skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It still kinda rings true. Looking at CRT TVs the other day at a thrift shop, the picture wasn't nearly as bad as I remembered. Light static/snow was a much better degradation mode than with digital OTA TV, and if I were a heavy channel-surfer I'd probably be willing to trade HD picture quality for near-instant channel switching—delays on the modern digital tuners really suck. Not that you can anymore since the analog broadcasts are gone, but still.

Between all that and stupid pwnable "smart" TVs that take half a minute to boot up while adding no value, things are sort of worse than they used to be, in TV land. Thanks, computers!
No. I'd rather pay for it. But if they don't want to sell it to me then I'm not going to go without. Music is not like bread. But I'd steal bread too if it was a choice between that and starving.
The time to buy is either before or after Aug 1. Unfortunately no one knows which it is.
Sure, the value is highly unpredictable and swings around massively, not to mention the current squabbling that brings the future of the currency into question (not all crypto-currencies mind you, this is specific to bitcoin). Investments have risk profiles associated with them, for most long term investments people expect minimal risk in exchange for minimal rewards. Some more aggressive investment profiles trade more risk for greater rewards. But even the riskiest of investment portfolios pales in comparison to the levels of risk you see in the bitcoin market. Don't get me wrong, I myself have purchased a decent amount of all the crypto-currencies out there, and was one of the earlier purchasers and miners in bitcoin (sadly I lost most of my early mining results when MtGox melted down), but I've also never deluded myself into thinking this has been a wise long term investment, it's a gamble pure and simple. If you go into the bitcoin market investing anything you can't afford to lose at the drop of a hat you're an idiot, whether it pays off or not. Even if it works, that doesn't mean it wasn't a stupid idea in the first place.
Biological neurons are fundamentally different to models used in deep learning. They can have multiple outputs, can span over whole brain and do local protein-based computations we don't really understand yet. What we have in perceptron is just a very simple model based on what we observed using rudimentary electricity detectors.
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> Another aspect of D that enables parallization is the use of ranges + algorithms.

Is that similar to the C++ std::algorithm execution policy features introduced in C++17?
There are a few exchanges that let you short sell.
Globally distributed ledger that you can trust without having to trust any specific entity; that has to be worth /something/ right?
There are a lot of start up hubs in big cities, I recently started working with some of the people involved in creating these in Ohio and they are becoming my primary resource for work.

Instead of considering projects as clients, I look for collaboration efforts where there is a path to equity. Regardless it almost always begins as some sort of contract for an initial trial collaboration.
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The governance issue is, to me, the 'final boss' of Bitcoin. They way it's set up, Bitcoin should ruthlessly follow the will of the majority and generate new consensus. I cannot think of another system that could potentially do this as effectively.

It's ugly, bitter, and has real costs, but the way it's playing out gives me confidence that cryptocurrencies are truly a novel form of human communication about value.
> I've learned so far is that the data behind your ML code (and the way it is structured) is responsible for almost all the success or failure of any given ML algorithm

Data is indeed a necessary condition but certainly not sufficient. You require a good marriage between engineering features and data to have a good success rate. Learning curves [0] are a good way to understand if your ML algorithm requires more data or better feature engineering.

[0] http://mlwiki.org/index.php/Learning_Curves
Re-branding has always been an interesting thing to me, and the companies I work at (imho) underutilize it. I have friends who work in manufacturing, and all of their "competition" is made by their company, it's just branded towards different market segments.
And since the unlimited google drive is 10 a month per user and is targeting large companies, they definitely offset the costs. Now with team drives that helps a lot as not every employee will have a unique copy of a file.
The "React Native Express" site is pretty good [0]. You might also want to look at the "Awesome React Native" list for resources [1].

Beyond that, I keep a big list of links to high-quality tutorials and articles on React, Redux, and related topics, at [2]. Specifically intended to be a great starting point for anyone trying to learn the ecosystem, as well as a solid source of good info on more advanced topics. It includes links for learning core Javascript (ES5), modern Javascript (ES6+), React, and much more. I also published an "Intro to React (and Redux)" presentation at [3], which is a good overview of the basic concepts for both React and Redux.

Finally, the Reactiflux chat channels on Discord are a great place to hang out, ask questions, and learn. The invite link is at [4].

You _might_ want to consider using the Create-React-App tool to do some initial playing around with standard React for the web first to give yourself an understanding of how to use React before moving on to React Native. There's also a "Create-React-Native-App" tool that can help with spinning up a simple RN project.

[0] http://www.reactnativeexpress.com/

[1] https://github.com/jondot/awesome-react-native

[2] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links

[3] http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/02/presentation-react-...

[4] https://www.reactiflux.com
I see people launch stuff all the time and go with a choice that doubles as the fastest way to get people to forget your product—when someone visits your site and finds that it's locked away in an app store download. (In your case, Apple's, but it's the same for anyone doing Android-only.)

Can you publish to the Web? You might tell yourself that you need to wait for more resources so you can build the Android app that you've been wanting and then the webapp, but listen to me: you don't. You have something to publish. You don't need an app. Put it on the Web. That's what it's for.
> Property rights = Free-market =/= Cronyism

Free-markets without Cronyism doesn't actually exist in the real world... no matter how cute your definitions and logical derivations are, they're also vacuous.

If we're going to advocate for impossibilities, why not skip the free market middle man and simply advocate for universal happiness? Empirically dubious and we have no idea how to actually implement it in reality, but apparently that doesn't matter.

(Also, I've heard water does in fact exist without sodium. So, not analogous.)
Pretty interesting that you seem to have conclusively determined that our brain is nothing but a neural net.
Print at home from a laser printer with generic toner...or even better toner that you fill up yourself.

150 pages of binding at a Office Depot is $6 max if you already have the pages.
US-Syrian woman keeps school going in al-Qaida-run region
The real difference is that in China, WeChat Pay and AliPay are better than alternatives (i.e. cash), while in the US, Walmart Pay and CurrentC are worse than alternatives (i.e. credit cards).
bloomberg is a broken record repeating "x end is near" until the conditions are right and can come out telling "told you so"

it has been foretelling the doom of the chinese market for a decade and an half now, of course it will happen at some point but that won't make it useful, like all other predictions without a date they do.
All the dbag responses saying that they'd take this as blackmail is exactly why you shouldn't do it. Either take the new offer or don't. If you want a raise, tell your boss why you deserve one and then ask for it or don't. Even if you ask in advance and nothing happens, then you show other offers, you're still screwed. You will get pushed out and treated badly by the dbags who are underpaying you anyway. Just move on...or don't.
Good point. I'd be more interested in connection stats than bandwidth, that would far more fun to read.
You should still read it. It's a very rare gem in the sci-fi literature.

It's amazing in any way you can imagine. In something like 40 pages you get presented with problems from several very different domains -- and proposed solutions.
RE AmazonSmile: Be sure that the organization you wish to support is aware of the program and actually registered with Amazon to receive the funds.

The list of charities that Amazon shows are from GuideStar USA which has compiled the information from the IRS, but this includes organizations which may not have registered and thus may never receive the donations.

See the section "Charitable Organizations that Do Not Register" here: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/chpf/pd/ref=smi_se_saas_lpd_spd
> A nice, comfy lifestyle where I can have conversations, share what I know, and learn.

Yes, and you, unlike the author of this piece, appear to grasp the basic fact that nobody will pay you for this. So you have to make a living some other way, and use the leisure you earn to do this nice thing that you want to do.
Here you go. https://tio.run/##S83JrMgs@v/f01@voLSkWEHJIzUnJ19HITy/KCdFUe...
Exactly, this is an everyday thing. Sometimes its hourly.
Well, I'm not convinced it's going to, or at least how much longer it will, or how low it's going to get before rebounding. It's damn hard to predict what's going to happen with a high confidence of accuracy. Personally I'd rather just hold instead of trying to catch falling knives. I'm just buying a little more while everything has dropped instead.
This just in: centralized authorities worried about the deflation of our fiat bubble and crypo currencies position as the next generation of digital commodities capitalize with FUD propaganda two weeks before a software patch (proposed last year) is rolled out exactly* in the way it is intended to.
> That's it. Full stop. You bought a car without having a stable job. You bought a house way outside your earning ability. You bought fancy clothes and gadgets without having the cash to pay for them. Don't blame credit, you did this to yourself.

Your conclusion assumes that marketing doesn't work. (It does.) The people who get consumers to do those things are more sophisticated and organized than most consumers. Many people do need to use more discretion with spending, but that isn't the whole story.

Another thing to consider is that it's very difficult to improve one's situation when you don't have modern things that save time: transportation (car), housing that isn't too far from work, and other things that save enough time to allow one to invest time into increasing total assets. Making money often requires investing money. People who do have sufficient money don't think about the small things that give them enough free time to make more money.
why Aug 1?
You should, it will be great for you to discover how wrong you are and how unpredictable the market is.
Ah! It's one thing to be able to answer the question and another to show that the proposed solution is not good enough :-)

Thanks for the heads up - we should have specified this constraint about p and q.
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Agree, but it's also not purely linear predicted growth. There are sunk costs to assist greater than linear growth. Uber without drivers surely has to be a killer business. Radio controlled by GPS "ai" "driverless" taxi with near zero customer service. Throw in electric vehicles, again cost is rapidly approaching near zero. Throw in bulk purchasing, 247 service, almost zero fuel costs and you've upended logistics. It's worth a punt to see if it can happen. One mans opinion, your mileage may vary, objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear.
When you're learning to cave dive, one of the first things that you learn is that you may very well die in there.

Most of the training focuses on systems, skills repetition, and understanding and using redundant systems - folks getting into cave diving typically are already extremely experienced divers who if anything need only some minor skill tweaks - most cave instructors will not take on students who don't already have significant open water technical diving experience (multiple tanks, mixed gas, rebreathers, decompression, wreck, etc).

A running joke is that the lost line drill (where you're placed intentionally off of the guide line and have to find it without a mask/light/visibility) is the most punctual cave task you'll ever do - you have the rest of your life to get it right.

Here's a few good books on it (non-affiliate links):

Caverns Measureless to Man by Sheck Exley (the father of cave diving): https://www.amazon.com/Caverns-Measureless-Man-Sheck-Exley/d...

The Darkness Beckons by Martyn Farr: https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Beckons-History-Development-...

Beyond the Deep by Bill Stone (the Tony Stark of cave diving): https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Deep-Deadly-Descent-Treacherou...

The Cenotes of the Riviera Maya by Steve Gerrard (patron saint / mapper of Yucatan caves): https://www.amazon.com/Cenotes-Riviera-Maya-2016/dp/16821340...
This is more of a map and explanatory notes but gives great insight into the complexity of it. Currently there are 2 systems that almost all cenotes are part of in the Yucatan, and there's some really interesting work going on trying to link the two. Current work is going on at about 180m depth through a number of rooms at the back of "The Pit", and there are multi-day expeditions going on trying to find the linkage.
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If they allow you to print it, you might want to look at blurb.com: http://www.blurb.com/pricing#/tab/trade-books

Looks like 450 pages, trade, 8x11 inces will run you about 20 USD with cheapest print/shipping combination (possibly with some added tax on top). (16 for printing, 4 for shipping - and this is for a single book - I assume shipping /book will be less if you order more than one book).

I haven't used them, but they were mentioned here a while back.

A quick google search turns up:

http://www.thebookpatch.com/#calculator (looks more expensive for single print runs) and of course good old: http://www.lulu.com/create/books (Appears to be somewhat cheaper).
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Whales indeed.
> When I see people with these crazy flights of fancy throwing away perfectly good opportunities to work and build incrementally to their dream lives, it makes me a little sad.

I think you're making an assumption here that your "dream life" is a destination. Which is a perfectly rational way of thinking.

But, alternatively, your dream life could instead be the journey. So, perhaps, rather than working at a job today to make your dreams come true later, maybe your dream instead is to do what you love today, and let the future take care of itself.

Not saying either is right or wrong - I know many people in each camp. Just saying there's two ways of thinking about it.
lulu.com is a great place to cheaply print books and it only takes about a week. I am not a lawyer and have no idea about its legal applicability, but one just uploads a PDF.
Basic Income in a Small Town: Understanding the Elusive Effects on Work
> People in tech and media have been saying that ‘content is king’ for a long time

This first sentence is just wrong. The phrase 'content is king' came up more than a decade ago, in a time when major media outlets struggled with the first wave of online tech. It was a desparate statement to play down the upcoming threat (and the media knew it). Tech never thought of content as king and media stopped saying this for a very long time.
> People in tech and media have been saying that ‘content is king’ for a long time

This first sentence is just wrong. The phrase 'content is king' came up more than a decade ago, in a time when major media outlets struggled with the first wave of online tech. It was a desparate statement to play down the upcoming threat (and the media knew it). Tech never thought of content as king and I haven't heard this phrase from media for a long time.
Just a quick nitpick, I would like to see the links expand to their entire <p> parent elements, so the entire box is a clickable link, not just the text inside.
I tried building the ACARS Decoding code actually and was just getting segfaults. I need to go back to that at some point and raise a Github issue.

Very good list of applications above!
People were using amazon cloud drive to host their entire plex library and were hammering the service every time plex did a library update.
Really? Your comment seemed so sincere!

I'd say the use of 'paradigm' is more taken as overused bullshit in general. Frist used by business-types as a buzz word (or at least gaining popularity within that population).
It depends on your definition of "excess", I guess.

If you work out in the cardio section of any gym, you will eventually see regulars who are hitting some machines very hard, with a visual appearance of anorexia. I'm sure some of those people were just skinny, but not all of them. It's not my role, as a fellow gym member, to recommend psychiatric help. But heavens knows I thought it, more than once.

In addition, gyms are built around luring in people while assuming that a large percentage of them will quickly stop attending. Some of the drop-off is just from laziness or dislike of exercise. But some of the drop-off is from going too hard, too fast, resulting in injury, especially for first-time weightlifters.
talk.tryitonline.net requires an SE account and 20 rep.

There's also https://gitter.im/tryitonline/Requests (requires a Gitter account), https://github.com/TryItOnline/tryitonline/issues (requires a GitHUb account), and email (feedback@tryitonline.net).
USD is more useful than gold, as can be transferred electronically, and recognised everywhere. And also, the USD is more useful than Bitcoin, in the pragmatic usage, not in the idealistic. Demostration: Bitcoin liquidity is because of places where it is allowed to be changed for fiat currency. I.e. it is worth because people think they can make it liquid. What if no one wants to buy Bitcoins at current price because of thinking it is a bubble? It is the same pattern as in every bubble.
What do you have against CEH v9?
NBA star Dennis Rodman shilled PotCoin in North Korea http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/13/technology/dennis-rodman-nor... , a place where I'm sure execution is the punishment for pot. And probably for coin too.
McCulloch's argument was that perhaps the gross behaviour of a NN as layers of simple transfer functions is where the real action is, and the rest of the details are just gravy.

The fact we now give this to undergrads as homework suggests that there was some value to this idea.
If it wasn't the right mindset, then why are the numbers showing that employees who stay at jobs more than 2 years earn less?
Indeed! zkSNARK is a more exact term for one of the technologies we utilize, but we didn't want to miss a chance to reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunting_of_the_Snark.
That's not true. If not enough people are mining the core chain, then it will be attacked, and your money will be stole due to double spend attacks.
* Metal wouldnt exist or would be years late - they diverted their top graphics talent from working on OpenGL to Metal.

* Apple would be one of the few remaining platforms using OpenGL, this is why Mantle and Vulkan exist because they're not the only ones looking beyond OpenGL, so they'd still be a bit of a ghetto.

* Battery life on Mac laptops would be worse, Macs would run a bit hotter and desktop performance on lower end Macs would be a bit slower still.

* Finally any commercial difference in terms of game availability or Apple's bottom line would be a rounding error on a rounding error. This is a strategic move.
From one of the linked issues, a "Lisp-like R": https://github.com/chanshunli/jim-emacs-fun-r-lisp
When an implementation of AGI comes around (yes, it will come around) it will inevitably involve a number of different neural nets working together in concert as separate subsystems. That's what makes these "Neural Nets Will Never Become Conscious!" articles so hilarious.

But yeah, I could see feeding the output of an array of sub-networks into a parent network. So think one NN for vision, one for hearing, etc, etc, all of those outputs feed into a parent level network that could be your abstraction network that deals with making executive level decisions.
Isn't a speculative market driven by gossip and rumors? I think the burden of proof is on you to prove why it is time to buy up BTC as an investment and not a wild gamble.
Maybe they were too busy micro-optimizing engagement rates using a very large amount of A/B experiments and got stuck at a local maximum?
There might be a bitcoin split:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-beginners-guide...
The crypto market is more volatile for sure, but this is still the second biggest one-month hit it's taken and the worst decline in three years. Again, if the SP500 did that it would be news, not finger-in-ear complaints about coverage.
You're discounting the volatility of said commodity. Prices (approx) for the last 30/60/90 days are: 2500, 1700, 1200.
Crony-capitalism is literally the opposite of a free-market! So, you think property rights are a made up impossibility? Advocating for them is a waste of time? Nothing lives on a spectrum? Don't care how you answer. This is a waste of my time.
The brain is a dynamic system and (some) neural networks are also dynamic systems, and a three layer neural network can learn to approximate any function. Thus, a neural network can approximate brain function arbitrarily well given time and space. Whether that simulation is conscious is another story.

The Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab has been studying this topic for decades and has an online textbook here:

http://grey.colorado.edu/CompCogNeuro

The "emergent" deep learning simulator is focused on using these kinds of models to model the brain:

http://grey.colorado.edu/emergent
Nobody investing in gold is doing it because of the industrial applications of the metal. If you're valuing gold based on its uses it's massively overvalued. The use case for bitcoin, or more accurately what it gives you that no other currency (except other cryptocurrencies) gives you is being decentralized, finite, and digital. The first and last points in particular make it very suitable for usage on the internet since it can be freely traded for goods and services across international borders while not being tied to any particular country.

It remains to be seen if enough of a market can develop around bitcoin to stabilize its price (or indeed the price of any of the cryptocurrencies). The reason traditional fiat currency prices are as stable as they are is that they're coupled to the value of the goods a country trades which tend not to fluctuate up and down much. In theory cryptocurrencies value should be tied to the value of all the goods and services that they can be used to purchase, but since so few goods are actually purchasable using those currencies currently, the vast majority of their current value is derived from speculation in the market which causes the huge swings in value we see.
Some interpreters absolutely require being able to read /etc/passwd, as they use it to determine the user's home directory for some reason.

Since /etc/passwd, despite what the name suggests, doesn't actually contain sensitive information, I don't consider this an issue.