skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"With the rise of AI learning in the tech industry, GPU makers such as NVIDIA and AMD have made chips that are specifically designed for DNN (Deep Neural Network) workloads."

Er, have they really done that? Maybe they've added a few instructions, but not a chip specifically designed for DNN?
I'm not disregarding it. I'm suggesting we should be working towards formulating economics, politics and everything else which works out for a borderless planet.

In regards to why I advocate it - like I said, the way the system works today, some people have more privilege than the others, and this isn't by choice. We should be trying to bring everyone upto the same datum, not the other way around. While the current visa systems are not the texbook definition of discrimination, we are in some way still limiting people's choices based on the land they were born in.

If we're talking first principles, a human should be able to roam wherever he chooses. Of course, this isn't an ideal world, and I'm not advocating for terrorists to be able to make it through wherever they wish, but I'm sure if thought hard enough, we'll be able to come up with a system that ensures that a couple of groups of terrorist, and a few other kinds of knobheads don't pull their entire nations down. But right now, we're working in the opposite direction.
A friend is working on an IoT problem with two of your three capabilities: storage and analytics. He has voiced similar concerns. (To be fair, he gripes constantly that nothing exists which would work for him, within the budgetary and timing constraints.)

His company provides sensor systems for civil engineering projects. A single large bridge can have sensor packs every 50m or so - per beam. The amount of sensor data coming in for a single municipality or region is already staggering. Vibration and stress analytics are required on a daily basis.

The final requirement, one which you didn't mention, is that this setup should be fairly low maintenance. If you need a team of rocket scientists to operate and just keep it from falling over, the cost structure will be unsustainable.

A service that provided all this in a platform with sane APIs and good BI integration should be making tons of money.
US gov would beg to differ: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/1...
> I manage a dev team. I don't care how many hours they work. > I don't measure when anyone comes in or when they go home.

> I care about output.

I've got a personal anecdote, it's not meant as an attack on you.

Had a manager at BigCo. who claimed exactly that. That BigCo. was also the one who won awards for being model employer.

One time he decided he really-really wanted a raise at the next review and introduced a system of punishment where if you're late by N minutes you'll have to do N*P (Where P is number of people in the team) tasks from the backlog.

After work. Unpaid.

I was on vacation when this was introduced. Got into minor traffic accident soon after I came back. Got assigned the tasks. Put in my resignation soon after - the man could not be reasoned with.

His arguments? I broke employer's rules being late. And the unpaid overtime part?

I asked him specifically at the interview 2 years before that if the company had unpaid overtimes. The answer was a resolute "No".

EDIT: Formatting.
Terahertz wireless could make satellite links as fast as fiber-optic
Perseverance. Determination to succeed, or at least survive, at all costs. I think PG and Sam Altman affectionately call people like this 'cockroaches'. I have many of the positive qualities listed in this thread but a decidedly mediocre amount of perseverance. After a month or so in the 'trough of sorrow' I become disillusioned and am ready to throw in the towel. Time and experience have mellowed me somewhat but I directly attribute success in my 20s to co-founders with a sufficient amount of cockroach DNA who would just not let the team quit no matter how hopeless it seemed.
Immigrants are less likely to get caught, not more law abiding. In my city we have persistent problems where crime victims won't report to the police because they're illegal just like the criminals.

That quickly adds up to lower crime statistics in illegal communities. It does not mean less crime in those communities.

In fact, it creates conditions for ongoing gang crime operations unchallenged in those communities.
kwm will do that.
Economists would disagree.
Website is blocked in Thailand (which i assume is not to bad considering their average quality). Any alternative sources?
Yup. All those unemployed miners from Ohio are going to move to California and become maids, pool cleaners, burger-flippers and agricultural workers.
What are one or two concrete things you'd actually use this for?
Friend-of-the-court brief opposing the travel ban signed by 97 tech companies
If the thing you're creating can't cover the costs of making it then it's not a good enough product and you should find something else to do.

It sucks, but that's the way it works.
So if I wrote a novel using Microsoft Word, Microsoft has the copyright to the novel?
I always have a laugh when I see these types of articles. Most of the time it's because the author had some sort of driver problem that was not fixed in 2 minutes or such or that a gui item is not exactly how they want.

I've been running linux on the desktop since around 95, and it's certainly not dead for me. Like you I have also installed ubuntu on my mothers and a few computer illiterate friends computers and it works just fine.

The gui might change a bit from time to time, but I'm not too young to learn new things yet :)

But it's DEAD! Dead I say!!
Could you describe the applications for these tools?
> where the social security system doesn't have the facade of being a contributory system and is funded entirely out of general tax revenue

So I'm curious: can you move to Australia at 64, work for one year, retire, and receive a full income from social security?
> Do we expect poor people who take the initiative to move (i.e., not refugees) to remain poor? My impression is that poverty is mostly about opportunity and access to resources, not about personal desire to be poor.

Yes, especially the ones with the most means, this risks creating a serious brain from the poorer countries. It also risks wealthy countries becoming too reliant on poor countries paying for education. We already see this to some extent today.

Also, as a species we're very migratory. Huge population movements only really ended when modern day nation states began. Even militaristic empires like Rome couldn't stop them.

> I don't see how social issues would be particularly different from the status quo in the US. If you asked individual states to vote on gay marriage (which was the case until 2015), they'd vote differently

Just how different are they? Some states may be against gay marriage, but is it 51% against or 60%? I doubt there would be states where it's much more than that, but if we took the world as a whole it would be.

No studies I know of though, if anyone has any I'd be interested too.
You've gone way out of line in this thread with incivility and personal attacks. Since your account doesn't have a history of this I'm not banning you, but it is a bannable offense, so please don't do it again. Instead, please (re-)read the site guidelines and post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
What Rust Can Do That Other Languages Can't
Bhoot captured in camera
'Top-down' is actually why data management is still the way it is. Our handling of the primitives (think bottom-up approach) that build up to how things are structured at the higher level is still subpar at best, resulting in the massive inconsistencies, scaling issues and data integrity problems we face daily. Neurons (near-atomic components), from the biological sciences are still being compared analogously with more complex data structures in computing, raw grapes and wine style. Per being a technology problem, the question was about area/market segment requiring a breath of fresh air, not particularly what technology needs to be deployed.
I use to have this notion too, but keep in mind that the Internet was started as a military project. The fact that it ended up being commandeered by large conglomerates shouldn't really be surprising.

There are countries in Europe, the South Pacific, et. al. where carriers offer "free social" where they don't charge for Facebook and Twitter. Wikiepdia is offered for free by some African carriers; which allows them to also benefit from a lack of real network-neutrality.

When it comes to media and freedom vs industry, I think this video from the mid-2000s explains the situation best (in terms of network neutrality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66PbSzwnLes
With respect to your first comment: I think you're right, hieroglyphs being inspired by cuneiform is quote improbable. One reason for this is pointed out in [1]:

"Unlike early Chinese and Egyptian writing, there is only sporadic evidence for phonetic complementation, which is used more frequently in later phases of the writing system" (p35).

An interesting possible explanation of why cuneiform started with less phonetic symbols and evolved to have more is given in [2]:

"...cuneiform writing apparently developed in two stages. In the first stage, writing was fairly in- dependent of phonetic coding, but its application was restricted to narrowly defined contexts and its signs and sign combinations did not yet represent universally applicable words but rather specific entities and activities in the context of administration. In the second stage, phonetic coding made a new type of application possible, the written representation of information in the same way as it was previously transmitted orally.""

[1] The World's Writing Systems, OED, 1996. This is a fantastic book to have if you're interested in the topic btw.

[2] http://cdli.ucla.edu/files/publications/cdlj2006_001.pdf
How do you propose to infect cells deep inside solid tumors?How do you target cells that have lost cell surface markers? Your example, p16, is used in many cells intermittently, or only in certain microenvironments . How do you deliver? IV, topical, tumor injection (if so, what about needle tract seeding)?
Bit of a tangent but a shoutout to the darksky movement. Just because lighting is cheaper doesn't mean you have to turn on the switch.

https://phys.org/news/2017-01-dark-astronomy-life.html
Typescript has thee same. Ditto with C#. Python is pretty close. Same with most LISPs.

In Emacs too. I'd hardly say this is a unique selling point of Go.
I just read this article today and thought a great idea would be to develop a platform for simplifying the process for starting up community credit unions. Kind of like Stripe Atlas but for credit unions. It could benefit a lot of small communities.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/2/1/community-organ...
This question is most likely a follow-up to the recent
discussion Vancouver house prices are falling:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13569550
Ocean imagery typically isn't downloaded, or if it is then at strikingly low resolution. This provides three times the bandwidth for land-based imagery, as the earth is covered by about 70% water.
In Emacs Elpy has served me pretty well for python.
I don't for an audio quality reason. VLC is designed to play back video first and foremost, which means it has an actually quite excellent feature: it time stretches the audio to synchronize with whatever's playing.

I'm a musician, so I can hear this happening; music played through VLC sounds like it's going in and out of tune, like an old cassette deck but more subtle. (This is worse on Windows for whatever reason, Linux is much less audible.)

On Windows, I still run Media Player out of pure habit. It works, requires no installation, and generally sounds fine. I remember the good old days of Winamp though, that was my go-to player back in the day. Great media players seem harder to find now that the focus in the market is on internet streaming and less on local music.
Amicus brief on behalf of 97 tech companies
Early Stage Startup Sales Rep Equity Is Usually a Rip-Off
The study isn't published yet so I withold my judgement. Given that the results are beneficial to people selling adverts caution should be exercised. (Two of their big problems are that click through rates are abysmal and many people dislike ads. They benefit if advertisers believe they achieve "additional sales".)

EDIT: FOLLOW UP. I had a deeper look. The article is dated, "Posted in Business on February 3, 2017". I found one copy of the paper published December 29, 2015 and another July 26, 2016. Both same I think, but one author had moved from Google to Pandora.

The article text seems off beam. The paper describes a method to better estimate advertising impact, not directly what that impact is. Odd.
For me, I desperately need "Stripe for the rest of the World".
I worked with a sensor network team years ago. I think back then the largest mesh networks were only about 200 nodes (I think it was a French University, but I'd have to go back to our notes). I'm sure it's improved by now.

There are some very difficult limits when you try to route traffic where everyone has the same bandwidth. This is why we have trunk lines and undersea fibre cables.
Maybe a general solution just isn't cost effective and may never be cost effective, regardless of how much we bring down actual costs for the resources involved in solving data-intensive problems. The (possible) reason? The performance advantage you gain from tailoring specifics to structural relationships within exceptionally large datasets may just be too large to trade off for some "generalized" solution.

I'm just speculating, of course. I was sort of entertaining your idea and going back and forth between "a sounds-good fantasy" and "No, that would be awesome, why does this not exist?"
Was hoping to read why the falling cost of light matters in modern times.
I was under the impression that cargo capacity is currently expanding. Maersk is taking delivery of 11 new ships within the next year and a half: http://theloadstar.co.uk/maersk-refines-fleet-second-generat...
OH and CA aren't swing states.
Can you expand on the last point?
Practice doesn't make perfect. Rather, practice makes Permanent - locks it in. And perfect practice makes perfect.

Practicing the wrong way is like having a bad habit. The habit (practice) is bad but it locks in nonetheless.

Perfect Practice

To reach perfection, care has to be taking when practicing to encode things the right way. Good coaches accomplish this by:

1. Slowing down the action e.g. playing a piano or a violin at a painfully slow rate to make errors more noticeable

2. Chunking - breaking down the skill into smaller components and practicing these chunks separately. E.g. tearing music notes into pieces and practicing the notes separately

Books: Little Book of Talent, The Talent Code
What was your TL ID? :)
This is just speculation on my part but I wonder if he overstressed his system by being such a ‘beast’ prior to getting sick. The photo of him doing a football drill does not look so healthy to me. His body looks over-developed.

I don't mean any disrespect by this comment. Clearly he is an extraordinary individual.
The dance was rehearsed ahead of time and the torches get lit via infrared sensors. (I magically discovered the infrared when I was pressing my TV remote and it just lit up).
> Remote sensing analytics. Drones and satellites are generating spectacular volumes of this data and no one can usefully analyze data of this type at scale. Today, companies wait weeks for a single analytic output on less than a terabyte of data.

I am co-founder of tensorflight.com. We do computer vision analytics of drone imagery. Interesting that you mention it, as I thought it's a somewhat obscure market. When we talk to investors in the valley 75%+ have to be educated about why what we do is a viable business.

Please get in touch at kozikow@tensorflight.com if you have any ideas!
Some of us just hates ads, and there is noting to do about that. There is a reason so many people are cutting the cable tv too.

As long as content is on the open web I am free to chose how to display that content on my own computer as I see fit.

I do pay for some sites to get rid of them were I find the content valuable, but 99% of sites do not offer that choice.
An Ad Hoc Affair: Jane Jacobs’s Clear-Eyed Vision of Humanity
We've banned this account for repeatedly being uncivil.
>then you'll create a huge amount of value for companies around the world and it should be easy to transfer some of that value into your pockets.

Corollary: It's probably time for a much wider adoption of bitcoin in tech. To transfer that value from halfway around the world to personal pockets capitalism style, we need crypto to become a primitive member of apps, markets and tech deals, and no longer a big deal.
>You can either have open borders or a welfare state, but not both. Otherwise, what is to stop millions of poor masses from migrating to the country offering the best welfare and driving down the wages for locals (by, say, willing to work for a lower standard of living)?

What stops this from happening in the Schengen Area, where some countries participating have welfare states and some (I believe) do not? Genuine question - I've heard other people make the same argument before and it seems like we have a pretty good real-world example to either verify or refute it.
Why not?

The same reason everything in California is screwed up: Proposition 13 prohibits fixing it.
I use this in my development VM's, great free tool.
The opaque pricing is a sign that they've moved up the market to target enterprise. When a company reaches that stage, it's basically telling you, "if this turns you off, then you won't move the needle for us so we don't want to talk to you."
You could maybe do a combination? You feed the add network certain information, it feeds your backend ads - but then you serve the ads, etc etc.

Also, I can't help but be struck by the similarity of "mainframes -> PC -> cloud".
> At some point, some enterprising TV writer or ad jerk is gonna plant an “Okay, Google” into some on TV with intent and force everyone to listen to Nickelback. Mark my words. This is a massive troll waiting to happen.

This kind of already happened:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9869797

"Toyota ad hijacks Siri to switch off iPhones while driving"
Poor llama
It wasn't a military project any more than the radio or telephone were. Or railroads and highways.
Agreed!

In passing, tech companies only use a small proportion of H-1B visas -- less than 100,000 out of 647,852 from Oct 1 2015 to Sept 30 2016 -- and most of those are Indian outsourcing firms: Wipro, Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services, IBM India (75,606).

https://www.axios.com/tech-firms-arent-biggest-filers-of-vis...
Yup, number of managers who say "I don't care about effort only output" is much higher than managers who actually care about output over effort.

I'm fortunate that my manager actually does act how he talks. Personally, I don't care too much if you value the presence of my butt in my seat more than how much I get done; it's your dime, so to speak. However if you lie to me about what you are paying me for, then neither one of us is going to be happy.
You should try using Mission Control (Exposé and Spaces) with gestures on a MacBook touchpad.
The maritime industry specifically bunker fuel

Use blockchain
> I still want to know why it matters

I think the headline was just a catchy way to refer to the thesis of the article: that relying too much on inflation adjustments to make apples-to-apples comparisons misses part of the picture
Walking away from a bad employer is exactly what this allows. Today that's very difficult and can result in losing the visa entirely, while in the visa fee scenario you're just out some money (which is exactly the same as in the signing bonus example).

Would it be more palatable if the employer did not pay the visa fees but did have a signing bonus equal to the visa fees?
While we seek out new areas that are ripe for disruption, I'm particularly excited about what MapD is doing using GPUs in analytics.

Disclaimer: I don't work for MapD.
Am I the only one who finds iTunes just fine on macOS? Of course it could use being split into 2-3 apps (like they did with iBooks) but it's hardly as bad as the echo chamber makes it out to be. On Windows, sure.

I think they should at least split the video functionality into a "TV" app, as they have started to do on iOS.
> Immigrants are less likely to get caught, not more law abiding

And your evidence for that claim is...?
Sleep isn't "wasted" time. Without sleep, we'd be dysfunctional, and soon thereafter, dead.
Ha! And here my approach has always been "leave when the work is done", with a liberal application of "time to call it a day and clear my head".

There's a latent assumption that the author hasn't touched upon, which is that putting in more hours yields a greater productivity. I've found the opposite to be true (to a point).

All I can say is I don't regret my decision to freelance.
I remember getting a 3 sim card in the UK, going to erowid.org and getting a screen saying the site was blocked. If you wanted the block lifted, you'd have to go to a 3 store and present an ID to show you were over 18 (and I assume that ID would be forever associated with your account).
Ohio is one of the most notorious swing states. 538 lists them as Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin
Is it really that tied to an employer?

Everything I've read indicates that the visa is portable for the visa holder. The employee can change companies without too much trouble.

Am I mis-informed?
Try this from wired.

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/lady-gaga-halftime-show-drones...
I don't believe this was the point I was addressing in response to the grandparent. If two candidates appear where one has a much better skillset, it makes sense (in most frames) to accept the better candidate, I agree.

What I was responding to was how there may be no responsibility for the American to renounce his privilege such that the Syrian has an easier time becoming a possible candidate (Both in skill set as well as logistically). Additionally, it may even be irrational for the American to do so if we consider them as adversarial actors (In competition, unlike when recruiting co-workers).

Please understand my commentary here is simply in response to the equally extreme logic applied by the grandparent (A world of no nations/borders being optimal) and by no means constitutes my complete opinions on immigration, visas, and the like. We can hopefully elevate the discussion above, allowing immigrants only out of charity, to more rigorous reasons.
Google, Facebook, Uber, Twitter and other tech giants call travel ban ‘unlawful’
May be we should ask what is missing in that Walmart, BT or Macys. Than, already doing
Interesting! I'll ponder over these; thanks for the insight!
Part of the San Francisco premium seems to be the concentration of M&A dollars from local incumbents who constantly acquire more local talent. I'm an investor in half a dozen startups that would have already been acquired if they were in the Bay Area, but instead struggle to build viable standalone businesses since they are located elsewhere. Perhaps this is part of the reason YC focuses most of its time, money, and effort on local teams. Besides the concentration of resources for those fortunate few who become rocketships, the downside protection on the rest of the portfolio seems much better (in human, not just dollar terms).
I can't resist

"By wearing this standard ear-bud headphone, modified with a small piezoelectric sensor, the user can control their phone solely with their neural impulses.
Point, click, drag, even type...all using only brainwaves.Think it...and it happens."