skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. FPGAs are fundamentally digital and pretty much give you a bunch of logic gates to work with ("Field-Programmable Gate Array"). The author's proposed architecture would instead provide an array of components that perform analog operations, such as summing, multiplication, and integration or differentiation, over analog voltages.
In many cities there are assistance programs for the elderly, etc. who are truly broke but fines do work well for negligent landlords, fallow properties, etc.
I needed a ride to the airport, I googled "taxi company," got like 10 results, and the next morning a car was waiting for me. Why do we need Uber? Just because it has an app?
Maybe it was the wrong term. My point was we have them and they are used, but they are not cost efficient in general. So saying that they will be the future of computing, is a bit ridiculous imo.
I am just wondering how you would do your taxes next year.
Howdy,

I investigated your issues page and the previous comment may be related to the following issue.

https://github.com/kyranb/SoundCloud-Feed-Cleaner/issues/10

After loading a fresh copy of the page, the tab appeared.

With that said I opened an additional issue. Chrome console log did not appear to provide any relevant information.

https://github.com/kyranb/SoundCloud-Feed-Cleaner/issues/11
>Why not just run a single web server and set it up to serve public_html from people's home folders?

Doesn't work with dynamic content beyond CGI, which is too slow and usually not supported by modern web frameworks.
Just can never bloody find the thing I want. It's the same when I drink Pepsi or Burger King; purely psychological...
Getting abbreviations for bits/bytes correct is not "extremely pedantic", it's about communicating correctly. In a network context, which this is, "b" means bits, but he was using it to refer to bytes. Also I've never heard of ZeroTier, but even if I had, I probably would not have made the connection that he was the author of it, so being correct about these things is important for establishing credibility with new audiences.
Still down and having clients call me about it. Googleapis keeps throwing a 503 on and off. Why does the status page not update? How is this 99.999999 uptime?
Nurses are totally random dudes from the street.
They do a lot more than that. I just looked at my Discover Weekly playlist and the second track is from someone with 5,500 monthly plays. That's not showing up anywhere based on popularity. I'd say about half the playlist is similarly sized artists.
There's a lot details that need to be filled in to get a working algorithm from this idea, though.
Like how to properly explore enough of the state space that you can estimate the ensuing entropy, and if it's possible to learn the utility and its variance in a sample-efficient manner using an RNN.
It might be better to start off with an environment with unknown dynamics but an exact representation before going full nonlinear function approximation.

Nonetheless it's an interesting post; I like the idea of coming up with abstract "goals" that can be applied to any environment (without having to construct a reward function) that yield complex behavior.
Even if it doesn't do precisely what you want it's useful for exploration and perhaps a good stepping stone towards the desired behavior.

On a related note, I believe you can learn to predict the entropy of a Markov process using reinforcement learning, so it might be possible to extend it towards control.

I wrote up the basic idea: http://rl.ai/posts/generalized-returns-entropy.html which argues that if you had some sort of state transition model you could construct a reward function from it, and then learning the value of a state is also the "expected entropy" starting from that state.
The state transition model can itself be learned, so no simulator is required.
The reason I say "I believe" is that this is the product of original research, that is, procrastinating on my thesis.
So there's a risk that I've made an error somewhere or missed prior work.
Hmm, weird. I've never had Minecraft killed for OOM, since starting to play in the alpha days. In fact, I can watch the memory pool slowly grow, then a drop in framerate and increase in free memory when the GC is triggered every 30 seconds or so.

I don't do anything special to play; my sessions used to run into multiple hours, during my peak years of play.

I suspect that it's not fair to blame Java for whatever problem you were having, though.
I wouldn't say politically, but I'm sure that scientific aesthetics play a role. There are people who have devoted their careers to the development of fundamental standards. We search for the next digit of h, for the same reason why we search for the Higgs particle -- because we're curious.

A better kilogram might not have a practical use right away, but it might in the future, if for instance we want to do things like look for time dependent variations in the physical constants, tiny departures from existing theories of mechanics, etc.
> I taught Data Structures at a University. At a Google "job interview" I failed to remember the complexity of an algorithm... and never got the job offer.

The large majority of applicants at the big firms are not hired so this may be entirely unrelated to your outcome. But surely somebody who has taught data structures could analyze an algorithm rather than needing to simply remember the runtime complexity, right?
Effective federal plus effective state plus payroll plus effective local (income plus property) can approach 50% in the US. Average sales tax paid on post-tax income to state and local can push it over. But yes, only a fraction of it is municipal.
Funnily enough, the symbol for the newly announced particle cannot be written down with Unicode.
Make a routine and stick to it no matter what. No excuses.
MEMS gyroscopes are sub-mm volume now. Whether the accuracy is sufficient or not, I don't know enough to comment. I would guess that probably it is.

http://www.mcubemems.com/product/mc7010-9-axis-igyro/ (that's 3mm square). Plenty of space on a pair of glasses for a 9 dof IMU.

11 milliseconds on a modern CPU is a long time for image processing. You need a lot of grunt to do it, but it would work. It makes sense that the glasses should just be a dumb screen with some odometry, connected to a much more powerful data source.
Being moderate on these topics seems to invite scorn from all "sides". Can't win, really.
Is Ruby about to enter its Renaissance phase?
Well, FreeBSD's mac_portacl(4) has been around since 5.1-R (June 2003) and allows per-user ACLs on privileged ports. Although the permission is for all IP addresses, not a specific one. But one could create a virtual network device per user and assign it a mac_mls policy to restrict that interface to that user... hmmmmm...
Why do the big corps succeed (Google, Apple, Amazon) and the startups fail. I guess all three of those have had failed hardware products and successful one as well. So they can afford a failure? Startups just need more runway?
GoPro is a failure?
There are some weird results in exercise science related to this. For example, if you perform exercises only on one side, unilateral strength on the other side improves (something that seems like a pointless novelty until you consider training while injured). There's a huge amount of strength that relates to 'neural' factors.

Conversely, apparently elevated heart rate due to gaming does not improve aerobic fitness.

So I'm thinking that, broadly, there will be no such thing as a free lunch here (as per usual).
TV networks are purposely misspelling show names to avoid bad Nielsen ratings
Smart hardware belongs to big players only. A hardware company needs to deal with, Design, Engineering, Marketing, Production, Sales, Customer services, etc... If any of those step is messed up, the product is over. This is why I don't recommend anyone to get involved in this kind of business.
Without your consent?

Not anymore than any of the other (UNIX) shells you have installed -- and if one is targeting a Linux system, they'd probably expect to find (and, if possible, exploit) them, not Powershell.
Hmmm. This changes things. Happy to see Google in the hot seat for once.
There's probably a few titles for it: but people who build experiences which grow sign ups and engagement.
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And there you have it. 2040.

I very much plan to be alive then.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jul/06/france-ban-...
Check out https://www.blackbox.cool.
Programming is easy, engineering is hard
I know there's been quite a bit of literature on this specific subject recently but I'm afraid I don't follow it, sorry.
And I question the generalization prima facie, as it does not reflect the experience of me or the women I'm close to. Unless there's data to support it?
Is this what you are looking for? https://www.hostinger.com/blog/money-online/20-ideas-for-onl...
The big companies have a lot more money and brand behind their products. Usually they've got a massive ecosystem to keep it afloat.

It doesn't mean that they don't fail tho.
Anybody know how many were affected?
That ignores taxes which make up ~30% of retail price depending on the price of oil at the time.

Further, gas stations generally need to pay quite a bit to get gas shipped to them as it's heavy (12 gallons is over 75 pounds), dangerous, and often very far away.

So, cost at the refinery is very misleading.
This is my favorite version of the Windows XP hills:

http://i.imgur.com/1xtcI.jpg
No need for wifi -- install a 3G modem. Very little data to transmit. The super cans could also signal the garbage people if the batteries are running low.
Not if you understand the difference between a system that only tracks three degrees of freedom (i.e., rotational motion only / e.g., Daydream and GearVR), and one that tracks all six (i.e., rotational + translational / e.g., Vive and Rift).

Since 3 DoF systems are widely-viewed within the industry as being time-limited, most designers with long-range plans for their work will build for 6 DoF first and foremost, and maybe develop a 3 DoF version if the basic concept and funding stream allows.

Being a general authoring tool rather than a specific title, Google's VR Blocks fit squarely (sorry) in the Do 6 DoF First category.
One of my biggest frustration while running a multi-tenant system running NixOS (Which is great btw, every user can install stuff in their home without sudo) is that HTTP is bound to port 80. And beyond the whole privileged port jazz, there's another trouble here : only one program can listen on myip:80.

Ideally, HTTP would use SRV DNS records. For the uninitiated, those are records that contain both an IP and a port, so instead of having a "default port" of 80 (which is completely arbitrary), you get to define on what port that service is running. Then I could just assign each user of my multi-tenant system a range of ports (With 1000 port each, we could get 65 users. Maybe less due to ephemeral ports, but it's already more than what I need anyway).

There are other solutions, such as machines connected to IPv6 could get millions of IP address essentially for free. But IPv6 coverage is still spotty. And in my case, the system was running on a kimsufi box, which gives exactly one IPv6 address per machine. (And let me rant for a moment and say that this is really stupid, for multiple reasons such as ipv6 blacklist using blocks anyway).

I wonder if it's too late to get SRV records in, say, HTTP2. Or even in HTTP1 for that matter, as an amendment RFC. Because it would trully be awesome.
Awesome. Haven't used them. Curious to hear how long it took you from signup to signing, and whether or not you were employed while you were searching.
> And according to Wikipedia generics were added to Java in 2004

I was in college around that time, using Java as a language for coursework. The professors jumped on generics right away, so between two quarters, the style that we wrote our Java in shifted drastically. I was nice to rip the band-aid off that fast.
A friend of mine quit this company after working there for 3 months. As a PM, she mentioned that it was impossible for her to do any meaningful work. Mind you, this was back in 2014, when they were doing fairly well. She even removed traces of working there from her LinkedIn. Speaks a lot about the company.
Related: Anyone got a guide for deploying kubernetes on hardware I would have at home? a full cluster, not minikube.
Can the speed increased even further using GPGPU?
I did that with google finance about a decade ago and the financial crisis wiped me out. I wasn't even good at managing fake money.

Disclosure: I have started putting away some money in a vanguard Roth IRA now. I don't think about it too much because it is the minimum vtsax would let me invest anyways.
My Home started acting up around this time
I'd ascribe the failure to the commodification of the fitness tracker and increasingly platform-driven smart speaker space. Here are some companies that have raised big rounds recently:

+ SimpliSafe raised $57M from Sequoia

+ Ring raised $100M+ from DFJ

+ Formlabs raised $50M from Foundry

+ Sphero raised $23M in April

+ Anki raised $52.5M in PE

I'm not sure what the future holds for Anki/Sphero, but the first three examples have what GoPro/FitBit didn't — a clear recurring business model. This is a good blog post on the subject:

https://blog.bolt.io/the-3-business-models-that-matter-for-c...
I'm looking for similar, but want to run containers on bare metal, not inside virtual box or similar.
It does, though I once used that trick to create a file containing more "Hello, World" lines than there are atoms in the universe. By, hmm, quite a large factor. It probably isn't a serious concern.

It still fit on a floppy disk. :)
Hackers Are Targeting Nuclear Facilities, Homeland Security Dept. And F.B.I. Say
Thanks for bringing this up. Too often, Valley gossip, masquerading as news, is merely which people are friendly with reporters/bloggers and the resulting pieces are usually lazy journalism and one-sided.
Big corporations are ok with costs of creating a low margin hardware product because it is loss leader to other products and services with higher margins.

Bringing a hardware product to market costs a minimum of $7m in the US. At Seed/Series A, this is a huge amount of money for investors to swallow.
> She even removed traces of working there from her LinkedIn. Speaks a lot about the company.

Or it tells you that people don't like explaining short employment stints to potential employers, probably out of fear that the potential employer will think they were fired.
I have trouble understanding this. You work in an organization, they have goals, priorities. You have a role and responsibility. Since when was it a company responsibility to take care of your mental well-being? If you need some time off to work on it, shouldn't you just take some time off? Am I missing something?
In Hollywood it is the casting couch.

In Washington and on Wall St it is business as usual.

So why should a startup be any different?
A good summary of analog computers can be found on the wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer

Takeaway: Analog computers are limited in precision and by "analog noise"; the precision of the components used determine the precision of the output. Usually no more than 3 or 4 decimal places are possible, at least with the tech that was used in their heydey. I would say that is still close to the case even today. Of course, one could do things like cryogenic cooling or such, but it becomes a cost factor at that point.

Something else that wasn't mentioned:

The ADALINE/MADALINE memister technology is an analog component, and is a hardware component equivalent to a McCulloch–Pitts neuron model (perceptron).

The memister is NOT to be confused with the memristor, which is a different technology; the memister was a 3-terminal device (memory transistor):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADALINE

...whereas a memristor is a two terminal device ("memory resistor"):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor
Nope. And there's a large and growing group who self-silence (or even.. censor) because being moderate attracts as much vitriol as taking a side - because BOTH sides attack.

I don't get why saying "Many issues are complex" is some kind of war crime.
How do you think this experiment will play out?
I think you misunderstood my point. I'm not at all surprised that he has $50k to do this with as an engineer (I could do the same). Engineers, as a class of people who work at companies like Amazon, are very well paid.

I was more commenting that many other people outside the industry are going to become familiar with this idea on a somewhat more visceral level now that it's at the point that CNBC is talking about it.

As an aside, you might be surprised at how many of those "seventh code monkey from the left" are clearing over $200k per year at Amazon. The last time I spoke to people I know at Google/Facebook I was hearing total annual compensation packages of about $250k for senior level in NY and CA.

If you don't have a family and aren't growing your spending habits to match your pocket you can easily have that much extra cash lying around (NB I hesitate to use words like "easily" because people tend to have an indignant reaction, but that doesn't really alter my point).
Reminds me of its always sunny: https://youtu.be/wCQ1_vHvzGY?t=3m5s
Yep, the us is definitely killing foreigners, and its own people for that matter, but the direct impact on citizens' everyday life is pretty minimal. No war has been declared, and apart from a distortion to the budget and impact on GDP it's essentially invisible.
It IPO'd at $24/share and is now $8/share. They are having a hard time releasing products and when they finally do make it out they are inferior to the competitors. (see karma drone)
I hope there's potential?

I thought the Fitbit looked good on certain women.

Aesthetics aside, I don't know if I want anything on my wrist other than a nice mechanical watch.

I repair watches. I've been following these watches since day one, and just been dissapointed.

I just got a Waltham 17 jeweled moment running. The last service was inscribed on the case back. It was last worked on on '62. I washed, and oiled the movement. It's a few seconds fast. It just tells the time, and I like the way it looks. Done.

Then again, I'm starting to like the Iwatch. When it first came out, I was very disappointed. But lately? It just doesn't look as bad? It's just looking better? It must be psychological? I still see it's the number one for sale watch on CL though. (My record for sentence fragments.)

If anyone cracks the code, they will gave a real successful product.

There's a lot of psychology behind a watch. I've noticed men are more interested in timepieces than women. I used to think it was just that women have more fashion choices. Now I don't know the reason.
How is this not getting more notice? It must be isolated to only a few of us...
GoPro closed today at 8 a share, a $1.1bn valuation [1]. They went public in 2014 at 24 (about a $3.3bn valuation) after raising a round in 2012 from Foxconn at a $2.25bn valuation.

Their revenues are falling and their operations losing cash. They have $75 million of cash on their balance sheet, less than their Q1 2017 net loss.

[1] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AGPRO&ei=fNBeWcCjCc...
You need a hook. Especially when robinhood is trying to generate some viral growth.
While potentially a useful service for a consumer, the majority of waste is generated by businesses, who already have access to comparable services with their current provider (except when a CRT tv is involved!)

Seems this company raised based off an old business model of 1800 Got Junk and Junk King, on the coat tails of Rubicon Global's massive fundraising amount.
This entire post echoes my feelings precisely. My circadian rhythm makes getting ready before 10am a problem, much less making it to the office.

I'm currently employed at a place that is relatively completely opposite of requiring a log to be submitted to management. Even so, there is still passive-aggressive chats about being to work on time and the total number of hours per week.

Whenever I make myself feel shitty for having a rough time making it into the office I have to remind myself that this isn't a factory position where working 30 more minutes means I produce 5 more widgets. Every single day is a unique work experience where I may work well beyond the time I should leave or I'm hit with all manner of distraction that makes it rough to accomplish anything other than surfing HN. Having (project) management types that have a similar work experience likely should produce a little more empathy than I feel is conveyed by my peers. I have to assume that being primarily driven by meetings and time-delimited tasks makes it difficult to see my perspective, even if there is some venturing into the nebulous side of things.
A stop loss with no limit means "if the price hits X, then sell my shares for as low as 0.01/0.001" (same as a market sell order). You can verify this by imagining a single trade below the stop loss, then the only buy order being at 0.01.

If you put a limit on the stop loss then there's no guarantee it'll clear, but at least you won't sell for some ridiculously low amount.

The exchange might have circuit breakers that won't let a particular symbol change more than X% in a given period of time.
That's exactly what's going on. It could be, however, that the cost of that opportunity outweighs what they're working with right now. Building a social network is a ton of work and could be a lot of risk. Allowing users to upload homemade music and post it to other social media is apparently tried and true, as they've been doing it for 10 years. While Soundcloud went "full social media" and then ended up with losses and layoffs, it could be that Bandcamp has opted for a slower and more measured approached to growth.
I think you might not be charging enough.
Deal-making and Implied Sex
Kalanick was absolutely right to be panicking about self driving cars. The reason we pay a little more for taxis and ubers is that we have to pay for the person driving the cars. With a self driving taxi service, and no need to pay for a driver, the cost of hiring a ride would become much cheaper disrupting uber's business.

* This post was Edited in reply to comment with an edit deleting criticism about intellectual property
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

...this is extremely relevant to what you're saying. A talk worth watching.
It could come in handy too know one day! :/
The big ones all caught a wave and rode it, while these startups tried to create the wave. (Actually, that's not quite true - all these hardware startups were riding the wave of cheap Chinese components and free trade. It's just that it turned out the bottleneck for a hardware startup isn't manufacturing, it's customer acceptance. Apple rode the same wave with the iPhone/iPad, but they also had a well-established core competency of knowing exactly what the customer wants.)

There are still waves going on now, and there are probably some startups being founded right now that will get rich off of them. It's just that the waves probably aren't what VCs think they are.
GoPro is still going, but it's not going well. Its stock peaked at $86.97 in Oct 2014 and it's at $8.00 today.