skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, great, but if they could build this to support Deep Learning and renegade HPC, I suspect they could sell 10,000+ units/year on the down-low. That would be $10M in revenue, maybe twice that if it also worked with Macs.

NVIDIA will do their worst to shut this down because it's a direct threat to DGX-1 running neural networks that aren't entirely communication-limited (long story), but if they could throw this together, I think they could make a great quick buck before the axe falls.
They put 'crappy' GPU's on die which they continued to upgrade even when the CPU side stagnated. So, while the last upgrade may have been a process issue, the last 4 CPU refreshes have all been classic monopolist behavior.

PS: GPU's might seem like something you want on the CPU, but bandwidth is a killer worse they add heat which directly lowers CPU performance.
I'm not suggesting they don't but we're not discussing a specific instance on any of those networks, so that's not really at issue here. I think Fox News showed that low-integrity narrative-fitting and selective editing are very profitable. Other networks have probably followed to some extent.
This is important, especially when compression is part of the picture. For example, NGINX automatically replaces strong ETags with weak ones if gzip compression is enabled. Something to be aware of, if you're using them.
It's unbelievable that your posts are still black when they're full of such easily debunked false claims.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13738236
The article explains how to use epoll() correctly to solve all the problems he raises. That's not 'fundamentally broken,' because it works. The worst you can say is confusing and painful. Maybe that doesn't make good headlines, though.

When you're dealing with shared resources (like a listening socket), and you are using threads, and you are trying to maximize performance with networking, confusing and painful is kind of the nature of the problem.
Don't ask for votes: https://twitter.com/zooko/status/835907377819963393
> And on the average I guess people are really less interested in having their vote count as opposed to having a greater quality of life.

That's only true up to the moment when their vote doesn't count, though, because if their vote doesn't count, quality of life is mere coincidence, or the side effect of someone else's goals at best.

So, yeah, people don't care that much about the symbolic act of having their vote counted (and why should they?), but they do ultimately care if they lose control of their life, which, after all, nominally is the point of a democratic process.
It's interesting when amd was breathing down their necks previously they suddenly got sufficient motivation. I expect them to get motivated again.
I suppose you meant _genetic_ here. Still, now I am tempted to google for "generic engineering" and see how this could have been a threat (especially in the 80s/90s).
Personally, I'm excited for the Nokia 6. It ticks mostly all the right boxes.

I hope they have similar build quality as the Lumia 920 although that seems unlikely.
Comparing Sweden to Chicago seems a bit of a stretch. A number more directly comparable would be the US Non-Black homicide rate, which was 2.54 per 100,000 in 2015.

I think that's lower than the Sweden figure in the sibling comment.

[Edit: I had said that this rate was also lower than England. I was wrong on that one. ]

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
> Every other scientific field does far better

It's not 'better' if some people are more interested in one field vs. others.

You have to ignore biology to take your position of certainty. It's delutional. There's no certainty, even with something which is true.

Most people prefer to hold on to an ideology or what sounds nice rather than taking ideas to their conclusion. All the long words you can muster don't save you from philosophical suicide.

Why take the time to learn biases & logic if you're going to be an intellectual coward?
Immigrants don't commit crimes. Poor people commit crimes. It happens that the poorest people in Sweden right now are immigrants.

Person living in Norway here:

No, being an immigrant doesn't make you a criminal.

However, statistically speaking certain crimes are very much overrepresented with certain cultures.

I'm not saying Europeans are perfect: a lot of bad stuff existed when I was young.

But there where certain things that just didn't exist.

It is scary to see the coming of a culture were rape is ok, honour killings are ok (as told by immigrants who speak up) etc etc.
Ask HN: Is a robocaller spoofing my number?
I'm on Project Fi, and have been since June of 2016. In the past few months, I've had several people I don't know call me. Well, I've had many call me, but a few have left messages saying that I've been calling them over and over. So far it's been all people in the same area code, but like I said -- I don't know any of them, and I'm not in a line of business to cold call people.

I searched around briefly, and saw a couple other people reporting the same issue, but it doesn't necessarily seem to be limited to Fi. Is there anything I can do to address this if a robocaller is using my number? If this keeps up, my personal number I've had for almost ten years is going to start being marked as a spam caller.
Oh god, T9 text input is back. Would be interesting to see how it can work with modern autosuggest, though.
Mobile API Security Techniques
I had this conversation with a friend the other day. "If an automatic car will only detect a red light or a cyclist or a child on the road accurately 99.99% of the time, should it be allowed on the road?" - his answer was "if it's safer than a human on average, then yes". My answer is - absolutely not. System malfunction is one thing, but if there's a non-zero chance of not detecting something that it has to detect to operate safely, then it shouldn't be allowed to be sold.
Newbie question .. can some one please help me understand the attack scenario. if I, as the attacker, want to inject malicious code/binary into a git repo, then I need to write my malicious code/binary in such a way that the resultant hash collides with one of the commits (? Or the last one?) in the repo. Is this correct?
Western organisations like Google or universities are spectacular at this. They fill their rooms with asians, women, black people, gays, lesbians, phds of all subjects, and yet they all act and talk like western white males. Yes, even the women.

Coming from a country at the boundary between east and west, poor and developed, civilisation and 3rd world, I find it fascinating how there is less diversity of thought at Google (where people come from all over the place, have all the colors and sexual orientations) then a random group of old people in some fundamentalist rural area in my home country.
>What makes you think some kind of ideal democracy works best?

I never said that I did.
Yeah totally, I think that's an interesting thing to know. I guess my underlying question was: how might this be turned into a product?
The trend is probably more important than the total. A single debt amount can be “OK” for one person but practically sink another person.

The rate of bank-related expenditures should be measured instead. Add up all the ridiculous overdraft fees, the interest payments, changes in rates due to an ARM, etc. and one person’s financial picture could look quite a bit different than another for “the same debt” amount.
> I tend to view an unemployed human as an awful waste of computational resources.

If we extend the metaphor, there are 4004s and there are i7s. You need a lot of 4004s to equal the output of one i7. That many 4004s use a lot more watts than the one i7, and at some point the value isn't there.
> hen she decided she had to write a book, so she spent around $500,000 of company money on a ghost writer and marketing for the book. She had a publisher, but the publisher only picked her up because Amoruso was paying all the costs to publish out of the NG's pocket.

Any idea how involved she was with the TV show as well? That had to be distracting: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5706996/
I believe NGINX's caching is as efficient, if not moreso, but it is less flexible. The tools available to you in Varnish's VCL are substantial, plus you get ESI support - something NGINX lacks.
Thanks for your feedback.
Implementing a Viola Jones algorithm that is capable to detect tilted faces (and also assess the rotation) from scratch would rather resemble a PhD thesis than a weekend project for fun.
Parent poster here. Just to make it clear, I am not advocating eugenics or anything, just saying that some form of basic income seems to be the only option if we want the human race to flourish and science/technology to advance.
I doubt there's a notable performance difference, and it's a bit of apples and oranges unless you front varnish with something that does SSL for your benchmark. Not many use cases for plain http caching anymore.

Varnish does likely have an edge with flexibility and expressiveness around configuration, since it's a single purpose tool.
Honestly with your viewpoint and attitude, you shouldn't yet be in a position to make life changing decisions at a company. It's not a bad thing, but I suspect you're young and eager but you're not really mature enough for the next step.

It will work out with time and experience. Patience is one of those things you gotta learn before you're ready for that next step.

If you're a developer, get involved in some open source projects and contribute. You'll find people better than you and you'll learn from that and hone your skills.
Is the idea that apps talk to PumpkinDB in order to achieve this layering, or do you see it as a library?

Not often that you see MUMPS referenced on HN, by the way. It's one of those oddly productive niche languages that are (as far as I know) alive and well, but rarely encountered except if you work in that niche, e.g. finance or healthcare.
Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?
It's a lovely Sunday here and I'm on the hunt for some short-form reading. I assume this crowd will lean towards scifi but that's not a requirement for this thread.

I'll start with AutoFac, a Phillip K. Dick story about living in a post-scarcity world where things get thoroughly pizzled: https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1955-11/Galaxy_1955_11#page/n71/mode/2up
So, three generic aluminium-clad Androids made by Foxconn, and one more cute basic phone on the rather awful Series 30+ platform [1]. I wasn't expecting anything else, really, but still feeling a bit disappointed...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_30%2B
Recognized as the first Jazz recording, 'Livery Stable Blues--Fox Trot' by Original Dixieland 'Jass' Band turns 100 this year.

From the January 2017 issue of the Smithsonian:

This Is the “Jass” Record That Introduced Millions of Americans to a New Kind of Music

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/first-jazz-record...

And the word Jazz can be traced back even further to West Coast baseball slang.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_(word)

"""
Scoop Gleeson, who first popularized the word, wrote in an article in the Call-Bulletin on September 3, 1938, that he learned the word from sports editor William "Spike" Slattery when the two were at Boyes Springs. Gleeson said that Slattery had picked up the expression in a craps game. "Whenever one of the players rolled the dice he would shout 'Come on, the old jazz.'" Assuming the accuracy of this noncontemporaneous recollection, the craps use of jazz appears to be a nonce-use and does not provide much information about the word's origin.
"""

Pretty cool stuff!

And don't miss the new Preservation Hall Jazz Band album that just came out:

https://www.preservationhalljazzband.com

And if you find yourself in New Orleans, do make it to Preservation Hall, if you haven't already:

http://preservationhall.com/hall/
Shouldn't the friend also communicate the time he actually finished the exam (which can be different depending on the difficulty of the questions)? In other words, it took him 23 minutes to answer, left after 53, which means that the information about the answers is encoded in "30" (53-23). If it would have taken him 17 min to solve the questions, he would have left after 17+30=47 min.

This also means that the more difficult the questions, the less information he can provide (because the "time" allocated to coding the answers is smaller (as in smaller keyspace)
4j takes half the keystrokes of jjjj, no matter which keyboard layout you're using :)
Also selective cache purging is a paid feature with nginx.
I think it's a misconception that the alt-right and Neo-nazis are the only ones applying scrutiny to the immigration policies of Sweden and Europe as a whole. A large portion of these concerns are coming from the existing poor communities that are seeing an influx of refugees into their neighbourhoods.

>Immigrants don't commit crimes. Poor people commit crimes.
I would rephrase this as "high crime rates are associated with low-income demographics, which those immigrating to Europe as part of the refugee crisis fall into". Also, one could safely argue that the poorer the community, the higher the crime.

"Low-income" neighbourhoods in Sweden have changed, they've become much poorer as a result of the refugee crisis, therefore crime has risen in areas that used to be "safe". Therefore those who used to live in those areas have experienced a major change in their surroundings and find themselves in less safe environments. Again, the world's poor are the ones bearing the weight of this change.

Full disclosure: My source is anecdotal, from friends that have families in the poorer neighbourhoods in Malmo who are struggling to relocate to safer areas.
Yes but so are many other factors. In a tight election you can attribute the win to a plethora of factors, doesn't make each of them more meaningful. Plus the profiling itself not being very reliable, I have big doubt as to their ability to change people's opinion based on that.
No. It was just virtue signaling and a massive display of privilege, to be able to up and move over to another country on a whim.
Minimising the ratio of area to perimeter, ideally with some allowance for naturally 'crinkly' boundaries like coastlines, would be a great start.

[1] says there is already software to do this, and [2] gives a terrible example of a district in Pennsylvania.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/gerrym...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/01/this-...
The problem is you now dramatically increased the cost of training. Which might be ok for speech recognition, but not for self driving cars etc.
How does the left wing reconcile its push for UBI, more redistribution to compensate for automation job loss, etc., with an unquestioned belief in immigration or even open borders?

You cannot have UBI due to lack of jobs but then also have the US' current family-based immigration system. It would be a different situation if we were specifically targeting skilled robotics engineers and AI coders from around the world, but we put those people through the ringer to favor an unskilled third world immigrant because his brother is a US citizen.
Razor thin margins seems to lead to a multitude of arguments for how a variety of things could have swayed the election. None of these things explain why the election was close, but that seems like a much more important thing to understand.
Windows has no right to trash-talk: WaitForMultipleObjects() is one of the most depressing select-like APIs out there.
For the same reason why you have legitimate Canadian citizens who don't speak any English. If they grew up in part of the country that speaks mostly French, they will only speak French and no English. US has huge pockets of people speaking only Spanish and other languages, so it's not surprising that you have people who don't speak English.
Hi, I am the creator of Seeing Theory. That message comes up for any touch screen or mobile device. Unfortunately not all my visualizations are fully functional on mobile or touch screen devices, so I decided to post that message and hide the content. I realize that is a bad design choice. I just changed it to post a pop up message alerting the user that the visualizations might not be fully functional, but now you should still be able to view all the content. I will hopefully make it mobile friendly at a later date. Thanks for the feedback!
Evidence?

This is pretty clear case of a total failure to check the credentials of an "expert".

Additionally, Fox has a history of similar failures. No other major news network comes even close.

http://mashable.com/2015/10/16/fbi-arrests-fox-news-analyst/...
Some of the layering in terms of basic building blocks and higher level languages will become a standard part of PumpkinDB. For the rest, yes, it's expected that end applications or frameworks will compile higher level constructs to PumpkinScript.

I've been following MUMPS and using it for some ideas for some time and that's how some of their ideas became inspirations for PumpkinDB. As quirky M is, MUMPS was indeed oddly productive and I wanted to piggyback on that.
In fintech, China shows the way
Amoruso was as involved with the netflix production as much they would let her, which is to say a lot. But by this time, Amoruso had mostly handed the company over to Waterson so that Amoruso could focus on building up her own personal brand and #girlboss "foundation."

Basically, Amoruso checked out around 2015 to focus entirely on her own girlboss brand and promoting her book. She was/is totally obsessed with maker herself a celebrity.
I am impressed with the prices. Sure the core specs are nothing amazing but if it has the excellent Nokia build quality I think I will pick one up.
The trick is that when a company turns out to have major issues, go looking for the people who predicted it. Go looking for the people who never gave them a pass. Go looking for those who have been critical of these companies from the start.

Then see what other companies they are critical of and try figure out why the industry fails to be critical of them early.
Constitutions come and go. Republics are saved by interests.
> Student loans represent a long term investment and may be reasonably paid off over decades.

There are a number of indication that calls this into question.

- Size of loans vs. prospective or actual salaries after study.

- Age of debtors (some surprisingly old)

- Number of loans becoming delinquent

- Student loans taking off while other forms of consumer credit are stagnant or declining indicating that student loans are filling gaps elsewhere

- Unprecedented volume of student loans
> Student loans represent a long term investment and may be reasonably paid off over decades.

There are a number of indication that calls this into question.

- Size of loans vs. prospective or actual salaries after study.

- Age of debtors (some surprisingly old)

- Number of loans becoming delinquent

- Student loans taking off while other forms of consumer credit are stagnant or declining indicating that student loans are filling gaps elsewhere
There is a thin line between science and science fiction. Unfortunately, this article is more fiction.

Let's, for a moment, assume that AI becomes highly capable in most human tasks. In that case, I've a pretty radical view on this topic:

AI can create a heaven for humanity. It can get rid of capitalism. It can eradicate poverty, hunger, etc - But yes, it comes with "Terms and Conditions".

Some people might rename such existence as being non-democratic, non-independent, etc. But don't we already live under an umbrella of rules imposed by a democratic system? Many would agree that the rules exist for a reason...right? If AI was ruling such a system - it would have such rules for a reason.

Can a human live peacefully in heaven? We really don't know.

An AI program today exists for a predefined purpose - or works towards a predefined goal. It does not define its own goals (same can be said about most humans).

On the flip side, AI could wreak havoc - most likely when controlled by human. Lets say we have democratic-government controlled AI (assuming all governments have similar capabilities in AI). i.e purpose of the AI is defined by the government, but plans and actions are taken care of by the AI. Two countries with two different AIs now start to differentiate between humans - CountryA citizen, CountryB citizen. If some activities in CountryA are a strategic threat to CountryB. CountryB AI takes actions and CountryA takes actions and it goes on... Humans are slow, imperfect, but not stupid. They will stop at a certain loss. AI that has been ceded control won't stop - its fast and could do a lot more damage in a short span.

May be intelligence is just randomly connected neurons where connections are evolved via feedback. Or may be we do not understand something fundamental about intelligence
Of the many people I know who say they yearn for a 'dumbphone' (feature phone), I've yet to see anyone I know actually make the nostalgic leap. I don't think the Nokia 3310 would achieve that either.

The long battery life of feature phones is fantastic, and I could certainly type faster with T9.

The experience often falls apart when you want to join a group text, book an Uber, get directions etc. There are lo-fi versions of these, but the experience is bad enough to just not be worth it.
So how will this intelligent thing come about.
Up their game by enlisting the help of a foreign nation to help stand up an entire group of social network trolls whose entire mission is to muddy the waters and push fabricated stories?
Design and Quantum Superposition
I've thought about work and motivation a lot. A few quick points:

1. A friend of mine came up with a formula for motivation at work that you can say in one sentence. I love it because it's both simple and powerful: "People want to be a significant member of a winning team on an inspiring mission." You want to feel that you matter. You want to feel you have a chance at success. You wan't to feel your work makes a difference.

Trouble comes when any of those needs aren't met. It sounds like you don't feel that you are allowed to significantly contribute and it sounds like you don't feel your team is set up for success. I don't know if you would ever be inspired by the company's mission. In my experience, no amount of salary will ever compensate for the absence of any of the three above.

2. Even in a job that meets all three of those needs, motivation waxes and wanes. Work that matters is always challenging and you go through streaks and slumps. Here's something I've learned that's interesting and really freeing: Forget the insane amount of ink that's been dedicated to motivational coaching and repeat this: "You don't have to be motivated to start." You just don't. Set a timer for 30 minutes, set the existential stuff aside for a moment (it feels really good), and start. Just 30 minutes. This is powerful because you'll see the chicken and the egg of it all: Sometimes you are motivated to start. But sometimes starting in makes you motivated. (I'm amazed at how often I ignore the timer going off at the end and just keep working.)

Good luck with it! I hope you find your purpose and satisfaction. The big money is nice while you can get it, but it never serves as a replacement involvement in real, meaningful work.
Putting everyone into echo chambers is the stupidest idea. You'll get such radical agendas pushed. Balance and variety is good.