skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. The blockchain is a concept which can make any audit trail more robust, look at databases which can use a blockchain concept.

2. I've got one of the earliest releases of the bitcoin code, and mined some in the very early days.

You cant kill an idea, in a free market Greece and China have shown central banks cant implement capital controls, its far easier copying a wallet onto a microsd card that slips through airport scanners than carrying kilos or tonnes of gold across borders or moving bonds in briefcases which is something that went on during the aftermath of the financial crisis in 2008.

Other problem, IT security is very poor as the national institutes in various countries held hostage with ransomware demanding bitcoins has shown, its also interesting no one in the media has suggested the hacks are just to raise the awareness of bitcoins in the wider public's mind, which is why from a psychological pov, targeting those who were targeted helped to raise bitcoins profile.

It was a new concept for money, the financial crisis had happened, liquidity and bailouts were needed so by Govt's allowing it to be used as money, an idea became reality.
Lets not forget the masters of the universe had got some of the 1930's law in the US repealed which was designed to prevent a repeat of a 1930's depression and whilst we didnt see anything as bad as a 1930's, you still saw Govts via central banks injecting shed loads of money to maintain liquidity as the velocity of money fell sharply. Wealthy individuals were given loans worth millions at zero or close to zero interest rates just to get some trickle down going on in the economy.

You cant kill an idea. Its out, other crypto's have shown theres some mileage in the idea, its not perfect and I'm sure crypto's will evolve in time.

Who has found out what happens when their wallet gets lost? What happens to those bitcoins, does the system ever release them back for mining after a certain number of days of inactivity?
If there is nothing to be recovered, can you see what happens next? Over enough time, the number of bitcoins in use shrink due to "natural" wastage, the system becomes irrelevant, but hopefully in time there will be a superior replacement to use anyway.

Either way, cryptocurrencies are here to stay, they make looking after your money your own business, and in a way earlier adopters of technology have been rewarded.

So whilst the wealth might be concentrated in the hands of the older generations, in a way the younger generation are taking a pioneering new step towards a fairer more honoest financial system for the future.
The way it's been explained to me.

A pub/sub relationship should convey metadata of state change. Any state change in the system should be communicated via pub/sub.

A subscriber might need to use a request/response interaction with some other microservice in order to act on a pub/sub, but that's not a state change, that's just auxiliary data needed to do its job that is triggered on a state change.
Is your problem more with the lack of proper migration to Angular 2 or with the differences between 1 and 2?
You realize how ridiculous this is right? Why not just plug yourself into a VR headset and eat your meals in pill form?
When the computer is putting things into categories, you can see what aspects of the images are important to the decision.
This particular example for visualizing neural networks doesn't seem particularly enlightening but I would argue the "black box" term is a appropriate and established term for describing current neural networks. In fact, researchers in the field acknowledge the problem of prediction without clear explanation and sometimes use this term to the describe the difficulty involved in reasoning about neural networks - it's some journalistic simplification or urban myth.

For example, "Many recent advances in NLP problems have come
from formulating and training expressive and elabo-
rate neural models. This includes models for senti-
ment classification, parsing, and machine translation
among many others. The gains in accuracy have,
however, come at the cost of interpretability since
complex neural models offer little transparency con-
cerning their inner workings."

Rationalizing Neural Predictions, Tao Lei, Regina Barzilay and Tommi Jaakkola

Also:
"When people say, "Neural networks are black boxes", what they mean is that it is hard to look "into" the network and figure out exactly what it has learnt.

"In a hand-crafted pipeline, you know precisely what you are building. So you may say, "my face detector will first look for eyebrows, then the mouth, and only if both are present, it will say 'face' ".

"For simple machine learning models, like linear SVMs or linear regression, you can "look" inside the model and see what it is actually doing (well, sort of). The model in this case is just a weighted linear combination of the features and so a feature the model weights highly is probably important to the task, while a feature not weighted highly is probably irrelevant (this is a big oversimplification).

"However if your model is learnt, end-to-end, as well as highly non-linear, as in a neural network, you can't do this. You know the model is some non-linear combination of some neurons, each of which is some non-linear combination of some other neurons, but it is near impossible to say what each neuron is doing."

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-artificial-neural-nets-black-b...
China is ~2%.

US is ~4% once off budget spending is accounted for. The actual is ~3%.
But by this definition, C isn't Turing Complete either.

https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/60965/is-c-actually-t...
I agree. I'd probably look at it from TCP layer shortly after initial failures to diagnose if not from he start. Especially when dealing with communication between a cloud provider and on-prem gear and infrastructure. However, it's tempting to exhaust all other avenues depending on how likely the on-prem ops folks are to punt the issue.
Nostalgia can be about idealized versions of the past that one never experienced oneself though. When I was a teen there was a very popular TV show about the 1950s called "Happy Days" that was popular even among us teens who had no experience of the actual 1950s. Similarly, more recently, "Mad Men" about the 1960s.
Anything with a pulse can provide decent competition for Xeon Phi. It is well know these 'accelerators' are barely providing speed-ups compared to existing CPU solutions.

While Phi are easy to port, they aren't close to GPUs for vectorization-friendly problems. This is likely why the Aurora supercomputer has been delayed/canceled.
If you segment your databases into micro services, it think you loose transactions. Say two services talk via DB queue. You'll need to store the DB for each service in the same management server, but different schemas. If you ever want to move your DB for one service, you have to introduce distributed transactions. That it drop them.
It is more American than the 4th of July.

"F*ck you, space! Being all spacey and stuff!" (At least that's what it sounds like in my imagination.)
As others have already explained well, hydrogen in the air doesn't contribute to the explosion.

But what does make a big difference is the air around the bomb---a nuclear explosion in space is way different from one in atmosphere. X-rays from the nuclear reaction heat surrounding air to many millions of degrees [1] and that's what causes (most of) the fireball you see. In space, the only matter available to make a fireball is the weapon's structure, probably only a few hundred kg, and that dissipates and cools rapidly. Nuclear-armed air intercept missiles were built in the nineteen-fifties and sixties that depended for effectiveness on being in air to generate the necessary blast effects to kill a bomber with relatively inaccurate aiming, but in space, a nuclear explosion almost needs be a contact hit to do much mechanical damage...discounting nuclear radiation effects, of course.

[1] Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin...it makes no difference.
It's like a 2017 version of the 500 mile email bug

https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
Politicians need to be excellent at getting elected. That requires skills in persuasion, manipulation, forming alliances etc, but not neccssarily deep thought. Being a politician is at its core a sales job, and how much insight do you typically expect from salesmen?
If you're somewhat gentle with both, the CDs are going to last a lot longer.
An interesting thing about the paper, is that the paper itself is formatted and created using PowerPoint... Quite the dedication.
Indeed. Heck, even if we forget about SVE, where can I get my hands on an armv8 box that I could use as a desktop so I could dogfood while developing, without paying an arm and a leg for some server hardware?
Bitcoin would be a very flawed currency. It has deflation baked into it's design.

Imagine if bitcoin was legal tender in the country. If my country produced 5% more goods and services in a year, but the bitcoin supply increases by just 1% due to the mining mechanism, resulting in deflation.

This means I am better off hoarding my surplus bitcoin, stashing it under the digital mattress, as I know it can buy more in the future. I won't spend it on goods and services, or risk it by investing in a company.

Most others would do the same.
The reduction in demand for goods and services means companies would have to lay off workers or close down, causing unemployment. The reduction in investment will mean less companies starting up, and less coin for companies to invest in staff or equipment to increase efficiency.

All this will depress economic growth, and cause unemployment. Which in turn reduces demand even more, causing a reinforcing cycle of economic contraction. A great depression in other words. The similarity is apt, because the great depression was partly driven by the gold standard, which had the same dynamics as my hypothetical bitcoin economy.
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Jason Davies' also did this with many more projections than mercator. Fun to browse https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/transition/
Moral for bloggers
From the same table:

1. US 611 bn (3.3% of GDP)
2. China 215 bn (1.9% of GDP)
3. Russia 69 bn (5.3% of GDP)
NASA's Nanostructure-Based Vacuum Channel Transistor
Nebula Docker orchestration
You mean instead of giving the much need financing to the talent that already exists in the thousands of branches that already exist in the US government they are instead pushing for creating a whole new group of administrators who will oversee the 10-20% of the staff who are the actual nerds who output the real value the agency was originally designed to do?

If recent history has taught us anything is that the real issue is those nerds need extensive micro-management and predefined processes designed by committee (/s), and given how most of those nerds are hired through 3rd party contractors these days for 5x the cost, you also need thousands of people to oversee and manage the extensive contracts used to hire them and push out the ever expanding list of project requirements and legal rules to these companies.

It's a perfect recipe for success. Why else would it be repeatedly used?

The fact administrators see the solution to every problem is hiring MORE administrators (who often just happen to be companies staffed by their old friends from school) it's really not that surprising that western governments around the world (not just the US) are consistently failing to accomplish the most basic government projects which were previously a dime-a-dozen at comparable rates of private markets before the explosion of the size of government in the 1950/60s and it became standard practice for everything to cost 10x as much and/or result in endless delays.

It's what happens when administrators take over. Aka the Iron Rule of Bureaucracy. When any failures happen instead of firing these people or holding them responsible, we turn to them to solve the problem, which always turns out to mean either hiring more people just like them or throwing billions more into the same agencies/contracts:

http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html

According to the current mainstream narrative only greedy fiscal conservatives who hate governments are the ones who take issue with this approach. So my critiques are largely just going to be pigeonholed into a controversial political ideology rather than being a blatantly obvious issue with modern government agencies across the western world.

The existing systems need to be broken down, critiqued, and lessons should be actually learned. Just throwing more people/money/power at the problem doesn't help solve it. Unless your goal is merely resource extraction and maintaining the appearance of doing something rather than actually solving problems.
Resort fees drive me crazy.

It's one thing to charge for add-ons if you're taking a flight, because they're technically optional and there is a way to avoid them.

But resort fees are mandatory. There's no way to opt of using the gym or the pool or whatever it is that they're charging for. That they are somehow not included in the list price defies logic.
They've been doing similar things in Chess for a long time.

For the record, the strategy in Alphago is to pretrain an "intuition" by supervised learning -- they did deep learning on expert games. This is mainly useful for early game moves. For late game play they improved the supervised learning strategy with self-play learning methods specifically MCTS.

In Chess they did the first part by basically stealing knowledge from "opening books" and they do the later game parts with AB pruning.

In Poker they recently did this strategy (look for the "deepstack" poker bot from UAlberta) and were quite succesful. The self play algorithm later on is CFRM. The best poker bot (from CMU) uses CFRM for both the early and late game part with different levels of coarse-graining.
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I wonder why noone (?) has tried to bolt on a GPU style SIMT extension to a general purpose CPU architecture. It's a more flexible programming model with a decently(?) low additional cost compared to vector style SIMD.

IIRC Andy Glew had some slide deck where he advocated that. Edit: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5qTWL2s3LcQNGE3NWI4NzQtNTB...
It doesn't "prove" anything. It only proves that the maintainers are intolerant of the community, for whatever reason.

> Obviously the people who act in a toxic fashion don't think themselves as such and don't see the toxicity even when it blatantly exists.

Maybe I "act in a toxic fashion" or maybe your standards for "toxic" are just extremely low. Fortunately, we don't have to agree on the absolute threshold for toxic, we can make relative comparisons; as /u/jerf stated, if /r/golang is toxic, this thread is radioactive. Anyway, it's rude to make unfalsifiable implications about other people, or to speak as though your own subjective thresholds are absolute ("...toxicity even when it blatantly exists"); and it's foolishness when your own standard for "toxic" is so much lower than the common use.

> /r/golang is officially outside Go community since even go maintainers disowned it and want nothing to do with it.

You're confusing the Go community with the various subcommunities under the maintainers' moderation. You have to provide a better rationale for why /r/golang is an invalid sampling of Gophers for the purpose of named returns; "because the maintainers don't like it" is not very compelling.
‘Gut-wrenching’ videos of SF bike route populated by homeless spur debate
There are two things that ML/AI developers are going to have to deal with once the technologies become widespread in things like self-driving cars, hiring/firing decisions, and the criminal justice system:

"Why did it do that?"

and

"Make it stop doing that!"

The first time a self-driving car accident results in a court case, these things are going to come up. I very much doubt that people are going to be satisfied without clear explanations, and they shouldn't be. When these systems take on roles of increasing importance to society, some level of accountability is going to be necessary.
i like large files, it makes it so much easier to read the code, figure out what it does, find stuff, and refactor. i like it when the entire program is just one file, except for the modules source. i hate when there are 10000 files all containing 5-10 imports and then just one or two lines of logic. or worse; include files within include files several levels deep that all touch global variables. my idea of good abstractions is to only lift out code that has no couplings and no shared logic with the program, like modules that can be reused by other people in other programs.
> CDs are mastered with 44KHz sampling rate which is now generally accepted as too low for high quality audio.

According to who?
Don't y'all have y'own axes?
Fake news: you ain’t seen nothing yet
I had a habit of collecting white labels and test pressings of house and dance tracks, I have no idea what most of them are called or who they are by, but I can think of one and remember where it is in the crates.

If I had a load of Track 1's in iTunes, I wouldn't have a clue!
Is it really though?

I'm a strong believer that the future of supercomputing (well, if anyone adopts it, HPC can be notoriously un-innovative, borderline corrupt even in some countries...) lies in manycore processors like GPUs or their MIMD counterparts like the Rex Neo and the Adapteva Epiphany.

I have very few kind words for the Xeon Phi. It's relatively poorly executed, is not competitive with GPUs, etc.

I'm not really sure why people think ARM can do much better though. If you're going to go for a new ISA because supercomputing can recompile often, then you might as well
start with a clean slate ISA.
plug for project rho! They have some discussion of sci-fi military organization (and nine thousand other things, seriously, it's the TV Tropes of sci-fi)

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/military.php#id...
There's no reason to think it ever will. But it may be useful where state of the art security is needed: military, satalites, space, etc.
How are eigenvectors/values defined for nonlinear systems, and are their properties as useful as in the linear case?
Maybe they are simply enjoying that medium though? It's almost as if people are having a hard time coming to terms with that prospect.

I don't prefer learning or brainstorming using pencil and paper because they did it in the twenties, I do it because it's effective and I enjoy it, same for reading real books, I just enjoy them more than a Kindle (which I tried and find subpar)
There's nothing that would prohibit maintaining a Backbone or Knockout app (or just one written with a bunch of non-spaghetti-code jQuery) today, and it's hard to say that any other choice for writing a piece of software with a GUI would have fared better. Why do you think that using React will have a worse result than that?

I think that of the kinds of tools people are using to make web applications in 2017, React and Rails are probably in the more conservative, most likely to be maintainable in 10 years category. (I wouldn't believe this about Rails except it's been so popular for the past 10 years.)
It was the Type B approach — the intelligence strategy — that ended up being the dead end. Despite their early optimism, AI researchers utterly failed in getting computers to think as people do. Deep Blue beat Kasparov not by matching his insight and intuition but by overwhelming him with blind calculation. Thanks to years of exponential gains in processing speed, combined with steady improvements in the efficiency of search algorithms, the computer was able to comb through enough possible moves in a short enough time to outduel the champion. Brute force triumphed. “It turned out that making a great chess-playing computer was not the same as making a thinking machine on par with the human mind,” Kasparov reflects. “Deep Blue was intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent.”

Chess engines didn't stop evolving after 1997. Later chess engines are stronger than Deep Blue when running on a laptop or even a smartphone. That's even though they evaluate far fewer positions per second than Deep Blue did. In fact, as of 2014 contemporary chess software running on a smartphone was stronger than chess software from 2006 running on a desktop quad core i7.

http://en.chessbase.com/post/komodo-8-deep-blue-revisited-pa...

http://en.chessbase.com/post/komodo-8-deep-blue-revisited-pa...

http://en.chessbase.com/post/komodo-8-the-smartphone-vs-desk...

Blind speed didn't win the race in the long run. But by the time that was clear, human performance trailed machines by so far that people craving drama from man-vs-machine had lost interest.
Isn't this also possible using gravitational waves?

Or is there still some kind of theory of "graviton" particles, spoiling this idea?
I now see the ball I found and believe that the ax/yxa is an axe in the ball but has been changed in the OP ball to another variation. Off to find that variation via the other changes like volcano etc.
You will never see a good OpenCL implementation. Period.
The Visual Microphone: Recovery of Sound from Video
Gorilla seems abandoned since 2013

https://plus.google.com/116448763101158824911
You can think what you like. My post wasn't defensive or vague, but then again who can disprove accusations about their motives? The OP was criticizing a community I don't belong to, and which I even criticized in the post above; so you can believe me if you like or not. As for "vague"; it's hard to be too specific when the OP would only speak about unqualified "toxicity".
Certainly true. Even some of the earliest CD masters are still very good, relatively. By most standards it took a fairly short amount of time for CD audio to reach a high standard for quality (loudness wars aside).
Wow, he just really really does not like C++. He is certainly an extremely knowledgeable C++ guy, obviously Swift is written in C++, but it's hard to entirely agree with his opinion on it across all fronts.
Ultimately, as long as our judges insist on rubber-stamping legal atrocities like this, no technological solution will be possible.
Nice work, this is an awesome tool. As a founder would love to be able to share it with my co-founders--any account sharing on the horizon?
United charges for carry ons. I had to book a flight day of for a family emergency and it was super inconvenient. I couldn't even find a fare class on United with carry ons that wasn't outrageous. You also can't check in ahead of time because they inspect you to make sure you aren't sneaking any carry ons.
>when thorough examinations from real brains just came out to the considerable detriment of said hypothesis.

I disagree that this work is detrimental to the idea of a grandmother cell. What this work shows is how a brain "understands" a face, i.e. how it extracts the meaningful features from a given face. But recognizing individuals is an orthogonal concern to "understanding" the face. This work shows how to decode/encode pixel intensity arrays into facial features. It doesn't show how the brain then maps a given set of facial features to individuals.