skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A group is formed to handle a perceived type of problem - a committee or task force. They triage and rank these problems, then deal with them in decreasing order of determined importance.

Solving each problem has costs, such as disruption to other people's lives - both involved parties and bystanders, but this disruption is seen as a necessary evil. Below a certain threshold of problem, solving problems becomes too expensive, and the cost is greater than the problem-removal benefit. These groups rarely dissolve when they are past this point, due in most cases to the ego of an individual human or small group.

This is a generalization of many concepts, but I've never been sure what to call it.
This one is interesting:

> “Most successful entrepreneurs are simply lucky.”

Probably it's because "common wisdom" says it's the result of being smart and hard work. But if luck plays such a big role (and let's be honest, it does - there are also studies confirming that), it's difficult to be proud of your success. Happy - yes. Proud? No more than a lottery winner. For many successful people this would be an insult.
Great write up! Even though I'm very far from understanding deep learning and the various frameworks you're testing here, benchmarking GPUs has always been a muse to me.

I'm interested to see the utilization of the underlying GPU devices when you run the MLP or CNN benchmarks (monitored with `nvidia-smi`) — the speed-up factor between the different benchmarks don't seem to be inline with the speed-up factor shown in cuDNN link[1] between a K80 and P100. I'm wondering if the P100 device is under-utilized when used with TensorFlow or CNTK.

[1] https://developer.nvidia.com/cudnn
I can't see why a bluegrass songwriter wouldn't benefit from learning more about rap, funk, metal; bringing a stronger context to their understanding of their own genre (which is sometimes an arbitrary delineation) and perhaps some techniques.

> It's not that a successful country music songwriter can't listen to and enjoy hip-hop but you'll find they tend mainly to listen to and be influenced by country music.

Without any examples for or to the contrary, I'm not convinced this is true.

> The point of the article was in encouraging writers to hone in on an individual voice as opposed to being influenced by thousands of competing tones.

I think both extremes are harmful. But my experience comes from dabbling in Jazz music of all sorts; 'Jazz fusion' is such a broad moniker that it extends from funk to rock to swing to rap.
I thought the UNIVAC used a form of wire memory, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plated_wire_memory
So calling it acoustic memory does seem a stretch for me, but then any electrical pulse plugged into a speaker would have an acoustic sound.
That's a cop-out. This is an extremely common use case.
hey just want to chime in to say thanks for adding the context.

do you know where i can read up on the decision being made to deploy this extension thru the shield thing?
Title is clickbait. "E-criminal" implies that the contents of the packages are bugged or something, but it's just a specific form of growth hacking.
There isn't really any practical reason for most sites to support users with JS disabled, as they're a pretty small minority. So there isn't really any good reason sites or users would actually care about or bother making the distinction.

Just make a separate "document web", with a standard that isn't utterly lovecraftian and has all the functionality that current ostensibly "document-only" sites (i.e news, forums, etc) rely on JS for. Then, disguise it inside some hip web framework where the client end just acts as a viewer, client-side rendering to boot (with a fallback for users with JS disabled). Make sure an independent implementation can access the underlying "document" through the endpoints the clientside rendering uses. Now you're able to essentially fool people into supporting it.

Also, you could choose to represent your document sites as a pile of data and non-Turing-complete "scripts" that do the presentation, with state that can only change upon user interaction. That may seem like a really backwards way of doing it, but if done right, it would give you a really good bang for the buck in terms of functionality/UX vs implementation complexity.
What matters is what YOU do, and what your children are allowed to do. What matters, is that if you let your children play outside alone and unsupervised, tomorrow they will be taken away by CPS or equivalent protective services organization of your country[1].

([1] In Germany - Jugendamt, though I find Germans are surprisingly good with allowing the children autonomy they need. Getting a call from Jugendamt however is really really scary. It's quite awful how these agencies are used as a blunt baton against the very families they are supposed(?) to protect and help.)
I don't get it, how does your post rebut the article? It talks neither about the fields nor the school construction (that was the parent poster), and it specifically says that posting a speed limit is not enough as a deterrent.
>You also realize there is no trade off between depth and breadth. It's a false dichotomy.

It's a tradeoff because of the finite time for reading.

One can reread Shakespeare's 4 tragedies (Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth) again for the 10th time (about 8 hours of reading) -- or -- read E.L. James "50 Shades of Grey" for the 1st time (also about ~8 hours of reading).

Some writers may suggest that you read E.L. James because that way, you can mark the checkbox of "read some BDSM material" and hence satisfy the "read more widely" advice. (The "widely" as the blog author interprets it). The blog and his quote of Seamus Heaney disagrees with that and advises to read what one enjoys. It's also ok if one is re-reading an old favorite again instead of unfamiliar writing that's often low quality.

And yes, choosing what to read is a zero-sum game. Mathematically, how could it not be?
It seems like the existence (and requirement for) freeways and fast, pedestrian hostile roads is a self fulfilling prophecy.

If we didn’t have them, people would live closer, we would have better public transport, better walking and cycling infrastructure, and we wouldn’t have a wasteful, excessive driving culture. And to many people steeped in the toxic car culture, riding a bike either means you got a DUI or you are crazy and deserve to die.
Nobody cares there are schools there. It has no bearing on the safety of street design. There are sidewalks, the infamous crosswalk over 40 mph lanes: clearly it's a residential area.

To blame the school placement (likely decided by the very same governmental body doing the street design) is the epitome of the problem here: "what are the pedestrians doing on my street".
> And to deal with this problem, they have "trusted supernodes", with a promise to turn them off when the network is self sustaining.

I don’t see how the network can ever become self-sustaining if attackers only need to create more transactions than everyone else combined. Sure, as usage increases, the number of transactions an attacker would need to produce increases as well, but so does the attacker’s potential reward — since there will be more IOTA users against which he can double spend.
Isn't this how most experiments are supposed to work? You start with a broad assumption and work towards it. Then you find issues and start scaling things down to focus on some finer issues.

In the meantime, business executives and media work hand-in-hand to try and hype everything and promising stuff which cannot be delivered in a short amount of time.
> You also realize there is no trade off between depth and breadth. It's a false dichotomy.

Given that we're in a forum where computer science and engineering topics are often discussed, I find it odd that anyone would suggest this.

You have a limited resource (time). Whenever you have a limited resource, there are tradeoffs in how you spend it. Unless exhaustive search is feasible, there is indeed a tradeoff between depth and breadth.
It reminds me of the 90s arcade games. I spent tons of coins on those evil machines... And I'll spend some good time on this masterpiece too :)
I am inclined to agree with you, but on the other hand, according to that WikiPedia article the FAA concluded it was an unexplained weather phenomenon. That is easier to believe, but it makes it no easier to understand how no hard evidence was recorded.
Any street that doesn't seriously consider the safety of people needing to cross it is functionally a wall or a hazard, whatever the uses surrounding it. If you create a conflict and don't try to make it less deadly, how do you describe that?

Pedestrian overpasses require those who cross to physically climb over traffic. Better than a wall, but let's acknowledge the cost of that. They're also enormous and expensive, whether you design them terribly or well.[1]

The calming proposals include: narrower lanes, a raised median, and a traffic light to explicitly priortize and protect pedestrians when crossing. What about those makes them an imposition?

[1] https://candysdirt.com/2016/04/28/fugly-pedestrian-bridge-ha...
http://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/place/article/Footbridge-an-eleg...
> Go to the media, drum up hysteria

Have you not seen enough evidence that this is harmful?

Put this info in context: frequency of this vs correctly guessing a passcode; probability that your attacker is also the person with a similar face; that it can be disabled.

I wish Face ID were perfect too. But please don't be rash.
We do this as well, except now my wife just grabs my phone and points it at my face in the car to unlock rather than use the passcode. This works pretty easily if you have the “attention detection” feature turned off.

Not arguing this is ideal, but it works and avoids retrains, although Apple have publicly stated retrains only occur if they believe the face matches above a base threshold, which makes it much less likely a female face will retrain on a male Face ID user’s phone, and vice versa. It doesn’t retrain on every passcode entry.

https://images.apple.com/business/docs/FaceID_Security_Guide...
Yes, but you'll still want those things in a month, or six months, or a year. Given the expectation that your real purchasing power will grow, and you'll be even to afford even more of that hobby if you wait, you'll decide not to transact now for many discretionary expenses. Unfortunately, this puts the store or vendor you would have transacted from in dire straits--and then they decide to consume less.

Summed over an entire economy, this sort of behavior will reduce aggregate demand and the velocity of money enough to damage productivity and growth: it's called a "deflationary spiral."
But what if you want animojis which can run on the regular iPhone without issue but are artificially limited to the iPhone X.
>"read some BDSM material"

Emphasis on quotes. Most of that novel is an abusive relationship, from what I hear.
I think the idea is that the protocol is resilient to differences in implementation. A bad actor, could for all intents and purposes, manipulate the implementation to their advantage. An implementation, reference or not, is merely a convenience for users who do not want to write their own clients (which is essential for adoption).
The man who duped Hitler and other extraordinary con artists
No, the market was unprepared for an application that is still in alpha.
Postal services of UN members agree to subsidize postal services of lesser developed countries, which include China.

USA has a duty to help China to lift out of poverty.
Face ID only updates its model from a subsequent passcode unlock if the failed recognition was a close match, so your model should be ok.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208108
> Why don't we start with an experimental inter-city highway where cars could run with full automation?
> You can equip that highway with a boat load of sensors and transmitters to understand these fancy brainy machines.

Because car companies are not in the business of building highways is my guess.
Rolecall for your former screen name. Mine was:

Tdogg5388

Shows what age I was during peak of AIM.
No, I'm not literally suggesting people have infinite time on their hands. Rather, what I'm suggesting is that time compresses when you're reading for pleasure. When you reach a certain "level," shall we say, you read so naturally and so widely and so frequently that it is truly astonishing how much you can read in a day.

Then again, I'll continue to caveat all of this by saying that my subjective experience seems increasingly abnormal every time I read someone's advice on how to read (or write). The idea of deliberately practicing a style or a voice is weird to me. I've always written by ear, and I've never thought about it. I've thought about structure, and character, and perspective, and logic, and all of the other elements that go into writing well. But when it comes to voice and style, well, shit, man. You pick it up as you go along, and you learn to trust it. It strengthens, not weakens, with exposure to breadth.

One last time: I'm going to go out on a limb and say that my experience is probably weird.
Or something like that :)
What do we mock about Japanese culture? It's pretty widely admired as far as I can see.
While I have done my share of this kind of work when I was young, this is still horrible. I remember Richard Linklater's book Generation X had a couple of rules I still live by.

1. Don't eat yourself

2. Don't eat other people

If we could live by these two rules, there would be no Ghost Economy.
Don‘t forget many German parents still engage in helicopter parenting, too. But it is frowned upon by the majority. I for one, as a 6 year old in 1989, was allowed to travel by bike to the next village alone or with friends. I was buying bread at the bakery (about 1km away) and the way home from school as a first grader sometimes took an hour because we were playing at a small river nearby. All without phones. Luckily, I still see really small children walk to school without parents evry day.
> Presenting a casual theory to someone in the field is generally not a good idea.

I don't buy that at all. As long as the argument is based on science, there's no reason you can close your ears to other fields of study that could affect your own.

> The research of biological traits doesn't seem to support the large gender difference in technology.

Nor does the research support that the large difference in due to social construct. The default answer "It's all due to social construct" is presumptuous.

There's an interesting paradox. In countries with more gender equality, like Sweden, women end up in more traditionally female fields, like nursing where as in countries with less equality, like India, women end up in more traditionally male fields, like engineering. Do a search for the Swedish gender equality paradox.

The male to female ratio of autism is 4:1. There are other studies that show genetic differences in gender that exist outside of social construct. Male monkeys tend to play with boy toys, while female monkeys play with girl toys.

There are obviously genetic differences between men and women as well as genetic preferences. How these affect the ratio in technology is very difficult to ascertain. We can't just say it doesn't seem like enough to account for the difference because we don't know how that difference plays out throughout people's lives.
Did Apple suggest they would remove the headphone jack when they introduced their first iPhone with BlueTooth?

Long ago, no one thought mobiles and laptops would not have removable batteries either.
But is it any easier to tell which clause an else is connected to? Python has tools too.
None of the results for this search had anything to do with the Rohingya Genocide. Things aren't false just because you want them to be. Every sane person wants these stories to be false. They are not.
Isn't the solution to read from a selected list rather than take everything you can get your hands on? That's why people tend to look at year-end, best of lists, especially the ones generated from a wide range of audience.
I would guess that the training algorithm doesn't update your face unless the alternate face looks sufficiently similar to yours. This covers new facial hair and weight loss/gain, but would exclude the (very common) spouse issue that you describe — unless you look very similar.
It would be extremely interesting to see if there was any analysis between how many people actually own homes versus renters in the U.S.
"Muslim immigrants are the primary source of all ills in previously snow-white European countries" and citing irrelevant or cherrypicked crime statistics is the prevailing racist ideologue talking point so it's important to recognize it as such and not engage with these people who don't deserve your attention. It is the go-to thing to post for daily stormer, 4chan, neo-nazi, alt-right psychopaths who spend their time trolling the internet posting about how they hate brown people and trying to convince more to do the same.
This. I'm trying to figure out how to teach my two kids independence without getting a citation by children's services.
HOW TWO GUYS AND AN INTERNET FORUM BUILT a KICKASS COMPUTER
Google Thinks I'm Dead (I'm Not)
Depth and breadth, in this case, are not opposite directions on a straight line. They are vectors that only appear oppositional when viewed under specific time constraints. The more prolific a reader you are, the more efficiently you read, and thus your higher throughput dramatically compresses time.

If we're to speak about very specific increments of time and units of reading material -- say, you get to read N books over 1 week -- then sure, the zero-sum argument holds. But a lifetime is so much time, offering so much opportunity to the experienced reader, that time is almost effectively lifted as a constraint.

The only zero-sum quantities in this case are time and number of books. Depth and breadth of subject matter are better described as characterizing subcategories of #_books.
Strong Towns has far from a contrarian view.

Perhaps to civil & traffic engineers, but to urban planners, it is well known the detrimental effects streets can have on cities.
> Why don't we start with an experimental inter-city highway where cars could run with full automation?

Go ahead and do it.

FWIW, there are lots of constrained environments with fully autonomous vehicles. Volvo themselves have autonomous trucks operating in mines:

http://www.volvogroup.com/en-en/news/2016/sep/news-2297091.h...
If you fill your whole city with 30+ story high rises and subways are overwhelmed even when running cars every 1-2 minutes (e.g. some Chinese cities), you can definitely create a bottleneck at the subway during commute hours. That's very high density we are talking about though.
The existing benefits that come with so many strings and restrictions and limitations and political manipulations that they cannot be reliably counted upon?
... I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. That's the first tank incident I referenced, and that wasn't a civilian tank in the first place.
This. How can I teach my two kids this sort of independent without getting a citation by children's services? Serious question.
Adding on top of that that 95% of all jobs created in the US since 2008 are temp jobs and you begin to see the true cost.
Really? First I’ve heard of it.
Digital Police State Shackles Chinese Minority
Once upon a time (10 to 7) years ago, it did cost 60 cents or even less to send a small international parcel using China Post. The market rate for international postage was around 80 cents retail, but eCommerce companies can get volume discount down to 68 cents, and opt for provincial eCommerce development subsidies, which brought the price of postage down to 48c.

I knew few Russians who made a non insignificant amount of money by going to China and setting up their own mail order dropshipping companies the same way locals did.
I'm a Brit who was taught to shoot at school (http://whitgift-ccf.co.uk/about.html), so I have a rather different perspective on this. I wouldn't describe it as fear or unfamiliarity, just a belief about risks and benefits. (One of those life experiences that seems weirder and weirder in retrospect; imagine Hogwarts with SA80s. The ammunition was tightly supervised, but unloaded weapons less so)

I'm not sure you could untangle the "mental health" aspect of mass shootings from the politics of it. Some of it is "extroverted suicide" but a lot looks to me like people have been radicalised.
I think this is so much more interesting than all the yelling about these currencies that are not even being used like currencies. Why do people feel so personally and emotionally invested?

I mean here in this thread l’m running around trying to correct toxic misinformation, but what’s making me doing that? And what’s making the guy who brought up Cardano casually mention the rankings on coinmarketcap as if that means anything except to instill FOMO. I hope we see more articles on the psychology and sociology behind fear cycles in crypto.
A coin "booking" doesn't imply technical strength- that's the problem here.
Since I've discovered "nickle"[1] (by pure chance), I've been aliasing bc=nickle on every system I had access to.

nickle has normal algebraic notation with arbitrary precision, configurable base input/output for every expression (very reminiscent of calc), math functions and C operators work out of the box. It has variables, as well as a simple c-like language for additional extensions.

If RPN is not for you, "nickle" is a perfect "bc" replacement which works as you would expect.

[1] https://nickle.org/manual.html
Ask HN: Will We Get Close to a General AI in 2018?
Year after year people talk about AI being closer to the singularity point, but year after year singularity looks far. Will blockchain projects help AI come?
You can live without electricity if you want.

It's not really necessary

I bet most of the things we do today with electric tools can be done without
People who rape[fn:1] are definitely worthless scum who don't care about their victims wellbeing, and I got no issue with giving them the death penalty - however what if there was some harmeless palatable cause that could be fixed/prevented/managed? What if we could prevent rape?

I am not looking for such a course for the rapist sake, but to protect any future victims.

[fn:1] Not including, obviously, cases where they were both drunk or where one party later regretted it.
This is known as a beg button.

As in, pedestrians unquestionably have the right of way, but since our cities are so overtly auto-oriented, we make the pedestrians beg for their rights by pushing a button. These are emblematic of the spectacular failures of urban design that happened in the USA in the last 80 or so years.
I think everyone is waiting for you to cite a properly peer-reviewed paper, or any sound evidence at all.
The decision not to put in a pedestrian bridge to me speaks more than the location of the schools.
Check out this case from my former neck of the woods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meitiv_incidents

They just did it, were investigated, came out in the clear, and then set precedent that allowed others to do it as well.
Exactly. I'm going to take a wild leap and guess this person has never been anywhere close to Sweden
Racial (and therefore cultural) homogeny.
Agreed. I don't know what the percentage is, but there will certainly come a point when it will be cheaper to pay out when (a relatively few) people die rather than invest in further R & D. The stagnation in just about every other field of 'mature' technology more or less guarantees it.

If it proves to be difficult enough, that level will be when self driving cars are only marginally better than human drivers. That is an unlikely scenario, but it will probably stagnate at a far less perfect level than all but the most pragmatic dreamers envision.