skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do, at least as far as I understand the statement. Historically the big benefit was training them layer by layer, which was like training a feature detector then a feature of features detector etc. If that's still how they're trained (been nearly a decade for me now) then they discover features rather than you engineering them.

This meant that you could train on large unlabelled data and then small amounts of labelled data.
I've been baffled by this as well. I can understand why deep learning has done well in fields that can roughly be described as sensory perception, but it has never improved on basic random forests or SVMs for problems in my domain. And we have lots of data (at least more than can fit in an R instance).

Even taking data size out of the picture, functionally it is not there yet for most tasks. Maybe it will be in the future, but the big problem with it is that with n neurons, you have n^n possible topologies, and finding the right neural topology is a major optimization problem that we're only barely learning basic human heuristics for.

I'm willing to bet the deep learning thing is just one more Neat fad that will eventually cause disillusionment at its lack of results, reverting us back to the Scruffy view that intelligence is far too complex to be described holistically by small sets of simple algorithms. The great thing about the Scruffy philosophy is that it isn't derogatory...deep learning will always have a place as a tool in its tool set. It merely doesn't hold unreasonable expectations.
I think what the author (and most of the piece in general) is implying is that because this is the way these interactions with technology occur, it is forcing us to be less focused overall.
No, it's a great solution both from a UX and technical perspective. It's easy to wrap your head around the manager, workers, and how tasks are scheduled from start to finish. Plus, it's secure. Would recommend.
Doesn't fit with studies I've read. E.g nordic countries had similar tax levels to the US but started increasing taxes substantially in the 1960s without experiencing any lower economic growth. In Europe as a whole nordic countries tend to have the highest taxes but best performing among most economic metrics, growth, uemployment, competiveness, innovation etc.

I suspect these studies are massively skewed by low tax asian countries which have had high growth due to the catchup effect, and very high savings rate. Also cultural peculiarities means e.g. Countried like Japan doesn't need as much welfare system. You already got lifelong employment and companies trying to keep employees in downturns.
I believe China's leadership is very well aware of all of your concerns, and I think if you could get a closer look you'd see much of these concerns tend to eventually find a way of solving themselves as time goes on. These are not dumb people.
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. Those lead to black holes of sameness which we're keen to steer clear of here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14453781 and marked it off-topic.
A comment regarding bytecoin: it was exploited with a double spend bug which allowed the unlimited minting of new coins, a lot of which I'm sure were dumped on poloniex. See some details here: https://getmonero.org/2017/05/17/disclosure-of-a-major-bug-i...

I'm surprised polo still has it listed
fwiw, a Save As CSV from "Microsoft® Excel for Mac" 15.33 got me this:

test.csv: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text, with CR line terminators

Apparently, even recent software is not up to date on what the line separator should be.
Around the same time, I added a scripting language to a complex desktop app. My initial prototype just used SIOD [1], but my boss took one look at it and told me to think again, that our customers would never accept having to use a lisp to script the application. I ended up using the VARIANT type heavily (this was on win16), leaning on OLE automation, and building something with C syntax and modules. No first class functions, no prototype object model. :(

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIOD
Nearly everywhere has bureaucrats - it is necessary to a point. They come from all sorts of political leanings.

It isn't really that the bureaucrats are trying to make the bureaucracy inefficient, outside of wanting to protect their own jobs. But the bureaucracy itself is inefficient, partially because the lawmakers haven't upgraded the bureaucracy with the times nor made full use of the tools they have.

For example, if you had a suspended license in Indiana, there used to be only 3 locations you could go to get it reinstated. This, for most folks, required a car to travel there. They had a special building to go to with bad parking so that they could enter your information into a computer. If your insurance company had to fax proof of insurance (yes, fax), it went to a different building. I highly doubt folks in the DMV were working to keep it that way.

It finally changed when the laws changed, which not only allowed folks to go to their local branch to do everything, but also funded a website where folks could renew plates (among other things) and allowed folks to visit branches in other areas, which made things more efficient. Make no mistakes, though - this was a top-down sort of thing.

And that's really where the problem is: Inefficiency and political infighting. Not the bureaucrats, not progressives, not conservatives, and certainly not labor unions (as the article mentions, though they are a different breed in the US).
Aside from the bad space physics, which I can put down to a lack of budget, I found the 100 a pleasant surprise.

It's like they told the screen writers "make a teen drama" but then didn't check the script, and the writers get extremely dark in places. The only thing thing they assiduously avoid is rape.
Haha. Not really, I'm actually a millenial (on the older end of the spectrum though). I can see what you may think I'm Gen X though. It may surprise you to know that I'm actually an environmentalist as well. I was definitely more active and passionate about it when I was younger. Time and other priorities have dulled my passion over time -- regrettably.
The US government typically gets non-exclusive license rights to any patents developed under US grants.
This MAC did not magically appear from GCM, it is a variant of Carter-Wegman MAC. It's in the same class as Poly1305 and UMAC, VMAC. It was combined with CTR mode to create GCM.

Poly1305 as used in NaCl (XSalsa20-Poly1305) or in TLS (ChaCha20-Poly1305) also will give different results, especially compared to the original proposal Poly1305-AES MAC, but this doesn't mean that those two are not compositions of a cipher and MAC.
I had a real problem teaching Newtonian Mechanics to students who got most of their Newtonian Mechanics from movies. Their intuition about motion in free-fall was all wrong. Imagine if movies just got this right as a matter of course, and gave even uneducated people correct intuition.

I believe that constantly seeing mega-structures fail incorrectly (e.g. CG buildings falling over) actually contributes to 911 conspiracy theories.

EDIT> It's also a cool feature / talking point. Uneducated person watches a space movie. "Huh, why is the ship pointing backwards, etc." <-- this can serve as a hook for learning.
> Are you not able to watch movies with guns because Rainbow Six taught you how guns work and now you're just too woke to suspend disbelief?

The people I know who shoot recreationally do get annoyed gun use in movies. Not "all movies are unwatchable", but OP specifically gave examples of movies he didn't object to. Sit down with a trap shooter and watch American Gangster - they'll probably grimace as the protagonist needlessly racks the gun over and over to make a cool noise.

If the rebuttal is "but that's real, not a game!", I think the point is being missed. Target shooting is not combat, after all. If someone spends hundreds of hours on a recreational version of something, they're that much more likely to be irritated by failures of research or realism.
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That and the ships having to flip to slow down burn makes the expanse one of the more realistic portrayals of space flight (minus the epstein drive which is basically magic) in modern tv.

Also, they show decompression way more realistically. Its not like a bomb goes off when a hole opens up in the side of the ship, which is nice.
wow. Dashcoin seems to be affected too
This might not be a useful answer for you, but are you sure any of that is necessary? You can spend months pre-validating an idea and never get anywhere.

Go talk to potential customers now. Find people who are willing to pay for what your are going to build. Once you know they exist, then you can start worrying about market size and the rest. At this point having real life people who want to pay you is infinitely more valuable than any hypothetical data and analysis.
I think he is paraphrasing a quote from Kurt Vonnegut.

"America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor..."

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/158414-america-is-the-wealth...
> Stellar Lumens Cons: "No mining available. 95% of Lumens were given out"

95% were given out? Maybe I'm misreading this but only 9.66B/102.94B XLM has been given out. (To people who own BTC or XRP. It's basically a living advertisement for XRP.)

The creators still own 93.28B XLM. They own approx. 90% of all XLM.
As long as people are free to choose what kind of job they want to do, the optimal (from an economic sense) number for unemployment is not zero. Germany is very close to that optimal point, and it's debatable if the unemployment rate isn't actually too small.
That wouldn't make much sense, but even if we grant that, just switch the complaint to Hubble and ISS. We know where both of those are.
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I have no doubt they will eventually be used as a class of currency. Thinking they will replace/destroy fiat currencies that have been around for hundreds of years is a bit of a stretch though.
First, as others have said, these reports are more about the recent past than the future. It is tempting to extrapolate though.

I'd say many of the things she points out are valid for big cities and tech centers, but less so elsewhere. For example, restaurants built around delivery is a big deal around NYC, but not such a big deal in Albany or Scranton.

What do you think of the current report?
If there is no well designed set of rules and corresponding righteous enforcement, I would not expect any oasis to arise. Without this, it is very easy for people with ill intentions to forcibly seize power and muck it up for everyone else.
> A lack of ambition doesn't imply a lack of skill.

This is a very astute observation. I've worked with many really great engineers who wouldn't switch jobs even if they could command a better compensation... because they are happy with their work and compensation. Doesn't stop them from being great engineers or constantly learning/adapting to new technologies.
at the extremes, both left and right are totalitarian and are nightmarish w.r.t personal liberties. this is sometimes called the "horsheshoe political spectrum" [0] but personally I think that's a misunderstanding of political belief systems. left vs. right is meaningless. the real axis runs between liberation and domination. extreme domination parties (whether nominally capitalist, communist, fascist, or theocratic) are the scary ones that have that bloody track record of holocausts and genocides.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
The abusive relationship love-affair is the best explanation I've ever heard of cars in the USA.

Just like a an abusive relationship, the car love affair still produces some good things. It's not all dark and dreary.

"I hate that he comes home drunk and hits me, but he's so loving and apologetic the next morning."

"I hate that I get so stressed from my daily commute, but being able to drive to the countryside on the weekend is so nice."

You can be in a relationship without dealing with abuse, and you can get to work less stressfully and still have the freedom to explore the world.

That's what makes the relationship so sinister; it's Stockholm syndrome.

"How could I ever live without him, even though he hits me sometimes?"

"How could I ever live without driving everywhere, even though the country on the whole is getting more unhealthy, we continue to use up our limited resources, and the ability to walk around and individuals' quality of life is reduced?"

Of course you can live without those negatives. There are ways out. There is a better life possible.
The distinction that I see is that the US is perhaps not individually risk averse, but is systemically accountability averse. There is no end to the inefficiencies that can be introduced by constant ass-covering and compulsive subdivision of responsibility to the point that no one human is accountable for anything of note.
> 3.

How much of this is students doing research where they already have access to big data, which makes sense if your goal is to do deep learning research, vs being given a problem a business wants to solve? Can you make the same statement for the average problem at your average small-medium sized business? Can you really get big data that is relevant to the local, non-chain coffee shop down the street?

If you can it seems like an amazing business opportunity - to bring Google level insights to businesses that don't directly have Google-level data.
Feel free to make a pr correcting this. I was going off what they said on the website.
ARM Cortex-M is quite likely much smaller and more power efficient than RISC-V will be for the foreseeable future.

If RISC-V is going to go anywhere, it's going to have to start with hobbyists and RaspPi-like devices.
Haven't really got time to clean it up but here it goes :-) https://github.com/DerKobe/fridge
The idea that debt is transferable like this is a specific rule under a specific system. You can also loan debt so the recipient has right of first refusal on all transfers and then they could have simply bought that debt at that same discount.

I am not saying the second system is universally better, but there is a reasonable argument for and against it.
It definitely takes resources for the bacteria to defend against the attack. However not enough to limit its ability to make us sick. (In fact bacteria already have a significant evolutionary incentive to not make us too sick - a dead person doesn't scatter germs as well as a merely uncomfortable person.)

But if you completely remove the antibiotic from the environment, the resources required to maintain the defense offer a small selective disadvantage. Resistant strains of bacteria do not remain resistant indefinitely. Repeated exposure to the antibiotic is needed to maintain resistance. But even very low exposure levels will suffice for that.
Loosely speaking, convolutional nets are just a smart way of computing a function that would otherwise take the computational load of a fully connected net.
Looks like they're using Automotive Grade Linux (https://www.automotivelinux.org/) and from their Members page looks like a lot of car manufacturers are supporting it. AGL looks interesting, specially since Raspberry Pi 2/3 is part of the supported hardware.
I realize the ad revenue is a big part of online businesses, and I don't mind that. But, what most people mind is being bombarded by non-stop ads. There are a few popular sites I refuse to visit because of this. Pages constantly scrolling because of new ads loading from every angle.
Thanks. I use the REPL debugger often, glad to see it's not going away.
> it seems to me that both sides are afraid that if the other side wins they will try to force their lifestyle on them; and I think they are probably right.

...it's not really that simple, though. It's not like you're picking two discrete options. Let's take a viewpoint like pro-choice/pro-life. A society that permits abortions doesn't prevent an individual from choosing not to have one. A woman who thinks abortion is immoral is free to hold and practice that belief herself...the "lifestyle" of being pro-choice is not forced upon her. Contrast that with a society that bans abortion.
This post is incredibly frustrating to read.

> "companies A, B, C, and D are producing w, x, y, and z nm transisters"

> "you have to ignore what nm they used, because actually w nm = x/2 nm"

> continues to use company-specific nm instead of comparable units

> reminds you again that the numbers are not comparable

> continues to use company-specific nm instead of comparable units

> “We’ve also packed them closer together to improve transistor density,” said Kaizad Mistry

Yes, that is what density means. Very good!

> "And forming the gate itself is also challenging. “Cycle times are increasing for this step, driven by the complexity of the stack,” said Mohith Verghese, director of global product marketing at ASM International. “The metal gate stack is also getting very complicated."

Oh, it's getting challenging, complex, AND complicated!

> There are several layers in the metal stack.

I think you just told me that a stack of something has several layers. Also that the metal gate stack is metal.

> And issues, such as... all add to increased cycle time.”

So cycle times are increasing because issues lead to increased cycle time?

...

gah. I want to finish this, but it's just so hard to read a pile, with several layers of course, of redundant PR snippets.

...

> performance become limited, mainly by the contact and back-end-of-line, because those become the bottleneck.”

FFFFFFUUUUU

Christ on a cracker, get an editor. Oh...you ARE the editor. <cries>
What exactly do you mean by 'resolve'? If you mean to harmonize or reconcile the desires, that's not how politics usually works. Often resolution happens by means of one side marginalising the other.
Is there maybe an ambiguity between "blocking mobile ads in apps" and "blocking web ads in a mobile browser"? The former might require lower-level tampering, while the latter might just require using a mobile browser that blocks ads or can run extensions.
The stats are from their own website btw; https://dashboard.stellar.org/
There's no doubt they rule with an iron fist. I think an argument can be made that they have benevolent long term intentions, but rightfully or wrongfully have decided that to achieve their long term vision it is prudent to crush anything that gets in their way, if necessary.

Ask yourself this: do you think things are getting better or worse as time goes on for the typical Chinese citizen, and to what degree? (And as a followup: what information sources are you using to form this conclusion?)
It's what I chose instead of monthly fees. For my market this is far more palatable than a recurring subscription. I personally like it because the amount of value we capture scales with the amount we create.

It also means I skip reporting the "traditional" SaaS metrics like MRR and churn, but I don't talk to VCs much anyway.
On the last point, I got giddy with excitement when I read SeveneveS because there were plot points about how orbital mechanics worked.
What would be a good way to compare these types of numbers?

http://www.jisha.or.jp/english/statistics/accidents2010.html...

https://www.osha.gov/oshstats/commonstats.html
I do mostly server-side stuff. Practically speaking, for the most part it means Linux programming. Unfortunately, .NET is still a second-class citizen under Linux. Yes, several people report they are using F# without problems under Linux, but I encountered several glitches in the past and don't feel like experimenting until things become more mature. I'm lucky enough to make the choice of the language myself, and I'd give F# a try, but after huge memory leaks and other problems with .NET on Linux a few years ago I got burned and would need a good argument to switch now. There are far better alternatives under Linux (both functional and non-functional)
They are comparing it to health care, which suffers from a serious excess of bureaucracy. So I will suggest that too much bureaucratic red tape is likely a factor.
That is disappointing to hear. I have bought years ago from Threadless and the American Apparel shirts still hold up well.
We use the mysql backend and http API, a few small nits but for our purposes it has worked very well thus far. Note that our authorities never see production traffic outside of AXFRs from our "edge" hosts so I can't say how well it works for other use cases.
Can you give a suggestion for understanding the connection between magnetic fields and glass? Do we need to understand quantum physics in order to properly appreciate this connection?
This!

I interviewed at Booz in 2004. I told them i was interested in going to grad school and that i heard they work their new hires to death. I told them that id rather work myself to death in grad school where i can get a phd rather than at Booz. They said none of the folks in their group work more than 40 hours so I agreed to come to for an interview.

So I arrive at my interview all suited up. I was interviewed in a lunch room by a woman first. She was really nice. I asked her how many hours she works a week and she said around 60 and that everyone does. I was a bit taken back because this is the opposite of what the hiring manager had said.

Interviewer 2 comes in and I ask the same question during the course of the meeting and I get the same answer: he works 60 hours a week and so does everyone else but everyone really loves their work. I'm angry now because I had to drive 4 hours to get to this interview and it essentially wasted a whole day.

I literally got up in the middle of the interview and shook the guys hand and said, sorry, but i dont think this will work for me. The hiring manager must of saw that something was up and came and and asked what was going on. I politely said he lied to me about the position and mentioned the hours thing and he accused me of not being a team player. I told him frankly, you wasted my time and said goodbye. He threatened to not pay my hotel and per diem as i walked out. I never even acknowledged him and just kept going. I walked out past security on the way out and dropped off my badge, I didnt even sign up and no one even bothered to stop me.

They ended up paying for everything and there were no consequences. I ended up getting a well paying job at raytheon the following day. I worked there for 5 years and never worked a day over 8 hours AND they paid for my graduate work (they offered).

A friend mentioned it best, "When you Booz, you lose."
A variant which only exists as part of the GCM standard, and has no name..
> it was cause for celebration whenever a contemporary computer interface was shown that wasn't entirely bullshit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msX4oAXpvUE

Computer/Hacker Movie inspired GUI: http://geektyper.com/
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> Participants indicated who they desired to win, and who they believed would win, the election.

Would be more interesting if conducted around desires and beliefs about deeper outcomes than who wins an election.
>I doubt it would be making ARM o

Intel wants to produce 64-bit ARM cores for smartphones. It's customers include Apple and Qualcomm. It's not a small market.
Sorry, coffee snobbery incoming: drip coffee is pretty different from espresso. You're right that there's a "luxury" aspect, but there's also a product difference. Maybe the product difference is only 20% of the cost in total, but it's still there. I don't drink drip coffee anymore, it's gross. :[

Also-- aren't video games already an example of Software as an Experience?
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"Among the stocks she has never downgraded are Priceline, Amazon, Yahoo, and FreeMarkets--all of which have declined between 85% and 97% from their peak."

Maybe she knew what she was doing?