skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they were going to take that approach, it should have returned 0 then.

I think of this as "garbage in, garbage out". The function will return a numeric value -- if you give it proper input.

On two occasions I have been asked,—"Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
> The fact that Facebook, MediaWiki, and WordPress are so successful is still a mystery to me.

The fact that some developers think the language chosen has much effect on the success of a site is still a mystery to me.
It's just a terrible idea and the reason why tons of MMOs die but surprise surprise like a phoenix they turn a decent profit free to play.

MMOs die because the creeping feeling of an empty game wold spreads like a virus and people start to question whether it's worth the money and largely decide no. Anyone who decided yet then re-evaluates when there's even less people around. Continue until income drops below the threshold of staying afloat. If you change the value proposition to allow people to stay by being in the game more (that's the really clever part of this particular model) then you combat the sinking-feeling paradox on 2 fronts.

It's kind of worked out for them OK so far. Why would they need to change it due to unrelated issues that may or may not be an exploit?
If you can run the hardware manufacturing off the books, I don't see how access to the driver source code would help. You would just ship the official binaries.
So what? It isn't better in the US, it's just more acceptable to you.
How the fuck does bitching about irrelevancy earn the highest number of upvotes?
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The connection they imply is doubtful. They give no date for the Nvidia negotiation, but (assuming it isn't misrepresented) it must have taken a lot of time (enough that the Chinese could pick something from AMD in the end). And I doubt Linus heard about it, either (the “behind the curtain reason for Linus' frustration” idea must have come from someone unfamiliar with him or the video of the event). The only commonality is that both find Nvidia hard to work with, in different contexts.
An image is a lot more complicated than a pair of ids and a rating. Counting the number of rows in the training database is misleading. I can build a reasonable dataset for a prediction task from a set of 100M rows from a database that I maintain in my spare time (http://councilroom.com , predict player actions given partial game states).

Don't get me wrong, the Netflix prize was cool.

What's cool about this is that Google hasn't given the learning system a high level task. They basically say, figure out a lossy compression for these 10 million images. And then when they examine that compression method, they find that it can effectively generate human faces and cats.
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"Long-lasting, repairable hardware is the key to making computers available to people who couldn’t otherwise afford them. Upgradeable tech also helps — even if you don’t upgrade your own computer, somebody else down the line can. It’s amazing how long people can keep technology running."
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My biggest WTF was when I discovered that parseFloat("Infinity") returns... Infinity itself.

I was working on a site that dealt with English dictionaries, and had a field where you could enter either an English word, OR a number with decimals that represented its frequency. And one day I actually typed in "Infinity" as a test word, and program execution went down a completely unexpected code path... Probably the most surprised I've ever been by a bug.
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Can someone explain what is great about flipboard. The flip animation is cool the first couple of times you see it; but then it gets annoying quickly. I can't see any value in the app that would make putting up with the excessive animations worth it.
CCP is notoriously bad at understanding the impact of changes on the in-game economy

To be fair, I think that our species is generally bad at understanding the impact of policy on economies. People whose job it is to understand this sort of thing often get it wrong in the real world, so I wouldn't be too harsh on game developers.
I would imagine secureboot work this way - you start machine, UEFI detects that signature of bootloader or kernel or whatever fails signature verification. If it fails - ask user if he wants to save new signature instead or if he did not install any updates to kernel/boot/etc.

This way it will be:

- universally between OSes
- will allow GPL code to be used
- will not lock people into particular software platform

Are there any problems with my approach?
On a different note, imagine the power of this for DRM control and censorship.

But impressive and very useful.
I thought the mods alone do that pretty well already?
You could maybe come close to just paying the mortgage. But you couldn't eat, have kids, cable etc. For example:

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/101-Far-Brook-Dr-Short-Hil...

Taxes are high on this one, but in most places you're going to pay a lot of taxes on a 900k house.

You are on the money with 3x income being what you can realistically spend on a house without getting yourself in trouble.

A later poster says this is a mistake because it's what banks use, not what you can afford, but the banks historically used that number because it is what a person can reasonably afford. Way back when banks actually had to eat a loss on a bad loan, they knew who to loan to.
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Your characterization of Vinge's singularity is incorrect. I have never read anything in which he brings up infinity, I.J. Good does though. Vinge's is actually more like your AI revolution except that it will be evident as a singularity only to those looking forward and not to those looking backwards. So instead of using agriculture/industrial divide as an analogy he posits a human/animal divide.

As his definition of singularity is pretty strongly tied to comprehension think of it like this - the singularity is the time point after which a 10 year old unmodified human child from 1000 AD can not grow up to understand his or her surroundings.
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You're pretty far off, here.

I used to be in an elected position and would sign off on stuff like this. The "lowest bid" thing does actually tend to be enforced, at least where I was, and it was a huge pain in our butt for totally different reasons.

You're presuming that every deal is a gladhanded corruption thing. Sometimes, but not most of the time. Often we would know what we wanted, have a good deal for it, it's not a very significant purchase (like a $500 piece of equipment or somethign), but we have to spend hours of employees' time getting ahold of 3 options so that we can get the one we were going to get anyways.

The way worse situation is on big ticket items, like your example of roads or other big capital projects. Where I was they are actually done by the lowest bidder, by law. But we'd wind up paying way more than that, because in order to become the "lowest bidder", the contractor would have to unrealistically underbid and then run way over on the contract. At that point, we'd be screwed and it's usually a better idea to pay a little more to finish the project than to sue and have a half-finished project sitting there while you burn 6-7 figures on legal bills. Contractors with the professional integrity to give an honest estimate were unlikely to get the gig, because of the lowest bid law.
Pretty neat. I might use it some.

Little typo: When you select a bug and click the drop down list to make it high or normal priority, the first option is "Mark As High Hriority".
MMO's like EVE (or WOW or whatever) reward long term group collaboration. At the highest level of play the level of teamwork required is significant. People who want to participate in this degree of play seek each other out.

When I used to play shooters there where guilds, and the better ones ran in the same way to the guilds in MMOs. A group of players gather together, plays and trains together, discusses strategy etc. The difference is that you can start up Call of Duty or whatever and play a quick fun game by yourself. Playing EVE solo is going to be a lot less rewarding.

This is magnified as the reward structure in MMOs is usually designed around the best rewards being available only to the most coordinated groups. Thus a coordinated group of 15 players will gain rewards far, far greater then 15x that of a single player.

EVE has its guild system built into the game, there are recruitments posts etc. So finding other players is fairly easy. The forums of course extend this, and most serious groups will have their own websites and forums.
Interesting premise - but might be a bit more convincing with a sample size larger than one (The Guardian).
I thought it was that anti-competitive actions were illegal (or just heavily frowned upon?) and monopolies in and of themselves aren't bad, just if they abuse their power in an anti-competitive way.
"modem-era" is entirely irrelevant. If you have a case to make, it has nothing to do with WHEN something was designed. And it is certainly possible to tweak the keybindings of vim if you need to, it is one of the key features.
I'd love to see the same calculation for all of the bytes needed to render a collection of web pages.

http://yahoo.com

http://cnn.com

http://slashdot.org

https://www.google.com/search?q=pancakes
Are we repeating our mistakes?
> I am happy that the Chinese invest this much in Linux.

I wonder how much of that investment finds its way back into upstream projects. Really - I don't know one way or the other, although I have a suspicion that they don't really 'get' openness and so probably violate the GPL.
A bit off-topic: As someone who has built a decent web company on top of PHP, I'm curious to know if you decided to leave it for something else and if so, what was your reasoning?

I'm of the mindset to stick with what I know best when I'd rather build a working product and get it out the door quickly. I don't actually personally care too much what language I use (I feel like database selection is more crucial) but I read about so many startups running on Python or Rails that I'm starting to wonder if there's something I'm missing and if there are business advantages to using other languages/frameworks.
This isn't my opinion, so I don't know what you're disagreeing with. Would you expect HN to change because of comments you read on Stack Overflow? Of course not. Everyone is perfectly welcome to discuss things where and whenever they want, but ultimately the ideas need to be discussed by the community of people who actually use SE sites. So yeah, I fully agree that you can go ahead and discuss things as much as you want here on HN and on blogs. I join in that sort of thing all the time. But if you want things to actually change, those ideas need to be posted and discussed among the community of SE users.
i like it simply because i can have all my feeds in one place. i don't mind the flipping and it's not really an issue on the ipad.
The author says "The likelihood of success is very low." I hate it when I see such discouraging remarks, especially when they're not meant to be discouraging. The percentage of startups that succeed enough to compensate the founders for their time is low, and the percentage of startups that truly succeed is very low, but that's largely because most founders make a number of bad mistakes. The existence of successful serial entrepreneurs (e.g. Elon Musk or Lachy Groom, that teenager recently talked about on HN) shows that a particular startup can have a high likelihood of success if the founders do a good job. I don't really think people should found a startup if they believe the odds of their particular startup with them as its founders will have a very low likelihood of success.
I guess it depends how you define the market. One could argue that they're abusing their dominant position in "consumer operating system" market.
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People usually presses the first button they see without reading the message.
I actually think it's genius. Mocking himself a little bit and other sites that display testimonials. It caught my eye and I signed up because of it.
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Risk and reward are relative to your personal status quo. If you are gainfully employed, then leaving to start your own company has real cost (the opportunity cost of your lost income + the cost of your lost savings) and clear risk (the risk of not recovering that cost, the risk of not finding a new job). But there is also real reward (building your network, gaining experience as an entrepreneur, creating a product or service that is loved by your users) and potential reward (becoming profitable, being acquired, going IPO) that can lead to future reward (starting a next company with OPM, gaining a reputation as a successful entrepreneur).

So of course there is risk. As there is reward.

And the simple question for every aspiring entrepreneur is: given your personal status quo, are you willing to incur real cost in exchange for real and potential reward?

It's a personal calculation and a personal decision.
Really depends on what kind of site you want to host, if it's just static you could use Amazon S3 & Cloudfront, there's even a free usage tier: https://aws.amazon.com/free/
It is my understanding (albeit based on limited knowledge) that Siri, like other Nuance-powered systems that make a call to the server, are actually "trained" continuously by the huge amount of sample speech they receive by real users.

The true "breakthrough" here would be if Microsoft made a voice recognition system that could run entirely on a device (no internet connection needed) and accurately understand speech without terabytes of training data or a local user training session. I can't tell from the article if this is what Microsoft is claiming.

Also, it appears that "Deep Neural Network" isn't the most common term of art here. DNN appears to be a synonym for "Deep Belief Network".[1] Can anyone confirm?

[1] http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Deep_belief_networks
I find both of your comments extremely condescending, both toward saalweachter and the authors of this article.

1. The fact that Claude Shannon succeeded in training a chess system has virtually no impact on sallweachter's claim that many AI results were overstated.

2. Certainly the press overstated them, which supports saalweachter's premise rather than weakening it. Even if the _implied_ claim was that _researchers_ overstated results, your argument does nothing to weaken this claim.

3. Frito Lay solved a problem several orders of magnitude easier that of face recognition in natural images, which is still very much an open problem in computer vision.

4. Similar to 1., the Frito Lay example contributes nothing to your goal of weakening saalweachter's claim that this is valuable research--a claim which is exceedingly innocuous.

I understand that you've probably got a bone to pick against the many AI naysayers and saalweachter's comments conjured a few common misrepresentations (i.e. (a) that the "AI revolution" burnt-out because it's researchers were somehow naive and (b) that neural networks are something new invented by computer vision researchers). You'd be justified in arguing against these claims, and I'm sure your father (respected AI researcher of the same name) would make them too, if saalweachter had tried to make them (which he didn't). But even if you were justified in making the argument, I would expect a less condescending one that made better use of evidence than the argument you've made here.
I would think this happens most every time most every MMORPG releases a new patch. I know it's happened almost every release with the two MMORPGs I follow, D&DO and SWTOR. It's just part of the game.
Hi, I am in a similar position as you, and have sought help in much the same way. The most common responses I got were:

Programming in Objective-C - Kochan (http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Objective-C-4th-Developers...)
I am currently halfway through this book, it is primarily focused on the actual Objective-C language, and almost nothing on actual iOS/Cocoa Development (some small bits in the later chapters). I was recommended this to learn the underlying language before jumping in, very enjoyable so far, the exercises are great.

I have heard good things about both Nerd Ranch books (http://www.amazon.com/iOS-Programming-Ranch-Guide-Guides/dp/...) and will likely use that for introduction to Cocoa and iOS SDK.

Originally I planned on using "Beginning iOS 5 Development" from Apress as the iOS SDK learning book (http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-iOS-Development-Exploring-SD...), but it seems that the reviews are quite low compared to previous versions.

Finally, if you enjoy learning through video, the Stanford course is very highly recommended, through iTunes (http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/ipad-iphone-application-...). I found them very useful to start with, but I felt I wasn't learning much syntax through the videos, the talking portions are very in depth, but the coding portions are very quick (and went over my head due to not knowing Objective-C!). I will likely return to these when I have a working understanding of Objective-C.

(Most of these tips from my understanding of: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3403049/best-book-resourc... and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1939/how-to-articles-for-...)
I don't play anymore, but my username was SpiderWebMayhem.
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Saying "corruption is everywhere" demonstrates a lack of understanding of what corruption looks like outside one's own country
+1 for Heroku.

I only seriously took a hard look at Heroku in the past week and for what you get — I think it's absolutely fantastic. You can't beat the free, unlimited web dyno vs. AWS's free-for-one-year micro instance.
He meant that not in the context of Language Research, which is super-awesome and every developer should be super grateful to researches in this space, but in applied programming, where people piss on whatever language they aren't used to using/think sucks for some arbitrary reason.
IMHO it's a good move by NVIDIA.

The main differentiating factor between NVIDIA and AMD are the drivers. Release the driver source on any platform and NVIDIA loose their competitive edge.

They are leaps and bounds better when it comes to OpenGL support. I can't comment from a DirectX perspective, but they always seem to be pushing the boundaries where AMD play catch up.

This would be worth hundreds of millions so a 10 million order has to be taken in perspective.
How does this affect me as somebody who builds their own computers for personal use? Does this only affect vendor sourced desktops i.e. HP, dell etc ?
>Are there any problems with my approach?

Yes. The classic "People ignore popups" dilemma. The thing is, 99% of people on the planet either wouldn't know what a change to their boot sector is, or what to do if one occurs. So they would just leave it and go on with their root kit installed.
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I didn't try to define anything as illegitimate. I don't make policy at SE, the community there does. There are thousands of active users who discuss policy issues on SE. Most of them are never going to see random blog posts and comments on HN. If you put ideas in front of them where they're actively discussing SE policies you might have better luck at changing what you don't like about SE.
No. It is based on getting out from under British colonial control, not being anti-British. India and Pakistan aren't analogous in that India does not play the role of the British Empire. They were both parts of the same British colonial possession and the circumstances of the split and the constitutional nature of Pakistan are what is at issue here.
> I can't believe you're trying to defend this position. I'm really quite shocked.

You may not realize it, but the main reason you're upset at asto is not sweeping unpleasant things under the rug of Political Correctness. Sadly, this is a very common phenomenon among white Western people.
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If you're able to build your own version, you are certainly able to disable secure boot or install your own keys (both of which are mandatory for Intel hardware). The big drawback is that you have to splash out on your own $99 key if you want to distribute your alternative to people who don't want to disable secure boot.
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Andrew Ng has set many state of the art results on various data sets using similar approaches as the one described in the paper.

Here is a reasonably approachable talk he gave about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmNOAtZIgIk
> There should be more strict handling of invalid input so they result in actual exceptions being thrown instead of output that can be exploited in incorrect/undocumented ways.

It's trivial to turn all notices/warnings/errors into exceptions in PHP (it even provides an exception class for it, ErrorException). PHP is multi-paradigm and supports many different ways of handling errors and warnings.

> This is a bug in the varied way in which PHP returns output based on invalid input. Some functions return 0, some functions return NULL, some functions return FALSE and it seems as if it is all done arbitrarily.

This change was to make the output of functions consistent based on invalid input. It's specifically addressing this point. It's also the very first point listed in the migration documentation

http://au2.php.net/manual/en/migration53.incompatible.php
It doesn't need to be metal probably. Anything that provides constant sound is fine with me. That means anything from random metal to Deep Purple to Porcupine Tree to Air to Radio Head is on my "work" playlist. Singers / song writers don't give the same result to me since there are many breaks where I can hear office sounds shortly and it ruins the mood :(

I'm sure everyone can find something they like that contains fairly continuous stream of music with lyrics that don't force you to listen.
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