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I was inspired by this Confucius reference in a recent HN topic[0]:

As Master Confucius wisely advises, any effort to bring order to the world should begin by “rectifying names.” If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything. (Confucius, 1980 edn: bk 13, v. 3)

[0] http://rosalindwilliams.com/writing/history-as-crisis-and-me... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14580362
You still press tab on the keyboard and your IDE would render it as spaces. Whichever writer made such a strange statement is decidedly in the lower end of the community.
Power grids are more complicated than you think.

Markets have their role to play but it's simply an enormously complex system quite unlike anything else.

Imagine if you had to run the street system but you couldn't ever have traffic jams.
Reminds me a little of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_network
In the designing of CPUs or if they are designed for running various neural networks? Because Nvidia seemed to be building giant products aimed pretty much exclusively at that. Google has their own "TPUs" for that. Intel's next Phi is designed for running that stuff.

As for the design of CPUs, they do some automated layouts and some things like that, but I think that might not be what you mean.
> In some sense, this is due to the fact that the state space grows exponentially

What I take issue with is precisely the conflation of the size of the state space with the quantum speedup. Shor's algorithm is fast because QFT (quantum fourier transform) creates an interference pattern that can reveal the period of certain functions, and QFT can be implemented efficiently because of its specific structure. As I said before, the size of a classical state space of a probability distribution is also exponentially large, so no, the root cause is emphatically not the size of the state space, but the way in which that space can be manipulated and the fact that amplitudes add up in a way that's not linear (when looking at the resulting probabilities).

Note that Grover's algorithm achieves only a quadratic speedup with the same size of state space as Shor's. Your explanation doesn't add up, it just adds to the confusion.

I just think that it's very important to stay far away from the (wrong, but pervasive in pop science) idea that quantum computers are fast because they "try exponentially many solutions in parallel". Excessively highlighting the size of the state space is already a step too far in that direction for my taste.

My words are a bit harsh, but I do appreciate the fact that you are engaging honestly, and please don't take my skepticism personally. I would like to hear what your technology brings to the table, how it differs from competing approaches, etc.
Don't forget the original moon landing recordings. How could anyone have thought so little of those that we lost them?
Will McDonald's customers wait for the new Quarter Pounder?
Why I'll never provision another database user
Considering the optic nerve can only tramsit ~6 Mbits/sec, and layer 4 of v1 in your visual cortext only gets ~10 kbits/sec, I would say you are wrong.

To test this, try seeing if you can distinguish HD from SD without the use of your fovea. You have one highly detailed section of your eye, and the rest is low quality input which is "upgraded" through previous sightings with the fovea and your brains knowledge of how it thinks the world works.

See 'foveated rendering' which will be important in the VR world, to learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foveated_rendering
I think the branching could be avoided by using a cast from boolean to integer, "(haystack[4] <= needle)*4", instead of a ternary operator. It doesn't help at all with the data lookups, though, which is the bigger problem.
The simplest quantum algorithm shows an exponential speedup over the best classical solution, this, of course, is the toy example often used in QC texts of determining whether or not a function is constant or balanced(Deutsch).

But, as John Preskill points out...this is not even the really interesting thing here. Quantum simulation actually lies outside the class of NP, because there is no efficient way to verify the solution of such a simulation.

This area is where quantum computers, in my opinion, are the most interesting, we will be able to do things we simply cannot on a classical computer....and for the record..most people commenting should know that D-WAVE operates using the Adiabatic model, and is not a universal quantum computer.
They announced Project Treble back in Google IO to combat fragmentation. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/05/here-comes...
> Welcome to the science of fire. If you pump energy into a system faster than you are removing it then you are heating it up, if you pump energy out faster than you are adding it then you are cooling something down.

That's why I said "more temperature sensors". It's possible to design a relatively-standard dryer where no part ever gets above boiling, even when the output is completely blocked, giving you a huge margin of error.

Heat in a dryer is all externally applied. It can't build up on its own.
It's unclear which book titled "Dog Sense" you're referring to, but is it possible that the book got its information from this paper?
This same sickness affects old iPhones too.
Yes, but 'where there are clear lane lines' is exactly the problem. I know plenty of places where there are no clear lane lines. If every one of those is an accident waiting to happen then we first should invest in some kind of minimal level road markings. And even then you'll have plenty of exceptions.
Do we really need Julia given that Python has Numpy which does a lot of the heavy lifting in numerical computation and is pretty fast?
No, only the “California Ripe” variety
I wonder if this would be a feasible funding strategy for Crystal (https://crystal-lang.org/) as well. From the scattered benchmarks I could find online†, Crystal seems to be just as fast, if not a bit faster.

† https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks, http://blog.seraum.com/crystal-lang-vs-nodejs-vs-golang-vs-j...
Apple does the same thing. You won't find much in iTunes that will run on iOS 5 or lower.
You don't even have to do that. Just use whatever format is in the main repository. Then use git smudge and clean filters[0] to convert to your preferred format whenever git checks out the files. This way your editor does not need to care about the format everybody else uses.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/2318063
Unfortunately, most solar panels point toward the equator for maximum overall power during the day. The highest demand for AC is in the afternoon; if panels faced West, they'd provide less overall power but more at peak times ( at least during summer)
It isn't? Are we talking about a different regulation?

I quote from the title of 2017/0003/COD
COM (2017) 10:

Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
AND OF THE COUNCIL concerning the respect for private
life and the protection of personal data in electronic
communications and repealing Directive 2002/58/EC
(Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications)

Note the word "repealing".
Likely it wasn't in the title when this poster posted it, 2 hours before you replied.

It's common on HN for older stories to get posted and get upvoted to the front page, and commenters will make a note in the comments that it is an older story and should be marked as such in the hopes that the mods will notice and add e.g. (2015) to the title.

The tersest way to do this is to simply post a top level comment with the year the article was written, surrounded by parentheses.
Not true, you do not have to control for everything. You have to control for everything that may have an effect on both the treatment and the outcome. That implies you have to assume that everything you don't control for does not affect both the treatment and outcome, (though something can affect one). This assumption is not testable but sometimes reasonable.

You also have to assume that it's possible for every person/unit of study to have a non-zero probability of receiving either treatment for all levels of the variables you are controlling for in order for the effect you're estimating to be defined. That is more likely to be violated the more things you have to control for.
> Not true. Jcrew Factory does $5 flat rate

Sure, cool, but that helps my original point.
That's a good solution for someone like me, who can roll my own, but not someone like my parents who have no idea how to do that. That does not bode well for privacy. Your suggestion is half-assed.
Are you sure? IIRC when I played with my old iPhone 3Gs (older than iPad) earlier this year, I could still install the old versions of apps, even if the new ones required higher iOS versions.

I kinda have to question the value of giving someone a 7 year old device with a $50 market value that can't run any modern apps. Why not just send her $50 to buy a new Android tablet that probably runs whatever she needs?
Numpy is great as long as you're using Numpy. There's lots of aspects of scientific computing that may not be using Numpy.
iOS exists. (Note: this isn't a comment regarding quality.)
What I really dislike about a lot of the GPL arguments is that they are complaints that the GPL doesn't let you freeload masked as arguments that the GPL is anti-business. The GPL is one of the most business-friendly licenses there is. The freedoms guaranteed by the GPL mean dual licensing works. Good luck with a dual licensing strategy if you release your software under the MIT license.
EV and heating/cooling. Sector coupling and electrification will bring in the needed flexibility. It's not really there now with all the washing machine and appliances talk.

Cool to see you are working on this so concretely!
Here's one CPU that has nn in mind:

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/04/quantifying-the...
Oh, I know; I wrote a blog post on using Algo.

To be clear, I was thinking about the less-technically-sophisticated-than-HN crowd. E.g., is there a market for the people who would typically purchase VPN services, don't want to trust a VPN company, but don't know how to setup a cloud server?
The iPad First Gen was released at the same time as the version of Android that is mentioned in the article as losing access to Android Market. The current top comment in this post is about the iPad First Gen being basically useless for anything except the built-in apps because nothing in the App Store can be installed to it.
It could, but for it to work on a mass scale, everyone would need to replace all of their appliances, which will take at least a decade for the tipping point to occur.
Hardly prefer; though the comparison of the ancient's curations with their general first-hard records and remains does provide fantastic insight as to the biases of the ancient archivers.
He may well be, in which case he's demonstrating that he doesn't understand that those self-driving cars are only making money for their owner when the meter is running, and so the owner will be interested in whatever model needs as few recharges as possible.
I'm sure that our landfills provide a more honest picture of day to day life than our museums.
Is there any Intel core with 128 PCIe links then? I'm not aware of any. Iirc Intel is at 40 lanes / socket, which is more like 10 per core rather than 128.
That's not Apple doing this, that's the developers. Almost no company thinks it makes financial sense to support old OSes when 97% of users are using iOS 9 and above.
Looks nice and clean. Would be nice to add a page that visualizes expenses over a period of months.
I tried most of Google's offerings, iPad refused to install them.

> I kinda have to question the value of giving someone a 7 year old device

The device is perfectly usable. The battery life is still great on it, the screen is unscratched, it runs school-related apps just fine (or, did). What am I supposed to do with the thing now? Just junk it?

edit: I ended up giving them an Android tablet. I still have this iPad, and would love to at least give it to an organization that can hand it off to someone in need. Something inside me absolutely balks at the idea of throwing away a perfectly usable, modern device just because the parent company turns a blind eye to it.
Same here in Melbourne (au), have forgotten clothes in front loader for 24 hours sometimes, and they've been fine. I guess it's either climate, or front loader, or appliance hygiene. Or a combination thereof
Microsoft has been in that market for much longer and yet cannot get traction. One of the biggest things for me with both Windows Mobile and Ubuntu was the lack of actual phones I could buy through my carrier. If they're not available to me I cannot buy them, if I cannot buy them, neither can anyone else on my carrier who would love to, and I'm sure there's plenty of people frustrated with Android and iOS alike. Shame we cannot have a true Linux OS.

Edit: To be fair I saw some phones from Microsoft on my carrier, but their battery life that was advertised was terrible, and there were few of them. If there had been 2 ~ 3 phones and new ones every few months, now we're talking... Ah well. I would prefer to see a Linux phone but I wouldn't mind buying a Windows one if they didn't feel like they could be abandoned like a couple of Microsoft's products wind up.
I read that, but how much, type, architecture, latencies, etc? This is a huge factor in the performance of the chip.
All these great Unix based tools make me wish I did not have to work on Windows Servers all day.
> Client certs alone are good for authentication (don't work in HTTP/2 though)

Um, what? Did client certs get removed from HTTP 2?
Thank you!

The visualisation happens in the spreadsheet – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eYrQf0xhs2mTSWEzQRfS... – check out the Current and Previous sheet. I like to use it on the spreadsheet side to keep the app simple and I use bigger screen for the analysis anyway.
"I use ssh. I can login, edit, develop, run, basically anything. What am I missing?"

You're not missing anything and you have an extremely efficient and secure workflow that runs laps around any of this.

The tradeoff is you work in a terminal and understand SSH, etc., which is too much to ask of many non-technical users.

If you wanted to obfuscate your traffic or the direct path to your remote host was blocked for some reason, a VPN might get you there, but you'd still run SSH over that VPN and your workflow should remain unaltered (albeit, higher latency).

To address a sibling posts comment, you can enjoy this very same workflow without exposing your sshd to the global Internet by placing it behind a "knock" with knockd. Highly recommended.
I find vims block highlighting (ctrl+v) very useful, never noticed it being part of an IDE.

That being said I don't think it's that big a deal but I've seen some fucking vim wizards churn out code faster than what's reasonable for human beings
Show HN: IPv4 space  (ping) data visualization
Even Microsoft could not keep a reasonable share on that market. The cost of entry is huge.
> People have a whole bunch of useless outdated android devices laying around, have some horrible experience with them and could appreciate an ungoogled/unappled linux-like distribution with more control for the user and updates.

I don't think this segment is very large. In fact I doubt most people care about the mechanisms of updates at all. The market of mobile is, as far as I can tell, basically a race to the bottom: consumers expect devices to be (relatively) disposable things, not worth expending too much effort worrying over. They want something that works well enough for their use that they can throw away and replace without being burdened by too much other context.
Yes and no; you can't just switch off an aluminium smelter with destroying it; it takes quite a bit of time to ramp it down. I think that for forecast high demand they shut down production in a planned way.
Think "drop a pin" like in Google maps parlance. To "drop something" is to release something. In that context it's really American hip-hop slang. Although its used widely by the music press when discussing a new release from any type of artist.

A band or artist might be "getting ready to drop something new" - a new single, a new album, video etc.
Zenefits has to pay millions in unpaid overtime after investigation
Like with strategies for composing atonal music, almost any conceivable creative trick in writing was memorably tried in the 20th century. Texts that are one long sentence (Krasznahorkai), no punctuation, only punctuation (Koslowski), crazy "eye dialect" (Zazie dans le metro)...

It would be old hat if someone wrote like Joyce today.
Both of these problems can be solved by shifting the energy storage into a medium other than air: refrigerant. Store the compressed refrigerant in an insulated tank and use as needed. It's no different in principle from storing hot water in an insulated tank. Shift the load off peak.
I hereby would like to record my claim to the term "high frequency dish washing", or HFDW as it is to be known :D
I am in agreement with your sentiment here. Adding a qubit does not mean that every single thing you do on a quantum computer doubles in speed, which is a possible way to interpret some of my statements.

From a purely personal perspective, I do think that it is very interesting that we can affect the entirety of a state with an otherwise linear number of physical operations. Whether that is useful in providing lots of exponential or even polynomial speedups in the arena of practical algorithms is yet to be determined. I suspect that with a robust enough computer, the answer will be a resounding "yes".
> Doubly so for technology:

I think its very disingenuous to use the reputation of the article to also push for a " no skills shortage in technology" view. The original article is well researched and based on facts, whereas the blog posts you link are not.
You're confusing language with its representation (orthography)
Their non-profit model probably helped.
> Also, most of us run a load just before going to bed, and shuffle it to the dryer in the morning.

Current safety advice is to not run washing machines when you're asleep.

I guess it's okay if you have very good, loud, fire alarms.
They get 30% of your first year salary as a commission. They are just looking to profit from your body.
For comparison, the FDA sampled a bunch of foods for acrylamide posted the values here:

https://www.fda.gov/food/foodborneillnesscontaminants/chemic...
Thanks! And yes, having this work like an actual guitar would have been a nightmare. Plus, people were just MURDERING those strings. It would have been impossible to keep it in tune. Plus, there's no way you could actually fret a chord properly since the first fret was 10 feet off the ground.
I've had a catch-all for *@mydomain.com forward to my primary email address for 10+ years. In that time I signed up for services and websites with [domain]@mydomain.com thinking I'd catch all those dirty scoundrels selling my email address and have an easy way to filter unwanted mail.

But you know what really happened? I wound up with hard to remember email logins and caught less than a handful of services sharing my email address without my permission.

It wasn't worth it.
Yes, but it's not going to be retrofitted onto existing fridges. You'd need to replace most of the fridges in the system.
This is one of those areas where you're actively being hurt by the need to name something or give it a type. Wouldn't passing in a simple dictionary for the settings be simpler? Something called PricePredictionCalculatorSettings probably isn't being reused elsewhere.
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Is L2 shared on AMD or are they going the Intel route and making it per core?

Is there any info on cache architecture for Zen?
Be wary of Autism Speaks:
https://thecaffeinatedautistic.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/why-...

Their research is biased, and the entire organization follows a gay therapy model (which is to "teach" gay kids that their orientation is wrong).
ssh can be used as a VPN - you can proxy ports and tunnel all sorts of things through it. You can easily drill a connection through to say an "internal" Windows or NFS file server and grab docs off it. There is file transfer built in as well eg sftp and scp, with easy rsync integration.

It doesn't really matter whether you use ssh, RDP or whatever for remote system access but you should be aware of the capabilities of your methods and the strengths and weaknesses of them.

If your username and password are reasonably hard to guess, and ideally you use passwordless logins, and you keep your system regularly patched, and you definitely don't allow remote root logins, and you cycle your passwords say 90 days or so, then you should be fine. Do not bother changing port 22 to say 2222 or requiring 20+ char passwords. You may want to disable some of sshd's functionality if you don't use it but that might be a step too far.

Also, reset your sshd's keys occasionally and get them into your local ~/.ssh/known_hosts as soon as possible and read up and understand why ssh warns you when the keys and names look odd - that could save you a MitM attack from a bored techy in a hotel with wifi or whatever.

To sum up: a well handled sshd and client can be a fairly decent VPN and remote access solution. However, a separate VPN eg OpenVPN and then ssh over that is better and need not be inconvenient.

You pays your money .... 8)
Thank you for your response. I do not deny that god could possibly exist. I don't currently believe that god does exist but I recognize that it is possible. I do deny the logic given in the post I responded to. If someone believes that god exists and said god is vastly more complex and intelligent than we are then they can not logically argue that god exists because we are sufficiently complicated and therefore must have been created whilst believing that god is not created.

i think that all reasonable people believe something has to have existed that wasn't created. It is a bad argument to say we have to have been created because of our complexity.

It appears you choose or have been led to conclude that god exists and it the uncreated thing. I have been led to conclude that matter/energy is the uncreated thing. I do not wish to persuade someone that god doesn't exist. I wish to persuade someone from making a very bad logical argument.
Is that RPM for AdSense or a different ad provider? I tried multiple providers for my site (gaming / MMO niche) and I end up around 0.13$ RPM everywhere. Or is that value for multiple combined ads?
Only informative comment thread I've seen so far. I was wondering about this.
> > Comparing the P100 and 1080Ti as if the latter is the consumer version of the former is not useful. They are profoundly different chips.

> I couldn't disagree more. The chips are similar enough that most deep learning applications could run on either. Really the only reason to choose P100 for deep learning with the ridiculous prices Nvidia is charging would be memory capacity and bandwidth with the FP16 advantage.

Sure, but there are more applications than just deep learning which is where things get fuzzy. The P100 and 1080TI are fundamentally different for anything relating to FP64. I think the point of the GP is, or would hope it is, not to collapse comparisons to the case of deep learning when things like scientific computing make the comparisons necessarily more nuanced.
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