skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the feedback (I love feedback). While that is a good high level goal the devil is in the details of how to make it happen. Here are some doable ideas in the medium term which might help.

1) Tutorial and documentation on how to access the raw Tensorflow graph when using DeepChem

2) Tutorial of combining raw Tensorflow with our existing chemistry specific layers

3) Different documentation quick-start sections for ML practitioners and application practitioners.

4) Better overall documentation of our Chemistry Specific layers.

Would these ideas have made a better first user experience for you?
What, are they trying to teach aliens? Monkeys? Young children? People who don't have a common language?

Oh it's just other fully functional adult humans who speak the same language.

So I'm guessing the "how" is "the same way you teach any other person to use github"?
Okay, time to add another entry to the list of terrifying trauma complications. Adding it to the subgroup that includes compartment syndrome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartment_syndrome
I simply had no idea it existed. Bought just to support a great developer, but also because I may find uses for it in the future.

I still can't get into tablets but I can absolutely see how this would make tablet work feel more like "real" computer work.
“Deep Learning has outlived its usefulness as a buzz-phrase”
Leaving htop running freezes macOS High Sierra
For a brief period following the turn of the millennium, many urban centers in the west (Seattle, Washington, Portland) had bicycle clubs who introduced a slew of “green bikes” which were spray painted green and considered public domain. It was more an ideal than a productive measure. The painting and introduction of the bikes was one thing but maintenance was another. I knew a person who would repair them when he found broken ones, and I think it was briefly part of programming at certain bicycle co-ops. As the urban areas started growing again, tht effort came to an end, but I took many trips on green bikes myself. They were usually slow going and somewhat dangerous to ride, and of course one could not plan to find them later when left on the street. I had seen them locked up before but the understanding was breaking that lock wasn’t considered steeling because literally every part on the bike was spray painted green. The bikes were popular with people in their early twenties and homeless people. I never saw anyone using them whose appearance didn’t match these categories.
> instead of getting a stipend for a work laptop you'd ordinarily have to hand in after leaving the company, you instead get an interest-free loan that's spread over the course of 3 months that's used to pay for your equipment and whatever else you need for your remote work space.

I am missing why this is better in any way.
Sad but true. I know quite a few people who signe up to Twitter just to be updated on Trump's Tweets. And they by no means fans of him.
Amazon releases Alexa developer kit for wearable devices
I had one of those Amstrad with green screen in the US. Sold mainly as a word processing system. My dad bought it since we couldn't afford a PC at that time. It did its job as a word processor well plus I had a great time digging into the guts of the CP/M operating system. What I really hated was that it had a 3" floppy which were hard to find.
The project is about a year old, and is still undergoing active development.

We are currently updating the docs to include direct interaction with the different components, so look out for that in the near future!
I wasn't suggesting we default. Besides, countries that only borrow in their own currency can... "default" by inflating (and they do it all the time), so they never actually default in the sense that you have in mind.
I received a 10 year visa and would certainly not call myself Nobel level. Fairly straightforward process, but you do need to provide quite a few personal details
I once wrote an email in anger to a bunch of co-workers. My manager at the time, a very decent, reasonable fellow, patiently explained exactly why it's important to breathe and count to 10 before you click "send" and go off saying "fuck this" and "fuck that" - you're burning bridges.

This guy should have counted to 10, realized that it's his own stupidity that got him into this mess, and moved on.

Instead he wrote some rambling bullshit and blames Canonical for not having a pay-check? Seriously? And this tool was interviewing for a senior position? Looks like Canonical made the right move here.
or people could put in a little bit of effort to learn how to use their tool well enough.

I'm not against automating it, but introducing magic seems like the wrong approach to the problem.

(I mean for developers)
There's a lot of criticism levelled at the CAPM, including significant methodological challenges (measuring the market portfolio, etc.), but the basic intuition underlying it is sound.
> If I invented a cheap machine that did all your housework and fixed your car for free, GDP would fall.

Probably not, because people would redirect both time and resources currently spent on housework and car repairs to other pursuits; this would most likely by GDP neutral or positive.

> As individuals, trying to maximize our own GDP would mean spending every dollar we get and avoiding investments that could reduce how much we need to spend to live our lives.

Technically, no, for several reasons. First, “your own GDP” (what might be called “gross personal domestic product”) is not increased by spending that goes to anyone but you, so maximizing it is just maximizing what people pay you for goods and services, not what you spend.

But to maximize your personal activity reflected in national GDP, your description is still wrong. Certainly, you are going to want to maximize spending on domestic goods and services, but spending on capital goods that reduced future cost doesn't hurt. Since economic wants are unlimited, any cost reduction has no necessary effect on your total future spending, it just increases the realizable utility at any level of spending.
You would do better with cscope. Just try it. If you want I'll post the $CSCOPE_EDITOR wrapper script I use.
Bird count draws eyes to South Coast
> The majority of New Yorkers did not appear to support his views in respect of taxis.

Under the law, which is how every modern society is governed, the mayor makes these decisions irrespective of majorities (if they exists) on particular issues; that's on purpose.

> EFF

The EFF does not violate laws and claims no right to do so. It does claim a right to organize people and speak about issues; Uber has that right too. Uber does not have the right to break laws it doesn't like.
Intel and the Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities Explained
I've never heard of a "provisional offer" in the UK market - this would be highly unusual.

I don't know if Canonical is culturally UK, but maybe there was a misunderstanding about the stage of the process they had reached?
I never liked those "if" statements! "IF"? Why is there an "if"? It implies you're uncertain, or have hesitations, doubts even? That's rookie shit. I never do. Straight and happy path for this cowboy, always.
Bridge burning is never a good professional move, and the author goes out of his way to be rude about it. I'm not sure what positive effect they thought this would have.

Based on this post I can't say I'd want to work with the author either.
I never understood why company's don't just give you the equipment, to keep, forever.

A laptop/monitor/chair/etc is a trivial expense compared to the person's salary and you don't end up with a bunch of random weird ergonomic devices floating around from the ghosts of employees past.
No one is stealing from anyone's wallet.

If Larry Page starts watering his lawn with $100 bills, and they fly all over the city, would you judge a hungry person to be a thief for picking one up and using it to buy food?

In my judgement, he's implicitly granting anyone permission to pick up those loose $100s he can't even be bothered to secure.
I left Australia 17 years ago, for what seems like similar reasons, although I have a hard time articulating them. Perhaps in another 13 years.....

However, as time passes, my views are starting to change somewhat. There is a large enough body of literature to lead me to believe that there are more progressive elements of Australian society, that I was not broadly exposed to previously. Perhaps this realisation has come in time, through maturity, and I am also seeking it out more.

I'm currently reading Reynold's The Other Side of the Frontier[1], a ground breaking work from 1981. Other publications like The Monthly[2] are also worth reading (Noel Pearson's essay this month particularly so). The more I seek out such alternative views, the more I'm convinced there is a large enough minority who do give a damn and that positive change is still possible.

If I was to return on a permanent basis, which seems ever more difficult as I'm seriously embedded in my current European location now, I'm quite sure I will not live in a major metropolitan location like Sydney or Melbourne. I'm thinking now more like Tasmania, maybe Adelaide region or even far north Queensland. Somewhere the white noise of boganism may not have penetrated quite so deeply.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Side_of_the_Frontier

[2] https://www.themonthly.com.au/
Sad to hear this. Transmit for iOS is a fantastic app and a staple for my usage of iOS. Since Apple still hasn't implemented any sane ways to easily share files between iOS and PCs, Transmit is always there to allow a quick safe upload to a trusted server (with no "cloud service" nonsense involved!).

Hope it will keep running for a long time even without updates!
> JavaScript and WebAssembly

Isn't WebAssembly a huge step forward in the ability to distribute portable, high-performance, sandboxed code?
I just finished up a senior Computer Architecture class last term and a flavor of this was a popular question for past exams.

For a more fun answer than an exam, consider that the real estate on a CPU is typically dominated by two things, cache and out-of-order speculation hardware(predictors and such). Then, turning off speculative execution would be like turning off a third of your CPU. As to the actual performance impact, it'd be massive. There's a reason why no modern processor is in-order.
GDP measures of the value of the total economic output. Take two countries with similar population in 2016 [1] - Mexico (127,540,423) and Japan(127,748,513) and compare it with the GDP of the two countries[2] - Mexico(1 Trillion USD), Japan (4.9 Trillion USD).

This says nothing about the wealth of Japan or Mexico. It does say that the Japanese economy is producing 4x more than the Mexican economy.

This metric is interesting in itself. When taken alongside the resources consumed by Japan and Mexico, or the population of Japan and Mexico, one can determine which country is using it's resources more efficiently and which population is more efficient at producing things of value.

When historical GDP numbers are taken into account along with a history of government policies, it provides insight into how efficient the government bureaucracy is, how efficient the financial markets are, how education and computerized tools are impacting the economy and so on.

The author appears to have completely missed the point behind GDP.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_populatio...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
If you leave a bunch of unlocked bikes around, expect people to take them. It’s like leaving a plate of cookies out and then getting mad when people eat them.
Is the purchasing of bonds the only form in which foreign nations lend to one another?
Not sure if you saw this a few days back but this exact issue is already impacting some folks and they're obviously not happy.

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=269858
So far he didn't cause something worse than, or similar to, what's going on in Libya and Syria, or introduce policies like the Affordable Care Act, and the economy's alright. He's doing better than the previous cabinet; whether you like him as a person or not.
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> What makes a government legit? People support it.

> What makes Uber legit? People support it.

Really? Uber has the legitimacy of government? Wow.
isn't every concept you could name right now a human concept which may not exist objectively?
Some important tools were written after 1993 (stress majorization around 2004 https://graphviz.gitlab.io/_pages/Documentation/GKN04.pdf ; sfdp around 2007-08 when Yifan Hu joined AT&T Research, edge bundling in mingle and orthogonal routing were done in the last few years) but, yes, basically right.
A History of C++: 1979 − 1991 [pdf]
> For better or worse, thats how it should work. Failure of centrally planned economies all across the globe says something.

This issue has nothing to do with central planning. Free market theory does not support legal anarchy. It really should work that businesses can do whatever they want, irrespective of the law? Can they murder? Steal? Damage your property and life? It's absurd.
You could possibly give to Cornell Fund for the Library [1] and tell them it's for arXiV.

(Don't know if this is true for Cornell, but my own alma mater will accept and confirm arbitrary earmarks, even on small donations. It encourages more donations, and it doesn't actually mess with their priorities because money is fungible.)

[1] https://alumni.library.cornell.edu/content/give-library
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If your production was only possible with the injection of foreign funds, why should the value count towards your nation's GDP and not the lender nation?
What happens when you want to have a barbeque and have 10 of your friends over? What happens in a high-rise building? Other circumstances where available roof space is less (to much less) than demand for quad-copter parking?

And quad copters are pretty dang inefficient (as are helicopters in hover mode), making the energy hurdle higher than fixed wing (or translational helicopter) flight.

Quads might end up being part of the solution (and I admit I hadn't considered them before, so thanks!), but I don't think they're well suited for covering significant distances, which is presumably where the appeal of a flying car is strongest.
Yep, seeing a much more severe hit on all our elasticache instances than anywhere else. CPU graph from two underused ones: https://twitter.com/Adys/status/949432228727218177
Hey, the internet isn't the best place to hash out a common understanding anyway as we'll spend most of the time trying to level out our terminology before proceeding. But likewise, thanks for the perspective.
By the way, didn't cperciva point out this vuln way back in 2005? http://www.daemonology.net/papers/htt.pdf

Actually that seems to be rather different, but still similar-ish. They both use threads to exploit memory caches in an unexpected way.

I thought he deserved a mention since no one really took it seriously back then. https://it.slashdot.org/story/05/05/13/0520214/hyperthreadin...

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1406913/posts

"The recent Hyper-Threading vulnerability announcement has generated a fair amount of discussion since it was released. KernelTrap has an interesting article quoting Linux creator Linus Torvalds who recently compared the vulnerability to similar issues with early SMP and direct-mapped caches suggesting, "it doesn't seem all that worrying in real life." Colin Percival, who published a recent paper on the vulnerability, strongly disagreed with Linus' assessment saying, "it is at times like this that Linux really suffers from having a single dictator in charge; when Linus doesn't understand a problem, he won't fix it, even if all the cryptographers in the world are standing against him."

Always found that amusing.
It's really not.

Judging from your mentioning MC and binomial walks, you might be looking at derivative pricing, and be confused by the facts that

- derivatives are zero-net-supply securities, thus they returns are necessarily zero-sum (minus the exchange/bank's cut)

- derivatives can be priced using the risk neutral measure (after a change of measure, Girsanov's theorem, yada yada yada) in which mu, the drift of all risky assets, equals r, the risk-free rate. However, that's not statement about how mu is in the real world, but basically an abbreviation for an arbitrage-by-replication argument.

At any rate, derivatives pricing is the domain of arbitrage pricing models, while here we are looking at equilibrium models (which consider investors' preferences/utility, unlike arb models).
> There's a reason why no modern processor is in-order.

You can still have out-of-order execution without branch prediction.

That said, I'm inclined to believe you're right about a massive performance impact (for many programs at least).
FWIW, here's the abstract from their 2017 paper.

User-Defined Functions (UDF) allow application
programmers to specify analysis operations on data, while
leaving the data management tasks to the system. This
general approach enables numerous custom analysis
functions and is at the heart of the modern Big Data
systems. Even though the UDF mechanism can theoretically
support arbitrary operations, a wide variety of common
operations -- such as computing the moving average of a
time series, the vorticity of a fluid flow, etc., -- are
hard to express and slow to execute. Since these
operations are traditionally performed on
multi-dimensional arrays, we propose to extend the
expressiveness of structural locality for supporting UDF
operations on arrays. We further propose an in situ UDF
mechanism, called ArrayUDF, to implement the structural
locality. ArrayUDF allows users to define computations on
adjacent array cells without the use of join operations
and executes the UDF directly on arrays stored in data
files without requiring to load their content into a data
management system. Additionally, we present a thorough
theoretical analysis of the data access cost to exploit
the structural locality, which enables ArrayUDF to
automatically select the best array partitioning strategy
for a given UDF operation. In a series of performance
evaluations on large scientific datasets, we have
observed that -- using the generic UDF interface --
ArrayUDF consistently outperforms Spark, SciDB, and
RasDaMan.

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3078599
also, it seems like it leaves the door open for this laptop to be a personal item, which makes IP murky when you are offsite and use it.
Sad to see it go!
> An Efficient Market Theorist

Milton Friedman, in the apocryphal story. And back in my days it was $20 :-)
Please don't, services like that act like MiTM, and they won't work anymore with v3 onion service (Scihub's onion is still v2).
I'm an ethical hacker hired to break into companies and steal secret – AMA
"to keep, forever" <-- they would need to include this on your W2, versus the current situation where it is depreciated equipment over 3 years or whatever.
The first country that does that, I'm going to move to and make a $1,000,000 treatment that doesn't work and wait for the first idiot to get the government to pay for it.

People need to appreciate how hard fraud is to circumvent in anything where government largesse is involved.
I tried to ride one of the bikes from one Google building to another once and a black security SUV pulled up and started yelling at me. They aren't very good bikes anyway- they are fixies which are kind of useless for rides longer than a block.
If you ride a bike to the train station everyday and you store it at home overnight doesn't it make sense to get your own bike? I guess if you can just steal one maybe not?
I've never fully understood this view, since 'the system' that we all suffer at the hand of is just a collection of our fellow academics. Hiring committees, grant selection panels etc. are a bunch of our peers doing exactly the thing that so many of us (including the people that I sit on these panels with) gripe about - judging the worth of others based on silly metrics and the journals in which they publish.
Title is misleading.[0] This is a prediction from an analyst, and not a statement by Apple.

[0] "Apple to bring back $200B in overseas cash to the US"
I am not sure to fully understand your remark, but if you have a benchmark graph convolutions vs. char-CNN, it would be great to write your result and post it on Arxiv. Pande will be interested ;) The problem is not with the theoretical motivation, but with the empirical confirmation.

I also agree that there are many ways to work through the perfect discriminator problem for ORGAN. But it remains to be done (afaik).
Loads of people ride fixies and would probably disagree with you. I don't personally like them since I live on a hill but they work on flats ok.
What if these fly into Larry Page's house? Is it still ok to pick them up there?
Why? Personally I see those policies as a joke with zero credibility or recourse
I understand their need and priority, but sometimes those discussions are a great way to learn about the vulnerability - open development teaches others.
AS/400 attacks are a whole next level of interest after first wave of Spectre on Intel/AMD etc.

This is a much bigger can of worms than any vendor is admitting to right now. Those documented Spectre attacks were crafted by a handful of researchers - the world knows about the class of attack now - it'll be months or years before mitigation is fully understood - if mitigation is even possible.

You can guarantee there are a lot more people are looking to exploit than fix right now.
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yet another site that won't even show anything without JavaScript. :(

Even though it's only static images and text!…
Thanx, fixed now.
One could argue that CPUs without branch prediction are not modern in the sense of "modern, state of the art design". The fact that they still produce,e.g. 8051, even "new" overall designs, doesn't make the 8051 modern.
I think a more apt example is this.

It's definitely bad to live in a society where violence and robbery are common. We'd rather be without those things.

But if everyone spends money on bodyguards, that ends up in GDP.

In a comparable society where violence and robbery was not common, you would use the money for other things that are definitely preferred over giving it to bodyguards, security camera shops, locksmiths, and so on.

So measuring GDP in the way we do is defective; it gives near equal figures for both societies when clearly one is better than the other.
Long-awaited US report charts course for studies of Earth from space
Even Postgres dev ack the problem they had, don't try to dismiss the issue it's real.
Can't the same argument be made for extremist leaders that see a lot of support?
The mods have been clear on the HN policy regarding paywalls:

From a recent comment by 'dang:

> "The paywalls suck, of course, but banning NYT, WSJ, Economist, New Yorker, and all other such publications would suck worse. I realize not everyone agrees with this, but it seems the right call to me, which doesn't mean I like it any more than you do."

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:dang%20paywall&sort=byD...
Since cellular automatons are kind of Turing complete there does seem to be a chance that could happen.
New US Customs guidelines limit copying files and searching cloud data