skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"a family with two children (my 3rd child arrived after I started)"

I'd wager a bet that he has a stay-at-home partner or maybe family filling in for the time he's spending on his PhD to help take care of the kids. Three kids + full-time work + all the chores of child-rearing do not leave time for a PhD.
If you read police/legal history, the issue is with the very very small beats. When there is only one officer assigned to a particular street, what do residents do when that officer is the problem? One early answer was to give them mechanical watches and regiment exactly when and where they were to stand during the beat. But that too led to problems as officers prioritized the schedule over actual policing. It's a very interesting history whereby the trust pendulum has swung back and forth many times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_%28police%29
I would like to know how much of that is memes and shitposts
I see. In that case, yes it'd make sense to have such a feature, probably implemented as an archive button in the incognito window (with a warning that archiving such a chat makes it non-private).
Perhaps you could elaborate on that? I know what both expressions mean but I have no idea what it is that you think they illustrate about cooperation, loneliness, etc.
It's important to use an incompatible dialect of every language and toolchain that your company uses. If you just use the vanilla project, the company might be tempted to adopt outside open source projects rather than reinventing the wheel in-house. This would be a terrible thing because it Wasn't Invented Here (tm). Also, new college graduates might not be appropriately awed by the pile of High Tech Stuff you show them on day 1, if just anyone else could use it outside the company.

For example, when you're using C++, be sure to rewrite the string and stream classes (like Folly does). This will ensure that you can't contribute anything back to the community, and they can't contribute to you. Be sure to use all the funny C++ features that haven't quite been standardized or supported correctly yet.

For OCaml, it's harder, since it doesn't have as many poorly designed and duplicative features. But with enough effort, you too can fix the "problem" of your code being similar to other people's code.
The one thing Reddit’s CEO regrets about the company’s anti-harassment crackdown
Accurate title: "The Man Who Built Google’s First Self-Driving Car Left Google to Build Self-Driving Trucks"
For me this is true. GPUs on Amazon are not cheap, and if google passes the savings on from performance power consumption I'd certainly offload some work to Google cloud.
No, in that case they are taking power - you haven't handed over anything. It is not a distinction without a difference, "...consent of the governed." etc.
Mobile VR wins with cost, rapid hardware iteration, portability. VR isn't a totally separate realm from AR... "mixed reality" is a buzzword about mixing the two. As for who's clamouring for VR phones, Samsung's Gear VR is doing very well (and Samsung mobile hardware is already used in Oculus products).
Another French expression to go along would be Sartre's "Hell is other people". Which is the reason I choose to distance myself from people.
Yeah, but the switch to Dalvik (which is where the trouble starts) was done under Google.

If they had just thrashed out an agreement with Sun (which would have been much much cheaper than dealing with Oracle will ever be...), they could have continued using the official mobile-oriented JVM, likely influencing its development as well; but first they dragged their feet and then they thought they'd just rewrite the whole thing so they could claim originality and independence, and here we are.
Setup the hurricane electric IPv6 tunnel broker and you should be immune to disputes between Verizon and Netflix or YouTube as long as the peering links between Hurricane Electric and Verizon remain congestion free. Both Netflix and YouTube traffic will run over IPv6 and HE is a tier one ISP known for aggressively peering with everyone. They would likely be the last ISP to try to charge Netflix and YouTube for connectivity.
>A doctor implements a bot on his/her site and it asks potential patients questions about their condition

And the bot misdiagnoses or has a malfunction, leading to the patient not getting the correct treatment they required. Yikes.
You should read the book and tell us whether it lives up to your standards. If so, then we know that the book is a particularly valuable contribution.
I realize what they're doing with the UI, but I also realize that they're not doing it just to be dicks. Netflix has to negotiate content deals with some of the greediest and most short-sighted people in the business world. I wish them the best of luck.
So does Walmart (compared to Amazon). I'd still be betting on Amazon.
I'm not a huge fan of the first rule. It's valid as stated, but the examples are questionable. I've seen all those in real code, and they're kind of annoying.

auto f = make_widget();
// is f of type widget or widget*?

auto i = 123;
// ok, I guess, but...
// int i = 123; is shorter and more clear.

auto x = vec3(1.0, 0.0, 0.0);
// this can be shorter and simpler.
// vec3 x(1.0, 0.0, 0.0);
AR will. VR's immersiveness is actually a problem for non-entertainment uses.
I'm not sure why I was downvoted - Larry Trask's article has the exact same explanation i gave above - mainly that the 'm' and 'p' sounds are the easiest consonant vocalizations that babies can do.
That's good, Foxconn can use some of the money to shore up their suicide nets.
To anyone reading, just to be clear, that's not the case at all. It shows the caller's video, and they're completely aware of the fact.
Can text in different colors help you tackle the most difficult books?
Do Google Cloud Functions (referenced above) not fit that bill? https://cloud.google.com/functions/

I'm also keen to use Firebase without having to run a separate server to handle logic for payments, email alerts on search terms, etc.
Are you assuming that all storage ends up on Google's servers (because that's what hangouts does, maybe)?

Why can't it store E2E chats locally and never upload to google, or even encrypt with a passphrase like Chrome sync does?
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I'm with you. Not only was I an original backer, but I was also an early backer. I got my Coin 1.0 months after they promised, and it almost never worked anywhere. Coin 2.0 comes out with EVT but no NFC payment, promises to work at more locations, still hardly works. I'm pretty pissed with Coin, and will definitely not buy into any future FitBit products as a result.
Vector is now out on both Android[1] and iOS[2], and the web version of Vector has improved significantly.

It doesn't have end to end encryption support yet, but they're working on it.

1: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.vector.alph...
2: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vector.im/id1083446067
Being overrun first by primitive Mongol hordes that looted their wealth. This is like saying the Romans were advanced before the Christian crazies took over.
With Backblaze B2 the data has to be available at all times, so powering them down isn't really feasible. For personal backup it might have been, though the manpower it would have taken might have also knocked it out of whack a bit.
Coin stood by nothing, not even their early backers. I'm genuinely upset they got our money and sold out, making more money. I wish they went up in flames and died out for the horrific user experience I and other backers experienced.
If we believe the first form of life occurred on the sea floor, why shouldn't we believe that new forms of life are spontaneously occurring on the sea floor all the time?

Many people don't seem to understand just how incredibly different the environmental conditions on Earth were when life was first ramping up. Those conditions not only no longer prevail, but the world is also full of competitors that weren't there in the beginning.

Also, we probably haven't cataloged 10% of the life forms on our ocean floors yet. There's still a lot to learn, and there will be surprises.
It is interesting that they would make this into an ASIC, provided how notoriously high the development costs for ASICs are. Are those costs coming down? If so life will get very hard for the FPGA makers of the world soon.

It would be interesting to see what the economics of this project are. I.e., what are the development costs and costs per chip. Of course it is very doubtful I will ever get to see the economics of this project, it would be interesting.
This is true - I've heard rumors that GCE has been trying hard to poach cloud consumers from other providers, this could be another stroke in that effort.
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).
> accountable for what Oracle does with Java

Maybe my English is imprecise, but that's not what I tried to express. We may have to disagree that the OracleVsGoogle fallout is relevant in the hypothetical case of Axolotl IP, but as we're both not lawyers, it's moot to continue that debate.

> I don't think it's proper to suggest

It wouldn't cost Moxie anything to clear such concerns, even if it's just a handful of HN reader (including me), in light of this public event and would increase the positive profile of the protocol. You make it seem like by documenting that clearly Moxie would admit to doing something, but that's wrong and a curious way to look at things, especially as you're confident of there being no problem like that.
That's not what they said in the keynote. They were explicit about the fact that developers would be able to extend it. They used Uber as an example.
Call you representative. Voice your concern. Spearhead the effort in your state or find out who is.
As jodah points out, it was attractive for me because at minimum I have a credit card, an ATM card, and a parking benefits card. I also have additional cards that have better benefits for things like gas/groceries so it's nice having the flexibility to choose to use one for a particular transaction.

That said, my experience with Coin was abysmal. It worked maybe half the time, when it did work it took the cashier and embarrassing number of swipes while I stood there wondering if it would work at all.

When I wrote in to support they said that there was a certain set of POS machines that the card wasn't recognized on. At that point Coin becomes completely and utterly worthless because I now have to carry the other cards in case it fails. If someone made a card that worked in 100% of the places that I can currently use an ATM or credit card I would get one in a heartbeat. The fact that Coin claimed to and wasn't even laughably close to delivering on this makes me hate them
French polynesia is not tahiti. Tahiti is one of the islands (rangiroa, moorea are other examples).
Tahiti is the most populous, but if you read the study, it does not say tahiti.

Most of the other islands are remarkably small.

Note also that the methodology used in that study (http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...) is a retrospective analysis of data that uses somewhat ... almost laughable assumptions-

Modelling assumptions for estimation of risk of microcephaly associated with Zika virus infection:
...

<this is just some of them>

•All microcephaly cases in the study period have been identified

•The birth rate is constant during the study period and can be estimated from official statistics

•The number of Zika virus infections in a given week is proportional to the number of consultations for suspected infection in the same week

Note the last one: They are estimating actual zika infections not from zika infections, but from consultations of people suspected to have zika and the percent who were later found to have zika.

So how accurate is such a "suspicion based consultation"?

By the end of the outbreak, public health officials had recorded 8750 suspected infections with Zika virus, of which 383 (4.4%) were confirmed in the laboratory.

At this point, i'm going to suggest maybe their assumptions are not quite as strong as they think they are.

....
AFAIK it's fairly difficult to combine many machine learning models (although boosting is a thing). I'm a noob though.

We could do live online or batch training of models in a distributed manner if it is feasible. It would take more time to build new models because we would have to produce more data, but it's an idea.

For my personal use, free software has always been high enough quality; its at least 90% of the way there if not better. And I can trust it.
> (Sorry for this quasi-manifestoish tone...)

Don't be. I think it was very well said, and while I've been a bit of a Free Software hippie for a while it keeps hitting me over and over just how far ahead they saw.
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Terrorists hijacked an airplane in Brussels? That's news to me. What I heard was that they blew up the waiting area at the airport, which any terrorist could easily do any time anywhere in the world. The fact that this is still such a rare occurrence is further evidence that ordinary run-of-the-mill terrorism [1] is not the serious problem it is being made out to be.

[1] Terrorists getting their hands on a nuke is a different matter.
Probably.

In addition, there's a lot of literature on optimizing hardware implementations of fundamental arithmetic operations like addition and multiplication. I recall seeing a paper a while ago which talked about reducing the number of gates by allowing some bounded imprecision in the results - unfortunately, I don't remember the title right now, but it sounds like that's what they may be doing.
Thinking about a Career in AI?
last time i checked fast.com and slow.com are ... domain names.
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From terabytes to petabytes with one employee
According to https://twitter.com/moxie/status/730289041493483520 Moxie is fine with reimplementations.
A podcast I listen to posted an interview with an expert last week saying that he perceived that much of the interest in custom hardware for machine learning tasks died when people realized how effective GPUs were at the (still-evolving-set-of) tasks.

http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/blog/2016/5/5/sparse-codin...

I wonder how general the gains from these ASIC's are and whether the performance/power efficiency wins will keep up with the pace of software/algorithm-du-jour advancements.
If you were to buy the hose stock of an entire neighbourhood, would you expect to pay the same price for the first and last house you buy? And no, markets are not transactional you can't usually buy the whole neighbourhood in a single deal.

What's likely happening in your example is a large trade in one exchange triggering adverse selection protection across all markets from multiple market makers.
How about you find an experimental OSS project being developed by a local university, contribute a bit online first and then try to meet up?
I'm not a US citizen.
Somewhat off topic, but if you look at the lower-left hand corner of the heatsink in the first image, there's two red lines and some sort of image artifact.

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-z1ynWkQlBc8/VzzPToH362I/AAAAAAAAC...

They probably didn't mean to use this version of the image for their blog - but I wonder what they were trying to indicate/measure there.
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"A car door opening in your path is a car door opening in your path at any speed."

No offense, but that's what will happen when poorly educated riders bike in the door zone. See: http://www.bikelaw.com/2016/02/18/door-zones-a-dangerous-gam...

Biking amongst traffic on roads requires skill, knowledge of biking laws, good situational awareness, knowing how to posture and when to take the lane to protect yourself.

Oh, and a bit of luck that the people next to you in their steel cages aren't homicidal towards bicyclists.
> This blog got copyrightability right when Judge Alsup got it wrong

That remains to be seen. The blog got copyrightability the same way the Federal Circuit decided that the Ninth Circuit would have ruled [0], and the Supreme Court declined to review that interlocutory appeal. But the final judgement is bound to also be appealed, and its much more likely that the Supreme Court will take the case after final judgement -- at which point we'll know who got copyrightability right [1], since either Google will be appealing a judgement against it on Fair Use where copyrightability will be a necessary issue to resolve or Oracle will be appealing on Fair Use and Google will be cross-appealing on copyrightability.

An appeal being interlocutory is a factor agains the Supreme Court taking it, and quite likely a significant factor in why the Supreme Court didn't hear Oracle v. Google.

For Mueller to claim he got copyrightability "right" because the Federal Circuit agreed with him is premature.

[0] on issues that aren't the ones that force an issue into the Federal Circuit (particularly patent), the Federal Circuit is supposed to apply the law of the Circuit which otherwise would have heard the case.

[1] at least, to the limit of "right" within the US legal system.
Ignore the hype. Save your cash. Wait for version 2.0

You'd think we would have learned this by now, but I'm still way too excited about the vive.
They should have done this during the peering disputes with Comcast and Verizon.
I've only dabbled in this area, so it's entirely possible my question doesn't make sense. Machine learning algos in general seems to have a bunch of iterative components, but within each iteration there is massive parallelism. Did you consider using a whole bunch of DSPs? They can also do parallel processing but might be cheaper in bulk than GPUs.
I suspect it is because "everyone" (which is to abscond with your definition) believes that colocation is an alternative to AWS (well the EC2 part anyway). I would be interested to hear how you seem them as not being comparable.

On your definition of "aws-believer" is that someone who feels that AWS is a superior solution to deploying a web facing application in all cases? Does your definition include economics? (like $/month vs request/month vs latency?)

Can I assume that you consider comparing AWS to building your own CPU as an apples to oranges comparison? I certainly do, because I define a CPU to be a small component part of a distributed system hosting a web facing application.
uh, okay. the "dn" in "dns" means "domain name", which according to my understanding of the basics of the internet works, is what fast.com and slow.com are.
I just want one manufacturer to care about and release a decent feature phone. The current landscape right now is the LG Cosmos III, various shitty Tracfones, and then the Nokia lines that have been ruined by Microsoft.

I think there's a serious market for good feature phones that can make calls, send/receive SMS/MMS/group chats, take high resolution pictures, and send/receive emails all with a qwerty, tactile keyboard.
I wonder if the headsets will ever get as small as a normal pair of glasses (or goggles)
FWIW I've had TWC phone techs ask me to use speedtest.net by name on a couple occasions.
Why get a Lytro if you have a Kinect?
> please make it self-hosted

I rather suspect that the knowledge graph it uses is a rather hefty dataset. Probably not suitable for a home installation. And how would you keep it up-to-date without the cloud? Would you have it scrape websites and consume feeds itself?
I believe the problem is with the language, which evolved with a not-very-modern concept of gender. Some languages run into problems more so or differently than others. Related is why there's resistance to new gender-neutral pronouns such as "xe" etc. (which I'm not sure are the solution either). There exist social constructs now that English (and other languages, but sometimes differently) just has not evolved to handle properly. Problem is that pronouns hold a very key place in the structure of many languages, affecting tenses and such. Things that evolved organically aren't very "future-proof". I don't know a good solution either, except maybe time.
Firebase is awesome! Realtime has become a great selling point with my clients (and a necessity for things like chat apps). However, after doing over 20 apps with Firebase I've had to combine with other PAAS due to some features missing/lacking: server-side code (event-driven like Parse had or like AWS Lambda) and better/easier search features. In the second case for instance, let's imagine a support app, it makes more sense to use a traditional SQL DB for objects like tickets, customers, etc while using Firebase for a realtime chat inside a ticket. Even a hosted Non-SQL with some good collection search feature is a better fit rather than using Firebase.
Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer
I know this might be a silly question but what exactly do you do in an academic research position? How do you choose a topic to look at? What do you study on this topic and what is the output supposed to look like?

For someone who might eventually want to do a PhD in the space of software, I don't exactly know what you'd do. I normally just take a problem, and write software to fix it. How is the process changed when I want a degree from it?

I'm assuming I can't just bring in a flash drive and say "Yea I did some reading and did some stuff, here is the implementation of my new X for the Linux kernel. It speeds things up by a factor of BIG_NUMBER."
Once you get into emails/data you're blurring the line seriously...

(I mean, that means you've got a HTML renderer, so you've gotta push updates every 12 weeks or so)
It is a step in the right direction, but this is still just more of the same policies that screw over the middle 40% of population. This still doesn't fix the problem with housing. As someone who makes exactly the median income but likes to save it, I am legally forbidden from living in "affordable housing".

If you are poor, here is your free house. If you make the median income, you are forced to spend money exactly like everyone else. Lawmakers only care about affordable housing for the poor, no one cares about providing modest housing for the modest earner.
The video shown in the keynote gives several examples.
I did retain all the rights, but other companies published it under their branding. I ended up getting somewhere between 20-30% all up. I'm not rich, I still have to work for a living. They burnt through all the revenue. The main company that was publishing it moved to San Francisco, hired offices and staff, and burnt through all the capital almost instantly. I just banked mine and used it for travel (for a decade).
More food for thought: how many neurons + synapses can one model with that amount of RAM?