skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if they would do copy-pasta from nature..
Even if they copy everything..

They are the first who have a machine learn to solve problems that require memory. They are the first. These are the stepping stones to artificial Intelligence.

Note: The whole point of the Synthetic gradients, is to learn a network in parallel. This allows Google to make computers learn recognize things in images even better. To recognize human speech even beter... To make self driving cars even better.....

I don't know if they are copied or not from nature (doesnt look like). The point is that they are improving mankind.
From a commercial point of view it kind of does. If the development costs exceeds the increased revenue it's not really worth it.
Is Netflix A/B testing the ratings it shows users?
> 1: Exercise: think of an elemental metal we're short of. Look it up in Wikipedia, look at what % of the Earth's crust consists of that resource, and compare that to current usage.

Just because it is somewhere in the Earth's crust, it doesn't mean that we are able to harvest it.

> 2: With enough money, we could do this with nuclear power today. I don't think we're too far away from being able to do this with solar, again given enough money.

You are talking about producing 100X as much energy as we do today. Nuclear power is already used in many countries. Scaling up our energy production with a factor 100 just by replacing traditional power plants with nuclear will never reach that factor.
And solar power is not even able to fulfill our current energy need, there is just not enough free surface on the earth for all those solar panels.

> 3: Greenhouses.

The claim that the use of greenhouses could scale up our global food production with a factor 100 is absurd.
I think that their focus has been on the experience for advertisers, which are less visible or feel negative to the end user (such as tweaks to the timeline—100% for advertisers and brands). However, those choices are probably highly influential to their revenue, and arguably they need to be working more on those things—which means even fewer visible changes that benefit end users.

Either they're working on the wrong thing, or they're not working hard enough on the right thing. I don't see too much of a split focus—they know the base they have and they need to extract value while keeping the essence of the experience they have.
Yet another "there's waterfall and there's agile (structured around 'sprints (or daily scrums)') and nothing else" essay.
Glad to hear you got it fixed, I'll play around with it on my lunch break
0.2MB/s parsing logs or basically any file is absolutely terrible. Hence why thomas-st wrote his own parser. Parsing at 2MB/s (rounding up the 1.8 to 2 order of magnitude) is also pretty poor.
They haven't been building things for you. They've been building things for advertisers.
My understanding is that the ratings have never(?) been global ones; they are their estimate of what you will think.

It is possible they A-B test aspects of the process used to generate these.
I was 100% in your boat after experiencing Atom. I have a 8 year old re-purposed Linux box (OpenSUSE) for work. That took a LONG time to be okay with our Windows based IT Department.

I changed my mind over two electron editors/IDE. I use RStudio and it is really been getting so fast on my old computer that I can't tell anymore. VS Code by Microsoft is so fast and nimble that I have been using it 75% of the time with no felt overhead. It really is an amazing piece of software in terms of speed, now the ram usage is still much higher but for my uses I don't notice it at all on my 8 year old Dell corporate computer.
Experimental CLI with I/O and file lookup reduction
Clisiah is an CLI experiment. The goal with this module is to reduce I/O and file lookup, and quickly as possible return the located files.

Github: https://github.com/zubuzon/clisiah
https://github.com/zubuzon/clisiah
The comparaison with JS is perfect.
Like JS is the asm of the web ecosystem (no one wants to write its code just in JS, we generate it instead), default android and IOS way of programming have to be be generated.

Try Xamarin [0] or the newcomer flutter [1]. It's such a pain in the ass to dev in raw android or raw ios, use multi platform sdks.

And if you start with xamarin, you can target windows phone too, even if nobody cares ;-)

[0] https://www.xamarin.com/
[1] https://flutter.io/
No, speed is bonus. Yarn is about reproducible dev/test/build setups. Same yarn.lock - same node_modules content. That's the primary goal.

If you think consistency across computers is a religion then I don't think we're going to find a lot of common ground here though.

Finally, yarn is not intended to replace the npm client. It is intended to replace it for a certain use case, which happens to be one many companies have. Unlike Yarn, Npm is highly flexible and obviously you like it like that. I strongly doubt it's going to stop being developed all of a sudden because some other people made Yarn. So what, exactly, is the problem?
Video games and the future of emotional AI
MIT's "moral machine" site presents a set of ethical dilemmas involving driving so you can explore your own perspective on morality.

http://jalopnik.com/this-mit-online-activity-lets-you-choose...

http://moralmachine.mit.edu/
The brain's architecture is laid bare for anyone to see.
Making models of features is cheap. Anyone can do it. There are loads of white papers and benchmarks. Some approaches beat others depending on the benchmark. Claiming it 'works' by tweaking it until it fits a canned benchmark is not hard work. Not having any explanation as to why it works is not hard work.

Coming up with a functional systems architecture that ties the bits and pieces together is hard work. Understanding what is really happening in the human brain, how/why it is performing various functions, and how this provides for an intelligent architecture is hard work. Creating an 'aware' platform is hard and elusive work which is why people chase the low hanging fruit of optimization algorithms.

*Cheers
Fixed
https://github.com/future-architect/vuls/pull/219
See https://hack.close.io/posts/ciso8601 on the use case.
What about media queries?
In the U.S., a black software engineer is more likely to be able to design technology that helps keep people safe from police regardless of geekery and socioeconomic status.
How often do cars change position while powered down? That is, why not always (even on "cold start") use the last known position as a starting guess? How do phones get GPS-quality location data even immediately after being rebooted?
Your Mercurial example actually undermines your argument completely. I don't know "hg" at all, but when seeing "--no-backup" I immediately understand what that flag does, something which would not be true if the command were "hg revert -C".

Are you a casual user of command line tools? If you aren't, you know that command line options of anything become muscle memory if you use it long enough; at that point anything that stands between you and the correct result is nothing but a hindrance.

The workflow on the command line is:

1. manual page;

2. SYNOPSIS section in the manual page;

3. EXAMPLES section in the manual;

4. run the application.

If your operating system of choice has inadequate manual pages because developers say "I built in --long-options because I didn't want to figure out how to write a proper manual page", it's time to seriously contemplate ditching such a system, and replacing it with a real UNIX.
At that point, when that happens, you lost and you lost big.

As for zsh completion: A program simply needs to follow a specific protocol (take input, reply with the right output), and then be registered with the "complete" command. zsh comes with autocompletion for lots of things.

So basically there is a hardcoded file with all the programs which the developers or the packagers of zsh were aware of, so that --long-options would work? So now you're assuming that everyone is using the application on the same substrate as you? What if that file isn't there on my OS? And how does that hardcoded hack scale?

Yes, I can remember short command line options of tools I use often enough, and if I don't -- my operating system substrate comes with comprehensive manual pages, so I don't have to.

I am empathically not a casual command line user that I would need --long-options because that's more intuitive, so --long-options suck because ergonomy trumps casual use.

I will never provide GNU style of long options in my software, because I deeply care about my users, and I'll go out of my way to spare them from typing in the long term. What I will do is write a comprehensive manual page that will be a faithful companion and a good friend to them on their journey. And if they just don't care and want to hack something up on the quick -- I'm not that kind of a person, and it's not the kind of a relationship I want to have with my users; they can go somewhere else if they just needed to run some application casually. My tools are designed for long term, efficient use and comfort. Let people type --no-backup all day long "because it's more intuitive". Good luck with that.
No additional energy drain. In fact, one of the definitions of far field is that any thing in it can't change the impedance of the radiating antenna. There is a good article in this months IEEE APS magazine exploring where the far field begins. Coincidence I was reading it last night.
You have to fuck up our planed really badly to make Mars better than Antartica. I don't get this argument - what really can happen here for Mars to become more appealing? Nuclear winter? Virus outbreak? Zombie apocalypse? Antartica still would be better by a solid margin. You can get water reserves with little effort, it would be easier to clean polluted air than to produce it out of nowhere and temperature range is still much better in any case. What's the point then?
S3 10TB transfer 902.16
from dedicated provider 60
George W Bush proudly didn't use email and called the Internet the "Internets". Pretty big difference.
I added a few more : https://drive.google.com/open?id=15z8VmPCAGRXwaQ9yxkAGfr2cug...
> The economy does not need to grow further

This is pretty much false, because on the one end we have people in poverty who will hopefully move out of it, which will cause growth.

On the other end, most people on this forum are involved in finding new ways to unlock "value" and thus create new wealth.

The economy is not a pure zero sum game.
> Revolution does not happen by itself

I actually think revolution needs to happen by itself. The overlap between the skills needed to organise armed insurrection and to govern are similar.

Issues come up when still-formentig revolutions are prematurely encouraged. They may succeed in toppling the prior regime, but they never forged a shared identity and set of norms fit for rallying, organising and deploying force and order - the bread and butter of nascent governance.
and what i mean by that, is we are talking about a pulse of high voltage and very very high frequency (maybe even gamma radiation) and its effect on electronics.

thats not a case of power falloff. Because interaction with the environment and target is non linear.

for example if it blasts a phone to reset from a few centimeters it could easily drop all calls in a 20 meter radius. but upping the power/voltage 4 times may only add milimeters to the range of blasting the phone to reset because so much is absorbed by the case.
but upping the power/voltage 5 times could add a meter to blasting the phone to reset because the case now no longer absorbs enough energy to prevent the interference. Also resonance and harmonics play a huge role in the effect.

All conjecture. but my point is you cant apply school boy physics to the problem because its not a problem they teach in school.
Just like any other media query, except without the selector!

const AdjustsAt360px = styled.div`
@media screen and (max-width: 360px) {
this-is-applied-under: 360px;
}
`;
An "Electro chemical gradient" is an ion. That works on small scale within cells. The gradient here is the "electrochemical potential" of the ion.

An Synthetic Gradient is a way to allow learning Forward Propagated Neural Nets in a parallel way. The gradient here is referring to the 'error' backpropagation that is part of the training process of an neural net (im talking about computer science neural nets).

They have nothing todo with each other.
The papers that you are referring to have nothing todo with the process of training a neural net.
Music Classification and Similarity Using Deep Learning
Vuls parse the changelog of upgradable packages on Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS.

For details, see the flow chart in Scanning Flow section.
https://github.com/future-architect/vuls#scanning-flow
"I just want to know how your head feels under something like that/Under your brand new leopardskin pillbox hat"
- Bob Dylan, 1966
Just updated my profile. Feel free to email me!
Show HN: Easily view, version, and share .sketch files on the web
Reclaiming C++ Data Structures with Cycles
The law will be into effect in 2017
The times, they are a-changin'! Never expected to see a songwriter honored with this prize.
Kodachadri Trek Camping
QEMU/KVM on Fedora and RHEL uses seccomp, SELinux, namespaces and a separate user, and has done for about the past 5 years.

It's more interesting if they've managed to fully protect the kernel part of this (ie. vmm on OpenBSD, KVM on Linux) from the rest of the kernel.
Pretty standard in any reasonably secure financial services org.

All direct Internet access is blocked and prohibited, with all attempts to access the Internet (tcp/80, tcp/443) transparently proxied via Bluecoat/Websense/Forcepoint/etc proxies, which filter based on URL categorisation. WSS generally doesn't work in this kind of environment. Everything else is dropped.

Any attempts to bypass filtering is a violation of IT policy and is sackable. Visiting sites that are blocked gets logged, doesn't generally get flagged up unless is a daily occurrence, and the first assumption is usually malware.

Source: Worked for several such companies, was responsible for perimeter security in some.
Why Google Pixel Replace Nexus and iPhone 7
I remember seeing my dad drive his brand new BMW 5 series with a beautiful widescreen display in the dash. The screen has a little shelf under it, so it was the perfect place to set his iPhone with the directions he actually wanted to follow. The built in GPS essentially provided the same directions, but the UX of the phone apps and the audible directions are just so much better.
Apple supplier Foxconn so far up to 40,000 'Foxbots' in China
Git commits to the project are from August this year.

I see many projects with a similar public perception issues. Pages and blogs need to reflect their activities better.
C# is built on top of what Windows offers, so I imagine it matches a mix of DBCS and Unicode APIs.
Make Someone Happy Today
Thank goodness! He deserves it much more than Peter, Paul, and Mary.
Agreed, and sadly not limited to the US. One of the things I (eventually) realised is that here in the UK The Guardian is equivalent to The Daily Mail, but for liberal intelligentsia instead of Conservatives and UKIP supporters.
Show HN: Perspective recovery of text with Python+OpenCV
Staff at Brisbane Apple store fired for stealing pictures from customer phones
Some "middle positions" on abortion tend to be poorly thought out from a deontological perspective. Allowing abortion in cases of rape makes zero sense if abortion is murder, for example. Help should surely be given to rape victims, but giving it in the form of infanticide?
It certainly owns cloud storage on the desktop, if only because it actually works.

For the life of me I cannot understand how Microsoft screwed up OneDrive so much. On one hand if you ever leave a file unsaved, Microsoft Office will harass you forever about it. Office 365 pushes you to save files on OneDrive, but frequently you try to save a file on OneDrive and it fails. That's a failure mode that simply can't happen, ever.

In the case of both Google Drive and OneDrive the sync client itself seems to be unstable (stops working) and impairs the performance of the computer.
Xiaomi has backdoors in their phones
The dates are strictly formatted, the values are stored as UTF8 and there are no cultures to consider.

I wonder what the speedup will be from omitting all the validation and associated branching and just picking the values out directly. Chances are that you won't see more than one date format in the same input either. Another strategy I'd use is to parallelise the digitisation; assuming the YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss format, it'd start off something like this (untested, but should be close if not completely correct):

Y = *(uint32_t*)s - 0x30303030;
M = *(uint16_t*)(s+5) - 0x3030;
D = *(uint16_t*)(s+8) - 0x3030;
Y = 100 * ((10 * (Y >> 24) + (Y >> 16)) & 255) +
((10 * (Y >> 8) + Y) & 255);
M = (10 * (M >> 8) + M) & 255;
D = (10 * (D >> 8) + D) & 255;

It should be possible to reduce the year computation to 2 multiplications, at the expense of several more masking operations. Around 50-100 clock cycles per full datetime should be possible, which is in the few-dozen-ns range on a GHz-clock CPU. Probably could go a bit faster still if you start bringing in the SSE...
Come writers and critics

Who prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes wide

The chance won't come again

And don't speak too soon

For the wheel's still in spin

And there's no tellin' who

That it's namin'

For the loser now

Will be later to win

For the times they are a-changin'.
> They are the first who have a machine learn to solve problems that require memory.

Incorrect. It was named a Neural (Turing) machine for a reason. Maybe people should go back and dust off the white papers from the 70s like those who are borrowing from that era and respectfully giving credit where credit is due.

They do great work and they are making great progress in Artificial Intelligence. Many people are. Everything is a stepping stone. It serves no good to over-hype one person's stones over another's or ignore/downplay where they were inspired from. Notable visionaries of a past time were visionaries because they detailed the depths of their thinking and centered on the hows/whys. It seems it is fashionable now-a-days to do the exact opposite. This is to a disservice to learning and progress.

The whole point of the human brain is parallel processing. Extra-cellular chemical Gradients function the same way in the human brain and serve the same purposes. Take a look at the papers I linked.

> I don't know if they are copied or not from nature (doesnt look like).

Extra-cellular chemical Gradients. I linked to white papers that explain how memory is stored in them and shared across neurons. This is how it works in nature and biology.

They named their approach 'Synthetic Gradients'. An artificial form of the biological Gradient that is decoupled and lies outside of a neuron. They are clearly giving credit to nature.

They and many other people are improving mankind. Many others can improve mankind if there was less hype and more of a focus on where the ideas originated.

That was my point..

The behavior of people regarding selective 'hype' is one of the big reasons why a tremendous amount of deeply functional work that centers on hard intuitions and ideas for this area will remain closed source when a real break is made.

Enjoy the hype train I guess...
They're operating on another level than anyone else.
Secure Coding Patterns
I think most libertarians have evolved into the alt-right.

If by 'libertarians' you mean/include earnest, historically-aware classical liberals, most certainly not. To those of us inclined this way, the alt-right movement is repugnant.
Ultimate Home Cinema for the Super Rich Launches
>they cheated a little on some regulations

What's wrong with a little cheating, as long as it's in Silicon Valley, not Wall Street, am I right?
I feel the same way. And I'm a US citizen! I've been an expat for quite a while now and looking back at the US it is indeed a freak show.
Was always a fan of these lyrics that are unfortunately still relevant; http://lyrics.wikia.com/wiki/Bob_Dylan:Masters_Of_War

You've thrown the worst fear

That can ever be hurled

Fear to bring children

Into the world

For threatenin' my baby

Unborn and unnamed

You ain't worth the blood that runs in your veins
Great! Funny thing, just have been talking with friend this morning about his special status as a songwriter. Very brave and I believe right choice.
It is not self inflicted, rather imposed by customers.

Also the Android operating system isn't a language.
Unilever is treating the UK like a Latin American nation with a dodgy currency
Do you realise how insane it sounds to tell someone to profile their build config? The fact that people need to do this is the problem.
Tracking like this does not work when you use Firefox with Containers :)
See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec...
Waiting for Schmidhuber to pipe up that he wrote about something similar in -93 and Alex Graves was his student anyway
4 Steps to Finding Out If Your Startup Idea Is Brilliant
800Mi in R&D for Twitter? Almost the same figure for sales & marketing?

Really, what are they doing? This makes no sense

OK, Apple is @ 10Bi per year approximately http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/04/27/apple-rd-spending-... (but developing hardware and silicon is not cheap
Do you have anything to back it up, or is it a supposition?
[video] 2.5 years around the world on a vespa scooter
How to Make a Twitter Bot with Google Spreadsheets
Hooking onto this, what's the colorscheme?
http://pypy.org/performance.html says "String concatenation is expensive" and suggests using join() in loops.

Its an old problem https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/issues/1925/very-slow-string...

So whilst pypy is otherwise much faster than CPython, its missing of this kind of optimisation is why actually CPython can be faster for parsing my logs.

I know about this because I've been bitten by it :)
I just want to say that it's likely not the amount of plugins it's the weight each have, likely you have a few heavy ones causing your boot to be slow. I use ~20 plugins and startup time is still under a second when opening a 35000 line file, try using --startuptime
Python is a very well-designed language and always has been. The batteries wouldn't have ever existed without that fact.
Oxford University: Testing a go-anywhere car
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That article is spot on. It highlights the problems of the experience, and how insane the burn rate is, for something thats no doing anything new for users.
We are biased to believe that minority groups are more fit to solve racial issues. But skin color is a not a sufficient condition for race relations expertise. Obama is not strictly right/wrong due to his identity. There is no other meaning to my previous post.
That's a really cheap false equivalency. You've basically side nothing while ignorning the practical reality of what we're discussing. Take for example, the fact that Fox News will continually post stories about how Global Warming is a hoax, which is something the Huffington Post definitely won't do. The Huffington Post tends to write click-baity headlines, but they've never out right used lies in their articles. That's not bias, it's an observable trend.

Tell me, which is "propaganda."
> Something along the lines of "Obama lets immigrants across border to kill white people"...

Well that is not fake, because such a title is unfalsifiable. Both sides use this kind of rhetoric now however, so, in a way the populist right wing has won. The idea of moderation or modesty is nonexistent in US and almost the same holds for UK media. That is wrong, because i believe (and i think one could find enough evidence if interested) that you can convince people by being moderate.