skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great to site but the title is all wrong, these aren't photo realistic images from drawings, this is taking a sketch, classifying it and trying to find a similar photo.

From the site

Abstract
We present the Sketchy database, the first large-scale collection of sketch-photo pairs. We ask crowd workers to sketch particular photographic objects sampled from 125 categories and acquire 75,471 sketches of 12,500 objects. The Sketchy database gives us fine-grained associations between particular photos and sketches, and we use this to train cross-domain convolutional networks which embed sketches and photographs in a common feature space. We use our database as a benchmark for fine-grained retrieval and show that our learned representation significantly outperforms both hand-crafted features as well as deep features trained for sketch or photo classification. Beyond image retrieval, we believe the Sketchy database opens up new opportunities for sketch and image understanding and synthesis.
No, I'm saying Android controls the vast majority of the smartphone market.
I asked about it on Digital Ocean User Voice https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea... and also the Linode forum https://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=14058&hilit=NVM...

So far out of the whole internet, there was no response, except for one guys saying it was really silly, but he also said that SSDs were really silly.

So as usual it seems I am wasting my breath trying to interact with people.
[#1] Smooth android app to download Facebook videos
In fact the original title of the page is:
The Sketchy Database: Learning to Retrieve Badly Drawn Bunnies
Patsorn Sangkloy Nathan Burnell Cusuh Ham James Hays
The problem with metaphors linking the human body with society is they are essentially fascist. The "parts" have no value and the "whole" is supremely important.

So it is incumbent on people who use these metaphors to remember that in society the "parts" (i.e. each individual) do have value. Otherwise it's too easy to turn things around and say, "Terrorists are like disease, we must kill them all; that fast-growing ethnic group is like cancer, we must cut it out."

I don't blame the author in this case as it's a very personal account, but readers should be sure to keep the distinction in mind.
Or ffmpeg, or the browser inspector (with which you can see the URLs to the video and audio clips and download them with any program), or Wireshark, or...
I experience mild hallucinations when stressed out or drunk. Lack of sleep is another trigger. I haven't had it diagnosed but I suspect HPPD, stemming from some badly times mushrooms trips a couple of years ago. I find it mostly ignorable thankfully.

I was aware of the hallucinations for one year before I told anyone about it. Have only talked with one friend about it a couple of times. It is a difficult subject, and hard to relate to for people that haven't experienced hallucinations. And on the other hand is it an deeply private sensation that is very hard to convey.
In that same spirit there's also BitTorrent (BT) Sync: https://www.getsync.com. Seems it's branded as Resilio nowadays.
While there are plenty of things to be said about JavaScript and its ecosystem which I very much doubt you could dismiss as silly, this discussion is about Electron. Meaning, an entire browser runtime being shipped to power a simple desktop appliaction, for a small developer benefit over other cross-platform toolkits and to great detriment for the users.

And please, if you believe you are above those ad-hominem attacks, don't use them yourself.
It's because OP linked the mobile site version. Here is the journal's formatted PDF:

http://m.neurology.org/content/87/13/1308.full.pdf
Hacker news has seen a lot of posts on this subject. The usual advice is to work in industry, where people are apparently treated like human beings. I am sure this is true, but the advice isn't helpful to me.

Society benefits from scientific research. Dismiss its wage problems at your own peril. Sadly, a lot of research is outsourced to universities because labor is cheap. Why pay someone loads of money when you can contract with a university lab? It might be good in the short term, but the talent is leaving research in search of greener pastures.
It seems that this subpixel convolution layer is equivalent to what is known in the neural net community as the "deconvolution layer" but it is much more memory and computation efficient. The interlacing rainbow picture was a bit hard to understand until I read this https://export.arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1609/1609.07009.pd...
Honest question. Given the vast amount of languages that compile to JavaScript what's stopping you from moving away from EcmaScript's "madness"?
Lol - I read: "The Internet is no place for electrons."
I would have read that article ;-)
Prisma is an example of small team doing something novel with AI. Over time they are going to have a huge amount of data to further improve their product.
Note that the lunar module currently on display in the Smithsonian (LM-2, an Earth-bound test article) was in fact reconstructed to match the Eagle (LM-5, used on Apollo 11) as closely as possible. It's not the original -- as you say, that would be difficult -- but I'd still be happy to see a scan of the LM sitting in their lobby.

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/curator’s-dilem...
With 3.2.10 release this will not be a problem any more
>Can private broadcasting succeed where public live-streaming failed?

No. Nobody cares that much for their friends (especially their hundreds of "friends" on social media), or has that time to spare on real-time streaming. For the times when this is actually needed, there are tons of videoconference apps.

Next question?
Super wonky indeed. Also it should compare to something like photoshops bicubic enlargement or the original size, because the brain gets stuck on the pixel edges.
Seeing that build randomly breaking on mingw reminds me of the 'fun' I've had dealing with cross platform/compiler development in C++, it will be a great day when I can just do something like 'cargo build' for asmjs/Android/iOS/Windows/OSX/Linux and this brings us one step closer :)
The Beauty of the Human Experience
& so it became the greatest loss to life on this planet was not the roar of an extinct bird but the beauty of the human experience.

can you really achieve inner-peace if your land is under war?
& is that the peace that can save us?

knowing in the end the planet like us will always be okay
pushing forward like we'll be on Mars soon
> We cannot dismiss these problems in science if we want research to continue.

The sad reality is that right now, those concerns can be dismissed. There is a huge supply of good researchers (especially foreign researchers) who are willing to work under poor conditions just to get a shot. Until there is more money in the system / more positions / fewer people in academic science, you are going to see PIs with unreasonable expectations because they know they can get away with it.
Speaking from personal experience (I suffer from a rare neuro-muscular) disease. If you have a very common disease it is often somewhat quickly diagnosed and treated. The less common the disease the longer it takes and the more likelihood of early misdiagnosis.

Often times there are symptoms overlap. A patient may not display or disclose the symptoms that makes it stand out from the others.

Many diseases are diagnosed by physical examination only as lab results can't pinpoint many diseases. This makes it difficult as the doctors you are seeing may not have any/enough experience with the disease to properly diagnose.

In my case it took over six years to get a correct diagnosis and treatment. My doctor is quite humble which served me well as other doctors might have misdiagnosed and treated me incorrectly. In my case the doctor said to me after several months of testing and examinations, "There is clearly something serious wrong with you, but I'm not smart enough to figure out what." After that he became more of a puppet master sending me to different specialists until finally, after 6 years I found one who was familiar with my illness.
Several apps already do it -- including Skype and Facetime (and Hangouts, IIRC, though I don't use it so not sure).
So why not them?
Vancouver, 37 years old. $150k base, $30k bonus, $150k RSU/annum all CAD.
This is more of a design problem than an engineering problem. Dear Dropbox Design Team, please get your shit together.
40+, East Coast (North Carolina), have been a developer for 15+ years. $145,000 salary.
Notice that sprinkled throughout your multiple comments, you're hedging your position to provide some wiggle room:

"would catch _most_ heists like this"

"2% heist is _better_ than a 60% heist"

", and can come _closer_ to the ideal than anything else"

However, I wasn't talking about degrees on a continuum such as "most/better/closer". I suspect that your prudent avoidance of absolutist statements actually gets to the idea I'm trying to convey.

To recap, Jon Evan's asserts that Solidity can be "proved _correct_". Well, that's a boolean TRUE/FALSE instead of range of bad-to-good outcomes.

>Yes, but formal methods are no more limited than any other approach, and can come closer to the ideal than anything else

I'm not disagreeing with that particular statement. I'm not saying formal verfication doesn't help. It does help! I'm saying it's misapplied to the word "correct" in the sense that a mass of Ethereum users would understand that word.

We are talking about 2 different levels of correctness:

A) rules correctness: proven "correct" in the sense formal specification and program verification. Yes, this can be done but it will always be incomplete in how it maps to humans' idea of what is ultimately correct.

B) intention correctness: proven "correct" in the sense of Solidity working the way humans would interpret as correct

(I recommend reading Brian Cantwell Smith's essay on "The Limits of Correctness"[1])

To put another way, there exists an (unknown) set of programs that simultaneously satisfies both properties:

1) passed the formal verification rules with zero errors
2) judged as working incorrectly by humans which leads to a fork/reversal

The existence of such programs contradicts Mr Evans statement.

>Ethereum's heist was very clearly one of a program not conforming to (an informal) spec, that its creators had in mind.

No it isn't clear. It sparked a deep philosophical debate. Ethereum's creators had an informal spec of the "code _IS_ the contract" and not "the code is PROVISIONAL and humans forking the code is the ultimate contract". For a vocal subset of Ethereum users, the heist did conform to their (incomplete) spec! The word "incomplete" shouldn't be in parentheses because every finite specification is incomplete against unforseen hacks.

[1]https://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs492/11public_html/p18...
I would stay away from such places. They tend to use cheap oil and filters (but charging for brand name) and shoddy workmanship.
It's sure you will get the most of Wired Tiger storage engine again die to 3.2.10 release!
Did they literally just remove it as fast as they added it? I have 11.4.21 and it's not there, and it also has no 'finder toolbar' in settings.
And https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.07285 for the corresponding paper. Really clear and easy-to-understand explanation of some of the math.
syncthing-inotify works great! I have been running Syncthing with this plugin for about a month now and I haven't had any problems with it.

I started using Syncthing for some of my projects after Dropbox stopped syncing files without notice for the third time. The failed Dropbox syncs were related to either C++ or Doconce+LaTeX projects where many temporary build files were being modified often. Syncthing doesn't seem to have a problem with these files, and it is even possible to configure Syncthing to ignore specific file patterns if you just don't want it to sync such files at all.
Thank god, the whole mess is finally over, and we can get back to buying Arduino products if we want them without any hassle.
Why not just use Reader View?
After reading the article I thought it was a great metaphor. Agreed that in the US too many things are "war on x" but I felt this was a good use of the word "terrorist".

I grew up in Germany during the Baader Meinhof days so to me terrorism has a specific, slightly different meaning to its use here in the US now but words have different meanings in different contexts.
I should look into CHIP-8. It seems cool.

Mind, I'm not really sure what it is, or where to start...
Which mercurial does for you (see: phases), but you are right, I forget that git does not help you there.
And if you actually looked into the issues, you’d know that tech companies don’t like it that costs are so high. Most of them are trying to become profitable before they run out of runway.

Tech companies grow and raise the demand: True.

Tech companies increase the cost: False.

Most of the cost increases have been NIMBYs and misguided community organizers and environmentalists. For example, a major source of funding against homes near the T light rail line has been a retired insurance industry executive and consultant. That’s not tech.

If there are not enough houses near the jobs, then somebody is going to be driven out. If you had to choose for your own property, then it would be irrational not to pick the higher paying tech employee.
Fully Homomorphic Encryption?

I guess I don't know if that qualifies as being fundamental since it's very modern but it seems to be quite a popular topic right now.
But then what are you using instead?
"should be" - why? They're not an expense relating to producing income. COGS, cost of sales, overhead, etc are all related to producing income and so are deductible.

Dividends to me are an outcome of already earned income.
There's an interesting, if a bit overdone documentary on Netflix called "Cosmodrome" concerning those Russian engines.
Uhh, what part is factually inaccurate? In the 2012 trial against Samsung, Apple most certainly did point out that a rectangular device with rounded corners was an essential part of the design patent.

Seems like people voting things down have a very bad memory regarding history. I suggest they take a trip to 2012 Memory Lane and read up on the entire year.
I don't know if I'd trust this.

One of the most troubling sites that blocks Tor users is Wikipedia. It's nearly impossible to edit pages if you're an anonymous Tor user.
Texas sheriff linked to rogue US intelligence unit under criminal investigation
I clearly misunderstood what is meant by "Would it be considered impossible to obtain permission from the original source?" as criteria for fair use.[0] I've seen numerous images on Wikipedia that use this as reason for fair use. Someone uploads an image to 4chan as anonymous, for example, without a path to ask permission it might be fair use to use that image.This is different from someone posting an image to facebook where there is a way to ask the author for permission. Please, explain my misunderstanding here.

[0]: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/qxptplnxqt...
Google's Strategy Against Amazon Echo
I've had this for over two decades.

It's called a laptop I don't mind reformatting.
Inside Venezuela’s Crumbling Mental Hospitals
From the spec:

The scheme requires the server to detect nonce reuse with reasonable
reliability. However, there might be no need for a zero false positive rate,
because if an attacker needs to make 10,000 requests to have one succeed,
that's possibly an acceptable trade-off.

Therefore, the server could use data structures such as Bloom filters or
cuckoo filters to store tokens that it has witnessed. The parameters of
these structures can be chosen to ensure a false-positive probability of any
given amount. Cuckoo filters may be more efficient but Bloom filters may be
easier to construct.

I don't think this makes sense. "False positive" for a Bloom filter means it thinks an item was previously inserted when it wasn't really. If the filter represents a set of used nonces, the result of seeing an item as previously inserted would have to be blocking the request as a duplicate: therefore a false positive would cause a fraction of legitimate requests to be blocked, not malicious requests to be allowed as the first paragraph seems to imply.

This result wouldn't necessarily be unacceptable either, especially if there was some mechanism for the browser to automatically retry a HTTP request with a new token if it received a "reused token" error. However, this behavior would have to be specified, and it's somewhat tricky: it's also possible for tokens to be (actually) reused by accident, e.g. if the user restores their system from a backup or a VM snapshot. In that case, it would make more sense for the browser to respond to a duplicate token error by throwing away all its tokens, since it would have no way to know which of them were clean.

Then again, if the Bloom filter is big enough that the probability of a false positive is very low, even spuriously forcing the user to complete another CAPTCHA may not be the end of the world.
Latvia to cut startup employee taxes
I don't print that often, and very, very rarely do I need to print in colour if so, so I have the Samsung ML-1660. A few years old, but the line of products I would definitely recommend. There are colour versions too.
This is just a lame version of Camfrog, almost 15 years after Camfrog was made.
First it was "Depression", then it was "Lewy Body Disease". Everyone wants to find blame or causes during a tragic death. The evidence points to auto-erotic asphyxiation but of course you won't raise many dollars at a charity fundraiser for that.
How the Panama Papers journalists broke the biggest leak in history
This is nice, but only if you are really sure the API you're coding against follows these standards. I don't expect that to happen in many cases, and it isn't a thing to be pissed off either.
Very insightful and well stated. Doing fewer things is a great way to define focus. Too many tasks in progress seems to lead to cognitive drain, perhaps due to all the context switching.
It's a 30 second read; you should just click on the link.

If you really are that lazy; arduino.cc and arduino.org settled their dispute and have setup a holding company to organize device sales using he Arduino brand. In a addition, a not-for-profit company is being setup to run the educational part of the organization.

I'm assuming this fixes all the B.S. that was the "Genuino" fiasco. Good riddance but the brand has been severely damaged by their scorched earth tactics with devices like the Raspberry Pi gaining amazing traction. It will be interesting to see if it can recover.
TLDR:

1. Sensation-seeking

2. Impulsiveness

3. Anxiety sensitivity

4. Hopelessness
I have flat out never seen it work on my systems, and that ain't for lack of trying. I dread when somebody suggests using it to solve a problem because it is a "now you have two problems" solution.
Pretty sure most people use Dropbox exactly because of its seamless Finder integration...
Brand Killer: Augmented reality goggles create real-world AdBlock
Stealing the top comment from reddit...

The former director of the intelligence unit, David W Landersman, a civilian, is facing federal conspiracy charges for allegedly orchestrating a mysterious scheme to equip Navy commandos with hundreds of untraceable AK-47 rifle silencers.
A new wrinkle in the case, however, has recently emerged in US District Court in Alexandria, Va., where prosecutors have suggested that Navy officials from the intelligence unit also sought to funnel military equipment to rural Hudspeth County and set up a secret training base near the Mexican border.
Even more unusually, two of Landersman’s former subordinates have testified that when they were not working full time on intelligence matters at the Pentagon, they moonlighted 1,600 miles away as reserve deputy sheriffs in Hudspeth County, a desolate, Connecticut-size jurisdiction east of El Paso.
Also serving as deputies to Sheriff West were Landersman, his son, and the husband of one of the Navy intelligence officials, according to two Pentagon officials and others familiar with the case.
Why so many Pentagon officials and their relatives were working on the side as sheriff’s deputies in Texas has not been explained in court, where much of the evidence has been sealed to protect national security. What a training base would have been used for there is just as murky.

A secret base, Pentagon intelligence officials and their family moonlighting as deputies, and a court case with a lot of sealed evidence..

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/55d8ag/a_texas_sherif...
What about SpiderOak, if you still want something centralized?

If you want to access your own files anywhere, you're not really in it for the sync aspect, and you're willing to host your own, there's this great piece of software called OpenSSH, that implements remote shell access as well as a protocol called SFTP that you can use to remotely access files. There are clients available on all systems, frequently installed by default, it's incredibly secure - you may have heard of it. It's kinda new, and the up-and-coming thing in personal cloud software. The investors are really excited.

:-D.
"How is this technically different from TinyChat?"

TinyChat is Flash-based. Since this is meant for SmartPhones, no flash, I'd wager.

"I hope they have some other advantage that can't be easily replicated."

They don't. Everything this thing does, Camfrog pretty much did on desktop 15-ish years ago and several years back on mobile.
It's not a matter of maturity, it's a matter of which development methodology is conducive to rapid progress for the greater good.
MongoDB already address it as mentioned.
If you are interested in how it compares to bicubic or the original. Check these papers using the sub pixel convolutional layer: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05158 https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04802.
Spimmy, I am not sure about the context of what you're saying though I agree with the context and feedback of your comments, but I am basing the 600 QPS based on this comment on the blog post linked in the article:

>To put things in context, we do approximately ~18.07K operations/minute on one primary server. We have two shards in the cluster so two primary server making it ~36.14K operations/minute.

36,140 / 60 is roughly 600.

Confusingly, the opcounter screenshot at the top of the blog shows something close to 3k updates / second with a peak of about 4.5k, though it is not explained. I left a more detailed comment on the clevertap blog regarding the kind of operations they are using.

When you talk about benchmarking and high level metrics like QPS, there is a level of thresholds where you can say "you're most likely doing something wrong as you should not be hitting cache limit issues".

The reason you will move to WT is because of snappy, generally higher 99.9th percentile performance, higher throughput, much better document based locks, etc.

Replaying real data is wonderful and great for preparing for a migration like that. MMAPv1 to WT was a much smoother transition for us than what I imagine MMAPv1 to Rocks would be, though the team at FB including Mark Callaghan has made incredible progress on it.
Good point that metrics for prioritization are revenue and customer satisfaction. You can cut a lot of cruft when applying these filters.