skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=1569#c53

There's been some activity lately, but so far just looks like they're laying groundwork. Dunno where it is in the priority list. The last blocker was supposedly the finalization of the HTML5 module-loader spec, and that came out a couple weeks ago.
Project M: The Shell Concept Car designed for your city
How Facebook plans to take over the world
Someday soon the battle lines will be clearer. Groups professing many different religions, ISIS and Tea Party will face off atheism - the last religious war?

God damn fools.
History tends to distort things. The present is an era. The 1990's is an era. The 1800's is a era. The renaissance is an era. The stone age is an era.

Of course accomplishments per era could decrease when we're judging the last few years against much larger time spans of the past.
In "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" the upside down drawing exercise is suggested and i think the reasoning is that people draw facial features as "symbols", resorting to their own idea of what a nose looks like / how to draw a nose rather than drawing what they see. Drawing upside down stops this. Maybe this is related.
If you aim at a satellite very low over the horizon it would be easier to do disturb your reception with a terrestrial transmitter on the horizon line(?)
Why+YouTube+is+Amazing+For+Marketing
Any chance of this loading the Vampire II stuff?
8/40. Reading this has been a, "Hey! That's me!" moment. I've tried to discuss the whole, "You can't really see things in your mind, right?" thing with people before, but nobody believed me when I said I couldn't.
Ideal HTTP Performance
Oh cool, I didn't know about this!
Crypto algorithms are deterministic, and therefore reversible. Solvers would work with any crypto, it's just that with normal crypto your computer would degrade to dust before they had time to finish. This was breakable because the Salsa algorithm was processing 16 bits instead of 32, which makes the set of possible earlier states astronomically smaller.
Of course it does. It is specifically for those who identify as female, which is inherently promoting a gender binary.

Also: What about them using unpaid volunteers as labor to fund their for-profit enterprise? Is that something you're OK with, or something you want us to ignore?
I can kick (some) things in spacetime.
Strictly speaking birds don't even have a cerebral cortex. That is, cortex evolved in mammals after the split with the last common ancestor of mammals and birds. So in that sense, birds would be at the very back of the ordering, along with reptiles, fish and the other vertebrates that lack a cortex. That said, birds do have a well developed pallium that seems to play a similar role as cortex does in mammals, even though it is structurally quite different. If you let pallium stand in for cortex, crows would probably do okay.

It seems likely that avian pallium performs similar computations as cortex, despite having a different implementation. The more interesting question, in my opinion, is not who has the most neurons of any particular type, but how those cells enact computations. Does the avian pallium have representations that are similar to mammalian cortex. In other words, does it solve problems in similar ways/using similar algorithms as cortex or did its early divergence allow it to find different solutions?
I got 30/40. I can imagine static images with almost unbounded detail visually, but movement is hard, other senses are a lot harder and imagining transitions(like a blue sky becoming stormy) is almost impossible.
You could stop insulting users at any time, and not try to bury criticism of the companies we're talking about.
Even in peak it's just ~800 hits per second - it shows how is irrelevant the C10k problem (yes, I know it's not exactly about hits per second, but still).
As much as it is a broken system, in this case likely no. The actual subscriptions are cost prohibitive pretty much just to individuals and to organizations outside western Academia. The distinction of "western" is only relevant in that from what I recall working with Librarians at my last University job, the publishers do business differently with the US and parts of EU than they do elsewhere in the world.

Rising tuition costs are an issue, but in relation to an academic budget, journal subscriptions will still account for a very small percent of the overall budget, even for relatively small University.

The Publisher/University subscription loop, however, is indeed real and has been covered here before I believe. The short of it is that quite a few publishers are basically held together by taxpayer money in the form of continued library subscriptions. The need for a middleman in these cases is pretty questionable, as the publishers basically just host the content at this point and do no curation or peer review themselves.
> We take measures to mitigate those risks like putting locks on our doors. That does not denote a market failure. Measures taken to mitigate crimes against us surely cannot be considered paying for something you do not use.

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

> In economics, market failure is a situation in which the allocation of goods and services is not efficient. That is, there exists another conceivable outcome where an individual may be made better-off without making someone else worse-off

The store AND the consumers will be better off if a police force stopped the thefts.

This is the very definition of a market failure.
> It's alluring to accept this axiom, but when challenging a platonic view of mathematics, I don't think that we should accept that without discussion.

Not sure I follow. It's not an axiom, but the conclusion of a bit of argument, so it's not accepted without discussion.

If you mean my statement, then yes, I'm going to assume that rocks are real (as almost everyone except maybe Idealists) do, but not assume mathematical objects are real, for the sake of the present debate.
Pillars of job satisfaction: 2 out of 3 ain't bad
The real problem of reddit is the people who think it has a problem.
18 Spectacularly Wrong Prophecies from the First Earth Day
Flagged for being off-topic and insulting.
SRS is cancer
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
How to Download iOS 9.3.2 for Apple Devices
Don't forget the transphobia and non-binary-phobia inherent in the fact this is a company exclusively for females, and how that transphobia and non-binary-phobia is being continued here in the form of comments mentioning it being downvoted and hidden by the moderation staff.
> Certainly the human brain is the most optimized (so far!) for being a human and the elephant's the most optimized for being an elephant.

But... if you put a human brain in an elephant, wouldn't it be "better" at getting food, killing competing elephant bulls, and passing genes around?

I'm not sold on the self-evidence of elephant brains being the best elephants...
Magic-Constraints, Python Magic Type Introspection and Parameter Checking
OP here. The demo is running off of the equivalent of a single K40. We can use 8 K80s to scale to billions of records with the same response time in milliseconds.

And database workloads are often heavily memory bound so the terabytes per second of memory bandwidth you can get on a GPU server can give you a huge speed up, and of course you have the prodigious compute power of the GPUs on tap if needed.
Yup, I. Economics this is called a "two sided market" network
24/40

Poses, colors, and movements of people is very shaky, but I can do landscapes OK. But something about the structure of the questions bothers me... It seems like they are implying that I am observing the image, rather then generating it. Like, "how clearly can you see ____?" means I focus a bit and add it to the image, until I can see it better, but very little of the details asked about pop up unless I think about them, take the information asked for, and intentionally integrate it into the image.
Plus the fact it's an inherently transphobic and non-binary-phobic institution due to its promotion and inclusion of only those who identify as female.

Really, it's just a corrupt organization all around.
Just make the UI use a PC like a real player. It should look at the screen like everyone else.
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Facebook was the victim of a backdoor hack
Really interesting. I wonder how you could use a similar technique to improve your code? Things like code reviews would give you the necessary feedback, but I can't think of a rigorous way to make sure you'd always be on the limit of what you're capable of, pushing a little further with each project.
I can imagine an image in my head (sort of) but I can't not think in words. It's hard for me to even understand what people mean when they say they are thinking but they don't have an internal monologue going on in their head. Brains are weird.
Agreed, looks like a loli site. Bring your waifu and we can talk brony.
For a series of psychological reasons I try to avoid reading 1984.

From what I have read so far, I would say that it's Cryptonomicon. But it's a good future, it's a very sad future. Not as sad as Huxley's or Orwell's but sad enough.
Oh, the original researcher's post was discussed a couple days ago. Sorry, didn't see it on first search.

Go there instead:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11540747
>Wikipedia and HN work very well due to having a few basic rules like that which everyone follows.

Wikipedia is notorious for entrenched and highly partisan volunteer edit staff.
I think the main reason Uber "won" is because starting off with the black cars was a much more effective launch approach. As everyone knows, 2 sided marketplaces are very difficult to build. Uber solved this by stocking one side with a pre-existing, semi-organized group of providers. After hooking all the riders, UberX became much easier.

Coupled with Uber's more aggressive practices.
If you like Orwell's work you should read Koestler. He had a very strong influence to Orwell's work. try "Dark before Noon".
How do artists design fantastical paintings? Often, they can see the entire thing in their minds eye in detail, and then they replicate it on canvas as closely as they can.
... or for those who like humans below 9 years ...
If you are asking "where are these other ones" you probably need to do some market research. There are many many many others that are much more "exactly the same" as this than yours. You can start here: https://www.producthunt.com/tech/down-to-lunch
Deep Learning for Text Summarization
Nope! We need reform
Philosophers of math aren't confused by this. What they are asking is whether "mathematical truth" has any connection with truth. Formalists more or less deny this, Platonists affirm it.

As a side note, correspondence with reality is a contentious definition of truth. It's just one theory of what truth is.

I don't really know what to say about your claims about meaninglessness, except that I think they're false. But I don't even know where to start in arguing that. And while I don't think this is much of an argument, I don't think there are really any philosophers, mathematicians, or logicians who have worked out any theory along those lines.
Right, I don't doubt that some exceptional biological incident can trigger a change... I'm just skeptical of any kind of self-diagnosis that requires metacognitive analysis of one's self. Especially one that, if you're to judge even by the small number of comments on this thread, seems to be wildly prevalent.

And, I mean, you _did_ couch this as a disorder when you made the single-subject case study your proof.
http://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-...
Imzy actually has removed karma for users, precisely for that reason. It's usually something that ends up only being there for people to game and creates more negative consequences than the good it's intended for. You can like/upvote comments and posts, but there aren't downvotes, and how well a post does doesn't reflect on the users in any way.
I want to disagree with you more here, but Polymer really does suck.

I would be interested in a detailed explanation of why websockets are a "dumb hack." Duplex streams much more closely map to what web apps actually need to do than dealing with an HTTP request-response cycle. In what way is streaming a hack and making requests that were originally designed to serve up new pages not a hack?
https://github.com/docker/dockercraft
Everything about your site projects it, which sends the same message. You don't understand that?
Do you know more then one language? I grew up bilingual from a young age, and I suspect that has something to do with the disconnect between ideas and words.

The simplest proof I have for the fact that I don't think in words is that I quite often forget a word, and can't complete a sentence. I know exactly what I want to express and have thought it through in my mind, but I can't tell it to someone else because I don't remember the serialization of that idea, and am forced to try to work around it by describing the word and hoping someone fills it in for me.
There are many apps on my iphone that came bundled with it that I never use.

I'm a bit surprised. Most people in the 90's that I knew who ran Linux either repurposed an old machine to it that would otherwise have been scrap, or assembled a machine from parts. In neither case did they buy a Windows license for it.

I remember an Amazon employee telling me that it was hard to buy a Linux machine without Windows on it. I pointed out that Amazon at the time was selling a Linux machine buyable with "one click".

Anybody could make and sell CPUs without a license from Microsoft. It wasn't hard at all (just buy the components in bulk). Nor was it illegal. The issue was that people wanted to buy Windows machines.
I found that link before, but aren't those all backends?
Agreed, but it seems all those small countries occupied by the British ended up becoming low-tax jurisdictions attracting foreign investments. Cyprus & malta are popular destinations in europe for online businesses and royalties collection.
The ancient Peruvian mystery solved from space
Given that officialchicken has a sense of entitlement so misplaced that even the minimal effort to work around the paywall is more than he feels he "should" provide, it's safe to say the guy is just an asshole and idiot. An asshole, because he expects something for nothing, and an idiot for thinking that attitude has any place in a sustainable ecosystem for solid news.

Harsh language, I know, but if assholes and idiots are the ones who determine what HN readers can and cannot post, it can only end badly for HN as a whole. After all, why would any intelligent person make time for a news board dominated by people who have nothing but contempt for the work of journalism?
Ancient Peruvian Mystery Solved from Space
It seems ridiculous (to me, someone that is superficially aware of the python ecosystem but not a real user) that they haven't tried to find a way to incentivize people to switch with a real carrot. For example: removing the GIL.

Running out the clock on waiting for library support to become mostly python 3 is inevitable, but so far has been slower than molasses.
Does anyone know why he's leaving MIT for UT Austin?
You have a weird definition of “positive”. Where is that coming from? It’s a straw man.
The 1 million in the title is misleading (1M per hour is nothing to write home about, only 278/sec). There are frameworks that are able hit 1M per minute plus (16,666/sec).
Amazes me that reddit launched an iOS/Android app last week... with no way to mute /r/the_donald. It's a toxic experience from the get-go.
SRS is awesome and exactly what’s needed.
While the cost for access to databases is quite high, it probably only a few dollars per student at most.
I think the main reason Uber "won" is because starting off with the black cars was a much more effective launch approach. As everyone knows, 2 sided marketplaces are very difficult to build. Uber solved this by stocking one side with a pre-existing, semi-organized group of providers.

That's a very astute observation.

Anyone have any ideas of other markets(or potential markets) where such an approach could be translated?
SAT solvers can solve logical problems much faster than brute force. They take advantage of heuristics, and they use certain mathematical techniques to rule out parts of the search space and narrow it down significantly.

In general most crypto can't be broken by solvers. The solvers might be faster than brute force, but still take exponential amounts of time to solve it. However if the crypto was designed badly, there can be weaknesses in it that the solvers can find and exploit.

It's basically like those logic puzzles that are sometimes asked to kids. I don't have a specific example handy, but they go like "Fred won't sit next to Bill. Bill wants to sit next to Mary. Mary wants to sit in the same table as Ned..." And then they ask you to find a seating arrangement that satisfies all these constraints.

You can try every possibility, and there are exponentially many as you add more people. But if you are clever, you can realize certain constraints rule out large portions of the search space. Like you know the answer must have Mary in the same table as Ned, so you don't even try any possibilities where that's not true. There are many other clever tricks SAT solvers use to shrink the search space.
I'll give you an "I don't know" back. IMHO the best communities are those that retain bitter rivals. The worst are the ones that have a high churn of beginners parroting received wisdom in an echo chamber without any of the necessary experience.

I love nothing more than when high level participants who have fundamentally irreconcilable differences have explosive but on-topic fights. Even better when they surprise themselves and agree. These are special experiences you can learn so much from.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11526056
C10k doesn't come up with Wikipedia because it doesn't do websockets. If it did it would probably have millions of concurrent connections, far over 10k. I dare say 10k is a bit passe. Whatsapp can apparently do 2m/server.
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>Wikipedia is notorious for entrenched and highly partisan volunteer edit staff.

That's not really my experience. The main problem is newbies coming in and not understanding MEDRS and other policies.

In fact, there should never be an issue with partisan editors because you can always get outside assistance (from admins, or from other editors outside the page in question).

Anyway, that is a separate issue to the civility of discussion.
If you're not running scripts then you are effectively blocking ads even if that wasn't your intent. So your impressions were not generating any direct revenue and were likely not even being measured by analytics and counted as a page view.
If you have a stateless architecture, you should use Google's Preemptive VM. It is cheaper https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms/
It is not a telepathy, it is something else. But yes, I trained myself by staring at girls from their back and noticing how they react, and what I feel, when they react.

This is not a valid experimental procedure, of course. I saw video with experiment which was done properly, but I cannot find it.
MAD is not immoral. There's nothing immoral about preventing nuclear war. I also find it hard to believe that the Soviets, of all people would dare claim the moral high ground.
Of course, that's another good point. Some topics are more inclined to drama and disagreements than others. Put two people in a room and have them talk about politics or religion, and they might well want to kill each other before the hour is up. In cases like those, even a small community will have to deal with different viewpoints and drama. So yeah, point taken. Less serious topics tend to be more civil.

That said, a lot of such topics do sometimes end up drawing their own vicious disagreements and flame wars and drama outbreaks. Just look at sports. Not a topic with a lot of impact real world wise, unless you're participating in it. But various fans of different teams are very much at odds with each other and discussions can easily turn heated. Same with fans of certain fandoms, with My Little Pony, Sonic the Hedgehog, Five Nights at Freddy's and Harry Potter being good examples.

So it's probably based on two sets of axis':

1. The size of the community

2. The 'seriousness' of the topic

A small community about a less important topic will be mostly rather calm. So lesser known games, lesser known sports, less known social activities, etc.

A small community about a 'serious' topic will often be prone to disagreements, though they might turn less toxic.

A large community about a less important subject will be about the same as a smaller community about a more serious one, assuming its fans/participants are not absolutely insane.

A large community about a deeply political/religious/ultra 'serious' topic will probably resemble a war zone.

A large forum based on a fandom with a lot of drama will be fairly similar to a political forum.

And if it's meant to have no rules, is aimed at trolls or certain types of hackers or about a subject which is about fifty thousand miles off one side of the political spectrum, abandon all hope ye who enter here.
I like the storm of Scala.js comments on the article. It's definitely game-changing for the Scala ecosystem. You can run Scala on node.js now, and by extension you can package desktop apps written 100% in Scala.js using Electron.

I'm just starting to fiddle with it, but Scala.js on both the backend and frontend seems like a great combination – lets you use the same language and packages throughout your application, and frees you from the JVM.
Hell, Intel Haswell in Apple hardware (15" rMBP, mid-2015) rips through the battery, even on stock OS X.

I've been at home, on AC power, starting around 9-10% battery, where it tells me 12+ hours until full charge. This laptop is 4 months old, and that scenario was only iTerm and Chrome open... :'(
Hackathon Backlash Inspires More Hackathons
> This rests on the VC assertion that Uber is playing a winner-take-all game.

They certainly seem to be playing a winner-take-all game, by heavily subsidising rides when they first launch in a new city.

But it seems questionable to conclude that taxi services really are a winner-take-all market. Many Uber drivers I see have multiple phones, running multiple taxi apps at the same time. And most people I know have at least two apps in their phone. I usually check three (Uber, an European one, and a local one in my city) before making an order.

There are some network effects to taxi services - customers want a car fast, and drivers want to find fares fast. But there are no switching costs for either side, so these network effects can be distributed over more than one platform.
Rationality is bounded by reality. It might be better if no one had nukes. But, if no one had nukes, what prevents a conventional war from breaking out on the scale of WWII or even larger? Nothing. Nuclear weapons are the greatest creator of peace in history.
I disagree. I think the extreme stance of "safe places" we have today are rather stupid, but I would much rather these people make their own communities and exclude those who are deemed undesirables, than try to take over an existing platform.
I didn't see any comments mentioning self driving cars, which to me suggest a cleaving of uber's marketplace. If all cars were to suddenly become autonomous, uber could be easily bested because their liquidity has become beside the point.
which i find pretty sad. that hurts both the wsj, who would rather be paid for your reading their content, and the creative commons alternatives for your time and attention, because people here are now reading and discussing pirated wsj content rather than genuinely free-as-in-everything writing.