skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always thought this is one of the reasons the zombie survival genre is so popular.

For all the dramatic hand wrangling over finding supplies, the survivors are essentially living in a world of plenty -- enough arms, ammunition, canned food, and supplies for a world population, >50% of which presumably no longer have an interest in such things.

It's the antithesis of all that "we should compromise for the good of all, saving the planet, etc" (because how does that sound fun?).
Realistically, the plan is probably getting acquired by something like Youtube Gaming or Twitch to be part of the platform.
"Score voting" is very bad for public elections in a way most analyses ignore; and that is that u like some ordered ranking, numerical scores have no clearly articulable, unambiguous meaning and their assignment is demonstrably variable even with similar actual preferences (notably, it has a strong cultural component.)

Approval has a somewhat similar problem.

Both are, for related reasons, problematic for simulations like this, as well: while these simulations already tend to assume all axes have equal weighting for all voters (though it's easy enough to vary that, but graphical depictions get harder) which is something of a distorting simplification, you have to also assume a mapping function from preference distance to score to make score voting work in a simulation (or a distance cutoff for approval), either of which is a much bigger distortion of how those things work in the real world.
They're all riding in the path of a big-ass laser beam originating near Earth.
From Dalv-hick on reddit (Jack Hayes @Halo_AR_ltd):

>I presume they're going for something similar to what I'm building in one of the implementations, using switching polarisation-sensitive lenses in a stack.

The other thing they mentioned and which is feasible immediately is using a liquid lens, if the input is small.

This would be used for 45 degree combiner but too small for a waveguide exit or for Oculus size lenses.

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>Building a single FSD isn't difficult.

Building a single FSD with wide deflection (more pixels) and fast oscillation (more frames and made necessary to counteract the wider deflection) is considerably more difficult.

Building an FSD with the previous attributes an removing jitter/ distortion is more difficult.

Doing all the previous for an assembled array to line up perfectly is more difficult again.

Finally doing an array, particularly a 2D array at scale, and expecting a significant amount of them to actually work is crazy.

The FSD improvements FredzL points to are at odds with each other.

An FSD array can either use to each unit to create a different focus plane/ view or add extra pixels to the 2D resolution for any one instant of time.

One of the University of Washington papers does hint at alternative though.

In the paper it shows a fibre array (line) being placed in a thick block for better alignment.

This would prevent the fibres being vibrated to create the image.

Instead, on a single line, of a different paper they mention trying acousto-optic modulators.

Dennis Smalley had a good paper on the subject, in which ultrasonic waves travelling through a class of materials will locally change the refractive index.

Light bends by different amounts in different refractive indices, thereby allowing the possibility of image formation.

Solid-state scanning arrays or even multiple beams on a MEMS mirror are probably better than FSDs.

They might be able to use FSD, I don't think it's a good idea.
This is pretty spot on. We know why the defects happen and why they cause downstream test failures, but we lack the ability to prevent (all of) them.

To clarify on that 95% value because it is admittedly really vague: That's actually a 95% correct prediction rate. So far we get ~2.5% false-positives and ~2.5% false-negatives. 2.5% of the parts evaluated will be incorrectly allowed to continue and will subsequently fail downstream testing (no big deal). More importantly, 2.5% of parts evaluated will be wrongly identified as scrap by the model and tossed, but this still works out to be a massive cost savings because a lot of expensive material/labor is committed to the device before the downstream test.
This is a recurting myth.

"Comprehensive formal verification of an OS microkernel" by Gerwin Klein et. al. (2014) [1] reports that it took 20 person-years to perform a comprehensive formal verification of the seL4 microkernel, which was designed, coded, documented and tested in 2.2 person years.

Did they mess it up and take 19 person-years longer than they needed to? I don't know much about this stuff but I thought Klein's work was pretty state-of-the-art? Are there better ways of doing this stuff?

[1] http://www.nicta.com.au/pub?doc=7371
There's over a century of international cinema available to enjoy; no need to get hung up on the latest releases. While I see current movies and even really enjoy them sometimes (I loved Whiplash, La La Land looks fun, and I always enjoy films by Koreeda), I mainly watch films from the 1930s to the late 1960s. There are so many great works that I'll never be able to watch them all, just as with books. If Ingmar Bergman isn't your thing, maybe Gene Kelly is, or Hitchcock, or Kurosawa, or Fellini, or Argento.
Alright, I'll buy that.

The difference between Elsevier and Taschen is that people like us don't appreciate computer science as much as art.

We expect to get everything for free online, not something I can hold in my hand.

Meanwhile I'd love to own an original copy of an Escher and stick it on my wall.

Other people pay good money every month to play world of Warcraft. I'm guessing amortized over time, more than Elsevier charges.

What do you want? Free everything, fine. It's available. Original content that someone worked really hard for and has a stupendously limited audience, but is presented with style and panache. There is that too.

At this point I don't know what I'm really suggesting. I can't say I like $25 paywalls. That isn't me, and I don't have the pocket change for it either.

That said, I do appreciate "known good reliable sources". and am willing to pay a premium.

I think "criminal" is probably a bit much. I'd like to understand the economics first. Nobody buys newspapers any more either. $.25c was criminal too, and look where the news is now.

I'm thinking.
the end result is that any system electing a leader over many different groups cannot rely on simply majority votes as it tips the power to coastal city areas which tend to be major population centers simply because of commerce.

now where voting like that proposed in the article is a good idea is state and local governments where the effect is not so out sized.

people always want change when they don't get their way and worse when some get their way they ignore the fact that nothing they supposedly supported happens, they are just merely happy they won. oddly or worse there are those just happy the other person lost and could care less who they themselves vote for
Yeah unfortunately I have to agree that the workflow just isn't there yet. (definitely a chicken-egg aspect to it) I can kinda see why, editing SVGs is completely different from editing raster images. (the former is pretty much code) The only reason I can see why image hosts don't support uploading it is because SVG has had some security issues. (don't know if this is still a factor) As for your point about most images not being text, I agree, but SVG does support embedding raster images so it would only be a small cost that yields all the benefits mentioned.
It's of note that this post was written by Jean-Louis Gassee, former executive at Apple and creator of BeOS.
There are tests that would be evidence for simulation, but not really any that are evidence against. Just because we can't see evidence of the simulation where we look doesn't mean it's not a better simulation than we can probe, or our gods are mucking with our perceptions to make every test come out negative. There aren't any experiments that would actually falsify the hypothesis that our entire world is a fabrication because those experiments could also be fabricated.

This is true for finding proof of God: A spectacular miracle is pretty good evidence, but lack of a miracle can't ever disprove the theory.
CIA just came out and said that the Washington Post report linking Russian government to Trump election hacking is an outright lie. Looks like The Washington Post is reporting #FakeNews.

Source: http://truepundit.com/cia-washington-post-report-linking-rus...
I haven't read that one yet. Have you?
Presumably using light from the laser. I forget the exact numbers, but the proposed laser is on the order of hundreds of gigawatts. Even at 4 ly away, there should still be appreciable illumination from Earth.
Also see the documentary The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power based on the book with the same name:

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/prize-epic-quest-oil-money-po...

https://smile.amazon.com/Prize-Epic-Quest-Money-Power/dp/143...
Well, I explicitly endorse the APS model, so there you go.
> The trouble with homomorphic encryption is that it can significantly slow down data analysis tasks. “Homomorphic encryption requires a tremendous about of computation time,” says Ameesh Divatia, the CEO of Baffle, a company that’s building encryption similar to what Craib describes.

> According to Raphael Bost, a visiting scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory who has explored the use of machine learning with encrypted data, Numerai is likely using a method similar to the one described by Microsoft, where the data is encrypted but not in a completely secure way.

Doesn't this imply that homomorphic encryption isn't being used, but something like it instead?
Not difficult, just unusual. As someone who buys my phones I tend to hang on to them for about 18 months on average and have just got a Z...
Sure. I was just responding to the original comment that spoke exclusively to the investor risk.
Wordpress template guy is doing a trade while kernel guy is engineering.
And you just lost git bisect
I don't mind websites relying on JavaScript if it would not be feasible to develop them without. However, I frequently come across largely static websites with limited interactivity that require JavaScript, which I tend to consider poor engineering.

I make exceptions for hacks, proof of concepts and the like, but when developing websites professionally, it's a good idea to first build them without JavaScript, then add on whatever JavaScript you feel improves the experience.
I have, it's great. Both are things that customers find amazing. :)
16k per second. 83k per second during peak (assuming 80/20 default traffic rule).

- 100 /s = typical limit of a standard web application (python/ruby), per core

- 1.000 /s = typical limit of an application running on a full system

- 10.000 /s = typical limit for fast systems (load balancers, DB, haproxy, redis, tomcat...).

- Over 10.000/s You gotta scale horizontally because a single box [shouldn't] can't take it.

The difficulty depends on the architecture and what the application has to do (dunno, didn't go through the article). You make something that can scale by just adding more boxes, then it's trivial, just add more boxes. Well, it's gonna costs money and that's about it.

So no. Not a big deal at all... if you've done that before and you've got the experience :D
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For me, the primary concerns are security and trust.

Every sandbox has holes. And the provenance of Javascript on the web is often somewhere between lackadaisical to highly suspect. I wouldn't mind ad-supported content, if the ads were secure, not annoying, and didn't per force track me in ways I don't want.

And there's part of the trust aspect. I expect to know what my browser is doing and what data it's sharing. Current scripting takes that way past my comfort level.

I enable scripting selectively. And if some page/site seems to use it for no other reason than to dump unvetted third-party content on me and to track me, forgetaboutit.
The calculations you need are in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sImBlq542TQ
(his point is that lasers can be used for communications between solar systems, but the power calculations are similar for transport).
>> Carrying two smart devices makes no sense, and the phone got here first.

I've always believed the watch will replace the phone. It's easier to carry than a phone.
I would replace my iphone with a smartwatch in a heartbeat but unfortunately the current models are too limited: no 4g/lte, poor battery, no carplay, not easy to read data(i.e emails), too bulky etc.
The main issue is that the watch is just not good enough for now but eventually it will get a big chunk of the marketshare.
Again, journals run by professional groups are a terrific way to avoid both the bad behaviour of Elsevier and the apparent pay to play that shows up with PLOS ONE.
> A basic k-means or naive Bayes approach will show up in ML textbooks, but those aren't clearly different from "use some statistics to make a prediction".

Ha, sounds like a classification problem! Let's use ML to find the boundary.
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I assumed they were all using the same system. Thanks for this, really insightful :)
if that kind of information had any value whatsoever, Reddit would be worth billions
I can understand bristling at the association of technophilic anarcho-capitalism with the word "hacker", but I'm less convinced by the argument that mere invocation of the concept of technophilic anarcho-capitalism is out of bounds, because it is clearly "a thing" in our community.
“to affect my pay” ← totally agree with you here.

This is a big part of why we think engineering metrics are a tough nut to crack: there’s a fair bit of research that suggests tying KPIs to compensation is a huge anti-pattern for certain types of work (chiefly those involving lots of novel problem solving).

Highly recommend Daniel Pink’s “A Whole New Mind” on this topic; it’s pretty fascinating stuff.
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That was great, thank you for posting it up!
First of all that number is shrinking fast. Secondly, as your articles points out nearly all of those 13% are either seniors. The rest are very likely either unemployed, or living below the poverty line.
AMD has a new virtualization solution which provides SR-IOV hardware based partitioning
on their AMD FirePro S7150 or S7150 x2 gpu cards.
http://www.amd.com/en-us/solutions/professional/virtualizati...

This video explains what you get https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKBthlKTtvQ
What features in particular? The most common one we hear is search, which is actually implemented and undergoing internal testing before a public preview soon.
Can you be more specific about what exactly it is you find hard to believe, what you believe instead, and what evidence could be presented to you to change your belief?
That's good if the exact same conflict reoccurs, but how often does that happen? What would be far better would be a syntax-aware version control system that knows about HTML attributes and understands how to combine two separate additions of HTML attributes.
Do we all have adblock installed? (is this the reason there is such little discussion)
From reading the article, how do we know that the algorithms are actually working? Isn't the market overall increasing in value which could make it seem like the models are effective? How does Machine Learning / A.I. differentiate between correlation and causality?
We've adamantly stated many a time that we will never sell users data, or put ads in the app.
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I don't think anyone thinks Snowden knew he had that information --- that's part of the problem. But I know people who are in position to know who assert directly that his leaks included that material.
One of our interns was in this short and as geeks ourselves, the entire office enjoyed it. Thought you might enjoy it over here. I know this isn't the kind of content that lives here but it is definitely in all our wheel house.Nice to see some original ideas that aren't horrible versions of nerd culture (Looking at you Suicide Squad).
> the ISP's here have carved it up into neighborhood level monopolies

This a textbook antitrust violation, at least by US law (specifically, agreeing to partition markets in this way and not compete with each other). In the absence of some exception in federal law (state law would not suffice), I'd love to see someone go after them with an antitrust case.
The biggest limitation is the screen size. Watches could arguably be made to do everything we want, but we'd still need to plugin an external screen. I'd like to see someone give an futurama style armband a go.
Curious to read it now, especially in the context of its time.

1964 was the same year the Civil Rights Act was passed. I imagine ideas of baser racial instincts were different when there were still lynchings and fear of sexual racial mixing. :(
While Shoe Dog has a lot of content about Nike, sneakers and running I would definitely recommend it if you aren't in to that stuff. It's a great story of perseverance and grit, and the characters who helped shaped Nike are quite entertaining. I would recommend it to any entrepreneur.
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Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?
Please be as specific as possible. Also please mention your company and/or industry.

This should help folks trying to get into your company/industry on what they need to know and conversely help you in finding a better pool of candidates.
Perhaps they should; Fitbit's hardware is terrible. I bought two Fitbit watches, one after the other, and after they both fell apart within 6 months I forswore them altogether. Their software is bad, too, but the hardware was the killer.
As Trumplethinskin lets down his hair for tech, shame on Silicon Valley for
I don't get this. There's a tiny fraction of Python users who care about the complexity of the language parser. But many hate the print-tax.
Thanks for clarifying. I guess ML community is different though, even conference cannot keep up the pace of development, journal would be way too slow. But that might not be case for other domains.
I was astounded at how classist and elitist Gladwell comes across in the article. His point is essentially, because Snowden didn't have a PhD and didn't talk to the right people, the civic value of his leaks are mute.

The difference in Ellsberg's leak and Snowden is that Ellsberg had support within the government (the military) for the public knowing the truth. I'd argue that the difference with Snowden's leaks is that they were inherently against the state and in defense of the constitution. Because the leaks were solely in the interest of citizens, and not the political elite, is the reason he drew the ire of the state.
>unmaintained and exposed to vandalism?

Well written articles that contain no speculation shouldn't rot.

>Bill cosby is a well respected television figure

Would be badly written content that, left unmaintained, would now be inaccurate.

>Bill cosby is a television figure who was held in high regard during the 70's-90's

Is better written, because it hinges on verifiable information that will not change. It would become incomplete if no one added to it, but I would argue that it is better to have incomplete information than no information.

Vandalism issues are a problem with the wikipedia software, not a problem with the concept of having lesser-trafficked pages. If this is an issue for low-traffic pages, then there should be an anti-vandalism queue where edits to articles that receive less than a certain amount of traffic
should be put in a queue to be reviewed for vandalism (and just vandalism, not content accuracy etc). It might take a while for edits to bubble through, but that's basically ok if the page receives that little traffic. Eventual information is better than no information.
Not sure how kosher this is but, if you want to read without the blurring, paste in URL:

javascript:$('#v_main').attr('style', '')
I'm curious, because this is something that I was interested in doing for brick and mortar universities, what aspects do you use to do your recommendations. That is, is it just a x/5 rating per user that is thrown into a latent factor model, or do you do anything else (like dividing course 'grade' vs. opinion along two axes manually?)
Content production and content storage have always had a intertwined relationship because they are co-dependent. Hollywood can't produce content with out means to distribute and media platform creators have nothing to distribute without content.
> Write your algorithm in your browser. Then backtest it, for free, over 14 years of minute-level US equities data, and soon, US futures. (source: Quantopian website)

Numerai encrypts the data they give you, so you can't just take your algorithm and start your own hedge fund (because you won't have any data to improve with).
You can also use their mobile app for just one AP. You scan the little qr code and setup goes from there.
Interesting. I noticed the LiFX bulbs before via OpenHAB. Seems to tick a lot of good checkboxes and I will certainly look into it more.

My rant about IoT was obviously pointed at the useless IoT toys currently flooding the market.
How would you know nobody learned calculus?

You are comparing people that dont know to people that know with that allegory. In a collaborative setting you would be able to see what people build, teach each other, and learn.

A team with 5 people that know 20% calculus can produce much better results than a team where 1 person knows 100%. And sometimes they wouldnt be able to produce a result at all.
In my experience, the best problem solving techniques begin with a discussion on the problem itself. If one side is unwilling to take the other side's grievances seriously, then no progress can be made.
In other words, if you replace what I was discussing, and what I assumed the OP was as well, with something quite different, my original point no longer stands.
I live in an industrial park nearly right across the street from a place that casts cement paving stones.

The braaaam sound is exactly the sound that the huge vibrating platform makes when settling the cement in the molds. So much so that I think it might actually be what inspired this sound.

The interesting thing is that every day sounds like an
apocalyptic alien invasion around here!
Doesn't this assume that market is composed of completely rational actors? On the same note, why not just do sentiment analysis on the people trading and buying stocks?
It seems complicated to let our materials get damaged and then try to fix them on the fly. The earth protects itself from charged particles via a gigantic dipole field. Could the same be done with nano-electronics?

Boards could be designed to generate magnetic fields via embedded current loops. Instead of having a wire connect two components in a straight line (shortest path approach), it could be done in a way that meanders around, intentionally creating large curls. Since we're talking about scales of 1e-9m, these fields would probably be pretty strong.

Now, I don't know too much about superconductors, but vacuum tends to be pretty fucking cold (2K -- surely, lower than the critical temperature for many superconducting materials). It might even be possible to create a Meissner cage around the important components, in a way that protects our components from self-harm, while still protecting them from external charged particles.

Has this theory been tested? After all, it works for the Earth. I am afraid doing that might also be detrimental to our electronic components (unless we can somehow create a diamagnetic cage to selectively protect our components).