skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Cucumber classification" seems almost identical to the letter classification task

Why do you say that?
I would also wonder what the share of other input methods are, as compared to speech and normal texting/typing.
Just curious, how many videos do you upload? From what I am seeing, maybe 5 minute video 1 per month? How long do you spend on this in total (research, sponsors, video editing, etc...)?

Again, this is amazing to me that people can make a living off of youtube.
I had a look at Citus when evaluating time series databases and the documents said that work was still under way on masterless setup for faster ingestion (up to 500k metrics /sec).

https://docs.citusdata.com/en/v5.2/performance/scaling_data_...

If that has changed I'd add it to my table.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sMQe9oOKhMhIVw9WmuCE...
Hey everyone - Jon from Mux here. We've been hard at work on this since January, and are excited to start showing off what we're working on. Happy to answer any questions, or take any feedback!
I couldn't make a habit of using speech recognition. It somehow feels weird in public. You need to speak like a news anchor, hold the phone in an unnatural way (never liked video calls due to that too) and keep an eye on the recognition so it's more effort than just instinctively typing something.

Am I getting old or is this common?
Unfortunately New York isn't the only place pricing people out of a home.

By the way, About 2% of Americans live in New York City alone. At least 1% are not having a great time with rent that outstrips their potential earnings.
RHH is neat, and useful, but I don't know about making it your go-to hash implementation: If you're writing the code yourself, and don't have to worry about the cost of the occaisional cache miss, the simplicity of List or B-Tree chaining is a pretty big win.

HoweverIf you're going to implement a general-purpose hashtable, or are in an environment where you really cannot afford that cache miss, RHH or similar seems like the right way to go.
That's true if your actual password is leaked, but as described in this post, it is very unlikely that actual passwords could be retrieved. Still a non-zero risk, but I could see a case that the severity of that risk is low.

The significantly greater issue imo is the leaking of email addresses and ensuing spam.
Charles Bloom’s Oodle new codecs handily beat them across the scale:

http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com http://www.cbloom.com/oodle_arm_report/ http://www.cbloom.com/rants.html

Caveat: proprietary commercial product.
I think that is the wrong way to look at things. I think many poachers are just poor people who are trying to survive. It is a bit hard to care about the environment if your own meals aren't taken care of. If being an ecotourism guide pays better than being a poacher then it will be a good incentive to do a good job.
Accusations are easy. Proof is difficult.
The article didn't explain more about Geoxyles so I did some research to see how they could photosynthesize adequately. It's funny that all the photographs online are of the above-ground fragments of the tree, sort of like icebergs. In any case to a human it looks like a deeply interconnected set of shrubs with a shared root system; these things must grow relatively slowly as they don't have much of an area (proportionately to most plants) to expose to the sun and air. But otherwise they are unremarkable trees, which I find remarkable!
While voice commands may be better than using the keyboard, they're still distracting and dangerous. It is best to avoid interacting with your phone at all while you drive.
At one time, during the late Pleistocene epoch, woolly mammoths roamed North America. They were close cousins of the Asian elephant, and so you could argue that elephants would not be invasive, any more than horses (current North American horses are from Eurasia, original North American horse species is extinct...).
Man, people just can't win on HN.

Just the other day on HN: people use excel because they don't have the elite mental reasoning ability that programmers have. Programmers are so awesome, it's cute that factory foreman use excel when they should be using my stellar programming skills for some hand wavy reason like "it's hard to tell what you did and reproduce it."

OK. Point taken.

Now here the sentiment shifts to the other extreme. People shouldn't go off and try to use cutting edge technology without the skilled supervision of an expert. Really, I would take this story better if Google were involved because they have a monopoly on the world's brain power.

---

I get that the common thread in both of them is that a programmer should be involved, and I get that I was overtly sarcastic.

But can't we just judge based on merit? Why not critique his approach, why not suggest what you would have done differently, or something to that effect.

Why do we immediately turn it into smarter than everyone programmer vs the idiot common folk.
Wavy Greenland rock features 'are oldest fossils'
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NRA position on ivory ban: https://www.nraila.org/articles/20140305/ivory-ban-fact-shee...
I used to play EVE Online for many years (unsubscribed 3 times, about 4+ total years of playing). It's a fantastically complex and rewarding game once you understand the mechanics. That initial first step though has to hurt them when trying to attract new players. They've made a ton of progress in making the game better for new players (especially getting rid of learning skills which essentially took about a month+ just to speed up learning other skills and if you didn't train those first you would fall way behind everyone else).

I'm not convinced this move is going to help them gain more players. New players will come into the game at a disadvantage now with a slower training rate. Training in real time is an interesting gimmick but one of the biggest barriers to the game (you can be the best pilot in the entire game with more money than everyone combined and you still can't fly any ships fancier than the tier 1 ships for usually several months let alone YEARS for some of the bigger ships like carriers).

Not going to like though this temps me to start-up my old account even if it is just so I can resume training skills that never finished.
I think theyre generally used as a quick way to show someone a piece of code with some nice syntax highlighting.
Wrong. Fidelity sells a variable annuity with no penalty other than the federal less-than-five-years penalty. And a 1/4% insurance overhead. And it has no RMD.
They describe the "1-2 months free" phenomenon as something new, but that has existed for at least several years. It's the way they coax people into these new developments. (Why people think that's attractive, I don't know; given the absurd prices, it's a drop in the ocean if you intend to live in the same place for a while.)

I've never seen three months offer, so maybe that's what's new.
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Should've named it "Pied Piper"
They should've named it "Pied Piper".
Maybe they meant the mid-west of some other continent?
For this to become anything like a standard, Facebook would have to remove its patent poison pill.
Original paper: Rapid emergence of life shown by discovery of 3,700-million-year-old microbial structures [0]

[0] http://www.nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature19355
Ask HN: Anyone interested in having their Code painted (oil on canvas)?
I am doing a larger show in San Francisco in about 6 months (show is mid Feb) that combines programing languages and fine art. A few are underway which you can check out here: http://codeartproject.com/. If you have written code that is a bit on the poetic side and would like to be part of the show you can submit here: http://codeartproject.com/submit_code

All contributors are given credit for their work and I am open to other arrangements but currently do not plan to profit from the project.

Thanks!
same story with israeli drones https://theintercept.com/2016/01/28/israeli-drone-feeds-hack...
Author here.

> But both can be viewed as a state plus a well-defined set of rewriting rules, so I suspect that the article is struggling to make what is really a distinction without a difference.

1. I state that the untyped lambda calculus is, indeed, a borderline case, and is a simple rewriting system which, in turn, is a special case of a nondeterministic abstract state machine.

2. That many things are abstract state machines does not mean that the computational complexity required to validate whether what you have is a well-formed description is similar.

3. That complexity difference is absolutely huge -- zero for the machine models vs. exponential to undecidable for the typed language models. It is hardly a struggle to draw the conclusion that the two are objectively completely different classes.

Also, I gave a list of machine and language models. The latter group consists of the process calculi and the lambda calculi.
I recall reading that UDP was left as such a thin wrapper over packets so that when another protocol like TCP was found to be the wrong solution for a problem, you could easily build your own reliability and congestion protocols over the top of UDP.

Of course, I think that reference was in a book, so I can't find it now.
That's nonesense. You can brutally kill cats and (smallish) dogs, but anything bigger will fight back pretty badly. Brutalizing any animal that is twice your body size is a good recipe for getting yourself maimed or killed, even in a controled environment. Ask any slaugherhouse worker if you don't believe.

Which takes us back to the economic motive. Once you realize that this people are, for the most part, not saddistic mosters but regular guys who break arbitrary rules for personal gain, you will realize that they do not care about what you care because there's nothing for them to gain there. For the most part, they care about the things the people paying the bills tell them to care about.

So, why are you so afraid of the idea of being the guy who pays the bill and decides what stuff to care about? Is it that you dont want to know what price would you put to an elephant life, or it's just that you love to hate poachers?
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For "compress once, decompress many times" workloads like game assets, you might want to check out Oodle, a proprietary library that kills zstd in decompression speed while achieving better compression ratios.

http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2016/07/introducing-oodle-me...
How does it follow to hold manufacturers responsible for that crime? They legally manufactured a rifle. That rifle was legally sold to a distributor. That distributor legally sold the rifle to a retail store. That store legally sold the rifle to the shooter. How could it be argued that the manufacturer acted negligently?
drug dealers or outsourced cia rendition/black ops
Why is this any different than the previous upthread comments you called "rude" and labeled with Forum Psych 101 : Fallacy Section. Its kind of ugly, honestly. I say this as someone who has actually taken the time to email you before, thanking you for calling out racism.
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I should've been more specific in my initial post. Yes, it does take time but the price WashIO charges is pretty crazy. Compared with other services you can find in large cities it is much more expensive and the service isn't differentiated. So in your instance you drop it off, and pick it up, at probably a fraction of the price. However, spending 2-3 hours for Laundry doesn't seem to be a large enough irritant for me to spend the $$$ that Wash IO was charging.
Spaces used more than tabs on GitHub
An angry elephant is a lot more dangerous than an angry horse.
I wonder if legalization would enable ivory farms, and if raising elephants could ever be paid for with ivory sales, considering they're such massive animals. Remember, an elephant pregnancy alone takes like 18 months! And the amount of food elephants need. Truly magnificent mammals.
So you've taken something that only companies with large budgets were able to do, and made it possible for everyone?

Any way I can remove my email from your website in case a website I've signed up to hasn't hidden my email sufficiently?

What robots.txt rules do I add to protect my users in case emails get posted to my site in comments/posts?
You're looking at the shape of an object, and determining which category it belongs to. It is similar to looking at a handwritten "a" and determining if it belongs to the "a" category.
Talking of Gmail, what are you going to do about those services?

Because letting people find emails associated with the gmail or yahoo domain would theoretically give you millions of results. Do you plan to delist any webmail service related domains?

And do you have any idea what to do if someone complains that their email isn't public but someone else has been posting it online (say, to let people attack them)?
We only track emails that have been publicly posted on the web.

Using emails that have been submitted to us through our signup form would obviously be a huge violation of privacy. We don't do this, and we never will.

You can view our privacy policy here https://maildb.io/privacy
US Patent Office bills taxpayers $18.3m for 300,000 hours of work they never did
That sounds fine, until you realise there is always congestion at prime time.

Suddenly, you've got throttling allowed against one person's service and not another, because "categories".

This is not neutral.
Thats what I was thinking. I haven't found any validation or even the rationale behind lzfse's supposed lower power usage. I can think of two things.

1. Apple tried to write a fast and reasonably compressible version of LZ4 thus improving power usage by creating LZFSE since none existed but beaten out handsomely by Zstandard.

2. Following a parent comment, Zstandard might some of the things that are dependent on a highly OoO cpu with lots of caches, extremely good branch predictor that could be significantly slower on an ARM even the apple one despite how good they are. Or they could still be slower but on ARM the gap might not be as big and the decision not as cut and dry as it seems now.

Would love to know what the actual case is from someone involved in LZFSE.
This presumes that innovation comes about only as a result of competition.
In French, a company (entreprise) is feminine. I don't know the rule of agreement for loanwords, though.
Think Elixir for Erlang.

Currently it's a syntax on top of OCaml. But we'd like to polish the OCaml ecosystem tooling too; we're calling the umbrella project "Reason".
http://ss64.com/pass/
Download the page to your desktop and you can use it offline.
> How about using the password manager to store security question answers too?

That was my point: I use my password manager to store those security questions and answers but if someone got ahold of my password manager account I would be screwed because many sites require the answers to those questions to reset a password.
Just posted a few minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12401006
There's a bunch: https://github.com/wbkd/awesome-d3
Yeah I wish there was a library that people with a casual interest could use to just mess around. Or even just use deep-learning based tools built by other people.

I remember when the deep dream thing came out, there was a huge interest by people wanting to experiment with it on their own, or just use the existing code on their own computer. But installing these libraries is very difficult or impossible, particularly on Windows. People were trying to get it to run on virtual machines, which adds complexity and slows it down, and can't take advantage of GPUs which is necessary. They don't work on non-nvidia GPUs, etc.

The best example I found was Brain Simulator (http://www.goodai.com/#!brain-simulator/c81c). Which ran on Windows, had a GUI, and was intended to eventually be used in the game Space Engineers so nontechnical users could experiment with AI algorithms and build robots for the game.
Both. But generally the scales tip (strongly) in favor of intuition, precisely because quite often the window of opportunity to do something really great or meaningful exists precisely because the data is scarce or completely lacking. In fact it is exactly this very kind of (justified) cognitive leap -- they (almost) telepathic ability to know what the customer needs or wants, despite the data, and sometimes even despite their own stated desires -- that arguably is what defines and characterizes many of the most revolutionary innovations you can think of.

In fairness though, many "brilliant innovations" have also essentially been happy accidents, so one shouldn't get too big-headed about the value of intuition -- especially one's own.
Well, here's my jpeg attempt (PS, Save for Web), at the same file size that Amazon used.

http://i.imgur.com/lmHd51x.jpg

Yeah, they could do better :-)
In what world is $2000 not expensive? Pretty sure $1500 would get you a nice place less than 15 minutes from the Loop in Chicago, and the rest of us paying ~$700 for one bedroom in less convenient neighborhoods balk at that.
Developers and designers need high end machines. Period.

Maybe pay developers more to the point where PC is cheaper.
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I think a world of all-speech interfaces would be flawed (if that is the natural conclusion of this line of thinking). I may be able to speak 3x faster than I type, but I read 10x faster than I can listen to someone speak. Speech-to-text is good for typing but that is not to me analogous with the idea that it should supersede visuals.
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This seems to be a pattern I see with many on-demand startups:

Phase 1: Achieve growth at any cost, promise profits when scale increases

Phase 2: Slow down growth to achieve profits, promise scaling when profits increase

Phase 3: Fail to achieve either scale or profits, close down or pivot to more lucrative market.

With the exception of Uber, are there any logistics startups that have avoided Phase 3?
Usually (taken from erf/error based on sample size), something grows proportional to the square root of the sample size. If using raw sample sizes, you can apply a square root to that sample size before using it (meters its impact).
That's kind of irrelevant. I was simply using torrents as an example.

The problem with the category thing is that it makes your passtime more important than my passtime. And suddenly the passtime that pays the most is going to get preferential treatment.

This hurts innovation and companies that want to disrupt current services with a different verticle.

Category based throttling sounds like a good idea but it simply is not neutral and will fail us.
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> I also do Forex trading with TensorFlow

This is the second time today I'm reading about "solving X with TensorFlow", which I find very interesting. It's not, "solving X with machine intelligence/AI/an application I wrote". I don't really have a point, just thought it was interesting!
I think your reference to the NRA is a bit misleading in this case. The NRA had similar concerns as people who repair and sell used pianos. That is there is a large existing inventory of guns and pianos that use ivory. A total ban would make criminal many otherwise innocent transactions.

See:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20140305/ivory-ban-fact-shee...
http://www.ptg.org/scripts/4disapi.dll/4DCGI/cms/review.html...
Interesting how Ruby has almost no code indented with tabs, while Go has almost no code indented with spaces (I believe this is due to gofmt, but I might be wrong).
The article in question is a political article, and the solutions it posits are, by definition, political. Just because you don't feel that you're in any way having a political conversation does not necessarily make it so.
Tap-type vs. Swype vs. Speech Recognition:

http://www.wastedtalent.ca/comic/text-what-i-mean-not-what-i...
With speech the main problem (I have felt) is that mistskes are difficult to correct.

I haven't yet seen an input system which would combine speech with touch in nice way.
Found the CMU grad!

Nope! Didn't go there.

I think this is very different from a splay tree, though. Open-address tables take advantage of the cache

Well, duh! That's why I said it's analogous. Of course something built on an array is likely going to have better cache behavior! My point is that you're using amortized work to shorten the average amount of work it takes to retrieve your data. My point was to talk about the generalized meta-strategy. Lose a point for poor reading comprehension because you so-badly-wanted-to-correct-someone.
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we still reuse ocaml's compiler tool chain. we are compiling ocaml's lambda into JS. so yes, we will support modular implicit once it is landed
I just checked their sign up page, turns out they are only available in the US for now :(

But thanks anyway!
The discoverer of the previous oldest fossil (3.48B years) suggests that this find may not be organic in origin. Would be nice if other experts had been interviewed on that possibility, since there could potentially be some bias there.

Edit: perhaps "organic" was a poor choice of words. My meaning was that she disputed the claim that the artifact is in fact a fossil created by life, and suggested that it might be a geological formation of some sort instead.
Developers would also rather see their buildings empty than charge below market rent for fear of seeming like a 'low end' property.
> as long as I have ownership of that, I can restore access to basically any other account I use

And therein lies the rub. Single point of failure for your whole intricate security setup.

I have the same problem.
I came here to say this. Although I know a lot of people prefer Python to R.
You can translate and transform many things to many others. The important question is what is the computational complexity of the transformation? If it is large, then the two things are very different.

As Scott Aaronson once said, waterfalls could be viewed as playing chess, but as the complexity of the translation from the "waterfall language" to a chess language understandable by humans is as great as the complexity of an actual chess-playing program, all the work is done in the translation.

So the question you should be asking is where the complexity is being spent and on what.
The Church-Turing thesis is a statement about which functions of type `nat -> nat` are computable, either in the lambda calculus or using Turing machines. This completely disregards:

(0) Computational complexity. Neither the lambda calculus nor Turing machines were invented to answer questions of computational complexity.

(1) Functions at types other than `nat -> nat`. Curiously enough, programming in the real world is seldom about evaluating functions of type `nat -> nat`.
As I said elsewhere: mine is a substantive dismissal, and theirs is an ad hominem argument directed at a misapprehension about my politics. If you disagree with my argument, disagree with it.
I'm not talking about it being a bug that needs a fix. That is easy enough in existing code. Im talking about when you are using Python like Matlab or Mathematica. Analyzing data and quickly viewing the results or subsets of the results.
Could you encode all untyped lambda calculus expressions by just numbering them and writing the number as the string of bits?

Maybe this enumeration is the "external collaborator" in this case, but it's a very simple one.
I don't believe that it always does. I do believe that almost all of the innovation we've seen on the Internet has come from competition.