skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Each binary gate takes about 20 milliseconds single-core time to evaluate"

So yes, for varying definitions of "fast".
Ah, but what was his source of randomness? Perhaps he didn't have enough entropy and now he's got to do the last few years all over again ;)

I think I naturally do a bit of that myself: whenever I have some empty time, I fill it with something "random", only instead of choosing randomly I often choose the cheapest option. For example, I once booked a flight to Iran departing hours after I bought the ticket, simply because it was the cheapest option for an interesting place to fly (under $180 round-trip.)

I think the design choices really impact the end result, though. One minor design flaw might result in completely eliminating a whole lot of interesting places or things, which is what I'd be scared of. For example, that cheap fare to Iran was only on one travel search site, which didn't have an API. By selecting one booking website as an API, and letting the algorithm decide for me, I wouldn't have gone to Iran.

Similarly, there are a lot of things that wouldn't seem like an "option" to a computer but are an option to me. I've wanted to see Greenland from the air, so I've been taking a lot of flights that pass over Greenland on the way to places I needed to go anyway. But if the algorithm decided for me, it would probably have booked air tours over Greenland - substantially more expensive in terms of both time and money. It wouldn't be able to say "hey, you know that trip across the Atlantic you have in a few weeks? Why not pay $25 more to have it fly over Greenland?"
HN is a hivemind. Post wrongthink and you will be downvoted to oblivion. I posted a scientific paper that shows legalizing prostitution increases the volume of human trafficking and I was shit on because it goes against HN social-libertarian dogma.

So are these our choices: a hivemind or a shitstorm of trolls, griefers, and 4chan kiddies? I don't have any answers here.
I skipped those other things because there's actually less of your typical conservatives in this industry than average, but there's a disturbingly high number of alt-right software engineers. Like 10% of the last company I worked for!

Plus, people have been referring to liberals as libtards since way before the alt right was a thing, and the alt right doesn't really tend to advocate for tax cuts for the rich. They are overwhelmingly racist and white nationalist but not exclusively. And really the root of the ideology is fear of what could happen to whites as a minority group, which is very paranoid and not something I'm personally concerned about, but it's not the same thing as hate. A lot of these people are also mentally ill. The "basket of deplorables" approach to dealing with them clearly did not work. We can be against everything they stand for and still be aware that they're human beings that on the whole are probably more confused than sociopathic or evil.
Aren't they now responsible for road and sidewalk maintenance?
But if you wanted to play gameboy games on TV and on the go, you'd need to own a SNES, Super GameBoy and a GameBoy.

The SNES also couldn't play GameBoy games, the Super GameBoy was really just an entire gameboy in a cartridge formfactor.
How to Find and Manage the Best Remote Team
The crash came into existence in 2008 and Bitcoin began to rise in 2009. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/01/03...
Launch HN: Dropleaf (YC S17) – subscription service for indie PC games
I'm Vikram, one of the founders of Dropleaf (http://dropleaf.io), a subscription service for all-you-can-play indie PC games.

Zi (Rygeko) and I started Dropleaf because, as gamers, we feel that space around games could be so much better. With the rise of tools that make games easier to make, more people from diverse walks of life are creating games. That means the potential for more games that speak to a wider set of people, and we think that’s really good for the industry. We want to encourage that trend in a few ways:

Discoverability: It’s hard for smaller developers to find people who love their games, and it’s also harder for gamers to find games that will resonate. Our focus on indies and our discovery tools mean that we’ll be able to connect devs with the players who will connect with their art.

Diversity: We think the industry wins when gamers, devs, and media are more diverse and inclusive. One of our goals is to encourage that with our community and the way we think about what we do (You can read more about our community here: http://bit.ly/2uyCsFK ).

Dollars: Pricing trends in the industry don’t favor smaller developers or gamers. Gamers are less likely to take a risk on buying a game they don’t know much about, so it’s harder for indie developers to gain traction. And when indie devs can’t make money, they can’t make games. So our customers play a flat monthly fee, and devs get paid based on time played. This means games people like to play will be rewarded, and players won’t have to worry about the cost of entry.

We’re really excited to launch Dropleaf! We’d love to hear any questions you have, or learn about your favorite games!
just finished reading that yesterday, as a matter of fact - if anyone is feeling trapped and debating major change versus incremental improvement, it will provide some perspective, for sure - also some insight into our dicepresident
Apple Seeds Fifth Beta of iOS 11 to Developers
SourceTree doesn't track use/interaction information unless the setting is enabled. You can disable it via the "Help improve SourceTree by sending data about your usage" in the "General" tab in the options screen. If enabled, you can read about the exact data we send here:
https://confluence.atlassian.com/sourcetreekb/sourcetree-ana...
What happened to WebAssembly last week
Religion and Science
Why does this site report "the stock market is closed"?
Question (as someone without domain knowledge): could someone explain what the expected relationship between GDP and total stock market value is? GDP represents non-publicly traded, and even non-private activity, while presumably the stock market's valuation is at least somewhat driven by expectations of future growth/profit, rather than current productivity. I don't doubt that there's a relationship of some kind, but what is the simple ratio actually showing?
Inequality is NOT a problem though. Poverty is a problem, but that is a different issue from inequality. Once you have the basics met (food, shelter) everything else is a luxury. A mud hut without enough to eat is not a life I would want to live, but I could live that way. Take away the hut or the food and I won't survive.

I like not having to cook over an open fire. I like having lights in the dark, a cell phone, a car, a washing machine, a table saw. Those are all luxuries and I want more of some of them.
Because that's more political and it was an opinion piece. This is more "technical" and neutral.

HN flags both anti and pro women's agency articles (most opinion articles actually) so it is fair.
Rich and powerful people have a way...

There'll be an apology for "accidentally" doing the paperwork wrong, which a judge will say nullifies the sale.

Alternatively, the couple will just be sued for lots of random things, and will run out of cash defending themselves, forcing them to declare bankruptcy and sell the property.
I have seen dwellings in my local area (Chicago) that you have to pay for parking on the street. I think that the event is just unusual instead of extortion.
The asteroid impact which led to the extinction of the dinosaurs
> Luckily, my local Time Machine backups have always saved my ass.

So you do backups for something that already functions like a backup system. That's fascinating. Did you know that Git does not lose anything? You might find 'git reflog' useful if you happen to screw up frequently.
This is why it is a real human tragedy that the MTA is literally the worst transit system in the world when it comes to new construction. Millions of lives could made better if they could do capital projects in the time and costs that cities elsewhere are able to do them in.
Fair enough. And I suppose that release was meant for people with an understanding of the product, in which case that makes more sense. Still... interesting choice of words. "Oh, it's only the user-uploaded data that we've lost."
>Conversely, most engineers only have three to five hours of really hard, sustainable technical work in them per day,

What makes you say that?
Yes. Long negotiations with some lawyer and then finally someone from the company called and we had a deal in 10 minutes.
We'll probably see three iPhones this year
Act 20 applies to any company/freelancer that exports services from PR,the condition to have lived outside of the island doesn't apply here. And the government just changed the job requirement, so you don't have to hire 5 people anymore, making it available to companies with fewer employees and freelancers.
Cool idea -- curious if you looked much at the classic 2D esolangs like Befunge in developing this
Back in the early 2000s there was a "3D" browser where you got to surf the web as a little man in a space suit who navigates by running along a road with while pages fly by the sky. If I had a faster computer and connection at the time, it might have been fun, but the UI seemed fundamentally detrimental to navigating the internet.
Similarly, this is fun, but I would love to see a detailed write up on how this is used and what we can do with this representation that we cannot with others.
Also, any chance you remember the name of that browser?
I suspect that poor people get screwed over all the time by failing to pay property taxes and having their property sold at auction. And nobody else cares, because it's just part of life.

This isn't "be careful what you wish for, it might happen to poor people too." This is, "some rich people finally get the tiniest taste of what life is like when the entire system isn't rigged in your favor."
[Funny] 5 Funny Amazon Reviews That'll Sustain Bezos as the World Richest
> Long story short, all "research" is pretty much B.S.

Easy there! When I start feeling cynical about things like almost every sentiment analysis paper, I go back and read some of my favorite papers, especially ones from the 70s and 80s (eg, [1])

Another useful heuristic is to read the best paper award winners from conferences in a particular area. It's not a perfect metric, but the signal/noise ratio is better.

[1] the flajolet-martin algorithm: http://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/FlMa85.pdf
"I don't remember if she still has it or not"

I wouldn't be surprised if she still does. I also wouldn't be surprised if she still employs armed bodyguards.
Tesla Is Auctioning Off 30 Lots of Late-Model Machinery
this always strikes me as a mistaken case of white-knightism. it does not help these girls who would have to lower the price to adapt to adjust to lowered demand. you need customers to run a business.
Homomorphic programs are designed to run without knowledge of the key. You have to process every piece of data in basically the same way. So I'm not entirely sure where you think the side-channel attack would arise.
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I was (sort of) there when the 2000 tech crash happened and was in the thick of it when the 2008 crash happened.

This thread and a few offline conversations made me reexamine what I believe about the stock market and the nature of the 2000 and 2008 collapses. Of course, I'm not an econ nor do I have data to back up anything I'm saying.

All manias, from tulips to tech IPOs to housing bubbles are born when the common person joins the frenzy. On the flip side, the mania collapses when the common person walks away or never shows up the party. For the tech IPO frenzy of 2000, the common person never even showed up to use all those exotic new ideas which were getting funded and going public. During the housing bubble, the common person bought and sold houses which setup the flywheel. Eventually, the common person walked away from the asset in question bringing down the entire charade.

Today, the market is soaring. People are starting to wonder when gravity will reassert itself but in my view, this time the difference is that the common person cannot walk away. Unless adblocking and disdain for social media become extremely mainstream, the common person is so busy amusing themselves to death online that they are not going to leave the tech mania. Companies like FB and Google have made the web sticky.

Does this mean the stock market will rise indefinitely? I don't know. I do know that once there is a captive market comprising everyone online, no company is going to stop advertising or figuring out ways to reach buyers online.

We are in a new age where you just can't get away from the web. We are the product but we also have no way of exiting the dragnet.
Intel Confirms Full Skylake-X Family Specs
Yes, they added value. The rich residents ignored their tax obligation for decades even though it was under-assessed. These people highlighted that fact, which will soon be corrected.
Jesus that's a lot! Did you tried with FB ads?
JSM – an obscure machine learning method
the recent fracas with the anti-diversity manifesto published on Google's mailing lists has people on edge, I think. there oughtn't be anything controversial about your statements, but the more right-wing people in tech have been lashing out lately.
Charging market river toll will result in more efficient use of the Rhine. /s
> In addition, even now, at $3200, the market cap of bitcoin is still only ~50 billion. If you believe it has a good shot of being a superior global reserve currency, then it is still cheap and you should be glad that you can buy it for $3200.

I don't really understand finance, so bear with me here : why should being a "superior global reserve currency" entail a stratospheric valuation? The USD has been a de-facto global reserve currency for the last 50 years, yet it's not like an individual dollar is worth 5000+ GBP, CHF, EUR, or JPY.

It seems to me like the high BTC valuation is being driven by speculation. That's fine and dandy, and as the Economist said is part of a "harmless bubble" - but ascribing this insane valuation to some kind of innate feature set of BTC seems to be misleading.

Happy to be proven wrong and/or educated. This isn't exactly my wheelhouse, after all.
I believe Keras is being made into an open spec that PyTorch could be made to run with.
There's quite an interesting GUI for the mac called 'GitUp' which draws a diagram of the structure of the repository (commits, branches) etc, and provides options to modify the repository. Good for helping to understand the structure of the repository.
This is definitely a pretty common situation with academic code.

I think there are two paths - (1) human code review to consider things like design patterns, and (2) automated code review through static analysis to consider things like linting, use of language idioms, cyclomatic complexity, code duplication, variable reuse, etc.

Code Climate [1] is one service that provides the latter pretty well. It's free for open source.

You can also run linting tools on your local machine, for instance ESLint for JavaScript or pycodestyle / pep8 or flake8 for Python.

[1]: https://codeclimate.com/
It's the "Intel will win in mobile because it's so big and powerful!" mentality.

The incumbents tend to lose out in such scenarios, especially when they don't go all-in with the new tech and don't do it quickly before the new entrant establishes itself as a powerful player to be followed in the market.

So far, virtually all car makers have failed on all of those points.
There is a giant amount of money out there that essentially needs storage. A diversified bond portfolio is a good place to store a lot of it for a long time with the added ability to get a positive return.

As to why an individual would buy a specific company's junk bond offering at issuance... I have no idea.
And triple buffering never means more latency than double buffering with vsync. Unless you're talking to Microsoft, who didn't have real triple buffering for a very long time so they took to using the term to refer to a FIFO queue of rendered frames.
Cyber threats prompt return of radio for ship navigation
Is this risky venture generating enough cash-flow to pay the interests starting now and is it likely to return the principal back in a few years? If not, that's why it's not used more.
Speaking of docking, there was this phone + tablet hybrid from Asus:
https://www.asus.com/us/Phone/ASUS_PadFone_X_US/gallery/
Considering the city sent the bill to the wrong address for 30 years.. yeah technicality. If this happened to you..
When git garbage collection runs, I do believe it collects dangling commits.

Doing a "git branch backup" before doing something stupid gives you a more convenient "undo".

Alternatively, just git clone to a new directory before attempting some insane rebase operation.
A new sort of Turing Test...
'Right to be forgotten' laws proposed
Written by Rick Ledgett, the Deputy Director of the NSA from January 2014 through April 2017.

> Such disclosure would be tantamount to unilateral disarmament in an area where the U.S. cannot afford to be unarmed... It is no exaggeration to say that giving up those capabilities would cost lives.

> Software vendors need to continue working to build better software, and to provide patching support for software deployed in critical infrastructure. Customers need to budget and plan for upgrades as part of the going-in cost of IT, or for compensatory measures when upgrades are impossible. Those who discover vulnerabilities need to responsibly disclose them or, if they are retained for national security purposes, adequately safeguard them. And the partnership of intelligence, law enforcement, and industry needs to work together to identify and disrupt actors who use these vulnerabilities for their criminal and destructive ends
There was a great podcast with Soumith Chintala on the O'Reilly data show a couple of days back with more info on PyTorch and how it differs from Theano and Tensorflow:

https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/why-ai-and-machine-learning-re...
The CLI/curses option "tig" can be handy once a year or so.
I'm no expert, and you are right he did leave sometime ago, perhaps there were changes with regards to protecting classified information after he left.

Classified information does not become unclassified just because it is publicly available if I remember correctly. Either way, I can't comment on whether including them in his slides is disclosing/divulging or not.
> Only this time, it's a middle-class couple doing the same to one-percenters in one of the most elite neighborhoods in the country. Clearly, their predatory scheme must be stopped!

Well, it should, right? If you don't support the practice when it targets the poor, presumably you shouldn't with the rich either. I too find the irony entertaining, but that doesn't mean I'm not hoping for a sane outcome. I would also like to see the Cheng's make some money, since they did put work into this project, just not an extraordinary amount that gouges the homeowners.

Given SF property prices and that it was bought at an auction, selling for $300k-$400k would net them a nice profit, and is well within the means of 35 wealthy residents pooling their means.
now you're talking. follow this to its logical conclusion about all rentiers!
It's also possible there's a lot more private "elite" primary/secondary schools now.
Why I left Academia: Part I
Eh? Modern jets of all types are full of software.

An unattributed quote my father told me back in the 80s: "Software saved the aerospace industry. Every other way of adding expense to an airplane also adds weight."
She does, but most those homes are empty 80% of the time. They have security guards that go around to the homes just to look for people who break into those homes to squat, which is an actual problem. I knew a guy living in one of the homes on that block for free just so that somebody would be around.
If fsync on one file forces all other files to disk, then it is 100% an OS performance problem.

If your temp files fit in ram along with running programs, then they should stay cached. A ramdisk should only be needed in edge cases where you want to manually force other things out of memory, or because you particularly want to avoid extra writes to disk. In general performance is supposed to be boosted just as much by caching.
College degrees used to be a signaling method. It was something rare and desirable. And like many rare and desirable things, the intrinsic value gets bolstered by a perceived value. The value and rarity drives commoditization, eventually making it not rare. (unless it can't or is too exepensive e.g. changing platinum to gold)

Everything has a mix of intrinsic and perceived value and this changes over time. The more a thing is composed of perceived value the more volatile it is. I'd say all stocks are composed of at least 50% perceived value.

Perceived value can often drag intrinsic value upwards so investing in things with high perceived value can still be lucrative. Analysis moves from fundamentals to psychohistory. (bad psychohistory) Probabky based on some combination of time to death of cultural momentum and half life of faith isotopes.

College degrees were a thing that quickly lost perceived value because it was based on rarity. (the only rarity that doesn't drive itself to commoditization is useless rarity like expensive wines and designer bags. 100% pure perceived value things not worth commoditixation)

At an individual level the high intrinsic value degrees do well but overall they haven't as most degrees in the US were supplementary for Masters of the Universe type. Education to fill the void in your life.

The post WW2 dominance faded though and the upper levels of Maslow's pyramid were no longer the issue. Basic survival and making a living was. Globalization also created huge pressure and competition for useful jobs.

What happened in the US was essentially a dearth of sinecure positions based on a secure moat that is now deteriorating. Those who are hit hardest by this desire a return to the past, in their eyes this is being "More American". They simply can't compete with a workforce with much stronger work ethics out of having much more experience with dealing with daily survival of a more extreme kind.

This is how the education system is failing. A country for abundance needs either output or the ability to extract rent via moats or force. The US also has a strong immigration culture that can "steal" output from other countries. Though at the cost of making "doing right by americans" a very loaded and confusing idea to parse.
See also: http://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/07/26/if-americans-paid-for-...

The expectation that parking should be cheap or free is bizarre when you take a step back and think about it. I don't expect the government to provide massively subsidized self-storage spaces, yet I do expect massively subsidized places to store my private vehicle.
huh? I would not imagine any libertarians would want to overturn the sale as it would completely defy the idea of property rights.

It seems like the residents of this neighborhood are old money NIMBYs and either [ex-]Democrat politicians or donate quite a bit to Democratic politicians.
I mean, yes, if the Rhine suffers from insufficient capacity, charging money to use it will help ensure that the existing capacity is used as efficiently as possible. For modern examples along those lines, consider the Suez or Panama Canals.
I was mostly offline last week and just heard about the manifest in passing. Thanks for the added context.
but the operator is the AI... it has full control.. you could be sleeping at the wheel safe in the knowledge that your car will get you to point B.So really 90% or greater crashes could be the Ai's fault... albeit 90% of 95% less crashes across the board.. is still an AMAZING improvement but when someone dies, someone gets sued or sent to prison - someone has to answer --even if it's just life and shit happens...