skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But measuring performance with timing a "hello world" program? Seriously? What scenario does the author have in mind that makes this particular benchmark even remotely relevant?

If Julia is to replace Python in scientific computing, people will want to use it for short plotting scripts. Startup time matters there. That hello world is so slow is already telling. A plotting script needs tens of seconds just to load the Julia libraries.
Design of a superluminal ring laser gyroscope
>There is a view of Texas collectively as a largely backward state filled with trigger-happy cowboys and whatnot. That might be true. However, there is much more to the state than just that.

It doesn't help that Texas plays up the wild west stereotype as much as it can to the rest of the country and the world, nor does it help that Texas' government panders to secessionists and lunatics, such as the Jade Helm conspiracists, and pretends moderates, liberals and Democrats really don't exist in the state outside of the holding pen of Austin. Texas likes to pretend it's only part of the United States as a half-hearted favor, at least whenever a Democrat is in the White House, but it won't say no to agricultural subsidies or disaster money from the government, even when it has plenty of cash on hand to cover itself.

Personally, as a Texan who loves Texas, I kind of wish Texas would get over its bullshit. If I never see another Texas political ad filmed in front of a barbed wire fence and a haybale it will be too soon.
The quest and questions regarding the development of AI
and so I imagine that those who stand for the lives of unborn children have a different definition of freedom than you.

political discussions on HN always go so well.

edit: sorry for the smart ass comment. political reductionism pisses me off.
you can also use Excel services architecture: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ms582023.asp...
If you see somebody you would like to talk to, shoot them an email or call them on the phone.

For instance if a professor wrote a paper about topic X, look them up in the university directory and call them up, odds are pretty good they are in the office, then say you read this paper and thought it was interesting and you have this question and probably you will get an answer.

It really is that simple.
Glad to learn Nitrokey has ECC support, even if only 256 bits.
> “There is too much noise. There are too many flags popping up. What the heck is going on there?” Thorpe says.

So the reason to to invest more is because of the 'noise' and the 'flags popping up'. Not because the company has consistently failed to meet any of its ambitions?
Apple just invested $1bn in Didi, China’s Uber rival
Well considering 40% of Texas is hispanic, including myself, it's not really about the color of your skin. That incident was because syrian refugees cause a lot of trouble all over Europe and we don't want them here.
It's easy to see why Texans think their way of life is under attack -- you literally can't even begin to count how many guns Obama has taken away from Americans
For apple to apple comparison Green House Gases values are converted to CO2e (CO2 equivalent). This was a standard practice when I was in the industry. The article it self does not mention it, But I am pretty sure the graphs have CO2e values not CO2.
Perhaps one of the more interesting things in this article was the depiction of Haumea [0]. I had no clue planets could have an elliptical shape. Pretty cool. Apparently it hasn't been directly observed, but it's shape has been calculated from its "light curve".

[0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haumea)
See the other comments below. Deep in the Heart of Texas. Once you hear it though, you'll instantly recognize it. YouTube it.
At some point every piece of technology that we use was impossible. It's very easy to sit on the hilltop and say "it's not possible". What's not easy is climbing the hill anyways and figuring out a way to make the impossible happen.

I'm not here to defend this company. I don't know a thing about them or their technology. I'm just saying... "what kind of world would we live in if we never looked past what we thought was possible?"

EDIT: I think that a few of you have missed an important piece of this post, so once again...

I'm not here to defend this company. I don't know a thing about them or their technology.
PGP encrypted messages for Keybase users in our chat rooms
I think getting the data isn't hard, but qualifying the data is. (i.e. who is a good lead)

Right now I am looking at a spreadsheet of about 5,000 leads and it is one of about 4 I am about to feed into a machine learning model.

The state of the art is such that you ought to be able to build a good classifier with that much data, but most people won't seem to do the work. I am hungry as hell though, so I will.

One thing I know is that a relevance model is not good enough, you also need an irrelevance model.
>Weather in Texas is atrocious though.

Crickets.
Crickets are their own season.
People don't even know.
Note that the history of the WebKit/KHTML user agents is more complex than the article indicates.
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Yes it's a common troupe, like in portland or seattle, that Austinites don't want more people, especially Californians, migrating in.

But come one come all! We have plenty of space and opportunities.
I don't think so. I think by virtue of having a GC language you pretty much have to manually anchor pointers before calling code which knows nothing of the GC.

But if anyone knows of counter examples, I would be interested in them as well.
Warren Buffett Bidding for Yahoo Assets with Quicken Loans Founder
Dark money: London’s dirty secret – FT.com
The app is reasonably simple, except of course it's a little more involved than a to-do list from the get go since you have to maintain user's accounts, assigned tasks with mutable states, transaction history etc etc.
But yea no rocket science.

Banking integration for this flow would be reasonably involved though. To get set up with a merchant account to take the funds is reasonably simple although you'd have to figure out how the payers tie their payment instruments to your system so you can actually charge them and then develop the functionality to drive that (more dev work). OK.

So now you have the funds that you need to be able to move to recipient's accounts. THIS is where the fun begins.

Provided that you have the registration flow for the recipients in place (which means more dev work but anyway) now you have to be able to disperse the funds to their accounts, track payment statuses, reconcile data across multiple sources so you are aware of the current state of the payment etc etc ad nauseam.

And if you're touching a credit card number don't forget about PCI compliance :)
>That incident was because syrian refugees cause a lot of trouble all over Europe and we don't want them here.

You don't want them here. Don't presume to speak for the rest of the state.
What will matter is to see if they seriously tried to address the technical problems or were just collecting investors money.
Looking at their demo video makes me very skeptical. It's basic science that all sound waves including ultrasound carry energy. Producing a voltage into a high impedance and wow'ing a tech journalist seems very decptive to me. Using basic science to trick the uninformed. [0]
And same with Theranos, it's very suspicious that they have published nothing and produced nothing. After years and millions of dollars.
If someone gets their product 99% done, but the market doesn't buy it, thats a business failure. If someone raises millions by lifting a piece of metal with an electromagnet and promises to make maglev cars, that's a con job.
The Theranos R&D man also quit and told his wife that none of the techonology worked. Very bad sign.
[0] http://allthingsd.com/20110618/how-to-charge-your-iphone-ove...
I'm sure I'm not the only person who works in an environment where there are many thousands of Linux and Unix boxes, and they are all configured to use LDAP for /etc/passwd, /etc/group, etc. If a program uses NSS, it will just work; if it tries to read /etc/passwd for itself, it won't find most of the users (including likely the user it is running as).

One solution might be if the statically-linked program included an nscd client, since most people using NSS+LDAP will be using nscd for caching.
The difference comes from experience with banks versus experience with credit cards. These are very different in terms of implementation. Companies like Stripe initially focused entirely on inserting themselves into the Credit Card ecosystem.

Banks are inherently slower to innovate and process because they are financially motivated to hold your money and collect interest by being slow. If you want to move money fast between banks, you will pay for that right with high transaction costs.

Credit card companies, on the flip slide, are incentivized to go faster because they make money through transaction volume. They want you to use the credit card more often so they can collect tiny fees on every transaction.

Payment companies typically focus on the credit cards first since frankly they are way easier to work with. They want to move money and they are happy to help with that process.
One last thing -- erlang runs bind once when it starts. Why does it need to listen on a TCP socket to run hello world?

My first thought: "So this guy is investigating Erlang with strace, but he couldn't be bothered to Google articles on its design!?" Then I tried Googling this myself. Uh, yeah. I happen to know this stuff, even though I don't use Erlang, but it's not exactly easy to find packaged conveniently in one place.
Piles of dead unicorns aren't expected this year, report says
>> I had no clue planets could have an elliptical shape.

They can't, as one of the defining characteristics of a planet is having enough mass to be rounded under it's own gravity. Dwarf planets have no such restriction.
It's physically impossible, different from extraordinary difficult.
So... post-facto crowd-sourced due diligence?
1. What about NSA and some of their efforts revealed via Snowden's leaks? No one knew for years and many companies were prevented from releasing information via the secret gag orders.

2. FBI refuses to reveal their methods of breaking into the iPhone.

3. What about the Lavasoft case?

4. The secret FISA courts and the Patriot Act?

USA is just smarter at hiding and concealing this stuff.

As for your #3, the recent Allwinner backdoor reveal does show that sometime it takes a while before someone finds the backdoor and open source doesn't prevent it.
To be fair, not meeting any of its ambitions is probably one of the biggest flags popping up...
But in a lot of cases, it is. I prefer a high-functioning communicator with decent programming skills over a top-notch programmer who can't communicate.
This information from my landlord is written into my lease agreement on my home. Every month I use his routing and account number to pay rent. I cringed when I read about ACH fraud.
It's been a little while since I've seen this, is there still much active development? Github doesn't show many recent commits.
No, not really. 60 years ago people thought building 14nm transistors was possible. They had no idea how to do it but that's a very different argument.

It's one thing to say your building a cheap 40% efficient solar cell, it's another thing to say your 10x the energy of current designs because light simply does not have that much energy.
Although I agree with you that it's in some ways amazing that we can, e.g. spot planets in solar systems hundreds of light-years away and still have discoveries like this one in our own 'backyard', I'd say that the intricacies of spacetime is a rather different issue which is not correlated with our lack of understanding of our own cosmic backyard, except for the fact that both are 'astrophysical' phenomena (spacetime is more GR, but bear with me).

What I mean is that the intricacies of spacetime is something that can be mathematically formulated, tested, and 'known' in a whole different way than how many objects reside in our solar system. It's kind of analogous to saying that not knowing how many species there are on earth means we don't understand how natural selection works.
Yeah, but non-Texans didn't standup in front of their school in 4th grade with a cowboy hat and red bandana and sing the shit out of that song. We practiced for weeks.
I kind of feel relieved that I'll probably be dead before this kind of thing irrevocably destroys the relative equality of the human race.
They can come directly from Apple like that. We get our chargers straight from Apple's Carlisle, Pennsylvania warehouse and they come in a zip-lock bag. It could still be counterfeit, but just because it comes in a plastic bag does not mean that it is.
Can't we all live lives like that?

[sent from my Mother Russia via a Thinkpad, while drunk slightly]
Excellent point about reciprocity! Children should be encouraged to do good thinks (incl. acts of service) for each other not for payment, but for the sake of the relationship itself.
For now, we don't have to but that is in the balance right now. Apple hasn't won in both fights against FBI, the cases were dropped because FBI found a working method to break into the devices. That's just the FBI, the NSA has been doing worse and we don't even know what other agencies have done.

Recall the Lavasoft case, they were forced to shut down because they refuse to give up their encryption keys or build in a backdoor.
Why focusing so early on a human target?

Animals and plants physiology is still capable of doing things we're not nearly capable of reproducing in laboratory. Plants and insects production are still used in pharmacology so it seems to me there would be a huge commercial potential for plant and animal organisms made from scratch, just as there is currently for organisms just barely modified.

The human case will always be made difficult by ethicists and other party poopers, anyway.
> political discussions on HN always go so well.

It's a good idea to hit the 'flag' link on them.
I read code a couple of times and did Nand2Tetris. I also found the edX 6.004 mit course[1] to be extremely useful to fill in some of the gaps. I'm waiting for part three to start in a couple of weeks.

[1]: https://www.edx.org/course/computation-structures-part-1-dig...
So, to lay it all out there:

In the beginning, there was multirust. This was a bash script, or rather, a set of them, I guess. It didn't really work on Windows, though, being a bash script.

Then came multirust-rs. We already have a programming language that we like to write that supports the platforms Rust supports: Rust! So, port multirust to Rust.

Then, it was decided that mutlirust-rs would be the right path to move forward generally, so a plan was formed to figure out just exactly how we'd want such a tool to truly work, rather than just copying what multirust did, and so this became rustup.
I started laughing then remembered that I live in the US for the last 5 years and started crying instead.
Rapid content based image retrieval with Faster-RCNN Autoencoder
Earth is elliptical - an oblate spheroid - so I would say they can.
At least the lunch looked pretty good
I started programming in PHP circa 2001 because it was much more deployable than other languages.

(i.e. in the early 2000's you saw software reuse in the sense that there were apps like Wordpress and Drupal based on PHP, whereas in Java you had frameworks like Spring. My theory was if you wanted to create something impactful, PHP was the place to be.)

I wound up developing systems circa 2008 that were no longer appropriate for PHP, that is, most of these had a huge configuration base that had to be loaded each time you viewed a page, at the time I realized Java performance-wise would have been the right idea, but I had a big investment in PHP.

Around the time I had a day job programming C# then I got paid for two years to build Java systems on other people's account and it helped me get up to speed on Maven, Spring and all that jazz.

Frankly I don't know if anybody wants to build new PHP systems in 2016, but there has got to be an unlimited number of legacy systems that people want to keep alive and will never find the courage to shoot behind the woodshed.
Determining artifact date and culture from images
> But in a lot of cases, it is. I prefer a high-functioning communicator with decent programming skills over a top-notch programmer who can't communicate.

I would suspect that the specific subset of communication skills tested implicitly in a system biased toward people's drive and ability to successfully cold-email potential employers is generally neither the same subset of communication skills that are important in actual work of technical staff in most development teams nor a subset which serves as a good proxy for those.

But I could be wrong.
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Almost, if they spin they will bulge in the center.
Often the policies ignore basic differences in expressed values. UBI is cast as a change to improve their lives. The problem is that we're talking about populations whose political memories can be neatly summarized as "Someone promised to improve my life with a policy, then things got worse".

At the core of it, they don't trust you. Nothing you can say matters after that.
Oh, derp. Thanks for catching that. I'm not able to edit the original comment for some reason though.
Generally, they don't. word2vec and GloVe, the two most popular word vector models in the circles I run with, don't have any solution to this at all. As a result, when you do two dimensional visualizations of these vector spaces, words with multiple commonly used senses get positions in the middle of nowhere.

In many situations, the downstream models that depend on these word vectors manage to perform well anyway, so for simplicity, we just live with this limitation.

That said, there has been work on handling polysemy (the property of one word having multiple meanings) in word vector models. The simplest method I've heard of it is to do the word sense disambiguation out of band and then tag some kind of identifier onto the end of each word before you start training your word vector model.

As an example, you could run a part of speech tagger and then tag the part of speech onto the end of the word. So in the above example, we'd get "fork_verb" and "fork_noun". Part of speech doesn't fully disambiguate a word, so this only gets you part of the way there, but at least it's easy.

You can do something similar with named entities. You can replace the two words "Larry" and "Page", which the model would learn very generic vectors for with "Larry_Page" or "EntityID_192318" or whatever.

There has also been work in automatically detecting different senses of a word. I've got at least one paper[1] in my notes that talks about this kind of thing. It does k-means clustering on the contexts that a particular word appears in, and learns a different representation for each cluster.

[1] - Eric H. Huang , Richard Socher , Christopher D. Manning , Andrew Y. Ng, Improving word representations via global context and multiple word prototypes, Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Long Papers, July 08-14, 2012, Jeju Island, Korea
Yup. Some things (not all) are impossible in a literal sense.

Want to extract 2 kW / m^2 from solar radiation somewhere near the Earth? Won't work, the Sun doesn't pump out that kind of power density (the max is 1.whatever kW). Literally impossible.
> about the contents of a photograph or piece of art

That often happens because of copyrights.
We merged it.
Your study is almost 10 years old.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/americas...

Combined with immigration greatly reduced, and the US fertility rate below replacement rate (1.88 births/woman), we're on a shallow population decline, not a rise.
So... ChoreMonster but with cash?
Google trends and the job market say otherwise. React still has a long way to go to match jQuery. Plus it's just a view layer, hardly something compelling.
The one thing that I find missing in Nitrokey is that none of their regular keys support U2F alongside other 2FA methods, like Yubikey does. You need the separate U2F device for that, and I don't want to carry around multiple tokens if at all possible.
This "security" company's website does not even support HTTPS: https://www.mydataangel.com/
What are you talking about? It's based on IQ, which is a statistical measure of intelligence, normalized to fit a normal distribution. Every 15 IQ points represents exactly 1 standard deviation. Meaning more intelligent than some percentage of humans alive.

So a 1,000 IQ would mean that the probability someone had been naturally born before of equal or greater intelligence would be more than 1 in a trillion trillion trillion...

This is possible because genes are mixed up randomly every generation. The probability of getting the exact optimal combination of genes, out of a thousand genes which affect intelligence, is like flipping a coin and getting heads a thousand times in a row. It will never happen unless you intelligently select every gene artificially, intentionally place every coin down on heads.
And then Microsoft built Edge and tries to be Chrome too with UA as
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.10136
But we can't give tens of millions to everyone with a half baked idea and not press them for any tangible results after years of effort?
It seems like they concentrated on the easy stuff (design, app, marketing), and ignored the hard stuff (banking). You need to do the opposite. Work out what is hard, get that started asap. Visit it every single day. When you are blocked and waiting, then you do the easy stuff.
> syrian refugees cause a lot of trouble all over Europe

Not really. Doubtless a few have, but most of them are regular people who have lost everything trying to escape from a war zone.
Of all the states, I could see Texas leaving the Union. It gets talked about in any number of states, but the only one I could realistically see doing it is them. On friendly terms, too.
The hardest part to scale are the shared services, particularly the fileserver, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/1/

For the RoR application servers we can (and did) just spin up more machines https://about.gitlab.com/2016/04/29/look-into-gitlab-infrast...
The Danger of the Universal Basic Income
I wish they'd extend that to requiring journalists to disclose which PR agent convinced them to write a submarine for their company.
I'm no physicist, but I think that while it may be theoretically possible to distribute power wirelessly doing so in practice seems like it will be necessarily dangerous so as to be impractical. To quote a previous comment I made on HN:

To distribute sound over long distances 'wirelessly' you need to make it loud. That typically means cranking up the power. And ultrasound can be harmful at high power [1].
[1]
"Occupational exposure to ultrasound in excess of 120 dB may lead to hearing loss. Exposure in excess of 155 dB may produce heating effects that are harmful to the human body..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasound

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10352177
Generally you double an engineer's salary to arrive at the total cost to the firm of retaining their services. So that's 5 engineers for a year. This article puts a final estimate at 2.7x:

http://web.mit.edu/e-club/hadzima/how-much-does-an-employee-...

You also need to realize just how new and unproven Lean Startup ideas are in the larger context of business. In that world, a million is just getting started. Most software products in the world took much much more than a million dollars to make. You have to pay the project managers, creative team, etc etc.