of "Apocalypse" I'm thinking something a little more permanent than an earthquake. As long as there's an end in sight (i.e., it will eventually be going back to normal) people are going to act a lot differently. It's when it truly looks hopeless that I'd expect to see the movie style looting and violence.
Elixir Koans
Interview with Scott Aaronson
I gave a link above.

Anyway, skipping the third hop would decrease user anonymity, because you'd only need two relays to cooperate to identify the user and who they're connecting to. Regular tor requires all three to cooperate.

The proposal uses a rendezvous point instead of an exit node, but that shouldn't affect speed as far as I see.
I was going to say for people who are going to lengths like kernel bypass networking to get these trades out faster I wouldn't be surprised if the key stuff is in assembly.
All b) really does is start the loop over again at the initialization step.
Doom as a tool for system administration (1999)
>I'm 100% sure that MS (and Gates) actually took that money out of our pockets.

So, Microsoft, which was headed by Ballmer at the time (Gates already years into retirement from operations), took a contract from your corrupt government, that might have broken a law (never proven)...and Bill Gates is to blame?

You have a lot of misplaced anger.
And its follow-up:

https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/after.html
The Heart of Deterrence (2012)
Considering that Wirth's latest Oberup update took features away, I'm not sure whether he and Pike et al. would really agree about that... But yeah, it's an interesting language in that family, although I'd still much rather have a modern Modula-3 system...
Insulation is already big up here. Keep in mind when I say winter, I mean November->March where the high for the day won't be more than -35C, and the low is -40C.

Many Yukoners would have to band together. Newer homes in downtown are electric heat only, they always start to really worry when the power is out for more than a couple of hours in winter (happens all the time)
Forget the coworkers. I plan to use this on my students!

I mean this in all seriousness. It would be a great lesson in encodings if the entire class struggled through a lab for ~20 minutes trying to debug the code.

Is it mean? Maybe, but that interpretation depends on your perspective. Would it actually serve a highly useful purpose in teaching a lesson better than my lecture ever could? Absolutely.
City folk here. I may not fit your mold because I grew up on a dirt road in rural Maine, but I think you might find the Yukon got a whole lot more crowded. I can do all those things too, just not here. I'd make my way north. I can't imagine I'd be the only one.
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That being said, I do consider contemporary English to be technically superior to Italian in almost all respects. It's easier, more flexible, more expressive, more concise, and more complete. The only exception would be its utter, inexcusable, almost criminal, irregular spelling.

For German I consider it exactly the other way round. German is much more exact: Long compound substantives are very easy to express in German but difficult in English (in this sense I consider German as more expressive and concise). The grammar in German might be ugly and unforgiving (it really could be simplified - just my opinion) but makes it much more complicated to express sentences that can be misunderstood. English might be easy to learn at the beginning, but becoming really good in English takes a horrible amount of time. For example it is in my opinion much easier to become good in French than in English. Additionally there is no really "standard English" as there is in French or in German (Hochdeutsch). What is actually the authoritative ressource for English to clear up what spelling, punctuation etc. really is the correct one?