skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OP has

> Machine learning is the basis on which all large Internet companies are built, enabling them to rank responses to a search query, give suggestions and select the most relevant content for a given user.

IMHO, that's claiming too much:

My Internet search engine (running, in alpha test) essentially does

> give suggestions and select the most relevant content for a given user

but has nothing to do with anything like machine learning in computer science. Instead the core data manipulations are from some original derivations I did in applied math based on some advanced prerequisites in pure and applied math.

Why do I have confidence in the power of the math? Theorems and proofs from some careful assumptions that hold likely plenty well enough in the real situation.

More generally, my view is that for a specific problem to be solved with information technology, commonly by far the most powerful approach is via applied math, possibly original for that problem. An example is my work in anomaly detection as in, say,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11880593

For a technique of great generality and economic power, there is integer linear programming: Where it works, which is often, it can be said to totally knock the socks off artificial intelligence or machine learning. Integer linear programming is serious stuff, e.g., was one of the main motivations for considering good algorithms and, then, the profound question of P versus NP.

Gee, farther into the OP I see

> We need to retrain truck drivers and office assistants to create data analysts, trip optimizers and other professionals we don’t yet know we need.

> trip optimizers

Really? And that's new? Not exactly! That topic has been a biggie in operations research, optimization, and integer programming for decades, really, back to the 1950s. Really, Dantzig, in the late 1940s, developed linear programming at Rand first to help with how best to deploy a military force a long way away quickly -- call it a case of trip optimization. The famous traveling salesman problem in optimization and integer programming and P versus NP? Could call it trip optimization. For FedEx, each night, which planes go where? At least early on, could call that trip optimization. Much of logistics is trip optimization, and an important part of that is handling uncertainty, and now we can be into stochastic dynamic programming. Now we are a long way from artificial intelligence or machine learning.

Point: The world is awash in problems in manipulating information; how to do that is very old and in many fields of science, engineering, and operations of wide variety, often deep into mathematics, and long before computer science and machine learning.

I would ask, was the work of James Simons as in the OP? My impression is no.

IMHO, the OP is claiming too much.
I have a friend with social anxiety, I used to buy an extra box when I bought mine though now he gets them online so that's been useful for him, I've never cared, grew up with a single mum so if I went shopping I'd buy sanitary towels etc as part of the weekly shop.
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FWIW, Mapzen also has been providing OSM-based geocoding at a rate of 30,000 a day, as well as reverse geo and routes: https://mapzen.com/documentation/search/

The advantage of OSM geocoding is that, unlikely Google Geocoder, there are no terms of service barring you from using the data on a non-Google product or for storing the data for your own use and analysis.
Google offers managed service variants comparable to most of those AWS services. For example - Cloud SQL.

How are these anymore "home grown" than the AWS equivalents?
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other comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11935999
No, I don't play FPS anymore. The only game I turn on from time to time is Heroes of Might and Magic III.
I think most people are very bad at predicting the future, and I know that I'm very bad at it, so I won't try to make detailed predictions about the long term effect of AI since I would get it all spectacularly wrong.

However, in the short term, I think the areas where AI has the potential to make the biggest impact are where we have huge amounts of data (and gathering data is cheap/getting cheaper) and we have an obvious objective. I am really excited to see what Deep Mind will do with their collaboration with the NHS, and I think some incredibly exciting thing will happen when people with a deep understanding of biology collaborate with people who really understand deep learning.

The difficulty is that in industry the people that often have an easy time raising funds are impressive bullshit artists that are great at selling stuff (Theranos, Verily) while in academia people often spend too much time in their own comfortable silos, and straddling multiple fields is a very difficult act to pull off if you want to ever get tenure.
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There are many different ways to be "a force". France is still very much an active force in military terms, well above "rising tigers" like India or China in terms of deployment abroad and engagement in crisis scenarios. Their economy might be slightly stagnant, but they are still very, very rich in aggregate.

Just because they don't agree with English-speaking media and their vision of the world, it does not mean they are not hungry for change. They are so hungry for change, in fact, that they've been rioting for weeks. What they are not hungry for, probably, is the obsession for worldly riches and conservative consumption-driven lifestyle that Asian and American interests keep pushing. That might not be a bad thing.
> Peter Norvig recently suggested that symbolic AI, but with more contextual information as you get with deep neural networks, may also make a comeback in the field.

Could you point me to where he said that? My cursory search came up with an answer on a Quora AMA that was pretty thin on this.
Exactly. The crux of prejudice is that it makes people form an opinion before they have facts a.k.a. context. A lot of things are not what they seem at first and because people respond to well to "Occam's Razor," they choose the laziest explanation and penalize people they don't know.

A real-life example: my friend was dating a woman whose brother got in an accident. After receiving painkillers, he became addicted to them (an old story at this point). As he weened himself off of them, taking responsibility, my friend would drive him to get methadone a few times a week. A system that uses information from this one would label my friend an addict because he was so often seen driving to or parked at the rehab clinic. When in fact, my friend was a charitable, stand-up guy helping out a soon-to-be family member recover and become a stronger, productive member of society.
It's a value add anyway for our existing customers @ unwired labs. There's a lot of unused capacity though, so we thought why not give it away..
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I see "free tier has these limits" - seems to imply there are paid tiers for higher usage.
A former NSA and CIA chief, wrote a post about stuff like this, before the US banned US chip makers from selling to China:

> By the time I became NSA director in the late 1990s, however, the calculation was no longer that simple. We still wanted an MTOPS advantage, of course, but we were fast realizing that our preferred limits were undermining the global competitiveness of the U.S. computer industry — the very industry on which we relied for our success. It was becoming clear that the overall health of that industry was more important than any MTOPS advantage against a specific target country. We still insisted on limits with regard to places such as Cuba and North Korea, but we became far more forgiving elsewhere.

This, of course, had a powerful, positive commercial impact, but the NSA didn’t flip its position for commercial reasons. We did it for security reasons. On balance, this change made us stronger, not weaker, over the long haul, since retarding exports would inevitably retard the technological progress that was both our economic and our security lifeblood.

That early lesson has caused me to continue to challenge arguments that technological protectionism furthers national security. It might, but then again, it could have the opposite effect if it freezes development, alienates allies, feeds distrust or invites the creation of similar barriers abroad. I would recommend these broader considerations to those in the U.S. security enterprise with responsibility for evaluating these trade-offs today.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-let-america-be-...

The whole post is worth reading. The same logic could be applied to US trying to put backdoors in its products for a specific national security goal, which will ultimately end up undermining US technological supremacy and national security as well. And yet the current CIA director just implied that US would be fine with backdoored products, because "where are people going to get their encryption from? The foreigners? Ha!"

This sort of arrogance, which is the same type of arrogance that ended up banning chip sales to China last year, is what will make the US lose out in the long term.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160618/08022234741/cia-d...
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Canonical does have a problem with that, which is why they require OVH and other re-distributors of modified versions to submit them for approval, for which they charge.

This is all in their IP policies: http://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/intellectual-...
1 - Did you use node, python, or java?
2 - How many lambdas do you have? One per API endpoint?
3 - How many API endpoints?
4 - How are you managing updates and deployments?
Will the end of Moore's law affect the rate of progress on AI research?
The Internet (including their imagined markets!) would be entirely dead without the likes of Google search. Those who see these technologies as infringing and as leeches have no understanding of where value comes from.
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Ask HN: How do you install developer tools on a fresh system?
I used to have a bash script I would run to install everything (libs/tools) you're average web developer would need (node, sublime, google chrome, , python libs etc etc). Unfortunately I lost it after some time. Does anyone use anything similar?
Honestly, what nonsense. More like, the reason why the French obesity rate is 17%, compared to 23% in the UK, and 34% in the US. These are some of the factors which maintain health - to do exercise as part of your daily routine, and to be able to buy good quality food and cook it yourself. Then, to have enough time to spend with friends and family, and to have access when necessary to good quality healthcare.

It is valuable to have a culture which makes these fundamental requirements accessible and normal. There is no point in squeezing out every short term marginal improvement in economic efficiency regardless of the health of the people who are supposed to be reaping the economic rewards.
That guy is a fucking genius
Oh, much simpler than that - simply that you can pose the problem you are trying to solve in a way that the derivative can be calculated. If you can, you can bring about the whole deep learning machinery to bear on it.
Maybe they mean "effective" speed. 1000x 1.78GHz = 1.78THz.

Assuming a job is embarrassingly parallel it might be an ok metric. Realistically, probably not.
What kind of plugins do you make?
I think MapBox's rates are slightly better. To Store geocoded addresses, we pay ~$12,000/year I believe. That gets you like 1 million request/day I think.

We also felt more comfortable with MapBox given Google's history of sudden api breaking changes...

Also, our requirements had to have the geocoding be very accurate. MapBox and Google's geocoding results came out to be pretty much identical. About every other service, both free and paid, were not accurate enough.
As has been stated elsewhere on this page, it is explicitly prohibited to do as you describe. For the private part, at any rate.
> If it's not an MPI job, it's going to be painful.

What are you using for communication between nodes?

To make the tone clear I'm genuinely interested as I'm not sure what running on a Cray prevents you from doing?
Sorry for the simple question here, but what would a person use this for? What is the use case?

Thank you
TBF, it's extraordinarily difficult for a full-time scientist to do better at PR than a full-time bullshitter. Some (e.g., Ng) pull it off, but they tend to be exceptionally brilliant, exceptionally dedicated to their work, and well-supported by their exceptional employers.

Most academic people tend to spend all their time in their own comfortable silos for the same reason most industry people send time in their (MUCH more comfortable!) siloes -- there's enough to keep everyone busy for 40-60+ hours/wk without leaving the silos, and families/eating/sleeping are all important too.
You'd be surprised that people do buy supercomputers without a real idea (or only a rather vague general idea) of what they're going to do with it. And by people I mean universities. Not unheard of for a university to buy a supercomputer for essentially bragging rights, and then for it to sit underutilized.
Mapzen also ingests data from OpenAddresses.

(which for many regions will have much better coverage than OSM)
Oh no, they're using their supercomputers to do nuclear research? That's horrible. Who would do such a thing?

The given reason is all bullshit, and they must think we're all morons if they expect us to buy it. If anything it's retaliation for some IP theft or some silent trade war going on between China and the US. It's certainly not because the US gov is "shocked" that China uses its supercomputers to do nuclear research.
Some other comment I read about this calculated that this supercomputer has about 0.1% or 0.01% of an impact on the total bitcoin calculating power, so effectively negligible. ASICs would work better.
Ubuntu's IP policies are public, and you're right, modified versions must be approved by Canonical: http://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/intellectual-...
Being from Paris too, there is a huge boom in delivery services. While I'm fine with this, the negative impact on traffic safety, fluidity, the pollution etc. are currently not priced in, and it's a huge problem.

So while I'm not really agreeing with the reasons quoted by the mayor, I could definitely see a severe tax on this kind of business, because I'm sick of getting almost flattened by scooters driving on sidewalks.
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Xeon Phi is around and used in various financial computations. The problem with GPUs is not TDP, but programming flexibility. Programming a GPU is very hard to do well for generic computations, whereas x86 like CPUs have millions of programmers who can do a pretty decent job.
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No, a majority gets a say in democracy. That is usually almost 50% less.

Oh and then there are those governments who don't care about votets after election. That's why I prefer the market, YMMV
Anybody have some insight on what it usually takes to qualify for landing a startup gig in places like Norway/Amsterdam? (With regards to language requirements/work permits/referrals/etc.) With each passing day I find myself more interested in European startup scenes.
I'm glad to see more geocoding offerings, but if you need more than a few thousand addresses, you'll find no offering will. Running your own geocoding really shouldn't be that scary of thing to do.

The biggest pain in running your own OSM geocoder (nominatim) is kind of a bear to set up. I imagine there docker images that could make things a bit easier and allow you to grab a region extract, but I could be wrong there.

On a side note, I was working on an open source geocoder based on OSM that was easy to build as part of a mapping util I've been working on (https://github.com/buckhx/diglet). I lost some traction on the geocoding side of things and have been focusing more on map building/serving, but did get a stable version for US addresses. There are lot's of interesting problems that come along with geocoding.
Sure, there are bright sides to be found in everything.

But I don't think you can seriously put this forth as an argument that rapid climate change will have a net positive benefit for human welfare.

Also, no such bright side exists for forests and wetlands.
"Secure" if your attack vector doesn’t include nation states.

Off-premises cloud products in general are useless for any company in aviation, nuclear engineer, military, etc. Unless they’re in the US, then usually they can afford to do it, as the cloud services are in the same country.

Looking back at the snowden leaks, containing proof of the NSA serving NSLs to cloud providers and hacking Airbus servers to provide internal data and blueprints to Boeing, so Boeing would win a contract, shows that trusting US cloud providers is just as risky as trusting chinese ones.

But for your grandparents that have nothing worthy of espionage, a Chromebook is likely good enough.
This author did not do their research. They are likely quoting from a fake letter that is not from the actual attacker. I did not personally attempt to verify the signature, but others did and they report it being invalid.

The letter in question can be found here.

http://pastebin.com/CcGUBgDG

The Reddit post where it was submitted to `/r/ethereum` here

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4oo1io/an_open_le...
The French are a proud people, especially concerning their language. If you try (and fail) to talk to people in French first, they'll generally be happy to switch to English. Just don't start out in English.
Canonical also provide a product for free that powers an enormous swathe of the internet
To geocode means to transform an address into a location.

So say you have a textual address and want to know where it is located. You feed it into a geocoder and it returns a location.

The same database can often be used to go the other direction, taking a location and returning the name and other details about a place.
Yeah the WAL basically makes "concurrent processes reading/writing to the same database" work magically, where as without you'll get all sorts of issues and timeouts. I don't know why it isn't enabled by default, or at least more prominently advertised as an option.
> Ceteris paribus, in a world with more innovative potential than downside, the less cautious society will outcompete the more cautious one.

Sure but we don't know how bad the negative externalities of accumulation of human-made chemicals in our natural environment are until we get there.

We could be outcompeting in the short term with very large negative societal effects in the long term.
Right, which is what the Nicaraguan canal is supposed to be able to handle, if it is ever constructed.
Wow! I was going to post this but here it is already! I wrote (with a lot of help) the article there. I also jotted down some notes on the process of writing it with O'Reilly in case anybody's interested in that side of things: http://planspace.org/20160619-writing_with_oreilly/
> While I'm fine with this, the negative impact on traffic safety, fluidity, the pollution etc. are currently not priced in

Should brick and mortar businesses also be taxed extra for the increased traffic safety and pollution caused by citizens traveling to their stores to buy products? If anything I would expect delivery services to reduce both these problems.
The demographics almost precisely match the classic car hobby or woodworking in that if you buy a $200 graphics card 5 years ago, today you have a paperweight sitting in a landfill and your net worth is $200 lower. Therefore "computer people" are somewhat egalitarian, a 65+ white guy probably spent the same amount of money on his macbook as a 22 year old black woman.

Ham radio or classic cars or woodworking are different. You can safely assume an old guy will have a fabulous workshop in the years before death. I inherited a nice 1960s craftsman drill press and it works perfectly and looks stylish in a retro manner and when I'm 65 people will be subject to google image search pix of my shop. No 25 year old kid is proud of his workshop unless he's trust fund rich or there's a weird back story. My electronics lab is about the same as is my ham radio gear.

There is also a side dish of all computer people are noobs, almost all of them, who will leave the field in a couple years either fed up or ageism'd out or they were only in it for the $$$ or maybe its just a hobby that doesn't appeal to most people for more than five or so years. Whereas you have hams or woodworkers or car nuts who've been into one hobby from age 12 till 82 and 70 years of growth in skill and equipment will result in some impressive internet pix of some 82 yr old dude's shop.

Likewise if selection pressures mean you're only going to see old peoples workshops, the demographics are going to look very much like a college EE class from say 1965, because that's who's workshop you're looking at. Its highly likely that in 50 years you'll see old people workshops online that match the gender and racial demographics of the MSEE graduating class of 2016, but you're going to have to wait 50 years to see todays freshly minted MSEE's as old people.

Finally I'll admit my workshop is not terribly well organized, or could be improved, and there's that selection pressure that I'm not going to post a pix of my table saw with pieces of wood stacked on the table or sawdust shavings all over my router table. What you see online is staged and unusual and artificial, much as very few houses in the real world look like the pix in a "Better Homes and Gardens" magazine. And that staging taking piles of cash and time mean you're mostly seeing old people stuff. Even if most of the world in reality isn't old people stuff, most of the pictures certainly are.
https://twitter.com/OVH is in English.

@olesovhcom is the founder's semi-personal account where he tweets a lot of company related stuff, but it's not their official channel.
It this becomes something that the T&C require, I'm probably not buying a ticket. Unless it's someone I felt I really needed to see, then I'm at the mercy of the T&C. But I'm a rule follower. :)
"Go huge" for some reason sounds like incorrect grammar. Is it correct?
CS was based on the QW engine, but had a lot of netcode changes attempting to make it better for very high pings, but came with some frustrating adverse effects. These changes were the source of a lot of "registration" issues with hitbox locations between server/clients.
Instructions Per Second is different from the clock speed. In this case, it looks like each core is ~1 Instruction Per Clock, so 1 * 1.78 GHz * 1000 cores.

The trick is that getting 1.78 trillion IPS distributed over 1000 cores is very different from getting that over a few cores.
https://twitter.com/hartator/status/744662021598175233

I've asked on Twitter if removing the option to have the ovh modified version of Ubuntu will be enough. I always have random bugs when I was using it anyway. And it's pretty hard to debug.
Kind of funny that they trust Google Maps more for their contact page ;) https://unwiredlabs.com/contact
That problem is entirely disconnected from the concept of IP. Draconian enforcement would kill Internet virality, not enable anybody to make money from it.

The real problem is to incentivize payment. As Valve says, piracy is a service problem. First your service must be wanted, then it must be valuable enough to pay for, and payment has to be easy too.