skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a remotely scientific speculation, but as far as the animal world goes you see much more "specialized processing" than "general purpose computing". I think this explains why we suck at general purpose computing but are remarkably good at things that general purpose computers have trouble doing.

For example, your brain (and dog brains!) handle some tasks like catching a ball while running/jumping, perceiving depth, and responding to a name which are very computationally expensive.

If you programmed a robot to do any of those things, you'd be multiplying matrices and doing FFT's everywhere. Somehow our brain does the same thing, but we don't have any means to observe the internal computations required to accomplish the tasks.

I'd also argue that general purpose computing capacity is a very rare thing in the animal kingdom because in most cases only enough capacity is needed to glue the specialized parts together.
Can you define "the real economy"? I hope it doesn't involve law, finance, consulting, etc. as these look far less "real" than academic work to me.
"Those who have no swords can still die on them" - Tolkein

Responding to violence aimed at destroying or enslaving your society with enough violence to prevent it is kind of required by any society that does not have a death wish.

I can choose to respond with pacifism to violence directed at me. I do not have the right to choose that for anyone else, nor for my nation.
"In a 1982 congressional hearing, legislators asked [US Admiral Hyman Rickover] how long American carriers would survive in an actual war."
his response? “Forty-eight hours”.

https://warisboring.com/the-u-s-navy-s-big-mistake-building-...
Immediately made me think of this: http://www.theonion.com/article/ayahuasca-shaman-dreading-an...
The author seems to be forgetting that no two first-world, nuclear armed nations can ever engage eachother ever again without total mutual nuclear annihilation occuring. He spends the entire time worrying about highly advanced technologies that are only possessed in sufficient quantities by nuclear armed states. If that equipment were ever used, it would become pointless in a matter of hours once the nuclear weapons start flying.

With that in mind we ought to quit pouring all of our money on weapons designed for enemies that we can never realistically fight. It would make far more sense to retool for conflicts against insurgencies and developing nations.
Just an anecdote... a professor whose classes I've taken, which were fantastic, recently got tenured. In the liberal arts, too!

I like to think that tenure isn't quite dead yet. Depends on the college, naturally. (I deliberately use the word "college" instead of "university"; I find that the liberal arts college at my university is more organized than the computer science department.)

Eventually the college loan bubble will burst, and universities will no longer be able to be run like businesses.
It's commonly assumed in humanities disciplines that if you don't get a tenure-track job within a few years of graduation, you probably never will. It's also common for advisers to tell their students not to adjunct under any circumstances, because it makes you "damaged goods" on the job market. A lot of professors advise their students to take non-academic jobs and keep applying to tenure-track positions, rather than take adjunct jobs.

Many older professors who have tenure, and who have great influence in their departments, entered academia when it was the case that "there are always jobs for good people." That's their worldview, and it's just not true anymore. But because they think that way, when they see a candidate who has been looking for a job for several years, they assume that candidate is not one of the good ones.

It seems to me that the sciences are different, because postdoc positions seem to be a normal part of one's career progression after a PhD. But in the humanities, that's not the case.
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For those who want something that works really well, with a very nice UI and is free, I would highly recommend Insomnia for Google Chrome (it functions as a standalone app outside of Chrome).

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/insomnia-rest-clie...
Most oxygen (even today) is produced by single-celled algae in the ocean.
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I had nice results with Tekken 3 soundtrack.

Tomba/Tombi sountrack is nice too.
Same here. Leaving grad school was the best decision I ever made. The year I left, there were only 2 or 3 positions in my field in the entire United States, and one of them went unfilled because the university didn't like any of the candidates.
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Google: They have an advantage in search that I think would be hard for a new entrant to overcome (mostly because of the amount of data they've collected). I don't think their advantage is algorithmic at this point so much as lots of data + they're a verb. Uber is practically a verb at this point, but I think their data is less valuable. I guess it would be comparable to Foursquare's data, but much more of it.

Apple: The whole industry has become a race to the bottom, except for Apple which has built a phenomenal brand (also see Nike for example of a valuable brand). I don't think the Uber brand is worth all that much.

SpaceX: I think it's fair to say setting up a rocket company has significantly higher barriers to entry than building a taxi dispatching app.

But Groupon I think fits:

Let's say that's true; the folks at Groupon are smart and they'll figure out online coupons. Why does anyone think Groupon will be able to maintain an advantage with that? What's to stop anyone from hiring some web developers and opening their own daily deals website? How does the whole industry not become a race to the bottom? Hell, given the price wars going on now, I'd argue it already has.

In the case of Uber, I'm arguing that the barrier to entry for other companies will be buying several cars in a retail market, because various manufacturers will be selling them.
Will any of the improvements make their way to Visual Studio Code? I've been using it for the past months and its been really nice.
The US dropped more bombs on Laos while fighting the viet cong than the sum of all bombs dropped during WWII. Laos is one of the poorest countries in the world and wasn't directly involved. People are still walking through fields and getting blown up and we don't help them de-mine.

EDIT: I see some upvotes/interest so I want to state a feeling that I have: that we would have never done this if we respected Laotian people or thought of them as our equals. Only by thinking of them as simple poor brown hill folk could something like this happen. If Norway invaded Sweden via Denmark, we would never have treated Denmark the way we treated Laos.

> From 1964 to 1973, as part of the Secret War operation conducted during the Vietnam War, the US military dropped 260 million cluster bombs – about 2.5 million tons of munitions – on Laos over the course of 580,000 bombing missions. This is equivalent to a planeload of bombs being unloaded every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, for nine years – nearly seven bombs for every man, woman and child living in Laos.

> Nearly half of Laos is now contaminated with unexploded ordnances (UXOs), explosive weapons such as bombs, grenades and land mines. Cluster bombs, explosive weapons that work by ejecting hundreds of smaller submunitions over a wide area, make up the majority of UXOs that plague the country. Cluster munitions pose an especially grave danger to civilians, according to specializing in the field of disability, because they are “highly imprecise and indiscriminate” weapons designed to “scatter explosives over swaths of land often hundreds of yards wide.”

> Of the 260 million cluster bombs dropped by the United States, up to 30 percent of them failed to detonate. These bombs were released on targets in a large shell or casing. Each of the casings contained roughly 600 to 700 small bomblets, or “bombies,” as they are often called in Laos.

> There are now close to 78 million unexploded bomblets littering rice fields, villages, school grounds, roads and other populated areas in Laos, hindering development and poverty reduction. More than 34,000 people have been killed or injured by cluster munitions since the bombing ceased in 1973, with close to 300 new casualties in Laos every year. About 40 percent of the accidents result in death and 60 percent of the victims are children. At this time, less than 1 percent of the UXOs have been cleared.

http://legaciesofwar.org/resources/books-documents/land-of-a...
That is a major advantage of postman, but the reality for me is that I use an API client like this when I'm building and API. I'm on my mac and Paw is the best, most productive option.

I've been giving feedback to the postman team and hope to see it continue to improve. The electron desktop app was a big step forward, but there is still lots of room to improve.
Bought Paw on the Mac App Store a while back. I wonder if this update will come to me as well, or that I need to repurchase. For now I can't find Paw 3 there at all; perhaps they stopped using the MAS?
> Occasional Fasts. I normally fast from 6pm until noon the next day but I now do one 3 day fast each month. I think this is going to become more and more common as a way to head off cancer in the body.

Lot of Indians fast. the reason is religious but many think the ancient just used religion etc as a tool to ensure their best practices are carried forward to future generations.
We must thanks the wifi alliance for not having solved this problem in 15 years while they were busy releasing broken crypto implementations.
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Appreciate the tip. In that case, the servers could get ahead of them especially if they use simplified cores for interrupt-heavy processing and HW acceleration for algorithm/protocol state machines that rarely change.
Many people have pointed to an overpopulation being the root cause for this, but I believe that ignores the increasingly inflating administrative staff at universities. That is, it is also a budget problem. The budget for the increase in professor staff is being diverted into additional administrative positions that do... something, apparently. I'm not convinced that the administrative bloat is worth a fraction of what it costs.
At what point did the appearance of military power diverge from actual military effectiveness? Guerilla warfare in the 18th century?

It seems like the modern militaries are probably already well aware of these two separate things, to the point where there are probably two different conversations about Horizon 1/2/3, one for projecting the appearance of power for diplomatic leverage, and the other for wartime efficacy.
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Oh nice ! Maybe can be used for translating sign language in real time, that would be amazing, kinda hard to get the depth infos though.

Thanks for the answers and if you ever finish the alg you know where to post it :)
> (not having a master's degree being one of many factors against me)

I'm not sure that I understand this. In your field is having a PhD (but without a masters) considered a negative?
I specifically excluded defending your own country and/or home. Everyone certainly should be allowed to that.

My point is - we as a society should be actively distilling in everyone the reverse of the results of the stanford prison study - you are responsible for your actions, even if someone else tells you it's ok or even orders you. Because in the end, as the attacker, you always have a choice, when it's just you and someone else.

In the end it's just a person against another person, just because someone told them that the other guy is bad. Everyone should be taught to question that. Probably he/she is just as scared as you are.

I recently watched "Lessons of Darkness" (documentary by Werner Hertzog) again and the scene where a woman describes soldiers coming into her home and stepping on the head of her infant was just haunting, because I could not stop thinking of, why would anyone do that. In that moment, it's not your superior ordering you - it's you making the decision to be the terrible torturer.

Please, just walk away.
I hate using the url for the namespace.
The internet being a result of DoD research doesn't make them impervious to criticism.
Right, with a $127k salary+bonus, plus her husband earning six figures as well, going from negative 80K to positive 200K net worth in six years means ... 280K / 6 ~= $50K in savings per year.
> They don't need to be terrible humans to be successful so why do they do it? This seems to be par for the course of them in terms of shady shit they've been accused of or caught doing.

Because they are a bunch of rich people who simply do not give a shit and the rules do not apply to them?

A snotty bully gets the lesson "there will eventually be somebody bigger" beaten into him. A snotty rich bully never actually encounters that.
Yet another case of NIMBYism. Why does the community get to decide on what is done with private property? A radio tower mast harms nobody, will not significantly affect traffic, utilization of public utilities, or pollute.

It's telling, the comment at the end. 100,000 pounds? Not enough. We need to extract more from those evil financial companies, because they can afford it. What a naked money grab.
Adm Rickover was known mostly for two things besides putting an atomic reactor in a submarine in the 1950's: Being consistently right and being blunt about it.
I believe you may have misunderstood the point.
The author of the post suggests that why and when remain the same - to show the flag for deterrence, or to control part of the sea to protect shipping, or to protect a Marine amphibious force, or to project offensive power against any adversary in well-defended areas.

Today, the way we do this carrier strike groups. The author is arguing that the carrier strike model for achieving these goals is now ~50 years old. If you were to start today from a blank slate to achieve those goals, you'd construct something very different from a strike force. This is where he's suggesting mavericky thinking ought to be applied - in coming up with those blank slate solutions.
> If you have to ask the question then you're not familiar with the subject.

Well, yes, obviously. That's why I asked.

> This is from Norway - they were close to the very large and frankly unsafe tests the Russians did. It claims some health-hazard, but then admit that the effective exposure of the population from all that testing was the equivalent of 2 medical x-rays.

That is such a misrepresentation that you are basically lying. The article says the effective exposure was equivalent to sixty X-ray mammograms, or two whole-body CT scans. A single CT scan has an estimated 1/2000 chance of causing a fatal cancer[1], a reasonable risk if it's used to diagnose a much more dangerous existing condition. The population of Norway in 1956 was 3,460,000--that means ~3,500 deaths from the equivalent of two unnecessary CT scans, in Norway alone.

Additionally, from your article, "Exposure to nuclear radiation during months three and four of pregnancy [due to fallout over Norway, 1956-1966] was associated with reduced educational attainment, high school completion, and adult earnings. Such exposures were also associated with reduced IQ scores among boys at 18 years of age. A one standard deviation increase in ground exposure reduced high school completion by about 1 percentage-point among men, and by about 2 percentage points among women."

> The tests they did out in the Pacific were orders of magnitude greater, and there are almost zero health effects for anyone but the surrounding animals

This is also a complete lie. Read any account of Castle Bravo alone, and the radiation poisoning and birth defects inflicted on the inhabitants of the Marshall Islands, which the US government covered up for decades.

[1] http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/diagnosis-staging/ct-scan...
I think it's on a pedestal where it matters, where the funding decisions are being made. The public's opinion only matters in the long term. Though, admittedly, the long term is probably coming up pretty quickly. There's a lot of things that have had their opinion trending negative for so long that people have become blase about the negative trends suddenly coming due this year.
I didn't know about that one. Sounds like a failed implementation of the concept. A better one that someone told me about recently was some embedded products combining a good CPU with a weaker one (eg Cortex M0) that absorbed & queued interrupts to preserve real-time properties. Sandia did something similar in SSP processor. lowRISC is experimenting with their minion cores.

So, I think there's still potential. Especially given the formal verification and security strategies for I/O programs were often different in academic literature than algorithmic ones. Specialized hardware might facilitate improving their security or availability in provable way.
I heard a professor with tenure encourage my friend to try to get PhD by saying things like "Find an out of the way small college, get tenure, once you get it you don't have to do anything, you'll always have a job, you'll have time to travel, go to the pool do whatever you want".

In a way that mirrored what that professor was doing -- teaching stuff that was last relevant in mid 80's, doing absolutely the minimum required, reading off the slides all lecture, then have TA grade everything. It was scary imaging the wasted potential and thousands students over decades who missed on what could have been a useful course.

That was a state college, so besides taking parent's money and wasting them, they were taking state' money (although they'd been a lot less of that lately).

Most professors were very good and not saying we should not have tenure, as that would undermine the ability to do some green field research that perhaps doesn't have dollar signs attached to it, but at the same time, I think a few bad apples like that are ruining the image and idea behind it.
A dispute with you credit card if you paid by card ought to do the trick. If that doesn't work, Small Claims Court works well in most US states- it may be a pain, but if more consumers would use it in ridiculous cases like this, companies would improve.
I'm not the poster you're responding to, but the difference between something like writing vs. stamp collecting or gaming is the act of creation. You're making something that others can enjoy and that you can look at and appreciate. It can live on when you've passed. When you play a game, you do enjoy the experience, but at the end of it all, you've not created anything of value.
Well, seems like you ended up wasting even more time AND money.
I've owned Paw for a while, and I find it much more user-friendly than Postman. It's not for everyone, sure, but the developer has put in good work and you won't regret a purchase.
Their starting point for the product was to barrel through (read: ignore) a widespread municipal regulation in order to manufacture a new market opportunity. This fact alone should be enough to understand their ethos.
Yes, I do not mean to just criticize journals, authors also need to start realizing they need to produce that as well. 10-20ish pages of paper for the work of a dozen people for three years (and that for the good-to-great papers) is just not an acceptable payoff for the amount of money involved.
>It's not as simple as that, for all sciences

Yes, it is - that's the very basis for science. One of the main problems is that many academic disciplines have been wrongly classified as hard science (see "social" sciences).

>The LHC has only been built once.. But everyone believes the results, and believes that they represent the Higgs.

Nobody intelligent "believes" anything. We examine evidence and draw tentative conclusions based on that evidence, always retaining doubt because, unless you are omniscient, there is always new information that can come to light that can cause you to change your conclusion. Science is a process. If you "believe" anything without doubt, you aren't a scientist, you are a priest.
Thanks! The example used case you describe for `thinker sync` is certainly a good one for smaller dev shops - unfortunately many larger enterprises might have issues with cloning production customer/user data for development purposes. Of course I don't expect this to apply in every situation.

One more thing that you might want to clarify: you gave a metric for the time it takes to sync to your local database over the internet. I think it would be a good idea to indicate the connection bandwidth and the amount of data which was actually saved from being transferred (perhaps only in number or percentage of records) as well as post the full time of a regular clone as a base metric.
Low-hanging fruit is becoming increasingly more rare. The only real path forward is hard technology. Hard technology requires tolerance for risk, given the necessity of hardtech taking such risks should be celebrated.
Didn't know about this. Thanks!
Events of end of 2013 and 2014 were not about Gezi protests. This is about the corruption scandal and claims. Wikipedia link (Although probably quite biased) :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_corruption_scandal_in_Tur...
Web (and other) developers usually don't connect USB devices to the VM anyway, through.
I mean, Rickover was a through and through submarine guy though. This statement might be true, but he was hardly objective and without agenda when it came to surface naval warfare.
Yeah, Austin, for example, is artificially inflated because of Half Price Books.
Sketch (https://www.sketchapp.com/) stopped using MAS in the past year too. Not the best trend for Apple.
I don't have anything beyond a bachelor's degree. I was hired (I'm assuming) for my professional history. I haven't seriously considered going tenure-track and so have found it strange when other people find it strange that I'm not seeking tenure. In the same way a tech worker would find it strange to be asked if they hoped to stay at Google/FB/Apple for their entire liveas.
With their budget they can afford to make a custom SLAM ASIC, push more cores into their SoC and create some special GPU. Such capital-heavy ASIC approach can give 10-100x performance boost.
I've used Postman on and off but I just find the UI more burdensome than it's worth and use one of the more simple rest clients and curl for when I'm really trying to string together some complicated requests.

Paw looks gorgeous and very nicely featured. Let's see how it works on Monday against the Niantic APIs :)
I'll step in an Uber in exceptional cases (basically only when someone else is ordering and I don't want to start a scene), but that's about it. Otherwise, I'll use Lyft or whatever local alternatives might be available, if at all possible.
Still seems like such a huge attack surface compared to a dude sitting at a terminal in an NSA office or a drone pilot in Nevada or a cruise missile platform tucked away in a mountain somewhere.

Aren't we past the point where giant war machines have much effectiveness when it comes to actual global war between 1st world nation-states?
My thought was for government financed end user drug development. Think something like Pharma now but financed by taxes. This entity would compete on a level playing field with big Pharma. The basic science research would stay the same. Then both government end user drug research and private Pharma would compete on turning basic science into actual approved drugs.
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