skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much does your ISP charge you? Verizon managed to get $71.48 a month out of me on a connection that had been set up by a technician nearly 10 years prior before I got fed up. A technician visit at that rate would probably eat just 1 month of profit on a connection whose initial installation cost had been paid many times over. The reason that I got fed up was that they kept trying to get more. Nearly all of those years had involved a triple play, for which they had raised rates until they charged ~$162 a month.

Sadly, I was not the one who negotiated with them. Had I been, I would have been fed up well before things became that bad. The $71.48 came after breaking the bundle I favor of an OTA antenna and VoIP. I managed to talk my way out of the ETF by telling a supervisor that the ETF was the same whether I cancelled all services or just 2 and that I was giving Verizon the chance to keep some business, provided that they reduced services to just the Internet connection and waived the ETF. The supervisor waived it.

After breaking the bundle, I took over responsibility for such bills. I am paying Cablevision ~$45 a month now. Bandwidth is lower, but I reason that as long as bandwidth is high enough to deliver traffic with acceptable latencies, being able to burst higher does not matter that much. So far, things have been okay on both pricing and having a usable connection, despite a few initial goofs by Cablevision.
There are 8 high-speed serial links on the front side of that board and probably 8 on the back. That's quite a bit of bandwidth.
I did publish it, but it didn't sell well, because our marketing sucked. I'd give you the source code if you asked for it I think. I don't think it's really worth open sourcing at this point, I doubt there's much interest in it.
8 bit is enough and I suspect it's what the TPU is using: https://petewarden.com/2016/05/03/how-to-quantize-neural-net...
First, let me acknowledge that this is a fair question. A bit cynical, perhaps, but fair.

To answer it, no, not like this. Contract law has a lot of humans in it. You are certainly able to sign some contracts with combinations of clauses that can get you, and I've read horror stories at the mega-corp levels about contract clauses interacting unexpectedly and screwing some party or other. But even in those cases, the way they got screwed was by a collection of individually-sensible clauses.

A computer running a contract is by contrast blitheringly stupid. If you write a logic error into your contract that lets a participant suddenly claim all the contracted value by simply, say, sending a bid of 0 as many times as there are participants or something, there's nobody and nothing that will prevent that. If you try that in a human contract, it will be invalidated by some human judge.

Sure, lawyers may write complicated contracts in an attempt to screw the other signatory and they may play complicated games with the clauses, but running contracts as otherwise-unsupervised programs is a whole new level.

Furthermore, just having had a quick scan over the language documentation, it looks to me like a bog-standard imperative mutable language. One that is very young, and with few if any features designed for being used in a high-security environment. It appears to be based on raw event-based programming, a style of programming very easy to mess up and hard to declare and preserve invariants in. It looks like a very dangerous programming language to be trying to write financial contracts in. At least it's not dynamically typed, does seem to avoid excessive coercion, and should be memory safe; it could certainly be worse. But it could be better, too.
Initially after snowden I thought, "the government and governments around the world will crack down on this behavior now".

I was naïve. Nobody cares. Now they viciously support such practices. As long as that exists, I can't buy into datamining devices. And it will always exist.
I live near Atlanta and I get the same issue around the same time. It's not reliably every night (thankfully, since I'm on almost every night) but it is at least once or twice a week, sometimes more, for 15-45 minutes. I can see in the modem logs where I'm losing my connection to them and the house phone also gets disconnected.

I'm in the same boat as you where making the phone call feels like a huge hassle. But it's interesting seeing a few other people with this same problem, maybe I should call them after all.
Hey can you email/chat with me (info on profile), I'd like to chat more about your use cases!
Well, $1.4 billion for Tesla, $0.6 billion for Musk personally, and an option for Goldman Sachs to get $0.21 billion.[1] Tesla stock is down in after-hours trading, but that doesn't mean much. If the stock is down significantly at the close tomorrow, the market didn't like this.

It's a legit offering. The company intends to build a big factory and make stuff. Real capital assets will be bought with that money. It's not to sell stuff at a loss to gain market share in hopes of raising prices later. (Looking at you, Uber.)

Tesla just hired Audi's head of manufacturing, Peter Hochholdinger. About a week ago, the previous two top people in manufacturing quit, right after Musk announced he wanted the production line running two years sooner. Maybe Hochholdinger can do it.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000119312516...
Well, it's a first announcement on a blog. They say it accelerates TensorFlow by 10x. They say it fits in an HDD slot. And the whole announcement must stay within a page or two.

It's a "more details to follow" type of thing. Pretty standard actually.
Wearing my CMU hat for a moment (but keeping in mind Google's paying me this year):

Google's always been cautious about the balance of speed and efficiency, out of concerns about programmer productivity, parallelization, and generality. See, for example, Urs's article in response to my and a few other people's crazy-academic research on using "Wimpy" nodes: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co... - vs http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fawnproj/

There's a big difference between just cranking down the GHz and going for ASIC specialization. GPUs, for example, already represent a point on this spectrum -- it's true that they run at reduced GHz compared to high-end CPUs, but they're arithmetic monsters. The blog post notes, in fact, that the use of TPUs in AlphaGo let them do more searching. So why would you assume automatically that they're slow?
Interesting. Plenty of work has been done with FPGAs, and a few have developed ASICs like DaDianNao in China [1]. Google though actually has the resources to deploy them in their datacenters.

Microsoft explored something similar to accelerate search with FPGAs [2]. The results show that the Arria 10 (20nm latest from Altera) had about 1/4th the processing ability at 10% of the power usage of the Nvidia Tesla K40 (25w vs 235w). Nvidia Pascal has something like 2/3x the performance with a similar power profile. That really bridges the gap for performance/watt. All of that also doesn't take into account the ease of working with CUDA versus the complicated development, toolchains, and cost of FPGAs.

However, the ~50x+ efficiency increase of an ASIC though could be worthwhile in the long run. The only problem I see is that there might be limitations on model size because of the limited embedded memory of the ASIC.

Does anyone have more information or a whitepaper? I wonder if they are using eAsic.

[1]: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=701142...

[2]: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/240715/CNN%20Whitepaper.p...
You are technically correct, but but missing the real issue.

I have 0 interest in buying a fast line to comcasts internal services, they are selling me a way to connect to the rest of the internet.
Coin had a raised a decent amount of Venture Capital, so it's likely there were other stakeholders and voices at the table in the decision. It's not uncommon for a VC to demand a board seat when they lead a funding round, and it's also not uncommon for a VC with said board seat to push for a modest exit to cover their downside when things aren't working out.
> Nobel Prize for showing that particles are always most likely to take the most efficient path

I only have a BS in physics, so do please correct me, but the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics helps predict particle behavior but doesn't say anything is most likely to happen all the time. Indeed, it requires considering how often very absurd things happen.

> it is easier to work with a simpler theory, so scientists prefer it out of self-interest

Thermodynamics is definitely simpler than any phylogenetic analysis trying to peer backward through a graph with many, many cycles in it. But thermodynamics requires accepting the possibilities of just how many times some very unlikely event might happen.
Email them anyway. Chances are they have an intern counting for/against, positive/negative, without bothering to notice the author's citizenship. Don't lie, just say "I'm against X" and leave it to them. If rich people can fund elections across state lines, across national boundaries, then poor people should at least be able to register their disapproval.
insert saying about how configuration is just programming but worse in every way
This is all too true. I had people in my 300 level Networking who even after that class didn't know how DNS servers worked (at a high level).
Interesting, thanks that's something I hadn't considered.
Nah, history shows CIA rarely messes with people unless they threaten it or are a target. NSA's TAREX and HUMINT teams come from CIA and ISA. They do the foreign work for them. So, if NSA or FBI escalated, a CIA or ISA team could come after her. More likely CIA as they're default.
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> 1 in a million year event

per what unit volume? Or unit surface area?
"it's difficult to make a profit until costs start pushing the $1000/sq.ft. range."

The data shows, clear as daylight, that prices are only ever this high in cities which refuse to build any new housing:

http://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/asking.price...

In Houston, which famously has no zoning, you can buy a condo in a downtown luxury high-rise for $200 per square foot (http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Houston-TX/condo_type/6...).

"few cities in the world where there's no more undeveloped land"

Downtown San Francisco is full of undeveloped surface parking lots. Here are some maps I made:

http://i.imgur.com/iSik6Zw.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zNFjk6v.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/HygnC5e.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/SJs576L.jpg

"The majority of the costs of any new project are land, labor and materials."

That's highly misleading, because if development gets easier then rents go down, and if rents go down then land prices go down. The paper at http://faculty.washington.edu/te/papers/Housing051608.pdf estimates that excessive regulations are responsible for half of San Francisco's housing costs. That was in 2006, so it's almost certainly more now.
I didn't know that. Thanks for the link!
Tried to do a full-time PhD, dropped out due to crippling poverty and depression. Tried to do an evening MBA, dropped out for the exact reasons you stated. Only Master's program that actually gelled with me was a professional MA in a stats-based profession.

My general stance is to not recommend a graduate program unless you're deeply passionate about the subject and you're willing to bear a significant amount of opportunity cost.
How does one assure the the updated contract only fixes bugs and doesn't change the intent of the original contract?
> A bank can legally make you sign a release of any wrongdoing the bank may ever undertake in the future (!!) as a condition of their loan.

That may or may not be legally enforceable. I haven't seen the contract, and I'm not a lawyer.

But, beyond this particular term in the contract, if he didn't have a lawyer of his own, if not from the start before he signed any contract at all, then certainly as soon as Comvest started to look sketchy, that's the biggest mistake of all.

I am curious to learn how a lender wound up with the ability to force operational decisions in the absence of a default, that doesn't seem right to me. Either something else is going on, he let the lender force things he didn't have to, or he signed a very very bad loan without legal counsel or bad legal counsel.
I definitely agree that revenue ad is on the decline. 3 years ago it was fairly common to average $300 days - now it's roughly half.

The current plan is to upgrade to DFP within the next few months and maybe try to sell direct ads to companies related to our niche which is extremely popular.

How did you find out how many of your visitors are blocking ads?
Its not going to get counted without a zip code to confirm constituency. Also, emails count the least (point system based on in-person visit, letters, phone calls, emails, in descending order of value).
> with their observation of the nature

Well, I guess I answer my own question here, but we don't know that they survived because of their observation of the nature. We don't know enough about them to say that. They survived, how or why, we don't know. Knowing how or why may be of interest to Anthropologists, but there's nothing indicating that it would be generally useful for all humans.
Fundamentally why Zuckerburg, Gates, Walton, etc. got rich so fast was not tthey got control of a revenue stream but instead he was able to give themselves stock in a company in an early phase which then went public.

This particular institution goes back a lot longer than the Reagan administration but it is something that can't be taken for granted.
Between in 1 in 7 and 1 in 8 in countries where women do not have any real access to modern healthcare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal_death

1 in 20 (~50 in 1000) in the UK until 1940/1950.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1633559/

and lots of interesting reading here:
https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1...
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds
Google is a powerful name, no matter what you did there. It got Google on your friends' resumes, so certainly that has some impact to some recruiters.
I went to a talk with Vitalik Buterin recently where he stated code quality was one of ethereum's biggest threats.

But, there is a market for code quality review too now!

Trustless contracts must at least be audited or they will have no ultimate credibility.

Just because something carries a risk, that is no reason not to adopt it, even try to fix it.

If the authors main point about code quality error rates is the main point, NASA has had far more time and funding and it would not be outputting random / get rich quick games either.

Ethereum has issues, but it is young and has a fantastic support base of enthusiasts.

The original author should have done more research on the roadmap for smart contracts and ethereum.
I'm curious to know; is this announcement something that an expert in these sorts of areas could have (or did?) predict months or years ago, given Google's recent jumps forwards in Machine learning products? Can someone with more knowledge about this comment?
Seems like a problem solved with traditional simulation tools.
The value of human life is still measured in many places by how much profit can be extracted from them; thankfully more people realize how terrible it is to value money over the people necessary to create it. Even in the US chicken is often butchered by indentured illegals in deplorable conditions. While some things have changed for the better in the modern world some things remain the same.
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Coin also allows you to store loyalty cards on the device.
Yeah, bullshit was a hard term, I am sorry, but I just can not see how these things require a specific "home" device;

- grocery list:

So some kind of Todo list. But you can do that with your mobile computation device, or just take notes physically?

- order $thing:

I do not think that humans need more convenient buying-experiences than what is already there (think Amazon, food-delivery services, etc.). I guess most people want to _see_ what they pay for and look up specific apps?

- doctor schedules:

The scheduling problem. Maybe I am out of touch, but I would write an e-mail and/or call?

- dish washer cron:

Ok, I do not get that? Why would you want to schedule a dish washer job for a specific time?

- turn on the oven:

Yeah, but there is surely a UI for the oven, that has the functionality to turn on the oven (seems like a core feature). If it's really oldschool, it has a button that one may press (or a slider). That may seem inconvenient, so it may have a web-ui. However there is NO reason whatsoever why it should be connected to the "cloud".
I'd recommend optimizing your ad placements and types.
> In California newspeak, "affordable" housing means government-subsidized housing, while "luxury" housing means any housing built for profit (even if it's tiny studio apartments).

This is false. Direct subsidies are one of many means used in California to achieve targets for affordable housing, but affordable housing does not mean subsidized housing. That's particularly important in the context of this proposal, a key part of is proposing additional non-subsidy mechanisms to encourage affordable housing (by reducing the local-review barriers to new developments which include it, and reducing regulatory barriers to new units on existing lots.)
At least from an etymology perspective, analyze should come before organize. My version is Anticipate->Sense->Decide->Understand but I think it's not mine exclusively.
How are you tracking how many of your visitors using an ad blocker?
If I am using your device momentarily or simply looking over your shoulder. Of course, this is already a security breach, but you wouldn't expect it to breach the security of private conversations you've had in your home, was my point.
I am also sorry to hear about your situation :(

I am not the OP, but my guess is s/he benefits more from it than the parent does. As the old adage says ...

"Anger/hate/unforgiveness is like drinking poison, expecting the other person to die."

Please understand I am not judging you at all. To be honest I don't know if I would look after an abusive parent or spouse. I would like to say I would ... but truth be told I don't know.

What I do know forgiveness is a wonderful thing, and the forgiver gets way more out of it than the person who is forgiven. So much pain and conflict in this world is stems from humankinds seemingly innate inability to forgive, sometimes even after centuries have passed.

Edit: I don't know why you were downvoted and don't think you should have. If it helps, my posts in this thread have been heavily downvoted.
Knowledge graph could be a separate service. It handles only a subset of requests anyway; no reason for the request itself not to make a "pit stop" under my control before it is sent to fetch data. You could also use more than one provider of a knowledge graph in this case.

The more important aspect of it is fixing the problems with said knowledge graph. For instance, Google doesn't have the data on the public transportation in my city. I could easily write a scrapper that would fetch me the bus/tram timetables - but there's no way to integrate that source of data with Google Now. It's one example, but in practice Google's knowledge graph is pretty much useless for me. At best, it can answer me some trivia questions sometimes.
Ya, I realize that. I wasn't taking a position on it morally. I was just pointing out that just because they don't sell the information as such doesn't mean that they don't leak the information via side channels.
Runescape circa ~2011.

It was a once in a lifetime thing because tens of thousands of players were flocking back to the game because of new updates, and Jagex (the company behind the game) was selling out for an acquisition by Insight Ventures Partners, so they inflated their player base by vastly scaling back their anti-bot measures (mainly bans).

Huge supply, meet huge demand. The Jagex founders (the Gower brothers) came away with $100m for the whole ordeal and power to them the technical achievements of the game (a browser-based MMO written in Java 2001 - present) was nothing short of remarkable [1].

[1]: https://youtu.be/yrVUegwSKlY
AdSense is about 25% of our revenue & agree that we need to focus on selling ads directly.
Is there a simple and easy to follow guide to running Hurh/Mach in a virtualisation environment? Virtualbox? KVM?
Yes. I realize that what I wrote there is not always the case. You are right about the two conflicting advices for startups.

In a perfect world, people will want to use products I am passionate about building. But since that is rare, I think we need to find balance between what our hearts tell us to build and what people need.

Maybe the safe balance is, as you say, being passionate about making our own things work.
I really like books that expose holes in scientific knowledge. Books that attempt to fill in those holes with conjecture based on observation are even better. This book does both very well.

However, I did notice some glaring factual errors relating to chemistry (my speciality). Chapter 2 includes the passage:

> Second, and more telling, a major distinction between bacterial and archaeal membranes seems to be purely random - bacteria use one stereoisomer (mirror form) of glycerol, while archaea use the other. ...

This is false. Glycerol is achiral - devoid of stereochemistry. It is its own mirror form.

What Lane may be talking about is lipid hydrolysis, in which functionality at one of the two prochiral oxygens of a lipid is cleaved preferentially, but I haven't followed up on this yet.

Either way, Lane spins a scenario where the two main groups of organisms make two different kinds of glycerol. This simply can't be true.

This isn't merely a minor technical error. Enantiomeric purity and the same configuration of amino acids has been a hot topic in the origin of life because the kind of scenarios that are supported there are quite different than if various species used mixtures of amino acid stereoisomers or different pure isomers.
We've all been using one since the 80s: email. The interface is just poorly designed for social networking.
Hi there!

Why not give us a try at http://www.thinksquare.io :)

We use A.I to match you with jobs, your profile is hidden from companies until you accept a match.

Once you accept and the company accepts as well, you'll be connected with the hiring manager.

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What's "barely making payments" -- either you make your loan payments (and on time), or you don't, no?
It's been at least, what, 8 years since Goldman Sachs was involved in any sort of financial crisis involving malfeasance. And for a 147 year old company, 8 years is a really long time.

I mean, come on. How would you even think they might be doing something unethical at this point?
I mean the ECI leaks state a clear division of labor on SIGINT issues. If it's domestic, the FBI handle it as we've seen in leaks and court cases. If it's foreign, then the CIA or other operators handle it. Their methods are typically bribery, extortion, or B&E's. Targets of high interest are sometimes kidnapped under rendition program or executed via drone program. Both of the latter are active in Germany. BND also cooperates strongly with NSA and CIA.

I doubt she's at risk of serious stuff but she's outside FBI's more limited scope now. Instead, if they escalate, local authorities will grab and extradite her with assistance if needed from CIA or NSA. Probably none will be needed past local cops if she thinks presence in Germany is safe from US authorities.