skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not if the entanglement is partitioned into very small groups of qubits. That's the only thing we have even circumstantial evidence of, and it doesn't appear to gain us much over classical computers. This is especially bad for the "it'll be better with more qubits" hypothesis D-Wave is chasing, since everything we know about quantum control suggests that if you can't solve this problem with a 1000-qubit system, doing it with a 2000-qubit system is going to be even harder.

We're still waiting for one problem, no matter how arbitrary, where the D-Wave beats basic consumer computers, let alone a few million dollars worth of computing power. And if D-Wave (or anyone else) had found one for their 2000-qubit computer, it would be in this press release. So no, any gain in performance form the D-Wave hardware is still in the "theoretical but without any theoretical backing" stage.
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Jews were exiled from the land of Israel by the Romans in 135 C.E., after they defeated the Jews in a three-year war, and Jews did not have any control over the land again until 1948 C.E. http://www.jewfaq.org/israel.htm
I know this is an old piece but this line here struck me as odd:

> Furthermore, as each request needs to be stored in a database, it was not a matter that can easily be solved using caching. I needed a backend that could deal with 100+ requests per second without breaking a sweat.

I thought this was why we had databases in the first place. They've been able to deliver this performance without any issues for decades now.

What's the issue?

> I’m a bit surprised that a bit of logging has such a severe impact on performance on Heroku and even more surprised that they recommend you to enable logging in their Express tutorial.

While I agree that was certainly a surprise to me too, I'm not surprised by the advice. Not all apps need to scale massively, and how else are you going to debug your app deployed in Heroku when strange things start to happen?
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In fact, a more important step is to notify the customer immediately through all set channels of critical account changes.

1) Password changes
2) Adding a subuser
3) Weird login attempts

Something like whatever Valve is doing in Steam.
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> that one can not urinate in the street

never heard of such a law. If anything there's maybe one in certain cities.
I know this is just an example, but I wonder why you'd bring this example up as an example about inflexibility?

> oh, and quiet hours after 10 pm

yep, that's fact.

> And you are not supposed to hunt the swans swimming in the lake.

Again, why would you bring that up as an example? I'm not sure whether you're joking or not.

I'm Swiss and indeed some things are quite different than in other countries, what you posted as an example I don't consider relevant at all.

What my non-swiss friends complain about, is usually how hard it is to get to know Swiss people well. Swiss take a long time to call someone a friend.
Google deleted some cloudy middleware accounts
In the DC area (where I grew up) about 4 or 5 cars would turn left after the light was red at intersections like that.
This is completely true. I was an Amazon engineer who received a PIP soon after my team successfully launch our project. An Amazon SDM who did not know I received a PIP told me the same day that the team's funding had been cut and managers were having a war to cannibalize our headcount. I was also told (in the PIP document which I can post online) that I could save my job by choosing my Indian manager's friend in India (I was in Seattle) as my personal mentor and boss even though Amazon's mentor program is totally voluntary and SDE's don't manage people. I think this was a ruse to justify transferring the person to the US and obtaining a visa. Amazon is a terrible shit organization no engineer should work at. I of course no longer work there and now make exactly 82% more compensation. All those people can DIAF. I want Amazon to stay shitty and continue to employ those talentless assholes (who still work there) because I never want to have to deal with those people again.
It varies greatly by location, from what I hear. Where I live (London suburb) Amazon Logistics is the delivery company I have the most problems with. Last office I worked at it was another company that caused all the problems.
Yeah, I came here to say the same thing. I think the use of "mystery" in the headline was clickbait.
Rest of the world can learn from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantons_of_Switzerland
for security purpose Linux is best
--- From the slide on list of Open Source tools and Algorithms

• Kaggle(www.kaggle.com) is a good start for this - start with “somewhat real” problems
• Use higher level tools - Keras(https://keras.io/), otherwise easy to get lost in weeds
• Consider having a real world goal - eg: if you’re in real estate figure out how to use a simple CNN (not the latest algorithm) for image search
• Depending on need consider integration with hadoop/Spark(http://spark.apache.org/)
Good banks issue true tokens or one time random code cards for exactly this purpose.

A token is a device that generates a known set of pseudorandom numbers. These are relatively cheap - and many modern auth systems depend on the token being installed on a much less secure shared hardware, such as a phone. Still harder to crack than SMS.
This was actually the original idea of pay-per-click search ads. GoTo.com was founded on the idea that paid listings would be of higher quality and relevancy, because websites that pay more are likely better sites.

The idea has some merit: you can't spam the search engine with completely irrelevant ads, because users will click them and thus charge the advertiser, but they'll quickly leave the site because it isn't relevant to their search.

Modern pay-per-click (PPC) does yield management and ranks ads based on the click-through-rate (CTR) multiplied by the PPC. So if you create irrelevant ads that no one ever clicks on, they'll stop being shown in favor of more relevant ads with a higher CTR.
If their answer to lacking discoverability is ads, I very much doubt it's a good one.
Tesla Adds Code Signing to Firmware
For me it's usually Amazon Logistics that causes problems like that. Just had a order last night that was marked delivered with no sign of it, so it depends on where you are. Usually I get better tracking and notification from some of the others too.
2008? I started making retail software in 1995 and believe me in those days stores often only took 10 - 20% of the retail price for CD-ROMs because they drove buyers into the store.

My point was that "distributors" or retailers never took 50% as the original post suggested.

If you believe that the reason desktop software has a higher anchor price point than mobile is the multiple layers, please explain why the price point on the Steam store is so much higher than the app store.
Also, the maximum yearly revenue they've seen is £600k, which is definitely not £80k/month. It's misleading to report the revenue of a peak month - say today I send an invoice for a consulting gig that lasted two months and amounts to $15k, do I make $15k a day or $7.5k a month?

That said, they seem to have good growth and the project is nice.
It's either a fiverr logo or somebody tried their hand in Photoshop
170k sounds like a good deal now. Also consider there are many IT companies opening offices in Seattle, so down the road you can negotiate for better salary
But searching is the only way (sane) people find anything on the App Store. When was the last time you browsed the store until you found the cool new app you just read about?

Whenever I use the App store, I'm on a mission. But it's also a mission to get free stuff, so maybe I'm not even part of the equation.
I've taken to having my VMs support mDNS (specifically avahi on Debian), and I can connect to <hostname>.local without adding an entry to my hosts file or messing with DNS.
Why Apple logs your iMessage contacts and other metadata?
"these"? I don't know what that refers to.

No one has argued that there is a lower than average ROI (you get paid for not eating?) from exercise.
A Functional State Manager Base on JSONPath
...except for the secret meetings. Those records will be secret.
Needs to be zoomed out to 50% on retina screens. Better?
When Apple reported Q3 earnings this year, Tim Cook said that the services revenue would be "the size of a Fortune 100 company by next year."[0] Revenue was ~6 billion in Q3, up 19% from a year prior. That comes out to roughly 20 billion a year.

When I saw everyone playing Pokemon Go and buying coins and what have you, I thought of Apple taking a 30% cut of every transaction...

The service revenue really is the strongest case for being a bull. Of course this is just my own personal opinion. I own the stock and I'm long on the prospects. I also love the products. Also so much cash!

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-ceo-tim-cook-services-q...
> Perhaps some sort of social identity is possible?

That won't work for people with no friends.

> We need a good solution to identity.

Perhaps an offline device, that uses your retina scan, fingerprint(s), and DNA encoding to — I don't know the correct cryptography jargon to describe all this — construct a temporary key, which you use with online service to create a username.

Then, whenever you need to log in to that service, you use the scanning device again to generate another temporary key, and use that a password.

That way, your physical attributes are your identity, but they are never stored or transmitted in a form that can be translated back to its inputs. You could also set a secret word on the device itself so your memory is also part of your identity, as is the norm now.

This system is of course still vulnerable to brute* force [1] but to mitigate that, the scanning device might allow you to set a fake "panic" password, which would generate an incorrect key, and maybe alert authorities.

[1]* https://xkcd.com/538/
> The Clovis, who are the early ancestors of today's Native Americans,

Emphasis added. One badly chosen word in an otherwise decent article. What we know of pre-Clovis people clearly supports the idea of them also being 'early ancestors to today's Native Americans.'
Yeah? I know how to invoke IEFBR14 and could probably reimplement it from scratch.
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I don't generally perceive satire as context free, and I've noticed a trend of certain introverts criticizing and trying to distance themselves from "false" introverts (i.e., shy, socially awkward, asocial people), so I'm not sure if I'm convinced our statements are in conflict.
Do App Store search ads show up as Spotlight results?

i.e., in iOS9, when I searched for "spotify" in Spotlight, I'd get App Store results.
In three different locations in London I've had problems with three different carriers. At my current address Amazon Logistics is by far the worst.

DPD is the only one I've found entirely reliable across those three locations (two offices and my home; one of the offices some of the carriers insisted didn't exist, while DPD had no problems delivering to it), but from what I see they too get plenty of complaints in other locations.

It seems to vary hugely depending on which depots and drivers delivers to your address.
Check out this recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12557149
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If you tell Amazon that you did not get the package, they will resend it no extra question asked. If law in Nordic country means that you can get reimbursed for delivered package without lying that it was lost, it's a stupid law. All my Amazon stuff is delivered unattended (~2-4 times a week) and I never had a problem. Not sure why it should be illegal. I would use Amazon way less if I needed to be home for deliveries.
When I was at university (UBC) "pre-Clovis" was an almost forbidden word in some classes. I saw a very heated debate in a geology class discussing land bridges. Many First Nations students took issue with any suggestion that their nations, their cultures, were not "first". Why that matters I don't know (politics) but they were adamant supporters of the Clovis First hypothesis. It has taken many years to etch away at the underlying land bridge assumptions and properly credit the resourcefulness of ancient peoples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture#Clovis_First_.2...
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No seriously, this is exactly empirical work. It works somewhat at translating texts.

On the other hand, attempts that tried to use linguistic categories failed.

A nice new development is multilevel deep networks with explanatory states built in. It will tell you why it detected the thing it did. It may of course be lying or wrong. :)
You need the user to login once to get their raw password to rehash it. Unless you like rewrapping old hashes in every new one as it comes along.
I think the GP meant that the client won't be calling on the server through 'localhost', at least not as a hard-coded parameter.
And another to redirect the misspelled first attempt "left-padd-as-service" API calls to the new one
1. America's responsibility should be to its own people, not to the entire world's.

2. Brain drain is a real problem. Letting the smartest, most motivated, wealthiest etc. migrate from the third world only exacerbates the problems at home. They're losing the people best endowed to fix their societies.

If you really want to be a philanthropist (rather than paying lip service while you profit off wage arbitrage), you can stop destabilizing every single country that isn't controlled by the Rothschilds.
Ask HN: How much sharpening an image degrade Object detection
I'm wondering in both classical and deep learning approaches if the input is sharpened images, does it affect the quality of detection?
It's a symptom and goal of cultural marxist-induced white guilt.
But did retail press your disks and prepare your packaging? Did they provide analytics?

Your Steam analogy is flawed due to selection bias - Steam is about games, and games are more similar to movies than apps. People want entertaining content (and a good amount) for that initial price.

Does Steam allow for freemium? What about ad-driven games?
Can you clarify what you mean by "not useful for anything"? "Anything" tends to be a rather strong modifier.
Sure. But the reason the lot of the average person was bad was because of the Malthusian equilibrium. Because economic growth was eaten immediately by population growth basicly everyone was at subsistence; elites capturing a disproportionate share of the resources didn't decrease average welfare. It moderately decreased the population, but the rest lived at subsistence. As the elites created the science and economics that allowed us to escape, however temporarily, from the Malthusian condition, I find it very hard to begrudge them for actions that didn't even decrease average welfare.
Yeah, except the part where iAd was put out to pasture: https://developer.apple.com/iad/

"The iAd App Network will no longer be available starting July 1, 2016"
Because the white man took their land in the same way their ancestors took the pre-Clovis culture's land? Thus, reducing the sympathy, tax-breaks, other lucrative financial advantages they were able to secure?
> Target’s chairman and chief executive officer, Gregg Steinhafel, a 35-year company veteran, is stepping down, as the massive pre-Christmas data breach suffered by the Minnesota retailer continues to roil the company. The decision is effective immediately, according to a statement posted today on the company’s website. John Mulligan, Target’s chief financial officer, has been appointed as interim president and CEO.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-05-05/as-data-br...
Reality is inconvenient when you're trying to score political points though.

Sometimes bad shit just happens and there's no one to blame.
It's a direct way of attacking your "fellow citizens" (i.e. classes beneath the elites and intellectuals) by displacing them with mass immigration of violent, uneducated, unassimilable foreigners.

When China does it to Tibet, it's called genocide.
A major book about ethics, "After Virtue", takes as half of is subject matter what the author calls "the interminable nature of ethical debates" and the failure of post-enlightenment ethical thinking.

I don't see how AI is going to suddenly make us capable of ethical reasoning on a large scale... unless... maybe AI could do the reasoning for us...
"SaltStack"

Saltstack is either using SSH to communicate or opening it's own port. I'd much rather trust an open ssh port for securely provisioning/management than allow any other piece of software to keep a port open (upto and including TLS based protocols).
Energy markets are a bit complicated. Wind energy has a localized value that depends on local supply and demand supported by the associated transmission line. In any case, the price of any energy resource is based on what technology is "on the margin", i.e. what is the cheapest form of energy available at a specific time to satisfy demand. It turns out that US natural gas prices are driving all the renewable energy economics due to their current historically low price. Arguably, oil prices have less of an influence on renewables than the cost of natural gas.
I find your reasoning wrong, sorry. Actually, not less absurd than those of Muslims who started the worldwide violence after the publication of the caricature of Muhammad with the bomb on his head in the Danish paper.
You mean the uncommon sense and much better trained, more complex network.

(By uncommon I mean it is rare, and also I mean that it should find the rare instances and learn much from them.)
Know your community: Hacker News is run by Bilderbergers.
Not really. Google has Android OS, Chrome OS, Brillo OS, Andromeda OS, Fuchsia OS, Android Studio, Go, Dart, Angular JS, etc...
There's no conspiracy here. Apple is just not involved in the machine learning community in the same way as these others. Look at NIPS and you'll see activity from all of the other participants in this announcement. Apple isn't present in the same way.
Quantum computers do not make NP-hard problems significantly easier to solve than on classical computers.

They're better at prime factorization, but in a way that's well understood (quantum Fourier transform) and possible to simulate on classical computers.
"Josephus was born in Jerusalem 37 C.E. and in the 2,000-plus years since then..."
Interesting fact: while not all shared object files are executable (or rather: do something interesting other than dump core), some most definitely are: try executing libc someday: $ /usr/lib/libc.so.6

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1449987/building-a-so-tha... for more information.
I mean, what goes around comes around when you're comitting mass genocide to take people's land. A whole lot of Canaanites had to die to make ancient Israel known as ancient Israel.
I was lucky to still be part of the party and enjoy systems programming with Turbo Pascal (5.5, 6.0, 7), before I was introduced to C.

If you still would like to find Modula-3 related stuff, check http://apotheca.hpl.hp.com/ftp/pub/DEC/SRC/ .
> I have no idea how this report was produced

Also it's based on a survey responses from corporate executives. A mean name for it might be "the country popularity contest as judged by corporate fat cats". Though
the survey questions do obviously direct it towards
objective pastures.

Hah! The example question presented in the PR material is "In your country, to what extent is intellectual property protected?" - a poster child of where corporate executives might have a diametrically opposite view from the real makers re. what's good for the country's competitiveness.
...

I have not. Could you link me?
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The Frontier Fields: Where Primordial Galaxies Lurk
ELI5 version:

- use a video encoder variant with low latency and CPU/GPU usage

- keep video output in video memory as much as possible

- no solution to the problem of getting low latency high bandwidth internet to the customers
E.g. - "No-SQL" reeks of the "Codasyl" model from the 60s, which relational databases replaced for good reason, whether or not Structured Query Language is the only way to interact with the tuples/tables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CODASYL

Ad nauseam...
1000 comments! Is that a record?
"systemctl reboot --force --force" should work in such cases. The reboot will be executed by systemctl itself.
You are right, what I actually meant is "great once quantum computing becomes a commercially viable route" :-)

Regarding the second line of your comment: I don't have comprehensive knowledge about the possible alternatives, could you direct me towards some sources?
Are you saying that there are a lot of daemons out there that doesn't fit into systemd's declarative architecture? If so, the daemons could be fixed or systemd could be extended to cater for "not perfectly written" daemons.

On the other hand if the daemon is written by incompetent developers and is doing very stupid stuff then it is a good thing that it doesn't fit. The developers will have an incentive to fix their broken code. And even with systemd it is possible to run arbitrary shell scripts at startup (afaik) which could start the daemon so they aren't totally out of luck.

> For some years now, the Gentoo Project has OpenRC/runscript (specialized shell for init scripts).

But is a scripting language really needed for daemon management? If the answer is no, then a more limited configuration language (systemd's .service files) is better.
Interesting! I'm from California but haven't lived there in ten years and I thought marijuana was already legal there. Turns out that it's only medicinal use of marijuana that is legal (2010), but there is a ballot proposition for wider legalization on the upcoming November, 2016 elections.

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_64,_Marijuana...
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Luke is dumb too maybe even more than Haley and she is not smart but she's not stupid either she got lots of social skills.
Switch from Node.js to Golang
Amazon is a terrible organization because Jeff Bezos is a terrible person.
I'm not thinking about this from my perspective, however. I'm in a way thinking of it from an outsider's perspective.

In terms of "me", there would be two individual instances of me that open their eyes and either see A or B. The "original" is determined by you the question-asker, and the fact that that "original" walked into chamber A. Because that "original" walked into chamber A, that "original" would see the letter A, whereas the clone would see the letter B. Its possible that the "original" was, at time of cloning, completely recreated/rearranged. However, that "original" would retain the A designation/"originality" because to an observer, someone walked into a chamber with no other exits, and exited out the same chamber, that someone is the same person.

You are as much what others think of you as what you think of yourself, in this case.
Why not Google?
They did a good job, but please don't forget that they helped themselves by stealing tax money to other nations.
There was no genocide of the Canaanites. That's myth, not historical fact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Joshua#Historical_and_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ancient_Israel_and_...
Haaretz page layout has become awful. Banners sliding in from the top. Banners sliding in from the bottom. Banners which play thunder sounds.

It's a clickbait article, too. This isn't a new discovery. The Daily Mail had an article about it in 2011.[1]

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2032155/Caves-Hirbet...