skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is relevant to machine learning, because it discusses the idea of "top down" processing. This is a serious shortcoming of current neural networks, which are only capable of "bottom up" processing.

I made a blog post awhile back to demonstrate this. I took a famous psychology image that demonstrates "top down" processing, and plugged it into various image recognition platforms: http://houshalter.tumblr.com/post/121173692675/testing-image...

In post, he suggests that the lack of top down processing may be responsible for schizophrenia. It's funny to think that our current neural networks might be schizophrenic.
"The browser is an extremely well designed platform/environment. "

Uh, it's an expansive platform, but it is not even remotely 'well designed'.

The 'barrier to entry' is actually getting worse for basic apps. How many tools must one use? Crazy framworks that keep changing?

'The browser' is the only platform one can develop for these days wherein you have no idea how your app will function 'in the field'. You use a lot of crazy product decisions and compatibility tables to 'estimate' for what % of your audience the app will work.

Behold: the biggest company in the world leaves their browser documentation empty :

https://developer.apple.com/reference/webkitjs/2030049-webki...

All of the limitations of JS described in the article are true. That said, I don't think JS is going anywhere.
It's not like that in Russia, they don't benefit from hiding surveillance, they do it openly. They had SORM for some time now, but only recently, like a month ago, created a law attempting to force local companies to implement backdoors and provide access to and store everything they have on users, etc.
I saw it in /new this morning. Only one logo had sold. Bought a logo for $80. Saw logo go to sold and price go up. I received the vector assets on the next page. Seems legit. Although probably short lived in its current form. Perhaps with some tweaks could become an ongoing concern.

Not sure what I will use it on. I thought it was well done and I'm sure I'll put it to use at some point.
Nvidia releases Pascal GPUs for neural networks
As far as leaks go I find it interesting.

We see that athletes are allowed to take some very strong and beneficial drugs and its not doping.

I had always pictured that "clean" athletes were not eating OxyContin or required vast amounts of asthma medication to make it through the day. (This last part if from a different disclosure).

I think an adjustment to the current regiment would be that each athlete disclose exactly what type of drugs they are consuming.

What is doping and what is not is not arbitrary but it certainly changes over time.
Here is the thing: A lot of jobs after college are bad jobs if you go by income only. The average teacher's salary is around 40-45k, beginners make much less. Preschool teacher with degree? Barely over minimum wage if you are lucky. Sure, you get summers off, but you also don't have a paycheck during that time.

Business degree? You might be a retail store manager because that is what you found that you actually have experience in... because you worked retail through school.

It is bad all around.
I'm surprised it wasn't 1000 or more. I'm all for Google but the fact that they are one of the largest tech companies in the world means that they interact with governmental agencies all over the world. Some problems can only be solved by going to the top. Not only that, they have access to a large chunk of people's info. I'm sure the president is lobbing on the government's side to get access to it without having to fight in court.

What's amazing is that a company that started with 2 PhD students can get to a point where it can get access to the president of the US. Wow!
Come to think of it, intelligence by a different definition, almost a homonym, is concerned with information. That fits with my demand for zeroth order logical values.
> that is pretty much what git+LFS is!

Right, which is why I replied in the first place. The parent seemed to think LFS was black magic and didn't want to adopt git without it. In reality LFS is just another versioned file storage scheme similar to a Nexus repo or Linux distro package repo. Any FTP server and a script to push artifacts at the end of a build would get the job done.
This is a really good wiki article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization

There's a few key ideas here:
The limiting factor in plankton growth is iron. So we can hit it with other things, the plankton needs more iron to incorporate into chloroplasts to grow.
Algal/plankton blooms can be toxic from the chemicals produced, but they are usually toxic because they deplete oxygen in the environment. I suspect that this would be manageable in the ocean, since there's constant mixing and the ocean is _big_. http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/habharm.html

Iron seeding of the ocean already happens, in the form of dust storms blowing onto the ocean. We've been able to see the effects of it, and it does as it says-- it increases plankton life in the ocean.

I think that a lot of posts here are underestimating the size of the ocean or over-estimating the capability of humans. We would have to dump so much iron into the ocean to make the whole thing anoxic. If we did this in a controlled manner (and in small paths, so we wouldn't end up with big un-mixed anoxic patches) then I think this is very reasonable.

All of you should be careful not do have the knee-jerk "nah that sounds crazy!" reaction. This is HN, and you ought to know that the disbelievers don't have a good track record.
There's zero chance that the future Librem laptops will be "truly" open source. They will still have ME or AMD equivalent. Their entire marketing campaign is frustratingly dishonest.
>So... what will device makers use?

USB Type-C, if they were so inclined.
It's pretty rational to say that JS will have a 'hard time catching up' - all you have to do is look at the upcoming specs and see where it will be 'in theory' in a few years, and it's still far behind other languages.
Paul's meaning was to say "a completely alien group of people" and made the assumption that nobody reading his blog was a cannibal. If he had said "Sam would even impress a group of people of color", that might be racist. Certainly equating cannibals with people of color is racist.

The racism at play is not found in Paul's original phrase, but rather is latent in the listener's mind. Don't blame the messenger.

Of course it may be that, today, 51% of this site's readers are white native English speakers. Do you believe we should therefore interpret every statement according to how it's likely to be understood by this particular group? Remember these posts will be archived for posterity.

To fight racism is to promote racism. To ignore racism is to destroy racism.

As for your subtle quote-fudging: a "casual assertion of racism" isn't an "accusation of casual racism", so I don't think I can address that assertion.
Bribes for infrastructure is not how modern days high level corruption works in Russia. What happens is that for various preferences that a company receives from the state like tax rebates, cheaper electricity etc. one pays back to the official who authorized the deal. The payment (otkat or "rollback" in Russian) is typically indirect, like using a supplier or outsourcing to a company where the official or their relatives have a stake.

The direct bribes is really for low-level clerks like police officers or fire hazard inspector s.
It's millions of tons a year, not billions.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/02/150212-ocean...
It's highly probable that if the space mining operation succeeds they will be an invaluable supplier for the Mars colonization project. It's much cheaper to transport materials from space to Mars than from Earth to Mars.
Diary: Our Real Lives and Real Deaths Across the Globe
Why are some people allowed to post such trash, while others receive an instant ban, and sometime get their domain banned as well?
>At the same time, I still don't really get some things Americans do (e.g. treating dogs like people).

Do you mean having pets at all? I'm pretty sure that's not at all unique to Americans; most dog breeds I've heard of came from Europe or Asia.

Personally, as an American, I don't understand why so many people love dogs so much either, but not all Americans are dog people. We're basically divided into a few different camps, the biggest two being "dog people" and "cat people" (I'm the latter). There's a few other weirdos out there: "bird people" are the strangest. And definitely stay far, far away from any "horse women" (trust me on this one: do NOT date a woman who loves horses!).

Anyway, in all seriousness, pet ownership is not a uniquely American phenomenon by any means. Having cats as revered pets goes back to ancient Egypt, after all. And to my knowledge, having dogs as pets goes back to the stone age.
Motherless babies possible without need for female egg
There is no reason for using native extensions in scripting languages like Ruby when program load is pretty low (especially when they are used for performance reason, not binding).

Great insight, though. Author described this experience as it was a great venture... in hindsight I suppose :-)
As coffee ages, especially in the first 2 weeks, it degasses CO2, thus the one way valves on most coffee bags. Since CO2 has a lot to do with crema, it's usually lacking in coffees that go past that 2 week mark. It really depends on the coffee, but I find grinding older coffees at a finer grind setting may help you pull your shot at similar parameters (input/output/time), but more often than not, I prefer updosing by half a gram or so to achieve balance in the shot. Also, this is probably heresy to any Italian reading, but I don't consider crema a super important aspect of the espresso shot. That part of the shot contains many of the bitter compounds of the extracted coffee, which is why espresso shots are commonly served with a demi-spoon, used to stir the shot and incorporate/dissipate the crema.
Announcing the Project Zero Prize
As just a day-to-day computer for software development, how does it work out? Can it run Firefox/Chromium just fine? What sort of issues have you had?
3 years in the App Store, lessons learned
People are still buying Oracle licenses, we have to kick it until it's dead.
It's never too late to get started with Kerbal and dork around with orbital mechanics.
oh, thanks. Disregard my previous comment.
>>Things have improved (drastically?) only for a sliver of population. I talk to so many of my relatives and apart from some already well-off, working in high-tech industry most of them are way worse in term of living standard than they were 15-20 years back.

Same in US too right?

Its not like everyone works at Wall Street and drives Rolls Royce. You don't hear about these things in US simply because you haven't set up a family big enough there. Whoever is in US would have generally come on tech work or Medical degree, which are paid well in the US. Other people especially in Non-STEM branches, are basically the equivalent of people you talk about it in India. And please don't even have me start on inequality in the US.

And small businesses in US are not like in India. So most of that population in US works at Warehouses and Walmart sort of places.

>>Everything is so much expensive when compared to their rupee income.

Food is relatively expensive in India(Based on inflation figures). Otherwise higher education is far more expensive in US and student debt takes a good few years to climb out of. Housing in any major US city is a 2 decade mortgage undertaking. And retirement with health care(even other wise) is very expensive in the US.

>>Things can become violent at any time even in big cities. Just look at Bengaluru etc situation now due to Cauvery issue. It has already caused Rs 22000 crore worth of loss.

And you talk of Law and order situation, shooting incidents at schools in US are everyday news these days.

Things are no more the binary they used to be.
$ is a unit of pennies

$=100p

The calculation above was for a 10Mg payload. Payloads up to 3.2kg would cost under 100p under the same assumptions.
There's a fun Dan Simmons book "The Terror" that tells a (very) fictional account of what happened to them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terror_(novel)
Cosmetic companies include microbeads in many products. These end up in the sea. The plastic soaks up some pollutants, and is also eaten by fish. It makes its way into the human food chain. It's a serious problem. Individual consumers didn't really know that they were dumping plastic into the ocean. The manufacturing companies did know, absolutely, that they were dumping hundreds of billions of these microbeads.

Acrylic clothing sheds microfibres. These are too small to be caught by washing machine filters, and they end up in the sea doing the same thing as plastic microbeads.
Novena is great, but it certainly isn't cheap, isn't sturdy, and to be honest, unless you were lucky enough to snag a Senoko battery board, isn't a laptop. (I'm fortunate enough to own a few Novena boards).
Review: Apple tees up the future with iPhone 7
The operating principle for the US government pretty much has to be this way. It's a "bug" in the concept of the nation-state.

The natural state of the US - with "a moat the size of two oceans" - was isolationist for almost all its history, prior to WWII. Perhaps that's again a rising idea.

And some of the writing on this subject is simply propaganda-ish.

This being said, if I were, say, from India, it would bug me that I have to emigrate to innovate. Why should this be?

Well, the US built more universities, which have lead times in decades. Okay, so send kids to school there, then make it to where they can practice back at home.
That depends on whether or not your trade requires some sort of qualifacation or not and whether your high school or surrounding area offers free courses in it. (Occasionally folks will pay to train you, if you meet minimum qualifacations, but you also must work for them for some years).

Otherwise, you wind up going to school a couple more years. You are still likely going to start work 2-3 years sooner than someone going for a 4 year degree.
i hope you're kidding or trolling.

the current situation with incarcerations in america sounds horrible, yes, but its a far cry from systematically eradicating millions of people per year...
What's an Italian American? I'm asking because an Italian grows up in a coffee culture very different than the American. E.g. what you do around the water cooler South Europeans do around the coffee machine.

If an Italian American is an American that grew up in America and has Italian ancestors... well, I can't see how that's relevant when it comes to coffee.

And sorry for the slight offtopic, but Americans always looked fun when talking about their 1/16th Navajo and their Irish great great grandparent :-)
That is fantastic dedication to finding the source of the memory leak. I'm not sure I'd have quite the devotion or expertise to track that one down.
Sadly, I conclude that devices connected to the Internet are irremediably insecure. Air-gap it or lose it, I guess.
Can they use the same charging stations, or are we approaching a forked situation like iPhone vs android?

Also - can someone who owns an electric vehicle answer a question on highway driving? Basically I'm curious how quiet the interior is at highway speeds vs a regular ICE car. Ie, how much of the noise comes from the ICE car engine, vs the sounds from just the road and wind?
Glad this is finally hitting the mainstream news.

Here's a video that gives a great presentation on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
You'd be better off putting that money into space elevator research.
It seems Simone Biles, and the Williams sisters are taking performance enhancing drugs. But the athletes in question have an exemption from the doping agency.

More coverage over on the NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/sports/simone-biles-serena...
How would immigration officials recognize Facebook or Google among the millions of web sites that won't be successful?
"Many Palestinians don't feel they are being represented by those people."

Source? Assuming that is true, they have the ability to vote.

There are some companies that go out of their way to employ them (Rami Levy and SodaStream are some of the largest). Unfortunately, extremists use this as an attack vector against innocent men, women, and children, as they exploit their jobs to be able to murder and maim civilians (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Jerusalem_synagogue_attac...).

Israel provides electricity to the PA even though they haven't paid their bill in years, and will probably never pay it in full. We're talking debts of $500M+ (http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-pa-said-to-reach-deal-on...).

Palestinians have the potential for a very good life in Israel. Sure, there are extremists on both sides. However, Israel is not a country made up of extremists (in fact they are a tiny portion of the population). The key difference is that most Arabs support their extremists though they won't carry out acts of terror (centrists celebrate in the streets after terrorist attacks are carried out; most vocally support terrorism against Israel and the West even if they wouldn't do it themselves, and they would rather see Israel destroyed than have a two state solution implemented) [I know there are sources for this, but I can't seem to find them. I'll instead attribute this to my personal experience with this, and leave you to draw your own conclusions].

The way I see it, it's best summed up with a quote from Golda Meir (disputed, but accurate nonetheless):

“Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”
Perhaps it shifted a lot in the last few years. I went back to school to get an EE degree, and it's mostly pretty high interest. Sadly I was pretty financially ignorant until maybe my senior year of my second degree. Plus since I was older, and already had a degree, the amount of money available goes down a lot. I don't know how much that effected my interest rates (though my private education loans were at 10% if you can believe it).
Downvote me all you want. Something nasty is coming in tech startupland.
Also add...

Is it because many of them are having kids much later in life and don't need a car for all the reasons one would want or need one when they do have kids (school, travel, vacations, trips to grandmas, ski trips, Sunday drives, sports activities, club events, youth groups, pet vet trips, doctor trips, dentist trips, dinner night out, day hike, picnic in the park...shall I go on). Each and everyone one of us can say "I can take the bus to that", but would you or even can you load up your family of four to each and everyone one of those?

And in summary, maybe the automakers should adjust their expectations of anyone < 35 years old. Or maybe they should of all went bust in 2008 instead of being bailed out and let market forces reset the playing table resulting in better products and possibly more jobs, but that's another story.
I actually have an X60! But it's 32-bit x86, so these days it mostly collects dust while I use a Thinkpad X301.

Where does one find a MIPS or ARM laptop? Who manufactures them?
Also, one doesn't have to approve loans for the full education. Approve loans per semester. If major changes the creditor could choose not to extend anymore debt. Likewise, creditors could require transcripts as part of qualifying for loans beyond the first semester. A students grades would have weight in whether to continue extending credit (granted some [particularly for-profit] schools might cheat and inflate grades but accreditation of schools would also be factored in loan approval... much like banks rely on home appraisers for mortgages).
> when program load is pretty low

The leak was in a gem.
I've seen Italians (southern Italians) do that, too.
Huh? No it doesn't. Are you at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12489523 ?
Pokémon GO paying population down 79% but still the most profitable mobile game
nothing in that article suggested that Fancy Bear was acting as the nation of Russia.

the game is to sell the data to any nation that bids the highest
You could use a 200km evacuated tube. There is of course the issue of maintaining the vacuum as the vehicle exits. This could be managed using a pair of diaphragm shutters. Then only the space between the shutters would need to be reevacuated after a launch. Shutter failure would be disastrous.
Earnest question: do you believe that full automation and mass displacement of workers, combined with a basic income will lead to anything resembling a decent quality of life for most?

Because I want to believe it, but all contemporary evidence points to an outcome that includes an even more extreme stratification of wealth and masses of struggling, impoverished people.
About the patch at https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet/pull/516/files, couldn't the update simply have been the following?

-	return Data_Wrap_Struct(klass, rb_redcarpet_rbase_mark, NULL, rndr);
+	return Data_Wrap_Struct(klass, rb_redcarpet_rbase_mark, xfree, rndr);
Their business model is the enterprise edition which comes with better support and newer "enterprisey" features first. It seems to be doing really well given their comments here. Gitlab.com is a loss leader to get their potential users excited about gitlab so they convince the potential buyers to pay for it.
When I've asked people from China why they put up with the hassle, the answer has been - they want their kids to be Americans. It's really pretty impressive.

Buying real estate is a hedge strategy. You might as well; productive investment is treated shabbily ( in terms of returns) in this economy.
> And over the next 20 - 30 years they're the ones that aren't going to be automated

Not true. Look at any construction site and labor-saving innovations abound. Plumbing comes in new materials like PEX, which takes less labor to install. Large parts of houses are fabricated off-site and shipped in on trucks. No job is immune from automation and increased efficiency.
When my Omnia Turris arrives I will connect it with second WiFi card and enable cjdns on it. We need to start showing it.
As of 1.24 PST he has sold 27 logos for a total of 7560 if each logo costs 20 dollars more.
I had the precursor to that as my first ever machine - some absolutely love shots out of it. A lot of practice, but once you had it down, easily the best cheap one out there.
I'd say it's appropriate for anything in the critical path - talking to databases being the only major thing that comes to mind. I agree that a native extension for markdown parsing is way overkill.

Stick with pure-language extensions (they're so much easier to work with!) until you can measure and quantify the cost and benefit of switching.
>It's apparently not hard to raise several billion dollars if you're trying to sell something that makes hundreds of billions of dollars
Weird, for boomers in NA it was normal to be in their own house immediately after graduating. Not many lived with their parents after the 18-22 range. Not having a place by 23 would have you defending your reputation.
Fair points.

But still releasing will cost something to Canada. Probably something agreed behind closed doors as a part of package deal. I'm afraid this is one of those cases where you have to trust politicians. Trudeau or some diplomat will have to calculate what solution is good for the big picture and that may require sacrificing individuals.
At a lot of companies, this seems like the present.
ARM laptops exist in the form of various chromebooks. No clue if completely free firmware exists for any of them though.