skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you provide a citation for that figure? It's not one I've read but I don't necessarily disbelieve it. It is worth considering this perspective from one of the Deepmind Nature papers:

"During the match against Fan Hui, AlphaGo evaluated thousands of times fewer positions than Deep Blue did in its chess match against Kasparov; compensating by selecting those positions more intelligently, using the policy network, and evaluating them more precisely, using the value network—an approach that is perhaps closer to how humans play. Furthermore, while Deep Blue relied on a handcrafted evaluation function, the neural networks of AlphaGo are trained directly from gameplay purely through general-purpose supervised and reinforcement learning methods"
There's a subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/) trying to track objects that don't suffer from planned obsolescence. Not a lot of appliances there, though.

The article seems very US-centric, and doesn't mention European brands such as Miele, Bosch, Siemens and Jura (coffee machines), all of which are wholly owned and produce high-quality stuff.
The most likely thing that happened was that Jones said 'you go or I go' and that that ended with him going.

Without inside knowledge that's speculative but this is how these things usually play out when founders dig in against a new outsider.

The letter feels like spin to reduce the feeling of a fractured company towards the rest of the cadre. Not that they will be fooled (for long, anyway).

Anyway, it's Travis Kalanick's ship to sink if he so desires so Jones is right to leave, but if I were him I would not wait too long before coming to my senses. The Uber brand is starting to look damaged beyond repair and they still have not begun with the salvaging operation, things are only getting worse.
smea (aka smealum) did a great job with making the entire 3DS scene possible. One of the smartest guys I know.
How you've opened the bank account in uk without been resident there ?
I wish it was that simple. My girlfriend said if it is not prescribed by a doctor I shouldn't be taking it and started calling me an addict.
I personally don't recognize these laws, but I know unlucky people that were caught and did time for it. Yes, for having a joint and they have criminal record now.
For the earth >> Go vegan; buy local; join a coop; ditch your car;

For him >> screen his film; set up employer matching donations; reach out and see if they need your skills;

Also >> fall in love; be an awesome partner and raise awake, self- confident kids who have grown up playing outside
It's just a Google Docs template used for internal engineering design docs at Google. The linked doc is a typical example.
Make sure you're looking at updated prices for ram too. 16x16GB of registered ECC DDR3 is about the same price and enormously faster.
Another reason to buy a $500 fridge.
...Despite the overwhelming evidence for the contrary (see pycon)?
Not really...the regulations has always been there.
True, but this is a known problem with certain payment processors. Going under because a PayPal subsidiary screwed you is management (and investors who failed to do adequate due diligence) screwing up.
It's actually worse than that. Since 9/11 and the birth of the TSA, a number of people who need to travel a moderate distance (say, a drive of a few hours) have chosen to drive when they might have chosen to fly before. Air travel is statistically safer per mile travelled than driving. I don't have the link handy, but it has been calculated that this change in travel habits has resulted in an increase of driving fatalities of over a thousand a year. More people have actually died in traffic fatalities due to the TSA than died on 9/11.
It is a fair description. That being: able to enumerate a large number of arbitrary goals and define a large number of basic pattern classifiers/feature extractors.

When people give credit to the human designers for AlphaGo's wins, that it is really a win for humanity, I disagree. The wins are alphago's even if the design is of human ingenuity.

When You say that the outputs of human ingenuity should be credited to Evolution, I similarly disagree. You might as well credit evolution for AlphaGo's win. While it is true that Evolution invented the first AGI (and in some though not all ways, a superior intelligence to it), it still makes sense to separate the products of human learning from whatever structural priors DNA passed along. I'll also point out that compared to most animals, humans actually have weaker priors and spend a lot of their early days learning to learn.
Not saying the market is infallible, but it's often smarter than you and I.

When the Invisible Hand builds luxury apartments, it is indeed for the rich, because if the rich don't get the luxury apartments they want, they will settle for middle-class apartments at good locations.

Since they are rich, they can outbid all the middle-class people, and only rich people will be able to live at places that used to house middle-class folk.

That's what gentrification means.
Most proof-of-work cpu miners use this optimization. My own Cuckoo Cycle cpu solver supports 4-way, 8-way, and even 16-way siphash computation, where the latter use multiple sets of avx registers to allow for more interleaving of operations. On recent iCore i7, the 8-way performs best.

The Makefile at https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo/blob/master/src/Makefile has targets cuckoo28stx, cuckoo28stx4, cuckoo28stx8 and cuckoo28stx16 for these different levels of parallellization.
Blogspam of

https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2017/03/next-gen-steel-un...
True. My point was that profit motivation of banks should not be an issue.
Consumer Reports[1] has reported reliability figures on all its articles about appliances. It would be interesting to go into its archives and see what the shifts are in brands over the years.

[1] http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/index.htm
You can start by chanting HU [1] for 5 minutes every day. No need to go to a retreat or embark on a Buddha-type adventure.

Just you, in your home, for 5 minutes every day.

[1] http://www.eckankar.org/Video/play.php?name=Miracles+in+Your...
Well, now that I think about it, the software going 'stale' depends on the domain.

You can write a networking stack in C adhering to a protocol and be done with it, while code for the new $COOL_WEB_APP might go out of mainstream use by the time you're done writing the networking stack.

I don't think most books, especially math and science ones go stale. A poorly written book is just that; a poorly written book. It's bad from the beginning
I wasn't to give a definition. Just refuting your claim that nobody would consider a tardigrade intelligent.
You should consult a lawyer about your strategies if you plan to operate in the US. There are lots of laws in the US about price discrimination.
Nowadays, I highly recommend integrating with a tokenization provider, instead of with a payment provider directly. Payment processing is a commodity, and if your provider isn't fulfilling, switching is much easier. I've used Spreedly in the past.
It's not good to abuse of the analogies, but the human brain have to spend more time in task with conflicting information, for example to read the word "yellow" when it's written with blue ink, ... More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect
I saw a talk at the MRC conference by the woman who heads up payments for Facebook. They put a bunch of development effort into a tool that allows them to switch providers at will for exactly this reason. It not only gives them security, it allows them to seamlessly direct traffic to whomever is providing the best rates at any given time.
I feel like academia will be much more efficient once universities start getting on board with this idea.
I'm not familiar with Git internals. Does the performance of the hashing algorithm contribute significantly to how Git deals with large files or with operations over a large number of small files?

I've run into performance problems with things like MathJaX, which includes thousands (or tens of thousands?) of files as a backup method for rendering equations. (I understand each file has a single character in some typeface.)
Overcoming catastrophic forgetting is a genuine step toward strong AI.
I know it happens, but how does a mother board just die? I mean it's a piece of plastic with durable metal channels on it. The channels don't wear or burn out. Everything's just inert. I know some components like capacitors do die, but they can be tested and replaced. How can a mother board just stop working?
There may well be that kind of "hype" in the near-term, in startup land, but there is 0 chance that AI itself is hype.
I pay for Google Apps. Their phone support is excellent. They literally built a feature for me (compliance-related tags in Vault) within a few days of my call.
I post this pretty often when the conversation of design choices behind Go comes up. [0] There is definitely a heavy C and Plan 9 influence on it.

[0] https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...
Thank you for this information, it will definitely be interesting to see how the future of Go plays out. For example, will players be able to train with AlphaGo to the point of being able to beat it?
Closure Compiler was indeed written to target Google's very specific rules on how to structure code and name stuff. However, Closure still does a better job than Uglify and other minifiers even if you don't do this. Its basic set of optimizations are generic and won't break code (unless you enable the advanced mode, which has been historically iffy).

The only downside is that it's slow. Like really slow. It takes about a minute to minify our app.

Edit: Looks like Uglify has gotten better lately. I'll submit a separate top-level comment.
AI is going to kill seat-based SaaS models
Is the program to dictate how to thread these available anywhere? I'd like to try doing my own!
What is the role of "President" of the company? Where does that title fit in to an org chart or relate to the C-level execs? I am not familiar with this title in tech companies.
pycon?
Here's what I keep coming back to: when Dan Rather was hoodwinked into pushing a fake story about GWB's minimal military service, he was fired. When Keith Olbermann was similarly caught pushing a story he found and liked that turned out to be false, he was fired. When Brian Williams made up a BS story about an RPG firing at his chopper, be was suspended for 6 months.

What happens when Breitbart or HuffPo or various YouTubers and bloggers get caught in a lie? Nothing. Nobody's head is put in the noose.

News aggregators are to journalism what AliExpress is to shopping - they'll give you what you wanted at the price you wanted, but piled high with lies and crappy quality, and you'll never find the same company twice so their reputation doesn't matter.
Wow, what a blast from the past. I remember gazing at the data book as a kid[+], wondering what sort of super genius came up with some of those bizarre operations and wondering when I'd learn enough / be smart enough to want to use them all.

Never did get around to figuring it out and now I don't have to!

[+] Once upon a time you could write to TI, National etc and they would send you data sheets and even whole databooks for free. (I think I remember buying a set of TI TTL datebooks at a junk shop, but I think National or Linear would send theirs for free). Since I had to pay for parts out of my pocket money there was a lot of pouring over designs before getting parts and trying to build anything. I guess this is the equivalent of the folks who had to submit card decks once a day.
Say what you want about Microsoft but their documentation and support for DX12 is second to none. Very few game devs actually care about openness most want to get the job done easily without any headache.
Yes, they sell in both. DIP is generally better for hobbyists.
You should use Browserify or Webpack to bundle code together like that. They will handle the import chains for you and give you a single file that can be passed to Closure without any issues. Browserify is particularly easy to get going with; Webpack requires a bit more config.

Edit: See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13910621.
> Clearly, the cost of building the skyscraper is such that the developer can earn their money at $1250/month.

I can't talk about your house obviously but the vast majority of Skyscraper in Europe have economics where the bulk of the investment cost is carried by expensive flats and not cheap ones. So yes, some people might have cheap flats but that does not mean that you can take the unit count of the Skyscraper and say "N cheap flats".

If you take the Triiiple in Vienna for instance the current quoted costs are 3500 euro per square meter purchasing price for the cheapest flats going up to 9000 euro per square meter for higher up floors. And the Triiiple is considered one of the more affordable projects.
Came here to ask how the author could write that entire piece and not compare costs.
I bought an amp from the 80's for $50 or thereabouts that still works like new. Nothing new would have come close to the value I'm getting from that thing and it still works like a charm.

The really surprising thing to me is that the caps are all still good, I fully expected those to give way on first power up and that's now 5 years ago.
EU launches new tool for whistleblowers to report antitrust violations
RAM and VRAM these days are huge, and SATA is definitely fast enough to stream assets from. Heck, I load most of my games from an old 2.5" spinning HDD that I pulled from a dead laptop.

I think more improvement is needed on the VRAM side than on the disk side, so HBM2 hype > Optane hype :)
Thanks for posting this ...
With HTTPS-Everywhere the math symbols don't load because the library has a http:// link that should be changed to an https:// links

Blocked loading mixed active content "http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js
My experience is: they use cheap, tiny bi-metals in several places in fridge, which fail in no time at all, instead of a real relay/timer. This is a cost reduction of maybe a few dollars - for them this means a lot of money because of quantity, but for me an inexcusable corner cut; the only conclusion is planned obsolescence, or at the least pay the repair tax. On my washer I have had to keep the lid open to prevent rust, and the lid switch I had to reinforce as in the article. Among others; I have personally kept all my appliances including furnaces running for many decades and all the failures have been because of this kind of nonsense.
> and given the way things are going, I wonder if a general purpose CPU using AVX-512 will actually ever launch

Boy, I really hope you're wrong! Any further thoughts?
What you linked to is a list of countries for the address of the purchaser. It's possible for a payment processor to only accept merchants in the US, for example, while allowing that US merchant to accept purchases from any country in the world.
What's really good about those is the motor.

They're one of the first pancake motor users in appliances and because of the extremely short unsupported section of shaft are next to indestructible if not abused.

I've seen people scouring dumps for those for some hobby project or other (windmill, hometrainer, electric go-cart...).
CIG could run out of money and be forced to sell
Scala.js also uses GCC, of course. However, though it's definitely great at shaving off code size, we found that it can have a (sometimes significant) negative impact on runtime performance.

Also, we seem to run into correctness bugs more often that we would like. I guess we are really stressing it.
Ask HN: Technology to help with loss of smell
Recently, my boyfriend had a surgery where he lost his sense of smell 100% (we knew this would happen). I am concerned when he cooks he will not be able to detect smoke, so I want to make something like this and put it near the stove to detect PPM

http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-Your-Own-Smoke-Detector-Circuit-Using-Arduino/

Are there any technologies that anyone here can suggest that helps with the loss of smell?

p.s. throwaway account
I'm always a little cautious with RasPi gpio - it's so much easier to accidentally fry a RasPi than an Arduino, most thing I make that need gpio at least start out in prototype stage using an Arduino to deal with io with a RasPi (or NextThing CHIP) hanging off the side if I need more computrons than an Arduino provides.
> Boser explains why some of the most common ways we try to memorize information are actually totally ineffective, and he reveals what to do instead.

I couldn't get past the first paragraph. I don't think memorisation and learning should be conflated as it appears to be in this article. Perhaps it's the fault of the title -- clickbait?
Oooh, I really like this idea.
ACLU Comment on Congressional Move to Allow ISPs to Sell Consumer Data
Yeah, good luck getting another career corporate exec after someone leaving says something like that in an official statement.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/pf.htm
The question is when does he become a liability for the IPO aka VC exit?
The future of advanced-edge computing is actually in autonomous cars
> Why can't we think of new jobs?

My job didn't exist 50 years ago. Did yours?
Regarding physical fitness I've always liked:

"No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."
-- Socrates
but only if any deviation from purity requires special syntax at the call site.

Haskell makes it easy to write data and function types that enforce purity at the call site, throwing a type error if you make a mistake. Not just purity though, you can restrict these types to any arbitrary set of methods of your choosing. This lets you do things like parsing a blob of JSON and having all functions that depend on the result be guaranteed not to have to deal with a failed parse or otherwise invalid data. The fact that the data is good has been encoded in the types, preventing you from passing bad data by throwing a type error.
Interesting:
Do you support all ports and protocols?
Do you support all file types?
What about SSL transmissions ?
What about CCN's in images ?
It's a nice episode, but not profound like the way the comments suggest.

The comments feel like they're from either shills or those currying favor.
Not only that, but people also _want_ to buy new appliances, since they actually become better. More silent, less power drain, more features, etc. So if everyone buys new stuff every ten years or so anyway, why bother building stuff that lasts fifty since that undoubtedly is more expensive.
Those are two independent sentences which are not mutually exclusive.
Why do popular sites not detect desktop browsers and redirect an m.* domain?
When browsing a "canonical" domain sites often detect a mobile browser by the User Agent header and redirect to m.* (such as m.facebook.com).

It's a bad habit to have 2 versions instead of one fully responsive one, but this is a question for another debate which has seen lots of discussion already.

But somehow sites (and again, I include Facebook as a prominent example) don't sniff the other way around when a user comes to their m.* domain from a desktop browser and don't redirect them to the canonical domain.

That results in people browsing these sites from mobile, sharing m.* links which people then open in their desktops and see a very weird mobile-oriented display.

My question is why do they not do that detection? is it pure negligence or is there something else behind it?
Tangential quibble: For anything that could be called "human-style" learning, which presumably requires abstract intelligence and cultural transmission, we're probably looking at something that has existed only during the period of human behavioral modernity - commonly taken to date from roughly 40-50,000 years ago. Assuming a generation is ~20 years (and there are some arguments that the average generation might have been closer to 25 years), that's only 2500 generations.

I think it's fascinating that we have developed from un-self-reflective animals, to abstract thinkers on the verge of creating wholly new abstract-thinking entities from scratch, in only two and half thousand steps. Especially given that the majority of the technical knowledge necessary was developed only in the last 500 years, or 25 generations.
If I find out a company I do business with is charging me more because of where I live I'm never giving them another penny.
It is an issue since that very motivation backs the regulation that makes the type of disruption you're visioning extremely difficult.
Thanks, but this gives me nothing actionable. What am I supposed to do with this? Just be depressed?
I am the President of my company, and the founder. I gave up the CEO title to someone who bought a piece of my business. The way we split it is:

President (me): Head of corporate strategy, networking, and vision. (I also am the acting CTO but that's kind of not relevant here)

CEO (him): Fiscal policy, hiring planning, org chart projections, etc. He is the main executor of plans and also somewhat the Chief Revenue Officer. He's also the COO and his work is more meaningful in being the ops director, actually.

I loved giving up the CEO title. I don't want it back. Ever.

EDIT: Essentially the President title is flexible. In my company's case, I am the head of the entity and the buck stops with me for 85-90% of use cases across 30+ employees. But that's not always the case.
Heh. My "pick something" strategy almost always turns on the "What have I got sitting around that's close enough for what I need?" Sure, and STM32 or an Atmel AT8 _might_ be a better choice, but if I've got a drawer full of Arduinos and a bunch of projects with RaspberryPis in them that haven't been powered up for months - I'll go rat those bits and use them... (Last weekend, I wanted a 6dof IMU sensor - which I could have ordered - but I just used a spare quadcopter control board with a dud baro sensor, because it was there when I wanted it... I ended up using the mags in the 9dof sensors on the flight controller as well, so win all round...)
some kind of short? kitchens are damp places, the door is opened and closed many times a day, huge power fluctuations, etc. I dont know why for certain, its not my field. I do know that it happens a lot, as I started googling what could be wrong with my fridge when it went haywire.

as for touch pads, contacts fail all the time.
Fantastic answer, thank you.
Thought it was useful to give the reason he was quitting, as indicated by the text.

Guess it didn't help here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Spotchat irc.spotchat.org OFTC irc.oftc.net IRC Channel #retroshare
Retroshare is a Free, Secure, Encrypted, Anonymous, Multi-Platform application for secure file sharing and anonymous communications with trusted Friends in a global network.
Correct, he was president. Not exactly unempowered.
I think the comments above are pointing out what appear to be perverse incentives surrounding seeking mental health resources. It raises the question of whether those incentives could be changed in a way that all parties would benefit.
Yes, the only reason this app exists is because Uber isn't allowed to run in Serbia.