skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I plan to use Java since that's what I am mostly familiar with. I googled a bit and I think there are couple[1] of Java libraries to handle n dimensional array. Lets hope it will work out.

[1] http://nd4j.org/
What would be the purpose?

Chatting with people? This is what a normal messaging app does.

Chatting with nearby cars? You'd need geolocation accuracy to be continuous and very precise. Waze, a navigation app, allows crowdsourced submissions about traffic info, police, etc; it's goal-oriented and works.

Nintendo 3DS consoles will interact when they're in proximity. That's goal-oriented and works.

Several normal chat networks, like Snapchat, allow you to locate nearby users when they're in geolocation mode.

General purpose, semi-anonymous neighbor chat is just not that big of a market (yet), even when you discount a focus on cars. Yik-yak was similar by offering geofenced anonymous chat based around fixed (in real-world) locations, but they just pivoted away from anonymity.
Seems to me like having the station in operation would be helpful for going further.
That's not true, actually. There's a ton of work being done in computational creativity. AI is actually pretty good at sensing similarities between instances of data, and recombining various elements to create something new. There's been a ton of recent work using deep learning, including DeepDream.

https://psmag.com/rise-of-the-robot-artist-5aa0e6e1b361?gi=c...
Apart from the obvious one I just mentioned?
1. Ubuntu doing it doesn't excuse MS. They're completely unrelated companies, and Ubuntu doesn't represent all of the FOSS OS world.
2. Ubuntu actually listened and stopped doing it.
HFT firms make something like an order of magnitude less than their prey, the major investment banks.
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Multiplayer support planned? Being able to collaborate with a tool like this is something I've looked for for a while.
I learnt about the Nim Game from the movie "Last Year At Marienbad". Really nice movie, give it a try :D
What you are missing is that in the old days, your buy/sell order was probably handled by a human market maker instead of an HFT's algo, who would push up/down the price much more than 'slightly', hence making you pay more in trading costs. The biggest opponents of HFTs are the major financial institutions who used to provide those market making roles.
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I have a chrome packaged app

I built it about 4-5 years ago

Back then to get any kind of power you had to use a packaged app. Extensions either didn't have permissions needed to build a real offline first experience.

Nowadays service workers help with the offline role. I wonder how much permissions have been expanded to allow the same types of apps to be extensions.
This is partly because robotics and computation are orthogonal. We have fast progress in computation, but robotic progress is much slower at the scale of human hands.
It's also an anagram of JoltPew maybe The Flash is behind this....
In Jafar Panahi's excellent film Taxi - a faux-documentary about a taxi driver's day in Tehran, where the driver is played by the director himself - you can see a bootleg video peddler take a ride to a client's place. He even defends his actions to the director (who he recognizes) as promoting free speech.
Once the grocers raise their prices, there's no margin left for the Ferrari owner to capture.
Now that you mention it, I should have left out "fixed" in "fixed budget" (Also goes contrary to the second book I listed, ironically
yes, here is the video of bump which shows use cases. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csq37RB1CFk#t=129
In my experience the lemons have no problem working 70 hour weeks; they weren't working that hard to begin with and know that they need to appear productive since they can't be productive. Whereas employees who are productive are tired after 35 hours or want to get home and work on side projects.

Long work hours actually select for lemons.
That's getting a little far fetched now...
Exactly. We went through the 409A process for the first time a couple of years back and the valuation firm will typically take the preferred price (assuming there's been no secondary sales of common) and then apply discounts for lack of liquidity etc which gets you anywhere from 70-90% lower than the cost of preferred. The valuation firm usually comes in conservative and then you negotiate the FMV down. Assuming you haven't raised any more money, subsequent 409As are a lot quicker with a pretty light touch from the valuation firm.
> Online, you just hit "ignore".

You've clearly never been the target of even a minor troll campaign. Hundreds of accounts each send hundreds of messages an hour across a wide range of social media and email accounts. If they can get your real world details they'll use those too. If they get your workplace details they'll use that to harass your employer.
I think ML-family is fine. Scala is much closer to ML than what people sort into the Algol-family or C-family groups.
User 'toomuchtodo' gave us a good reference earlier in this discussion showing just how much the US spends.

http://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0053_defense-comparison

Also, I would argue that Russia isn't a good example to compare against because they are the cold war superpower that was overspending against the US to win the cold war, and it seems they, like the, US continue that trend.
I posit that the simple explanation is that two(?) mods can't see everything. My suggestion: Don't take it personally.
The Information reported that they declined an offer from GM and ended up pursuing another round of funding. (It's a little unclear whether there was a formal bid.)

https://www.theinformation.com/lyft-rebuffs-acquisition-appr...

(sorry for paywall)
OTOH, if I (or a big entity like, say, Apple) released something called Java which didn't really behave like Java™, that would also result in a bit of madness.

I think trademarks are good; and when compatible alternatives exist, of say, a product named 'Foo™', they should be able to market themselves as 'Foo™ compatible' (and obviously not as 'Foo™').
here some use cases from video of bump which what we tought similar ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csq37RB1CFk#t=129
"$640 an hour"... sigh I earn that a week :-(
They already have a rocket strapped to one of the compartments, which they use several times a year to reboost the ISS to higher altitudes. Getting to Mars just requires boosting for longer.
This is an interesting idea!

It might even be better to think about an investment vehicle more closely correlated with housing costs. The main Vanguard REIT is mostly commercial property I believe which could be somewhat uncorrelated with residential property.
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I couldn't agree with you more. I can't even tell you how many times I've figured out something while on a run or walk -- far too often I've started writing code without thinking it through adequately. Getting away from the keyboard, away from google, away from every possible distraction and just letting your brain have some time to reflect on things is sadly lacking with today's constant barrage of information.

I've started doing something in the past year - when I go for a run, I pick one "small thing" to think about. It might be trouble I'm having with code (javascript Promises, anyone?), or something as unrelated as "why do we drive on the right side of the road in the U.S." I don't always intend to try to find an answer, I just want to get in the habit of just thinking without distraction.
In the 'world of the future' type books I read as a young lad of the 80's there was much said about factories in orbit... Admittedly in hindsight these books appear quite far-fetched about the pace of humanity's expansion into space (titles by Usborne and Neil Ardley if you're playing along at home).

Has anything been learnt from ISS about zero-G manufacturing that might make it a suitable platform for such by a private group?

Isn't the ISS supposed to be a staying waypoint for a mission to Mars?
> The market doesn't value everything optimally

Examples: My time, the skills of guys who chase balls around in sneakers, the skills of scientists who develop the Theory of Relativity, the Theory itself, my child's education, or my child.
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So, I'm not the only one. (Some of my best reading occurs in bed. I've sometimes felt a little weird about that, but as I've grown older, hey, if it works...)
The cornerstone of the scientific method is "hypothesis testing via experiments". Data scientists typically skip the experiments and make models based on pre-existing data. So, I am skeptical of calling it a science.
Using CRISPR/Cas9 to modify an organism isn't evolution by natural selection, it's genetic engineering, which is my whole point. Natural selection has the benefit of time but we have the benefit of intelligence and culture, which can be far more powerful because our modifications aren't bound by the fitness of all of the intermediary states. This allows us to make increasingly complex changes to biomolecular machinery that are all but impossible to [d]evolve within our current ecosystem because of the billions of years of biological debt, to borrow a term from software engineering.

The question isn't whether we can augment ourselves through advanced technology, it's whether or not we can design a microbe that is so different from existing life that we can control its reproduction indefinitely (in the face of evolution) without crippling the organism's usefulness to our civilization.
So does this mean Chrome Remote Desktop is going to be a Chrome OS exclusive by early 2017?
"Pro-rata to break ties" <--- A pretty big issue that he quickly glosses over.
Ukraine just recently experienced what it's like to be a country with less weapons than another country and without a strong tie to a coalition that includes the dominant military power in the world.
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Confluence is great, it just gets incredibly expensive rather quickly. Self-hosting the $10 version is probably the best route, however, it's fairly resource intensive and seems rather cumbersome (damn you, java) if you have issues.
If you think someone is a serial troll you can gather the posts and email dang and sctb to let them know. I don't know if that achieves anything, but it gives them a steer that you want more to be done.
The original Atlas guidance computer was ground-based.[1] It was the first transistorized computer, but it was a sizable mainframe and not on the missile. Guidance was by radio control.

The ARMA Micro D is really obscure. It shows up in some lists of early computers. Apparently it was inside some versions of the LTN-51 inertial navigation system.[2][3] But this seems to have been around 1969-1970. The Concorde used that navigation system.

[1] http://afspacemuseum.org/displays/BurroughsComputer/Burrough...
[2] https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1970/1970%20-%...
[3] http://www.seaboardairlines.org/aircraft/ins-2.htm
Call S. R. Hadden, he'll buy it.
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I like Lyft and use them preferentially, hope they stay afloat.
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So is it reasonable to surmise that what's happening here is:

Lyft has a 1.2B cash reserve, ~400MM/yr in revenue, isn't profitable, and has now hit the end of the line on "unicorn" infusions at favorable terms. It's locked in a total war with Uber, which it cannot win or even stalemate while simultaneously shielding its reserves to keep an adequate runway to profitability.

So, since it can't win the race against Uber, its prospects are greatly diminished, and the greatest value it might hold is as someone else's strategic asset.

Or is it something more fundamental than that?
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+1. fwiw from me. All the best. I'll keep an eye on you guys.
Yeah, I'm positive. There was no user interaction involved: when I came back to my laptop, it was updating, and when the updated completed all the changes I described had been made. Privacy settings had been reset, Edge had become my default browser, and the Edge icon had taken Firefox's place on the taskbar.
I don't see what use cases have to do with anything.
Norway: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/apr/21/study-finds-pi...

UK: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121126/00590921141/dear-...

US: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2016/02/26/57-million-americ...

Australia: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150722/06502731723/aussi...
Don't you really only have that discoverability there because almost nobody is actually in the Chrome Web Store? For the most popular browser on the planet, Chrome's store is incredibly sparse.

I was always surprised Google didn't fold it into the Play Store as a separate category, now that it serves movies, books, etc. that aren't Android-specific. And the Play Store is a far more mature product than the Chrome Web Store.
I'm well aware of the on-board PRU's. They are very cool.

They also are very specific to the TI processors and lock you into using the Sitara's forevermore. Not so good if I have a product with volume.

In addition, the PRU's had absymal documentation when I last checked. Fortunately, that seems to be changing.
Just saw Kelsey give a talk at Abstractions about more advanced patterns in Kubernetes and he mentioned this repo. Looks like a fantastic tutorial and his talk was very informative.

Highly recommend watching the video when it's released if you weren't able to attend.
Tank you! If yiu have a link it'd be useful.
That analogy is tempting but inaccurate. Pretty popular with the Mike Lewis "the market is RIGGED against the LITTLE GUY and we're all MAD AS HELL" crowd, but in the end it's hyperbole. IEX is not for the little guy. IEX is for the really big guy. Institutional investors. They are tired of having the market run away from them on large orders.

A closer analogy would be that the neighbor is the owner of the local supermarket and you have recently announced that you were going to buy all the milk in the region. You go to one local supermarket (not his) first and buy out the entire stock of milk. On your way to the next one (his), he raises the price of milk to $4.20, knowing that your increase in demand is going to drive up the price everywhere and he doesn't want to be the idiot that sold you milk at $4.00/gal and will have to resupply at $4.20, losing 20 cents per gallon on that sale. When you get there your realize that the price of milk has gone up, and you yell and scream and stomp your feet, but you buy the milk anyways, because you have high demand for milk. The supermarket owner is not a jerk for responding to the increased demand for milk, but many people see it that way.

So maybe your a really rich guy who can afford a lot of milk, and so you lobby the government to restrict the ability of supermarket owners to talk to each other, maybe they have to wait a day or something. The supermarket owners are just going to respond by increasing the price of milk on average, because there are random milk thirsty people coming through every once in a while buying up all the milk, increasing the price, and they need to increase the milk premium so they can afford to resupply. They need to compensate for that risk. For that reason everybody loses out. Less people are going to buy milk due to increased prices, so that's bad for the store owner, and milk buyers are going to have to pay a higher price.

Same thing is going to happen at IEX. There is simply going to be a wider bid/ask spread.
> The short answer is that the cerebral cortex is usually identified as having 6 layers. These can't be correlated with layers in a neural network, however. I do seem to recall a spitball number of 30-ish in relation to the visual cortex, but I've been unable to find any references as to what that number would actually represent, let alone if it's been superseded.

That short answer is very misleading. Those 6 layers are histological layers of density and structure in the cerebral cortex (eg how the cross sections look a little different). You might have many (30+) layers of cells with high interconnectivity in each of those 6 layers. Current estimate is 100 billion for the number of neurons, but the estimate of inter-connectivity is on the order of 100 trillion synapses. The human brain complexity many orders of magnitude higher than anything we have ever "simulated" in silicon.
Other things that AU broke for me:
- BSODs when I plug in my kindle PW2
- My Nexus5 is not detected again (I have the N edition and before AU installing the Feature Media Pack fixed this)
- It overrode the Prolific driver I had manually installed with a newer one that breaks the fake serial adapter (easy enough to fix, but annoying)
Does this have any effect on the seemingly small pool of games in the Chrome Store? Has anybody actually made money from that market?
Maybe instead of selling it, they sell branding rights. "Welcome to Space Station Pepsi"
That doesn't mean anything.
> it's not really the science of data

How isn't it?
why? same drivers. very similar app.
Agree. I'll add that while it's valuable to compile a giant list of topic areas, and references and resources for those topic areas, working through all the stuff on this list would take years to do in a non-trivial way.

What I really prize are curricula that err in the other direction; something like: here are the handful of foundational topic areas you _have_ to know about, and the pieces of those areas that will give you the absolute minimum. But taken collectively, you will then be able to make a beginning; and be able to engage with other, more advanced, resources, as the need arises, and as the sophistication of your projects require.

It's hard (at least for me) to know which subset of knowledge is required to make a beginning. That's where I need help.
Monopolies are bad.
Ah the upcoming "automation utopia" will "free man from the chains of labour" to pursue their passions -- at least that's what they will tell us while SF firms endlessly drive towards automating more people's jobs away while they rake in the cash. My worry is the lengthy, inevitable in-between time of human suffering and corporate greed until something bursts and we actually pass 21st century laws like Basic income, vote in technology-competent politicians, etc.

It is my worry, as well.
ISS reboost is about 0.0185 m/s/s, says https://youtu.be/ZkdfkRC4DbA?t=121 .

Delta-V Earth/Mars is 5,748 m/s, says http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/appmissiontable... .

That's 3.5 days of boost.

The ISS mass is 419,455 kg. The minimum energy needed is 1/2 m v^2 or 7E12 J.

A Saturn V is about 1E11J, says http://www.ocean.washington.edu/courses/envir215/energynumbe... .

So if you attach a few score Saturn Vs to ISS, you might be able to pull it off.
Yes, "PMI".

I think I have to agree with my child co-commenters, that if they're waiving PMI in one sense, you're paying for it in another.

You always have to add up all the pieces -- over their respective lifespans -- and see where your total costs come out. As well, whether retaining more money up front and pumped into your own investments is going to outperform any additional eventual expense, allowing you net (and also considering taxes) to come out ahead.

Past a certain point, I'd say, make sure you're doing pretty well, financially, even if you end up leaving a couple of hundred or even a thousand on the table over the lifespan of the load. Instead, focus your remaining time and energy on having a good life. Worth far more than worrying about the last dollar.
Unfortunately, though, I think if your strategy is "hope people adjust their behavior on your own" then your sales pitch isn't going to be effective.

So if we want to change the status quo, how do we make it over that preaching-to-the-choir hump? (This sounds rhetorical, but it's more cynical/frustrated, actually - I don't have the answer.)
Broken systems can be fixed. I don't see anyone saying that it should be burned to the ground. That's quite a leap.
it doesn't break things with updates... it just doesn't work at all on the first place. speakers, graphics cards, any accessories routinely stop working for no reason. so glad I got rid of my Ubuntu box and only use Mac and Windows now
I would add that their flanking Uber internationally (China) failed. Whoever purchases them would want some asset whose value isn't tied to fighting Uber head-to-head.

Perhaps the network could be valuable to Google? I notice that Waze seems to be inching in that direction, and perhaps they could get value from the mapping too.

The ride-sharing market seems to have network effects, which means the service with 80% of the market will get much more than 80% of the profit.
No, that's pretty much the scenario as I can see it. And to add to that, they're bleeding to death extremely fast. They have a matter of 12 to 18 months to find a buyer or they might as well close up shop. Each quarter that passes will diminish their financial position and lessen their bargaining power in the sale. If they wait toward the end of the time horizon, it'll practically become an expensive talent acquisition ala Jet.com.
A module functor is nothing more than a higher order module...one that takes as a parameter some data structure that conforms to an interface (signature). Rust may not have constructs called module functors, but it definitely has constructs that are capably equivalent, as well as some that are even more powerful (a claim that applies to Scala as well)

For me, type inference, strong typing, and ADTs with pattern matching puts a language into the ML family quite easily.
I think as climate change really starts getting going the American Southwest including California will need to start desalination on a massive scale or risk mass emigration. The current situation is sketchy at best, give it 20 years and most of that area will be bone dry.
In terms of number of neurons, human brain is around 10^11. Current image classification deep networks are around 10^7. However, its not just the number of neurons, the connections per neurons also matter. The connections per neuron in a human are in thousands while in modern networks they are in hundreds.

The human brain is also very efficient so it also makes a very good use of those neurons, and modern networks aren't. However, a human brain trains over a very very long time and also prunes itself constantly, while such efficiency techniques at scale for very large networks are being explored in deep learning only recently.
Unless you are exceeding the liquidity on a single exchange HFT will never affect you.

Here how it works... Imagine you want to BUY 10000 MSFT...

You send your order to exchange A, it does a partial fill for 1000 orders, and sends the remainder to exchanges b,c,d. An HFT firm sees your order to exchange A knows its not going to fill and sends its own orders to buy the liquidity on B,C,D and then sends sell orders at a higher price to B,C,D, your order fails to fill and you have to issue a new order at a higher price.

Since retailers will very likely never exceed the liquidity on a single exchange they'll never have any issue with HFT and will just experience increased liquidity and faster fills.

However, if you're a large dinosaur still sending huge orders now you'll need a group of suckers who want to trade only with you, enter IEX, and 'consumer' protection from HFT on their exchanges who now has a large pool of suckers to trade with.
Not in the city I'm in. Lyft drivers are notably more friendly, to the extent that it's almost a stereotype. Uber seems to have more regular taxi drivers moonlighting, Lyft seems to have more people making it their second job.