skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From first looks, there is little doubt that that NVIDIA's Volta architecture is a monster and will revolutionize the AI and HPC market. But the article seems to avoid quantifying how 16-point FP operations are beneficial against 32- or 64-bit FP operations in real-world usecases, or how the Caffe2 / NVIDIA architecture provides any significant boost to FP16 in particular, especially apropos to images (or why FP16 is better for image data in general).

I'm interested more in understanding why Caffe2 would outperform Theano, Tensorflow, MXNet, etc. once Volta chipsets are generally available, beyond early pre-release optimization, particularly when most of the front-runners are already leveraging / taking into account NCCL, CuDNN, NVLink, etc. When the burden of adding support for new NVIDIA primitives is so low, what gives Caffe2 an advantage beyond an ephemeral "we were partners with NVIDIA first" one-up that would last for a couple of months at most?

(Apologies in advance if this post sounds overly negative, but I am constantly evaluating the current crop of frameworks for the trade-offs they enforce on the problem space, and a definitive answer would be very helpful.)
You are absolutely not alone.
Moscow, my family, and me
Currently I pay AUD$79 per month for the privilege of 1.4mbp/s down and 100kp/s up. My area is slated for the NBN, albiet HFC (using old coaxial) to commence building in 2019. Bloody bonza, mate.
I agree, it has definitely been a community driven scope creep as far as I am concered. We are getting what we asked for. Some of the communication has been disappointing but everyone is learning here, this is a big and new undertaking and there is no protocol.

I also don't understand how anyone could possibly want a worse game sooner outside of plain impatience. If you wait longer and the game is delivered near spec, it will be a better experience than if we get it earlier and sacrifice some features. To have both is ridiculous, it's not like they are twiddling their thumbs over there. They are progressing as fast as they can.
If I'm not mistaken, the sound loops and jingles in Garageband are royalty free.
actually, you're assuming that the kinds of patients who were diagnosed with paroxysmal AF in the studies showing increased stroke risk 10 or 20 years ago are going to be similar in risk profile to asymptomatic patients who might now be diagnosed with paroxysmal AF based on some as yet underdetermined time criteria using new technology. To quote the paper:
"Alternative arbitrary or data-derived atrial high-rate episodes burden cut points have been explored over the subsequent 10 years, ranging from 5 minutes to 24 hours.11 Uncertainty remains about the minimum burden that increases thromboembolic risk."

On the other hand, there is no uncertainty about the degree of risk from bleeding (small, but present, and occasionally lethal). So yes, patients with paroxysmal AF based on current technology and clinical standards benefit more from reduction in stroke risk than they lose in bleeding risk. That doesn't mean that all patients in the future, with any degree of paroxysmal AF diagnosed using more sensitive technologies will benefit similarly
A causal relation definitely exists in the other way around: people with diabetes are encouraged to consume less sugar... This may explain large part of the correlation.
We have to it on many fronts, all the slices of the pie are small. Subdividing categories until you can say "this is too small to matter" is self deception. You just did it to the transportation sector :)

Air travel is growing exponentially, trend needs to be reversed: http://reports.weforum.org/travel-and-tourism-competitivenes...
I missed the 'main discussion' post so I'm glad to see this one. I purchased a HP laptop[1] a few months ago and sure enough the files mentioned in the article exist on my system. I followed the steps outlined and looking at the log file, I do not see any sensitive info, function keys are working and the log file didn't come back. I did get a prompt to run the HP recovery manager app but I declined.

[1] https://www.costco.com/HP-ENVY-x360-13-y013cl-13t-Touchscree...
The entire point of science is that trust is not needed, since you should be able to verify the experiments for yourself.

Also, please don't confuse the conclusion in some paper with the scientific method. Authors apply the scientific method to a subject and produce results (data). What they conclude from these results -- acquired through empirical study -- is entirely subjective (and often wrong). But that's how we learn.
World's first all-electric autonomous container ship to set sail in 2018
Panic Like It’s 1837
As an Australian, I think it can be summed up by two reasons.

1. All large scale infrastructure rollouts are difficult and subject to problems and blowouts.

2. It was made a political issue. New government decided to make major revamps for no reason other than it was different to the previous government so they could use it as an election issue.
First he was right about Andrew Jackson, now he's right about carrier catapults? What the heck is going on?

On May 1, 1833, Jackson wrote, "the tariff was only the pretext, and disunion and southern confederacy the real object. The next pretext will be the negro, or slavery question"

And electronic catapults have failed all testing and aren't remotely ready for actual service.
As of today, AP2 is still missing the following AP1 features:

* Auto-dimming touchscreen

* Automatic windshield wipers

* Autopark - perpendicular

* Display cars in other lanes

* Side collision avoidance

* Side collision warning

* Sign recognition

It's also still steering itself off the road in places AP1 worked fine. There are videos over at r/teslamotors on Reddit or the TMC forum.
In the US, only 2-3 (USAA, HSBC, First Tech Federal Credit Union): https://twofactorauth.org/#banking
He has to be talking Gbps, not GB/s right? Right?! I might move to Japan.
On the 7 Plus, you can switch between 1x and 2x with a tap, no need to use two hands. :)
http://fluent.microsoft.com/

I like the "Motion" section with a video showing the Xbox One guide menu. Anyone who owns an Xbox One knows the guide menu is laggy garbage with confusing menus. I don't trust a company to suddenly get this stuff right if they can't even provide a smooth and intuitive menu on a game console with 8 CPU cores.

Granted, it got a little better recently, but there's still so many improvements needed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZmSeBI6Bp4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14314795
Waymo’s claims of trade secret theft could result in criminal case
I can't deal with the 400ms latency. That and the rest of it is why I left and never went back. It's a tech backwater :( So much for Turnbull's 'ideas boom.'
And in the process kill creativity.
I am a designer, and I am not sure what most of this on the surface level is. I dug a little deeper and saw some pretty basic component library stuff. I'm not sure if this is just weirdly presented, I am behind the times, or both.
I believe Google Ventures did, but that's not exactly the same entity.
Considering the crowdfunding platform makes its money from these kinds of runaway successes in funding, I don't suspect they have much incentive to offer such a feature.
> Average speeds have more than doubled since 2013, according to Akamai, but other countries are connecting their populations faster, meaning Australia’s lag with the rest of the world has grown.

The article is very light on numbers. It would be nice to actually see solid metrics around speeds and costs across the whole of Australia.
I'm not sure "screwed for the little guy" is really the right way to look at this. If Uber weren't so dependent on VC to subsidize their growth, delaying a funding round wouldn't be quite so disastrous. It's entirely possible to be the little guy without putting yourself in the situation that Uber has gotten themselves into.
The psychology behind mobile user experience design
Surprised it wasn't fear. Maybe because mass hysteria events based on fear are rare?
Probably, but MS is a single vendor, with one (sort of) brand of an OS. They have full control over it.
The fires occur after the installation, 50% occur within 10 days of installation, here is a very long and detailed analysis (with some CSIRO analysis as well): https://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2011/04/24/the-csiro-g...
Pixel? That's their tablet, right? Nexus is for their audio device.
Permanently Remove Messages from PST and Enhanced Working with MAPI Properties
How Australia Bungled Its High-Speed Internet Rollout
That is how it has turned out yes. But do you want the $500,000 game now or the 140m game later? There are certainly other games to play while we wait, and we get the unique insight into the development of a game of this scale.

Also the new technologies being developed are truly quite interesting. Nested physics grids, context containers, a complete NPC AI ecosystem that itself is extremely ambitious.

The $500,000 game would have been fun, but just another space shooter. We have some of those already.
Uber's legal troubles just got a whole lot worse
Apple and Samsung sued and counter-sued in all following nations: Germany, Japan, US, Australia, EU.

Only the jury trial in Silicon Valley ended favorably for Apple. And that with a jury foreman who had a very questionable patent himself. After the trial he was saying stuff in interviews that showed he had a pretty strong bias for Apple for a few days, and than he went silent suddenly. Some suggested Apple or someone asked him to keep quiet. But who knows.

The legal battle between Apple and Samsung was literally fought on more continents than WW2. WW2 wasn't fought in US but Apple-Samsung battle did take place in US.
Soundcloud: A Better Music Service Than We Deserve
My company Foxpass (YC S15) has a product to manage SSH keys. It serves as access control too -- the keys are only available on the hosts where a user should have access.

https://www.foxpass.com/
> All large scale infrastructure rollouts are difficult and subject to problems and blowouts.

Some of the utter incompetence involved in the actual rollout was astounding.

Telstra's crews had to reinstall the lines under the main road of my town 4 times.

Twice it was installed on the wrong side of the road, and once it was unshielded.

6 months of traffic jams instead of 1 month.
And here's Amazon's Kindle edition, listed for me at $31.19:

https://amzn.com/dp/B0711FDMRR
CORS Question
Why don't browsers send the OPTIONS request to both the host and origin servers!?
That is no excuse for letting the emulator stagnate for several years, without any kind of visible change in regards to performance.

They hire PhDs capable of sorting out the incredible whiteboard and phone CS exercises for something.

Also apparently all those Phd weren't able to do what GenyMotion guys and girls were happily developing.
Huawei Nova 2 and Nova 2 Plus promo poster reveals the launch date
You people are a tough review board. How about we take 'lesions' out?

Sadly I am not one of the 3 users who understand everything that gets posted here.
I think you are wrong on the Google front. Google did everything to please devs. Take apple for example, they won't think twice about refusing your app. Google OTOH, since the early days, lacked so much in the Appstore, that they let all sort of trash inside. They just wanted the devs more than quality.
To say they changed it for no reason is omitting the state of the roll out at that time. The budget was already blowing out beyond 2x the cost, they were behind on their revised down goals, they missed wireless numbers by 90%.

The only positive thing they could tout at the time was pass by numbers which ignores the hardest part of the roll out, connecting fiber to each and every house.

You can argue that the last mile problem should have been tackled head on in the NBN and it was a mistake for the liberals to not, but to say that they did it for "no reason other than it was different to the previous government" is just simply wrong.
But where are the tools? Of course I can always write a shell script, but the vast majority of GUI tools is not programmable.

I would love to automate my image capturing workflows, my tax filing, my invoicing, my calendaring, my contacts, and SO many other things. But most tools are not scriptable. They are sealed, proprietary binaries that I can't interact with.

Conversely, I love tools like the shell, Emacs, and programming tools in general, because I can automate them. I can automate testing, compiling, generating reports... And if something is not built-in, these tools provide hooks and APIs to extend their functionality for my particular use cases.

In fact, we can already see the impact of smartphone-only students on their ability to grasp and automate complex workflows. The fact that mobile apps are largely non-composable and non-programmable seems to seriously limit students' abilities in general digital problem solving.
Outside US, in regards to development tooling and selling applications to business, Apple never meant much.
My coworker has that XKCD comic on the wall. He spends so much time trying to figure out what is worth his time to automate that all potential time savings are negated.
A+ and thank you for using an article, instead of saying "to be seen on iPhone" ... (like the marketing guidelines decree).
Not in North America. We were inundated with Pixel ads on TV during the launch and well after.
Fantastic news. The sooner Uber is no longer a company, the better. Possible criminal charges are the icing on the cake.
Caffe2 seems to be engineered for efficiency as opposed to flexibility. For example, Caffe2 is apparently Facebook's go-to choice for mobile edge device deployment for applications such as style transfer.
As an aside, I like reading Jane Street's blog. They're one of the few companies in our space (I'm also in "automated trading") that discusses even non-proprietary stuff openly. When you work in an information vacuum, it's comforting to know that presumably similar people face the same challenges.

When the author wrote "a particular production bash script (if that doesn't sound horrifying, hopefully it will by the end of this post)," I couldn't help but smile...
They could become business consultants, for businesses that operate in regions with minimal human rights protections :(
Please don't import such point-scoring tropes here. They violate the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'd take HFC over FTTN. Last time I lived with DSL I enjoyed the same kind of speeds you're getting and three visits from Telstra minions came out to "sorry, nothing we can do". I'm in no hurry to play that phone-line lottery again.
We are currently writing a BI report module and want to use any open source library for creating charts. This looks really nice. But I want to understand whether we could able to extend it to create say custom chart? Is that possible?

And also we can extend it to support say drilldown charts?
Health service comparison startup
For technological or regulatory reasons? (for context, I often see cars without steering wheels tooling around Mountain View)
Thanks, man. It's almost frustrating how few attention my projects that are targeted to Linux users get nowadays on HN. That said, I appreciate your appreciation, very much.

If you try it out, let me know how well it works. So far I only had a chance to test it on a ThinkPad X230 and X250, and I would be interested to know how well it works on other models, potentially even with other vendors. Though, I haven't seen any non-ThinkPad laptop yet that has LEDs that can be controlled through the Linux kernel.

Also in case you are using Firefox on Debian/Ubuntu, note that blinklight requires at least Firefox 50, which is not yet in Debian stable/testing, but Firefox 52 can be installed from experimental.
newtonian mechanics is perfectly true in certain contexts.
It's like WhatsApp; but with PGP and you're in complete control of your keys.

They basically provide the public key exchange and verification services with an appealing UI akin to your modern chat application.

Let's say you hook up your reddit account or HN account to your Keybase account, and we want to chat. One of us simply has to look for the other on Keybase, start up a chat like Twitter DMs -- but it's PGP encrypted and seemingly as flawless as exchanging PGP emails without the hassle of exchanging our public keys through a key-server. This is arguably the hardest thing for non-tech savvy's to grasp.
Uh, this definitely falls under "citation needed". I've lived in SF for the better part of a decade, and I've never personally seen a vacant building that wasn't vacant for a reason (i.e. condemned, slated for demolition, etc.)

These kinds of stories are apocryphal.
It stinks.
I'm not suggesting we ignore evidence; I'm just saying we should be honest about what the evidence really shows and also honest about our inability to collect conclusive evidence at times.

I agree that mouse studies can show that megadoses of these sugar substitutes aren't lethal and probably won't cause cancer. But humans aren't mice and we don't live in lab cages, so animal studies don't answer the question I'm really interested in (~"will accepting artificial sweeteners into my diet improve my health?"). What would be the right experiment to answer that question? Has that experiment actually been performed, and would it be practical? Changes in human behavior might be hard to observe and quantify, and there are always practical limits to sample sizes.

Sometimes it's​ very, very hard to design a study that actually answers the question you're interested in, but neither the scientists nor anyone else really has an incentive to be humble about that. (Most scientists want to make their work seem impactful.)
Wow, this is great. Thanks for the link!
For the LLVM bitcode as produced by the tools available at http://llvm.org/ , yes it is correct.

However you are forgetting three very important points:

1 - Apple is free to use their own fork of LLVM bitcode

2 - Apple controls what those bitcodes actually mean on their compiler stack

3 - LLVM guys already had a few talks at LLVM conferences about creating an actual platform independent form of bitcode
what's the use case of it?
Country is a basket case politically, lowest calibre of politician I have ever encountered. A profound paucity of talent across the board and absolutely no end in sight to the endless stupidity.

You can think of the shit infrastructure, crap attitude in general, and intellectually bankrupt waste that make up the political class as the many layers of tax on any high cognitive business in Australia.

Coal is the future apparently. Don't even get me started on the racists.
What companies will profit when Uber fails?
Ezymachinesales: New
I mean, even before this wave of scandals started, everyone already knew that Uber and Kalanick were sleazy as hell, so I suppose if you assume efficient markets it isn't that surprising that they priced it in already.
There was fuel economic cars 15-20 years ago, if you've forgotten. My car is 17 years old and gets 35 mpg mixed city/highway.

Some got even more (civic HX).
Because Apple isn't immune to screwing up the 'commodity' and plenty of shops are holding off on the new mbp because of the unless touch bar, degraded keyboard, and poor choice of ports. This is a great time for MS to push for this audience and things like WSL are great foundations.
I started this blog to share some of the research that I've been reading on management and entrepreneurship. As an investor and entrepreneur, I've never looked at academic research--I always considered it impractical. Now I am reading 5-6 papers a week and most of it is, well, impractical. Some of it is intriguing or thought-provoking.

I'm sharing a brief review of the best one I come across each week (a la what Adrian is doing here for CS https://blog.acolyer.org/about/).
Which ones are those?
Have you seen United Airlines' stock price?
Other than the price.

Any phone above 300€ is not worth my money, I am not buying a gaming desktop.
That's fine, this is how innovation works: for every big hit which changes the world, there are 9 scams and 90 plain failures. This is the way it should be. It was same in the age when the car was invented, or a plane - a ton of people got funded with scam projects, and even more tried to bootstrap obvious nonsense. We just didn't have the Internet back then so it received a lot less coverage.
Sorry but the tone of this article rubs me a bit wrong.

Clearly the author didn't spend enough time in the bad old days maintaining massive piles of CSS and JQuery vomit to appreciate why modern approaches are the way they are. If an app approaches any degree of non trivial complexity on the front end, a framework like react or angular can really pay off. On the other hand, if we are just talking about a little vanity site or something that isn't going to need to be maintianed long term, by all means go old school. Just don't tell me that it's better in all cases because I've got the scars.
While Lightshot Screenshot is great, it cannot upload screenshots to other services than prntscr.com and that makes it unsuitable for sensitive information.

So far I've only found Greenshot that is cross-platform and let you choose where to save the screenshot (It's also open source).
My phones still make phone calls, do SMS, have Internet access and execute the apps I care about.

Seems pretty alive to me.
A possible solution would be to run all third party apps in containers and use computer vision (deep learning) to collect messages and notifications from their screens into a single place, if they don't want to cooperate officially. I don't know the legal implications though.

Another app that should run into a container and be post-processed by computer vision is the web browser. We need to contain the browser itself (more privacy) and keep the pesky ads out of our eyes in a way that is impossible to hack by clever scripting or ad-block detection. On the next round, ad publishers would have to create adversarial ads that fool the classifier which would be a whole lot more difficult.
I can't recommend this article enough.
Bruce Lee foresaw it 50 years ago
The article offers context for the quote towards the end:

But some experts say Trump’s comments, already
being widely mocked among defense types, aren’t
without merits, lauding in particular his push to
name-and-shame vast defense cost overruns on
systems like EMALS.

“The president’s critique of the program is
correct. He’s right to be frustrated and he’s
right to step in and tell the Navy to pay greater
attention to these overruns,” said Jerry Hendrix,
a navy expert at the Center for a New American
Security.

The price tag for the three Ford-class aircraft
carriers ballooned from $27 billion to $36
billion in the past decade, and the project is
behind schedule in part because of the EMALS
system, as the Atlantic reported. Sen. John
McCain (R-Ariz.), chair of the Senate Armed
Services Committee, slammed the carrier project
as “one of the most spectacular acquisition
debacles in recent memory” in 2015.
We appreciate your many contributions to HN. But you've crossed into incivility in this thread. Would you please not do that, regardless of the other comments?

Vaccines are also a classic flamewar topic that, unless there's something genuinely new to be said, are off-topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.