skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coming from an enterprise background, that number is astonishingly low.
You should add some gifs with a lower frame rate. I had to download the one you had and walk through frame by frame. Absolutely beautiful.
Read what I wrote. Rebuilding is not free.
You described exactly what SCI does: they use Bitcoin internally (customers don't typically even know it) and they managed to have captured ~20% of the remittance corridor between South Korea-Philippines. Here is SCI's cofounder talking about their company: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/53lxkt/is_it_really_so...
Did you think about manufacturing or designing your own ARM CPUs and releasing HDL for the CPU?
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a monolithically integrated QRNG, composed of a light emitting diode (LED) and a single-photon avalanche photodetector (SPAD), has been recently demonstrated at 1 Mb/s using silicon (Si) photonics technology

For 32-bit integers, 1 million bits per second is equivalent to 31,250 random integer samples per second.

For comparison, a Mersenne Twister on GPU can generate 2.9 billion samples per second and on FPGA it can generate 26 billion samples per second [1]. One can only imagine what a custom ASIC would be able to do.

So the current quantum chip RNG is roughly 100,000 times slower than GPU and a million times slower than an FPGA.

I realize that the purpose of this QRNG is cryptographically secure RNG and Mersenne Twister is not for that purpose, but I was just curious about the performance.

[1] http://www.homepages.ed.ac.uk/slig/papers/tian_AHS09.pdf
A human plus a googlebot could do it though! Have the bot scan the incoming messages, provide possible facts related instantly. Then the human writes the response. The Turing test would say Robot but it would not be entirely right.
I believe a number of US cities bought interest rate swaps and lost out, resulting in outrage and lawsuits: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-29/derivative...

Part of the problem is that some financial products can expose you to greater financial loss than your initial investment, and it's these that need to be carefully regulated and only sold to those who know what they're doing.

Unfortunately they're very profitable most of the time, so everyone wants to get in on it. Imagine going around making a bet for $1 that makes you $1.10 every time except for the one-in-a-million possibility of owing $10m.
> The transpiled JavaScript closely resembles the source TS, making debugging easier (source maps allieviete this to a certain extent).

High-level languages look nothing like machine code, but we still compile them to it.

> Transpiling from a whole different language means you have to port the standard runtime

That's true, but it's not a reason not to use a good language instead of a horrific one.

> The more different the two languages are, the more likely you'll run into surprising situations where feature X in language Y cannot be implemented in its original form in JavaScript

I contend that any feature of a Turing-complete language can be implemented in JavaScript.

> As someone else mentioned, TS is almost a superset of JS, which means mixing in JS code into TS code is much easier.

'I still get to use JavaScript' doesn't sound very appealing. But, of course, many high-level languages offer an escape to assembler: a high-level language compiling to JavaScript can offer an escape to JavaScript.

> What is a real language anyway?

Haskell, CaML, Lisp, Python, Go — not JavaScript, though, which is an embarrassment to our profession.
I would like to experience this. Could you elaborate - what space simulator was it and which VR headset? Thank you!
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Its certainly not energy efficient. Which is why I said it only satisfies "C" :-)

But 25W is still more energy efficient than a full-blown computer.

> The price for the whole system (RAM, PSU, case) will probably be quite a bit higher as well.

$20 for 4GB of RAM + $40 case. You really can build the core components for less than $150.

Don't forget the $10 USB boot drive. USB-boot seems like a superior option over hard-drive boot. That way, your entire hard drives can be used for data-storage. USB-boot can be easily backed up separately and kept independent of your data.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA07232B10...

Or spend a bit more on a bigger case + PCI SATA3 port extensions to grow to 6+ Hard Drives.

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Of course, the hard drives you put in will raise the costs by several hundred dollars. (Four 5TB Drives will cost $600 for example).

> But it looks like good option if you need a standard platform with comparatively high single thread performance.

I've contemplated a Windows-based NAS before, but the $100 Windows tax is just too much.

But I do want to play with Storage Spaces. It seems like Storage Spaces + ReFS is Microsoft's answer to BTFS / ZFS. And I do mean the two features combined. ReFS only does bitrot checking so it isn't quite a ZFS replacement. But combined with Storage Spaces the Windows solution has distinct advantages.

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I've ordered a Synology for work, and it works good too. Its simple and solid, works with everything I expected out of the box. At home, I can afford a little bit of time to baby these machines (ie: build custom). Plus, you can build 4-bay systems for very cheap.

Lots of good configurations out there. I think people forget about standard PCs because they think they're expensive... but for the costs of ~$100 (like a Dragonboard), the standard PC / AM1 platform is indeed competitive. Although it does use more power.
Mapreduce is Good Enough? (2013) [pdf]
> why should I read?

Because reading is not just a utilitarian activity. Reading widely—things that may not be immediately useful, things that may be against your belief, things that may just turn out to be completely wrong—is an important step towards forming a critical appreciation of anything you may encounter.

Personally, I've long come to realize that much of my attitude towards everything from work to politics has been shaped by reading materials that often covered wholly unrelated topics. More importantly (and much to my chagrin), it seems that many crucial lessons came from works that I outright hated and was forced to drudge through against my will.

I don't mean to discount your conclusion: Almost always, almost everybody doesn't know what they're talking about. But almost always, almost everybody is a little right, and bits and pieces you pick up from the most unusual places will inform your solution to a problem many years down the road, or at least remind you that every story has more than one side.
Great work! The fact that it captures "long-range order" seemingly perfectly is something not many have been able to do before! And the "collapse" visualization is great fun to watch.

But is your algorithm really qualitatively all that different from previous search methods (e.g. Efros and Leung), if you are still (uniform random?) sampling over the input distribution of patches?

I notice also your input textures tend to have sharp boundaries (as is common in pixel art). It would be interesting to see the results when the input has a lot of "noise", such as high def images of rocks or clouds ;)

While I still prefer search methods because they are easy to implement (and give better results), "deep" methods are definitely gaining some ground:

Deep Textures

http://bethgelab.org/deeptextures/

Combining Markov Random Fields and Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Synthesis

https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.04589
>In my eyes, most novels are trash and there are only a few worth reading.

Relatively few, maybe, in the context of all the books, ever. But there are far more "good" books than most people can read in a lifetime.
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Perhaps BMI isn't very accurate for slightly short people. It says I should weigh 115-149 lbs. I currently weigh 190 and when I manage to get down to 170, I look very athletic. The last time I weighed 149, I looked like I was starving.

It seems similarly unreasonable for most of my friends and family.
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The US government would impose a fine, it would just be an inconsequential one. Like the one they imposed on Wells Fargo that was less than the CEO alone made partially due to the fraudulent accounts the employees set up.
On the other hand, physical infrastructure failures are pretty much always local - you can lose the grid in a city, state, or even whole country and, while bad, the negative consequences will be contained and limited - neighbouring cities/states/countries will jump in and help. A cascading problem in the global financial system could make half of the western world go hungry, or even start another major conflict.
Seconded, "performed a lithobraking maneuver" is now on my list next to "rapid unscheduled disassembly".
For me frontend == native, so I have plenty of choices.
This is pretty awesome, but there is no LICENSE file so I'm assuming no one is allowed to use it in their own projects.
If you can't analyze your wisdom then it's not worth discussing, facts and data are objective - I don't perceive the the things you mentioned as smart but pretentious.
This is great. Someone should make a Minecraft plugin.
"In my eyes, most novels are trash and there are only a few worth reading."

That's actually the expected result, by the way. Sturgeon's Law, roughly "ninety percent of everything is crap", is one of those ha-ha-only-serious sorts of things. You can put math around it if you want; if the quality of a given type of media is normally distributed (probably with the bottom end cut off by it never getting published), the best of the best is generally much much better than the vast bulk of what is out there, and so if you measure by the standard of what the best puts out, almost everything is crap.

One of the things that keeps the world going around is that we all have different distributions, though; what is for me a +6sigma novel might be well below average to you.

I'd say to you that bloated page counts are definitely a common thing. It's what you get when you pay by the word. I'd also say that any story can be reduced to a couple of sentences, if you're being really cynical ("One day, Bob defeated the evil overlord and peace reigned throughout the land."). There are stories out there that are quite dense and everything has a point. But, yes, they are the exceptions. The trick is in finding them.
I don't agree with this. For example I can get things done using Clojure incredibly fast. The development speed with it is simply unparalleled. And since they introduced clojure.spec you get the best of both worlds (static, typed / dynamic). Bad modules is not inherent to JS but it __is__ a problem currently. Compare it to Maven Central for example: scandals like the one happened with kik is simply impossible. What I see is that there are a lot of libraries in JS which are made obsolete within a few weeks when something new and shiny comes out but there is no depth to it. For example I had to develop a topological sorting algorithm for a frontend project and I did not want to implement my own Graph library so I picked one which had the most Stars. Needless to say that the asymptotic complexities of its operations were not documented and in the end it turned out, that an operation which was supposed to have an O(1) complexity had O(n) and the whole application blew up. The point is that most libraries are sloppy and you end up reimplementing something when all your options fail. I'm used to the Collections framework in java which is well documented and performs admirably. Another problem is that javascript carries a lot of baggage which is a result of the poor design of the language itself and you end up using a lot of transpilers which extremely slows down the compile process. An application reload for example in Clojure (if you use Mount) takes less than a second.
https://www.opentest.co/ - for recording videos, audio

http://www.gettoby.com/ - for saving bookmarks easily.

http://www.unwander.com - for saving places from Trip Advisor, Yelp etc directly to a Trello type board.
There are various trade-offs, as I said, but getting O(1) worst-case look-ups is not hard. Only naive implementations could corner you into O(n) worst-case.

I'm sorry, but you don't really understand hash tables.
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I'm not an engine expert, but I thought a substantial disadvantage of water injection was incomplete combustion (see for example the billowing smoke here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boeing_KC-135_J57_wet_tak...

They may be more efficient, but is there a pollution concern?
Mindblowing... could this technique also be applied to music?
If everyone would be to follow your advice, wouldn't that pretty much seal the fate of Deutschne Bank?
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First, I have bad news for you, and good news for the Internet:

In the very unlikely event that Chromium or Firefox ever honor DANE records, and the even less likely event that they honor trust anchor assertions in TLSA, you are still going to need a CA certificate. In the parallel universe in which DNSSEC is seriously deployed and honored by browsers, the entire X.509 PKI will be replaced with something else before TLSA trust anchor assertions are reliably deployed in browsers, and, until they do, huge fractions of your user base won't know what the hell the DNS is talking about when you give it your self-signed certificate.

If you don't care about that user base, then nothing at all is stopping you from using self-signed certificates today. Just tell your group of friends and followers to check your certificate once when it pops up with a warning, and add it to their trust stores. If you tried to use parallel-universe DANE to serve a self-signed certificate, that is the experience you would have anyways.

"The whole point of DANE" is not self-signing. If it were, Dan York wouldn't be telling people that DANE isn't government key escrow (hint: it is) because the CAs will still be involved. The point of DANE is to come up with some reason, any reason, to get DNSSEC deployed, because the people working on it have in some cases been working on it for over 20 years (it shows) and are frustrated that the Internet has moved on without them.

I don't know what you mean by "Google feels DNSSEC+DANE is good enough for this web service API". The web service is a simple wrapper around a DNS service. The Google you want to pay attention to, the one that matters for the DANE discussion, is the Chromium project. Go talk to the Chromium security people about DNSSEC. See what they say.
JavaScript in 2016 isn't horrible, it's just going through a phase
Did you ever wrote Android or GWT code?
I like anything that is engaging. Sci-fi, fantasy, crime fiction. Doesn't really matter. I don't think the books are the problem. I am in the middle of a very, very good book ("Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman") and I can't even finish that because I can't get myself to just sit down and read.
There is more to functional programing in python than lambda functions. Normal functions can be created and passed around.
The direct drive machines in my apartment complex will clutch if they detect too much vibration.
Maybe IQ rises because people are learning to take IQ tests. I read in some HN posting: in the 40's folks registered ~70 on IQ tests (old tests found in drawers at some University). The questions were 'trick questions' and the test-takers weren't familiar, so answered pragmatically and were marked wrong.
Example: "There are no Rhinos in Germany. Munich is in Germany. How many Rhinos are in Munich? A) 0 B) 1 C) 3 D)other"
Folks would answer B. We imagine they are thinking "Well Munich is a big city, and probably has a zoo. There would be at least one Rhino in the zoo." Are they wrong? As an "IQ test question" they're wrong. But as a real-world issue, they're on the right track.

Today people have encountered trick questions by the time they take IQ tests, so they do better. That might be all there is to it.
But, similarly, a lot of people new to the clouds thinks that it runs itself and you need zero staff. You still need somebody to set it up for you!
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you realize that the engine would get hydrolocked if you pushed too much gas in there as well right?

Somehow manufacturers have solved that problem, I don't think this is an issue.
Very cool, might try do something like this in a game I've been thinking about writing.
> I'd be careful with both of those generalizations.

True, I was generalizing. I was using a subject I felt most people could understand in order to relay my point.

>> "Smart" and "Knowledgable" are often used interchangeably, when really they are sets that just so happen to overlap in some places.
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> It was reading an article about cuckoo hashes which finally prompted me to go down that road, and I can't regret it. That said, I've still never had to implement my own hash table for work

That's what I'm getting at, people that have the curiosity to find out more. Nobody should be implementing their own hash table but if you don't know about basic data structure and algorithm concepts you're not going to be sharp at coming up with new efficient solutions.
Sure, but I think that is the point. You can do that, but its not as convenient and becomes harder to read. And besides, those are free functions you speak of, not closures. To emulate multi-line closures becomes even more obtuse.
Fairly certain that BMW is using distilled water, so you can imagine a warranty coming into play using tap water. All those M4's have been spoken for so real BMW enthusiasts will do the right thing.
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This is a very good website. Thanks!

As for the downvotes, don't mind them. It's not "karma" like in Reddit. There is no hunt for points here! People downvote based on redevance.
It does not make a difference whether the language is bad or the tool is bad because if in this case npm is a de facto tool for the ecosystem you will have to use it. Same with java: it is not the language which is problematic but the "enterprise" projects which need all kinds of factories/builders/etc which make development incredibly slow.
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My wife grew up in Los Alamos. There was an experiment where some physicists took an IQ test every Saturday for a year. Their scores ranged from Moron to Genius, depending on the day. We presume some bell curve where their 'true IQ' was measured. But take a test once on one day - the result is highly variable.
We have plenty of entropy sources. The only situation where we have a problem with that is the so-called early-boot-time-entropy. However hardware RNGs don't solve that either, because, well, they need some kind of initialized OS to access the hardware in order to work.
> Also, think of China, where Google has no market share. Baidu will grow and bide its time.

That Google has no marketshare in China is due to governmental regulation. It's success is hardly evidence that we don't need governmental regulation.
If you are interested in hash tables, check out my improved version of Google's already excellent sparsehash at https://github.com/greg7mdp/sparsepp. Excellent performance, very low memory usage, grows as needed of course.
I'm sure they do, but their mo seems to be vendor lock in / price fixing vs. open ecosystem. Nothing wrong with making a profit, but I feel that plenty of their practices are criminal / actively harmful. One of the powerful things about the Elon narrative is that some of the underlying motivations are humanitarian. Monsanto may claim to be interested in feeding the world but it's clear that they don't really have any real interest in doing this beyond making good PR.

I believe it's totally possible to be profitable in some of the areas monsanto works in and not be so... evil
I think the question should be "what should I read?".

Sure most of what's written is bs. But I really like books as a medium , reading inspires a reflexive form of cognition. Even if you read the same content,online you're more likely to just alt-tab away and forget about it while reading will kinda force you to understand things slower, to digest information in a different way.
I think good romances are like transformers, there's more than meets the eye.
Stronger typing than clojure? You gotta check out clojure.spec which is built into the language itself.
Isn't that the Unix philosophy in a nutshell? Lots of small programs that only do one thing, but can be strung together? They can also be rewritten without worrying about affecting anything else.
Thanks for the link,

though isn't it 5,1x10e0 vs 1,4x10e1 and doesn't that mean it's not the same order of magnitude (I might misunderstand the concept)?
You know it's spring in Alberta when you consume more windshield fluid then gas!
An interactive visualization like this could help drive the point home https://www.sizzleanalytics.com/Boards/sizzle/Spotify-Top-Tr...
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You have actually. For example ClojureScript compiles to JS.
Can use other types of coins where gpu is still ok.
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Read things more carefully before rushing to judgement. I'm not talking about a lookups-only scenario. Of course you can make anything O(1) as long as you arbitrarily define all the parts that aren't as external to the solution, but you're just kidding yourself in the end.

> I'm sorry, but you don't really understand hash tables.

I'm not the one who made this personal, but I'll match that allegation back to you, and I raise you one "you don't really know how to interpret what people say".
This is what I'm currently getting in Ireland:

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Hello, great post, thanks! About the material: it may be an incremental steel alloy, for which data science methods can help a lot: for the learning part, feed the results (the plots with dpa irradiation vs damage in terms of displacement, swelling, bubbles o whatever relevant) from the 2000-2016 papers from Western and Chinese universities aiming at the same target; for prediction, let deep neural networks or extreme gradient boosting cluster or classify or rank the nearest alloy that solves your most urgent technological readiness problem. This would help speed the process imho.
> Maybe IQ rises because people are learning to take IQ tests.

That's a pretty interesting thought. You could actually apply that to a lot of "trainable" personal metrics.
The source files say its distributed under the MIT license.
Ask HN: Between Elixir and Clojure, which one has the more supportive community?
I am a seasoned dev in Java & Python and would like to learn one of the two above-mentioned languages and potentially start contributing. Which one would you say has a more welcoming community? Also what is the state of the languages and their tool support (IDE)?
Those exploding Samsung phones ARE running Android, are they not?