skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that everybody cheats so the cable was proof that they couldn't cheat. You can't cheat the speed of light.
I disagree.

Military contests, like any other, are about the relative strengths of the opponents.

Comparing percents of GDP might tell you if you're in running with the pack or not, but the outcome of a fight between Lower Plonkova (spending 20% of the resources extracted from 2M dirt farmers and basket weavers on their military) and the United Saviors of Everything (spending 3% of the resources extracted from 400M first-world baristas and code monkeys) isn't in question.

The absolute number is absolutely relevant.
Cool? You think it's cool? It's not cool. It's commie bullshit.
The human brain is what they call a recurrent neural network which means that it contains directed cycles. Classic neural networks are strictly hierarchical and one-way.
If you take into account that signals can keep resonating in the brain (firing in circles) then the amount of layers is infinite.

Recurrent neural networks are incredibly hard to train with the exception of liquid state machines (also known as echo state networks or reservoir computing).
Brain doesn't work like NNs in software. It's different beast you can't really compare layers in one and in second.

There are several reason why this model just does not apply to the brain[1]:

1. The brain is not organized in layers this way. Instead there are interconnected circuits, feedback, brain regions, bidirectional connections, and such.

2.The brain's connections are feedforward only without "error feedback".

3. The brain doesn't learn from training data with correct answers (or a "ground truth").

4.The neurons in the brain spike and use different learning algorithms.

[1]https://www.quora.com/How-many-hidden-layers-are-in-the-neur...
There will simply be too many menial jobs made obsolete for blue collar workers to step up into supervision/technician roles

I think you're thinking about this backwards. AI will claim professional jobs like accountants and lawyers LONG before it affects hairdressers and plumbers.
And why not make it a new opt-in API for new applications? What it should have been: Run an old API app -> exclusive webcam access. Run new/updated API apps -> concurrent webcam access.

To think, Microsoft used to be all about preserving backwards compatibility to the extreme.
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It's not really true that C++ does not have an ABI advantage over Rust if (by your own comment) they both end up using the C abi. Although pedants will insist that C is not a subset of C++, practically speaking you can write idiomatic C perfectly fine that will compile with a C++ compiler, and much C code in the wild is actually written this way. And most moderately experienced C++ developers are very comfortable with all of these elements and syntax (like pointers, goto, C style callbacks, etc), because they are a subset of their own language. It's very straightforward to have your API be C (and therefore have a stable ABI) but do implementation in C++. Even some C standard libraries do this.

In summary, if you're writing a C API/ABI, source compatibility is still a major advantage, there is no two ways around it.
You are a bit off on the increase in auto prices. For instance, A 1978 VW Rabbit (Golf predecessor) cost around $5000. A 2016 Golf starts at $18,500. I haven't had a VW in a long time, but the Rabbit was a pretty bare bones automobile. Almost anything these days is way more luxurious than cars back then and way more reliable.
> That's not really my point. If software X can do handwriting recognition then having software Y call software X is usually fairly easy and has little to do with intelligence.

Ah, I understand you now. I don't see the relevance though as I don't see why it's important how many algorithms, programs and computers is used to implement the AI. I imagine your cellphone is unable to do many things a regular human can do such as hold a basic conversion and learn to play new games which is why I wouldn't call it intelligent.
Yeah! Who says I can't paint my nursery with lead-based paint!? Who needs electrical grounding!? Circuit breakers? I'm sure it'll be fine.
I think that *nix commands can be split into roughly two groups: ones that feel like generic "actions" and have multiple implementations (ls, cd, cat), and ones that refer to specific pieces of software (curl, emacs). The first category should be aliased to the PS equivalents, while the second should be left as-is.

With commands like ls, I'd prefer to have my muscle memory get me the first-class Powershell experience (which means a structured list of files, not a string containing ls's output) instead of attempting to act exactly like ls acts in bash. If I didn't want to use Powershell's features (which /bin/ls does not support) I wouldn't use Powershell.
Something I totally forgot to mention, which was remiss of me, is that the platform I'm talking about is also where developers who have their own product - SaaS or otherwise - can also distribute free integrations to our products. Loads of them do that and successfully bolster their own value within any joint customers we share a bit more too.
Forcing things generally doesn't help. Like, the difference between working really hard at something and letting yourself attend to a task is minor at best. And the long-term cost of trying to "work hard" is huge.

I'm fairly sure this insight generalizes outside of programming as well. It's absolutely true for blues dancing, where not being relaxed enough hurts your dancing and having a couple drinks is performance-enhancing.
> And eventually it becomes less expensive, and within reach for everyone

Yes, but as a paying Cloudflare customer, I'd much rather Cloudflare spend their/my money tangibly improving their service, not propping up a small nation's economy in some sort of idealistic hope that better things will follow.

From my understanding, and from the article's description, most Cubans simply don't have easy access to the internet, or in some cases, no access at all. So putting in data centers which will primarily service foreign corporations seems very imperialistic as well as opportunistic (cheap land, cheap labor, etc).

They need last-mile carriers more than anything, and even though ISP's generally terminate at a data center, there's a whole lot that must happen first before Cubans will feel any benefits.

So, Cloudflare adding a PoP in Cuba by 2017 seems to have zero benefits, for anyone really. Even after Cloudflare does setup a PoP, the benefits to Cubans are minimal-to-none.

Perhaps if Cloudflare is simply itching to burn extra money, they could instead consider lowering the price of their business tier - making it immediately more accessible for more companies. This brings SSL to more sites, protects them from attacks, and can in some cases dramatically improve performance. Those a tangible benefits for the entire internet.
I think there's significant evidence that socialized healthcare does not increase medical costs vs a system like the us has. Quite the opposite. In the us our costs grow dramatically compared to the rest of the world yet our outcomes are worse than many socialized systems.

Socialized healthcare can absolutely include limits on what they will pay for and not to reduce overuse. There's zero reason it has to allow for unconstrained spending.
I used to live in Iran when I was a child and we had the equivalent of this but for VHS tapes. Once a week, a man with a large suitcase would come by our house. He would set his suitcase on the table, open it up and show us his collection of American and Europeans (and very illegal) movies.

My mom would pick 5-6 and return the tapes we borrowed from the week before. I was very young back then but I remember it vividly. I'd always beg my mom to pick at least one cartoon or a kids movie.
Just wanted to add that there _are_ certain portions of the brain which do seem to be layered, namely fundamental image-recognizers in the visual cortex. These were a lot of the inspiration for layered neural nets, and may explain some of their success on similar tasks.
How does that really help me if I'm buying/selling a specific stock (vs. being in a larger fund, etc...)? My, again very lay, understanding is that the HFT is likely to push my buy price up slightly and make money in the middle of me a non-HFT seller, and push down the price slightly on the sale side, again making money as a very fast middleman.

I may have that completely wrong though.
To me this looks a lot like XHTML/XML serialized into JSON. I just don't see the benefits.
Probably nobody would be on board with paying 25-90 to rent a singular work for 5-20 years.
It doesn't work on mobile. The UI is cluttered to a level of unplayableability.
"...but it's going to be tough renting out the station or selling it for how much it's actually worth."

Sigh. In monetary terms, it would be precisely worth as much as the price at which it clears the market[1]. The idea that somehow the value of the space station has a monetary value that isn't tied to the price at which the market clears is incorrect.

Remember... the cost of station is not what it is worth, that's simply the cost.

[1] Yes, there can be fraud or disparities of information between the parties in the transaction that can cause the selling price to not be properly reflective of the worth of the property in exchange. But the overall tendency of market pricing is to draw the monetary price to the value of the property.... and in my experience the exact opposite of the article's point tends to be true... the seller almost always knows more about the property sold than the buyer, thus the buyer is more likely to overpay for the property rather than the seller getting too little.
force ROI reports on all expenditures? sure you will get a lot of BS, but there is a disincentive to recklessly spend
The article states that it only applies to new CPUs/APUs. I also vaguely remember that Intel's doing the same as well
This has been heating up. Here's the seminal paper that kicked off the Cambrian Explosion: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~vmnih/docs/Mnih_Volodymyr_PhD_Th...

And I saw two presentations about this at State of the Map US.

* Anand Thakker of Development Seed had a cool live demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BftllmqXSpA&list=PLqjPa29lMi...

* Facebook mapped a bunch of roads in Egypt, and has an ongoing effort. Facebook apparently didn't allow their's to be taped.

I have a similar project called DeepOSM: https://github.com/trailbehind/deeposm

There is starting to be a conversation in the OSM community about allowing robot edits into the map, I'm definitely pro robot. Google has been doing it for years. Mike Migurski touched off debate on the OSM Slack and blog comments with his post: http://mike.teczno.com/notes/openstreetmap-at-a-crossroads.h... (added this link after maxerickson's comment reminded me what touched of the debate).

http://terrapattern.com is also a related project from some CMU people.
I'd further elaborate on your answer with:

Even if you can only monitor things, instead of directly issuing commands, it's still information you're leaking.

Information leaks are still a class of vulnerability for a reason. It can give an attacker information on your network topology that he wouldn't usually have.

The less attack surface exposed, the better. Generally, if something is exposed to the Internet that has no (good) reason to be, it's a vulnerability.
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Federal Acquisition Regulations govern the allocation of IP arising from many gov. funded activities. For the DOE, I believe the default is that the rights are assigned to the government, with a right to practice being retained by the recipient of funds. https://www.govregs.com/uscode/42/2182. That said, agencies will waive these rights in some cases.
> Getting rid of high speed trading won't affect the average person really at all - but yet it's constantly vilified.

You could say the same thing about ebola.
I'm taking the first down vote with pride because someone didn't get the reference. Rookie mistake
Nicely done! I'm not that good at JS to be honest :P
allow them to rollover leftover budget to the next year and never lower their budget. If you do this departments will just carry huge surpluses over every year and not spend money then when something big comes along they will just use their surplus for it rather than ask for their budget to be increased. If you allocate money to a department and they never spend that money it can be kept in the bank earning interest rather than be wasted on things that are not needed. If you really micromanage it you can create shadow budgets where you over promise knowing they are not going to spend their full budget but this is really dangerous and only work in small orgs
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Nerds making money and people gunna hate.
Exactly. The US military has plans for everything, up to and including dealing with a literal zombie apocalypse [1].

[1]: http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/05/13/exclusive-the-pentagon-h...
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This is how it went for me: One day I typed "curl" in a PS window and I got this Invoke-WebRequest thingy. I toyed with it and decided I preferred to actually download curl for my initial purpose.

Now I know Invoke-WebRequest exists and I like it, so now I have two different tools to accomplish similar things.

And don't get me wrong, I actually agree that this use of the aliases is wrong and should be changed. We now have two options here, wait for MS to do it or fork the project. After all, it's open source.
I have seen places where people don't have any reason except for "naaa, I don't wanna spend my time with them, I prefer to spend it alone".

When there is a justification that goes beyond that, for me it's okay - actually, I am okay with every decision.

However, I have seen places where people create real factions during lunch time, or they just tend to be alone, because of the reason mentioned above.

No criticism, just an observation, which is wrong apparently, if not all factors (different schedules, etc.) are taken into account. :)
It needs to be reboosted because of atmospheric drag. Put it higher and there's less drag, but it takes more energy to get to it.
If you need a book to really drive that point home to someone, check out "Seeing Like A State" by James C. Scott.
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Your projects are really impressive! Can you tell us a little bit about your background, and how you developed a proficiency with graphics programming?
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You're probably correct here. The part people find a little unsavory is not that it's somehow eroding the middle class. It's the idea that HFT can act as an unnecessary intermediary, essentially taxing a transaction that otherwise didn't need to be disrupted and at scale the amount extracted becomes material.

Imagine your neighbor owned a Ferrari and you told him one day you were going to buy a gallon of milk at the store. "On sale for $3.99!" you say to him. Now imagine he sped past you on your way to the store and when you arrived there he had bought all the milk at $3.99 and was selling it in the parking lot for $4.01.

You wouldn't necessarily be ruined financially paying $4.01 instead of $3.99. The cost is negligible. But you would probably think he was kind of a jerk.
Previously posted numerous times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5653706 (135 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9280058 (107 comments)
When Microsoft laid off much of their test dev teams 1 or 2 years ago, was the plan to roll out beta code to everyone and outsource QA? Genuine question.

I mean, if they're serious about this, making Windows open source would make sense, so that external testers can also contribute patches for consideration.
This space is heating up a bit.

Facebook (!) has developed a system for mapping roads and is working towards using it to add data to OpenStreetMap:

http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=55220

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12150862 (no comments)

There's several other people/groups working on similar projects, like DeepOSM:

http://www.deeposm.org/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11808639 (some discussion)

And no shortage of feels about how all the parts need to work together:

http://mike.teczno.com/notes/openstreetmap-at-a-crossroads.h...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12187782 (no comments)

http://tomlee.wtf/2016/07/31/introductory-openstreetmap-poli...

http://www.maproomblog.com/2016/08/openstreetmap-at-the-cros...

There have been earlier efforts to do automated feature extraction, but it seems that improvements in AI and better, more liberally licensed imagery are moving things towards some sort of tipping point.
It helps you in 2 ways:

1) It reduces the bid/ask spread. There isn't just one price for a stock, there are two. The price at which you can buy and the price at which you can sell. The price at which you can sell is lower. So when you buy a share of stock you are immediately down a little bit. This amount is called the spread. By automating firms can reduce this spread which does the opposite of what your intuition told you. It will bring buy prices down slightly and sell prices up slightly.

2) It helps make sure that prices are as accurate and up to date as possible. When you go to buy a share of $GOOG you probably aren't really sure if it should cost 775.40 or 775.45 or 775.50. You just figure it's a good company and likely to go up in the future. But because there are all these firms working really hard and acting really fast you can be pretty confident that whatever price you buy at at any given time contains the total available knowledge currently available in the world about Google's future potential.
But as part owner of the company through stock, the former employee is free to disclose whatever they like, unless specifically contracted to do otherwise, aren't they?

Don't want all your private company secrets legally broadcast to the public? Be careful who you grant shares of ownership to. Can't trust your employees? Guess you have to find something besides ownership to incentivize them with.
The common shares are priced through a 409a valuation, generally done by a CPA. And, actually, the common exercise price is almost NEVER the same as the preferred shares. In some cases, it is 90% lower.
And making sure that your decision to measure a thing isn't incentivizing the system to optimize for the measure. This is, in short, why Germany doesn't have good forests - in the 1800s, they started measuring the number, species, and age of trees.
before there was a label for it

It used to be called data mining, or business intelligence, even plain ol' statistics. People have been doing it since the 80s if not earlier. But this is how the industry works, take an old concept, slap a new buzzword on it, PROFIT!
How about an auction where the proceeds are divided among the countries that built & operated it proportional with their investment?
There was a time when Youtube view and subscriber count was similar. Now there is a cadre of Youtube professionals whos careers live and die by these numbers.

Also, neither I nor anyone else cares about the points, I don't expect to spend them at the karma store. What I do care about, as I'm sure you do as well, is whether something I said is incorrect and why.
You're absolutely right. I didn't mean to imply that it was. But purpose built hardware has design specifications that can be validated. Good hardware is designed with failure modes in mind. Which means you have some hope of a decent risk management strategy.

And, exactly as you said, using and relying on a hardware RNG isn't a panacea--it still comes with difficult problems--which only emphasizes how hopeless, futile, and misleading entropy estimation is.

I'm not arguing that trying to indirectly capture entropy is a bad idea, even if you also have a proper hardware RNG. My point is just that entropy estimation is a poor idea, particularly of hardware that hasn't been specifically analyzed. By pretending like we can reliably quantify the entropy, we're giving users a false sense of security. That's not justifiable.

Collecting entropy indirectly is best effort. You can't know, except in pathological cases, whether it's working or not. You can only know when it's failing spectacularly, which would be rare when collecting from many different sources.

All those magic, per-device constants could likely be replaced with a single heuristic--collect everything for N seconds, then move on. If it worked, it worked; if not, well then you're not any worse off than you were when the entropy estimators gave a false sense of confidence. You can still add hacks to try to collect more entropy, and to do it faster, to improve effective security; just don't pretend like the kernel is accurately quantifying it.
OMG - Those poor cam girl customers...
In fact, one of those posts were by the submitter of this post. On the surface, this looks like a way to game the system of collecting points by posting things that are bound to be voted up a lot.
I'm somewhat embarrassed that I've never seen that before. Thanks much. Hopefully, it is as good as it sounds.
Or still suffer Vegas, but do all of the contests at DEF CON instead of the talks.
http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/the-best-webcams

Unless you're making an independent film or something, I would think that a high end webcam does a great job for professional streamers and online meetings. Even the cameras in modern laptops and smartphones do a good enough job.
Oh boy, please don't ever build an API like this.
HFT costs 'everyone' that uses the stock market though an intermediary money so it really does cause income inequality. To suggest otherwise is to suggest they can somehow increase the value of stocks on average when they don't increase dividends and profit from the stock market. AKA money magically appears from nothing without costing anyone anything.

Which is not to say every single person is worse off just that this does not increase the long term value created by the companies who's profit makes the stock market a positive sum game.
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It would be almost criminal if the DOD didn't prepare a plan for that contingency. It is their job to be prepared for every possibility.
Your intuition about financial markets does not match reality. In financial markets no one knows that you want to buy a gallon of milk (or a share of stock) until your bid has already been submitted. No matter how fast their Ferrari, there is no way for them to get in line ahead of you at the store.
Some guys in Miami with a T-1 and who then carry a drive into Cuba. There are almost as many flights between Miami and Havana as between Miami and New York. The only restriction was that you have to be Cuban to get on the plane in Miami--there are but few exceptions.
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As an infrequent but repeat contributor to OSM, this is fantastic! While there is an historic bias against automated edits (sometimes for good reasons but I do often wonder...), automating the tedious parts of mapping is, imho, a very good thing.

That said, I don't see much detail here regarding what happens when a missing building is detected. Does it get automatically added to the map? Or maybe a note is made indicating a building needs to be added? Maybe the building is auto-added but with a FixMe note for manual mappers to examine it for accuracy?
I've noticed that every major update, Windows resets a bunch of settings to the default. It's like they haven't bothered to carry them over at all. Privacy settings and Edge are just the tip of the iceberg.