skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Norman Yarvin's contribution is to pull these good articles out of years of discussions which he followed, usually taking them out of threads with many comments and varying subjects, and to present them sorted by subject matter. It would take a huge amount of effort to duplicate that. Sure, you could find these articles with a search on some archive, but they would be found among thousands of hits of, putting it very mildly, rather lower value. Yarchive is a very valuable site.
Any decent face recognition library would have done the job. But i guess the intention was to learn DL, and use it also as a marketing tool. Well done and really good presentation.
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Looks like website performance optimization is becoming a high-valued and high-paid skill for the next 10 years at least.

10 years ago (and now, to a degree) it was database or C++ performance optimization. You could specialize in these to earn above 10-15 percentile of all the crowd.
It will hurt them because now there are more people who have knowledge of DL.
That was really fast, felicitation!
You just pick up the factory, set it up in a different part of the world, and start it up again?
I would probably just write off all of humanity at that point.
I was thinking Solidworks, or Povray. Basically anything exploring constructive solid geometry.
These appear to be from the 1990s mainly. They are very good but there was a lot of good stuff from the late 80s as well - many happy memories of reading posts by from John Mashey, Eugene Miya and Henry Spencer etc.

On an side, I understand that Vernor Vinge's book A Fire Upon the Deep was inspired in part by the Usenet of the 80s.
I'm looking for an implementation which warns me whenever I'm slouching. Could I use the same code for that purpose?
I've found in my case, I pay about $2k/yr to have an accountant manage this for me, but save about 4-5k in taxes, so it's worth it financially.
When I worked at a thankless "startup", I set up a Pi Camera pointed out of the window from my desk that was next to the window. It was setup to take a picture every five minutes of the trees whilst the office was closed.

One of my colleagues took exception to this when he came in about ten minutes earlier than I (not that he could tell it was using the camera, or even what it was doing) that he thought it a great idea to rip the camera out of the pi by the ribbon and pull the SD card out when it was on.

When I discovered the smashed up pi in the morning, I asked who broke my pi and explained that I was capturing a time lapse of the window. He told me I should have asked permission before recording people in the office.

My initial reaction was to have a go at him, tell him he was responsible for any costs, tell him that he was overreacting and that he is in a room with literally 45 laptop cameras pointing at him daily, but he remained resolute that he was in the right and I was some kind of perv.

The only image my pi camera captured that wasn't the window was a single frame of his angry face as he ripped apart the delicate ribbons and wires plugged into the pi.

That job was pretty bad in most respects, and I finally got out of it to go contract professionally, but there are a few bad memories that linger.
Sure, you can either connect Codeanywhere to your Linux boxes via SSH or you can use the Boxes Codeanywhere provisions for you.
How does your comment conflict with hansen's? He's just pointing out that Lorentz symmetries in GR are only local; there's no global conservations of energy.
It's highly possible that in reality you have a very good memory, like most of people. For example if you're a programmer you probably remember hundreds of API calls, syntax features for various languages, keyboard shortcuts and so on.

I always taught myself that I have terrible memory but then I realized that it's not terrible - it's selective. We have so much information coming at us every day that our brains have to make choices what to remember and what to forget in few minutes. The problem is how to make them cooperate and actually remember stuff that we want :). I found that if I really want to remember something there are two things required - repetition and connecting it with something I already do remember.
Arctic heatwave could break records
Another archive of Usenet:

http://olduse.net/
WebRTC: The concepts are pretty straight forward, but getting something to work natively without a wrapper or a commercial service seems near-impossible.
So, first of all, for the examples you cite - reds, memcache, elastic search, aws, etc. - I have never, ever seen a member of the Go community say "don't use a library".

The Go community is anti-framework, not anti-library.

And what's the problem with frameworks? Well, remember up until now most Go shops (including my own), are micro-service orientated. You want small, lightweight, high-performance services. Why would you want or need a large monolithic bag of tricks in there? If you need complex routing, are you sure it's a micro-service? If you can't keep track of the datastore and need an ORM, are you sure it's a micro-service?

Also, it's a discipline, not a requirement. In the same way other languages have their idioms (I'm a Ruby dev of 10+ years experience too - those idioms are baked in _hard_ for me), Go's idioms are around structure, performance, and what is reasonable to write at a larger level.

Should you use libraries in Go? Yes. Should you use frameworks? Nobody is stopping you, but are you sure Go is the right place for you and your monolithic application?

Also, I don't see a problem with the official Go website having a tutorial in Go using the standard library. Why would they not?
Half seriously, have you considered a career as a GPU interface? Architecture and engineering offices frequently employ them under titles such as ''rendering technician''.
Portugal has Cais, which was in turn inspired by the British magazine The Big Issue: http://www.bigissue.com/
I rarely read fiction, but am loving "Sacre Bleu" by Christopher Moore. If you like art, artistic and clever turns of phrase and plot, comedy about serious things, wonderfully twisted fictionalized versions of historical figures and events, then you will enjoy it.

Wikipedia: "Sacrebleu" is a very old French profanity meant as a cry of surprise or happiness.

The book lives up to both of those feelings.
The first comment of that thread predicted AlphaGo! :O
I own a 60" television with no TV tuner attached to a smattering of devices that play and stream digital content. I suspect when my 1 year old is an adult she won't even have a solid conception of a "channel" let alone be able to imagine the color of a "dead" one.
Yeah this makes Xcode and Mail unusable in my opinion so its not really an option .. I simply have to empty the disk and let Spotlight re-index it. One of those facts of MacOS life ..
That's correct. Current estimates are that spacetime at the edge of the observable universe is expanding at about 6c.
Could you expand on the "all signs" bit please? I was under the impression that there was little to no evidence of anything much outside the observable universe.
For me the biggest value they contributed with the Go standard library is the interfaces they baked into it, not necessarily the default implementations of them (no complaints there of course). They modeled the way that servers are built as interfaces, and if someone builds a 3rd party lib (like "mux", mentioned here in the comments), usually they implement the interfaces defined in the standard lib and they become a drop in replacement to the default implementation. I wish more SDKs were built like this.
Well, so does this paper. Many people, myself included, thought the next step was a CNN+MCTS, because it was the obvious next step. It was doing it well and getting it all the way to superhuman quality (along with reinforcement learning/self-play) that made AlphaGo so important.
Careful : Your German is showing.
I'm sure this book is fantastic but please, please ask someone (maybe some design students, they always need good, live briefs) to design you a better cover if you're writing an open access book like this. It might be the distant graphic designer in me but it helps to have something at least bit prettier to draw people in.
I don't think that was the point of the article .. more to give him some way of learning DL on the job ..
But the worry about overpopulation has been damn near constant.

Rebuked again and again and again each time we reached the previous "unsustainable" threshold.
My passion/hobby project is to assembly music procedurally with NN. I really cant see a NN being able to extract much meaningfully without billions of perfectly annotated training sets (i dont think they exisit) The only success i've experienced is to first extract features from the amplitues via FFT. From there i can get information like pitches and feed those features into a NN. If i had a large enough training set i would certainly try feeding in raw amplitudes but i have my doubts.
> That is the direct route to segregated communities and cultures of poor and rich, as seen already many places

We have that in the UK, some of the poorest areas are council estates, lots of people never have to go onto them and have little to no incite into the lives of the people who live there, I grew up 'poor' (by the standards of the UK, not talking living in a shanty town or anything) and it leaves a mark on your thought processes that never entirely goes away.

Things are getting much worse here, 6 years of austerity has removed many of the services that poor/disabled people rely on gone or in a perilous state but there isn't widespread anger about it because it has dis-proportionally hit the least 'powerful' in our society the hardest.

Frankly I think we are headed down (if not already some way down) a very dark path and I wouldn't blame the people who are hit by this in the slightest for rioting/rebelling.

Society should be about making sure that the poorest members have at least a decent standard of living otherwise what is it for.
If Star Wars has taught us anything, it is that later remastered editions should keep to the original as closely as possible.
Here's a tribute to the tutorial as such, independent of the topic:

After having consumed thousands of tutorials, I found this one exceptionally lucid and instructive. Kudos to the author!

His approach of stepwise expansion and refinement lets him introduce feature after feature without the whole thing looking stilted or shopping-list cluttered. For each feature, he shares an itch with the reader and then scratches it. This keeps the reader interested and motivated.

Here, at least in my opinion, is a style and an approach that other tutorials would do well to emulate.
We have that in the UK it's called 'Big Issue' and I often buy one, it's actually worth a read as it covers the politics of things that affect the poorest members of society.
Ok, that was really weird. I'm a native English speaker, although I learnt German a few years ago and haven't used it since. I must have woken up in a German mood or something.
Measuring SSD interrupt delays
density for countries is such a bad datapoint...
(remember half of China is empty which lowers the national average by a lot)
Yes. Put enough stupid people online, and you too can elect a Trump. Then, like Trump, he can pack your communications-governing body with opponents of consumers and Net neutrality.
If someone needs a cover to draw them in then the chances are the book isn't for them. Books like this require effort from the reader in order to internalise the information contained within the book, even if the cover is prettier that's not going to be enough to provide motivation to get through the book.
What units? Thickness mode resonant frequency? The cost? injection molding precision? The 100 micron thing? I have a PZT buzzer on my desk that I measured the thickness resonance, which is 5 cents in units of 10k. Injection molding accuracy is around a thou, but the precision and surface finish is impeccable. I also have on my desk parts with 0402 resistors- 500 microns wide, 350 microns tall. I soldered them by hand without magnification. 38 AWG wire is 100 microns wide. 100 microns is wide enough to drive a truck through.

Soldering with silver-lead depoles PZT. Bismuth solder does not and regardless repoling PZT is trivial- a couple hundred volts at most, and temperatures below the melting point of plastics.

The transducer is the only part of the system that should concievably be expensive, though. Doctors don't use special, medical-company made laptops- they use thinkpads or dell or whatever. The cart is unnecessary! It shouldn't be where the cost is coming from. The cart should add a few thousand dollars. The electronics have no business costing tens of thousands of dollars. The R&D, the software, and the transducers are the only plausible money sinks. If making a monitor is expensive, the companies should buy a cheap laptop and write an application to run on it.

I do really enjoy your posts but I am firmly in the camp that the price of ultrasound machines is an order of magnitude too high. I also think it needs to come down ASAP and that the future of cancer treatment really depends on regular ultrasound screenings and machine learning.

Edit: also, to back up my statements about the electronics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13245998
It's all fun and games until you spot a toddler desperately trying to zoom out a magazine, as I did a few months ago.
This is true, but people don't want to hear it. Some sheeptard might flag your comment. I've had experience with restraining orders. Do people realize that you can literally be sent to court for harassment if whatever you do, X, is considered harassment by the victim? X can literally be anything, as long as the victim sees it as harassment, and is smart enough to feign (or be in) distress. If your action, X, can somehow be considered as terrorism or boy-who-cried-wolf, you can be detained by the Government. It's funny because people don't wanna hear that they "can be jailed for pretty much anything", even if it's more-or-less true. Even less so do they want to hear that their sorry asses are responsible for giving permission to the government to do this.

Just remember the video of ISIS burning two Turks to a crisp. If that's not bad enough, which it isn't (our government doesn't give a shit about those two soldiers), remember 11am September 11, 2001, when two jets destroyed our tallest creations and killed so many people. In 2001, they fucked with us on our own turf. This is the reason why you're fucked if you make an Allah Akbar joke on a plane.
I don't believe we should be as dismissive as AI as he suggests. There is an undertone of populism and a string of weak rebuttals that undermine his argument.

Here is why AI is reason for concern:

1. The world is made up of patterns. Proof: mathematics.

2. Patterns can be distilled down to data.

3. Machine Learning is highly effective at analysing patterns.

4. Machine Learning construction itself is a pattern, albeit a very complicated one, by human scales.

5. Learning speed is bottlenecked by hardware and data availability. Both of which are being solved at exponential rates.

The other knock is that consciousness and its constituent pieces is a product of evolution, which itself is not outside the realm of physics.(I.e. We're sacks of chemicals) This means it is theoretically possible to reproduce intelligence if the same initial conditions are met.

As silicon poses much shorter time gaps than biological substrates, and as equivalent sensory data are fed into simulated environments, the vectors intercepts are quite clear.

I think the key is whether we believe machine learning will reach a critical threshold where it will be able to interpret higher-level meaning.

There is positive evidence that this has to do with layers of neural circuitry, which recent neural net design has confirmed in output.

Additional layers can be added to machines, but it is not so easy to do with humans.

The danger is in autonomy and might. Autonomy being higher level cognition mentioned earlier, and might being the ability to bruteforce its way through problems by sheer speed and iteration, which computer excel at.

It would be great if you guys can spot flaws in this argument. The conclusions are quite grim at my current outlook. It'll be nice to be proven wrong.
Eh, it was just an interesting article that was featured on HN a few days ago.

Mainly it's just one more reason that I'm still upset at TV Tropes for relicensing things I wrote without my consent. They took a lot of things that used to be community property, and decided that they should be the only ones to make money off of it. And they've gotten away with it because none of their users really know copyright law. I guess really, it's because sometimes ideology matters.
Hi a screen reader for windows called NVDA is written in python.http://www.nvaccess.org/It's open sorse, if you wanted to look at some of the code you can. What about a11y soft wair intrests you? I am blind so i just know about screen readers but the a11y field is broad!
Sigh, please spread your anti-China propaganda elsewhere. The reality is that going through immigration in China is no where near as draconian or intrusive as in the US and most other Western countries. You don't have people inquisiting you or going through your stuff. It's a quick and efficient and painless process. I do it about every 2 months. I do wish people with no real experience outside of their country stop listing to the massive and unjustified anti-Chinese propaganda the US spews. The reality on the ground couldn't be more different. You have much more to fear for a privacy standpoint entering the US than you do entering China.
> A speech system will need a higher-spec'd amplifier and speakers (so that both components behave linearly over the full signal range) for the speech to be comprehensible.

No, it does not. I was surprised to find out that it was not necessary back in the PC era, where the speaker was simply connected to an I/O pin. It was meant to just produce buzzing noises. But programmers found out that it could produce surprisingly intelligible speech, at a modest but quite usable volume.

How it's done is sampling a waveform of recorded speech at on/off levels at a rate at which data could be written to the I/O pin. The distortion inherent in driving a speaker on/off ironically smoothed it out into a decent approximation of the original waveform.

Peoples' ears are extremely good at picking out speech from distortion, noise, etc.

> it may initially be confusing for most passengers ("What is 'floor ell'?")

No more confusing than a lighted "L" which I suggest remain. The audio is not a replacement for the lights, just a supplement. Though of course the audio could just as trivially say "Lobby" or "Parking Level 2" as "L" or "P2".
Looks promising, shame it's only available for Apple devices.
I strongly prefer youtube to facebook because youtube doesn't require active use of my hands so I can do the dishes or clean my flat while learning about the history of iron[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E__zqy6xcw
Unfortunately, SGX is not open for public use yet. You currently need special permission from Intel to access it.
In terms of an introductory DSP guide, wavelets aren't all that fundamental compared to eg filters, impulse/frequency responses, and the DFT, unless you're working specifically with something like image compression.
While this is a fun project, the ultimate conclusion here should be: if you feel uncomfortable in you job or browsing the internet near your boss, it's time to move to a different job. I understand this is not a privilege possible by everyone, those that can should exercise it.
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Yay! Thanks. Bookmarking your post for after the holidays :)
The bottom line is the power consumption. A big fat i7 (desktop) can draw 91W, while a fanless, battery operated smartphone can pull from 5 to 10W.

Power optimization come at a performance cost.
I imagine what is considered an "enticing" cover for a book aimed at scientists and engineers has changed a bit between 1997 (when this was published) and now.
> seems like you're trying to say that this situation requires 30K IOPS. That would be really naive :)

If you want fast reads, it'd take at least that many IOPS for a naieve solution where each timeseries had its own block you were appending to.

> A typical RDBMS naturally batches parallel writes, so a bunch of 3-4 HDDs providing totally 600+ IOPS would easily serve your situation.

You could do that if you only cared about writes. There's two problems with such an approach.

First reads would unbearably slow as to read a single timeseries for an hour at say 10s resolution would take 360 operations (one per batch), or around 3.6 seconds presuming 10ms seek time. Wanting to read a hundred timeseries at once over a day is not unusual, which would take 8640 seconds.

Secondly it's not likely to be good disk space wise. As each point is individually written you'd not be able to do intra-timeseries compression, so you're probably talking at least 16 bytes per sample. Probably nearer 100-200 bytes, if you write the metric name each time.

Contrast that with the approach taken by something like Prometheus. We build up 1kB chunks, which hold ~780 samples on average as Gorilla gets us ~1.3B/sample. We batch these up per time series across several hours, so accessing 6 hours is only one disk operation. With the above example of reading 100 timeseries for a day that's only 4 seconds, which is 3 orders of magnitude faster than what simple write batching allows for.

Obviously this is ignoring many details like caching, but the general point holds.
> the Pixel comes out as having 89% of the performance of the fastest desktop system.

Do you really think we're expending 20-30 times the power for a 12 % compute speed-up?

Just to clarify, the two numbers you quote are different benchmarks. You can't compare them, lest say "oh, they're only different by 10 percent".
I find ScotRail to have pretty decent WiFi in the stations that they have it installed. Seem to be using Level3 as their ISP.
No, it doesn't.

If you zoom in on those photos, you can see that the camera images entire lines of text at the same resolution. A camera can 'read' the entire chart in one snapshot.

The eye doesn't work that way. For example, it is anisotropic in resolution; at the fovea, it has more 'pixels', but away from it, it has way fewer. Effect? You cannot read a line from a Snellen chart without moving your eyes. The eye doesn't take snapshots.
So... for instance an MD with MOOC-type machine learning could make it in health related enterprises? Is that what you mean by domain specific expertise?
Oh, alright. This is a bit different from my experience. I've pretty consistently had long-term desires but been pretty bad at enacting them.

Earlier when I didn't really want anything I thought it would be nice to make a bunch of money so that my future self who had a better idea about what he wanted would have that. This turned out ok, currently a lot of what I want is to know that I won't have to work if I don't want to.
What should this person do instead?